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Hey integza, as a chemist, please dont put explosives in dangerous containers, i would reccomend a plastic syringe next time, or a very weak dropper. Explosives danger increases with their containers strength and fragmentation possibility. As for the video idea, as you are venturing into explosives, maybe you can try to make some interesting solid fuel rocket propellants? With different ratios of additives or primary oxidizers and fuel, maybe even a nitroglycerin rocket, where it is dissolved in a flammable liquid, with a stabiliser and a slower burning oxidiser. Would be dope!
@DrGreerIsRight this is stuff that quickly makes you talked about in the past tense and when you are talking very sensitive energetic materials it gets even wor
@DrGreerIsRight this is stuff that quickly makes you talked about in the past tense and when you are talking very sensitive energetic materials it gets even worse
@@DrGreerIsRightfor once safety people have a point. He didn't say don't do it just how to do it safer. That said for results make sure whatever is in the plastic doesn't react to the plastic. I have sprung a leak one too many times.
7:02 - the way amateur chemists lose fingers. Explosion can spread to the syringe. I had an incident with 100mg of stuff, the sausage experiment describes it well. Nevertheless, I'm glad that you demystify this topic.
This,, holding a syringe of the stuff when you "know" it's going to go boom right next to it,,, very very Not recommended. However,, it doesn't seem to be as volatile as the myths suggests, I have a bottle of the stuff in my pocket at all times, for the heart, and it's diluted with ethanol, and that seems to make it safe from going to the moon. So i wonder,, is it only the temperature that makes it go boom? Hitting it with a hammer probably produces a high localized temperature where it's compressed, and what others say about micro bubbles in the comments. so would it be less go-boom'y if it's cold?
@@lordsqueak The medicine contains only a few milligrams of NG, dilution makes it insensitive (no chain reaction, molecules too far apart). mixing with sorbent is a classic way to make dynamite. As far as I understand, sensitivity is determined by the fact that we need to transfer energy to several molecules (heating or mechanically) - sufficient for them to disintegrate, and then a chain reaction occurs (decomposition releases more energy sufficient to maintain the reaction, the speed of the reaction will make up the difference between detonation and deflagmation). In theory, the frozen substance is less sensitive (you need more energy to kick start reaction), but there are more convenient ways to desensitize stuff.
I think you are right, I see a distinct possibility of the syringe contents detonating by sympathy. Given the quantity, I suspect the consequences could be more than lost fingers.
Did anyone else notice theres another clear liquid on the hot plate before he dropped the "nitroglycerin" on? It was already smoking and the fire lights up far away from the sizzling liquid.
I am literally having a brain wave rn, I had no idea nitroglycerin was that simple to make lmao. That is kinda scary, because I have worked with both nitric acid and sulphuric acid in large quantities in the past. Who knew I was a single chemical that exists in all the first aid kits in my house, away from detonating. This is a good TSA not to nitrate glycerol.
Did you ever have any potassium permanganate in your first aid kit next to the glycerine? If you have some spare time make a little pile of KMnO4 crystals on a large fireproof metal or ceramic surface and put a single drop of glycerine on top as fuel. It will spontaneously ignite in about 15 minutes (depending on local conditions). Starting a fire in a first aid kit used to be a popular form of arson because it looked like sloppy storage of the kit, until fire investigators got wise to it.
Its the exact same procedure for gun cotton, and mostly the same for TNT. Nitration reactions are one of the easiest and that's why they are dangerous. When you can do crazy stuff with limited knowledge and easy to access supplies, things can get out of hand really fast, because there's a blunted sense of danger.
That scene in breaking bad wasn't nitroglycerine, it was mercury fulminate. You can make pretty much any heavy metal into a high explosive it's very fun.
Have you seen Explosions & Fire? He has made most of them (including gold, gotta be one of the most expensive explosives, gram for gram!) And I think Throwdowns or Pop Snappers use silver fulminate ( in microgram amounts).
Fun fact: nitroglycerin's impact sensitivity is due to very small micro-bubbles in the liquid that collapse and heat up above the detonation temperature when you hit it. That's why mixing nitroglycerin with straw or diatomaceous Earth makes the more stable dynamite, because they eliminate the micro-bubbles!
Oh wow no shit. I knew cavitation collapse was strong but I didn't realize it was that strong. That's fucking cool lol I really had no idea I guess another fun fact is that after this process is done, the nitroglycerin can leak back out and become extremely dangerous
Nitroglycerin works really well for miniature ball-bearing cannon. I made one when I was 15 and I was able to launch ball-bearings across a football field. It was hugely entertaining to play games experimenting with angles and accuracy. Simple get a narrow metal tube. Cap one end of the tube. Soak a cotton ball in cold nitroglycerin. Gently insert the cotton ball into the open end of the tube pushing the ball-bearing in after the cotton ball. Once they are at the end of the tube snuggly against the capped end of the tube all you have to do is aim it then smack the cap with a hammer. I made an aiming mount and a spring loaded hammer in case anything went wrong. Always wear ear protection and have a blast feeling like a cannon wizard.
Made some nitroglycerin in my room when I was in high school, and I made the mistake of touching a drop with my bare fingers. What ensued after a few minutes was the worst migraine I have ever experienced. It turns out that nitroglycerin is used in medicin as a vasodilator and a side effect is headaches. A fascinating molecule.
@@aceslater5265EMS, as well as hospitals, gives it in heart attacks because it’s vasodilative effects help to improve blood flow to the coronary arteries, lowered blood pressure is just a side effect of that dilation. However, for congestive heart failure nitroglycerin is administered at higher doses for that antihypertensive effect as well as to reduce the amount of volume coming back into the heart to help the heart pump more efficiently.
There was a leading chemist in the field of explosives. Him having a weak heart was already funny. Him getting it treated with nitroglycerin made it hilarious.
I love how this channel has evolved. It went from small 3d prints that would routinely melt. To building confidence in metalworking, to chemistry. Flawless
I remember finding the basic procedure for making nitroglycerin in an old Encyclopedia as a kid; which shows how old I am. It was something I always wanted to play with just to see how powerful it really is; you just satisfied a 30 year old curiosity. Pretty sure this is exactly what I would do with it if I had some. I love how it looks like its cleaning the vice by blowing away all the dirt and oxides. For real fun, I recall in chemistry class our teacher once put nitroglycerin on the board, wrote down the decomposition products, said "it started as 1 molecule of liquid, now its 6 molecules of gas, what is the pressure change in a fixed volume? (a lot, the answer is a lot)
The old Jules Verne's "From the Earth to the Moon" has the recipe for "guncotton", which is nearly the same thing. Old books gave the recipe, and trusted kids wouldn't blow themselves to smithereens. Good ol' times.
I found the original process of making nitroglycerin in my high-school's encyclopedia. It also said that that method was dangerous, and that newer, safer methods had been devised, although it didn't explain them any further than that. It did go into very fine detail about the first process, though. It's incredible, the less-than-legal knowledge that you can find in your school library!
@@TruncateBat There is nothing less than legal about knowledge. The very idea of protecting people by hiding information is both factually and morally wrong.
Dad use to do stump blasting when was a farmer and as a land developer. Using gelignite his safety procedures leave a lot to be desired. So when cleaning out the shed I found a plastic bag of sweaty gelignite, now that liquid I knew was nitroglycerin so I was worried. Dad said just put in a bucket of water and it brakes down. Next day we berried it. It's true you can get tingling feeling from handling it also from mixing nitropile and diesel. They now coat the nitrate fertiliser so it can't be used in explosives. This was 30 years ago.
@luismanueldiasrodrigues2824 Well. Somewhat decent beginner 3D printers (like Ender) cost pretty much the same as 1000 likes (around 100 quid). Frankly, he could just straight out buy one and at least be sure he actually gets it. I think Integza has to find another way of evaluating the coments, because likes make it a bit too easy to cheat.
