 While the mass hysteria surrounding the coronavirus outbreak continues to ramp up, I want to take a break from my usual series of attempting to rebuild society and see if I can salvage this current one. So supplies on things like hand sanitizers become more and more rare. I wanted to see if it was possible to produce my own using the unfortunately named coronavirus. While panic buying reaches new heights and supplies start to become more and more rare, this truly emphasizes the importance of our mission of our channel. An understanding of the process, the mix of products we use every day, becomes suddenly more important when regular supplies are disrupted and regular ready-made products become scarce. Even being able to go just one step back allows you to buy different ingredients to make these that might not be as scarce and opens up a lot more possibilities and less scarcity. And if it does end up being a worst-case scenario, we show you how to fully produce things starting all the way back from the natural source in case all of society ends up failing, which it's not going to. We previously produced a video on producing pre-emptive air-fry type of soap, literally starting from just rocks and seeds, also covered a wide variety of disinfectants such as a form of bleach that can be produced relatively easily with just salt in the DC adapter. Having knowledge of how to make things and why they work the way they do is incredibly important in times like this. Since we haven't covered a commodity like hand sanitizer before, I wanted to use this excuse to kind of explore the topic a little bit deeper and try and take a product like corona and produce hand sanitizer. When life gives you discount corona, make hand sanitizer. So let's crack open a cold one and get disinfected. First up, the myth that people are confusing corona beer with the coronavirus is actually a complete myth and is a misrepresentation of a study that just showed general interest in the beers down, likely because a lot of people are in quarantine. Also doesn't help that the beer is pretty bad tasting. The word corona means crown or halo in Latin, and many Latin-based languages like Spanish. The current pandemic, more accurately named COVID-19, contains a coronavirus name because the group of viruses appear to have a crown when viewed in an electric microscope housed by the outside of a virus having club-shaped protein spikes. CDC recommendations highly stress hand washing and hand sanitizer for disinfecting your hands. If you want to make your own soap, we've already done a video on that. In order for a hand sanitizer to be effective at killing viruses like the coronavirus, at least 60% alcohol is needed. Alcohol works as a disinfectant through a process called denaturation. It has the unique property of the molecules having both water and fat-loving attributes, which allows it to break down the protective membranes of bacteria and virus, effectively destroying them. There are many different forms of alcohol, but the main ones are methanol, ethanol, and isopropanol. Methanol has the least antiseptic properties, so it was rarely used for that purpose. It's also the compound that makes the distillation of alcohol for consumption pretty dangerous, as it can get concentrated to toxic levels that cause blindness or death. Ethanol is a primary alcohol produced through the fermentation of sugars and starches, something we've covered many times in the past. Also frequently used in hand sanitizers is isopropanol, which is most commonly produced from petroleum. Corona beer, like many like beers, has only 4.5% alcohol by volume, and that's not quite strong enough to actually disinfect anything you need at least 60% alcohol, so we're gonna need to do a process called distillation. Without a proper permit, distillation of alcohol is actually quite illegal and can potentially be very dangerous as alcohol is flammable. We'll be making a few precautions to make sure we're able to do this legally, so I definitely do not recommend trying to attempt this in any way. This is intended just purely for educational purposes. You are much better off buying RA-distilled beverages like Everclear or other high concentrations of alcohol that you don't have to distill, and then you can just mix that with the other you're going to be using to produce your own. That is the much more realistic way to do this. So do not attempt to recreate this unless you have the proper permit or the government has completely dissolved, which is probably not going to happen. To prevent yourself from getting a case of Corona, you'll have to go get yourself a case of Corona. This is probably the most straightforward way to do a distillation like this. This is just a basic chemistry kit. We have a boiling plastic here inside the mantle that will heat it up to the desired temperature. The alcohol will evaporate first at around 79 degrees Celsius, and then we have the column set up here that will force the evaporate through it, and then we have cold water being cycled through this tube, and that will cause the alcohol to condense and come out this bottom flask. So if we watch the temperature and keep it just below 100 degrees Celsius, we should get pretty much just alcohol. Once it starts to get towards 100 degrees, that means it's starting to evaporate some of the water and we'll get an impure result. And then once you do this once, you want to do it a few times. So not everybody has the advantage of having a full chemistry set back at home, so I want to try and do more of an improvised method using some household items. So one of the ways I'm going to try is using a pot, a bundt pan, and some bowls to try and make a makeshift one, but basically following the same concept. They found out it was a method for water distillation, for purifying water, which is also a useful ability to have. In theory, it should work, so let's try it out. So this basically works in the exact same way as the chemistry set, just all vertical. So at the bottom, we have the beer and the pot, which is slowly being heated, to adjust the boiling point of alcohol. So then evaporate, and it'll go through the little hole in the bundt pan and collect at the top of the glass bowls on top, and there it'll be trapped until it starts to cool, where it's farther from the heat, and it'll condense on the surface of the bowl, where we'll then roll down the edges and collect in the bundt pan. A little temperature probe in here, so we're just going to monitor the temperature, make sure it stays below the boiling point of water, we should get relatively pure ethanol. Overall, this isn't the most efficient method, as there's a lot of leakage through the cracks where some of the alcohol vapors will escape, but it should do pretty well for a makeshift distiller, and we should get a relatively pure ethanol in the bundt pan. Carefully monitor this, and check once it's started