The whole "making the chemistry look too clean" bit is why I love explosions and fire's side channel, where everything looks appropriately messy and disgusting and you can always see dirty glassware on the background just like a real lab
I mean to be fair, a “real lab” looks very clean most of the time. It’s just during the experimentation where it can get a bit messy. Even then, proper safety is to keep it clean
Hey, NileRed is doing the uncelebrated backbone of science: replicating published work. And then he just yeets it up onto TH-cam, well communicated, where anyone can reference it. He's tearing down the science paywall and advancing the dissemination of knowledge. It's brilliant. I'd like to see him replicate NurdRage's elemental sodium synthesis.
I've had minor "burns" with sodium hydroxide and peracetic acid, and recently had a skin graft because of near boiling water on my foot. People I spoke to about it were super fearful of burns, but don't attribute the risk between chemicals and just hot water equally, even though they're both dangerous.
@@Gr3nadgr3gory ah but people are so comfortable with hot water from making coffee or tea all their life they never pay their safety with it any mind. You tell somebody they have boiling acid they might take more care with it. Tell them they have boiling water and its just another tuesday morning in their kitchen to them. Its the perceived lack of danger when handling hot water that makes it especially dangerous.
the fear of chemicals is weird and exactly like nilered said it, for example the first time i did a distilation of toluene i was super scared for all the stories i heard about it that i was like a hawk looking it go for like 1 hour to make sure nothing was going to escape, and that's why you need to build confidence but not get cocky.
yeah true!! The first times I was in a lab too, I thought everything was going to explode. After a while you know, what's kinda dangerous and what isn't and you're mostly relaxed.
Anyone ever heard of what happened to chemistry professor, Karen Wetterhahn? It was national news. Dartmouth (big ivy league school), 1997. An experiment w/ Dimethylmercury (Hg(CH3)2): A few tiny droplets touched her glove, and she took it off after a few minutes. All good, right? Her body fell apart within a year, slowly died over months of various neurological symptoms. Turns out, she had *thousands of times more mercury* in her blood than an avg person. Eventually she was taken off of life-support. She technically followed all the correct equipment procedures, too (at the time), fume hood and everything. I think it's fine to get comfortable in a lab, but there's always that small handful of chemicals that I want to be just an eensy tiny bit paranoid around, even if I'm technically following all the "correct procedures".
@@BreakdancePeach i think 'familiarity' is the right word. Those working in the lab gains familiarity to the chemicals and how to handle them properly. Prevents us from being too scared of every chemical.
As a biochemistry college prof I can say that I would love it if students cared as much about knowing shit about what they work with like nilered. The number of times I have to call out a student for not following basic safety protocols is maddening (ie. not handling hydrochloric acid with gloves)
Man, I didn't even bother getting on the classmates in my lab group because they didn't care about doing the experiment either. Only cared about the grade. Worked for me though, one guy wrote up all the reports as his share of the work. I got to do all the fun stuff!
@@Gr3nadgr3gory Its the new high tech plane the us has and is selling to all of its allies. Its technological capabilities are incredible but it had a few growing pains early in its development and deployment. Despite being the current standard for modern warfare technologies like data link and targeting, some people still think that its a useless plane because it isn't fast "enough" and doesn't turn like a dedicated dogfighting plane like the F-16. It has a never ending list of abilities but because it cant do one thing people think that it sucks, hence the accuracy of the saying.
One of my midschool chemistry exam (in our system of education you have a big midschool and a big highschool exam) questions was qualitative reactions. The question was essentially to identify three substances in front of you. They are all very basic inorganic substances, you tended to get one acid, one base and one amphoteric. You determine the compond by it's description and odor, test for acidity, then develop a qualitive reaction that tells you what exactly is it. My acid in the test was concentrated sulfuric, and mid reaction I spilled a buch of it on my hand. That was the quickest fucking glove drop of my life.
In high school, we had a Science Olympiad competition which involved identifying three unknown compounds. We knew it was a choice between sugar, salt, and magnesium sulfate, but we didn’t want to spend the time doing actual chemical reactions to figure it out (time was a factor in your score). My friend looked around the room to make sure no one was looking and quickly popped some of the mysterious white crystals into his mouth. We ended up winning!
This reminds me of the last exam for our lab class. There are like 10 different compounds and you’re given 2 at random in a small vial. It isn’t even pure, so you got to purify it your self. You were given just enough to test a couple different solvents for an attempt at recrystallization and vacuum filtration. Then you were also given access to machine that tests melting point (basically a slow heating hot plate and thin tube for sample), a machine that looks for H-C bonds, and a third machine that looks for C-C bonds. From all this, you had to guess the structure of the samples you were given. If you’re sample wasn’t pure enough, then you were pretty much screwed since it would make reading your graphs difficult. Only hint we were allowed, was if our sample’s melting temp was correct, which would tell us how pure it was. There was a pretty big range between the chemicals. Could have been anywhere from 80c to nearly 200c.
I never considered that Nile would have to choreograph his videos to make them look as smooth as they turn out. Also I _never_ expected to see a NileRed/Trash Taste crossover
That attitude about getting burned for the shot shows up a lot in welding sometimes. Sometimes your hand is on fire but you can't stop because the weld is just too good
I went to school with welders. Everytime we went on a field trip, I would hear something along the lines of "Hey Chief, look at these welds" "wow, those are pretty great"
Seriously, I burn my hand all the time because I just don't want to stop my weld to cool off when I could finish it instead. Higher quality, looks better, I'm happier with it, my hand isn't though
Listening to him talk normally and realizing that's how he normally talk as well in his videos makes me think this guy'd be a great teacher. Just really catches my attention with the tone, speed, diction
Yeah, I think if he had time to boil his answer down to a conclusion when he was asked about what might be something that made him stand out, it's probably the fact that he can get a precise process down for any sort of task that he needs to complete. Sure, the things that he accommodates in order to get a better shot for video might not be all too relevant to other chemists, but in a sense, to go through all the rigor and practice of getting a good shot, making sure the result is of high quality, and all other things: you'd have to end up having made a pretty tight process of making that chemical or doing that project by the end of it all, which is quite commendable. Now that he's done loads of projects for his TH-cam, you can imagine just how fast he is now at developing that controlled and tight process, even if the projects themselves take quite a long time.
