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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- In this video, I continue my amalgam series and I attempt to make the so-called ammonium amalgam. This was done by combining an ammonium salt with sodium amalgam that I made in a previous video.
References:
• Link to 1865 paper: goo.gl/3NVehp
• Sodium amalgam video: • Mixing sodium with mer...
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“I found a paper from 1865.” That’s how you know Nile is going hardcore mode lol
casually whips out a paper older than Canada
Even more impressive to me is that as a layperson, chemistry is basically magic that you're never allowed to do wrong or you die, and he just wings it on this one.
Guy reads about amalgum of ammonia on Wikipedia. That's when I knew he is hardcore
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Using a paper from the 1800's do conduct an experiment must be quite an interesting experience! Very cool
'To test the purity of your sample, simply lick it, a suitable one will have a vaguely sharp taste. A cigarette is recommended afterwards to cleanse the palate.'
Many of these older publications have things in them that are unknown to many today. In the past many used to experiment more than people do today, and learning from experimenting is one of the few ways to get to know the real world. As such many new and wonderful things have been found among many mistakes along the way, and if someone never made a mistake they have never done anything productive. As things not turning out as planned and then correcting to make things work is how to get anything to work correctly, as nothing is completely right the first time.
@@Paul-gz5dp Citation needed
@@Invictus_Mithra Need a reference when talking about historical books? My sources are my collections and what I have found on Archive.org and many other sites as well.
@@Paul-gz5dpBro, do you think people don't reference historical books? The main thing that irked me was when you said "In the past many used to experiment more than people do today..." that's such a dubious statement and it does need a source lol. Are you in modern academia?
NileRed: it's *my* turn to be confused by what i'm doing
this comment is fucking killing me
"Mom said it's *my* turn to be confused, you hog it everyday!" idk oop
@@randomthingthatexists3187 go to your corner
@@bobmcferrin908 understandable have a great day oop
@@randomthingthatexists3187 are you still there?
I never have any idea what he's talking about. Or the formulas he puts on screen, but I watch anyways because I wanna see funky silver liquid turn into a sponge.
my favorite thing about this channel is when the funky liquids explode
lol i respect that
There! My clone! I’ve located him! I MUST ANNIHILATE HIM!
In this case you're in good company. Nobody knows what this stuff is.
Jiminjiminjiminjiminjimin
"The sodium amalgam can be used as a gateway to other amalgams"
Sodium. Not even once
Reading that in Sheev Palpatine's voice
Gold
@@digitalsuicide0416 ok
@@digitalsuicide0416 Is that a pun?
@@ProfessionalBugLover your comment history is cringey as shit
Sodium amalgam is a gateway amalgam. Friends don't let friends use sodium amalgam.
It starts with a simple sodium amalgam and you end up doing ammonium amalgam in a dark back alley. Winners don't do amalgams.
Simple Sodium amalgam leads to NaK.
I know its technically an amalgam too, but i'm a rebel, i say NaK is an alloy.
Slippery slope.
@Legion 2633 I hope he means alloy and not amalgum
If any amalgam is a gateway amalgam it's aluminum and mercury haha
I adore that in order to research this experiment he had to go all the way back to 1865 to find another chemist who was like “...what if I added mercury?”
One hundred and twenty three thumbs
😂
It was Nile in a past life, clearly
@@asamlos
I think you mean current life. Im convinced that nile is some kind of alchemist with some life giving serum
Excellent video and rare footage!
о, плотный салам всем нашим
Whoa, it's the русский man
@@Malik-td2ft lmao
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Hello there. Love your videos
*Nile doesn’t know what to do with something*
“So anyway I started blasting”
Nile always packing heat
Neutral Radical, "I have no strong feelings one way or the other, and will fight to the death for them"
Neutral President: "I have no strong feelings one way or the other."
Also, It reminds me of the brain goop things that the flame guys turn into in Heart of Darkness.
This guy.
I’m a chem major and everytime I watch your videos I feel like I haven’t learned enough.
Same lmao
Then you could learn from Nile :>
not being cocky or a dickhead, but I’m genuinely curious as to how, I understand a lot of this and I just graduated highschool, is it because uni chem focuses on more practical applications ?
