@rho Should be able to do something similar with a smaller Styrofoam cup or other well insulated container. The biggest point here that isn't mentioned is the heat flux is unidirectional due to the insulation and this is what causes the clarity. Effectively the freezing is all in the same direction so there isn't "defects" that cause light refraction which makes it so clear.
It's pretty safe to pour some hydrogen peroxide into some concentrated sulfuric acid u know... It only gets slightly unsafe when u decide to put in ur body parts in there
If the bubble in ice is the result of air being trapped, what would happen if you vaccum chamber the water then freeze it. Would it have different results?
The water would evaporate. In a vacuum can only exist solid or gas, he explained it in a video in this channel where he puts an ice-cream in a vacuum chamber. Where solid water(ice) instantly turns into vapor instead of liquid water, because of the vacuum chmaber
The uneven cut is because the ice wasn’t tempered before you tried to cut it. Leave it for half an hour after it’s popped out from the cooler and each cut will be far cleaner.
@@ABisdoingjustfine I’m not a scientist, just a bartender, but from my understanding it brings the ice closer to its melting point. The freezers we use at work are -20 Celsius so we leave it out for half an hour or so before cutting in order to bring the temperature up. I think it has something to do with crystal structures but honestly I couldn’t tell you specifically why warmer ice cuts better. The ice will start melting, but large ice melts less as it has less exposed surface area so the amount of melting compared to the size of the ice cubes you get means you don’t really need to worry about it!
There's a bar I go to that used to do this exact process for old fashioned cubes. I noticed how clear the ice was and the bartender explained this exact process with the cooler and freezing the top layer. He cut the cubes with a bread knife to make a line, then tapped the knife with a rubber mallet to separate the ice.
I'm trying to do the same at home and was wondering what tool to use for the cutting. Wouldn't a bread knife get dull really fast if you cut ice with it?
@@julianlobo4450 you're not really sawing the ice with the knife. the knife's metal is able to conduct heat into the ice directly and on a concentrated point so it "cuts" by melting
@@julianlobo4450 You can use a handsaw to score it, then take a knife (one that you use just for this task, not one you would want to keep sharp) and a hammer and cut it.
you should re-do this but flatten all the sides with an hot iron, like an actual clothes iron. it makes the sides perfectly flat so there's even less distortion. makes it look like a piece of glass
If you don't have enough space in your freezer for a whole cooler you can also just do this with a Yeti tumbler or any other insualted thermos. Comes out drink sized too so you don't even have to cut it up to use it in your cocktails.
Having done this myself, I have a safety tip: wear rubber or latex gloves in order to grip the ice properly when cutting it. One slip and you can cut yourself badly. I have the scars to prove it. (Got nervous at one point when your hand was in line with the saw blade.) Furthermore, place the ice block on a wet towel to prevent it sliding around. For further comfort, wear thin wool gloves under the waterproof pair. This will also prevent the ice melting from the heat of your hand.
@Ik I remember my dad cutting some meat I think and he almost cut one of his fingers off. Pure awful. However, the might of the human body is astonishing and it healed. **Be careful with sharp objects.**
Directional freezing. I do this to make translucent ice for my cocktails. My current method is puncturing small holes on the bottom of silicon ice molds and placing them inside a cooler without its cover. It makes getting the ice cubes out a lot easier than carving them from big chunk of ice.
You know if you use an uninsulated container you get really cool stuff? I once sterilised a waste paper basket to use to make ice for a party, filled the whole thing and put it in the freezer. After 24h it had a sphere of water in it that hadn't frozen so I got the idea to drill a small hole in it then fill up the center with vodka orange which we drank. It looked so cool, like a big orange trapped in ice
You can get cleaner cuts by letting the ice block sit out at room temperature for 20-30 minutes. This is tempers the ice and you’ll know it’s tempered when it’s no longer frosty looking and has a wet appearance. I do this to make clear ice for my cocktails. It’s simple, easy and so satisfying. Love the video!
If you don't have cooler yourself. A plastic ice cream package wrapped in thick towel works well too! Edit: and you can cut the ice with a bread knife that you don't mind dulling a bit. After you have cut the clear ice, you can put it back to freezer and it will stay clear. To prevent the ice cracking, keep the ice in room temperature for a minute or two, before dropping it into a drink.
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I do this all the time. I like to use a bread knife, a small wooden mallet, and an ice pick to shape the results. You can get wax stamps and heat them with a blowtorch to emboss it as well.
There is actually some measurable effects of using this clear ice in drinks compared to cloudy. The lack of air bubbles makes the ice denser and thus melts slower + has more total cooling capacity. Also, it just looks sick 🥵🥵
Frozen water isn't healthy for you at all. Once water freezes, it has a adverse effect and instead of hydrating you, it dehydrates. It's just not good for you. For optimum benefits, drink water that is room temperature, or spring cool.
