Wood Vinegar - Mokusaku-

In this project, I'm introducing this material. it is called Mokusaku in Japan. It's Wood Vinegar.

When you burn wood, you can see smoke, of course. If the smoke is condensed, you can collect Mokusaku.
In Japan, it has winter. so we can collect in winter season. Because it's easy to condense smoke with long chimney.

But here in Philippine, it's not cold. so we have to use something to condense for smoke.

So we are using water to condense smoke.
we always flow water around

This drop is Mokusaku, condensed smoke.

This is the color.

there are a lot of organic substances in this liquid. more than 200 kinds.

-Organic acid. it's formic acid, acetic acid, propionic acid, butyric acid etc.

-Phenol group.

-Carbonyl group. it's formaldehyde acetaldehyde, etc.

-Alcohol. it's ethanol, methanol, etc.

-Neutral materials. it's levoglucosan, aceton, maltol, etc.

-Base(acidic substances). it's ammonia, methylamine, dimethylamine, etc.

Then Mokusaku is pH 2-3. So it's very acidic liquid.

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It's too difficult... Anyway, there are a lot of organic substances in Mokusaku. That's why, Mokusaku has many effects, activities.