Repth Nufrifin m curious what was going through the soider’s head “Oh an unknown surface surrounded by an unknown liquid? Time to go in and see what’s up...oh wait the liquid is breaking the surface, time to get out of here” *builds web that breaks( “hope I can swim in this, I’m not getting out”
Vermilion was also used historically to dye the lower strings of lutes, and not just for cosmetics. Since Vermilion is based on mercury, it's heavy, so dying the strings increased their density, meaning the strings would vibrate at a lower frequency. Compared to making the strings thicker (making them again heavier and vibrating at lower pitches), the thinner but denser Vermilion dyed strings have a clearer sound for the low notes.
@@SoulTouchMusic93 Modern guitar strings are wrapped in copper wire for the base strings, as are piano strings. In the middle ages, however, they just didn't have proper machinery for making large quantities of fine wire. Can you imagine beating out 10s of meters of thin wire using only a hammer? Jewelers would do this, but they could sell their jewelry for a tidy sum. Another thing to consider is that they used gut to make strings out of, since nylon had not yet been invented. Gut strings only last a couple weeks, so all that work making wire and wrapping it would have to be repeated over and over. As far as metal strings, as opposed to strings wrapped with metal wire, these started existing in harpsichords by the time the Baroque period happened. This is well after the end of the middle ages. Also, for some reason, lutes and guitars never ended up with metal strings until much later. I guess they didn't like the sound back then. Another possibility is that steel strings weren't practical on instruments where your sweaty fingers touch the strings until the invention of stainless steel - the strings would rust!
@@defunctuserchannel I think the only real insight there is that there are a lot of different ways a liquid can end up looking a murky yellow orange. Probably just a coincidence.
Great video! I actually forgot about dissolving the cinnabar in the sodium sulfate solution! ( I think it did come up in my ore genesis class) You probably could have used copper metal instead of aluminium since this is chemically pretty much the same as what I did in my video but I think the only real benefit of that here would be a reduction in waste and not also pulling out the lead which I think you didn't have in your mercury.
I was curious if you knew what to look for when searching for Cinnabar, as it seems you have found some yourself. (Possibly a future video?) If not, that's fine.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's not necessarily that the copper has a negative affect, but more related to the fact Aluminium amalgamates with the Mercury providing a high efficiency and quality. (Aluminium I think may react with other minority elements or compounds residing in the Mercury Sulfide, or Cinnabar)
@@salty8202 i don’t like baumgartner restoration :/ a lot of his techniques are outdated and often don’t follow the moral code for restoration- one of them being that the restorations should be reversible, so when better application and techniques are found, the previous restoration can be reversed and the painting restored with the new techniques. some of his work is shockingly poor, and not enough time was put into it. there’s a reason he does family heirlooms, not museum pieces. there’s also all of the legal trouble that he’s gotten himself into (suing one of the most prominent restorers, for example) that makes me really dislike him
Dang - when the Spider fell into your cauldron, you shoulda tossed in some Deadly Nightshade and the Eyes of a Newt... Then you coulda cast some mad spooky, kooky-ass spells. Ah, well. Missed witchcraft opportunity. What can ya do. Nothing.
Ever since I've stumbled upon your channel I have found an unique interest in chemistry. You seem to be informative yet entertaining at the same time. I think your voice inflection has a lot to do with it. You just keep me intrigued and always wanting to learn more. I know nothing about chemistry by the way! I just love science.
Spider: *falls in* Solution: *starts bubbling vigorously and spills everywhere* Nile: "so after cleanup I couldn't remember which room I'd done this in, so I just decided to move house"
For those of us that grew up years ago, we didn't worry about how we stored mercury. When a thermometer or light switch broke, we just put in a glass jar and played with it. Fun times.
@@daveslamjam Elemental mercury is relatively safe in the amounts we used to have access to. Eating too much of the wrong kind of fish is likely a much larger risk. The organic forms are far more dangerous.
lol exactly! once when i was 8 i brought it to school and we played with it. These days someone would probably call emergency with fire brigade and twenty ambulances and the whole building would be evacuated 🚑 😂😂😂
I followed you on the twitter but I never use it, so I don't know how helpful it is. of course I love your science videos, the methodology, and implementation of the procedures is top notch and very enjoyable. while I do not share your love of smelly reactions, I find it wonderfully fun to watch and hope some say to be able to replicate some experiments with my kids. Science for the win
I think it's really great that you make instructions on how to handle and recycle waste. I bet this video has prevented a bunch of toxic waste from amateur chemists!
