Turning soap into oil and making French fries

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In my previous video, I made soap from vegetable oil. It got me wondering, is it possible to go backwards? Can I make oil from soap?
This is my first attempt to do this and I think I will try it again in the future. I wouldn't use the same procedure though, because I don't think this one was too good. The high heat let to a lot of glycerol breaking down and I think a lot of side reactions.
Method I followed for this video: goo.gl/OltwDL
Other possible method: goo.gl/ELZbSo
Link to triglyceride pathway: goo.gl/wCBVh8
Link to soap video (Part 1): • Making Soap
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@topphemelig 7 лет назад

The things you do for french fries.

@xpndblhero5170 4 года назад

Makes me question if he's a fan of tetrohydrocannibinol and cannabidiol.... 🤔😂

@maxkax9241 4 года назад

@@xpndblhero5170 Look at his eyes man, he be fkn glazed in some videos lol

@xpndblhero5170 4 года назад

@@maxkax9241 - 🤣🤣🤣 That is so spot on.... You can definitely tell he's toasted as hell in some videos. LMAO

@heavens.sorrow 4 года назад

The things I do for love...

@werisekk3 4 года назад

I don't even want to know what he would do for a Klondike bar...

@N05K177 7 лет назад

"So I went over to his lab. Ran a sample. And then proceeded to be sad."

@Skhillz_FN 7 лет назад

I would say that too

@Felixkeeg 7 лет назад

It actually went just like that, IR takes around 2 minutes to do^^

@pmangano 7 лет назад

Yep that sums up like 90% of my research experience.

@B-System 5 лет назад

syntheticchem.txt

@MysterSnow 5 лет назад

16:00 for anyone who wants to proceed to being sad

@lostcontrol1981 2 года назад

I’m a professional soap maker - I make cold process soap using a combination of oils, just as described in this video. In my professional opinion, that soap was COLOURED using some sort of artificial colourant. If you make a pure olive oil soap - even using extra virgin olive oil (which is usually dark greenish) - the final soap is usually a pale yellow or pale greenish colour. I’ve never seen a naturally coloured soap turn a dark green like that!

@monicarenee7949 Год назад

Yeah they probably used a “natural color” (like dye made from vegetables) just so they could say it wasn’t artificial, but it wasn’t from the olives

@samurai90x Год назад

some of my favorite soaps to make at my mom's shop are coconut carbon they turn pure black and cure to about a greyish black look very pretty.

@ChristopherFelicitas 6 месяцев назад

Maybe they used really high quality cold pressed olive oil? They're really green. Or it will be still pale?

@lostcontrol1981 6 месяцев назад

@@ChristopherFelicitas - I’ve used olive oil fresh from the olives (my neighbours family owns an olive plantation in Lebanon. The olive oil is much greener and much stronger tasting than what you can buy in the stores in bottles. It takes about a year for the flavour to mellow). Despite the olive oil being a deep green colour when it’s really fresh, the soap is a yellow / beige colour. .

@ChristopherFelicitas 6 месяцев назад

@@lostcontrol1981 Didn't know that, thanks for the information. That soap he used definitely is using dyes.

@toxicity42 9 месяцев назад

I saw the thumbnail before the title and somehow assumed that you were gonna make soap into potatoes and I got very concerned at your potential to break every law of existence in 21 minutes.

@heavenflatt9468 2 месяца назад

No same🤦‍♀️😂

@aaroneidinger 7 лет назад

Something I've learned from Mythbusters: Failure is a result.

@basevegeta9424 5 лет назад

F**K mythbusters!!!

@incognitoburrito6020 4 года назад

@@basevegeta9424 No.

@Valsorayu 4 года назад

@@incognitoburrito6020 don't kink shame him ;)

@whiscer3888 3 года назад

@@Valsorayu ok that's a different answer

@Valsorayu 3 года назад

@@whiscer3888 the best way to resolve an issue is to make it weird.

@marianapinto6117 5 лет назад

"After I failed, I was pretty sad, because I wasn't able to make oil for my french fries." big mood nile, big mood indeed

@azharimran1969 3 года назад

@simonpercival6175 3 года назад

A Sports I T S I N T H E G A M E

@ppppp4641 3 года назад

NILEISM GIVE THIS MAN A PRIZE

@Ultrabeast-ok2ou 3 года назад

... Nigel....

