Sulfur Nitride, My Arch Nemesis - Ex&F

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  • The chemistry in today's video is thanks to a personal grudge against a certain energetic compound made only of sulfur and nitrogen: S4N4. I also explain a heated opinion about a certain part of the visible spectrum.
    Patreon: / explosionsandfire
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    Special shoutout to r/yellowchemistry / yellowchem
    Nightmare fuel
    The paper we are following:
    "Tetrasulfur Tetranitride, S4N4"
    onlinelibrary....
    Ok bois are you ready for the long list of patreon names going for a to z?? here we go:::::
    Adam Conour
    AllChemystery
    Aussie Chemist
    ChalkyChalkson
    Christopher Stillson
    Clark Lowe
    Corrosion
    Craig M.
    Dan Kaplan
    Daniel Coleman
    Elric
    emuwarvet
    Grant Trent
    Gregory Wong
    Isaac Paciga
    Jacob Tierney
    John Libal
    killroy225
    Leon Schutte
    Leon Stark
    Luke McGoggan
    Michael Kavulich
    mirgp, no wait Azide Fox (sounds dangerous honestly)
    Mortlet
    Nile Red
    Oliver Toth (yellow chem loving sinner)
    Oz Sabina
    Rhodanide
    Roger Dot Lee
    The Gayest Person on Patreon
    Thomas Abbott
    Zachary Chapin
    Ok what else goes here, maybe some bonus content? Don't have anything really good this video, I didn't do too many stupid things. So i'll try and make up for it in future. This is a clip I cut from a joke that wasn't funny really (also barely made any sense, which is more a reason to cut it than lack of humour, because people complain about things not making sense more (fair enough)) • me hitting a can with ...
    see you around fam

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  • @ExplosionsAndFire
    @ExplosionsAndFire  5 ปีที่แล้ว +4081

    Comment 'yellow chem bad' for 7 years of good chemistry luck.
    Scroll past for low yields forever

  • @pedrokreutzwerle9488
    @pedrokreutzwerle9488 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2295

    "it detonates when hit with a hammer in much the same way that carrots won´t detonate when hit with a hammer" god i love The Hitchhicker's guide to the galaxy

    • @KingHalbatorix
      @KingHalbatorix 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Is that a quote from Hitchhikers? (I know he said it in the video, just don't remember if it's from the book)

    • @jamesharding3459
      @jamesharding3459 4 ปีที่แล้ว +307

      KingHalbatorix The real quote is:
      *”They hung in the air, much in the way bricks don’t”*

    • @nightsong81
      @nightsong81 4 ปีที่แล้ว +138

      The general form is sometimes called a "dissimile."

    • @VeryBeowulf
      @VeryBeowulf 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      nightsong81 yes, thank you!

    • @jackarmstrong8790
      @jackarmstrong8790 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      KingHalbatorix it’s from the radio show, not the book. HHGTTG was originally a radio show.

  • @motoklay
    @motoklay 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5615

    You're like a terrifying chimera of Nile Red and Michael Reeves. I love it.

    • @avalonpage5985
      @avalonpage5985 5 ปีที่แล้ว +146

      cody's lab possibly?

    • @CarpeNoctem135
      @CarpeNoctem135 5 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      Avalon Page BUT BETTER

    • @AtlasReburdened
      @AtlasReburdened 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Dead on. Thanks for the good laugh.

    • @RobertKenny9001
      @RobertKenny9001 5 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Cody's Lab meets Fairbairn Films.

    • @juststeve5542
      @juststeve5542 5 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      I was thinking he's more the love child of Nile and AvE!

  • @JinKee
    @JinKee 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1931

    You know he's a real chemist because his labcoat is slowly getting holes eaten into it.

    • @akkudakkupl
      @akkudakkupl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Yeah, when I was at uni my labcoat was eaten to shit after a semester.

    • @belyear
      @belyear 4 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      akkudakkupl You haven’t Carbon engineered something until you’ve caught yourself on fire.

    • @kmit9191
      @kmit9191 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      True. Some people in my lab had additional holes in their Coat you could put your arm through, although most just had their sleeves holed.

    • @johnmcclain3887
      @johnmcclain3887 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      You know he's a real chemist by the constant stream of "colorful expletives" as he enjoys his "favorite chemical".

    • @foc2241
      @foc2241 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You know he's a real chemist because his labcoat is consists of more holes than coat :D

  • @jd4083
    @jd4083 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    The Physics Department joke hits different since he revealed his true allegiances

  • @k.katona9415
    @k.katona9415 3 ปีที่แล้ว +493

    I forgot the name of your channel so I typed in google "youtube chemist that hates yellow" and this video was the first result x"D

  • @deepforrestalchemy9189
    @deepforrestalchemy9189 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1009

    BENZENE is BACK - I knew it was good for something apart from making cancer

    • @ExplosionsAndFire
      @ExplosionsAndFire  5 ปีที่แล้ว +246

      The hero we deserve

    • @Barskor1
      @Barskor1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      Benzene to Leukemia I am your father!

