Turning Wood into Artificial Silk

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In this video I extract pure cellulose from wood and turn it into a famous artificial silk by dissolving it using a homemade copper-based chemical while experiencing the element of suprise and making a corrosive tea.

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0:00 Intro
4:15 Extracting cellulose from wood (Caustic digesting, pulping, bleaching)
13:31 Making copper hydroxide
19:05 Making Schweizer's reagent and turning wood into rayon
23:31 Outro

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