Tbh thats just chemistry. You go into lab thinking: oh i just need to add this shit to a flask and let it reflux and then separate it in a column and it ends up taking 10 hrs lol
"Okay, now Mom . . .Dad . . . we all need to be reasonable about this okay? I might have kinda, sorta, somehow detonated the garage. Yeah. Oh, and . . . um . . . the security services might be, sort of, on their way to arrest me. Now let's not freak out here - Mom? Dad . . ?" Yep, reminds me of rehearsing and adjusting my 'excuse speech,' over and over, hoping there was some magical combination of words and tone that might let me get away with driving my bike straight through the living room windows . . .
“I needed something that was small, but really heavy.” **pulls out perfectly sized cube made of one of the densest metals on earth that he randomly bought a year ago**
The way Nile was holding the piece of wood here 39:44 made me think "Oh it's not THAT transparent?" but then he dropped it on the book, and I gasped so hard
The final result honestly looks like something I'd want my shower windows to be made of. I think it wood be cool to shower in a transparent, wooden shower. And you wouldn't have to worry too much about mold getting into the grain, because it's partially plastic. Plus, if the panes don't come out as clear as the final result, then it works well as a privacy screen.
Jokes on me, I have no idea what any of you are talking about and even though I watched every second of the video still don't understand how its possible.
Even as he tells us his new lab is extremely expensive. Ngl I don't mind all the ads as long as he keeps making these awesome videos. He is a very good guy tho, more TH-camrs should be like Nile
I really love that this video is not a usual clickbait with "making epoxy in a shape of wood with its texture", it's s real piece of wood being turned transparent
@@aboldone3991 bro the title is "making transparent wood" and he did make with originally normal wood, showing the prpcess are you blind or do you have a mental disability?
Two years later I'm scrolling through the comments looking for someone suggesting that you sand the wood pieces (dry, very fine grit, always with the grain never against) before and after bleaching them to maybe avoid some of those finish issues later on. Polishing the plastic surface at the end made the piece itself beautifully smooth and shiny, but I suspect the raised wood grain inside the plastic is causing a lot of the haziness and contributing to the initial rough texture of the piece coming out of the oven. You're not really casting acrylic around the wood so I'm not entirely sure if the process would benefit from containing the acrylic goo to keep the wood submerged before curing it, but my gut says it wouldn't hurt to try.
Honestly, it looks like frosted glass. The really nice kind that you find on doors! I was quite surprised to see that it's see-through, because normally "frosted glass" tends to blur out everything behind it, even from a close distance. So I'd say this piece of transparent wood has the appeal of frosted glass from a distance, but the functionality of real glass if you look up close : )
@@lanegutz9768 Usually it’s a play on words. Like this one: How many tickles does it take to make an octopus laugh? 10-tickles! The joke is that 10-tickles sounds like tentacles, the legs on an octopus
Only recently started watching your videos and I can't help but notice how a hammer is one of the core tools used in chemistry, at least in your lab. They didn't teach me that in school!
@@iadtag1853 I really was expecting to see the hammer for only a single frame as he sent it flying straight through both the wood sample and the table.
i love how realistic his videos are, he shows us how it really takes multiple tries instead of getting it perfect the first time, and that’s how chemistry is
It is amazing how well this guy does these videos, no swearing is a big one. The camera angle are great, he explains all the aspects of the experiment and it is a very enjoyable experience watching these videos!
Everytime you say you were “immediately disappointed” I get frustrated. Everytime you say “I was happy with what I saw” I think I get excited to see the results.
same im watching this during school and i was like okay 4 minutes lets go and didnt realize until i finished it but it was 40 and i missed out on my test
@@dandanthedandan7558 you do. if one section gets too hot it can superheat, then spontaneously boil over into your reaction or over the bench. a paperclip is good because its large and thin and since its metal, i think it reinforces the magnetic field so that you can put a stir bar above it that might be a bit out of range of the plate. we use paperclips in our lab for oil or water in the baths
I think that would be really interesting for bathroom windows! Especially the ones that were not quite perfectly transparent since a lot of people like fogged glass for the bathroom anyway
"I gently smashed it with a hammer." *Me, having been here a while, fully expecting him to slam the hammer down* *Actually gently taps it with the hammer* Me: :O
sorry for the confusion, you seem to be thinking of nileblue nilered - haha science go bbrrrr SAFETY FIRST nileblue - hahaha science go bbrrrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
“.....because I didn’t want to support a market like this.” However, by pointing out its dangers and potential harms, you’ve educated many people on the matter. Maybe even, hopefully, stopped somebody from abusing a chemical marketed as a “miracle drug” when in reality it’s a poison.
True that this is technically educational, but we can probably consider it a zero-sum outcome given the likely amount of crossover between chemistry channel enthusiasts and snake oil consumers.
I subscribed a few months ago after watching several of these in a row. You're a bit hesitant before starting the video, but then it ends and you think, "That was 40 minutes?"
Actually leveled it, used mold release, looks amazing... but no resin?! 😲 Seriously inspiring though! When we were trying to make our clear wood we had that same irrational hope that the next try would magically work 🤣 End result was amazing and that MMA looks really interesting!
Also, if you eventually do attempt a window of clear wood you might want to check out vacuum bag infusion! We had actually bought a whole kit and had a plan for how to handle the resin part but we ended up calling it good after 3 weeks and a semi clear wood piece
the artifacting on that latest piece was mostly around the edges, I think the mass of the tungsten cube may have cased the outer edges to cure at a different rate.