@@alhassanlol7023 ok cold water can effect the digestion and if you drink it a lot after an heavy meal you can actually feel sick. BUT 3 cubes of ice in your drink or cold water in summer can't actually hurt you. For example if you drink cold water when you exercise it helps you to not overheat.
*"I need to CAREFULLY remove the the unfrozen water"* *Gets a hammer from thin air and mercilessly destroys half of the ice* I have started a war in the replies 💀
There was a Scientific American article I read long ago that made a convex lens from this bubble-less ice and used it to take some pictures in a dark chamber. The refraction index of ice is quite different from glass, and it gave some weird photos.
I love how NileRed makes these shorts videos and he is also showing people about all these quick science videos for example he could make a video for 2 minutes about a rare chemical but I love your videos NileRed!
As you may know, under ideal conditions, water crystallizes into hexagonal shapes. This is most readily apparent with snowflakes. However, when I was a teenager, we must have had absolutely ideal conditions outside for a couple of days - air just below freezing and absolutely no wind. What resulted was the top 4 inches of our pool froze into - not a clear slab - but vertical hexagonal columns, like pencils. It was like a million perfectly formed and transparent glass pencils were aligned vertically on the top of the pool. I grabbed a handful of them and played with them in amazement. I'm a PhD chemist who has made crystals countless times, and the old adage is that the best crystals are made by accident. Forgotten solutions sitting in the back of your hood with the lid ajar, etc. It is even more satisfying if you have a pile of crystals on a large (100 g to 2 kg) scale. I never lost my love for a big tray of crystals. The satisfaction of working them around a tray out of a vacuum oven - hearing the shhhh shards of glass sound. The light refractions. Awesome. While I have made some perfect crystals for x-ray diffraction purposes, possibly the most beautiful crystals I ever made were some aldehyde - I forget which. Something like 3-(3,4,5-trimethoxy)phenylpropionaldehyde. Maybe it wasn't that because that probably wouldn't crystalize out of a heptane solution. But whatever - around 80 g of whatever it was in a liter of eluent from a column chromatography. I left it over a weekend. When I came back the crystals were this dazzling dendritic (tree branch-like) structure that filled the flask, like a tree covered in frost, with a greenish-blue tint in the supernatant from trace chromium from the oxidation. It was absolutely beautiful. This would have been in perhaps 2004 so I didn't have a phone to take a picture. It broke my heart to dump it out and evaporate it down, although I did grab a small sample of the crystals before I did.
God, a bunch of people dismissing a guy with a passion. Brother I understood nothing of what you said, but it sounded really cool and beautiful. Good luck and take care
I once found the clearest ice i've ever seen outside in a small river (LITERALLY AS CLEAR AS THIS AT LEAST) It was so cool. I couldn't even see it at first, i was just wondering why the water in that area took a weird path
Traditionally clear ice is made by freezing from the bottom up so it’s a single crystal front. The cooler acts to insulate the sides so the ice grows from the top down. Had you let it finish freezing the bottom likely wouldn’t have been as clear as the top
Its recommended to use a wooden mallet instead of a metal hammer for a more controlled force of your swing because the force will actually ricochet through the hammer head back down into your target instead of being absorbed/muffled by the wooden mallet head (you'll also do less damage to the knife). Its the same reason why metal hammers are used often in forging of knives and blades for proper shaping and conserving your energy.
When I was working at a butcher shop a few years ago, I was told to fill the large metal tubs with cold water specifically, to make the ice freeze clear. I have followed with that rule of thumb ever since and it hasn't steered me wrong.
Were the sides and bottom of the metal tubs well insulated? Because if they were plain metal walls, then you wouldn't expect to be able to make clear ice in those. AFAIK clear ice is formed if the heat loss is mostly from the top surface, so that ice grows downwards.
What a genius short idea. Simple dissolved gas explanation, with a highly practical use. We can finally all become the ice unicorn sculptures we were meant to be!!
I actually got the restaurant to start making its own clear ice for the bar after I brought in my own cubes and spheres I've made with some cheap silicone molds. Tips for anyone who wants to try this, make sure your mold has holes at the bottom and a resevior beneath them, this lets the water and later air flow through them so that the air settles down there and the mold itself is air-free. When you go to use your cubes make sure they have a small difference in temperature from the liquid (either bring the liquid down to near-ice-cold or let the ice "warm up" slowly) otherwise it will crack from the temperature shock.
Thanks for showing this Nile! It reminds me of this Christmas event me and my family went to where they built a castle and slide out of ice, and my mind was blown over how clear the ice blocks were.
