Extracting Cadmium from a NiCd Battery
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Yes!!!
Now play some camellia bgm ehehe
Looks like Board of Canada.
You should collab with the youtube channel "look mum no computer"... Your welcome!
Battery disposal industry: Incinerating batteries is absolutely fine (1)
References
1. Explosions and Fire et al: "The Atmosphere Is Nature's Bin". TH-cam, 27 March 2020, 5:58
I'm my own worst enemy
No it’s not. It’s just his bin.
I have that bit screencapped for whenever my project supervisor asks how I intend to dispose of my waste.
Wow Extractions and Ire managed to do a collab with that famous et al guy?
Welp, it's still better than the "good ol' chem pit".
8 months ago in your RuO4 video, you told us to remind you in 8 months to extract Calcium from bones. Here’s the reminder
Being a pure bred American, I genuinely enjoy stroopwaffels.
Being a full human being, no one cares. 🤦🏻♂️
@@Weldoholic its literally a honey waffle cookie, no way someone doesnt
@@vincedibona4687 wait until you discover that the world doesn't recover around you, it's gonna be a whole new perspective
"Just because a project succeeds in its goals doesn't mean its not a fucking disaster"
Thanks Tom, was struggling for a final sentence to conclude my thesis but this gets to the core of it.
top kek
😂🤣 but well done tho
Like that time the fume hood died... Just leave... Reaction was just fine!
im suppose to write my thesis right now, its 5am and it was due at 5 hours ago. this could replace everything i wrote in the last few hours
i have to remember this
Gotta love inorganic chemistry. Always trying to kill you, but at least there's pretty colors (and no tar!)
There is no inorganic or organic chemistry. There is only molecule and "bulk" chemistry.
@@PlaqueBaka ok Mr science man
Don't worry, organic chemistry will try to kill you plenty. But fewer colors, it's all a white powder.
Idk why "and no tar" made me laugh like it did, but it made me chuckle.
Instead of tar it has brown sludge
As part of my degree course, I went to a chemical plant that was very pleased that it had recently worked out how to replace the Cadmium electrodes they had been using, with Lead electrodes, because Lead was so much safer.
that feels like a weird sentence considering how bad lead is as well. Lesser of two evils I guess
In 2020 I worked a bit at for an electrochem project of a doctotorant as a general lab rat.
Cleaning and polishing the used cadmium electrodes was one of my jobs. I was kinda glad I had stocked up a few micro silver filter cloth masks before habd, because if the pandemic. ^^
Not that safer though.
Lead's way better than cadmium
@@subliminalfalllenangel2108 ermmmmmm yeah it’s decently so, cadmium is fuckin scary lol
Imagine inviting a friend and they see your waste bottle of green cadmium.
"There's a lot of nickel in this cadmium, have you thought about separating it?"
it's just a prank, bro
**proceeds to chug the cadmium** ya?
"Thought about it... and decided against it."
🫥
I used to make beautiful nickel sulfate crystals from the nickel oxyhydroxide I got from batteries, I left the cadmium alone. Had a whole box of the screens but misplaced them when I moved
"where's the cadmium?" is a scary game
bloody scary after that chemist got 2 drops on a nitrile glove and it killed her in a horrible manner. (Chubby Emu channel)
@@gordonlawrence1448 That was dimethylmercury but organocadmium compounds are arguably worse
how in comparison to where's the uranium?
@@vincentschumann937 a lot worse considering you’d likely be fine short term from uranium depending on the amount
Hey heey pay no mind your under 18 you wont be doing any time come out and play
I love the sketchyness of this video. It's like he knows just about the bare minimum to make everything work.
that's just how lab work is tbh. trust me on that one.
what's even funnier is that he has a phd
that is because I don't do youtube videos, imagine having less than the bare minimum and still trying, got an HCl plant project for about two years now, no proper glasware used, just some UV LEDs, mercury vapor lamp, halogen lamps(gotta have that warmth since people say that I'm just too cold), some drilled mini glass jars and test tubes, a lot of PTFE tape and epoxy, epoxy and PTFE tapes are everything to me.... got something going, gotta revive the damn thing after some new findings.... for what is worth, I managed to do it, I got about 1l of 5% HCl from the project, yes, all from table salt, water, heat, UV radiation and my hatred! no borossilicate needed, true men do chemistry without lab glassware.(of course, I might die earlier from an explosion or cancer, whatever comes first LOL)
@@deathkeys1 Just because project does its goals it doesn't mean that it isn't a fucking disaster
He's an actual chemist but started these videos when he was a child and still uses the same ghetto rigged gear. He likes to mock his own no-fricks-given persona.