@Pud Pete Art can be also a basic synonym for skill or mastery, not commonly used as that, but it’s still a possibility. Well, as many other branches of study. Chemistry and art have their ideological foundations on Philosophy, both are processes with a goal, that require experimentation to be achieved. They’re kinda like distant cousins. While chemistry is much more rigorous than art, it still requires creative decisions, where to start, what to do, how to achieve it, what failed, how to improve. The clockworks moving and the kinda, connect the dots is still there. Probably thanks to Arts nebulous definition it’s much easier to connect it to anything else. For example, in the Jungian model of Archetypes, usually the concepts of the artist and the inventor are equated under the “creative”. And science and art seem to keep crossing paths involuntarily. Since they both revolve around Ideas! Ah, that’s the word I was looking for, ideas! Sorry to bore you, I happen to be a fan of both art an science, though in the side of science I tend to be only brilliant on the conceptual side, sadly. More of a “to much” mess in the practical and theoretical departments. Not that much of a problem in the side of art, though still, a flaw. Kind of like a grotesque mass of ideas that simplified could work, but keep growing into these maximalist amalgams of concepts. Ah, If only Mad scientist was a profession. But alas. Ah, look, the whole maximalists thing happened to this comment, how, unsurprising.
It's probably pretty straightforward to do. Scale up the process with longer, slower lignin removal process for wood thick enough to be a table top. Use some heavily gnarled piece of wood so the texture that remains is more interesting and pronounced. Go back to traditional epoxy for durability and color control (ironic, given the yellowing, I know). Mix a very thin amount of blue dye in a large vat of the epoxy to offset the yellowing. I'm going off his process + the videos of people making the artistic epoxy-wood tables and how you handle yellowed clothing with bluing (a faint blue dye that used to be commonly used in laundering). I don't actually know for certain if this would work.
@@Merennulli Considering there is almost nowhere that sells actual transparent wood furniture in mass production, it's probably not feasible. Almost all "transparent wood" furniture is actually just plexiglass made to look like wood. Apparently a few months ago a better process was found to make transparent wood easier? Maybe it'll scale up soon. It'd be cool to have actual transparent wood furniture.
@@huleyn135 We're not talking about mass production, we're talking expensive one-off art pieces. Look up "burlwood epoxy table" for the sort of market this would be.
@@cutieowl347 Full transparency wouldn't be desirable anyway. At that point they already have glass and acrylic that are cheaper. The reason an expensive artist-made table would be made of transparent wood would be to show off the grain and texture. A lot of art is an intentionally imperfect result.
I think pre-sanding the piece of wood to an extremely fine surface almost like glass-like touch will help the final product. Also, the polymerization of Methacrylate is affected by the amount of oxygen in the solution. If you vacuum your MMA before you mix it with the initiator and heat you will have a faster and even polymerization, meaning that you will have always the same rate of polymerization in the proportion to the amount of initiator. When vacuuming the wood under the MMA try to keep the wood immersed as the vacuum will create bubbles inside the wood and it will float. Something small but heavy on each of the four corners will keep the piece of wood under the methacrylate during the vacuum. Hope that helps
reminds me of when I started out working as a chemist and we were making a peroxy acid the procedure called for 90% peroxide but we only had 70% hand, my boss at the time had me call the manufacturer to ask if they sold 90% and I remember the sales mans voice getting really low asking me "what do you need that for?" god knows what kind of list I ended up in lol
bro thankyou for making these videos. I had no attention, attendance or willpower to go to school growing up. Went into construction built a career. That fell through dude to medical reasons and I've gone back to school. Uni foundation/bridging course. Chemistry is one of my papers. Watching your videos over the years and even today You've helped me build and maintain a healthy attitude towards school and science. So thankyou for that man. Even though it has been incredibly tough losing my career and a lot of mobility I am having the time of my life studying right now. You don't know me and I don't mean shit to you but thankyou man. I love your work!
I think these kinds of comments mean a lot to Nigel. We've just watched like 3 weeks of work condensed to 45 minutes. If he only got a piece of sorta-ok-ish transparent wood out of it he wouldn't be doing it. But knowing that it entertains a lot of people, gets some interested in chemistry in general, or help people with their studies is a whole different dimension. Also: Good luck, and remember that if the fumes turn yellowish red: RUN! :P
Hiding in plain sight by using a TH-cam channel as a front, is probably easier than trying to keep it completely secret from the authorities if he did have unsavory plans with these chemicals ^^
@@callistoarmy5576 Man u should promote when ur singing vids are actually good. stop promoting if u think u will get bashed or discriminated for what you are doing. anyways keep up and keep practicing pog
@@callistoarmy5576 I know your not a bot but you sure do act like it, if you really wanna advertise, bran your wallet and piggy bank and buy some advertisements on various websites like TH-cam
1. Use thinner pmma, or other type of resin. It should be viscous like water. 2. Put weight on submerged material or it will float cuz of bubbles underneath. 3. Use two step vacuum pump. 4. When vacuming , pump all air out, then let air in and let the resin flow in , its much denser than air , need time to travel through capilars of wood. 5. Move the material in the resin to pressure chamber. Any pfessure higher than 0 will be useful but higher is better. Let it sit for few hours maybe days. Then do polimerisation. Ive stabilized tones of wood. Good luck!
You're like the bob ross of chemistry Like how bob ross makes anyone feel calm and capable and makes everyone wanna get into art You make anyone feel calm and capable and make people wanna get into chemistry
the gravity of the cube is perspective-changing. I achieved immortality and super strength due to mine for context, there's a meme video about the cube
I'm only a beginner woodworker, but maybe when you revisit this you could try sanding the wood before as well. That might help with the surface imperfections.