@edgy8801 3 года назад

@@Ultrabeast-ok2ou nigel is his real name but this guy called him by the first half of his username, is there a problem here?

@mistirion4929 2 года назад

"Turning soap into oil" Obi-Wan: You have become the very thing you swore to destroy

@Boredability 2 года назад

Imagine ordering fries at a restaurant and then in the kitchen you saw a mad scientist doing his wizardry 🧙

@Cassidy206 Год назад

That would be very funny

@tootsieroll0922 7 лет назад

I read this title wrong and thought it said 'converting soap into French fries' okay back to bed

@zanpekosak2383 6 лет назад

Mary Colomaio *A month later* (newsletter title) McDonalds serving fresh straight from the field fries made from soap. They used some youtubers way of doing it and they claim it is completly harmless. *Two months later* McDonalds client died because they got french fries that tasted like eucaliptus. Apparatly the aroma was also toxic. We will update you later on this horrible story.

@lauras.4695 4 года назад

i literally thought that was the title, i had to go back and read it again lmao

@eyadfahd2084 3 года назад

My whole life is a lie

@hyunjinscheoeumiraseoda4639 3 года назад

Same

@ajsmith319 3 года назад

Have you woke up yet?

@IvanTarasov 7 лет назад

Please don't hesitate to show the "failures", they are an important part of any scientific/engineering endeavor which people rarely get to learn about!

@katherinelee313 3 года назад

Accidents aren't important. You seem to think you are, however.

@Sonicdude3 3 года назад

@@katherinelee313 rude

@katherinelee313 3 года назад

@@Sonicdude3 is it not true?

@Sonicdude3 3 года назад

@@katherinelee313 accidents in science are part of the learning process to show you what and what not to do

@chimkennubbets6899 3 года назад

@@Sonicdude3 yup I agree

@LegguSo 7 месяцев назад

I am so dumb. I read the thumbnail and thought he turned soap into fries 💀

@MatVB 2 месяца назад

You know, that would have been a much better video... Too bad...

@LegguSo 2 месяца назад

Fr 😭

@Dmebod Год назад

Why dose the way Neil’s saying fatty acids feels like an insult 😭😭😭😭

@crabsaresilly8317 Год назад

T t clizz

@wertyujh1 7 лет назад

hey Neill, please don't use Erlenmeyer flask for vacuum distillation (or anything else involving vacuum). You should use round-bottom flasks instead. most of the time it's fine, but sometimes they break. it happend to my supervisor and me a few months ago, and he had serious chemical burns (the flask contained oleylamine). he is fine right now, but please be careful! this could happen to you as well.

@kleetus92 6 лет назад

Is that why they come with vacuum ports on them?

@haakonbledsoe 6 лет назад

kleetus92 just because you can doesn't mean you should. Lab conduct is meant to avoid as many dangers as possible so I would say that it is an unneeded danger to use a flat bottomed flask on a vacuum distiller.

@pipoo5576 5 лет назад

they come with an vacuum port to use them in vacuum filtration. In this case they usually are pretty thick walled and dont get heated so strong as in the video. Round Flasks are the best option when it comes to vacuum destillation, because they can dissipated the pressure from outside evenly over the whole surface.

@BillAnt 5 лет назад

The safety of an Erlenmeyer flask is dependent on the strength of the vacuum used. With low to medium vacuum it should be fine, but a round bottom flask will stand up much better to high vacuum forces due to its inherent design.

@Diabolicallaughter- 4 года назад

That is true, Erlenmeyer flask are mostly used for vacuum filtration with a Büchner funnel but not for Destillation. Also they have a special coating on the outside to prevent implosion.

@GeorgeOneEleven 4 года назад

Hey NileRed, ever thought of trying this again? I'd love to see another attempt, especially with all the knowledge and experience you've surely gained since

@jesther2575 2 года назад

@bigbomb5904 2 года назад

@arnavtete7793 2 года назад

@garlicxi 2 года назад

@@arnavtete7793 cloud

@maryna.angelpa 2 года назад

@sylviekoenig9960 2 года назад

I think that was an absolutely crazy endeavour but sooooooooo fascinating! I could not resist watching the video, almost 5 years after it was posted. Keep up with this type of experiment. It's bonkers, but so are we and it is such a relief from boring routine life. Thank you for being you! (March the 30th, 2022)

@animangusz7505 2 года назад

As a first year organic chem student its really cool to see these reactions applied. Helps me remember how they work too! Thanks nile :)

@carlofrezzotti8439 7 лет назад

"anyway, that's about it for this failure of a video" Mate you're so funny, we want backstages!

