Turning plastic gloves into grape soda

this video has been sponsored by audible in general i've always liked weird chemical transformations and over the years i think i've done a few good ones like turning my pee into an artificial sweetener and tasting it and turning toilet paper into drinkable alcohol something that i've always wanted to do though was turn plastic gloves into grape soda at first this might seem a bit ridiculous but like all of my other transformations it's possible because the chemical world is often weirdly connected in this case there happens to be a chemical in plastic gloves specifically vinyl ones that's distantly related to fake grape flavor it's not found in every vinyl glove but a lot of them contain something called the phthalate ester it's included to make the vinyl more durable soft and malleable and this is chemically what it looks like this on the other hand is one of the most commonly used fake grape flavors called methylene thranolate considering that one just smells like plastic and the other is supposed to smell and taste like fruit they're shockingly similar there are at least a few main differences but the core of them is almost the same they share this ring and this small portion here and in theory it should be possible to convert one into the other so basically my goal was to pull the phthalate ester out of some vinyl gloves turn it into grape flavor using some chemistry magic and then use that to make some grape soda it unfortunately wouldn't be super easy though and it would take at least five major steps also just like all my other transformations i had no idea if it would actually work but anyway to get things started i first had to find some vinyl gloves that had the phthalate ester in them over the years though they've become a lot rarer because phthalates have been associated with some negative health effects a lot of companies have replaced them with safer or greener alternatives and these wouldn't work at all i was only able to find one company called adena that for sure had the phthalate in it so i ordered a box of it and it arrived a couple weeks later i then cracked it open and i pulled out 20 gloves the next thing to do was to cut them up into a bunch of small pieces which kind of ended up being a huge pain it turned out that cutting 20 gloves at the same time with a pair of scissors was a lot more annoying than i thought when i was eventually done though i put the beaker onto a hot plate and i added isopropyl alcohol until it was completely covered i then pushed down some of the pieces and i put a bowl filled with ice on top of it after that i turned on the hot plate and i brought it all to a boil what i was doing here was using the alcohol to dissolve the phthalate ester and to pull it out of the glove the stallate ester actually represents a huge portion of the glove and it's apparently around 41 percent of it the rest of it is mostly just vinyl plastic which is insoluble and that just gets left behind i let it boil like this for an hour and then i poured it all through a funnel plugged with some cotton this was done to get rid of all the glove pieces which i didn't need anymore at this point everything that i wanted should have been in the alcohol after this i put it back on the hot plate dropped in a stir bar and brought it back to a boil the goal now was to concentrate it by getting rid of about half of the alcohol so this time i didn't include the bowl on top to condense the vapors and i left the beaker completely open when it was done i pulled it off the plate and i let it cool down when i came back to it something had separated out and there was a film at the bottom i'm not entirely sure what it was but it was either a bit of vinyl plastic or some of the other additives that were in the glove to clean it up i filtered it again and i drained everything directly into a large flask after this i got out a beaker and i added 25 grams of sodium hydroxide drain cleaner to 300 ml of water and i stirred it until it all dissolved i then poured all of this into the flask with my alcohol and it kind of separated into two layers the top yellowish wand was the alcohol mixed with the phthalate ester and the bottom one was the solution that i just added i then set it up for a reflux by adding a heating mantle and a condenser column when it all looked good to go i started the stirring and i cranked up the heating as it warmed up it got less and less cloudy and by the time it was boiling it had completely cleared up now what i had to do was keep it boiling for two hours what i was doing here was splitting apart the phthalate ester which was called diisonal phthalate or dinp for short the sodium hydroxide was attacking it and breaking it into sodium phthalate and isononyl alcohol the sodium phthalate was the part that i specifically needed for this project and the izononyl alcohol was technically just a side product when it was done i turned off the stirring and i took away the heating mantle i let it cool down a bit for around 20 minutes and then i poured it all into a separatory funnel i waited a few minutes for the layers to separate and then i drained the bottom layer into