btw if anyone is kind of wondering what Sodium Hydroxide taste like, it taste sweet lol, yes i accidentally got a little grain of it in my mouth from doing experiments and no it didn't burn or irritate me i just drunk a lot of water as soon as i started tasting it, and i have gotten it on my skin before and it feels slimy and its really hard to get off, so yea be careful when working with that stuff lol (the experiments i was doing is making H2 gas by reacting NaOH with Aluminum and i was trying to crush up the NaOH into a finer powder for a better yield but it ended up not really effecting much) but ive done it many times since then and i get it on my skin quite often but the most its done to me is start to feel like fiberglass on my skin but by then i usually rinse it off quickly
@Peter Larkin I remember that🤣. To add to that he was a bit embarrassed about his accent in the past and the viewers find it charming. His voice only adds the content and makes the videos that much more fascinating. The best way to continue leaning is by practicing. We all reassured him that he should continue as before. There's not been a voice actor since
The University of California is a state college system with over 10 different branches. It would be a little bit like saying "a Russian university". Thank you for taking the time to translate the video to English for us :)
I mean, for what it's worth, hydrogen could be considered the 1st alkali metal. It's just under standard conditions it acts like a gas and makes diatomic molecules. Which makes me wonder, if you had a high pressure high temperature, oxygen free atmosphere comprising of sodium of potassium, would they for diatomic molecules the same way as hydrogen?
Your english is actually getting worse as you progress with your great videos ...... that doesn't mean that your videos are not excellent , keep the great work my friend , love your channel .
I know things like polycarbonate safety glasses don't look all that great, but when tested to the extreme they can take a staggering amount of force/energy and save your eyes, and a polycarbonate shield between you and the experiment can save your whole body. If you want to give yourself nightmares, Google "grinder safety glasses accident" or look up Kentucky Balistics on RU-vid having a .50 cal rifle explode and hit him right in the safety glasses 👀 that's some terrifying stuff. Always remember your safety specs folks
@@marxkartredge yea grinders are a half-horsepower of hate and danger that you can just hold one handed and wave about the place.... They teach you lessons about loose clothing and putting tools down while they're still spinning as well! The only reason they're not banned is because they're just so useful, there is no alternative
That butyl lithium brings back memories. I was doing a project as part of my chemistry degree in the very early 90s. It was to check the “phase transition characteristics of liquid crystals”. I had to use butyl lithium as part of the procedure to make the liquid crystals to be investigated. It involved a fume cupboard, a shed load of dry ice to keep everything REALLY cold and a syringe for the butyl lithium. A syringe that NEVER worked properly and kept trying to dump it all in one go. The professor overseeing me pointed out that if the syringe let too much of the butyl lithium go at once, they wouldn’t have to bury me, they would just repaint the walls to coverup what was left of me. Remarks like that really help to focus your attention on what you are doing. Sometimes I miss the days before health and safety existed. Sometimes.
@@MichaelKingsfordGray I don't see why you think shamurais is lying, but there is something very suspicious about the Sheri Sanji story. You would expect painful, debilitating injuries, but not death, and certainly not a body half reduced to ashes. It doesn't add up. A few hundred milliliters couldn't do that much damage, no matter how reactive it is.
@@WaffleStaffel a few hundred ml of any reactive/energetic material that proceeds with velocities of 5 to 10 MILES per SECOND would certainly be a candidate for death. I have to disagree with you on this one.
This reminds me of serving in the HAZMAT squad in my volunteer fire department. Many unidentified chemicals can only be identified in the field by checking what it reacts with.
A lot of classical analytical chemistry did just that to identify what particular chemicals were, among other physical tests. Nowadays, labs have instrumentation that can identify unique fingerprints of various elements or substances. But prior to that, you had to perform qualitative tests to identify functional groups and work backwards.
@@Setixir Yeah, they're quite expensive but they enable you to react quickly when SHTF. And I totally forgot about the volunteer squads. I apologize for that. Thank God there are people like that.
I'm such a simple man. I remember many years ago, I subscribed for the cat. To this day, I'm still subbed for the cat, but I also enjoy these chemistry videos. Learning is so much more enjoyable when you don't force knowledge down people's throats, like they do in school.