@NileRed 7 лет назад

I should be a comedian.

@joerowland607 7 лет назад

NileRed so now your gonna be the George Carlin of chemistry. So how are you planning on getting hauled before Congress, the seven chem experiments the general public shouldnt know? lol

@shashankambone6920 3 года назад

@@NileRed tbh i am very jealous of your humour. Keep it up!

@C0OKI3S 2 года назад

@@NileRedngl but you should lol

@platypusih8u830 2 года назад

@@NileRed and if anyone boos you out just remind them of you're expertise in chemical warfare

@gabeshaw3721 4 года назад

“Cutting the soap into larger pieces will cause a lot of pain” also Nile: “after a lot of pain...”

@greggayres3248 Год назад

This guy is the reason I actually love chemistry I hate school cemetery but he teaches while making it funny and very interesting

@crabsaresilly8317 Год назад

adults using bounce houses RISKS not telling the ages apart

@suhridsit4456 2 года назад

This channel is an absolute gemstone.

@Wyatt-Barton 3 года назад

"Smoking fatty acids" That was the name of my first band

@jellynamedsamiiripi2928 2 года назад

11:40

@alphakakcmeddlakadoofahkii3362 3 года назад

11:48 "The smoking fatty acids are technically a fire hazard. ANYWAY.." 😂 Lab safety is Nile's passion

@Ormodius3751 2 года назад

Agreed, in his other videos, he also mentions safety alot like the mercury thiocyanate one.

@martijnvangelder1902 Год назад

dude, it's in a fume hood it's fine

@alphakakcmeddlakadoofahkii3362 Год назад

@@martijnvangelder1902 it's a joke

@ScienceDiscoverer Год назад

"THE SAFETY CODE IS MORE OF A GUIDELINE!"

@angrymario8259 11 месяцев назад

It wasn't always, earlier videos were done in his parents garage or outside 😂

@priscillacyannimorris Год назад

“In my little fantasy, I imagined eating the fries.” - Nilered What a fantasy to have. To make fries from soap.

@Cassidy206 Год назад

Sound great

@themorbidstoner1911 2 года назад

This channel is pretty much alchemy and I love it.

@jamierogan3974 3 года назад

Nilered:*Talking in scientific terms* Me:”Ahaha I like your funny words magic man!”

@marshallhill3552 3 года назад

I was searching through this video to find ur comment lol

@two67gh 2 года назад

stolen

@Upper_Decky 2 года назад

@@two67gh I mean at this point 99% of comments are stolen

@justatroll6263 2 года назад

@@two67gh even what you said was stolen

@nauffi2818 2 года назад

@@justatroll6263 even what you said was stolen

@GameFreak4433 7 лет назад

Nile, this was such a genuinely fantastic video. Even though it didn't turn out, you really tried and made a phenomenal video about it. Your use of white and dark gray backdrops make for a beautiful and clean video with high production quality. I'm a big fan now, for sure!

@NileRed 7 лет назад

+APOSTOL thanks! I am glad you liked it :)

@lolBird746 Год назад

@@NileRed come on, it's already been 5 years, you've gained a lot of experience, now do this experiment again and this time you'll succeed, I believe in you👍

@fkaciggs 2 года назад

I appreciate you not wasting my time and letting me know within the first minute you didn't get it working.

@elijahnegron337 Год назад

Your old videos were gone for a while and now they're back! I was a little sad, thanks for putting them back up :)))

@ianstorm9929 7 лет назад

NileRed t-shirt: "Anyway..."

@Med-B 3 года назад

@juanpabloquinterogahona310 3 года назад

I need this

@westie430 3 года назад

"However..."

@tiger12506 7 лет назад

Judging from the consistency of what came out of that flask that you cleaned, I'm pretty sure I've identified the crud that appears in ordinary kitchen drain sink pipes... And this video goes in depth explaining how it gets formed, essentially soap that gets exposed to acids in food/laundry residue forming fatty acids. I find that super fascinating! And drain cleaners that are strong bases.... convert those fatty acids back into soap, which should be soluble in water. Really great information!

@FilbieTron Год назад

🤯🤯🤯

@ScienceDiscoverer Год назад

Looks like crude oil too.

