The EXPLOSIVE Discovery of Nitroglycerin (the History of Dynamite)
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Please describe the process by which the chemist developed nitroglycerine. Did he know what he was doing? Or was it a lucky guess? How long did it take him to develop the methodology of creating it? What were his failures? What was his motivation?
Thanks for your video it's very interesting. Sam.
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Great video. Very interesting. I especially liked hearing Einstein's voice ♥ Thank you!
Nitroglycerin is also a vascular dilator......in this aspect it is a medicine that can save lives in case of stroke or heart attack.....
This was what I was about to comment upon hearing the first phrase of the video: "explosives ran in Alfred Nobel's blood - okay not literally." I was instantly confused, initially having interpreted that he was implying that Alfred Nobel had taken it for medical reasons.
I'm also a little disappointed that he didn't take the opportunity to bring it up at 8:08.
The whimsical menu of the Jahn's ice cream.parlors that once delighted hordes of NYC youngsters featured imaginative names for their imaginative concoctions. In addition to their flagship "the kitchen sink: everything but" were smaller but far-from-small extravaganzas. One super-duper sundae was billed as "the bombshell: blow yourself up". In my much-later years, I thought of this every time I took my nitroglycerin tablet.
Alas, only one Jahn's remains and it's mostly a diner, and I've been switched to something called isosorbide mononitrate.
@@harveywachtel1091 Are there any warnings about it being explosive on the packaging? Like, do the pills blow up if you chew on them?
@@alvinnorin8820 As far as I know they are not explosive. I imagine thar the nitro us mixed with enough inactive ingredients.
This guy was literally Oppenheimer before Oppenheimer.
Boomenpopper
Killed more people… so far anyway.
Difference was Oppenheimer saw that there was no hope for nobels line of thinking firsthand. Thats why we got his i am become death quote
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Oppenheimer didn't discover atomic fission. And he did not create any of the nuclear physics.
He was the project manager.
Only Oppenheimer was literally Oppenheimer. You can't even reason properly. Refrain from commenting ever again.
I'm so happy that I found this channel. You definitly deserve more subs. 7:45 and yes, which chemist doesn't?
“infernal machines” actually made me laugh for like 10 seconds
Thats interesting because I always thought the original designation for Mines was "Torpedos" Then with the development of the Whitehead "Locomotive Torpedo" that name migrated to its current usage....... It is a classically British description I must say!
Watching this video made me realize that the use of dynamite in “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”, which is set during the American Civil War (1861-1865) was anachronistic by a few years, as dynamite wasn’t invented until 1866, nor commercially available until a few years later.
Never let the facts get in the way of a good story.
Maybe so . ..but nitroglycerin was discovered about 20 years before the civil war. They should have used cans of NG instead of dynamite. Cans of NG was used in blasting.
@@ShannonDove-sy7ye Exactly! But since it was so dangerous, kegs of gunpowder where used instead of NG cans in the Battle of the Crater mine explosion during the Seige of Petersburg in 1864.
@@phdtobe interesting
A channel that does the history of chemistry? Yes please! How has YT never recommended this channel to me before?
It's pretty good too!
Because they're afraid we'll misuse it. Just ask any kid playing with a chemistry set.
Thanks for another great video! Not only do you make them really easy to understand and informative, you actually manage to make them interesting!! 👏🏼
Very great video, quite saddening how you have such little subscribers for the quality of work.
Thumbnail and animations are 🔥
Great video. The history of science is often fascinating.
Things are always used for terrible things not by man kind but by the few elites who always want more.
It kinda makes one wonder… just how many will never speak of the technologies they have envisioned; let alone research them in any depth because they are too well aware of how easily their innovations could be abused, and would sooner die than entrust even the basic concept which they have devised to any modern institution?
What innovations would be possible were we not living in an inhuman dystopia and all were truly free to innovate without fear of their creations being harnessed to vile ends? Leonardo DaVinci actually designed war machines for some of his career. As a pacifist, he intentionally included design flaws in all of his blueprints, in hopes that if the lord who employed him would ever commit acts of senseless violence, the weapons would fail him, while he still got paid for every design he created. It is, in my opinion the noblest of frauds ever committed.