One of the main things I always have on my mind is how you need to develop confidence to work with somethings properly but at the same time not too much you start treating dangerous stuff without respect
There a save way to do these things but it's always important to know what your capability and knowledge is. It's like going hiking. There's plenty of trails for beginners (in chem things like making a potato battery, growing crystals) but when you start climbing mount everest as a beginner (aka making bromine or destilling sulfuric acid) you're bound to get hurt. I think it's important to realize that chemicals aren't a uncontrollably dangerous thing. You're probably more likely to get hurt handling boiling water than any common acid or base at room temperature. That doesn't mean it's not dangerous but people should be aware of dangerous be they shouldn't be fearful.
Maybe I need to clarify 😅 I'm not saying chemistry is inaccessible, but what I'm saying is, he gives off building a nuclear reactor in your shed using only radium paint collected from old watches while cleaning your dinner plates with high pressure fluoroantimonic acid vibes. Yes there are 100s of years of safety notes chemists live my now, there are procedures for everything. I know Nile is safe, but dont forget this is the same Nile that has been known to taste the stuff he makes 😭🤣
The sitting there and letting it burn part is actually really common in welding. Like molten steel falls in your boot and you just ride it out while you keep welding.
@@marcusrauch4223 Lol, hot chips are worse occasionally but one fat glob of steel pops off into your boot and you're tucking your jeans over the cuffs for the rest of your life. I like machining more though lol, was taught CNC but only use it for 3d printing now.
These guys really need to ask more questions and listen more... I came here to listen to Nile talk and not hear them laugh at everything he says and just cutting him off
What Nile says about general vs specific knowledge in his field applies to almost every field. So many people are hyper-specialized and it makes it hard for them to adapt to new tools/environments/methods. The ability to quickly adapt (ie. make shit up on the fly) is honestly one of the most value skills.
Hearing Nigel talking about Ferrofluids will never not make me smile after that time I saw him geek out about what was his most recent batch with Justin from Thought Emporium.
im studying chemistry here in chile, first year. During a laboratory experiment we worked with concentrated bromine, puring it into a test tube out of the flask without any pipette nor gloves. Pretty good
This reminded me of the Chubbyemu video where a scientist spilled dimethylmercury on her hand. She was wearing the wrong type of gloves and they provided little to no protection. I'd have a hard time staying calm doing many things he does.
This has to be one of the best episodes of the podcast yet, just incredible. This guy was honestly like a Joe Rogan level guest, I wonder if they're gonna manage to get like Veritasium and people like that in the future
Tbh veritasium tows the line of pretty science commentary. He gets a good amount right, but he gets a few things wrong. There are some channels (some science and some tea channels) that have made videos about him Also he tends to be presenting things and not doing it himself; not really the same as nilered
Veritassium hasn't been that appealing to me for a while, I really liked his popular misconceptions videos where he'd quiz random people on counter intuitive everyday stuff, not so much the sponsored theatrical vulgarisation of expert topics
Phenol was considered the devil in our lab. It’s not something you can just wipe off to wash off with water. It also has an anaesthetic effect so you may not notice it initially. You need to neutralise it with PEG solution and if you don’t, it will keep burning you. One student was so afraid of it they actually tipped the container all over their lab coat because they were shaking so much. Thankfully they were completely unharmed. But that chemical had a reputation and I’m still a little afraid of it.
Our rowing club got permission to keep our rowing boats in the old school's warehouse. During clean-up, we found a lot of glass ampoules with bromine, so as most bright-minded teens, we decided to throw them on the wet road... The road was full of dark red mist. The next day, we told about our adventure to the chemistry teacher, and she was in shock :D
im an electrician and i can fucking relate to this its like the new guy when its his 1. time working with live wires. Its initially terrifying but its a part of the job and you eventually just get used to it and learn how to treat it to like not die or get hurt
as far as nilered making things look easy and accessible goes, that was exactly the case for me. I wouldn't have started doing alkaloid extractions among other chemistry at home with acids bases and xylenes if it weren't for you dawg
I think being afraid of working with a chemical is probably a really difficult fear to conquer. Because when you're scared of the dark or something, you know that it's an irrational fear, so you can work through it. But chemicals are, like, the *most rational* fear lol.
Why? Everything is a chemical. I use bleach concentrate and industrial sanitizers daily for my job. Why be afraid? Know the risks and don't do anything stupid.
On the topic of how skillful someone can be in Chemistry, aside from researchers on specific areas, most of it comes from practice. The theory part, everyone knows it, like it's a requirement for everything on why certain things are the way they are, or why some things happens and why others do not. The differencial is, as I said, on the practice with techniques avaliables for certains protocols, for example, destillations, vacuum filtrations, recrystallizations and so on. They're part of other theorys, on why they should be used here or there, but the difference is the practice you have on doing them.
Even the little I knew about chemistry, I have been to college, and you can tell college educated people. But also it was just common sense that he really knew chemistry, and not just by watching tutorials or reading a few books. He just has an ability to explain and even instruct, that many college instructors in subjects like these that involve a lot of scientific and mathematical language, that generally makes it hard to understand unless you just have an inclination for it mentally. I could never watch most anyone that would instruct on chemistry, because it generally doesn't interest me, but he makes it interesting. That is what the good teachers do, they bring out the interest.
