We all had a lot of fun making biodiesel yesterday. Even though we didn't get much we learned a lot and are now trying to work out the kinks. Biodiesel is made from a reaction of Sodium Hydroxide/Pottasium Hydroxide and Oil, with methanol to speed up the process. These two reactants are two of the key ingredients in soap. Luckily you will never get soap in the reaction unless the mixture is contaminated with water. Unfortunately as it turned out our reaction produced a goopy mixture, soap. Some way water must have gotten into the mixture, but how? We have tried several variables, but still fail to find the answer. Our efforts yesterday still yeilded us with a small amount of biodiesel which we managed to extract from amongst the goop. We are still exploring yet.
April
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