Anyone remember when the mythbusters were trying to make a death ray out of ice and they struggled super hard to make a clear one without bubbles. And this mans just does it first try?
Its because this is 100% totally and completely fake, without a doubt, nothing else about it, there's nothing that can even compare, it is absolute and the ultimate total fact of the Universe.
I make clear ice in the regular refrigerator compartment, not the freezer. Plain cold tap water works fine. Use a plastic cup filled pretty much to the rim (perfection is not required at all.) Then place the edge of the cup right where the cold air blows into the refrigerator. After a day there will be a nice clear medallion, after a few days it will be several times as thick. I'm serious. The trick is to have the air blow over the surface of the water. I keep a cup going and every few days put the clear ice in the freezer to serve guests. BTW an ice pick and a wooden crab cracking mallet come in handy, tap tap not jab jab. The worst water to use? Seltzer. It makes one big white blob. Maybe I'll try boiling seltzer. What's really nice is tonic water. Make a pitcher of gin and tonic or vodka tonic and use those ugly but flavorful pieces of ice to keep it cold in the pitcher, and some clear ice to keep it cold in the glass. Too bad it's Tuesday morning!
The clarity is thanks to annealing, not just avoiding dissolved gas. The cooler insulates the water so that it cools slowly enough to form clear amorphous ice. Essentially you’re making glass from molten water instead of silica.
@@JosiahGould some of us have sensitive hands and rheumatism 😶 it's really impressive to see someone hold ice with their bare hand for more than 10 seconds, my hand would hurt so much if i did it and I'd be unable to feel it/move it properly for the next 10 minutes or more 💀
@@JosiahGould It's quite warm on the grand scheme of things, but humans are puny, weak, and sensitive; and on the pathetic scale of tolerable temperatures our squishy meat bodies can put up with, that's pretty low.
@@websterri So you're telling me some humans can withstand the cold and vacuum of interstellar space or the toxic surface of Venus which is hot enough to melt lead? We evolved for Earth, and more things than not will kill us in seconds. If you compare the resilience of a human versus the resilience of a rock, the rock wins every time.
to make it perfectly clear, you need to keep the water moving. companies that make ice sculptures freeze ice with pumps to keep the water slightly flowing while it freezes.
To get more "perfect" cuts through ice try connecting two equal sized weights of some sort (dumbbells or water bottles/jugs...) tying them together wire some thin gauge bare copper wire and then hang the wire on top of the ice where you want the cut. The copper is a conductor.
@@PRonTH-cam because a conductor can transfer MORE than just "electricity", it can conduct other types of energy too, like heat! That's why heatsinks are made from copper and aluminum. The copper wire transfers heat from the air around the two loose ends into the ice, if you use a bit thicker gauge wire it melts through the ice faster too. Doesn't work so well with enameled wire though, the enamel is an insulator.
I love how NileRed is a safety conscious responsible science communicator while NileRed Shorts is HowToBasic in a labcoat.
NileBlue is also a HowToBasic in a labcoat except it's way dangerous
A lot of his videos are amateur stuff and you can do them at home or outside
very true man
And less eggs
This video isn't unsafe though. Anyone can safely do this at home.
you know the product is genuinely impressive when Nile doesn't destroy it in the end
I was waiting for him to throw in against the table
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This is quite the rarity: A NileRed creation where you can actually do it at home. SAFELY.
Exactly. I'm VERY tempted to try it out!
Get out the chainsaw, and cut it on your lap.
@rho Should be able to do something similar with a smaller Styrofoam cup or other well insulated container. The biggest point here that isn't mentioned is the heat flux is unidirectional due to the insulation and this is what causes the clarity. Effectively the freezing is all in the same direction so there isn't "defects" that cause light refraction which makes it so clear.
Think again knife and hammer...
It's pretty safe to pour some hydrogen peroxide into some concentrated sulfuric acid u know... It only gets slightly unsafe when u decide to put in ur body parts in there
If the bubble in ice is the result of air being trapped, what would happen if you vaccum chamber the water then freeze it. Would it have different results?
@Trevor Deppe lol
good question man idk
Maybe ActionLab did smth like that? 🤔
The water would evaporate. In a vacuum can only exist solid or gas, he explained it in a video in this channel where he puts an ice-cream in a vacuum chamber.
Where solid water(ice) instantly turns into vapor instead of liquid water, because of the vacuum chmaber
@@markos1603 It would still freeze if the temperature is low enough.
He was so impressed, he didn't even shatter it against the floor at the end. That says a lot.
yes it does
How does ice work?
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@@Zrillamarion I don’t think shitty music makes clear ice
@@S0oup1 that's funny you say that. 200K views and counting. 🤣
@@Zrillamarion from what I know, music in general doesn't make ice either.
