If this is the "Apex Fart" then thioacetone is the "God fart". Thioacetone is absolutely nasty shit. Here's and excerpt on it's odor. "Thioacetone has an intensely foul odor. Like many low molecular weight organosulfur compounds, the smell is potent and can be detected even when highly diluted.[8] In 1889, an attempt to distill the chemical in the German city of Freiburg was followed by cases of vomiting, nausea and unconsciousness in an area with a radius of 0.75 kilometres (0.47 mi) around the laboratory due to the smell.[9] British chemists at the Whitehall Soap Works in Leeds noted in an 1890 report that dilution seemed to make the smell worse and described the smell as "fearful".[10] Thioacetone is considered a dangerous chemical due to its extremely foul odor and ability to render people unconscious, induce vomiting, and be detected over long distances. In 1967, Esso researchers repeated the experiment of cracking trithioacetone, at a laboratory south of Oxford, UK. They reported their experience as follows: Recently we found ourselves with an odour problem beyond our worst expectations. During early experiments, a stopper jumped from a bottle of residues, and, although replaced at once, resulted in an immediate complaint of nausea and sickness from colleagues working in a building two hundred yards [180 m] away. Two of our chemists who had done no more than investigate the cracking of minute amounts of trithioacetone found themselves the object of hostile stares in a restaurant and suffered the humiliation of having a waitress spray the area around them with a deodorant. The odours defied the expected effects of dilution since workers in the laboratory did not find the odours intolerable ... and genuinely denied responsibility since they were working in closed systems. To convince them otherwise, they were dispersed with other observers around the laboratory, at distances up to a quarter of a mile [0.40 km], and one drop of either acetone gem-dithiol or the mother liquors from crude trithioacetone crystallisations were placed on a watch glass in a fume cupboard. The odour was detected downwind in seconds.
Hopefully he knows how to lay brick an paint walls an build freeways an knows who runs the world an use magic. That letter 2 being the most intelligent things I've found. Oh yeah an not be a lil girl an be scared to name the last 2 like I assume people are
You probably had a hard time smelling it due to nasal fatigue. Even though you were working with a fumehood it was clear that based on the reactions of your coworkers that you had been exposed too long to fully smell it. The fact alone that you and your cameraman could stick your noses into the jar and the others could hardly even open it illustrates this clearly. You should try revisiting it in a few days and see what it smells like to get the full experience.
@@richardcutler6254 This is what I immediately thought about. It's supposed to be so terrible it's even not reliable as a weapon, or for research purposes.
The dipropylene glycol makes it very clear that this is intended to be vaporized. Put some in a fog machine or vape dispenser and try a whiff of that. I bet it will take your rating up to 46/10.
yeah, that was my immediate take away from this; it needed to be vapourized. That said, Nigel really does seem to have a deadened sense of smell when it comes to stinky things.
I've only uncontrollably gagged/vomited from an odor once in my lifetime. My mom kept a 32 gal trash bin in her backyard to "collect" her dogs poop. Normally it wasn't very smelly since we lived in the desert. The poop would dry out and as long as the lid was on you couldn't smell anything. One weekend in August my mom called me up and asked me to come empty the bin for her. My cousin and I pull up to her house and go to grab the bin. She then tells us to be careful because it was filled with water. I asked her why it was filled with water and she told me that during the last rain storm, about three weeks prior, the lid had blown off and the bin filled with rain water. The same bin that was half full of dog poop. The same bin that had been sitting outside in direct sunlight, in August, in the desert. Reluctantly, my cousin and I went to lift the bin. The second we got it off the ground the lid popped off and we were immediately overtaken by the raw, boiling, stench of the poop soup. Both my cousin and I set the bin down and fell to our knees wrenching. I never experienced an uncontrollable reaction like that. I honestly thought I was going to vomit my organs up. The smell was absolutely volatile.
I think it's a matter of being around sulphuric smells. Chemists and stuff don't find the smell to be the same as actual poop smells. I think it's because artificial attempts at making biological waste matter will always smell different to us simply because they're chemical smells that we're used to identifying. I mean those old fart bombs don't even remotely smell like a fart to me, They smell like rotten eggs, So basically just sulphur.
Depends on the chemical. I actually got really good at smelling impurities that our analytics (NMR, HPLC) couldn't detect. But the smells definitely stop bothering you so much. Worked a lot with Thioglycolic acid, it's really not that bad when the novelty has worn off.
i don't think he "damaged" his sense of smell, I think he is desensitized. edited; i think my wording was far too open to interpretation and might have started an argument based on misinterpretation of my meaning. might be wrong and they're just idiots, but that just means we share a common denominator.
There's a chemical my friends and I were laughing about called thioacetone because the wikipedia states "In 1889, an attempt to distill the chemical in the German city of Freiburg was followed by cases of vomiting, nausea and unconsciousness in an area with a radius of 0.75 kilometres (0.47 mi) around the laboratory due to the smell" which seems insane. The rest of the page is filled with more things like this. I'm not saying you SHOULD make this, but, yknow, it would be cool to see if wikipedia's right ;)
Manufacture of certain chemicals within the mercaptan family is fairly hard to do without specialty equipment and atmosphere handlers specifically modified for the laboratory environment in which mercaptans like thioacetone are handled. In the case of thioacetone (or actually trithioacetone due to spontaneous self-polymerization) you will require the glove box/hood to have alkaline permanganate seals and you need to provide some way, even with the seals, to neutralize the mercaptans (such as free copper ions in a sufficient high solution of nitric acid being used as a filter). Finally, even with the Copper and Nitric Acid acting on contained release of thioacetone, to prevent releasing the stink through the building ventilation you need to run all exhaust through a pyrolitic decomposition before venting to any location outside of the sealed atmosphere.
@@Cutest-Bunny998 and I assume that's the only way to legally make the stuff, I'm no law expert but I imagine you could get in pretty big trouble releasing a biohazard into the environment that is capable of rendering everyone within a half mile radius unconscious or at the very least wishing they were unconscious
Hamilton Morris talked about Thioacetate in one of his podcasts. He made it because of that wikipedia article & said it wasn't that bad. But he was not sure whether it worked or not.
I’ve heard of this chemical, which was dubbed, “The worst smell in the world” It’s called Thioacetone. I think you should make some of that too and see which one smells worse. Edit: Who else first heard of this from the second episode of Distractable?
I mean, the government said it smells so bad it couldn't even be used as a weapon, so... Maybe just look it up? Joe Scott did a really great video on the topic.
The worst malodor I experienced was in my youth. Fifty years ago, the vast majority of radios were using vacuum tubes. In that particular period, manufacturers were trying to save on costs, so they replaced the rectifier valve 6V4 with a single selenium rectifier. That rectifier, unlike the 6V4, didn't like any current above 50 mA; so they were failing regularly during lightings strikes. When they failed they overheated badly. Now selenium is in the same group of sulphur, but it was 100 times more stinky. Some radio owners replaced the carpets and repainted the walls and, after awhile, throw away the repaired radio. Selenium - when overheated - produce an odor that stick into the nose for days if not weeks. It has an unnatural stinkiness, which cannot be hold for long. People cannot sleep in a room where selenium compounds are in the air, nor they can stand for very long. I have experienced it first hand all its unpleasantness. Selenium rectifiers were also used in battery chargers in the '50s and the '60s, charging car batteries and forklifts. It was easy to tell if a mechanic shop or a warehouse had had a charger malfunction, as the smell was left lingering inside for months after the event. Selenium compounds must be the stinkiest thing after your military grade malodor formula. Thanks for the video...
Yeah way back in Chemistry class we were taught not to directly stick the container to our noses but move our hands over the top to get a waft of the odor. I suspect what happened to this guy is the reason why. haha
Everytime u see this man on nile red he is some what professional and here he is an absolute toddler but I like this side of him. Smashing stuff, destroying stuff and messing up is what we want to see
My favorite part of all this is that Nile, himself, said he enjoys making stinky things. It's in one of the perfume-based videos he made years ago, he said he prefers making stuff that smells rather than the nicer smelling things. He has like, three separate videos of different horrible smells he's made, LMAO
Honestly, psychopaths have a reduced reaction to bad smells. Not because they can't smell it, but because their mind doesn't register them as "bad". I honestly can't help but suspect that's what's going on here, lol.
@@Dubanx not to be that guy but it's not great to go around calling people psychopaths or sociopaths. Hes a strange creature but idk that it's great to imply he's a psychopath.
@@agencymenace1090 Keep in mind that most psychopaths live fairly normal lives and don't go around hurting people. You just don't hear much of those ones. I'm not trying to say he's dangerous or anything, just built a little differently in that regard.
Most entertaining part is seeing how Nile clearly has lost a lot of his sense of smell just like my chemistry professor. Badge of honor. Nile will repeatedly nose dive into something before sharing an opinion while his cameraman has much more to say immediately from several feet away. Good stuff. Thank you Nile!
