cody try this experiment with isopropyl alcohol and explain what happens something strange for sure, not sure if it made soap, fats, etc would make for an interesting video. Also you could use the glycerin for a deep eutectic solution for solar panels or what have you
Headshotted718 :) if your talking about me then i have already made nitroglycerine in the past (like 10 years ago) but not using the sulphuric - nitric acid mix, i was using ammonium nitrate and sulphuric acid... i have made nitric acid in the past too but since potassium nitrate is hard to get here (and other nitrates even harder) i dont use it for making nitric acid in experiments where i can replace the nitric acid with other things...
Well, if you're the one who requesting the video, then yes, I would be referring to you, lol. And by the way, you can get glycerine at most stores, like CVS or any store like that. And that's not a bad idea, I never thought of that. But for nitric acid, it doesnt have to be potassium nitrate, just any nitrate salt. Would it have made a difference to make nitric acid using the ammonium nitrate? Theoretically, it would be equally as consumptive of the nitrate if you converted it to acid first.
Headshotted718 glycerine here is available in all drug stores for really low price like $0.5US for 100ml. theoretically yes ammonium nitrate can be used to make nitric acid as all other nitrates but its not that simple... in this case you have ammonia ion not rare metal ion so the procedure should be quite different and you need way better equipment and NH4NO3 is not that good to work with... we had one forum (x-inventions) back in 1998-2001 where we talked about this but it seems even the highly skilled and experienced chemists were not sure that it can be done at all... i was trying several different ways back then but all my experiments was fails... even if you get the procedure right i bet its way too difficult to obtain pure nitric acid, i bet that it will be less than 50% so... i love to see chemists make all the ingredients for experiment thats why i was asking for the video :) imagine, you make your own glycerine, you concentrate your own sulfuric acid from car battery, you make your own nitric acid and you make nitroglycerine :) thats what i was doing and i bet thats what will keep peoples interested...
This was EXTREMELY helpful and very well put together. I use glycerin as a preservative. Thank You very much for all your hard work and dedication in making this!
@@pajakisiwego501 its sulfuric acid added to nitric acid to make a solution that's in a ratio of something like 55:45, and then this is added to glycerin and nitration occurs -----> nitroglycerin
How is this helpful other than the fact its interesting? Like other than amusement, what's the point? A liter bottle of 100% pure glycerine is like $10 at the grocery store in the cosmetics section, his yield was like 23ml... like.. how helpful is it really?
The gelled biodiesel was most likely due to water in the methanol. To get decent yields with this, you need very dry methanol and oil. Separation is also quite fast without water contaminating the transesterification.
That's a really good chemistry video. Even though we can't see any spectra, the video with commentary tells the story correctly and I have no trouble believing that you have pure glycerol at the end. It's viscosity is low because you just took it off the heat.
Haha yeah. Definitely not the most efficient process. Much cheaper and easier to buy. I got 500ml for 9$ at the local pharmacy. High quality and low water content.
Nile Red yeah decided to try to do the math for it, and I think even if you bought a gallon of vegetable oil at $6.30 (estimated tax included) you'd still only end up with a theoretical yield of like .114L --- 114 ml. And that's not including cost of the stuff you have to mix it with, and the time you put into it and all that fun stuff. Still a really cool video though. Whenever i watch his videos I feel like I know the world a little more.
@@NileRed If I may add, when using castor oil, highest yields were obtained by using 1.5% catalyst by weight, reacted for 60 minutes, and had a stir rate of 1000 rpm. I think your synthesis mainly lacked time. Time was found to be the biggest factor in maximizing yield. The second part you probably lacked was good stirring. I didn't do the math but I think you also used a non ideal amount of catalyst.
3:23 they could be glycerin. I made soap and decided to get the glycerin out, to do this I added a NaCl solution and left it over night in a shed. I came back the next morning and there were a solid soap layer and a solution layer with base, NaCl and glycerin. The blobs were in the layer with the glycerin. Keep up the good work
I've been watching these videos on a binge for at least a month now and this is the first one that makes me actually want to buy all the lab equipment and try
Unless you have a bachelor's degree, I would advise against it. You need a lot more than just glassware and chemicals to do chemistry safely and properly. Also, almost all chemistry produces nasty fumes, and doing it outside is a craps shoot depending on which way the wind is going. Then you risk exposing neighbours with open windows if you're in a city. In other words, you need a proper fume hood that's vented to a roof (ideally) at the very least, along with PPE like a flame/chemical resistant labcat, goggles, gloves, and more.
I know I rambled enough as it is, but just as an example of what could go wrong. I decided one day to just dissolve some limestone in hydrochloric acid to see what I could get out of it. What I got was hydrogen sulfide because there was some sort of sulfate in the rock that I wasn't expecting. Hydrogen sulfide is more deadly than cyanide. While it has a strong smell of farts you can become "smell blind" to it at high concentrations and not even realize you're breathing this deadly gas. My whole house smelled like farts for a week. But it could have killed me if I used more than a few tiny rocks.
Thank you so much, u r a life saver. I'm thankful that many channels on youtube provide experimental chemistry content. However, your channel provides more details and discusses important topics by the preparation of common needed chemicals. Your channel helped me alot in improving my practical chemistry skills. I'll tell all of friends about ur channel. Please keep up the good work.
It was probably my comment you read. I asked you because I was frustrated there was no glycerine production video on youtube, and if you search "how to make glycerine" you get a bunch of homemade lip balm video. I'm sorry I missed your effort until now, but I know your other subscribers enjoyed it as much as I just did. Thank you!
