Cody's Alkali Metal Converter
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 พ.ค. 2024
- I design, build, and test a device for converting one alkali metal to another.
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Distilling Caesium. Yup, hes back to his good old self.
Here's to good mental health lol
@@MrRedeyedJedi metal health
I was hoping that chicken hole would turn into a cool mining series maybe he’s waiting on equipment.
This is clearly an old video that he posted now, I must say, like this kind of video better...
He also sounds much better again
I don't know enough social media-ing to know if you'll ever see this (or to find any other way to contact you), but what size (OD x Height) does the outer can need to be in order to fit inside the furnace? I'm a TIG welder in a stainless steel pipe shop, I may be able to dig up some scraps and knock together a stainless version for you, I don't know how well a 300-series (all I regularly have access to at work) will handle that kind of heat though.
Come on people, upvote this so Cody notices it!
I hope Cody sees this
Cody, look here^
Cody answer qyestuon
sent him a message on twitter just wait and see if he gets it
Cody hits you with a 20 minutes long awesome video and ends it by saying: "thats pretty much all i got for now". What a guy.
I just watched the whole video not even realizing it was 20 minutes lol
@@RapMusicSucks1000 holy shit me too!
@@RapMusicSucks1000 I take it rap music is not your thing
@@RapMusicSucks1000 omfg ikr... i thought it was like... 7 minutes, i was riveted
That ... that's about it.
This is Cody at his best. The top home science / chemistry youtuber imho. No sponsors, no gimmicks. Good enough quality production without fancy editing.
Exactly. And not taking it too serious with security measures, still producing excellent outcomes. For me he is the real "MacGyver".
Big thanks to the people on patreon who support Cody and his channel. I think they are the main reason Cody doesn't need to take on sponsors, the community is the sponsor.
I wouldnt mind any sponsors, as long as hes making good money off them
Sponsors shouldn't be a issue for any channel you like. You don't HAVE to watch the ad. It helps them pay the Bill's. Luckly cody has patreon so he doesnt need to take any. So be sure to go support him with a few bucks.
Right!!! I love it!
when the slowmo kicked in i was expecting an explosion followed by a "shoot..."
That'd be quite on brand
Would have liked to see a cesium flame.
Same lol, Slowmo on Cody's channel does tend to be followed by rapid unscheduled disassembly events.
[shrapnel explosion and metal fire]
"Well gosh darnit."
awesome work!
whats goooooooooood
learn rage you're alive what's going on with your channel buddy
@@highlander723 he uploads once or twice a month.
Somebody needs to teach you how to tig weld already. The motions are similar to oxy-fuel so I think you’d do ok.
@@XxAILASxX good tig machines can be 10's of thousands and the shielding gasses are more expensive than say nitrogen for mig or oxygen and acetylene. On top of cost there's the issue of power delivery, they run three phase and would require dedicated breakers.
Classic Cody, wears an astronaught uniform to go shopping, doesn't wear a mask when dealing with noxious vapors.
And gloves for math.
@@johnladuke6475 well math is very dangerous
@@zachdurden1821 indeed it is!
Astronaught? Did you mean astronaut?
@@xploration1437 Perhaps that was a play on words since cody stayed on earth XD
Protip: molten alkali metals are one of the few things that can chemically attack teflon.
magnesium is able to reduce teflon, but that requires a flame to initiate
Yeah... RIP my stir bar, from producing sodium in the NurdRage reaction.
Yes, Teflon stir-bars and sodium-potassium alloy can be hypergolic.
@@robertlapointe4093 NaK and Teflon is hypergolic? Geez, I knew NaK is nasty stuff, but not that much!
@@DrakkarCalethiel I think it is due to the fluid NaK having a clean surface for reactivity. It reacts more like molten sodium. Plus, the lattice energy of NaF (~ 900 kJ/mol) is no joke - plenty of driving force there.
Still waiting for you to make a Cobalt-Dysprosium alloy - a CoDy slab
He should make a play button made of CoDy for 2M subs
I wonder how much Dysprosium costs right now, it used to be pretty expensive.
@@chucklebutt4470 $260 USD a kilo it looks like market price but about ~$125 for 10g if you buy as an ingot from a chemical supply house (Sigma for example). Or $10 for 5g off Ebay :)
Yeah, Cody is lucky that his name in chemical elements is affordable. If his name was Osir, producing the play button could get more expensive!
