Sand is a not just SiO2*, its a specific grain size and shape. It wouldnt matter if the material with that shape is SiO2 or something else. Also, notice how dust pretty much doesnt irritate the eyes as it doesnt have the size to result in a relevant mechanical interaction (shear force) of eye and lid. HCl (fumes/gas) is not really irritating, just like HNO3. Its no comparison to things like NH3. *which is not even what is produced here, which is more like Si(OH)4 or some form of poly silicic acid later on as its dehydrated
Yeah.... Some Chinese factory must have burped out a couple hundred million of these a number of years back. Friend of mine has one in his yard, too. Welcome in the age of consumerism, ya putzes.... Your patio furniture is just as unique as your iPhones are, and your entire lives, for that matter. Get over yourselves, sheeple.
I worked in a chemical plant where we produce this stuff. Even I worked under full protection I have now 80% lung Volumina left and constantly coughing. Yes, this stuff is pure poison. Take care Neil, wear protective gear!
Clearly it wasn't "full protection" if you have reduced lung capacity today. Your employer only wanted you to believe it was, and apparently they succeeded lmao.
I guess it kinda sucks not being able to see out lungs, i guess i don't miss it cuz never had it. Dont take it for granted guys! You don't wanna become like me
@@SoulDelSol Maybe it's a genetic thing? Probably should talk to your doctor about that. Medicine is pretty advanced now, so they might have a cure for lung blindness.
@@pandalune oh boy, that would be great, thanks for the tip. In the meantime i found a website called "how the lung blind see the world", good read if you're interested in learning more about condition
@@tamer27antepli Responding to a 4yo comment but, people already used white phosphorus which burns when exposed to air and the produced gases react with water in your eyes and lungs to make phosphoric acid.
I know this is an old video, but it just occurred to me that Iron is a common contaminant in silicon. The red contaminate you filtered from the SiCl4 may have been mostly iron chloride. I have reacted iron with chlorine gas before and it looks exactly this. The red deposits on the reaction tube and suspension you collected look very much like iron chloride.
So... if you had a beaker of very pure HCL and added the silcatetrachloride to it, then very slowly started adding drops of water to it, would you be able to grow larger silica dioxide crystals, or would it just make little sand around the water that was dropped in?
A gas that manifests as acid and SAND in your lungs and eyes... That's some disturbing sci-fi-esque stuff, and I'm saying that as a bachelor of chemical engineering...
Not very effective, any gas mask will protect you enough to keep fighting. Chemical weapons are pretty meh nowadays, except nerve agents because they need minute quantities to kill you.
@@Tezcax chemical weapons against civilian targets and infrastructure are still devastating. Especially if you don't have a mask in your hands when the gas goes. I have several gas masks and they're in my closet at home, I'd be sol at work. And this is acid and sand in your lungs!
"And this is acid and sand in your lungs!" No its really not. I dont know what made him say this, but its nonsense. Its not any worse than simple HCl and unless you pour that into your eyes its not going to blind you. And just getting irritation in the eyes due to HCl (gas) is not too easy either. Also its never going to reach the lungs due to the high solubility in water.
Silicon Tetrachloride you say? I pour that in my cereal every morning. I'm very excited to learn I can make my own because grocery store prices these days are crazy, cheers Nile. - The Queen
For those of you wondering, what you could do to avoid exposure to that unpleasant gas mixture at around 6:34 I recommend that you use a solution of sodium thiosulfate instead of the sodium hydroxide solution to capture the chlorine gas since it readily reacts to form non-volatile sodium tetrathionate and sodium chloride.
Yeah but then you wouldn't be able to capture the silicon tetrachloride as efficiently, it hydrolizes much more quickly in basic conditions. Chlorine on the other hand reacts quite readily with NaOH too. It forms relatively harmless sodium hypochlorite and chloride.
+Nile Red Couldn´t your silicon have some iron impurity? If that´s the case then the red-brown stuff that contaminated your silicon tetrachloride is almost centainly anhydrous iron (III) chloride.