@Gkitchens1 2 года назад

Failure is just a learning step to success. I would really love to see you keep trying this. I know it probably isn't worth your time, but I know if you keep trying you will succeed at this.

@DAAJRA1848 2 дня назад

each and every video is a pure chemistry class

@sac9084 7 лет назад

Maybe you could make your own "pure" soap and then make the reverse process. It takes more time, but maybe it's worth it. I like your videos. 👍🏼👍🏼

@ricardocosson1105 6 лет назад

could not agree more. I was a soap maker, and have extracted olive oil many times, and the soap he started with is nowhere near "pure"; the color alone gives it away. and if they lie on the label, well...

@cheesymeatball174 4 года назад

I used the oils to make the oils

@eyadfahd2084 3 года назад

Good idea indeed

@jonathanalcocer3872 2 года назад

@@ricardocosson1105 I was thinking exactly that, I've made soap with virgin olive oil from our own olive trees and the soap I got out of it was quite white, definitely not green

@MCDreng 2 месяца назад

@@ricardocosson1105i bet those people are the type who think it only counts as additives if its not "natural" - they prob added some natural green color.

@KennytheShark 5 лет назад

"The gases coming off are very irritating and can damage your nose or lungs....................Anyway" 😂😂

@bhavnaparekh2840 2 года назад

This is chemistry and everything possible!!! (Learned From this channel)

@kiramizu Год назад

when it came to chemistry formulas, i knew i didn't understand anything, but still really good job, love it

@rs180216 3 года назад

I think it's really great that you show your failures and not just successes. I feel like i learn a lot from both and you do a great job explaining things enough that i can understand and interest me enough to look up and research more about the stuff i didn't understand. Thanks for doing what you do man

@anaxim1 7 лет назад

I found value in this. Benchwork isn't a series of continuous wins, but following your reasoning and work is enjoyable.

@Hugoderpugo 11 месяцев назад

Nile I am begging you to never stop

@alimirhashimli2727 3 года назад

Feeling very happy that youtube exists after seeing such kind of channels

@Sshartfest 3 года назад

I just wanna say your content really makes me happy and honestly comforts me so much. I don’t understand chemistry beyond junior high basics, yet somehow I’m completely addicted to your videos. I hope you don’t take this the wrong way, but I literally fall asleep watching these. I struggle with falling asleep because of sensory issues associated with autism and restlessness because of adhd. And you put me to sleep (in a good way!!!) almost immediately. Came for the epic chemistry content, stayed for the soothing voice and audio ambien.

@samlovell6488 2 года назад

Same! His videos are so intriguing :) and they help me calm down in time for bed :4

@GraceLJW 2 года назад

Me too! They keep my brain occupied enough to keep the adhd and background anxiety quiet enough to sleep.

@benjaminczarnecki9042 7 лет назад

Hey Nile, you should try extracting nicotine from some tobacco.

@BillAnt 5 лет назад

Also would like to see extraction of Mitragynine and Hydroxy-Mitragynine from Kratom ;) Should be a straight forward acid base extraction, the question is at what pH level will it crash out. Probably would be best to bind it as a calcium-citrate, then convert it to sulfate which is not very water soluble. It's still a legal substance in most of the US and possibly Canada too.

@rockyboi742 5 лет назад

@@BillAnt Also extract DMT from Mimosa Hostilis root bark.

@BillAnt 5 лет назад

@rockyboi742 < Kratom is legal, but I believe DMT is scheduled in the US, not sure about Canada. We gotta suggest substances which are legal, ya know ;)

@mycelia_ow 5 лет назад

@@BillAnt, Mimosa isnt :)

@valiumrat666 4 года назад

Could nicotine be extracted from juul pods?

@lolbacchi3203 4 месяца назад

i watch your videos to sleep. thanks nile 😻🤞

@illumaQ 3 года назад

Hearing the words “glycerol backbone” next to “3 fatty acid tails” gave me biology class ptsd

@JimTheScientist 3 года назад

The US government when they find out they can get oil from soap: Hippity hoppity this dish soap is now my property

@redeye6915 2 года назад

69th like

@JimTheScientist 2 года назад

@@redeye6915 nice

@jayw9267 2 года назад

No, you aren’t very cool.

