Recreating Old Alchemy Explosives

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 มิ.ย. 2024
  • We dig up some alchemy texts and make some chemicals that were the first of their type in the universe. And they're a bit frightening honestly. Subreddit: / explosionsandfire
    Patreon: / explosionsandfire
    Second Channel: / @extractionsandire
    Discord: / discord
    Twitter: / explosions_fire
    Here is a really good paper about the history and science of fulminating gold and silver! Lots more information than I could fit into one video: doi.org/10.1002/anie.201906356
    Now for the Patreon list of cool people! Look how cool they are. All in single file, like the cool people they are. No group presentations this video, but also, no friends? Ah, who needs friends when you're this cool:
    Jtk08
    Mark Hartsteen
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    Woah that took some scrolling, how cool is that.
    oh and some special messages from some extra special people! (which will continue to grow as I keep remembering to message people on Patreon oops):
    "Guess that's a fuc*in zero then"
    -Explosions&Memes
    wear your fu*king masks
    cat
    Also do we need some bonus content?? Some ''B-side materialll??"" if you will? ye cool what about this this is content? : • attempting to doing th...

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  • @punkey0
    @punkey0 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4582

    next video: *who* is an explosive, where Tom walks around hitting people with a hammer

    • @ExplosionsAndFire
      @ExplosionsAndFire  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1181

      You can never tell!!!

    • @PMVault
      @PMVault 3 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      I’m crying 😂

    • @kenny5676
      @kenny5676 3 ปีที่แล้ว +182

      He can try hit people but he'll miss half the time

    • @PMVault
      @PMVault 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Kenny That’s a risk he’ll have to take

    • @e2rqey
      @e2rqey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      For some reason he avoids Asian people................🤔

  • @AlexBesogonov
    @AlexBesogonov 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8268

    Be careful. Your videos are getting dangerously educational. A bit more and you might become a legitimate educational channel.

    • @Brokkoli7hun
      @Brokkoli7hun 3 ปีที่แล้ว +518

      *and get demonitized.

    • @theSILKROAD210
      @theSILKROAD210 3 ปีที่แล้ว +456

      NileRed has a bad influence on him...

    • @ExplosionsAndFire
      @ExplosionsAndFire  3 ปีที่แล้ว +3737

      I sincerely apologise to anyone who may have learnt something in this video. That was not my intention and I didn't mean it, I swear

    • @fubar55676
      @fubar55676 3 ปีที่แล้ว +216

      @@ExplosionsAndFire I blame you for giving me all this knowledge that I forget stuff like passwords I hope you're proud of yourself

    • @thescout6063
      @thescout6063 3 ปีที่แล้ว +191

      Explosions&Fire I expect an unfocused, snot-filled and teary-eyed apology video filmed in front of a white background

  • @marshmallowblaster
    @marshmallowblaster ปีที่แล้ว +1326

    You know you're reading an old paper when it discusses the *taste of mercury salts*

    • @FleshWizard69420
      @FleshWizard69420 ปีที่แล้ว +88

      I do love my steak with mercury salt😋

    • @Mister_Clean
      @Mister_Clean ปีที่แล้ว +54

      I have no idea how our ancestors survived to pass on their knowledge.

    • @josephdavison4189
      @josephdavison4189 ปีที่แล้ว +107

      @@Mister_Clean step 1:
      Don’t die of the plague at the age of 3
      Step 2:
      Marry at the age of 13
      Step 3:
      have babys at like 19 (preferably 6 or so)
      Step 4:
      spend the rest of your life (30 years) doing insane crap until you die of a disease people didn’t know exist

    • @texivani
      @texivani ปีที่แล้ว +20

      ​@@josephdavison4189 oh my god they were actually geniuses

    • @buggsy5
      @buggsy5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Look up calomel as a medical treatment. It was used until the mid 1900's for teething problems in children, even though the harmful side effects were well known long before that. Any taste from a dose of calomel would be due to impurities, not the compound itself.

  • @xm-1-24-b4
    @xm-1-24-b4 3 ปีที่แล้ว +448

    As an engineer, everything you chemists do seems like devil magic

    • @andrewmcreynolds3692
      @andrewmcreynolds3692 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      And then some of us want to engineer the devil magic.

    • @lanceadams5107
      @lanceadams5107 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      @@andrewmcreynolds3692 dummy, engines dont have ears

    • @robwoodring9437
      @robwoodring9437 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      To paraphrase The Martian: "chemistry on paper is neat & tidy math. Chemistry in the real world is a sloppy bitch"

    • @runed0s86
      @runed0s86 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's microscopic engineering

    • @FleshWizard69420
      @FleshWizard69420 ปีที่แล้ว

      To be fair, Mercury is some evil shit. Especially when it's Dimethylmercury

  • @bwub1
    @bwub1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3281

    As a guy who did his PhD in plasmonics, I can confirm, it's probably ghosts

    • @ExplosionsAndFire
      @ExplosionsAndFire  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1038

      yeah right! it's the most logical explanation. don't start talking to me about this goddamn 'electron' mumbo jumbo

    • @cezarcatalin1406
      @cezarcatalin1406 3 ปีที่แล้ว +212

      Explosions&Fire
      Sir, your electronophobia demands that you shall get protonated directly inside your nucleation site !
      Call me a radical but at least I am a free one that can last for more than a couple of seconds in a bed solution - unlike the energetic kind who splatter all over the place instantly.

