Today I build a new mercury distillation apparatus in order to clean a massive amount of mercury. NileRed video: • Distilling Mercury Metal Help me make videos by donating here: / codyslab
spends hours destilling mercury ......then puts it in dirty bucket xD I think NileReds preciseness mixed with codys relaxed attitude would make the perfect scientist
@@jeremyluteran5242I think a lot of chemists end up dying below average age and indeed do have a lot of neurological issues. I had a teacher who would tell the same story almost every class.
Potassium-40, specifically. On his heavy water separation video I think he did say he had a friend who was trying to separate it isotopically, and I wouldn't mind Cody trying his hand at it
That's not really feasible. As Uncle Google and Wolframalpha helpfully inform me, he'd get roughly 4 mL (about 6 M&Ms) of potassium from one kg of bananas, assuming that large majority of it would be recoverable. And since about 0.012% of potassium found in nature is K-40, you'd need *more* bananas. Around 8.3 tonnes, to get this much K-40, to be precise.
Besides distillation could you also purify the mercury with simple surface agitation under atmosphere so all the contaminants oxidize in time? Certainly distillation gives a better (and faster) result, but I wonder how pure you could get with agitation and occasional skimming. No real reason to try, I just found it interesting to think about. I've considered mercury as an option to alloy with magnesium/aluminum to make them more reactive at room temperature for various things. I've seen it work with a gallium/aluminum alloy to make the aluminum reactive with water.
Yes actually one option I considered was to place the mercury under a strong acid. since the mercury is pretty low on the activity series it would be one of the last to react. copper and zinc would be pretty easy to remove that way but lead would be harder (requiring nitric acid and a loooong time) and gold or silver would be impossible.
Cody would you consider building a liquid mirror telescope with the mercury? You could use the secondary mirror and diagonal from the reflecting telescope you used in the flat-earth video. They are fascinating and there are VERY few videos on youtube about them. They offer the potential to make enormous telescopes for very little cost, as there is no glass used in the mirror.
I did that 30 yrs ago. Used a modified record turntable. Pyrex pie plate. Never let mom suspect. Washed it off and put it back in the pantry after every use. VERY hard to eliminate ripples from slightest vibration. Has to be wiped often to remove oxide film. Can only cover limited band of sky without distortion becoming too severe. Bloody great gulp of light in the rare moments of still clarity though. A year after I did it some French university students did one about 1m diameter, I beleive.
Basically the mercury is very dirty, so he made a still, that heats the mercury, and as mercury has a lower boiling point than what's disolved in it, it evaporates, and condenses into the cant tube, then flows into the vask.
Remember back when you got 5,000 views on a video in a week? And then you made a vlog about how you got 5,000 views in a day and you were so surprised? And now you get 5,000 views in 30 minutes?
Jusb1066 you watch what they watch but you watch for free. They may get earlier access to the video but it's still the same video a couple hours later. Also these would not be able to watch at all free or not if someone didn't help help to pay for all the material he uses. Suck it up it will be ok.
BlazeChronicGreen420 if you didn't know, Cody releases videos for patreon supporters that he doesn't release for regular subscribers (he mentioned it in a reply to a different comment). i think that's why jusb1066 is angry.
According to AvE, those pressed charcoal briquettes have a significant portion of clay added as filler, which means tons of ash. Try and find some lump charcoal.
Cody, this project was *SERIOUSLY* impressive. I cannot even begin to explain how much respect I have for you pulling something like this off, with the time and materials available to you. Also, your narration for each step was top notch! I especially appreciated the part where you shared your solving of 'The Dripping Water Mystery' with us; I laughed my a$$ off!
Cody, your inventiveness and ingenuity always amaze me. That coupled with your thoughtful nature and multifarious talents is what brings me back to your videos time and again. Just wanted you to know that I think you're an awesome individual and a fantastic content creator.
I love all this rusted-iron apparatus I see in some of your videos... It sort of reminds me of backyard industry meets medieval alchemy with a hint of blacksmithing thrown in. It's great.