The uneven cut is because the ice wasn’t tempered before you tried to cut it. Leave it for half an hour after it’s popped out from the cooler and each cut will be far cleaner.
I have a genuine doubt - won’t the ice have started melting by then?
@@ABisdoingjustfine ice started melting regardless since he put it over the sink to get it out of the cooler
@@h.f6364 my question was specific to the tempering suggestion user jacob kelly made. how does melting help with tempering?
found otzi the iceman's alt account
@@ABisdoingjustfine I’m not a scientist, just a bartender, but from my understanding it brings the ice closer to its melting point. The freezers we use at work are -20 Celsius so we leave it out for half an hour or so before cutting in order to bring the temperature up. I think it has something to do with crystal structures but honestly I couldn’t tell you specifically why warmer ice cuts better. The ice will start melting, but large ice melts less as it has less exposed surface area so the amount of melting compared to the size of the ice cubes you get means you don’t really need to worry about it!
Nile's solution to fixing something ugly : H A M M E R
Note that was an ice pick
"carefullly"
Trotsky*
Every minute you spend not making yourself look presentable for the day is a minute that Nile could hit you with a hammer....
its a good thing most babies are cute
There's a bar I go to that used to do this exact process for old fashioned cubes. I noticed how clear the ice was and the bartender explained this exact process with the cooler and freezing the top layer. He cut the cubes with a bread knife to make a line, then tapped the knife with a rubber mallet to separate the ice.
I'm trying to do the same at home and was wondering what tool to use for the cutting. Wouldn't a bread knife get dull really fast if you cut ice with it?
@@julianlobo4450
you're not really sawing the ice with the knife. the knife's metal is able to conduct heat into the ice directly and on a concentrated point so it "cuts" by melting
@@julianlobo4450 You can use a handsaw to score it, then take a knife (one that you use just for this task, not one you would want to keep sharp) and a hammer and cut it.
2:21
For 2 seconds I thought you were gonna say "And I think that it almost looks fake...that's because it is fake"
Here before blows up
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Hi Azerzz
Homeboy over here about to make clear ice for his next video to throw people off 😂
Same thought too
Nile always says his lines like he either made the mistake he mentioned or was foreshadowing one lol.
you should re-do this but flatten all the sides with an hot iron, like an actual clothes iron. it makes the sides perfectly flat so there's even less distortion. makes it look like a piece of glass
Cool fact
Wouldn't that melt it all down?
@@turkdizikiz1147 just till it flattens it out. Most irons can’t stay hot that well anyway, so you’re constantly having to wait for it to warm up…
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@@turkdizikiz1147 yeah a clothes iron will instantly melt a 2 inch thick block of ice before you can even react
(sarcasm)
Man is answering the questions we all didn't know we needed
I've actually been trying to find how to make clear ice
Other vids are so long and this one was short and straight to the point in which I love
Did he answer a question tho
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If you don't have enough space in your freezer for a whole cooler you can also just do this with a Yeti tumbler or any other insualted thermos. Comes out drink sized too so you don't even have to cut it up to use it in your cocktails.
Having done this myself, I have a safety tip: wear rubber or latex gloves in order to grip the ice properly when cutting it. One slip and you can cut yourself badly. I have the scars to prove it. (Got nervous at one point when your hand was in line with the saw blade.) Furthermore, place the ice block on a wet towel to prevent it sliding around.
For further comfort, wear thin wool gloves under the waterproof pair. This will also prevent the ice melting from the heat of your hand.
His finger are not even on the ice
@@bethankfultohaveinternet3292 1:43, try 0.25 speed
@@bethankfultohaveinternet3292 bro?
@@bethankfultohaveinternet3292 you must be one of those blind people who watch youtube for the sound
@Ik I remember my dad cutting some meat I think and he almost cut one of his fingers off. Pure awful. However, the might of the human body is astonishing and it healed. **Be careful with sharp objects.**
Directional freezing.
I do this to make translucent ice for my cocktails.
My current method is puncturing small holes on the bottom of silicon ice molds and placing them inside a cooler without its cover. It makes getting the ice cubes out a lot easier than carving them from big chunk of ice.
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Yeah, that kinda work.
Cocktails are gay.
@@stewiegriffin7372 chicks love them tough. It is a good skill to learn.
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Nile: And I carefully got rid of it.
Also Nile: *Proceeds to hammer the living soul out of the ice*
First time?
You caught the joke too?
You seem to be new here. This man has hammered more dangerous things than a block of ice.
Yes, that is the joke
@@skar9556 fr
You know if you use an uninsulated container you get really cool stuff?
I once sterilised a waste paper basket to use to make ice for a party, filled the whole thing and put it in the freezer.
