i like this type of content because green can upload videos which are bit low effort but still interesting at a fast pace, and work on the main channel whenever he thinks he has a good project. instead of procrastinating for months or longer.
@@yourenevergonnaknowwhoiam yeah this is pretty much it! I have so many projects I've recorded over the past year that I either didn't quite complete, or wasn't cool enough for a main channel vid
@mrgreenguytoo recycling^2 Lol you should try diy-ing crude oil, atleast you could spend another couple hundred days building a steel apparatus like for the sodium lmao. I mean I guess it's just a metal distillation setup with wood or whatever in the reactor, when I tried it, all I got was like wood vinegar and once I got tar which smelled horrible lmao
@@_-noxxon-_you can use plastics. It's much easier this way. of course some problems (like using pvc that generates chlorine) but it's most of the time much cleaner if you know what plastics you put in.
@@stasi0238 yeah plastics are possible but the issue is always that if your temperature is high like from a blowtorch, it cracks it into smaller stuff like in my case wood vinegar
Metallurgy student here. Put a vacuum on the retort. Alkali and earth alkali metals are volatile and can be distilled off from otherwise unfavorable reactions. They make magnesium from ferrosilicon this way. This should also dampen the reaction somewhat. You can even try freezing out the vapors on the lid and then melting the sodium out afterward.
Chemists...... Try having a much larger volume receiving apparatus first lol. Hot gasses plus small diameter tube leading to an even smaller restriction equals back pressure and boom. So long as you're able to maintain an inert atmosphere too, you should be fine.
You probably won't reply since you're like working on a project right now or doing something else, but I absolutely LOVE your content and your videos really are inspiring me to do chemistry! Mostly probably just stuff like displacement reactions and stuff like that, I will NOT be doing stuff with acids. At least yet. Thanks for making your videos :)
One thing that i think would work without having to change much is to leave the longer tube on the reaction vessel and let the reaction do its thing. The longer portion will be cooler, letting the sodium vapors reflux in the top instead of coming on over. Once the reaction is over, you could then just use your torch to heat the top cooler portion to let it distill on over. This would give the sodium vapors room to expand and cool without them pouring out. You'd just have to lightly heat the top to keep any sodium buildup molten so it doesn't clog the outlet. Alternatively, you could have a longer distillation tube and submerge it much deeper in oil to catch and cool all of the vapors before they can escape. Forming tiny blobs of sodium in the bottom of the oil. You risk suckback with this method, but it wouldn't be that bad of a thing since the oil would coat the inside of the vessel and prevent any sodium from reacting and making it more recoverable later on. I've done a lot of what you're doing here in terms of building such an apparatus and have had a lot of success in making fairly large amounts of cesium metal. If you'd like more advice, just let me know. 🙂
Is it just me or do you doubt he made any potassium in that first aluminium+KOH fire test? I feel like the KOH just melted and then reacted violently with the aluminium like potassium hydroxide does with aluminium to form potassium aluminate. The potassium emission happened just because there was a lot of potassium ions there.
Sodium has low melting point. If you can put together some dry 1,4-dioxane (difficult), you can boil that sodium sludge you got and sodium will float+melt, resulting in floating sodium spheres. You will let them cool down and this is how you separate sodium from whatever junk is also present. Toluene is easier to source and dry (usually dry enough to be used as is), but sodium do not float in it (still coalesce somehow, but on the bottom, together with all other oxide impurities).
I always thought it was possible to extract sodium metal from one of its componds using aluminum metal. I knew that elements with high reactivity (like cesium) could be extracted from there compounds with a lower reactive element (like lithium) in a still. But I didn't have the time or the knowledge to prove that aluminum could do the same. But thanks to you, I now know that it is totally possible. Thank you Nilegreen/Mr.Green guy
This was so cool. The fact that you started with stuff you can get from a hardware store and grocery store (excluding the furnace, but you can technically make one of those using stuff from a hardware store also) and produced sodium metal is incredible.
