Sorry for lowbrow comment, but your pronunciation of the sentence "The ignition of white phosphorus, unlike that of red phosphorus is really dangerous" is spectacular and has entered my internal dictionary. Thank you and keep up the great work, Sir!
There’s a Finnish TH-camr who goes by the name of Bisqwit who also has very clever and unique ways of saying things. Both of these gentlemen are very enjoyable to listen to.
@@ChemicalForce Thought as much… all that evil white phosphorus flying around, with evil bromine and liquid chlorine. Quite a thorough disinfection too
@@ChemicalForce exactly what i would do. Real chemists dont bother with waste. We have the environmental chemists to think about such boring at trivial things.
Id love to see a video just on the safety precautions you must take... Absolutely spectacular content. Honestly the best chemistry content I have ever seen
@@ShaLun42 no, the second thing he showed was a spoonful of red hot magnesium in water (not sure how is relevant to anything but it was a welcome addition)
@@ShaLun42 also personally The manganese heptoxide isn't too my liking, it's just a mess But the fact that that much solid manganese heptoxide is in one place is a surprise, to me at least
Once again, thank you for making these videos. I've seen and performed most of these reactions but never had the decent equipment to record them. Some of these reactions never existed online before you uploaded them. Having a high speed camera to record it in slow motion is just cherry on top.
I like the addition of the FPS text overlays so we can gauge the relative speed of the reactions. Channel keeps getting better and better. Thank you for your hard work Feliks. Love the "sponsor shoutout" to your Patrons too. :)
This guy truly likes to live dangerously. Seriously, these are the most dangerous experiments I've ever seen, especially the liquid chlorine on white phosphorus one.
Absolutely amazing and beautiful chemistry! As an energetic materials engineer, I get to see a lot of energetic reactions on a daily basis, but I still love watching the more exotic reactions that you do. Keep up the great videos, I look forward to them!
Why play with white phosphorus by itself when you can introduce liquid chlorine to the mix! Clean ups must be fun! Any major surprises during previous cleanups?
That was awesome, it feels like each reaction could have had its own video. I thought the first underwater shots were great, but then it kept getting better and better. Amazing work, thank you for sharing it.
It is all to do with the atomic arrangement of the allotropic form. While the W allotrope of P is very reactive (e.g. it is pyrophoric in an oxidising atmosphere, such as common air, which obviously contains the oxidising agent, oxygen gas) and poisonous, the other P allotropes, like the Red form of P, are less chemically reactive at room temperature and far less hazardous to handle.
@@costi8558 Lively to say the least, in the case of Na, K and the NaK alloy. Reaction with Rb and Cs would be even more dramatic. I suspect that Red P, which is far less reactive compared to the W allotrope, would still react in a lively manner with the alkali metals and their alloys, with hardly any 'encouragement' required to 'get the party going' (no external heating required to provide the Activation Energy, Ea).
It is a pnictogen, along with nitrogen, arsenic, antimony, and bismuth. They are highly reactive but less so once bonded into a molecule. The name, from ancient greek “to choke; though, comes from nitrogen’s odorless colorless nature and it’s asphyxiation ability when in a large enough volume as well as fuming nitric acid.
Thank you for the amazing video! Could you do a quick video in the future on how you handle and dispose of the chemicals used in your demonstrations? Very interested!
I started watching your videos just 2 months ago and I find them pretty cool and amazing. I love chemistry too and I wonder if you could show some experiments with XeF2.That would be great!
A first on TH-cam as usual great video with full out quality however the reactions of Nitrogen Trichloride with the above reagents are even more spectacular especially it's inception eclipsed only by the granddaddy of chemical reactions the manufacture AND reaction of anhydrous Perchloric acid wish they'd see the light of day soon
The flame that white Phosphorus makes while reacting with O2 is just absolutely beautiful 😍. It looks so elegant, yet its extremely volatile and dangerous! The reaction fire even looks mute, soft and fuzzy around the edges like its a gentle lazy flame. Except its anything but! I love the smell post reaction too(don't try at home!)and the energy per volume of element that it gives off is absolutely unmatched! just the smallest amount seems to endlessly react to form more and more oxide. Hands down one of my favorite elements, in all of its allotropes!
