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
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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
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!
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.
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.
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.
When I distil, I don't use a pump for the cooling column at all, I use a pan that is around 6 inches deep and 2 feet by 4 feet and run the distillate through a coil in the pan that exits the pan at the bottom of the coil. The top inch of the water in the pan is boiling hot and evaporating, but the bottom of the pan still has cold water in it after more than an hour. It works great for me and is simple. But, I am not distilling Mercury. I imagine if you use 3/8 inch steel line for the coil, and you ad some way to ad cold water to the bottom of the pan, this method would work for what you are doing, and it would be super efficient on cooling the vapor while using minimal water. Thanks for the awesome video.
@@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.
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.
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.
Okay that big thing of mercury you had in the beginning... Funny story. My chemistry teacher used that as a hall pass. If you had to interrupt class to go to the bathroom, he would let you, but he made you take that with you. He had it on a long string because it weighed like 50lbs, and not many of us could carry it, lift it, set it down, lift it again, etc. So throughout the day, all over the school(small school) you would occasionally hear something loud, dragging across the floor and you knew it was someone from the science lab needing to go to the bathroom. His other hall passes included a stuffed deer leg, emu foot, stuffed Fox, a beaver tail, etc. Those were his hall passes where he needed someone to do something or another teacher needed them but if you had to go and interrupt class you had to drag the mercury thing. Best teacher ever. For real. He was one of the schools favorites. We were sad when he finally retired a few years after I graduated.
@@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.
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
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
When you said you wanted a mercury feeder, my first thought was a top feeder reservoir where that bolt and nut went. I know mercury is heavy, but I would think a top feeder would have been easier to make. This was still a neat video, I enjoy homemade distilleries.
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?
You could try some ice in with the water of your condenser reservoir. It'll keep that condensing water temp down for an hour or so if not more. That's what i do when i recover refrigerant on a hot day. Love the videos!
It's stuff like this that makes me want to get into hobby chemistry even though I'm going to be a Computer Scientist and I mostly am into machining. Electrochemistry especially is so cool. I could make potassium chlorate from wood ash, I could make Hydrochloric Acid and Sodium Hydroxide from just salt water, a membrane, and some UV. I could make sulfur from rocks and make sulfuric acid, and nitric acid. I could make my own smokeless gunpowder, or priming compound. It's so amazing the stuff that chemistry can do.
Please don't take this the wrong way but when i first saw your videos i thought you weren't that great. Tbh i thought you were a poser. I wasn't really captivated by your videos and entice to watch more. But recently, upon watching your mercury distillation videos, i've come to realize that you're 100% legit. Your videos are awesome. Please keep up the good work and i'm sorry for ever having doubted you and/or your videos. You seem to be very knowledgeable and definitely know what youre talking about. Don't listen to the haters!!!!!!!
Connor Wood not to sure if I Remeber correct in an older video video he showed over 100 pounds of mercury and said that was not even close to all that he owns. So yeah, alot.
Ever handled a metric ton flask of mercury? I have - that much mercury in one container is nuts. If you ever need additional mercury get in touch with me!
Emanuel Nemec ???? How? ?? Plastic and diesel/ gasoline are made from different fractions of crude oil how would you even turn a polymer into an oil...
+Justin Koenig distillation mate, polypropene is actualy really long chain hydrocarbon and once heated it gets cracked to mixture of gas gasoline and oil.
There is a process called thermal depolymerization that can be used to convert plastics into diesel fuels. It can convert other inputs into various fuels too, there was at least one pilot commercial plant that ran on turkey offal and produced liquid fuels and some solid products. At least until the stench lead neighbors to shut them down. Not sure what happened after that.
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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
A lot of people commenting don't seem to realize that distillation is only necessary for removing dissolved substances. Rust can be filtered out.
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!
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...
Now you can make a lifetime supply of thermometers
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.
Cody's got mad skills. I'd have him on my apocalypse team!
He IS the apocalypse team...
