# I swayed the lab so that we could make biodiesel
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**Created:** [February 13, 2006, 12:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-swayed-the-lab-so-that-we-could-make-biodiesel/8108 "2006-02-13T12:19:22Z")
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### Author:  [@RedGoober4Life](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RedGoober4Life)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2006, 12:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-swayed-the-lab-so-that-we-could-make-biodiesel/8108/1 "2006-02-13T12:19:22Z")
We run an ester synthesis lab in org 2, as I’m sure many of you have done if you’ve taken organic chemistry. Well, I was just BUMMED OUT about us making Amyl Acetate. It smells like bananas (well synthetic bananas). Of course only a certain number of students looked at eachother and said WE DON’T WANT TO SMELL BANANAS…mainly because it’s been our known substance on the Fourier transform IR for the past 3 months. Bad memories…anyway…
I gave her the idea that we could make biodiesel since it’s essentially an ester reaction. She was excited. Enamored. Thrilled with the idea, since her husband has been toying around with it for the past few months (he’s purchased an older MB diesel for the purpose). So…making biodiesel. I don’t know many schools that make biodiesel in Org 2…
🙂
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### Author:  [@Diesel](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Diesel)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2006, 12:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-swayed-the-lab-so-that-we-could-make-biodiesel/8108/2 "2006-02-13T12:24:42Z")
I love it when you speak geek to me :mamoru:
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### Author:  [@zwarbyt](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/zwarbyt)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2006, 12:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-swayed-the-lab-so-that-we-could-make-biodiesel/8108/3 "2006-02-13T12:26:33Z")
pfff webster high school in rochester did this on the news…
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### Author:  [@RedGoober4Life](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RedGoober4Life)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2006, 12:29pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-swayed-the-lab-so-that-we-could-make-biodiesel/8108/4 "2006-02-13T12:29:26Z")
Yes, but do high school students know what they’re doing? I think not.
I can test for quality. 😛
If you read the directions online for biodiesel it is pretty obvious that not many people have a clue as to why they putting things together in the way they do. It’s kind of like people that make crystal meth… You can teach monkeys to type!Q
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### Author:  [@Anonymity](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Anonymity)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2006, 12:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-swayed-the-lab-so-that-we-could-make-biodiesel/8108/5 "2006-02-13T12:31:36Z")
more information please, can i have the set up when done with it?
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### Author:  [@RedGoober4Life](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RedGoober4Life)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2006, 12:36pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-swayed-the-lab-so-that-we-could-make-biodiesel/8108/6 "2006-02-13T12:36:17Z")
Well, the school owns the equipment so I don’t think that would be possible. We probably won’t make much since we have labs of 13 people (this is a small number, but our labs are pretty small). It’s not as though we’re going to be starting a factory.
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### Author:  [@Zong](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Zong)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2006, 12:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-swayed-the-lab-so-that-we-could-make-biodiesel/8108/7 "2006-02-13T12:40:50Z")
I wish I was as into chemistry as you were…I’d be having a much better time with biotech ☹
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### Author:  [@RedGoober4Life](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RedGoober4Life)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2006, 1:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-swayed-the-lab-so-that-we-could-make-biodiesel/8108/8 "2006-02-13T13:05:19Z")
It hasn’t always been this way. It’s been many many hours in the lab. I have so much more to learn.
I’m the annoying kid in the class that asks “why?!” questions…ha!
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### Author:  [@Denton](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Denton)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2006, 1:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-swayed-the-lab-so-that-we-could-make-biodiesel/8108/9 "2006-02-13T13:11:09Z")
are you going to bond the free fatty acids into glycerine or go the highly concentrated Sulfuric acid reagent route?
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### Author:  [@RedGoober4Life](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RedGoober4Life)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2006, 1:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-swayed-the-lab-so-that-we-could-make-biodiesel/8108/10 "2006-02-13T13:17:36Z")
sulfuric acid. 18 molar is concentrated of diprotic, if I remember correctly.