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Happy New Years Eve everyone!
In this video, we will be making some ammonia gas and condensing it to liquid ammonia. Then we'll be using the liquid ammonia to dissolve some sodium and lithium metal! I hope you guys enjoy!
In a future video, this liquid ammonia is then used for a quick birch reduction of benzene.
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So Nile, all this talk of lithium got me thinking about lithium nitride. I'm sure you are aware that lithium is the only element that will happily burn in an atmosphere of pure nitrogen, so I wonder if you have considered doing a video on that. If you have the capacity of performing the reaction and can manage to fit it into your schedule somehow, I'd certainly love to see it actually done, but seeing your current plans I can't complain anyhow.
+Quintinohthree that's actually pretty cool. Ill look into it.
+Nile Red Feliz año nuevo, as esferas navideñas para el siguiente capitulo jajajajaja.
+Quintinohthree What about Magnesium?
Ene Silvian only in the way that any chemical reaction is a way to make meth. Lithium nitride is quite a couple steps from methylamine and there are far easier ways of making that if you really want to. Anhydrous ammonia is one precursor that's far closer and still entirely legal, and we've already seen Nile make that.
Random Experiments International yeah, I've read it does react with nitrogen, but I don't know what the reaction is like. I might turn out to be wrong after all.
I just realized I'm eating ammonium chloride ("salty" black licorice) while watching him using ammonium chloride in a reaction.
when my Father was young he used to add Iodine crystals to Anhydrous Ammonia. Stay clear as the remaining Ammonia evaporates and the result blows up.
+Peter Hall You can actually do that with regular aqueous ammonia. Filter off the precipitate and let it dry on a filter paper and it is super shock sensitive.
Thanks Nile, how strong does the Ammonia have to be? My Father used to sprinkle it on Rollerscating rinks, Snap, Crackle, Pop!
Happy new year
Do nitrous oxide next, should be fun!
+Xfactor Chem that ones peretty easy - heat ammonium nitrate to decomposition point and capture the gas produced which is an azeotrope of nitrous oxide and water vapor, and you can condense the water and end up with nitrous oxide (bubble it through hot water, the water vapor will dissolve into the hot water but the nitrous oxide wont) also keep the ammonium nitrate below 240º C, as that can become dangerous
+Ben Sullivan I'm familiar with the procedure but I still want to see a video of it since he is taking suggestions at the end of the video and this is the one I'm interested in the most. Mainly how sensitive can ammonium nitrate get when heated, for example a high temperature hammer test and comparing it to the stable form when at room temperature.
Ah yes that'd be cool to see on here
This week on Breaking Red...
Lol
@Psalms 118:8 ok?
@Psalms 118:8 says the person with some biblical shit as their username
@Psalms 118:8 this man really really doesnt like breaking bad he goes to multiple NileRed videos shitting on it for some reason
@@BallsBob lolol
I thought the thumbnail said “insomnia generator” and I was like “hehe that me”
Lol
High tech piece of paper
6:25
Damn tube won't stay put!
rofl I noticed this also
yea Nile Methylamine is finally in your list of planned videos :D I am looking forward for that one
Yeahh
Hey this is James from Master Organic Chemistry (MOC). This is a really nice demonstration of the blue color one gets from solvated electrons in ammonia. I posted a short clip of this video on a recent article I wrote on the reduction of alkynes with Na/NH3. I linked back to your channel and to the specific video. If this isn't OK, please reach out. Thanks for everything you do. James
also, you can not use CaCl2 to dry NH3, as it will form an adduct (CaCl2 x 8NH3)
and MgSO4?
@@giansieger8687 shouldn't be a problem
I mean, it still doesn’t have water, so halfway? :}
Kind of surprised he didn't bring up a fairly common use of anhydrous ammonia which is as a refrigerant in industrial sized systems.
0:40 wow, anhydrous AND water-free! :D
Isn't it just beautiful to watch the alkali metals dissolve in the ammonia in real life? It really facinated me when I did this and I was a bit scared, when adding the metal. Nice video!
nile is there a chemical or reaction that you wont do? like something out of your confort zone (toxic or safe wise)
+gogear131 judging from his equipments, Me2Hg is likely one of the chemicals.
hes not a fan of explosives
Flouroantimonic acid.