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
"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
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.
how to build a bong (steampunk edition)
@Dan Garrison fr fr
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.
Videos like this is the reason i feel in love with this channel.
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.
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.
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!
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.
One of the reasons I love your teaching is you show your mistakes in building something let's me know your human
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!!
Had to take a quick 15 minutes break from work to watch this. Worth every second of it.
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. :)
When I distil, I don't use a pump for the cooling column at all, I use a pan that is around 6 inches deep and 2 feet by 4 feet and run the distillate through a coil in the pan that exits the pan at the bottom of the coil. The top inch of the water in the pan is boiling hot and evaporating, but the bottom of the pan still has cold water in it after more than an hour. It works great for me and is simple. But, I am not distilling Mercury. I imagine if you use 3/8 inch steel line for the coil, and you ad some way to ad cold water to the bottom of the pan, this method would work for what you are doing, and it would be super efficient on cooling the vapor while using minimal water.
Thanks for the awesome video.
*Cops:* STOP, MOONSHINER!
*Cody:* It isn't what it looks like, I'm distilling mercury.
Lol i Just watched the toilet paper moonshine Video
Fantastic video Codydon! This is my new favorite of yours.
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?
Still wacthing every ad all the way for our man Cody!
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 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!
Cody... said GOLD
Canadian Gold Prospector GOOOOOLLLLLLDDDDDD!
Marshall Gibson ya baby
Their is something mesmerising about watching someone very skilled doing something I can't do.
*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.
This comment deserves so many more likes than it has.
Anyone else notice how funny his voice sounds at 8:55 when he says "this"?
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?
i learn more from your channel than i ever learned in chemistry class.
cleans mercury for hours and then decides to drop it in a dirty bucket :)
Niels de Leeuw that’s what I was thinking.
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
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
Really hope you show the improvements you make and more distilling, this was awesome to watch!
Cody you are too much. You are born before your time! We need you for terraforming planets thousands of years from 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
your energy is the perfect pick-me-up on any day! ☕
Very nice, Cody!
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.
I'm on to Cody. No man needs that much mercury. No man....
You're one nutty professor, big thumbs up. Only complaint is the weld seam :D
7:12 classic cody the bong lord
great job cody !!!!!
TH-cam is the only means you can exhibit your Knowledge !!!!
It's really sticky.....*thinks*....It likes to stick to stuff. 10/10 haha you're awesome.
Love these types of vids on your channel
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
This is the most backyard science video you have ever made. Maybe the video on magnets comes in close. Either way. Love this.
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.
Ich dachte das ich früh sterben würde, da ich als Kind viel mit Quecksilber gespielt habe. Dank Cody bin ich heute sehr entspannt was das angeht! 🙏🏻
OOOoooooh a fresh codyslab video
Okay that big thing of mercury you had in the beginning... Funny story.
My chemistry teacher used that as a hall pass. If you had to interrupt class to go to the bathroom, he would let you, but he made you take that with you. He had it on a long string because it weighed like 50lbs, and not many of us could carry it, lift it, set it down, lift it again, etc.
So throughout the day, all over the school(small school) you would occasionally hear something loud, dragging across the floor and you knew it was someone from the science lab needing to go to the bathroom.
His other hall passes included a stuffed deer leg, emu foot, stuffed Fox, a beaver tail, etc. Those were his hall passes where he needed someone to do something or another teacher needed them but if you had to go and interrupt class you had to drag the mercury thing.
Best teacher ever. For real. He was one of the schools favorites. We were sad when he finally retired a few years after I graduated.
0:10 "I've got a lot of mercury." **DOONGG!!!**
I love the rough 'n' ready welding. great vid as usual Cody.
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.
Very neat! The end result was like a mirror!
We need to punch a hole in this thing... proceeds to *USE THE MIGHTY PLASMA SWORD OF MORDORE*
I'll never use this information but I'm so glad you do what you do.
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
Nice. It's like an auto-drip coffee machine. I like this idea.
14:25
This moment when you just distilled your mercury and you put it in durty bucket.
