Ah, I remember “volcanoes” at school (1960s into 1970s) with orange ammonium dichromate ignited to produce an eruption of green ash. I recall my sister and me mixing it with I think potassium nitrate and powdered sugar, then adding a thick liquid made with gum Arabic to make it into a sticky dough we molded with our bare hands to make cones one could ignite (once dried) to “grow snakes” of ash. Happy and innocent and reckless days! The chrome oranges and greens bring it all back.
NileRed: I'm gonna make chromyl chloride! It's pretty and red and I like it. Explosions&Fire: WaNnA sEe HoW mUcH oXyGeN wE cAn StIcK oNtO a ChRoMiUm IoN!?!?!?!??!
@@uilsoum875 I'm waiting for him to make organic mercury. Because then we will get to see him truly scared of a chemical. Less than 2 drops making contact with skin and 3-10 months later you are dead
I didn't discover you until this channel. Hate I missed out on your other channel before it got removed. You deserve a lot more subs but that might just draw more attention to you
Thats ok, you're here for the second Explosions&Fire, which will hopefully be better than the first! And yeah, can't win either way, but I'm still gonna try goddamit
Captain Cook He just showed us how to make a (quite weak, but still, by definition,)RDD, which is obviously “highly discouraged” by the government.( In shitty old America, that means you get sent to Gitmo by the FBI agents Patriot Acting your camera)
Hexavalent chromium is a biproduct of welding stainless steel and other chromium alloys, the precipitate formed around the welds when you do a messy process like MIG is brown/red/orange depending how close you are to where the weld is. To repassivate the alloys I use a nitric acid paste which after an hour and a half I can easily brush off the weld biproducts with an acid resistantbrush(nylon?) and then the stainless steel is a dull matt silver. Sometimes theres a bit of green sort of blotch left over where the weld ends and I figure thats the chromium(3) mentioned in the video. I havent tried repassivating to try and get rid of it though usually I'll blend the welds and it gets removed through mechanical processes. My most recent example of this was using a 316L filler metal to join an unknown 300 series stainless to 2205 duplex.
I used to repair equipment for research chemists. I am now terrified of the shit that must have been in those heater stirrers, furnaces and other gear.
I once bought a used diffusion pump and felt dizzy for three days straight after getting some of the residual "oil" left in it on my skin - it was quite the wake up call
I once saw someone recommend potassium dichromate as a material to make an orange crystal to put in a necklace, I reply "amulet of cancer" and they come back with "yeah potassium is a little bit radioactive but it's not that bad" like.. bruh
Thanks mate, I can't wait to be fully back. Ah in this case the 'vapours' is just really fine dust, not actually a gas, so a gas mask does the job pretty easily. Really, you shouldn't rely on a gas mask to do that though, the idea is more to remove the vapours from the air you're going to breathe, so it should be done outside or in a fumehood. I should've done all the burn tests outside in this video, but I was wearing at bare minimum a dust mask and avoiding the cloud, so I wasn't too worried for the odd test that I did and filmed.
Explosions&Fire2 The truth of the matter is, you’ve probably already gotten cancer from some other experiment you didn’t record for the sake of not getting arrested.
@@mynigga730 that's the majority of the cases for most chemists today. So we continue on and deal with the consequences later. I like to think of it as a sort of "you never get anywhere without actually doing stuff and taking risks". That said, most of us still try our best to be as careful as we can in such situations, but we don't generally show that part of it. Hence why most of us say to never try what we do at home as you don't see most of what's going on. Only what we want you to see. For me, instead of hexavalent chromium, it's white phosphorus that worries me and phossy jaw. So I tend to work with it in spurts and give lots of time between working with it. I've also had X-rays of my jaw done to see if anything has started and luckily, I've been good so far.
in these earlier videos I can hear you gulping air when you laugh and you're doing this volatile reactions in the open air in the shed behind the house lol I love this channel
Our Chemistry teacher loved to tell us about pH levels and how you can test them. This was one we had to learn because why use some orange paper if you can do this.