I watch this video in october 2018 and now see how much you've grown up, Nile Red. Great job! Now you own your own lab, and that glass table is now just a memory!
In my work, which involved spectroscopy in the UV wavelength range, I needed to use sample containers with extremely pure silica windows. Silica windows used for UV-Vis spectroscopy would not do because impurities in silica made from sand absorb in the shorter wavelength UV. I'm told the silica was made from silane (SiH4, the gaseous silicon analog of methane.) and oxygen. Since silane is used in the semiconductor industry to generate thin layers of precisely doped high purity silicon, it was available in in quantity at absurdly pure grades (like 99.99999 % or something like that). As long as very pure oxygen is used, a very pure silica is the result. I'd like to know how the ultrapure silica is handled - melted, formed, ground & polished etc. - without contaminating it. Molten glass and silicates can corrode most metals. Fiberglass is produced using spinnerets of platinum metals, for eg. I suppose the same goes for pure silica. Maybe not, but the industrial process still intrigues me.
You can sinterize the fumed silica into silica glass without melting it. I'm doing a project on making this kind of glass so 1 year later I will give you a better answer lol.
I suppose you are talking about OH-groups in normal glass/silica? "Molten glass and silicates can corrode most metals." No they cant. But they can dissolve a lot of usually inert materials like rockwool etc. that are high-temperature resistant (oxides, ceramics). But metalls dont really get corroded by molten glass. The use of special metalls in manufacturing is the non-wetting of these and/or the identical coefficient of thermal expansion.
when i was an undergraduate, i did honors work in a lab focused on organosilicon reaction mechanisms. virtually every synthesis we did started with SiCl4. we made it routinely by the liter using a cylinder of Cl2, passing a very controlled stream over a "heating tape"-wrapped 2" x 12' pyrex tube containing lumps of silicon metal. then we distilled it to purity.
Jonathan Bishop don't think he has a contamination free furnace that can melt silicon along with the know how to do CVD or create mono crystalline silicon through proper Czochralski process. Also you don't actually use silicon tetrachloride to make silicon, but whatever.
I laughed my ass off @ 1:30 when you so nonchalantly say "and you'll have a big problem there too..." when talking about creating sand and acid in your lungs!!! You're a funny guy...
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DON'T DO THIS AT HOME!! *proceeds to give you step by step instructions on how to do this at home*
I use to have great fun with titanium tetrachloride - it makes great smoke by itself, but having NH4OH nearby not only neutralizes the HCl but generates NH4Cl smoke as well. Anything to get airflow from one container to the other made copious white smoke. Made a setup on the rear of my bicycle once and rode down Haight Street one day when I was a kid....that went over like a lead balloon as you can imagine!
You have obviously never played with hypoflurous acid. Explosive at room temperature, it bursts into a mass of hydrofluoric acid vapor, which is probably the last thing you'll ever want to run into (and may in fact very likely _be_ the last thing you ever encounter). I'd say it's the most vile stuff I've ever seen in a laboratory, but if you want to see some even more "run away!"-grade chemicals (as well as a few "too late to run now" ones), google "things I won't work with" for a delightful series of articles about the kind of stuff that gives professional chemists nightmares.
Science@pproved : That is from impurities in it, not the drug itself. Certain opiates cannot cross the blood brain barrier, heroin for example, does so much easier than its parent molecule, morphine. Once heroin crosses into the brain, it reverts back to morphine so it gives a greater high.
A few years ago, I heard about apples being preserved by a spray on glass, This glass is meant to start as a liquid and coats the apple with an extremely thin layer of real glass that can eaten though. Though I think it would be different stuff, Im pretty sure the apple will be hating the HCL.
Natural product chemistry: extraction of eugenol from cloves or eucalyptol (1,8-cineol) from eucalyptus leaves. Benzaldehyde from bitter almonds or peach kernels. Polyphenols from red wine Quercetin from red onions Rosemary essential oil or its constituent phytochemical components (e.g. a-pinene or borneol) from the leaves of the herb
"And not too long after, you can see the beautiful production of water vapors which was quite unfortunate." Beautiful followed by unfortunate is not the usual way for things to turn out but hey, this is Nile Red. That was very poetic though, imo.
