@@MikeDawson1I believe he was demonetized long ago for a nitro glycerin video. But a lot of ppl cannot stand this video service but love the content creators.
I was wonder that to, I was wonder it could done commercially if all is needed strong magnet farmer ploughing fieldsand stuff there do, could make some extra income by doing not much more than there doing already?
@@dh2032yes, but it's also not worth it in most cases as the deposits tend to be scattered and too small to deal with. Cody is digging it up from a dry stream bed where it had been concentrated over thousands of years exactly how a gold sleuths would work. 3ft in any direction may have hardly any magnetite, making it not worth industrial mining. Still though, his ingenuity is always impressive.
That magnetic separation is ridiculously cool. I've seen it done plenty of times where you pull everything out with the magnet manually, but not a separation of a constant flow like that. Really fun to watch
Winnowing is the word that describes using the wind to separate wheat from chaff. A magnetic field can do the same and be a bit more controlled, allowing particles to be graded into different bins according to size and magnetic composition after several passes. Better not to have the particles stick to the magnet and then disrupt the flow though!
@@acmhfmggru I'm sure you find a way if you're stupid enough! "Winnowing is the word that describes using the *wind* to separate wheat from chaff." wheat = heavy. chaff = light.
If you do this again, I strongly recommend adding some borax in the sheets to act as a flux. It makes the iron separate out MUCH better, often into a single pure lump
One idea to get a more compact lump would be to add some charcoal powder mixed in with the magnetite in the stuffing of the "burrito". The carbon will dissolve in the molten iron making pig iron which melts at a lower temperature and is more fluid, thus allowing the globules of molten metal to coalesce better.
Hey Cody! Let me propose another experiment on this topic. Since you are surviving on Mars, imagine that for some reason you have lost your oxygen and are forced to urgently get it by electrolysis of water. But what to do with excess hydrogen? Just burn it? You'll waste your oxygen again. But we know that there is a lot of iron oxide on Mars. And if you burn iron oxide in a hydrogen atmosphere, you get pure iron and water again. That water, which can again be decomposed into oxygen for breathing and hydrogen. This way you don't lose water, but you only need to add iron oxide over and over again in this cycle. And there is a lot of it on Mars.
So you're basically recycling the hydrogen to separate the oxygen from the iron. Some energy could be recovered from the burning process and reused with a "waste" product of iron that could be used to build structures. All it needs is LOTS of energy and a source of water/hydrogen to replenish the reaction hydrogen as some gets lost or wasted in the process.
That's actually really cool!... hope it's something that works... but hydrogen is a gas so i'm sure it's something hard to do. You would need at least a vacuum and then a very high pressure. Actually i think oxigen bonds are stronger with iron than with hydrogen.
I'm absolutely LOVING the high frequency of videos being uploaded Cody! You've been my favorite RU-vidr for YEARS. Thank you for doing what you do. You've taught me so many things throughout the years!
He finally finished his filling with google. Dont know if he had to sue but they stopped paying so he stopped putting ads in his videos and got a real job. The money back and so is cody chicken hole should look great.
It's depressing how few scientists also get into psychology. When you get millions of viewers someone has a meeting about you on the platform you're on to see if they can create an ecosystem of similar content. This involves mapping out Cody's behavioural patterns and targetting him with content that will make him crank out related content. Someone who values privacy as much as Cody will surely be disturbed by that. I imagined the following conversation taking place, "we got these independent science guys working on fuel injection and sodium metal, see if you can get the psy ops department to get Cody on this too, have him make a video" Then from Cody's perspective random things start to pop up that make him mad. Surely there is nobody out here on the Chickenbase he thinks, I got security cameras. Cody probably doesn't have a group of ex-military tech guys covering his property. RU-vid does though, and Cody is the cash cow for targetted ads. Sucks how small the planet is for an international organization.
Honestly though he could probably use a similar method for magnetite separation using a strong enough breeze to blow away the lighter sand, such as a clay pot with a hole in the bottom positioned over the exit of a sideways chimney for the draft effect, thus allowing him to gather far more iron sand than his previous method of panning in water.
I used to watch your videos when I was 10 years old, I'm 17 now. I'm so happy that you're still making the same kind of videos, doing what you love. Hearing "alright everyone" with your thumbs up was a distinct part of my early chemistry curious childhood. You alongside Grant, and Andy from HTME were all I watched. Thanks for everything.
Why not just say, "I've been watching hing for 7 years" 😂
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@@AggroSamurai Because 7 years when you're 17 is like 1/2 of your conscious life. I've been watching Cody for 8 years now, and while I am older, it's still a big part of my life.
Dude, i first saw your video on rare metal refining where you refined gold from computer chips 8 years ago, now im in college studying science with nanotechnology and i have to say that i wouldnt be where i am right now if youre down-to-earth science in your backgarden videos hadnt inspired me and made me realise that science is something you can even do at home, and here i am again, looking at the first video ive seen reccomended from you in years and it put a smile on my face, still doing excellent work! Thank you man for your easy to understand and overall awesome videos!
I was like "What's the point of sprinkling a small amount over aluminum foil? Rolling it up like that, he's not drying it... Thermite? Oh... huh, yeah, thermite. That other video experimenting with thermite chemistry totally makes sense now!"
@@kekt Huh? I started using thermite as a kid in the 70's while working for a utility company during summer vacation. We used it to weld these things called either cathodes or anodes to the underground pipeline to prevent corrosion from electrolysis. The railroad was also using thermite to melt steel rails together and we would watch that when they were doing it in town.
