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NOTE 1: I've attached a link below that covers some basic safety information about cyanide and how it was carefully handled when making this video.
NOTE 2: I have revised my opinion about what it smells like. In the video, I said it was like an indoor pool and I correlated it to the chlorine. However, I think it's more accurate to say the pool locker room or shower. It is musty/moldy, with a background of pool smell.
NOTE 3: After posting this video, I got a few messages from people saying that in their experience, cyanide DOES smell like almonds. So, I spent an hour tonight doing some tests, and I think the results are interesting. I did some direct comparisons and the smell of cyanide is distinctly different from the smell of almonds. However, if I EAT the almonds, there is sometimes a faint taste of cyanide. I think this is because sweet almonds still have a very small amount of amygdalin in them, which can release HCN. I don't think it's enough to smell in open air, but in your mouth it can be concentrated enough to be detected at the back of the nose. It's subtle, but it is definitely part of the flavor profile. So, while I still don't think it's accurate to say that it smells like almonds, for some people, it might be similar to the taste. To make that connection though, the person needs to a) be able to smell HCN and b) be particularly aware of that part of the flavor.
I can smell the HCN, but I never noticed it in the flavor of almonds, so I didn't make the connection. I was even looking for a similarity and eating almonds at the same time, but never noticed it. It was only when I became very familiar with the smell of HCN that I started noticing it in almonds. What's interesting too, is that now after noticing it, I feel like I've started to associate the smell with almonds. It's no longer just a "chemical" smell and it feels more almondy. However, on the flip side, I feel like almonds taste worse and are more "chemically."
But either way, I still don't think that saying it smells like almonds or bitter almonds is accurate or helpful. However, based on the messages I've received, some people are naturally associating cyanide with almonds (sometimes without knowing that this was even a thing and not even knowing they were smelling cyanide). This has piqued my interest and I think it could be fun to get to the bottom of this and to do a trial with a lot more people.
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IMPOTANT NOTE1: I have revised my opinion about what it smells like. In the video, I said it was like an indoor pool and I correlated it to the chlorine. However, I think it's more accurate to say the pool locker room or shower. It is musty/moldy, with a background of pool smell.
IMPORTANT NOTE2: After posting this video, I got a few messages from people saying that in their experience, cyanide DOES smell like almonds. So, I spent an hour tonight doing some tests, and I think the results are interesting. I did some direct comparisons and the smell of cyanide is distinctly different from the smell of almonds. However, if I EAT the almonds, there is sometimes a faint taste of cyanide. I think this is because sweet almonds still have a very small amount of amygdalin in them, which can release HCN. I don't think it's enough to smell in open air, but in your mouth it can be concentrated enough to be detected at the back of the nose. It's subtle, but it is definitely part of the flavor profile. So, while I still don't think it's accurate to say that it smells like almonds, for some people, it might be similar to the taste. To make that connection though, the person needs to a) be able to smell HCN and b) be particularly aware of that part of the flavor.
I can smell the HCN, but I never noticed it in the flavor of almonds, so I didn't make the connection. I was even looking for a similarity and eating almonds at the same time, but never noticed it. It was only when I became very familiar with the smell of HCN that I started noticing it in almonds. What's interesting too, is that now after noticing it, I feel like I've started to associate the smell with almonds. It's no longer just a "chemical" smell and it feels more almondy. However, on the flip side, I feel like almonds taste worse and are more "chemically."
But either way, I still don't think that saying it smells like almonds or bitter almonds is accurate or helpful. However, based on the messages I've received, some people are naturally associating cyanide with almonds (sometimes without knowing that this was even a thing and not even knowing they were smelling cyanide). This has piqued my interest and I think it could be fun to get to the bottom of this and to do a trial with a lot more people.
hi
so who else read the full comment
I was wondering if the addition of sulfuric acid to speed the reaction may have contributed to the “chemical/pool” smell. Does dilute sulfuric acid have a smell? Love your channel!
What videos did you have to take down?
confirmed: almonds have cyanide!!
Next up on NileRed: Does mustard gas smell like mustard?
Obviously joking and stuff but If you ever smelled ammonia, imagine that but stronger
Does choline gas smell like a pool?
Does tear gas smell like tears?
@@orb9760 smells like pain
dude no
This should be renamed to: "NileRed tries to discover the smell of almonds"
That’s not click-baity enough.
@@drew899 "What do almonds actually smell like?"