How is it possible to have an overkill of all ingredients? Wouldn't that mean they are in equilibrium? I can understand having much more of one ingredient being an overkill but having a lot of all ingredients makes them even out, imo. If he did have a lot of everything at the start of his experiment, my guess for his relatively small yield would be that it will have taken too long to produce enough chlorine vapor...that's just a guess though.
I have done an elegant high yield reaction between SiCl4 and tertiary butyl acetate to make silicon tetra-acetate and tert butyl chloride. Silicon tetra-acetate reacts with water to form silica gels with interesting properties.
Weirdest thing, once I bought a cream soda in a glass bottle from the gas station. I set it down on the table when I got home, and saw what looked like a big bubble come up from the bottom of the bottle. I ignored it and went to take a drink, and felt something clear and very slimy touch my lips. I set the bottle back down and shined a light in there, and it looked almost just like that little disc of Silicon Dioxide floating in your beaker. Still have no idea what it was. Could have been congealed sugar, could have been some kind of strange clear mold.
What’s great about this video isn’t the experiment, which is a very cool thing - it’s the refraining from experimenting with something too dangerous. Penn and Teller make this point: All illusions need to be 100% safe for the magician, because to get hurt or killed in front of your audience is to violate them. We’re here to have a good time - not to watch our chemist go blind or get killed. 👍🏻
Yikes tetrachlorides are evil. Just found out they ship some of that stuff in large freight cars (like titanium tetrachloride). I wouldn't want to be anywhere near one of those in a train accident.
When you use those chlorine tablets, you're introducing cyanuric acid into your experiments. Cyanuric acid is a "stabilizer" for chlorine in solution, to help it survive exposure to sunlight/UV in an outdoor pool situation. Just something to consider.
That warning at the begining reminded me of when i first worked with mercury. The whole msds could be sumarized in "dont taste it, dont smell it, dont touch it, dont even look at it, it will kill you"
I wouldn't mind seeing this video redone with the tube furnace from the YCBO Superconductor video. You could probably get a cleaner product and better yield with the new furnace.
Looks like the same stuff used in car coatings but they put it in a carrier fluid. Apply to paint and you have a 2-7 year coating like wax. It reacts to humidity and sio2 forms
I'd love to see a video about the synthesis of imidazoles. Both the antifungal ones and the ones used for unblocking noses, like xylometazoline or oxymetazoline
Would love to see you work out colab with How to Make Everything... Finding sources for an experiment in raw form, reacting for new compounds, then making something with it... Would be awesome!
You should try to make Sodium bifluoride with NaOH and HF for your next chemistry video. Oh and I would really appreciate it if you would make a safety precaution video as well and list the steps and precautions you take before working with these dangerous chemicals. I would also like to know what type of equipment you use such as: respiratory mask, eye protection, hazmat suite, gloves, etc... and the types of material for the the equipment!
> Sand and acid in your eyes
Jesus christ.
Imagine if you tried rubbing your eyes to get it out, it would exfoliate which would only get the acid in deeper
@@DudeWhoSaysDeez oh good
No this is Patrick How do I delete someone elses comment?
Its not like real sand or anything. I doubt you would even feel any physical irritation next to the standard HCl-irritation.
Sand is a not just SiO2*, its a specific grain size and shape. It wouldnt matter if the material with that shape is SiO2 or something else. Also, notice how dust pretty much doesnt irritate the eyes as it doesnt have the size to result in a relevant mechanical interaction (shear force) of eye and lid.
HCl (fumes/gas) is not really irritating, just like HNO3. Its no comparison to things like NH3.
*which is not even what is produced here, which is more like Si(OH)4 or some form of poly silicic acid later on as its dehydrated
1:00 On the bright side you can confuse the hell out of your local medical examiner.
"How the hell did he get sand in his lungs?"
Eric Taylor “the bright side”
Hi
Imagine weaponizing it. Taking pocket sand to a whole new level
Pretty easy, you can inhale it...