If you can bleed a little argon into the vessel while doing the reaction you should be able to allow the sodium to not react with trace oxygen before cooling enough to condense. Or make the "condenser" pipe a lot longer to again give the sodium enough time to condense back to liquid. Very neat process though.
Oh man i always think your videos are funny but its really awesome your doing chem videos too! Ive been really enjoying the ones you make. When in a pinch i used to dissolve KOH in absolute ethanol and bubble CO2 through it. The hydroxide is soluble whereas the carbonate is insoluble in ethanol. Filter and wash with more absolute ethanol. Id throw it in a round bottom with a vacuum adapter and heat it on a warm water bath under vacuum for a few minutes. Should give anhydrous potassium carbonate. Probably more work than what it was worth but I was broke lol
This kinda stuff kinda help with the gaps of main channel uploads :p your content is awesome and i love how whacky your setups tend to be, it's just relatable to when i also do styff on my own and it's always the whackiest setups to do whatever im doing (not chemistry tho)
If I could make a suggestion? In many thermates (non-iron/aluminum metal redox reactions) there is a few percent of sulfur added to the mix because the formation of Aluminum sulfide is exothermic and can jumpstart the main reaction, thus lowering the activation energy for the whole reaction. Try between 2-3% sulfur and see if that gives you something you can light with a magnesium ribbon. Additionally, if you kept the longer reaction chamber, you would probably have less boil over of unreacted reagents into your oil bath. Headspace is a factor in all still designs and just because you're distilling metal is no reason to disregard that.
I did that but with sodium chloride and once it took it exploded. The sulfur does reduce the activation energy a bit. Another thing that might be better is using a flux of sorts to bring the melt point down, preferably something that doesn't change the overall reaction and something that will scavenge the aluminum oxide. Although a more typical thermite mixed with the carbonate thermite might actually be closer to ideal if it doesn't alloy well with the alkali.
I think the reason for the crucible damage is due to sodium reacting with the carbon. At such high temperatures the sodium is probably dissolving the graphite or catalysing some reaction with it.
Love the second channel, can't wait for the next video! Btw maybe you could use a bit of potassium hydroxide to lower the fusion point and stay close enough to the potassium boiling point but without it flash boiling
Maybe try adding an inert salt to lower the temperature of the melt. The eutectic point can be a few hundred degrees lower than the pure salt. If good melting facilitates the reaction and temperature drives the reaction, maybe having it melt at a lower temperature will slow down the reaction. I imagine the added dilution might also give some thermal mass to yeet the massive spike in exothermic heat
Nurdrage has already solved your problem of lowering the activation energy. You need to try the menthol catalysed method he developed. Just switch out magnesium for aluminum and let us know how it goes.
Looked at a random post from 2017, what you might have there is pure sodium. Apparently the other products are aluminum oxide, and aluminum carbide. So, that fire when cleaning your station with water might be sodium making hydrogen, or aluminum carbide making methane gas, or likely both. But, apparently the carbide would be a solid during the reaction, and the oxide would be a liquid, meaning the only gas would just be pure sodium.
Instead of doing that, you could use a process outlined by nurdrage where he catalized the reaction of sodium hydroxide and magnesium with menthol to mass produce pretty clean sodium.
I think you should make science "slop" for this channel. It could help greatly with the funding while keeping viewers engaded. Under slop I mean creating a vid where you talk about recent news and advancements in chemistry or in science general, reacting to TikTok hacks or just talk about the overall scene of science or about related TH-cam content you like.
Might be a stupid suggestion, but to speed the reaction, you could use a solvent and do the work in solution. My first thought was Borax (anhydrous, baked first) which would melt at a low temp but you'd reduce out elemental boron before the Sodium, and metallic aluminum wouldnt dissolve in it anyhow. Another simpler Sodium salt would be great but one problem with aluminum is you're trapped by anion choices: Halogens will create scary AlX3 vapours, Nitrates will create NOx gas and aluminum oxide which will plug your reaction up, and anything hydroxy or oxy will give the same problem minus the NOx. I feel like the best solvent would be an aluminum salt but they're all either refractory or volatile as hell. Alternatively, (possibly) better idea would be to have an excess of aluminum which can allow the reaction to occur at the molten surface where the sodium salt sits on top - but AlO3 will build up and form a refractory layer that will stop the reaction and maybe go pop. I'm just rambling at this point, this clearly worked albiet in a slightly terrifying manner, Cool as shit, thanks for the content. Please wear gloves
if you store KOH in the open it converts into potassium carbonate by itself. Drying it in the closed oven was not a good idea, because it had no access to the CO2 in the air to convert the residual KOH. Air actually has lots of CO2 in it already, if you can wait a few days.