Had to laugh, at 0:32. This came up in my recommended, after watching some biodiesel making vids. And you basically say, (it's not what he says, yes I know): "I'm making biodiesel, but i'm keeping the stuff everyone throws away, and i'm throwing away the biodiesel." I died for a bit there. Lol
+IamIUareU I honestly want to but the legality is a little sketchy. I know I have a mercury fulminate video, but still. Maybe I just won't include the actual quantities to keep people safe. Then again, the recipe is very easy to find.
Nile Red i understand :) i had website and youtube channel for how to make the essential chemicals that you need to produce all kind of explosives, but yet in the end i was explaining too much how to find and how to make them, i noticed that my visitors were mostly young kids so i felt the responsibility to shut down the website and to delete all the videos... i was just 11 years old when i started making high explosives and energetic materials but it was different time and different way of parenting back then... you should do all sorts of explosives only for educational purposes just dont put details of how it is made... show the process without any info...
That is very unfortunate. I also started very young working with explosives and chemicals and it was a good experience. But it was dangerous. Explosives do scare me though, honestly :p.
Nile Red making explosives and blowing small stuff up is addiction (at least it was for me), i started with 0.1g and ended up at 2.5kg in few years :) that last biggest one scared me allot and thats when i stopped making huge amounts and started more scientific research with high energetic materials... i feel really bad that we didnt have cameras back then :( i had to remade the videos for my website but never ever dared to make more than 10g at a time ever again :) i was mostly making AP and MEKP and tons of black powder...
Awesome video Nile. Next, you could try to synthezise Ethylene by dehydrating Ethanol using Aluminum Catalyst Medium. And then react Ethylene with Carbon Monoxide to form Carboxylic Acid.
I remember performing the saponification of olive oil at school using a concentrated sodium hydroxide solution. The glycerol would separe from the mixture as well if you left the solution without stirring. Also, wouldn't an acid catalysed transesterification be better since you'd avoid generating the saponification product?
debbie green When placed side by side with petrodiesel, biodiesel can not even compete. It's way more expensive and at the same time, a much worse fuel. Less energy, harder to burn, more susceptible to water absorption. You literally get less, for more. Call me when you find a way to make one billion gallons of it, until then it's a joke.
Ilir Kumi I just spent $6000 on a 7.3 rebuild, due to fuel tank delamination from my truck sitting for 2 years! In addition to that I spent $1200 on tanks and $800 on installation. THAT'S A TOTAL OF $8000! Biodiesel is BAD for older systems because it's high solvent properties disolve solids that can accumulate at the injectors. ...but for a NEW truck or NEW system like I have B20 is perfect *(temperature permitting) for preventing contaminants to build up in the first place! Also ULSD has shitty lubricity and biodiesel has EXCELLENT LUBRICITY! So I would gladly pay an extra 20-50 cents per gallon to PROTECT MY INVESTMENT so it will last another 20yrs. *3:20 More advanced refining techniques have been developed to remove the components of the biodiesel that gells at higher temperatures making it a more reliable fuel. I have 2 tanks on my truck that aren't manifolded so in the winter, I will run B20 in one tank and #2 in the other. On mild days I'll be using the B20, on colder days I will be using #2.
Nice synthesis, even though I would order it online. Glycerin can be used to make soluble starch, which is quite usefull for several experiments like the iodine clock and iodometry.
Thanks for another awesome and most informative experiment! However, pharmacy grade glycerol is so darn cheap to buy, so why make it. Of course, it's fascinating to see it being made, which is certainly no simple experiment.
We made biofuel in one of my chemistry classes this semester, the smell was so damn bad. You only heated it for 30 minutes but we were told to do 50 minutes and the entire lab smelled of heated canola oil.
Fun Fact: The a lot of those impurities in the glycerol are called phytosterols, which are closely related to cholesterol. Phytosterols are estrogenic in nature and can effect testosterone levels in men. Which isn't surprising because sterols sound a lot like steroids, and are the feedstock for synthetic Testosterone, Cortisone, and a whole bunch of other hormones.
It's interesting watching the older videos. Visually, I think they look just as good as the new videos. But the narration hasn't been "dialed in" yet. He's very much to the point and states things matter of factly with a slightly dry monotone. Not like the more ebulliant, and enthusiastic tone he uses for narrations now. And he goes into little tangents that add a nice flare and bit of variety to the videos in newer ones. Even getting a little silly. It feels much more "human" than this type of narration. Not that there's anything wrong with this narration style. It gets the point across well, it's factual, it explains everything we came here for.
I have same question...I need it for biodiesel.I know that pure ethanol damages engine 'couse pistons are made out of aluminium but i think ethyl esters are not dangerous...
+ImHereCuzImBored There are very few pure substances in nature. Essential oils, herbal medicines; etc. are all made using harmful chemicals. That being said, these chemists are professional, and don't let any of that stuff get into the product. Furthermore, the use of supercritical CO2 as a universal solvent is becoming cheaper and more widespread in industrial chemistry.
not always, most of "vape liquids" use propylene glycol, which differs from glycerine by one less hydroxyl group (propane-1,2-diol vs propane-1,2,3-triol)
AK47Sasg Somewhat Wrong. Most vape liquids use a mix of Vegetable Glycerin and Propylene Glycol. It can be completely one or the other sometimes though.
Kerbd noted. I wasn't totally sure, but i checked, and where i come from (central Europe) most liquid manufacturers use propylene glycol as a vector for nicotine. I'm not denying that other compositions are in use elsewhere. I'm glad to będzie proven otherwise :)
Wow. That was really complicated. This stuff should be worth a fortune if it's always this hard to produce! Surely there is a way to synthesize it as opposed to extracting it.
crude glycerol is a side product of making biodiesel, which is a major industry, so it's available in large excess and nearly worthless because of oversupply. usually when you do a process like this you would save the biofuel and discard the glycerol rather than the other way around.
industrial/chemical standards are just not fit for consumption. basically consider food from your own lab as "fallen to the floor' except ... the floor has been in contact with all sorts of acids, toxic substances and so on. wouldnt eat that, would you? :D
Thanks for the information. I make my own biodiesel and was wanting to do something with the glycerin other than compost it. I may try this but honestly seems extremely time and money consuming. Would be fun to at least do it once.