Its showing the welding that gets me. I've been on construction sites for 15 years, and I flinch every time welding is shown on camera for fear of being flashed.
no gas, self shielded wire... more spatter and more smoke, and welds dont look as good, but ideal for portable welding. A few seconds od welding doesnt hurt you really, just dont look in the arc
Excellent effort and clarity of teaching skills, inspiring others to learn without the heavy handedness of being or trying to impress the viewer of how gifted they are. Teaches safety skills and their importance of cause and effect. No fancy decked out lab but great resourcefulness in using/ recycling whatever material is lying around. Don't underestimate his chemistry skills which come by not osmosis but studious study. Once again, excellent video and great teaching skills.
It has been a blast to be along for the rise of your channel. You've got 1+ million subscribers and you're video is on trending. You deserve all the success. You have taught me so many different things and inspired me to do my own projects. Thank you thank you Cody. :D
I was watching your Uranium extraction video and my cat was laying next to me all interested. So I left the video on to clean and I look over and he was just fascinated by it and continued watching. It was amazing
Mercury only have a half life in your body of about 40 days thank god. You just have to stay away from the organic mercury and keep your blood levels below 100 or thereabouts. Still not good to be messing around with it - I was never happy next to the mercury retort in the silver room, my mercury levels went up to 50 but are now bugger all.
Love your Hg vids. Not all of us are cowed by the EPA and good sense. My father was I&E in the refineries and always salvaged silver contacts and Hg from thermostats (preh solid state) and had a 5 gallon glass Ozarka jug full. We were 9 and 6 and forbidden. Can you imagine a 9 yr old loosing control of a glass jug that big and heavy? Well we never let that deter us. Moment dad left for work it was time to tilt the jug and decant a gallon or two of liquid entertainment. Years later, every time life went wrong or we just seemed overwhelmed, my sister and I would reflect on possible brain lesions or genetic damage incurred. Worth every bit! Lol!
Cody we need you in my "bug out" crew. We all love you. I too was tickled by the comment about gold contamination but I gotta say this Cody. A gasifier IS a still. A water distiller, wood distiller, pretty much any distiller of anything is a type of still. Still is the stem of the word "distill". A gasifier is a distiller. Your teacher was right back then and nothing changed. Keep the videos coming. It's great to see the younger generation is still producing scientists with great minds.
Its so Cody to spend all that time cleaning this Mercury and then just empty it out in a dirty bucket...... a clean bucket you say??? Nah, this is Cody'sLab
@@danielvalle3789 Yep! A buddy and I were working with plasma from a transformer and being into photography, the same question occurred to me. In researching it I even found people showing off their setups for welding glass rigged to their cameras, so photo/video quality is left intact without compromising the camera. It isn't necessarily bad, but you run the risk of overloading sensors and creating dead pixels and similar issues.
I just realized he hit 1 Million, that's amazing Cody! I've watched your videos for years and it's glad to see a good heart make it to such a milestone! I know my comment is late.. it's not 1 Million its 1.1 XD
Would love to see the improvements you make to this project, maybe add a gravity filter of sorts at the end of the condensing run to get rid of all that rust. OR switch to a mostly glass design, which gives the added benefit of letting us see the mercury falling through the tube. Mega video hits.
rafi:ki I'm not sure what that is supposed to mean. Scalar waves are a mathematical model, what is there to 'look into'. Unless you mean something different than I'm thinking of, which is probably the case judging by ShamblerDK response.
Yes, got any ideas? you seem to know more about electronics than me and I seem to be able to use explosives; perhaps a explosively pumped emp generator would be a cool build?
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Cody the Chemist, Physicist, Geologist, Welder, Bee Keeper, Gardener, Cook, Astronomer, Engineer, and Mechanic!
To be fair I am not the best at any of those.
Why be the best at any one thing when you can be proficient or at least average at many things.
Cody'sLab yeah, but you're fairly good at each
A modern renaissance man
You forgot celebrity
spends hours destilling mercury ......then puts it in dirty bucket xD
I think NileReds preciseness mixed with codys relaxed attitude would make the perfect scientist
A different kind of dirty though... and yes that would make an awesome person.
isiTsotsi the dirt from the bucket can be easily filtered out, unlike the dissolved metals before hand
Cody has the preciseness down, he just knows how to ration his energy and time wisely. His girlfriend probably keeps him quite busy...
yeah val, cody is probably a fuck machine.