    • @tadferd4340
      @tadferd4340 3 ปีที่แล้ว +243

      @@ExplosionsAndFire Any real chemist knows that electrons are just some trash the physicists forced into chemistry because they were jealous of chemists not needing to study ghosts and other complete nonsense.

    • @vaibhav1618
      @vaibhav1618 3 ปีที่แล้ว +118

      @@ExplosionsAndFire I mean electrons are spooky clouds right? Aren't ghosts all cloudy and spooky too? COINCIDENCE?

    • @aggrogator4045
      @aggrogator4045 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Were your lectures before or after underwater basket weaving?

  • @alexhaywood3139
    @alexhaywood3139 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2011

    We've definitely asked when is an explosive. The answer was the 60's

    • @godfreypoon5148
      @godfreypoon5148 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @Marcos Filho Ruthenium sucks, bleach sucks, olefins suck (and you suck too!!!!

    • @sixstringedthing
      @sixstringedthing 3 ปีที่แล้ว +100

      The precise date that the Australian Army asked "when is an explosive" was July 18, 1963.
      It was called Operation Blowdown and it involved 50 short tons of TNT and a rainforest on the Cape York peninsula.

    • @notabagel
      @notabagel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      The fuckin 60s, the fuckin 60s mate

    • @riograndedosulball248
      @riograndedosulball248 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I could guess that 1918 was another good compound

    • @juangonzalez9848
      @juangonzalez9848 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      60s? I though the 1800s in general had some good stuff.

  • @seanmessick9330
    @seanmessick9330 2 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    Fulminating silver is actually commonly used in those little bang snap firecrackers that explode when thrown

    • @Jaydee-wd7wr
      @Jaydee-wd7wr 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      “Face me, Sekiro!”

    • @Raidon484
      @Raidon484 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      *pulls out a glock*

  • @mickeydee9069
    @mickeydee9069 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Standing in the footprints of giants and yelling obscenities at them is the most chad move ever

  • @VaradMahashabde
    @VaradMahashabde 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1182

    Imagine Basil Valentine taking a break from his monk stuff, walking into a room and saying, "Hello everyone, welcome back to Fulminations&Pyres"

    • @dsdy1205
      @dsdy1205 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      No one change it it's at 666 votes

    • @haruhisuzumiya6650
      @haruhisuzumiya6650 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      ​@@dsdy1205to be fair I didn't start the Fire

    • @georgeh5075
      @georgeh5075 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      "monk stuff"

  • @commanderarto3841
    @commanderarto3841 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1033

    I am watching the mental decline of a chemist haunted by the colour yellow.

    • @techpriestsalok8119
      @techpriestsalok8119 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      And it’s amazing

    • @TheArm97
      @TheArm97 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      And fulminating platinum

    • @TrapperAaron
      @TrapperAaron 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Yellow is not just feared by chemists. Check out the book chrome yellow by aldus huxley

    • @conormcguire4306
      @conormcguire4306 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Have you seen the yellow sign?

    • @gman332
      @gman332 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TheArm97 oui iiiijiijjjji+

  • @LeCharles07
    @LeCharles07 2 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    They were truly some madlads. I'm sure they would be mind-blown to know that you need the forces of a collapsing star to make gold out of other stuff.

  • @RobertSmith-km6gi
    @RobertSmith-km6gi ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Was part of my job many years ago. Starting with 160 troy ounces in a reaction flask and converted to the fulminate as an intermediate to the final product. Had to make sure it didn’t get dry or the covering liquor get too alkaline. The first time I ran this process the guy who was training me said if it turns brown run and when it did he took off! I didn’t know what to do but when I stood fast he came back and clapped me on the shoulder and said you’ll do.

  • @jack1701e
    @jack1701e 3 ปีที่แล้ว +272

    "Large scale manufacturing with only the loss of some life"
    Perfect!

    • @ExplosionsAndFire
      @ExplosionsAndFire  3 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      It's the 1800s way!

    • @Patrick-857
      @Patrick-857 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I don't know how to tell you this but essentially nothing has changed in the modern era.

    • @vincedibona4687
      @vincedibona4687 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @Patrick-857 Sausage has far less human in it now than it did back the.

  • @thomasking4692
    @thomasking4692 3 ปีที่แล้ว +582

    Tom has reached a level of chaotic neutrality so far above our mortal understanding he can now comprehend when for explosives

    • @piranha031091
      @piranha031091 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @Marcos Filho Why are you posting this everywhere?