NileRed question: At 5:20 where you are adding the NaOH could you have used a burret and drip it in if you were concerned about over shooting the amount?
Will you please make a corn glycerin video. I have lived on grains for 4years and I don't like using VG. I would be very grateful. Thank you for all the hard work you put in your videos. I know it is very hard work with all the crap you plan for. That doesn't even cover everything that doesn't go with great planning (The unforeseen crap). Plus cost and everything else. Peace
Tried to do this but using ethanol instead and near oil smoking point it became like a gel and now I have it in my room and it looks like sourdough but smells fruity
Cool video. I'd be interested in making it for shisha, and soap. It does seem like a lot of work. And I'd have to figure out the various processing additives too. 🤔
Hi, would those ratios all be the same if you used ethanol instead of methanol to produce fatty acid ethyl esters and glycerin? And could you use acetic acid instead of HCl in this process? Also when you talk about washing biodiesel (FAME or FAEE) with water, is that just simply shaking the two around and removing separated soap contaminants? Thanks man, great vid!
I'm more interested in obtaining fatty acids but this is interesting, I somehow thought it would be much simpler to separate reasonably clean glycerine.
Nile Red You mentioned that one of the byproducts is fatty acids. Would it be possible to use olive oil in this project and extract exclusively oleic acid from the fatty acid mixture for use as a surfactant in ferrofluid?
Interesting. The fatty acids show up because either they were just present in the oil and reacted with the naoh, or the naoh cleaved the methyl ester. When acidified, the acid is regenerated. If you wanted oleic acid, it seems feasible to do the transesterifixation, separate the glycerol from the biodiesel (methyl esters), then cleave the methyl esters back to the free fatty acids. I am wondering though if it might be easier to do it in water and saponify it. Then acidify and you should have 3 layers. Glycerol (which might actually just dissolve in the water), water, and fatty acids on top.
Nile Red I once attempted the water and saponify method and did in fact acheive a layer of fatty acids on the top after acidification. (I don't know if glycerol was produced as I didn't check for it) However, the fatty acid mixture layer solidified over the course of about a week, and eventually became soluable in water again. But now that I think about it, I suspect that this was due to leftover NaOH that wasn't fully neutralized. Could I distill over the fatty acids to obtain a more pure oleic acid? (Assuming a proper acidification process)
This helped me a bunch, just made me sad you didn't have a use for the bio diesel. Going to use this method to make my glycerin colorless before turning it into soaps. May use ethanol insteat
Hi Nile. I like the work you do. After neutralizing the ph of the crude glycerol water mixture salt starts to precipitate but is there any that is still disolved in the glycerol?
Mix the methanol with a higher molecular weight alcohol (butanol can be used and is easily found) in a 3:2 methanol:HMW-alcohol; it really helps with mixing the methanol and the oil.
Off-topic question: Under normal conditions (say boiling a pot of water on a stovetop) will water's temperature ever go above the boiling temperature? My guess is: No, it boils off. If so, this is why boiling water is such a useful working point in cooking; a known temperature can be made without a thermometer, and a reliable basis can be assumed for the cook following instructions.
I think this is why pressure cookers work the way they do, you can raise the temperature of boiling water by making it harder for water to vaporize and leave the liquid phase. This is why foods cook quicker in them.
Brady Wells So in an indirect way this does say that is true. The key to that explanation is the higher pressure not allowing it to vaporize. So there it is; the boiling water does not go above 212 degrees F (100C) (at typical atmospheric sea-level pressures). Believe it or not, I do know this is how the boiling point is defined. I guess there is more energy in the water for the latent heat of vaporization which (in the case of cooking) leading to different cooking times. - This is the difference I was wondering about between a simmer and a rapid boil; there is more energy. Thanks.
this one became viral now due to that Aquafuel article. meaning u can use this glycerin stuff to run on diesel engines(generators) albeit with mods here there and make almost clean emission as if u use euro4 petrol on atkinsons
I just realised how much I take for granted bulk pure chemicals on store shelves. That biodiesel part will come in handy in case of a zombie apocalypse ;)
Thanks for the vid. Q: Do the last steps about clearing up the color matter to the effectiveness/chemistry of the glycerol, or is it just contaminants?
+Hurleur de foudre you also could dehydrate NaOH which then would strip any water aggressively from any other compound without adding another reagent. The dehydration process is performed by simply overheating NaOH in a closed metal or ceramic container. NaOH will then be in powder form and extremely aggressive. Without the closed container, you risk to get dehydrated NaOH on your skin and eyes and get severely hurt in fractions of a second!
+Ariesticnig The NaOH is needed as is, because Na tries to keep its bond, while NaO would change the reaction. NaOH catalyses a reaction which could eventually succeed without, but only under certain conditions. Under high pressure and a lot of heat, the fatty bonds would break apart and release a number of side products, including glycerol. However, this system (called cracking) is inefficient and the separation of the side products is expensive. It is used in the creation process of plastics and fuel, but not for glycerol production.
