I went to high school in the 80s and we nitrided quite a few things in chemistry class. We made celluloid, the stuff AC/DC wrote a song about and , of course, the heart medicine. It was fun. And the tests we did afterwards in the yard nearly knocked the windows out of the school building. Fun times. Too bad all the generations after 1970 missed out on absolutely all the fun in education. Love your videos, btw. Way underrated channel!!!
If education is fun like that more kids would have learnt a lot more I grew up in the 2000's so hit high school 2010 and the best we got was the old potassium in water
We are all watching this for the purpose of rebuilding the society after the inevitable destruction predicted by Albert Einstein. Now where did I put my sticks and stones?
I ran a biodiesel rig down in Peru for about three months. We heated the (filtered) used cooking oil in a recycled (~40 gallon) water heater. With enough time in that stage you can boil off any water that's in the oil. I then added both a measured amount of methanol and lye and let that heat some more. The water heater assembly had a clear tube connection below it which allowed the glycerine to be dropped out of the mixture. Using a complicated system of pumps, the biodiesel then goes to the first of three bubble tanks. Each cleaning stage was in an approximately 65-gallon tank with a typical aquarium air bubbler at the bottom. Once it's made the rounds it's then ready to be stored in a 55-gallon drum. We ran the volunteer truck on 100% biodiesel and it ran just fine. The glycerine then is stored and turned into soap in a different process.
Just show's it's matter of time before we can use something once thought to be waste and turn it into something useful again. I like that story you told, would you say money was saved on Diesel?
I don't think glycerin can be turned into soap. Its usually a byproduct of soap making, and sometimes they leave a little bit of glycerin in the soap. But turning glycerin into soap, i can't see that happening
@@ShannonDove-sy7ye Glycerin is used as an ADDITIVE in some soap formulations. Unless extra steps are done to separate glycerin from natural soaps, there is a bit of glycerin left in the finished soap already, adding more makes the soap less "drying". Someplace around 10% glycerin by weight is common for hand/face soaps.
@@metamud8686 Making biodiesel is not a net energy loss, especially if you use waste heat from some other process (like the hot water or hot exhaust from a diesel powered generator).
The headache you get from inhaling the fume of nitroglycerin is freaking strong, multiple times stronger than not having coffee for a day (As a coffee addict). Another tip for testing any energetic compound is to tape the confined aluminium foil on the hammer instead, so you don't have to aim.
I suppose it's good to keep a strong stimulant on hand when working with it. Cocaine is probably best because it's fast acting when snorted, but it wears off quickly so you can go to sleep later that night. Does anyone know if cocaine constricts blood vessels as well as amphetamines? It should.
Stumbled onto this after searching how to make a black powder pistol... With the Anarchist Cookbook search history and all, I am already on at least a dozen for sure.
I dont understand, that someone with such interesting videos only has 16,5k subs. You deserve so much more than that. The videos are interseting, and entertaining.
His accent is making this damn near unwatchable. It sounds like the worst possible combination of french, Finnish, and a mysterious third thing. I'm watching this shit on mute fr.
Because he prattles on endlessly, I was very intrigued by the title, but 3 minutes in I can’t stand watching any longer. Make the video 9 minutes, maybe. Or improve the engagement.
Very interesting video. I retired form an Army Ammunition Plant where thousands of pounds of NG were manufactured on a regular basis to make double and triple base propellant and gun powder. We also manufactured nitrocellulose. We used 98% white fuming nitric acid and 104% sulfuric acid (Oleum) with pure glycerine. We used the Biazzi Manufacturing Process. We also recovered the nitric and sulfuric acids and reconcentrated them in a NACSAC plant. Back in 1985 we had an NG storehouse and nitrator explode containing 5,000 pounds of pure NG. Sadly two men were killed in the blast that left a huge crater in the ground.
Nice video! To remove water from the glycerin a vacuum distillation works perfect. Low heat and the water comes over first. When no more water comes over youre done. I use a short path distillation aparatus because it's less work with the setup and less glasswork to clean afterwards.
i'm not too sure but the gel that formed could be some kind of soap. I've made biodiesel in the past and it usually formed when some water was present in the mixture, it can happen because there is some moisture left in the vegetable oil or because the hydroxide absorbed it from air, especially if it has been conserved for a long time (maybe in a not completely air-tight container). To avoid that, I usually pre heat the oil to about 120°C in order to remove all the water and "bake" the hydroxide to over 150°C to dry it completely. By the way if it doesn't interfere too much with the next reactions you can remove the solid junk and proceede anyway
I believe there are stabilizers used to protect diesel in long term storage, I wonder if there's another chemical that could be added to remove the water
If you make it again using WVO, you might find it interesting to search for esterification with small amounts of conc sulphuric, rather than just using the standard methoxide mix. If you already know of this, awesome, makes a HUGE difference to yield doesn't it! :) Of course, as well as increasing yield it (of course) decreases waste. Even with "grim" WVO, you only need tiny amounts (titrate but typically about 0.12% by volume acid to oil - so a 1 litre container of 96% acid (or even sulphuric acid based drain cleaner, utter purity is not critical here) is enough to process the best part of 1000 litres of oil.