The young fella seems to be back in action.
A typical old Cody vid so HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
Implying he wasn't in action previously?
@@Beardwhip you could tell from his content that he was a little burnt out and not his normal self, especially after his break up with Kanyon.
@@Beardwhip Yes actually Beardwhip. It is just my keyboard warrior opinion so not worth a lot , but Cody seems to have been different for the last many months to a year. The vids have had a different spin and he has not had the jump in his step that used to be the case. I wasn't trying to be nasty .
My nose looks like that after wearing a filter mask for a while...
@Squiggummer Figgammus If you mean at the start of the video, it's from the safety glasses he's wearing, look at the imprint on his nose.
You look much happier and positive in this video than in other recent ones. I hope your mental health is on the upswing ❤️
There's room for a lithium joke here. =)
@@anne-droid7739 I see what you did there! 🤣😂
I think it’s cuz he shaved his face so you can actually see that he is smiling instead of it being hid behind the facial hair
These types of comments are so annoying
@@AggroSamurai I'm sorry you don't want someone to be congratulated for being happy. Take your grinch ass somewhere else
That title reads like Cody has become the full metal alchemist!
Hopefully he didn't have to lose an arm and seal his brother in a suit of armor.
I don't know if you've been getting more sleep recently or what, but I feel like you look healthy, somehow refreshed, glowing almost, and that is great to see. Wishing you the best always!
Great video as usual!
I can't help feeling like there's probably a gadget at a kitchen supply store made out of stainless that has exactly the shape you need. Probably intended for something else entirely but just begging to be repurposed.
Something coffee-related maybe...
Cheese
Beehive smoker?
There sure wasn't when I was looking for a crucible to melt aluminium.
And apparently fire extinguishers are made from mild steel, because the one I used oxidized through in 15minutes lol.
Ah, I bet a set of stainless Bain Marie pots would be perfect!
This Old Tony collaboration!
Yes, this. How!?
I appreciate you so much Cody, I know things have been really hard for you over the years but you're still here inspiring me with every video. And you haven't changed in all the ways that matter. You're a true scientist and I look up to that a lot.
For those who were wondering if *other stuff* gets collected, boiling point of:
Lithium 1330°C
Cesium Chloride 1297°C
Tin 2600°C
And Caesium 670°C
The molten tin spacer was a good idea.
That is really close, explains the relatively low yield. Thanks for the info.
@@OscarSommerbo wait no it’s not? They’re 600°C apart! I mean...that sounds not close to me anyway...
@@arjunyg4655 the low yield comes from the rudimental sistems cody is famous to come up with
And he used 1400 °F= 760°C for the furnace. So the Caesium would evaporate and escape easily at its boiling point of 690 °C leaving a gap for cross-contamination of at least 570 centigrades.
@@ZoonCrypticon that's the point, easy method for really pure cesium.
You can use lithium from batteries, but the CsCl is more expensive.
Awesome work Cody! Can't wait to see what's planned for the Cesium 😁
Congrats on 100,000 subscribers! Also I found some papers about making perchlorates by electrolysis if you'd like me to send you links.
From what I've gathered, the purpose for this is mostly exploding toilets, mostly.
It's cesium, not Cesium. It's a name of material, not a dude.
@@lajoswinkler The IUPAC recommendation on the capitalization of names of the elements has recently been changed to recommend that they be capitalized the same as common nouns. They also changed the spelling of your example element. Caesium is its currently proper spelling, according to that same wiki article. Your arbitrary schoolmarming is undermined by grammatical inconsistency in your very statement, followed by a complete lack of research on the subject.
The humor side of your tragic literacy fumble is that you jumped into a pondering of what to do with some uncommon chemical in pure comedy form. *shrug* At least it was good for a chuckle.
Eyelet on top so that a hooked piece of metal can pick it up.
Nice work. Good science meets good engineering to produce a valuable result.
How did you comment on a vid that wasn't uploaded??
@@nikkiofthevalley what do you mean?
@@nikkiofthevalley he didn't he just had a link to it while it was still unlisted, Patreon perk.