After 24h it had a sphere of water in it that hadn't frozen so I got the idea to drill a small hole in it then fill up the center with vodka orange which we drank.
It looked so cool, like a big orange trapped in ice
Whenever NileRed says "carefully", a hammer is the next thing we see.
😅😅
Is there anything aside from common decency stopping him from making a nuclear bomb?
xD
@@1lobster Yeah, he'd immediately want to detonate it upon completion.
@@1lobster what a foolish question lobster, you don't even need to remove that for him to do it
I can't believe NileRed is doing cocktail tricks now. That clear ice is just hard to resist, I guess.
My next thought was of Cocktail Chemistry or How To Drink!
Made of warm tap water, yuuummm
Nilered: “I got carefully rid of it"
The excess ice: “With a HAMMER??"
but he still did it _carefully_
yup. thats the joke!
Unfunny and lame lol get a life touch grass hahahaha
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You can get cleaner cuts by letting the ice block sit out at room temperature for 20-30 minutes. This is tempers the ice and you’ll know it’s tempered when it’s no longer frosty looking and has a wet appearance. I do this to make clear ice for my cocktails. It’s simple, easy and so satisfying. Love the video!
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If you don't have cooler yourself. A plastic ice cream package wrapped in thick towel works well too!
Edit: and you can cut the ice with a bread knife that you don't mind dulling a bit. After you have cut the clear ice, you can put it back to freezer and it will stay clear.
To prevent the ice cracking, keep the ice in room temperature for a minute or two, before dropping it into a drink.
*SENSITIVE CONTENT*
ONNANOKO.TOKYO/machiko
MEGAN : "Hotter"
HOPI : "Sweeter"
JOONIE : "Cooler"
YOONGI : "Butter" .
PETTY : face.
BODY : Beautiful.
SMART : flirt.
Like to eat.
Жизнь, как красивая мелодия, только песни перепутались.
#однако #я #люблю #таких #рыбаков
#ライブ配信の再編ありがとうです！#この日のライブ配信は、#かならりやばかったですね！１#万人を超える人が見ていたもんね（笑）#やっぱり人参最高！#まさかのカメラ切り忘れでやら1かしたのもドキドキでした！#今後は気を付けないとね5). .
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@@charlottegiv1607 @Charlotte Giv 💞 ok, i have no idea what you are advertising here. Like its like one of those lustful online things but you have stuff like eat? Well anyway just to be safe...
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I do this all the time. I like to use a bread knife, a small wooden mallet, and an ice pick to shape the results. You can get wax stamps and heat them with a blowtorch to emboss it as well.
It was a surprisingly fun little project
*SENSITIVE CONTENT*
ONNANOKO.TOKYO/machiko
MEGAN : "Hotter"
HOPI : "Sweeter"
JOONIE : "Cooler"
YOONGI : "Butter" .
PETTY : face.
BODY : Beautiful.
SMART : flirt.
Like to eat.
Жизнь, как красивая мелодия, только песни перепутались.
#однако #я #люблю #таких #рыбаков
#ライブ配信の再編ありがとうです！#この日のライブ配信は、#かならりやばかったですね！１#万人を超える人が見ていたもんね（笑）#やっぱり人参最高！#まさかのカメラ切り忘れでやら1かしたのもドキドキでした！#今後は気を付けないとね5). .
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@@Aereto Plot twist: It was bubbles trying to get into the ice, ruining the experiment.
My man really just made a Minecraft Glass Pane
Only took one comment to figure out why you’re the skinny white guy, not the funny white guy
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There is actually some measurable effects of using this clear ice in drinks compared to cloudy. The lack of air bubbles makes the ice denser and thus melts slower + has more total cooling capacity. Also, it just looks sick 🥵🥵
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Frozen water isn't healthy for you at all. Once water freezes, it has a adverse effect and instead of hydrating you, it dehydrates. It's just not good for you. For optimum benefits, drink water that is room temperature, or spring cool.
@@ViveLaIsrael how so? when water freezes the only thing changing is the way molecules organize
@@garowwolf because body works differently
@@alhassanlol7023 ok cold water can effect the digestion and if you drink it a lot after an heavy meal you can actually feel sick.
BUT 3 cubes of ice in your drink or cold water in summer can't actually hurt you. For example if you drink cold water when you exercise it helps you to not overheat.
*"I need to CAREFULLY remove the the unfrozen water"*
*Gets a hammer from thin air and mercilessly destroys half of the ice*
I have started a war in the replies 💀
Hahahahaha. 😐
@@MirioLOL ?
@@Melonblox2 hes a kid wanting attention saying peoples jokes are trash
@@GaeluskaX I know
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There was a Scientific American article I read long ago that made a convex lens from this bubble-less ice and used it to take some pictures in a dark chamber. The refraction index of ice is quite different from glass, and it gave some weird photos.