I think the mercury distillation video was seriously pushing his limits.
Just to correct you slightly here, the blue color does not come from the free electrons, but from the ammonia radicals. Free electrons have absorbance in the infrared spectrum. Many people mistaken this.
+Siu Juno Cool i had no idea
wow thanks you´re literally taught that at university! i heard that the blue is free electrons in literally every course we talked about that reaction, like talking about birch reduction in Organic chemistry
Absorb IR can mean you see blue
I love this series so much hey NileRed have you ever thought of doing like a chemistry tips and trick to help students learning chemistry to better understand the basics? I really want to do a huge research project for Ap biology using my chemistry knowledge and write a paper on the possibilities of life using ammonia instead of water due to it being a very good solvent #NileRed
2:49 " i use a very sophisticate technique to block IT" i was like oohhhhh , him - "using tape"..... me - "WAIT A MINUTE!!!" and the way he said it seriously made me confuse xD
Such is the genius of NileRed 😏
i had a whole earthquake in my brain trying to read this comment
for some reason I thought this video was way more recent, only to see it was uploaded exactly 4 years ago
And this comment was made 4 years ago for me! I expect the next comment to be made another 4 years from now.
I really like your really sophisticated technique you used using tape to seal the setup.
This video makes me want to study ammonia a little closer. I had no idea it did such cool stuff. Yet another thing to add to my shopping list.
Awesome video as always pal
editing, content, quality, info everything 10/10
11:55 re-do this with your new 4k camera please :D :D
Nitrous oxide will be helpful because I'm mechanical engineer and my master thesis was rocket engines. Especially N2O4 (nitrous tetra oxide) is very important for rocket engineering. N2O4 spontaneously ignites fuel because of its hypergolic property
I vote for the following video. Please use the birch reduction to reduce (pseudo)efedrine and dissolve the base into ether. Then bubble hydrogen gas to form crystals. Dry these crystal and smoke them with a glass pipe.
I love how the liquid ammonia looks almost exactly like water, but colder
Mr. Red, I believe we are both Canadian and I was just wondering where you get dry ice from?
I have found it very difficult to fine. It's honestly easier to make! (but expensive).
Fire extinguishers can work if you get the co2 ones, otherwise I haven’t seen it anywhere.
Nile Please teach us how to make nickel iron battery!
regards
Voted for the Ammonia generator, glad you did it, thanks man! Love your vids :D
So concentrated solvated electrons look metallic! Is it a coincidence? Or is the shiny look of metals (and graphite) due to these materials having lots of electrons free to move?
Anhydrous, liquid, and water free
Anhydrous and water free
Would ammonium nitrate work?
It does produce ammonia, but for whatever reason I can't get the ammonia to be pushed out of the reaction flask.
I'm not using near a sophisticated set up as Nile, though. I just added the ammonia nitrate, sodium hydroxide and water to a round bottom and quickly stoppered the flask with a rubber hose adapter leading a rubber hose to a funnel and beaker trap of distilled water cooled in an ice bath.
About two or three hours later, I found the reaction still taking place with a cloud of ammonia above the liquid, but testing the solution in the beaker came up a neutral PH.
Finally, I decided it was time for the big guns and lead the hose into a test tube cooled with dry ice and acetone. Still no ammonia condensed. No idea why this set up isn't working for me.
Reaction flask is kept roughly between 20-30°C. If anyone has any idea what I'm doing wrong please let me know. I really want to make Schweitzer's reagent.
@@WendigoPsycho anhydrous ammonia's boiling point is -33 degrees Celsius I believe, possibly you've past the boiling point and it's escaped the vessel evaporating into the atmosphere.
@@WendigoPsycho , you must slowly heat your reaction with a reflux condensor until you start refluxing water. But don't go too hot with it or you will push water vapor over with your product, diluting it. That will drive the reaction forward and push your vapors over to your collection vessel.
lol when I saw this on my feed I was like "Yay! Another Nile Red video!!"
Thanks!