We use potassium dichromate in strobe rocket fuel. The mix is so sensitive that we mix petroleum jelly in to work with it. Then wait to evaporate before using. The stuff i so unstable that it is not allowed at displays. It's also illegal to drive with it mixed.
Have you ever looked into used a refrigerator compressor as vacuum pump? They are great, sturdy (pumped a shitload of corrosive fumes through mine and it still works after a year), cheap (dumpster diving) and if you just put a fan on them you can get them to run hours on end. They have a slow flow rate but pull a reasonable vacuum, around 30 mmHg, I used to do vacuum distillations with them of compounds over 300°C bp at atmospheric pressure for over 12 hours without a sweat. For sure beat using a fucking vacuum cleaner, no offense but really. And they are much more silent too.
There are several of your videos that play a few seconds and continue to "load" for as long as I sit here. Your videos are the only ones I have this problem with, which makes me wonder why RUclips has such a problem with people learning about and/or teaching chemistry for educational purposes. Only your videos
he's right. YT messing with ads and screwing up your viewing experience. They just can't stop flying with shit and it's screwing everything up. It's been especially bad the last week or two.
Explosions&Fire2 No problem! Glad that you keep uploading. Also the bromate cell does work flawless without the chromate. Good yield and pretty fast at 21.5 amps. I'm using graphite plate electrodes btw. The only problem is that you need to cool the cell or else it will boil after a couple of minutes. :D
Dude I love your videos. I've been in a rabbit hole lately trying to find the most accessible, least labor intensive deflagration primary explosive for percussion caps in muzzleloading firearms. I know Antimony trisulfude is commonly used for percussion caps, but I'm thinking silver nitrotetrozole might be more accessible in a situation where materials like antimony cant be harvested. Think SHTF situation, a practical percussion cap deflagration explosive, mildly safe, that can be made from harvested materials. We can make black powder, plenty of info on that. We can all cast lead balls... easy. But percussion caps from easily harvested waste materials found in junkyards, that would be a cool video.
I used to use chromic acid to clean glassware. It was pretty good at it. Unfortunately, we used to keep the (dilute) chromic acid in a plastic bucket on the workbench. Eventually, the acid ate through the bucket and started destroying the wooden bench underneath. Mind you, chromic acid is the only substance I've seen that will dissolve stainless steel. It took about a week, but that was one stainless-steel spatula that was never going to be used again. And did I see the result of one of your tests leaving a yellow residue? Does that make it worse than the fact that it's carcinogenic?
I was hoping you might mention chromic acid. OK, it's not explosive, but it is a very interesting substance containing highly oxidised chromium. And it's the only thing I've seen dissolve stainless steel.
@@homosapiensqp3225 because sodium bicarbonate is a base, the acid will react with it to form things that won't rape the vacuum pump nearly as bad as azeotropic nitric acid
This lad is running around blowing up chromium, meanwhile I have to buy a booth with heavy duty filters just to use paint with a small amount of chromium in it.
Does anyone have a link to the sample at 3:09 "then filter, wash with cold water and dry thoroughly on the pump". I'm asking so I can flip the sample in a techno tune
Yes, though that was through both legal (before the clean water act) and illegal dumping of it into the local waterway that was used for drinking water without letting the treatment plant know so that they could reduce the chrome into a less cancerous form.
I elecrolysed stainless in water and ended up with a thick black almost oiliy layer at the bottom. Has hints of red from rust i used crappy stainless. Any idea what it might be?
I really wish your videos would go full screen it just looks dumb being a box literally the same size but on a black background unless I'm the only one having this problem idk.
Having trouble setting up one big archive because both Vimeo and Vid.me have weekly upload limits. So most of the newer stuff is on Vimeo: vimeo.com/explosionsandfire and a lot of the old stuff is on Vid.me: vid.me/ExplosionsAndFire
@@ExplosionsAndFire Oh awesome! I didn't know they moved there, all I knew is I was looking for them last week and the channel was gone but still in my subs list. XD
He's like a chaotic neutral NileRed. I dig it.
