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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ม.ค. 2018
- In this video, I'll be recreating an old demonstration called the Tree of Saturn. To do this, I'll be using a zinc block and lead acetate, both of which I made in previous videos.
I was inspired by a video made by TheBackyardScientist, but I used a slightly different method and procedure.
References:
• TheBackYardScientist video: • How to Grow A Lead Cry...
• Making lead acetate: • Making lead crystals t...
• Making the zinc block: • Melting Zinc Battery C...
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Nilered must not be a great gardener. he managed to kill a metal tree
I guess he doesn't have a silver thumb ;)
A metaljack huh
Y’all who are thinking of making a metal joke shush
oof
@@razorwolf2758 why
I see this video daily in my recommendations, and i still read “Meth crystals” every time
its been a year, lets see how its held up
2 now
Indeed
Show us your tree
Commun it's ironic that your picture is Saturn
It's been two years let's see how it's held up
You should do something along the lines of an "Early Chemistry" type thing, I personally really enjoy the alchemical names of compounds, and think that a series about the more chemistry portions of alchemy would be amazing.
Awesome, I knew you were working on this video for awhile it turned out great and thanks for the shoutout! Shame about not being able to save the crystals. My idea was mix up some polyester resin and inject in into the bottom of the beaker. I bet the lead would still oxidize though.
I was thinking the same thing with the resin, not sure if the thickness/weight of the resin would end up damaging the crystals during the pouring process. It would certainly look pretty cool if it worked though.
why not try to submerge it quickly in silicone-oil ... or try to put it under nitrogen / vacuum with some Iron-powder to get rid of remaining oxygen?
I remember in highschool chemistry my teacher showed us the process of lead cyanide (I'm not 100% sure thats what it was) crystalizing after she took the breaker off of the burner. I remember beautiful yellow/gold crystals seeming to form as specks and they grew and grew into an amazing Crystal structure that would all fade away back to a clear liquid as soon as it was put on the burner again. Is there any way you could re create that experiment?
Do you think that this could be a way of cleaning up battery acid do you think anyone ?!?!?!?!?!?!? 🤔
300thliker
You can try to displace out the water with a dense, clear resin. (with no dissolved CO2 of course) Then, once the resin hardens you can take it out and display it
That's exactly what i was going to suggest. Some prior experimentation to ensure no reaction would make sense.
^My thoughts
My thought exactly. You can get resins that have a low initial viscosity that may work well
A good UV resin like NOA68T and 365nm UV bulb from underneath for a few minutes should bake it well.
That's a very good idea, however the resin couldn't be much more viscous than the water or it might disrupt the crystals; they looked very delicate to me.
I was sure the title said "Growing Meth crystals" until I read it properly..
O chemisTree,
O ChemisTree,
How steadfast are
Your branches!
So underrated.
Ok, Mr White.
You can try to seal individual dentrites between glass slides with CA glue. With that technique I was able to preserve a snowflake.
It didn't melt?
The CA glue was below 0 °C and cyanoacrylate needs water to polymerize. I left it in the freezer for a day and by that time the ice crystals were replaced by a white CA structure which looks exactly like the snowflake.
Shit dude that's dope
photo please!
I don't have photos but there are plenty instructions and photos online. Just one edit: one day in the freezer might not be enough.
“it became a miserable white crusty mess” me during my 3rd week of school
Bruh U stole my joke 4 months before I even got to say it 😭
@@mambafoo4083 Don't worry bro, you at least got it 3months before I did. 😁
ummm why white...?
@@jbk0 probably because im white. i wrote this super long ago tho i cant even remember watching the video lol
@@kt8ozoh, I thought it was because of cum lmao
Your love & interest of chemistry and science are inspiring. Keep up the good work!
I was hoping for an continuous time lapse and the last one awesome! Also, the pearly white background is really nice for these videos.
You should grow it in a separation funnel, when it has fully grown, you can replace the lead solution with some other liquid by slowly emptying the funnel while you're adding the liquid.
The other solution could be either an inert liquid or a clear casting plastic.
great idea
most casting resins aren't water-soluble, so it'd need to go via a thorough wash with acetone or something.
Great videos, thanks for the consistent format!
"I knocked it over..."
Thats like, a must for chemists, at least trice...
How’s the tree of Saturn doing?
My man NileRed for the new year. Yisss. Love your content dude.
Growing metal crystals are always beautiful! Nice video!
love your channel, and the quality of your videos is just amazing
keep it up
I love this beautiful fractal structure
Beauty cannot always be captured, but maybe revisited occasionally.