Every time he mentions a chemical the boys either laughs like idiots or just acts really weird.. It's kinda uncomfortable to watch lol Also kinda weird how much Connor is trying to push the irresponsible angle on NR with the "oh you make it look so easy when it's actually really dangerous" like.. This whole episode is really weird to me
There's a thingsiwontworkwith blog that details lots of things that are really dangerous, like, hydrofluoric acid, that people just won't work with, because they're so personally threatening.
Isn't HF a Calcium seeking compound. One of my college TAs said that if you got HF on you it would seek the Calcium in your bones and fuck you up. After that I have always been super scared of HF and always preferred HCl when I need a strong acid.
You don’t use HF if you need strong acid anyway. It’s a toxic flourinating agent that eats through silicate material, yes, but no where near a strong acid.
Around 11:30 ish when connor was going on about how the algorithm kept bringing him back to Nilered it gets crazy to me that long time fans of nilered before that and thousands of others like me are why connor had that recommended to him. Its crazy how we bring our favorite creators together.
This reminds me of my chem teacher when we worked with a chemical I can’t remember and he just said “oh and before you start quickly. If your fingers feel soapy that’s just your skin dissolving” in the plainest most casual tone ever
It's really relatable on working with new chems. Mercury salts was something I was really afraid of until I worked with it. You can always start small and work up but no matter what this was scary to the point I would shake and also need to wait for a day where I felt confident about it as well. Now it's probably been 15 times and I still shake lol I do feel more confident and have multiple plans for spills and if things don't go to plan. If you prepare for the worst and how to fix it then going in and being careful always gives me a sense of confidence but I never start anything without feeling confident about it.
Yall should see if styropyro I'd interested in coming on. I can see that being a fun podcast Hr foes lasers and stuff and has been contacted by the government lol
Yeah, im in grade 12 chem, and so far our teacher has set the ceiling on fire by accident while demonstrating different colours of fire and rockets at the same time, and put the class snack beside the potassium cyanide for our lab.
I've never been more nervous to show up to a class than the day in general chemistry when we were working with 16 M nitric acid without gloves and doing a lab where one step involved the production of nitrogen dioxide gas (in a fume hood obv).
Back when I was in college I opted to work in the Chem lab as a tech rather than many other part time minimum wage jobs of the time (almost 30 years ago). The one thing that sticks out in my head to this day was the lady that ran the lab and who was my boss, was terrified of diluting concentrated acids... I can't begin to count how many times I'd go to start my shift, and find the lab doors locked so I'd knock while she was at the fume hood... which for a lot of stuff we spent a lot of time there so it wasn't anything weird to see externally. So I'd knock and she'd damn near have a heart attack because she was so worried about spilling whatever acid she was working with... then she'd be mad at me. I'm like if you left the door unlocked so I could get it (because you know it's my start time) why would you be surprised I have no idea what you're doing? Beside if you're that afraid of it, leave it be, and I'll pour it. I dunno, maybe I just had more strength in my hands to handle the coated gallon jugs of concentrated acids (which if you don't know are all heavier than the equivalent volume of water) to pour into graduated cylinders to then mix down with water to make stock solutions. Maybe my advice from my Lieutenant in the fire department stuck in my head, if you panic you're dead, stick to your training, and execute accordingly. In the 3 years I worked there, I never spilled a drop, never broke any glassware, and in the last year, I was the guinea pig to run labs for all the classes, if I could read and perform the experiments in the alloted time with good results, it made it into the classes. Probably one of the most fun and enjoyable jobs I ever had.
The thing with chemistry and dangerous chemicals in particular. There is a safe way to work with everything. The dump thing is, usually when you are terrified out of your mind working with for instance bromine, everything tends to go well. When it becomes routine that's when mistakes tend to happen.
I can't help but think of what Nickolas Cage said to Sean Connery in "The Rock" when people work with dangerous chemicals "The minute you don't respect this it kills you"
I remember working in an industrial setting with hydrofluoric acid to etch and clean aluminium. Very sketchy safety precautions. Basically, my safety instructions were 'Don't fall into the trough full of hydrofluoric acid. You'll probably die cos we don't have enough neutraliser'. Bear in mind we didn't have any PPE.
As an auto-mechanic we get into dangerous work too in a different way, however we use the same satirical gestures like you do NileRed. " You'll be fine " is one of my favorites 🤣
3:40 bro that is so true. I’ve really enjoy creating things. So I’ve become incredibly good at finding things people have never done before. It’s hard to explain but I have always done the exact thing and got a wide range of understanding. TH-cam 24/7
I never took chemistry but was the plant operator at a chemical plant. So can tell you alot of facts and details about ammonium nitrate production and its uses. Along with several chemicals we use for the process. Also some byproducts in an industrial environment when there is cross contamination with non target materials.
5:10 I agree, I am still in Gymnasium and when I was in a Lab for Organic Chemistry for 3 days, we were allowed to use Bromine under supervision and sometimes you had the paranoid sense of having dropped some of it on your glove, which made you change them a lot more than in reality necessary.
I worked for a surface treatment company that uses hydrochloric acid in their process and (like tons of it in big tubs) Long story short I managed to get it splashed all over my legs. I got into a shower within a couple of minutes and was completely fine. Don't quote me on this since i'm not a chemist but I feel like the only time most acids are dangerous is if you got it on you but you don't know it. Heard a couple of stories from that job where people got some pretty bad burn marks. At first it feels like nothing, then it just feels a little itchy, nothing suspicious in itself. If you wait long enough without realizing you got acid on you it gets pretty bad.
Hydrochloric acid is something I used in pool maintenance. I never got it on me, but when you see a little drop of it, burn a deep hole into a concrete pool. But I was not shaking, for whatever reason. A time I was worried was when I accidentally breathed in chlorine gas. I was wheezing, I could barely breath.