"is nickel magnetic" tom has a chemistry degree and saying things like this is why we love him
Just proves he's a real scientist.
Ok but is it though? Asking for a friend.
@@Flagdread Speaking as a PhD chemist and a hobby chemist (more like Tom than I'm willing to admit), I can personally confirm it. Also I know plenty of people who'd say the same thing in the same situation - all PhDs. (Yup, I'm aware this is anecdotal and therefore meaningless :') )
@@beguilingfire I will inform my friend that Mr Theal Chemist says that's it's confirmed.
There's only three that are and they're all neighbours
Back in the 70's I helped build an apple press. After 300 lbs (yes, we were still using furlongs in the 70's too) of apples, the plating on all the screws was gone. A quick test in the university lab proved we had a tasty, toxic cadmium apple drink.
What kind of screw has cadmium in it?
@@sunnysuryani5674 a screwed up one
RIP
Cadmium plated screws and bolts were common. We been getting cadmium plated nuts and bolts from China for some time and folk don't know. Galvanized and zincalume may also have cadmium if from tjyna. Heat it red hot for a bit if the coating is brown it's cadmium oxide. Zinc oxide is white but happens to be yellow when still hot till it cools .
@@Philip-hv2kc cadmium is pretty common in nuts, bolts and other metal hardware... i found out after i made a bong out of the stuff...
Yellow chemistry, mate. You knew what you were setting yourself up for...
I am a fool
@@ExtractionsAndIre just remove the yellow in post.
Coloured safety goggles to remove the yellow
green is the new yellow
We had some metal bits in our science lab in high school that was meant for showing how density worked. They came in these nice old kits in plastic bags, each piece was equal in size.
Among the samples was a slug of metal that didn't look like lead, but it was very very heavy. I was curious as to what metal it could be.
Read the instructions and it turns out it was a solid lump of Cadmium. That I was handling with my bare hands.
Oops
Well, elemental cadmium isn’t all that dangerous. It’s not absorbed by the skin so you’re not going to die by holding it
@@Tactix_se same as lead or even mercury. people got mercury fillings and we still fish and hunt with lead, and its mostly fine to touch(dont eat birdshot)
"Where did the Cadmium go?" is not a question anyone wants to hear...
It's not quite up there with "where did the Mercury go?", but it's still unnerving.
where da uranium go? where da hydrochlorine go?
@@renerpho while still really bad, mercury isn't a carcinogen...
@@vincentschumann937 At least you can find your uranium with a giger counter. Sucks if it's inside you tho.
@@renerpho
I don’t know what is worse.
I recall working on a submarine during a refit and was surprised to find a locarton which contained cadmium plated equipment. Lovely colour though!
From Wikipedia "Ni-Cd batteries contain between 6% (for industrial batteries) and 18% (for commercial batteries) cadmium, which is a toxic heavy metal and therefore requires special care during battery disposal."
Maybe that was all of it
holy fuck, that really might've been all of it
6% of fukk-all is fukk-all. I think you´re right.
@@Skyliner04s still, the cell should be something like 29g, he should have way more...
@@AKAtheA are we including the steel case?
@@jeremymcadam7400 yep
"What the fuck, where is my cadmium" is the same energy as where is the lamb sauce but a little bit passive-aggressive
20:20 "I'm getting really sick of this"
You know, you might not want to be saying that around good old cadmium...
I love the part where he loses the highly toxic metal
Baja Blast chemistry is my favorite personally.
It really does look like Baja Blast...
Fuck, now I really want to drink it.
Operation Soda Steal
@@leflavius_nl5370 Operation Soda Steel
@Tiddy Blaster nah man I think I was making a metal joke to reference MGS or something
Considering the battery is probably only ~5% cadmium by weight, I'd say you did well.
Watching Tom descend into insanity Because of heavy metal poisoning is kinda funny.
The things we do for the advancement of science
“absolutely do not open these”
*6 seconds later*
“oke, so my plan is to take this apart”
There's something very enlightening about how he seemingly haphazardly blows through chemical processes trying to figure it out as he goes after skimming the literature and documentation until it gets to where he wants it...and then says that he's struggling with putting together Ikea furniture which is famous for explaining the process step-by-step to make sure that even college students can get it put together.
I don't know why, but some people just inexplicably struggle with Ikea directions. I had to help a friend with his Ikea desk, after he got stuck ~6 steps in.