@meekv2 Honorable decision
@MeekV2 Lmao Not anymore sadly
@MeekV2 Lmao It's been 2 hours since you've said that and the likes moved up to 800+
I love how it’s 5 minutes of the cyanide chemistry and 15 minutes of Nigel trying to figure out what almonds smell like
When he said “benzaldehyde” I was so excited because I just watched his cherry soda video and I felt so proud that I knew what that was before he said it😊
IKR SAME I WAS SO HAPPY
I know benzaldehyde
It is C⁶H⁵COH
“I swear officer I bought a kilos worth because it was just more economically viable”
69th like on comment
Capitalism 100
Capitalism at its finest
LOL. 420 thumbs
"No no, you misunderstand, i was just saving a couple of bucks....., and a few decades of living for my friend slumped over there, but that's besides the point!"
the fact you went straight to sniffing cyanide before questioning whether you'd actually smelt almonds before is such a chemist move.
You actually believe that he did that? Come on...
lol
fuck around and find out
@@giu5357 the scientific method
@@1Buttonmasher Nile red is a youtuber known by A TON of people, and he conducts dangerous experiments that somebody with the likes of yiu or me, could never. We’d die. So yes I do believe he did that, because I have more supporting evidence,… also-
lol I wasted your time have a nice day
To get the aromatics from almonds, you need to toast them. I would blanch them in boiling water for only a few seconds, remove the skins, then dry them off. (If you try this, using nitrile gloves and simply pinching the larger round end will shoot the nuts out of the skin and leave you with the husk to throw away or use for other purposes) You can then either pan toast in a dry frying pan or lay them evenly in a shallow baking sheet. As the oils are extracted from the heat the aroma is released. The other option is to smell a concentrate via almond extract. Get a good, natural almond extract. I got a large bottle a few years back from Costco for a reasonable price. The smell is very strong and is commonly associated with cherries as well. The extract is made from bitter almonds which is also why they have a very distinct and very different smell from the sweet almonds everyone snacks on.
Also note: Fresh almonds have a stronger aroma than the packaged ones that may have been in the package or sitting in a warehouse for who knows how long. If you can find them whole in the shell, it would likely produce a slightly stronger aroma. The packaged ones are likely to smell sterile and if you can smell anything, would likely be that of the packaging or seasoning that they may have flavored the almonds with. When I buy any sort of nut, almonds, walnuts, pecans, that I will use in baking I always toast them first to draw out and intensify the flavor of the nut being used. The difference is quite astounding between toasted and untoasted nuts.
Something that was kind of glossed over, unsure if it was on purpose, but it was mentioned that cyanide has different smells at different concentrations. you started out with an extremely low concentration here of only 15ppm. I think in the 30-40ppm it starts forming different aroma compounds. Which I think is why you noticed a very different smell more closely associated with chlorine instead of the bitter almond aroma.
I read that the ability to smell HCN depends on a certain genetic disposition. 30 years ago I got hold of a bottle of KCN and as soon as I opened it, I could smell a strong almond like smell. So I surely have the genes for it. Maybe you should try to compare it to the smell of bitter almond baking oil, which is used, at least here in Germany, for Christmas bakery.
3 people smelled it
@@phonyashell and its below 30% to be able to smell it...
1 of them was his brother, their genes should be pretty close
For me it smells like bitter almond too(as a chemist, i had the chance to smell it)
Things I learned from this video:
- Almonds smell like nothing
- Cyanide smells like cyanide
also beware of almond flavors things
Almond flavored stuff definitely tastes more like cyanide than almonds
Ah yes, the floor is made of floor
Cyanide smells like cyanide
Almonds smells like cyanide
Liquid cyanide is odorless.
And almonds don’t smell like anything.
Therefore cyanide smells like almonds!
“Let’s smell some cyanide” is a 2020 mood tbh
I would smell cyanide from a room with 300 ppm of it 😍
Sorry, apparently I got into the wrong comment sub section.... *slowly leaving the room backwards*
i also felt like doing this in 2016 almost exactly
@@bosch5303 I read this as "I would smell cyanide in a room with 300 people in it" lol
@@bosch5303 i believe that's called a gas chamber
If you still have it around - cyanide is a key component of the synthesis of many chelating agents. The ubiquitous EDTA (ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid) is prepared by reacting formaldehyde and a source of cyanide anions, while sugar-based chelators like heptagluconate are often prepared through the reaction of glucose and cyanide.
it terrifies me that people use bitter almond trees for landscaping. same with oleander.
i have a fascination for highly poisonous plants and do grow some in my garden (lily of the valley, nerium, opium poppies, and foxglove) but i keep my little deadlies cordoned off with signs and chicken wire to keep people who don't recognize them as dangerous at a safe distance. a lot of flowers are poisonous to some degree though, if ingested.
"Some of the reviews were genuinely scary"
*"my skin cancer fell off"*
What about that person who certainly killed their dog?
@geo weo: Why? How is using an experimental treatment on a dog any worse than trying it on a mouse?
@@SteichenFamily not being licensed or permitted to experiment on living creatures to start with, having no way to contribute to the scientific community with said "experiments" so no one will benefit from you killing your house pet. There's a big difference dont be dense
@@Jonathan-gj1ie I know that their point was to help their dog, but yeah that’s still not really smart to do, I wouldn’t give that to my dog
@@SteichenFamily there's a big difference between a controlled test in a lab and just... poisoning your dog
in the beginning: lets see if cyanide smells like almonds
in the end: lets see if almonds smell like cyanide
And apparently his conclusion is that they smell the same but neither of them smell like almonds???