@@camerongiles1420 this is not meant to be an insult at all and i'm glad you got a good chemistry education in high school, but there's this messed up thing that happens when you really get deep into a subject where the further you go the more aware you become of how much more there is to learn
@@gentrelane That was pretty smooth explaining Dunning Kruger the way that doesn't make the other person feel bad. ;P
8:51- showing off your face like that. smh your vanity clearly has no bounds
David Shelly lmao you must brace yourself to embrace yourself.
Hey, he's sexy! 😍
Yo wtf why are your safety googles down Nile
plz can help me preparation of Hg(NH2)Cl
@@Tower0fHeaven he's using his safety squints it's cool
“I’d like to know what you think”
My brain watching the mercury stuff: “haha mercury go fwoosh”
Looolllllll
dig
Very good technical analysis
LOL
8:46. Look! It’s the void!
“Turning mercury into weird stuff” is now a great series
Now for Bismuth... Fluck Yeah !
The amalgam series is so interesting!!
By the way, you should consider synthesizing tyrian purple (6,6'-dibromoindigo), the most expensive pigment in history!
@@Baitrix1 I don't think they make dye from that
@@Baitrix1 yea you're right
There is uranium oxide glass made in the 30's and 40's you can still find it antique shops and the glass has fluorescent green glow under ultraviolet light and some ceramic glazes was made with uranium.
@@mumintrollable Used to have a shelf of uranium glass with a blacklight above it. Was super cool.
Baitrix Heh, I remember being *very* confused as a kid when I found out that Marie Curie had isolated radium from „pitchblende“ tailings, i.e. radioactive waste she could obtain for free from the Austro-Hungarian uranium mines in Bohemia.
After all, it seemed strange that people had already been running major uranium mining operations long before the discovery of nuclear fission, and before they even knew about uranium‘s radioactive properties.
It took me years to realize that uranium had already been used to make yellow glazes and translucent green glass throughout the 1800‘s.
That said, I‘m not even sure if uranium was ever considered a particularly expensive pigment back in the day. Atleast by the time the early 20th century rolled around, yellowcake uranium was apparently considered a less valuable byproduct of the production of radium and vanadium.
Are you considering putting images of the amalgam into the wikimedia commons?
bump
Erin Cobb great great idea
Your profile pic is ironic right ?
Yeah please do it
@@sigmamale4147 Your profile pic is ironic right? It seems you got stuck in 2012
12:30 ohh man that would be awesome to sculpt with, if it stayed at that state
Just need to find another polyatomic "metal" that doesn't want to fall apart so easily, I suppose.
I got anxious when he was poking it. All I could think about was "what if there waa mercury still?!" Like ahhh.
That is what dental Mercury is , Cody's lab did a video on it
@@h.r.9563 What if there was? Mercury isn't some evil curse that slowly consumes all things. It's a poisonous liquid metal. Don't eat it, don't touch it with bare skin, and you're never in any danger.
"it generated a lot of heat"
Translation: It exploded
No, it generated a lot of heat.
I know it's just a shitpost but explosions can be generated without heat, they're entirely different phenomena
@@ppppppqqqppp Exactly.
@@ppppppqqqppp so it did both.
@@buythegamesagain yes
The strangest thing is I might have a perspective to this. It could be a similar effect that yeast has in bread where it consumes sugar and lets off gas. The difference between the first one and second one is proofing (not sure what you would call it in chemistry) where since your giving the Mercury time to react with the ammonia the ammonia starts to replace the sodium allowing it to permeate the surface which them easily lets the hydrochloric acid quickly penetrate and react inside the mercury liquid as well as on the surface
Love all your videos 😍😍 I’m currently doing a chemistry degree & you were a big influence to deciding to do it! Keep doing what you’re doing,
I was recently accepted to UCSB for pre chem, and I was inspired by this guy, and Cody's lab!
@@Splarff also NurdRage and DougsLab are good channels
@@justADeni I'll check them out
Glaedr_4_life :/ thumbs up half for doing something great that I wish I could do and learning more chemistry than needed to finish high school (no matter how much I loved it) because of @NileRed and half for the name! One of the strongest dragons we know of!!
@@jonathonstoner33 youre like the only one who has ever recognized the name 👌👌 best book series ever!!