@@soozannuhh as in Dr. Bright, from The Foundation
"For this experiment, we will need the same patio table that everyone owns for some reason"
Shit. I actually do have the same table.
What the heck, I too have that table!
Justin Parker I have the same table wtf
Used to own this table ten or so years ago. This is weird stuff.
Yeah.... Some Chinese factory must have burped out a couple hundred million of these a number of years back. Friend of mine has one in his yard, too. Welcome in the age of consumerism, ya putzes.... Your patio furniture is just as unique as your iPhones are, and your entire lives, for that matter. Get over yourselves, sheeple.
I worked in a chemical plant where we produce this stuff. Even I worked under full protection I have now 80% lung Volumina left and constantly coughing. Yes, this stuff is pure poison.
Take care Neil, wear protective gear!
Hoping you stay safe during the current epidemic ❤️
Clearly it wasn't "full protection" if you have reduced lung capacity today. Your employer only wanted you to believe it was, and apparently they succeeded lmao.
You still okay? Did your condition deteriorate from back then?
His dead by now, I'm his son @@hx5525
2:47 moment of silence for all those who died in the making of this video.
Why do you say that?
Im high and spaced out in the silence and i thought nobody noticed. Then i found you. Im typing for 10 minutes now. Wow!!!!!
@@Mdsoebee Lol I thought it was my phone / wifi xD
Nekros 😂 😔 😂
I will not memorialize flies, mosquitoes, and roaches.
This might just be the most complicated way of getting sand. I love it
Some of the most common compounds, like water, salt, and sand, are easy to make in chemical reactions.
Not Sand extremely very very pure sand.
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"Same thing will happen in your lungs.."
Oh shit, my lungs will go blind?!
Oh im good then, my lungs are already blind
I guess it kinda sucks not being able to see out lungs, i guess i don't miss it cuz never had it. Dont take it for granted guys! You don't wanna become like me
@@SoulDelSol Maybe it's a genetic thing? Probably should talk to your doctor about that. Medicine is pretty advanced now, so they might have a cure for lung blindness.
@@pandalune oh boy, that would be great, thanks for the tip. In the meantime i found a website called "how the lung blind see the world", good read if you're interested in learning more about condition
@@SoulDelSol Oh boy, I would love to know more so I can help those with blind lung! There seems to be a lack of awareness; we must change that.
Dang throwback to when he didn’t have a proper ventilating system so he just did it outside.
Faith righttt
Is-is anyone still here 👀
@@qianmo_main Yes
@lllAlienKushlll yeeet
@@qianmo_main sneed
"Reacts with eyes to form hydrochloric acid and sand"
I heard it’s pretty coarse and rough.
This would be an inhumane weapon
@@TheSniper9752 it tends to get everywhere too.
@@tamer27antepli Responding to a 4yo comment but, people already used white phosphorus which burns when exposed to air and the produced gases react with water in your eyes and lungs to make phosphoric acid.
I know this is an old video, but it just occurred to me that Iron is a common contaminant in silicon. The red contaminate you filtered from the SiCl4 may have been mostly iron chloride. I have reacted iron with chlorine gas before and it looks exactly this. The red deposits on the reaction tube and suspension you collected look very much like iron chloride.
Glad i read this - i was very curious as to what that was. Thanks!
why is it red lol
@@GameMaster-ml8ebwhy is blood red?
Ohhhhhh sand and acid in ur eyes.... SOUNDS NEAT
INVISIBLE SUN depends on what kind of acid.. the wrong kind and you can feel like you are sand
Silicon dioxide is so interesting because it's sand, glass, quartz, flint and silica.
It is definitely very interesting
So... if you had a beaker of very pure HCL and added the silcatetrachloride to it, then very slowly started adding drops of water to it, would you be able to grow larger silica dioxide crystals, or would it just make little sand around the water that was dropped in?
@Kappa It hates you too.