In school we worked with dangerous chemicals, we were told that it was dangerous, but the fear of being disciplined was bigger. So when we had highly diluted hydrochloric acid and spilled it on us, we just went to the toilet to wash our hands. Same with fire. I burned my skin off completely, a big nasty hole in my arm, because I stabbed myself with the soldering iron. I just went to the sink and cooled it. I had a big scar for years, now it's fading.
NileRed has a video where he spills different acides on his hand, That video really helped with my confidence around chemicals. Sometime ago i spilled some concentrated nitric acide on my hand, But thanks to that video i did not panic at all, I just calmly put my hand under running water, I can't imagine how i would have reacted if i haven't watched that video.
I recently had my first lab intership, and one of the things I had to work with was called dichromate. We were told that out of all the things we will work with the stuff to be most careful about is dichromate. And guess who spilled that orange dust the first time he used it... The fear of chemicals that you use the first time ever is definitly there, but as long as you stick to safety protocols then everything should be fine. In my case I was wearing gloves, so the dichromate was literally harmless to me.
"I make the chemistry look too clean" Is SO much better than the opposite though. There is a very popular youtuber who extracts silver and gold from electronics hardware, and he has a handmade fume hood in his KITCHEN, all this improvised tubing leading in and out of places, the floor is just dirty and covered in god knows what, burns all over the place especially in the carpet. And he messes with nitric acid by the GALLON. He once showed his "stock pots" which are just stacks of five gallon buckets full of chemical waste, dirty and stored in a bathroom. Like this guy is turning a residential property into a toxic waste hazard, and once it got bad enough I had to stop watching. Making 50 pounds of toxic waste for 1 gram of gold.
The whole "making the chemistry look too clean" bit is why I love explosions and fire's side channel, where everything looks appropriately messy and disgusting and you can always see dirty glassware on the background just like a real lab
its like the order of things inside the caos lol
Hell yeah would love to see Explosions and fire on here
NileBlue as well lol
I mean to be fair, a “real lab” looks very clean most of the time. It’s just during the experimentation where it can get a bit messy. Even then, proper safety is to keep it clean
Styropyro
Hey, NileRed is doing the uncelebrated backbone of science: replicating published work. And then he just yeets it up onto TH-cam, well communicated, where anyone can reference it. He's tearing down the science paywall and advancing the dissemination of knowledge. It's brilliant.
I'd like to see him replicate NurdRage's elemental sodium synthesis.
Haven't heard of nurdrage for so long
@@Avendesora how?
I didn’t think about this aspect! It’s so true!
The average sciebtist is like specialised like a hammer or screwdriver but Nilered is like a swiss knife
"I spilled some acid on my arm but i didn't want to ruin the shot so i just continued. The video was never posted."
A tragedy in two sentences
For video, acid burn, not posted
I've got a scar from battery acid on my knee, I waited until the car was started before I rinsed it. I feel his vibe.
I've had minor "burns" with sodium hydroxide and peracetic acid, and recently had a skin graft because of near boiling water on my foot. People I spoke to about it were super fearful of burns, but don't attribute the risk between chemicals and just hot water equally, even though they're both dangerous.
Years ago in chemistry, boiling water was always the most dangerous substance in the room, always.
@@mallardofmodernia8092 unless you had something like boiling iron. Heat adds danger no matter the chemical!
@@Gr3nadgr3gory ah but people are so comfortable with hot water from making coffee or tea all their life they never pay their safety with it any mind.
You tell somebody they have boiling acid they might take more care with it.
Tell them they have boiling water and its just another tuesday morning in their kitchen to them. Its the perceived lack of danger when handling hot water that makes it especially dangerous.
@@mallardofmodernia8092 just tell them it's dihydrogen monoxide. They'll be more careful.
@@Gr3nadgr3gory we should ban dihydrogen monoxide. 100% of people who drink it DIE.
(Satire, obv)
the fear of chemicals is weird and exactly like nilered said it, for example the first time i did a distilation of toluene i was super scared for all the stories i heard about it that i was like a hawk looking it go for like 1 hour to make sure nothing was going to escape, and that's why you need to build confidence but not get cocky.
yeah true!! The first times I was in a lab too, I thought everything was going to explode. After a while you know, what's kinda dangerous and what isn't and you're mostly relaxed.
Anyone ever heard of what happened to chemistry professor, Karen Wetterhahn? It was national news. Dartmouth (big ivy league school), 1997. An experiment w/ Dimethylmercury (Hg(CH3)2): A few tiny droplets touched her glove, and she took it off after a few minutes. All good, right? Her body fell apart within a year, slowly died over months of various neurological symptoms. Turns out, she had *thousands of times more mercury* in her blood than an avg person. Eventually she was taken off of life-support. She technically followed all the correct equipment procedures, too (at the time), fume hood and everything.
I think it's fine to get comfortable in a lab, but there's always that small handful of chemicals that I want to be just an eensy tiny bit paranoid around, even if I'm technically following all the "correct procedures".
confidence is slow and insidious killer tho
@@brambl3014 that's something you must remind yourself, preferably prompted by a deep, succulent voice
@@BreakdancePeach i think 'familiarity' is the right word. Those working in the lab gains familiarity to the chemicals and how to handle them properly. Prevents us from being too scared of every chemical.
NileRed is the “I haven’t died yet so let’s keep going” for chemistry
He deserves a Marie Curie Prize!
Like Ididathing for engineering and styropyro for electronics and lasers
As a biochemistry college prof I can say that I would love it if students cared as much about knowing shit about what they work with like nilered. The number of times I have to call out a student for not following basic safety protocols is maddening (ie. not handling hydrochloric acid with gloves)
Darwinism at work my friend.
Why, would you ever not wear gloves? They’ll figure it out I guess
I love the smell of hydrochloric acid. Smells clean like a pool but it has a bite to it when you inhale.