I love how NileRed makes these shorts videos and he is also showing people about all these quick science videos for example he could make a video for 2 minutes about a rare chemical but I love your videos NileRed!
I've always wondered how to do this. Thx NileRed!
You'll have better luck with a vibrating tray while it freezes btw.
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Wow that is amazing. It’s funny how ice can turn from a blurry chunk of coldness, then turn into something almost crystal clear.
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As you may know, under ideal conditions, water crystallizes into hexagonal shapes. This is most readily apparent with snowflakes.
However, when I was a teenager, we must have had absolutely ideal conditions outside for a couple of days - air just below freezing and absolutely no wind. What resulted was the top 4 inches of our pool froze into - not a clear slab - but vertical hexagonal columns, like pencils. It was like a million perfectly formed and transparent glass pencils were aligned vertically on the top of the pool. I grabbed a handful of them and played with them in amazement.
I'm a PhD chemist who has made crystals countless times, and the old adage is that the best crystals are made by accident. Forgotten solutions sitting in the back of your hood with the lid ajar, etc. It is even more satisfying if you have a pile of crystals on a large (100 g to 2 kg) scale. I never lost my love for a big tray of crystals. The satisfaction of working them around a tray out of a vacuum oven - hearing the shhhh shards of glass sound. The light refractions. Awesome.
While I have made some perfect crystals for x-ray diffraction purposes, possibly the most beautiful crystals I ever made were some aldehyde - I forget which. Something like 3-(3,4,5-trimethoxy)phenylpropionaldehyde. Maybe it wasn't that because that probably wouldn't crystalize out of a heptane solution. But whatever - around 80 g of whatever it was in a liter of eluent from a column chromatography. I left it over a weekend. When I came back the crystals were this dazzling dendritic (tree branch-like) structure that filled the flask, like a tree covered in frost, with a greenish-blue tint in the supernatant from trace chromium from the oxidation. It was absolutely beautiful. This would have been in perhaps 2004 so I didn't have a phone to take a picture. It broke my heart to dump it out and evaporate it down, although I did grab a small sample of the crystals before I did.
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Why did you put anything in the mobile phase?
God, a bunch of people dismissing a guy with a passion.
Brother I understood nothing of what you said, but it sounded really cool and beautiful.
Good luck and take care
@@ElGranPanda hopefully you weren't referencing me.
Never gets boring. I have watched this video at least 100 times it’s so good😊 So entertaining ❤
As an ice it makes me super happy to watch this
I once found the clearest ice i've ever seen outside in a small river (LITERALLY AS CLEAR AS THIS AT LEAST)
It was so cool. I couldn't even see it at first, i was just wondering why the water in that area took a weird path
Wow nice bro lol
Of course it was cool, it's ice!
@@president00007 yep! Very cool.
Yeah, I've seen very clear ice in running water too. What is it about it?
I thought that was what niel was going to do
Man that freezer is hella fast.
It made the water ice in literally 5 seconds.
Wow. This is some weird spam. #Waste
@@sobertillnoon I'm reporting the whole damn thing, I don't know how the nile hasn't blocked this trio yet!
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@@yan.8043 im guessing the 2 first repliers are bots
Porn bot 😠
"I carefully need to get rid of it."
Dumbledore said, calmly.
Traditionally clear ice is made by freezing from the bottom up so it’s a single crystal front. The cooler acts to insulate the sides so the ice grows from the top down. Had you let it finish freezing the bottom likely wouldn’t have been as clear as the top
I love how Nile can never escape making longer videos. It's his shorts channel but it's almost 3 minutes long
This is the only video that outside of science
I believe that ice sculptures use boiling purified water and then immediately put it either outside or in the freezer to get the clearest ice possible
1:13 I carefully got rid of it. *destroys with hammer*
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Its recommended to use a wooden mallet instead of a metal hammer for a more controlled force of your swing because the force will actually ricochet through the hammer head back down into your target instead of being absorbed/muffled by the wooden mallet head (you'll also do less damage to the knife). Its the same reason why metal hammers are used often in forging of knives and blades for proper shaping and conserving your energy.
I always love the “I carefully did x y z -“ *cuts to hammer footage*
1:38 the drill (or smth else) singing is perfect👌👌👌
I just love how the ice is so clear and can see perfectly.
isn’t that the point of the video
@@markermanbfdi Yeah, I guess
Somehow the restaurants always have clear ice
cool, you have a checkmark but you have absolutely no videos.