    • @realedna
      @realedna 5 ปีที่แล้ว +128

      @@Barskor1 You meant "Leuk, I am your father!", right!?

    • @Barskor1
      @Barskor1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@realedna Yeah that's it! :)

    • @sunwukong1754
      @sunwukong1754 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      realedna badumtss

  • @tehlaser
    @tehlaser 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1184

    If this chemistry thing doesn’t work out, you’ve got a backup career as a video editor. This is the funniest editing I’ve ever seen.

    • @ExplosionsAndFire
      @ExplosionsAndFire  5 ปีที่แล้ว +348

      Thanks mate! Spent a long time on the editing for this video, glad you liked it!

    • @gorillaau
      @gorillaau 5 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      @@ExplosionsAndFire Its nearly 8:30PM and parts of this video made me laugh harder than I have have all weekend.

    • @patricklloyd1797
      @patricklloyd1797 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@gorillaau same here my dude, just stumbled upon this channel and it's some of the funniest content I've seen in a long time

    • @sed8me69
      @sed8me69 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yeah, the dudes sure got a career Woking with silver halides if ever wants one.
      Oh'err, hang on, what?

    • @fre9205
      @fre9205 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      If you think this is good, you'll also like Michael Reeves
      Trust me

  • @luigivercotti6410
    @luigivercotti6410 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2544

    As a physicist...
    ...fair point

    • @mrexists5400
      @mrexists5400 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      XD

    • @Rabbitflyer5
      @Rabbitflyer5 5 ปีที่แล้ว +103

      I'm in the physics department, _and_ I work with the bone-hurting juice.

    • @TiernanWilkinson
      @TiernanWilkinson 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      That username is mint, Luigi.
      High class- no really, high-class.

    • @captainjirk9564
      @captainjirk9564 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      God I love the physics department

    • @SophiaAstatine
      @SophiaAstatine 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@captainjirk9564 Of course you do, strings is part of your name.

  • @herrhornbuckele5227
    @herrhornbuckele5227 ปีที่แล้ว +181

    Our professor put quite a big question about S4N4's structure, synthesis and properties into our entry level anorganic chemistry exam. By pure accident I watched this video the evening before and was able to answer the questions the next day. So you saved me quite a few points, thank you!

  • @toronoc6866
    @toronoc6866 4 ปีที่แล้ว +151

    This was my prof's fav compound, so he made us all make it in the lab. Wish I had my inorganic chem lab manual to give you. It made some beautiful orange needles (2 - 3cm long) that were really unstable.
    "Don't do a melting point test on it." *BAM* "What did I just say?!?"
    Some folks you just kept to the other size of the lab. =D

    • @nikkiofthevalley
      @nikkiofthevalley ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I feel like he could've just said "It's an explosive. Don't heat it."

    • @wackywixted
      @wackywixted ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @Toronoc Your professor sounds like the type of person to post two throwaway sentences about it on the internet...

  • @Peasmouldia
    @Peasmouldia 5 ปีที่แล้ว +821

    Most discoveries in chemistry are not accompanied by "Eureka!", but more usually "that wasn't supposed to happen!". Thanks.

    • @hamstsorkxxor
      @hamstsorkxxor 5 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      Had a student precipitate some mysterious black crystals once during 1st year chemistry. I was like "dude, HOW, you were supposed to do an extraction, there is literally nothing in this mixture except solvent and caffeine!". Sadly the product was cleaned away, so I never got to check what it actually was :(

    • @robinderoos1166
      @robinderoos1166 5 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      @@hamstsorkxxor we also had something like that in the lab, my co-student managed to turn a simple paracetamol extraction blue...

    • @tinkertailor7385
      @tinkertailor7385 5 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      ...... Or, "why are my two lab assistants dead?" That happened to the first people to synthesize Dimethylmercury. If you can smell that it has a slightly sweetish odor.... it means you have already received a lethal dose and nothing medically can be done for you. Six weeks later you will be brain dead.

    • @hamstsorkxxor
      @hamstsorkxxor 5 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      @@tinkertailor7385
      Yup, feck that, alkylated group 12 elements are on my Nope!-list.

    • @makinwaves8147
      @makinwaves8147 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Ian Bunyan and then followed by a “well fuck now I have to figure out what the hell this is...”

  • @GCOS62
    @GCOS62 5 ปีที่แล้ว +506

    As a (very) mature student, doing an M.Sc. in an unrelated subject, I happened to use a wash-room in my uni's chemistry department. In walks this chemistry professor who assumed that I was a colleague, and immediately starts slagging off the physics department. IT'S ALL PERFECTLY TRUE, I TELL YA. This is the best chem demo that I've seen in ages. Eat yer heart out, Nile Red.

