Was This EXPLOSIVE Plant Used to Take Photos?

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In this video I explore the lycopodium plant and the explosive potential it contains while experimenting with it's supposed historical use in photography, as well as several other bright explosive compounds.
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@htme 5 дней назад

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@mathewst3979 5 дней назад

no lol

@programmathew4765 5 дней назад

here is a random idea try combining some finely powdered sugar with the lycopodium powder and magnesium powder and see what happens

@jrnandreassen3338 5 дней назад

Vivaldi! Made of the old Opera crew without AI

@jrnandreassen3338 5 дней назад

@@programmathew4765 Flash point is very different

@Michael_Brock 4 дня назад

Lol conserbot on owtube mostly censor my comments VPN (any) bypassing that. Then consider ad blockers or grey joy (Louis Rossiman) to bypass owtube ads . Lastly gi chatgpt or equivalent are going to gut goggle revenue. A great couple of years as alphabet cut down to size. Hubris and arrogance laid low.

@brucerasspen4136 5 дней назад

for a man who's house burned down he shows no fear of fire. props

@graeme.davidson 5 дней назад

Pretty sure those magnesium and aluminum flashes showed the face of a man who's a little afraid for fire.

@MrJmagenta 5 дней назад

Fear vs Ignorance?

@jimburton5592 5 дней назад

He also included a gun-shaped object in a monetized video. A brave man indeed

@zzzires5045 5 дней назад

What we don't see is probably 6 people with fire extinguishers out of frame

@veewaiyawuth2063 5 дней назад

The King of random curse. -Grant passed away in an accident -William's house burned down -Andy's garage burned down -Cody broke up with his fiance and got depression

@Werevampiwolf 5 дней назад

Fun fact, if you get your camera advanced enough for film, the original "film" like we think of it today, in the thin strip of plasticky material, AKA Celluloid, was made of nitrocellulose, which is also what gun cotton is. Yes, that's why there were so many fires at movie studios that resulted in many old films becoming lost media. Because they were literally stored on explosive material that was prone to spontaneously combust

@EgonSorensen 3 дня назад

Some large diesel engines (ships) can also be 'cold' started by burning a roll of the old celluloid film in an emergency.

@ChaosPootato 5 дней назад

I love that magnesium picture, you can barely see there's someone there. The stuff is BRIGHT

@hakarthemage 4 дня назад

It can also blind you with UV rays. Wear some damn eye protection.

@ashe1.070 5 дней назад

Be very careful with your magnesium! It’s used in flashbangs for a reason! You can easily burn your retinas with that stuff. As for the guncotton: it’s supposed to burn cleanly with little smoke. Yours leaves a lot on residue which probably means the reaction did not go to completion. There’s hydroxyl groups on the glucose subunits of the cellulose that did not get converted into nitrate ester groups. So, try running the reaction for longer with a larger excess of reagents. That should do the job. Try cooling the reagents individually before dropwise addition of one to the other as well (usually H2SO4 to HNO3 dropwise). This kind of reaction can be quite sensitive to temperature. Use a lot of ice! You may want to titrate the acids as well; that why any stoichiometric calculations you do will be more precise. Hope this helps! I wish I could be more detailed, but YT has removed my comments for even mentioning the name of this reaction, and explaining the mechanism behind it. Ridiculous.

@datengineer2174 17 часов назад

I understand how you feel, I've had comments removed that were talking about stellar lifecycles though more specifically the end of them. So at this point I'm convinced its a bot system that's searching for keywords and removing comments containing them regardless of context.

@NickTaco 5 дней назад

Nicéphore Niépce (who made the first camera) also built a 'controlled dust explosion' engine before he experimented with cameras, The engine was basically a gas engine but used dust as fuel and used water as a piston (it sounds wrong but it's true). The engine's called the Pyréolophore and I'd suggest you have a look into it. It's simple as it requires no proper machining and could easily made.

