Distilling Nitromethane from RC Fuel (To Outsmart Amazon)

Duration: 5:18

Nitromethane is a useful chemical and solvent, and it also happens to be an ingredient in the synthesis of dopamine, which I'm currently attempting. Amazon doesn't want me to have pure nitromethane though, so I took one of their products and extracted it for myself! For a good demo of how to chemically synthesize nitromethane, make sure you check out these videos by @chemdelic and @Hexazine0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRCpC5y8J9k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sVUcT7pOaE Want to support LabCoatz? Sure you do! Feel free to join my Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/LabCoatz Don't want to pay monthly and just want to be a one-time supporter? Then follow this link to donate: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/labcoatz Now, a quick note about buying nitromethane: while the pure stuff doesn't seem to be sold on Amazon or eBay, you can buy gallons of it from websites like Hyperfuels for a very reasonable price: https://hyperfuels.com/collections/nitromethane 0:00 Intro 0:33 Nitromethane: how do you get it? 1:04 RC Nitro Fuel and methanol azeotropes 1:57 Distillation 3:03 More distillation and redistillation 3:37 Yield and density 4:00 Hypergolic testing with NaOH 4:34 Conclusion