I think the most beautiful footage in this video is the cavitation of those oxygen bubbles when igniting the phosphorus, but it's a tough choice between a whole lot of great shots.
There was an episode of the US TV programme Mash, where copper sulphate solution was shown being used to treat a soldier burned by white phosphorus during the Korean War. Apparently copper sulphate solution really was once used to neutralise the phosphorus embedded in the skin, turning it black, with the formation of cupric phosphate, to stop the burning and make it easier to locate and remove the fragments. This treatment has now been replaced with locating the fragments with UV light, as the copper salts produced were so toxic to the casualty.
The different combustion kinetics are fascinating. The liquids involved being mostly lipophilic / low energy, they would seem to want to dissolve together; I suspect the sheer heat from reaction at the interface prevents them from dissolving further. With such violent reactants you might expect something to go off like NaK + H2O, but there's no hedgehog in sight, only the purest distillation of hate, er... heat!
It's really interesting in the slomo of the burning white phosphorous. Watching the flaming globs flying off of it leaving a smoke trail through the air. I've always loved this effect in all sorts of reactions that burn and sputter. But I always thought the smoke would be produced immediately. You can see in the slomo though that it actually takes a short time for the smoke to form behind the burning glob of phosphorous. I think this is because the smoke products are still really hot when they first come off of the glob, but once they've been in the air and cooled for a moment, they condense into the visible smoke that can be seen trailing the globs through the air. At least that's my take on it.
100k subs soon, you need to do a collab with nile red and nurdrage, because a large chunk of their audiences are looking just for this content start with acid videos* You will get to 500k over night . I only found because you were using a specific chemical I was researching. So by random chance.
Dude you have awesome camera/videographie settings. Can you seel 6:23 as picture/poster. Or give a high resolution picture of the moment, thanks alot mate :)
Hİ,In order to make high quality activated carbon, I first soak the shells in zinc chloride and then heat them to high temperature in the reactor. I got successful results for gas, that is, I made small porous activated carbon, but I could not make large porous activated carbon for water treatment. I am waiting for your advice.
Hello, can you put white phosphorus in cold water and additionne progressively H2O2 60% to show under ware phophorescence ? Very nice video ! Thank you !
Surprised that the Cl2 + P4 reaction in carbon disulfide doesn't ignite due to the low auto-ignition temp of the solvent. I'm guessing the cryogenic temp of the liquid chlorine prevented ignition. Great footage as always!
Carbon disulfide is flammable enou gh by itself - a CS2 solution of P4 compared in pyrophoric nature to alkyl aluminum or alkyllithium solutions, sheesh! I was photographing white phosphorous chemiluminescence (or oxyluminesence if you will), and actually got a great picture before it ignited. Fortunately I was prepared with dry sand, etc. Very fortunately, since I did it in my kitchen! The fumes from burning WP glow faintly as well, since some of the material vaporises. (And THAT experiment was performed far from human habitation!) Finally, it's hard to believe that stuff is still used in warfare.....
*To make long term storage of whiteP could you coat it in silver then just keep it under water or oil then when you use it strip off all the silver leaving pure whiteP years later* ?
An old textbook I have claims that if air is blown through molten P4 underwater, it will come out ozonated (also claims that the reaction does not occur with pure oxygen, as it happens only if the partial pressure of O2 is under 600 mmHg). Any idea if this is true? The textbook is quitte old (1960s), so I am not sure how reliable it is. (I do not have acces to P4 to check for myself).
I have no idea, but it's true. The oxidation of white phosphorous with oxygen occurs within a specific interval of oxygen concentration. I tested it with pure oxygen.
I suggest ( and i know this is dangerous, but maybe in a controlled environment ) , when at 18:40 to just make a sort of an apparatus that drops, instead of one, i don't know, what's a reasonable number, 10 drops at the same time, maybe triggered remotely :D...for science of course! You know, it's a waste seeing all that product not reacting. It was only a small part pushing away the rest! What I'm saying is basically you need to become the new Mythbusters; explosions wise!
While I understand how dangerous the sputtering can be, I was under the impression that white phosphorus is especially considered dangerous because it self-ignites in the presence of oxygen, and that attempting to put it out is futile, as it will keep reigniting itself until the phosphorus is completely consumed. Is this true, or have I allowed myself to be misled or misinformed?