@@Sibula almonds don't smell like almonds?
@@NoNameAtAll2 Did you watch the video? He said it just smelled like cyanide and chlorine and maybe a little earthy. So he didn't think it smelled like almonds.
And the conclusion is that almonds doesn't smell like almonds
He also said you can't smell salt, but i can. To the point where i know what kind of salt i have under my nose. So...either he's only human (to be read, his failings are such) or not all humans are created equal (i tend to always err on this side, of caution).
"my skin cancer fell off" I can see how thats scary
The person who first made the observation must have been like :
Cyanide smells like nothing.
Almonds smell like nothing.
Therefore, cyanide smells like almonds.
Almonds: Smell like almost nothing
Cyanide: Smells like almost nothing
=>Cyanide smells like almonds
i mean to me almonds have a very distinct and pleasant smell never smelled pure cyanide tho
Wow just saw this get 7 more likes
Yeah almonds do have a certain smell just sniff one
*_SNIFFF_* NICE AND GOOD
Good old transitive property
I think there is something wrong with his nose.
why is nobody talking bout the 5 star review "My skin cancer fell off"
You can find some crazy shit on Amazon. I'm an exterminator and I was looking to see what kind of pest control supplies I can get. I was reading the review for a really strong agricultural product ( the kind of thing they spray out of airplanes to kill a plague of locusts ), and I saw a review that said something like "Five stars. I sprayed it on my bed and it really killed the bedbugs". Now if some idiot kills himself or his family with this product, Amazon won't get in trouble. They will instead ban it's use altogether, and the farmers will be forced use a more expensive, less effective product, and the price of our food will go up.
fake reviews probably or troll reviews
@@Lolkork Yes, I've seen that one.
the cancer became it's own organism and went to seek greater things
I’ve had cyanide poisoning before and I have to say I think it gave the muffins a nuttier flavour, wouldn’t necessarily say almost specifically but it had that musky nutty taste.
Slight back story can get accidental cyanide poisoning from quite a few fruit seeds and pits as well as bitter sweet almonds, usually muffins and cookies and sweet treats end up being poisoned which I think is where the misconception it is sweet comes from. Also yeah if you’re gonna make anything with elderberries cook it throughly, just a fair warning because even if it isn’t enough to kill you it isn’t fun, completely wiped you of all energy
Edit : also cooking throughly tends to stop it from reacting in your body so as long as it’s cooked right it will have little to no effect or so our doctor had said
Nilered: *sniffs almond* "smells like nothing"
Nilered: *sniffs military grade malodor* "it's not that bad"
Nilered has a weak nose.
Haha yeah 😢
Professor: DON'T EAT IN THE CHEM LAB!
NileRed: These almonds taste nothing like my cyanide.
those aren't almonds they are a type of plants seed I believe apricot
@@ramclam2524 they might come soon...
"this cyanide tastes FAKE!"
@@Blox117 This cyanide tastes like Egoraptor.
@@ramclam2524 so are the almonds though.
Just different tree species.
Buys kilogram of cyanide:
*Uses a single crystal*
Alfred: "We'd need to order a large amount as to not raise suspicion"
Bruce: "How much?"
Alfred: "say 10,000 units"
Bruce: "well, at least we'll have spares..."
Yeah what the hell, he didn’t ingest the entire kilogram.....such a waste😒😒
@@VG-or1nu That's cody's specialty
In Sweden you can buy bitter almonds in every supermarket. You can also buy bitter almond oil/extract/aroma - one drop is the same as one almond. We have a pretty popular cookie "mandelkubb" which is flavored with bitter almond. For a normal batch for 20 cookies you use about 5-10 bitter almonds depending on the recipe.
Så du menar alltså att jag förmodligen inte är allergisk mot det utan bara har känt av de där j*vla mandlarna?🤯😂
@@linusnyberg624 haha ajdå, är du allergisk mot mandel alltså? :(
@@mims2752 Jupp, mandel och nötter😂
Min hjärna när man ser mandelkubbar efter detta: haha, Cyanidkakor😂
It’s prescribed in some countries…
Nile Red: *makes almond milk*
Also Nile Red: Hmm, it smells like almond milk
“I didn’t want a gram of cyanide, so I bought a kilo” congrats on getting put on a watch list lol
Yea... I'm moving him up a bit for this one...
Well, maybe he just wants to partake in large scale gold mining
Smells like death...
Lets be real, he was probably already on one
@@RETRO-DEV he's Canadian lmao
It's ok, he won't die. He's the main protagonist of the show.