    • @christopheroliver148
      @christopheroliver148 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      This is not the prerogative of only chemists. I was a math and CS student back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, and I distinctly remember one of the physics profs using up five of our allotted one hour(s) on a Cray supercomputer before I got permission from one of the CS profs to kill the job.

  • @Rockhopper1
    @Rockhopper1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    at the royal college of military science, one of the students works out theory of TNT and RDX is far too slow burning, so invents a more reactive chemical compound. The professor looks at it and says its already been looked at, and is highly unstable and its impossible to make. Student goes away and spends six months in the lab trying to prove the professor wrong, then he makes it. A minute later there is a massive explosion in the lab. The professor goes into the destroyed lab and sees the student in shock covered in blood, and quietly says to him, thats as far as I got too.

  • @TheGamingLegendsOfficial
    @TheGamingLegendsOfficial 4 ปีที่แล้ว +122

    E&F: "weird ring shape"
    My brain at 4 am: "haha Pringle go boom"

  • @MajorLeagueBassboost
    @MajorLeagueBassboost 5 ปีที่แล้ว +249

    This is Deep Fried Chemistry
    I love it

  • @eertikrux666
    @eertikrux666 5 ปีที่แล้ว +142

    *spent months on making S4N4
    *proceed to light it on fire
    S4N4: *BURNED AND DISAPPEARED IN LESS THAN A SECOND*

  • @legitname8567
    @legitname8567 5 ปีที่แล้ว +233

    New channel to binge watch, nice.

  • @spiderdude2099
    @spiderdude2099 4 ปีที่แล้ว +99

    You gotta love how often osmium tetroxide is brought up as a reagent when you’re learning o chem for forming diols and the like , and then quickly realize that literally NO ONE in a professional lab will almost ever bother to use something so dangerous. I mean for gods sake, you’re more likely to use sodium cyanide for synthetic chemical research than OsO4.

    • @lefthandedspanner
      @lefthandedspanner 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      it's the same with lithal, there are much easier ways to reduce carboxylic acids and esters to alcohols without burning the building down

    • @spotsies
      @spotsies ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I don't get why you're dissing LiALH. It's ok. As for OsO4, we just don't use it because it is so expensive

  • @zbelair7218
    @zbelair7218 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    1:01 "Women are more perilous sometimes, than any hi explosive"

  • @Wildcat144
    @Wildcat144 4 ปีที่แล้ว +517

    I feel like I'm on a list for simply wanting to see a chemist lose his mind over a reaction.
    I feel like he's on a list.
    We're all on a list.

    • @LavenderSystem69
      @LavenderSystem69 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I mean... if I'm on a list, then clearly my country's governments must hand out security clearances like candy...

    • @jackarmstrong8790
      @jackarmstrong8790 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Mystic Thunder not that kind of list, my child.

    • @walrus8444
      @walrus8444 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @no candy agreed

    • @sadmermaid
      @sadmermaid 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Iirc the cops came by to check he wasn't making drugs

    • @ryxtan
      @ryxtan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I know it's an old comment, but I can't scroll past a K2 without saying howdy

  • @420anonymous
    @420anonymous 5 ปีที่แล้ว +376

    Come to think of it... whenever my reactions turned yellow during OChem in College, I was usually hitting 50% yield instead of the expected 80% or better. With lab grade starter materials.
    You're right.

    • @cyllxx9112
      @cyllxx9112 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      This is giving me weird flashbacks of a potassium triiodidoplumbite synthesis, shit turned yellow and my yield at like 40%

    • @ShouldOfStudiedForTheTest
      @ShouldOfStudiedForTheTest 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@cyllxx9112 Mine got stuck at the fucking filter and I couldn't get it off.

    • @Joghurt2499
      @Joghurt2499 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      God that makes me happy I chose physics

    • @andrewfornes5320
      @andrewfornes5320 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He's kinda on point lol.

    • @cryamistellimek9184
      @cryamistellimek9184 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Joghurt2499 Imagine a physicist being happy.

  • @luisillo3511
    @luisillo3511 5 ปีที่แล้ว +170

    I've LOVED this entire video. WOW. that intro...just awesome, the editing...on another level, you.....I'm going to stop there.
    Seriously, one of my favourites so far. Thanks for doing what you do. Keep doing this mate.

    • @Minecrafter20006
      @Minecrafter20006 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Exactly what I thought this is the first video that I watched and I love this

    • @austinkelley3570
      @austinkelley3570 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      definitely an insta-subscribe

  • @coloradodiary956
    @coloradodiary956 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I just discovered this channel today. Its the greatest thing on TH-cam. I love it!! Its the perfect combination of humor and education. The world needs, this please don't stop.

  • @kevinbissinger
    @kevinbissinger 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thank you Integza for introducing me to this guy! This is awesome! Your writing/commentary and editing kick ass!

