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[*] posted on 10-6-2020 at 11:37
Projects with pure amorphous carbon


After the dehydration of sucrose with sulfuric acid in the Carbon Snake reaction, what can you do with the carbon?
Based off of the SM wiki and Wikipedia, the carbon is relatively pure elemental carbon.

What do you do with the left over carbon?
Is there any way to convert it into a hydrocarbon?

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[*] posted on 10-6-2020 at 12:20


You won't make any hydrocarbons with that. It would be easier to make hydrocarbons with CO and H2, but even then you would need industrial aparature, so you won't manage it at home.
You can try making black powder from that. Maybe you can try oxidising it to CO2 with nitric acid, but its just waste of reagents.
I don't know if there are many uses of elemental carbon (of course in that form, which neither is activated nor any interesting isomer such as graphite, graphene etc.)
Try burning it and judge how pure your carbon really is.


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