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The mscgyver directors actually had a few colleges around the country coming up with most of his easy fix situations. So, im assuming most of them, although maybe a little exaggerated, will actually work
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Originally posted by ancientsanskrit:
Originally posted by PackRat:
NERD! 
Yep!
Ah, Harold Green, eh?
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Originally posted by rmcd79:
Originally posted by ancientsanskrit:
Originally posted by PackRat:
NERD!
Yep!
Ah, Harold Green, eh?
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Originally posted by TourDeForce:
Thou shalt not use HIS name in vein!
Thou shalt not misuse "vain"!! 
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Originally posted by ancientsanskrit:
Sucrose structure:
I'm not very familar w/ the structure of Dextrose, but I think it's just the D-glucose (I'm pretty sure it's D-glucose, since normal glucose is L-glucose).
You are correct, sir!
Originally posted by ancientsanskrit:
In any case, it's a carbohydrate as well and would occur with the same dehydration synthesis @ the glycosidic center.
However, there's no glycosidic center as there is with sucrose. I don't remember enough from OrgChem to remember which piece the H- would kick off... most likely kick the carboxyl group... though I don't know how that'd help the situation of a chemical leak...
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I suspect the writers of the show didn't remember their chemistry correctly. If you add concentrated (> 92% active in water) sulfuric acid to sugars such as glucose, sucrose, and dextrose, the sugar dehydrates significantly and swells into a blackened chunk of carbon (see link) http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/JCESoft/CCA/CCA5/MAIN/1ORGANIC/ORG18/TRAM18/A/PICTURE.HTM?1Hydrochloric acid cannot do this because you cannot increase the concentration significantly above 37% active in water. The sugar cannot dehydrate effectively in the presence of a lot of water. Mr. Spindlelegs
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Originally posted by chemguru:
However, there's no glycosidic center as there is with sucrose. I don't remember enough from OrgChem to remember which piece the H- would kick off... most likely kick the carboxyl group... though I don't know how that'd help the situation of a chemical leak...
--JamesT
Heh, I realized that shortly after! Good catch! Yeah, the carboxyl H should be deprotonated first, but as you stated, it really doesn't amount to anything significant.
Originally posted by mrspindlelegs:
If you add concentrated (> 92% active in water) sulfuric acid to sugars such as glucose, sucrose, and dextrose, the sugar dehydrates significantly and swells into a blackened chunk of carbon (see link)
Hydrochloric acid cannot do this because you cannot increase the concentration significantly above 37% active in water. The sugar cannot dehydrate effectively in the presence of a lot of water.
Mr. Spindlelegs
Excellent point Mr. Spindlelegs. Hydrocholoric acid wouldn't be hydrated in that reaction. As I expected it would form Carbon/graphite, but I didn't realize HCl wouldn't do so, rather it is H2S04/Sulfuric acid. Good stuff!
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