Potassium carbonate is making by burning wood or charcoal and mixing ash with water. Potassium carbonate is soluble in water and you can filter out this solution. That is what too many potassium compounds is made with potassium carbonate
perhaps your reaction was to vigorous because of aluminium powder? I would try with aluminium foil or eaven thicker pieces of aluminium. this would probably slow down the reaction and it wouldn all just burst out of the aparatus
I mean you could do the reaction under pressure. It would theoretically increase sodiums boiling point above 1000C. Unsure the pressure needed and youd want it to be argon
5:54 I'm sure you def know this but please do not stare at burning magnesium as it literally can tear holes in your cornea which isn't ideal if you want to maintain a perfect vision lol
Yeah it's a common concern. Not usually anywhere near as bad as people make it sound though. I've stared at a lot of burning magnesium over the years. Magnesium powder fireballs used to be used for flash photography and the main danger was burning your hand rather than burning your eyes. But yeah it is very very bright and gives off some UV
This totally should have been a main channel video. I understand why you wouldn't want to upload after your last video though. Eventually TH-cam will come around.
Even if you're doing chemistry at home so can't get called out by your boss for this, you should always be wearing gloves. There's no excuse to not be wearing gloves when doing chemistry.
It frustrates me that TH-cam's been stupid towards a Quality Science channel! They cannot change how important this kind of informative content is *TH-cam would be stupid if they didn't support creators of this quality. The way TH-cam handles their community guidelines is mind numbingly absurd. Yet stuff like "G-string camping videos" get fully supported *don't get me wrong, I fully support G-string camping videos. Why do those videos get supported but someone can make a well edited informative video that covers a difficult topic.. and yet that's not supported? Quality true crime content struggles to get any support & that's just one example. TH-cam overly abuses their control over what videos get monetized or whats gets flagged or copyrighted, even when the creator did everything correctly to be fully covered under "fair use" rights. Yet TH-cam still makes these people go thru a bunch of nonsense, trying to communicate with TH-cams joke of an official review process. Some of these creators put in so much effort into their videos & they follow all of youtubes rules as much as possible followed, yet TH-cam still throws them thru the ringer. People should be allowed to cover these topics but they don't care. They hit them with limited adds, etc. It just really frustrates me that TH-cam is making it really hard for these creators. Even tho they bring so much value to their company. I don't think TH-cam realizes that a huge percentage of their viewers are adults.. Not everything has to be made for kids... Idk i hope TH-cam improves because they really are a great platform but they got to get their shit together and support these creators who bring so much to their platform.
I think he said at the beginning that he chose aluminum because magnesium is more expensive, so I don't think he will, because he is trying to replace it?
So if NileRed's 2nd channel is NileBlue, I wonder what this channel would be called if it followed that same sort of idea. MrYellowGuy? No, that sounds wrong.
nah that reaction to sodium when it shouldn't have been made is funny, idk why those reaction seem funny to me, and then you have to think why it works when it shouldn't....
Green manages to take a seemingly efficient process and makes it as inefficient and dangerous as possible.
Absolute cinema
Difference between playing around and being serious is recording the results
i like this type of content because green can upload videos which are bit low effort but still interesting at a fast pace, and work on the main channel whenever he thinks he has a good project. instead of procrastinating for months or longer.
