Nylon, made by Me

[Alpinestarhero]

Here's what I got up to yesterday in the chem lab. Made some nylon :cool: very impressed to get this amount!

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/9742/nylon2ah9.th.png (http://img219.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nylon2ah9.png)

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/5466/nylon4em9.th.png (http://img219.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nylon4em9.png)

Matt

[Scoobs]

Geek Alert :wink:

[SoulKiss]

And you all have the cheek to call ME a geek !!!!!

[hovis]

well im happy for you........... & you look very pleased with yourself in the 1st piccy............so keep it up:smt072

[Baph]

No where near enough for stockings!

Must try harder!

E.

[Alpinestarhero]

I only had about 0.03 moles of either reagent (thats 2.2 grams of hexamethylene diamine and 3 ml of sebacoyl chloride) so alot came from it!

Yea, it was kinda geeky for me to post this - but I was dead proud! Shame I didnt get any pictures from my Inorganic Chemistry labs, they where good fun :D

I also made some polyesters, but no pics of those, they where just transparent lumps in the bottom of the test tube (lad techie wasnt best pleased when I told him it didnt disolve in anything and could he suggest a way to get it out..)

Matt

[furrybean]

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Mwahhaahhaa Zoink

[Messie]

Daughter of geek alert

My Dad was part of the team that worked out how to dye nylon (and other man made fibres) black. They had real trouble with that in the 60!

My Mum and Dad met in the lab.

[GregK2]

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Mwahhaahhaa Zoink

There was trouble at the lab with the running and the exploding and the crying when the monkeys stole the glasses off my head. Wh-ha ha.

[Alpinestarhero]

Daughter of geek alert

My Dad was part of the team that worked out how to dye nylon (and other man made fibres) black. They had real trouble with that in the 60!

My Mum and Dad met in the lab.

Really? Do you have any more stuff on this? Sounds interesting!

Matt

[Messie]

I know loads of anecdotal family story stuff, but I'd be stuck on the scientific detail. I know, for instance,that he 'invented' rayon and the stuff that's now called lycra. It was called something else before it was bought by XXXX (Dupont?) and my Dad invented it. He was a brilliant technician but lousy business man! I'm not making it up, honest! Courtaulds, then Carrington Vyella - look it up.
Granddad was a silk weaver

He hated bikes tho! ( or maybe just his daughter riding them)

[Ed]

Daughter of geek alert

My Dad was part of the team that worked out how to dye nylon (and other man made fibres) black. They had real trouble with that in the 60!

My Mum and Dad met in the lab.

So you were a test tube baby?;)

[Cloggsy]

So you were a test tube baby?;)

Da dum tishhhhhh :takeabow:

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[Ed]

I know loads of anecdotal family story stuff, but I'd be stuck on the scientific detail. I know, for instance,that he 'invented' rayon and the stuff that's now called lycra. It was called something else before it was bought by XXXX (Dupont?) and my Dad invented it. He was a brilliant technician but lousy business man! I'm not making it up, honest! Courtaulds, then Carrington Vyella - look it up.

Granddad was a silk weaver

Now you're spinning a yarn:D

[kwak zzr]

i once made methane.<spelling

[Ed]

i once made methane.<spelling

You and me too:p

[Filipe M.]

Here's what I got up to yesterday in the chem lab. Made some nylon :cool: very impressed to get this amount!

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/9742/nylon2ah9.th.png (http://img219.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nylon2ah9.png)

Matt

:-k

:-k

That shape... are you sure that wasn't latex? 8-[







:lol:

[Alpinestarhero]

Rather large size, take a certain kinda man.....:shock:

Matt

[Moffatt666]

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[Alpinestarhero]

Sorry :oops: I wont do it again :oops:

Until i do something else interesting :cool:

Matt

[Quiff Wichard]

So you were a test tube baby?;)


yea- starsign........... PYREX

[Quiff Wichard]

ALPINE - I AM NOT IMPRESSED..

I make stringy stuff like that every day .

[Moffatt666]

Sorry :oops: I wont do it again :oops:

Until i do something else interesting :cool:

Matt

I never said it's a bad thing!

[Davies]

:-k

:-k

That shape... are you sure that wasn't latex? 8-[

:lol:

:smt043

[Stu]

ALPINE - I AM NOT IMPRESSED..

I make stringy stuff like that every day .
NOOOOOOOOooooooooooooo! Keep that to yourself :lol:

[Alpinestarhero]

This thread was asking for such replies :lol:

Another lab today, but probably no piccies - its only analytical chemistry. Unless anyone wants a picture of the 400 MHz NMR instrument...

Oh god, I am a geek :(

Matt

[Baph]

This thread was asking for such replies :lol:

Another lab today, but probably no piccies - its only analytical chemistry. Unless anyone wants a picture of the 400 MHz NMR instrument...

Oh god, I am a geek :(

Matt
*checks the time of that post*

OMG, pre-9am.

*checks Matt is still a Uni student*

OMG!

*checks to see if the end of the world is nigh*

Hmm, nope.

*wonders as to the state of matt's bowels & bladder*

Hmmm...:smt064

[Alpinestarhero]

What cable do I need to get photos from my 3220 onto my PC?!?! I got some great ones of a Mass Spectrometry instrument!











It's ok, I'll throw meself out....

Matt

[Quiff Wichard]

has it gotbluetooth??

get a dongle.

[independentphoto]

has it gotbluetooth??

get a dong.

Is that where your stringy stuff comes from Quiff? :laughat:


Sorry- I'll get me coat!

Garry:D