@pearadiss 2 года назад

@@jayw9267 good luck losing reputation

@jayw9267 2 года назад

@@pearadiss shut your mouth bud

@1nd1_7 3 года назад

I just love chem videos at 2 am in the mornin

@ahmedelnagdy4079 2 года назад

I can't resist myself watching your videos in certain times like 3:00am

@linguisticsnerd433 2 года назад

I love how explained every bit of the process, like the need to crank up the heat to shift the equilibrium favorably, then the reaction mechanism of the zinc chloride catalyzed reaction and even the process of interpreting the IR data. Really gave me a good refresher on everything chemistry. And yes, I would love to watch some enzymatic processes on your channel, the biochemistry nerd in me is excited!!

@GibbyCoAm 7 лет назад

Hi, Nile, I'm not an expert in IR spectroscopy, but in an spectrum of an acid there's a wide peak above 3000 cm^-1 and in this case there is not so there is no O-H bond vibration. I would say that you got an ester, maybe not triglycerides, but not an acid.

@justinhoppe6359 7 лет назад

That's what I was saying!

@CloeStump274 6 лет назад

Totally agree! I think there is no acid

@benthemusicalchemist 6 лет назад

You're right that there would be an acid peak above 3000, but he has no C-O peaks. So definitely not an ester.

@sohamsengupta6470 4 года назад

@@esequieltovar4955 Same here mate

@TheBruhlman 4 года назад

Whilst I thought the same, the lit. IR of oleic acid did similarly lack the obvious OH signal I would expect, so I'm under the impression he's right.

@Cucumber_Dragon 3 года назад

“The footage here is kind of funny, and i don’t have to tell you what i think it looks like.” Lmao😌

@lawganime9311 3 года назад

Is that the good emoji?

@LuxZa 2 года назад

69th like lol noice

@notabigdealthough8616 2 года назад

20:19

@luiseduardolima1223 2 года назад

I heard a lot about the fabricating process of soap involving oil (i did a work on my college explaining the differences between soap and detergent). But the inverse process I've never expect or knew about. Really, i'm surprised how the process is very difficult but i enjoyed your video, it was a really good class of chemistry!

@jamesdietz29 2 года назад

1,373,348 views? I wouldn't call this video a "failure". It entertained a great many people. A success for sure!

@Tactix_se 7 лет назад

Hello everybody and welcome to the NileRed Cooking show! Today we will be making the classic French fries.

@fei3841 3 года назад

...out of soap

@pascal590 3 года назад

If u don’t have reconstituted triglyceride oil, store bought is fine.

@westie430 3 года назад

And then we'll wash it down with some grape soda! (Made out of gloves.)

@anameig9332 2 года назад

With a side of hot sauce made out of gloves!

@Cherry_VCR 3 года назад

Oooo~ french fries Reads ingredients: 100% soap

@DigitalConceptz 3 года назад

I’m hungry as hell and fn addicted to this channel

@dazaispetdog Год назад

5 years later. I mean I didn't watch this when I was 5- but still best video ever 😌

@jarrettdoesstuff2318 7 лет назад

Would absolutely like to see more "failures!" In a culture so hyperobsessed with perfection and success, it's important to know that things don't always go as planned, but they can still teach us things.

@johncavanagh3900 7 лет назад

Don't call it a failure. It's an unintended result.

@zanpekosak2383 6 лет назад

He found another way that wwon't work.

@KRYPTCK 2 года назад

This is so much more educational than Fight Club.

@air-head3961 Год назад

Do you ever just stare at a NileRed title for a bit and just respond with "....sure." before clicking? Because this one gave me that feeling the most out of any of his videos, even though it's far from the most bizarre concept he's presented

@placidesulfurik 7 лет назад

Dude, the production on this new video is top fucking notch. Kudos.

@birkdietrich5916 3 года назад

I love Nile's videos and admire him as a chemist. I will have my final chemistry exam at school tomorrow and learnd a lot of "soft skills" I guess from his videos. But at 11:08 the positive charge of one oxigen atom after the elimination of water is missing... Thanks Nile for your work!

@saadabidat8663 2 года назад

Algeria currently is having issues providing oil , and it’s becoming rare as hell , this video might be useful when the oil jugs we have runout thanks nilered.

@antizx9677 2 года назад

American government: *"write that down! write that down!!!'*

@jimbo0386 2 года назад

Cheap greedy corporations:

@kaviaari 7 лет назад

There's a missing positive charge on the oxonium intermediate at 11:13

@NileRed 7 лет назад

RIP :(

@xPROxSNIPExMW2xPOWER 7 лет назад

haha RIP NileRed

@Rcmkney23 6 лет назад

you must be fun at parties lol

@mohit_panjwani 3 года назад

@@Rcmkney23 bruh,this is literally a nerdy Chem channel. Nobody’s fun at parties here.