Plus, he poured it in the bucket to show it to us and inspect it. He had already decided to run it through again.
typical geologist. measure zero times, cut twice.
P.S. Im also one of those....
i cut thrice and it’s still too short!
@@funkyfresh1013 this is already far too complicated for me.
ew my mercury is contaminated with gold, gross
Two great tasted that taste great together!
Ikr, gold eww, gross.
"contaminated with gold"
Well, can't say I have heard that one ever before :D
FizzlNet Yes, don't you just hate it when stuff gets contaminated with gold? It's so irritating!
It used to be used to harvest gold on an industrial scale. not sure if its cost effect anymore, what with EPA regulations.
A friend worked at Johnson Matthey Technology and he said they would refine platinum-group metals to remove contamination from gold and silver.
Only Cody could have something that's 'contaminated' by gold...
IKnowBestest haha!
yes, they used to use mercury for gold mining but it pollutes rivers
"Gold Contamination", theres something you don't hear every day.
"ugh, all this gold is contaminating my water!" _spills all the contaminated water away_
at first when I saw your pfp I thought I had commented here with one of my other accounts and forgot about it lol
In few year, we will be watching "Cody the mad hatter lab"
dawn of the sun I always think the same thing
@@jeremyluteran5242I think a lot of chemists end up dying below average age and indeed do have a lot of neurological issues. I had a teacher who would tell the same story almost every class.
Well he’s buying huge tanks to simulate life on Mars. He really has gone mad
Three years later he's building a Mars base. Close enough?
Hey cody, Can you try extracting potassium from bananas. I just thought it would be cool.
(Edit: Thank you so much for likes , I hope cody does it)
Team 3 so many bananas
Team 3 seconded! And some of it is radioactive, right?
Potassium-40, specifically.
On his heavy water separation video I think he did say he had a friend who was trying to separate it isotopically, and I wouldn't mind Cody trying his hand at it
Sebastian Börner although the potassium is radioactive, it's pretty harmless compared to plutonium or uranium or Chernobyl
That's not really feasible. As Uncle Google and Wolframalpha helpfully inform me, he'd get roughly 4 mL (about 6 M&Ms) of potassium from one kg of bananas, assuming that large majority of it would be recoverable.
And since about 0.012% of potassium found in nature is K-40, you'd need *more* bananas. Around 8.3 tonnes, to get this much K-40, to be precise.
Besides distillation could you also purify the mercury with simple surface agitation under atmosphere so all the contaminants oxidize in time? Certainly distillation gives a better (and faster) result, but I wonder how pure you could get with agitation and occasional skimming. No real reason to try, I just found it interesting to think about. I've considered mercury as an option to alloy with magnesium/aluminum to make them more reactive at room temperature for various things. I've seen it work with a gallium/aluminum alloy to make the aluminum reactive with water.
Yes actually one option I considered was to place the mercury under a strong acid. since the mercury is pretty low on the activity series it would be one of the last to react. copper and zinc would be pretty easy to remove that way but lead would be harder (requiring nitric acid and a loooong time) and gold or silver would be impossible.
you two are some of the best science channels on youtube applause for both of you 👏👏👏👏👏
+Cody'sLab jikkkibbbn
Is there an English translation to this?
I've enjoyed watching then doing many of your cool stuff to do Nighthawk :-) Just found Cody so it is really cool seeing you here too!
Now you can make a lifetime supply of thermometers
Cody would you consider building a liquid mirror telescope with the mercury? You could use the secondary mirror and diagonal from the reflecting telescope you used in the flat-earth video. They are fascinating and there are VERY few videos on youtube about them. They offer the potential to make enormous telescopes for very little cost, as there is no glass used in the mirror.
This is a great idea and would make a realy interesting video!
I did that 30 yrs ago. Used a modified record turntable. Pyrex pie plate. Never let mom suspect. Washed it off and put it back in the pantry after every use. VERY hard to eliminate ripples from slightest vibration. Has to be wiped often to remove oxide film. Can only cover limited band of sky without distortion becoming too severe. Bloody great gulp of light in the rare moments of still clarity though. A year after I did it some French university students did one about 1m diameter, I beleive.