Sorry about all the ads. TH-cam automatically adds a million and I forgot to manually take them out. Refresh the page and you should get fewer ads!
aight
TH-cam is absolutely balanced with their broken systems xP
I noticed you have bobby duke's merch hehe im a big fan of both of you :)
Yea TH-cam Is just straight up bad nowadays :/
You cant even see ads anymore on mobile at least
A summary of all NileRed videos:
"It turned out to be way more work than I thought."
Oh hi
Tbh thats just chemistry. You go into lab thinking: oh i just need to add this shit to a flask and let it reflux and then separate it in a column and it ends up taking 10 hrs lol
True for all research projects!
Hi
@That Anime Kid lmao
It's cute how Nile doesn't realise he's definitely already on that list
lol right??
Let's not forget his video on how to make chloroform 😬
@@outside8312 omg yes i love it
@Daniel Beam *innocently dyes dress with arsenic in victorian style*
My favorite is when he decided to show the world how he gets his red phosphorus
When Nile is on the final step but there is over 30 minutes left in the video:
“Something’s wrong, I can feel it.”
You have to take the foreshadowing into account when he's only using words like "should" , "i was hoping" , "the idea was" , "in theory".
"supposed to"
Oh, he's showing us the failed first try. I wonder what he changes to make it work.
I was hoping the idea was, in theory, **stuff**
it's just, a feeling I've got.
@@mrkiky "I was hoping that [...]"
Me: Oh no.
Every time he says "I carefully hit it with the hammer" I expect the hammer to come flying in at full force
Me to!😂
That's NileBlue
Same
@@zoey4284 wait- trueee
Nile blue pt:1@@zoey4284
Nile always sounds like he broke something and has to explain it to his parents without them getting mad
Omg now I cant unhear it
Yeah it really does lol
Yeah it actually does lol
"Okay, now Mom . . .Dad . . . we all need to be reasonable about this okay?
I might have kinda, sorta, somehow detonated the garage. Yeah.
Oh, and . . . um . . . the security services might be, sort of, on their way to arrest me.
Now let's not freak out here - Mom? Dad . . ?"
Yep, reminds me of rehearsing and adjusting my 'excuse speech,' over and over, hoping there was some magical combination of words and tone that might let me get away with driving my bike straight through the living room windows . . .
@@stickiedmin6508 You did WHAT?
Since they actually succeeded, I'd love to see NileRed make a full window using transparent wood
dang its the man
Justin Y. The Second is here
Yeah, that's seems something he should do. Maybe replace every window in his house with transparent wood.
It might be a nileblue video since the steps to making the thing won't change.
That actually sounds quite brilliant, let’s hope it happens. 😃👍
“I needed something that was small, but really heavy.”
**pulls out perfectly sized cube made of one of the densest metals on earth that he randomly bought a year ago**
just. as you do.
I remember that poll he made on twitter, at that moment it seemed random and stupid af, but I knew that tungsten cube will come in handy someday.
what seems to be the problem?
Filament porn
@@peewhocantbeaimed6954 same
using nearly 18,000$ worth of tungsten cubes as flat weights is a flex i hope i will match one day
I assume he's just glad he has an actual use for them, cause they keep showing up in videos they have nothing to do with
I saw that pfp on google. I used it once too so i dont blame you
5lbs×($21.77to$23.59per pound)=$108.85to$117.95
So, 5 lbs of tungsten costs approximately $108.85 to $117.95.
@@imyourocd1pound of 999.9 tungsten cost about 150$
And i think hes talking about the 40 pound one
""Why isn't NileRed uploading???"
NileRed: *Waiting 2 months just for the woods to get treated*
Correct xD
He could be doing stuff in the mean time though- not that he should be obliged to of course.
@@sean..L yea it's just humor lol the woods take pretty long to get treated lol
@@addan3002
He Should Try To Make Transparent Ice
@@cadejust6777 idk man that sounds like it would be too hard
Nile: *opens oven*
Me: It looks so good
Nile: I was immediately disappointed
Me: I was immediately disappointed
it looked like a piece of butter💀
😂😂😂😂
ME LMAOOOOO
sheep
I love ur profile picture! Albedo is awsome
The way Nile was holding the piece of wood here 39:44 made me think "Oh it's not THAT transparent?" but then he dropped it on the book, and I gasped so hard
It's 1AM so it's the perfect time to watch a 40 minute chemistry video.
same here at 3AM lol
Yup.
3:36am
Same
Hahaha ha ha don't you ever call me out for my unhealthy habits again random person ill never meet
The correct pronunciation is literally on your shirt. Nice shirt btw ;)
The cross pollination is great
Sup Bobby
The wewd master himself
I wawnt thayut
Hello there
The final result honestly looks like something I'd want my shower windows to be made of. I think it wood be cool to shower in a transparent, wooden shower. And you wouldn't have to worry too much about mold getting into the grain, because it's partially plastic. Plus, if the panes don't come out as clear as the final result, then it works well as a privacy screen.
*MOSTLY* plastic, rather. As he stated in the video, by weight the end result was about 87% plastic :)
I'd love this in rooms like the bedroom where privacy windows would look tacky but where you still want privacy
Mold grows on plastic by the way. In fact mold grows on almost all materials
Shoulda been woodn't
Sounds like a great way to get a moldy shower
Can’t wait to see the day where NileRed makes a transparent house.
I wonder what he would do about the windows
@clappyblappyboi841 - That's already been done by several prominent architects. But they cheated and used glass.
Whoever lived in it could throw stones all they wanted probably
NileRed in 5 years: lives in a house with aerogel walls, wooden windows and a photoelectric roof of some sort...
And with "it took longer than expected" gas filling the interior.