Lev Kryvenko yeah
Ah, plot armor is TIGHT!
IS THAT AN ANIME REFERENCE..... BUT.... WHAT IF THIS WAS JOOJOOOOO
He will not die becaus he is the main caracter
What you're talking about is "plot armour". And it really depends on who the "author" is. Plenty of authors kill off main characters.
Nile Red is easily on a watch list for at least some of the stuff he buys for these experiments. It might take more work and money, but if I had his knowledge I would try making or isolating the chemical I want from less suspicious chemicals.
It doesn't matter if he's on watch list if he doesn't plan to do anything bad lol
he’s a working chemist and famous youtuber…pretty sure the gov knows exactly who he is and why he buys this stuff. He didn’t get it illegally after all, so clearly it’s a legitimate sale to a legitimate customer.
@@EternalShadow1667In my country you can't buy cyanide without a permit, even sulfuric acid is regulated.
I can understand why his mom worries about him.
"A Chemist sniffs Cyanide for TH-cam. This is what happened to his heart".
-Chubbyemu
Chubbyemu fans here I see
Me too is a fan
Here's a classic show that I am
A doctor ate 56 Eggs for breakfast.This is what happen to his channel *Stonks*
Hahah chubbyemu reference a great youtuber
@@justajobro1266 very very great
@@justajobro1266 very clickbaity tooo
N.R is presenting ☝️ to the emergency room
Conclusion: Cyanide doesn't smell like almond, but almonds smell like cyanide.
We think the same
69th like. Nice
The reason for that is because almonds have a trace amount of cyanide.
@@josshogenesch9511 wait they do
@@cabrinius did you watch the video?
we grow a lot of apricot and plum. i collect the kernels and mix them to my morning "birchelmüesli". 1-2 per day.
it contains cyanide,so I know the smell very well. the taste is very pleasant dilluted like that.
I used to work with chemicals that smelled exactly like almonds, they smelled delicious 😅. I've also cut leaves of laurel trees and you get wafts of almonds from those too. Both were more almondy smelling than almonds and were more like almond syrup or some kind of intensified almond flavour
"My skin cancer fell off"
Yea I can see why that's pretty scary
Can't have skin cancer without skin!
I dont think its meant to fall off
“How did he die?”
“He was trying to figure out if cyanide smelled like almonds.”
shout out to that time i made a cancer joke here and an idiot went to my channel to insult me for doing that
"Did he know what almonds smell like to compare?"
"No."
@@elcatrinc1996 look attacking people is stupid but cancer jokes arent funny cause how serious it is
@@dy1ngfl0werz14 Yeah, but its not like i was wishing him cancer or anything similar, i get its not your cup of tea, but the dude kept commenting pretty horrible stuff to me
@@elcatrinc1996 To be fair they probably had friends or family go through it so it could be a really touchy subject to them so you have to understand if you make jokes about serious subjects people will get upset I get its only a joke but if you have had family or friends go through it its not funny I support comedy of all forms even dark humour but you gotta expect people to get upset over certain things so you can't really say you didn't see it coming
I mean the fact they went out of their way to make you feel shitty over a joke obviously means it personally hurt them so they're just venting frustration out on someone and you just happened to be that someone don't take it personally they're just hurting dude it doesn't make them or you a bad person and I doubt anyone would feel bad for you given the situation so you just deal with it dude Cuz this is just life if you can't take this much there's no hope cuz the world doesn't care how you feel bro just gotta let the past be just that otherwise you're in for a real shitty time along the way
However no comedy should be censored because it hurts people
I mean it might not be for everyone but jokes are just another form of expression so I agree you should be able to make these jokes you just gotta expect the shit that comes back from it can't expect people to feel bad for you when it does
This channel is such a great way to publish your research
as for uses, sodium cyanide can be used in refining precious metals from ore (other options include mixing the ore with mercury and then distilling that over to split the amalgam)
Nile: dont smell chemicals
Also Nile: "I just had to smell some cyanide"
lol
lol
Even the smartest kid is bound to do dumb things
Nile: I don't wan you to die
Also Nile:
Chemistry Teacher: always smell chemicals by wafting them
Nile: *sticks nose directly into container filled with cyanide gas*
me: so what does cyanide smell like?
CIA trainer: smells like bitter almonds.
me: why do bitter almonds have the scent they do?
CIA trainer: they have cyanide in them.
me: so you're basically just telling me that cyanide...
CIA trainer: ...smells like cyanide. yep.
me: *ah yes i see*
AH YES, THE FLOOR HERE IS MADE OF FLOOR
Yeah, it’s more a case of “bitter almonds smell like cyanide” than “cyanide smells like bitter almonds”
@@TheShizzlemop "this is a birch tree. you can tell it's a birch tree because of the way it is."