NileRed is just lawful good version of him.
NileRed is Explosions&Fire if he consumed waaaay to much soy and also injected himself with estrogen every day.
Dig what ? His grave ? Xd
@@realname3538 no he is following what you would call : Laws of the mother lab ,used to keep common sense and danger off off idiots like you
@@rageixi1422 Man, you must have had a bad day.
Ah, I remember “volcanoes” at school (1960s into 1970s) with orange ammonium dichromate ignited to produce an eruption of green ash. I recall my sister and me mixing it with I think potassium nitrate and powdered sugar, then adding a thick liquid made with gum Arabic to make it into a sticky dough we molded with our bare hands to make cones one could ignite (once dried) to “grow snakes” of ash. Happy and innocent and reckless days! The chrome oranges and greens bring it all back.
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that's very safe
@@luisp.3788 checks out, op is still alive.
ah, the 60's were great, huh?
Chemistry really did peak in the 60's
NileRed: I'm gonna make chromyl chloride! It's pretty and red and I like it.
Explosions&Fire: WaNnA sEe HoW mUcH oXyGeN wE cAn StIcK oNtO a ChRoMiUm IoN!?!?!?!??!
SoylentGamer to be fair, Nile also made chromium chloride for its toxic, corrosive, carcinogenic and explosive properties
_Slaps chromium_
This bad boy can fit so much oxygen on it
That’s a great chromium ion there, takes oxygen like no problem
@@uilsoum875 I'm waiting for him to make organic mercury. Because then we will get to see him truly scared of a chemical. Less than 2 drops making contact with skin and 3-10 months later you are dead
@@Aztesticals Yes, we've seen the video
I didn't discover you until this channel. Hate I missed out on your other channel before it got removed. You deserve a lot more subs but that might just draw more attention to you
Thats ok, you're here for the second Explosions&Fire, which will hopefully be better than the first!
And yeah, can't win either way, but I'm still gonna try goddamit
Yea good one ya mate
One Aussie to another - Your videos are bloody awesome!
Keep it up no matter how many times RUclips gives you the shits
Why was it removed
@@ajc71398 Three strikes in a matter of a few hours. On his second channel (Extractions&Ire) he has a video about it.
Captain Cook He just showed us how to make a (quite weak, but still, by definition,)RDD, which is obviously “highly discouraged” by the government.( In shitty old America, that means you get sent to Gitmo by the FBI agents Patriot Acting your camera)
Then D R Y
T H O R O U G H L Y O N T H E P U M P.
chemplayer
@@OrbitalSaucer rip
pros and cons you know... Colours/Cancer.... \o.0/
"His main application apart of giving people cancer" 😂
Hexavalent chromium is a biproduct of welding stainless steel and other chromium alloys, the precipitate formed around the welds when you do a messy process like MIG is brown/red/orange depending how close you are to where the weld is. To repassivate the alloys I use a nitric acid paste which after an hour and a half I can easily brush off the weld biproducts with an acid resistantbrush(nylon?) and then the stainless steel is a dull matt silver. Sometimes theres a bit of green sort of blotch left over where the weld ends and I figure thats the chromium(3) mentioned in the video. I havent tried repassivating to try and get rid of it though usually I'll blend the welds and it gets removed through mechanical processes. My most recent example of this was using a 316L filler metal to join an unknown 300 series stainless to 2205 duplex.
I used to repair equipment for research chemists. I am now terrified of the shit that must have been in those heater stirrers, furnaces and other gear.
I once bought a used diffusion pump and felt dizzy for three days straight after getting some of the residual "oil" left in it on my skin - it was quite the wake up call
How amazing is it when he does something dangerous and it pops or explodes and he laughs then says just “fuck me”
And if it’s exceptionally dangerous, he does it sideways!