  • @divs1023
    @divs1023 5 ปีที่แล้ว +178

    A foul mouthed Aussie Nile Red, Love it, subscribed

    • @mattburns7182
      @mattburns7182 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      He's like me he suffers from I just don't give a fuck anymore syndrome 🤣🤣🤣

    • @h0lx
      @h0lx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      nah, Nile Red is a non swearing cross between E&F and nurd rage that appeals to zoomers

    • @dennishunt1590
      @dennishunt1590 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      What do you foul mouthed Aussie, that's just our fair dinkum Australian language mate!

  • @johnstewart8849
    @johnstewart8849 5 ปีที่แล้ว +145

    This reminds me of my Physical Chemistry lab at Tufts...”You should end with 3.8 grams of white crystals with a melting point of 98.3 C”....yeah? 8 grams of yellow sludge??

    • @paavobergmann4920
      @paavobergmann4920 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      sounds familiar.....smeary brownish-reddish goo that took ages to get out of the friggin bottle....."We got 69% yield!" - " You were supposed to get around 12, check your melting point" .......hmmm....?
      Hm, test, if nitration is possible..how? Ah, ok, 45min at 75°C...well if that doesn´t do it...here we go...45°, 50, 55...BAM! ...Uh....was that a positive result?

    • @flagmuffin1221
      @flagmuffin1221 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      I got 117% yield of a resorcinarene in a university lab - was quite proud of creating matter!

    • @Flesh_Wizard
      @Flesh_Wizard ปีที่แล้ว +9

      "and your end product should be roughly 10 grams of bluish crystals"
      "how does 8 and a half grams of smelly red shit sound?"

  • @oitthegroit1297
    @oitthegroit1297 5 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    Try making dichlorine hexoxide (Cl2O6). It's formed by reacting chlorine dioxide with excess ozone. According to Wikipedia, it's a red liquid that is (surprisingly) stable at room temperature. But it explodes when it touches organic materials.
    Edit: there's also dichlorine heptoxide (Cl2O7), a colourless liquid formed by the careful distillation of perchloric acid in the presence of phosphorus pentoxide (P2O5 (technically P4O10, but I'm using the empirical formula)).

  • @agentdouble0five
    @agentdouble0five 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    This is such a rewatchable video, Tom knows what he's doing; memes and chemistry XD

  • @mixery_dose5435
    @mixery_dose5435 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I am watching an online lecture about nitrogen right now and my prof is talking about S4N4 and how his profs used to give it to the students in the lab and how it came to multiple accidental explosions. And he also said it's fairly easy to make, as long as you have S2Cl2 and ammonia and hearing that I just felt the need to comment this
    Edit: One semester later I had another professor talk about S4N4 in a lecture. And another semester later (two days ago) I finally did the exam to that lecture where I had to draw one possible structure of S4N4 (there's multiple structures with S-S bonds or without S-S bonds)

  • @CoolAsFreya
    @CoolAsFreya 5 ปีที่แล้ว +107

    Orange? Nah that's just yellow in disguise

    • @ldub0775
      @ldub0775 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Brown is just dark orange

    • @LukasBolini
      @LukasBolini 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ldub0775 So brown is yellow with a tan?

    • @ldub0775
      @ldub0775 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@LukasBolini (insert vaguely racist joke about tan asians here)

    • @LukasBolini
      @LukasBolini 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ldub0775 that was......definitely NOT what I was going for

    • @ldub0775
      @ldub0775 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@LukasBolini i fully understand that but do i care? No!

  • @ClemoVernandez
    @ClemoVernandez 5 ปีที่แล้ว +386

    The physics department😂😂so truee

    • @garycard1456
      @garycard1456 5 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Back when I was a chemistry undergrad at uni, I was required to examine the microstructure of alumina sintered solgel foams I synthesised as part of my project. Well, as it happened, the one and only SEM was located in the physics department- the 'other side'. So, while carrying these brittle alumina foams laid out on a tray, I strolled over to the 'other side', to be meet with some weird looks.....as though I were an alien life form. They were probably thinking: "a CHEMIST in a PHYSICS department? WTF!"

    • @garycard1456
      @garycard1456 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      *met

    • @johndowe7003
      @johndowe7003 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@garycard1456 shoulda been like 1:16

    • @gorillaau
      @gorillaau 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wouldn't Social Science be more disliked? or maybe I'm getting confused with Arts Degrees.

    • @kmit9191
      @kmit9191 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@gorillaau hating social science is like hating your neighbor when hating physicists is like hating your dumbass brother for being a fraud

  • @bok..
    @bok.. 5 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    the youtube algorithm has blessed me. your content is amazing, a great way to present science! Bravo Sir!

  • @Erkonbaby
    @Erkonbaby 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Easily the most swear words per minute I've heard from a "chemist" in my life. Subbed.

  • @distancexgaming2275
    @distancexgaming2275 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Dang you should have way more likes and subs. Thanks for putting so much time and effort into this stuff for us to see. Ill try to mention this channel to as many people as I can.

  • @sciencoking
    @sciencoking 5 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    The blue flash is BEAUTIFUL! Amazing!