I gotta say how awesome it is, that you found an obscure substance and experiment from the 1800's, which had almost faded into oblivion due to a lack of understanding, and managed to resurrect it into 21st century consciousness. Well done!!
13:26 It reminded me of those toys that grow in water
me: yes but with more tOxiC fUmEs
The amalgam holds shape @ 12:40 because you effectively "tempered" the alloy, crystallizing enough of it to lock it's shape. I'm not sure, but I think it's because of the remaining sodium in the solution that it allows this
Thanks rainbow dash
Yeah, I imagined the heat while it was a sponge is what the difference is. The heat forced a rapid expulsion of the ammonium chloride from the mercury before it has time to coalesce again. And likely briefly crystalizes it with the high energy, at least to an amorphous solid extent.
God I just want to put that in my mouth and chew on it
The reason it doesn't work with the nitrate might be because of the strong oxidising nature of nitrate ions. I imagine NH4 radicals would be very good reducing agents and the nitrate ions might just oxidise them as soon as they are formed. Ammonium nitrate in itself decomposes on heating to make H2O and N2O as the NO3- ions oxidise the NH4+ ions. You could try adding ammonium nitrite instead and seeing if any nitrogen gas gets evolved. All in all an amazing video. Looked forward to it since that Instagram post. 🙌
plz can help me preparation of Hg(NH2)Cl
Moo Moo Yeah, even plain old ammonium nitrate will comproportionate to form nitrous oxide upon slow heating, and N2 and O2 when exploding.
And I would expect NH4 radicals to be *much* more reactive in redox reactions than NH4+ cations.
@@pemuelmichaelis8961 Wow. Thanks! I didn't know that 😁. And yes, NH4 radicals must be very good at reducing but the problem with my theory is that why does ammonium sulphate work in that case. Sulphate ions are weakly oxidising and they should oxidise NH4 radicals quite easily. NileRed says that only ammonium nitrate caused a problem. Can you think of a reason for that? Maybe it has something to do with the solubility of HgSO4 and HgNO3. Hg might interfere with the reaction and cause only the sulphate ions to precipitate. I really don't know, I'm still in high school 😅.
@@عمربنالخطاب-ص8ف I don't know about Hg(NH2)Cl but I think Nessler's reagent (K2HgI4) reacts with ammonia to make Hg(NH2)I. This then reacts with water to make something called iodide of Millon's base. I can't type the structure of that over here although it's just two mercury atoms bridged by one -O- bond and one -(NH2+)- bond.
@@moomoo2214 Dear Moo, I suspect that in evaluating the sulfate ion kinetic considerations are strongly relevant beside the mere reduction potentials. However, it would interesting to test some quaternary ammonium compounds. They should solve many difficulties.
10:30 "and when I added a whole bunch, it murdered it"
"As far as I know, no one knows what's going on"
Mercury is probably the weirdest element out there
Every other metal at room temp: nothing
Mercury: makes weird fucking amalgams that nobody understands
@c6amp Gallium?
Edit: No.
@c6amp Thank you.
This is how I feel like I sound to my friends when I say "carbohydrate," and they say "Speak English-"
Carbonated Water oh man that hurt to read. I’m sorry
that fucking stings
8:37 Now that, that was cool
That aluminum snake at the start looked a lot like my reaction to the notification that there was a new Nile Red video
@@dylankhandaker8988 true
@@dylankhandaker8988 I know I sure did. He's a QTπ!
mannys9130 good joke though I do agree
It reminded me of my crotch in the morning
Morning boners are a regular for me, but boy are they annoying
You went poo in your pants?
WOW! that was so beautiful when you were paying with it with your hands. truly one of your most visually appealing videos
8:52 hey you should be wearing eye protection
Can we try the following experiment:
In liquid ammonia add a cathode of mercury and an anode of platinum. Pass a current through the solution and see if the cathode turns into this ammonia amalgam.
I want to see this
what is the platinum supposed to do?
@@theEtch be sufficiently inert ?
12:35 Imagine a non-toxic handable metal that traps gas acting like a malleable clay until it airs out retaining the shape you give it.
