This is the second channel of Explosions&Fire. More detailed synthesis videos are here, where I do chemistry and mumble about life a lot, as apposed to just lighting things on fire for 2 minutes.
This reminds me of dissolving potassium glyceroxide in ethanol. It turns into a deep yellow color, if you can ever get it to dissolve. Slightly changing the preparation of the glyceroxide allowed me to make a solution, with glycerol as the solvent, which dissolves easier into ethanol. However, it is a non-ideal solution with a melting point around 150C, and adding ethanol became much more dangerous. I hope to publish my biodiesel research using this catalyst soon
I freakin' love this channel. You are just effin' insane. I'm a mediocre chemist at best and I wish I had the time/resources to do the bat crap crazy stuff you do.
Dude, after watching your video I had a dream that I cut myself badly and you were able to use the blood and extract the iron from it and turn it into neodymium magnets. Would that be possible?
it’s really strangely gratifying to hear someone call a subject i understand moderately well “pretty advanced stuff”! loved inorganic chem, can’t wait to do more of it
SUPER COOL YOU FOUND A USE FOR THE CADMIUM ! I'll bet you figure out a way to recycle some massive chemical "waste" product in the future. The sparkplugs have iridium in them & I hear that iridium makes crucibles. I recall the annoyance you felt with magnet extractions though . Is it stupid to wire the sparkplugs into a sphere with a sparky centre like a fusion reactor? Do any chemicals require electrical arcs to form?
Strontium Aluminate seems neat with the whole " forbidden transition " energy state. Fluorenscence is ALMOST as neat as this cool aussie chemist on youtube.
I got to do this in college over 20 years ago when it was still a pretty new thing. Lotta fun. My prof had me do all the benzenethiol workup of the precursor that would be fed into the ostwald ripening run by the rest of the class... required some special handling techniques he didn't want to trust the general undergrad class with. I quickly learned why. Even the smallest bit of it getting out would leave the area smelling strongly of smokey anus for several hours, possibly days. Also at that time, white LEDs were yet 'a thing'. I had the idea to take a blue led and dope its surface with a carefully selected distribution of quantum dots to emanate a blend of wavelengths that would average out to white light. I shared the idea with that professor and he told me it wouldn't be possibledue to a high pass filtering of photons by the dots. But about two years later, I caught news of a patent by Dr. Geoffrey Strouse's group in Florida describing pretty much exactly what I had described (Strouse was one of the inventors of the CdSe Ostwald ripened dots a few years before that). Ultimately it was moot in the grand scheme of history as tricolor white/multichromic LED packages were a thing by then, and far cheaper and simpler to make.
I think getting olive oil from a chemical supplier is not a bad idea, at least you are guaranteed to not have additive that can interfere with your result and affect the validity of your paper. Because you know, InDuStRiAls (fuck them all)
Hi Tom, can you please delete all energetic related posts of mine from sciencemadness ASAP, or ask someone with the power to do it, just everything in energetic thread
This is crazy. I originally found this channel back in hs and found it really cool. Now I found out about this video from Dr. Peircy while working in his lab crazy 😂
I just cannot understand why I love watching this guy's videos, because I am not into chemistry at all. He speaks in one of the worst accents in the world, although better than the worst ones, which are the ones spoken in the UK, where they have literally lost their English, in my view. He does science in a way that makes me jealous, because, face it, if he can do it, then I can also, right? Yet, I don't, because I still want to be alive tomorrow. Yet I am drawn to his setup, like a moth to a candle, and I love it. Let's be honest, he is no Nile Red, but who needs Red anyway? Then, just when you wonder if there is something to salvage from spending time watching the beautiful chemistry abortions that (sometimes) make this channel so special, he comes up with epic phrases that would even make Bruce Willis cry out of jealousy, like these: "Sometimes it is good to get your breakages out of the way early" or "I just sometimes have my coffee before I start doing things, and then I overtighten the clamp, and it shatters the test-tube". Now, how can you not love this guy? I challenge any Hollywood writer to come up with more catchy stuff. I wish he would stop swearing though, or is that an Australian thing?
TiL that EVOO is a solvent. Was finally able to get the funk out of the French press I forgot coffee in and boiling water couldn’t clear. Thanks m8 for being a role model for kitchen cleanliness.
It's also (mostly) environmental laws preventing the manufacture and mining of rare earths outside of China. They don't care about dumping huge amounts of toxic shit in the drinking water.
"Have I mentioned my PHD is on fluorescence?" Sorry mate, that cracked me up. One look at the colour of the olive oil and it was inevitable: yellow chemistry.