The cloudiness in the alkali hydroxide solution in methanol is caused by carbonates btw. Those form very fast by air and the carbon dioxide in it reacting with the alkali hydroxide. They are extremely sensitive to CO2 besides being extremely hygroskopic. The reactions shown really are cool and interesting, because they are so easy and only need a few very common chemicals. But the synthesis of nitroglycerine is very dangerous, especially when done correctly to get as much of a yield as possible. This needs to be done with very specific amounts of educts and at specific temperatures, producing lots of fully nitrated nitroglycerine, which is pretty sensitive. Doing the easier synthesis keeping the temperature rather low yields a mixture of nitroglycerine and partly nitrated glycerine, which is much safer. And very cool detail that you mentioned that nitroglycerine isn't a typical nitrate but an ester! Edit: Fun fact: The chemists working in dynamite factories (back then personal safety wasn't really a thing. Not comparable with today, where security is the most important thing. In the west at least, not really in china, india etc...) took up so much nitroglycerine by skin contact etc. that when they went on vacation, they had to take dilute (medical) nitroglycerin with them to inject from time to time, because they were so exposed to it and got such a tolerance that they suffered from extreme headaches without it! Back then work in a lab meant lots of new discoveries, but I still prefer working in a modern lab with modern safety precautions^^
Nice video. Sidenote: I don't think it matters for the hemistry, but I think this is canola oil and not sunflower oil (you can see Kujawski branding on the cap and to the best of my knowledge they only make canola oil).
@@willthecat3861 yeah, but where is the fun in that? if we just wanted something that went pop when its hit, go get some capgun caps n hit them, a lame 30s vid. the explanations and process is what we're here for.
I made a very small amount of Armstrong mix once. Packed it into a little bit of duck tape and whacked it with my shoe. Now, that was something that really REALLY didn’t want to exist. It exploded so violently that it chipped the concrete and echoed throughout the city of Akita for several seconds.
Hi I used to regularly run My Diesel Land Rover on used vegetable oil I got from the local restaurants. All You need to do is drip it through a filter to get the impurities out and add 5% of white spirit or paraffin/kerosene. It ran just fine but smelled of frying burgers! ; - )
@@kociszczebuzz words for the algorithm to push the channel. You cannot sub if you don't know he exists, and unless people are looking, you need the algorithm to tell them. Don't get hung up on not being related to chemistry. People in general click most things put in front of them.
For the yield on average triglycerides have a molar mass of around 885 g/mol and TNG mmass is 92.09 g/mol. This makes glycerine 10.41% of vegetable oils mass stoichiometrically. If you started with 425ml vegetable oil (i know you said 400 but the markings on the beaker say otherwise) that would be 391 grams adjusted for density. If you had a perfect yield the total amount of glycerine from oil would be 40.73 grams. So, finally, your approximate yeild would be 13.01% (5.3/40.73). This is just my calculation based on web sources and, like stated in the video, getting a precisce triglyceride molar mass is difficult. Hope this was interesting.
They say biodiesel has lower energy density than diesel, but quite a good alternative especially to places where a lot of used cooking oil as well as small scale cooking oil processing facilities.
Also pretty easy to grow oilseed rape, making it a pretty decent way of collecting solar energy. Prob better than pumping oil out of the ground, as biodiesel doesn't /add/ carbon to the current state :D
"They" don't just say it... because they are repeating what other people say... the energy density of biodiesel is 38 Mj/kg, and for diesel its 45 Mj/kg ... that's about 15% less energy fo biodiesel.
love your humour :) i often can't add up the science of chemistry, it's all spaghetti wrapped up in string encased in knotted jewelry to me, but i do enjoy watching. Thanks :)
When I think of Nitroglycerin, I am reminded of the old western movies. Where it is transported in small glass bottles on a wooden wagon. It always seems to end badly!
Me too, and everybody dripping sweat, trying to move it. Another one was a Roy Schieder movie from the 1970's about these guys driving trucks through the jungle to put out a oil rig blow out. It's here on YT, Sorcerer, Lazarus, something like that.
Glycerin is quite sweet! It's one of the two main components of eliquid (or "vape juice", if you will) which is a big reason why almost all flavors are sweet. Also, fog machines 😝
This is interesting, but I hope no one actually tries to make this stuff. I was a chemistry enthusiast long time ago and although I read the proper recipes for this, I knew to never actually try making the stuff- for one thing fuming sulfuric and fuming nitric acids are hard to get , and very dangerous by themselves and things can go wrong at any point during the process. When purified, the stuff would not need a hammer to set it off: you can just let it drop fall from a pipette onto a hard surface and that would detonate it.
@@deathedell215 it says "A very interesting idea with the synthesis of nitroglycerin from oil :D I hope those who come subscribe as often as possible, your videos definitely listen to it!"
Biodiesel was one of the first chemical experiments i showed my seven year old nephew. Forgot to mention you could use the glucerin to make stuff go boom (:
Please nitrate some gasoline I did it once and it made a weird red waxy substance it decomposed nicely with some ammonium nitrate I have no idea what to call it but by it's self it's similar to tnt . WHAT IS IT ?
no worries, I know explosives and would never attempt to make nitro glycerine, I like my fingers, toes, eyes, hands etc., but the chemistry is cool to watch
Easy-just make your teenage daughter wash dishes by hand, and throw out the Taylor Swift junk in her room while she's doing it-that adds the bigger, secondary explosion that requires the primary, smaller explosion (hand washing dishes) to set off. The Russians called it the "Tsar Bomba" and punched a hole in the atmosphere with it.
