Continuing in my long-term goal of cornering the global textile market, I synthesize rayon using the cuprammonium method.

We will dissolve cotton balls (90% cellulose) in Schweizer’s Reagent, a dark blue and extremely viscous copper-ammonium reagent. The reagent will be injected into a sulfuric acid solution and be reborn as rayon.

While not “technically” a green chemistry experiment, one can imagine a world where textile waste is recycled in a similar process.

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