Don't forget a superconductor fondation for a floating house.
And a carcinogen supply cos he has a favourite "liquid cancer" lol
@@lolololol3623 XDDD
dont forget the plastic glove soda dispensors
Person: "People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones."
NileRed: "Joke's on you, it's transparent wood."
Just be careful with scissors
@@gondametzger6146 jokes on you it’s actually glass
Joke's on me, I'm lighting matches and burned my fingers
Pykrete:
Jokes on me, I have no idea what any of you are talking about and even though I watched every second of the video still don't understand how its possible.
You are the only person who would say “I carefully hit it with a hammer” and then actually hits it very carefully.
Certainly wasn't expecting a gentle hit
*“I carefully smashed it to pieces”*
@@atsunome lol
**You’re.*
"Harry Potter, did you put your glass in the goblet of fire?" Dumbledore asked carefully
the sequence .. the narration .. the picture quality ... so amusing
@@masteroogway2405 hell naw
Indubitably
The fact the NileRed manually removes adds for a better viewer experience really shows how much he cares about his work and his viewers
good guy nile
Even as he tells us his new lab is extremely expensive. Ngl I don't mind all the ads as long as he keeps making these awesome videos. He is a very good guy tho, more TH-camrs should be like Nile
Your avatar: Is that lunch?
@@JoeKreis yeah true
@@sleepful1917Nile is a terrible human being. He beats his wife. Have you not seen the mugshot?
Anyone else get serious "opening a Wonka bar looking for a Golden Ticket" vibe every time Nigel started to open up the aluminum foil packets?
Judging by how finicky the process is, you at least get the feeling that it’s some chemistry casino.
Yh
I really love that this video is not a usual clickbait with "making epoxy in a shape of wood with its texture", it's s real piece of wood being turned transparent
Aye check his other stuffs too, great chemistry and education. I recommend his test tube rockets :3
But it is a usual clickbait.
@@aboldone3991 it legitimately isn't. What's in the title is what is in the video.
@@watchableraven3517 clickbait is clickbait. No matter what is in the video.
@@aboldone3991 bro the title is "making transparent wood" and he did make with originally normal wood, showing the prpcess
are you blind or do you have a mental disability?
never been so invested watching a chemist doing crazy experiment . love it keep it up
The bigger better sequel we didn't know we needed.
The mad man has perfected the formula!
@@argento-pyrite better formula!!😃
yup
@F*СК MЕ - СНЕCK МY РR0FILЕ Yes. 😍
Bigger longer and uncut
i love how there’s no music just him talking and the sounds of the chemistry it’s so interesting that way
If he did would he use breaking bad music? I mean it fits.
@@Firebolt7317i love your pfp
Yo it is a fellow ant interested in science
I love how much of his scientific process is "I hope that will magically fix itself later."
me when i look at myself in the mirror ;-;
That's how American politicians try to solve problems. They wait that a miracle will happen but to no avail. And then they blame it on minorities.
@@Akamaikai0923 ...why are you bringing politics into this? It's unnecessary.
@@Akamaikai0923 what’s the point of this comment
@@Akamaikai0923 this is a video about making wood clear what was this about
Two years later I'm scrolling through the comments looking for someone suggesting that you sand the wood pieces (dry, very fine grit, always with the grain never against) before and after bleaching them to maybe avoid some of those finish issues later on.
Polishing the plastic surface at the end made the piece itself beautifully smooth and shiny, but I suspect the raised wood grain inside the plastic is causing a lot of the haziness and contributing to the initial rough texture of the piece coming out of the oven.
You're not really casting acrylic around the wood so I'm not entirely sure if the process would benefit from containing the acrylic goo to keep the wood submerged before curing it, but my gut says it wouldn't hurt to try.
"Alright guys, the next thing you want to do is find your 40 pound tungsten cube."
Timestamp?
@@BatCostumeGuy 32:32
@@balen9261 Thanks
@@callistoarmy5576 Your music videos are bad and you are also self promoting, stop it get some help.
@@BatCostumeGuy okay bro ❤️no problem. I know that no one support in beginning.. but I am happy for your review..
Honestly, it looks like frosted glass. The really nice kind that you find on doors! I was quite surprised to see that it's see-through, because normally "frosted glass" tends to blur out everything behind it, even from a close distance. So I'd say this piece of transparent wood has the appeal of frosted glass from a distance, but the functionality of real glass if you look up close : )
Yeah he did a great job
If this process could be streamlined it could be used for some interesting thinfs
@@YourLocalCafe I agree! Plenty unique functional uses for it, aside from just being a beautiful material.
I must say, the Tungsten Cube is by far my favourite NileRed cinematic universe character.
NRCU is special indeed!
Omg lol
I definitely hope that a big horned dude didn't come and steal it.
Alternative Title: Man plays with his wood until he can’t see it.
(Skull emoji)
As someone who worked in a polymer lab for a bit, the statement “I might just be doing something wrong but have no idea” is completely on the nose
As someone, the statement "I might just be doing something wrong but have no idea" is also completely on the nose for everything in life.
I believe that is the accurate because temperature and rate of reaction or significant. Thanks a lot and how do I methacrylate my guitar
In California we use methacrylate mixed with pebbles and use it on Bridges.
"there was a paper about transparent wood" has to be the most underrated, involuntary pun in the history of paper papers.
lmao
Paper papers!!!!
Wood you care to explain what a pun is? :-)
@@lanegutz9768 Usually it’s a play on words.
Like this one:
How many tickles does it take to make an octopus laugh? 10-tickles!
The joke is that 10-tickles sounds like tentacles, the legs on an octopus
Haha, nice catch! I liked 'you can clearly see it is not transparent' as well.
