Using electricity to grow metal crystals
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.ย. 2021
- So today, I'm going to grow some metal crystals using electricity. To be more specific, I'll be making tin crystals, and I'll need to dissolve the tin metal in some hydrochloric acid and connect the solution to some batteries.
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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'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?”
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that moment when you realize that 💵paper is made from trees... 💀
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
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-
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@@datgaydangernoodle1315 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.
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
0:22
man that one bead
1:00 into… tin air?
"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-
I imagine Nile having various metal crystals in the pots instead of just growing plants.
He probably already has that...
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.
0:38 how my eggs look when I’m done cooking
PFFFFT-
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
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
Nile, you’re the only thing keeping me motivated in my chemistry class so thanks lol
Watching this after learning electrochemistry really makes you appreciate it even more.
When he poked at the metal, I was like: “NOOOO! WHYY!?"
And then when he threw it I was like; “ok, not bad."
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.
0:43 is the most satisfying sound with a metal
0:49 WHY DOES IT LOOK DELICIOUS
When I eat it
Me:🗿
Jesus:🗿
0:17 that lonely tin bead :(
1:29 _something started growing_
1:12 Why is no one talking about the spinning whirlpool
spinning magnet at the bottom, common lab tool 🙆🏻♀️
I accidentally misread this as “Growing Meth Crystal” I was still entertained tho.
The result is looking good tho.
This one 2:01? Looks like a teenager’s bedsheets
the first quarter of the video is already very good.
100% epic
Pattern growth, so cool. Please make more videos of this!
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'm having a shit day already, I'm glad someone cool uploaded. Gives me the inspiration to get tf out of here
I hate studying chemistry but I love watching reactions
Your shorts are so chaotic I love it
This is my new favorite channel!
I can't be the only one who read it as "Meth Crystals" right? Maybe I just really need to sleep now
Ah yes to grow metal you must use metal. Just like the floor is made of floor
Or is it? 🤔
*Vsauce music plays*
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@@quamorant133 I have finally achieved funny
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Not satisfied?
@@quamorant133 I mean 420 would be funny but I think I’ll keep the 69 for the funny
What you'd normally do: Grow a flower
What NileRed would do: "Time to grow some metal!"
i miss your full video's they were good to watch at night
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
I absolutely love how he just slams it at the end😂😂😂
why are this videos so damn relaxing, i love seeing this
This guy is underrated. He needs more subs! Awesome videos man. Keep it up!
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
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
Love your explanation of chemistry 😀
This is awesome and helpful, thanks sir.
“Growing” sounds more interesting than “Electrolysis”
Everytime Nile Yeets/Destroys something I don't even get surprised anymore it's like part of his personality now.
0:44 You might've made a contender with the sound of amethyst blocks
Everytime I learn something new from your experiment
I genuinely read the thumbnail as 'growing meth crystals'
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
I love your long videos, but these shorts are growing on me! You got me at the end 🤣
Very cool! thanks for sharing!!!!
Niceeeee this is amaJIN
The fact that we enjoy this rather than studying chem 😂😂
Yeah 👍😅😅😅😅
lmao I love studying Chem
I love your vids
This is how i love chemistry or science thank you nilered!
I always love the splats at the end xD
0:30 it's look like mecury
Nah looks more like gallium.
"Its cool that I made this with electricity"
*splat*
Very satisfying, Sir!
Almost every single line of this video sounds absolutely unhinged, context or not. I applaud you.
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 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
holy crap this was amazing to watch, so satisfying and i bet you can make some crazy patterns
These electrically growing crystals are so nice. They look like something out of science fiction...
Watching the crystals grow is so satisfying
omg I see u in all the science channels i watch
Hey I just watched the purifying gold out of jewelry video, it’d be really cool if you did the same thing with platinum coated razor blades, you’d probably need a lot to get anything substantial, but they are really cheap
ARe they? I am just about into the 15th of them of 100 total.
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.
Always learn something cool from you!
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
Wondering how alloys like solder would behave, given the combination of different crystalline structures.
That lil' * sploit * at the end! 👌👌
This is like one of those electrode reactions but with only one electrode! Awesome!
Actual question: did we use the chemical energy in the battery to produce electrical potential energy, and then use that energy to recrystallize metal by sticking the electrons from the battery onto the dissolved tin?
Maybe not literally-literally, but breaking a solution with electrical energy feels like magic, guys.
What you said isn't incorrect, but doesn't really represent what is physically happening. When the circuit is completed electrons can flow through the wires and then through the solution from the batteries. As explained in the video, the tin chloride will take some electrons to go back to tin. Although I will say, please be careful with your terminology, potential energy can't be created, only converted to another form such as kinetic energy.
So we're not so much breaking the solution as giving it electrons. I don't blame you though because physics can sometimes feel like magic. Have you heard of electrolysis? I think this is technically an electrolytic reaction.
The feeling when he melts everything except a little ball in the corner...
who wins, human vision or one tinny boi?
Because of you i have become really good at chemistry
I wasn't liking chemistry ,but when I discovered him I am starting to like chemistry ,it's so interesting ,thanks man
1:22 ok guys nile is good do not vote him out he did the wire task
1:05 tin 2:Electric Boogaloo
He's getting more and more how to basic on a daily basis.
That looked cool man
2:00 I can only imagine what people would think, watching this with no context.
Nile: "Almost immediately, something started growing"
Me: In my pants
I bet this would look amazing growing vertically instead of horizontally since the metal would propagate would require the structural support from below.
This would be a very cool science project.
I had a question I would like anyone to answer. After spending a long time wearing mask, such as school, and then washing it after coming back at home, I see that the water turns black. I predict that it is the CO2 that we breathe. Am I correct? If not please explain.
it's not co2 mainly it is kind of tar which consists of Co2, Co, so2, no2 and some other pollutants etc....
Is the mask color black?
It's more likely to be dust or mud, especially if you live in a high pollution area. CO2 is a gas and it doesn't turn solid for no reason.
@@florabloom3906 yes
@@aoarashi3025 ok thx
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 read it as "Meth crystals" and wasn't even surprised
this guy helps me with my school test the whole time
"Watch, he's going to splat it on the backdrop"
🤣🤣🤣
I love your channel
Best seed for my garden!
This is so cool!
I love how he throws everything on specifically the black floor
Great for a science fair
I'm fall love this channel chemistry I love at 👌😍keep going 👍👍
This man be explaining better than my chemistry teacher
Nile skillshare has some amazing schedule creation and time management classes I believe you could benefit from, you definitely should upload more often on the main channel. There's definitely short form things you could do experiment or creation was that could be edited in a decent amount of time.
The outros are just amazing 😂
Nile a menace
This is the only experiment that I've done before Nile Red has posted something about it.