@mumiemonstret День назад

Thanks for the tip, I've never heard of this kind of engine. One can only imagine that Niépce went on to invent the camera after seeing the flashes from his engine!😊

@Slikx666 4 дня назад

Sometimes i think RU-vid forgets that channels like this are based on history and truth. Just because there's a chemical reaction happening, it doesn't mean that its dangerous. If RU-vid wants to make things safer theres so many channels that are fake and are dangerous, but they would shut them down. Keep doing what you do Andy, you're educating a lot of people. 😀👍

@kittyprydekissme 5 дней назад

Guncotton can be used to make simple plastics like celluloid. When you first started the reset thing, you said that your goal was to work your way to building a steam engine. I find it funny that your more recent videos have been dealing with 19th Century technology, so you've already gone past your goal chronologically.

@holdenkipp8828 5 дней назад

🤓🤓🤓🤓

@warcrimesim 5 дней назад

In fairness it was far simpler to make a telegram then a whole steam engine.

@toddavis8151 5 дней назад

The original celluloid film was banned for this reason. Old movie reels used to spontaneously combust, often with devastating consequences

@vape42 5 дней назад

@@toddavis8151 just like in Inglorious Bastards

@foxye50 3 дня назад

Considering that at any point in time hundreds of ‘technology tracks’ are being innovated on, I think it makes sense to pick a small one and see it through. Otherwise it would be a lot of unrelated items in flight which would be quite inefficient for his workshop.

@PKMartin 5 дней назад

The YT algorithm is so twitchy I'm surprised you're allowed to mention charcoal, sulphur and saltpetre in the same video. Best of luck making your further videos around gunpowder

@datengineer2174 17 часов назад

I'm surprised your comment has the word gunpowder in it and is still here with how twitchy the comment bot mods are.

@Mattlon3 5 дней назад

i still remember watching the first camera video, love the dedication to the craft and ill never stop watching htme

@jrnandreassen3338 5 дней назад

About the spores: They tend to grow close to pine trees. We call it "heksemel" or (eng) "Witch Powder".

@zacksplace4595 5 дней назад

Bro casually making aluminum oxides in enclosed space

@WaxPaper 5 дней назад

In pyrotechnics, there are these things called "Creamoras" that are made with black powder and coffee creamer to produce a big, bright fireball. Sometimes they add a little aluminum powder. But I've also heard about people making them with these spores instead of coffee creamer, because it's supposed to make a more intense flame. I think it's only used occasionally because it's more expensive.

@michelhv 5 дней назад

From guncotton you can create collodion by dissolving into ethanol. You then add the sensitive salts and you pour on a glass plate to create photographic negatives. It’s more involved than that, but it’s the basic principle.

@verdatum 4 дня назад

acetone works massively better than ethanol.

@michelhv 5 дней назад

You need the whitest/bluest possible light for 19thC photography because silver salts are not inherently sensitive to lights other thatn blue and UV. The problem was solved around 1900 with the development of dyes that extended the spectral sensitivity of emulsions.

@gareth449 5 дней назад

If anybody wonders , the clip with the Photographer went up in flames was taken from ,, A Million Ways to Die in the West FSK 12 2014 ‧ Western/Comedy ‧ 1h 56m with Seth MacFarlane

@johnnyporker8837 5 дней назад

You should definitively neutralize your nitrocellulose more! If you don't it might spontaneously combust in storage which would not be good

@bl4cksp1d3r 5 дней назад

😬 let's hope we won't have a "My shop burnt down... again..." video soon

@Whitewingdevil 5 дней назад

neat, and here I thought you were going to be playing with epazotes, though I've never actually seen anyone extract the explosives from them.

@theterribleanimator1793 5 дней назад

the epazote derived peroxides do not explode. as a matter of fact they dont burn all that well either.

@ChaosPootato 5 дней назад

Explosions and Fire tried that but it kinda failed (he did botch the plant growing part though, maybe it was his mistake)

@aakashgsamy2312 5 дней назад

Didn't tom get a small amount of those explosives

@MikesTropicalTech 5 дней назад

In 8th grade Science, we went across the street into the forest and collected lycopodium plants. We dried them and collected the spore powder. Then we built an explosion vessel out of a coffee can, a candle and a bicycle pump. Kapow! Tons of fun.

@GeraldBlack1 5 дней назад

So that's what coffee creamer is made of lol.