What’s magical is that your comment is from 2 months ago yet the video was apparently uploaded about 10 mins ago… wtf lol Edit: if you’re hiding a DeLorean, may I please borrow it “for science”? :D
@@LeprechaunJackson I do happen to have one. And it's for sale. But, in this case. Cody posted it on twitter first and the video was unlisted on youtube. But, the car is still for sale.
Cody I love your videos, I have for years. Talking/Not talking, Shortform/Longform, Algae/Mushrooms, Chemistry/Bees, Canning Green Beans in actual Tin/Mines, Chicken Hole Base/Precious Metals... It makes no difference to me, I'm watching it all... I hope you still enjoy making them, dude (at least as much as I enjoy watching them).
(speaking of iron...) My kids and I love your content, and watch it as part of our home school 'infotainment' time. We recently conducted a chemistry experiment where the results surprised us, and we can't find an explanation online: We put polished iron nails in 1)water, 2)hydrogen peroxide, and 3)a sealed jar of air(control), HYPOTHESIZING that the one in the H2O2 would oxidize most rapidly (since H2O2 is a known oxidizer). After a day, the nail in the WATER was visibly oxidizing and the water was stained a dark orange, but the one in the H2O2 looked identical to the control. Same result after a WEEK. At that point, we put the CORRODED nail from the water into the jar of H2O2, and it immediately started to react--with bubbles rising from the iron oxide and a precipitate forming in the bottom of the jar. WHY is it that the H2O2 doesn't appear to react with the naked iron, but DOES react with the iron oxide? We couldn't find ANYTHING online to explain this, and thought of YOU as someone who might have some insight into the results of this puzzling(for US!) experiment. Great content. You inspire citizen scientists everywhere :). -TIm
"naked iron" in our atmosphere is also iron-oxide, it must well be that the surface oxide is just less porous in comparision with the other vissibly oxidized nail. PD: I'm not a chemist.
I'm not Cody but I have a hypothesis, the clean iron nail had very low surface area and might have had a different variation of oxide on its surface, did you make sure it was not galvanized? Also when you put the pre oxidized nail in the h2o2 it most likely had much more surface area due to the surface being etched by the oxidation. The oxidated iron on the saltwater nail was probably more permeable and allowed the h2o2 to react with the raw metal underneath, rather than the smooth uniformed nail originally in the h2o2. The uniform surface of the unoxidized nail might have still had a thin layer with little or no pores in the coating of oxide.
@@isaacallgood3673 Good theories, but I don't think they explain our results. All of our nails were non-galvanized common nails taken from a bucket that INCLUDED some that already showed orange oxides (rust) . Only clean, un-rusted nails were selected for the experiment, and ALL of the experimental nails were scrupulously sanded to remove any oxide-layers prior to the experiment. There's something more going on here... The H2O2 didn't seem to TOUCH the naked iron...
There has got to be a way for this kind of content to get past the youtube sensors. There are so many idiots out there posting far worse stuff than a bit of thermite chemistry.
Having no commentary is also actually nice in its own right. It's like ASMR, you can hear all the little cracklings and steps in the sand. It really takes you there. Almost like to a different planet...
Cody these short yet informative videos are so awesome. You might just be the most wholesome human on the internet. Never change and you inspired me during my darkest years. Thank you
There is something so rooting and humble to this I love it. Ive been watching for a long time and will be, Im a big silent fan cody your videos are an inspiration! Thank you!
Happy to see new shorter and more simple videos lately. I have been following the channel for 10 yrs and even learned english by listening to your videos (I'm french). Keep inspiring us !
I've always been a huge fan of your explanatory narration, but this is an awesome throwback to the earliest years of youtube. I highly support this format as well! My brain enters a different kind of flow.
Awesome! The separation of the iron oxide from the sand was cool and then the thermite reaction. The tricky will be melting/purifying the iron though (it may need temperatures uppwards of 1600°C/2912°F as in steel plants - and may still be too pure to make a new thermite reaction on it's own). If doing this again, you could try to pour some charcoal (crushed into small pieces) over the thermite reaction as soon as it's finished (as reducing agent to keep the iron from reoxidizing during the long time it takes for it to cool down).
I love this! I always wanted to do this! Even try to make a crappy knife with it. But I was thinking of doing like the train track builders and adding bits of steel pellets.
Cody, try this: After collecting hematite, try to put it into a blender to break down any leftover silicates and discard them for the subsequent magnetic separation to gain better purity. Then, put that new ground into the blender again and add foil pieces to achieve a more thorough mixed powder. Lastly, I suggest putting some sand on top of the thermite reaction at some specific point to seal the oxygen off to prevent the iron from being oxidized into pig iron. Best, thumbs up!
The lack of speech in a Cody's Lab video is kind of eerie, but I heard him quietly laugh so that's comforting 😂 I'm not complaining, though. This is a bit like Primitive Technology and I like it.
I had pondered that aluminum foil and like, shop filings for thermite fun, but never thought about gathering magnetite sand to do it....... Fun stuff! Having lumps of joy to play with after, a bonus
This is so nice, peaceful, and relaxing to watch ... I wish Slow-Mo Bros would do a colab with that beginning would love to see a slow down version of it starting off.
Codys videos i follow since "piss cannon ", and i was go trough wery taff jears , and was give me the light on the end of the tunnel , hope for a future. And still as allways LOVE to see new videos a smart and great soul Cody🎉Greeting from Hungary Bánfalva 🎉
This is like that one episode from Mr Robot, not a single line of dialogue spoken throughout the video and you won't even feel its absence too. Awesome job!
Packing the the rust inside alimunium foil... Brilliant, just brilliant. I would never have come up with a way like that to reduce the iron oxide to elemental iron.