Impressive labwork! I've worked with both gaseous chlorine and bottled liquid chlorine but I've never actually seen the liquid. Not sure I'd want to in reality. Best not to screw with the Green Dragon!
The working name is "Willy Peat" and was spectacularly depicted in the movie Fury and in the ending scene of Apocalypse Now. Can't think of a better anti personnel incendiary weapon than WP, maybe only Napalm.
after world war 2 the army disposed of phosphor bombs in the north sea... the white phosphor from this bombs looks like alluvial amber between the stones at the beach. people collect the phosphor thinking it is amber and put it in thier pockets.. the phosphor melts and ignites itself right in the pockets which results in terrible wounds...(clothing and skin melted together etc)
Hello sir sir I request please sir please help me sir I need some information which chemical to apply the copper to avoid the iron material for example needle blade etc
A guy spoke at our high school who got burned by white phosphorous. In Vietnam he went to throw a white phosphorous grenade and it was shot or malfunctioned while it was in his hand setting it off next to his head. Let’s just say it was bad.
The shockwaves on the oxygen bubble surface are tremendously beautiful. Thanks for what you do!
Amazing footage!
Its so stunning it almost looks like magic
Sorry for lowbrow comment, but your pronunciation of the sentence "The ignition of white phosphorus, unlike that of red phosphorus is really dangerous" is spectacular and has entered my internal dictionary. Thank you and keep up the great work, Sir!
there will be a explosion so wiolent
This comment is fabulous.
There’s a Finnish TH-camr who goes by the name of Bisqwit who also has very clever and unique ways of saying things. Both of these gentlemen are very enjoyable to listen to.
I hear he's got an upcoming video on asbestos.
How did you hear? Lol
this channel is so under rated, i watch you with same enthusiasm as i watch nilered. mad props
Do you lead a nomadic lifestyle in other peoples fume hoods or do you really do all the cleanup after all of this crazy stuff? 🙈
After I make a video🎥, I just leave everything as it is and get a new lab everytime 😂
@@ChemicalForce Thought as much… all that evil white phosphorus flying around, with evil bromine and liquid chlorine. Quite a thorough disinfection too
@@ChemicalForce I thought you burned the lab everytime lol.
@@ChemicalForce exactly what i would do. Real chemists dont bother with waste. We have the environmental chemists to think about such boring at trivial things.
Headcanon, you are the new chemistry Erdos
Id love to see a video just on the safety precautions you must take...
Absolutely spectacular content. Honestly the best chemistry content I have ever seen
That magnesium eruption was the stuff of beauty and magic
you mean manganese heptoxide?
@@ShaLun42 no, the second thing he showed was a spoonful of red hot magnesium in water (not sure how is relevant to anything but it was a welcome addition)
@@ShaLun42 also personally
The manganese heptoxide isn't too my liking, it's just a mess
But the fact that that much solid manganese heptoxide is in one place is a surprise, to me at least
@@guythat779 Thank you, I found it
@@ShaLun42 hope you enjoyed
Once again, thank you for making these videos. I've seen and performed most of these reactions but never had the decent equipment to record them. Some of these reactions never existed online before you uploaded them. Having a high speed camera to record it in slow motion is just cherry on top.
I like the addition of the FPS text overlays so we can gauge the relative speed of the reactions.
Channel keeps getting better and better. Thank you for your hard work Feliks.
Love the "sponsor shoutout" to your Patrons too. :)
This guy truly likes to live dangerously. Seriously, these are the most dangerous experiments I've ever seen, especially the liquid chlorine on white phosphorus one.
I think the amateur distillation of azomethane I watched once tops it but yeah pretty butthole clenching stuff regardless lol
meh you should have seen what we got up to as kids in the countryside
@@blameusa7082 unless the cow had stds i dont wanna hear it
@@blameusa7082 Probably nothing too dangerous?
@@PorcusCrassus To a Z, ripping a fart in the same room a candle is lit in is "dangerous"
Absolutely insane!
This is a big step up for youtube and free science content available on the internet.
Absolutely amazing and beautiful chemistry! As an energetic materials engineer, I get to see a lot of energetic reactions on a daily basis, but I still love watching the more exotic reactions that you do. Keep up the great videos, I look forward to them!