Let em find out themselves. Their own fault for not following a clear as day rule
Man, I didn't even bother getting on the classmates in my lab group because they didn't care about doing the experiment either. Only cared about the grade. Worked for me though, one guy wrote up all the reports as his share of the work. I got to do all the fun stuff!
When he asked how professional NileRed is, I had flashbacks of him throwing things at the walls and floors.
I love the juxtaposition of Nile's intellect and the wall of degeneracy behind him.
Anime figurines?
@@FallingStary there's anime figurines and then there's this
@@FallingStary Yes, that is degenerate.
bromine YO! its hyped up!
Ah yes the good ol' anime figurines = degeneracy take
They keep trying to make jokes but hes so serious about what hes saying he just doesn't even react lmao i love it
As the saying goes: "Jack of all trades, master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one"
Learning something in one area often translates to others. Becoming proficient in both ensures you know when it doesn't.
@@Gr3nadgr3gory Indeed
Probably really off topic, but this quote perfectly fits the F-35
@@Tigershark_3082 indeed it is but I'm Interested in how it relates to the F-35 what plane was that?
@@Gr3nadgr3gory Its the new high tech plane the us has and is selling to all of its allies. Its technological capabilities are incredible but it had a few growing pains early in its development and deployment. Despite being the current standard for modern warfare technologies like data link and targeting, some people still think that its a useless plane because it isn't fast "enough" and doesn't turn like a dedicated dogfighting plane like the F-16.
It has a never ending list of abilities but because it cant do one thing people think that it sucks, hence the accuracy of the saying.
@@spider_sf Damn, you practically took the words from my mouth, so thank you
I highly recommand watching the whole podcast, Nigel's wild shenanigans as a child are hilarious
literally i was gasping whole vid
Everyones shocked faces within the vid mirrored mine. Every 2 to 5 min lol.
What episode number is it?
I couldn't tolerate the needless interruptions for an entire podcast episode
@@mastod0n1yep, that's trash taste for ya
One of my midschool chemistry exam (in our system of education you have a big midschool and a big highschool exam) questions was qualitative reactions. The question was essentially to identify three substances in front of you. They are all very basic inorganic substances, you tended to get one acid, one base and one amphoteric. You determine the compond by it's description and odor, test for acidity, then develop a qualitive reaction that tells you what exactly is it. My acid in the test was concentrated sulfuric, and mid reaction I spilled a buch of it on my hand. That was the quickest fucking glove drop of my life.
In high school, we had a Science Olympiad competition which involved identifying three unknown compounds. We knew it was a choice between sugar, salt, and magnesium sulfate, but we didn’t want to spend the time doing actual chemical reactions to figure it out (time was a factor in your score). My friend looked around the room to make sure no one was looking and quickly popped some of the mysterious white crystals into his mouth. We ended up winning!
@@nathandavis5021 Could have just taken a flame to them, but hey, if it works it works.
This reminds me of the last exam for our lab class. There are like 10 different compounds and you’re given 2 at random in a small vial. It isn’t even pure, so you got to purify it your self. You were given just enough to test a couple different solvents for an attempt at recrystallization and vacuum filtration. Then you were also given access to machine that tests melting point (basically a slow heating hot plate and thin tube for sample), a machine that looks for H-C bonds, and a third machine that looks for C-C bonds. From all this, you had to guess the structure of the samples you were given. If you’re sample wasn’t pure enough, then you were pretty much screwed since it would make reading your graphs difficult. Only hint we were allowed, was if our sample’s melting temp was correct, which would tell us how pure it was. There was a pretty big range between the chemicals. Could have been anywhere from 80c to nearly 200c.
Trying my best to endure the interruptions because Nile is so interesting lol
For real... they finish his answers for him on nearly every question
Yeah their giggles annoying
Congrats, you've discovered the difference between a podcast and an interview
It seems like they have no clue when to react in which intensity to what he’s saying. They’re very out of their depth here.
damn this is a good interview. cool to see nile explain stuff i never knew i wanted to know. good questions fellas
I never considered that Nile would have to choreograph his videos to make them look as smooth as they turn out.
Also I _never_ expected to see a NileRed/Trash Taste crossover
ikr when i first saw the video i look at it like 4 times and i still cannot belive it lmao
I never expected to see NileRed again, tbh. He rarely posts a video on TH-cam anymore except for shorts
Same
Nigel is a perfectionist and I'm here for it
That attitude about getting burned for the shot shows up a lot in welding sometimes. Sometimes your hand is on fire but you can't stop because the weld is just too good
I went to school with welders. Everytime we went on a field trip, I would hear something along the lines of "Hey Chief, look at these welds" "wow, those are pretty great"
Seriously, I burn my hand all the time because I just don't want to stop my weld to cool off when I could finish it instead. Higher quality, looks better, I'm happier with it, my hand isn't though
I think my pinky has some permanent scarring because I've been victim of the "just one more inch to finish the joint" mindset
virgin self preservation vs chad "only half the weld left"
@@purplegoopguy this especially applies when it's half of a two foot long weld
Listening to him talk normally and realizing that's how he normally talk as well in his videos makes me think this guy'd be a great teacher. Just really catches my attention with the tone, speed, diction
Jesus Nile, that SMILE has a type of acid on it because it's melting me
Nigel is an expert in methodology rather than any specific chemistry I would say
Ngl, love that for him. I always check out some of his videos when I want a bit more confidence in lab scale synthesis
Yeah, I think if he had time to boil his answer down to a conclusion when he was asked about what might be something that made him stand out, it's probably the fact that he can get a precise process down for any sort of task that he needs to complete.