He smelt all of the ingredients through their containers from a good foot or two away, I think he just has a super strong tolerance for everything for some reason.
apparently this “concoction” is a “standard malodor” because its the universally accepted smell of military bathrooms, and its meant to test different cleaning product’s effectiveness against the smell.
As a longtime heavy equipment operator at a landfill in Southern Maryland, I can unequivocally attest to the worst smell in human history is...the day after the 4th of July, the first trash truck to the pile was a gentleman who would pickup from all the local crab houses, and it would sit and ferment for a couple of days, rendering the absolute worst smell imaginable. That load would slide out the back of the truck, hit the ground, and you could watch the steam rise from the odor. I say all this because the first year I was there, I rushed to disperse this pile and spread it out to be compacted. The other operators just sat and grinned at me, knowing the impending result. I then made the mistake of coming out of the cab only to inhale a direct whiff of the ghastly gas, and promptly barfed. Apparently the usual ritual was to wait for a few more loads and promptly bury this slimy load under a few tons of fresh smelling garbage. No one warned the new guy. Needless to say, this was literally THE worst smell I ever had the opportunity to smell in my life. The second worst was always the dumpster from the food court at the mall.
Nile: "I'm not sure why people think my favorite past-time is making stinky things" also Nile: "I was so focused on the stinky things, I didn't order the *main* ingredient" 7:26
Also Also Nigel: "I don't think it's nearly as bad as they said it would be. I am disappoint." Everyone else: "Oh... Oh man... HUUUURGGEHH HLEEAAHHHurkurkBLLEAAHH!"
as someone working in wastewater treatment, ive had people ask me how do you deal with this horrible smell whilst i was not smelling anything at all XD
I like how when Nile opens the stinky chemicals the cameraman almost dies from a few feet away while Nile himself almost sticks the jars into his nostrils and says like "It is not that bad!!😁"
"During early experiments, a stopper jumped from a bottle of residues, and, although replaced at once, resulted in an immediate complaint of nausea and sickness from colleagues working in a building two hundred yards [180 m] away" Lol he'd still sniff it straight from a jar
It's also pretty unstable and readily polymerizes to trithioacetone in room conditions. Nevertheless, I assume It's not a great idea to synthesize semi-weapon-grade stinky chemical in general laboratories lol
Nile Red - “I am not obsessed with stinky things” Also Nile Red - “I am going to effortlessly and succinctly describe the complex nuances of stinky smells”
Being that he is a chemist, I can imagine that Nile has destroyed his ability to smell anything. He could barely pick up smells from literally putting his nose on something, and yet everybody else could smell the same stuff from several feet away.
I used to work in a chemistry lab. One time, I accidentally got a nose full of sulphuric acid fumes. I couldn’t smell or taste anything for a few days.
I used to smoke a lot and snort pulverized tabacc "snuff" that was awesome. But my nose got messed. Sense of smell is pretty minimal at this point lol.
I'd honestly be as eager to make it as Nigel. I feel like once they start tasking you with the weird stuff, that's when you can say you've made it to the top.
..and you finally come up with the winning formula for fart juice, then some chemist guy on the interwebs reviews your lifes work and his reaction is 'meh'.
All those years as a chemist have honed not only Nile's spellcraft but also his smellcraft. We have unleashed a devastating power on the world by letting this man know that his sense of smell can find something worse than US standard bathroom malodor.
From all of the “stinky chemical” videos I’ve seen, it seems like Nile actually enjoys horrible smells. Most of the time he’s straight faced and smiling, and usually tries to convince us that it’s “not *that* bad”
I had a stint as a crime scene cleaner, which unfortunately wasn't just crime scenes, but just anywhere you can imagine malodors. And a couple of my co-workers had this as well, but whenever we'd deal with putrefaction, it would actually trigger anxiety and a fight or fight response. Goosebumps would go up my arms, my scalp would feel prickly, and I'd feel like I had to go to the bathroom. Have always wondered if there was something about that chemical composition that maybe not everyone can smell, like the infamous bitter almond scent.
I think we can all conclude that NileRed needs to do a thioacetone synthesis...I've wanted to try it myself for a while now, but without a fumehood, it sounds like a deathwish...maybe it will be stinky enough for Nigel's 10/10 rating! Update: both me and NileRed made it a while ago and it was honestly no big deal, lol
With Thioacetone a fumehood would most likely not be sufficiant for protection. Given the (alleged) properties of that stuff, I guess a completely sealed safety cabinet is the least you need to handle it.
i love how nile has a slightly unhinged nature that slips through sometimes "Why are you breaking that table?" "Were on break!" "Lets see if this breaks when i drop it" *shatters* Then he gives off a super genuine happy smile hahaha
Nilered: I don't know why people think I like making stinky things Also Nilered: sniffs various stinky things multiple times after finding out first-hand that it smells bad, forgets to buy the solvent because he was too focused on the stinky things, dedicates a 22 minute video on making the stinkiest thing, and wants to make a stinkier thing
Everyone forgets about the worst parts of a truly bad smell. It's the feeling you get walking into an outdoor bathroom (no A/C) on a hot summers day being bombarded by the humid scent of drying piss, so thick it feels like it's condensating on your skin. Tasting the urine in the air as you hopelessly hold your breath, simply seeking relief. THAT, is what makes a horrid smell.
My wife used to work at a PhotoMat years ago. Her sense of smell has been warped by the exposure to chemicals. She can't smell mold or certain other things at all. I believe you have achieved such levels of olfactory glory. 😆
I quit developing film myself cause Black and white developer is brutally toxic, My go to has Metol which is fucking toxic. E6 is not that bad, only the bleach is bad.
Seeing the way he just shoves his nose into every chemical instead of wafting any of them, I mean... I'm not surprised he can barely smell it. He probably can't smell much of anything.
up, you can also infer how far from the chemicals each person is by how bad they find the smell to be, I'm pretty sure the cameraman's sense of smell is pretty shot too
I think in one the Episodes for the Safety Third, I do not remember with episode, but he mentioned that he might of damaged his sense of smell by smelling a chemical he was not suppose to, so the 4.6/10 makes sense for him
You're not a true chemist if you waft the chemical. Sticking your nose into the bottle and having your head recoil reflexively from the smell is the true way to do it.
Science teachers are also more concerned about your safety from splash hazards or inhalation of actually toxic fumes and solvents. Nile has the experience to know which chemicals will melt his flesh.
I'm with Nile on this one. On a scale of 0 to Thioacetone, if you're able to simply replace the lid and say it smells bad, then it's trash. For comparison, if that were Thioacetone, the moment you removed the lid everyone within a 1kM radius would be vomiting and evacuating. ...please make Thioacetone.
@@mrcakeday1439 No no no. If one person were to send multiple then that would be spam. Or, if multiple people were to send the same message with the sole intent to grief, then that too could be called spam. But if multiple people, each under their own volition, were to make the same legitimate request, then that would be a petition; even when coordinated, it's still not spam.
Having made it yourself, you likely desensitized your smell receptors to each ingredient as you worked through the process. That would explain why everyone else reacted more negatively *and* why the people outside of the lab reacted the worst out of anyone. Prolonged exposure to smells causes our bodies to gradually turn down our reaction to them, and this can progress so far as to make us totally oblivious to a smell that someone else finds very distressing.
@@phantom_isle Yeah but he smelt each ingredient before he actually started mixing them together. I think that’s what the OG commenter was referring too. He desensitized himself to each individual ingredient so it didn’t smell as bad to him when it was mixed together
I'm just guessing that this was made as a standard for "smelly bathroom" for some project which needed consistently smelly bathrooms for testings. Maybe for testing vent/extraction systems and preventing bathroom odors from permeating unintended areas. Or might have been some CD stuff and seeing how much bucket-toilet odor could be tolerated in a fallout shelter.
Honestly that's the most military thing ever. Spend resources to perfectly simulate a WC odors to make the ventilation better. Then when it's actually time to put people on the field, you give them this cheap commercial porta potty and... burn the feces, yeah sure, just burn it. I'm not joking with the last part.
Rather unamusingly, the Standard Bathroom Malodor was created for cleaning agent testing. In other words, it's the Standard Smell for unclean bathroom.
Background info for anyone interested, text is from an article I found: "In 1998, Pamela Dalton, a cognitive psychologist at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, was tasked with developing a stink bomb for the Defense Department. Her experiments found that people from different backgrounds and different parts of the world, who grew up smelling and eating different things, often completely disagreed about which smells were good or bad. The best candidate she found for a universally distasteful smell was something called "U.S. Government Standard Bathroom Malodor," a substance that was designed to mimic the scent of military field latrines in order to test cleaning products. She chose the aromatic liquid as the base of her stink-bomb recipe. The resulting formula, which she called Stench Soup, may well be the worst smell ever created."