Always a pleasure to see your videos !! i have a question: how do you get concentrated sulfuric acid in europe ? Lastly it could be really cool to have your own discord server to chat with the community
Glad you enjoy them! I use professional drain cleaner as my source of concentrated sulfuric acid, and when it comes the the discord server I will definitely make one in the future :)
@@Amateur.Chemistry what kind of unsuitable videos can we access with a paid subscription to your patreon because i was thinking paying for a month (probably not longer i think because i have 11€ on my bank account)
@@devnitrate Currently on my patreon there's a video about making dynamite and making potassium chlorate from pool supplies, and in about a month I will record a video about HMTD
Visually appealing to watch, informative, easy to follow all with subtle good humor sprinkled in there? Sign me up. First video watched and already subscribed.
From other making bio diesel recommend using NaCl instead of NaOH for the esterification step, because, one, in solution the Na and Cl disassociate, allowing the same reaction but only more heat required, two, no accidental Soap produced from NaOH reacting directly with the newly formed fatty acids.
Dude thanks! Ive been looking for a way to make nitroglycerin since i saw it in an episode of graceland and watched it jump out pot and go boom. Crazy.
Glad this isn't censored. The processes involved in making bio diesel are nice, but i'd hope you approach it on a more industrious scale. The impurities in your nitro glycerine suggests that maybe the biodiesel video will produce it sub optimally or inefficiently, but i hope to be surprised. I view this as an important piece of 1800's technology and would hope that industrious folk retain this knowledge specifically because of it's parallels to soapmaking and biodiesel, which are themselves crucial technology for people to retain.
Another thing I did with the grand chiller was to evolve Tetraamminecopper(II) nitrate (TACN), which as you know is a fairly weak explosive it's pretty safe to handle. I just wanted to see how I could increase its notorious low yield. I succeeded although I lost all my notes and it was so long ago I can't remember other than what I did was create spontaneously the ammonia nitrate to ammonia gas and leaving a nitrate source in its path I can't remember exactly how I did it but I got over 90% yield which is ridiculously unheard of with that experiment I instantly had dreams of becoming wealthy from the process and then I remembered it was a fairly useless chemical lol but if you try and make this try it with creating the gas under a extremely cold atmosphere within the vessel I got instant probably 10 g of perfect crystals in the blink of an eye as fast as it could bubble through It was the most fascinating thing I've ever seen I wish I would have typed out my notes so I could remember the process All I do remember is like I say I created the ammonia and the ammonia nitrate on the fly in the experimental vessel so that was basically the only things that I changed was the temperature using the Grant chiller and I believe alcohol but it doesn't really matter it wasn't that cold it was antifreeze type temperatures cold lol if you know what I mean usually use alcohol when you want to get very very Sub-Zero but at any rate yeah that was the only thing different than the normal process of making the crystals the most important part being creating the ammonia and evolving it to nitrate instantly in the same vessel with the copper compounds etc so if you look up the classic experiment and then play around with it you can probably increase the yield yourself the same way I stumbled on it purely by mistake let me know if you want that Grant chiller it's invaluable to any lab
Biodiesels often outperform commercial ones, also, the car exhaust may have a fried chicken smell 😂. I once added peach schnapps methanol fraction at 5 % to my petroleum lawnmower ..yes , peach apricot exhaust fumes
I see my magnetic mixer hot plate design got produced, gotta love that Apple security that’s only good if they want it to protect you but you’d have to be “in The Club” for that to be the case. Almost 70% of my invention ideas have been developed since I started keeping them on my comp, I’ve never had money to develop even one. I solved the electric car distance problem so you didn’t have to stop for long periods to recharge but that was built over sees to almost exactly what I had, they don’t get everything right because they don’t have the brains and the only reason the other 30% isn’t created yet is because it’s too hard to understand my drunken notes, I can’t even understand most of them. Why bother with inventions when the patents don’t do anything for you but they do somehow protect huge corporations that fund the Deep State so that’s nice. I’m tortured like the original Tesla when the Deep State went after him.
You just need a compound turbo gas turbine connected to something useful, so you can put that biodiesel to work rather than simply for heating you up; perhaps driving a generator which dumps into a resistor bank, or a battery bank to power stuff later?
Can ethanol alcohol be used instead? What about just mixing burnt or slaked lime (from roasting oyster shells) with the oil, wouldn't calcium stearate precipitate out ? Calcium stearate being insoluble should just be filtered out. Would that make glycerin? Calcium stearate is supposedly what soap scum is that forms on a bath tub, comes from soap (sodium sterate ) reacting with calcium in the water.
My dad worked on a hydroelectric project in the '50s. He told how they used to use gelignite to make a camp-fire because it burns real good. Soldiers in Vietnam used C4 stuck to the bottom of a canteen cup to heat water for coffee, sometimes scooped out of claymore mines. Is there anything HE can't do?
Just throwing this in here: YT has been recommending me very small channels much more than usually lately. And I mean videos with 20 views kind of small. I clicked on this video from front page.
Where I live, they sell a solid glycerine for soap making, but I wonder how pure it is, being a solid at room temperature? I would have saved the nitrification acid mix, as they don't break down, and can be saved. While the acids do reduce in concentration, they still work for small projects. I take nitroglycerine pills for a heart arrhythmia problem, and I get a headache from it, but not as bad as the migraine headaches I used to get!
so this is also why ammonium nitrate combined with diesel fuel is explosive? the diesels a glycerine and the AN nitrates? creating a crude approximation of nitroglycerine?
Well,the gal bio diesel maybe is your sodium hydroxide and hydrochloric acid put too much? and you want to get more glycerin why don't you extract by water?
