namrednef wrote: |
Thanks Ross.....didn't mean to hijack the thread.....just curious. So is it made from byproducts gained from 'cracking' petro molecules?....and maybe therefor fairly cheap to make? I mean, we don't need Future on the commodities market! |
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The general chemical formula is: H2C=CH-C(=O)— . This is not a structural formula, which is much more edifying, but I can't reproduce it here, due to limitations of the forum software, which is not set up for chemical discussions!
It is derived from "acrylic acid" (old name "propenoic acid"). This is an "organic chemistry" acid—not quite what most people think of as an acid. This, in its turn is derived from an alkene called propene, C3H6 .
Propene is, IIRC, a derivitive of hydrocarbon refinement, e.g., "cracking" of oil in a refinery.
Nothing derived from oil is inexpensive. If there are other sources of the stuff, I'm not enough of an organic chemist to know of them.
As far as the oil/energy market is concerned: I want every politician in the country world to try to live one week without energy. (Even the homeless are dependent on energy—waste energy lost by others.) Nobody can live without water. Nobody can live without air. Nobody can live without energy. But the idiot politicians can't figure that out—except the ones who are in control of the oil, coal, and natural gas.
Careful! Hijacking is a terrorist act!
<raspberry!!!>