    • @robinderoos1166
      @robinderoos1166 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He doesn't look like he walks the eightfold path though...

    • @XVIIstarPt_
      @XVIIstarPt_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Marcos Filho stfu

    • @tomlynmathewsjr7514
      @tomlynmathewsjr7514 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@robinderoos1166 Fool. The eightfold path is a lie. Tom as ascended past this point, into an entirely different realm. He has become a god among men. We must fear, for he is armed with explosives and mental instability.

  • @nicoschadjidemetriou4373
    @nicoschadjidemetriou4373 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I remember I was making 50 years ago fulminating mercury in a simple way: You put in a test tube Hg and pure alcohol (99.9) to absorb the water produced, then you drop slowly concentrate HNO3 while cooling the test tube.It was produced a white crystallic powder. You wash it with alcohol and dry it.You finished.

    • @jesscorbin5981
      @jesscorbin5981 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Is utility alcohol nonreactive with surfactants?

    • @vincedibona4687
      @vincedibona4687 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @jesscorbin5981 Meh, just wing it whatever you have. Chuck that in a vial, you’re good to go.

  • @martinivers489
    @martinivers489 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The German "Feuerwerkbuch" from 1420 mentions a substance called "Schießwasser", a liquid propellant for firearms. It has been concluded to likely have been methyl nitrate.

  • @ChaosPootato
    @ChaosPootato 3 ปีที่แล้ว +458

    *POP*
    "Eh?!"
    Now that's science

    • @sixstringedthing
      @sixstringedthing 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      *B A N G*
      "Jeeee-zuz".
      Now that's how you find God.

    • @loveblowsbad
      @loveblowsbad 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@sixstringedthing Yes, yes, speaking the lords name in vain is a sign of divine inspiration... Keep up the good work... Ave Satana...

    • @elloo98
      @elloo98 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      More or less my experience in the electronics laboratory.

    • @necrobynerton7384
      @necrobynerton7384 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@elloo98 OOF
      some dumb idiot short circuited a fuking 240V mains socket
      Glad it wasn't a big enough wire to melt the plastic coating and fry the dude and it just did a little bang

    • @vikramkrishnan6414
      @vikramkrishnan6414 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@necrobynerton7384 When I was in the 2nd year of my engineering, forgot to connect the AC-DC adapter before my circuit. That combined with exceeding the rating of the capacitor caused it to go boom causing shrapnel everywhere

  • @patrickdavis99
    @patrickdavis99 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1471

    "Can't get excited unless the explosive has tentacles or some shit." Ah I see you also are a man of culture.

    • @bakeurstew1434
      @bakeurstew1434 3 ปีที่แล้ว +109

      I thought I was the only one that heard that, @Explosions&Fire are a also a degenerate?

    • @ExplosionsAndFire
      @ExplosionsAndFire  3 ปีที่แล้ว +613

      @@bakeurstew1434 just trying to reach the fans u know, relating to them on the things i know they like

    • @bakeurstew1434
      @bakeurstew1434 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      @@ExplosionsAndFire lmao

    • @ExplosionsAndFire
      @ExplosionsAndFire  3 ปีที่แล้ว +204

      @TenOndra uhhhhhhh, sure yeah

    • @keziahdelaney5156
      @keziahdelaney5156 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      I feel like any man of science eventually becomes bored without tentacles.dont know what that means but we all wind up there

  • @Lthies20
    @Lthies20 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    The more often I come back to this the more I'm amazed that Walter White made such massive crystals of fulminating mercury.

  • @robmckennie4203
    @robmckennie4203 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    "no, it's safer to work at a small scale!" is what i tell the women i sleep with

  • @Mp57navy
    @Mp57navy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +631

    Alchemy: Immortal Life
    Chemistry: Killing people with explosives.

    • @sealpiercing8476
      @sealpiercing8476 3 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      Alchemy: immortal life, but it doesn't work
      Chemistry: Killing people with explosives very reliably. Also the Haber process. Which was then used to make more explosives.

    • @theSILKROAD210
      @theSILKROAD210 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@sealpiercing8476 The Haber-Bosch process is only the synthesis of Ammonia, the Ostwald Process (oxidation of Ammonia to Nitric Acid) was developed to produce Nitrates and make Germany independent from Nitrates obtained from Guano "Chile-Salpeter" and was unfortunately a contributing factor to the length and severity of WW I.

    • @sealpiercing8476
      @sealpiercing8476 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@theSILKROAD210 I omitted the oxidation step for punchiness of the joke. The ammonia came from the Haber process, which I'm under the impression is more widely known by name.

    • @godfreypoon5148
      @godfreypoon5148 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Marcos Filho Ruthenium sucks, bleach sucks, olefins suck (and you suck too!!!!

    • @rnedisc
      @rnedisc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@sealpiercing8476 " Also the Haber process. Which was then used to make more explosives. "
      And more people!

