Sometime last year, I got really interested in microwave plasma, which can be made from a lot of things like lit matches, aluminum foil or just some grapes. However, when I went searching for more info about it, I really couldn't find much of anything. There was also no explanation as to why it was yellow every time, regardless of what it was made from.
So, I decided to investigate this a little bit and try to get to the bottom of it.
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This is the second and last part. I totally messed up and forgot to talk about what to do with the waste.
The metal waste can basically be recycled and used to clean more PCBs. I don't think I will do a video on this though.
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This is just a regular little gummy bear, and I've decided to destroy it.
Nile talks about lab safety (Chemistry is Dangerous): https://youtu.be/ftACSEJ6DZA
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This is just a regular light bulb, but I'm only interested in its insides. This is because I've been curious to see what happens, if I turn it on in liquid nitrogen.
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Followup video on other channel: https://youtu.be/NuYDQtev1bE
A few months ago, one of my patrons sent me a bunch of old gold jewelry for me to refine. I originally thought that it was going to just be some gold plated stuff, but it turned out to be quite a bit of gold. I was able to purify out all of the gold and then melt them down into some small 24K pure gold bars.
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Paint can idea: https://youtu.be/2bTesd75Wic
indeedItdoes: https://youtu.be/1gjJNZtrUHo
CodysLab: https://www.youtube.com/user/theCodyReeder (Both the main procedure and the silver recovery. I can't find the video where he recovered the silver from the chloride though.)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Kn-kIsVu8
WARNING: Tasting chemicals that you make is almost always a bad idea. Even though I've taken several steps to make it as safe as possible, I'm still doing it at my own risk.
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For this video, I'll be using the urea that I got in my last video, to make Dulcin.
Link to urea video: https://youtu.be/sfldS5hqWYA
Dulcin was the second artificial sweetener to be discovered, but it's now banned due to health issues. My goal for this video is to make it using only easily sourced materials, and then to taste it at the end.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pujG5DbtDT8
Warning: This experiment deals with dangerous and toxic chemicals.
(Copied from the other nitric acid video)
Fuming nitric acid is defined as having a concentration of HNO3 greater than 86%. This is much higher than the conventional 68% of common lab nitric acid.
The reaction between the nitric acid and the nitrile and latex gloves is extremely exothermic and violent. It is often recommended to avoid using gloves altogether when working with fuming nitric acid unless resistant gloves are available (e.g. butyl rubber gloves or Ansell brand laminated film gloves which were suggested by user Atomosphysica). Regular concentrated nitric acid is still not good to use with latex gloves. Latex offers little to no protection. Nitric acid can quickly penetrate the glove and then irritate skin.
Fuming nitric acid is not nearly as common and it is used in much fewer reactions. For example, for the synthesis of high explosives. The high concentration of HNO3 is required in order to nitrate a molecule several times. For example, TNT, or tri-nitrotuluene, is prepared using fuming nitric acid. It is possible to di-nitrate it using concentrated nitric acid, but the third nitration is unlikely to occur, so yield will be zero or uselessly low.
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in this video, I'll be recreating an old demonstration called the Tree of Saturn.
To do this, I'll be using a zinc block and lead acetate, both of which I made in previous videos.
I was inspired by a video made by TheBackyardScientist, but I used a slightly different method and procedure.
TheBackYardScientist video: https://youtu.be/iYj0sSC-NRc
Making lead acetate: https://youtu.be/lOjLuJyMmUQ
Making the zinc block: https://youtu.be/Lgo0R5_4_HI
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbBlBZhp49s
Today we recover some gold from scrap computer parts. Also I already know I made a mistake and labelled it 3:1 instead of 2:1. oh well.
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In this video we make some ammonium formate from ammonium carbonate and formic acid. It was supposed to be used to convert vanillin to vanillin amine, but there was a problem with the synthesis and it doesn't seem to work. The vanillin amine is a precursor to things like capsaicin and other spicy compounds.
I still thought the video might be interesting though, so I am posting it anyway. Let me know if you have any other cool ways to use ammonium formate
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