Your Nitroglycerin is 'wet' you can tell by the cloudy color of the NG. This can be fixed by by using a desiccant to absorb the water from the NG, this will result in more brisance and higher purity.
The sulfuric acid is for dehydration. When nitric acid reacts with somthing like glycerine it forms water along with your main product nitroglycerin. The water could slow down the nitration and sulfuric acid deals with that. It also helps to prevent a runaway nitration wich could be dangerous when dealing with explosive material.
You can soak cotton balls in what you have left and essentially create cordite which was an early alternative to conventional black powder making a smokeless alternative to early munitions.
A fun fact: I have a reprint of an old German fireworks book. There are some very old descriptions in which the authors nitraded organic substances - 400 years ago - and loaded the products into cannons....
@@bhekidlamini1199 no, people who actually enjoy chemistry and know that these kinds of video backfire very hard in terms of restrictions and negative publicity for the hobby.
Video idea: How about a video on the science behind fireworks? Exploring how they’re made, the chemistry for colors, and safety tips. Could be a blast! Maybe mix in a little nitroglycerin now that it’s laying around, or take what you learn and make some colorful throwing popits!!!
There was a guy who used to do these type of videos. Once he made nitroglycerin and hammered an DROP on an anvil and lost a nail when the hammer fly away. He removed the video lol
Video idea "DIY mini rocket launcher from household items". Bonus if it uses nitroglycerin ahahaha. No idea if this is remotely feasible, but well, I'm no rocket scientist, we leave the rockets to you! Keep up the good work Joel :)
detonation kills rockets engines. Rockets use deflagration then convert the energy to supersonic with geometry but does make a good fuel additive in viscous fuels lighter fuels it has a tendency to float on if you get it really pure it'll be waxy and yellow :).
We obtain approximately the same reactions with acetone peroxide except for the inflammation which is explosive unlike nitro. On a hot plate the perox detonates or evaporates depending on the temperature.
From years with working with things that make really loud booms, you should double up your hearing protection. Wear both earplugs and earmuffs. And get better earmuffs. Once you damage your hearing, it's not coming back. Awesome video. Should have folded a sheet of paper, added the spicy sauce, then tested it next to the tomato.
Video idea: build a solar and water powered rocket engine which splits the water into hydrogen and oxygen using electrolysis using the energy from the solarpanels (but converted to a really high voltage). The H and O is then stored in tanks and after a few hours of the electrolysis you can start the engine and have made a completely "clean" rocket engine!
I started reading chemistry books at the age of 8. My mom allowed me to buy everything I needed in her name. She gave me her ID card, and I ordered everything I wanted - including nitric acid, sulfuric acid, and glycine. When I was 13, I made nitroglycerin, with my first two attempts failing because I didn't use proper cooling. My third attempt, however, was successful. I filled the substance into small glass tubes, shot them against a wall with a slingshot, and placed it on a sheet of paper to test if it burned as quickly as I expected. Luckily (!), it didn't explode at all, and because it burned so slowly, I assumed something had gone wrong. Thanks to my ADD, I quickly lost interest and switched to another hobby... This could have ended horribly wrong.
Video idea: "Jet Engine that runs on Nitroglycerin". I'm not sure if this can work but ur next project should definitely use nitroglycerin, its so fun LMAO, I'm not a rocket scientist, you sure seem like you are hahaha. Keep up the fun videos Integza
I used to work on a mine that used "anfo" to split rock and ledges to process the limestone. That would be a good follow up to this one, as it's a more controllable substance that's powerful enough to be used for industrial processes.
the problem with anf... is it is ILLEGAL (at least in the US) for him to mix without a license, a permit, and a very VERY specifically built containment system to mix it in. even BUYING the ingredients is HEAVILY regulated. if BATFE sees him making this tiny amount of nitro... they would shake their heads and grumble... maybe send TH-cam a bit of a nastygram email... and him too... if they see him making anf? somebody's calling a judge for a warrant and he's getting raided. Oklahoma City and the first attempt at WTC both used anf and the US Feds are verrrrrry leery of anybody ever trying that kinda stuff ever again.
Anfo is unique in that its explosive force is actually dependent on the strength of the charge used at initiation. Anfo, on its own is incredibly hard (nearly impossible) to set off without an initiating primer. (Hence why it's categorized as non cap sensitive) Also, you could use just straight nitroglycerin in a mine setting, and achieve the same results as Anfo, but Anfo is a fraction of the price, that's why we use it.
Anfo is safe as houses to use, and is especially good for rock as its classed as a "pushing" explosive... longer pressures. My uncle worked on the Victorian Railway in Australia. He lost half his arm walking 3 sticks of sweating gelignite and a few sus dets out to the burner dump. This was in the 60s. The old skool blasters were brave but crazy blokes. And those older than 30 were safe. Those older than 50 were very wise men. Lol
He also worked for a company making sounding rocket engines for Woomera, and ended up there contracting after the bomb tests, burying equipment etc, while driving a radioactive bulldozer, and cooking on a radioactive pot-belly stove that was in a blast test house. There wasn't anything else to use. He described how things went. He died of cancers and with no acknowledgement from the military or their contractors. The clouds from one or 2 bombs went straight over the east coast. Canberra, Sydney.... Governments aren't looking after us sadly.
If I had to guess what's going on chemically, the glycerin when mixed with the nitrogen bath takes on both sulfur and nitrogen, both of which are fairly reactive, and glycérine works as an oxidizing catalyst, so when sulfurs reaction is sped up by the nitrogen and the Oxygen, big boom, small time
You should make a video covering shaped charges! You cover a number of explosive and detonation related concepts, it would be cool to see some content covering how focusing that energy works.
You should keep the sulfuric acid in the ice bath as you add the nitric acid (slowly) to keep the solution cool, as the sulfuric acid gets hot as it dehydrates the water in the nitric acid. Most chemists that make nitration solutions will refrigerate their acids the night before they make their nitration solution so they start with the coolest temps possible.
A couple of ideas: 1. Nitrating tomato sauce and using it as rocket fuel 2. Mix nitroglycerin (also maybe a little diatomaceous earth for stability as another user said) into 3d printing resin and 3d print rocket stuff.
On ifea number 2: I think that may cause problems, seeing as nitroglycerin is not exactly heat stable and as the filament must be heated to be deposited onto the print.
i wouldn't call it dynamite but i wouldnt be playing with that shit at all. Its is not used anymore for REASONS we can obviously think of. Good luck storing this shit@@Natediggetydog
Sulfuric acid is a dehydrating agent kind of. Sulfuric acid is known for its dehydrating properties. It catalyses the reaction. During the reaction water molecules are split off from the glycerin and replaced by the nitro groups.
Between the various rocket propellants I'm sure they have a nice fat file on him. Especially the Italian branches of Europol based on his hate crimes against Tomato's 🍅🔨😂
Would be interested in seeing a video about nitrating weird things for solid rocket fuel, Charcoal, sawdust, sundried tomato?..... Could you nitrate thermite?
We made something in high school chemistry that detonated under just the slightest pressure. The teacher splattered little droplets all over the concrete outside the chem lab and we watched students freak out as they walk over it, and it exploded under their feet. Life was different in the 90's
Sorry for ruining your dream but its not posible, for a rocket you need defragration not detonation. You will explode rocket fuel tank before going somewhere.
@@septemberalpha3639 Yes sort of! But lets not forget one crazy scientist once dreamed up a ship to launch into space, with higher payload and crew capacity than anything we can do today, that you just had to detonate a handful of A Bombs under it to get into space. Apparently it was completely feasible to build, would be more fuel efficient then current methods, but the radiation....