Would ethanol or isopropanol also work for transesterification? These alcohols would mix better with the oil and probably should increase reaction speed...
Lazy, but it worked ! Nice video. Good call to destroy it after synthesis - there really is no point 'storing' anything that you know how to make. As a vasodilator, generally 5% in water sprayed under the tongue works. Interestingly it still isn't fully understood why it works first on the veins before the arteries. Maybe i got those switched around.
3:17 - the soap wouldn't be any "pain to separate" fro, glycerine - back in high school we were making soap on "Industrial chemistry" classes/ lab work, and I happened to be assigned , at one of those, with making soap. Long story short, is separates "by itself" after the reaction is done - all you need to do is to keep it warm (so the soap would stay liquid) and just wait. It takes few hours to separate the soap and glycerine, but other than that it totally "painless". EDIT -tej no, jakie "no promoting any oil company" - przeca każden widzi, (4:33) że to olej KUJAWSKI... ;-)
Nitroglycerin is also heart medicine. It's a vascular dilator. So if you knew dosage side and SHTF you could keep grand from having a heart attack or stroke.
"nitric and sulfuric acid are corrosive"
"methanol is toxic"
"dont try this at home"
Well there goes my plans for the evening
Just have a night out... and try it at someone elses home.
LOL
@@youghurt2k Or in the Garage...
And absolutely don't try it if you are a klutz because it if you even shake it that may be enough to send you to Jesus!!
@@spectrumofrealitynah bro you assuming I got garage money 😂😢
I went to high school in the 80s and we nitrided quite a few things in chemistry class. We made celluloid, the stuff AC/DC wrote a song about and , of course, the heart medicine. It was fun. And the tests we did afterwards in the yard nearly knocked the windows out of the school building. Fun times. Too bad all the generations after 1970 missed out on absolutely all the fun in education.
Love your videos, btw.
Way underrated channel!!!
Nitrated.
We're too pussified today. And the government surely doesn't want people to know this chemistry.
We had archery in gym class. Imagine that today 🤔
If education is fun like that more kids would have learnt a lot more I grew up in the 2000's so hit high school 2010 and the best we got was the old potassium in water
How did you get toluene???
Just want to let my FBI agent I'm only watching this for entertainment purposes.
Would that not be home land security or DE A visit @ 3am?
Id like to let them know that I am watching it for my education, it still is not their business and to Golf Foxtrott Tango.
Have a look around the planet... I'm not watching this for entertainment purposes, and neither are you.
We are all watching this for the purpose of rebuilding the society after the inevitable destruction predicted by Albert Einstein.
Now where did I put my sticks and stones?
hahaha my first though with too many ilegal kind of content on youtube for entertainment puroposes
Warning: Nitroglycerin is extreme, blah blah blah try this at home.
😂😂😂😂
Imma have a sip
Edit: the experience was mind-blowing
@@Flesh_WizardOh, no.
@@Flesh_Wizard it's going to feel mind blowing too lol.
Exactly what I heard
I ran a biodiesel rig down in Peru for about three months. We heated the (filtered) used cooking oil in a recycled (~40 gallon) water heater. With enough time in that stage you can boil off any water that's in the oil. I then added both a measured amount of methanol and lye and let that heat some more. The water heater assembly had a clear tube connection below it which allowed the glycerine to be dropped out of the mixture. Using a complicated system of pumps, the biodiesel then goes to the first of three bubble tanks. Each cleaning stage was in an approximately 65-gallon tank with a typical aquarium air bubbler at the bottom. Once it's made the rounds it's then ready to be stored in a 55-gallon drum. We ran the volunteer truck on 100% biodiesel and it ran just fine. The glycerine then is stored and turned into soap in a different process.
Just show's it's matter of time before we can use something once thought to be waste and turn it into something useful again. I like that story you told, would you say money was saved on Diesel?
how much energy did you need to do all the heating in the various stages? More than the amount of energy stored in the final biodiesel product?
I don't think glycerin can be turned into soap. Its usually a byproduct of soap making, and sometimes they leave a little bit of glycerin in the soap. But turning glycerin into soap, i can't see that happening
@@ShannonDove-sy7ye
Glycerin is used as an ADDITIVE in some soap formulations. Unless extra steps are done to separate glycerin from natural soaps, there is a bit of glycerin left in the finished soap already, adding more makes the soap less "drying". Someplace around 10% glycerin by weight is common for hand/face soaps.
@@metamud8686
Making biodiesel is not a net energy loss, especially if you use waste heat from some other process (like the hot water or hot exhaust from a diesel powered generator).
Next video: Making plutonium fuel rods (don't try this at home)
You can make yellow cake uranium at home. There are videos
From toilet cleaner and hot dogs lol
Lol
The headache you get from inhaling the fume of nitroglycerin is freaking strong, multiple times stronger than not having coffee for a day (As a coffee addict).
Another tip for testing any energetic compound is to tape the confined aluminium foil on the hammer instead, so you don't have to aim.
It’s generally not great for the body to inhale toxic fumes
That's a good idea, never thought of that.
I suppose it's good to keep a strong stimulant on hand when working with it. Cocaine is probably best because it's fast acting when snorted, but it wears off quickly so you can go to sleep later that night. Does anyone know if cocaine constricts blood vessels as well as amphetamines? It should.
Good trick
This dudes voice and inflection gave me a brutal headache.
Yay, another video to cement my place on one or more watchlists.