+Ariesticnig NaCO3 has not such a strong bond as NaOH, and the reaction would produce a lot of unwanted side products. I haven't looked into it, but I suppose it will result in a large quantity of soap, an insignificant amount of glycerol and a lot of CO2 gas. The catalysing effects of NaOH are the following: with heat, the fatty bonds are becoming weak and NaOH introduces itself corroding the weak bonds by swapping the OH molecules. However, Na is an aggressive reagent and steals an OH molecule from another weak link, splitting de facto the fat molecules and remaining NaOH. With NaCO3 or anything else, no Na ions are formed and thus the reaction remains incomplete or changes completely. With NaO for example, O oxydizes a weak link, but does not split it completely, and Na reacts on another weak link, but the molecular structure is completely different. Eventually, Na attacks itself somewhere. I have no idea of the outcome. Nile is the expert of unexpected reactions :-)
IT WAS REALLY SATISFYING TO WATCH THE REMOVAL AND DISTILLING OF THE IMPURITIES AND THE METHANOL AT THE END....GREAT JOB.....THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO
+Richard Highwind Theoretically speaking, the nitration process would involve Nitric Acid, but Nitroglycerin is a) likely illegal and b) catastrophically dangerous. It's shock sensitive, friction/heat sensitive and would likely explode during your synthesis. Or it may give off Nitrogen Dioxide fumes and suffocate you that way. It's not a pleasant way to go.
I was so hoping to see a vid about the chemistry of diesel because of the glycerol. That may be because I'm a farmer and grow oil making plants often in my fields :)
i think that you can to get glicerol and fatty acids (not biodiesel) using sulfuric acid in tempertures around to 100°C... and a future can to uses the fatty acids..
Ok, why? You can buy a liter of 100% pure glycerin for 10 dollars at the grocery store, the hardware store, the beauty store, walgreens, riteaid... I dont need to go on, its readily available over the counter, so, other than for amusement, this procedure seems extremely impractical on a small scale, considering his yeild was less than 25ml and he had to use several other chemicals to make that really small quantity. Cool video, nice job, but to all those saying this is really helpful, how?
how did it taste? ;)
Funny seeing you here
Cody'sLab Oh, hey Cody.
It should taste sweet
cody try this experiment with isopropyl alcohol and explain what happens something strange for sure, not sure if it made soap, fats, etc would make for an interesting video. Also you could use the glycerin for a deep eutectic solution for solar panels or what have you
should taste sweet, but I don't actually recommend tasting nitroglycerin.
The person who requested it is probably going to be revisiting the nitric and sulfuric acid video's soon...
Headshotted718 what happens?
Nitric acid and sulfuric acid and glycerine creates nitroglycerine :)
Headshotted718 :) if your talking about me then i have already made nitroglycerine in the past (like 10 years ago) but not using the sulphuric - nitric acid mix, i was using ammonium nitrate and sulphuric acid... i have made nitric acid in the past too but since potassium nitrate is hard to get here (and other nitrates even harder) i dont use it for making nitric acid in experiments where i can replace the nitric acid with other things...
Well, if you're the one who requesting the video, then yes, I would be referring to you, lol. And by the way, you can get glycerine at most stores, like CVS or any store like that. And that's not a bad idea, I never thought of that. But for nitric acid, it doesnt have to be potassium nitrate, just any nitrate salt. Would it have made a difference to make nitric acid using the ammonium nitrate? Theoretically, it would be equally as consumptive of the nitrate if you converted it to acid first.
Headshotted718
glycerine here is available in all drug stores for really low price like $0.5US for 100ml. theoretically yes ammonium nitrate can be used to make nitric acid as all other nitrates but its not that simple... in this case you have ammonia ion not rare metal ion so the procedure should be quite different and you need way better equipment and NH4NO3 is not that good to work with... we had one forum (x-inventions) back in 1998-2001 where we talked about this but it seems even the highly skilled and experienced chemists were not sure that it can be done at all... i was trying several different ways back then but all my experiments was fails... even if you get the procedure right i bet its way too difficult to obtain pure nitric acid, i bet that it will be less than 50% so...
i love to see chemists make all the ingredients for experiment thats why i was asking for the video :) imagine, you make your own glycerine, you concentrate your own sulfuric acid from car battery, you make your own nitric acid and you make nitroglycerine :) thats what i was doing and i bet thats what will keep peoples interested...
This was EXTREMELY helpful and very well put together. I use glycerin as a preservative. Thank You very much for all your hard work and dedication in making this!
Ohh I use it to make a Dynamite 😂
@@s.t.shobanbabu5729 nitroglycerin💀💀💀
Yo can u send me recipe?
@@pajakisiwego501 its sulfuric acid added to nitric acid to make a solution that's in a ratio of something like 55:45, and then this is added to glycerin and nitration occurs -----> nitroglycerin
How is this helpful other than the fact its interesting? Like other than amusement, what's the point? A liter bottle of 100% pure glycerine is like $10 at the grocery store in the cosmetics section, his yield was like 23ml... like.. how helpful is it really?
The gelled biodiesel was most likely due to water in the methanol. To get decent yields with this, you need very dry methanol and oil. Separation is also quite fast without water contaminating the transesterification.
use copper sulphate instead of lye, use metho and boiled linseed oil, add oxalic acid and walla air drying flexable ceramic glue.
That's a really good chemistry video. Even though we can't see any spectra, the video with commentary tells the story correctly and I have no trouble believing that you have pure glycerol at the end. It's viscosity is low because you just took it off the heat.
I think we all know why we are here. You already have the nitric and sulphuric acid, dont you?
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Yep 😂
What is this for???
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Your final yield is absolutely clear, very nice man!
fantastic video. clear and easy to understand.
still... 800ml vegetable oil ---> 24ml glycerine.... >_>
Haha yeah. Definitely not the most efficient process. Much cheaper and easier to buy. I got 500ml for 9$ at the local pharmacy. High quality and low water content.