@@yourenevergonnaknowwhoiam yeah this is pretty much it! I have so many projects I've recorded over the past year that I either didn't quite complete, or wasn't cool enough for a main channel vid
@@mrgreenguytooyes I love this format. Codyslab and explosions&fire vibes
As is tradition for second channels, you should rename this video "HUGE SODIUM DRAMA"
No slop names plewse
The sodium situation is wild
SODIUM IS COOKED
Sodium situation is insane
Genuinely haven't seen a second channel use titles like that.
"I'm just gonna mix random chemicals together and hopefully i'll find something that works." Sounds about right
I dare you to breathe through a hose to generate the CO2 required. Gotta cut your carbon footprint lmao
I was considering it for a while haha
@mrgreenguytoo recycling^2
Lol you should try diy-ing crude oil, atleast you could spend another couple hundred days building a steel apparatus like for the sodium lmao. I mean I guess it's just a metal distillation setup with wood or whatever in the reactor, when I tried it, all I got was like wood vinegar and once I got tar which smelled horrible lmao
@@_-noxxon-_you can use plastics. It's much easier this way. of course some problems (like using pvc that generates chlorine) but it's most of the time much cleaner if you know what plastics you put in.
Why not adding carbonated water?
@@stasi0238 yeah plastics are possible but the issue is always that if your temperature is high like from a blowtorch, it cracks it into smaller stuff like in my case wood vinegar
Great video! It sucks that TH-cam takes down all your content.
:)
think YT is worried about his clumsiness
Metallurgy student here. Put a vacuum on the retort. Alkali and earth alkali metals are volatile and can be distilled off from otherwise unfavorable reactions. They make magnesium from ferrosilicon this way. This should also dampen the reaction somewhat. You can even try freezing out the vapors on the lid and then melting the sodium out afterward.
Hope this doesn’t get age restricted or de-monetised 😢
Chemists...... Try having a much larger volume receiving apparatus first lol. Hot gasses plus small diameter tube leading to an even smaller restriction equals back pressure and boom. So long as you're able to maintain an inert atmosphere too, you should be fine.
You probably won't reply since you're like working on a project right now or doing something else, but I absolutely LOVE your content and your videos really are inspiring me to do chemistry! Mostly probably just stuff like displacement reactions and stuff like that, I will NOT be doing stuff with acids. At least yet. Thanks for making your videos :)
One thing that i think would work without having to change much is to leave the longer tube on the reaction vessel and let the reaction do its thing. The longer portion will be cooler, letting the sodium vapors reflux in the top instead of coming on over. Once the reaction is over, you could then just use your torch to heat the top cooler portion to let it distill on over. This would give the sodium vapors room to expand and cool without them pouring out. You'd just have to lightly heat the top to keep any sodium buildup molten so it doesn't clog the outlet. Alternatively, you could have a longer distillation tube and submerge it much deeper in oil to catch and cool all of the vapors before they can escape. Forming tiny blobs of sodium in the bottom of the oil. You risk suckback with this method, but it wouldn't be that bad of a thing since the oil would coat the inside of the vessel and prevent any sodium from reacting and making it more recoverable later on.
I've done a lot of what you're doing here in terms of building such an apparatus and have had a lot of success in making fairly large amounts of cesium metal. If you'd like more advice, just let me know. 🙂
Is it just me or do you doubt he made any potassium in that first aluminium+KOH fire test? I feel like the KOH just melted and then reacted violently with the aluminium like potassium hydroxide does with aluminium to form potassium aluminate. The potassium emission happened just because there was a lot of potassium ions there.
Sodium has low melting point. If you can put together some dry 1,4-dioxane (difficult), you can boil that sodium sludge you got and sodium will float+melt, resulting in floating sodium spheres. You will let them cool down and this is how you separate sodium from whatever junk is also present. Toluene is easier to source and dry (usually dry enough to be used as is), but sodium do not float in it (still coalesce somehow, but on the bottom, together with all other oxide impurities).
Oh hi!
I'm here before this channel gets big.
I'll be a part of history books.
Yippie!!!
Dig ur content MrG been watching for a while now, don't be discouraged by YTs.. bs. Allot of us love science vids!
nd Shout out to Houston Jones
Glad to be here for this 2nd channel, love your content
Justice for our boy Mr.Green!