@@MrDJAK777 oh, ok
@@noeljonsson3578 look at the date it was uploaded. Then the time this guy commented
I was like "That's weird, don't think I've seen this one yet" and then it hit me that it was brand new!
This feels like a cody's lab from 5 years ago. I love it.
0:53 what my hot pockets see after the microwave stop spinning
Cody: successfully distills cesium.
Me: makes a small hydrogen explosion trying to distill the much gentler sodium.
I think I'll stick to electrolysis to get the lighter alkali metals for now :P
would that include potassium? or do you mean lighter atomically?
I am the cool kid from Germany making videos for the USA and the rest of the world. I will make your day so don't say nay to my videos today, dear dan
Isn't Cesium radioactive? Looks like Cody might be getting another visit from the FBI lol
@@tuscan9617 only some Cesium isotopes are radioactive (probably thinking of Cs-137)
@@tuscan9617 No, only some isotopes of cesium are radioactive. Cody's cesium is mostly, if not entirely, the stable isotope(s).
Love these. Keep doing what you do! Hope you're feeling better lately!
Always fun watching your projects!
Thanks for a great video Cody. Always fun to see what you are working on.
Great vijayo
Now show us the process of getting the cesium into those cute little ampules.
What happened to the other 65% of the cesium? Did it escape as vapor?
Most of it is still in the chloride form. A better question is what happened to 65% of the lithium. To which the answer is: measurement error, the oil and oxide coating the metal has weight but doesn’t contribute to the reaction. Side reactions, from water in the salt and air in the chamber. And metal that did not react, you can see it burning when I opened the chamber.
Cody, can you use your xray tool to determine the composition?
No, at least not well, lithium is invisible to such techniques.
@@m3talgame20 all the elements should be too light for the gun to detect
@@theCodyReeder What is the more expensive reagent here, lithium metal or caesium chloride?
So you could've added more lithium, but my first research shows, that their value is about the same, then it probably wouldn't help much.
You only trade in more lithium to use up some more of the caesium chloride present.
Maybe you would contaminate the caesium metal with lithium metal condensate at some point!?
So you may want to test for the lithium content in your product to dial-in the stoichiometry!
Love these style of videos. I’m glad you’re doing these again! Keep the awesome videos coming!
Always good to see a video from Cody.
Maybe you can get in to contact with This Old Tony to build you a stainless version.
Maybe ToT could work it up on the Maho for some first real production work on it post-CNC conversion. 😎
@@mannys9130 it would be a crazy expensive part to machine, better to just make it out of stainless pipe and tig weld end caps on rather than turning most of a big chunk of expensive stainless into chips
or AvE
@@markshort9098 Well yeah...but have you watched This Old Tony??? Did you see how he built the scissor lift and the computer stand attached to the Maho?! He thrives off of excessive stuff and overbuilt work. It gives him power and purpose. 👌
@@mannys9130 yeah i watch tot he's a funny bastard but it doesn't change the fact that it's a waste of a very expensive chunk of stainless to machine it out of a solid chunk for no advantage.. tot like me loves his tig welder and would just weld a end on some pipe
I started watching you because of your mining and metal series I'm so glad to see you back at it after a few years
Cody its so good to see you making vids! I always enjoy your work.
Thanks for another fantastic video. You look so excited while doing the project!
And hopefully this design doesn't, according to your neighbors who called the cops back then, look like a pipe bomb..
Good news it doesn't! Bad news is that it looks like an anti-personnel mine now..
"Hello 911, [insert joker "me again" meme] it's not a pipe bomb this time. He built a fucking Bouncing Betty and you gotta come here right away!!! Hurry!"
🤣
Let's just assume that Cody already has his own personal team of inter-agency fans from the FBI, ATF, NEA and NRC who know the device that the neighbours are talking about even before they call the hotline.
wait, what's the story here?
What I’m curious about is why he needs large quantities of very unstable explosive metal that he doesn’t have a license to handle.
@@GamingAmbienceLive For science, of course.
As soon as I master distilling cesium with plumbing materials he comes out with a new and better way. I used the cody way of using random materials for the retort, with the thunderfoot way of using a BBQ grill, only I upgraded to a gas powered blast furnace. It worked great! I recovered several dozen grams of cesium and had a lot of fun with it.
Show us!