Could you run the exhaust of the reaction through a condenser, chilled by cold water? Then a lot of the water could drip back into the reactants rather than needing to be removed by the drying agent.
well this is a blast from the past to show up in my recommendeds, I loved the old vids
hey could int you just mix sodium hydroxide and ammonium nitrate to generate ammonia gas?
Hey Nile, would you ever consider an ammonium sulfide synthesis?
Please redo this one! Focus on color! Maybe use various alloys/amalgams of lithium...
Heyyy there...! First of I really appreciate your videos! And I've been watching them for years! But.. i know it might be tedious... could you try to film ALL the steps on your videos. Not like the chem. reactions but the prep. stuff... not that you're not but do plz go into the pysical processes a bit more :) thanx for all your work! Mucho appreciado 🤗😎
Can you do a Video on how to extract Urea from Urine?
Love watching these experiments! I don't know crap about chemistry
+tanfo8 That is okay! It is all a learning process.
We had learnt about the free electrons produced when ammonia reacts with some alkali metals...as our syllabus doesnt actually show us what's happening and we never saw the reaction I just diregarded it as boring and memorized it. I had no idea it was so neat and cool. Thanks nile for helping us students who struggle with boring old school and memorization and making chemistry fun, understandable and way more tolerable..i am indebted to you for making chem my favourite subject after having hated it for years :D
Such beautiful videos, but I think it's time for nanoparticules videos apart from traditional chemistry 😀
Pet peeve: referring to aqueous ammonia as 'ammonium hydroxide' is very misleading. Imagine a 1M solution of ammonia in water. While it is true the ammonia will react with water in an equilibrium reaction to form ammonium ions and hydroxide ions, this equilibrium is located firmly to the left: less than 0.5% is ionized. Aqueous ammonia is just that: ammonia in water. I blame the Arrhenius theory for the prevalence of 'ammonium hydroxide'; according to arrhenius"every base must contain OH". By the time people reach bronsted-lowry or lewis theory, the term is no longer questioned.
One does not call dilute acetic acid "hydronium acetate", nor does one call dilute hydrochloric acid hydronium chloride. So why call ammonia solutions ammonium hydroxide? It makes no sense.
Otherwise excellent video. Can't wait to see the Birch reduction video.
You call propan-2-ol, isopropyl alcohol... UGHHH
Isopropanol and isopropyl alcohol are equally outdated chemical names.
UUUGGGGHHHHHHH... I hate the smartasses who think that only IUPAC names can be used.
I don't think that at all, for example who in their right mind calls ammonia azane? But when someone criticises a perfectly acceptable name in favour of something as backwards as IPA with the suggestion of superiority, I have the draw the line. That's boarding on calling an alkene an olefin and criticising someone for using the word alkene.
@@sinbindinchin what's wrong with olefin?
@@maggiep9007 nothing, we all know what it means even if I do prefer alkene (I'm trendy like that).The point I was making is the absurdity of people criticising others for using other and I'd say less outdated terminology with the suggestion their preferred terminology makes them superior in some way. Them having this attitude despite the fact it's apparent they know nothing, bothered me.
Yep, Ammonium Nitrate and sodium hydroxide will generate NH3 too.
Just found out about the electron phenomenon a few weeks ago and was stunned! Such an awesome experiment. Sadly didn't know you had a Video about it as well right until now ..
What do you do for a living? Are you a researcher, chemist for a lab, etc... I would really love to know.
he cooks meth
@Shawn Younker
Good job at assuming a shitton of things about me from a comment. What do you do for a living, insult people from your keyboard covered in cheetos dust?
@@pietrotettamanti7239 Everyone makes mistakes.
His mistakes are usually simple ones, and don't ruin the video. They're easy to get over to enjoy the content.
@@maggiep9007 if the guy didn't eliminate his comments you'd find out that I was saying exactly what you just wrote. A reaction performed on amatorial level is going to be far from perfect, and anyways extra technical details are not what people want from this channel. I personally enjoy it the most when nile and nurdrage screw up something and get to explain it, because it's the part where I learn the most.
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I just read an article about blue amonia used for power. Can you elaborate?
Hi Nile! I'm a high school student from Miami very interested in organic chemistry. Are there any extractions that can be done easily that you would recommend?