You can still buy cinnabar sumi sticks, these are ground with an ink stone and water and used to paint. It’s really one of the most gorgeous colors, and crazily enough it used to be used for tattooing, of course we don’t use that anymore. In traditional Japanese tattooing they used to do only small sections at a time because it would make people very ill with fevers, because the inks were basically poison.
The shot with the beaker and the white background made me feel like I had messy black splashes on my monitor, that is also a testament to the quality of your camera and footage. Keep up the good work, love your videos.
I don't get what's going on I've discovered your channel recently, I really couldn't care less about mercury or chemistry yet I'm somehow compelled to watch, what trickery is this.
The black gunk in the reaction mixture is likely due to the lacquer coating on the Al foil. This has a dull side and a shiny side, so removal of the coating from the shiny side is important. Or, use pure aluminum.
when I was in High School my grandfather owned an Incinerator building business. In his shop he had a bunch of old thermometers that he'd take the mercury out of. He gave me a vial full of the stuff and I would always take it to school and break it out in science class to play with it with my buddys putting it on our palms or dripping it on the table to watch it shatter into a bunch of little spheres. Its one of my fonder memories of High School :D I think when my nieces get a bit older Ill have to buy some to show them, Im doing everything I can to educate them in science and hopefully lead them to a good STEM degree :D
You might check the reaction progress with a spot test on filter paper for mercury to verify the completeness of Hg precipitation. I remember there was a highly sensitive one involving iodide and copper. If you're interested I might look it up.
Between you and Cody'sLab, I find myself really wishing I had the time and patience to do this. I had this idea one time of taking samples of water from different mining zones that were notorious of using Mercury in the purifying process for Gold. This video and the previous one has really ignited that spark and I just might do it. Thanks for the brain food :)
@@Dreadpirateflappy 3 years later and I'm severely depressed and unmotivated. Also disabled thanks to a wonderful workplace accident. Thanks for checking in though
So i am writing my lab report for my chemistry class and while i was re-reading my discussion essay i couldn't help but notice it sounds exactly like you at the end of your videos. I'm laughing so hard right now. XD
Hi Ii have a few questions. 1. How to extract mercury from natural cinnabar ore? 2. Extracted mercury off cinnabar, is it 100% pure? 3. Is there a way to turn mercury into pure red mercury? By the way I am just 51 year old enthusiast. Love learning new things everyday.
Protip for cleaning the surface of dull Mercury. Take any container for example a jar. Spray the inside with spray glue. Dump in the mercury and swirl it around. Pour it of and it's clean. Dispose of the jar as mercury waste.
The English subtitle in 4:44 has made a mistake, it meass sulfur is in an atom not in a group. Actually all the non-metal elements combined themselves into groups because their outermost electron number is greater than 4, which means the atoms hava a strong will to capture other's electron to fill up the number to 8. because of this, sulpher atoms always combined into group such as S4,S8,etc.
hi Nile I really like your videos, I wanted to know is it possible extracting fructose from fruits? its probably a stupid question but i d like to know thanks
Great channel :) an idea: could you try extracting gum/oil from myrrh leaves? Where i live the thing is lying everywhere on the ground, and i know there is a way of using them but idk how :)
Dear NileRed: Can you explain the nature of your Mercury Sulfide waste source, and why it contains sealite(sp), silica gel and paper? What is sealite and how are silica gel and paper used in processes involving mercury that would produce such waste? I'm not very familiar with what sorts of mercury waste would commonly be encountered or why.
I'm always so curious just how much all these fluids, acids, bases, and other ingredients you use in each step costs. Especially for your gold recovery videos.
if the poly sulfide made the mercury water soluble why did you perform the reaction with aluminium in the same container that had the celite? Why not filter out and wash the celite and perform the reaction using only the solution?
Waste is chemical trash. Concentrated elemental mercury can be waste, too, provided you don't need it anymore, so "just waste" doesn't quite define it correctly.
Conspiracy theory: Nile didn't show the spider death because it didn't happen. He saved the spider, but didn't want to start a flame war in the comments about whether it deserved to live or not.