My point is maybe we could have such technological miracles as FTL travel and fusion power, but those who could offer Humanity such creations know they could be weaponized in ways that make a nuke look like a firecracker, so they never speak of their ideas, let alone put pen to paper.
You're welcome
well said
Chemist are not going to keep quiet about a discovery just because it might not be good for society.
Humans don't work that way. When we discover something interesting, we want to shout from the rooftop about it, we want praise for being so smart.
If a scientist discovered fusion or FTL travel he's not going to keep it a secret, you can bet the farm on that.
(Easy cold fusion)
The explanation of the molecule having the oxidizer built in and not needing O2 is very good.
All explosives have their own oxygen, it's what makes an explosive an explosive. The amount does vary a lot. TNT only has enough oxygen to burn about 60 percent of itself. Ammonium nitrate has a lot of extra oxygen, about 30 percent of the oxygen is left over after the explosion. Nitroglycerin has almost the perfect amount of oxygen, with slight excess, it's about 3 percent left over oxygen after the explosion
@@ShannonDove-sy7ye Can one make a "designer" explosive with even less than 3% residual material left over after the explosion, or are there other parameters that need to be considered? One would think there would be others developed after more than a century of NG being in use.
I realize it's a minor detail within the context of your videos, but out of all the popscience channels I follow, yours is the only one that cares about proper pronunciation of names. Much appreciated :)
"pop science" is not science. At least, somehow you confess being a ret rded gen z brat.
Now that I have watched the video I want to know what drug you are on. His pronunciation of every name, including dynamis, is terribly wrong.
"pop science" is not science.
You must be a gen z kid.
At least, you somehow, confess being ret rded.
"POETRY, I WANT YOU TO BLOW THINGS UP!"
Son eventually blows himself up. Has a stroke in guilt, never recovers.
@@Jmcinally94 maybe he should have stuck to poetry.
@@Jmcinally94Alfred Nobel didn't explode himself.
@@Jmcinally94are you ret rded?
@@Jmcinally94are you re arded?
Very informative video. Thank you for explaining chemistry.
Such an amazing video! I would love to see a video about Linus Pauling’s life and the way he contributed to quantum chemistry and protein science. I think such video is missing right now on TH-cam and Pauling was such an influential chemist.
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So interesting. So well explained!
Absolutely fascinating!
I just love physics and chemistry..I look forward to learn the history behind these discoveries
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The Wright brothers said the same thing about airplanes, that if opposing armies had airplanes that could drop bombs, war would be impossible. This was an inspiration for them to develop airplanes. One of the brothers lived to see world war 2
Another great video. Many thanks (again).
The concept of a deterrent effect regarding nuclear weapons happens to be holding but there are few that expect it to continue much longer as more and more mentally unstable leaders like Kim Jong Un and Benjamin Netanyahu have such weapons at their disposal.
Sounds like Nobel was in the same camp as Gatling. He invented the rotary multi-barelled gun in the hope of making war too terrible to wage. Both men were far too optimistic about the future of warfare.
They actually made war more fun for people who wage war.
Another awesome video, keep up the good work!
Chemistry is so cool
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There's no putting the genie back in the bottle. Dynamite, thermonuclear weapons, A.I..
That's enthalpy maaaan
Dynamite is so much fun, it's a real blast. Cheers!
I would say, that Alfred Nobel was spot on with his idea of people stopping wars, if they new they could obliterate each other in seconds - that is pretty much the reason why atom bombs are not being used. His dynamite was just too weak.
Yes true, the dynamite was too weak. But I read that bombing raids with regular explosives such as dynamite could kill just as many as a nuclear device. The US could have done just as much destruction without the nuclear bo..
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Did anyone here first learn of nitro glycerin from that one episode of "Little House on the Prairie"?
You touched the guilt aspect, outstanding.
This is the first time ever that I've heard Einstein's voice.
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Somehow this feels like my first time hearing Einstein's voice.