I always thought it was possible to extract sodium metal from one of its componds using aluminum metal. I knew that elements with high reactivity (like cesium) could be extracted from there compounds with a lower reactive element (like lithium) in a still. But I didn't have the time or the knowledge to prove that aluminum could do the same. But thanks to you, I now know that it is totally possible.
Thank you Nilegreen/Mr.Green guy
Thanks for re uploding old exprmental madness videos🎉
This was so cool. The fact that you started with stuff you can get from a hardware store and grocery store (excluding the furnace, but you can technically make one of those using stuff from a hardware store also) and produced sodium metal is incredible.
cozy atmosphere right here
thank you
This guys lives my dream of sounding smart enough that makes throwing some chemicals together sound reasonable
I actually like these types of videos, shame youtube takes them down
Congrats ! Very cool to see that in these trying times
If you can bleed a little argon into the vessel while doing the reaction you should be able to allow the sodium to not react with trace oxygen before cooling enough to condense. Or make the "condenser" pipe a lot longer to again give the sodium enough time to condense back to liquid. Very neat process though.
Oh man i always think your videos are funny but its really awesome your doing chem videos too! Ive been really enjoying the ones you make. When in a pinch i used to dissolve KOH in absolute ethanol and bubble CO2 through it. The hydroxide is soluble whereas the carbonate is insoluble in ethanol. Filter and wash with more absolute ethanol. Id throw it in a round bottom with a vacuum adapter and heat it on a warm water bath under vacuum for a few minutes. Should give anhydrous potassium carbonate. Probably more work than what it was worth but I was broke lol
This kinda stuff kinda help with the gaps of main channel uploads :p your content is awesome and i love how whacky your setups tend to be, it's just relatable to when i also do styff on my own and it's always the whackiest setups to do whatever im doing (not chemistry tho)
Hey dude, I love your videos. Keep it up ❤
I had a lot of trouble finding this channel. I'm happy I did
If I could make a suggestion? In many thermates (non-iron/aluminum metal redox reactions) there is a few percent of sulfur added to the mix because the formation of Aluminum sulfide is exothermic and can jumpstart the main reaction, thus lowering the activation energy for the whole reaction. Try between 2-3% sulfur and see if that gives you something you can light with a magnesium ribbon.
Additionally, if you kept the longer reaction chamber, you would probably have less boil over of unreacted reagents into your oil bath. Headspace is a factor in all still designs and just because you're distilling metal is no reason to disregard that.
I did that but with sodium chloride and once it took it exploded. The sulfur does reduce the activation energy a bit. Another thing that might be better is using a flux of sorts to bring the melt point down, preferably something that doesn't change the overall reaction and something that will scavenge the aluminum oxide. Although a more typical thermite mixed with the carbonate thermite might actually be closer to ideal if it doesn't alloy well with the alkali.
I think the reason for the crucible damage is due to sodium reacting with the carbon. At such high temperatures the sodium is probably dissolving the graphite or catalysing some reaction with it.
The Sodium Metal Situation is CRAZY
Love the second channel, can't wait for the next video!
Btw maybe you could use a bit of potassium hydroxide to lower the fusion point and stay close enough to the potassium boiling point but without it flash boiling
It's our boy NileGreen again
I think it should be called a shotgun distillation
that was a very enjoyable watch, nice
Amazing to watch the lunch bad video and realize you've been telling us "I've never done this before" for over 10 years.
just watched your vid in the main channel, came here as soon i learned you got a new channel
Maybe try adding an inert salt to lower the temperature of the melt. The eutectic point can be a few hundred degrees lower than the pure salt. If good melting facilitates the reaction and temperature drives the reaction, maybe having it melt at a lower temperature will slow down the reaction. I imagine the added dilution might also give some thermal mass to yeet the massive spike in exothermic heat
Nurdrage has already solved your problem of lowering the activation energy. You need to try the menthol catalysed method he developed. Just switch out magnesium for aluminum and let us know how it goes.
Could it be done same way with NaOH and Al to get Na?