Gotta say, I love how you just throw things at the problem until it works - much more entertaining than other chemists who follow exact steps and never make mistakes on camera
Also cadmium is really soft and you could chew on it mate
That's one way to test for cadmium I guess
Cadmium test:
Have someone drink the solutions. If they're dead, there was cadmium!
👍
@@Ninjastahr if you drink the reaction mixture, you get to use all the amazing testing equipment they have at the hospital :D
Tasting the compounds is a good method of identification and was widely done in the pre 20th century.
I appreciate the honesty of showing us the failures as well as the successes. I fear traditional publishing does not publish the failures so we never hear the reality.
You ever heard of peer review?
@@atlas42185... that's not remotely the same
@@atlas42185Pee'er review? Payer review... there it is.
"Just because a project succeeds in its goals doesn't mean its not a fucking disaster." I need this on a T-Shirt. It's going to be my slogan for life now.
Fun fact, in Germany, you are considered worse than the devil if you trow even just one battery ever in the normal bin.
There are collection boxes in every supermarket
Good
ah yes "where's the cadmium" my favourite game to play on a long car journey
Changing the color of the nitric acid solution was genius subtle humor
Always remember, if you're not satisfied with your yield percentages, just say the purpose of this test was qualitative, not quantitative.
Man, I love when chemistry involves lots of brightly colored liquids. Feels like cartoon science, in like a good way.
Extracting Cadmium - From Battery ✔️
Extracting Gallium - From LCD ✅
Extracting Indium - From LCD ✅
Then make CdSe and InGaP quantum dots. I used to make these extensively.
extract Gallium from duckweed
Extracting Europium from old Vakuumtube monitors.
What the fuck are all you guys extracting this shit for, domestic terrorism?
Indium from LCD? Sounds tough as balls.
Man...stumbling upon your channel was like a gift bro. Seriously i watch other chemists but none of them were comedian chemists lol. Love it man gonna binge everything now.
"Let's play a little game called 'WHERE'S THE CADMIUM?'"
Answer: IN MY BLOODSTREAM!
I'm really glad you made this video. I've been contemplating the extraction of cadmium from NiCd batteries for a couple years now as a means to add elemental cadmium to my element collection. You have made it quite apparent to me that ebay prices really aren't that bad xP
Greeting from a new subscriber!
This was the first video i watched and let's just say that I really enjoyed it.
Please keep up the good work. Love the enutisiasm, anger xD and how you make "not-so-fun" scenarios fun (cleaning for example).
thank you man and if you see this I wanna wish you a safe day ^^
Thanks mate!!
This entire video was just the laugh of a broken and tortured man.
Top notch content, my dude.
You got my like for the name
Same subbed
Fucking simps… 🤦🏻♂️
Tom: I'll do some inorganic chemistry to get a break from the yellow
sulphur: allow me to introduce myself
Some cadmium compounds make fine yellow pigments.
20:16 I absolutely love this edit with the casual "Where's the Cadmium" text
Can you do the calcium from bones reaction?🙏🏼 in the spooky scary ruthenium tetroxide video@0:44 you said to remind you in 8 months time n i would love to see it 🕙.
MVP comment
@@thedude7726 Most volatile peroxide?
@@vertiform_city i love this 😂
We were supposed to remind you to extract calcium from bones.
It wasn’t just incineration that was a problem with ni-cad batteries it was cadmium leeching into ground water from landfill disposal. That’s still a problem with the old landfills that are full of these.
I'd hate to think what other heavy metals are in the run off from landfills. Probably all of them
@@ExtractionsAndIre collect runoff from landfill, extract heavy metals. profit?
@@ExtractionsAndIre pretty much.
I like how things aligned so that you ended up with really pretty colors all around. Even the yellow looked okay next to the green and blue.
That new cam produces some crisp footage! I like! (the colors are a bit intense though, wrong base curve setting in the video editor maybe? o:)
Yeah lol I'm still learning. I can tell when it's wrong but I'm not good at correcting it yet
@@ExtractionsAndIre All good man! Just saying. ^^ Awesome video, as usual! I'm still chasing the cadmium with you, about halfway through.
All that's missing now is a proper microphone that doesn't make him look like he's doing Karaoke.
@@graealex that's why I come here. I like to pretend he's singing me sweet chemistry songs in spoken word.
@@graealex That's why we're here! Chemistry Karaoke is the best!
discovered this channel a couple days ago, can't stop watching. the commentary is mostly what makes it interesting for me. despite the lack of tar.