    • @fletcherreder6091
      @fletcherreder6091 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sulfur flames are some of my favorite flames, the blue is so pretty!

    • @SoupDragonish
      @SoupDragonish 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      if you like that blue put volcano flames blue Indonesia into the search engine of your choice and select images.

  • @AlbinoKiwi47
    @AlbinoKiwi47 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    good god i'd be convinced you were cooking meth just by looking at your setups alone i love it

  • @piercer4882
    @piercer4882 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Thank god TH-cam just recommended this channel to
    me.. it's amazing

  • @AllinWhenPlaying
    @AllinWhenPlaying 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have NO IDEA why TH-cam thought I might want to watch this but damn, it was right. Scary. Mate, you have an amazingly engaging presence, it was really fun!

  • @nuclearfrog306
    @nuclearfrog306 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    "working with the physics department" has aged hilariously well, considering Tom's PhD in physics

  • @GyroCoder
    @GyroCoder 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    "hey this chlorine smells funny"

    • @redmadness265
      @redmadness265 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      "Um I dont think you should even be smelling chlorine through your respirator, but i'm more worried about an unexpected other smell in it"

  • @darealbukchoyboi
    @darealbukchoyboi 5 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    Team up with spyropyro and destroy the world

    • @d3athreaper100
      @d3athreaper100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I think you meant styropyro

    • @meme__supreme3373
      @meme__supreme3373 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@d3athreaper100 nah he got sucked into a ps1 and became a fukkin dragon.

    • @luisp.3788
      @luisp.3788 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@meme__supreme3373 and now he takes drugs and wants everybody to go on his back like that drugged cupcake rainbow donald duck

    • @Sp00kq
      @Sp00kq 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Don't forget Michel Reeves

    • @Sp00kq
      @Sp00kq 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@meme__supreme3373 this made me laugh too hard

  • @surajitbasak5260
    @surajitbasak5260 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    You are a good chemist... I like your chemistry as well as funny attitude

  • @gagecox2733
    @gagecox2733 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    First of your videos I've seen, fuggen love it. Subbed.

  • @edlibey8177
    @edlibey8177 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Totally agree about the yellow. Worked in an industrial lab where we made an aniline material. It wasn’t used as such but, would have made an incredible yellow dye.

  • @scorpio6587
    @scorpio6587 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The best part is you figured out how to make pink snow! And I liked the blue explosion/flame. The post-pop sulfur combustion reminds me of a fuel-air bomb, which can be extremely powerful.

  • @MsMotron
    @MsMotron 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    i remember your rage video from back in the day, it was glorious!

  • @Apostelija
    @Apostelija 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Holy crap, I laughed so hard during this video. You perfectly capture the struggle of amateur chemistry here! Greetings from Finland.

  • @Wooksley
    @Wooksley 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is by far the funniest science channel on TH-cam that I have ever watched. Idk about you knowledge of chemistry, but your sense of humor is just top notch. Great job man keep it up.

  • @lukefreeman828
    @lukefreeman828 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    TH-cam suggested one of your videos to me the other day. It was the first time I'd seen one of your videos and I have to say I felt a mixture of emotions. Firstly, I was fucking furious. Why? because TH-cam's areshole algorhythm hadn't bothered to suggest you before. Secondly, I was pretty darn pleased that it had finally gotten its arse in gear and suggested your videos. Thirldly, I felt... whatever that feeling is that you feel when you find a new channel that you just KNOW you're going to spend a lot of time enjoying. You're fucking hilarious dude, had me in stitches here :D

  • @moochington
    @moochington 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Didn't know chemistry could be funny, thanks for proving me wrong

    • @user-fz3ip3ke8p
      @user-fz3ip3ke8p 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I love chemistry and wanted to study it but my teacher just fucked off and never came back now we got this shitty substitude and my grades dropped from A to D
      Fuck my life

  • @harshvirgrewal2403
    @harshvirgrewal2403 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Modern day chemistry! I love how it’s educational but fused with memes and shitposting that it makes for such enjoyable content!

  • @liamanderson6424
    @liamanderson6424 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    "Women are more perilous sometimes, than any hi explosive" 1:01

    • @MrViki60
      @MrViki60 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He's right.

    • @AA-gl1dr
      @AA-gl1dr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Where’s the lie

  • @Luthius-bp2nx
    @Luthius-bp2nx 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love how high-budget these vids are. The McDonald's soda straw in the distillation setup was muah!

  • @BradfordGuy
    @BradfordGuy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You know your a better person, uhm... chemist, when you do experiments like this and you don't die during the process, whether from gas asphyxiation, poison, or explosion - usually it's a dramatic explosion! Glad you are still here! I am not a chemist, but I love watching chemistry!

  • @olivertoth6788
    @olivertoth6788 5 ปีที่แล้ว +114

    S O C K S Y L I C reeee

    • @piranha031091
      @piranha031091 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      It's an extractor for soxalic acid?