I’ve always thought mercury was nifty because of it being a liquid at room temp. I’ve got a very small amount of it I salvaged from an old temperature dial someone was throwing away. It’s definitely in my top 4 favorite metals although I’m not sure it’s exact position. (Tungsten, silver, and platinum are the other 3. I’ve got one of those tiny tungsten cubes but I’d love a bigger one, but sadly they are very expensive. I haven’t got any platinum due to its price, but have gathered a small amount of silver in the form of some jewelry I got second hand and a pair of pilot wings I got from a pawn shop (those are really cool, while I’m tempted to melt down the others and make a small ingot, the wings I love in its current form)
Element collector here. Top 4 is a tough one. I gotta go with the coolest samples I actually have. In no particular order: Tungsten - Just holding some is a strange feeling. The density difference in it and every day metals you encounter is mind bottling. Basically the same density as gold. I have a bar that's 1" thick, 12" long, and about 2 1/2" wide. It weighs 20+ lbs. Thorium - I FINALLY got a sample of this element (in pure metal form). I got 5 grams of Th powder. Guy was nice enough to sell it for half price. A bargain at $100/gram. The Holy Grail of element collecting**. Don't believe me? Just try getting some.... Cesium - It's one you have to see in person to appreciate. I have a 20 gram ampoule of Cesium. It's a very shiny golden color. It's solid at room temperature, but hold it in your hand and it starts melting after about 10 seconds. Gorgeous element! Mercury - Yeah I love Mercury. There I said it. And it feels good! =========================== Honorable mentions: Osmium, Gold, Beryllium, Uranium, Arsenic, Carbon. ** Actually I'm close to closing a deal on possibly a new Holy Grail.... A strip of Technetium metal. Pinch me....... (How did I get this way?? My parents weren't nerds...I wasn't raised nerd, Grandparents weren't geeks....I.......just......don't.......know.......)
I have a tube of that brand of vermilion oil paint (it was a very generous gift from a friend). I have used it sparingly, including in a precise copy of The Goldfinch.
I love all of your videos, they are very well constructed and explained. However I'd be interested to see state symbols on the equations you use for the reactions - if not then it's fine. Curiosity is all :)
So, in the process of cleaning up some mercury-contaminated water you ended up with mercury sulfide waste that needs cleaning up. In the process of cleaning up that mercury sulfide waste and isolating the mercury from it you generated a ton of new waste that needs cleaning up - also contaminated with mercury. Entertaining videos for sure but not very productive it seems.
Well, the waste will have lower and lower mercury content. This is better than just sending it to a waste company and getting rid of what use the waste still could've been.
I remember smelting a block of cinnabar in my garden firepit when I was a kid. I got a little bit of mercury but ended up regretting destroying my rock because they're harder to find these days.
damn...that happened because sony vegas is terrible. I moved some audio files around. Whenever it is missing a file and i have to direct it where to find it, it destroys the audio.
I live near an old cinnibar mine, and mercury processing site. When the mine was up the town around it was extremely wealthy. The town (New Idra) had the first lighted baseball field in California. Also, it is one of the few places on earth that gem quality benitoite has ever been found. Now New Idra is an EPA super fund site, which is code for fucked. The EPA has pretty much stated it would cost too much to clean up the area. The best part is, that just a few miles from this place was a massive serpentine mine. Which also produced asbestos.
3 (HgS Na2S) + 8 NaOH + 2 Al + Spider -> 3 Hg + 6 Na2S + 2NaAlO2 + 4 H20 + Dead Spider
Definitely a viable reaction
lol
rip spider was sacrificed for making me
gafeht More like a Catalyst:/
Imagine the shock and terror of a chemist who did this reaction and wasn’t expecting a spider corpse to appear
@@sang1025com you’re so lame, your parents failed you. You complete mess.
i always think cinnabar sounds delicious
Try cinnamon not cinnabar cinnamon
It's just where I go to restore fossils.
Imagine if cinnamon bars had mercury
@@SupernerdScrawl Well can't go there anymore, the volcano went boom after all
SupernerdScrawl i think they used rocks from there to make the pavement in vermillion city
"so, how did you die? crushed by human? drowning?"
"being dissolved by mercury waste"
"oh"
Would that count for spider Valhalla or spider Darwin's Awards?
yeah he dead
Nice hydroxide pun
@@Brunosky_Inc Valhalla fs
@@Brunosky_Inc Sovengarde awaits
contains trace amounts of spider
+Repth Nufrifin that is the key ingredient
Mercury + spider = Hg suspended in a web lattice
Also, don't confuse Cinnebar (HgS) with Cinnamonbar, nope not the same .. tsk tsk
Repth Nufrifin m curious what was going through the soider’s head
“Oh an unknown surface surrounded by an unknown liquid? Time to go in and see what’s up...oh wait the liquid is breaking the surface, time to get out of here” *builds web that breaks( “hope I can swim in this, I’m not getting out”
Lmao!!