I missed these types of videos. Thank you, Cody!
I always get super excited when you up load. So thank you!! More videos please!!!
Beautiful and ingenious method!
I'd compare this procedure to the metallic Sodium method without eletrolisys explained by Nurdrage.
This video is marvelous, thank you Cody for the great content, keep doing this stuff!
Fun to see some sciencey stuff again. Seems like it’s been a while...
Fascinating stuff! I always love seeing new Cody videos in my feed! With everything that's been going on, this year really has been more fun and interesting thanks to your channel! I really appreciate your work! Thanks, Cody!
phenomenal, absolutely inspiring. keep up these great videos
Cody, you should be able to weld stainless with your set up by just using stainless TIG rods.
I can for sure stick the metal together but I haven’t been able to get a good seal. Maybe what I’m lacking is the skill.
@@theCodyReeder you got this!
@@theCodyReeder Practice makes perfect!🙂
To improve the yield, consider grinding up and stirring the Li in, instead of just throwing it in as chunks. Even if it becomes a liquid eventually, it's not going to mix good enough, the molten mixture is too thick for a good mix.
Looking really well Cody, keep making videos, we all love them 😀
I missed so much such kind of videos, where you make something. Great work!
Is that type of retort named yet? The Reeder Retort has a nice ring to it.
I’m still waiting on the “Cody Brings You: Backyard Nuclear Reactors You Can Do At Home On A Budget” TH-cam series. 😊
He was getting close, but the Feds shut that down.
Watch Thunderf00t, he planted carrot seeds in radioactive soil, then harvested the carrots and ate then on a radioactive plate! 😂
Happy to see another of these sort of video Cody. You’re looking well, happy to see it!
Looking good man. Glad to see these last few videos!
I would wager that the instruction manual does indeed say that the furnace needs to be upright
Real man never reads a manual, they are used to start a fire in a furnace.
Where you wearing your ppe while writing your comment Karen.
You and NileRed should see about doing a collab. That would be neato.
NurdRage and Thunderf00t should join too. Maybe even the backyard scientist and explosionsandfire.
@@instrumentenfreak The distance is the most problematic thing. TF is in Czechia, Nile (and NurdRage?) in canuckistan, Ex&F in upside down land and backyard scientist is from the US if I'm not mistaken.
But hell yeah! That collab would be sick!
Please no Backyard Scientist. That guy is going to kill someone one day soon.
@@DrakkarCalethiel do you mean vancouver?
Explosionsandfire would be such a cool collab. He has almost the exact backyard chemist style as cody. That would be so fucking awesome.
What an excellent demo and video Cody!
Now THIS is the Cody's Lab stuff i fell in love with! Great work!
This is the cody we want to see.
This is really cool. Don't breathe the smoke too much though
Yes! Classic Cody’s Lab. Everything I love about your work man. Thanks!
Looking good Cody! Takes me back to the videos from 2017
Lookin good Cody! Very happy into:)
Can you try do make a sort of DIY li-ion cell? It would be very interesting to try at home!
And burn it too.
A homemade li-oin battery, aka a homemade fire starter?
I really appreciate this man! always a joy watching what you get up to! sending love from Canada
Great work! Thanks for showing us the process!
"I'll have someone make a stainless version" Sounds like something up This Old Tony's street... Colab?!
OH MY GOSH PLEASE
That's what I'm sayin! Get him a proper machined vessel made on the lathe from round stock.
I was thinking the same thing. ToT could use another side project. Especially one that involves welding.
Someone start a petition to make this happen please
You could poke a rod up the distillation column and push the lid off.
Absolutely awesome! Love all of your content. I learn so much from all of this.
We love watching the process. The science is a bonus win. Great work as always.
For the out-of context file:
"Got a little bit of leftover lithium" -- Cody, 2020
Before I forget, you should get a second carbon monoxide detector for when you do your tank experiments. You're one of my favorite TH-camrs and I want you to be around forever.
Always fun to see Cody making new things!
Hell yeah! Nice to see this type of stuff back!
I can't stop staring at Cody's brilliantly white teeth, idk why lol
Has he told us his formula for that yet? :D
@@realedna yes, a few years ago I think
Alkali Metal Converter . Hey that is the name of my Synthwave/Doommetal crossover band! ;-)
that sounds awesome to me, honestly lol
Thanks Cody for showing us this project.