@Sir_Shmoopy 5 дней назад

Medical guaze and fluff it up for pure cotton content. They mostly have to be honest about whats in them, but would still check.

@Sir_Shmoopy 5 дней назад

also how does calcium hho light compare?

@prielknaaphofnar.9754 5 дней назад

I look forward to the chemistry based videos coming up soon.

@RealAndySkibba 5 дней назад

Back so soon! Love it

@ShroomedMisterCraft 4 дня назад

I'm so stoked about your camera project. I've been here since the beginning. Please make a playlist for the camera project if you haven't already bro. Much respect

@Snarlacc 4 дня назад

The right word to use is "deflagration" not "explosison". Although things like flour can explode, but low explosives need a container to really explode. Another good one is non dairy creamer. Gun cotton is dependant on acid concentratiion and the higher the acid concentration the faster it wiill burn. You need really highly concentraded acids and the acids do take water from the air making them less concentrated relatiively easily.

@adelbert7162 3 дня назад

You're doing an amazing job! I learned so much whilst watching your videos. Keep it up!

@spitfireloverplays6253 5 дней назад

Cant wait for the camera film

@hollyerin897 4 дня назад

Hope the future project goes well and the algo doesn't harm it! Here for it!

@holgerchristiansen4003 5 дней назад

Any reason why you started calling it "lycodium" instead of lycopodium from the start of the experiments till the end of the video? Or just a repeat mistake?

@nickg5250 5 дней назад

outstanding video as always

@eppiox 5 дней назад

I rekn that vice/anvil needs better securing - so much wobbling, anyhow thanks for uploading as always :)

@steadfasttherenowned2460 4 дня назад

I really like the concept of this channel.

@tsommers1 5 дней назад

Great to see a flash of The History Guy - one of my favorite youtube channels!

@Sanyex 4 дня назад

i watched this in the darkness on a bright big gaming monitor.. i had to squint my eyes so often

@Zach010ROBLOX 5 дней назад

I think it would be cool to see an episode dedicated to finding a lot of these resources from modern items, sort of like a post-apocolypse version of HTME so a scavenger could know what everyday items contain the same materials. Although that could get into sketchy youtube de-mon-itization territory.

@NirvanaFan5000 5 дней назад

great vid. lyco powder is really cool. lots of science museums use it for fire-related shows. it's also very hdyrophobic, which produces some interesting effects. also the use of one source ot light another is fascinating in how it relates to the the development of explosives like tnt.

@1st1anarkissed 5 дней назад

Another explanation of stone faced portraits in the past. Holding a stoic face is easier than making a genuine smile in the face of an explosion like that.

@placeholerwav 5 дней назад

very exited for silver nitrate video

@DimiDzi 5 дней назад

maybe you should try using some lime in your flasher as limelight was a thing that was really used as a projector but maybe with some experimentation you may get it as a flashing light

@Westcoastblackpowder 5 дней назад

Magnesium based flashes were common due to the fact that burning Magnesium produces UV light. Before film as the medium for capturing the image Tin or glass plates were common. The silver nitrate solution used to coat these plates was very sensitive to the UV and blue wavelengths. This made the Mg the best solution for lighting an image. (plus the white light would give the best looking image, rather than the hues something like gunpowder would produce)

@wflytothesky 5 дней назад

Are you planning to eventually reach transistors and build computers and stuff?

@theterribleanimator1793 5 дней назад

unfortunately transistors are too far beyond the capabilities of his shop, but he can do diodes and possibly glass tubes.

@nullvoidpointer 5 дней назад

Transistors might be possible, but he could definitely build a relay based computer.

@linecraftman3907 5 дней назад

Back in the day the original goal is to build the steam engine

@markdeloria20 5 дней назад

I would absolutely love to buy one of the "Meteor Lamps" if you were to sell them. Love the videos. Keep up the great work!!

@themadrobot 5 дней назад

wow you guys are getting realy good at blacksmything

@SBVCP 5 дней назад

Im surprised you didnt actually used other powders for comparison, like the aforementioned flour

@gabehaven4128 5 дней назад

Love the videos❤

@stevenbergom3415 5 дней назад

Lycopodium powder is also hydrophobic. I learned that on Mr. Wizard's World. And just because there were so many explosions, "We're gonna need another Timmy!"