Had some shrimp based fish-sauce flavored kimchi that I brought to work and put in the work site fridge on site... I was the only person who used that fridge for the duration of the job after that. I had ensured that NOBODY would ever steal my lunch.
@@megastoejoe Friend of mine did the same thing to their own fridge accidentally with squid. They bullshitted the landlord - "food keeps spoiling" - and got their fridge replaced. I wonder if they could have just peroxided it or something.
As janky as it is, i love the production style in this one. Getting to see where everything is in the lab is so oddly pleasing. Also the little hiccups in the process are funny :D
In perfumery, the distance at which you can smell it, the strength of it, is called "scent throw" or "fragrance throw", often just "throw", and the trail left behind as you (or the thing you are smelling) move is called the "sillage". I kept thinking about these two facts with increasing dread throughout this video.
22:05 I loved this. It's so simple and innocent, but this really is what science is all about. He had a question, based on everything he knew about the construction of the floor and bottle (aka research), he constructed a hypotheis, conducted an experiment, and collected the data while communicating the results via video recording. Proper science.
I feel like "created by the US government" in this case means a bunch of soldiers wanted to pull a prank, so they mixed together all the bad-smelling stuff they could find, then when they got busted, their superior turned it in, called it research, and won an award.
@@CraftQueenJr It's definitely funnier, but as a US citizen it also kind of pisses me off. So glad that money they take out of my paycheck, my home, my car, and all my purchases is going towards fucking stink bombs. God forbid it go towards something useful like infrastructure or furthering renewable energy. lmao
@@ossiehalvorson7702 Tom Scott made a video about NIST library of Standard Reference Materials a few years ago, it's called "The US Government's $983 Freeze-Dried Urine", look it up, I think you'd like it.
@@brycem8161 well it swings between shit like this and developing the internet and terminators. Depends how cracked out the scientists and engineers are
NileBlue: "I don't know why people think I like making stinky stuff" Also NileBlue: "Oh Hexanoic Acid. The stuff I made before that smells like stinky cheese vomit."
Butanoic is bad enough when it comes to ‘stinky cheese vomit’, as it’s present in all three (and faeces)! I can’t imagine Hexanoic being any better? No one has touched on Putrescine and Cadaverine yet 😱
Trimethylamine th-cam.com/video/cIDWdpMhKII/w-d-xo.html _"I honestly don't really have a specific use for it, and I just wanted to make it because I like to make stinky things"_
So yeah, this scent wasn’t developed as a weapon, but to simulate the smell of a military latrine for the purpose of having a standard to test cleaning products against. Anyways, maybe look into the stench soup Pamela Dalton developed with the bathroom malodor as a base, or seeing what you can get out of thioacetone, which apparently got into some reaction in 1889 that caused an entire city to panic and evacuate from the smell.
My old science teacher warned about some random chemical he had lying around the classroom, not to sniff it because it would destroy your sense of smell and constant exposure is the reason many chemists favor spicey foods. (same with miners)
Friends and i cleaned out a barn for his grandma on a farm in IL. She left a huge side of beef (400lb) in a sealed, forgotten, non-working freezer in a barn for about 30 years. Turned to gray sludge that leaked and killed all grass and vegetation it touched for 40 feet - Bare ground to this day. Entire neighborhood smelled for miles causing panic, and emergency crews had to attend. The stench was absolutely unfathomable - words just fail.
@brainkrieg1423 No judgement, I'm just amazed that you couldn't find a chuck roast for 3 days in an apartment. Was it a big apartment, small chuck roast, lots of reorganizing going on, what?
LOL oh shit! ahahah. Sometime after my grandpa jumped into the shadow realm. We cleaned out all of his refidgerators...first of all we didn't know he had 4 of them. One of them in the kitchen another 2 in the the garage. He had left one of the refrigerators some small bites of random stuff, and a some empty ben an jerry ice-cream containers. The last bites had turned into sludge...and were dated from 15ish years before hand. The stench was...unique, and in the top 30 of the more unfathanobly awful stenches ever created. The poorly sealed plastic bags: because had the attention span of of spoilt brat at 9. of one was a we didn't know what other than: Sulphur something for medication medication, and guessed at old sandwitches only because the shape. Then had found in the very very back of a yet another yet another broken and turned out to be plugged and baaairly function freezer...was a bunch of cans of decaying sprays....including, but not limited to: a ton of of bug sprays (that had eaten through the plastic) hair sprays...from the 80s (he was a pack rat)...and an exploded can of soda's an beer....al formed a frozen sludge...and shen defrosted, unleashed the newly crowned champion of god awful stenches. I can confirm: dead things in refrigerators stink to hell and back.
"Primal instinct" is probably right. The only reason we became the dominant species is our ability to share knowledge, so "bad stink is bad! Smell bad stink!" Is a beneficial instinct
I'm tempted to synthesize thioacetone and keep some in a hip flask in the front seat of my car. Then, the next time I get pulled over, the cop will inevitably demand to see it. I'll tell him, "It's not what you think officer, there's no alcohol in that flask and I strongly recommend you don't open it... Please, officer, don't open that flask!... See, I told you not to do it."
It's probably while he doesn't understand why people think he likes making smelly things. He cannot smell them as well as regular people. I used to work in garbage- literally walked and climbed through it. It only took about 2 weeks on the job to get past the smells. I had to use specific clothing and boots that were only used for work and buy a separate washing machine to clean them. Other people could smell the garbage after they were laundered and sometimes even on clothing washed in a separate load afterwards. Don't get me wrong. There were still really rank smells. It's just that they weren't as putrid and reflex inducing any more.
@@sumduma55 I get that. It's like that with spicy food, eventually you get used to it. But, there are chemicals that can permanently change you sense of smell. However, I am sure that Nigel won't be reckless around them.
You've made a "standard bathroom malodor" which, to me, means something to use in research/development situations to see how well a tested device will remove odors from the basic bathrooms. Look up DOD crowd control measures and non-lethal debilitation. Just some of the thiols I used in my lab would have given a much stronger reaction than anything you tried today. Several of them have the warning of "reeks - can cause disability".
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Imagine using an extremely expensive lab and associated equipment along with highly pure chemicals to make the apex fart in a jar
Apex fart in jar. I'm crying, that killed me.
Apex fart, Caustic would be happy
@@AMabud-lv7hy new caustic buff revealed
@@christophsiebert1213 big same
If this is the "Apex Fart" then thioacetone is the "God fart". Thioacetone is absolutely nasty shit. Here's and excerpt on it's odor. "Thioacetone has an intensely foul odor. Like many low molecular weight organosulfur compounds, the smell is potent and can be detected even when highly diluted.[8] In 1889, an attempt to distill the chemical in the German city of Freiburg was followed by cases of vomiting, nausea and unconsciousness in an area with a radius of 0.75 kilometres (0.47 mi) around the laboratory due to the smell.[9] British chemists at the Whitehall Soap Works in Leeds noted in an 1890 report that dilution seemed to make the smell worse and described the smell as "fearful".[10] Thioacetone is considered a dangerous chemical due to its extremely foul odor and ability to render people unconscious, induce vomiting, and be detected over long distances.
In 1967, Esso researchers repeated the experiment of cracking trithioacetone, at a laboratory south of Oxford, UK. They reported their experience as follows:
Recently we found ourselves with an odour problem beyond our worst expectations. During early experiments, a stopper jumped from a bottle of residues, and, although replaced at once, resulted in an immediate complaint of nausea and sickness from colleagues working in a building two hundred yards [180 m] away. Two of our chemists who had done no more than investigate the cracking of minute amounts of trithioacetone found themselves the object of hostile stares in a restaurant and suffered the humiliation of having a waitress spray the area around them with a deodorant. The odours defied the expected effects of dilution since workers in the laboratory did not find the odours intolerable ... and genuinely denied responsibility since they were working in closed systems. To convince them otherwise, they were dispersed with other observers around the laboratory, at distances up to a quarter of a mile [0.40 km], and one drop of either acetone gem-dithiol or the mother liquors from crude trithioacetone crystallisations were placed on a watch glass in a fume cupboard. The odour was detected downwind in seconds.
Nile is not only a smart fella but also a fart smella its unbelievable.
Gud comment right here
Hahaha god dam*
LMFAO!
Hopefully he knows how to lay brick an paint walls an build freeways an knows who runs the world an use magic. That letter 2 being the most intelligent things I've found.
Oh yeah an not be a lil girl an be scared to name the last 2 like I assume people are
amazing comment
You probably had a hard time smelling it due to nasal fatigue. Even though you were working with a fumehood it was clear that based on the reactions of your coworkers that you had been exposed too long to fully smell it. The fact alone that you and your cameraman could stick your noses into the jar and the others could hardly even open it illustrates this clearly. You should try revisiting it in a few days and see what it smells like to get the full experience.