  • @kalrbaum
    @kalrbaum 3 ปีที่แล้ว +619

    When i first saw the smoke i thought: "hey that must be gold nanoparticles. Wait, has anobody published this as a method for solvent- and ligand-free synthesis of Au-NPs?" If you get a somewhat uniform size distribution or special kind of shape this is absolutely publishable work! Maybe you could even form some kind of high entropy alloy by this kind of reaction?...

    • @ExplosionsAndFire
      @ExplosionsAndFire  3 ปีที่แล้ว +350

      Was looking for someone to take some TEM images, would be very interested to see if there is any uniformity or it's a complete mess!

    • @theterribleanimator1793
      @theterribleanimator1793 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@ExplosionsAndFire guaranteed to be a mess, if it was possible someone would've already done it.

    • @theterribleanimator1793
      @theterribleanimator1793 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @Benjamin McCann oh come on, something as useful as gold nano-particles being made by the detonation of a salt so easily made.
      If it was possible someone would've done it for how long this salt has being in circulation.

    • @Tomartyr
      @Tomartyr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +142

      @@theterribleanimator1793 People have been doing it for sure, but you shouldn't assume that they knew everything about what they were looking at, could accurately measure/describe it, and then went on to publish it.

    • @theterribleanimator1793
      @theterribleanimator1793 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Tomartyr yeah but again, how old is this coumpound. If it was possible it would've already been done.

  • @gianlucatartaro1335
    @gianlucatartaro1335 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    3:31 I love how, despite NileRed having so much educational and professional content on it, Nigel is still best known for using pee, lube, and just making stinky things in general 😂

    • @andreaskav7124
      @andreaskav7124 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      nile is the scientist. nigel is the redneck

  • @drnojtm2598
    @drnojtm2598 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    every so often i find myself back watching all of these videos because struggling through a degree without comedic relief and good chemistry which is basically impossible. Thank you for these videos :)

  • @bushhawk5460
    @bushhawk5460 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1101

    The real question is: Can you make Fulminating Fulminate?

    • @finerz321
      @finerz321 3 ปีที่แล้ว +149

      Bushhawk “exploding explosive”

    • @TheBackyardChemist
      @TheBackyardChemist 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      How about ammonium fulminate? Or hydrazine fulminate?

    • @GerSHAK
      @GerSHAK 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +

    • @californium-2526
      @californium-2526 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @@TheBackyardChemist I don't think ammonium or hydrazinium would make stable fulminates... :P
      K+ -CNO is known - potassium fulminate. Not that explosive since Hg-C bond is a weak covalent bond. K-C bond is a pure ionic bond, allowing for more stability.

    • @bladdnun3016
      @bladdnun3016 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@californium-2526 Well, both ammonium cyanate and ammonium azide exist. As far as I know, ammonium azide is not that sensitive, comparable to sodium azide, and ammonium cyanate is not even really explosive at all. The hydrazinium compounds probably exist too, but I wouldn't want to be near the azide.

  • @noalear
    @noalear 3 ปีที่แล้ว +360

    This intro is more effective than coffee, because I immediately emptied my bowels. Very funny shit the whole way through! Love the mic!

    • @acronus
      @acronus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Call it the "max VU maneuver"

    • @doggonemess1
      @doggonemess1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Marcos Filho Why do you keep saying that? And it's spelled olefin.

  • @sviatoslaviigorevich7360
    @sviatoslaviigorevich7360 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Really man, I'm a physics guy but secretly love chemistry. I love the language you use, nobody talks science in such lovably raunchy terms like you do. I fucking love it.

  • @5minutehacks989
    @5minutehacks989 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    i've heard much about the allusive gold fulminate from Nile Red on the Safety Third podcast. It's nice to have an indepth history on the substance and to finally see the reaction!

  • @zockertwins
    @zockertwins 3 ปีที่แล้ว +212

    I got an ad for tuna right when you started talking about mercury...

    • @ExplosionsAndFire
      @ExplosionsAndFire  3 ปีที่แล้ว +148

      product placement. for the mercury. placed into the tuna product

    • @sixstringedthing
      @sixstringedthing 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      "...and now with our revolutionary bioaccumulation farming technology, you get orders of magnitude more mercury for your dollar!"

    • @howiedewin3688
      @howiedewin3688 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I wonder if he could try making fulminating tuna?

    • @marcussmart3275
      @marcussmart3275 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ExplosionsAndFire it's the great circle of life mate haha

    • @marcussmart3275
      @marcussmart3275 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@howiedewin3688 can you imagine the stench from that one...I dont think smell has ever seen that many levels of stank.

  • @gl1500ctv
    @gl1500ctv 3 ปีที่แล้ว +429

    "Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should."
    Since when? Is this even the same channel?!?

    • @godfreypoon5148
      @godfreypoon5148 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Marcos Filho Ruthenium sucks, bleach sucks, olefins suck (and you suck too!!!!