To go along with the theme of this video, back in highschool, the first week of school, my chemistry teacher made a substance called ammonium iodide, that he would flick along the steps by his classroom, all the juniors and seniors would line the side of the steps so everyone had to walk so they could enjoy the show. Apparently once it's dry, it's so sensitive that a feather was suppose to be able to set it off, that being said, I've never seen the feather test, only enjoyed the freaked out faces of lower classmen startled by invisible snap and pops that they stepped on. Have fun!
You also get tiny little puffs of purple smoke emitted too - which just makes it even more fun. The only slight "meh" is that until it dries, the smell of the ammonia can be a bit strong. Good on gravel too - as it doesn't all go off at once - and long after you think it has all gone - someone else walks on it and almost craps themselves as it goes bang :)
Not ammonium iodide. Nitrogen Triiodide. Made with ammonia and potassium iodide. I used to play with that stuff a bunch lol. Purple smoke when it pops. VERY unstable dry. Must be handled wet.
The transition from 3d printing rockets to becoming a chemistry channel is definitely understandable, but still surprises me every time you post a new video
Instead of going down the "kinetic" road (for a detonation method). Take a skinny wire and make a short circuit with it. It'll be a (glow plug) when you are done. Use the "thermal" as your detonation method. That hammer destroyed the tomato as much as the Nitro did. A glow plug will give all the glory to the explosive.
Future video idea: make a solid fuel filament and extruder rocket. Build a combustion chamber into which you can extrude solid rocket fuel and more for variable engine performance with solid fuels.
Video idea "What about a transparent solid rocket engine? I've always wanted to see how that process goes. And I know if there's someone out there who can make it it's the borderline crazy (scientist?) engineer Integza"
0:08 the sulphoric acid activates the nitric acid making it nitronium ion. H2SO4 + HNO3 HSO4 - + H2NO3+ H2NO3+ H2O + NO2+ This nitronium ion is highly reactive and reactes with gylcerine making it the product we all love and care.
My father was a high school science teacher. He got his first job because his predecessor made a beaker of nitroglycerine and then became afraid. His plan was to put the beaker in the lab sink, then use a stick to tip over the beaker and pour it down the drain. The ensuing explosion blew the sink to pieces, blew a hole in the wall, and damaged most of the room. Then there's the thing that most people don't know/mention: many contaminates cause the nitroglycerine to become very sensitive or explode immediately. It's really bad stuff and why Alfred Nobel had the money to set up the Nobel Prize; he turned unstable nitroglycerine into relatively safe dynamite.
A Nitroglycerine powered, Orion type rocket, which uses a high temperature electric arc to detonate sequential drops of Nitroglycerine beneath a dome-shaped metal plate. This causes a cycle of shaped explosions, propelling the metal plate & its payload in the opposite direction at a great velocity.
I was interested in this and did some math. LOX has around 140MJ/kg while nitro gives me 25kJ/kg tops, not to mention it would be much less efficient so... :(
@@neithanm I didn't want to mention that the original Orion concept called for (vastly more powerful) nuclear explosives - just in case it gave @Integza ideas...
it's actually "precipitate", which means "to fall". As in "precipice" (in Portoguese "precipicio"), a steep or overhanging cliff. Can also mean to put something suddenly in motion, as in precipitating a chain of events.
People have done it with nitrocellulose, gun cotton. Nitrated cotton balls essentially. So most likely yes, however it'd need to be a dramatically small quantity to avoid severe over pressure failures. Gun barrels have fairly tight rating, albeit with a fair amount of giggle room as a safety precaution. I belive top recomended pressure for any given round is around 30% of what the chamber is rated for at max before failure. However some plus p and aftermarket hot rounds have been known to create catastrophic failures- look at Kentucky ballistics put a thumb in it situation. One drastically over powered round is enough to take the life of not only the gun but it's user. With something as hard to measure as nitroglycerin it'd be best to avoid it. Just the measurements being so drastically difficult to perfect would lead to catastrophe. Even self reloaders have to follow strict adherence to avoid said situations, going off strict adherence to the formulation of gunpowder then precise measurements of powder load. I like the idea, but the implementation would easily be leagues deadlier that just the making and handling of nitro. Another issue you have is combustion rate, most fuels used in firearms and the like are relatively slow and lead to consistent pressure in the chamber and casing, I could see NitroG having a pipeB like effect as the projectile limits the expansion capacity of the load causing severe isolated overpressure of the chamber, virtually quite literally making an instant stick grenade.
I suggest 3d printing a object and using the object as a mold in sand and pour melted aluminum or any other metal into the mold to turn the 3d printed mold into metal instead of plastic
*Video Idea: How about building a bike that is powered by a jet-driven flywheel with a clutch? Imagine riding a self-stabilizing bike powered by a rotating disc of fire* :D You could build up quite a bit of momentum, depending on the flywheel mass and then just drive off when it has enough energy stored. I don't know if it works the way I'm imagining, but you could also use the flywheel as a kind of gyroscope to stabilize the bike when it's stationary. So basically you can just get on, engage the clutch, ride off, and the bike will never fall over. YES, I know that's highly inefficient, but since when are we efficient? WE JUST WANNA SEE THE TOMATOES BURN MUHAHAHA ... and have fun doing so :D
That sounds so cool like a mechanical capacitor bike. But a massive flywheel mounted inches from my crotch would make me sweat bullets in practise i think
@Deyas786 I mean it is Integza after all ... he's not scared :D ... Nah, but I was thinking of mounting it either next to the front or rear wheel and if both don't work, just put it on the rack... and I never said he had to ride it xD although we all know he will
How about not jet driven? How about rotating detonation engine rocket driven? Cause then you don't need to spin up the flywheel. Once is gearing gearing would be a problem...
you definitely can make nitromethane with this stuff! its often used in a diluted form for small scale RC car engines, imagine trying to make your own one using all the wild 3d tech you have available, a small scaled rotary engine that works on nitromethane would be incredibly interesting to see, i also hope to see more chemistry related projects on your channel as its very interesting!
Use Nitroglycerin as fuel in jet engine, or in mortar mixed with different other solid fuels, or maybe in piston cylinder engine or you can make a tomato canon using this stuff because tomatoes are disgusting!
Video Idea: Dyson vacuums as hovercraft engines! How many to glide a person? Can we clean the living room and then zip to work on the same machine? Will it double as a giant air purifier? And, can we use it to play the most epic game of air hockey with ourselves as the puck? So many questions... my brain won't rest until we've sucked up all the answers!
0:10 if i remember, the h2so4 is to keep the liquid environment Pacific so the nitric acid can keep adding nitro groups. this is just my early video guess before watching to the end and not a criticism
I'm pretty glad you didn't nitrate ethylen glycol (turning to Ethylene glycol dinitrate). It's similar to nitroglycerine, only more powerful and far less stable, so if you do a test like you did there, the shockwaves (as you hear as sound) is sufficient to detonate the rest in the pipette or needle…
Well, nitroglycerine isn't very healthful neither. There have been countless accidents with it where people have lost limbs or their lives experimenting with it… @@Heroo01
New video idea!: What about doing something with tripropellant rockets? which use three types of propellants instead of the usual two. This could include a combination of solid, liquid, and/or hybrid propellants. I’d love to see what you’d come up with!
this is a terrible idea to propel projectiles you want relatively slow explosives to reduce the shock on the barrel and projectile. Meanwhile, nitroglicerine has a faster detonation velocity than TNT. This is just a recipe for a pipe bomb.
@@unnamed47 do it then, and win this year's darwin award nothing funnier than a piece of shrapnel lacerating your femoral artery right? kids these days holy hell
Video idea: Build a tomato sensing homing missile that automatically targets tomatoes. Maybe use some sort of red color detector and rocket thrusters on the sides of it. Love your videos Joel!
Commenting on the opening statement about not really knowing what the sulfuric acid is for: It helps stabilize the final product so it isn't as volatile and reduces accidental detonations.