+Zachary Lederman by easily, what do you mean? A lot of them will still require some sort of organic solvent that is not miscible with water, like DCM, diethyl ether, toluene, etc.. Are you able to get any of these?
+Nile Red I actually have a few of those. I was wondering are there any extractions that aren't as dangerous? (I don't know if I'm saying it right)
Zachary Lederman There are a lot! You can take a look at my channel and see the ones I did. There is the classic one getting caffeine from coffee or caffeine pills. I can't think of others off the top of my head though...I am tired :p
This guy makes me wanna continue studying chemistry
nile is there a chemical or reaction that you wont do? like something out of your confort zone (toxic or safe wise)
+gogear131 since i work at home, i wont do a lot of things. Toxic gases especially. I also dont like working with explosives very much
I only found out about the existence of solvated electrons less that 2 years ago (on Periodic Videos). Well, no matter how many times I watch it, it always blows my mind! Thanks Neil! Happy New Year! Hope you were not too disappointed by the snow storm on last Tuesday! ;)
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Great video. The whole concept of solvated electrons kind of blows my mind. It does make me wonder, though: oughtn't there be a similar-but-opposite reaction that generates solvated protons? If so, could you demonstrate? That would be wicked cool.
+TheBookDoctor Not really. The protons are in the nucleus and they can't really be given up. Electrons are very "fluid" in their ability to move around and be exchanged.
+TheBookDoctor I'm no chemist but I think a dissolved proton would just immediately protonate the solvent. e.g. in this situation form ammonium ions.
+TheBookDoctor Well, strongly acidic solutions could be seen as solvated protons solutions. As stated by +YouCanHasAccount "free protons" get solvated by protonating the solvent.
The most common example being the hydronium ion or, in the most extreme case, magic acid (FSO3H-SbF5), where protons are so badly solvated that they will even protonate methane. Basically, protons are so electron deficient that they will stick to anything that has electrons.
+supersmashsam Thanks. Great explanation. That and some poking around on Wikipedia has got it sorted out for me.
Hi NileRed use the natrium amide to make the chichibabin reaction please
could you crystalise lithium in ammonia?
Fun fact:
Ammonia actually *liquifies* when its dissolved in the water. Its unstable hence its volatility but is meta stable due to strong hydrogen bond formarion. It's super easy to prove; the math is super easy to do. Find the density of anhydrous liquid ammonia at room temp, then add it in parts, for instance 25% ammonia solution would be (ammonia density) + 1g/mL (water) + 1 + 1 and then you will get the density of your liquid. GUESS WHAT it's the exact same density as you'll find for ammonia solution densities.
Math:
Anyhydrous Ammonia(liquid) density at 60°F (aprox.)
.608g/mL
Water density at 60°F(aprox.)
1g/mL
25% Ammonia-Water solution
((.608g/mL + 1g/mL + 1g/mL + 1g/mL)/(4))
This equals a density of .902g/mL which is the density of ammonia solution at 60°F
You just helped 1000 tweekers make the hardest chemical for them to get their hands on 😂 still love your channel tho
how do you not get blasted by the ammonia..i am a power engineer and rebuild ammonia compressors and, run refridgeration, the shit is fukin deadly, yet you handle it so nonchalantly and just dump it into a test tube, one drop can put you on your ass ...feels like the air is ripped from your lungs...so whats up?
Ammonia is also used as a refrigerant. We used it in the making of margarine. We were taught to run from the smell of it.
Just a little tidbit I thought I would add.😉
What company do you use as a source for this anhydrous ammonia? Do purchases require LLC or business proof?
11:46 We created Venom
Why are the electrons blue?? That’s kind of blowing my mind
thats pretty. could you make xmas tree boubles
how about the decomposition of oven dried urea? there's less messing around and the ammonia is fairly dry already. just heat the urea to decompose it and entrain the resulting gas through the drying agent and collect.
"OVEN FOR SALE. GENTLY USED."
Try direct ammination, or nitro reduction with human hair instead of Fe, Sn, Zn or other metals.
Why are you using gloves for handling acetone?
so he doesnt get acetone on his hands.
NH4Cl is tasty. Mmmmmm... :D
Aluminum can be electroplated out of liquid ammonia.
