[progmetaldev]

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]

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

[userbinator]

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]

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