@@Heroo01 jets are not meant to explode but they do carry explosive payloads and that's what I meant. Although I do think missile would be a better thing to say here. Thanks
@@DupontManualAcapella "Nitroglycerine ("soup") is the ultimate fuel. It has the fuel and oxidant built in. So using it, we can make a totally sealed internal combustion engine, one which does not take in air or spew out exhaust. But most of all, constructing and running a few millions of these engines will give us the necessary experience to handle the enormous energy density of helium inside fusion powered cars." - some guy on half bakery in 2002 lol sounds cool
That was awesome! I have heard about nitroglycerin my whole life and how the early minors would use it somehow in Dynamite. I know it was some combination of acids and glycerin but that definitely was very informative
Dynamite is nitroglycerin bounded in diatomaceous earth. Alfred Nobel actually invented this method to reduce the number of accidents related to mining and the transport of nitroglycerin. What he dont forsaw was that people would use his invention for bombs. He even refused treating his heart problems with nitroglycerin. He founded the Nobelprize out of regret for his invention. Talk
Video idea; perhaps you can try to mimic the thermal tiles which are also used in space travel. So you can use this knowledge in further videos to create nozzles and fuel housings for your engines.
Fun fact when you soaked the nitro into the papera you actually made it safer. Dynamite, when it was invented, was basically liquid nitroglycerin soaked into a medium that prevented it from spontaneously detonating.
As a chemist, I watched it with pleasure. If you tried the same process again with the nitroglycerin in the syringe, a much stronger explosion would occur twice as long. But I still watched the slow motions with my mouth open. great work thank you
It would be insanely funny for a future video if you made real combustible lemons from the Cave Johnson Portal 2 rant using nitroglycerin. Maybe exlude the burning houses down part of the rant though lol. My Family and I love watching your videos, keep the cool stuff up!
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I love the "im not saying don't do it just you saw what happened to that hotdog"
Perfect disclaimer point proven
You absolutely need to make a tiny stick of dynamite
Can you fuel a engine with this??
Hey integza, as a chemist, please dont put explosives in dangerous containers, i would reccomend a plastic syringe next time, or a very weak dropper. Explosives danger increases with their containers strength and fragmentation possibility. As for the video idea, as you are venturing into explosives, maybe you can try to make some interesting solid fuel rocket propellants? With different ratios of additives or primary oxidizers and fuel, maybe even a nitroglycerin rocket, where it is dissolved in a flammable liquid, with a stabiliser and a slower burning oxidiser. Would be dope!
Yeah I've learned from explosions and fire, it's very much acceptable to synthesize explosives in plastic cups
Relax
@DrGreerIsRight this is stuff that quickly makes you talked about in the past tense and when you are talking very sensitive energetic materials it gets even wor
@DrGreerIsRight this is stuff that quickly makes you talked about in the past tense and when you are talking very sensitive energetic materials it gets even worse
@@DrGreerIsRightfor once safety people have a point. He didn't say don't do it just how to do it safer. That said for results make sure whatever is in the plastic doesn't react to the plastic. I have sprung a leak one too many times.
7:02 - the way amateur chemists lose fingers. Explosion can spread to the syringe. I had an incident with 100mg of stuff, the sausage experiment describes it well. Nevertheless, I'm glad that you demystify this topic.
This,, holding a syringe of the stuff when you "know" it's going to go boom right next to it,,, very very Not recommended.
However,, it doesn't seem to be as volatile as the myths suggests, I have a bottle of the stuff in my pocket at all times, for the heart, and it's diluted with ethanol, and that seems to make it safe from going to the moon.
So i wonder,, is it only the temperature that makes it go boom?
Hitting it with a hammer probably produces a high localized temperature where it's compressed, and what others say about micro bubbles in the comments. so would it be less go-boom'y if it's cold?
@@lordsqueak The medicine contains only a few milligrams of NG, dilution makes it insensitive (no chain reaction, molecules too far apart). mixing with sorbent is a classic way to make dynamite. As far as I understand, sensitivity is determined by the fact that we need to transfer energy to several molecules (heating or mechanically) - sufficient for them to disintegrate, and then a chain reaction occurs (decomposition releases more energy sufficient to maintain the reaction, the speed of the reaction will make up the difference between detonation and deflagmation). In theory, the frozen substance is less sensitive (you need more energy to kick start reaction), but there are more convenient ways to desensitize stuff.
I'm literally person who lost 2 fingers by playing with nitroglycerine
I think you are right, I see a distinct possibility of the syringe contents detonating by sympathy. Given the quantity, I suspect the consequences could be more than lost fingers.
Did anyone else notice theres another clear liquid on the hot plate before he dropped the "nitroglycerin" on? It was already smoking and the fire lights up far away from the sizzling liquid.
Honestly, you should NEVER do anything as dangerous as eating a raw hot dog.
It was German, never fully waste a German hotdog
bro has never seen a safety data sheet in his life
😂 learn by experience so to speak❤
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I am literally having a brain wave rn, I had no idea nitroglycerin was that simple to make lmao. That is kinda scary, because I have worked with both nitric acid and sulphuric acid in large quantities in the past. Who knew I was a single chemical that exists in all the first aid kits in my house, away from detonating. This is a good TSA not to nitrate glycerol.
Did you ever have any potassium permanganate in your first aid kit next to the glycerine?
If you have some spare time make a little pile of KMnO4 crystals on a large fireproof metal or ceramic surface and put a single drop of glycerine on top as fuel. It will spontaneously ignite in about 15 minutes (depending on local conditions).
Starting a fire in a first aid kit used to be a popular form of arson because it looked like sloppy storage of the kit, until fire investigators got wise to it.
Yeah it's hella easy, but also that easy to hurt yourself or someone else
I mean acetone and peroxide are commonly stored in the beauty section of shops. There's quite a number of options for this kind of thing if you look.
Its the exact same procedure for gun cotton, and mostly the same for TNT. Nitration reactions are one of the easiest and that's why they are dangerous.
When you can do crazy stuff with limited knowledge and easy to access supplies, things can get out of hand really fast, because there's a blunted sense of danger.
Freudian slip lol? Did you mean to say *PSA?*
That scene in breaking bad wasn't nitroglycerine, it was mercury fulminate. You can make pretty much any heavy metal into a high explosive it's very fun.
Till they blow your house 😂
Make the nitroglycerine engine
Have you seen Explosions & Fire? He has made most of them (including gold, gotta be one of the most expensive explosives, gram for gram!) And I think Throwdowns or Pop Snappers use silver fulminate ( in microgram amounts).
@@bhekidlamini1199 that's why you make it at your friend's house
Mercury + nitric acid + ethanol
Fun fact: nitroglycerin's impact sensitivity is due to very small micro-bubbles in the liquid that collapse and heat up above the detonation temperature when you hit it. That's why mixing nitroglycerin with straw or diatomaceous Earth makes the more stable dynamite, because they eliminate the micro-bubbles!
Kieselguhr
That is what Alfre Nobel did with TNT, right? He used diatomaceous earth to create dynamite?
Oh wow no shit. I knew cavitation collapse was strong but I didn't realize it was that strong. That's fucking cool lol I really had no idea
I guess another fun fact is that after this process is done, the nitroglycerin can leak back out and become extremely dangerous
@@JohnDahleALyea diatomaceous earth and clay iirc maybe quartz.
@@JohnDahleALyeah, but dynamite and TNT are two different things. TNT was invented by another guy in the mid 1800s, it stands for trinitrotoluene
Nitroglycerin works really well for miniature ball-bearing cannon. I made one when I was 15 and I was able to launch ball-bearings across a football field. It was hugely entertaining to play games experimenting with angles and accuracy. Simple get a narrow metal tube. Cap one end of the tube. Soak a cotton ball in cold nitroglycerin. Gently insert the cotton ball into the open end of the tube pushing the ball-bearing in after the cotton ball. Once they are at the end of the tube snuggly against the capped end of the tube all you have to do is aim it then smack the cap with a hammer. I made an aiming mount and a spring loaded hammer in case anything went wrong. Always wear ear protection and have a blast feeling like a cannon wizard.
