Sorry for lowbrow comment, but your pronunciation of the sentence "The ignition of white phosphorus, unlike that of red phosphorus is really dangerous" is spectacular and has entered my internal dictionary. Thank you and keep up the great work, Sir!
There’s a Finnish RU-vidr who goes by the name of Bisqwit who also has very clever and unique ways of saying things. Both of these gentlemen are very enjoyable to listen to.
@@ChemicalForce Thought as much… all that evil white phosphorus flying around, with evil bromine and liquid chlorine. Quite a thorough disinfection too
@@ChemicalForce exactly what i would do. Real chemists dont bother with waste. We have the environmental chemists to think about such boring at trivial things.
Id love to see a video just on the safety precautions you must take... Absolutely spectacular content. Honestly the best chemistry content I have ever seen
Once again, thank you for making these videos. I've seen and performed most of these reactions but never had the decent equipment to record them. Some of these reactions never existed online before you uploaded them. Having a high speed camera to record it in slow motion is just cherry on top.
I like the addition of the FPS text overlays so we can gauge the relative speed of the reactions. Channel keeps getting better and better. Thank you for your hard work Feliks. Love the "sponsor shoutout" to your Patrons too. :)
This guy truly likes to live dangerously. Seriously, these are the most dangerous experiments I've ever seen, especially the liquid chlorine on white phosphorus one.
@@ShaLun42 no, the second thing he showed was a spoonful of red hot magnesium in water (not sure how is relevant to anything but it was a welcome addition)
@@ShaLun42 also personally The manganese heptoxide isn't too my liking, it's just a mess But the fact that that much solid manganese heptoxide is in one place is a surprise, to me at least
Absolutely amazing and beautiful chemistry! As an energetic materials engineer, I get to see a lot of energetic reactions on a daily basis, but I still love watching the more exotic reactions that you do. Keep up the great videos, I look forward to them!
That was awesome, it feels like each reaction could have had its own video. I thought the first underwater shots were great, but then it kept getting better and better. Amazing work, thank you for sharing it.
Why play with white phosphorus by itself when you can introduce liquid chlorine to the mix! Clean ups must be fun! Any major surprises during previous cleanups?
Thank you for the amazing video! Could you do a quick video in the future on how you handle and dispose of the chemicals used in your demonstrations? Very interested!
I started watching your videos just 2 months ago and I find them pretty cool and amazing. I love chemistry too and I wonder if you could show some experiments with XeF2.That would be great!
The flame that white Phosphorus makes while reacting with O2 is just absolutely beautiful 😍. It looks so elegant, yet its extremely volatile and dangerous! The reaction fire even looks mute, soft and fuzzy around the edges like its a gentle lazy flame. Except its anything but! I love the smell post reaction too(don't try at home!)and the energy per volume of element that it gives off is absolutely unmatched! just the smallest amount seems to endlessly react to form more and more oxide. Hands down one of my favorite elements, in all of its allotropes!
A first on RU-vid as usual great video with full out quality however the reactions of Nitrogen Trichloride with the above reagents are even more spectacular especially it's inception eclipsed only by the granddaddy of chemical reactions the manufacture AND reaction of anhydrous Perchloric acid wish they'd see the light of day soon
It is all to do with the atomic arrangement of the allotropic form. While the W allotrope of P is very reactive (e.g. it is pyrophoric in an oxidising atmosphere, such as common air, which obviously contains the oxidising agent, oxygen gas) and poisonous, the other P allotropes, like the Red form of P, are less chemically reactive at room temperature and far less hazardous to handle.
@@costi8558 Lively to say the least, in the case of Na, K and the NaK alloy. Reaction with Rb and Cs would be even more dramatic. I suspect that Red P, which is far less reactive compared to the W allotrope, would still react in a lively manner with the alkali metals and their alloys, with hardly any 'encouragement' required to 'get the party going' (no external heating required to provide the Activation Energy, Ea).
It is a pnictogen, along with nitrogen, arsenic, antimony, and bismuth. They are highly reactive but less so once bonded into a molecule. The name, from ancient greek “to choke; though, comes from nitrogen’s odorless colorless nature and it’s asphyxiation ability when in a large enough volume as well as fuming nitric acid.