I once saw someone recommend potassium dichromate as a material to make an orange crystal to put in a necklace, I reply "amulet of cancer" and they come back with "yeah potassium is a little bit radioactive but it's not that bad" like.. bruh
bruh
colors ... cancer .... Got me so damn good XD
Why did RUclips not recommend you to me before? All these years of combustion and detonation I missed.
04:20 Colors vs Cancer lol.
This man has everything I like in a RUclipsr, he’s English, science, and explosions
Correction Australian cuz I’m hecking stupid
English :o
Why wouldn't you just replace the error?
@@minimalgrammar1276 you gotta remember this moment in history😂
@@ExplosionsAndFireI think he means you speak English, which fair enough.
I mean his ancestors must have been English.
Good to see you coming back, the subreddit is a great idea. I have one question: how do you protect yourself from the carcinogenic vapors?
Thanks mate, I can't wait to be fully back.
Ah in this case the 'vapours' is just really fine dust, not actually a gas, so a gas mask does the job pretty easily. Really, you shouldn't rely on a gas mask to do that though, the idea is more to remove the vapours from the air you're going to breathe, so it should be done outside or in a fumehood.
I should've done all the burn tests outside in this video, but I was wearing at bare minimum a dust mask and avoiding the cloud, so I wasn't too worried for the odd test that I did and filmed.
Filter thru a cigarette imo
Explosions&Fire2 The truth of the matter is, you’ve probably already gotten cancer from some other experiment you didn’t record for the sake of not getting arrested.
@@gavincarstens6497 makes sense
@@mynigga730 that's the majority of the cases for most chemists today. So we continue on and deal with the consequences later. I like to think of it as a sort of "you never get anywhere without actually doing stuff and taking risks". That said, most of us still try our best to be as careful as we can in such situations, but we don't generally show that part of it. Hence why most of us say to never try what we do at home as you don't see most of what's going on. Only what we want you to see. For me, instead of hexavalent chromium, it's white phosphorus that worries me and phossy jaw. So I tend to work with it in spurts and give lots of time between working with it. I've also had X-rays of my jaw done to see if anything has started and luckily, I've been good so far.
"Pros and Cons; Colours, Cancer"
I really like the way this is made! You definetly had my attention the whole time :D
same
in these earlier videos I can hear you gulping air when you laugh and you're doing this volatile reactions in the open air in the shed behind the house lol I love this channel
Just discovered your channel and I fucking love it, good work mate. 😀
Oh man, that chem player voice in the middle hit me right in the feels. You were my first(chemistry channel) and I'll always miss you!😩😣😤
Ahh good old chrome6... There was a whole debacle here in the Netherlands because it was used in some paint of army or navy stuff. Good times.
Ah yes, the cool thing about this energetic compound is that it releases hexavalent chromium
He is the dirty Harry of chemistry (talkin to hexavalent chromium) "So you think your tough punk? Go ahead make my day"
I guess if he is Australian that make him Mad Max.
Where are ya? You're trying to hide? Time to get fucked over mate."
Fucking had me dying
Our Chemistry teacher loved to tell us about pH levels and how you can test them. This was one we had to learn because why use some orange paper if you can do this.
u have the most chaotic energy i appreciate u
We use potassium dichromate in strobe rocket fuel. The mix is so sensitive that we mix petroleum jelly in to work with it. Then wait to evaporate before using. The stuff i so unstable that it is not allowed at displays. It's also illegal to drive with it mixed.
"You wouldn't clean up either" funny you say that, I put this on to listen to while I clean
Have you ever looked into used a refrigerator compressor as vacuum pump? They are great, sturdy (pumped a shitload of corrosive fumes through mine and it still works after a year), cheap (dumpster diving) and if you just put a fan on them you can get them to run hours on end. They have a slow flow rate but pull a reasonable vacuum, around 30 mmHg, I used to do vacuum distillations with them of compounds over 300°C bp at atmospheric pressure for over 12 hours without a sweat. For sure beat using a fucking vacuum cleaner, no offense but really. And they are much more silent too.