Made some nitroglycerin in my room when I was in high school, and I made the mistake of touching a drop with my bare fingers. What ensued after a few minutes was the worst migraine I have ever experienced. It turns out that nitroglycerin is used in medicin as a vasodilator and a side effect is headaches. A fascinating molecule.
Very much indeed. I believe EMS can use it on people having heart attacks to lower the blood pressure.
@@aceslater5265EMS, as well as hospitals, gives it in heart attacks because it’s vasodilative effects help to improve blood flow to the coronary arteries, lowered blood pressure is just a side effect of that dilation. However, for congestive heart failure nitroglycerin is administered at higher doses for that antihypertensive effect as well as to reduce the amount of volume coming back into the heart to help the heart pump more efficiently.
There was a leading chemist in the field of explosives.
Him having a weak heart was already funny.
Him getting it treated with nitroglycerin made it hilarious.
bruh he said that, did you watch the video
@@Heroo01right?
I love how this channel has evolved. It went from small 3d prints that would routinely melt. To building confidence in metalworking, to chemistry. Flawless
I remember finding the basic procedure for making nitroglycerin in an old Encyclopedia as a kid; which shows how old I am. It was something I always wanted to play with just to see how powerful it really is; you just satisfied a 30 year old curiosity. Pretty sure this is exactly what I would do with it if I had some. I love how it looks like its cleaning the vice by blowing away all the dirt and oxides. For real fun, I recall in chemistry class our teacher once put nitroglycerin on the board, wrote down the decomposition products, said "it started as 1 molecule of liquid, now its 6 molecules of gas, what is the pressure change in a fixed volume? (a lot, the answer is a lot)
The old Jules Verne's "From the Earth to the Moon" has the recipe for
"guncotton", which is nearly the same thing. Old books gave the recipe, and trusted kids wouldn't blow themselves to
smithereens. Good ol' times.
Nitrocellulose doesn't detonate in ambient pressure nearly as easily as nitroglycerin does@@miguel1996loyola
@@miguel1996loyola And not only are you generating six molecules from one, but also a whole lot of heat, causing further expansion.
I found the original process of making nitroglycerin in my high-school's encyclopedia. It also said that that method was dangerous, and that newer, safer methods had been devised, although it didn't explain them any further than that. It did go into very fine detail about the first process, though.
It's incredible, the less-than-legal knowledge that you can find in your school library!
@@TruncateBat There is nothing less than legal about knowledge. The very idea of protecting people by hiding information is both factually and morally wrong.
Dad use to do stump blasting when was a farmer and as a land developer. Using gelignite his safety procedures leave a lot to be desired. So when cleaning out the shed I found a plastic bag of sweaty gelignite, now that liquid I knew was nitroglycerin so I was worried. Dad said just put in a bucket of water and it brakes down. Next day we berried it. It's true you can get tingling feeling from handling it also from mixing nitropile and diesel. They now coat the nitrate fertiliser so it can't be used in explosives. This was 30 years ago.
Back in HS an old army farmer in OR told me about making it to blast stumps. Nicest guy ever RIP
* breaks down
* buried
Video idea: building a small scale wind tunnel and fundamentals of aerodynamics. Love your videos :D
No, more booms. Fuck this bot
@luismanueldiasrodrigues2824 Well. Somewhat decent beginner 3D printers (like Ender) cost pretty much the same as 1000 likes (around 100 quid). Frankly, he could just straight out buy one and at least be sure he actually gets it.
I think Integza has to find another way of evaluating the coments, because likes make it a bit too easy to cheat.
@luismanueldiasrodrigues2824 Yup, he used bots...
waiting for the printer??
Your Nitroglycerin is 'wet' you can tell by the cloudy color of the NG. This can be fixed by by using a desiccant to absorb the water from the NG, this will result in more brisance and higher purity.
It also needs washing to remove the Na+ ions that are clearly still present (look at the flame colour when he ignites it).
...it's probably better for him like that xD
I wonder how big an explosion the vial of 12-15mg would have made.... anything left of the studio?
The sulfuric acid is for dehydration. When nitric acid reacts with somthing like glycerine it forms water along with your main product nitroglycerin. The water could slow down the nitration and sulfuric acid deals with that. It also helps to prevent a runaway nitration wich could be dangerous when dealing with explosive material.
Thanks for the explanation. Makes sense.
You can soak cotton balls in what you have left and essentially create cordite which was an early alternative to conventional black powder making a smokeless alternative to early munitions.
Also called 'guncotton'
A fun fact: I have a reprint of an old German fireworks book. There are some very old descriptions in which the authors nitraded organic substances - 400 years ago - and loaded the products into cannons....
Love how it slowly cleans the vise
it?
@@vascoespiritosantogueifao5193 the explosion
Glad I got to watch this before it gets taken down!
Yeah angry parents will report aka safety Karens😂
@@bhekidlamini1199 no, people who actually enjoy chemistry and know that these kinds of video backfire very hard in terms of restrictions and negative publicity for the hobby.
You'd be surprised what they teach you in highschool chemistry and post secondary education...
@@SupraSav This reminds me of the CodysLab videos that were taken down. Like how to make Saltpeter using gallons of piss he saved up.
@@madatpaperboy8071they took that down that’s silly.
This feels illegal
You could make dynamite with nitroglicerin :)))))
@@Riccardo-ge7buit's not.
Yeah
This feels fun!
@@breadboi420en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamite
Video idea: How about a video on the science behind fireworks? Exploring how they’re made, the chemistry for colors, and safety tips. Could be a blast! Maybe mix in a little nitroglycerin now that it’s laying around, or take what you learn and make some colorful throwing popits!!!
Fireworks are supposed to be pretty they are not supposed to shatter windows a mile away 😂😂
10/10 youtube tutorial. Very intuitive and easy to follow.
There was a guy who used to do these type of videos. Once he made nitroglycerin and hammered an DROP on an anvil and lost a nail when the hammer fly away. He removed the video lol
How easy to follow was it? Did you do it?
Video idea "DIY mini rocket launcher from household items". Bonus if it uses nitroglycerin ahahaha. No idea if this is remotely feasible, but well, I'm no rocket scientist, we leave the rockets to you!
Keep up the good work Joel :)
NASA might dislike that
@@Dr52545 and so will his country's department of air defence 🤣🤣🤣
Maybe injected is small pulses/drops in a high pressure chamber to get pulsed detonation
DIY killdozer
detonation kills rockets engines. Rockets use deflagration then convert the energy to supersonic with geometry but does make a good fuel additive in viscous fuels lighter fuels it has a tendency to float on if you get it really pure it'll be waxy and yellow :).
Now that you have shown us you are comfortable with handling explosives, it would be cool to see a video comparing different hypergolic fuel mixtures
@@markmiles593 why stop at trifluoride? pentafluoride's where it's at!
@@markmiles593 how do they know lol?
Do you think they tried it with *ALL* elements?
“Ah yes, einsteinium also explodes. Very informative.”
@@markmiles593 makes sense
I have no comeback to this lmao
We obtain approximately the same reactions with acetone peroxide except for the inflammation which is explosive unlike nitro. On a hot plate the perox detonates or evaporates depending on the temperature.
From years with working with things that make really loud booms, you should double up your hearing protection. Wear both earplugs and earmuffs. And get better earmuffs. Once you damage your hearing, it's not coming back.
Awesome video. Should have folded a sheet of paper, added the spicy sauce, then tested it next to the tomato.
Video idea: build a solar and water powered rocket engine which splits the water into hydrogen and oxygen using electrolysis using the energy from the solarpanels (but converted to a really high voltage). The H and O is then stored in tanks and after a few hours of the electrolysis you can start the engine and have made a completely "clean" rocket engine!