a beaker this bottom layer was mostly water and it contained the sodium phthalate the upper one was a mixture of the isopropyl alcohol and the isononal alcohol and i poured it all into a separate container i mentioned before that the izano alcohol was just a side product in this project but just by chance it happened to be something that i needed i have no idea when i'll actually get around to using it but in a future video i will probably use it to make some synthetic hot sauce now to this cloudy solution i added 50 milliliters of concentrated hydrochloric acid the first thing that this was doing was just reacting with leftover sodium hydroxide drain cleaner and it generated a lot of heat it was also reacting with the sodium phthalate though and turning it into phthalic acid after a few minutes i tested the ph and it was around a 4 which was barely acidic it had to be much more acidic and closer to something like one so i added some more hydrochloric acid this time when i stirred it it started getting really cloudy and this was all phthalic acid that was separating out i again tested the ph and it was now about one which was perfect the mixture that i had here was still quite hot and to get out as much phthalic acid as possible i had to cool it down to do this i just put it in the fridge and i left it overnight the next day it looked like there was a bit more and i used a vacuum filter to get rid of all the water i also washed it a few times with some fresh water and i eventually had some relatively clean phthalic acid now the next thing that i had to do was convert all of this into something called phthalic anhydride to do that i just dumped it all into a big beaker and i turned on the hot plate as it warmed up it started giving off water vapor because the crystals were still a bit wet i then stirred it until it looked like all the steam was gone and i quickly put a flask on top of it at first it looked like it was just fogging up again however it was also forming some fluffy white crystals this was all phthalic anhydride and this was basically the entire reaction the high temperature was splitting apart the phthalic acid and turning it into the phthalic anhydride and water normally phthalic anhydride is a solid but because of the high temperature it was getting vaporized as it was formed this vapor then rose to the top and started depositing itself on the flask and the colder part of the beaker what i had to do now was wait until a decent amount had formed and then harvest it however i had to let it cool down first because if i took the flask off while it was still hot it would shoot out a bunch of the phthalic anhydride after sitting there for a couple minutes though it usually wasn't angry anymore and i could open it up and scoop out all the crystals it initially looked like there was quite a bit but it was all just super fluffy i moved it around until it kind of looked like a cotton ball and then i was able to lift it out i then put it back on the heat and i again waited for more crystals to form now what i had to do was keep repeating this cycle until all of the phthalic acid had been converted at first i was having a lot of fun harvesting these puffballs and i naively thought that it wouldn't take very long however i slowly realized how wrong i was when i was still doing the same thing over an hour and a half later it turned out that because it was so fluffy it just looked like i was making a lot in reality each run barely gave me anything and it started feeling like it was a never-ending process eventually though about three and a half hours later it stopped making any crystals and the pain was finally over in total i ended up getting 11 and a half grams of really pure and fluffy phthalic anhydride so far everything was going really well but i was starting to get a bit worried 11 and a half grams was a decent amount of phthalic anhydride but the rest of the process was really inefficient i would lose a lot of product with every step and i might not have much of anything by the time that i got to the grape flavor so last minute i decided to process the other 80 gloves that were still in the box ideally i would have done this in one shot on a much larger scale but unfortunately i didn't have the equipment for it so i just did four runs of the same thing all at the same time the first extraction part wasn't too bad and it felt like i was running a little factory the phthalic anhydride part though was really painful and it took another three and a half hours it was actually even worse than before because this time i had to keep cycling between four of them and i wasn't even able to take a break when it was eventually done i had a bunch more phthalic anhydride what i did find odd though was that the batches weren't very consistent i had two that were closer to 11 one that was around 12 and one that was above 13. i have no idea why this happened but either way i now had 58.4 grams in total this was way better than just 11 and a half and this made me feel a lot more confident now the next thing to do was turn all of this phthalic anhydride into something called thalamide to make this happen the first step was to compress