9:45 for anyone that is confused
“Due to impurities” like that spider that fell in?
That may be a factor
Poor thing. It had no idea what it got into
Where at?
No that was clearly required
*contains trace amounts of spider*
I love that spider for sacrificing himself for his love of chemistry.
@Elijah D'Arcy Dominguez probably a better way to go out than to drown normally
@Elijah D'Arcy Dominguez you can't really down without a chemical, because otherwise what will you be drowning in
@@kreuner11 watch the damn video?
@@kreuner11 9:46
The tragedy!
Cinnabar island. Vermillion City. "pokémon-mercury silver"
Mr. chair buttons *quicksilver.
Quintinohthree aaaaaaaah even better
@@Quintinohthree Wasn't that one of the fan made hacks that Nintendo had scrubbed from the internet?
Ariados fainted.
Damn you
Vermilion was also used historically to dye the lower strings of lutes, and not just for cosmetics. Since Vermilion is based on mercury, it's heavy, so dying the strings increased their density, meaning the strings would vibrate at a lower frequency. Compared to making the strings thicker (making them again heavier and vibrating at lower pitches), the thinner but denser Vermilion dyed strings have a clearer sound for the low notes.
Someone do this for da BASS
Huh, that's cool. Why didn't they just use copper wire?
@@SoulTouchMusic93 Modern guitar strings are wrapped in copper wire for the base strings, as are piano strings.
In the middle ages, however, they just didn't have proper machinery for making large quantities of fine wire. Can you imagine beating out 10s of meters of thin wire using only a hammer? Jewelers would do this, but they could sell their jewelry for a tidy sum.
Another thing to consider is that they used gut to make strings out of, since nylon had not yet been invented. Gut strings only last a couple weeks, so all that work making wire and wrapping it would have to be repeated over and over.
As far as metal strings, as opposed to strings wrapped with metal wire, these started existing in harpsichords by the time the Baroque period happened. This is well after the end of the middle ages. Also, for some reason, lutes and guitars never ended up with metal strings until much later. I guess they didn't like the sound back then. Another possibility is that steel strings weren't practical on instruments where your sweaty fingers touch the strings until the invention of stainless steel - the strings would rust!
@@defunctuserchannel I think the only real insight there is that there are a lot of different ways a liquid can end up looking a murky yellow orange. Probably just a coincidence.
As someone who.plays an 8 string guitar, I find that interesting
Great video! I actually forgot about dissolving the cinnabar in the sodium sulfate solution! ( I think it did come up in my ore genesis class) You probably could have used copper metal instead of aluminium since this is chemically pretty much the same as what I did in my video but I think the only real benefit of that here would be a reduction in waste and not also pulling out the lead which I think you didn't have in your mercury.
Hi Cody :D
I was curious if you knew what to look for when searching for Cinnabar, as it seems you have found some yourself. (Possibly a future video?) If not, that's fine.
Hey Cody,
I dont remember exactly where I read it, but it said that using copper has issues. I also don't remember what issues they were though...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's not necessarily that the copper has a negative affect, but more related to the fact Aluminium amalgamates with the Mercury providing a high efficiency and quality. (Aluminium I think may react with other minority elements or compounds residing in the Mercury Sulfide, or Cinnabar)
Oh, I forgot to mention that this process can provide Sodium Sulfide for recycle. :p
"Some impatient people" Am I watching NileShade lmao.
He’s like baugmenter (idk how to spell) restoration where Julian just ROASTS the past conservators it’s so funny
@@salty8202 i don’t like baumgartner restoration :/ a lot of his techniques are outdated and often don’t follow the moral code for restoration- one of them being that the restorations should be reversible, so when better application and techniques are found, the previous restoration can be reversed and the painting restored with the new techniques. some of his work is shockingly poor, and not enough time was put into it. there’s a reason he does family heirlooms, not museum pieces. there’s also all of the legal trouble that he’s gotten himself into (suing one of the most prominent restorers, for example) that makes me really dislike him
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@@antimonia that reminds me of when he retouched a lady's arm and I noticed it was a lot different than the original and he made it worse
R.I.P. Lab spider. You will be missed.
Timestamp?
@@themelancholyofgay3543 watch the video?