"you might end up on a list" nile...with love and light, you are 100000% already on several lists
Nah, he’s probably just on two lists
correction 69
getting a masters degree in chemistry immediately lands you on at least a few lists, so yeah agreed lol
@@bryanbogaert8726 he didn't finish his MS degree though
Haha there is that comment reflecting what I thought at the exact same moment in the video.
Only recently started watching your videos and I can't help but notice how a hammer is one of the core tools used in chemistry, at least in your lab. They didn't teach me that in school!
"And then carefully smash it to pieces" there's a combination of words you never expect to be used together.
Only if you are new to this channel...
I was actually expecting him to do it otherwise. Like really smash it out of anger. LOL
@@iadtag1853 I really was expecting to see the hammer for only a single frame as he sent it flying straight through both the wood sample and the table.
Hulk carefully smash!
When you want to board up your windows but you still want to see outside:
@Charming nowhere to hide idk where you're going with that but sure I guess you could
Underrated bruh
@@KemoTherapy69 indeed
Ok👍
When your hiding from someone and don’t want them to come in but you want to look outside:
i love how realistic his videos are, he shows us how it really takes multiple tries instead of getting it perfect the first time, and that’s how chemistry is
It’s how any process is too lol
honestly he knows a lot of chemistry but did a lot of dumb mistakes i recognized in the very first batch he made. he needs more common sense
@@mranon42023 it’s a common thing, he’s smart just forgets to think sometimes
@@mranon42023 You should contact him to work with him and give him advice so he can have better content.
@@Dr.AutismGod mate i live like 30000km away
I’m watching this at midnight and I’m not sure what is or isn’t real anymore. Thanks Nile!
"a 5 pound tungsten cube that I have randomly bought a year ago"
Makes sense
This proves that Nile is the guy in the math problems.
Still waiting for him to buy 100 watermelons though.
Is this the same cube from the William Osman video?
@@alexliedtka4736 the 2nd 40 pound cube was
All the best stuff is random
This Peasant only has Tungsten?! Us rich scientists buy 5 pound cubes of Osmium!
This mans patience is unbelievable. Hats off to Nile for pushing through for an awesome vid!
Comments like this are very underrated
It is amazing how well this guy does these videos, no swearing is a big one. The camera angle are great, he explains all the aspects of the experiment and it is a very enjoyable experience watching these videos!
Nile, Nile, Nile - you know damn well you’re already on every watch list imaginable.
By making wood? 😂 but yeah ik what you mean
@@helpmereachtwentythousands3232 Flashback to Uranium Glass when he said "Apparently the government doesn't like it when you enrich Uranium"
@@coffeecatto3375 😆
Definetly on my "watch" list.
Everytime you say you were “immediately disappointed” I get frustrated.
Everytime you say “I was happy with what I saw” I think I get excited to see the results.
"Honey, dinner's ready."
"I'll be down in a sec, I'm cleaning my wood."
HE CLEANED IT SO MUCH THAT IT BECAME WOOD GLASS
I mean...
@@icedchqi is there a problem?
I mean umm damnn my mind damnn okay shit am out of this comment section
nice
The Tungsten cubes should become a recurring thing in the videos, believe in their meme potential.
ALL HAIL THE _C U B E S_
The adventures of the Distilled Water and Super Tungsten Cube
"These are my tungsten cubes: Tong, Sten, and Carl."
@@AeroQC nah, tung, stenny and dexter the fifth
something: *doesn't work*
Nilered: _RELEASE THE CUBE_
"A few years ago I tried making transparent wood and it kind of worked"
Wait wait wait.... It has been THAT LONG?!
i knowwwwwww
I did it, too, but I left out the wood. Worked great.
@@Digital-Dan that was a shit joke. Just being... transparent *bad dum tshhh*
Same
@@dahliaspumpski5837 let me be *clear*, that wasn’t very funny.
when he goes "i was pretty happy with what i saw" !!!!!! never felt happier for a youtuber doing weird science i never even considered
I'm still amazed by the idea that he looked for something heavy and found a conveniently-sized tungsten cube randomly laying around in a room.
at this point it doesn’t even surprise me
@Claire Morgan I died when he showed the second tungsten cube.
Right?
I was actually thinking 'he could use one of those tungsten cubes if he had one' (I recently bought one as well) just seconds before he got it :D
It's like 10k$!!!
I like the way he never gives up until he is satisfied with the final result. Hats off
And he never let you down in his videos
And never ran around and deserted his passion
@@imibuks-replit 🤓
@@Sparks2490 "🤓"-🤓
@@mortem4342 “🤓 -🤓” -🤓
@@werentia “🤓-🤓-🤓” -🤓
My dyslexic ass thought the video was gonna be 4 minutes, imagine my shock when it just kept going. I'm too deep now and need to see the end of this.
I don’t wanna disrespect people with disabilities but lmao
Sounds like a nice problem to have?
In this case, at least?
Dude same! How?
I was watching a short video before this and I thought it's 43 seconds 🤣
same im watching this during school and i was like okay 4 minutes lets go and didnt realize until i finished it but it was 40 and i missed out on my test
Me watching this at 3am: i like your funny words magic man.
With all the professional tools Nigel has, he still chose to use a paperclip to stir that hot water bath. Resourceful, kid, resourceful.
Yeah what's the purpose of the paperclip lol. You don't really need to stir the hot water right?