the puff balls because right now they were mostly air i did this by just stabbing them and mixing them around and i did it for every bottle when i was done it was still mostly air but it was significantly better than it was before i then shoved everything that i had into a large flask and it almost filled the entire thing now with all the phthalic anhydride loaded i dumped in the only other ingredient that i needed which was 12 grams of urea in the past i purified urea from my own pee and i do still have some of it but it unfortunately wasn't enough for this so instead i got this urea from an instant cold pack but anyway with everything in the flask i shook it around to mix it as best as i could when i felt that i had done a decent job i put it back on the stand and the next thing to do was heat it up normally i would have used the heating mantle like i did before but i had to accurately monitor the temperature the easiest way to do this was by using a hot oil bath and i set one up using vegetable oil when it all looked good to go i turned on the hot plate and i waited for it to warm up as it got hotter the volume of the stuff in the flask slowly decreased and there was some vapor coming off besides that though it didn't look like much was happening and this was because there probably wasn't right now the urea and the phthalic anhydride were still in the solid phase and they had a hard time reacting when it got to around 130 c though they started melting and mixing together as a liquid they were reacting much more efficiently and they were combining to make thalamide and co2 gas when i had done this reaction before it had completely liquefied but that didn't really happen this time i mean it kind of melted and i did see some bubbling liquid however this didn't last for very long and i think it was because the phthalic anhydride was way too puffy this started getting me really worried that this reaction was a complete failure so what i decided to do was just try and force the reaction by slowly heating it up to 170c i was hoping that it would melt again or something but it didn't look like too much happened as a last attempt to fix it i decided to try mixing it around i thought that maybe the puffiness of the anhydride had prevented it from properly mixing with the urea even though it hadn't really melted it had compressed a lot and it was quite hard this made me think that it would be really hard to break apart but it was surprisingly easy i then heated it for another 30 minutes at 170c and again it looked like nothing happened it was producing some ammonia gas though so it seemed to be doing something after this i had no idea if it had actually worked but i had faith that it did i figured i would just move on to the next purification step and i would find out pretty quickly if it had failed i dumped everything that i had into a beaker and on top of it i added ml of hot water what i had to do next was bring this all to a boil and to keep it boiling for at least several minutes for some reason though the hot plate that i was using just didn't get hot enough and i had to swap it out for a different one i then cranked up the heat and it only took a couple minutes to start boiling the goal here was to get rid of any unreacted urea or phthalic anhydride in the boiling water any urea would easily dissolve and the phthalic anhydride would get turned back into phthalic acid and then dissolve the chemical that i was hoping i made though thalamide was nearly insoluble and it would just stay as a solid so what i was waiting for here was to see how much of this stuff would disappear i was honestly really scared that it would all just dissolve but it didn't even after boiling it for a while there was a lot of solid stuff and this was a really good sign i didn't know how much thalamide there was but i had definitely made some while it was still hot i poured it all into a vacuum filter and i pulled off the water i washed the powder a few times with boiling water and then i dumped it all into a bowl at this point it was still kind of wet so i threw it into an oven for a few hours when it was done i had 46.7 grams of nice and dry thalamide which was way more than i had expected i mean it still wasn't as good as it could have been but it was more than good enough now the next step was to make anthranilic acid and this was the part that i really wasn't sure about making it from thalamide is notoriously annoying and it has a tendency to completely fail everything had to be done very carefully and even slight mistakes could turn it into a huge mess however i'd done it years ago and i'd found what i thought was a decent way to do it i figured if i just repeated exactly what i did it should turn out fine the first thing that i needed was to get some concentrated bleach which usually has a concentration between 8 and 10 when it's fresh bleach slowly degrades over time though and i had to know its exact concentration to do this i put together this little setup in the main flask i loaded it with a very specific amount of bleach and in the addition funnel above it i added some three percent peroxide when i open the stopper and i let them mix