@@canesvenatici9588 i watched it but didn't notice
@@themelancholyofgay3543
10:00
Dang - when the Spider fell into your cauldron, you shoulda tossed in some Deadly Nightshade and the Eyes of a Newt...
Then you coulda cast some mad spooky, kooky-ass spells. Ah, well. Missed witchcraft opportunity. What can ya do.
Nothing.
9:45 : I've read enough comics to know where this is going!
Damn, I hope Nile doesn't get bitten by it!
...on second thought, I hope he does xD
He would become a Mercury Man and will be able to change shape like T-1000.
Or the Silver Spider!
piranha031091 quikspilver
Or become amalgamated into SpiderMan :D
the spider dident die. he fused with the chemicals and is now roaming the streets
10:00 “death is too graphic to show”
Oh, you watched the video!
Watcher damn you miserable SOB
@@justinhamilton8647 Well, op literally offered not a single thought. S/he just quoted a line in the video we all JUST watched. Lame.
@@watcherofwatchers who hurt you
@@watcherofwatchers Go outside, meet some people, learn a new hobby
Me: *has video on in background*
NileRed: *Ferroserpent*
Me: WHAT THE
Pharaoh's Serpent, not Ferroserpent.
Ever since I've stumbled upon your channel I have found an unique interest in chemistry. You seem to be informative yet entertaining at the same time. I think your voice inflection has a lot to do with it. You just keep me intrigued and always wanting to learn more. I know nothing about chemistry by the way! I just love science.
HA nerd/J
Spider: *falls in*
Solution: *starts bubbling vigorously and spills everywhere*
Nile: "so after cleanup I couldn't remember which room I'd done this in, so I just decided to move house"
@13:39 Aww, it's happy to be washed!
Catman ok i died a little from seeing that
Omg XD
This was my thought too! 😄
You're a pussy i see
13:35 and The solution was a bit murky lol get it Mercury Bad dad joke but I’m not a dad so just a bad joke
For those of us that grew up years ago, we didn't worry about how we stored mercury. When a thermometer or light switch broke, we just put in a glass jar and played with it. Fun times.
are you bragging about having mercury poisoning
@@daveslamjam Elemental mercury is relatively safe in the amounts we used to have access to. Eating too much of the wrong kind of fish is likely a much larger risk. The organic forms are far more dangerous.
@@kcgunesqis fish you can normally get safe
@@Xnoob545I think larger predatory fish like tuna have more mercury because it builds up in the food web
lol exactly! once when i was 8 i brought it to school and we played with it. These days someone would probably call emergency with fire brigade and twenty ambulances and the whole building would be evacuated 🚑 😂😂😂
(me watching the aluminum go in) "ah yes, that provides the shiny that the final mercury will need."
the Shiny
7:50
"I can dump in a little more"
**yeets the whole foil in**
Well, let's be real, aluminum is very light, so those weren't that many atoms
SPIDER FRIEND WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN
dicksoutforspiderambe#
Your timelapses has improved significantly - Great job!
Dude I've been watching your vids for a while, just found this one and just lost it when you included the spider xD
13:48 Of course it was all merc-y, it's mercury. That stuff tends to be pretty merc-y.
I followed you on the twitter but I never use it, so I don't know how helpful it is.
of course I love your science videos, the methodology, and implementation of the procedures is top notch and very enjoyable. while I do not share your love of smelly reactions, I find it wonderfully fun to watch and hope some say to be able to replicate some experiments with my kids.
Science for the win
I appreciate it! Also, smelly compounds is definitely not something for everyone.
RIP Spider (2017-2017)
1 like, 1 prayer
I think it's really great that you make instructions on how to handle and recycle waste. I bet this video has prevented a bunch of toxic waste from amateur chemists!
You can still buy cinnabar sumi sticks, these are ground with an ink stone and water and used to paint. It’s really one of the most gorgeous colors, and crazily enough it used to be used for tattooing, of course we don’t use that anymore. In traditional Japanese tattooing they used to do only small sections at a time because it would make people very ill with fevers, because the inks were basically poison.
Yikes
The shot with the beaker and the white background made me feel like I had messy black splashes on my monitor, that is also a testament to the quality of your camera and footage.
Keep up the good work, love your videos.
the first spider to get this much attention for his/her love for chemistry
13:39 mercury made a smiley face
Ye
Barney
This videos are so good that I still watch them over and over again despite not understanding a single word.