+Jake Kim And many more!
also amethyst
A gas that manifests as acid and SAND in your lungs and eyes... That's some disturbing sci-fi-esque stuff, and I'm saying that as a bachelor of chemical engineering...
Selvy hopefully this isn't used as a chemical weapon because that would obviously by horrible
Not very effective, any gas mask will protect you enough to keep fighting. Chemical weapons are pretty meh nowadays, except nerve agents because they need minute quantities to kill you.
@@Tezcax chemical weapons against civilian targets and infrastructure are still devastating. Especially if you don't have a mask in your hands when the gas goes. I have several gas masks and they're in my closet at home, I'd be sol at work.
And this is acid and sand in your lungs!
"And this is acid and sand in your lungs!"
No its really not. I dont know what made him say this, but its nonsense. Its not any worse than simple HCl and unless you pour that into your eyes its not going to blind you. And just getting irritation in the eyes due to HCl (gas) is not too easy either.
Also its never going to reach the lungs due to the high solubility in water.
@@leocurious9919 doesn't exactly sound like a fun time either way.
2:48 I had to check if anything was wrong with TH-cam or with my internet connection
Same
Anakin skywalker's worst nightmare... gaseous sand
Silicon Tetrachloride you say? I pour that in my cereal every morning. I'm very excited to learn I can make my own because grocery store prices these days are crazy, cheers Nile. - The Queen
+Queen Elizabeth II um.. um... um... what
Queen Elizabeth II all that silica made your hair white.
That’s how she survived so long.
thats why shes so crusty
So you could live for 300+ years
The more I watch this guy the more I realize he’s casually insane
Explaining this lab in your backyard must be a thrill everytime😂
“I hate SiO2, it’s coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere.”
For those of you wondering, what you could do to avoid exposure to that unpleasant gas mixture at around 6:34 I recommend that you use a solution of sodium thiosulfate instead of the sodium hydroxide solution to capture the chlorine gas since it readily reacts to form non-volatile sodium tetrathionate and sodium chloride.
Yeah but then you wouldn't be able to capture the silicon tetrachloride as efficiently, it hydrolizes much more quickly in basic conditions. Chlorine on the other hand reacts quite readily with NaOH too. It forms relatively harmless sodium hypochlorite and chloride.
You are both incorrect but jolly good try. The correct answer is lukewarm meatloaf. You are welcome.
Thanks for the shoutout! I really appreciate it!
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TheChemistryShack no new videos?
'you really shoudn't do what i'm about to show you how to do. That said, here's how to do it'
fucking genius, i love it lmao
It’s simple, showing you how to do a thing that you shan’t do will ensure you don’t do it by accident :)
+Nile Red Couldn´t your silicon have some iron impurity? If that´s the case then the red-brown stuff that contaminated your silicon tetrachloride is almost centainly anhydrous iron (III) chloride.
+ChemicalMaster It very well could have iron impurity
Yes. Iron is one of the most common impurities in silicon.
I've learned more from 3 hours of watching your videos (out of curiosity) than I ever did in my 3 years of GCSE extended chemistry
6:34 this is the smell of love and forgiveness
Barnesrino Kripperino it only hurts you if you have sinned
Barnesrino Kripperino that burns the crap out of your insides
I watch this video in october 2018 and now see how much you've grown up, Nile Red.
Great job! Now you own your own lab, and that glass table is now just a memory!
In my work, which involved spectroscopy in the UV wavelength range, I needed to use sample containers with extremely pure silica windows. Silica windows used for UV-Vis spectroscopy would not do because impurities in silica made from sand absorb in the shorter wavelength UV. I'm told the silica was made from silane (SiH4, the gaseous silicon analog of methane.) and oxygen. Since silane is used in the semiconductor industry to generate thin layers of precisely doped high purity silicon, it was available in in quantity at absurdly pure grades (like 99.99999 % or something like that). As long as very pure oxygen is used, a very pure silica is the result. I'd like to know how the ultrapure silica is handled - melted, formed, ground & polished etc. - without contaminating it. Molten glass and silicates can corrode most metals. Fiberglass is produced using spinnerets of platinum metals, for eg. I suppose the same goes for pure silica. Maybe not, but the industrial process still intrigues me.