together they reacted to make oxygen gas i added enough peroxide to destroy all the bleach and all of this oxygen was bubbled into an inverted grad cylinder this let me measure how much oxygen was being made and from this i was able to do some calculations and find out the concentration of the bleach i did it five times to get a good little set of data and it averaged out at around 11 percent now that i knew this i could get started and i added water to a flask along with some sodium hydroxide drain cleaner i let it stir until it all dissolved and then i put together an ice bath i also added a thermometer and i waited for it to cool to a round zero c when it eventually got there i started adding the bleach and the amount that i used was based on that 11 concentration that i had just calculated as i did this the temperature would increase a bit and it was important to keep it below 5c to help with this i pre-cooled the bleach in the fridge and i also only added it in small portions when i was done i took the flask out of the ice bath and i dropped in a funnel now what i had to do was add all the thalamide and i started dumping it in as it mixed with the bleach it didn't look like much was happening and this was mostly because it wasn't very soluble after everything was added i washed the funnel with some water at around the same time though the mixture in the flask got a lot thicker and the magnetic stirring stopped working to fix this i basically just had to wait because the thalamide was slowly reacting with the sodium hydroxide drain cleaner this was turning it into sodium thalamide which was actually soluble in water over the next few minutes the stirring started working again and the thalamide slowly disappeared up until now everything seemed to be going pretty well but then it started turning yellow and it quickly became orange the temperature also started to rise and it eventually peaked around 45 c this was unfortunately exactly what i wanted to avoid when i did this reaction before on a small scale it was totally fine but apparently on a larger scale there are some temperature issues what was supposed to be happening was a reaction called the hofmann rearrangement where the bleach was reacting with the thalamide to make sodium and thranolate the major problem though is that if the temperature gets above around 20c it starts making colored side products ideally it would have been colorless but at this point it still didn't look too bad i had faith that it could still be okay and i figured it was worth continuing i mean i had also used everything that i had so i didn't really have a choice after this i added some more cold sodium hydroxide solution i was kind of expecting it to make the color even darker but it pretty much stayed the same now at this point the temperature sensitive part of the reaction was done and the next thing that i had to do was heat it up so i put it in a hot water bath that i'd set up at adc and i left it there for 30 minutes this just really helped drive the reaction to completion and to push it all into being sodium and thranolate when it was done it looked almost exactly the same and i poured everything into a beaker i then washed the flask with a bit of water and i set up another ice bath when it had cooled down to around zero c i tested the ph and it was strongly basic this was from all the drain cleaner that i had added and what i had to do next was make it acidic to do this i started adding dilute hydrochloric acid this would generate a lot of heat though so i did it slowly to keep the temperature around 0c i also had to keep checking the ph using some ph papers every time it was added it released some bubbles and this was all co2 gas eventually though some solid stuff started appearing and i think this was the anthranilic acid that i wanted however the solution was still too basic and it just quickly redissolved when it got to around a neutral ph of 7 it was starting to get cloudy which was good but there was also some junk floating around i decided to quickly get rid of this by just filtering it through some cotton i'm really not sure why but as it was filtered it somehow got darker when it was done i put it back on ice and i continued adding the acid it made more co2 and the anthranilic acid that appeared stayed longer and longer it again got darker though which i didn't really like eventually the anthranilic acid started to actually stay but by this point it was almost black i checked the ph and it was around five which was slightly acidic but i wanted it to be four this is because it's at that ph that the anthranilic acid is the least soluble above or below 4 it tends to act as a base or an acid and it becomes more water soluble at 4 though it's a neutral molecule and it becomes almost insoluble in water ideally the anthranilic acid would have been white or maybe slightly yellow but what i had here kind of looked like a bunch of dirt this again was because it got too hot and caused a bunch of side reactions to happen if i had the chance to try it again i'd mix the chemicals in a different way to avoid the temperature issue but i really only had one shot at this and i was gonna have