I need a video making a red mercury crystal. I assume it’s actually a pretty safe way to store it
The "red mercury crystal" is mercury sulfide, so you'd have to make the mercury a second time if you'd store it as that.
@@luisp.3788 Isn't mercury sulfide a salt of mercury ?
@@Rivodtadin ?Yes it is, but why make mercury from mercury sulfide and then make the mercury to mercury sulfide again
These sort of metal ore crystals grow from high pressure superheated steam in deep fissures in the Earth’s crust. Good luck trying that.
For thermal one, I think you can cover the beaker with a watching glass with ice on it to liquefy the mercury vapor.
I like how he’s giving instructions like we about to do this 😭😭
just take college chemistry you would be doing this every day
“don’t try this at home” aw man there go my plans for the day I was totally gonna do that in my room with no experience or equipment
I don't get what's going on I've discovered your channel recently, I really couldn't care less about mercury or chemistry yet I'm somehow compelled to watch, what trickery is this.
13:40 mercury hopes you have a good day
Me:
"-Island"
"-City"
NR:
"Cinnabar"
"Vermillion"
This was posted on my alt
Pikachu?
The comments: 25% actually about chemistry, 25% “idk what’s going on but it’s cool”, 50% “rIP tHe sPideR”
f 2 ze spooder
The black gunk in the reaction mixture is likely due to the lacquer coating on the Al foil. This has a dull side and a shiny side, so removal of the coating from the shiny side is important. Or, use pure aluminum.
18:22 has an audio problem... Scared the hell out of me 😲
Blazevgr same 😭
Blazevgr saaame
Deserves another reupload.
i fucking jump scared
Blazevgr i think there was quite a large reaction going on that second
the spider at 9:46 had a more compelling story than wakanda forever
This guy made mercury, then made that pure mercury into mercury ore, then processed the mercury ore back into mercury. Legend.
Guess this reaction had a bug :'D
Spiders aren't bugs tho
kordami r/woooosh
@@erlingnesbakken9871 no
kordami yes
@@erlingnesbakken9871 okay then explain how I'm wooshed here.
Oh my... Freddie's parents are science geniuses
when I was in High School my grandfather owned an Incinerator building business. In his shop he had a bunch of old thermometers that he'd take the mercury out of. He gave me a vial full of the stuff and I would always take it to school and break it out in science class to play with it with my buddys putting it on our palms or dripping it on the table to watch it shatter into a bunch of little spheres. Its one of my fonder memories of High School :D I think when my nieces get a bit older Ill have to buy some to show them, Im doing everything I can to educate them in science and hopefully lead them to a good STEM degree :D
You might check the reaction progress with a spot test on filter paper for mercury to verify the completeness of Hg precipitation. I remember there was a highly sensitive one involving iodide and copper. If you're interested I might look it up.
Spider:
ight imma head in.
Ight imma head out.
Web:
I'm about to end this man's whole career.
Between you and Cody'sLab, I find myself really wishing I had the time and patience to do this. I had this idea one time of taking samples of water from different mining zones that were notorious of using Mercury in the purifying process for Gold. This video and the previous one has really ignited that spark and I just might do it. Thanks for the brain food :)
3 years later and i wonder if you ever did it.
@@Dreadpirateflappy 3 years later and I'm severely depressed and unmotivated. Also disabled thanks to a wonderful workplace accident. Thanks for checking in though
@@SpaceyBrain 1 year later checking to see if you’re alive (not dead from mercury poisoning)
@@avacadomangobanana2588 Alright, who's not dead. Sound off
@@SpaceyBrain hahahaha glad you’re still round here mate keep goin. trust life is brutal but ghaddamn if there isn’t some beauty in the pain
Thank you
I enjoy watching your videos.
Stuff I would never search out or care to know about.. But I like listening to you and I'm learning 👍
I know nothing about chemistry but absolutely love watching and (sorta) learning with these videos
I clicked on this vid thinking it was turning queen songs into metal songs
Actually?
So i am writing my lab report for my chemistry class and while i was re-reading my discussion essay i couldn't help but notice it sounds exactly like you at the end of your videos. I'm laughing so hard right now. XD
You sound like a monotonous robot?
well its just I speak the same way you do.... at least when it comes to chemistry so like I could help but narrate with your voice.
can't help but narrate with your voice*
I thought you were offering to narrate his videos at first.
Hi Ii have a few questions.