That slow ignition burn makes sense as to why it's used in double base propellants. Slower burn time + bottlenecked chamber = big bark from a barrel.
It'll experience an unplanned rapid disassembly
Nitro was originally sold as lamp oil.
@@matrim1762 Nitroglycerine is still a minor component of modern propellant mixtures. Perfectly safe in modern firearms.
It was actually used to slow the burn rate as single base propellant was too hot at the time
I started reading chemistry books at the age of 8. My mom allowed me to buy everything I needed in her name. She gave me her ID card, and I ordered everything I wanted - including nitric acid, sulfuric acid, and glycine. When I was 13, I made nitroglycerin, with my first two attempts failing because I didn't use proper cooling. My third attempt, however, was successful. I filled the substance into small glass tubes, shot them against a wall with a slingshot, and placed it on a sheet of paper to test if it burned as quickly as I expected. Luckily (!), it didn't explode at all, and because it burned so slowly, I assumed something had gone wrong. Thanks to my ADD, I quickly lost interest and switched to another hobby... This could have ended horribly wrong.
Video idea: "Jet Engine that runs on Nitroglycerin". I'm not sure if this can work but ur next project should definitely use nitroglycerin, its so fun LMAO, I'm not a rocket scientist, you sure seem like you are hahaha.
Keep up the fun videos Integza
Wait this actually sounds good 😭😭
You technically made dynamite by putting it on paper. Dynamite was nitroglycerin mixed with wood shavings lol
Imagine
@@alim5752lol i know i kept thinking about it for a week lol
another comment with likes screwed up by bots, 4k likes in an hour, it’s funny how much you get fired up
the sulphuric acid is a catalyst and helps create the electrophile NO2+ (a level chemistry coming in clutch)
I used to work on a mine that used "anfo" to split rock and ledges to process the limestone. That would be a good follow up to this one, as it's a more controllable substance that's powerful enough to be used for industrial processes.
the problem with anf... is it is ILLEGAL (at least in the US) for him to mix without a license, a permit, and a very VERY specifically built containment system to mix it in. even BUYING the ingredients is HEAVILY regulated. if BATFE sees him making this tiny amount of nitro... they would shake their heads and grumble... maybe send TH-cam a bit of a nastygram email... and him too... if they see him making anf? somebody's calling a judge for a warrant and he's getting raided. Oklahoma City and the first attempt at WTC both used anf and the US Feds are verrrrrry leery of anybody ever trying that kinda stuff ever again.
Anfo is unique in that its explosive force is actually dependent on the strength of the charge used at initiation. Anfo, on its own is incredibly hard (nearly impossible) to set off without an initiating primer. (Hence why it's categorized as non cap sensitive)
Also, you could use just straight nitroglycerin in a mine setting, and achieve the same results as Anfo, but Anfo is a fraction of the price, that's why we use it.
I worked in zinc mining and we used anfo as well. Used green det-cord to ignite
Anfo is safe as houses to use, and is especially good for rock as its classed as a "pushing" explosive... longer pressures. My uncle worked on the Victorian Railway in Australia. He lost half his arm walking 3 sticks of sweating gelignite and a few sus dets out to the burner dump. This was in the 60s. The old skool blasters were brave but crazy blokes. And those older than 30 were safe. Those older than 50 were very wise men. Lol
He also worked for a company making sounding rocket engines for Woomera, and ended up there contracting after the bomb tests, burying equipment etc, while driving a radioactive bulldozer, and cooking on a radioactive pot-belly stove that was in a blast test house. There wasn't anything else to use. He described how things went. He died of cancers and with no acknowledgement from the military or their contractors. The clouds from one or 2 bombs went straight over the east coast. Canberra, Sydney.... Governments aren't looking after us sadly.
If I had to guess what's going on chemically, the glycerin when mixed with the nitrogen bath takes on both sulfur and nitrogen, both of which are fairly reactive, and glycérine works as an oxidizing catalyst, so when sulfurs reaction is sped up by the nitrogen and the Oxygen, big boom, small time
You should make a video covering shaped charges! You cover a number of explosive and detonation related concepts, it would be cool to see some content covering how focusing that energy works.
You should keep the sulfuric acid in the ice bath as you add the nitric acid (slowly) to keep the solution cool, as the sulfuric acid gets hot as it dehydrates the water in the nitric acid. Most chemists that make nitration solutions will refrigerate their acids the night before they make their nitration solution so they start with the coolest temps possible.
A couple of ideas:
1. Nitrating tomato sauce and using it as rocket fuel
2. Mix nitroglycerin (also maybe a little diatomaceous earth for stability as another user said) into 3d printing resin and 3d print rocket stuff.
On ifea number 2: I think that may cause problems, seeing as nitroglycerin is not exactly heat stable and as the filament must be heated to be deposited onto the print.
@@benbravis1908 no resin printing is liquid cured by light, you're thinking of fdm 3d printing
Idea 2 is literally dynamite. Maybe don’t try that at home
i wouldn't call it dynamite but i wouldnt be playing with that shit at all. Its is not used anymore for REASONS we can obviously think of. Good luck storing this shit@@Natediggetydog
Mmm lovely plastic explosives
Sulfuric acid is a dehydrating agent kind of. Sulfuric acid is known for its dehydrating properties. It catalyses the reaction. During the reaction water molecules are split off from the glycerin and replaced by the nitro groups.
I'm 99% convinced you're on some Europol watchlist with this one
😂😂
Between the various rocket propellants I'm sure they have a nice fat file on him.
Especially the Italian branches of Europol based on his hate crimes against Tomato's 🍅🔨😂
interpol, europol, does that exist?
You know codys lab hat to remove a video of him refining uranium. this is kinda getting to that level xD
He's probably on every watch list.
make a rocket powered rc car
nice botted comment -_-
@@omgdodogamer4759how can you tell?
15 hours, basic suggestion, 1.3K likes. In it for the 3D printer I assume@@stinkyvonfishstix4196
did you buy them for me or why the false accusation i just have many followers who i told to like my comment
@@omgdodogamer4759
not bots were just his friends he sent us
In the Netherlands they call your Detonator 3000 a ‘klaphamer’ and it is a tradition to use it at New Year.
4:42 That's probably all that nitroglycerin that got on your skin from the splash of the previous attempts to make it explode idk.
Would be interested in seeing a video about nitrating weird things for solid rocket fuel, Charcoal, sawdust, sundried tomato?..... Could you nitrate thermite?
Not thermite I don't think. Sawdust and tomato are interesting though
It has to have fibers to nitrate
Sounds like the kinda thing to mate with nitrous oxide for a hybrid. This video made me think of explosive bolts for staging.
Didn't explosions&fire already do that?
nitrate coconut husk
Rocket powered nerf gun with darts filled with nitroglycerin
That would make nerf battles a little more exciting.. 😅🤣
Exactly what I was thinking 😅😅😅
You mean a firearm?
nitroglycerin soaked nerf dart 😂
@@ChrisD__ yes I do
We made something in high school chemistry that detonated under just the slightest pressure. The teacher splattered little droplets all over the concrete outside the chem lab and we watched students freak out as they walk over it, and it exploded under their feet.
Life was different in the 90's
That sounds like Nitrogen Triiodide.
Yep nitrogen triiodide. Fun stuff, and not really dangerous. Best used on toilet seats. :)
@@stamasd8500purple butts
nitroglycerin is also used for heart medication.
it might also be useful to help drive nails into concrete or masonry walls.
You could try making a Shape-Memory Alloy Engine.
Is really cool how they work, not with explosions but with their shapes changing.
I'm a simple man, I'd love to see a Tomato launched via a Nitroglycerin rocket of some sort.
Sorry for ruining your dream but its not posible, for a rocket you need defragration not detonation. You will explode rocket fuel tank before going somewhere.