Try coating it in "CrystalGel by Rosco" - It sets to a transparent plastic-like coating, and can be thinned with water, so should be fine if you go straight from the water bath to the gel.
happy new year +nilered
Cool stuff as always!
You read "Crystal Meth" and so did I.
...yeah
Me to man
Guilty as charged officer
Another incredible video. You’ve got my 7 year old son interested in chemistry. Couldn’t thank you enough for that!!!!
Big fan of your videos!! My interest in organic chemistry has grown because of you. Love from India!
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Love your videos, you're a champion. Thank you! :D
That looks super cool!
I was watching your new videos from my tent at the Falls Music Festival, whilst I was stuck there during the torrential rain etc. I felt right at home...
Maaaan look at that beautiful dendritic crystal structure
That was really neat. A good example of inorganic chem at work.
The first one look the best.nice large protruding crystals
I know it’s old but I love to rewatch it!
your videos are so freaking cool
This was really cool! Thank you. I just subscribed to your channel.
The crystal growth is like watching paint dry. Fine lead based paint that is
I have seen almost all your videos and I think it would really cool if you made a series on different elements as you did with Mercury
Boil the water prior to rid any disolved gasses. If possible see if you can run the reaction in a container where you can drain the bottom. Displace the water with a light solvent like hexane or ethylacetate. Preserve it in the solvent.
In very surprised with how affordable your glassware is on your site! I expected it to be much more expensive, due to it being lab-grade and branded with your name. I will definitely be buying some
oh wow just checked it out. its a better deal than stuff from ebay thanks Nile!
that was cool man !
Man, this was freakin' AWESOME. Just subbed. Hope there's an update! ^_^
I have no idea what's going on in half of your videos guys it's always fanaciting
I love those crystalisation vieos, for me it is much more than nice looking, it is chemical self organisation at work and I can't wrap my head around it.
I love to see those timelapdses, could keeping the vase in ice during the reaction slow the process and form bigger cristals? Thanks!
Peter Brown might be able to dip some crystals in resin...
Aaron Higgins Pretty sure that they are too fragile, but it would be cool if it worked
I don't know how he'd get the resin in without taking the crystals out of the water, but I would love to see it
I was thinking tbe same thing
This comment is waaay too much underated 😂
Duuuuuude. Yes.
I don't know why but I just love listening to his voice
Resin dip would probably be your best bet, would also add som buoyancy to make the tree spead out a bit again.
Love your video thanks.
Happy new year
Stumbled on this one by accident, wonder if you would be interested in designing an experiment to determine how much if any lead is actually dissolved out of glass crystal decanters into liquors? My first thought is that over time, any lead on the surface of the crystal will be dissolved out and they will be safe. If so, how long would that take? etc. Thanks for all the cool videos!
Nice video and fantastic
You could make the lead trees then dilute/displace any ions in the solution before electroplating it with a more durable metal, and also a nice shine. Gold would look really interesting.
That explains the white crust on the lead pipes I had removed in my flip houses.
it's so beautiful
woooowww i watch your vedios and get very much inspired you are a genius
lol thanks!
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Thank you YT for sending me a notification for this video that just got released... wait a second...
I think that's how the energy shape itself through this element and the solution do something like dismantling and slowing that energy and that's how you can see its shape like this REALLY COOL STUFF I like that
my class used your video during quarentine because we didn't have lab access (online). so thank you
It would be super awesome if the reaction could be done in some sort of concoction that could be polymerized into a plastic / acrylic matrix, without removing or disturbing the crystals!
Tin crystals are very fine as well but I leanred that using corningware to melt it and then cooling it gets crystals to grow because the corningware is a ceramicglass that allows the cooling to take long enough for crystals to grow. Would likely work for lead too. Probably any metal that doesn't exceed melting point of the corningware.
Hi Can you please do a q and a type video? that'd be awesome! I love your videos keep up the good work!
I will eventually
Awesome, thank you!
I like to see from you some basic lessons of chemistry.it will be amazing !Thank you anyway!!
Yum! Lead crystals!
The colour of Galena (PbS) is pretty close to these lead crystals with slightly more blueish purple tint to it. neat.
Let's see the progress
When do you buy or build a fume hood?
If you keep the solution cool while the crystals are forming, would that result in bigger crystals?
Nice crystals
2:26 and 7:38 are my favorite parts of this video, but the whole video is great
Why do the crystals preferentally form at the top of the zinc block?
The lead crystals form at the surface of the zinc because that's where it gains the electrons needed to reduce into elemental lead. Water has high resistivity so the closer the lead is to where the electrical current is strongest it will form.