Tremendously impressive camerawork, lighting and presentation!
Why play with white phosphorus by itself when you can introduce liquid chlorine to the mix!
Clean ups must be fun! Any major surprises during previous cleanups?
These videos are the best I can find on TH-cam, I wish to see a video about sodium/potassium ferrat (maybe as an idea for the next video).
This is the best type of "reaction video."
Wow your camera skills amaze me more with each video. Impressive stuff!
Love how you align explosions with music drops! And of course aesthetics and style of your videos in general!
Even more mesmersing quality chemistry to see, thank Feliks!
P.S. 22:07 That must be the one of most complex equations I've seen yet!
check out the reactions of ammonia or sulfide with ferrates, they are as puzzling
They r standard redox rxns. U can balance it if u know the pdts
4:27 is hands down my favorite part of this video. Great footage! Okay I spoke too soon, 6:32 also has wonderful fluff forming and floating up!
That was awesome, it feels like each reaction could have had its own video. I thought the first underwater shots were great, but then it kept getting better and better. Amazing work, thank you for sharing it.
Spectacular demonstrations. Unparalleled in both the diversity of reactions showcased and the artistic manner in which they're displayed.
Some of these slow-mo shots almost look like a intergalactic battle…beautiful!
The slow motion of red hot magnesium in water is so beautiful.
hope your channel continues to grow - the footage is awesome
Phosphorus comes off as one of the "angry" elements, autoignition and low boiling point is really agressive stuffn
It is all to do with the atomic arrangement of the allotropic form. While the W allotrope of P is very reactive (e.g. it is pyrophoric in an oxidising atmosphere, such as common air, which obviously contains the oxidising agent, oxygen gas) and poisonous, the other P allotropes, like the Red form of P, are less chemically reactive at room temperature and far less hazardous to handle.
for the fun of it, I wonder how P4 would have reacted with liquid NaK
@@costi8558 Lively to say the least, in the case of Na, K and the NaK alloy. Reaction with Rb and Cs would be even more dramatic. I suspect that Red P, which is far less reactive compared to the W allotrope, would still react in a lively manner with the alkali metals and their alloys, with hardly any 'encouragement' required to 'get the party going' (no external heating required to provide the Activation Energy, Ea).
It is a pnictogen, along with nitrogen, arsenic, antimony, and bismuth. They are highly reactive but less so once bonded into a molecule. The name, from ancient greek “to choke; though, comes from nitrogen’s odorless colorless nature and it’s asphyxiation ability when in a large enough volume as well as fuming nitric acid.
Thank you for the amazing video! Could you do a quick video in the future on how you handle and dispose of the chemicals used in your demonstrations? Very interested!
I started watching your videos just 2 months ago and I find them pretty cool and amazing. I love chemistry too and I wonder if you could show some experiments with XeF2.That would be great!
...and ClF3!!! 😜
And krypton difluoride. And xenon oxides
A first on TH-cam as usual great video with full out quality however the reactions of Nitrogen Trichloride with the above reagents are even more spectacular especially it's inception eclipsed only by the granddaddy of chemical reactions the manufacture AND reaction of anhydrous Perchloric acid wish they'd see the light of day soon
2:15 "Don't take white phosphorous with your bare hands" Don't worry, I'm not going less than 100 meters near that damn scary thing
The flame that white Phosphorus makes while reacting with O2 is just absolutely beautiful 😍. It looks so elegant, yet its extremely volatile and dangerous! The reaction fire even looks mute, soft and fuzzy around the edges like its a gentle lazy flame. Except its anything but! I love the smell post reaction too(don't try at home!)and the energy per volume of element that it gives off is absolutely unmatched! just the smallest amount seems to endlessly react to form more and more oxide. Hands down one of my favorite elements, in all of its allotropes!
Be sure to check out my video on violet phosphorus!
I didn't know I needed to see oxygen bubbled into molten white phosphorus underwater but apparently I did
I think the most beautiful footage in this video is the cavitation of those oxygen bubbles when igniting the phosphorus, but it's a tough choice between a whole lot of great shots.
this channel has so good slowmo footages. they should be on stock for use.