That lye bottle is home™ brand. Are we doing this in Canada??
Trump 2020
Great video as always, but im wondering What type of grease do you use to seal the joints?
I know this comment is old, but it’s literally just called joint grease. It has the consistency of Vaseline or chapstick.
Na(s)+NH4(l) -> CThU(l) HU(💀🐙)
I'm producing ammonia, but for whatever reason no matter what I do, even if the reaction flask is filled nearly to the top with water, I can't get the ammonia to be pushed out of the reaction flask.
I'm not using near a sophisticated set up as Nile, though. I just added the ammonia nitrate, sodium hydroxide and water to a round bottom and quickly stoppered the flask with a rubber hose adapter leading a rubber hose to a funnel and beaker trap of distilled water cooled in an ice bath.
About two or three hours later, I found the reaction still taking place with a cloud of ammonia above the liquid, but testing the solution in the beaker came up a neutral PH.
Finally, I decided it was time for the big guns and lead the hose into a test tube cooled with dry ice and acetone. Still no ammonia condensed. No idea why this set up isn't working for me.
Reaction flask is kept roughly between 20-30°C. If anyone has any idea what I'm doing wrong please let me know. I really want to make Schweitzer's reagent.
Hi Mr. NileRed. I know this video is old as hell, but I was curious. How does the Lithium/Ammonia blue colored substance behave in the presence of a magnet? Please and thanks, love Grandma.
Nile, can you make the audio louder in your videos?
Thanks, and good work as always.
+Jeffrey Wong I can try, but it actually gets a little close to clipping in some videos.
so below i read you can not use CaCl2 to dry NH3. Can i just grind sodium hydroxide in a my coffee grinder to make it a powder? Also its cheaper for me
All this talk about "dryness", and then you have a test tube, cooled to -78 °C, which is open to air...
I saw a trail at 11:55 to the left of the "blue tower". It looked very similar to a trail caused by ionizing radiation in a wilson chamber. Same phenomenon? Or just a bubble caused by the dissolving sodium metal? (I wouldnt expect bubbles to follow a path curved horizontally. And although the path looks curved, this could be caused by the curvature of the tube.)
Vedio sudgestion make anyhydros water
question on drying agents - I was told that drying agents should not be fine or they absorb product. Where is the truth?
when the ammonia evaporates, and those free electrons aren't dissolved any more, wouldn't that make beta radiation?
You are smart sir. Like the explanations of the actual chemical processes. I had figured the boiling point to be that similar to propane (-21F) Interesting how there was no boiling going on.. Did see quite a bit of frost though and maybe it insulated the test tube... Birch reductions are cool. You had better be getting a PhD in organic chemistry and go off and solve the coming energy, climate and cancer problems.. I Messed up and only hope to direct younger brilliant people on a correct path. Thanks
It's never too late. Long as you're somehow breathing.
just add ephedrine ......
I was wondering if anyone else noticed, he's right there. Scary how close. Witch brew anyways. Don't do it kids!
You could've added something about the Birch Reduction that you did but otherwise well done :)
Can someone help me? What´s the name of these glasswere that connect the bottomed flask and the test tube? Thanks in advance.
You won't see this probably though can you try extracting the components of steel?
Sense of déjà vu, but it's for a good reason. ^^
For a Facebook fan page, why not create a Twitter account ? :)
More so could high purity liquid ammonia be dried another besides this way useing the condenser?
whoaaa dude the sodium in the ammonia looked like a blue jellyfish upside down, regenerating new tentacles
If Will water vapor dissolve in liquid ammonia or can it be made to freeze and the remove ice crystals ?
My vote is for benzaldehyde and methyl iodide! Happy New Year!!
Classic Birch, the granddaddy of Australian chemists.
Couldn't you just heat urea until it breaks down into CO2 and ammonia?
I think I'm a little late, its just 5 years
Too much science, not enough cool stuff.
14:12 aagh reaction in closed system!
hey dude can u contact me somehow?? a few questions if u dont mind my brother
It’s like venoms black goo…
@nilered. can I do.this with ammonium carbonate. can't find any lit
can you extract the bronze ? they are electrons ryt ?