Here's to your amazing channel! There's so many things I like about your channel:
You do a lot of interesting chemistry that isn't just explosions or gimmicks
You explain everything that's going on to the best of your ability
You don't pretend to know everything and do a lot of your experiments on a 'trial and error' basis
You look at bits of chemistry that aren't as well-known or studied
Keep up the good work :)
8:46
when u accidentally turn on your front camera
"I wasn't really sure what to do with it at this point, so I just tried blasting it with my heat gun" - NileRed
I know you screamed "it's alive!!!" at least once filming this reaction
2:20 "as far as I know, what's going on here isn't really known" did he just work his way around saying he doesn't know what's happening?
This reminds me of the Incredibles scene where he tries to escape but those black balls attach to him and expand
12:30
It has similar properties as cold chocolate pudding
Wow! The test without water at 9:50 could be the coolest thing I have ever seen.
metal putty
0:01 weenor
No
Just no
Please just no
thanks bro
9:50 one of the coolest things I’ve seen
12:20 like the texture of almost below room temperature play-doh
"The sodium amalgam can be used as a gateway to other amalgams some consider...unnatural."
12:50 Looks like a silver toxic blue tack
been watching a ton of your videos recently (even more than usual), i was craving a new video!!!! thank you !!
enjoy! :)
Oddly the same, I’ve binged through over the last two weeks and laughed when I saw he posted a video, literally thought of that the night before he posted this.
I'm gonna be honest, the most impressive part about this video to me was the fact that you based it off of a paper from 1865.
I searched up ammonium amalgam in google images for a project I'm doing for school and screenshots from your video are the only ones available. As a faithful subscriber for many years, I thank thee.
I’m in grade 9 currently and know nothing about Chemistry but I love watching your videos as Chemistry is my favourite subject of science and I’m learning things about this chemicals and reactions. Keep doing what your doing! Loving the content!
Perserve your interest as long as you possibly can! There is so much beauty in the sciences. It is wonderful to see that you are interested at your age. Many people don't find a passion for science until they are much older. Most people are very intimidated by strange and complicated things like chemistry. That being said, some people pick up with a curiosity for them. You should always try to keep your curiosity, because that will be what tones down the learning curve of chemistry, or physics, or otherwise.
Please, keep indulging in science. It makes the unknowns more comfortable, and the great issues more solvable. That is what we all need for the future. Good luck.
@Oh yeah yeah What?
Oh yeah yeah S.O.A.D. Chopsuey
wake up!
grab a brush and put a little make up
hide the scars to fade-away the shakeup
Dude your video looks so good. I was like "why does this video look so good? its always in 1080p" But wow 60 fps VS 30 makes a BIG difference.
It almost looks like it's in a higher resolution. Good job man. Keep up the awesome work. I love your chemistry videos!!!
Please do osmium and mercury amalgam there is no documentation on it
Osmium is really expensive so i dont think we would do it
Alexandru Postole ya osmium is quite expensive so I highly doubt he’ll be doing it anytime soon
Wasn't mercury used to make osmium alloy pen nibs? I don't have a link but I remember somebody back in the fountain pen era used mercury to form an alloy with osmium and iridium that could be melted and machined.
@@pixelpatter01 Osmium and iridium nibs are still made today, I dunno what the manufacturing process is though.
That would be ridiculously poisonous.
Nyle: *uses paper from 1865*
*Ah yes, the *classics**
The bubbling happens due to volitile molecules evaporating from just under the surface of the mercury, the same effect happens when brake clean is mixed into brake fluid at work (acetone and chlorine evaping from a glycol type chemical)
7:39 Did you see the skull?
12:15 I think you just just made the start of a T-1000.
Damn, chemistry always was one of my favourite subjects at school. I abandoned it though because of laziness. Maybe when I finish studying economics I will get over myself and become a chemist of some kind 😊 These videos are inspiring
Bro done made Mercury inflation.💀
“over the next few minutes though, it all went back to being-
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how about the pharaoh's sepent that grows spelling NileRed? I'd personally would LOVE that as a merch design!
also the texture at 12:25 confused me so much I can't even describe it
next week Nilered will attempt to extract good choices out of methamphetamine.
It's gonna be difficult
_sadly got a 0% yield_ :(
The T-1000 seems to be coming along quite well!