@xpndblhero5170 4 дня назад

I really like playing w/ open flames and coffee creamer but now I want to get a container of that Lycopodium Powder.... I bet it would work great in dry flamethrower applications. 😂

@Baroque_Back_Mountain 2 дня назад

My Aunt used to harvest these from the woods, by the bushel, every fall, wire them together and make, beautiful, yet apparently 🧨 explosive 🧨 Christmas wreaths

@olidot7237 2 дня назад

This was a bold video considering the garage incident

@verdatum 4 дня назад

Lycopodium powder is great fun for other stuff too. When dry, it's hydrophobic.

@DH-xw6jp 5 дней назад

You should try rigging up some lime lights. It is just burning lime (the stone) in a stream of compressed air ... Super bright, super hot. Used by theatres before high intensity electric lights.

@TheAwesomeCap Час назад

You should build a Light in a bottle (By Illac Diaz) and a washing machine (Like the Advoko Makes waterwheel), then a Zeer Pot Refrigrator, a DIY Sand Heater and then a Pelton Turbine!!

@hirobian2 5 дней назад

These look awfully more like fireballs, i.e. rapid combustion, than explosions. Explosions have much more energy to them in a shorter amount of time.

@markbledsoe1664 5 дней назад

You need to look into black aluminum powder. It is quite a bit more dangerous because it is milled in a ball mill with a pure carbon source to but it will burn a lot easier. Aluminum builds an oxidation layer pretty quick so adding the carbon prevents the oxidation layer from forming

@Timber81 5 дней назад

Interesting! I took a class at photo school using platinum and palladium. I created five hand made prints of popular scenes at Acadia national park. Nasty chemicals but awesome brown and white portraits !

@joeyhillers9460 5 дней назад

You should make the wax cylinder music player, I think that would be enough of a challenge at your rate

@garyv2498 2 дня назад

Blacksmithing in shorts is truly a Minnesota thing.

@Ignis_1 5 дней назад

You should try a 50/50 ratio of potassium nitrate and magnesium powder

@brokenstarforge4276 5 дней назад

To get better burn on your gun powder you need to corn it or granules it I suggest going over to "everything black powder"

@sasssquatch1467 5 дней назад

There's an absolute shitload of it in upstate NY. I've seen forest floors blanketed with it, as if it were a vast miniature forest for the fae folk.

@welvaardsbuik 5 дней назад

so nice!

@mathewpankratz5767 5 дней назад

I think you need to nitrate your cotton at least a second time and then do a better job of neutralizing remnant acid and you’ll get rid of most of the smoke and have a white flash. It’s a lot harder than you’d expect to get it all nitrated and then the acid is almost impossible to completely neutralize, it just hides so well in the cotton strands

@Jacob-yg7lz 4 дня назад

11:15 Gun cotton is the basis for modern smokeless gunpowder, so that tracks

@kubakielbasa5987 4 дня назад

Since the magnesium was so bright alone and weak with the lycopodium, my suggestion is to mix more of it with lycopodium or something

@jak199527 5 дней назад

I thought this was gunna be an epizote video and was having explosions and fire flashbacks.

@steadfasttherenowned2460 4 дня назад

It would be cool to see you eventually make a LED from scratch

@Harry_Fullick 5 дней назад

It could be cool to see you make an actual 'lime light' originally used for stage lighting. It's where the phrase basking in the limelight comes from.

@hippiedude2232 3 дня назад

"no officer its not a firearm or a flamethrower, its a camera flash."

@jackwriter1908 5 дней назад

Considering that many pictures were made in daylight, they would need a significantly stronger flash then indoors in the dark, so your conclusion with magnesium being used for the main flash sounds pretty realistic.

@mikehandteDG 5 дней назад

We call it ground pine here in New Jersey

@lollerich 5 дней назад

I love this channel

@CameronSalazar2113 День назад

I saw a video the other day about the ability to heat up metal with hammer strikes on a anvil which in turn will help you keep your metal hot for longer while you work it, you should check it out it may me vital to speed up your ability to work metals! Which I cannot say I can do it and you may know about this already but I thought I would mention it just in case it's unknown, it was to me until recently.