@MCDreng 2 месяца назад

@@Rcmkney23imagine being mad that someone corrected false information about chemistry in a chemistry video

@TiSapph 7 лет назад

Hey Nile, would you be interested in making usable PLA from corn starch? That would get you a bunch of views from the 3D print guys :D

@manuelbonet 7 лет назад

Edgar Brucke And I would surely watch that video

@TiSapph 7 лет назад

Or bioplastics in general really

@AlldaylongRock 7 лет назад

Bioplastics.... Future.. pure Cellulose is just like plastic.... got crazy when i found

@TiSapph 7 лет назад

Ummm, well call me when you can injection mould and print cellulose :P No, but seriously, PLA is a pretty common thing nowadays, among other bioplastics...

@S.ASmith 7 лет назад

Are bioplastics thermo plastics or thermosetting plastics? If they're Thermo-plastics that can mixed with a curing agent to harden them, then that would be pretty good to use for making some decent 3D printed plastic parts. Cellulose is a lot easier to make than Synthetic Oil, so as a means of plastics it's a better way to go. Fuel wise, alcohol, hydrogen, fusion & synthetic oils are better though.

@untitled6087 Год назад

haven't watched the video. Turning soap into oil sounds interesting, but turning it into potatoes sounds downright impressive. Looking forward to it.

@callmekj8496 2 года назад

Watching Nile while high is my favorite pastime

@manosverigos3378 7 лет назад

Well you could use Hydroxylamine HCl and an Iron salt to identify an ester bond. If it appears red, then the reaction is successful and fatty acids do not cause false results. Great video though :D

@NileRed 7 лет назад

hmm i had no idea

@manosverigos3378 7 лет назад

It forms a hydroxamic acid which then complexes the iron ion and gives a blood red colour. Try it next time!

@123Mullig123 7 лет назад

Perfect timing Nile, i am currently writing an assignment about the oxidation of paraffins to fatty acids, and the esterfication to edible fats, which you just covered !. Maybe the process would be an interesting topic for a future video. It is called the Imhausen-Prosch process, making butter from coal by chemical means was a sensation in the 1930s.

@wishingwell_333 2 года назад

1930s chemistry must've been so wild.... bunch of dudes boiling random things

@calebj1442 Год назад

This video immediately made me think of yucca root, which is sometimes used to make fries, but also contain triterpene glycosides that are used to make soap. The triterpene glycosides are destroyed when heated which is what makes the root safe to eat. It would be really cool to somehow use the triterpene glycosides to make oil, to fry the yucca fries in. On a side note I often watch RU-vid in the shower and happened to be using the same olive oil soap which I found funny

@Km0577 2 года назад

Nile is a true alchemist

@piranha031091 7 лет назад

p-toluenesulfonic acid does sound like a much better catalyst for this reaction. And you may want to apply a vacuum to the esterification reaction, so that you can remove the water at lower temperature, without risking to decompose your glycerol. (Which I think is why your reaction failed.) Also, I don't want to sound elitist, but I really wouldn't trust that paper you mentioned. Their temperature control was done using the hotplate's thermostat (so the actual reaction temperature is much lower than the one they indicate, but it's impossible to tell by how much), all they used for characterizing their products is thin layer chromatography, no NMR or IR, etc... There's a reason it was published in one of the lowest ranking peer-reviewed journals.

@NileRed 7 лет назад

+piranha031091 ha yeah, I do know what you mean. Although paper rank doesn't mean everything, it does matter. I think the other paper seems a lot more credible. I might try it again that way sometime in the future. Or maybe even another way if in find one

@piranha031091 7 лет назад

To me the real killer here is that you properly measured temperature with a thermometer in the reaction flask, and had your reaction mixture partly decompose, likely due to overheating. Since they measured temperature the _wrong_ way with the hotplate's thermostat, they likely carried the actual reaction way below 195°C, which explains why you couldn't reproduce their results.

@NileRed 7 лет назад

That is actually a really really good point. It is possible that they were at like 150C or less. That time when doing things properly results in failure, ha.