You can take the boy out of the hood but you can't take the hood out of the boy
@@dandanthedandan7558 you do. if one section gets too hot it can superheat, then spontaneously boil over into your reaction or over the bench. a paperclip is good because its large and thin and since its metal, i think it reinforces the magnetic field so that you can put a stir bar above it that might be a bit out of range of the plate. we use paperclips in our lab for oil or water in the baths
@@jonathanodude6660 Oh I thought it was useless since it barely spinned. Thx for the info
Until he builds a house.
Every time you said "I carefully hit it with the hammer" I was fully expecting the hammer to just slam down full force
Yep
I thought that too
Bro same
Every single time he said "carefully hit it with a hammer" I was half expecting to see it fly into the glass.
Yeah I was thinking after he said that,”there is no hammering lightly” and I was politely corrected
Lol
Gotta go to Styropyro for that kind of careful
SWEARR was kinda disappointed it didnt
Thats the first time Ive ever heard “carefully smashed it to pieces”, I lmao. Was still funny every other time too
I think that would be really interesting for bathroom windows! Especially the ones that were not quite perfectly transparent since a lot of people like fogged glass for the bathroom anyway
“and hopefully the last attempt”
*me looking nervously at 20 minutes left in the video
"I gently smashed it with a hammer."
*Me, having been here a while, fully expecting him to slam the hammer down*
*Actually gently taps it with the hammer*
Me: :O
Yep :D I was expecting a loud scream "Mjölnir!!!"
and instead got a nice little tap *o.O*
sorry for the confusion, you seem to be thinking of nileblue
nilered - haha science go bbrrrr SAFETY FIRST
nileblue - hahaha science go bbrrrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Impossible
Yea haha
Omg same lol
“.....because I didn’t want to support a market like this.”
However, by pointing out its dangers and potential harms, you’ve educated many people on the matter.
Maybe even, hopefully, stopped somebody from abusing a chemical marketed as a “miracle drug” when in reality it’s a poison.
I wouldn’t call it a spicy sugar pill, more like drinking bleach. That stuff can be deadly and it is way more than a spicy sugar pill
@@myamacke4159 you right. I was thinking about that for a minute. Lemme edit that real quick
your comment already says edited, you don't have to write that
True that this is technically educational, but we can probably consider it a zero-sum outcome given the likely amount of crossover between chemistry channel enthusiasts and snake oil consumers.
@@Hoochfox Yep ,no one who drinks renamed bleach understand 1% of NileRed.
His perfectionism is unparalleled
I can't believe my brain consciously decided to click and watch a 44 minute long chemistry video. This is a good suggestion, youtube algorithm
I was planning to watch a couple of minutes of it and ended up watching the whole video
i dont usually watch long videos but bruh i just cannot skip this
subscribe
same! might as well subscribe to his channel for more interesting stuff! :D
I subscribed a few months ago after watching several of these in a row. You're a bit hesitant before starting the video, but then it ends and you think, "That was 40 minutes?"
Actually leveled it, used mold release, looks amazing... but no resin?! 😲
Seriously inspiring though! When we were trying to make our clear wood we had that same irrational hope that the next try would magically work 🤣 End result was amazing and that MMA looks really interesting!
Also, if you eventually do attempt a window of clear wood you might want to check out vacuum bag infusion! We had actually bought a whole kit and had a plan for how to handle the resin part but we ended up calling it good after 3 weeks and a semi clear wood piece
@@EvanAndKatelyn do I see a collaboration with nilered in the future for this full sized transparent window project? :)
@@bit0fun Omg YES!!
You guys should try some things with MMA, that stuff looks really satisfying :)
Hello
Nile: “Looked around the room for something to use”
Me:”Surely it will be some sort of typical lab equipment or something”
Nile: “TUNGSTEN CUBE”
Lmao “I was hoping for a miracle, but nothing happened.”
@niduoe stre copied comment
And later on needed a bigger weight-
Even bigger TUNGSTEN CUBE
@niduoe stre copied comment
a clamp? maybe a good wood sandwich and gravity? no a TUNGSTEN CUBE
Thanks!
"This is my house, its made 100% out of wood. Floor is out of wood, walls are out of wood, roof is out of wood, *_even window glass is out of wood._*
EVEN THE CHILD
@@luma8212 even your face
@@ShibaInuDogRandom even your shibbainu
@@luma8212 JOE BIDOME????
Fire: this looks like a job for me
Whenever Nile says "Carefully hit with a hammer" I'm always expecting him to just smash tf out of whatever's on screen.
|-O-| same
it's so strange, he's the micheal reeves of chemistry and i keep thinking he's gonna go insane
True
@Nemo Clanc the glass smashing video lol
Yeah, the stark difference between NileBlue and NileRed is kinda shocking
Well-known youtube scientist and talented chemist:
"It'll just magically fix its self"
@bowen voowy same
Meh he could be a magician all along trying to trick us
Just jk
the artifacting on that latest piece was mostly around the edges, I think the mass of the tungsten cube may have cased the outer edges to cure at a different rate.
I didn't realize how much art is required in chemistry. Watching you felt a lot like watching an artist trying to learn an entirely new medium.
felt something like watching bobby duke (idk, maybe because of WEWD)
it’s always just really fun to watch skilled people do the thing they love :)
@Pud Pete Art can be also a basic synonym for skill or mastery, not commonly used as that, but it’s still a possibility.
Well, as many other branches of study. Chemistry and art have their ideological foundations on Philosophy, both are processes with a goal, that require experimentation to be achieved. They’re kinda like distant cousins. While chemistry is much more rigorous than art, it still requires creative decisions, where to start, what to do, how to achieve it, what failed, how to improve. The clockworks moving and the kinda, connect the dots is still there. Probably thanks to Arts nebulous definition it’s much easier to connect it to anything else.