I remember watching the documentary on nitroglycerin Dynamite 🧨 Dynamite was a way of hauling nitroglycerin safely
I will be a Nobel prize winner, I invented 200 year electric vehicle batteries.
the only problem with dynamite sticks is sometimes they would sweat nitroglycerin out and yu have the old problem back with it
Dynamite must be rotated regularly. It was the first Permissable Explosive in Coal Mining.
Dynamite like this was still being used in 1960s...there was a dirt cave the city had dug into side of river bank as kids we used to go in there and wipe sweat off sticks to entrance and flick off finger and laugh at explosion....we should be dead...stuffs probably still there city didn't care about our part of town..tucson
Nitrate groups are common to many explosives, such as TNT (trinitrotoluene) a toluene molecule with three (3) nitrate groups at positions, 2 (ortho), 4 (para), and 6 (ortho) around the benzene ring. Likewise, a key ingredient in gun powder is Potassium Nitrate (KNO3). Unfortunately, Nitroglycerine is easy to make with chemicals that are easily obtained, especially the Glycerin which can be bought anyplace in gallon jugs. Many pool stores sell Sulfuric acid in place of Hydrochloric acid for pools because it does not emit fumes. All that's left is buying Nitric Acid and that is easily done. The dangerous part is carrying out the nitration, then the handing of the shock sensitive product. Amateur kitchen chemists trying this are in danger because they do not know what they are doing but have the cocky egotistical notion that they do. I have had a couple of reactions in the lab almost (keyword, almost) go out of control and had i not been paying attention and known what to do, they would have.
Are you aware that "hobby" chemists are ahead of those in industry and academia when it comes to energetic materials? Many of us either have extensive chemistry education or have taught themselves to the same or higher levels? There are always going to be idiots but chemistry has a strong history of "hobbyists" making major discoveries.
@@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 That is your takeaway from the long and detailed comment?!
Your response supports my thesis about amateurs being cocky and egotistical. Thanks for providing a real-life example.
I stand by what i said. Amateur Chemists should not be fooling around with dangerous materials especially explosives.
Okay name those major discoveries made by "hobbyists." You don't get to make claims without evidence them.
@@wayneyadams I put the term "hobbyists" in quotes because I and most of my friends in this area have chemistry educations. You completely misunderstood and took away exactly what you wanted to see. Congratulations, you're the cocky, egotistical person you so clearly disdain. All I was saying was that the bleeding edge of this research and technology isn't being done by industry or academia. There's Klapotke's lab but other than that it's not currently profitable and therefore not worth the time for industry. "Hobbyists" have discovered, adapted and optimized far safer primaries than used in any industrial or military product. You decided to see exactly what you wanted, you come off as an egotistical, elitist asshole. I hope that's what you intend to show the world, otherwise well...
@@wayneyadams seems TH-cam erased my comment. I and most of the people I know who do research in this area have extensive chemistry education and laboratory experience. You're the only one sounding egotistical and cocky. The fact that research is happening outside of industry or academia doesn't mean it's not considerably ahead of what most of them are doing with the exception of Klapotke's lab. My comment was trying to point this out but you saw what you wanted to. Congratulations, you sound like an elitist, egotistical, fool.
Very nice but I do wish people wouldn't keep saying. THE HMS something. Never,ever used to happen! It's just HMS.
Thank you. Very educational and it expanded my knowledge of the inventor and the first peace prizes history.
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Excellent video. Thanks heaps❤
Nuclear weapons have ended war between those nations who have nuclear weapons.
Thank you for this excellent video about Dynamite .....
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What is with these scientists thinking they can end wars alltogether?
First, Mr. Gatling creating the gatling gun saying „It’s so devastating, my invention will end wars and fighting“
Then Alfred Nobel saying the same,
And then everyone on the nuke teams saying the same!
We live in a fallen world!
War will NEVER end.
Very good dissertation on the life and times of Alfred Nobel et al.
Thank you for filling in the details how dynamite and the Nobel prize came into being.
Clear well explained with intelligent reflections in the later parts.