Stumbled onto this after searching how to make a black powder pistol... With the Anarchist Cookbook search history and all, I am already on at least a dozen for sure.
Lol
😂😂😂😂😂
Why would it put you on a watchlist? Pretty sure it would take more than watching a video about chemistry 😂
I dont understand, that someone with such interesting videos only has 16,5k subs. You deserve so much more than that. The videos are interseting, and entertaining.
Not many people are interested in studying chem.
The problem is, even if the video and idea us very good, it's too deep into the theory.
If you compare it to nile red.
Also thumbnails.
I hate uptalk
His accent is making this damn near unwatchable. It sounds like the worst possible combination of french, Finnish, and a mysterious third thing. I'm watching this shit on mute fr.
Because he prattles on endlessly, I was very intrigued by the title, but 3 minutes in I can’t stand watching any longer. Make the video 9 minutes, maybe. Or improve the engagement.
SO I saw this in my feed and immediately assumed it was a Nile Red video. It's cool to see someone else doing some crazy stuff like this.
Yeah but he shouldn't be copying the thumbnail and setup
He's trying to mimic the Nile Red phrasing and cadence also.
@@riccardosartori3822The setup is just the best way of filming glassware
@@Nathan-wk9ddNot really?
"this brand new, never before used bottle of oil"😂
That's got to be a reference to Nile's anal lube video 😂 😂
Very interesting video. I retired form an Army Ammunition Plant where thousands of pounds of NG were manufactured on a regular basis to make double and triple base propellant and gun powder. We also manufactured nitrocellulose. We used 98% white fuming nitric acid and 104% sulfuric acid (Oleum) with pure glycerine. We used the Biazzi Manufacturing Process. We also recovered the nitric and sulfuric acids and reconcentrated them in a NACSAC plant. Back in 1985 we had an NG storehouse and nitrator explode containing 5,000 pounds of pure NG. Sadly two men were killed in the blast that left a huge crater in the ground.
Nice video!
To remove water from the glycerin a vacuum distillation works perfect.
Low heat and the water comes over first. When no more water comes over youre done.
I use a short path distillation aparatus because it's less work with the setup and less glasswork to clean afterwards.
i'm not too sure but the gel that formed could be some kind of soap. I've made biodiesel in the past and it usually formed when some water was present in the mixture, it can happen because there is some moisture left in the vegetable oil or because the hydroxide absorbed it from air, especially if it has been conserved for a long time (maybe in a not completely air-tight container). To avoid that, I usually pre heat the oil to about 120°C in order to remove all the water and "bake" the hydroxide to over 150°C to dry it completely. By the way if it doesn't interfere too much with the next reactions you can remove the solid junk and proceede anyway
I believe there are stabilizers used to protect diesel in long term storage, I wonder if there's another chemical that could be added to remove the water
Lanolin. I think it's chemically the same but can not be called that because of the source thing.
If you make it again using WVO, you might find it interesting to search for esterification with small amounts of conc sulphuric, rather than just using the standard methoxide mix. If you already know of this, awesome, makes a HUGE difference to yield doesn't it! :)
Of course, as well as increasing yield it (of course) decreases waste. Even with "grim" WVO, you only need tiny amounts (titrate but typically about 0.12% by volume acid to oil - so a 1 litre container of 96% acid (or even sulphuric acid based drain cleaner, utter purity is not critical here) is enough to process the best part of 1000 litres of oil.
"I don't want to promote some kind of brand of vegetable oil" Meanwhile, Kujawski brand on the cap.
Polish oil...
...from ukrainian seeds🤣
I definantly didn't download this video.
*FBI OPEN UP*
Oops...
This was a fun video to watch. But all of your videos are really fun to watch. I'm really glad that I found your channel!
The cloudiness in the alkali hydroxide solution in methanol is caused by carbonates btw. Those form very fast by air and the carbon dioxide in it reacting with the alkali hydroxide. They are extremely sensitive to CO2 besides being extremely hygroskopic.
The reactions shown really are cool and interesting, because they are so easy and only need a few very common chemicals. But the synthesis of nitroglycerine is very dangerous, especially when done correctly to get as much of a yield as possible. This needs to be done with very specific amounts of educts and at specific temperatures, producing lots of fully nitrated nitroglycerine, which is pretty sensitive. Doing the easier synthesis keeping the temperature rather low yields a mixture of nitroglycerine and partly nitrated glycerine, which is much safer.
And very cool detail that you mentioned that nitroglycerine isn't a typical nitrate but an ester!
Edit: Fun fact: The chemists working in dynamite factories (back then personal safety wasn't really a thing. Not comparable with today, where security is the most important thing. In the west at least, not really in china, india etc...) took up so much nitroglycerine by skin contact etc. that when they went on vacation, they had to take dilute (medical) nitroglycerin with them to inject from time to time, because they were so exposed to it and got such a tolerance that they suffered from extreme headaches without it!
Back then work in a lab meant lots of new discoveries, but I still prefer working in a modern lab with modern safety precautions^^
I so love your style of honest comedy. "Because I am lazy".... relatable.
Nice video. Sidenote: I don't think it matters for the hemistry, but I think this is canola oil and not sunflower oil (you can see Kujawski branding on the cap and to the best of my knowledge they only make canola oil).
Thanks! I missed that, it probably has no effect on the reactions but it's good that you pointed it out
Almost a million tons of glycerin are produced in Europe yearly. It's available at any pharmacy, and even beauty supplies.