I think the most beautiful footage in this video is the cavitation of those oxygen bubbles when igniting the phosphorus, but it's a tough choice between a whole lot of great shots.
The different combustion kinetics are fascinating. The liquids involved being mostly lipophilic / low energy, they would seem to want to dissolve together; I suspect the sheer heat from reaction at the interface prevents them from dissolving further. With such violent reactants you might expect something to go off like NaK + H2O, but there's no hedgehog in sight, only the purest distillation of hate, er... heat!
100k subs soon, you need to do a collab with nile red and nurdrage, because a large chunk of their audiences are looking just for this content start with acid videos* You will get to 500k over night . I only found because you were using a specific chemical I was researching. So by random chance.
There was an episode of the US TV programme Mash, where copper sulphate solution was shown being used to treat a soldier burned by white phosphorus during the Korean War. Apparently copper sulphate solution really was once used to neutralise the phosphorus embedded in the skin, turning it black, with the formation of cupric phosphate, to stop the burning and make it easier to locate and remove the fragments. This treatment has now been replaced with locating the fragments with UV light, as the copper salts produced were so toxic to the casualty.
It's really interesting in the slomo of the burning white phosphorous. Watching the flaming globs flying off of it leaving a smoke trail through the air. I've always loved this effect in all sorts of reactions that burn and sputter. But I always thought the smoke would be produced immediately. You can see in the slomo though that it actually takes a short time for the smoke to form behind the burning glob of phosphorous. I think this is because the smoke products are still really hot when they first come off of the glob, but once they've been in the air and cooled for a moment, they condense into the visible smoke that can be seen trailing the globs through the air. At least that's my take on it.
And they used the white phosphorus as a weapon...imagine getting it on you?! 🤯 My god! Just horrific. Apart from that, these videos are just amazing. Love the music 🎶
Hello, can you put white phosphorus in cold water and additionne progressively H2O2 60% to show under ware phophorescence ? Very nice video ! Thank you !
Surprised that the Cl2 + P4 reaction in carbon disulfide doesn't ignite due to the low auto-ignition temp of the solvent. I'm guessing the cryogenic temp of the liquid chlorine prevented ignition. Great footage as always!
Hİ,In order to make high quality activated carbon, I first soak the shells in zinc chloride and then heat them to high temperature in the reactor. I got successful results for gas, that is, I made small porous activated carbon, but I could not make large porous activated carbon for water treatment. I am waiting for your advice.
Carbon disulfide is flammable enou gh by itself - a CS2 solution of P4 compared in pyrophoric nature to alkyl aluminum or alkyllithium solutions, sheesh! I was photographing white phosphorous chemiluminescence (or oxyluminesence if you will), and actually got a great picture before it ignited. Fortunately I was prepared with dry sand, etc. Very fortunately, since I did it in my kitchen! The fumes from burning WP glow faintly as well, since some of the material vaporises. (And THAT experiment was performed far from human habitation!) Finally, it's hard to believe that stuff is still used in warfare.....
Impressive labwork! I've worked with both gaseous chlorine and bottled liquid chlorine but I've never actually seen the liquid. Not sure I'd want to in reality. Best not to screw with the Green Dragon!
Dude you have awesome camera/videographie settings. Can you seel 6:23 as picture/poster. Or give a high resolution picture of the moment, thanks alot mate :)
As always your videos are super interesting I am sure that there is no university that teaches all that chemistry that you handle. I'm sure you learn all this by experimentation , anyway. Could you tell us where you find so much information? Congratulations for your big knowledge.
I see you did your own nice little spin on the "CS2 evaporates leaving phosphor to combust" schtick Nice And it looked pretty concentrated too but that may be due to the light exposure
While I understand how dangerous the sputtering can be, I was under the impression that white phosphorus is especially considered dangerous because it self-ignites in the presence of oxygen, and that attempting to put it out is futile, as it will keep reigniting itself until the phosphorus is completely consumed. Is this true, or have I allowed myself to be misled or misinformed?
*To make long term storage of whiteP could you coat it in silver then just keep it under water or oil then when you use it strip off all the silver leaving pure whiteP years later* ?