@@wellwellwell5096 he deleted his vids
@@hlo-h3k b r u h
@@wellwellwell5096 ikr
When I was working at a butcher shop a few years ago, I was told to fill the large metal tubs with cold water specifically, to make the ice freeze clear. I have followed with that rule of thumb ever since and it hasn't steered me wrong.
Were the sides and bottom of the metal tubs well insulated? Because if they were plain metal walls, then you wouldn't expect to be able to make clear ice in those. AFAIK clear ice is formed if the heat loss is mostly from the top surface, so that ice grows downwards.
This was a beautiful episode just like you, BlueNile, and Robo-RedNile
Can we just appreciate how this man was holding the ice with his bare hands to give us a better look
wow he held ice with his bare hands!! it's like 32 degrees fahrenheit!!!! that's fairly chilly! i bet his hand got damp too!!! wow!!!!!!!!!
Because its fake ice.
@@randompeople465 ok.
@@randompeople465 explain why it's fake then, go on
dumbass comment chain
2:21 that one water drop from the ice: aight Nile ima head out you do you
0:14 To get started you need to get started.
Lol
XD
lol
if I have to get started, do I need to get started, or do I want to get started?
@@CarlTheNPC_q Whenever someone says "To get started..." I think of the YTP "IT'S ALL RIGHT HERE AT YOUR FINGERTITS"
Nilered : "i will carefully take out the ice"
Also nilered : proceeds to smash the ice
What a genius short idea. Simple dissolved gas explanation, with a highly practical use. We can finally all become the ice unicorn sculptures we were meant to be!!
I actually got the restaurant to start making its own clear ice for the bar after I brought in my own cubes and spheres I've made with some cheap silicone molds. Tips for anyone who wants to try this, make sure your mold has holes at the bottom and a resevior beneath them, this lets the water and later air flow through them so that the air settles down there and the mold itself is air-free. When you go to use your cubes make sure they have a small difference in temperature from the liquid (either bring the liquid down to near-ice-cold or let the ice "warm up" slowly) otherwise it will crack from the temperature shock.
I just love how Nile is a man of science...But sometimes he just reverts to old times of "Haha, hammer go smash"
@@yukierose9225 @Yukie Rosé @Charlotte Giv 💞 and yo mama are bots so report them.
YEP! I do this to make the ice I put in any drinks I mix. Improves the taste, lasts longer, and it just looks real nice in a cocktail!
0:55 When you’re taking a phat shi....
I'm just surprised him making ice didn't turn into making a flamethrower or random bomb.
Yeah that’s really not like Nile……….he just needs some more potassium
Thanks for showing this Nile! It reminds me of this Christmas event me and my family went to where they built a castle and slide out of ice, and my mind was blown over how clear the ice blocks were.
where was this event if you don't mind me asking?
I tried this. It worked.
0:06 people on twitter when someone has an opinion
damn.
The end was so calm. I was thinking for sure he'd throw it...I'm shocked😂
He did!
check the full video lmao
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NGL, as Long as it makes my drink cold I’m satisfied with it
But this is soooo cool
Don't use this ice for your drinks, as the original hot water from the tap isn't sterile. Use cold water that you have boiled instead.
The whole sequence at 0:55 is genuinely the funniest thing i’ve ever seen ice do
it farted
1:53
Disclaimer: No ice are harmed during making this video 😂😂😂
LOL
I fought he cut his hand
Anyone remember when the mythbusters were trying to make a death ray out of ice and they struggled super hard to make a clear one without bubbles. And this mans just does it first try?
I remember that... [*]
Its because this is 100% totally and completely fake, without a doubt, nothing else about it, there's nothing that can even compare, it is absolute and the ultimate total fact of the Universe.
@@CerealExperimentsMizuki how do you think they make clear ice in a bar
@@CerealExperimentsMizuki because?
@@kevinradtke3767 using Eldritch magick
0:58 Me on the toilet
I'm Crying. Flying. And dying
@@DisassemblyDrone-T wow two years ago
Thanks for the comment
LOOOOL😂😂😂 😂
this should be an unboxing video
"I carefully got rid of it"
*ABSENT MINDFULLY SMASHES ICE WITH HAMMER*
Lol 😂
2:35 respect for holding the ice with your bear hands
ok
I was going to make an argument towards ice with bubbles in it, but now you've convinced me. Clear ice is beautiful
0:57 ice jumpscare
WHOOOOOOOA it’s so glossy and clear 🤯
This video is:
✔ Life changing ✔ Informative
✔ Inspiring ✔ Heartwarming
✔ Useful ✔calming ✔Enjoyable
✔ Other
1:36 is it singing or
Or screeming
Farting
Or saying
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
1:58 that's what she said.
Btw gr8 vid
Be said hard
2:30 , i trust him at this point 😂😂
The perfect piece of ice doesn't exi-
It's not. It has a bunch of bubbles in it. He got close ish though.