You can sinterize the fumed silica into silica glass without melting it. I'm doing a project on making this kind of glass so 1 year later I will give you a better answer lol.
I suppose you are talking about OH-groups in normal glass/silica?
"Molten glass and silicates can corrode most metals."
No they cant. But they can dissolve a lot of usually inert materials like rockwool etc. that are high-temperature resistant (oxides, ceramics). But metalls dont really get corroded by molten glass. The use of special metalls in manufacturing is the non-wetting of these and/or the identical coefficient of thermal expansion.
@@Tezcax where is our better answer
@@Calicifier hahaha, 1 month left
@@Tezcax so?
when i was an undergraduate, i did honors work in a lab focused on organosilicon reaction mechanisms. virtually every synthesis we did started with SiCl4. we made it routinely by the liter using a cylinder of Cl2, passing a very controlled stream over a "heating tape"-wrapped 2" x 12' pyrex tube containing lumps of silicon metal. then we distilled it to purity.
"Reacts with water to make sand!" Sounded a whole lot nicer when I wasn't considering what would happen if it got in my eyes.
you know, i would love to see how you make pure silicon from this
Agreed. Try to grow a silicon boule.
Jonathan Bishop don't think he has a contamination free furnace that can melt silicon along with the know how to do CVD or create mono crystalline silicon through proper Czochralski process. Also you don't actually use silicon tetrachloride to make silicon, but whatever.
Palerider1942 I think you mix it(silicon dioxide )with flux and heat the hell out of it in an inert atmosphere
sand and acid in the eyes... sounds like a 60's surfers party😂
I laughed my ass off @ 1:30 when you so nonchalantly say "and you'll have a big problem there too..." when talking about creating sand and acid in your lungs!!! You're a funny guy...
DON'T DO THIS AT HOME!!
*proceeds to give you step by step instructions on how to do this at home*
why am I getting recommended this now of all times
make titanium tetrachloride from titanium dioxide please!!!
+chem trailer please
OMG, you are generating so much content! Thank you! Keep it up!
*Random ten seconds of silence
2:47
He's rubbing his eyes. They were itchy.
I use to have great fun with titanium tetrachloride - it makes great smoke by itself, but having NH4OH nearby not only neutralizes the HCl but generates NH4Cl smoke as well. Anything to get airflow from one container to the other made copious white smoke. Made a setup on the rear of my bicycle once and rode down Haight Street one day when I was a kid....that went over like a lead balloon as you can imagine!
2:47 Whats with the long period of silence?
i was thinking about why no one was talking about this lmao
Pause for dramatic effect
An awkward silence lmao
for the people who has died doing this
moment of silence for all those who died in the making of this video.
I appreciate that Science videos warn you that it's dangerous to do it yourself and to not do it yourself but then they do it themself.
I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.
duh
General Prodigy wooooosh
@@general_prodigy It's a reference to a certain sandy planet in a galaxy far, far a way.
@@cellogirl11rw55 oh i don't watch Star Wars, I am more of a Trekkie
I'm happy you didn't risk your life for any purpose, you are a precious scientist
Did you ever get to making capsaicin, or did it not work out?
Add that to the sand and acid in your eyes and you have a real party.
I am morbidly enchanted by this substance.
1:15 for some reason the way you described this was way too funny.
Think you could do a video on making magnetic ferrofluid? would love to see that!
Sand and HCL forming in eyes and lungs from vapors? Jeeez
I've worked with TEOS and it's not so bad. Just work with it in a fume hood. You can make fun gels with it.
I don't have a proper fumehood unfortunately.
You can use a gas mask, otherwise. That's how AppliedScience did it and he was working with TMOS.
Ottmar555 Gas masks increase risks of accidents, and are uncomfortable to wear.
I work with SiCl4.... It's pure horror this fcking liquid. Made a fire in the Glove Box (!!!)