Sure, the things that he accommodates in order to get a better shot for video might not be all too relevant to other chemists, but in a sense, to go through all the rigor and practice of getting a good shot, making sure the result is of high quality, and all other things: you'd have to end up having made a pretty tight process of making that chemical or doing that project by the end of it all, which is quite commendable. Now that he's done loads of projects for his TH-cam, you can imagine just how fast he is now at developing that controlled and tight process, even if the projects themselves take quite a long time.
This TrashRed episode is so good!
Niletakes?
One of the main things I always have on my mind is how you need to develop confidence to work with somethings properly but at the same time not too much you start treating dangerous stuff without respect
I apply this to pretty much everything in life. I learned it in a motorcycle course.
Nile makes chemistry seem so accessible and DIYable, which is a scary concept. I mean bags of nuts have warnings about nutty contents for a reason.
It is accessible as long as you have the intelligence to understand it and the capital to obtain materials and equipment.
Accessible and DIEable
There a save way to do these things but it's always important to know what your capability and knowledge is.
It's like going hiking. There's plenty of trails for beginners (in chem things like making a potato battery, growing crystals) but when you start climbing mount everest as a beginner (aka making bromine or destilling sulfuric acid) you're bound to get hurt.
I think it's important to realize that chemicals aren't a uncontrollably dangerous thing. You're probably more likely to get hurt handling boiling water than any common acid or base at room temperature. That doesn't mean it's not dangerous but people should be aware of dangerous be they shouldn't be fearful.
Maybe I need to clarify 😅 I'm not saying chemistry is inaccessible, but what I'm saying is, he gives off building a nuclear reactor in your shed using only radium paint collected from old watches while cleaning your dinner plates with high pressure fluoroantimonic acid vibes. Yes there are 100s of years of safety notes chemists live my now, there are procedures for everything. I know Nile is safe, but dont forget this is the same Nile that has been known to taste the stuff he makes 😭🤣
California Prop 65?
The sitting there and letting it burn part is actually really common in welding. Like molten steel falls in your boot and you just ride it out while you keep welding.
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I can relate to that as a machinist getting hit with hot chips.
@@marcusrauch4223 Lol, hot chips are worse occasionally but one fat glob of steel pops off into your boot and you're tucking your jeans over the cuffs for the rest of your life. I like machining more though lol, was taught CNC but only use it for 3d printing now.
You guys should invite Explosions&Fire in one of these days! He's another chemist, about as insane as Nile and just as funny.
Yeah I love Nile and his content but holy shit E&F just exudes this kinda nervous funny energy that I relate too much to.
Styropyro would be a fun guy to have on
Cody'sLab is another one, he also like use TNT and mine.
Thank you for mentioning Exposions and Fire, Id never heard of the channel and its fucking awesome. Binging his stuff now.
THANKS
Technically E&F is a physicists
These guys really need to ask more questions and listen more... I came here to listen to Nile talk and not hear them laugh at everything he says and just cutting him off
I've been a huge Nile fan for years. Recently found the Trash Talk guys this year.
I'm hyped to watch the full thing.
“a jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.” Nile Red
What Nile says about general vs specific knowledge in his field applies to almost every field. So many people are hyper-specialized and it makes it hard for them to adapt to new tools/environments/methods. The ability to quickly adapt (ie. make shit up on the fly) is honestly one of the most value skills.
Hearing Nigel talking about Ferrofluids will never not make me smile after that time I saw him geek out about what was his most recent batch with Justin from Thought Emporium.
im studying chemistry here in chile, first year. During a laboratory experiment we worked with concentrated bromine, puring it into a test tube out of the flask without any pipette nor gloves. Pretty good
This reminded me of the Chubbyemu video where a scientist spilled dimethylmercury on her hand. She was wearing the wrong type of gloves and they provided little to no protection. I'd have a hard time staying calm doing many things he does.
This has to be one of the best episodes of the podcast yet, just incredible. This guy was honestly like a Joe Rogan level guest, I wonder if they're gonna manage to get like Veritasium and people like that in the future
Tbh veritasium tows the line of pretty science commentary. He gets a good amount right, but he gets a few things wrong. There are some channels (some science and some tea channels) that have made videos about him
Also he tends to be presenting things and not doing it himself; not really the same as nilered
nahhhhhh, veritasium isn't even close, he's like a popularizer, not really an actual expert
Veritassium hasn't been that appealing to me for a while, I really liked his popular misconceptions videos where he'd quiz random people on counter intuitive everyday stuff, not so much the sponsored theatrical vulgarisation of expert topics
Wish they'd let him answer the damn questions without interrupting so much. Kinda annoying
Phenol was considered the devil in our lab. It’s not something you can just wipe off to wash off with water. It also has an anaesthetic effect so you may not notice it initially. You need to neutralise it with PEG solution and if you don’t, it will keep burning you. One student was so afraid of it they actually tipped the container all over their lab coat because they were shaking so much. Thankfully they were completely unharmed. But that chemical had a reputation and I’m still a little afraid of it.
Our rowing club got permission to keep our rowing boats in the old school's warehouse. During clean-up, we found a lot of glass ampoules with bromine, so as most bright-minded teens, we decided to throw them on the wet road... The road was full of dark red mist. The next day, we told about our adventure to the chemistry teacher, and she was in shock :D
im an electrician and i can fucking relate to this its like the new guy when its his 1. time working with live wires. Its initially terrifying but its a part of the job and you eventually just get used to it and learn how to treat it to like not die or get hurt
Without context the thumbnail looks like Nile made lean before
Knowing him, he prob did
He had to ask the government again
NileGreen is getting good with his animations
as far as nilered making things look easy and accessible goes, that was exactly the case for me. I wouldn't have started doing alkaloid extractions among other chemistry at home with acids bases and xylenes if it weren't for you dawg
Can they get NileGreen on too?
I like how he's made chemistry a kind of extreme sport. Sounds like a rush to synthesize dangerous compounds.