That was surprisingly a lot more simple than I expected it to be
I like how he uses the word ugly
2:05 "and i was able to chop it into four large chunks."
*Proceeds to make a cold beats*
1:37 - Bro, you cutting towards yourself is giving me major anxiety.
I make clear ice in the regular refrigerator compartment, not the freezer. Plain cold tap water works fine. Use a plastic cup filled pretty much to the rim (perfection is not required at all.) Then place the edge of the cup right where the cold air blows into the refrigerator. After a day there will be a nice clear medallion, after a few days it will be several times as thick. I'm serious. The trick is to have the air blow over the surface of the water. I keep a cup going and every few days put the clear ice in the freezer to serve guests. BTW an ice pick and a wooden crab cracking mallet come in handy, tap tap not jab jab.
The worst water to use? Seltzer. It makes one big white blob. Maybe I'll try boiling seltzer. What's really nice is tonic water. Make a pitcher of gin and tonic or vodka tonic and use those ugly but flavorful pieces of ice to keep it cold in the pitcher, and some clear ice to keep it cold in the glass. Too bad it's Tuesday morning!
Finally! A Nile red experiment witch doesn’t require any chemicals!!!
Wdym? It requires dihydrogen monoxide. Make sure to wear gloves and goggles
Technically, everything has chemicals. 🤓
The clarity is thanks to annealing, not just avoiding dissolved gas. The cooler insulates the water so that it cools slowly enough to form clear amorphous ice. Essentially you’re making glass from molten water instead of silica.
They gave ice cube from bfdi arms? 0:12
Its not bfdi
Calm down bla boy@@DDani12
@@Sweetberriesbeingdugyour the one that needs to calm down bro, he just said “it’s not bfdi”
@@DailyCatCommenter idc
That is cursed
Absolutely all of us know what Nile is gonna do wen he say "do something carefully"
@@yukierose9225 stf.u
Oh my god he’s so calm, careful and collected 🤩🤩🤩🤩
I'm just too distracted by the fact that you held a huge chunk of very cold ice with your bare hand. What a legend
It's just ice... It's only 0C, that's honestly quite warm on the grand scheme of things. Should have yeeted the clear block at the end though. ;)
@@JosiahGould some of us have sensitive hands and rheumatism 😶 it's really impressive to see someone hold ice with their bare hand for more than 10 seconds, my hand would hurt so much if i did it and I'd be unable to feel it/move it properly for the next 10 minutes or more 💀
@@JosiahGould It's quite warm on the grand scheme of things, but humans are puny, weak, and sensitive; and on the pathetic scale of tolerable temperatures our squishy meat bodies can put up with, that's pretty low.
@@ratemisia Only some humans are and it's really not cold at all on the human scale of things.
@@websterri So you're telling me some humans can withstand the cold and vacuum of interstellar space or the toxic surface of Venus which is hot enough to melt lead? We evolved for Earth, and more things than not will kill us in seconds. If you compare the resilience of a human versus the resilience of a rock, the rock wins every time.
love how he does things carefully
to make it perfectly clear, you need to keep the water moving. companies that make ice sculptures freeze ice with pumps to keep the water slightly flowing while it freezes.
That literally looks like a piece of some kind of silicone. It's crazy how clean and smooth that ice chunk looks!!
I did the same steps as you did and that was hard and my ice Looks extremely amazing
0:48 sounds Ike the halo 2 sniper
Wait yeah now that I think about it
2:16 arent your hands getting cold by the ice i dont know just asking (because I think it might be fake) NO DONT TAKE IT SERIOUSLY I AM JUST KIDDING
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@@hexchexsaygexhexagonwhy did you use Arabic number 9 and and
@@palestinessifan its an emoticon
Ice isn’t that cold
Nile red the person who made history
I just love how 'carefully' Nile does stuff😂
*video starts*
*hammers ice and smashes it*
ah yes, the chaotic opening scene.
Nile: And now I'm gonna gently take away the extra ice
Also Nile: Continuously smashes the ice with hammer
To get more "perfect" cuts through ice try connecting two equal sized weights of some sort (dumbbells or water bottles/jugs...) tying them together wire some thin gauge bare copper wire and then hang the wire on top of the ice where you want the cut. The copper is a conductor.
Hmm. Why does the conduction factor matter when making the cut?
@@PRonTH-cam because a conductor can transfer MORE than just "electricity", it can conduct other types of energy too, like heat! That's why heatsinks are made from copper and aluminum. The copper wire transfers heat from the air around the two loose ends into the ice, if you use a bit thicker gauge wire it melts through the ice faster too. Doesn't work so well with enameled wire though, the enamel is an insulator.