If you're keen for more details on the chemistry steps, my channel here is my second channel, where I have these related videos: Making the cobalt carbonato complex: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sWPdP2LyaLo.html& Making copper and nickel carbonato complexes: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mr_7xtxJ_9c.html& Officially ranking all the elements (stream): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qIvJ9LA8Ib8.html& Making nitrotetrazole: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pB-FAWOb590.html&
Extractions&Ire i have only just realised that we are both crackhead Aussies named Tom who are both into chemistry and both agree on the fact that yellow is ABSOLUTE DOG SHIT
Extractions&Ire That purple Copper one looked like TACN. Which also turns light blue when you add extra stuff to it. To my understanding it can be made with Copper metal, Ammonium nitrate, and Generic Ammonium cleaner, then you basically just mix them together and aerate it. I did it in plastic cups, but I would love to see someone like you who actually knows what they are doing attempt it.
Copper is the evilest element, most people don't expect to have copper chem fail on them because of the pretty colors, but that's where it gets ya. it lures in unsuspecting chemists with its pretty colors and uses and when you least expect it, the copper strikes. you'll have copper stains everywhere, the yields are shit, you don't know what's going on and you just wanna go home and forget about all the problems with copper, but then you return because its soo pretty like continuing to text your abusive ex. i consider copper the most insidious element in the periodic table.
I love how you can just take the properties you want, find some molecules that have it, slap any metal you like the name of on there and bam you get exactly what you wanted. That's SO cool!
That's chemistry science. He's describing the reaction from point of view of reverse engineering. He's a well-educated guy, better than my chemistry given I dropped out before graduation. However I see what he's doing once he mentioned it isn't his invention but from the nineties.
Chemists are the most frightening of all engineers. It doesn't matter how structurally sound or how well grounded your project is, a chemist can blow it the fuck up or dissolve it with a beakerfull of something he synthesized in his garage
what i love most about chemistry videos is that even though I've seen them before i retain very little information each viewing and its always a pleasure to watch again
the way you describe chemistry sounds like the insane babbling of drunk on the street corner and I understand about as much of it. i love it, its great, never change
@@vomErsten You say that, but I tried to make some homemade rocket fuel for a high school Chem class. It was literally a pipe bomb. And yes, I did have the proper paperwork.
Glad to see you're still alive. Whilst NileRed's Chemvideos are cool and all, your "Ghetto-esque" Chemistry is far more fascinating, and the meme game is straight up fire. Yellow Chem Bad.
They may both be chem youtubers, but they satisfy entirely different niches. Wouldn't even consider them comparable when Tom makes his tight and concise videos, while Nile just goes full lost in the rabbit hole on whatever he has stepped into, making a forty minute video from it.
I had dreams about the cobalt classes in my chemistry labs. The colors! This was during the 70s and there were really fine drugs going around. But I transgress, I agree, cobalt is the bestest of elements, and it's nice to have such an expert such as yourself enforce it's standing. Cobalt #1!
"These crystals are so big and so good I could probably stick them in my braces and get a solvable diffraction pattern the next time I go to my next dental checkup" I need to remember that one! LOL
Been watching this channel for around a year now and just wanted to say it's helped to inspire me pursue a masters in chemistry, as I've recently received an offer from York University I'm obviously doing something right, so thanks for the fun and inspiration keep uploading the great content :)
I love the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde nature of this channel and Extraction and Ire. One is explosions and shouting and the other is distilling stuff to Aphex Twin.
I'll never not be impressed by how all of this stuff is conducted alone. So much damn work and time, and hurdle after hurdle on top of that. You really have to not only love what you do, but you have to love it when it's pissing you off as well. Mad respect.
Haha I love how in the octonitrocubane paper it says that they discovered that cubane acyl azides are a primary explosive and then in parenthesis say "fortunately without serious incident." So I'm just picturing a bunch of fancy scientist scratching the explosive with a knife and after seeing the explosion just having that oh shit look on their faces as they turn to the 100 gram pile they have laying there. Also I know that's not what really happened... damn at least I hope lol.
Scientists are, in my university experience, more silly than fancy when they can get away with it, so even if I can't read whatever you're trying to say, maybe you're right.
Always fun coming back to old episodes "Don't say octanitro cubane. I can't make octanitro cubane. Stop suggesting it. The synthesis is too hard. " Two months later on extractions&Ire Project plan: Cubane sysnthesis is released. The internet successfully peer pressured a physics PHD into making a highly complex chemical, in a shed in australia, using chemicals from pool supply and hardware stores, and a weird box with LEDs from Amazon. Will he succeed? Maybe, but not before using the last of his sanity as the final ingredient in what is increasingly appearing like the life's work of a deranged 14th century alchemist. I don't know where you're going, but godspeed and good luck you magnificent chemist.