@@fizzyplazmuh9024 use clean mercury no oxides...
literally dont understand like 98% of the stuff in his videos, but find them extremely interesting
Basically the mercury is very dirty, so he made a still, that heats the mercury, and as mercury has a lower boiling point than what's disolved in it, it evaporates, and condenses into the cant tube, then flows into the vask.
tldr , mercury has zinc in it , mercury boils , mercury doesn't have zinc in it
Same lol Im just hoping i pick up some passive knowledge about all this cool shit
Hepad thanks for the comment Id like a dummy section to his vids where he simplifies it like this
That's a good start. :)
*Cops:* STOP, MOONSHINER!
*Cody:* It isn't what it looks like, I'm distilling mercury.
Lol i Just watched the toilet paper moonshine Video
cleans mercury for hours and then decides to drop it in a dirty bucket :)
Niels de Leeuw that’s what I was thinking.
how to build a bong (steampunk edition)
@Dan Garrison fr fr
A lot of people commenting don't seem to realize that distillation is only necessary for removing dissolved substances. Rust can be filtered out.
Remember back when you got 5,000 views on a video in a week? And then you made a vlog about how you got 5,000 views in a day and you were so surprised?
And now you get 5,000 views in 30 minutes?
now he gives those views to patreons, we dont count as we dont pay him
Jusb1066 you watch what they watch but you watch for free. They may get earlier access to the video but it's still the same video a couple hours later. Also these would not be able to watch at all free or not if someone didn't help help to pay for all the material he uses. Suck it up it will be ok.
BlazeChronicGreen420 if you didn't know, Cody releases videos for patreon supporters that he doesn't release for regular subscribers (he mentioned it in a reply to a different comment). i think that's why jusb1066 is angry.
And cable TV claims that people just want dumbed down reality shows instead of documentaries on science, history, politics and other good stuff!!
According to AvE, those pressed charcoal briquettes have a significant portion of clay added as filler, which means tons of ash. Try and find some lump charcoal.
Cody's got mad skills. I'd have him on my apocalypse team!
He IS the apocalypse team...
Cody, this project was *SERIOUSLY* impressive. I cannot even begin to explain how much respect I have for you pulling something like this off, with the time and materials available to you.
Also, your narration for each step was top notch! I especially appreciated the part where you shared your solving of 'The Dripping Water Mystery' with us; I laughed my a$$ off!
*Freddie Mercury, Venus Williams and Bruno Mars walk into a bar.*
*But they didn't planet that way.*
I'm sorry
You should be ashamed...
...
*Of how good of a dad you'd make with those jokes! :D*
Both the original comment and that reply are beyond amazing! I applaud the both of you.
Cody, your inventiveness and ingenuity always amaze me. That coupled with your thoughtful nature and multifarious talents is what brings me back to your videos time and again. Just wanted you to know that I think you're an awesome individual and a fantastic content creator.
I love all this rusted-iron apparatus I see in some of your videos... It sort of reminds me of backyard industry meets medieval alchemy with a hint of blacksmithing thrown in. It's great.
Welding without PPE. Definitely Cody
Its showing the welding that gets me. I've been on construction sites for 15 years, and I flinch every time welding is shown on camera for fear of being flashed.
Michael W. Is it a mig welder, I think it is but there is no gas shroud? I guess that's why the welds were messy?
no gas, self shielded wire... more spatter and more smoke, and welds dont look as good, but ideal for portable welding. A few seconds od welding doesnt hurt you really, just dont look in the arc
Seth M Oh ok, what about it makes you know that so that I know?
It sounded to me like he was wearing a mask.
Videos like this is the reason i feel in love with this channel.
Excellent effort and clarity of teaching skills, inspiring others to learn without the heavy handedness of being or trying to impress the viewer of how gifted they are.
Teaches safety skills and their importance of cause and effect.
No fancy decked out lab but great resourcefulness in using/ recycling whatever material is lying around.
Don't underestimate his chemistry skills which come by not osmosis but studious study.
Once again, excellent video and great teaching skills.
Fantastic video Codydon! This is my new favorite of yours.
A hug without U is just toxic. Think about it.
hole - 1st drill press channel haw haw
I know what you did there :)
hole - 1st drill press channel go back to tumblr
i C what u did there :3
Cody'sLab fuck off
Very nice, Cody!
