Well I guess more likely methanol (wood alcohol) or ethanol would be the likely product to kickstart things from here depending on materials used and whatever bugs (ie yeast) you managed to wrangle up. After all, those sorts of bio-reactors are already already over the place in these times even if the boys and toys that
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would be somewhat off in the future. Still, I think synthetics are a shitload of polymerization further up the esther chain from them. So you're going to need cracking towers and accurate temp sensors to figure out where to place the various diverters up the cooling tower from where you're boiling the crude. Googling for nylon molecular formula has
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spec'd out as C12H22N202 created from the product of a couple of thingees that are much further up the chain from your so called cow farts or even moonshine.
Still thinking that getting your shit together to build motors, wiring and parts for automation will be much more of a stimulus. Civil War was the age of steam, and that was quickly replaced by all things electrical. There was even an upgrade path from steam engines and belts to motors and actuators.
Methane (CH4) is fairly simple to produce in a bio-reactor. All you basically need is a large container full of water and bio-mass. That's the premise for the chemical and energy fuel source for polyester (and derivatives). I'm no chemist, but I'm pretty sure the research, lab and factory to produce it would have taken longer than 6 months to get going -even with the help of Spoon's phone. That's one hole in the plot that requires some suspension of believe to get through.
The "Fuck off" is Euryale's unique-ish saying. The others start saying it later as well as Euryale's personality rubs off on them. There's a part where Young Euryale makes fun of how they both use it probably too much. It's all in good humor. Don't take it too seriously
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