@TheDerpy Kitty chlorine trifluoride xD
The red color can be due to ferric chloride.iron was impurity in silicon powder
This is the most brutal chemical ive seen in my life
Heh, seen it once and not more :D
You have obviously never played with hypoflurous acid. Explosive at room temperature, it bursts into a mass of hydrofluoric acid vapor, which is probably the last thing you'll ever want to run into (and may in fact very likely _be_ the last thing you ever encounter). I'd say it's the most vile stuff I've ever seen in a laboratory, but if you want to see some even more "run away!"-grade chemicals (as well as a few "too late to run now" ones), google "things I won't work with" for a delightful series of articles about the kind of stuff that gives professional chemists nightmares.
Nickel carbonyl is the worst. Hydrolyses to nickel metal and carbon monoxide.
Keith Jurena what about krokodil? it turns your skin green and rots your flesh from the inside out.
Science@pproved : That is from impurities in it, not the drug itself. Certain opiates cannot cross the blood brain barrier, heroin for example, does so much easier than its parent molecule, morphine. Once heroin crosses into the brain, it reverts back to morphine so it gives a greater high.
His videos have come a LONG way
Can you do an extraction/ isolation of atropine?
A few years ago, I heard about apples being preserved by a spray on glass, This glass is meant to start as a liquid and coats the apple with an extremely thin layer of real glass that can eaten though.
Though I think it would be different stuff, Im pretty sure the apple will be hating the HCL.
Natural product chemistry: extraction of eugenol from cloves or eucalyptol (1,8-cineol) from eucalyptus leaves.
Benzaldehyde from bitter almonds or peach kernels.
Polyphenols from red wine
Quercetin from red onions
Rosemary essential oil or its constituent phytochemical components (e.g. a-pinene or borneol) from the leaves of the herb
"And not too long after, you can see the beautiful production of water vapors which was quite unfortunate." Beautiful followed by unfortunate is not the usual way for things to turn out but hey, this is Nile Red. That was very poetic though, imo.
when you have an overkill of ALL ingredients shoudn't you have more of the stuff at the end?
How is it possible to have an overkill of all ingredients? Wouldn't that mean they are in equilibrium? I can understand having much more of one ingredient being an overkill but having a lot of all ingredients makes them even out, imo.
If he did have a lot of everything at the start of his experiment, my guess for his relatively small yield would be that it will have taken too long to produce enough chlorine vapor...that's just a guess though.
it was a joke... I'm not very good at it.
Or I'm not very good at seeing them for what they are :)
haha
He said the rate of generation was too slow, so he only used a bit of each reactant.
(His condenser sucked)
It would be quite interesting if you could crystallize SiO2 somehow in SiCl4 slowly enough to get a pure crystal of SiO2. Would be really beautiful...
Sicl4 to tetraethyl orthosilicate, then use the thoughemporium method to make opal
Its so confusing that it's called silicon in english. Its called Silicium in german and silicon is the stuff that women use to pump up their breasts.
The stuff in breast implants (and baking trays, caulk, etc.) is called silicone in English.
Which is a polymer made of Sillicon compounds
smeezekitty And silicon is an atom made by a guy called Silly Shaun.
Kenneth Keys Damn it Silly Shaun!
Worse in swedish.
Silikon is the stuff for implants and the element is kisel (chisel)...
I have done an elegant high yield reaction between SiCl4 and tertiary butyl acetate to make silicon tetra-acetate and tert butyl chloride. Silicon tetra-acetate reacts with water to form silica gels with interesting properties.
How about TiCl4 then reduction with Mg to form Ti metal?
When I saw the title of the video I thought: this thing is extremely dangerous... And you put the huge disclaimer. Nicely done.
Would it cause silicosis when breathed in repeteatly
The acid it forms would dissolve your lungs long before that developed.
Daniel Mahoney You could probably get the acid out by waterboarding yourself, by repeatedly inhaling water while hanging upside down.
Easy.
