I love the simple explanation of “it’s giving electrons to the tin(ii) chloride.” Usually I see explanations that presuppose familiarity with chemistry terms, but you’ve, ahem, reduced it down to an easy explanation anyone can understand.
not because of nile, but i bought a lot of chemistry equipment a few years ago! i've done a few reactions, but i can't do anything too dangerous because i don't have a fumehood
Back in the 70s radio receivers had what they called a front end which was the first stage of the receiver and they were typically plated with silver, over the period of years the receivers lost sensitivity, the reason that they did is because there were fine hairs of metal growing inside the metal cavity which detuned the radio so that it could not listen, the early solution was to scrub them out and reassemble, the later solution was to ditch the silver plating and go with a different metal that solved the problem.
This two minute format is just about right. After watching the 1 minute videos I was always left with the sense something was missing, and it was cut too short. This is about right.
It's one of the most boring aspects of chemistry as its forcing a reaction using electricity, explicitly the eV needed to make a metal deposite from ionic form to metalic form (+2 charge which is desolved back into neutral charge which is visible to the naked eye as the basic metal). The amount of applications are extreemly limited in diversity... like uh... checking metal in waste water, or ground water, or chemical waste. You get the idea.
There's a seemingly similar phenomenon called tin whiskering, where tiny filaments of tin shoot out of alloys that have high concentrations of tin. This is a bit of a reliability issue with lead-free solder, and no one really knows why it happens. Leaded solder has enough lead to interfere with the process, which is why it's a good idea to use leaded solder if you really really don't want the solder joints to cause random shorts from whiskering (aerospace and medical equipment).
Today on Yeet The Science ... question: is it possible to chemically clean the tin this way instead of melting it first so as to reduce the loss in yield, (yes I realize the loss is insignificant, just curious)
Nile shows electrolysis. Copper is purified by this method, you can look it up. By the way, the leftover sludge is quite rich in precious metals. For tin it should work too, if it weren't, Nile would get hydrogen gas instead of tin crystals. You would connect dirty tin as anode, and piece of pure tin as cathode.
@@rapalo89 Hmm there’s something I’m wondering, in almost all experiments involving aqueous tin (II) chloride or SnCl2, tin is discharged at the cathode which forms the crystals. However, Sn2+ is higher on the electrochemical series than H+, so theoretically shouldn’t we obtain hydrogen gas? For copper it’s more understandable since it’s already lower than hydrogen in reactivity, but Sn2+ is a bit odd, especially since the cathode reaction usually doesn’t get affected by concentration. Is there something special about Sn2+ in particular?
@@seedooo5315I guess that guy dissolved too much tin that all the H+ ions (equal to the molarity of the chloride ions) got converted to hydrogen. So its just a solution of SnCl2 and water. So surely it's the concentration thing.
Fun fact: this is the method similar to that of electroplating of tin in tin cans to reduce the process of corrosion :) So more than “growing” it can be said as extracting Ps : for electroplating there shud be electrodes(ie tin at the anode and the can at the cathode) and needs much bigger set up
I believe it is electrolysis, but don't quote me on that. If i remember correctly, it separates the tin from the chloride using electricity, similarly to how hydrogen can be removed from water in the same manner. Once again, don't quote me on it, it's just something i think it might be, seeing as I haven't done any sort of chemistry for multiple years
I think the reason the Crystals start to form from negative side is that in reality currently start moving from negative to positive in battery. Nile I wonder what happens if we give the solution lots of electrons with higher voltage. I'm so curious to see the possibility of extracting whole metal
im glad he created metal using electricity that also comes from metal. so using metal in the beginning to get metal again in the end seems like a genius idea. no wonder there fusion fuel system is still a dream of the future lol.
Hey Nile, do you have some lidocaine left? I‘d love to see a quick demo (which is perfect for this short format) of the meisenheimer complex (janovski reaction) that additionally only needs HNO3, acetone and base. It‘s a typical detection reaction for pharmaceuticals that I have to memorize.
I bet this would look amazing growing vertically instead of horizontally since the metal would propagate would require the structural support from below.
As a welder. I was very impressed with the way he metaled it, then poured the clean liquid inside out of the oxidized shell. Blew my mind a little lol.
You know, you just made what people casually call “Art”… I suggest you try to UP your game by adding colors to it the next time you make metal crystals, and don’t forget to record and upload.