There are several of your videos that play a few seconds and continue to "load" for as long as I sit here. Your videos are the only ones I have this problem with, which makes me wonder why RUclips has such a problem with people learning about and/or teaching chemistry for educational purposes. Only your videos
I have that problem with every vid... Its youtube tryin to think: fo i put an ad here or did he already watch one? Etc.
he's right. YT messing with ads and screwing up your viewing experience. They just can't stop flying with shit and it's screwing everything up. It's been especially bad the last week or two.
You've got this mad scientist game sewn up, brother! Lovin' it. :D
I miss chemplayer...
that voice digged old memories
Fuck me, sideways :D The subreddit truly is a great idea.
I'm glad you think so!
Explosions&Fire2 No problem! Glad that you keep uploading. Also the bromate cell does work flawless without the chromate. Good yield and pretty fast at 21.5 amps. I'm using graphite plate electrodes btw. The only problem is that you need to cool the cell or else it will boil after a couple of minutes. :D
Dude I love your videos. I've been in a rabbit hole lately trying to find the most accessible, least labor intensive deflagration primary explosive for percussion caps in muzzleloading firearms. I know Antimony trisulfude is commonly used for percussion caps, but I'm thinking silver nitrotetrozole might be more accessible in a situation where materials like antimony cant be harvested. Think SHTF situation, a practical percussion cap deflagration explosive, mildly safe, that can be made from harvested materials. We can make black powder, plenty of info on that. We can all cast lead balls... easy. But percussion caps from easily harvested waste materials found in junkyards, that would be a cool video.
You’re going on the BATF’s list 😆
I used to use chromic acid to clean glassware. It was pretty good at it. Unfortunately, we used to keep the (dilute) chromic acid in a plastic bucket on the workbench. Eventually, the acid ate through the bucket and started destroying the wooden bench underneath.
Mind you, chromic acid is the only substance I've seen that will dissolve stainless steel. It took about a week, but that was one stainless-steel spatula that was never going to be used again.
And did I see the result of one of your tests leaving a yellow residue? Does that make it worse than the fact that it's carcinogenic?
yellow chem BAD
orange chem GOOD>)
This video gave me cancer. 10/10 content
The future .... From kids who shitpost memes to kids who shit blood from cancer. And explosives.
I was hoping you might mention chromic acid. OK, it's not explosive, but it is a very interesting substance containing highly oxidised chromium. And it's the only thing I've seen dissolve stainless steel.
Love your channel, be safe, be smart, and have fun.
Could I dry it out with ethanol instead of Nitric acid? -I'm not serious, is sarcasm
RooKie sounds like explosion to me...
The Chemical Workshop gotta love a spicy time
very very spicy
RooKie Bruh this sounds like a great way to explode cancer juice everywhere
@@mynigga730 cancer juice made me laugh
AhahAH you sucker using the vacuum cleaner to dry up was .. just like you !very appreciated
Im having trouble playing this video :(
I would bet it's not just this one. RUclips is trying to fuck him over for some reason
@@DeadPool-fx3sq I don't think RUclips would care about a channel with "only" 30k subs.
Probably the codec he renders his videos in.
2:33 when you hit a villager in mincraft 5 years ago
I can't stop thinking about the Unabomber when watching these videos.
oh chemplayer, how i love you so
I don't know why I have watched Nilered for years and never saw you before 🤔
Please do a video on Armstrongs mix!
This is why I became a programmer.
I would have died long ago to these chemicals.
Educational, and he says "fuck" a lot. I'm in. :-P
THE LORD HAS ANSWERED OUR PRAYERS
1:28
Forbidden Marina sauce for my cancerghetti
Hooking a vacuum pump to a drying flask using a very strong acid, a chamber with sodium bicarbonate in the line seems obvious.
Explain please
@@homosapiensqp3225 because sodium bicarbonate is a base, the acid will react with it to form things that won't rape the vacuum pump nearly as bad as azeotropic nitric acid
is it really worth useing a fume hood if you're just going to use a vacume that vents out into the same room?