Sounds like an question for EPR/ESR experiments. You can map the proton electron interaction and quadrupolar interactions of the 14N with the radical e-, and even do D and N15 experiments.
Stable ammonium (-NH4) salt in HCl bath reacts with Hg-Na amalgam displacing Na and forming Ammonia gas leading to the effervescence and puffing of Hg metal.
Agree
Watching your videos always reminds me of how much I loved chemistry, it's such a fascinating subject.
I'm so in love with all the blue that is created!!! sooo cool!
_"This Metal Turns Into a Sponge and Science Doesn't Know Why"_
I would love to have a t-shirt with the cobra on it ! Keep it up , love your vids.
8:30 your GTA V character's view when they get drunk
9:50 looks like a demonstration of why running shoes pair well with lab coats.
Because the forming gas expansion causes the amalgam to deform, have you considered doing a reaction like this in a pressurized vessel to minimize gas expansion?
im an aspiring chemist and I am 15 as of tomorrow but i absolutely adore your videos!!
"I made a silver turd in amonia!"
*cool cool*
Hello
How do you make?
Could you teach me how is it?
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Any time he handled the mercury or had the containers open sent my anxiety through the roof
8:48 lmao the reflection
This dude is making a terminator in his shed.
Alternativ title : “how to create anti playdough”
The sodium amalgam is a gateway to many amalgams some would consider…. difficult to form.
One of the few recent comments on the video that doesn't seem to be written by someone with severe cerebral Mercury poisoning. Take a like.
"Ammonium isn't a metal, _at least under normal circumstances_ …" 😮 Mind instantly blown. It seems that under the extreme pressure of giant planets that ammonium acts as a metal. Wow!
That's a super fun fact, cool to know :)
I learn something new every time I visit your channel; thanks and please keep doin' your thing man👍
P.s: I've always wanted try a few reactions my self; considering that i recently purchased some glassware... I look forward to revisiting some of my NileRed videos.
With that said, would you/anyone know of some informative books/sources for some one of the likes of myself
-- I geuss books along the lines of: "organic chemistry for dummies" would be best😅
I mean, that book definitely exists
@@romajimamulo your not wrong😂
But I'm looking for books and whatnot that operate at a beginner level, said books or other sources that can be vouched on; you know what I mean?
Connor Stinnett „Organic Chemistry“ by Paula Y. Bruice is pretty good.
Now just add a some chloromethane to this nice sodium amalgam. The result is going to be GREAT!
Hii
Hish@@aidenconway9087
At about 6:53 you mentioned that when the e reaction was done in a cold environment it wasnt as stable as when it was done in room temperature. Maybe because you formed the amonia amalgam in the cold environment the percentage of the amonia wasn't as high as the one done at room temperature. ( Becaus reactions tend to proceed slower in cold environments) Maybe you could try adding the amonia and the acid at room temperature but than cool it down while expanding so the formed amalgam would take longer to break down.
Very cool video!
I’d like to see you replicate the oldest truly complex chemical experiments you were surprised were so sophisticated for the times.
The molecules in the compound are quite happy with not letting out their secrets.
remember kids, sodium amalgam is the gateway amalgam
Fascinating indeed; though given the temporary nature I'd say it's more of a suspension than anything, I think there is a way to create an amalgam with ammonia, but probably need an alloy instead of a pure metal.
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he is a proper scientist; hes trying things out by himself after knowing basic things about the reactions
It’s like some sort of Lovecraftian monster the way it moves and changes and it kinda creeps me out tbh but it’s really cool!
12:40 has anyone ever microwaved those super soft gumballs, we all loved as kids, just so they soften a bit? No. That's pretty much the same texture
"The answer apparently like everything else in the video is not something I know" is how Im going to answer my next exams.
0:01 Me in the morning
At the 12:30 mark, Nile inadvertently makes the T-1000 terminator.
‘As far as I know, it’s not really known.’
Alternatively, ‘As far as I know, I don’t know.’
Would be interesting to see you revisit this and try it with liquid ammonia, assuming of course you have the ability to handle somthing so cold.
Nile’s the type of person who would actually take this and clean with it like a normal sponge
he cares about safety a lot (as he should)
Man that’s probably one of the most bizarre things I’ve seen. It’s like a gas sponge
2:52:"Actually, dude... It's Salt"