As funny as this might be, words can't describe the essence of most experiences. We can assign words to label them like sweet to sugary stuff, but we can't precisely explain them. How does your tongue feel when you sabor something salty? It's like trying to describe a color without naming things that have it
It’s like if an orange is named after the color or the color is named after the fruit.
tell me why whenever im suicidal i watch nile red and i feel so much better ( i love you nile keep up the amazing videos !!)
🤷
I hope you’re alright. And yes Nilered is indeed amazing!
But does it taste like almonds?
"my skin cancer fell off"
*8 people found this helpful*
My entire skin fell off.
Helpful ? How can this be helpful ? Ah yes, take 1000 patients diagnosed with skin cancer, split randomly in two groups, one call it test and to them add freshly made bitter almond milk to their medicine cocktail, to the other, called control, you do nothing, make it so each group nor the experimenters aren’t able to notice any difference. See if this has any effect on their cancer. Has it been done already ? Should the bitter almonds kill cancer cells selectively, it’d be good to know. What it takes to know, though !
@@7cle It does sound like a joke tbh, but you never know...
Not sure if it's cyanide or or actual black salve.
Lmfao
My chemistry teacher always joked: "if you order a kilogram nobody raises an eyebrow and they'll just think you're a chemist, if you order a gram the authorities will burst through your door assuming the worst."
*Noted
What's his name? Walter White?
@@313asm Bro I've been waiting on this Comment.
Note: This does not work for radioactive elements.
Ahhh... nothing like ordering enough cyanide to kill 200,000 people.
Quick clarification on the “smells like almonds” line; as Nigel said, bitter almonds *do* have culinary applications, namely… in almond cakes! You’re supposed to add one or two of those to a few dozens of the normal ones, to give it some added taste. The low concentration to begin with, and probably the fact that they’re crushed and fully baked and that most of the hydrogen cyanide that gets released in the process is vented right out of the oven, means that the resulting confection is safe to eat, but there’s still some remaining traces of it, which do change the taste and, more importantly, give off the distinctly “almond-y” _smell_ the CDC document and all reports of hydrogen cyanide release allude to.
I ate a peach once when I was maybe 11, and the pit had split, so i could access the almond inside the pit. I remembered reading about peach cores containing cyanide, so I cut it in half and smelled it. I remember it smelling like marzipan. A kind of sweet, dr. Pepper-ish smell.
Women: "Why do we live longer than men?"
NileRed: [Smells cyanide]
@[CT CCTCGGCGGG] Gotta do what you gotta do for science
@[CT CCTCGGCGGG] I think smelling cyanide should be scary for everyone, that's like common sense
It's scary for sure but cyanide doesn't actually poison you if you don't die from it.
"But just to be safe" he took SOOO many safety procotions
@@sara4024 Woman.
My dude bought a kilo, just to use a granule. Respect.
it was more economically viable
Strange how his neighbors are all dead
@@xyzzyx7812 No, it wasn't. He needed 3 mg. He could have bought 5g for 48.30 CAD instead of 1kg for 142.00 CAD. This video would have been almost 100 CAD cheaper to make if he only bought 5g of it. Now instead of having 4.997g left over he has 999.997g left over.
@@gyroninjamodder By economically viable, he means the price per gram
@@gyroninjamodder It would be 10 CAD per gram versus 0.15 CAD per gram
That still seems scary AF
from the video where you made the stinky substance, I think your sniffer is not very sensitive. Keep up the great videos!
So what we found out is:
1. Cyanide doesn't smell like almonds
2. Almonds doesn't smell like almonds
;)
@Ugly boy Sorry. Next time, I would advise you not to read coments before watching a video. Especially if you decide that video is spoilable in a meaningful way.
Ugly boy You can read the fun part after the video
*don't
Wow lol, ur comment is nearly exactly the same as mine
u forgot
3. Cyanide smells like cyanide!
This whole video is just “This is really dangerous, but _theoretically speaking_ this shouldn’t kill me.”
That’s his whole channel
Well, between an idiot and a scientist the difference can be as slim as just some simple math.
@@Arelias95 a scientist is just a really determined idiot, according to my old chem teacher 😂
@@cecipasttenseseesaw Well, I guess that makes sense xD
Another Sciency channel dissolved some and drank it (after doing the research and measuring) got a fizzy feeling in his arm just to prove everything could be edible dosage is toxticity. If you are smart and don`t make mistakes it is not dangerous. Especially since he even downgraded from the "this might be dangerous" option to "this is less than half as dangerous".
Nile in 2025: "I don't really believe that mustard gas smells like mustard..."
I had this curiosity in my head for years.
I'm pretty sure my chemistry teacher in highschool said it's a myth, but now I have something to expect about this.
On second note, I will certainly research a little about almonds before trying to use for cooking
fun fact! i was very little and ate about a pound of almonds one day and got insaneeeely sick, turns out it was cyanide poisoning!
Next video: “Does Uranium really taste like chocolate?”