For example, in the Jungian model of Archetypes, usually the concepts of the artist and the inventor are equated under the “creative”. And science and art seem to keep crossing paths involuntarily. Since they both revolve around Ideas! Ah, that’s the word I was looking for, ideas!
Sorry to bore you, I happen to be a fan of both art an science, though in the side of science I tend to be only brilliant on the conceptual side, sadly. More of a “to much” mess in the practical and theoretical departments. Not that much of a problem in the side of art, though still, a flaw.
Kind of like a grotesque mass of ideas that simplified could work, but keep growing into these maximalist amalgams of concepts.
Ah, If only Mad scientist was a profession. But alas.
Ah, look, the whole maximalists thing happened to this comment, how, unsurprising.
@Pud Pete it doesn’t require traditional art but it is an art
@@artfcialtv thx for writing some of my essay for me, submitting this without credit.
“And if you do manage to buy it, you can sometimes end up on a list...”
Man, if you aren’t on a list by now I’d be amazed
Gov’t; he’s on a list of verified consumers
th-cam.com/video/-RAglyw6ySk/w-d-xo.html
Radioactive Boy Scout - “hold my soda”
I'm already on list just by watching some things on YT
I imagine a coffee table out of transparent wood being one of those hyper-expensive art-furniture pieces in 5-star hotel rooms.
It's probably pretty straightforward to do.
Scale up the process with longer, slower lignin removal process for wood thick enough to be a table top. Use some heavily gnarled piece of wood so the texture that remains is more interesting and pronounced. Go back to traditional epoxy for durability and color control (ironic, given the yellowing, I know). Mix a very thin amount of blue dye in a large vat of the epoxy to offset the yellowing.
I'm going off his process + the videos of people making the artistic epoxy-wood tables and how you handle yellowed clothing with bluing (a faint blue dye that used to be commonly used in laundering). I don't actually know for certain if this would work.
@@Merennulli Considering there is almost nowhere that sells actual transparent wood furniture in mass production, it's probably not feasible. Almost all "transparent wood" furniture is actually just plexiglass made to look like wood.
Apparently a few months ago a better process was found to make transparent wood easier? Maybe it'll scale up soon. It'd be cool to have actual transparent wood furniture.
@@huleyn135 We're not talking about mass production, we're talking expensive one-off art pieces. Look up "burlwood epoxy table" for the sort of market this would be.
Then you spill coffee over them and now you just have a table
@@cutieowl347 Full transparency wouldn't be desirable anyway. At that point they already have glass and acrylic that are cheaper. The reason an expensive artist-made table would be made of transparent wood would be to show off the grain and texture. A lot of art is an intentionally imperfect result.
As an architect, I immediately think of elegant glazing and room dividers for open-plan offices, hotels and bathrooms, for example. Very nice!
@-Aeveris- - Better check into the fire properties first, though.
If this guy made a 24 hour video it would feel like 24 minutes these videos are so amazing they make time fly by like its wind blowing in a rainy day
For me is like when you start to understand a process of an article and you start to recreate in your head but for 44 min
Oh wow you’re right, I thought this was maybe 15 minutes, I didn’t even realize I’d been here for 40
I think pre-sanding the piece of wood to an extremely fine surface almost like glass-like touch will help the final product. Also, the polymerization of Methacrylate is affected by the amount of oxygen in the solution. If you vacuum your MMA before you mix it with the initiator and heat you will have a faster and even polymerization, meaning that you will have always the same rate of polymerization in the proportion to the amount of initiator. When vacuuming the wood under the MMA try to keep the wood immersed as the vacuum will create bubbles inside the wood and it will float. Something small but heavy on each of the four corners will keep the piece of wood under the methacrylate during the vacuum.
Hope that helps
Thank you Mario, never knew you had branched off from plumbing and acrobatics into chemistry
@@BalthorYT ahahahahhaha
@@BalthorYT wonder what princess peach became
@@notmyxboxusername9383 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍
@@notmyxboxusername9383 princess peach 🍑 ;)
reminds me of when I started out working as a chemist and we were making a peroxy acid the procedure called for 90% peroxide but we only had 70% hand, my boss at the time had me call the manufacturer to ask if they sold 90% and I remember the sales mans voice getting really low asking me "what do you need that for?" god knows what kind of list I ended up in lol
Lmao
LOL youre on the fbi list now
@@naritruwireve1381 csis but close enough lol
I wouldn’t be surprised. You can use peroxide and some other super common chemical to make explosives.
It has to be high concentration peroxide though
The self control you have to not use lignin as a chance for a deez nyuts joke is the most fascinating part
I got extremely happy to see him succeed through a screen, i can just imagine the amount of joy he gets doing it himself
yes
I love how he renamed older video to "Attempting to make transparent wood"
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bro thankyou for making these videos. I had no attention, attendance or willpower to go to school growing up. Went into construction built a career. That fell through dude to medical reasons and I've gone back to school. Uni foundation/bridging course. Chemistry is one of my papers. Watching your videos over the years and even today You've helped me build and maintain a healthy attitude towards school and science. So thankyou for that man. Even though it has been incredibly tough losing my career and a lot of mobility I am having the time of my life studying right now. You don't know me and I don't mean shit to you but thankyou man. I love your work!
best of luck dude. that sounds rough
I think these kinds of comments mean a lot to Nigel. We've just watched like 3 weeks of work condensed to 45 minutes. If he only got a piece of sorta-ok-ish transparent wood out of it he wouldn't be doing it. But knowing that it entertains a lot of people, gets some interested in chemistry in general, or help people with their studies is a whole different dimension.
Also: Good luck, and remember that if the fumes turn yellowish red: RUN! :P
My goodness. You tried so hard and you never gave up. Such willpower. It’s amazing.