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 is one of your better videos. Keep up the good work.
Teacher: You'll never amount to anything!
Cody: Yeah but Still...
Wow, you made this chemical engineer happy when you said continuous feed process :)
You should totally make a Mercury Arc Rectifier
Fascinating, I can't wait to see the extraction and separation of the other metals now.
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???
You make me feel better about my welding skills. Everyone seems to complain about ugly, but if it works who cares.
Cody what's Mercury for?
Extracting gold mostly. That's why his father has so much mercury.
google it lazy ass
Bernardo B Is something wrong with asking? :/
It was very common in thermostats and electrical switches, also thermometers.
Tooth fillings as well, if you have silver fillings, those are an alloy (amalgam) of mercury and silver.
cody when welding use a grinder to prep your surfaces. it's way easier to weld prepped surfaces.
at 3:55, I was expecting a "son of a diddly".
I've been watching AvE too long.
When you said you wanted a mercury feeder, my first thought was a top feeder reservoir where that bolt and nut went. I know mercury is heavy, but I would think a top feeder would have been easier to make. This was still a neat video, I enjoy homemade distilleries.
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
I love your constant videos... they are so interesting and fun to watch! Keep it up!
You should invest in a welding helmet so you can see what your welding.
You could try some ice in with the water of your condenser reservoir. It'll keep that condensing water temp down for an hour or so if not more. That's what i do when i recover refrigerant on a hot day.
Love the videos!
Whose been subbed before he hit 100k???
It's stuff like this that makes me want to get into hobby chemistry even though I'm going to be a Computer Scientist and I mostly am into machining. Electrochemistry especially is so cool. I could make potassium chlorate from wood ash, I could make Hydrochloric Acid and Sodium Hydroxide from just salt water, a membrane, and some UV. I could make sulfur from rocks and make sulfuric acid, and nitric acid. I could make my own smokeless gunpowder, or priming compound. It's so amazing the stuff that chemistry can do.
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.
I love how you poured clean mercury into a dirty 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.
Please don't take this the wrong way but when i first saw your videos i thought you weren't that great. Tbh i thought you were a poser. I wasn't really captivated by your videos and entice to watch more. But recently, upon watching your mercury distillation videos, i've come to realize that you're 100% legit. Your videos are awesome. Please keep up the good work and i'm sorry for ever having doubted you and/or your videos. You seem to be very knowledgeable and definitely know what youre talking about. Don't listen to the haters!!!!!!!
4:24 RIP People watching at night 😂
Cody, sometimes your good'nuf is good'nuf brings pain to the craftsman side of my upbringing but I sure respect your ability to get it done.
tmw you see this video in suggestions before re-checking the subscription feed
Congrats on 1 million subscribers!!!
How many kg of mercury do you own?
way more than is sane.
Cody'sLab Love that anwser!😎
Connor Wood not to sure if I Remeber correct in an older video video he showed over 100 pounds of mercury and said that was not even close to all that he owns. So yeah, alot.
BlazeChronicGreen420 - He asked how much Cody has mercury in weight (kg), not how many pounds (£) it cost... Smh..
Ever handled a metric ton flask of mercury? I have - that much mercury in one container is nuts. If you ever need additional mercury get in touch with me!
nice to see Cody on the ranch.
Cody can you try making diesel from plastic??
Emanuel Nemec ???? How? ??
Plastic and diesel/ gasoline are made from different fractions of crude oil how would you even turn a polymer into an oil...
+Justin Koenig distillation mate, polypropene is actualy really long chain hydrocarbon and once heated it gets cracked to mixture of gas gasoline and oil.
There is a process called thermal depolymerization that can be used to convert plastics into diesel fuels. It can convert other inputs into various fuels too, there was at least one pilot commercial plant that ran on turkey offal and produced liquid fuels and some solid products. At least until the stench lead neighbors to shut them down. Not sure what happened after that.
I have the feeling that would be energy inefficient, but interesting none the less.
Yummy diesel