On: Backyard Cyanide

[felipemesquita]

In NileRed’s video “Does cyanide actually smell like almonds?”[0] he purchases some bitter almonds to measure the amount of cyanide in them. He is also worried about the baseless health benefits claims.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYagO-nup6c

[progmetaldev → felipemesquita]

I love that channel. Especially turning (I believe) nitrile gloves into hot sauce. Some of the chemistry he performs, I would never think of even existing. It's like people that say margarine is one molecule away from plastic, without understanding that all of chemistry works like that.

[sitkack → progmetaldev]

Wait, can we just recycle plastic into margarine? Bubble wrap marmalade?

[userbinator → sitkack]

Naturally occuring polymers like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatty_acid are indeed very similar to synthetic ones, in that they both contain long hydrocarbon chains of varying length.

[sitkack → userbinator]

So we can take a barrel of crude oil and turn it into nacho cheese? What would that entail.