Nile Red yeah decided to try to do the math for it, and I think even if you bought a gallon of vegetable oil at $6.30 (estimated tax included) you'd still only end up with a theoretical yield of like .114L --- 114 ml. And that's not including cost of the stuff you have to mix it with, and the time you put into it and all that fun stuff.
Still a really cool video though. Whenever i watch his videos I feel like I know the world a little more.
I am glad to know you enjoy them :)
@@NileRed If I may add, when using castor oil, highest yields were obtained by using 1.5% catalyst by weight, reacted for 60 minutes, and had a stir rate of 1000 rpm. I think your synthesis mainly lacked time.
Time was found to be the biggest factor in maximizing yield. The second part you probably lacked was good stirring. I didn't do the math but I think you also used a non ideal amount of catalyst.
Most of it is fatty acid
3:23 they could be glycerin. I made soap and decided to get the glycerin out, to do this I added a NaCl solution and left it over night in a shed. I came back the next morning and there were a solid soap layer and a solution layer with base, NaCl and glycerin. The blobs were in the layer with the glycerin.
Keep up the good work
I've been watching these videos on a binge for at least a month now and this is the first one that makes me actually want to buy all the lab equipment and try
4 year later did you ever do it? Buy some glassware and start building an amateur lab?
@@K0ester no
Unless you have a bachelor's degree, I would advise against it. You need a lot more than just glassware and chemicals to do chemistry safely and properly. Also, almost all chemistry produces nasty fumes, and doing it outside is a craps shoot depending on which way the wind is going. Then you risk exposing neighbours with open windows if you're in a city. In other words, you need a proper fume hood that's vented to a roof (ideally) at the very least, along with PPE like a flame/chemical resistant labcat, goggles, gloves, and more.
I know I rambled enough as it is, but just as an example of what could go wrong. I decided one day to just dissolve some limestone in hydrochloric acid to see what I could get out of it. What I got was hydrogen sulfide because there was some sort of sulfate in the rock that I wasn't expecting. Hydrogen sulfide is more deadly than cyanide. While it has a strong smell of farts you can become "smell blind" to it at high concentrations and not even realize you're breathing this deadly gas. My whole house smelled like farts for a week. But it could have killed me if I used more than a few tiny rocks.
I feel like I've seen this exact video before.
Me too, here again
Same, it's so weird.
Is this guy having some kind of Deja-Vu?
Thank you so much, u r a life saver. I'm thankful that many channels on youtube provide experimental chemistry content. However, your channel provides more details and discusses important topics by the preparation of common needed chemicals. Your channel helped me alot in improving my practical chemistry skills.
I'll tell all of friends about ur channel. Please keep up the good work.
The gel that formed is actually soap.
surfactant technically
It was probably my comment you read. I asked you because I was frustrated there was no glycerine production video on youtube, and if you search "how to make glycerine" you get a bunch of homemade lip balm video.
I'm sorry I missed your effort until now, but I know your other subscribers enjoyed it as much as I just did. Thank you!
Had to laugh, at 0:32. This came up in my recommended, after watching some biodiesel making vids.
And you basically say, (it's not what he says, yes I know): "I'm making biodiesel, but i'm keeping the stuff everyone throws away, and i'm throwing away the biodiesel."
I died for a bit there. Lol
next please nitrate the glycerol :)
+IamIUareU I honestly want to but the legality is a little sketchy. I know I have a mercury fulminate video, but still. Maybe I just won't include the actual quantities to keep people safe.
Then again, the recipe is very easy to find.
Nile Red
i understand :) i had website and youtube channel for how to make the essential chemicals that you need to produce all kind of explosives, but yet in the end i was explaining too much how to find and how to make them, i noticed that my visitors were mostly young kids so i felt the responsibility to shut down the website and to delete all the videos... i was just 11 years old when i started making high explosives and energetic materials but it was different time and different way of parenting back then... you should do all sorts of explosives only for educational purposes just dont put details of how it is made... show the process without any info...
That is very unfortunate. I also started very young working with explosives and chemicals and it was a good experience. But it was dangerous.
Explosives do scare me though, honestly :p.
Nile Red
making explosives and blowing small stuff up is addiction (at least it was for me), i started with 0.1g and ended up at 2.5kg in few years :) that last biggest one scared me allot and thats when i stopped making huge amounts and started more scientific research with high energetic materials... i feel really bad that we didnt have cameras back then :( i had to remade the videos for my website but never ever dared to make more than 10g at a time ever again :) i was mostly making AP and MEKP and tons of black powder...
I never made quantities that large, but I do wish there were video cameras. Would love to re-watch some of the stuff I did.
Awesome video Nile. Next, you could try to synthezise Ethylene by dehydrating Ethanol using Aluminum Catalyst Medium. And then react Ethylene with Carbon Monoxide to form Carboxylic Acid.
I remember performing the saponification of olive oil at school using a concentrated sodium hydroxide solution. The glycerol would separe from the mixture as well if you left the solution without stirring.
Also, wouldn't an acid catalysed transesterification be better since you'd avoid generating the saponification product?
Without the saponification, wouldn't it become an equilibrium reaction?
supersmashsam I want see milk rm stay mathord
Adding NaCl could help seperate the soap from the glycerin if wikipedia is correct
Slowly becoming my favourite channel on TH-cam...
who could not have an interest in bio diesel in this day and age?
debbie green When placed side by side with petrodiesel, biodiesel can not even compete. It's way more expensive and at the same time, a much worse fuel. Less energy, harder to burn, more susceptible to water absorption. You literally get less, for more. Call me when you find a way to make one billion gallons of it, until then it's a joke.