That's a great point, I forgot that can happen.
This makes much more sense than my hypothesis.
"the full experience" xD
yea
@@hurricane31415 I’m curious, what’s your hypothesis?
I love that after sniffing most repulsive chemicals he says, “it’s not that bad”, while his camera guy is heaving.
His sense of smell is completely gone
yep, it happened too when he made tri.... something
@@c0smic.dw3ller trithyoacetone
T@@c0smic.dw3ller it was thioacetone
@@Cat_boy950 yeah! that
If Nile were to ever find out what he thinks is 10/10 stink, i’m pretty sure it would go against the geneva convention
Yeah, that's war crime levels of STANK
I want him to make his own military grade fart spray
This is the first video I’ve seen of his and I want him to do it
He might accidentally end the world
@@richardcutler6254 This is what I immediately thought about. It's supposed to be so terrible it's even not reliable as a weapon, or for research purposes.
The dipropylene glycol makes it very clear that this is intended to be vaporized. Put some in a fog machine or vape dispenser and try a whiff of that. I bet it will take your rating up to 46/10.
vape the fart juice
Forbidden vape juice
On the one hand... incredibly stupid thing to do. On the other... you'd be TH-cam famous overnight.
yeah, that was my immediate take away from this; it needed to be vapourized. That said, Nigel really does seem to have a deadened sense of smell when it comes to stinky things.
Yeah - fuckin vape it...
I've only uncontrollably gagged/vomited from an odor once in my lifetime. My mom kept a 32 gal trash bin in her backyard to "collect" her dogs poop. Normally it wasn't very smelly since we lived in the desert. The poop would dry out and as long as the lid was on you couldn't smell anything. One weekend in August my mom called me up and asked me to come empty the bin for her. My cousin and I pull up to her house and go to grab the bin. She then tells us to be careful because it was filled with water. I asked her why it was filled with water and she told me that during the last rain storm, about three weeks prior, the lid had blown off and the bin filled with rain water. The same bin that was half full of dog poop. The same bin that had been sitting outside in direct sunlight, in August, in the desert. Reluctantly, my cousin and I went to lift the bin. The second we got it off the ground the lid popped off and we were immediately overtaken by the raw, boiling, stench of the poop soup. Both my cousin and I set the bin down and fell to our knees wrenching. I never experienced an uncontrollable reaction like that. I honestly thought I was going to vomit my organs up. The smell was absolutely volatile.
i’m sorry but this made me laugh poop soup
I'm sorry but this is the funniest thing I've ever read
I wouldve fell into my knees too dude
“raw, boiling stench of poop soup” I can’t stop laughing
🤠
Nile: “I don’t know why people think I like making stinky things”
Also Nile: “Finally stinky time”
This man has lost whatever part in a human's brain that instills a sense of self preservation and fear of danger.
The amygdala?
He’s the I did a thing of chemistry
@@dominickwest7558 FR LOL
those brain cells died 500 experiments ago
Should we blind him and give him some gymnastic / MMA training? Perhaps a red jumpsuit?
nile being disappointed that the smell didnt really match his expectation while his friends complain is a testimony that he's simply built different
This is the same guy who poured a bunch of acids on his hands to see what would happen. Man is BUILT different
@@Pinkgobi and he is literally THROWING AXES in his break.
I think it's a matter of being around sulphuric smells. Chemists and stuff don't find the smell to be the same as actual poop smells. I think it's because artificial attempts at making biological waste matter will always smell different to us simply because they're chemical smells that we're used to identifying.
I mean those old fart bombs don't even remotely smell like a fart to me, They smell like rotten eggs, So basically just sulphur.
I call that permanent nasal damage lol
Built like a brick **** house. His nose is anyway.
I'm actually convinced Nile's sense of smell has been compromised just from, you know, being a chemist.
Depends on the chemical. I actually got really good at smelling impurities that our analytics (NMR, HPLC) couldn't detect. But the smells definitely stop bothering you so much. Worked a lot with Thioglycolic acid, it's really not that bad when the novelty has worn off.
Eh as long as you're wafting the vapors you'll be ight
Yes.
I've had acid and base burns and breathed in terrible stuff.
I imagine he has as well.
@@stefangadshijew1682
I got good at telling what the structure of things were based on smell.
It's a little weird how quick that develops.
@@stefangadshijew1682 I got really good at smelling cocaine but that's a story for another time.
"That's vile"
No, that's a jar.
I’m mad that I laughed at this
Phial.
Sir, this is a Wendy's.
Being a chemist it is absolutely possible he has inadvertently damaged his sense of smell. It happens to moonshiners all the time.
I was just thinking that; its kind of like that time he couldn't smell pecans ... ⚠️
That was my wonder as well
i don't think he "damaged" his sense of smell, I think he is desensitized.
edited; i think my wording was far too open to interpretation and might have started an argument based on misinterpretation of my meaning. might be wrong and they're just idiots, but that just means we share a common denominator.
Anosmia. You bet!
please elaborate, I' m curious!
There's a chemical my friends and I were laughing about called thioacetone because the wikipedia states "In 1889, an attempt to distill the chemical in the German city of Freiburg was followed by cases of vomiting, nausea and unconsciousness in an area with a radius of 0.75 kilometres (0.47 mi) around the laboratory due to the smell" which seems insane. The rest of the page is filled with more things like this. I'm not saying you SHOULD make this, but, yknow, it would be cool to see if wikipedia's right ;)
Manufacture of certain chemicals within the mercaptan family is fairly hard to do without specialty equipment and atmosphere handlers specifically modified for the laboratory environment in which mercaptans like thioacetone are handled. In the case of thioacetone (or actually trithioacetone due to spontaneous self-polymerization) you will require the glove box/hood to have alkaline permanganate seals and you need to provide some way, even with the seals, to neutralize the mercaptans (such as free copper ions in a sufficient high solution of nitric acid being used as a filter). Finally, even with the Copper and Nitric Acid acting on contained release of thioacetone, to prevent releasing the stink through the building ventilation you need to run all exhaust through a pyrolitic decomposition before venting to any location outside of the sealed atmosphere.
@@Cutest-Bunny998 holy shit that's an intense chemical lol
@@Cutest-Bunny998 and I assume that's the only way to legally make the stuff, I'm no law expert but I imagine you could get in pretty big trouble releasing a biohazard into the environment that is capable of rendering everyone within a half mile radius unconscious or at the very least wishing they were unconscious
Hamilton Morris talked about Thioacetate in one of his podcasts.
He made it because of that wikipedia article & said it wasn't that bad. But he was not sure whether it worked or not.
Came down here just to see if anyone would suggest thioacetone, that'll probably do it lol
I’ve heard of this chemical, which was dubbed, “The worst smell in the world” It’s called Thioacetone. I think you should make some of that too and see which one smells worse. Edit: Who else first heard of this from the second episode of Distractable?
@NileRed
THIS^^^^^^^^
Pretty sure thioacetone is worse cause apparently a small quantity of it Can Make people faint from 0.5 km away so
Y'all might want to concoct it in a sealed room instead of a fume hood, so you're not venting the diabolical smell into the world
I mean, the government said it smells so bad it couldn't even be used as a weapon, so... Maybe just look it up? Joe Scott did a really great video on the topic.
Seeing the title I had this anxiety that this was what was being attempeted.
Opening a box with an ice pick is literally the most Canadian thing I’ve ever seen.
The worst malodor I experienced was in my youth.
Fifty years ago, the vast majority of radios were using vacuum tubes. In that particular period, manufacturers were trying to save on costs, so they replaced the rectifier valve 6V4 with a single selenium rectifier. That rectifier, unlike the 6V4, didn't like any current above 50 mA; so they were failing regularly during lightings strikes. When they failed they overheated badly. Now selenium is in the same group of sulphur, but it was 100 times more stinky.
Some radio owners replaced the carpets and repainted the walls and, after awhile, throw away the repaired radio.
Selenium - when overheated - produce an odor that stick into the nose for days if not weeks. It has an unnatural stinkiness, which cannot be hold for long. People cannot sleep in a room where selenium compounds are in the air, nor they can stand for very long. I have experienced it first hand all its unpleasantness.
Selenium rectifiers were also used in battery chargers in the '50s and the '60s, charging car batteries and forklifts. It was easy to tell if a mechanic shop or a warehouse had had a charger malfunction, as the smell was left lingering inside for months after the event.
Selenium compounds must be the stinkiest thing after your military grade malodor formula.
Thanks for the video...
This could be an interesting component of Nile's 10/10 stink concoction!
From a quick google search, selenophenol sounds like a good candidate. A few dashes of cadaverine and putrescine wouldn't hurt either.
Wait, does this mean that…Tellurium…?
@@ArruVision I read that it's a pretty stinky one too.