    • @loadeddice4696
      @loadeddice4696 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @Marcos Filho mate stop

    • @SollowP
      @SollowP 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Isn't that basically Science 101?
      "It's not a question about 'Why? It's about Why not?!'"

    • @necrobynerton7384
      @necrobynerton7384 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@SollowP
      "Science isn't about why? It's about why not! WHY is so much of our science dangerous? Why not Merry safe science if you love it so much? In fact why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you on the butt on the way out? Because YOU ARE FIRED!" -Cave Johnson, firing a box

  • @japanime555
    @japanime555 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    -Amazing content
    -bizarre upload schedule
    -Australian
    You are canonically the Maxmoefoe of chemistry and I absolutely love it

  • @berrodude
    @berrodude ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Interesting note about mercury fulminate; It was the original compound used in the primer caps for early firearm ammunition. It was used in this way as opposed to replacing gunpowder as the excessive explosive power made it impractical as a propellant but ideal for an ignition primer.

    • @francisbrewster4948
      @francisbrewster4948 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      VERY GOOD information there .... thanks very interesting, useful as understanding history & firearms
      .... thanks to you !!

  • @JuliaC-sp5qk
    @JuliaC-sp5qk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +161

    Chemists now: I'm gonna make sure I don't eat or drink in the lab in case I accidentally ingest something dangerous
    Chemists in the 1800s: mmm this mercury explosive is salty :)

    • @talong1588
      @talong1588 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      How do you think we found out that nitroglycerine is a good heart medication

    • @halomika4973
      @halomika4973 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      ​@@talong1588The *what*

    • @vincedibona4687
      @vincedibona4687 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      NileRed: *makes cookies, freeze-dried Chinese, sodas, candy, and hot sauce in his lab*

  • @dwaynezilla
    @dwaynezilla 3 ปีที่แล้ว +392

    I feel like physics at this point is a hundred year stretch of guys going "well that doesn't make _any_ sense, and *also I hate it*. Let me see how I can disprove it" while then accidentally adding proof for it and furthering the absurdity of it all.

    • @Kylemsguy
      @Kylemsguy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      So accurate. Relativity already feels wacky enough, but then you get into quantum mechanics and.......

    • @drdca8263
      @drdca8263 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Kylemsguy so I’ve only watched one online course on QM, and without like, doing any assignments (wasn’t enrolled, just watched the videos), but, honestly,
      Is QM really all that weird? Like ok, sure, there’s the “how do we interpret measurements?” , but besides that, like,
      from what I’ve seen so far of it, the math all makes sense?
      I guess I’ll admit that spin seems kinda weird. But not that weird?
      There were parts that were *impressive*,
      but it isn’t so much “no fair, it shouldn’t work that way” and more “I didn’t expect that to simplify out or factor in that way”.
      Maybe all the popsci I saw first made me sufficiently used to the entry-level weird parts that I no longer was bothered by them when I watched the actual classes?

    • @lemon93
      @lemon93 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@drdca8263 qm isn't that bad people just have a hard time thinking of a particle as wave.

    • @shrimpfry880
      @shrimpfry880 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      i didn't have physics in high school because of all the extra biology lessons

    • @allenhonaker4107
      @allenhonaker4107 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Maths physics and chemistry are the religion of obsessive compulsive bean counters.😎😎

  • @ndac6324
    @ndac6324 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I’m glad your channel is catching on man. I’ve watched you put so much work into these vids for a while now. Easily one of the most entertaining science channels on yt 👍

  • @captainj7522
    @captainj7522 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I vaguely remembered your channel about 2 months ago and I just found it tonight again I’ve never been happier to have a video recommended

  • @SeiberGraff
    @SeiberGraff 3 ปีที่แล้ว +213

    "involves too much human urine"
    *excited nilered noise
    -i dont think urine was actually used
    *sad nilered noise

    • @DoingDennis
      @DoingDennis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In abouts hes near the bottom of patreon list

    • @unknowunknown9096
      @unknowunknown9096 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Add it to urination in n web

  • @franglish9265
    @franglish9265 3 ปีที่แล้ว +237

    In really wonder if that guy who "made" fulminating platinum, just fudged his results by adding other metal fulminates to it, or accidentally made an azide of sodium or potassium that inadvertently ended up in his final "culminating platinum"

    • @ExplosionsAndFire
      @ExplosionsAndFire  3 ปีที่แล้ว +137

      Who knows, it could be the case, but it's strange to not be able to replicate it then anyway, because he gave pretty detailed steps.... But then again I was guessing at the meaning of most of the steps so anything could have easily gone wrong hm

    • @Nixeu42
      @Nixeu42 3 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      @@ExplosionsAndFire It's fairly likely you misidentified one of the compounds in question. This has been brought up in the comments section of that vid, in that the "potash" mentioned was likely short for caustic potash, or potassium hydroxide. I think I managed to confirm that by looking at a couple of contemporary books that collected the known reactions for various metals, which recorded the reaction in different terms than Davy used, though I might be misremembering. By the by, I know those sources said that the acid used was plain old nitric acid, so it's possible that using red fuming nitric acid caused problems (or not, I'm not sure, I'm still a chem student).
      While we're here, I might also want to mention (again) that the synthesis supposedly makes platinum sulfate at some stage, which hasn't been synthesized in modern laboratory conditions. There are recent-ish theoretical chemistry papers speculating on the properties of the compound. The paper exclusively uses the formula Pt(SO4), rather than "platinum sulfate", and thus only comes up when you search for the chemical formula. So even if you can't replicate the entire process, you could still be making something worthy of a paper with this procedure.

