• Question: What was your favourite experiment that you've done in the past?

    Asked by anon-335645 to Justin on 7 Oct 2022.
    • Photo: Justin Perry

      Justin Perry answered on 7 Oct 2022:

      Since we are talking about plastics and chemistry, see if you can convince your teachers to show you the nylon rope trick (instructions at this link below)

      https://edu.rsc.org/resources/making-nylon-the-nylon-rope-trick/755.article

      This experiment makes nylon like you can find in clothes and no matter how quickly you pull the nylon out of the reaction mixture, you’ll never pull it faster than the chemical reaction can make it. It’s like you are pulling a never-ending thread out of a flask of liquid…

      I saw this practical at school and I remember it still.

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