This Powder Explodes on Contact With Everything 

oh my god in the slomo footage you can SEE the mosquito in one frame and mosquito shaped DUST the next

Imagine your friend cover your entire floor with nitrogen triiodine during morning as a prank😂

That was actually the first energetic I ever made, when I was about 10yr old. Nobody showed me how and I didn't realize it was even that simple, what I did was I heated a saturated iodine tincture (it was literally a pile of crystals in a little rubbing alcohol) in one container, and some household ammonia in a larger container. I had some IV tubing, I guess I got from when I got my tonsils out, had that held into a hole in the lids of the containers with puddy, then I had two funnels over a third container one would a coffee filter much like a normal filtration, the other one upside down over the top of the first with the IV tubing coming in through the hole. Somewhere I got it in my head that the two had to react in the gas state and I thought I had the condensed the ammonia, also my iodine was contaminated from the potassium salt I got it from so that helps separate that as well. Anyway I ended up with a coffee filter full of large damp crystal like chunks of this stuff. I spread it out on a steal plate to dry, and as it dried those Crystal like chunks would spontaneously explode causing this 10 lb steel plate to hop!!!! That scares the heck out of me thinking how big it would be if that whole fist size lot went off at once!! So I washed it down the drain, I didn't realize those chunks wouldn't dissolve. Later that night you could hear popping and banging from the pipes and sewer system and the drain pipes in the house were shaking with purple smoke coming out of the drain. That scared both my parents and my neighbors! I never told them what I did. That's what I learned how sensitive this stuff was! it will literally explode from a crystal cracking as it dries! I haven't made any since(45yr) but I'm considering it now after seeing it's effects on mosquitoes😅

I made it using a strong elemental iodine solution in water, dropped through 28% NH4OH. The precipitate is the product. I washed it three times with water, then let it dry. My brother walked by, creating air current which set it off.

Ah, the elusive Tiger Mosquit, finally gone. Good job!

Was such a fun chemical to play and surprise with. I used to use tincture of iodine and household ammonia. Then decant after settling, coat pen ends or pencil eraser end and cover with some crepe paper. toss it next to other students to freak out when teacher left room..... fun stuff.

This reminded me of what I did 40 years ago. Made a fair amount, went to the mall and dispersed it on the floor. Funny watching people step on it.

Our standard school prank was off the shelf ammonia mixed with iodine powder. After 3 days, wash and store the crystal residue in IPA. Sprinkle the slurry around the floor outside the staff-room, the alcohol evaporates; then watch from a safe distance.

The mosquito trap reminded me of one story, chemist students made nitrogen triiodide and dripped it onto whatman paper and scattered bread crumbs, then went into another room to drink vodka, after an hour and a half, popping noises were heard in the kitchen - these were cockroaches being blown up in a miniature minefield😆

Can you do a video showing your setup, fume hood, duct work, etc?

My father told me about making NI3 when he was a teenager, in the late 1940s. He'd soak a few drops into sugar cubes, line them up on the windowsill and wait for flies to land on them.... He also spread some on the blackboard at school. Later in life, he was an industrial chemist and metallurgist.

iodine crystals are the most fun they keep on spreading

Wspaniały!

Soo... as an eager young 1st year chem student, I decided that I needed to make NI3 myself. Sensibly, I did this on some concrete outside. Needless to say, once it dried it exploded with a satisfying pop. When I thought that everything had popped, I went back inside. A little later, I heard a "POP" from outside... On investigation, I found several legs of a cockroach....

I wonder what kind of of mouse trap you would build?😂

it was a nice project to make elementary iodine before making nitrogen triiodide

Fantastic !

Watching this I fondly recall our high school chemistry teacher painting the stairs with it for open house night back in the 1970's.

I've heard that nitrogen trichloride is less stable, but it's so dangerous that it can detonate while wet, or even spontaneously while drying out.

The powder probably isn't dry enough in many of your tests so it is not sensitive to impact for quite a lot of time, from my experience their sensitivity is lowered quite a bit when wet.