Lol
Recommended for you: “Does Fugu poison really taste like piss?”
does cocaine smell like perfume
@@elpresidente1822 Does Meth really smell like Cocaine?
"Does Cocaine taste like coconut?"
Next up on ChubbyEmu:
"A man tried to smell cynide. This is what happened to his brain".
funny thing my next video is a video from chubbyemu
Underrated comment
Oh, man...!
lmao
@@cat7371
I know. I'm a biochemistry student lmao
The whole point is that the titles for ChubbyEmu can sound absurd.
People have turned that into a joke.
It's not supposed to be factual and that's the whole point.
I am the 50% of people who cannot REALLY detect dangerous amounts of cyanide. I've been an amateur chemist since I was 15-16, and I set up a porch lab at my dad's house that still exists 6yr later! One day, I couldn't even tell you WHAT I was doing---I think it was some sort of extraction of some plants I'd found and I wanted the dye that I found to change colour drastically by pH... anyway I didn't smell anything, but thankfully I knew full well what that locked jaw, sweaty-shaky/trembling, stomach turning over feeling meant... My vision even started to zoom in and all I did was stumble backwards into some fresh air and cough profusely till I could open my mouth again. Was it cyanide? Who knows... but it matched all the qualities and all I had to do was ventilate whatever it was... I also rediscovered chloropicrin trying to do modifications to picric acid like the biggest dumbass of all time, and that exposure was the closest to choking out in a pool of my blood for sure... I've also made 100s maybe close to a thousand litres of chlorine gas because I was fucking obsessed with all the things I could make it do... I also always wanted to scale things up, but thankfully I have my sense of smell... mostly, and I have perfect vision, and I always build extensive traps and work in filtered ventilation (working on building a new hardware store fume hood rn. Be careful out there guys. Never stop searching for knowledge, but for gods sake don't be as foolish as me. I'm lucky to be alive and not have inadvertently poisoned all my neighbor's wells. Chemistry is all about taking responsibility for the consequences of your projects.
This channel is amazing and your demeanor and exploration just perfect. I enjoy the rigor and grace, real warning when things are dangerous and open mindedness. I will say, that along with the thioacetonre video and this one, your olfactory sense has been blunted by your work or just isn’t sensitive. Not as much as Reggie in the thio acetone video. Ha
"My skin cancer fell off" LMAOOO
wtf
I CANT BREATHE
Im guessing their left toe fell off too
@@Tactix_se Neither can the reviewer
@@frandurrieu6477 im fuckin dead
2:50 "Only a few breaths of this could kill a man!"
Nile: "Oh no! Anyway..."
I understood this reference
Took me a minute.. oh f it have a thumbs up..
Insert meme
Very reference. Such me. Much understand. Wow!
@@purplegill10 A show with a Walter? Or something with a Jeff on a rock and scuba diving to rescue a city?
You could mix the excell cyanide with iron filings and make Prussian-blue.
Buys Dollar Store almonds and is surprised they smell like nothing...
My favorite thing about your videos is that you can be so knowledgeable on a topic and then a complete infant when it comes to more practical knowledge. Cheap food always has less of an aroma because it's sat on a shelf longer or is made from more crude processing
“Does mustard gas actually smells like mustard”
No it just has a yellow tint similar to the color of mustard
Who the hell are you???
Given its chemical composition, I would expect mustard gas to smell like chlorine -- though the level at which you smell it and the level at which it becomes toxic is probably not too far apart.
@@mr.cleaned582 I am you, but better
"Does Sarin smell like a Karen?"
"It doesn't smell like anything" "It doesn't taste like anything"
*suspiciously looks at coronavirus symptoms list*
this is a copied comment from Luke Andris
And... Busted!!!
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Beat me to the comment, aha
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This channel has taught me that your smell receptors are fragile and you should take good care of them. 😂
On a Nile binge at the moment both channels
7:45 "It kind of just smells like nothing."
So almonds are a solid, and like many other solids, it doesn't really smell like anything. To smell almonds, I'll have to turn them into Hydrogen Almonds, so I can smell their gaseous form.
H---Almond
Yesss! He should've roasted them geeeeesh
big brain
Giga🧠
His nose is also very burnt due to him doing so much chemical experiment
A chemists version of Russian roulette: Just mix the almonds
nice
lmao
OH NOO
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Bean boozler for the purists
It's perfectly normal for Nigel not to ever smell almonds.
In Finland some people use bitter almond extract in a pastry called Runebergintorttu. I had a small bottle of it for years and the fragrance is strong. I like it personally.
I love how he waits until AFTER he's sniffed the potentially deadly gas before pondering if he remembered what almonds smell like. Love this channel.
it's not potentially deadly. It's very deadly, but not harmful enough those concentrations
It's very rational. If he dies from the HCN, he can save the trip to the dollar store.