1. How to extract mercury from natural cinnabar ore?
2. Extracted mercury off cinnabar, is it 100% pure?
3. Is there a way to turn mercury into pure red mercury?
By the way I am just 51 year old enthusiast. Love learning new things everyday.
2:10 I don’t think that mercury vapour should be the only thing that you should be concerned about. Sulphur Dioxide is also pretty bad.
It's awesome to see the chemical reactions in you videos.........pls keep uploading.
Protip for cleaning the surface of dull Mercury. Take any container for example a jar. Spray the inside with spray glue. Dump in the mercury and swirl it around. Pour it of and it's clean. Dispose of the jar as mercury waste.
Fantastic video! I would love to see more Ore to refined metal videos. Perhaps you could show copper enrichment from Malachite and Chalcopyrite.
I am 100% sure, that you are on every government watchlist there currently is.
This channel is so educational and I enjoy your commitment to making vid so like this
Is there a reason for alpha-HgS to form more frequently than beta-HgS, or is it just the fact that it's easier to spot why we have more of it?
Watching this channel after a bit of Chemistry class is amazing
5:35 when your game is lagging but finally buffers
The English subtitle in 4:44 has made a mistake, it meass sulfur is in an atom not in a group. Actually all the non-metal elements combined themselves into groups because their outermost electron number is greater than 4, which means the atoms hava a strong will to capture other's electron to fill up the number to 8. because of this, sulpher atoms always combined into group such as S4,S8,etc.
I salute to the spider for sacrificing his life for science. Hes a hero press f to pay respects
I don’t know if you knew this but aluminum foil has a very thin layer of paraffin wax to reduce sticking when cooking with it.
hi Nile I really like your videos, I wanted to know is it possible extracting fructose from fruits? its probably a stupid question but i d like to know thanks
hmm, it might be possible. I imagine it would be very hard to get pure though
NileRed OK thanks for the help
So at 9:19, is Hydrogen bisulfide just a different name for NaHS? Because I've always known it as Sodium hydrosulfide.
Yes. Similar to NaHCO3 being referred to as Sodium bicarbonate, when Na2CO3 is Sodium Carbonate.
lol that spider was crazy indeed.
Rest in piece ricky. You were an entertaining spider.
Great channel :) an idea: could you try extracting gum/oil from myrrh leaves? Where i live the thing is lying everywhere on the ground, and i know there is a way of using them but idk how :)
Got curious about mercury manufacturing and knew exactly where to find it 🤘🏽
Buddy, you're not a monster for saving an eight-legged demon soul eater 9:56
Me: yo can you pass me a drink
That ONE friend: yeah sure let me go get one 11:55
Dear NileRed: Can you explain the nature of your Mercury Sulfide waste source, and why it contains sealite(sp), silica gel and paper? What is sealite and how are silica gel and paper used in processes involving mercury that would produce such waste? I'm not very familiar with what sorts of mercury waste would commonly be encountered or why.
agvulpine It’s the waste created during this video: th-cam.com/video/S4T57SFntIs/w-d-xo.html
It's celite not sealite
I didn't know you sold these things. I'll have to check it out.
I'm always so curious just how much all these fluids, acids, bases, and other ingredients you use in each step costs. Especially for your gold recovery videos.
1:48 is that a displacement reaction?
plz make video on GOLD purification
if the poly sulfide made the mercury water soluble why did you perform the reaction with aluminium in the same container that had the celite? Why not filter out and wash the celite and perform the reaction using only the solution?
Removes Mercury from contaminated waste, contaminates waste in the process :I
mbanana23456 At least he gets his mercury back.
It's put in safe storage. He has a video of the decontamination process
If he got the mercury out, though, what's left...the dregs of mercury?
Exactly how low do you need to get the concentration before it's just waste?"
@@bcubed72 i dont think its worth to do that ,he did for the video i guess
Waste is chemical trash. Concentrated elemental mercury can be waste, too, provided you don't need it anymore, so "just waste" doesn't quite define it correctly.
Conspiracy theory: Nile didn't show the spider death because it didn't happen. He saved the spider, but didn't want to start a flame war in the comments about whether it deserved to live or not.
I’ve always thought mercury was nifty because of it being a liquid at room temp. I’ve got a very small amount of it I salvaged from an old temperature dial someone was throwing away.