@lightningsam8345 7 лет назад

NileRed why don't you do the vaccum filtration first before estarification reaction? If your final product contains mostly Oleic acid, if you do filtration earlier, you might get much cleaner product. Anyway, I am not a chemist. So, I may be completely wrong.

@Pistachio3325 7 лет назад

Well if they were going by the thermostat on the heating plate then there is no way they could tell the temperature of the solution. think about it this way; if you put water on a hot plate at 500 degrees how hot is that water when it's boiling? it's still only 100 degrees

@MaximusMuleti 4 года назад

This is really cool. Doing forward then reverse reactions is definitely interesting and educational. Thankyou nilered

@raspy9142 2 года назад

NileRed is an absolute madlad

@colorfulalchemy9764 2 года назад

I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN WONDERING HOW YOU MAKE FRENCH FRIES USING SOAP!

@petermeshkov2286 3 года назад

Awesome video! I’d love to see more like these, the end result really doesn’t matter, I’d rather see every single reaction you attempt rather than just successful ones. Keep it up!

@heatherdesalvo9680 7 лет назад

I actually really enjoyed this video! I did a Mohr titration in high school that completely failed and ended with a *3,000%* error, but it only motivated me to try again in the future. At least you got your French fries...even if they weren't edible. xD I really like these exploratory videos, as I believe this is what chemistry is all about. :) It wouldn't be as fun as it is without trial and error. Once you do get it right, it's an incredible feeling! I'm completely being honest here: Your videos inspired me to pursue a chemistry minor in college in addition to a neuroscience major. I never thought I'd be here, but I love chemistry too much to abandon it! Thank you Nile Red!

@megagamingteen Год назад

My man can turn anything into an item

@jhondoe8495 2 года назад

Should try it again

@wencdong 3 года назад

seeing the title in another youtube's channel:yeah that would be a french fries shaped soap! sounds so cute! seeing the title here:oh yeah he's literally going to make french fries with soap as a main ingredient......wait what?!

@EngineeringStudyAnswers 7 лет назад

Finally a video!! I am always looking forward to your videos!

@azulhidalgoherrera2845 2 года назад

Nile's best quote "To do this..."

@ben_jammin242 Год назад

Your channel is amazing

@denizturunc9721 4 года назад

Waiting for Attemt 2,please NileRed, i've been thinking about it since the day i learned how oil soaps were made.

@melgarcia3681 3 года назад

Nile’s wife: “Honey we ran out of oil..can you go buy some at the store?” Nile: “But We have oil at home” **Oil at home**

@mattlogue1300 2 года назад

What's she need oil for?

@the1whoplayz 2 года назад

@@mattlogue1300 cooking?

@farukaltunbag5658 2 года назад

chemistry: THIS is impossible NileRed : Grate the soap

@lilyrosepunkunicorm9871 2 года назад

Yeah do more of these videos. Please. Thankyou

@joclever6474 4 года назад

20:22 . All the effort was worth it just for this footage and your comment :D I know I'm 2 years late :D

@kourii 3 года назад

19:54 I had to wear a mask and keep things really well ventilated or else my eyes would start burning. After a few minutes I took them out- I swear I thought you meant your eyes for a hot sec and was confused. It helped that I had the video on in the background and wasn't watching you take _the fries_ out.

@OddDuck9000 Год назад

i like your words, magic man!

@CalifornianCuttlefish Год назад

this is awesome

@Meromorphic 3 года назад

4:06 *F O R B I D D E N P A R M E S E A N*

@The_real_paill_neverdies Год назад

forbidden parmesean seems tas- *dies*

@TomWDW1 3 года назад

I love science videos (and cooking videos!) where the person doesn't succeed, but learns something. Thanks for showing the rest of us that even the geniuses get stumped some times :-)

@RiyadhElalami 3 года назад

I have watched most of your videos, did I understand more than 30% of what you said? NO. Did I enjoy it and pretend that I learned something? HELL YESS

@solarfinder 9 месяцев назад

So, New comment on old video. I love how you used to explain the reactions. Your current videos are good, though I love the explanation as I can pretend I understand it all. 😁

@federicon.5085 7 лет назад

Hey NileRed, I liked this video a lot... it reminded me things like entropy, and how paper can´t be made out of ashes... but i´m digressing. How you washed the flask at 20:12, it occured to me, if possible, if you could make a series of how to wash glass material from hard-to-clean residues, as this one... because, at least for me, it would be extremely useful. anyway, thanks for the chem, bye!