Plastic2Oil Inc (PTOI)

[arvitar]

"what temperature does sand liquidity and vaporize at by the way?"

Juicy John, being a physics drop-out, should at least know this stuff.


First off, the word "liquidity" doesn't make any sense whatsoever in the context of this sentence. I assume you're trying to ask for the temperature at which sand and clay liquify (i.e. "melt") and vaporize.

Well, sand and clay are mostly silicon dioxide, and before you can vaporize that, you need to get it to its boiling point at 2,230° C, which is just a little less than half as hot as the Sun's visible surface.

Temperature isn't the proper concept for asking about vaporization. Rather, heat of vaporization (in units of energy, rather than temperature), is the right concept.

Regardless, it ain't happenin' in one of Juicy John's contraptions, at least on planet Earth.

Plastic is pyrolysed at about 400C without a catalyst. Which is to say, sand and clay clog up the guts of Juicy John's jerry-rigged thing-a-ma-jig, even if just in one's imagination.