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Mul
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How to make Sodium polyacrylate

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Hi, I am doing a school project and have chosen to make Sodium polyacrylate. I know that I can use acrylic acid and Na(OH) but I don't know the quantities or method. Google isn't to much help... I hope someone can help :)
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I dont believe you. In the Internet a lot of literature is found.
https://www.google.com/search?q=polyacr ... irefox-b-m

In principle you have acrylic acid or the salt in a solvent, water, alcohol,THF,etc. And add a starter Peroxydisulfate, dibenzoylperoxide, ascorbic acid with hydrogen peroxide,

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sa ... rylate.png
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Post by Mul »

I think I have found a way to do it. Somewhere it said if you just mix acrylic acid and Na(OH) you will get water and sodium polyacrylate.

C3H4O2+NaOH→CH2CH(CO2 Na)+H2O

what do you think?

btw thanks for your response :) I am a Danish student and I didn't know what to search for other than "how to make sodium polyacrylate" and that just gave me a ton of websites that told me to buy diapers and get the material from them.
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This what you like to do is only to make sodium acrylat, Not sodiumpolyacrylat.
To look in Google, needs to feed the right key words.

Synthesis, polyacrylate, sodium salt,

https://www.google.com/search?q=Synthes ... irefox-b-m
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