Congrats on the 100k dude, you deserve it. You made chemistry interesting for me and I keep rewatching your videos. Your presentation is hundo p the best in category
I stumbled onto your channel a few weeks ago, and while I'm completely chemistry illiterate, I am enthusiastic about all forms of science. And you make these entertaining enough that even when you lose me scientifically (immediately) I'm still laughing and love watching the chemistry. Keep it up man!
this video helped me realize that the largest contributor to your channel is your drinking problem - providing you with all those cans to blow up, what would you do without it?
Lol I have no idea what he's talking about, but I can't stop watching these. Maybe I'll pick up the lingo, but right now I'm here for the fantastic visual comedy.
Explosions&Fire: Does complex chemistry using sophisticated terms whit the end goal being to create a powerful explosive compound. Me: Oh look colours! So cool!
Regarding the beautiful and entirely reasonable abbreviation for Cu-Nitrotetrazole that the paper authors strangely decided against, this just reminds me of another beautiful paper about COPPER NANOTUBES... and yes, in that one, they DID use the expected correct abbreviation. Truly inspirational.
"The patreons are forcing me to do it at a gunpoint" Azide fox with 7 dollars and a gun in hand: "You draw my fucking fursona on the chalkboard right now"
One dude really loves his copper chemistry. Jokes aside, I love how you explained the construction process of the molecule so that even chemistry-curious fuckers like me can follow along-kinda.
Hey dude! I got the perfect substitute for octronitrocubane, it is called Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane. It is quite a complex molecule, but the synthesis really suprized me!
As a Physicist I did a double-take at you first mentioning cobalt and spent way too long trying to figure out if you were joking. Turns out I've spent too much time in the Nuclear lab lately, as I had completely forgotten that there are also _other_ kinds of Cobalt than Cobalt-60. How marvelous is that? Here I was thinking you're upgrading to salted bombs. I need a better lab-life-balance.
The highest Chem I took was 202 in college, for a civil engineering degree. And I understand the words he’s saying, but the sentences may as well be Attic Greek.
2021 Tom: "The synthesis [of octanitrocubane is...too hard] 2023 Tom: "Please give me ideas to distract from my unfinished PhD" 🫠 Edit: "Do you remember the 90s? No. See, no one does." *ad roll* 🫠🫠🫠
Explosions&Fire How about you make something simpler... tetranitropentaerythritol ? You can mix petroleum jelly, ammonium perchlorate and PETN in 1:3:2 proportion to make a plastic explosive.
@@ExplosionsAndFire Can you make this thing ? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-Dimethylaminophenylpentazole (Can an electron withdrawing pentazole on the pther hand even be made?)
One of the reasons I love your vids so much is hearing The Presidents at the start of every one! They were one of my fav bands when I was a young lad in the 90s. That very album is still among the ones I love the most in its entirety Edit: lmao I remember the 90s
I really like this video, because he goes through a lot more of the chemisty and process this time (at least it seems that way, I haven't been watching for very long).
I know this is a long time past when this video originally went up, but I somehow only JUST found it even though I try to watch literally everything you make. I remember the 90s xD
Love the inclusion of the clip of NileRed smashing his beakers because he didn't know which ones were compromised from plasma testing after he accidentally mixed them back into the general pool of his glassware
Well, probably the most fun I've had watching fulminates in decades. I really enjoy the cans, they demonstrate velocity as I've only seen on a far larger scale, from ten miles or so away. "Shatters the back of the can". Cobalt, number one, humm, might be something to that. Thanks.
I love that you've dedicated your life to fire and explosions at a molecular level but please please please make craters. The little foil bakes or axe whacks are just very deflating after watching a maestro do his thing .
Lost my shit at 7:34. I wish you existed when I was in high school. I always had a interest in science, especially chemistry and astronomy, and if your channel existed back when I was in high school no doubt I'd have gone to college for chemistry. Informative, entertaining, and hilarious videos. Love u
6:06 - I had mine for 3 years and 10 months. And it started with a Chain & Ligation procedure, which lasted for the first 15 or 16 months and you probably don't want to Google Image search that. AND, it all came about because of a trampoline accident. (This was before they started putting the nets around them - you know that thin blue pad that goes around the perimeter? Yeah, that covers the springs - not the frame. And the frame was what I decided to try to land on, mouth-first, after accidentally attempting a double-front-flip and getting a really terrible boost from the other guy on the trampoline.) I really, REALLY hope your whole braces experience was better than mine. 😆
chemistry is the one science I just could not wrap my head around and seeing someone who loves it is just remarkable. Now I know how people see me as I talk enthusiastically about linear algebra and calculus...
I love your approach to chemistry..... Sharing your passion for holding grudges and avoiding "Yellow" is definitely something you should teach to the next generation.. One question though.. could you cook a thin steak using an unconventional explosive...
“I’m seeing one or two people agree with me and everbody else say no. So yes I’m glad I’ve reached this consensus where I’m correct.” *takes big sip from beer
Lol!! I love this!! Just got recommended this channel and am binge watching for more insights into my own job as a lab technician in the chemistry manufacturing industry