And people now do have this "running through their blood" as nitroglycerin is a vasodilator and is used to treat angina and some other conditions.
Alfred Nobel and Richard Gatling.
Two men who fruitlessly hoped their destructive weapons would scare countries into ending war forever.
Nitroglycerin was used in the petroleum drilling industry in the early years. It would be poured into cylindrical metal containers called "torpedos" (the current naval torpedo were originally called "automotive torpedos"). The torpedo would be dropped down the borehole to clear blockages of rock chips. There are accounts of workrrs filling up torpedos in their kitchen (with a wood stove nearby) with the predictable tesult from time to time - BOOM.
Gun cotton (highly nitrated cellulose >~ 13% N) was also a 19C invention. It soon was banned in many countries due to the risk of unintended explosions. In its dry form a single spark can detonate it; nitrated cellulose is unstable in storage unless high purity control is in place to remove excess nitric acid; even then stabilizers must be used to absorb free nitro groups.
Yet, the Brits found dissolving gun cotton in nitroglycerin make a suitable smokeless gunpowder - cordite (which needs stabilizers for long term safe storage). Nobel had invented Ballistite in a similar manner but used less nitrated cellulose and sued the British government for infringement of his UK patent l but lost in the UK.
Nitrocellulose just burns if you put a match to it
Was dynamite ever used for something different than a explosive? Like something powered by dynamite?
Automobiles. Y'know when a car backfires and sounds like a shot..? Those are older autos that required a decent amount of glycerin to lubricate poorer fitting moving parts before the interchangeable assembly line was ubiquitous. Add to that large volumes of nitric stabilizers in the fuel, and you'd get occasional micro volumes of these explosive compounds.
Over time, that's why you started to hear ppl refer to really cherry rides as being "dynamite!"
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"Now Alfred, I want you to eat something! You don't eat like you should to stay healthy."
"In a minute, Sophie. I'm doing some very sensitive work with my new invention: Nitroglycerin."
Four minutes later...
"ALFRED!!!"
"AARRGHH!!! Don't DO that! One wrong move and we all go up in a flash! What do you want?"
"I'm making you a sandwich. Would you like ham and Gruyere with salad cream, or would you like French dip?"
"Uh, the ham and Gruyere. By the way, would you please find out the town where Professor Kravowicz is holding the symposium on organic chemistry next month?"
"Of course. I shall be right back."
Four minutes later...
"**BANG**or, Maine!!!"
"AARRGHH!!! Don't DO that! It's one thing to soil myself; it's another thing entirely to turn this estate into a pile of toothpicks! What do you mean, 'Bangor, Maine'?"
"The symposium is being held there."
"Ah! Very good. Now, if you don't mind, please play something soothing. Something soft."
Thirty seconds later...
"GET UP, COME ON GET DOWN WITH THE SICKNESS!!! GET UP, COME ON GET DOWN WITH THE SICKNESS!!! GET UP, COME ON GET DOWN WITH THE SICKNESS!!!..."
"Disturbed? Really, Sophie...?"
I am an aspiring scientist! Unfortunately, I am also just a Stupit Dog and pretty thick. I don't think I will get a Nobel prize. Sigh ........
Leo Tolstoy understood human nature FAR BETTER than Alfred Nobel and Albert Einstein.
Tolstoy Warned that Endless Wars resulting from the pseudo-enlightened, pseudo-Christian rejection of Matthew 7:12 would inevitably cause the destruction of human civilization.
Nitro is one of the most unstable and dangerous explosives ever made. In dynamite it was much more stable and easier to handle. But when it got old, hot, or unstable that was a different story. I know of several incidents where people blew themselves up handling old or leaking dynamite. In one case a kid found an abandoned storage shed (at least 40 years old according to investigators) near an old, registered coal mine and inside was dynamite (they had to guess how much from the blast radius) which vaporized him, the shed, and collapsed the mine (really a hole dug in the side of a hill). It may have been an illegal coal mine (sometimes during the Great Depression, out of work miners would cut shafts in coal rich areas to dig out and sell coal to make money or heat their homes.)
