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Uploaded by on Apr 25, 2011

In this video we make a small amount of Carbon disulfide using a ceramic tube and a very hot torch. This reaction is for educational proposes only!!! Do not attempt to reproduce!! Large amounts of toxic gases can form and all products are very flammable.

Carbon disulfide is a colorless volatile liquid with the formula CS2. The compound is used frequently as a building block in organic chemistry as well as an industrial and chemical non-polar solvent.

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  • What do you do as a profession?

  • @ihavekankles By day I am a Director of IT.. by night I am Batm... uh... In the evenings company's pay me to do simple research in industrial chemistry. For example I am currently being contracted to design a compound that goes into glaze that can make ceramics "glow in the dark". No glamor.. but still lots of fun.

  • I like the commercial.  :D

  • @jeriellsworth Thanks!!! They put that together in short order.. hahaha

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  • Where does H2S come from? Or more specificaly the hydrogen. The only reactants are S and C and the crucible.

  • use the same set up but use natrual gas as the carbon source with the sulphur powder but this time use a silica gel catalyst, this drops the temperature by 400oC so will be alot easier to produce, you will have to make use off anti reverse valves if you make it on a large scale because of the gas.

  • @h0meIandsecurity No... it must be an "oxygen" torch... A regular torch that uses O2 pulled out of air will not get hot enough and just make poisonous gas.

  • @h0meIandsecurity 8 fl oz or 236ml

  • 5cc of carbon disulfide is enough for me to make a very interesting and unstable chemical...... tetraSulfur tetranitride.

  • @myst32YT Is this the same idea as the way they CS2 on an industrial scale?

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