    • @the_n3ve
      @the_n3ve 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@ExplosionsAndFire should come back to that couple of years later as with S4N4 and have another episode dedicated to Personal Growth ™

    • @JohnDobak
      @JohnDobak 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@ExplosionsAndFire I remember seeing you respond to the poster who detailed the classical definition of potash but never following up with another attempt using the knowledge gained. For shame Tom.

    • @JohnDobak
      @JohnDobak 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Nixeu42 Forget it, he's scared of the potential for success.

  • @rougenaxela
    @rougenaxela 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    2:38 Mind blown. Yup, explains why things going yellow is so inauspicious.

  • @diggah
    @diggah 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Is it wrong that I’ve watched this vid over 10 times now? I’m no chemist (I got a D in gcse chemistry in 1994) but your voice is very relaxing and oh boy do we need a lot of more of that right now. Cheers chap.

  • @timurtheterrible4062
    @timurtheterrible4062 3 ปีที่แล้ว +225

    So Nile is now known as the piss guy?

    • @jamsheeddevotee7588
      @jamsheeddevotee7588 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      *R Kelly wants to know your location*

    • @piranha031091
      @piranha031091 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I mean... didn't chemplayer make nitrourea from their own piss too?

    • @edgeeffect
      @edgeeffect 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Prof. Andrea Sella was "the piss guy" for me a good few years before Nile Red got into it.

    • @RyanMan767
      @RyanMan767 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      nah, Cody is definitely the piss guy.

    • @cezarcatalin1406
      @cezarcatalin1406 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hi comrade !

  • @koolaidman007
    @koolaidman007 3 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    The perfect synthesis of education, chemistry, and shit posting. Leave it to the Aussies.

  • @migarsormrapophis2755
    @migarsormrapophis2755 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    "Explosives are entirely a human invention"
    The Bombardier Beetle and the Sun: "Allow us to introduce ourselves"

    • @francisbrewster4948
      @francisbrewster4948 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes i thiught about bombardier beetles .... perhaps its not an explosion, it is a fast reaction of liquids contained in a vessel
      ---- Even gunpowder is a slow or "low" explosive ---- as he says here

  • @ryancraft2890
    @ryancraft2890 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've watched this video many times now. It's fun every single time.
    The energy is great and the edits a perfectly chaotic. Like, I just love this guy.

  • @maxb.5905
    @maxb.5905 3 ปีที่แล้ว +115

    Dude you really stepped up your editing game! Nice job.

  • @drink__more__water
    @drink__more__water 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Listing blackpowder's "deflagration velocity" instead of "detonation velocity" is a wonderfully subtle burn.

    • @alexandermathar7780
      @alexandermathar7780 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No no. Blackpowder can detonate. But just barely.

  • @pvtbadtouch6540
    @pvtbadtouch6540 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Big ups to this citated piece of research

  • @useazebra
    @useazebra ปีที่แล้ว +8

    You turned gold into expletives. Well done.

  • @Chiovarie
    @Chiovarie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +102

    SCUFFED NILE RED RISES ONCE MORE

    • @Darasilverdragon
      @Darasilverdragon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      he's Nile Yellow

    • @DoingDennis
      @DoingDennis 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Except hes at the bottom of the patreon list

  • @Kanitoxx
    @Kanitoxx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    I once made like 5g of silver fulminate, while drying it, it exploded due to too much of it piled in one place, I was working in a ceramic plate and plastic utensils to reduce the explosion risk hahaha I failed at that and ended up with 2 weeks without hearing well and a damn buzzing sound...

  • @spooky4124
    @spooky4124 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    8:21 mmmm myes pet the silver nitride

  • @taiwanluthiers
    @taiwanluthiers 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Silver fulminate is used in those snap pop kids play with. It's sensitive stuff. Basically if you open it up, it's a bunch of pebbles with a tiny amount of silver fulminate. Even just sifting through it will cause it to go off. I have no idea how they even manufacture the stuff. I mean all those toy contact explosives are dangerous as hell to manufacture because they often involve stuff like armstrong's mix and the like.

  • @petermc_grann4192
    @petermc_grann4192 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    I came here for the laughs and the rants on yellow- I stayed for the learning. Man, good video.

