The Song of Styrene

00:00:04 THE STYRENE SONG

00:00:40 He thinks, he searches, he creates!

00:00:53 Victor Hugo

00:01:56 What can explain your rare qualities?

00:02:02 Let us rediscover the ancestors from the object itself!

00:02:15 This mysterious being

00:02:43 The greatest advantage is the ability

00:02:53 But it can be used in many ways

00:04:02 The carefully arranged warm material

00:04:37 then we turn the rough polystyrene to fine granules

00:05:15 Straws of all colors and tones

00:06:05 Which through this, colored pearls of every variety are made

00:06:38 That's how the polymer polystyrene is born from the simple styrene

00:06:51 And in the concave belly of a basic autoclave machine

00:07:01 The styrene was volatile

00:07:21 It requires catalysts such as

00:07:35 Of the styrax family, a small tree found in Indonesia

00:09:42 That circulates endlessly while it cleans, distills, and redistills

00:10:12 They are extracted from the magical liquid of petroleum oil

00:11:28 Transformed into gas the coal combusts

00:12:05 And examine why the one and the other exists

00:12:17 Does petroleum come from plankton?

00:12:31 Before that chemist came a happy idea

00:12:49 To make them the subject of other documentaries