Ilir Kumi I just spent $6000 on a 7.3 rebuild, due to fuel tank delamination from my truck sitting for 2 years! In addition to that I spent $1200 on tanks and $800 on installation. THAT'S A TOTAL OF $8000!
Biodiesel is BAD for older systems because it's high solvent properties disolve solids that can accumulate at the injectors.
...but for a NEW truck or NEW system like I have B20 is perfect *(temperature permitting) for preventing contaminants to build up in the first place! Also ULSD has shitty lubricity and biodiesel has EXCELLENT LUBRICITY! So I would gladly pay an extra 20-50 cents per gallon to PROTECT MY INVESTMENT so it will last another 20yrs.
*3:20 More advanced refining techniques have been developed to remove the components of the biodiesel that gells at higher temperatures making it a more reliable fuel. I have 2 tanks on my truck that aren't manifolded so in the winter, I will run B20 in one tank and #2 in the other. On mild days I'll be using the B20, on colder days I will be using #2.
@@Bloated_Tony_Danza
Just about summed it up nicely
@@Bloated_Tony_Danza You can add 3% acetone and its the best diesel you can have.
Normies
Thanks, i cant wait to add it to my acid collection! :)
Nice synthesis, even though I would order it online. Glycerin can be used to make soluble starch, which is quite usefull for several experiments like the iodine clock and iodometry.
I love finding his old videos.
Thanks for another awesome and most informative experiment! However, pharmacy grade glycerol is so darn cheap to buy, so why make it. Of course, it's fascinating to see it being made, which is certainly no simple experiment.
SHTF, someday we may not have a pharmacy...
Oh okay… that was pretty simple and straight-forward.
now vape it.
Add the funny pollen and/or addictive coffin nail extract and you have me on board
@@elijahaitaok8624 bro does it work?
@@elijahaitaok8624 Jesus christ how high are you
This video is best for making me understand....
Well done....
Keep it up👍
Why does sodium hydroxide love Starbucks?
It's so basic.
Nice
The door is that way...
We made biofuel in one of my chemistry classes this semester, the smell was so damn bad. You only heated it for 30 minutes but we were told to do 50 minutes and the entire lab smelled of heated canola oil.
try add some used McD oils for more tasty aroma LOL
Great videos. You have opened up a whole new mysterious world for me. Thank you.
Fun Fact: The a lot of those impurities in the glycerol are called phytosterols, which are closely related to cholesterol. Phytosterols are estrogenic in nature and can effect testosterone levels in men. Which isn't surprising because sterols sound a lot like steroids, and are the feedstock for synthetic Testosterone, Cortisone, and a whole bunch of other hormones.
Seeing as I do energy research and own diesel powered machinery, I would DEFINITELY be keeping the bio diesel!
I'm kinda surprised you didn't make soap, being that this is a saponification reaction.
+SecularMentat Ill make soap eventually.
isnt it also edible....and sweet? ive seen some people drink the stuff
Glycerin yeah, it's a food additive. It's also in all vaporizers.
SecularMentat huh ....I kinda wanr some now XD
+mechnokie blood Yeah, just that the stuff you make in a lab should NEVER be eaten!!! Apart from that, YES.
It's interesting watching the older videos. Visually, I think they look just as good as the new videos. But the narration hasn't been "dialed in" yet. He's very much to the point and states things matter of factly with a slightly dry monotone. Not like the more ebulliant, and enthusiastic tone he uses for narrations now. And he goes into little tangents that add a nice flare and bit of variety to the videos in newer ones. Even getting a little silly. It feels much more "human" than this type of narration. Not that there's anything wrong with this narration style. It gets the point across well, it's factual, it explains everything we came here for.
make a video on how to make methanol (not becuse i can't get any)but becuse i want to know
I have done wood dry distillation. You get quite a few products. The primary product is water and tar and it smells.
Distill Alkohol, take the fort couple of drops.
@@louistournas120 wood distillation must be done using a copper pipe, which acts as a catalyst and you obtain methanol...
wood distillation must be done using a copper pipe, which acts as a catalyst and you obtain methanol...
Wow, so much effort to make such a small amount of Glycerol
can i also use ethanol?
I think yes, esterification with ethanol is still favored compared with glycerol.
I have same question...I need it for biodiesel.I know that pure ethanol
damages engine 'couse pistons are made out of aluminium but i think
ethyl esters are not dangerous...
so much for vegetable glycerine being a natural product
+ImHereCuzImBored There are very few pure substances in nature. Essential oils, herbal medicines; etc. are all made using harmful chemicals. That being said, these chemists are professional, and don't let any of that stuff get into the product. Furthermore, the use of supercritical CO2 as a universal solvent is becoming cheaper and more widespread in industrial chemistry.
mix it with nitro. it can blow up your engine power. this totally isn't a pun;)
That's a trust worthy emote
Rylan Patry good to see a totally sane person interacting with themselves on the internet
@@XDfunnyguy yes
Awesome video taking notes and this is my first experiment 🥼🥽🧪
Isn't this the same stuff thats in vapes or something like that?
xGerbil I think so
xGerbil Yes
not always, most of "vape liquids" use propylene glycol, which differs from glycerine by one less hydroxyl group (propane-1,2-diol vs propane-1,2,3-triol)
AK47Sasg Somewhat Wrong. Most vape liquids use a mix of Vegetable Glycerin and Propylene Glycol. It can be completely one or the other sometimes though.
Kerbd noted. I wasn't totally sure, but i checked, and where i come from (central Europe) most liquid manufacturers use propylene glycol as a vector for nicotine. I'm not denying that other compositions are in use elsewhere. I'm glad to będzie proven otherwise :)
Wow. That was really complicated. This stuff should be worth a fortune if it's always this hard to produce! Surely there is a way to synthesize it as opposed to extracting it.
crude glycerol is a side product of making biodiesel, which is a major industry, so it's available in large excess and nearly worthless because of oversupply. usually when you do a process like this you would save the biofuel and discard the glycerol rather than the other way around.