Weirdest thing, once I bought a cream soda in a glass bottle from the gas station. I set it down on the table when I got home, and saw what looked like a big bubble come up from the bottom of the bottle. I ignored it and went to take a drink, and felt something clear and very slimy touch my lips. I set the bottle back down and shined a light in there, and it looked almost just like that little disc of Silicon Dioxide floating in your beaker.
Still have no idea what it was. Could have been congealed sugar, could have been some kind of strange clear mold.
You think he has FBI vans outside at all times?
No.
What’s great about this video isn’t the experiment, which is a very cool thing - it’s the refraining from experimenting with something too dangerous. Penn and Teller make this point: All illusions need to be 100% safe for the magician, because to get hurt or killed in front of your audience is to violate them. We’re here to have a good time - not to watch our chemist go blind or get killed. 👍🏻
2:50 uhh long pause there dude
2:30 for a moment I wondered why a plant was labeled “bubbler” XD
Yikes tetrachlorides are evil. Just found out they ship some of that stuff in large freight cars (like titanium tetrachloride). I wouldn't want to be anywhere near one of those in a train accident.
Pretty sure that happened in rural Michigan in the late 90's not too fatal, if I remember right
They all have placards, learn the codes and you know. =)
Now that you have a better shop and fume hood I would like to see this revisited with the alcohol reactions
3:26 I wont call silicon metal because it's not a metal
The brown-red solid its probably SiO which become a gas at 1880 C and probably is carried by the SiCl4 into the receiving flask
Except silicon is not a metal and is classed as a metalloid
Antonio Pachowko your point being?
@Ethan In the video he said it's a metal
this got recommended 3 years late, still a good recommendation
Next show us how to cook meth
lithium, sudafed tabs, anhydrous ammonia. Get that and mix all in a bucket, wait it explodes. Here,s your meth.
Mme. Hyraelle Nile says you need an alcohol present for the Birch reduction.
What you'd get without it? Who knows. Maybe benzene? Maybe fire?
man!!! this channel has changed a lot
That's one elaborate bong.
one of the best videos yet !
I love the use of the words beautiful and wonderful to describe silicon tetrachloride :D
sick bong man
When you use those chlorine tablets, you're introducing cyanuric acid into your experiments. Cyanuric acid is a "stabilizer" for chlorine in solution, to help it survive exposure to sunlight/UV in an outdoor pool situation.
Just something to consider.
That's a really cool looking bong man.
You know it's terrifying when even NileRed refuses to do it.
That warning at the begining reminded me of when i first worked with mercury. The whole msds could be sumarized in "dont taste it, dont smell it, dont touch it, dont even look at it, it will kill you"
So many beautiful and wonderful word production facilities
I wonder if something like this is used in so called Si02 "ceramic" coatings for paint finish.
You should try making a single crystal of SiO2 (quartz)! That would be super cool!
Yes, I also hope condensers would condense things.
Thanks for adding another quemical weapon for my arsenal
Nice synthesis! I thought silicon tetrachloride would be way more reactive and had to be prepared with Schlenck conditions.
I wouldn't mind seeing this video redone with the tube furnace from the YCBO Superconductor video. You could probably get a cleaner product and better yield with the new furnace.
Work with a deadly compound to create sand, as if we lack sand.
Looks like the same stuff used in car coatings but they put it in a carrier fluid. Apply to paint and you have a 2-7 year coating like wax. It reacts to humidity and sio2 forms
Got the same bong clip
Here is my suggestion: EXPLOSIONS
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1:51 I think I used to have that exact table at my old house, or just very similar.
I'd love to see a video about the synthesis of imidazoles. Both the antifungal ones and the ones used for unblocking noses, like xylometazoline or oxymetazoline
Would love to see you work out colab with How to Make Everything... Finding sources for an experiment in raw form, reacting for new compounds, then making something with it... Would be awesome!
You should try to make Sodium bifluoride with NaOH and HF for your next chemistry video. Oh and I would really appreciate it if you would make a safety precaution video as well and list the steps and precautions you take before working with these dangerous chemicals. I would also like to know what type of equipment you use such as: respiratory mask, eye protection, hazmat suite, gloves, etc... and the types of material for the the equipment!