to deal with the mess that i made when it eventually got to that ph of 4 i poured it all into my vacuum filter i then washed it a few times with water and i was really hoping that it would magically take away some of the color however it didn't seem to make any difference what i had now was a bunch of crude anthranilic acid and it was way more than i ever thought i'd get i was really tempted to just move on to the next and last step with this but it was a little too dirty i was gonna have to at least try and clean it up a bit and i decided to do a recrystallization so i dumped it all into a beaker along with a bunch of boiling water i also added some activated charcoal to see if it would get rid of the color i boiled it for a few minutes and then i filtered it all into a flask that was kept hot by a hot plate when everything had passed through i took it off and i waited for it to cool to room temperature it took a while but some really nice white crystals started forming which i was really happy about the liquid was so dark that it was hard to see but there were also crystals growing inside i let it fully cool overnight and the next day there were a lot more crystals they unfortunately still kind of looked brown but i was hoping that it was just a really dark solution that was making it look like that i then filtered them off and i was really hoping to see some nice white crystals but they were still really dark i feel like they might have even looked worse which was a bit discouraging despite the color it was still probably better than before but i wanted to fix it up a bit more however i figured that doing another recrystallization with water was just a waste of time so what i did instead was put it all in a beaker and i started adding methanol the anthralic acid was much more soluble in methanol and the goal here was to add just enough to dissolve everything when it had all disappeared there was still a small amount of junk floating around so i quickly filtered it through some cotton after that i added cold water which reduced the solubility of the anthranilic acid and caused it to separate i then added a whole bunch of extra water just to make sure that i knocked it all out this time it looked way better than before and when i filtered it it actually kind of looked okay to completely dry it i put it into a vacuum chamber and i kept it under vacuum overnight i opened it up the next morning and what i had now was a light brown powder ideally it would have been white but as far as i know not even chemical companies sell a perfectly white version it's always light brown or at least slightly yellow what i also find interesting is that even though this is only one step away from the final grape flavor it doesn't smell anything like grape but anyway overall this reaction was a mess i only ended up getting 10.2 grams which wasn't amazing if everything had gone well it probably would have been closer to 25 or 30 grams so this was a bit sad but either way in theory this was still more than enough for the last step i was slightly concerned though for what is probably now the millionth time because this last step was also kind of bad and inefficient but there wasn't much that i could do about that and i kind of just had to hope for the best so now to make the final grape flavor i put everything back into a flask and i added 75 ml of methanol i stirred it until it all dissolved and then i added some concentrated sulfuric acid as it was added it was reacting with the anthranilic acid to make a sulfate salt which wasn't very soluble in methanol it initially didn't look like too much was happening but then a bunch of solid stuff suddenly separated out there was so much of it that it caused it to freeze and to loosen it up i had to stir it manually that didn't seem to be working too well though so i took it off the stand and i shook it around a bit after that i added some more sulfuric acid and i let it stir for 30 minutes i also turned on the hot plate to try to get some of the sulfate salt to dissolve and to prevent it from freezing again when i came back to it i added the last bit of sulfuric acid which caused the methanol to heat up even more and everything dissolved i then added a heating mantle and a condenser column and i cranked up the heat after that i waited for it to come to a boil and then i kept boiling it for two hours the reaction that i was doing here was called the fischer esterification and i was reacting the anthronilic acid with the methanol the reaction was catalyzed by the sulfuric acid and the result was the methyl and thranolate grape flavor however it wasn't a freebase and it was still in its sulfate salt form when it was eventually done i took away the heating mantle and i let it cool down a bit i then took off the condenser column and i was hit with the smell of grape candy so clearly it had worked but i still had no idea how much i actually made but either way what i had to do next was try to isolate it and i poured it all into some water what i had now was still very acidic from all the sulfuric acid and i had to neutralize it to do this i started adding a solution of saturated sodium carbonate it