Fun fact about super alkalines: These chemicals even react wuth acetone to form enolate ions. Try this: Pour first DMSO in an erlenmeyer; Then add acetone; Mix the compounds (acetone and DMSO don't dissolve each other due to polarity); Add a super alkali like tert butylithium, sodium amide or LDA in smmall portions. Result: a clear solution (enolate ions dissolve in water)
F.y.i. Enolate anions like the one described made from acetone or other similar ketones Are quenched by water, resulting in forming LiOH + the original ketone!
@@MadScientist267 He is somewhat correct but not totally some elements mostly heavy came on earth by supernova explosion of stars. This elements can only be formed inside the highly dense cores of stars by nuclear fusion.
@@siddheshsingabhatti4025 Yes. And like I said, unless someone *went and got them* they came from the Earth far as we're concerned. Corn is grown in a field... But most people pick theirs up at the store. The corn is therefore "at the store" because effectively, that field is out of reach.
@@MadScientist267 Yeah it depends on the viewers perspective though we were not able to view what happened as life didn't existed that time and even if it would have existed we won't be alive to tell that 😂😂, but we still can't ignore the fact. Your example of corn is good but still you can't ignore the reality that it came from a farm. Depends on you whether you accept or not.❤️❤️
Dude I love this guy's accent along with him on video reminds me of the 80's 90's safety videos were those where the days when it was common to smoke inside your high school chemistry lab and not give a second taught.....😉
Sodium hydride (NaH) and t-BuLi have a frightening degree of reactivity (or, to be exact, pyrophoricity) comparable to, for example, the whyte allotropic form of phosphorus. Supposing you live in a location where the air humidity is high, and you opened up a bottle of the NaH. The risk of spontaneous ignition is present, unless you had special measures in place to minimize the moisture content of the air. Mankind, with his level of ingenuity, has harnessed energy in its various forms, and has devised chemical technologies to overcome the kinetic and thermodynamic barriers associated with bond-breaking and atomic rearrangement. Such is mankind's advancement that it has become possible to break and/or form bonds to form compounds and elements that are so chemically reactive that they can never otherwise exist under natural conditions on planet Earth. I find it interesting that, despite the 'antisocial' or 'evil' nature of incredibly reactive reagents like t-BuLi, they are, nonetheless, very useful reagents in the organic chemistry or inorganic chemistry laboratory, and they also play an important role in the development and production of new materials that benefit our everyday lives.
Plz make different type ( new exotics Information ) of Video on NaK . Is there any similar alternative to Nak ! Like LiK , LiNa , CsK , CsNa , CaK , CaNa or LiCa , LiCs etc in liquid form at Normal Room temp ?
finally thx bro I am from Pakistan and love your video.may Allah protect u and give u health and long life. because of you I understood chemicals well. FUN FACT: they say that Elements found on Earth and Mars are exactly the same.
Another curiosity: Chemistry comes from the Orient alchemy (from Oriental alchemists, obviously), and as many other things from Islamic culture, it's dedicated to Allah. I know you know it but I'm sure that several people who read the comments doesn't know it. 😉
not a chemist but i'm amazed at the ability to 'cook' different things by placing molecules where you want...i kinda do that with food but not nearly as hard. 🤔😀
I have to work with sodium hydride frequently in lab. Even in solvents that you think are dry and contain no water can release a loud hissing sound when it gets added and reacts with trace water. It is a VERY powerful base, and is used to remove protons from things like alcohols, even very weakly protic ones and to form ethers.
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I feel bad for that student and her loved ones. That's a horrible way to go. And it was the combustion of the other solvents that really killed her, apparently. Be careful, everybody who's doing chemistry as a hobby or as part of another hobby. I assume with the popularity of these chemistry channels on youtube there are probably a lot of people getting into chemistry for fun, and that's good, but always remember this stuff can kill you in a very bad way.
Cant take how this man talks i cant even tell is it voice over because he doesnt look like hes speaking the same language, its how i imagine albert einstein talking barely understandable
Wow!! Thank you!! We are always reminded how dangerous super acids are. But after watching the flame from the reaction of super alkali, it is better to leave the reactions (too!!) to proper trained chemists.