I accidentally made metal dendritic crystals using soft low"E" glass which was coated in unannealed indium tin oxide and lead, AKA a clear conductive layer. There was a dielectric laminated over the conductive layer and a counter electrode that was inside a cover sealed to the dielectric. The edges of the dielectric and the conductive layer were exposed to air. When I applied voltage within a hour to my horror metal dendrites started forming from the exposed edges of the conductive coating all pointing to the counter electrode. They were so prolific as they grew they started delaminating the dielectric from the glass. I wished I had an SEM so I could map the conductive layer to show the movement of metals.
this process is actually called electrolysis!! The metal forms at the negative electrode, AKA the cathode while chlorine gas is given off at the anode, the positive terminal :DD its cool to see it in action
Ohhh, so that's how electrolysis/galvanization works. I learned in chemistry that you require to send electrical charges to the molten ore where aluminum is found in nature so that you can obtain pure aluminum from it. Now I get why. Thanks!
You can do the same thing with copper. That is more spectacular, because the copper sulphate or nitrate or whatever is brilliant blue, and the copper is, well, copper coloured.
Me: **Frantically tries to keep single flower alive**
NileRed: “Aight imma grow some metal”
All you need is the right soil
Fertilizer and water it every couple days
Yes im very fun at parties
Pour dilluted urine on it... It'll be fine.
Eat animal waste, chew it, and puke on the soil
I feel this one so hard all my plants are dying and i dont know why
I love the simple explanation of “it’s giving electrons to the tin(ii) chloride.” Usually I see explanations that presuppose familiarity with chemistry terms, but you’ve, ahem, reduced it down to an easy explanation anyone can understand.
Nice one
Lol I see what you did there
It’s electrolysis innit?
"I'm glad I created this metal using electricity"
* Smashes it on the wall *
Ah yes, proudness at its finest.
_SPLAT_
**_SPLOOT_**
Tin spitball
come
Nile's Mom: "Do you think money just grows?"
Nile: *Yes*
Nile’s Mom: “ can you grow people?”
@@KomradeVR💀
@@KomradeVR😏
that moment when you realize that 💵paper is made from trees... 💀
This guy is single handedly making people fall in love with chemistry lol
Yeah I bought my first blowtorch yesterday 😈
You may never hear from me again-
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@@FreakingPlane ohh that's cool
not because of nile, but i bought a lot of chemistry equipment a few years ago! i've done a few reactions, but i can't do anything too dangerous because i don't have a fumehood
Nile red and action lab shorts.
I already love chemistry but nile makes my love for chemistry grow.
Back in the 70s radio receivers had what they called a front end which was the first stage of the receiver and they were typically plated with silver, over the period of years the receivers lost sensitivity, the reason that they did is because there were fine hairs of metal growing inside the metal cavity which detuned the radio so that it could not listen, the early solution was to scrub them out and reassemble, the later solution was to ditch the silver plating and go with a different metal that solved the problem.
I seriously misread the title and thought that Nile was going to teach us how to grow meth crystals
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto
broke the chaino
First...plant magic beans
Nile, you’re the only thing keeping me motivated in my chemistry class so thanks lol
"it's really cool that i made it using electricity"
*yeet*
these endings get me everytime😭✋🏼
-yeet-
Him : yeet
Me : Bruh..
-it is time YEET-
Watching this after learning electrochemistry really makes you appreciate it even more.
I imagine Nile having various metal crystals in the pots instead of just growing plants.
He probably already has that...
This two minute format is just about right. After watching the 1 minute videos I was always left with the sense something was missing, and it was cut too short. This is about right.
I like how he talks about "growing" metal like it's normal
because it is a normal chemical reaction
@@kristijanoros7208 aye, fair enough
Did you not have one of those crystal growing kits as a kid?
It's one of the most boring aspects of chemistry as its forcing a reaction using electricity, explicitly the eV needed to make a metal deposite from ionic form to metalic form (+2 charge which is desolved back into neutral charge which is visible to the naked eye as the basic metal). The amount of applications are extreemly limited in diversity... like uh... checking metal in waste water, or ground water, or chemical waste. You get the idea.
@@StarkRG my first chemistry experience comes from school, so yeah, I don't have those things
0:43 is the most satisfying sound with a metal
When he poked at the metal, I was like: “NOOOO! WHYY!?"
And then when he threw it I was like; “ok, not bad."
1:00 into… tin air?
I somehow read the thumbnail as “Meth Crystals“, got really confused for a second and wondered if Nigel went full Heisenberg.
Same!
I was looking for this comment. I found it
Pattern growth, so cool. Please make more videos of this!
NileRed: 'Today I am gonna grow some metal'
Tomorrow: "GROWS A MONEY GIVING PLANT"
that's when real money would have no value
''Do you think money can grow in trees!?, wait, it actually does''
probably all the world at some point.
There's a seemingly similar phenomenon called tin whiskering, where tiny filaments of tin shoot out of alloys that have high concentrations of tin. This is a bit of a reliability issue with lead-free solder, and no one really knows why it happens. Leaded solder has enough lead to interfere with the process, which is why it's a good idea to use leaded solder if you really really don't want the solder joints to cause random shorts from whiskering (aerospace and medical equipment).
