The Song of Styrene

00:00:04 THE STYRENE SONG

00:00:43 With his living breath the buds of nature

00:01:52 Oh plastic substance!

00:02:01 What is your origin?

00:02:15 This mysterious being

00:02:43 The greatest advantage is the ability

00:03:43 Vacuum shaping is another method of making things

00:04:31 To enter the nozzle, a piston and a heating adaptor are required

00:05:12 Before turning into granules they had been like straws

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

00:06:55 Molecules cling to each other like pearls linked together

00:07:07 Take a good look as this is your only chance to see the liquid

00:07:31 In the past styrene was extracted from benzoin

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

00:11:31 And gives birth to these hydrocarbons

00:12:12 We do not know much about coal

00:12:27 And petroleum and coal were vanishing into smoke

00:12:45 And there remain other things yet unknown Awaiting still similar efforts