When you put H2S into the Cd(NO3)2 solution it decreases the PH again by regenerating the acid:
Cd(NO3)2 + H2S -> CdS + 2HNO3
I'm pretty sure that's the reason for the low yield.
Solution: buffer the shit out of it!
My guess is that within a weeks time, most of the CdS oxidised into some mixture of sulphite and sulphate. Cadmiumsulphate is fairly soluble in Water at 772 g/l.
@@marinahildebrand5868 Cadmium sulfide was used as a pigment in paint, so it should be fairly resistent to oxidation, but according to Wikipedia, it does react with HCl.
@@hammerth1421 Yeah, I think adding sodium acetate to the solution should do it.
Turn that arrow into an equilibrium arrow and I think you have your answer. Once CdS reacts with acid, the H2S can just fly away as a gas.
The camera joke at the end is your best joke so far on both channels
The pained laughter throughout
I think the videos in which you're especially confused, frustrated, and suffering are ironically have the most entertainment value.
TIL why Bob Ross has a color called Cadmium yellow
I thought the exact same thing when I saw he was doing Cadmium chemistry, does he not watch Bob Ross? Does he not know the absolute Yellow he's in for?!?!
Cadmium yellow is still available in many places.
Cadmium yellow may be available but im pretty sure the use of actual cadmium in the paint colour got banned in most countries although I could be wrong though im not a paint expert
But theres also Cadmium red which is O.K.
@@markopolo2172 Nope! It's still cadmium selenosulfide in most oil paints, if you look at the SDS
I know I'm late to this party but the H2S is probably reacting to make some Sulfuric acid as it bubbles through the solution, dropping the PH and increasing the solubility of the cadmium in solution. This would explain why it seems the reaction stops after a certain amount of time. To keep it constantly going you would probably need to adjust the PH back to slightly acidic when the reaction stops.
13:06 I believe the very good test you were about to mention was drinking the beaker of mystery goop and if you die its cadmium
Imagine how cool it would be to have toxic element goggles that could turn your work area for this project into a fun multicolored death zone
Cadmium is very, very similar to iron-nickel when in sulfate acid, such as nitric-oxide acid, sulfuric acids, or nickel-cadmium ion acid (which you used twice)! The result will be iron-sensitivity, which is highly dissolvable with sulfuric acid, but not with fulric (or formic) acid. You were actually recreating the science of the battery itself, generating a voltage very likely by adding and removing different highly-sensitive-set ions to the solution! Great video, a lot of fun to watch! Take care, an Immortal Speaking.
7:52 thats how i imagine what the start of an accidental nuclear explosion looks like
**screwdriver slips**
"There's Cadmium there, I'm not crazy, I know there's Cadmium there." Has the same feeling as "Theres GOLD in them there hills!"
Somehow the struggle of getting the chemistry to work is enjoyable when it is someone else struggling, and it takes less than an hour to sort out on vid... Somehow even super low yields are amazing... Sorry bud. Keep up the great work! Test the ph in the solution after it stagnates... I think the hydrogen sulfide is bringing the solution back around... Try buffering the hell out of it?
So, is green your "new" yellow? And, yes, nickel is ferromagnetic.
The amount of suspicion and concern I had at the start is now eclipsing my morbid curiosity. Congrats.
If only we had a real decent disposal system for NiCd batteries, instead of 🤷 "Nature's Bin" aka Water, Air, and landfills... 🤷
noone said you cant just eat them
@@lazy1126 You're right, we're told it's not a good idea and how bad it is, but not explicitly to NOT eat it.
@@theemissary1313 I haven't heard of someone dying from eating it so it's probably OK, right?
It’s called my neighbors bin.
there is you just have to take it to the recycle center . but people don't
They say to don't open a lot of things but that's how we learn
Yellow chem = bad
cadmium sulfide = yellow
that explains your yield
it hadn't even occurred to me until I saw that yellow at 18:30, that's the same cadmium yellow that's used in oil paints isn't it?
NiCd batteries are still the standard in Aviation.
Cadmium after the separation:
Give me my Nickel back!
Dude, I love your videos, I know very little about chemistry and will never try any of this, but it is truly fascinating. Keep it up and don't get cancer or melt your face off.
Have you ever had things go property-damage bad? Or hospital bad? Or police-called-on-me bad?
Viewer questions video in the future?
Thanks mate!