I chromed stuff in 40 foot vats, those were the days
Ok. Since you seem to be out to hurt yourself - hydrazine plus concentrated chromic acid solution. Exciting. And - Cr(II) as a result too.
This lad is running around blowing up chromium, meanwhile I have to buy a booth with heavy duty filters just to use paint with a small amount of chromium in it.
I can think of one really good use of the jones reagent.. but enough about phenethylamines from me
DOM is my favorite phenethylamine
@@N3XU5one DOC fan here. (:
@@7177YT what does the Jones reagent have to do with phenethylamines?
Ive never tried the DOx series, whats it like? other than stimulation and long trip time
I used to burn potassium dichromate in the backyard as a kid, it's like a volcano
Holy fuck nuggets! I love everything about this. WTF RUclips?!? How many times have I searched for obscenity laden explosions?
Yayyyyy You guys are back!
Use a double sparkler as fuse to ignite half a filled soda can of it. It looks like it needs a lot of heat to make it explode. 💥
When you go back to the good years and see so much yellow
You are the funniest chemtuber.
Forbidden sherbet
3:10 lol shoutout!
At least you could make cancer grenades with it.
You work in such a sketchy basement
those are some EVIL LOOKING CRYSTALS
1:46 I thought you said you weren't gonna use your good vacuum pump?
He didn't
Does anyone have a link to the sample at 3:09 "then filter, wash with cold water and dry thoroughly on the pump". I'm asking so I can flip the sample in a techno tune
Do you wear a face mask when you cut the grass? Haha.
Holy shit he’s not gonna live much longer
oh
Wasnt hexavalent chromium the chemical that poisoned all those people in a small town in the US, of which the movie "Erin Brockovich" is about?
Yes, though that was through both legal (before the clean water act) and illegal dumping of it into the local waterway that was used for drinking water without letting the treatment plant know so that they could reduce the chrome into a less cancerous form.
i wonder how hes gonna explain the meth lab looking shed to the cops
I used to get the Cr+6 to Cr+3 with Sodiummetabisulphate Na2S2O5 and Ph manipulation.
Why don't you try to make CrO5 Pyridine complex?
Oooh! Tang! :D
Red Phosphoros and Peroxochromates used to fire bullet for 100K subs
I elecrolysed stainless in water and ended up with a thick black almost oiliy layer at the bottom. Has hints of red from rust i used crappy stainless. Any idea what it might be?
I really wish your videos would go full screen it just looks dumb being a box literally the same size but on a black background unless I'm the only one having this problem idk.
Too much yellow :(
Did you use that vacuum desiccator with a household vacuum
Can you guide us which chemicals used in indoor cold pyro?
@Explosions&Fire2 Hey is there a video archive somewhere? I wanna laugh at old videos :D
Having trouble setting up one big archive because both Vimeo and Vid.me have weekly upload limits. So most of the newer stuff is on Vimeo: vimeo.com/explosionsandfire and a lot of the old stuff is on Vid.me: vid.me/ExplosionsAndFire
This is like NileRed but on Australium.
Why isn't hexavalent chromium YELLOW?
It's illegal to buy red phosphorus? I thought white was the bad one
My cat fukken hates you for that vacuum noise.
Im seriously considering leaving a comment
It might get you on a list if you do, which is why I don't!
I wouldn't want to be near that stuff.
I miss ChemPlayer. 😥
Me too. Bitchute has new recent uploads from them though, if you didn't know!
@@ExplosionsAndFire Oh awesome! I didn't know they moved there, all I knew is I was looking for them last week and the channel was gone but still in my subs list. XD
I hope you got a good fume Hood mate
Scienceteach has discovered stable isotope off franisium but it yellow will you buy it
Hmmmm sounds sus
Because it isn't franisium it is metallic sulfer
the was cool.
Interesting that the yellow didnt trigger you....hm...
ummm do you have a respirator on when doing this??
Related to COD analysis.
3:53 yellow? 🤨