Can I Dissolve a 1L Beaker of Styrofoam in 50 mL of Acetone?

62 or 61.5 styrofoam peanuts - it depends on how you wanna count them

[LemurG]

Now the third installment of this must include trying to dissolve as many as possible

[shouldb.studying]

My little brother and i discovered that you could do this with petrol and that the resulting material was extremely sticky, easy to ignite and near impossible to put out. We were 11 and 9 😅

[flavioxy]

add some gasoline in the right proportion and you have home made napalm

[Maskofeyes]

I mean they're mostly air by design right? Is anyone actually surprised by this?

[againt.yourlf]

As soon as you dropped the styrofoam i got nam flashbacks 💀

[ThePikminMaster]

Now we should find out how much polystyrene can dissolve in 50 mL of acetone until it can't dissolve any more polystyrene.

[comradelilly]

Isn’t the leftover dissolved polystyrene extremely flammable?

[BackYardScience]

God I'm loving watching these. Lol

[catfishtv]

Good thing i wont get dissolved in acetone! But i would prefer DCM still...

[gabedarrett]

Fun fact: Polystyrene (styrofoam) is 90% air

[Aztesticals]

Would you be willing to get a solid block and shave it to 1L to get a more accurate result.
Much of the penuts beakers volume is air.

[ExtraThiccc]

"This is acetone"
"This is styrofoam"
Bro is gonna make napalm

[pauljohnson]

why would you waste good acetone like that... Smh. It's meant to be drank.

[YoungGandalf]

Cool! Now turn them back into packing peanuts. That would be magic!

[slimebags]

Nice. Now do a kilo of styrofoam in 50 mL of styropyro, I mean acetone

[alainpbat]

Next time on the chemist

"This is a beaker
This is sulfuric acid and hydrogen peroxide, also known as piranha solution
This is my hand

Let's see how many fingers we can dissolve in there"

[GraysonJames-kj]

Even without acetone you could crush them throughly and they would fit

[BecciOnion]

brilliant! now do it with petrol as the solvent :-)

[dutchvanderlinde]

Little bit of used motor oil can make this a fun time

[nonohate]

If you didn't do this as a kid, you didn't have a proper childhood.