It has been a blast to be along for the rise of your channel. You've got 1+ million subscribers and you're video is on trending. You deserve all the success. You have taught me so many different things and inspired me to do my own projects. Thank you thank you Cody. :D
I was watching your Uranium extraction video and my cat was laying next to me all interested. So I left the video on to clean and I look over and he was just fascinated by it and continued watching. It was amazing
I'd really like to see your blood work results...lol
Ill take neurological damage for 800, Alex
Mercury only have a half life in your body of about 40 days thank god. You just have to stay away from the organic mercury and keep your blood levels below 100 or thereabouts. Still not good to be messing around with it - I was never happy next to the mercury retort in the silver room, my mercury levels went up to 50 but are now bugger all.
ACTUALLY he does a video on this! it came up surprisingly normal
I did. He’s contaminated with gold.
@@artificialavocado9652 All the world's gold is contaminated with Cody, what do you think makes it so valuable?
We need to punch a hole in this thing... proceeds to *USE THE MIGHTY PLASMA SWORD OF MORDORE*
I love the rough 'n' ready welding. great vid as usual Cody.
Really hope you show the improvements you make and more distilling, this was awesome to watch!
Cody... said GOLD
Canadian Gold Prospector GOOOOOLLLLLLDDDDDD!
Marshall Gibson ya baby
OOOoooooh a fresh codyslab video
I love your constant videos... they are so interesting and fun to watch! Keep it up!
Love these types of vids on your channel
7:12 classic cody the bong lord
Nice Cody, you got 31 on trending
I Like your Profile pic
great job cody !!!!!
TH-cam is the only means you can exhibit your Knowledge !!!!
I wondered how you cleaned the tub out after use and spilling in it and stuff. Thanks for adding that into the end of the video!
It's really sticky.....*thinks*....It likes to stick to stuff. 10/10 haha you're awesome.
Hey Cody, how's the methane generator doing?
In a previous video he said that it stopped since I think something with either the heat or he forgot to put the insulation back on
I think he said that it had froze solid and killed it.
Which one? XD
Boba Fett his cows are doing fine
Had to take a quick 15 minutes break from work to watch this. Worth every second of it.
Love your Hg vids. Not all of us are cowed by the EPA and good sense. My father was I&E in the refineries and always salvaged silver contacts and Hg from thermostats (preh solid state) and had a 5 gallon glass Ozarka jug full. We were 9 and 6 and forbidden. Can you imagine a 9 yr old loosing control of a glass jug that big and heavy? Well we never let that deter us. Moment dad left for work it was time to tilt the jug and decant a gallon or two of liquid entertainment. Years later, every time life went wrong or we just seemed overwhelmed, my sister and I would reflect on possible brain lesions or genetic damage incurred. Worth every bit! Lol!
In your next video,can you show us " How to make Amalgam OR video relatedto different amalgam" since you already have so many Mercury left.
I'm on to Cody. No man needs that much mercury. No man....
Their is something mesmerising about watching someone very skilled doing something I can't do.
Fascinating, I can't wait to see the extraction and separation of the other metals now.
What happens to the impurities? Do they remain at the bottom of the still, and do you need to worry about them clogging up that supply pipe?
It would mostly stay at the bottom of the still but there's a chance that a small amount of zinc to vaporize and solidify in the supply pipe
15:40 Mr. Fly coming to check what's interesting in this bucket...
15:45 "Nope, let's gtfo, this is madness"
MADNESS??
THIS
IS
CODY!!!!!!
dammit youtube formatting......
work plox.
Cody we need you in my "bug out" crew. We all love you. I too was tickled by the comment about gold contamination but I gotta say this Cody. A gasifier IS a still. A water distiller, wood distiller, pretty much any distiller of anything is a type of still. Still is the stem of the word "distill". A gasifier is a distiller. Your teacher was right back then and nothing changed. Keep the videos coming. It's great to see the younger generation is still producing scientists with great minds.
Very interesting video Cody. Thanks for sharing. :)
14:25
This moment when you just distilled your mercury and you put it in durty bucket.
Its so Cody to spend all that time cleaning this Mercury and then just empty it out in a dirty bucket...... a clean bucket you say??? Nah, this is Cody'sLab
Still wacthing every ad all the way for our man Cody!