Another great video from Cody!
Perfect ending of the week.
By the way: I’ve always LOVED the music in the beginning and end of Cody’s videos.
Imma make a rival channel called CodySlab where I just walk around and talk about concrete all day.
So, basically Practical Engineering?
Why would anyone like my comment, nonetheless respond to it?
Hopefully nobody sends a caesium and desist for converting metals... :P
That was a good one. 😸
What, get outa town.
delete this.
Hey! You're looking better. Happier. I'm glad to see it. Keep the videos coming !
Eyyy! This is that classic Cody action! I can't wait to see what you do with the Cesium. It's always interesting watching you transform one material into another and what methods you use to do it.
I REALLY thought he was writing on toast under water for the intro. It would have fit the channel too.
17:15 sketchy af. Wouldn't want to be between the wall and the molten salt with lithium
Awesome video, mate. I love the ones where you work with metals like this.
very clever setup! brilliant
This feels like watching Tony Stark building the Mark 1 suit with whatever he had laying around.
You look much younger and healthier without the facefuzz.
I think this video is old.
@@foty8679 its from yesterday on the date at 20:10
He doesn't always release his videos in chronological order.
I learn something new about chemistry every time you make one of these videos. Keep up the great work, Cody!
Excellent video Cody! Keep up the great work.
"this reaction, like all reactions, is reversible" is that true? All reactions being reversible?
Rates vary but chemical reactions reach a equilibrium , which side left or right depends on conditions...pressure temperature concentrations
And other fun stuff like enthalpy and activation energy.
Technically yes, but most reactions favor one side. That’s why you don’t see gasoline spontaneously form where there’s CO2 and water
It is technically correct (the best kind). Most reactions that are considered 'irreversible' really just mean that it doesn't go in one direction to any significant amount that matters. It's understood that yes, there is SOME reverse reaction occurring at a rate orders of magnitude difference, but practically it doesn't matter and really shouldn't even be considered.
An irreversible process is one, where entropy is produced and high energy (concentrated) states are lost due to dispersion.
So metathesis reactions, where atoms (for the most part) just switch places are usually reversible, but might be driven by an irreversible process,
because you cannot conserve all high energy states in the end while you shift some equilibrium to the point you want.
So the process that drives this reaction is the irreversible part, while the thermodynamic equilibrium between the reagents and products is the reversible part.
@@realedna great answere, thanks!
Buy the sections of stainless that you need, have them shipped to my house and I'll weld it together for you sir.
Very cool love the ingenuity as always.
Seeing Cody cheerful in the introduction made my day. And great content as always.
Me before watching: “Converting one element into another? What alchemy is this? Wait... don’t tell me it’s a nuclear reactor or a particle accelerator.”
Nah he's just doing straight up alchemy.
I say that sarcastically but this IS cody we're talking about
He might have a nuclear reactor or a particle accelerator, but fat chance he'll put it on video after the gummint took a bunch of his glow-in-the-dark toys.
Nah, the Department of Homeland Security shut down that project like a bunch of giant A holes.
7:53 - Actually 3.5g of lithium metal weighs closer to 3.5g, not almost nothing =)
@Jon G .. I'm going out on a limb here and saying It doesn't way closer to 3.5g but it ways EXACTLY 3.5g (+- measuring errors)
Best Cody video in many months. So glad to see your interest rekindled in pursuing dangerous yet fascinating endeavors. Cs recovered looked clean and beautifully golden.
I'm in awe of how well this actually works! Really impressive work, Cody
I didn’t see any ads I hope it’s not TH-cam doing TH-cam things again
I don't either, but I never see them anywhere.
Gotta love ad blockers.
@@Skorpychan surely consider turning off ad blocker for cody!
@@bigdogsonly1577 What's the point of having it if I turn it off?
Anyway. The youtube algorithm and ad nazis are bad, bad, BAD for content.
Silly me. Based on his introduction, I was expecting this apparatus to be less janky than previous ones.
This channel shows me so many things I wouldn't have thought possible otherwise, thanks for stretching my mind!
Glad to see the good ol chemistry vids hope youre doing well keep up the amazing work youre such a huge inspiration