@@willthecat3861 yeah, but where is the fun in that? if we just wanted something that went pop when its hit, go get some capgun caps n hit them, a lame 30s vid. the explanations and process is what we're here for.
I made a very small amount of Armstrong mix once. Packed it into a little bit of duck tape and whacked it with my shoe. Now, that was something that really REALLY didn’t want to exist. It exploded so violently that it chipped the concrete and echoed throughout the city of Akita for several seconds.
"ambatublow"
- senator armstrong mixture
Hi I used to regularly run My Diesel Land Rover on used vegetable oil I got from the local restaurants. All You need to do is drip it through a filter to get the impurities out and add 5% of white spirit or paraffin/kerosene. It ran just fine but smelled of frying burgers! ; - )
You deserve a way bigger audience! Your videos are so well researched and edited!
Speaking facts!
If you really feel that way just comment with words like "finance" "best" "tutorial" "weave nation"
If you think about it, if he has bigger audience TH-cam will be more suspicious about him and maybe delete his videos
@@FloridaMengdude, what does it have in common with chemistry?
@@kociszczebuzz words for the algorithm to push the channel.
You cannot sub if you don't know he exists, and unless people are looking, you need the algorithm to tell them. Don't get hung up on not being related to chemistry. People in general click most things put in front of them.
I can’t wait to replicate this at home as soon as my mom leaves for work.
0:01 i paused at, and the phrase "also there's a lot of yellow chemistry..." is shaking
yellow=bad
Thank you for a very good and educational video. I have no intention of making nitro, but you video has removed several doubts and concerns.
Sweden really liked your video, keep it up man!
For the yield on average triglycerides have a molar mass of around 885 g/mol and TNG mmass is 92.09 g/mol. This makes glycerine 10.41% of vegetable oils mass stoichiometrically.
If you started with 425ml vegetable oil (i know you said 400 but the markings on the beaker say otherwise) that would be 391 grams adjusted for density.
If you had a perfect yield the total amount of glycerine from oil would be 40.73 grams. So, finally, your approximate yeild would be 13.01% (5.3/40.73).
This is just my calculation based on web sources and, like stated in the video, getting a precisce triglyceride molar mass is difficult. Hope this was interesting.
In Germany you write a small scientific paper in 10th grade. Ive made my about Biodiesel. I look forward to your video about it :)
You are a serious but still funny chemist. Keep up the good work!
Ah. Miss the explosive days of Cody'sLab. Blew a lock right open with nitroglycerin. And don't flick it with a knife. That was a mistake
What happened to him?
@@robertbrown3927 TH-cam restrictions on posting explosives
They say biodiesel has lower energy density than diesel, but quite a good alternative especially to places where a lot of used cooking oil as well as small scale cooking oil processing facilities.
Also pretty easy to grow oilseed rape, making it a pretty decent way of collecting solar energy. Prob better than pumping oil out of the ground, as biodiesel doesn't /add/ carbon to the current state :D
"They" don't just say it... because they are repeating what other people say... the energy density of biodiesel is 38 Mj/kg, and for diesel its 45 Mj/kg ... that's about 15% less energy fo biodiesel.
love your humour :) i often can't add up the science of chemistry, it's all spaghetti wrapped up in string encased in knotted jewelry to me, but i do enjoy watching. Thanks :)
It’s one of your early subscribers here i’ve been waiting for this fire video since you said you were going to make it on the 15k subscriber post
I know that, your comment was one of the reasons why I decided to make this video :)
@@Amateur.Chemistry the video was very entertaining and thanks
@@Amateur.ChemistryAnd I am thinking about becoming one your $3.00 a month patreons.
@@Amateur.Chemistry I’m one of your $5.00 patreons now
When I think of Nitroglycerin, I am reminded of the old western movies. Where it is transported in small glass bottles on a wooden wagon. It always seems to end badly!
haha same!
Me too, and everybody dripping sweat, trying to move it.
Another one was a Roy Schieder movie from the 1970's about these guys driving trucks through the jungle to put out a oil rig blow out.
It's here on YT, Sorcerer, Lazarus, something like that.
Mmmm... Dynamite.
You are hearby awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Glycerin is quite sweet! It's one of the two main components of eliquid (or "vape juice", if you will) which is a big reason why almost all flavors are sweet. Also, fog machines 😝
Also cancer giver 👅😛
This is interesting, but I hope no one actually tries to make this stuff. I was a chemistry enthusiast long time ago and although I read the proper recipes for this, I knew to never actually try making the stuff- for one thing fuming sulfuric and fuming nitric acids are hard to get , and very dangerous by themselves and things can go wrong at any point during the process. When purified, the stuff would not need a hammer to set it off: you can just let it drop fall from a pipette onto a hard surface and that would detonate it.
Bardzo ciekawy pomysł z syntezą nitrogliceryny z oleju :D Oby ci przybyło jak najwięcej subskrybujących, twoje filmy zdecydowanie na to zasługują!
what in the polish
@@deathedell215 author is Polish, that's why
@@deathedell215 the oil he used is a polish brand, and his accent is characteristic
@@deathedell215 it says "A very interesting idea with the synthesis of nitroglycerin from oil :D I hope those who come subscribe as often as possible, your videos definitely listen to it!"
Olej kujawski
I like that you show how to dispose of dangerous chemicals. Great video!
Biodiesel was one of the first chemical experiments i showed my seven year old nephew. Forgot to mention you could use the glucerin to make stuff go boom (:
ah the power of chemistry 😁 from a common vegetable oil to one of the most powerful explosives known..