Most solder alloys help with this, and leaded solder has uh... lead. So I'd rather not.
the first quarter of the video is already very good.
100% epic
why are this videos so damn relaxing, i love seeing this
You're the only guy I know who makes chemistry look and sound cool
Love your videos man
Look up the Explosions&Fire TH-cam channel for another "interesting" approach to chemistry. Not quite cool… more artisanal maybe.
@@desmond-hawkins sure thanks
0:38 how my eggs look when I’m done cooking
PFFFFT-
I hate studying chemistry but I love watching reactions
0:44 You might've made a contender with the sound of amethyst blocks
The result is looking good tho.
This one 2:01? Looks like a teenager’s bedsheets
I wasn't liking chemistry ,but when I discovered him I am starting to like chemistry ,it's so interesting ,thanks man
1:29 _something started growing_
Misread the title and thought this man was growing meth crystals
I'm having a shit day already, I'm glad someone cool uploaded. Gives me the inspiration to get tf out of here
These electrically growing crystals are so nice. They look like something out of science fiction...
0:22
man that one bead
What you'd normally do: Grow a flower
What NileRed would do: "Time to grow some metal!"
0:17 that lonely tin bead :(
"Today, I'm going to grow some metal"...
...that's what she said.
Ah yes to grow metal you must use metal. Just like the floor is made of floor
Or is it? 🤔
*Vsauce music plays*
69 likes
@@ze-prestooo I have finally achieved funny
@@TitanChromeE
Not satisfied?
@@ze-prestooo I mean 420 would be funny but I think I’ll keep the 69 for the funny
"Watch, he's going to splat it on the backdrop"
🤣🤣🤣
I absolutely love how he just slams it at the end😂😂😂
i miss your full video's they were good to watch at night
Today on Yeet The Science ... question: is it possible to chemically clean the tin this way instead of melting it first so as to reduce the loss in yield, (yes I realize the loss is insignificant, just curious)
Nile shows electrolysis. Copper is purified by this method, you can look it up. By the way, the leftover sludge is quite rich in precious metals. For tin it should work too, if it weren't, Nile would get hydrogen gas instead of tin crystals. You would connect dirty tin as anode, and piece of pure tin as cathode.
@@rapalo89 yea as he said its called electro refining
@@rapalo89 Hmm there’s something I’m wondering, in almost all experiments involving aqueous tin (II) chloride or SnCl2, tin is discharged at the cathode which forms the crystals. However, Sn2+ is higher on the electrochemical series than H+, so theoretically shouldn’t we obtain hydrogen gas? For copper it’s more understandable since it’s already lower than hydrogen in reactivity, but Sn2+ is a bit odd, especially since the cathode reaction usually doesn’t get affected by concentration. Is there something special about Sn2+ in particular?
@@seedooo5315I guess that guy dissolved too much tin that all the H+ ions (equal to the molarity of the chloride ions) got converted to hydrogen. So its just a solution of SnCl2 and water. So surely it's the concentration thing.
I mean i can clean myself without losing a finger
Great for a science fair
Accidentally read this as “Meth Crystals” and for a second I thought Nigel had finally assumed his role as Walter Whites’ successor. Whoops 😅
Same
Walter White? He didn't do cook meth. I think you mean Heisenburg. Smh my head
@@majestics2167 “Say my name.”
@@majestics2167 shake my head my head
Almost every single line of this video sounds absolutely unhinged, context or not. I applaud you.
Watching the crystals grow is so satisfying
omg I see u in all the science channels i watch
This is really fascinating to see this.⚡🔥
It looks like the pathway of electrons that are moving from +ve to -ve terminal through the solution🤯🤩
i think it is
“Growing” sounds more interesting than “Electrolysis”
Fun fact: this is the method similar to that of electroplating of tin in tin cans to reduce the process of corrosion :) So more than “growing” it can be said as extracting
Ps : for electroplating there shud be electrodes(ie tin at the anode and the can at the cathode) and needs much bigger set up
I believe it is electrolysis, but don't quote me on that.
If i remember correctly, it separates the tin from the chloride using electricity, similarly to how hydrogen can be removed from water in the same manner.
Once again, don't quote me on it, it's just something i think it might be, seeing as I haven't done any sort of chemistry for multiple years
why did I read meth crystals in both the title and the thumbnail? my first thought was "damn these TH-cam chemists are getting out of hand" 😂
same here, i watched too much breaking bad
Same
Because of you i have become really good at chemistry
I think the reason the Crystals start to form from negative side is that in reality currently start moving from negative to positive in battery. Nile I wonder what happens if we give the solution lots of electrons with higher voltage. I'm so curious to see the possibility of extracting whole metal
I love your long videos, but these shorts are growing on me! You got me at the end 🤣
"Its cool that I made this with electricity"
*splat*
This is like one of those electrode reactions but with only one electrode! Awesome!
