That's what I love about this channel. He shows so much stuff you will never see anywhere else! Even after a Ph.D and several years of professional experience in inorganic chemistry, I never got the chance to mess with half the stuff he shows here!
You do all these cool videos but you never show the after. I would be interested in seeing your cleanup, disposal, safety measures, and just in general the after the experiments. Also you should do more of yourself in these videos! Thanks again for another interesting video! I would also like to see your lab!
Great intro! It's only a bunch of rocks, but they are shown in a way -- and with a sound track -- that builds intrigue. Fancy camera work to "stroll" through a field of objects that small. The artistry on this channel is amazing.
Lithium + sulfur hexafluoride, the torpedo fuel that produces no gas so it can be used at any depth please or lithium + Teflon which is used for decoy flares for heat seeking missiles. Another fantastic video excellently shot as always.
@@garethjones4742 Yeah, well he got the fire part but he missed the explosion part. There was a U.S. plant making these flares and a fire started and people didn't go far enough away and the deflagration converted into a detonation like Texas City and Beirut and killed a number of plant workers because just like with ammonium nitrate nobody knew it was explosive until it exploded.
I would like if you did a comparison of reaction in the presence and absence of air, to see how LiH reacts with chlorides without burning of the product
My favorite reaction uses an isotopic sister-compound of LiH: LiD (Lithium deuteride). First all, some neutrons are required: ⁶LiD + ¹n → D + T + ⁴He↑. Then, we need 63keV to form D + T → ¹n + 17.6 MeV + ⁴He. I really love this reaction.
@@drMentalBar It always depends on your intention. Since the difference between an explosive device and a power plant is only defined by the energy turnover by time unit, you can use this reaction for electrical power production as well. One feasible way is to use LiD as a fuel in a high yield, high pressure pulse plasma fusion reactor, we had developed in our institue about ten years ago - before it was shut down by our government due to issues with our oil industry and mineral oil tax system: First, kick-start the reaction by exploding a tiny amount of LiD in the Hohlraum within a T-gas atmosphere. This will create a bunch of 14.1MeV-neutrons, that produces additional T from LiD in situ for subsequent shots. Thermal power can be extracted from moderated surplus-neutrons and Alpha-particles, inductively slowed down (provides about 20% of the total output power as electricity). Since each cycle is 100% externally powered, all hassles with the Lawson criterion vanish and you can get a yield, Tokamak-people can only dream of. After we had started with the aneutronic p-B-reaction scheme, politicians freaked out. Pulse plasma fusion science at SNL (Sandia National Lab) was defunded by the US-government and the institute for nuclear energy physics at the University of Basel (Switzerland) was completely closed down. Since 2017, our nuclear law forbids exothermic nuclear fusion for power generation explicitly.
I remember making LiAlH4 from that. Easiest way to do it is add AlCl3 LiH and dioxane to a ball mill with a dry nitrogen purge and let it grind for a few days. You end up with a syrup of dioxane and LiAlH4 and some LiCl. Best to calculate the strength in g/ml and use it in this form.❤
Oh damn, people used to buy heroin OTC, now you simply can't do anything more dangerous than a sodium bicarbonate shit, then they expect competent people working at the boeing door sealant and don't realize why the stuff is so expensive nowadays.
Your content is underrated. This should have millions of views. Amazing slow mo shots of chemistry, really well done. I also wish I had something I could trust, like you trust your fume hood. :D
are you a filmmaker who got into chemistry or a chemist who got into filmmaking because the shots of these reactions are truly cinema quality 🤩👍👍 truly underrated content here 👌👌👌
Compliments from this point viewing accentuate is spot online quality... Extremely well done... ...I'm never going to attend & many of these observations i won't attempt... ...Thanks volatility in Caspian measure.. Utube favorites.
Would like to see the reaction of lithium hydride with concentrated hydrogen peroxide (85% or higher) or white fuming nitric acid. Believe both reactions are hypergolic especially with nitric acid.
I really wish i could see its true potential in reducing properties like being able to reduce titanium carbide iron carbide(good old steel) or alkoxides(besides hydrogen) or even aluminium phosphide or organic phosphide could have been amazing
Seeing reactions that could never be done in a traditional chemistry lab is amazing. I think there is some really important chemistry to be gleaned from some of these experiment. The reaction with SiH4 is particularly interesting as I would like to do some TEM on the "SiO2" smoke. Now, how about C3O2 which is described as an "evil smelling" liquid?
I love how aggressive some of those tetra- and penta-chlorides are, when they ignite in the test tube. Part of me will always wonder, how they smell. :3
4:32 Silicon dioxide, or as I like to call it, spark plug wire magic smoke. That thing you see in cars when either a spark coil fails or one of the spark plug wires falls on the exhaust and turns into a big pile of fluffy dust.
I thought I was brave when I used Silane and Diethyl Zinc to ignite rocket engines, but then this magnificent madman adds OZONE for that certain je ne sais quoi...
Smaller molecule size, the only thing that can reduce this compound is theoretical metallic hydrogen and it should reduce to more metallic hydrogen, that's why obtaining even a single sample of metallic hydrogen is important.
LiH - never thought of it being the lightest ionic compound. WOW, nice footage and soundtrack. What else can one do with LiH? Sane chemists, I mean. :D
According to wikipedia, TiH4 is thermodynamically unstable and has never been produced in bulk. Not sure what product you made, but at those temperatures, there's no way TiH4 survived long enough to exit the tube. Also, all the halides you mention would flash boil on contact with the ~700C liquid hydride, so this whole video is suspicious.