If lab products are pure, why is it dangerous to ingest them?
The glassware usually has unseen leftover chemicals on it. Also, the chemicals are usually not food grade
So it's contaminated usually?
industrial/chemical standards are just not fit for consumption. basically consider food from your own lab as "fallen to the floor' except ... the floor has been in contact with all sorts of acids, toxic substances and so on. wouldnt eat that, would you? :D
if you want a minute risk to become blind taste it, :D he used methanol to wash glycerol.
Maric YUM
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Thanks for the information. I make my own biodiesel and was wanting to do something with the glycerin other than compost it. I may try this but honestly seems extremely time and money consuming. Would be fun to at least do it once.
now make it NITRO!
You don't even know what you are talking about
that does not make sense
NileRed question: At 5:20 where you are adding the NaOH could you have used a burret and drip it in if you were concerned about over shooting the amount?
Of course
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And we eat that…. Crazy! Great video
"Some of the most common uses are food products and pharmaceuticals"
Ummmmm... ever heard of dynamite?
Dynamite is so old fashioned; there are much better compounds now.
However, nitroglycerin is still an essential heart medicine
/. Which compounds are better?
Does glycerol decompose at high temperatures?
Жаль, незнаю английского языка(((
You should have used the _glycerine_ song by _Bush_ in here. Apparently glycerine is _so_ awesome, they had to write a song about it.
Will you please make a corn glycerin video. I have lived on grains for 4years and I don't like using VG. I would be very grateful. Thank you for all the hard work you put in your videos. I know it is very hard work with all the crap you plan for. That doesn't even cover everything that doesn't go with great planning (The unforeseen crap). Plus cost and everything else. Peace
After you scoop the jell out of the beaker, isn't most of what you are boiling off recoverable methanol?
I have no idea what I just watched but it sure was interesting
Tried to do this but using ethanol instead and near oil smoking point it became like a gel and now I have it in my room and it looks like sourdough but smells fruity
Cool video. I'd be interested in making it for shisha, and soap.
It does seem like a lot of work. And I'd have to figure out the various processing additives too. 🤔
Best In Presentation, Preparation ..👍
Great Job..
Wow..this video was absolutely awesome
why is methanol represented as 3-oh at 2:17? was is supposed to be ch3-oh or was it 3 molecules of the alcohol?
Kya ghar per glycerine banaya ja sakta hai 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 please bataeye
Hi, would those ratios all be the same if you used ethanol instead of methanol to produce fatty acid ethyl esters and glycerin? And could you use acetic acid instead of HCl in this process? Also when you talk about washing biodiesel (FAME or FAEE) with water, is that just simply shaking the two around and removing separated soap contaminants? Thanks man, great vid!
I'm more interested in obtaining fatty acids but this is interesting, I somehow thought it would be much simpler to separate reasonably clean glycerine.
Nile Red You mentioned that one of the byproducts is fatty acids. Would it be possible to use olive oil in this project and extract exclusively oleic acid from the fatty acid mixture for use as a surfactant in ferrofluid?
Interesting. The fatty acids show up because either they were just present in the oil and reacted with the naoh, or the naoh cleaved the methyl ester. When acidified, the acid is regenerated.
If you wanted oleic acid, it seems feasible to do the transesterifixation, separate the glycerol from the biodiesel (methyl esters), then cleave the methyl esters back to the free fatty acids.
I am wondering though if it might be easier to do it in water and saponify it. Then acidify and you should have 3 layers. Glycerol (which might actually just dissolve in the water), water, and fatty acids on top.
Nile Red I once attempted the water and saponify method and did in fact acheive a layer of fatty acids on the top after acidification. (I don't know if glycerol was produced as I didn't check for it) However, the fatty acid mixture layer solidified over the course of about a week, and eventually became soluable in water again. But now that I think about it, I suspect that this was due to leftover NaOH that wasn't fully neutralized. Could I distill over the fatty acids to obtain a more pure oleic acid? (Assuming a proper acidification process)
This helped me a bunch, just made me sad you didn't have a use for the bio diesel. Going to use this method to make my glycerin colorless before turning it into soaps. May use ethanol insteat
did you escape the mormons and embrace satan?
you can try to make a compound named "solketal" is made out of glycerol and acetone in presence of acid catalyst.
Don't let the days go by
Can you use ethylalcohol instead of methyl?
Gonna watch this before it gets demonetized
Brilliantly put together!
Nice video💕
Nice estimation on that beaker sizing
This was cool to watch ! Thanks
Is this the same stuff they use in bongs/water pipes? Always wondered if it was just that simple!
Hi Nile. I like the work you do.
After neutralizing the ph of the crude glycerol water mixture salt starts to precipitate but is there any that is still disolved in the glycerol?
Love your videos, but as a soap-maker (cold process) I was hoping for the saponification method. It seems like it would be simpler?
It is better because you don't involve methanol. The glycerol won't have trace amounts of CH3OH and you can consume the glycerol.
Mix the methanol with a higher molecular weight alcohol (butanol can be used and is easily found) in a 3:2 methanol:HMW-alcohol; it really helps with mixing the methanol and the oil.
Very nice video! Have you read or are you at least aware of the thread on the production of benzene on the SM forums?
Ben Suslow I made benzene. That will be uploaded when I get a chance to edit it!
Oh awesome, I'm looking forward to seeing how you went about it's synthesis! You're videos make for some very interesting write ups.