Nice video!
Glad we can all be on a watch list together
Feeling inspired to make a watchlist playlist
Please nitrate some gasoline I did it once and it made a weird red waxy substance it decomposed nicely with some ammonium nitrate I have no idea what to call it but by it's self it's similar to tnt . WHAT IS IT ?
no worries, I know explosives and would never attempt to make nitro glycerine, I like my fingers, toes, eyes, hands etc., but the chemistry is cool to watch
Always remember to check the purity of your bases with the unholy oil indicator.
Yellow chem.
Any chance you can show us a safe way to make a small to medium thermonuclear device at home using common household items? Thank you.
Easy-just make your teenage daughter wash dishes by hand, and throw out the Taylor Swift junk in her room while she's doing it-that adds the bigger, secondary explosion that requires the primary, smaller explosion (hand washing dishes) to set off. The Russians called it the "Tsar Bomba" and punched a hole in the atmosphere with it.
Always a pleasure to see your videos !! i have a question: how do you get concentrated sulfuric acid in europe ? Lastly it could be really cool to have your own discord server to chat with the community
Glad you enjoy them! I use professional drain cleaner as my source of concentrated sulfuric acid, and when it comes the the discord server I will definitely make one in the future :)
@@Amateur.Chemistry what kind of unsuitable videos can we access with a paid subscription to your patreon because i was thinking paying for a month (probably not longer i think because i have 11€ on my bank account)
@@devnitrate Currently on my patreon there's a video about making dynamite and making potassium chlorate from pool supplies, and in about a month I will record a video about HMTD
@@Amateur.Chemistry nice i just subscribed and i think i will for 2 months
Thank you very much :)
Legit love your voice, it's hysterical
Visually appealing to watch, informative, easy to follow all with subtle good humor sprinkled in there? Sign me up. First video watched and already subscribed.
From other making bio diesel recommend using NaCl instead of NaOH for the esterification step, because, one, in solution the Na and Cl disassociate, allowing the same reaction but only more heat required, two, no accidental Soap produced from NaOH reacting directly with the newly formed fatty acids.
Im excited for this one
This was a very thorough and thoughtful video. Good work.
An important note. Nitroglycerin is safe when stored below 11 Celsius.
Freezer time
Dude thanks! Ive been looking for a way to make nitroglycerin since i saw it in an episode of graceland and watched it jump out pot and go boom. Crazy.
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Tonight we make soap
Glad this isn't censored. The processes involved in making bio diesel are nice, but i'd hope you approach it on a more industrious scale. The impurities in your nitro glycerine suggests that maybe the biodiesel video will produce it sub optimally or inefficiently, but i hope to be surprised. I view this as an important piece of 1800's technology and would hope that industrious folk retain this knowledge specifically because of it's parallels to soapmaking and biodiesel, which are themselves crucial technology for people to retain.
It's great to see your channel grow!
I'd like to do the biodiesel synthesis
Bro how have I not found your channel yet this is gonna be good hell I love me some yellow chem
This brand new, never before opened bottle of lu-
My dad did something very much like this with me as a kid.
Memories back to 1978...
Thanks!
This guy is definitely trying hard not to make a nuke in his backyard
1:27 thought dynamite is made from TNT tri nitro tuluol ?
No, thats a common misconception, it is made from nitroglycerin
@@Amateur.Chemistry the more you know :D
Expands blood vessels ey?
Another thing I did with the grand chiller was to evolve Tetraamminecopper(II) nitrate (TACN), which as you know is a fairly weak explosive it's pretty safe to handle. I just wanted to see how I could increase its notorious low yield. I succeeded although I lost all my notes and it was so long ago I can't remember other than what I did was create spontaneously the ammonia nitrate to ammonia gas and leaving a nitrate source in its path I can't remember exactly how I did it but I got over 90% yield which is ridiculously unheard of with that experiment I instantly had dreams of becoming wealthy from the process and then I remembered it was a fairly useless chemical lol but if you try and make this try it with creating the gas under a extremely cold atmosphere within the vessel I got instant probably 10 g of perfect crystals in the blink of an eye as fast as it could bubble through It was the most fascinating thing I've ever seen I wish I would have typed out my notes so I could remember the process All I do remember is like I say I created the ammonia and the ammonia nitrate on the fly in the experimental vessel so that was basically the only things that I changed was the temperature using the Grant chiller and I believe alcohol but it doesn't really matter it wasn't that cold it was antifreeze type temperatures cold lol if you know what I mean usually use alcohol when you want to get very very Sub-Zero but at any rate yeah that was the only thing different than the normal process of making the crystals the most important part being creating the ammonia and evolving it to nitrate instantly in the same vessel with the copper compounds etc so if you look up the classic experiment and then play around with it you can probably increase the yield yourself the same way I stumbled on it purely by mistake let me know if you want that Grant chiller it's invaluable to any lab
Since you didn't lose any finger, you deserve a like!