1:12 Why is no one talking about the spinning whirlpool
spinning magnet at the bottom, common lab tool 🙆🏻♀️
We learnt electrolysis in school. It's so cool to actually see it in action!
0:49 WHY DOES IT LOOK DELICIOUS
When I eat it
Me:🗿
Jesus:🗿
@@Thisguyisscissorsthis is the same acid found in stomach acid lol
1:14 If you’re wondering what this process is, it’s electrolysis.
I accidentally misread this as “Growing Meth Crystal” I was still entertained tho.
im glad he created metal using electricity that also comes from metal. so using metal in the beginning to get metal again in the end seems like a genius idea. no wonder there fusion fuel system is still a dream of the future lol.
Hey Nile, do you have some lidocaine left? I‘d love to see a quick demo (which is perfect for this short format) of the meisenheimer complex (janovski reaction) that additionally only needs HNO3, acetone and base. It‘s a typical detection reaction for pharmaceuticals that I have to memorize.
I bet this would look amazing growing vertically instead of horizontally since the metal would propagate would require the structural support from below.
Niceeeee this is amaJIN
The fact that we enjoy this rather than studying chem 😂😂
Yeah 👍😅😅😅😅
lmao I love studying Chem
This guy is underrated. He needs more subs! Awesome videos man. Keep it up!
0:30 it's look like mecury
Nah looks more like gallium.
This is how i love chemistry or science thank you nilered!
0:11
I thought it was a picture off google bcuz of the white cackground
Everytime I learn something new from your experiment
I genuinely read the thumbnail as 'growing meth crystals'
Even if i can't understand what he explains cause i aint really a science guy here, the experiments and results he make is awesome.
The feeling when he melts everything except a little ball in the corner...
who wins, human vision or one tinny boi?
nice! if you're wondering, this is also the thing that causes many batteries to fail.
1:22 ok guys nile is good do not vote him out he did the wire task
I was going to make a Breaking Bad joke because I thought the title said "meth crystals"...
2:00 I can only imagine what people would think, watching this with no context.
Nothing that concerns science is safe with nile around
1:05 tin 2:Electric Boogaloo
As a welder. I was very impressed with the way he metaled it, then poured the clean liquid inside out of the oxidized shell. Blew my mind a little lol.
Nile: "Almost immediately, something started growing"
Me: In my pants
I love how he throws everything on specifically the black floor
You know, you just made what people casually call “Art”…
I suggest you try to UP your game by adding colors to it the next time you make metal crystals, and don’t forget to record and upload.
This is my new favorite channel!
Hi(second)
This is actually how lithium ion battery catch fire, when the crystal grows and shorts the terminal
Love your explanation of chemistry 😀
I am a science Major, and this was awesome!
This is awesome and helpful, thanks sir.
I accidentally made metal dendritic crystals using soft low"E" glass which was coated in unannealed indium tin oxide and lead, AKA a clear conductive layer. There was a dielectric laminated over the conductive layer and a counter electrode that was inside a cover sealed to the dielectric. The edges of the dielectric and the conductive layer were exposed to air. When I applied voltage within a hour to my horror metal dendrites started forming from the exposed edges of the conductive coating all pointing to the counter electrode. They were so prolific as they grew they started delaminating the dielectric from the glass. I wished I had an SEM so I could map the conductive layer to show the movement of metals.
I thought he was going to extract metals from tap water lol .
This man be explaining better than my chemistry teacher
This is the only experiment that I've done before Nile Red has posted something about it.
this guy helps me with my school test the whole time
takes tin
cleans tin
fries tin
unmetals tin
grows tin
remetals tin
All I did in the chemistry lab is brown ring test.
I didn't expect that chemistry is that beautiful.
this process is actually called electrolysis!! The metal forms at the negative electrode, AKA the cathode while chlorine gas is given off at the anode, the positive terminal :DD its cool to see it in action
holy crap this was amazing to watch, so satisfying and i bet you can make some crazy patterns
Your shorts are so chaotic I love it
This would be a very cool science project.
Ohhh, so that's how electrolysis/galvanization works. I learned in chemistry that you require to send electrical charges to the molten ore where aluminum is found in nature so that you can obtain pure aluminum from it. Now I get why. Thanks!
You can do the same thing with copper. That is more spectacular, because the copper sulphate or nitrate or whatever is brilliant blue, and the copper is, well, copper coloured.