Very cool 👍

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Oh my god, its the *great alchemical **_purple smoke!_*

Bro went all Oppenheimer at the end. subbed!

Nice feather 🤪 Great video 👍

In order to oxidatively displace iodine from iodide, dilute sulfuric acid should be used instead of concentrated hydrochloric acid, otherwise this will also be oxidized. The resulting chlorine forms an interhalogen with iodine, which contaminates iodine as the end product and produces even more explosive nitrogen trichloride with ammonia. Since iodine is so poorly soluble in water, it hardly reacts with the ammonia solution. It should first be dissolved in iodide solution (also freely available commercially as Lugol's solution). This keeps the iodine in solution and makes it more available for many reactions. Nevertheless, the preparation of nitrogen triiodide should of course only be carried out in a professional setting; for private individuals this would be illegal in many countries.

pro you are sauce😂😂

Awesome! Would be even cooler you try making potassium chlorate ?

the metal acted as a heatsink in the final experiment keeping the compound wet as it was kept below the evaporation temp of the liquid.

I love that i also buy chemical reagents from WarChem

I downloaded this video.

I need a impact trigger to start a smoke device.

Amazing job well done how are you 😂😂😂i love it

You can also make nitrogen triiodide using potassium iodate and two other chemicals it forms in seconds no need for elemental iodine at all just the ion.

Ah, the most fabulous explosive

if you isolated a single molecule of this, would it still touch off? if it did, it would leave singlet iodine and singlet nitrogen hanging around. is it even possible to isolate a single molecule? i know some pumps can get way down there with gases... energetics is the best part of chem lol

You should give making Azadoazide Azide (C2N14) a try.

Can you make benzene from wood?

Nice ive been wanting to make nitrogen tri iodide myself. I want to see how big of a crystal i can grow of it.

resublimed iodine works better. this stuff can be dangerous in big quantities but safe if wet. I used to put it in gaps on door handles or hinges with a mini paintbrush. on the toaster lever was fun too it used to pop around the same as an xmas cracker, so it was perfect for practical joke use. it's when random bits on the floor get stepped on days or weeks later. 😅

Pow!

first time i'm so early on your youtube

alfa particles... you can find a good source in some TIG electrodes with small percentage of thorium

I ignite by flash powder and urea nitrate TATP detonator, but They do not fully ignite, Can you tell me how to their completely ignite ,their powder was 50GM .

in my youth, we went to the pharmacy for an alcoholic solution of iodine and ammonium alcohol, which were later combined))

Like for destroying the mosquito!

Good 👍 What about triChloride?

1:08 Азид йода, а также трихлорид азота более чувствительны

why tf does he have the same tone as NileRed? i suppose if it works copy it. can it also be set off with a droplet of water?

To teraz może NaClO3 z cukrem

Nie chciałbyś może zrobić jakiegoś eksperymentu z chemii organicznej?? Mam teraz w szkole i fajnie byłoby zobaczyć że to naprawdę działa Trzymaj się 💪

11:17 the way he's spanking it made me giggle 😜

2:23 why in the first listed item the Iodine is encased in buttplug shaped container

Iodine is toxic?!? I thought it was what was used to disinfect the skin around incisions when performing surgeries, and to clean wounds. 😄

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7:32 Миф, он не взрывается от α-излучения. По крайней мере, один русскоговорящий ютубер это проверил

You should have a stronger warning against making NI3 and the whole series of N- halogenids. I have never made more than a pea sized amount at once, but I remember my highschool science teacher telling us about some earlier pupils, stealing a large bottle of iodine and making a large heap of it. (Drying with ethanol). Fortunately it was done in the school lab and a teacher happened to come by before the ethanol had totally evaporated. They had made a dangerous amount of it. Fortunately it's not spontaneously decomposing in a detonation except as dry crystals. An extra warning should be made against making Hg-fulminate and TATP. All the mentioned compounds can easily be made by accident if you're working with certain chemicals!

Made this myself and had a lot of fun be you have to be sooo careful or you will never date a girl in your life because you will be dead.

First lol