@@sonicthehedshot9789 That doesn't explain why the growth was fastest at the top. My guess is that the feathery crystals were growing from the wire, and were different from the ones that grew directly from the lead. The obvious test would be to repeat the experiment in such a way that the wire wasn't in contact with the solution.
I thought it said "Meth Crystals" and I got extremely worried
This would make a nice Christmas decoration. Who needs snoflakes when we have lead crystals!
7:50 who knew that Lead crystals could be soo relaxing 😌😌
I don't know a lot about chemistry but I think you should do the tree of Saturn and ( fast enough to avoid the lead carbonate but still slow enough to give the lead tim) evaporate the water to see if the lead builds structure slowly
Amazing!
Go straight from the water into a solution that won’t react with resin, then right into the resin. Cast it in a clear block essentially
To get bigger crystals: What about adding gelatine or some other nonreactive water soluble thickener? That way the density of the water will be enough the lead will be more apt to try spread horizontally. When u took it out it it collapse cause buoyancy in air
It's so pretty
Nice video of the crystal growth. I wonder if zinc in a pure form would be useable to clean-up non-acidic lead waste solutions?
I was really looking forward to this video, and was not disappointed. I was thinking the lead crystals would be a lot stronger though, and I planned to do this and seal it in acrylic as a keychain or something but I doubt the would survive the heavy arcylic goop. Also, doing this in a large ampule could be cool. happy new years!
Also, could this be done with stannous acetate, seeing as they have the same valence electrons?
I think I remember reading somewhere that someone tried it and it didnt work. It still might be worth trying though.
Suggestion... Try infusing the water with some sodium silicate, see if it damages the lead or not, and if not, then slowly use gradual steps to remove the water with measure gradients of acetone. [this is how aerogel is made]
If you are fortunate, you may end up with a fine coating of glass over the lead which would [hopefully] shield it from oxidation.
No promises though...
Also dilute clear resin might make a good coating.
I have done something similar before: dip a tiny drop of mercury into a little bottle of dilute silver nitrate solution (and then permanently sealed the bottle). this is called diana’s tree.
Maybe try doing a snow globe type thing....use a container with a screw on lid, like a Mason jar & glue the zinc to the underside of the lid. Screw the lid on and let it do its thing, so that once the 'tree' is done growing, you can just gently turn it over, so it looks like it grew upward. Then it can stay in that solution, no worries about oxidation/calcification.
Could you make a snow globe out of it? Do the same thing but use a torch to seal the glass opening. With the right piece of glass, you could do it the same way Cody does. Then mount it in a wooden stand to prevent it being knocked over.
I think the best way to do this would be using a smaller amount of zinc, fully submerge it (fill the container full of lead acetate sol'n), and use a wider container so the crystals have room to grow. Then, maybe, just maybe, if you flip it over it will still retain its shape and actually look somewhat like a tree, though the crystals aren't buoyant and it probably wouldn't go well if you flipped it over.
If you want to get super crazy and reinvent the wheel a bit, maybe you could concoct some sort of sol'n that might be viscous enough to hold up the crystals but still able to dissolve lead acetate. Though, I don't know of many polar substances that are viscous at room temp (soap?), nor am I sure that the sol'n needs just to be polar to dissolve lead acetate.
Would be nice to see a video about and with chlorine trifluoride.
That would be highly interesting.
I wonder if it is still around today? Maybe you could bring it on the next episode of Safety Third??
Interesting video! Those trees are really pretty. ^^
What would happen if you started with a more filigrane zink "seed" like just the tip of a zink needle dipping into the water or a small crumb fixed to the wire?
And would there be a way to slowly replace the water with some other liquid that can go into all the small gaps and then turn solid after a semi-long while?
your demo was far better than the backyard scientist
Would be quite interesting to see if a controlled amount of lead acetate could create a tree of a certain size.
I also wonder what would happen if you froze the water with the tree inside. Would it destroy it, or preserve it?
Can you do the gold rain experiment
he already did
Godspeed7955 He has not?
Is that you, mr Trump?
It may be a Trump video
I will!
I’m ready for an update
Every time this comes up in my feed I think it says Meth Crystals for a second. I've seen it before but YT really wants me to watch it so I did.
This should go on your Xmas video list.
What if you dipped it in resin after?
Nile:Why I did this you ask?
Because SCIENCE!
Now it is a little over two years since you made your "tree of saturn".
Do you still have it, and what does it look like now?
Love your channel and you. Thought I'd ask you. what happens with/to the burning lead roof on Notre Dam?
this will go viral on facebook for sure.
Wonder if you could gently replace the water with resin gently somehow.