    • @mauz791
      @mauz791 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agreed. The man's a fun chemistry teacher now

  • @mokatwenty
    @mokatwenty 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    What's with the Melbourne Bitter on the speaker. You need to store dangerous chemicals better than that...

  • @GarryDumblowski
    @GarryDumblowski 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Something that I find interesting about the "Gold sulfur" is that sulfur was considered to be one of the elements of the "Tria Prima", or a set of elements which is different from the... other set of elements that they also used. The other two members were mercury and table salt, and part of the reasons they thought they could turn base metals into gold was because every metal was some mixture of mercury and sulfur.
    It's entirely possible that they thought this experiment was, in a sense, pulling the sulfur from the gold and using that to create an explosive. Makes me wonder where they thought the mercury went? And what did they think was happening when they tried mercury fulminate?

  • @Dunkster74
    @Dunkster74 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That fulminating silver has got to be one of the angriest explosives I've seen, jesus.

  • @Thomas-vn6cr
    @Thomas-vn6cr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I suck at chemistry, but adore your memes/editing, and am starting to think that these videos are an insight into what a typical Australian class is like.

  • @gamingmarcus
    @gamingmarcus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Thanks for reminding me that I once learned about surface plasmon resonance. I'm 100% siding with ghosts.

  • @davidmalone7069
    @davidmalone7069 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love this channel found it last night, very good find

  • @dane1382
    @dane1382 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    hell yeah! i learned about fulminations and how they practically founded modern chemistry in high school chem, and its still interesting

  • @evilferris
    @evilferris 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    Ex&F: Man, I wish Mercury wasn’t so toxic…
    Gallium: Hi!

    • @AlexBesogonov
      @AlexBesogonov 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Gallium is nowhere near as fun. It's not that heavy and it wets pretty much everything (skin, glass, metals).

    • @durshurrikun150
      @durshurrikun150 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Galium and cesium are solid at room temperature though.

    • @ivantheterrible7696
      @ivantheterrible7696 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@durshurrikun150 only because the dipshits in charge decided the range for "room temperature" to be based on their homes in cold-temperate climates, which isn't really reasonable.

    • @durshurrikun150
      @durshurrikun150 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ivantheterrible7696 At standard conditions, aka 1 bar 298,15K Cesium and gallium are solid.
      So only mercury and possibly francium are liquid in standard conditions.

    • @ivantheterrible7696
      @ivantheterrible7696 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@durshurrikun150 not the point. I'm complaining about 25 C° being the "standard" to begin with.

  • @alexdoescrazystuff
    @alexdoescrazystuff 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    I have finally been early, wanted to say your channel is my favorite channel, and wish you good luck with the cubane project.

    • @ExplosionsAndFire
      @ExplosionsAndFire  3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Thanks mate! We're going to need all the luck we can get I think

    • @robinderoos1166
      @robinderoos1166 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I wonder where the tentacles explode our of?

  • @troymorgan3346
    @troymorgan3346 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I found this via a rabbit hole on the internet.. but I've not watched this guy for 3 hours straight.. not for the chemistry.. but bc of how freaking excited he is..

  • @apaleslimghost
    @apaleslimghost ปีที่แล้ว

    the "eh???" at the exploding silver nitride off-camera at 8:28 is absolutely sending me

  • @p0ptop
    @p0ptop 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    This is the first time one of your vids has come up in my feed on its own. Every single other one I've had to go lookin fer.

  • @TheBoshy
    @TheBoshy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Will it Fulminate?
    TH-cam's hottest new show

  • @DanielGBenesScienceShows
    @DanielGBenesScienceShows 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    “Ghosts”... Explains why much of my childhood involved neighbors questioning mushroom clouds and bangs they heard, and people with shiny badges stopping by to “have a little look around”, while I jumped haphazardly in childlike naivety on the burnt trampoline in the backyard saying to myself... “don’t look in that shed”.

  • @shotgunjackalQ
    @shotgunjackalQ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love this episode so God damn much. It'll come on while I'm gaming and every damn time I end up picking up my phone and just watching this episode. With other episodes I'll watch parts of it but this episode always makes me stop and pay attention.

  • @haska9706
    @haska9706 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Honestly if you tried to apply for a grant claiming you'd make someone immortal, you'd still get turned down

  • @chaboii
    @chaboii 3 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    Science: here's a cool compound, blows up like freakin nuts
    Britain: hey Afghanistan, come here, i wanna show you something

    • @Darasilverdragon
      @Darasilverdragon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      any time britain, france, spain, the netherlands, or portugal wants to show your country something, just fucking leave it. Make a new country somewhere else. You're better off.

    • @azertyuiop432
      @azertyuiop432 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Darasilverdragon Now it's 'Murica

    • @robmckennie4203
      @robmckennie4203 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And they still get owned 😂

  • @zackchapman8084
    @zackchapman8084 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dude your videos are amazing and I love watching them

  • @RaglansElectricBaboon
    @RaglansElectricBaboon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You are a genuinely entertaining and informative nutter. Thank you.