21:30 That phosphorous grew a nice set of balls in that copper sulfate solution :P
And it was teabagging the test tube
There was an episode of the US TV programme Mash, where copper sulphate solution was shown being used to treat a soldier burned by white phosphorus during the Korean War. Apparently copper sulphate solution really was once used to neutralise the phosphorus embedded in the skin, turning it black, with the formation of cupric phosphate, to stop the burning and make it easier to locate and remove the fragments. This treatment has now been replaced with locating the fragments with UV light, as the copper salts produced were so toxic to the casualty.
Wow this is the up there with Hamilton's pharmacopia as far as chemistry filmmaking goes, exceeding it in many aspects as well. Amazing video!
Very nice! Such an eye candy!
The different combustion kinetics are fascinating. The liquids involved being mostly lipophilic / low energy, they would seem to want to dissolve together; I suspect the sheer heat from reaction at the interface prevents them from dissolving further. With such violent reactants you might expect something to go off like NaK + H2O, but there's no hedgehog in sight, only the purest distillation of hate, er... heat!
Great work really nice shots on these . Very nice camera work and great detail on the reactions.
this is like the chemical equivalent of a spoiled kid in a supermarket throwing a tantrum
Neat video on the scary white phosphorus.
Those underwater shots are amazing. The deforming bubbles are sweet.
Good work mate. Appreciate your content.
Love your vids, and the intro... epic.
Can you show more of the chemical equations?
Beautiful, i loved this video ❤️❤️
Flipping fantastic filming! Thank You!
Amazing, and wonderful camera work.... thank you for another epic presentation of chemical elements.
This was simply beautiful. I love this channel, great work!
Your best video so far!
It's really interesting in the slomo of the burning white phosphorous. Watching the flaming globs flying off of it leaving a smoke trail through the air. I've always loved this effect in all sorts of reactions that burn and sputter. But I always thought the smoke would be produced immediately. You can see in the slomo though that it actually takes a short time for the smoke to form behind the burning glob of phosphorous. I think this is because the smoke products are still really hot when they first come off of the glob, but once they've been in the air and cooled for a moment, they condense into the visible smoke that can be seen trailing the globs through the air. At least that's my take on it.
bro what is your Job or your licence so you get ALL these chemicals that easy?
you could so easy make a literal Chemical warfare weapon.
Absolutely awesome, as always!
I love these somewhat smaller channels that still post really great content. All of the videos have been super informative and interesting.
Great vid. It's really cool to see how far your vids have come along.
Thank you! Beautiful footage!
Very well! I really liked it!!! 👍
6:20 well that was one of the coolest slow motion shots I've ever seen
I've never seen liquid chlorine before! That's so cool and terrifying all at the same time!
You probably watched a few videos on this channel :D
Solid chlorine is beautiful too
Fantastic as always!
great video, and thanks for doing this so we dont have to :D
those slow mo shots with the oxygen bubbles are amazing
100k subs soon, you need to do a collab with nile red and nurdrage, because a large chunk of their audiences are looking just for this content start with acid videos* You will get to 500k over night . I only found because you were using a specific chemical I was researching. So by random chance.
He does not answer my letters :(
I have a feeling that Mr Chemical Force and Sigma Aldrich have some kind of symbiosis.
Keep up the good work Mr Chemical Force.
Dude you have awesome camera/videographie settings.
Can you seel 6:23 as picture/poster. Or give a high resolution picture of the moment, thanks alot mate :)
The slow motion of the oxygen bubbles' reaction with P4 is epic.
The slow mode footage is fantastic
you have to be a genius. keep making these videos! you will have millions of subs
Correct...from India xrx gntr subrao
Hİ,In order to make high quality activated carbon, I first soak the shells in zinc chloride and then heat them to high temperature in the reactor. I got successful results for gas, that is, I made small porous activated carbon, but I could not make large porous activated carbon for water treatment. I am waiting for your advice.
The hight speed shots are killin it🤘
Hello, can you put white phosphorus in cold water and additionne progressively H2O2 60% to show under ware phophorescence ? Very nice video ! Thank you !
When you want steam burns with your chemical burns
Surprised that the Cl2 + P4 reaction in carbon disulfide doesn't ignite due to the low auto-ignition temp of the solvent. I'm guessing the cryogenic temp of the liquid chlorine prevented ignition.
