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the white stuff on the beeswax is indeed fat bloom similar to what happens on chocolate. It can also happen on candles. only fairly pure beeswax will have this bloom, so if it' happens on candles it's an indication of purity. The bloom happens when the fat is subjected to temperature changes. some of the fatty acids in beeswax have a lower melting point so they seep out and harden, and over time this produces the bloom effect.
I Love the smell of beeswax, My grandpa was a beekeeper, when I was a kid I used to help him out, he had over 80 beehives in his apiary, it was so scary and exciting at the same time to have millions of bees flying around you, I loved that feeling. I still remember the wonderful smells of bee smoker, honey and beeswax in his harvesting shed.
I melted these two together to make cloth waterproofing. The paraffin is used to cut (dilute) the bees wax and the beeswax makes the paraffin less brittle. It's marketed as Greenland wax
To minimize shrinking you need to get the paraffin just hot enough to pour, and pour very slowly. I learned that years ago making candles, Great video!
As a chocolate maker, your comment about bloom intrigued me. Bloom is caused by untempered cocoa butter fat crystals on the surface and the structure is very different from tempered chocolate. I wonder if you could change the thermal properties of beeswax by tempering it..?
Chocolate with bloom is 🤮. It completely changes the taste and texture. Better to re-melt and re-temper or add it to brownie batter but don't ever it that way.
Super! It really thrills me to see younger folks actually following a scientific method. I have watched Mr Cody for several years and always been pleased with his interest and knowledge of applied sciences. It is nice to have a honest creator to be able to recommend to struggling students on certain subjects. Another example of this is Nile Red. Thank you Mr Cody for more excellent content.
he does purposely mis pronounce words to get a kick from some people.. check his mercury amalgam vs aluminium video he keeps saying "luminum" tbh though as an Aussies we say it like that
Paraffin is very hard to digest so it tends to clog up the intestines. Children, dogs and wild animals have died after eating paraffin, often from scented candles.
@@user-yf9lx5ck9s It probably won't kill you because you are a grown person, but a small child have different size intestines, and so a lump of paraffin can get stuck and potentially kill them. Paraffin is not a laxative, but you can get food grade paraffin, and that it is used as a coating on medicine, candy etc. but even that is used in a very thin layer. Anyway I live near the beach, and I've often found seabirds that have died after eating paraffin lumps.
I've BEEn... Watching your channel for about 3 years I think and it's always great to see that something as mundane as comparing wax is always made interesting. I really enjoy what you put out there. Thanks cody
@@theCodyReeder Also the VERY cheap honey, compared to buying it in stores. A small jar goes for 11 bucks, a larger container, like a 1 qt yogurt container, is like 25.
You know, the more I read through these comments, the more it makes me want to buy a chunk of bee's wax. The more I watch Cody's beekeeping videos and read these comments, the more it makes me want to become a beekeeper.
bob dehunt I used the same volume of liquid, which matters when putting the wax into something like a hot water bottle. But if you want to know the difference by weight, then you’re correct.
Tomorrow another day at school my friends created a funny game in every break I get punched in the face by all of them. But when I get home to my TWO girlfriends it is all good again. I am the RU-vid Megastar. Thanks for listening dear bib dehunt
You’re videos are actually my favorite because they are always informative and interesting and it’s what you’re into which shows through, love your videos man keep on making them
Cody, I love your channel. I swear you could make a video about anything (literally melting wax) and make it interesting. I credit it to your ability to describe everything in detail but still understandable to anyone who may not have a background on whatever the subject may be. It is also great to see a channel devoted to educational purposes have as many subs as your channel does. Congrats man!
I had a moment where i realized that for no reason in particular i'm watching some random guy who i will likely will never meet rub big chunks of bee and crude oil byproduct.. Kinda comedically absurd when you reduce it.
ya same but i think it would be hard to do because of the small size of the impurity's that are in it and also i think it depends how impure the wax is if you would see a difference in the properties like if you had got some very impure wax that was heavily used and full of impurity's you might see some. also i think pollen oils are what make it that yellow color and i am not sure how easy it would be to get rid of them you might be able to add something to bind to the oil and make it soluble it something easier to distill off but i am not sure.
Theres sugar bloom and fat bloom. Usually, on chocolate, the effect we observe is fat bloom, caused by changes in temperature forcing the separation between the components due to different melting points. Sugar bloom is observed as white dots on the surface of chocolate, caused by the presence of water during its preparation or during storage.
Cody'sLab it’s quite ridiculous the amount of control the government has over its people. If we went 50 years back you’d be fine. It would be considered contributing to the United States and it’s sciences rather than being illegal
At 5:03, you can see in the upper side of the bee's wax pan that as soon as it touched the pan walls it solidified. When the parafin touched the pan it stayed clear all the way through.
The smells are one of the best parts of beekeeping. Beeswax, smoke, honey & the hive. On a summer's evening, the smell of the bees dehydrating their day's nectar is just something else.