  • @deoris5778
    @deoris5778 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Me trying to wacth a video at 2am
    *EXPLOSIONS AND FIRE*

  • @VAbel03
    @VAbel03 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    8:37
    solution: *explodes and goes everywhere*
    E&F: *hentai noise*

  • @chewy560
    @chewy560 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Made a half beaker full of fulminating gold or something similar (we also has H2O2 in our solution) by mistake. Work colleague was in process of drying it in oven when the small sample he had dried on the end of his spatula exploded. We suddenly knew we had a problem.

  • @battletommy8918
    @battletommy8918 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I just love how you just put science and comedy into one video.

  • @gabeverk
    @gabeverk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    Love this channel. It brings good memories of the "fun" chemistry

    • @Slathos1
      @Slathos1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      not fun chemistry is part of why I am a software developer now :

    • @gabeverk
      @gabeverk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Slathos1 awwww

  • @iNerdier
    @iNerdier 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Tom is going to die of jaundice one day isn’t he.

    • @toastpoint
      @toastpoint 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nah, but his kidneys are just going to say "peace out" one day

    • @iNerdier
      @iNerdier 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Toast Point but it’s the yellowest way to go!

  • @Add_Infinitum
    @Add_Infinitum 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think this is one of his best videos, the humor is so on point

  • @SolarSeeker45
    @SolarSeeker45 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    As a modern alchemist I can tell you that they use a LOT of metaphor. When they say Sulphur of gold. They mean a compound made of gold which has similar properties to sulfur. Mostly a low melting point and the ability to exhibit the colors yellow,red, black ,white, and red in that order.

  • @bomb4r719
    @bomb4r719 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    *Holy God I wish public education was like this*
    Explosives are just sexy

    • @privateger
      @privateger 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Of course you have a Megumin profile picture.

    • @bomb4r719
      @bomb4r719 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Look, I'm a weeb shitposter, what more do you expect from me

    • @theSILKROAD210
      @theSILKROAD210 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      a man of culture !

    • @bakeurstew1434
      @bakeurstew1434 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I fucking love this guy, explosion Loli best loli

    • @TheRAMBO9191
      @TheRAMBO9191 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ahh yes, school bombings are just so fun. No. We do not need people to learn how to do bombs.

  • @fritz5448
    @fritz5448 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    0:37 sad Bombardier beetle noises

  • @TheBlapSurgeon
    @TheBlapSurgeon 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've watched all your videos (at least the good ones) several times, and I plan on watching them several more times

  • @shanghaichase7784
    @shanghaichase7784 ปีที่แล้ว

    Literally can’t stop watching these

  • @Dirkietje8
    @Dirkietje8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    6:45 Postdoc life

  • @TheBoshy
    @TheBoshy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Can't wait for the fulminating platin-

  • @v7bp25aq
    @v7bp25aq ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love this channel! I am a programming student and I wish there was a channel like this but for programming.

  • @mbp1652
    @mbp1652 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just found you bro. I think I've got a new favorite channel. Keep it up. Keep it up! thank you

  • @flyingshards595
    @flyingshards595 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    When life gives you yellow chemistry... Really enjoyed the video, great intro!

    • @edgeeffect
      @edgeeffect 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      When life gives you yellow chemistry... you just distill your own pee.

  • @SomeKidsAtHomes
    @SomeKidsAtHomes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    i remember this channel a few years ago when it only had a few hundred subs and I always hoped that you get enough subscribers so you could continue to produce cool content and not stop :) Thank guys, love ya!

  • @jerahmysmith4459
    @jerahmysmith4459 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    You make me laugh. I could watch your channel all day. Keep it up mate!

  • @aperturescienceguy2737
    @aperturescienceguy2737 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "Somewhere between, idunno, like, the big bang and, yesterday"
    This is now my go-to for when someone asks me when something happened

  • @privateger
    @privateger 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Michael Reeves hasn't uploaded in a while.
    You haven't either.
    I really missed my crazy scientist dosage.

  • @PorkpieJohnny
    @PorkpieJohnny 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    1:00 EW MATLAB

  • @shanghaichase7784
    @shanghaichase7784 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is the best show ever! My favorite reruns. Most entertaining channel today. Alchemy 100

  • @tommyflagg9029
    @tommyflagg9029 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ay good to find the channel, cool stuff

  • @tomwatts703
    @tomwatts703 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My goal in life is to learn enough chemistry to be this funny and educational at the same time

  • @No-uc6fg
    @No-uc6fg 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Fulminated Mercury for some dank Breaking Bad references.

  • @notsam498
    @notsam498 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "they'd win so many grant funding rounds".....I love you man.

  • @emmad4308
    @emmad4308 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm so glad to know the original context for the 3 legged looking dog under the squirrel on the blackboard