A Fun Ethanol story (featuring dehydration reaction notes) (1 Viewer)

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Here's a little story I wrote about Ethanol's relation to Ethene, and there are a large amount of facts in the story and listed below, enjoy, because this is as fun as chemistry gets...

Ethanol: Oh hey Alumina, how you going man?

Alumina: Not bad, you?

Ethanol: A'ight, but i'm boiling, literally!

Alumina: Yeah man, It's 350 degrees

Ethanol: Holy crap, I think I might take off my coat

Alumina: Why not take of two of your hydrogens and an oxygen instead?

Ethanol: Okay

[Ethanol loses H2O]

Water: Mwahaha! I'm FREE! Thank you Alumina!

Ethene: You fuckin' asshole Alumina, you tricked me!

Alumina: Yeah bitch, suck my Al2O3 wang! I'm off to trick some more motherfuckers, cause a catalyst is recycable!

Ethene: Maybe, but you forget, a hydration reaction is easily reversible!

Water: NO!

[Ethene has it's way with Water]

Ethanol: I'm back bitch... i'm going to get you...

[Ethanol advances on Alumina with a butterfly knife]

THE END!




FUN FACTS

Mentioned:
Catalysts aren't included in a reaction as they remain unchanged, and are therefore recyclable.
Hydration and Dehydration reactions are very easy to reverse.
Dehydration of Ethanol occurs at 350 degrees celcius, when Ethanol is in gasious form.
Alumina is made up of three Aluminium and two Oxygens.



Not Mentioned:
Alumina was the traditional catalyst for dehydrating ethanol to get ethene.
Ethene can now be extracted from petroleum.
By burning Aluminium, Aluminium reacts with oxygen making Alumina.

A catalyst reduces the energy required to break bonds, therefore leading to a faster reaction rate.
The catalyst is NOT used up in a reaction, it is therefore able to be recylced easily.
A catalyst in Biology is called 'enzymes'


Dehydrating is taking water out of a chemical, hydrating being the opposite both reactions are easily reversible.
Dehydrating ethanol creates ethene.


Alumina is the catalyst required to dehydrate ethanol. It required to be heated to 350 degrees celcius.
The hell is alumina? Al2O3 Aluminium oxide (Al2O3), which is aluminium burnt.
Do gases react easier? (due to high viabrations due to extreme (350 degrees) heat)
Recently, porous ceramic catalysts have replaced alumina.
We can make Ethene in a crappy school lab by using concetrated Hydrogen Sulfate (H2SO4) as a catalyst.
 

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I have to be veeeeeeeery bored, like really, really bored...

So the next will be a few days tops (heheh)

EDIT: well, I have something kinda similar, check out my signature
 
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We're doing combustion at the moment, it'll be a bit till something worth actually typing pops up
 

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