okay today I'm going to be showing you
how to make rope out of liquid so what's
cool about this is because it's taking a
liquid and turning it into a solid
polymer it looks a lot like spiderweb
and so what I want to do is see if I can
actually make a realistic spiderweb out
of it because I have a hunch that this
is what the real spider-man uses to make
his spider webs depending on what
spider-man you've seen he usually has
some kind of liquid that he sticks in
there and he pushes a little button and
it shoots out and it's this kind of long
polymer string from these liquids so I
have here two special liquids this one
is called one six hexane diamine and
this one's called Seba coil chloride and
what's special about these is a part
they're just a liquid but when you touch
them together the molecules from each of
them combined together to form stars
forming a chain and what's cool about
this chain is one molecule of this
doesn't just react with one molecule of
that and stop what happens is one from
this comes with one from that and
connects and then one from this one
connects on the other end then one from
this one connects on the other end and
it just keeps going and going and going
and forming a long polymer and with this
specific solution it's going to form
nylon okay so first I'm going to pour in
the hexane diamine
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now I'm gonna pour in the Sepik oil
chloride and the goal is that you don't
want to mix them you want there to be
two separate layers of the liquids and
that the interface is where the polymer
will form
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so you can see now that there's two
separate layers of liquid and then
there's this white layer in between and
that's what I want to grab and pull up
with my tweezers here we go
whoa
look at that it just keeps coming that's
so cool okay you can see that seemingly
out of nothing this rope starts to form
just grab it
there it is
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and just keep pulling it that's so cool
okay here we go I tried to form my
spiderweb now right there
it just keeps coming
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okay so there's my finished product
let's see if it works
strong like a spiderweb let's see how
strong it is so if I were really
ambitious what I could do is take these
little strands and then I'd weave them
together and I could make a strong nylon
rope with this so the question is would
it be realistic for spider-man to use a
polymer like this so you see that to
make this amount this made about 15 feet
of rope and I needed two bottles about
this size of the initial chemicals so
let's say spider-man were to be able to
make some type of device that kept the
liquids from mixing and just allowed the
interface to mix so that when he pushed
a button it's forced out that interface
and it pulled the polymer along with it
then you could say okay that could be
realistic that he could make shoot nylon
out of his arm like that
but the hard part to believe is the
volume of it
so for spider-man you see usually
they're little cartridges that he uses
and it produces a large amount of webs
so I can't imagine how he could use a
chemical that's so small in liquid size
that produces so much polymer but hey
I'm not Peter Parker so I don't know oh
yeah and I forgot to mention another
little hurdle for spider-man
the reason I'm outside doing this is
because these chemicals are toxic so
even after they're reacted they're not
reacted fully and you're supposed to
rinse them off before you touch them so
he wouldn't want to touch his own web
with his bare hands afterwards if he was
using this method okay so the nylon that
I made here is called nylon 610 but
that's just saying how many carbons were
on the initial molecules of the
reactants so the industrial nylon is
nylon 6-6 and it's not quite made this
way but the reaction is the same
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