immediately started reacting and releasing co2 gas and the ph slowly increased besides just neutralizing the sulfuric acid though it was also reacting with that sulfate salt of the methylene thromolate and turning it into its pure freebase form when i was done adding all the sodium carbonate i dumped in a bunch of extra water after this the ph was close to neutral and it was kind of hard to see but it looked like there was a thin layer of oil at the top now to separate the grape flavor from this mess i poured it all into a separatory funnel i then added something called dichloromethane or dcm for short this is a solvent that can dissolve the methyl anthranylate but it isn't able to mix with water after that i dropped in a stopper and i shook it really vigorously and then i waited for the layers to separate again the lower layer was the dcm and i drained it all into a beaker i then did it four more times which should have in theory pulled out close to a hundred percent of the methyl anthranolate after this i cleaned out the funnel and i poured all of the dcm back into it i then added some water to pull out any water-soluble junk that the dcm might have picked up i shook it around and i again drained out the dcm i then cleaned the funnel and i did one last wash with a saturated salt solution this was done to dry the dcm and to get rid of any water that might have dissolved into it when i was done i drained out the dcm and the next thing to do was one last drying step to do this i just dumped in some anhydrous sodium sulfate and i stirred it for 15 minutes after this i got rid of the sodium sulfate by filtering it through some cotton and i collected everything in a round bottom flask what i had to do now was get rid of the dcm so i put together another distillation setup i turned on the heat and i brought it to a boil which didn't take very long because the boiling point of dcm is only around 40c it also distills off really easily and it didn't take very long for pretty much all of it to be gone i was eventually left with a dark red colored oil and i transferred it all to a much smaller flask what i had now was really crude and dirty methyl and thranolate and i had to clean it up a bit more to do this i had to do another distillation but it couldn't just be a regular one and it had to be under vacuum doing it under a vacuum was very important because it would let me do it at a much lower temperature and without any air present this would prevent the grape flavor from just decomposing or reacting with oxygen in the air after a while i started seeing vapor forming and condensing and stuff started coming over i'm not sure what this stuff was but it was mostly side product and other junk it was only when it got to around 131c that the methylenethronylate started coming over i then turned this adapter to a new vial and i kept collecting it here until the temperature started rising again i had no idea how much i was actually going to get and i was a bit worried that it would only be a few drops that didn't turn out to be the case though and i was really happy when i saw that i was collecting a decent amount the moment that i saw it increase above 131 i turned it to another vial and i collected it for a few minutes i then turned off the heating and i let everything cool down to room temperature while i was waiting for that to happen though i wanted to try shooting it with uv light i had read online that it was supposed to fluoresce and i really wanted to try it out so i turned off all the lights and i turned on my uv lamp the color that it made was honestly one of the nicest things that i've seen working on this channel it's a bit unfortunate though because i don't feel like the camera really did it justice when it eventually got to room temperature i released the vacuum and i took the whole thing apart i then pulled out the three separate fractions and i put them into different vials just for fun i smelled the first and last files and they weren't great i'm really not sure how to describe them but they kind of had a weird plasticky smell the main stuff though smelled completely different and it had a strong grape smell but it also had an odd mustiness to it i again don't really know how to describe it but it was honestly a bit off-putting this surprised me because from everything that i had read i thought it was going to be exactly like grape candy at first i thought that maybe it was just from an impurity so to compare it i ordered a small amount of pure methyl and thranylate from a chemical company it ended up smelling exactly the same though which honestly kind of surprised me after that i did something called thin layer chromatography to compare what i made with the stuff that i knew was pure it confirmed that i did have methylenethronilite and it showed that it was pretty clean so i guess that's just how it smells but either way after weeks of work i was finally done and i had more than enough to start putting together my grape soda before that though i just quickly wanted to taste it okay so i'm hoping that it tastes a little a little bit better than it smells god it's awful it's so much worse and it it also kind of burns ah i'm