Looked at a random post from 2017, what you might have there is pure sodium. Apparently the other products are aluminum oxide, and aluminum carbide. So, that fire when cleaning your station with water might be sodium making hydrogen, or aluminum carbide making methane gas, or likely both. But, apparently the carbide would be a solid during the reaction, and the oxide would be a liquid, meaning the only gas would just be pure sodium.
Instead of doing that, you could use a process outlined by nurdrage where he catalized the reaction of sodium hydroxide and magnesium with menthol to mass produce pretty clean sodium.
I think you should make science "slop" for this channel. It could help greatly with the funding while keeping viewers engaded.
Under slop I mean creating a vid where you talk about recent news and advancements in chemistry or in science general, reacting to TikTok hacks or just talk about the overall scene of science or about related TH-cam content you like.
Science slop occurs when the mixture fails and turns into thick brown stuff
Nice, I like these more in depth videos!
I love this guy so much. No homo but this is some of the best content I've seen in a while.
Might be a stupid suggestion, but to speed the reaction, you could use a solvent and do the work in solution. My first thought was Borax (anhydrous, baked first) which would melt at a low temp but you'd reduce out elemental boron before the Sodium, and metallic aluminum wouldnt dissolve in it anyhow. Another simpler Sodium salt would be great but one problem with aluminum is you're trapped by anion choices: Halogens will create scary AlX3 vapours, Nitrates will create NOx gas and aluminum oxide which will plug your reaction up, and anything hydroxy or oxy will give the same problem minus the NOx. I feel like the best solvent would be an aluminum salt but they're all either refractory or volatile as hell.
Alternatively, (possibly) better idea would be to have an excess of aluminum which can allow the reaction to occur at the molten surface where the sodium salt sits on top - but AlO3 will build up and form a refractory layer that will stop the reaction and maybe go pop.
I'm just rambling at this point, this clearly worked albiet in a slightly terrifying manner, Cool as shit, thanks for the content.
Please wear gloves
These are some interesting thoughts!
if you store KOH in the open it converts into potassium carbonate by itself. Drying it in the closed oven was not a good idea, because it had no access to the CO2 in the air to convert the residual KOH. Air actually has lots of CO2 in it already, if you can wait a few days.
This double mobile in one case is such a weird flex xD
We have the same Chinese heating stirring round thing with the confusing labelling ! We're bros !
i already love this channel omg
If you have a sodastream you can just feed it into potassium hydroxide water. I've done it before and it works better than youd think!
This is actually amazing.
Oh shit! It actually works in a janked up setup.
where is the taste test
The sodium situation is crazy
alternate title: jon snow does chemistry
this is more of a main channel video but with less editing XD
if this channel does not blow up im prob going to be the only one constantly watching your second channel videos
7:56 ohh nah, now where have I seen that before👀
12:21 got me acting up
Potassium carbonate is making by burning wood or charcoal and mixing ash with water. Potassium carbonate is soluble in water and you can filter out this solution. That is what too many potassium compounds is made with potassium carbonate
That is coola new method of making Sodium metal.
perhaps your reaction was to vigorous because of aluminium powder? I would try with aluminium foil or eaven thicker pieces of aluminium. this would probably slow down the reaction and it wouldn all just burst out of the aparatus
17:54, could you use a catalyst to lower the activation energy?
PPE good 😂😮😊 great video.
let him cook youtube
8:55 The internet demands that I say 'nice'.
I mean you could do the reaction under pressure. It would theoretically increase sodiums boiling point above 1000C. Unsure the pressure needed and youd want it to be argon
nice! good job mrgreenguytoo!
This video not getting enough views tells me a lot about the TH-cam algorithm
Strange to hear an Australian switching between non-rhotic and rhotic English frequently
This feels appropriate for the first video I see here... Considering how salty the review team is on your main channel. :)
Interesting.I wonder if the same reagent substitutions work with the Nurdrage process.
As someone smart once approximately said, I think Einstein, "The only difference between dicking around and science is writing it down."