@@AlldaylongRock Based on Periodic Videos, tellurium is..... well.... out of this world stink-wise.
He probably destroyed his sense of smell over the years, because he was just casually sniffing that stuff.
Yeah way back in Chemistry class we were taught not to directly stick the container to our noses but move our hands over the top to get a waft of the odor. I suspect what happened to this guy is the reason why. haha
In his parents garage with no fume hood, ya think? xD
That and the fact that the cameraman was reacting a lot more to things compared to Nile
he seemed to be able to smell everything very well, but maybe he is just desensitized ?
I am sad today I didn't got a single subscriber😭😭😭😭😭..........
Everytime u see this man on nile red he is some what professional and here he is an absolute toddler but I like this side of him. Smashing stuff, destroying stuff and messing up is what we want to see
This is like BTS content with some effort to make it into an actual video
Nilered: professional
Nileblue: toddler
Nilegreen: C̠̝̮̠̥̫̭̐̃̕ḣ̟̮̝̞̰̍ͨ̓͟a̢̲͓̪̩ͨo̎͑͏̭̺̖̺͔̗ͅs̶̺͙͎̪͕̻̞͇̀
It made Green a lot easier to buy at first.
Then nilered shorts is a maniac with too much power.
Nilegreen is basically Loki.
NileGreen is on a whole other level tho
My favorite part of all this is that Nile, himself, said he enjoys making stinky things. It's in one of the perfume-based videos he made years ago, he said he prefers making stuff that smells rather than the nicer smelling things. He has like, three separate videos of different horrible smells he's made, LMAO
This just proves that Niles sense of smell has deteriorated due to smelling so many chemicals
Honestly, psychopaths have a reduced reaction to bad smells. Not because they can't smell it, but because their mind doesn't register them as "bad".
I honestly can't help but suspect that's what's going on here, lol.
@@Dubanx 💀
@@Dubanx So when are we going to see Nile as protagonist on That Chapter?
@@Dubanx not to be that guy but it's not great to go around calling people psychopaths or sociopaths. Hes a strange creature but idk that it's great to imply he's a psychopath.
@@agencymenace1090
Keep in mind that most psychopaths live fairly normal lives and don't go around hurting people. You just don't hear much of those ones.
I'm not trying to say he's dangerous or anything, just built a little differently in that regard.
Imagine if the government was testing the bad smell and everyone is crying, screaming, throwing up, and then one guy is just like “eh it’s a 4/10”.
I wonder when they created the smell because cultural changes can increase or decrease the importance of things.
Imagine that same guy created a 10/10 haha 😂
Commander: Thioacetone?
Government: *Thioacetone*
@@DMXIII "Sir that is delving into chemical warfare"
It's the Biden administration, the minister of health is trans. What did you expect tbh
How to identify a science lab: If it bites, it's biology, if it stinks, it's chemistry, and if it doesn't work, it's physics.
haha
True
ehe
@@pancakes8101 ehe te nandayo!
@@sax7760 HAHAHA
A smell that causes fear and panic is one of the funniest things I've ever heard
Most entertaining part is seeing how Nile clearly has lost a lot of his sense of smell just like my chemistry professor. Badge of honor. Nile will repeatedly nose dive into something before sharing an opinion while his cameraman has much more to say immediately from several feet away. Good stuff. Thank you Nile!
It's kinda sad when you realize that most of the taste in things you eat or drink comes from their smell.
He smelt all of the ingredients through their containers from a good foot or two away, I think he just has a super strong tolerance for everything for some reason.
@@goldenhorde6944 and that reason is being a chemist
he could be desensitized to one of the smells of one is a desensitizer
17:13 mad scientist moment 🤣
"People say I love making smelly things. I disagree. Hi, today we are making a military-grade cloud of stank."
"And next time I'm going to attempt to make something even worse because this was a letdown"
"I don't know where they got the Idea that I like smelly things..." Proceeds to sniff all the ingredients voraciously.
😂
Not that bad, not that bad........ ALLAHU AKBARRR
apparently this “concoction” is a “standard malodor” because its the universally accepted smell of military bathrooms, and its meant to test different cleaning product’s effectiveness against the smell.
Scientifically recreated grunt shit
Lmaooooo
@@joshuakuehn pretty much, yeah!
MREs will do that to you
@@John_Smith_Dumfugg LOL
As a longtime heavy equipment operator at a landfill in Southern Maryland, I can unequivocally attest to the worst smell in human history is...the day after the 4th of July, the first trash truck to the pile was a gentleman who would pickup from all the local crab houses, and it would sit and ferment for a couple of days, rendering the absolute worst smell imaginable. That load would slide out the back of the truck, hit the ground, and you could watch the steam rise from the odor.
I say all this because the first year I was there, I rushed to disperse this pile and spread it out to be compacted. The other operators just sat and grinned at me, knowing the impending result. I then made the mistake of coming out of the cab only to inhale a direct whiff of the ghastly gas, and promptly barfed.
Apparently the usual ritual was to wait for a few more loads and promptly bury this slimy load under a few tons of fresh smelling garbage. No one warned the new guy.
Needless to say, this was literally THE worst smell I ever had the opportunity to smell in my life. The second worst was always the dumpster from the food court at the mall.
That's a good story, mate! 👍😂 The bastards, eh?
Nile: "I'm not sure why people think my favorite past-time is making stinky things"
also Nile: "I was so focused on the stinky things, I didn't order the *main* ingredient" 7:26
TV truth.
Well if it was really his favorite thing you’d figure he’d remember the most important part of the STINK
Not to mention that he actually says he likes making stinky things in either that video or another one.
Thanks
Wow
Nigel: “I don’t know why people think I like making stinky stuff”
Also Nigel: “I’m gonna make it myself, and I’m gonna smell it”
Also Also Nigel: "I don't think it's nearly as bad as they said it would be. I am disappoint."
Everyone else: "Oh... Oh man... HUUUURGGEHH HLEEAAHHHurkurkBLLEAAHH!"
and after that : "lets extract something out of my piss and taste it!" chemist are weird... which is probably the reason i want to become one
The stink connoisseur
@@organicleaf Didn't he also say that he likes making stinky chemicals in a video!?
@@apolloandwarrior_3229 i really dont know rn
*Describes a horrific amalgamation of puke inducing smells*
"It's not that bad"
I bet his nose hairs are rendered useless after the stuff he’s smelled in his life we don’t know. Or he could j not be human that’s a option as well
Well, it's painfully obvious by now that Nile puts the "mad" in "mad scientist"
He’s really 2 for 2 at the moment…
probably killed his nose receptors xD
as someone working in wastewater treatment, ive had people ask me how do you deal with this horrible smell whilst i was not smelling anything at all XD
I like how when Nile opens the stinky chemicals the cameraman almost dies from a few feet away while Nile himself almost sticks the jars into his nostrils and says like "It is not that bad!!😁"
glad to confirm Nile's smell receptors have been completely burned off by the amount of fumes he's ingested over the years
My thoughts exactly.
I cant believe that's not the first thing everyone else told him.
I think that he can still smell it like everyone else but his reaction is just very different.
"The skatole is only 9.1% and it smells like 9.1%"
Spoken like a true chemist, Nigel determines the purity of his products by smell.
.91%
it's 0.91%
The nose is a very fined tuned chemoreceptor device.
9.1% skatole, that’s biochemical warfare at that point
The worst smelling substance in the world is apparently Thioacetone. I'd imagine it'd be fairly simple for you to synthesize, but you would regret it.
"During early experiments, a stopper jumped from a bottle of residues, and, although replaced at once, resulted in an immediate complaint of nausea and sickness from colleagues working in a building two hundred yards [180 m] away" Lol he'd still sniff it straight from a jar
There's no way he'd actually make it... right?
Nile will huff it
It's also pretty unstable and readily polymerizes to trithioacetone in room conditions. Nevertheless, I assume It's not a great idea to synthesize semi-weapon-grade stinky chemical in general laboratories lol
It has -thio- in it so I can imagine the stench
Nile Red - “I am not obsessed with stinky things”
Also Nile Red - “I am going to effortlessly and succinctly describe the complex nuances of stinky smells”
Being that he is a chemist, I can imagine that Nile has destroyed his ability to smell anything. He could barely pick up smells from literally putting his nose on something, and yet everybody else could smell the same stuff from several feet away.
nice comment pasta
I used to work in a chemistry lab. One time, I accidentally got a nose full of sulphuric acid fumes. I couldn’t smell or taste anything for a few days.
I used to smoke a lot and snort pulverized tabacc "snuff" that was awesome. But my nose got messed. Sense of smell is pretty minimal at this point lol.
@@SpaceLordof75 be careful man!
@@SpaceLordof75 do you think those senses weakened because of that? or do you just not notice a difference?
