It > would be interesting to apply such power to a small sample of > vegetable oil and methanol (or ethanol), without catalyst, and examine > the results. Even if this produced no reaction, introduction of an > acid catalyst should. Any biochemists out there? Well, you need organic chemists, bios won't do. And why bother with US, if you plan to catalyze? Just mix instead, it's easyer. (an ester bond is not as easyly breakable as you generally might think; consider the strong alkalinity which is used in a lye based TE process)
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