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Magnus Wootton
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I'm interested in making some shock absorbant material to make a robot from.
I've got the main idea down, you just keep inject chlorine ions into refluxing glycerine and it eventually becomes glycerine poly chloride, taking about a week.
I have things I need to iron out about it.
a) if I do it inside of a solvent, I'm afraid the solvent will thermally decompose, so I'm thinking I only add once its relatively thick, then I decompose the solvent less. And I use an alkane like hexane or an alkene like xylene so it doesnt react to the alcohol or the acid.
b) I'm releasing hydrogen into my chlorine vessel, from an electrode, and I'm wondering if I put a spark gap in it, itll turn it into hydrogen chloride so I dont build up hydrogen pressure, but it has oxygen and water with it, so its going to also generate water, and thats going to build up in the system.
SO you can see i'm having fun, I just wish I could talk to someone about it.
I've got the main idea down, you just keep inject chlorine ions into refluxing glycerine and it eventually becomes glycerine poly chloride, taking about a week.
I have things I need to iron out about it.
a) if I do it inside of a solvent, I'm afraid the solvent will thermally decompose, so I'm thinking I only add once its relatively thick, then I decompose the solvent less. And I use an alkane like hexane or an alkene like xylene so it doesnt react to the alcohol or the acid.
b) I'm releasing hydrogen into my chlorine vessel, from an electrode, and I'm wondering if I put a spark gap in it, itll turn it into hydrogen chloride so I dont build up hydrogen pressure, but it has oxygen and water with it, so its going to also generate water, and thats going to build up in the system.
SO you can see i'm having fun, I just wish I could talk to someone about it.
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