Imagine being a chemist with years of experience, you finally get that well paid US government job, and they task you with making fart juice.
I'd honestly be as eager to make it as Nigel. I feel like once they start tasking you with the weird stuff, that's when you can say you've made it to the top.
..and you finally come up with the winning formula for fart juice, then some chemist guy on the interwebs reviews your lifes work and his reaction is 'meh'.
@@FasutonemuMyoji lol very good
man, all the money you could make by selling it to simps
you obviously don't know chemists well enough
I love how Nile just takes a big whiff of everything. He has smelled too many chemicals.
he smelled so many chemicals at this point i think it ruined his sense of smell
@@olegsandratcvetochkov1623 Fun Fact: They put chemicals that deaden your sense of smell in those so-called 'air fresheners'
xD
I thought he just got used to smelling chemicals to the point it doesn't smell bad for him
@K A D Y 📽️ stop shilling bot
I love this channel. High quality chemistry experiments created professionally, and with a lighthearted attitude.
All those years as a chemist have honed not only Nile's spellcraft but also his smellcraft. We have unleashed a devastating power on the world by letting this man know that his sense of smell can find something worse than US standard bathroom malodor.
From all of the “stinky chemical” videos I’ve seen, it seems like Nile actually enjoys horrible smells. Most of the time he’s straight faced and smiling, and usually tries to convince us that it’s “not *that* bad”
just like i enjoy feet on god
@@hatetracyyhell nah..💀
@@hatetracyy loser
@@hatetracyy*EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER*
@@hatetracyy You wanna enjoy my feet?
Mans really said “its a musty rotten cheese mixed with the putrid smell of vomit” then proceeded to take another whiff and go “not that bad”
Cameraman: Oh yeah it s..ss..ss...is unique😆😆😆
It’s actually present to some extent in goat cheese and other dairy products, and humans love those things
I smelled it a lot of times at work and you get unsed to it. It really is not that bad :D
@@sugarpeas45 kyyhyh
A certain italian cheese has that smell, parmesan cheese
I had a stint as a crime scene cleaner, which unfortunately wasn't just crime scenes, but just anywhere you can imagine malodors. And a couple of my co-workers had this as well, but whenever we'd deal with putrefaction, it would actually trigger anxiety and a fight or fight response. Goosebumps would go up my arms, my scalp would feel prickly, and I'd feel like I had to go to the bathroom. Have always wondered if there was something about that chemical composition that maybe not everyone can smell, like the infamous bitter almond scent.
I think we can all conclude that NileRed needs to do a thioacetone synthesis...I've wanted to try it myself for a while now, but without a fumehood, it sounds like a deathwish...maybe it will be stinky enough for Nigel's 10/10 rating!
Update: both me and NileRed made it a while ago and it was honestly no big deal, lol
yikes, this needs to happen.
I thought that too, since when I saw the video I instantly thought of it from the second episode of Distractable
With Thioacetone a fumehood would most likely not be sufficiant for protection. Given the (alleged) properties of that stuff, I guess a completely sealed safety cabinet is the least you need to handle it.
@@DasIstDochMalEinName alleged.... who knows, we must try it for science!
What is a known OTC route to thioacetone? I haven't been able to make it by reacting likely ingredients.
this is the chemistry equivalent of mixing shampoo, toothpaste, mouthwash, etc, to make some kind of shower "potion"
My childhood haha
@@RavenSWE and all of us ended up here after learning that chemistry's not that easy
Yes I'm gonna support Nile by asking him to ship me some and start using it for body wash only the most OG people will understand.
How did you get my secret immortality potion recipe?
@@thorodinson292 ladies and gentlemen,we got 'em
i love how nile has a slightly unhinged nature that slips through sometimes
"Why are you breaking that table?"
"Were on break!"
"Lets see if this breaks when i drop it"
*shatters*
Then he gives off a super genuine happy smile hahaha
cant forget “hey guys👹”
The queston is where to find theese egredians
He´s one of the only mad scientists who have enough charisma and determination to make videos about their mad scientist shit
I came back from the trash taste podcast and he's been like that since young
Chaos energy
Getting named Skatole is already quite impressive and says a lot.
nile's titles get progressively more chaotic and i'm here for it
Agreed :)
nile blue getting inspired by nile green
*why does he want to smell Government's fart juice*
Nile reds trying to outweird nile green
i thought this was nilegreen for a second
Nilered: I don't know why people think I like making stinky things
Also Nilered: sniffs various stinky things multiple times after finding out first-hand that it smells bad, forgets to buy the solvent because he was too focused on the stinky things, dedicates a 22 minute video on making the stinkiest thing, and wants to make a stinkier thing
For real I was cracking up every time he went for another sniff
Hey, NileRed is systematic and precise. You're thinking of NileBlue. Crazy and outrageous guy.
And don't forget that he was upset about the stinky thing not being strong enough while the rest didn't even want to be close of the jar.
@@12Ajay1251 wait till you meet NileGreen
He honestly doesn't think that he does. ...BECAUSE HE HAS DAMAGED THE LINING OF HIS NOSE SO BADLY THAT HE CAN'T SMELL THEM ANYMORE.
Everyone forgets about the worst parts of a truly bad smell. It's the feeling you get walking into an outdoor bathroom (no A/C) on a hot summers day being bombarded by the humid scent of drying piss, so thick it feels like it's condensating on your skin. Tasting the urine in the air as you hopelessly hold your breath, simply seeking relief. THAT, is what makes a horrid smell.
this comment is assaulting
when you hold your breath and plug your nose, but your eyes still smell it
Wow I'm glad I don't hang out in men's bathrooms🤣
@@westie430 especially a public park mens bathroom.
That’s happened to me many times before. I just go in the woods at that point. Take some toilet paper with me and go.
My wife used to work at a PhotoMat years ago. Her sense of smell has been warped by the exposure to chemicals. She can't smell mold or certain other things at all. I believe you have achieved such levels of olfactory glory. 😆
immunity?
@@hungryTvEatYou Desensitization would be a better term. 😉 But, yeah.
I quit developing film myself cause Black and white developer is brutally toxic, My go to has Metol which is fucking toxic. E6 is not that bad, only the bleach is bad.
You'll have to team up with Mark Rober so that you can give him this "military grade stink" for his next Glitter Bomb trap!
woah,that would be interesting!
Yeah decent idea
GREATEST IDEA EVER. We need to upvote it so Nigel and Mark see this.
Like this so nile can see
That sounds like a war crime 😂🤣
Nigel smelling it: it’s bad, but it’s really not THAT bad
Reggie smells: literally dies
My boy nileblue developed chemical olfactory resistance
*Proud idiot noises*
Damn people really don't know when to use the word 'literally'
nigel's nose has just been destroyed over the years.
I legitimately think Nigel might have a reduced sense of smell
@@Boss-mp8py what are you talking about, he looks pretty dead to me
Seeing the way he just shoves his nose into every chemical instead of wafting any of them, I mean... I'm not surprised he can barely smell it. He probably can't smell much of anything.
up, you can also infer how far from the chemicals each person is by how bad they find the smell to be, I'm pretty sure the cameraman's sense of smell is pretty shot too
Sulfuric acid vibes
@@higaddrip2583 he has a wife, you know...
@@artemefimov8215 the first person to get the reference hahaha
Nigel’s favorite pastime:
- Making stinky things
- Breaking a table
-making 99.1% pure crystal me...
literally everybody: *this is the most disgusting thing i’ve ever put anywhere near my nose*
nigel: yeah it’s not that bad 4.65/10
Bruh I was just gonna say this, so true
why am I imagining the government using this stuff to try and clear a building, and then he just casually walks in.
I think in one the Episodes for the Safety Third, I do not remember with episode, but he mentioned that he might of damaged his sense of smell by smelling a chemical he was not suppose to, so the 4.6/10 makes sense for him
@@navinhaze6343 yeah he most def has damages his smell already. its pretty obv
Dudes killed his sense of smell over the years pursuing his favorite past time, I suspect. :D
Science teaches: always waft a chemical, never directly smell it
Nile: *sticks nose up to bottle* “yup that has a bit of the putrid vomit smell”
You're not a true chemist if you waft the chemical.
Sticking your nose into the bottle and having your head recoil reflexively from the smell is the true way to do it.
Thus the reason why Nile doesn't think it smells that bad, he has burned the mucus membrane in upper sinuses with repeated exposure to caustic fumes
@@Falcon532. I think he is just built different
Science teachers are also more concerned about your safety from splash hazards or inhalation of actually toxic fumes and solvents. Nile has the experience to know which chemicals will melt his flesh.
Wanna make fart juice at home the easy way? Just put a little too much faith in a fart😂
I've got to say, the moment he was like "Hey guys~" and their collective response was oh no really says a lot.
One guy said "I won't smell it" when he walked in the door, so I imagine they knew what he was doing that day.