    • @elnombre91
      @elnombre91 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Right? How could ya do ma boi the soxhlet extractor like that?

  • @MrTORSTORY
    @MrTORSTORY 5 ปีที่แล้ว +102

    Subscribing to this chanle comes with free 24 hour surveillance from you local government. 😂

    • @raaston9761
      @raaston9761 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      good news i use a vpn upon a vpn upon a vpn upon a vpn

    • @makinwaves8147
      @makinwaves8147 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Evanston Conner better news, now the F.B.I, C.I.A, and H.L.S all know your location, thank you Mr. Connor.

    • @Epsilon-5
      @Epsilon-5 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I love subscribing to the *chanle*

  • @emersonkluge343
    @emersonkluge343 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The first three minutes of this video are the greatest chemistry rant ever recorded.

  • @The_Ruffian
    @The_Ruffian 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The grudge that pushes us further into learning....
    Saw this video when you first uploaded it years ago, and I suppose I'm having a nostalgia tour...
    This video, because of the grudge energy (unconfirmed power source....but relatable in most circles...) pushed me to finally complete a project that was bothering the back of my brain for years....recycling waste eosin-ethanol product at work back into 100% ethanol (definitely not calling it "reagent 100%", cause I did it in my kitchen....and using a basic spirit hydrometer)
    By no means anywhere near as complex of a process, but just wanted to say "thank youfor the push".
    Also.... yellow chem definitely bad...
    "If you can see a colored haze...you're probably too close without gear....any color, (describing smoke/vapor colors) especially yellow..." - passed on by one of my EMT instructors during our HAZMAT course.

  • @OmegaThirty
    @OmegaThirty 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The sheer manic energy in these videos is brilliant

  • @FullModernAlchemist
    @FullModernAlchemist 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I feel the same way about alkyl chlorides. It’s like all the onions I’ve chopped in my life are getting revenge on my airways simultaneously.

    • @spotsies
      @spotsies ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That reminds me of organic chemistry II labs. The tears are real

  • @simonstergaard
    @simonstergaard 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    As a chemist i can confirm, never work with the physics department....or the nano department.

    • @TenCoJeCool
      @TenCoJeCool 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What's wrong with nano?

    • @blueredbrick
      @blueredbrick 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Yeah, nano rocks !! Much of the chemistry i was doing (yes Im a chemist) became much more interesting and having lots or feedback tools so that I could iterate faster to get something workin in a syntesis.
      Classicly chemists are awesome at finally creating a method to make something, but suck at determining all its properties, from the molecule level to macroscale.
      Psychisists are more precise in determining what they made in a whole range of properties, but see the synthesis as a burden and also suck at repeating a synth. Ever seen a pysisist keeping a logbook on paper, even writing down the ambiant pressure, humitity, time of day, temperature, what sort of illumination of the room was used. batch numbers of chemicals apart from the actual chemical brand/repacker. In what conditions the stuff arrived. How it was stored. NEVER put back a chemical into the container when there is still a bit left on a spatula or beaker etc. Over time (years maybe) a container may be contaminated with a gazilion different things,
      Glasware awareness. NileRed had a brilliant example of glassware going wrong during some plasma experiments. Very cool. But stuff like that is more common than I thought when I started doing actual experiments (already as a kid, trying experiments i found in a yellowed old chemistru book).
      But this whole issue of the two camps just evaporates when you do nano chemistry and nano materials physics under the same roof.
      It forced me (more from the chemistry side) to become more precise and actually now i love using the sweet equipment like SEM/TEM/XPS you name it, and sure also the bulk chem stuff.
      And it forced my peers arriving from the more physics side to step up their game and actually make stuff, a pure laser dye for example, and do it again a year later.
      On paper it all seems so trivial. But actually doing it is very different, even in a fully equiped lab environment. Sigma Aldrich is not the holy grail, their stuff at least should be analyzed and purified before using it when it fails after try after try.
      The chemical lab is there anyway, why not do a destilation and scavenge the last bit of moisture out of it.
      So its the best from both worlds.
      Nano is here to stay, and a material does not just consist of a chemical.
      And yep, also the physic background guys begin wearing the coat after being pissed that stains are there to stay and that washing only creates holes in the fabrics.
      Finding comfortable safety glasses is an whole other mission. Those stupid painfull cuvix nose destroyers are not inviting to works with. Yet, hand a eye naked college a cumbersome blastproof faceshield when he/se does not like to wear glasses. The next day they'll have proper ones.
      Another nice one is: just keep "spilling" acetone or basicly any other chem onto the box of gloves if they are latex ones. After a few day the boxes will magicly be gone and be replaced by proper nitrile and PE and neoprene ones.
      When any viny boxes arrive by accident, repeat the "spilling" and put a large white sticker on the box over the word vinyl, and use a black marker just stating "
      PVC (polyvinylcloride, 60-80%, 20-40% PHTALATE derived plastasizers"
      And just for the lolz, do a few practice runs of holding ones breath, BUT refrain from taking an inhalation just before you begin counting. Fun. Fume hoods are cool, but can handle only so much.(actually they are a pain in the butt, but yeah)
      And when a tube bubbling in NH3 goes wrong you'll have to act. Ignore the stinging pain from the NH3 dissolving into your arms at the localtion you by accident scraped against a wall somewhere. Lube the tubing cut at a slight angle, dont get the lube on the gloves, and fasted the the tubing again but better and resume the procedure. (Teflon tape is awesome, also protecting any parts that cannot nastyness).
      Once in a while check the oil in the vacuumpump, make sure its correct. Dont skimp on the two opposing backflow flask to protect the pump and the vacuumdistlilling setup. If some gas (like water) must be captured before entering the pump, also go all the way with a scrubbber, better too large then to small, if only to prevent blockage of gasflow.
      Bring a bit of foodgrade epsomsalt and sprinkle it into the coffee/drink of a college. They'll never bring food to the place again.
      Jeeeh for science ! Theory AND practical.
      Sorry for the rant, it was triggered by good memories.