What a pity that mankind always uses knowledge for wars and destruction.
I like that scare people not to use it. A same or similar phrase used for A Bombs.
Atomic weapons have certainly limited global wars-Stalin and US/Britain most certainly would have gone to total war were it not for the A-Bomb. Unfortunately small limited wars have not been prevented.
Ethyl Lead is a terrible tale. Or asbestos' prevalence. Radium, perhaps. Dioxin. PCBs would be a good one.
Static sea mines were also initially called 'torpedos' (a type of electric fish) before the name appended to the underwater 'rockets' we know today.
I'm no chemist but the triple bond between carbon and oxygen looks wrong. time 4:00
I'm confused. I thought Jimmy Walker was the inventor...
DY-NO-MITE!!!
Considering Nobel worked with Nitroglycerin, explosives were literally in his blood at some point, assuming he probably inhaled the stuff from time to time.
Fantastic video! Thank you
dynamite have transformed oil production too
I understand that nitroglycerin is a useful heart medication. How did that happen?
Do sodium! Oh wait, mst3k already did :)
Fritz Haber is another interesting scientist that I don't see being talked about that much.
Fritz Haber would be an interesting subject. He figured out how to make ammonia from atmospheric nitrogen, so facilitating Germany's explosives production for WW1, and fertiliser production to enable Earth to sustain a larger population. A conflicted man indeed.
Nerve gasses too.
It's actually pronounced DYYY-NOOO-MITE!!
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The concept was to create a clean white Burning Lamp Oil ...
Nobel prize same guy as made dynamite , good public relations
"Petrol is not explosive."
* laughs in Otto cycle engine *
...and with his guilt creates the nobel "peace" prize 😂
Why is there no Nobel prize foŕ Mathematics?
Really nice Video! Can you make a video about transistors? I think this invention was at least as important as nitroglycerin.
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Might be interesting to do a video on how they mastered the industrial production of such a sensitive material.
They had to figure out how to nitrate glycerin safely, store it safely, and to build nitration facilities that could be run remotely, In earlier days the nitration shed had slides on the sides of the building so the operator could escape if the nitration showed signs of getting out of control. Might be interesting also to trace the development of ammonium nitrate as a blasting agent, leading to far less dynamite being used in mining, although gelatin dynamite is still used in some hard rock mines.
There's a lot of interesting chemistry history in explosive development, and there's new ones still in development - check out CL-20! Thank you kindly for the great video! Cheers...
The way that ammonium nitrate was discovered to be explosive is horrifying.
I mean he was right in the end, but it took a far greater magnitude of absolute annihilation to get there
Hi! Thank you for the video. I have one question: Are you sure the equation is correct for the decomposition of glycerin trinitrate? It's strange that the production of CO is favored compared to the more stable CO2. (4C3H5N3O9→6N2+10H2O+12CO2+O2) (4:17)
Interesting, but surprised that when you mentioned where he had factories you missed out his one Ardeer in Ayrshire Scotland. Which was at one point reputed to be the largest explosives factory in the world. Nobel also stayed there for a while.
Came here to share info.
I once worked for world color. A printing business. I worked in gravure printing. Smelled like spray paint. The ingredient was tolulene which happens to be the Tri-Nitrate-Tolulene ingredient. (Maybe spelling it wrong.)
There were 2 retaining tanks. They were huge. At least 25 foot tall and maybe 20 across. They said if it blew up it would be pretty substantial.
I could be wrong. I was young.
Well, he at least had the right idea, only it took a lot more powerful weapons, nuclear bombs, to stop open war between two major powers.
Thanks for this video but I miss the part of the invention to use nitro for medical use, this could be intresting,
lets take a high very unstable explosive and use it on a human.....?
3:30, showing stronger, more stable bonds, but they seem to be made up of double and triple bonds which are less stable.
I cant believe the 1900s version of a subtweet was the domino that lead to the celebration of human progress.
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Nobel's fortune was founded on Russian oil more than dynamite.
It's a blast. 😅😅
What is it mixed with?