Congrats on 1 million subscribers!!!
Teacher: You'll never amount to anything!
Cody: Yeah but Still...
I need to clean my mercury up as well I tried yesterday but failed.
nice to see Cody on the ranch.
Very neat! The end result was like a mirror!
You should totally make a Mercury Arc Rectifier
Can videoing welding damage a camera's optics? Just a curiosity from a layman.
Wondered the same!
@@danielvalle3789 Yep! A buddy and I were working with plasma from a transformer and being into photography, the same question occurred to me. In researching it I even found people showing off their setups for welding glass rigged to their cameras, so photo/video quality is left intact without compromising the camera. It isn't necessarily bad, but you run the risk of overloading sensors and creating dead pixels and similar issues.
Well built Cody! so coool
You're one nutty professor, big thumbs up. Only complaint is the weld seam :D
Cody looks like he-man
Bitch please I am he-man! see how I am impervious to heat and toxic materials? ;)
Cody'sLab And cyanide
When the reply gets more likes than your comment
Cody, I had a mouth full of coffee when I read your reply. No worries -- screen and keyboard are okay. :o)
Codys cat is kringer.
at 3:55, I was expecting a "son of a diddly".
I've been watching AvE too long.
TH-cam says this video is trending. Good for you! You have come such a far way and we are all really happy for you
i learn more from your channel than i ever learned in chemistry class.
Whose been subbed before he hit 100k???
"Mercury steam, or as I call it, 'Meam'"
Cody is a man of many skills
I love your science, man! Keep it up!!
14:19 When cody dumps his clean mercury into the bucket used to get zinc off of the pipe... YOU JUST CONTAMINATED THE MERCURY AGAIN!!! WHYYYYY???
4:24 RIP People watching at night 😂
This is one of your better videos. Keep up the good work.
Nice. It's like an auto-drip coffee machine. I like this idea.
Omergerd I just love watching a Cody's Lab video in bed all comfortable. Life's good.
tmw you see this video in suggestions before re-checking the subscription feed
I'll never use this information but I'm so glad you do what you do.
love these videos cody!
You should invest in a welding helmet so you can see what your welding.
"*Contaminated* with gold." - Cody 2017
Fuckin' awesome video Cody! Loved all the metal work and it's awesome to see your contraption in action. Can't wait for a part 2.
I just realized he hit 1 Million, that's amazing Cody! I've watched your videos for years and it's glad to see a good heart make it to such a milestone! I know my comment is late.. it's not 1 Million its 1.1 XD
I love your intros and whats the best material to pan gold with?
watter
a pan
pro gamer dihydrogen monoxide
No like were would you get the material
pro gamer where are u from
this new industrialcraft version is great.
Thanks for making me feel better
Would love to see the improvements you make to this project, maybe add a gravity filter of sorts at the end of the condensing run to get rid of all that rust. OR switch to a mostly glass design, which gives the added benefit of letting us see the mercury falling through the tube. Mega video hits.
*distills mercury*
*pours it back into a contaminated bucket*😂
So I know that mercury is toxic but what exactly would happen if you dropped a bunch on the ground.
I would be shoveling it up.
Cody'sLab lmao
Wow
You can see him sweeping up some like that in one of his videos. That was on a solid concrete floor though.
Neat setup!
Hey Cody, welcome back to everyone's lab.
Cody, could you look into scalar waves ?
No, Cody does actual science, not pseudoscience.
ShamblerDK
rafi:ki I'm not sure what that is supposed to mean. Scalar waves are a mathematical model, what is there to 'look into'. Unless you mean something different than I'm thinking of, which is probably the case judging by ShamblerDK response.
very awesome! Also, do you want to do an experiment some time? ( it doesn't have to be for a video, i just really want to do some science with you )
Yes, got any ideas? you seem to know more about electronics than me and I seem to be able to use explosives; perhaps a explosively pumped emp generator would be a cool build?
something like this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_pumped_flux_compression_generator
yeah sure! that sounds like a great build! It could also be fun to try and make a cathode ray tube, and deflect the plasma with electro-magentism
YES THE COLLAB IVE BEEN WAITING FOR
When Cody welds
My eyes melt
Awesome video!