    • @pietrotettamanti7239
      @pietrotettamanti7239 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@blueredbrick this is the first time that reading a lab advice youtube comment gave me useful informations instead of cancer. Thank you sir.

  • @covodex516
    @covodex516 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    honestly this is to this day the best video you ever put out on this channel. entertaining, interesting, crisp editing and dank memes.

  • @waterunderthebridge7950
    @waterunderthebridge7950 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It must be some form of cosmic fate that this dude hasn’t died to colourful death-juice in years of chemistry

  • @olivertoth6788
    @olivertoth6788 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    The S4N4 looks beautiful though imo (AND YES I LIKE YELLOW CHEM *cries in Palladium*)

    • @nicktohzyu
      @nicktohzyu 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Or was that just carrots?

    • @olivertoth6788
      @olivertoth6788 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@nicktohzyu the eternal question

    • @TheBackyardChemist
      @TheBackyardChemist 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      looks a lot like a Pd(0) Suzuki catalyst in solid form

    • @ExtractionsAndIre
      @ExtractionsAndIre 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Just replace all palladium catalysts with carrot. If nothing else, at least it'll be cheaper!

    • @TheBackyardChemist
      @TheBackyardChemist 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@ExtractionsAndIre also when palladium catalysts turn from orange to brown and black, you know they are no good anymore.
      Same thing with carrots. Coincidence???

  • @ShinobiBoyfu
    @ShinobiBoyfu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    "Doesn't like yellow" sounds like you got a little bit of xanthophobia my guy.

  • @LilGugz
    @LilGugz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I LOVE THIS keep it up man!!!!!! 10/10

  • @smokedoutweeb7580
    @smokedoutweeb7580 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How does this dude not have more then 100k subs, I get everyones not into science but he's funny asf

  • @pygmyowl8801
    @pygmyowl8801 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    1:15 my new favorite insult

  • @riverfx
    @riverfx 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "What am I doing with my life, I smell like piss and shit and all I have is fucking sulfur" - Ex&F 2019

  • @OwOraTheWitch
    @OwOraTheWitch 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    7:49 The can realizes "oh shit I'm out of frame"

  • @danhat1473
    @danhat1473 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    5:19
    Yellow bad.
    Orange ok.
    In between = Dial up internet.
    Subbed. Lol

  • @3DRiley_
    @3DRiley_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    >Things most chemists refuse to work with"
    >The physics department
    t. PhD in physics

  • @merlyworm
    @merlyworm 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Every few months I come back to this video just cuz this is the perfect video to describe your channel. Im not a chemist or anything, but man, this tickles me. Bone-hurting juice! Yellow chem bad.

  • @rittenbrake1613
    @rittenbrake1613 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    0:34 The Physics Department 😂😂😂

  • @ozznik9717
    @ozznik9717 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I'm quite happy I found a shitposting channel about chemistry, where you can even pick up a thing or two :D.

  • @unigrampa
    @unigrampa 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    "Needs oxygen from the air"
    Then add an oxidizer m8, potassium nitrate or something.

  • @adamknowles1
    @adamknowles1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Definitely a complicated chemist. Explanations of Sheldon Cooper + the planning of Ted Kozinski + Wazza and Gazza down the pub = whatever the fucks going on here. I like it.

  • @jameshowarth4801
    @jameshowarth4801 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love this video so much, I realised I had left it open in two tabs.

  • @franglish9265
    @franglish9265 5 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    I take it there isn't an O4N4 compound?

    • @ExplosionsAndFire
      @ExplosionsAndFire  5 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      No, but there is Se4N4 and Te4N4 which are apparently more explosive... harder to make though. So much ring strain!

    • @VoidHalo
      @VoidHalo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Sounds like a challenge for the next time you need to prove you've grown as a person. Or should I include a vague and incorrect summary of a synthesis of one of these to ""motivate" you?