Connor's body language is so unusual. I think he is fangirling in front of Nile 👀👀👀
Shit, I'm over here blushing behind the screen
I think being afraid of working with a chemical is probably a really difficult fear to conquer. Because when you're scared of the dark or something, you know that it's an irrational fear, so you can work through it. But chemicals are, like, the *most rational* fear lol.
Why? Everything is a chemical. I use bleach concentrate and industrial sanitizers daily for my job. Why be afraid? Know the risks and don't do anything stupid.
2:57 hence the saying 'Jack of all trades, master of none.'
'is always better than master of one'
@@dhilipraja very true I agree.
Dear Mr. Nile, it's so great to listen to the way you explain why you are so damn skillfull in what you do. amazing!
On the topic of how skillful someone can be in Chemistry, aside from researchers on specific areas, most of it comes from practice. The theory part, everyone knows it, like it's a requirement for everything on why certain things are the way they are, or why some things happens and why others do not. The differencial is, as I said, on the practice with techniques avaliables for certains protocols, for example, destillations, vacuum filtrations, recrystallizations and so on. They're part of other theorys, on why they should be used here or there, but the difference is the practice you have on doing them.
Even the little I knew about chemistry, I have been to college, and you can tell college educated people.
But also it was just common sense that he really knew chemistry, and not just by watching tutorials or reading a few books.
He just has an ability to explain and even instruct, that many college instructors in subjects like these that involve a lot of scientific and mathematical language, that generally makes it hard to understand unless you just have an inclination for it mentally.
I could never watch most anyone that would instruct on chemistry, because it generally doesn't interest me, but he makes it interesting.
That is what the good teachers do, they bring out the interest.
10:11 I know it's perspective but Garnt looks *massive* in comparison.
Every time he mentions a chemical the boys either laughs like idiots or just acts really weird.. It's kinda uncomfortable to watch lol
Also kinda weird how much Connor is trying to push the irresponsible angle on NR with the "oh you make it look so easy when it's actually really dangerous" like.. This whole episode is really weird to me
2:00 Nile is a giga chad, and this is how he says it.
Title correction "NileRed TALKS about burning himself with Acid While Recording a Video", there fixed it. No clickbait now.
did Nigel disfigure himself for the mysterious long lost William Osman underwear experiment video?
What explain
There's a thingsiwontworkwith blog that details lots of things that are really dangerous, like, hydrofluoric acid, that people just won't work with, because they're so personally threatening.
Isn't HF a Calcium seeking compound. One of my college TAs said that if you got HF on you it would seek the Calcium in your bones and fuck you up. After that I have always been super scared of HF and always preferred HCl when I need a strong acid.
You don’t use HF if you need strong acid anyway. It’s a toxic flourinating agent that eats through silicate material, yes, but no where near a strong acid.
Yes, calcium gluconate gel is used as a treatment for HF burns
@@aluminiumknight4038 Mmm sounds tasty.
HF is the real boogey man
@@aluminiumknight4038 love me some Calcium gluconate
Nile being scared with a whole bunch of safety protocols:
Codyslab dipping his hands in mercury:
Around 11:30 ish when connor was going on about how the algorithm kept bringing him back to Nilered it gets crazy to me that long time fans of nilered before that and thousands of others like me are why connor had that recommended to him. Its crazy how we bring our favorite creators together.
11:08 new joey garnt sync
This reminds me of my chem teacher when we worked with a chemical I can’t remember and he just said “oh and before you start quickly. If your fingers feel soapy that’s just your skin dissolving” in the plainest most casual tone ever
Probably something like ethanol. It slowly turns the fats in your skin into soap.
Should be low concentration of sodium hydroxide or so
Fuck me, THAT IS HIS LIKE NORMAL VOICE??? He speaks as if hes always narrating wtfffff
YOU GOTTA LET THE MAN TALK PLEASE STOP INTERRUPTING
It's really relatable on working with new chems. Mercury salts was something I was really afraid of until I worked with it. You can always start small and work up but no matter what this was scary to the point I would shake and also need to wait for a day where I felt confident about it as well. Now it's probably been 15 times and I still shake lol I do feel more confident and have multiple plans for spills and if things don't go to plan. If you prepare for the worst and how to fix it then going in and being careful always gives me a sense of confidence but I never start anything without feeling confident about it.
Yall should see if styropyro I'd interested in coming on. I can see that being a fun podcast
Hr foes lasers and stuff and has been contacted by the government lol
That acid story around 09:35 sounds like an alternative version of Fight Club.
Jack of all trades master of none -chem edition
Yeah, im in grade 12 chem, and so far our teacher has set the ceiling on fire by accident while demonstrating different colours of fire and rockets at the same time, and put the class snack beside the potassium cyanide for our lab.
I've never been more nervous to show up to a class than the day in general chemistry when we were working with 16 M nitric acid without gloves and doing a lab where one step involved the production of nitrogen dioxide gas (in a fume hood obv).
Back when I was in college I opted to work in the Chem lab as a tech rather than many other part time minimum wage jobs of the time (almost 30 years ago). The one thing that sticks out in my head to this day was the lady that ran the lab and who was my boss, was terrified of diluting concentrated acids... I can't begin to count how many times I'd go to start my shift, and find the lab doors locked so I'd knock while she was at the fume hood... which for a lot of stuff we spent a lot of time there so it wasn't anything weird to see externally. So I'd knock and she'd damn near have a heart attack because she was so worried about spilling whatever acid she was working with... then she'd be mad at me. I'm like if you left the door unlocked so I could get it (because you know it's my start time) why would you be surprised I have no idea what you're doing? Beside if you're that afraid of it, leave it be, and I'll pour it. I dunno, maybe I just had more strength in my hands to handle the coated gallon jugs of concentrated acids (which if you don't know are all heavier than the equivalent volume of water) to pour into graduated cylinders to then mix down with water to make stock solutions.