@@anakinlowground5515 So it's potentially deadly based on the concentration, I don't know what's your point here lol
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@@ritiksingh721 Hi Ritik
"Cyanide can easily kill you"
Nile Red: **Snort** that's some good shit.
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Nile at the start of the experiment :
Does cyanide actually smell like almonds?
Nile at the end of the experiment :
Do almonds actually smell like cyanide?
Yeah i also read on papers that cyanide smells like almonds. Never smelled almonds before
Next video: “I heard nuclear waste smells like candy”
@@guidXenoCat Well yea because uranium decays into lead :/
Guess what? There was a new type of sugar found, and it's name is nucleowastose. It is going to be distributed in many candies for a "glowing effect" and it is totally safe, ignoring the fact that it is highly radioactive, emits charged particles, and can kill people, of course.
Dude this comment is Disaster.... 😂😂😂😂
@@sujathasubramanian7853 so you're saying
I can turn into a real life glowstick?
Next video: "I heard cyanide tasted like almonds. (Taste test)
How to be a chemist:
Lesson 1: your vocabulary should be primarily made of:
- distilled water
- cranked up the heat
Free distilled water
Strong stirring 😁
_to do this, it was pretty simple_
@@StardropSmoothie You can always do "freelance chemistry"
Cursed account name
i had to handle bucket loads of this stuff as i worked in zinc plating when i was in my early 20s, you had to practise the non lip lick as the vapor from the electro plating fumes would settle on your face as you worked the tanks, nasty stuff, but with most work areas you were taught to treat the environment with knowledge and respect !
Oh god , when you described the bitter almonds taste I immediately thought about the taste of raw apricot kernels we used to eat as children, and guess what. they contain cyanides too .
However , we used to let them dry in the sun which i guess made them safer to eat i guess.
Alternative title:
Guy smelling almonds for 15 minutes straight.
and they smell like nothing!
Roasting them brings out the smell. I've been to serval renaissance festivals, you can smell roasted almonds from hundreds of feet away.
Nile: *smells almonds*
Nile: "It smells like nothing."
Me: *Does cyanide affect your sense of smell?*
I always wondered about that lol I was exposed once to a not unsubstantial amount and I swear it started to get a smell
I mean Hydrogen sulfide actually does damage your sense of smell by toxicity, so cyanide might do the same
cyanide is supposed to TASTE like almonds.
of course, thats quite hard to prove
@@LL-tr5et Hey guys, this cyanide tastes like al
Maybe you can use the cyanide to make a beta blocker (e.g. labetalol or sotalol) by synthesizing the corresponding cyanohydrin and then reducing it.
That sounds really cool, maybe you can make it!
“Let’s see if it smells like almonds”
“I’ve also never smelled an almond before”
"My skin cancer fell off"
Yeesh...
You can't get cancer if you're dead
You can’t get dead if you are deceased
@@Alex-uu2wc You can’t get deceased if you’re dead.
He forgot to mention his brain fell out a few days earlier...
cant be alive if you dont exist
*buys a whole kilo: uses one crystal weighing 3mg*
Same lol he's like my mom, buys 3 stuff she don't need and never use just cause there's a discount if u buy 3. Lol
@@CheetahJona you can never have too much cyanide, when you are an science youtuber.
a gram was too over price, so he bought a kilo
@@AquaticBlaze and ig he could use it for future videos
@@hiffahyphae6707 Yeah but it's enough cyanide to kill like 5 thousand people.
i think the main thing to note here is that cyanide doesn't smell like the kind of almonds most people are familiar with, but a specific type of bitter almond which few people would know since you kinda need to go out of your way to get your hands on some, and people who do rarely eat them as is, they're mostly used for baking.
for example in germany only pharmacies are allowed to sell bitter almonds and you are only allowed to buy a limited amount at a time.
I worked as a solution control technician for few years, having to tote around 110 pound can of various cyanides. I made up baths for platers to plate in. Potassium cyanide is sugar-like, sodium cyanide has a musty smell, and copper cyanide doesn’t really have a smell. It looks like it could almost be play sand. Copper cyanide by itself doesn't dissolve in water. You need something like aqueous potassium hyroxide in order to dissolve copper cyanide. In short, no, when you're talking about about concentrated cyanides, they have distinct odors.
Next on NileRed: Does mustard gas actually smell like mustard?
Smells like garlic that is a bit rancid.
@@worddunlap
Thanks I was curious
This should be the top comment.
Probably smells like blood and burning skin, at least that is what you would be smelling.
@@worddunlap I think he should double check 😆
"They do contain cyanide, but just one isn't gonna hurt me."
"That one didn't taste like anything. Let me try another one!"
well he did only eat half of it so technically he did eat just one lol
It was a faulty item
I think the problem with buying almonds (sweet or bitter) is that you can only buy the dried ones. You should try a fresh one, straight from the tree. In countries like Italy, Spain or Bulgaria you can find bitter almonds growing in the wild. I tried them - they are really bitter and have a characteristic smell.