Adam Savage.🤣
What if you bought some dry ice. Then evaporated it in a container connected into a balloon to extract the CO2.
couldve just bought pressurised co2
@@HerzaPop Hey.. exhaling into a tube was on the table. He's not made of money. See
@_-noxxon-_ comment.
😂😂😂
@HerzaPop Hey.. breathing through a tube was on the table. He's not made of money. See @_-noxxon-_ comment about that.
You should not have needed to upload to a second channel, but here we are, thanks youtube!
5:54 I'm sure you def know this but please do not stare at burning magnesium as it literally can tear holes in your cornea which isn't ideal if you want to maintain a perfect vision lol
Yeah it's a common concern. Not usually anywhere near as bad as people make it sound though. I've stared at a lot of burning magnesium over the years. Magnesium powder fireballs used to be used for flash photography and the main danger was burning your hand rather than burning your eyes. But yeah it is very very bright and gives off some UV
Careful, sir. Dangerous stuff.
@8:30 i wonder if the propane torch is stealing all the oxygen away from the magnesium so it cant burn as hot
Justice for spoon. They sell them at supermarkets.
I came over from your rant video. You made 10 hours ago. I’ll check out what this is but then I’m gonna go watch the finals. See how it’s doing.
This totally should have been a main channel video. I understand why you wouldn't want to upload after your last video though. Eventually TH-cam will come around.
well, does this mean we'll get a new sodium ducky
Hmmm possibly some day
It would be cool if you hearted this comment. Great video
He only owns 1 spoon, and he chose to be a chemist...
Make fentanyl next!
Channel 2 let's go!
Even if you're doing chemistry at home so can't get called out by your boss for this, you should always be wearing gloves.
There's no excuse to not be wearing gloves when doing chemistry.
Anorganic chemistry becomes hard, when am pretty baked🤣
It frustrates me that TH-cam's been stupid towards a Quality Science channel! They cannot change how important this kind of informative content is *TH-cam would be stupid if they didn't support creators of this quality. The way TH-cam handles their community guidelines is mind numbingly absurd. Yet stuff like "G-string camping videos" get fully supported *don't get me wrong, I fully support G-string camping videos. Why do those videos get supported but someone can make a well edited informative video that covers a difficult topic.. and yet that's not supported? Quality true crime content struggles to get any support & that's just one example. TH-cam overly abuses their control over what videos get monetized or whats gets flagged or copyrighted, even when the creator did everything correctly to be fully covered under "fair use" rights. Yet TH-cam still makes these people go thru a bunch of nonsense, trying to communicate with TH-cams joke of an official review process. Some of these creators put in so much effort into their videos & they follow all of youtubes rules as much as possible followed, yet TH-cam still throws them thru the ringer. People should be allowed to cover these topics but they don't care. They hit them with limited adds, etc. It just really frustrates me that TH-cam is making it really hard for these creators. Even tho they bring so much value to their company. I don't think TH-cam realizes that a huge percentage of their viewers are adults.. Not everything has to be made for kids... Idk i hope TH-cam improves because they really are a great platform but they got to get their shit together and support these creators who bring so much to their platform.
hey would you mind sharing the link to the aluminium powder?
double the fun!
U just need to refine your protocol. Could Magnesium be better than Aluminum with sodium? Curious if you can increase NA yield?
I think he said at the beginning that he chose aluminum
because magnesium is more expensive,
so I don't think he will, because he is trying to replace it?
Is this way suppose to be that violent, or sodium can be produced slower in this way? I hope youtube doesnt misunderstand me...
Sodium carbonate, often added to molten glass, seeing a blowtorch: am I a joke to you?
spoon and torch chemistry
Why didn't you use dry ice for the co2?
So if NileRed's 2nd channel is NileBlue, I wonder what this channel would be called if it followed that same sort of idea. MrYellowGuy? No, that sounds wrong.
to make the potassium carbonate why dont you just use a sodastream with a canister filled with c02 gas
Wouldn't just co2 from a soda stream bottle do?
nah that reaction to sodium when it shouldn't have been made is funny, idk why those reaction seem funny to me, and then you have to think why it works when it shouldn't....