NileRed: "For hopefully the last time..."
Me: *Checks time, 25 minutes into a 44 minute video* Oh no
I just checked when I saw this comment
I love how everyone expected him to beat the crap out of the glass when he literally said he’d be hitting it gently
It's a common comedy trope, plus he does sound fed up at that point.
This guy could start a drug lab
this is my first time seeing hammers used gently
Yeah, I definitely was expecting some styropyro antics
The way he talks and makes his videos i'm constantly anxious that the thing is gonna go wrong
so true
Arggh i know! He keeps saying like "It should have" or "What was supposed to happen" but then it goes right?
Well, naturally it SHOULD go wrong, at least according to Murphy.
Que este contenido llegue a español, realmente vale la pena para los que no sabemos ingles, gracias NileRed.
Nile: *wonders why the glass coaster fell over at **23:04*
Also Nile: *SLAMS OVEN DOOR TWO SECONDS EARLIER*
"A five pound tungsten cube i randomly bought over a year ago"
W h a t
reminds me of this one time I accidentally bought a trombone... I feel you, dude, I feel you
@@lifeontheledgerlines8394 how does one accidentally buy a trombone
Check William osman channel they throw it around
I have a big pile of them in the garage =-D
Did Nile just unintentionally make the best possible advertisement for 5lb tungsten cubes
It's 1:30am, I'm 26 minutes into this video... and I've never been so emotionally invested in woodchips in my life.
Mood really
Mood fr
12:36am for me
…five Nile vids in and it’s 4:47am somehow??
@@IESUproductionsomg same
Nile got a bob Ross type voice I knock out watching these vids all the time 😅
Nile : "i carefully hit it with the hammers"
Nile : is actually being careful
Expectation subversion
Expectation subversion subversion
Character Development
This isnt AVE
I was definitely expecting a smash from previous experience with his videos, lol.
NileRed getting concerned about ending up on a list when he literally bought 1 kilo of cyanide a couple months ago lol
he also bought some uranium off of ebay too
@@swoopify2044 u mean from the uranium glass vid?
Hiding in plain sight by using a TH-cam channel as a front, is probably easier than trying to keep it completely secret from the authorities if he did have unsavory plans with these chemicals ^^
Next week on NileRed: *creating Crystal meth using common household items.*
I love the passive aggressive slam of the oven door every time you ran a new batch. Great work!
how is that passive?
Handling the microfiber cloth with gloves on is honestly the best idea.
is this sarcasm or do microfiber cloths genuinely need gloves
@@featherozone Sarcasm, I just hate the feel of microfiber.
“I was really anxious to see... so I patiently waited”
Fkn discipline
Because I'm not famous like other singers that's why no one see my singing videos. Just see once❤..,,,,,
@@callistoarmy5576 Man u should promote when ur singing vids are actually good. stop promoting if u think u will get bashed or discriminated for what you are doing. anyways keep up and keep practicing
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@@callistoarmy5576 I know your not a bot but you sure do act like it, if you really wanna advertise, bran your wallet and piggy bank and buy some advertisements on various websites like TH-cam
Chemistry takes discipline.
I never thought I would hear the words “Carefully” and “Smash to pieces” in the same sentence
@RRAHH 8 yeah lol
oxymoron is what youre looking for
And then you carefully smash to pieces
"HARRY POTTER!!!!" he said calmly
"Handel that carefully or youl smash it to peices"
3:35 "You can sometimes end up on a list" - I feel like it's oddly optimistic to presume you're not already on one/many
__flashbacks to when he made uranium glass__
@@Jay-S04 What about deadly gases?
@@alessioughetta3677 Casually makes bromine in a garage
@@Jay-S04 Hate when it happens
@@Jay-S04 *been there, done that*
1. Use thinner pmma, or other type of resin. It should be viscous like water.
2. Put weight on submerged material or it will float cuz of bubbles underneath.
3. Use two step vacuum pump.
4. When vacuming , pump all air out, then let air in and let the resin flow in , its much denser than air , need time to travel through capilars of wood.
5. Move the material in the resin to pressure chamber. Any pfessure higher than 0 will be useful but higher is better. Let it sit for few hours maybe days. Then do polimerisation.
Ive stabilized tones of wood.
Good luck!
You're like the bob ross of chemistry
Like how bob ross makes anyone feel calm and capable and makes everyone wanna get into art
You make anyone feel calm and capable and make people wanna get into chemistry
Preach
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We need a bob Ross for every subject. The world would be a better place.
@@SpagettiSpeltWrong There, probably is. We just gotta look a bit
@@Moon-Archive tell me when y'all find the math one, cuss I'm done siting throw a boring class lol!
Nile: "I need something small and really heavy."
Tungsten: "Yes"
the gravity of the cube is perspective-changing. I achieved immortality and super strength due to mine
for context, there's a meme video about the cube
That's NileRed's "wood". lol :D jk
@@zawsrdtygbhjimokpl6998 For those interested, it's this one: th-cam.com/video/C7EocA1hsCU/w-d-xo.html
@@absolutewisp Thanks, did not regret clicking a link in yt comments section for the first time
@@Osama-kx3cq Glad to hear that!
I'm only a beginner woodworker, but maybe when you revisit this you could try sanding the wood before as well. That might help with the surface imperfections.
Also when you sand it, try and do it along the fibres, might help the transparency a small bit
Yea I mean, I thought that all of his troubles with rough textures could be fixed by sanding
Honestly I had the same idea, sanding would probably help it
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This was amazing!!!! Im not into a lot of science-based videos but you really kept my attention and enjoyed watching.