Talk:Polyaniline/@comment-82.38.244.37-20160919155400/@comment-134.153.164.170-20170324192203

I agree, if anything since they have HCl planned as a craftable item they might as well include the other mineral acids like nitric and sulfuric (perhaps the latter being made from the mined sulfur or crashfish powder as that has sulfur according to the description), and since they already have benzene as a product of the blood oil, treatment of benzene with nitric and sulfuric acid yeilds nitrobenzene so the gold could be rationalized as a catalyst for the hydrigenation step, but the type of metal usually used for those are nickle and such, but yeah roundabout way to get aniline, a crafting route like that would make more sense though.

Blood oil --> Benzene;  Benzene + H2SO4 (or directly use crashfish/sulfur) + HNO3 + metal catalyst + hydrogen --> aniline

P.S. Electrolysis of salt in water could make sodium hydroxide/lye, hydrogen gas and chlorine and in turn you make HCl from Cl2 and thus have more pseudo proper components.

multiple aniline samples could be condensed for polyaniline

I realize crafting can't be too realistic, after all a game needing a B.Sc. to craft items probably isn't going to do so hot, there's always limitations too in coding to add items, change recipes, etc. but as an actual organic chemist yeah cringe seeing gold and HCl as the resources needed for aniline, but I still have fun playing the game, love a lot of aspects but then again I'm sure a biologist would be like "how do these ecosystems survive", so I'll roll with it, but I'd gladly consult for free on the crafting :P

Some one mentioned the alternate life stuff below, there is hypothetical alternative biochemistry where live if silicon based and not carbon, but there's a few issues with that.

Also you can eat the fish, raw, and vegetation, which means it must have the same biochemical make-up otherwise you'd simply pass it without being about to metabolize it. :P

Otherwise all the food would have to go through the fabricator for 'rearrangement' which is different from interconversion of elements as someone suggested the fab. does, otherwise hook up the tap to the outside and turn water into all the things. rearranging atoms would probably entail compounds, not nucler fission and fusion of elements (which once you have a nuclear reactor though maybe you could do).

Also just to joke about it, the amount of teeth needed to enamel glass would leave all the stalkers toothless probably :P