gonna be honest and say that i knew it wasn't gonna be very good but anyway now to make the grape soda i had to find a recipe and it was surprisingly hard i couldn't find anything that gave quantities and it was always just generic ingredients i also started realizing that i might have misread some of the info about methyl and thranolate a lot of sources said that methylenethronylate was used for the flavor of grape kool-aid and other grape products and i thought this meant as the only flavor however i think it meant more that it was just one of the flavoring agents i never thought my grape soda was going to be great and this was making me doubt it even more after not finding any recipes i decided that the best thing to do was to just try and copy grape kool-aid the ingredients were very simple and even if other flavors were used the methyl and thranolate was apparently the major one from the ingredients list i was able to get the amount of sugar that was in it and i assumed that i would just have to do trial and error for this citric and ascorbic acid however i didn't have to do any of that at all because figuring this out is apparently a common high school lab from their results i was able to do some quick math and i came up with my own bootleg recipe i base the amount of acids on the kool-aid but i jacked up the amount of sugar to match other grape sodas like fanta before doing this i had no idea but grape sodas apparently have an insane amount of sugar in them so now to put it all together i started by adding a crazy 55 grams of sugar after that i shot in about 1.1 grams of citric acid and 0.1 of ascorbic acid i then poured in just enough water to get it above the fill line it wouldn't be grape soda if it weren't purple so i added some red and blue dye and i stirred it until everything dissolved after this i was done making the base of the soda which at this point was just some slightly acidic purple sugar water what i had to do now was actually flavor it by adding the methyl and thranolate and i shot in two doses of 12 and a half milligrams normally methylenethranolate would be almost insoluble in water but i think the acidity of the citric acid might help it dissolve so what i had now was hopefully some pure chemical grape juice and the last step was to carbonate it i did this using one of those household carbonator things and i blasted it with a bunch of co2 when i eventually felt that it was good i pulled it off very carefully to prevent it from overflowing after all this i was now apparently done and i could finally taste my soda and see how terrible it probably was okay so the first thing i'm going to do is smell it and it's it actually does kind of smell like grape but it also still has that weird musty-ness or kind of off-putting scent that the pure stuff had i was hoping that it would just magically go away but uh it's clearly still there but hopefully unlike the pure stuff it's uh not gonna taste horrible okay it it does taste like grape soda but it's maybe just a really bad version it definitely has like it's hard to describe it definitely has a grape profile to it but it's really limited in flavor and it's kind of like there's just that part that makes you know it's grape and nothing else which i guess makes sense because i only added one ingredient but honestly it's i'll try it again i think it's still better than diet soda and i think i think if i were really desperate i i could drink it i don't know if i'd enjoy it but it's more than drinkable it's really just the smell that's kind of weird okay so my plastic love soda wasn't amazing but it did taste like grape and that was all that really mattered to me just the fact that i started with vinyl gloves and ended up with something that tasted fruity was more than a success also as an added bonus i was really happy to find that chemical that i was missing to make synthetic hot sauce i have no idea when i'll actually do that though because these long synthesis projects take forever to film and put together it doesn't seem like it from the final video but it's really time consuming and i think this one took over 40 days but anyway with that being said i want to give a big thanks to all my patrons for making long projects like this possible and to audible for sponsoring this video otto was one of the biggest providers and producers of spoken word content and they have a huge library of audiobooks and podcasts they offer something in almost every genre from mysteries and thrillers to romance or self-development for a long time i was always someone who preferred to read a physical book but i've come to really like audiobooks they're 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This scientist was so preoccupied if he could he didn't think if he should.

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Well, I can honestly say I didn't wake up this morning expecting to see how to turn plastic gloves into grape soda

[u/Rappletek]

Dude took plastic gloves and made grape La Croix

[u/Bandwidth_Wasted]

Lol, I knew it was gonna be NileRed as soon as I saw the title.

[u/GrimArtificalWombat]

More like nitrile* grape

[u/strategicpublish]

Really helpful