@@randomuser6110 I think he read "Stinky chamber" on the jar.
>military grade stink
>"I think I need to come up with something worse"
I'm with Nile on this one. On a scale of 0 to Thioacetone, if you're able to simply replace the lid and say it smells bad, then it's trash.
For comparison, if that were Thioacetone, the moment you removed the lid everyone within a 1kM radius would be vomiting and evacuating.
...please make Thioacetone.
You gave him every reason he shouldn't in your comment.
Good chance he still might.
Tell him in an email.
@@dagda1180 Why don't we all email him :)
@@tabletoparcade4203 that would be spamming. Not regarded as a cool move.
@@mrcakeday1439 No no no.
If one person were to send multiple then that would be spam. Or, if multiple people were to send the same message with the sole intent to grief, then that too could be called spam.
But if multiple people, each under their own volition, were to make the same legitimate request, then that would be a petition; even when coordinated, it's still not spam.
I find it hilarious that everyone else could smell it but not him. Maybe years of chemical damage to your smell receptors LOL
@@red_weed exactly, not practicing proper wafting technique has killed Nigel's ofactory senses.
The Fila olfactoria of the nose are actually one of the only nerves which can regenerate, so it can't be that.
tbf he was also working with the chemicals the whole time, so it might also be olfactory fatigue.
COVID?
@@Spooglecraft especially with the sulfur stuff, he said it was milder after mixing and sulfur causes very rapid olfactory fatigue
Having made it yourself, you likely desensitized your smell receptors to each ingredient as you worked through the process.
That would explain why everyone else reacted more negatively *and* why the people outside of the lab reacted the worst out of anyone.
Prolonged exposure to smells causes our bodies to gradually turn down our reaction to them, and this can progress so far as to make us totally oblivious to a smell that someone else finds very distressing.
Just like cooking
they made it in the fume hood though, so he shouldn't have smelled anything while making it
So nose blindness
@@phantom_isle Yeah but he smelt each ingredient before he actually started mixing them together. I think that’s what the OG commenter was referring too. He desensitized himself to each individual ingredient so it didn’t smell as bad to him when it was mixed together
@@Mumble8988 He smelled all those ingredients 5 days before making the product, I doubt his senses were still numbed.
I have never seen anyone have such genuine fun with science... Keep it up. I love your channels.
I'm just guessing that this was made as a standard for "smelly bathroom" for some project which needed consistently smelly bathrooms for testings. Maybe for testing vent/extraction systems and preventing bathroom odors from permeating unintended areas. Or might have been some CD stuff and seeing how much bucket-toilet odor could be tolerated in a fallout shelter.
Honestly that's the most military thing ever. Spend resources to perfectly simulate a WC odors to make the ventilation better. Then when it's actually time to put people on the field, you give them this cheap commercial porta potty and... burn the feces, yeah sure, just burn it. I'm not joking with the last part.
Or as a biohazard against enemies?
Wait, they don't just spray it all over newly constructed public toilets to all make them uniformly smell the same?
They’re used as stink bombs to disperse protests.
Rather unamusingly, the Standard Bathroom Malodor was created for cleaning agent testing. In other words, it's the Standard Smell for unclean bathroom.
Background info for anyone interested, text is from an article I found:
"In 1998, Pamela Dalton, a cognitive psychologist at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, was tasked with developing a stink bomb for the Defense Department. Her experiments found that people from different backgrounds and different parts of the world, who grew up smelling and eating different things, often completely disagreed about which smells were good or bad.
The best candidate she found for a universally distasteful smell was something called "U.S. Government Standard Bathroom Malodor," a substance that was designed to mimic the scent of military field latrines in order to test cleaning products. She chose the aromatic liquid as the base of her stink-bomb recipe. The resulting formula, which she called Stench Soup, may well be the worst smell ever created."
And yet when nile made it, he gave it a 4.6 whenever he creates something thats a 10/10 for him, you’ll literally be able to smell it from a mild away
@@SleepyGaymer it was the base, they actually made something worse by combining what he made with like 5 or 6 other things.
He should just buy or make thioacetone and get it over with
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Everyone: "Nile is so smart and scientific"
Nile: "I bet this *concrete* floor is soft enough, that this *glass* vile wont break if I dropped it"
i think the floor has a soft foum on top of it
I mean, he formed a hypothesis, and disproved it in a matter of seconds. That there is a science man.
yeah that had me lol
@@xGeneralRex you, sir, are a legend.
starting to seriously wonder if he has heavy metal poisoning tbh
17:14
"Why are you destroying the table?"
"We are on break!"
"This is hexanoic acid."
"Dear god."
"There's more."
"No..."
"It is in the fridge"
And that fridge was never used again
MY SANDVICH!
something the medic would actually keep in his fridge
Had some shrimp based fish-sauce flavored kimchi that I brought to work and put in the work site fridge on site... I was the only person who used that fridge for the duration of the job after that. I had ensured that NOBODY would ever steal my lunch.
@@megastoejoe disgusting dude.
@@megastoejoe Friend of mine did the same thing to their own fridge accidentally with squid. They bullshitted the landlord - "food keeps spoiling" - and got their fridge replaced. I wonder if they could have just peroxided it or something.
Regular people: “What smells like eggs?”
Nile: “What smells like hydrogen sulfide?”
Nah I learnt rotten eggs smell like hydrogen sulphide too.
We don't eat eggs in my house.
He's not wrong
@@nikkiofthevalley He isn’t! I just love how much he loves chemistry😄
I am sad today I didn't got a single subscriber😭😭😭😭😭..........
@@sapphire5475 good
NileRed : smart fella
NileBlue : fart smella
edit : after 1 year i have changed my mind.. its the exact opposite
This comment is gold! And the translation is hilarious
nile green: fart fella
NileYello: smart smella
Salmonella
How do you do that😂
I just discovered this channel yesterday and me and my 7 year old granddaughter are marathon watching your videos.
As janky as it is, i love the production style in this one. Getting to see where everything is in the lab is so oddly pleasing. Also the little hiccups in the process are funny :D
totally agree
One thing is sure, I think they need to have a little more "break time".
That electronic pipette is dope
NileRed, world-renowned piss chemist: "I dont know why people think I like making stinky things"
Didn't he literally say that in a video?
@@Malidictus pretty sure he said he likes making stinky things in the putrescine video
@@lens3973 I thought he did too but I couldn’t remember which one! :)
I just snort-laughed. That doesn't happen often. Congrats, here's a 👍and thanks :D
Yellow chemistry at it's finest
Nile has blown out his sense of smell from being around too many chemicals.
In perfumery, the distance at which you can smell it, the strength of it, is called "scent throw" or "fragrance throw", often just "throw", and the trail left behind as you (or the thing you are smelling) move is called the "sillage".
I kept thinking about these two facts with increasing dread throughout this video.
You know he's a stinky smell connoisseur when he call the end product “It's not that bad”.
or his receptors are destroyed for staying too much in the lab xd
22:05 I loved this. It's so simple and innocent, but this really is what science is all about. He had a question, based on everything he knew about the construction of the floor and bottle (aka research), he constructed a hypotheis, conducted an experiment, and collected the data while communicating the results via video recording. Proper science.
such a thorough experiment, one to make a report of
@@populationme I'm actually writing 700 papers on this experiment, inspiring.
@@rautamies2305 bro i exhaled so hard at that
That was a scientific breakthrough he deserves 10000,00000000 awards
You forgot, we have to repeat it many times, and replicate it in another part of the world.
I feel like "created by the US government" in this case means a bunch of soldiers wanted to pull a prank, so they mixed together all the bad-smelling stuff they could find, then when they got busted, their superior turned it in, called it research, and won an award.
Nah. His shit is the combined fault of OSS and CIA. Which is honestly funnier.
@@CraftQueenJr It's definitely funnier, but as a US citizen it also kind of pisses me off. So glad that money they take out of my paycheck, my home, my car, and all my purchases is going towards fucking stink bombs. God forbid it go towards something useful like infrastructure or furthering renewable energy. lmao
This is what DARPA does on the citizen's dime
@@ossiehalvorson7702 Tom Scott made a video about NIST library of Standard Reference Materials a few years ago, it's called "The US Government's $983 Freeze-Dried Urine", look it up, I think you'd like it.
@@brycem8161 well it swings between shit like this and developing the internet and terminators. Depends how cracked out the scientists and engineers are
Nile: has a lab that would make walter white blush
also Nile: us government farts spray :D
Reminder for everyone surprised Nile was underwhelmed... this is the man that distilled his own urine.