I used to open batteries on my free time back in like 2012, I found a ton of different materials used but I did it for the little button batteries you often found. There was a black colored powder, slight yellow fluid, and once the cadmium. I never had any bad experiences, so never thought about why i shouldn't. Now I now that cadmium batteries exist and are highly toxic.
When you said "glassware graveyard" I was laughing so hard 😂😂😂
00:00 to 20:00 - the "do not try this at home" actual extraction success and benefit of knowledge gain
20:01 - the "do not try this at home" part
just to cheer you up, this is a good video that shows how scientific thinking and scientific method solve problems trough variuos experiments.
I’m really liking this slightly more high end/main channel editing keep it up!
This was a wild episode of Cadmium Pranks!
Gotta love when what was expected to be a 5 minute project takes months!
Though it may be sacrilege to say, the cadmium sulfide precipitating out as the gas was bubbled through the solution did make a very pretty shade of yellow, especially against the greenish blue of the solution. Okay, I've said it, I will now accept the consequences of my blasphemy.
15:31 You really needed the noisemaker sound effect here maybe even the confetti.
At my old job, I grit blasted off cadmium from aerospace parts. I legally had to have a respirator and have annual blood tests to see if I could still work.
Damn, bud, yellow really is your nemesis. Regardless; awesome video. Inorganic Chem is always cool to watch because of the pretty colors 😎
So.... you PhD is going way to well that you torture yourself with trivial questions like "wheres the cadmium" ?
Is cadmium fulminate a thing?
Yep, and it's apparently quite effective. apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/AD0479637
Carat rocks for my infinity gauntlet
it would probably taste nice
Yellow pop rocks
Cadmium is one of the few elements I'd call explicitly "cool"
It's used for tons of stuff from artisan pigments to fireworks to material science. It's cool enough to have been mentioned in at least one Godzilla movie
The time line on the "easy to assemble" home cabinet (IKEA) to the week later for the first result of the experiment was awesome!
I could never do anything like this it scares me to heck. You videos are a great way for me to act like I am a smart scientist and I am with you in the lab. Bravo on the content and who you are as a person
You always use the absolute best music in these videos!! I always love watching them and finding new amazing songs, thanks man.
Yep Lithium took over the battery market leaving Cadmium behind
NiMH is still there, but isn't as good as NiCd was for high current applications. For low power applications it's still very nice and low maintanence, see Eneloops.
This is psychotic but im glad it exists
Easily the most entertaining chemistry youtuber
I was susprised to see these are still used in most airsoft rifles. I used to hate the nickel batteries as a kid , I'd never wait until its fully charged and end up with a battery that only ever took half a charge.
vibing hard to this track while homie slices open batteries for our mutual curiosity 😩
I just started distilling nitric acid and now I've got this video to whatch as well
I live on Long Island, New York. My Parents live upstate. There are lots of ways for me to get from where I am to where my parents are. The shortest route mileage-wise, and the one the GPS almost always selects, is on a road called the Cross-Bronx- Expressway. This road is always a bad decision, because no matter what time of day, day of the week, or day of the year, the traffic is always jam packed. No matter how many road signs say it will take 10 minutes to cross it, no matter how much the GPS wants me to take it, and no matter how tempted I am to do so, I have trained myself to drive twice the distance (frequently in half the time) to avoid it, because once I get on this road, life sucks.
Yellow Chemistry is your Cross-Bronx-Expressway. Always a bad decision. :-)
Glad you're back making videos! You have been missed. I hope the internship went well.
This has been one hell of an odyssey with you, E&F. My favorite part was when we all lashed you to the mainsail so you could listen to the wisdom of the Sirens. Lost a lot of stout men that day... Don’t remember that? No, I don’t suspect you would…
yer drunk, ye old sod! drunk on moon pies and jellied barnacles, i say!
I watch a lot of these videos from creators where it seems perfectly planned and executed. Tom is a month in and is like, where is the cadmium??
All of this top notch chemistry and all I could focus on was the Melbourne Bitter can hanging out in the background 😄
Gotta love the midnight upload schedule keep it coming
Removing the green from the solution by turning greens off in vegas pro was a good edit.
I wish I had that function for the color yellow just built into my eyes.
I inconclusively confirm Yellow chem is bad, what did you expect from a yellow chem synth?
Nickel for promoting bacterial infections, cadmium for replacing the calcium in your ion channels and giving you brain damage. A match made in heaven.
If it looks delicious, it must be healthy to drink, right?
God, i am loving this new camera. I can see every little detail of your face!
That was actually a really pretty yellow to come from such NASTY starter material