    • @elnombre91
      @elnombre91 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@ExplosionsAndFire God, I can't even begin to imagine how bad Se2Cl2 will smell. Selenium compounds smell absolutely foul.

    • @monarchatto6095
      @monarchatto6095 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Rob Newland *several Te4N4 molecules are typing*

    • @axtrifonov
      @axtrifonov 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ExplosionsAndFire and more stinky to make

  • @johnmcclain3887
    @johnmcclain3887 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I've been doing chemistry for some time now, and I would suggest you avoid "arch nemesis chemicals" completely, to keep a pleasant, comfy state of mind, one gets after feeling the ground move at detonation velocity. I've never much like sulfur myself, but sometimes you just have to use it. Then there's all the rest of the times:) have you tried det cord yet?

  • @ToxicMrSmith
    @ToxicMrSmith 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    0:34
    the physics department.
    That didn't age well

    • @ExplosionsAndFire
      @ExplosionsAndFire  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lol it was because I was having a hard time getting the chemistry faculty to work with me

  • @risu6894
    @risu6894 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Local man is FUCKING FURIOUS at the color yellow

  • @manjulamachar8959
    @manjulamachar8959 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Chemist with a sense of humour....
    EXISTS!!!!

  • @b-gaming797
    @b-gaming797 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Help with question??? I'm wondering if you can help me figure out what this chemical is? When I was in elementry school I entered a Volcano project in a science fair. What made my project stand out was a chemical I had seen dimistrated in class earlier in the tear. It was a orange crystal chemical that I was able to obtain from our local pharmacy back in the late 80's early 90's. When put in a cup and ignited it would combust rapidly and send a trick gray ash into the air. I won the school science fair and placed 2nd in State. My daughter as at the age where she will be doing these projects so I would like to figure out what the chemical was so I can help with a similar project. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!!

    • @ExplosionsAndFire
      @ExplosionsAndFire  2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ayyy that's Ammonium dichromate. Not so easy to get anymore, it's pretty carcinogenic! And if you do it again, make sure no-one breathes it in/wash your hands well etc. Hope that helps

  • @mincraftcreatore
    @mincraftcreatore 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Why is there a van with a fake brand outside my house

  • @olivertoth6788
    @olivertoth6788 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Well time to comment again

    • @ExplosionsAndFire
      @ExplosionsAndFire  5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      it was my tactic to get double the views by uploading it to both channels

    • @olivertoth6788
      @olivertoth6788 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ExplosionsAndFire cOuLd wOrK

  • @whiteobama3032
    @whiteobama3032 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Oz unabomber: I dont want to work with anything vaguely yellow
    Also oz unabomber: *shows himself producing several orange and yellow compounds*

  • @RobertBardos
    @RobertBardos 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love Chemistry and just found your channel. first video I watched, actually.
    really dig the content and production value. keep up the great job, making science interesting

  • @Paveway-chan
    @Paveway-chan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    3:48 Okay, you've used alchemy to make a fkin human heart in a glass test tube. What ancient, deep power did you beseech for this knowledge???

  • @lime---green
    @lime---green 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    4:16 forbidden bong

  • @KingJellyfishII
    @KingJellyfishII 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    "the physics department" at least we don't speak of biology. And as a person who is best at physics, I can say
    Yeah probably best not to speak of physics

    • @borkborkfoxxo279
      @borkborkfoxxo279 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Life science peeps only truly enjoy being with themselves, and weirdly looking down at everyone

    • @saber1epee0
      @saber1epee0 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I went into Electrochem because I have seen Bio friends, and I refused to let my experiments erase months of work simply because the cells randomly decide to die on you...
      Three years later I'm in charge of Battery Testing and that's EXACTLY what happens.
      Stick to process chem.

  • @MarioNintendoh
    @MarioNintendoh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This channel will... Blow up

  • @huvudpersson7344
    @huvudpersson7344 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is definitely the best E&F video. The yellow chem, the redemption arc, the obscure forum post, the pink clouds.

  • @theSILKROAD210
    @theSILKROAD210 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Oi Mate, where are those Thermocouples?

    • @ExplosionsAndFire
      @ExplosionsAndFire  5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      AH FUCK I'll go on eBay tomorrow honestly I swear, this isn't even a joke now how do I keep forgetting... what

    • @ExplosionsAndFire
      @ExplosionsAndFire  5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ah fuck

  • @MattC626
    @MattC626 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm gonna keep watching this until it hits 1 million views. Cheers mate.

  • @noahross1878
    @noahross1878 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    video: Australian science man screaming about yellow
    background music: calming piano jazz

  • @nigelhungerford-symes5059
    @nigelhungerford-symes5059 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love the personal growth on display

  • @93bamaman
    @93bamaman 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    IDk anything about chemistry but this dude is fun to listen to.

  • @eduardo_gama
    @eduardo_gama 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    How the hell a chemistry channel is so funny? Good job sir