@@septemberalpha3639 Yes sort of! But lets not forget one crazy scientist once dreamed up a ship to launch into space, with higher payload and crew capacity than anything we can do today, that you just had to detonate a handful of A Bombs under it to get into space.
Apparently it was completely feasible to build, would be more fuel efficient then current methods, but the radiation....
@@gmailisaretardjust it wouldn’t really count as a rocket, more of a very very large bullet
Hello, Intergza . This is Fidel from Kenya. My suggestion is that you try to experiment with recyclable filament.
To go along with the theme of this video, back in highschool, the first week of school, my chemistry teacher made a substance called ammonium iodide, that he would flick along the steps by his classroom, all the juniors and seniors would line the side of the steps so everyone had to walk so they could enjoy the show. Apparently once it's dry, it's so sensitive that a feather was suppose to be able to set it off, that being said, I've never seen the feather test, only enjoyed the freaked out faces of lower classmen startled by invisible snap and pops that they stepped on. Have fun!
@integzaYt Glad I was able to support for future content ideas, looking forward to seeing it 😁
You also get tiny little puffs of purple smoke emitted too - which just makes it even more fun. The only slight "meh" is that until it dries, the smell of the ammonia can be a bit strong. Good on gravel too - as it doesn't all go off at once - and long after you think it has all gone - someone else walks on it and almost craps themselves as it goes bang :)
Not ammonium iodide. Nitrogen Triiodide. Made with ammonia and potassium iodide. I used to play with that stuff a bunch lol. Purple smoke when it pops. VERY unstable dry. Must be handled wet.
"Yup, there's sausage on the lens" Oh Joel, oh Joel. lol. Great video my Portugalian friend.
Hello from US! Ignoring the sausage for a moment, I wonder if this could be used, in diluted form, to make a powerful propellent? Let's do it 😁💯
You can add chemical stabilisants to make some advanced already existing explosive or a new one.@@jameslynch8738
I just noticed Portugal from the hot dogs from continente
The transition from 3d printing rockets to becoming a chemistry channel is definitely understandable, but still surprises me every time you post a new video
I think a good TH-cam short would be showing all the different type of jet engines and other engines you’ve made in talk about their efficiency
Instead of going down the "kinetic" road (for a detonation method). Take a skinny wire and make a short circuit with it. It'll be a (glow plug) when you are done. Use the "thermal" as your detonation method. That hammer destroyed the tomato as much as the Nitro did. A glow plug will give all the glory to the explosive.
Future video idea: make a solid fuel filament and extruder rocket.
Build a combustion chamber into which you can extrude solid rocket fuel and more for variable engine performance with solid fuels.
The sound of pure excitement coming from you when you took out that tomato was priceless lmfao
jeah, maybe he should build an missile/ rocket packing a nitroglycerin warhead, or an deuterium fusor, like plasma channel, i would LOVE to see that
plus i want 3d printer
Video idea "What about a transparent solid rocket engine? I've always wanted to see how that process goes. And I know if there's someone out there who can make it it's the borderline crazy (scientist?) engineer Integza"
didnt he already do this?
0:08 the sulphoric acid activates the nitric acid making it nitronium ion.
H2SO4 + HNO3 HSO4 - + H2NO3+
H2NO3+ H2O + NO2+
This nitronium ion is highly reactive and reactes with gylcerine making it the product we all love and care.
My father was a high school science teacher. He got his first job because his predecessor made a beaker of nitroglycerine and then became afraid. His plan was to put the beaker in the lab sink, then use a stick to tip over the beaker and pour it down the drain. The ensuing explosion blew the sink to pieces, blew a hole in the wall, and damaged most of the room. Then there's the thing that most people don't know/mention: many contaminates cause the nitroglycerine to become very sensitive or explode immediately. It's really bad stuff and why Alfred Nobel had the money to set up the Nobel Prize; he turned unstable nitroglycerine into relatively safe dynamite.
Old dynamite "sweats". The sweat is pure nitroglycerine.
Video idea: Make a self guiding tomato missile with the nitroglycerin
A Nitroglycerine powered, Orion type rocket, which uses a high temperature electric arc to detonate sequential drops of Nitroglycerine beneath a dome-shaped metal plate. This causes a cycle of shaped explosions, propelling the metal plate & its payload in the opposite direction at a great velocity.
Doesn't sound dangerous in the slightest
I was interested in this and did some math. LOX has around 140MJ/kg while nitro gives me 25kJ/kg tops, not to mention it would be much less efficient so... :(
@@neithanm I didn't want to mention that the original Orion concept called for (vastly more powerful) nuclear explosives - just in case it gave @Integza ideas...
it's actually "precipitate", which means "to fall". As in "precipice" (in Portoguese "precipicio"), a steep or overhanging cliff. Can also mean to put something suddenly in motion, as in precipitating a chain of events.
It means head first or headlong, though, from praeceps (prae: before, ceps/caput: head)
Make a nitroglycerin powered nerf gun🔥🔥🔥
OMG yes ! NERF darts with nitro paper on the end of the dart
@@craigr6186 I dont think the dart is gonna survive this unfortunately
The nitro meant to be the propeller, not the payload.
Or both, if you want to set it complicate.@@craigr6186
Just nitrate the dart itself and have a small flame at the end of the gun to ignite it
@@charliegarrison9688 thats a good idea but it will be cool to see a gun where the nitroglycerin explosion will shoot the dart
Video idea: Load a gun cartridge with nitroglycerin and test if you can ignite it with the primer cap or if the hammer action is enough.
People have done it with nitrocellulose, gun cotton. Nitrated cotton balls essentially. So most likely yes, however it'd need to be a dramatically small quantity to avoid severe over pressure failures. Gun barrels have fairly tight rating, albeit with a fair amount of giggle room as a safety precaution. I belive top recomended pressure for any given round is around 30% of what the chamber is rated for at max before failure. However some plus p and aftermarket hot rounds have been known to create catastrophic failures- look at Kentucky ballistics put a thumb in it situation. One drastically over powered round is enough to take the life of not only the gun but it's user. With something as hard to measure as nitroglycerin it'd be best to avoid it. Just the measurements being so drastically difficult to perfect would lead to catastrophe. Even self reloaders have to follow strict adherence to avoid said situations, going off strict adherence to the formulation of gunpowder then precise measurements of powder load. I like the idea, but the implementation would easily be leagues deadlier that just the making and handling of nitro. Another issue you have is combustion rate, most fuels used in firearms and the like are relatively slow and lead to consistent pressure in the chamber and casing, I could see NitroG having a pipeB like effect as the projectile limits the expansion capacity of the load causing severe isolated overpressure of the chamber, virtually quite literally making an instant stick grenade.
I suggest 3d printing a object and using the object as a mold in sand and pour melted aluminum or any other metal into the mold to turn the 3d printed mold into metal instead of plastic
It’s called “lost wax casting”.
*Video Idea: How about building a bike that is powered by a jet-driven flywheel with a clutch? Imagine riding a self-stabilizing bike powered by a rotating disc of fire* :D
You could build up quite a bit of momentum, depending on the flywheel mass and then just drive off when it has enough energy stored. I don't know if it works the way I'm imagining, but you could also use the flywheel as a kind of gyroscope to stabilize the bike when it's stationary. So basically you can just get on, engage the clutch, ride off, and the bike will never fall over. YES, I know that's highly inefficient, but since when are we efficient? WE JUST WANNA SEE THE TOMATOES BURN MUHAHAHA ... and have fun doing so :D
That sounds so cool like a mechanical capacitor bike. But a massive flywheel mounted inches from my crotch would make me sweat bullets in practise i think
Im not sure if you are aware but tom stanton made a flywheel bike of a similar function, just without the jet.
