Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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In this video I use my questionable chemistry skills to turn nail polish remover (Ethyl acetate) into vodka (Ethanol) while experiencing some chemical horrors and lightly toasting my hand in hot ice (Sodium acetate).

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DISCLAIMER: Please DO NOT recreate anything you see me do in this video, it is for educational/demonstration purposes only, and I want to emphasize that I do not encourage alcohol consumption in any way.

Also, excuse me for my poor speaking, English is not my native language, so I have some trouble with pronunciation - in case you don't understand something there are always subtitles made by me.

0:00 Intro
2:50 Breaking up ethyl acetate
5:55 Alcohol distillation
7:22 Making extra pure alcohol
9:15 Making and tasting lab-grade vodka
10:40 Sodium acetate shenanigans
12:38 Outro

Music used:
Aquarium by Kevin MacLeod - licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
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Winter Mvt 1 Allegro non molto by John Harrison with the Wichita State University Chamber Players - licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license.
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