Off-topic question: Under normal conditions (say boiling a pot of water on a stovetop) will water's temperature ever go above the boiling temperature? My guess is: No, it boils off. If so, this is why boiling water is such a useful working point in cooking; a known temperature can be made without a thermometer, and a reliable basis can be assumed for the cook following instructions.
I think this is why pressure cookers work the way they do, you can raise the temperature of boiling water by making it harder for water to vaporize and leave the liquid phase. This is why foods cook quicker in them.
Brady Wells So in an indirect way this does say that is true. The key to that explanation is the higher pressure not allowing it to vaporize. So there it is; the boiling water does not go above 212 degrees F (100C) (at typical atmospheric sea-level pressures). Believe it or not, I do know this is how the boiling point is defined. I guess there is more energy in the water for the latent heat of vaporization which (in the case of cooking) leading to different cooking times. - This is the difference I was wondering about between a simmer and a rapid boil; there is more energy. Thanks.
When you add a solute to the water it changes the boiling point, so you can have a solution of sodium hydroxide at 123 C but it depends on the amounts
It can also be made by saponification method
this one became viral now due to that Aquafuel article. meaning u can use this glycerin stuff to run on diesel engines(generators) albeit with mods here there and make almost clean emission as if u use euro4 petrol on atkinsons
I wonder how effective a centrifuge would be to separate the layers..
so is this the same process used for the glycerin in skincare products? Is it safe to put something that was mixed with methane on your body?
I just realised how much I take for granted bulk pure chemicals on store shelves.
That biodiesel part will come in handy in case of a zombie apocalypse ;)
Biodiesel comes handy when vegetable or waste oil, and all the other ingredients become cheaper than gasoline.
Thanks for the vid. Q: Do the last steps about clearing up the color matter to the effectiveness/chemistry of the glycerol, or is it just contaminants?
I use the glycerol (and the biodiesel) in combination with potassium permanganate to light fires at home.
wouldn't be easier to use magnesium sulfate instead of molecular sieve to get rid of the water ?
magnesium sulfate create solid hydrated magnesium sulfate when it touch water and this is what I use at school to dry organic compound
I think it could do it but I never really work with hydrophilic compound
+Hurleur de foudre you also could dehydrate NaOH which then would strip any water aggressively from any other compound without adding another reagent.
The dehydration process is performed by simply overheating NaOH in a closed metal or ceramic container. NaOH will then be in powder form and extremely aggressive. Without the closed container, you risk to get dehydrated NaOH on your skin and eyes and get severely hurt in fractions of a second!
+Ariesticnig The NaOH is needed as is, because Na tries to keep its bond, while NaO would change the reaction. NaOH catalyses a reaction which could eventually succeed without, but only under certain conditions. Under high pressure and a lot of heat, the fatty bonds would break apart and release a number of side products, including glycerol.
However, this system (called cracking) is inefficient and the separation of the side products is expensive. It is used in the creation process of plastics and fuel, but not for glycerol production.
+Ariesticnig NaCO3 has not such a strong bond as NaOH, and the reaction would produce a lot of unwanted side products. I haven't looked into it, but I suppose it will result in a large quantity of soap, an insignificant amount of glycerol and a lot of CO2 gas.
The catalysing effects of NaOH are the following: with heat, the fatty bonds are becoming weak and NaOH introduces itself corroding the weak bonds by swapping the OH molecules. However, Na is an aggressive reagent and steals an OH molecule from another weak link, splitting de facto the fat molecules and remaining NaOH.
With NaCO3 or anything else, no Na ions are formed and thus the reaction remains incomplete or changes completely. With NaO for example, O oxydizes a weak link, but does not split it completely, and Na reacts on another weak link, but the molecular structure is completely different. Eventually, Na attacks itself somewhere. I have no idea of the outcome.
Nile is the expert of unexpected reactions :-)
Nice video! Did you check the purity?
Amazing how all that work and material yields so little.
Do a video on creating a potassium nitrate using organic ingredients.
IT WAS REALLY SATISFYING TO WATCH THE REMOVAL AND DISTILLING OF THE IMPURITIES AND THE METHANOL AT THE END....GREAT JOB.....THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO
GOOD JOB FINDING YOUR CAPS LOCK
Could you do a video showing how to nitrate the glycerol? plz thanks.
+Richard Highwind thats the easy step to nitrate it, but the difficult step will be to handle it porperly....
+Richard Highwind Theoretically speaking, the nitration process would involve Nitric Acid, but Nitroglycerin is a) likely illegal and b) catastrophically dangerous. It's shock sensitive, friction/heat sensitive and would likely explode during your synthesis. Or it may give off Nitrogen Dioxide fumes and suffocate you that way. It's not a pleasant way to go.
I was so hoping to see a vid about the chemistry of diesel because of the glycerol. That may be because I'm a farmer and grow oil making plants often in my fields :)
As far as I know, it's known as glycerol in the food industry, and glycerine in the cosmetics industry, even though it's the same molecule.
Thanks for the video, what about Propylene Glycol (PG) and Vegetable Glycerin (VG)?
i think that you can to get glicerol and fatty acids (not biodiesel) using sulfuric acid in tempertures around to 100°C... and a future can to uses the fatty acids..
Excellent video!
Too bad i don't have all the equipments to try it out.
Ok, why? You can buy a liter of 100% pure glycerin for 10 dollars at the grocery store, the hardware store, the beauty store, walgreens, riteaid... I dont need to go on, its readily available over the counter, so, other than for amusement, this procedure seems extremely impractical on a small scale, considering his yeild was less than 25ml and he had to use several other chemicals to make that really small quantity. Cool video, nice job, but to all those saying this is really helpful, how?
My mom always said don't throw away oil. Store the biodiesel and purify the glycerol
Now i can make nitroglyce-