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How to make Cadaverine (the Smell of Death)

Warning: Cadaverine is absolutely putrid and it taints everything that it comes into contact with. It also does not wash off too easily. This video was more of a proof of concept than an actual synthesis. The amount of lysine and sodium bicabonate used was relatively arbitrary. In this video I use two methods to produce cadaverine: 1. Basic heating: This is not very efficient and burns a lot of the cadaverine. 2. Destructive distillation: I use an improvised destructive distillation setup.

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  • Originally Aired April 19, 2014
  • Runtime 8 minutes
  • Production Code V4D5aTNYalQ
  • Created September 22, 2020 by
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  • Modified September 22, 2020 by
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