Exactly! This man is amazing enough to make Diamond water
If him being underwhelmed does not speak to his level of "I will make malodorous chemicals for fun" I don't know what can
This is the same man that smelled CYANIDE just to see if it really smelled like almonds
I think what we've learned from this is that, if Nile says something doesn't smell too bad, it most definitely smells too bad
NileRed: Doing smart things while explaining it calmly with an extreme level of detail
NileBlue: heheheheh fart juice
@Nyxie Starz script vs no script
also nileblue: the concrete floor are soft
Hey I'm sorry about your grandmother she was a sweet lady 💖
they are the same channels
NileGreen: *in computer generated voice* I'M JESUS FEAR ME I CAN TURN WATER INTO WINE I'LL DISSOLVE YOUR WEINERS IN PIRANHA SOLUTION!!!
Naphtha alone is a byproduct of gasoline production. Zippo fluid used to be made from it.
NileBlue: "I don't know why people think I like making stinky stuff"
Also NileBlue: "Oh Hexanoic Acid. The stuff I made before that smells like stinky cheese vomit."
omg the bots are here too 🤣
Of all the comments this bot could reply to, it replies to the one about stinky cheese vomit.. 🤣
Butanoic is bad enough when it comes to ‘stinky cheese vomit’, as it’s present in all three (and faeces)! I can’t imagine Hexanoic being any better? No one has touched on Putrescine and Cadaverine yet 😱
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_"I honestly don't really have a specific use for it, and I just wanted to make it because I like to make stinky things"_
@@ProfessionalKonigSimp named “never broke again loo” .. 😯
So yeah, this scent wasn’t developed as a weapon, but to simulate the smell of a military latrine for the purpose of having a standard to test cleaning products against. Anyways, maybe look into the stench soup Pamela Dalton developed with the bathroom malodor as a base, or seeing what you can get out of thioacetone, which apparently got into some reaction in 1889 that caused an entire city to panic and evacuate from the smell.
Thioacetone is definitely the gold standard of smell but it also desensitize you to the smell if you are exposed to high concentrations.
We have developed dangerous bomb containing deadliest virus but dont worry its purpose is to test cleaning products against
Have you smelled it?
It was actually developed as a weapon! As a crowd control measure, more specifically.
Nile: I think I could make something that smells worse.
US Gov't: *furiously taking notes.*
*farts*
the "standard" word is in its name because there must exist upgraded version.
Farts gang
@@proosee pretty sure the entire list is to mislead US' enemies trying to make farts
i can make my smart smell worse than that one kid who ran a lap and forgor his deodrant
My old science teacher warned about some random chemical he had lying around the classroom, not to sniff it because it would destroy your sense of smell and constant exposure is the reason many chemists favor spicey foods. (same with miners)
Nile: "I don't know why people think I like making stinky stuff"
Guy in the office: "No, I don't wanna smell it."
Yeah but they probably new what he was doing
@Russell White yupp
As a fellow Canadian, I’m not sure if I should be very proud or if I should apologize for what’s been going on in this lab.
why not both
Be proud for apologizing?
@@prashantthakur6990 he’s Canadian it’s only natural he do so
You're Canadian you know exactly what the protocol is.
No worries, we love it here🧪⚗️
So he's a pee chemist and now he's a fart chemist. He's actually trying to create a homunculus with all bodily functions.
So he is going become a poop chemist in the future? 😳
Then there's poop essence
Efficiency XXI
@@physicsisawesome696 pretty sure he already made skatole which is a chemical that contributes to the smell of poop
NileBrown
nilered: super detailed highly planned carefully crafted masterpieces into a very informative and educational video
nileblue: fart jar
Friends and i cleaned out a barn for his grandma on a farm in IL. She left a huge side of beef (400lb) in a sealed, forgotten, non-working freezer in a barn for about 30 years. Turned to gray sludge that leaked and killed all grass and vegetation it touched for 40 feet - Bare ground to this day. Entire neighborhood smelled for miles causing panic, and emergency crews had to attend. The stench was absolutely unfathomable - words just fail.
Of all the horrific things I’ve read in this thread I have to imagine that has to be one of the worst. Good god.
This reads like an excerpt from a Lovecraft book detailing the creation of a corrosive eldritch sludge deity
@brainkrieg1423 No judgement, I'm just amazed that you couldn't find a chuck roast for 3 days in an apartment. Was it a big apartment, small chuck roast, lots of reorganizing going on, what?
LOL oh shit! ahahah. Sometime after my grandpa jumped into the shadow realm. We cleaned out all of his refidgerators...first of all we didn't know he had 4 of them. One of them in the kitchen another 2 in the the garage. He had left one of the refrigerators some small bites of random stuff, and a some empty ben an jerry ice-cream containers. The last bites had turned into sludge...and were dated from 15ish years before hand. The stench was...unique, and in the top 30 of the more unfathanobly awful stenches ever created. The poorly sealed plastic bags: because had the attention span of of spoilt brat at 9. of one was a we didn't know what other than: Sulphur something for medication medication, and guessed at old sandwitches only because the shape. Then had found in the very very back of a yet another yet another broken and turned out to be plugged and baaairly function freezer...was a bunch of cans of decaying sprays....including, but not limited to: a ton of of bug sprays (that had eaten through the plastic) hair sprays...from the 80s (he was a pack rat)...and an exploded can of soda's an beer....al formed a frozen sludge...and shen defrosted, unleashed the newly crowned champion of god awful stenches.
I can confirm: dead things in refrigerators stink to hell and back.
Why would decomposing flesh kill vegetation? Shouldn’t it act as a fertilizer?
It’s so fun how when humans smell something bad there’s an intense primal instinct to make all your friends smell it
"Primal instinct" is probably right. The only reason we became the dominant species is our ability to share knowledge, so "bad stink is bad! Smell bad stink!" Is a beneficial instinct
The same instinct that makes us pick earwax out our ears then smell it ;)
😅 It's so true!!!
@@Aspire198 In my 43 years of life I have never pulled my finger out of my ear and smelled it.
Until just now.
@@Flint-Dibble-the-Don ayo this shit kinda smell good? Yo this straight BUSSIN
I'm tempted to synthesize thioacetone and keep some in a hip flask in the front seat of my car. Then, the next time I get pulled over, the cop will inevitably demand to see it. I'll tell him, "It's not what you think officer, there's no alcohol in that flask and I strongly recommend you don't open it... Please, officer, don't open that flask!... See, I told you not to do it."
Well now we know that years of Nigel abusing his poor nose, with chemicals, has caught up to him.
It's probably while he doesn't understand why people think he likes making smelly things. He cannot smell them as well as regular people.
I used to work in garbage- literally walked and climbed through it. It only took about 2 weeks on the job to get past the smells. I had to use specific clothing and boots that were only used for work and buy a separate washing machine to clean them. Other people could smell the garbage after they were laundered and sometimes even on clothing washed in a separate load afterwards.
Don't get me wrong. There were still really rank smells. It's just that they weren't as putrid and reflex inducing any more.
@@sumduma55 yeah you get used to it after a while
@@sugarsenpai8432 youll become nose blind to it after awhile tho
@@sumduma55 I get that. It's like that with spicy food, eventually you get used to it. But, there are chemicals that can permanently change you sense of smell. However, I am sure that Nigel won't be reckless around them.
You've made a "standard bathroom malodor" which, to me, means something to use in research/development situations to see how well a tested device will remove odors from the basic bathrooms. Look up DOD crowd control measures and non-lethal debilitation. Just some of the thiols I used in my lab would have given a much stronger reaction than anything you tried today. Several of them have the warning of "reeks - can cause disability".
that makes alot of sense
A smart fella can become disabled from it, implying that they become a fart smella for life if they take a whiff
Disability? How?
@@potatopotatoeOG Disabled as unable to function normally. (by ie: flashbang, taser, tear gas, pepper spray)
That's what I was thinking
“Military grade stink” is probably the most hilarious thing I have ever heard lmfao
Military grade? Our hard earned tax dollars at work folks! It is hilarious tho!
@thomas truong yeah, because you're spending them on developing stink bombs.
The big terms / names Ley and ash and don cannot be misused in names, and the misused names Ashley and Donald must be changed - I am the only being reflecting nature related terms and special names like Ley / Leya etc!
I can top anything they're creating 😄👍
The word top only reflects me! But it’s true that no synthetic smeII could ever be _ than a humn _ or _ or humn 💨 which are the most harrible smeIIs, including the ones from can’t / tunneIz of doom and sh_ and 💨s!
Nile: takes a huge whiff in a room with 50 decomposed, putrefied dead human bodies
"It's not that bad!"
Sometimes I think it would be really cool to have smells as an added component of videos just like how audio is... now is NOT one of those times.
I believe the word you're looking for is "smell-o-vision" :D
No, no, now is DEFINITELY one of those times!
@@claireb1942 this is also one of those times where you literally are told every ingredient he’s smelling and can smell it for yourself.
@@Burns11112 sure, lemme just buy all those chems which im not authorized to do
@@organicleaf oh you don’t live in America?