@Deyas786 I mean it is Integza after all ... he's not scared :D ... Nah, but I was thinking of mounting it either next to the front or rear wheel and if both don't work, just put it on the rack... and I never said he had to ride it xD although we all know he will
@@ARockyRock no i wasnt, but I mean flywheels exist for a looong time .. but the jet part makes it interesting :D I mean his channel is all about jets
How about not jet driven? How about rotating detonation engine rocket driven? Cause then you don't need to spin up the flywheel. Once is gearing gearing would be a problem...
you definitely can make nitromethane with this stuff! its often used in a diluted form for small scale RC car engines, imagine trying to make your own one using all the wild 3d tech you have available, a small scaled rotary engine that works on nitromethane would be incredibly interesting to see, i also hope to see more chemistry related projects on your channel as its very interesting!
Use Nitroglycerin as fuel in jet engine, or in mortar mixed with different other solid fuels, or maybe in piston cylinder engine or you can make a tomato canon using this stuff because tomatoes are disgusting!
Not a bad idea 💡
Rocket engine
@@ArkhamHedleryeah Rocket engine
3:55 the forbidden tab of acid
Video Idea: Dyson vacuums as hovercraft engines! How many to glide a person? Can we clean the living room and then zip to work on the same machine? Will it double as a giant air purifier? And, can we use it to play the most epic game of air hockey with ourselves as the puck? So many questions... my brain won't rest until we've sucked up all the answers!
I feel like that would be inhibitively expensive
I love seeing Gru making weapons to destroy his enemies.
Next you should make a hydrogen rocket. And a way to extract hydrogen from water.
Ok, then why not to make spaceshot rocket(rocket, that flies above 100km)?
@@Neonyx11-vz3fd Every rocket made for a vacuum is a spaceshot rocket by your definition. Any rocket that propels mass will work in a vacuum.
0:10 if i remember, the h2so4 is to keep the liquid environment Pacific so the nitric acid can keep adding nitro groups. this is just my early video guess before watching to the end and not a criticism
My guess is that it'll rip the H2O off of the HNO3, leaving the NO to bond to the glycerine to make nitroglycerine.
Thanks for the tutorial really helps keep my infant son quiet😊
Next video idea: Nitroglycerin-powered engine. It would be sooo amazing
That would be one hell of a lawsuit too! :D
Lol it would be a blast, literally
Nitroglycerin is pretty much already a fuel and an oxizider mixed together. If your storage tank ever goes above 200°C people will actually die.
I think it would be fun to see all the fun stuff that the nitration bath can pull off
precipitate - 2:36 percipitate is such a strange word, because you invented it. 😋
keep up the good work!
you can make a rail gun which has more destructive power without gunpowder and bullet , it only needs some copperwire and electricity
I'm pretty glad you didn't nitrate ethylen glycol (turning to Ethylene glycol dinitrate). It's similar to nitroglycerine, only more powerful and far less stable, so if you do a test like you did there, the shockwaves (as you hear as sound) is sufficient to detonate the rest in the pipette or needle…
probably why he didnt lmao. why bring it up and tell everyone here how to make it though??
Well, nitroglycerine isn't very healthful neither. There have been countless accidents with it where people have lost limbs or their lives experimenting with it… @@Heroo01
I advise everyone to look up the EGDN story on sciencemadness before doing it
i would love to see a integza x colin furze colab where you put jet engines on random things!! dream come true
Yes please!
dude, THATS a killer idea! add explosives and punk music, awesome. ❤
New video idea!: What about doing something with tripropellant rockets? which use three types of propellants instead of the usual two. This could include a combination of solid, liquid, and/or hybrid propellants. I’d love to see what you’d come up with!
Sounds neat, but what is the purpose or practical application of a tripropellant rocket? Other than just being cool?
I'm going to use this for all my extracurricular activities thanks man
My mum : whatya cooking
Me :oh nothing just some nitroglycerin
My mom :ok then take care❤
You should make a mortar with nitroglycerine. It could launch tomatoes.
this is a terrible idea
to propel projectiles you want relatively slow explosives to reduce the shock on the barrel and projectile. Meanwhile, nitroglicerine has a faster detonation velocity than TNT.
This is just a recipe for a pipe bomb.
@@unnamed47 do it then, and win this year's darwin award
nothing funnier than a piece of shrapnel lacerating your femoral artery right? kids these days holy hell
Tomatoes filled with nitroglycerin.
You said it for me. :)@@ArkhamHedler
Video idea: Build a tomato sensing homing missile that automatically targets tomatoes. Maybe use some sort of red color detector and rocket thrusters on the sides of it. Love your videos Joel!
I think Michael Reeves once tried that. Pretty quickly, he realised that a machine that attacks red would also be attacking blood
Commenting on the opening statement about not really knowing what the sulfuric acid is for: It helps stabilize the final product so it isn't as volatile and reduces accidental detonations.
Dude's getting dangerously closer to making a jet including the explosive payloads.
you mean a missile? jets aren't supposed to explode lmao; they absolutely do not have any nitroglycerin on board
@@Heroo01 jets are not meant to explode but they do carry explosive payloads and that's what I meant. Although I do think missile would be a better thing to say here. Thanks
Video idea: Make an HHO generator and launch rockets with it
EDIT: HHO is Hydrogen and Oxygen, a very powerful gas explosive
thats really cool
good idea
i love this idea
i think you should try and use very small amounts of nitroglycerin as fuel for an internal combustion engine
Wait! I read that you might be able to completely seal that with no exhaust but maybe that was a lie.
@@DupontManualAcapella "Nitroglycerine ("soup") is the ultimate fuel. It has the fuel and oxidant built in. So using it, we can make a totally sealed internal combustion engine, one which does not take in air or spew out exhaust.
But most of all, constructing and running a few millions of these engines will give us the necessary experience to handle the enormous energy density of helium inside fusion powered cars."
- some guy on half bakery in 2002 lol
sounds cool
Sulfuric acid is used to create the nitro from nitric acid for nitroglycerin
That was awesome! I have heard about nitroglycerin my whole life and how the early minors would use it somehow in Dynamite. I know it was some combination of acids and glycerin but that definitely was very informative
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Dynamite is nitroglycerin bounded in diatomaceous earth. Alfred Nobel actually invented this method to reduce the number of accidents related to mining and the transport of nitroglycerin. What he dont forsaw was that people would use his invention for bombs. He even refused treating his heart problems with nitroglycerin. He founded the Nobelprize out of regret for his invention.
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Video idea; perhaps you can try to mimic the thermal tiles which are also used in space travel. So you can use this knowledge in further videos to create nozzles and fuel housings for your engines.
Breaking Taps did this recently.
m.th-cam.com/video/SI7mpjHGiFU/w-d-xo.html
Perfect time to upload this, i needed it
that sounds suspicious 😅
Tell me where u live so I won't be hanging around there.
Neutralise with potassium permanganate for added surprise
In the next video try using nitrated cotton as rocket fuel
Fun fact when you soaked the nitro into the papera you actually made it safer. Dynamite, when it was invented, was basically liquid nitroglycerin soaked into a medium that prevented it from spontaneously detonating.
Did you know that nitroglycerin was also used in rockets? Maybe you could try that (or any other composite propelant)
As a chemist, I watched it with pleasure. If you tried the same process again with the nitroglycerin in the syringe, a much stronger explosion would occur twice as long. But I still watched the slow motions with my mouth open. great work thank you
Video idea: Since you already have nitroglycerin and a 3d printer, make a mini cannon. A few drops should shoot a 3d printer ball quite far.
The nitro would vaporize your cannon ball and probably most of your small cannon too
It would be insanely funny for a future video if you made real combustible lemons from the Cave Johnson Portal 2 rant using nitroglycerin. Maybe exlude the burning houses down part of the rant though lol.
My Family and I love watching your videos, keep the cool stuff up!
Heck yeah new integza video
I propose a Fusion containment Engine for a rocket/missile that has a ping pong ball full of Nitro-glycerine on the tip targeting a create of tomatoes