@milanstevic6196 5 дней назад

Opera is the best almost 20 years is at mine computers and since it launched on all of my phones. Every time I bought new phone first thing I installed were opera mini and opera

@TheWretchedOwl 3 дня назад

I wonder, you mention how flour can explode when it’s aerosolized, I wonder how it would work for a flash. Maybe powdered sugar or corn starch even. I don’t think there’s any historical precedence, but I mean you’re experimenting anyway right?

@LukeQuinn-vq9tf 3 дня назад

I found this plant in the woods while nature journaling.

@Jon-yv4iu 5 дней назад

Does the difference between the light being red/white matter for black and white photography?

@thomaslyons441 5 дней назад

Ok, I just gotta ask... why not flashpowder? Isn't that literally what they used to use it old west photos?

@DoctorVadarWho 5 дней назад

Can you do a video of showing us modern tools versus the old tools so we can see how far we’ve come from? What you’re doing to nowadays?

@troyclayton 3 дня назад

Please check local laws, in some states Lycopodium can only be harvested from public lands with a permit.

@ConnorAustin 5 дней назад

Gun cotton is fun to play with and the longer you soak it in the nitration solution the faster it will flash

@davidroberts6242 4 дня назад

I wanna know how the first conversations about flash went. Hmmmm we cant always get enough light for a good picture... Maybe we should try setting off a little bomb?

@HA-my9os День назад

Give sulfur to the magnesium. Easier ignite if you use with matchhead and thin copper wire for "fuse". You can use thin copper wire from a regular multi-wire electric-cable. :-)

@user-kc5cs9yk1c 5 дней назад

I'm curious about mushroom spores.

@leowf6497 3 дня назад

you know could be fun? Once you got you camera, you could come to france at St-loup de varenne where the first photo was taken by Nicéphore Niepce. The house were it was taken is still here ans now a museum ! could be cool !

@JessicaKStark 5 дней назад

Which movie were the clips of the old west camera from?

@acolize8883 5 дней назад

You should cap off the photography arc by turning old picture plates into window panes or greenhouse glass like they did after the civil war.

@dr.feelgood2358 5 дней назад

imagine how many people were burned and/or blinded while developing and using those various flash devices! probably not good for their lungs either...

@dmytroshumlianskyi7736 5 дней назад

If you want a really bright flash use a mixture of fine Mg powder and KNO3, but for god’s sake use at least sunglasses and do not look directly at a flash

@beachboardfan9544 5 дней назад

This is burning not exploding....

@Timeno123 5 дней назад

If flour is highly flammable, why not use it for you're camera flash

@scialomy 5 дней назад

Could you please share the comparative luminescence data recorded? 🙏

@Kinetic.44 5 дней назад

Need to put this stuff in a fire extinguisher... accelerator i mean haha

@zazymendez 2 дня назад

I think you should take another shot at making a fishing rod and try using something other than silk

@denvera1g1 2 дня назад

I think the magnesium was added to the lycopodium power to change the color and make it burn more intensely.

@songofshadow5043 3 дня назад

And here I thought the only thing burning aluminum did was get rid of your other metals. Nice fireballs.

@penguiin12 5 дней назад

im a plant andy, could you make me explode?

@cvspvr 5 дней назад

ha! gayyyyy!

@wowcplayer3 5 дней назад

woah ha ha I'm dizzy

@ttogreh 5 дней назад

@7:03 What movie is that?

@SupremeDoge35 5 дней назад

A million ways to die in the west. Its really good.

@gaza102289 5 дней назад

A million ways to die in the west

@nefariousyawn 5 дней назад

A Million Ways to Die in the West

@thishandleisalreadytaken132 4 дня назад

This moss is used as a laxative too

@lemmonsinmyeyes 5 дней назад

wasn't methane gas used for early lights/torches? Because it can be found in nature and whatnot. Might be neat to see what natural gasses couild be used like this