Imaging getting a text at 4 in the afternoon from your chemist friend asking if you wanna smell a deadly poison called cyanide
Breaking news, man poisons entire house with cyanide attempting to, "smell it to see if it smelled like almonds."
Breaking News: Man with no sense of smell poisons entire house with cyanide, after attempting to smell it "to see if it smelled like almonds"!
There, I fixed it for you!
IMPOTANT NOTE1: I have revised my opinion about what it smells like. In the video, I said it was like an indoor pool and I correlated it to the chlorine. However, I think it's more accurate to say the pool locker room or shower. It is musty/moldy, with a background of pool smell.
IMPORTANT NOTE2: After posting this video, I got a few messages from people saying that in their experience, cyanide DOES smell like almonds. So, I spent an hour tonight doing some tests, and I think the results are interesting. I did some direct comparisons and the smell of cyanide is distinctly different from the smell of almonds. However, if I EAT the almonds, there is sometimes a faint taste of cyanide. I think this is because sweet almonds still have a very small amount of amygdalin in them, which can release HCN. I don't think it's enough to smell in open air, but in your mouth it can be concentrated enough to be detected at the back of the nose. It's subtle, but it is definitely part of the flavor profile. So, while I still don't think it's accurate to say that it smells like almonds, for some people, it might be similar to the taste. To make that connection though, the person needs to a) be able to smell HCN and b) be particularly aware of that part of the flavor.
I can smell the HCN, but I never noticed it in the flavor of almonds, so I didn't make the connection. I was even looking for a similarity and eating almonds at the same time, but never noticed it. It was only when I became very familiar with the smell of HCN that I started noticing it in almonds. What's interesting too, is that now after noticing it, I feel like I've started to associate the smell with almonds. It's no longer just a "chemical" smell and it feels more almondy. However, on the flip side, I feel like almonds taste worse and are more "chemically."
But either way, I still don't think that saying it smells like almonds or bitter almonds is accurate or helpful. However, based on the messages I've received, some people are naturally associating cyanide with almonds (sometimes without knowing that this was even a thing and not even knowing they were smelling cyanide). This has piqued my interest and I think it could be fun to get to the bottom of this and to do a trial with a lot more people.
@@connieprude3386 what
@@tavswirl5002 it was the top pinned comment that nileRed said. connie copied the entire comment (somehow) and said it as a reply.
@@somedudeontheinternet5213 I know I just need to know why
I can just imagine the conversations like
"-Hey bro, want to smell some cyanide?
- Wtf bro, no!
- C'mon! Its for science!"
Anything for science
We do what we must, because, we can.
Call it coke
😂
Here in Sweden it's common to find bitter almond concentrate in food stores since it's somewhat common to use in cooking here. You have to be EXTREMELY careful when using it.
Potassium cyanide in a 1.2% solution was originally used as a photographic fixer in tintype photography. It reduces the latent image created between the iodizing salts/silver nitrate and the iron sulfate developer to produce an image of pure metallic silver. Something you could play around with. Not sure if sodium cyanide would work differently though. I doubt it since the other fixer that was used was sodium thiosulfate.
"It was at this point that I realised I had lost my sense of smell due to covid-19"
Hahahaha imagine
IDK if it's the COVID, but he does have no sense of smell. I mean, bruh, I can smell something like marzipan or crushed cherry pits from crushed sweet almonds in water that's definitely not there in dry crushed almonds
Nile: Smells almond milk.
Nile: "This smells like almond milk!"
Nothing like almonds at all!
Me: reads the comment
My head: hmm yes the floor hear is made of floor
Don't ask about the name I was a kid when I made it
@@uian6827 you can change your name if you want.
@@uian6827 You joined April of this year. You're still a kid. xD
I tested this yeas ago as i was quite sceptical and knew it did not smell like almonds. However i am a baker and smell almonds all of the time. Almond smells very simular to the cherry colonel but with a musty clorine hint of an old swimming pool and with a mild sweetness. The version that smells like almonds are the Peach Colonel ... Bigger seeds. Be aware they are 100% if not more toxice. Don't try that at home !
Sorry Spelling... *Years
Bottle: “Sodium Cyanide ☠️”
Nigel: Lets smell this
I'd love to see a list of government watchlists NileRed/Blue is on.
Same
same
@E Van what
@E Van to be fair NileRed is Canadian
@E Van how many weirdly specific alliances are there???
This channel has taught me that NileRed is immortal
yes
Cody's lab did it too, though I don't know if the video is still around. He drinks a cyanide solution in that video, in case you're curious.
According to the current data Nile Red will live forever and is immune to all damage
He is the human thanos
INEVITABLE
it’s like he’s... not human...
Could you make parisian green pigment with it? That would be so interesting!