Great footage as always!
Carbon disulfide is flammable enou gh by itself - a CS2 solution of P4 compared in pyrophoric nature to alkyl aluminum or alkyllithium solutions, sheesh!
I was photographing white phosphorous chemiluminescence (or oxyluminesence if you will), and actually got a great picture before it ignited. Fortunately I was prepared with dry sand, etc. Very fortunately, since I did it in my kitchen!
The fumes from burning WP glow faintly as well, since some of the material vaporises. (And THAT experiment was performed far from human habitation!)
Finally, it's hard to believe that stuff is still used in warfare.....
Today's challenge: drink a shot every time he says PHOSPHOROUS instead of PHOSPHORUS :)
*To make long term storage of whiteP could you coat it in silver then just keep it under water or oil then when you use it strip off all the silver leaving pure whiteP years later* ?
Please, what track did you use on 13:20 ?
An old textbook I have claims that if air is blown through molten P4 underwater, it will come out ozonated (also claims that the reaction does not occur with pure oxygen, as it happens only if the partial pressure of O2 is under 600 mmHg). Any idea if this is true? The textbook is quitte old (1960s), so I am not sure how reliable it is. (I do not have acces to P4 to check for myself).
I have no idea, but it's true. The oxidation of white phosphorous with oxygen occurs within a specific interval of oxygen concentration. I tested it with pure oxygen.
Wonderful music alongside the reactions. Thank you.
Bromie: "Hey dude!"
Chlorine be like: "I hate you dude!"
Wait, liquid chlorine? Why is no one talking about the liquid chlorine?? It's frigging LIQUID CHLORINE!!
I suggest ( and i know this is dangerous, but maybe in a controlled environment ) , when at 18:40 to just make a sort of an apparatus that drops, instead of one, i don't know, what's a reasonable number, 10 drops at the same time, maybe triggered remotely :D...for science of course! You know, it's a waste seeing all that product not reacting. It was only a small part pushing away the rest!
What I'm saying is basically you need to become the new Mythbusters; explosions wise!
Everybody acting like it's totally normal that homeboy just has skin laying around.
I really enjoy your videos! you are awesome and relevant!
While I understand how dangerous the sputtering can be, I was under the impression that white phosphorus is especially considered dangerous because it self-ignites in the presence of oxygen, and that attempting to put it out is futile, as it will keep reigniting itself until the phosphorus is completely consumed. Is this true, or have I allowed myself to be misled or misinformed?
It's quite dangerous in multiple ways.
Spectacular, beautiful, thanks 😸
this channels gold.
Impressive labwork! I've worked with both gaseous chlorine and bottled liquid chlorine but I've never actually seen the liquid. Not sure I'd want to in reality. Best not to screw with the Green Dragon!
The working name is "Willy Peat" and was spectacularly depicted in the movie Fury and in the ending scene of Apocalypse Now. Can't think of a better anti personnel incendiary weapon than WP, maybe only Napalm.
white phosphorus is better than napalm
after world war 2 the army disposed of phosphor bombs in the north sea... the white phosphor from this bombs looks like alluvial amber between the stones at the beach. people collect the phosphor thinking it is amber and put it in thier pockets.. the phosphor melts and ignites itself right in the pockets which results in terrible wounds...(clothing and skin melted together etc)
Magical video, art actually
Hello sir
sir I request please sir please help me sir I need some information which chemical to apply the copper to avoid the iron material for example needle blade etc
Thank you for your work and this amazing content
That had to be horrendous for people to be hit with a blob of white phosphorus when it was used as a weapon in warfare.
A guy spoke at our high school who got burned by white phosphorous. In Vietnam he went to throw a white phosphorous grenade and it was shot or malfunctioned while it was in his hand setting it off next to his head. Let’s just say it was bad.
Phosphorous is such a ridiculously volatile chemical. I wouldn’t even feel safe being in the same room with it even if it was safely stored
Such Beautiful Imagery!!!
Pls show the reaction between crystalline silver nitrate and white phosphorus
chlorine also reacts with carbon disulfide to make trichloromethanesulfenyl chloride and sulfur dichloride
I nearly lost it when you dropped stir bar in slow motion :D meta