It’s definitely in my top 4 favorite metals although I’m not sure it’s exact position. (Tungsten, silver, and platinum are the other 3. I’ve got one of those tiny tungsten cubes but I’d love a bigger one, but sadly they are very expensive. I haven’t got any platinum due to its price, but have gathered a small amount of silver in the form of some jewelry I got second hand and a pair of pilot wings I got from a pawn shop (those are really cool, while I’m tempted to melt down the others and make a small ingot, the wings I love in its current form)
What a horrible top 4 metal list
Obviously the correct top 4 is titanium, cobalt, lithium, and uranium. No in will not explain myself.
@@Correct_Opinion I like what I like, mate.
Element collector here. Top 4 is a tough one. I gotta go with the coolest samples I actually have. In no particular order:
Tungsten - Just holding some is a strange feeling. The density difference in it and every day metals you encounter is mind bottling. Basically the same density as gold. I have a bar that's 1" thick, 12" long, and about 2 1/2" wide. It weighs 20+ lbs.
Thorium - I FINALLY got a sample of this element (in pure metal form). I got 5 grams of Th powder. Guy was nice enough to sell it for half price. A bargain at $100/gram. The Holy Grail of element collecting**. Don't believe me? Just try getting some....
Cesium - It's one you have to see in person to appreciate. I have a 20 gram ampoule of Cesium. It's a very shiny golden color. It's solid at room temperature, but hold it in your hand and it starts melting after about 10 seconds. Gorgeous element!
Mercury - Yeah I love Mercury. There I said it. And it feels good!
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Honorable mentions: Osmium, Gold, Beryllium, Uranium, Arsenic, Carbon.
** Actually I'm close to closing a deal on possibly a new Holy Grail.... A strip of Technetium metal. Pinch me.......
(How did I get this way?? My parents weren't nerds...I wasn't raised nerd, Grandparents weren't geeks....I.......just......don't.......know.......)
Great thread, trindalas. 🙂 👍
EDIT: I think Nile needs to chime in here...what are your top 4 elements Nile??
I have a tube of that brand of vermilion oil paint (it was a very generous gift from a friend). I have used it sparingly, including in a precise copy of The Goldfinch.
10:09
*_Where men cried_*
Al the kings horses and all the KINGS *MEN* couldn't put up with a NAME THIS LONG!!!
Dude now I know what redstone dust from Minecraft is, it's just mercury, I am so smart I just cracked the matrix
I love all of your videos, they are very well constructed and explained. However I'd be interested to see state symbols on the equations you use for the reactions - if not then it's fine. Curiosity is all :)
The black powder is it iron dust or what ?
Thank you so much for your so nice show
So, in the process of cleaning up some mercury-contaminated water you ended up with mercury sulfide waste that needs cleaning up.
In the process of cleaning up that mercury sulfide waste and isolating the mercury from it you generated a ton of new waste that needs cleaning up - also contaminated with mercury.
Entertaining videos for sure but not very productive it seems.
He is more extracting Mercury rather than cleaning waste up. Probably because you can't buy Mercury metal wholesale
Well, the waste will have lower and lower mercury content. This is better than just sending it to a waste company and getting rid of what use the waste still could've been.
Me being a Pokemon player and immediately reacting to "Cinnabar" and "Vermillion"
9:40 screw the mixture can we get some f’s in the reply’s for that spider
My friend you are an alchemist 👍👍👍 keep up posting great educational videos like this
This looks like my mothers cooking
same
I remember smelting a block of cinnabar in my garden firepit when I was a kid. I got a little bit of mercury but ended up regretting destroying my rock because they're harder to find these days.
Why did it need a reupload?
I made a mistake. I decided to re-edit it and upload instead of just doing annotations.
NileRed Ah, ok
damn...that happened because sony vegas is terrible. I moved some audio files around. Whenever it is missing a file and i have to direct it where to find it, it destroys the audio.
I could never get used to using Vegas.
gnitatoR also like cody said use cooper
Rip spider, you will be forever missed
THC Keychain 🙌🙌🙌
What
@@icecarbondiabloclips9355 tetrahydrocannabinol baby!
I live near an old cinnibar mine, and mercury processing site. When the mine was up the town around it was extremely wealthy. The town (New Idra) had the first lighted baseball field in California. Also, it is one of the few places on earth that gem quality benitoite has ever been found. Now New Idra is an EPA super fund site, which is code for fucked. The EPA has pretty much stated it would cost too much to clean up the area. The best part is, that just a few miles from this place was a massive serpentine mine. Which also produced asbestos.
Fuck You is the town abandoned or fenced off?
It's abandoned.