to reach the boiling point of water, took it off at that point, and the end result was actually pretty good. It still has a fair amount of water in it, so running it through a few more times to really distill it down would be ideal, but in case you don't have a bundt pan like this, I try using some other kitchen household items and like a teapot and see if we can rig something else up a different method. Thanks, Kent. Maybe want some beer? So then for another option to try to distill it, we have a teapot here, just going to tape a tubing onto the end of it, and then inside of it should collect the ethanol vapors as they evaporate, we'll go through the tube and then probably put some ice around it to help it cool, then out the end should come liquid ethanol. All right, so a little change of plans. The tubing might not be up to par for the high temperature we're going to reach, so I swapped it out. This is actually from a wind chime. It's just a steel tube. Found an old cork. Just going to shove that in, drill the hole in it, or then we'll wrap the whole thing in duct tape and hopefully seal any potential holes. And then a pack of ice cubes to put on the tube to help chill it. And then it should condense at the other end of the tube. Let's put the beer in and give it a shot. OK, so it looks like it actually worked out pretty good. The duct tape is held up under the heat. I got a nice condensation here. Got a nice yield. Ideally, you'd run this through a few more times to really distill it down to just the ethanol. Using any of these methods, you should be able to collect roughly 200 milliliters of close to pure ethanol from a 12 pack of corona. Now I have a few different versions of distillation that I've completed in various stages. But the biggest challenge with actually trying to do this yourself, if you were to do that, which again, I would not recommend, is that you don't really know the exact concentration. You want at least over 60 percent for it to be effective, ideally around 70 percent, because you can also be too concentrated and then it's not as effective. I'm going to explore a couple different ways of measuring here. Easiest way is to just set on fire. And if it burns, it's over 50 percent alcohol. Otherwise, there's also the option of a little meter like this guy, which measures the actual density of the liquid. It gives you an actual measurement of how much alcohol is in it. So let's give a shot at each of these and see how concentrated they are. So this one, which was just the first distillation, was only about 30 percent alcohol. It was a little bit better at 40. And then this one's at 75 after a few batches through the distillation. Ideally, in theory, we can get it up to about 95 percent through just distillation, but this should be strong enough for what we're going to do. Hand sanitizer, we're aiming for about 70 percent. So we just want to dilute it only by 5 percent. We don't want to use straight alcohol. So we're going to add another compound to make a little bit more of a gel and a little bit easier on the hands. CDC also highly recommends isolating yourself to lower the chances of spreading the disease, even if you don't think you are sick or no one has been infected in your city yet. My recommendation is to cozy up at home and subscribe to your favorite YouTuber and catch up on all our videos. One of particular use could be one that teaches you how to rebuild society and get a little hope that even in the worst case scenario, we can rebuild ourselves. Check out our post-recept playlist as we build ourselves back up from the Stone Age and up into the Bronze Age. In fact, we are actually reaching the first record evidence of distillation at around 3000 BCE, which was actually the original inspiration for this video. So we'll be covering the production of our own distilled beverages using only the technology and tools from the Bronze Age. So be sure to subscribe and check out all of that. While the majority of the world is currently quarantined and practicing social distancing, you want to do a live stream next Monday evening to help provide some extra content and entertainment during these unprecedented times. So join us on Monday, March 23rd at 7 p.m. Central Time. If you have any requests for what we do during the live stream, let us know in the comments. In addition to just the alcohol, there's oftentimes some sort of gelling agent that's used to kind of make it a little bit thicker. So you actually rub it on your hands and stuff and make it a little bit less hard. One item we can use is aloe. I previously used these plants for sunscreen. They're just sitting around waiting for another use. People are not hoarding these. Still available at the grocery store last I checked to actually harvest it. She's got to cut it open, scrape it out, and it's just the contents of the leaves. Kind of cool. And boogers. Dewey. As we have our ethanol, we have our aloe, and I was going to throw in the lime just to add a little bit of scent and flavor to not flavor. Do not drink this scent. So you don't smell like an alcoholic. Make a little bit more pleasant and then I'm going to mix them all together. I'm going to do it at exact ratio so we can stay above the 70 percent alcohol. So it can still be an effective disinfectant. So we have about 179 grams of ethanol, roughly 75 percent alcohol. And then we have some aloe, so maybe nine grams and just a little bit of lime. And we'll make a mixed drink, but you do not drink. Just a hint of lime. From one 12 pack of Corona produced one bottle of hand sanitizer. And in most situations, this is a very ineffective and expensive way to do it. But with the shortages actually could be cheaper. I mean, a 12 back hand sanitizer has been going for up to like 65, 75, 85 dollars. So in this unique situation we are in right now is actually a cheaper way to produce it. That being said, it's not really recommended to actually do this because it's both illegal and dangerous. World Health Organization actually has a document explaining the proper ratios to add to it. They also add things like hydrogen peroxide and glycerin, which help improve both the disinfectant and as a hand feel could have had glycerin. It is something I have made in the past during our soap video, but often not to because we're the L maybe a bit of a total. So we got one made hypothetically. In fact, it's possible to do. I hope you guys enjoyed this. At this point, we've all heard a lot about this virus instead of very large impact on our lives. So it's probably going to be the only video we do that's directly relevant to the actual coronavirus outbreak at this point. We're all kind of probably getting a little tired of all the coronavirus. It's like the only thing you can talk about. So moving forward, I'm back to our main series. I recommend you subscribe and check them out. 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