Maybe my advice from my Lieutenant in the fire department stuck in my head, if you panic you're dead, stick to your training, and execute accordingly. In the 3 years I worked there, I never spilled a drop, never broke any glassware, and in the last year, I was the guinea pig to run labs for all the classes, if I could read and perform the experiments in the alloted time with good results, it made it into the classes. Probably one of the most fun and enjoyable jobs I ever had.
The thing with chemistry and dangerous chemicals in particular. There is a safe way to work with everything. The dump thing is, usually when you are terrified out of your mind working with for instance bromine, everything tends to go well. When it becomes routine that's when mistakes tend to happen.
the amount of times connor looks at the camera and nervously giggle is hilarious
He must not realize, the cameraman never dies.
“Hey guys, would any of you happen to know a way to obtain large amounts of red phosphorus for minimal financial sacrifice?”
I can't help but think of what Nickolas Cage said to Sean Connery in "The Rock" when people work with dangerous chemicals "The minute you don't respect this it kills you"
"Here's a scar I got from spilling acid on myself" *brightest smile* 😂
I remember working in an industrial setting with hydrofluoric acid to etch and clean aluminium. Very sketchy safety precautions. Basically, my safety instructions were 'Don't fall into the trough full of hydrofluoric acid. You'll probably die cos we don't have enough neutraliser'. Bear in mind we didn't have any PPE.
This dude is literally 200IQ.
As an auto-mechanic we get into dangerous work too in a different way, however we use the same satirical gestures like you do NileRed. " You'll be fine " is one of my favorites 🤣
3:40 bro that is so true. I’ve really enjoy creating things. So I’ve become incredibly good at finding things people have never done before. It’s hard to explain but I have always done the exact thing and got a wide range of understanding. TH-cam 24/7
i love nilered and i love trash taste so this combo is great!!!!!
I think they could make about 20 vids from that podcast, full of content. I feel like they havent really properly scratched the surface of him lol
I never took chemistry but was the plant operator at a chemical plant. So can tell you alot of facts and details about ammonium nitrate production and its uses. Along with several chemicals we use for the process. Also some byproducts in an industrial environment when there is cross contamination with non target materials.
5:10 I agree, I am still in Gymnasium and when I was in a Lab for Organic Chemistry for 3 days, we were allowed to use Bromine under supervision and sometimes you had the paranoid sense of having dropped some of it on your glove, which made you change them a lot more than in reality necessary.
the look of fear when he says hydrofluoric acid 4:07
Stop interrupting him dang. It's like y'all gotta make a sound every 3 seconds.
Dude. Leave the f*cking mic alone, it's not going anywhere 😂
I worked for a surface treatment company that uses hydrochloric acid in their process and (like tons of it in big tubs) Long story short I managed to get it splashed all over my legs. I got into a shower within a couple of minutes and was completely fine.
Don't quote me on this since i'm not a chemist but I feel like the only time most acids are dangerous is if you got it on you but you don't know it. Heard a couple of stories from that job where people got some pretty bad burn marks.
At first it feels like nothing, then it just feels a little itchy, nothing suspicious in itself. If you wait long enough without realizing you got acid on you it gets pretty bad.
My biggest vibe from this guy is just "Yeah he probably could've been a mythbuster"
nile talking normally made me recoil
Hydrochloric acid is something I used in pool maintenance.
I never got it on me, but when you see a little drop of it, burn a deep hole into a concrete pool.
But I was not shaking, for whatever reason.
A time I was worried was when I accidentally breathed in chlorine gas.
I was wheezing, I could barely breath.
You make chemistry look accessible. It great!
0:48
He has such a likeable personality, LOL
3:58 "The average chemist"
Nice shade 😂
In school we worked with dangerous chemicals, we were told that it was dangerous, but the fear of being disciplined was bigger. So when we had highly diluted hydrochloric acid and spilled it on us, we just went to the toilet to wash our hands.
Same with fire.
I burned my skin off completely, a big nasty hole in my arm, because I stabbed myself with the soldering iron. I just went to the sink and cooled it. I had a big scar for years, now it's fading.
NileRed videos are honestly amazing. It’s crazy that it’s free on TH-cam. His camera work is, I feel, very under appreciated.
I commend him honestly and he’s truly a pioneer on the approach to chemistry. Having someone like Nile in a team is how you get a breakthrough.
NileRed has a video where he spills different acides on his hand, That video really helped with my confidence around chemicals.
Sometime ago i spilled some concentrated nitric acide on my hand, But thanks to that video i did not panic at all, I just calmly put my hand under running water, I can't imagine how i would have reacted if i haven't watched that video.
to bad the host fangirl and giggle so much this is interesting
The Nile episode is easily the best podcast episode I’ve ever watched. Bro is a never ending trove of insane stories
I recently had my first lab intership, and one of the things I had to work with was called dichromate. We were told that out of all the things we will work with the stuff to be most careful about is dichromate. And guess who spilled that orange dust the first time he used it... The fear of chemicals that you use the first time ever is definitly there, but as long as you stick to safety protocols then everything should be fine. In my case I was wearing gloves, so the dichromate was literally harmless to me.
Most people only know what they are taught, theyre are very few people who can truly think on their own
"I make the chemistry look too clean" Is SO much better than the opposite though. There is a very popular youtuber who extracts silver and gold from electronics hardware, and he has a handmade fume hood in his KITCHEN, all this improvised tubing leading in and out of places, the floor is just dirty and covered in god knows what, burns all over the place especially in the carpet. And he messes with nitric acid by the GALLON. He once showed his "stock pots" which are just stacks of five gallon buckets full of chemical waste, dirty and stored in a bathroom. Like this guy is turning a residential property into a toxic waste hazard, and once it got bad enough I had to stop watching. Making 50 pounds of toxic waste for 1 gram of gold.