I was with a specialized moving company for a while where we used bee's wax in re-assembling pool tables. We used it to smooth out the joints in the slate underneath the felt surface. I always really enjoyed the smell when we were melting the wax with a torch.
The difference in the temperatures is constant throughout the timelapse and it's there, because you've poured the wax over a minute later than the paraffin. It just had more time to give off the heat. The proper experiment would include a second person to pour them both simultaniously, but it's unneeded, as throughout the timelapse the difference of 5 degrees is constant.
yeah it doesn't require you to pour them simultaneously, it's fairly obvious that it's a constant. the graphs should easily tell you (and they do) what's going on, it doesn't require "reddit" to see that there's constantly a 5 degree difference, did go back through the time laps to double check as a good student would do :) It's always 5 degrees cooler/warmer within the margin of error in the thermometer and reading time (when the display updates vs when the camera takes the snapshot) This is highschool science data, there's no interpretation to be made from it. Although somebody asked a good question, how about burn time, like would using different wicks affect the burn time, would a similar wick burn faster or slower? I guess this comes down to how fast it can evaporate or something like that? now this is some interesting science, not watching wax cure.
he said they have different melting point, the bees wax is higher, bu the heat capacity is the same since they cool down just as fast. even if you removed the paraffin wax from the plate 10 minutes later you you'd see the bees wax and paraffin cooling at the same rate.
svampebob007 the heat capacity isn’t the same, bees wax holds ~17% more thermal energy than paraffin wax. The temperature is the same, but that’s something different. You have something called the specific heat capacity of a material. The specific heat capacity is measured in Kilo Joules per Kg per Kelvin. In the example there is a greater mass of bees wax than paraffin wax, and bees wax has the greater specific heat capacity, so the bees wax has more thermal energy stored.
yeah yeah yeah but the heat dissipation is the same, don't know what you call that but wax and paraffin is the same. Now that I think about it it, it's kinda obvious "heat capacity" aka how much capacity it has for heat.
video idea: use paraffin wax and beeswax to waterproof two pairs of pants and see which one holds up the best. my guess would be the beeswax would work better
@@theCodyReeder ... I would also be interested to see how paraffin holds up against beeswax in the waterproofing paste. The recipes vary but the one I prefer is from purgatoryironworks here on RU-vid. It's one part boiled linseed oil, two parts turpentine, and two parts beeswax, by weight. Melt the beeswax, then stir in the linseed oil and turpentine. Stir it together and it makes a great waterproofing paste. I had been using equal parts of each ingredient but found that his formula dries a lot faster. I would like to see how paraffin stacks up.
As a matter of fact, Filson clothing company sells “tin” pants which have been waterproofed with some kind of wax. Kind of expensive but I hear they’re nice
Awesome Cody. Fellow atom-wrangler here! Likely the waxy power on the beeswax, and all the inclusions, are due to beeswax being in some sort of metastable phase (exactly like chocolate, spot on!) and random nucleation events are causing various materials insoluble in the big wax ester to crash out . Probably happens from the outside in as the outer has higher stresses set up in the material during cooling. Science Baby!!!
Thank you for the great video. I saw a guy use many miny tanks of parafin in a big tub of water. And then he would let hot water flow through and let the material phase change. And then run cold water through to get the heat back out. He said he needed to put the parafin into small containers to not have it boil or erupt or something. But maybe with beeswax you could take a few larger tanks in a big thank with water without running the risk of destroying your system.
There are a whole bunch of other trivia tidbits about Beeswax. Strengthening thread while working with leather, candles made of beeswax just smell better, the list isn't endless after all... I need to dig out the candle making supplies again. Thanks again Cody!
Well Cody, have watched your channel for a long time now... You haven't blown up, posioned, or otherwise really hurt yourself. To be honest, that wasn't my bet. Lol. Yet here you still are making very interesting videos. Never figured I'd say this, but hanging out for a weekend would probably be a fun little vacation. You have impressed me with your variety of knowledge. Thanks for all the effort bud.
Cody, your channel sometimes reminds me of a wonderful book my grandfather had (I might still have it somewhere). I think it was called "Everyman's Inquire Within" and was full of tips for what we now call DIY, including stuff like how to make your own shellac with beeswax. There is so much "old" knowledge that's liable to be forgotten as it's overtaken by modern technology, but potentially useful nonetheless.
I was wondering why i was so unmotivated i remembered that i switched accounts on youtube and i wasn't subscribed on the account that i switched to. I never realized how great these videos are.
Hey Cody! Just to say you are fairly correct the white on the bees wax is called Bloom and it is from temperature fluctuations the wax is exposed to over time.
6:13 I think the most intriguing part of this video was unintentionally showing off how the frames of the time lapse camera are taken consistently to the point where the second hand on the clock in the background always has 3 'positions' it appears to sit in until shifting to 3 new positions after a few moments. Really cool!!