So, can nitroglycerin be turned into a solid? And how fast does it burn?
brand new never opened bottle of oil? i see what you did there
Biodiesels often outperform commercial ones, also, the car exhaust may have a fried chicken smell 😂. I once added peach schnapps methanol fraction at 5 % to my petroleum lawnmower ..yes , peach apricot exhaust fumes
I see my magnetic mixer hot plate design got produced, gotta love that Apple security that’s only good if they want it to protect you but you’d have to be “in The Club” for that to be the case. Almost 70% of my invention ideas have been developed since I started keeping them on my comp, I’ve never had money to develop even one. I solved the electric car distance problem so you didn’t have to stop for long periods to recharge but that was built over sees to almost exactly what I had, they don’t get everything right because they don’t have the brains and the only reason the other 30% isn’t created yet is because it’s too hard to understand my drunken notes, I can’t even understand most of them. Why bother with inventions when the patents don’t do anything for you but they do somehow protect huge corporations that fund the Deep State so that’s nice. I’m tortured like the original Tesla when the Deep State went after him.
bruh
Would ethanol work instead if methanol? Can I make biodiesel with oil and vodka? 🤔
😂
99.5% glycerin is easy to purchase from vape supply stores by the way.
You just need a compound turbo gas turbine connected to something useful, so you can put that biodiesel to work rather than simply for heating you up; perhaps driving a generator which dumps into a resistor bank, or a battery bank to power stuff later?
Can ethanol alcohol be used instead?
What about just mixing burnt or slaked lime (from roasting oyster shells) with the oil, wouldn't calcium stearate precipitate out ? Calcium stearate being insoluble should just be filtered out. Would that make glycerin? Calcium stearate is supposedly what soap scum is that forms on a bath tub, comes from soap (sodium sterate ) reacting with calcium in the water.
My dad worked on a hydroelectric project in the '50s. He told how they used to use gelignite to make a camp-fire because it burns real good. Soldiers in Vietnam used C4 stuck to the bottom of a canteen cup to heat water for coffee, sometimes scooped out of claymore mines. Is there anything HE can't do?
Very interesting instructive and entertaining thank you for shearing your knowledge.
Here we go! To another watchlist.
Just throwing this in here: YT has been recommending me very small channels much more than usually lately. And I mean videos with 20 views kind of small. I clicked on this video from front page.
a tak w ogóle to poznałem po kształcie butelki oleju że jesteś z polski, pozdro
Me too. TH-cam recommended me a tutorial on making TNT.
Amazing job well do congrats on 16k
this is a amazing video, your very underated
"Hey - I've just made a couple of litres of nitroglycerine - what do I do now? Hello... hello.... anybody there?"
Can I use ethanol instead of methanol
the bio disel part was very interesting, what would be the cost in larger scale?
Where I live, they sell a solid glycerine for soap making, but I wonder how pure it is, being a solid at room temperature?
I would have saved the nitrification acid mix, as they don't break down, and can be saved. While the acids do reduce in concentration, they still work for small projects.
I take nitroglycerine pills for a heart arrhythmia problem, and I get a headache from it, but not as bad as the migraine headaches I used to get!
You can buy quite pure glycerin at low prices from many retailers, including pharmacies. It's colourless and does taste sweet.
Thanks curiosity, now I’m on a watch list. Great.
Can it be powerful enough to 'boom' a decent size building? ☺️
fuel tanker
so this is also why ammonium nitrate combined with diesel fuel is explosive? the diesels a glycerine and the AN nitrates? creating a crude approximation of nitroglycerine?
O czesc. Tez robiłem nitroglicerynę, na chemii na uni zostawili nas po godzinach z mieszaniną nitrująca pod dygestorium ^^
Well,the gal bio diesel maybe is your sodium hydroxide and hydrochloric acid put too much? and you want to get more glycerin why don't you extract by water?
You know those people who breakdown video's for you to understand I hope someone makes one.😂kidding! 😊good video!
did the biodiesel reaction at my college its pretty cool that it also makes glycerine
Aaaaand now we’re probably on a watchlist. Thanks dingus
Can we make nitroglycerine by direct nitration of vegetable oil?
🤔🤔🤔
Maybe, althrough I don't think so
Would ethanol or isopropanol also work for transesterification? These alcohols would mix better with the oil and probably should increase reaction speed...
i know you can make it with ethanol
A lot of alcohols should work for this, I am sure that ethanol does
Ive used isopropanol and KOH instead of NaOH. I also never got the Biodiesel Gel, so i imagine its a bit better
@@erikehlers7006 because biodiesel forms with the methanol make fatty acid methyl esters so there wasn't biodiesel
@@erikehlers7006maybe because KOH leads to potassium soap which is more liquid than Na soap, which is a byproduct of the reaction.
Lazy, but it worked ! Nice video.
Good call to destroy it after synthesis - there really is no point 'storing' anything that you know how to make.
As a vasodilator, generally 5% in water sprayed under the tongue works.
Interestingly it still isn't fully understood why it works first on the veins before the arteries.
Maybe i got those switched around.
A very informative and enjoyable video!
A bit too bright for my taste but still very good!
I really like the brightness with the dark background.
I watched all of it and i almost lost time that was so fantastic
3:17 - the soap wouldn't be any "pain to separate" fro, glycerine - back in high school we were making soap on "Industrial chemistry" classes/ lab work, and I happened to be assigned , at one of those, with making soap. Long story short, is separates "by itself" after the reaction is done - all you need to do is to keep it warm (so the soap would stay liquid) and just wait. It takes few hours to separate the soap and glycerine, but other than that it totally "painless".
EDIT -tej no, jakie "no promoting any oil company" - przeca każden widzi, (4:33) że to olej KUJAWSKI... ;-)
Nitroglycerin is also heart medicine. It's a vascular dilator. So if you knew dosage side and SHTF you could keep grand from having a heart attack or stroke.