This flame looks fake but is real (nitromethane)

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  • What I think is cool, is what happens when I burn nitromethane. I get a flame that has almost no color. There's a slight hint of yellow, but besides that it almost looks like it's in black and white. In my opinion it kind of looks fake, and I think this is better than anything with color.
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Комментарии • 8 тыс.

  • @joannah4587
    @joannah4587 2 года назад +90458

    Its crazy how much you can learn if you arent forced to learn it

    • @sfxcu
      @sfxcu 2 года назад +3715

      IKR

    • @brandoncammon7971
      @brandoncammon7971 2 года назад +1526

      @@Galeriarch not pointless to me

    • @DulfyBee
      @DulfyBee 2 года назад +737

      TRUE

    • @mahashrisinghal7576
      @mahashrisinghal7576 2 года назад +1609

      @@Galeriarch it is still knowledge, and the more knowledge the wiser

    • @brandoncammon7971
      @brandoncammon7971 2 года назад +1003

      @@Galeriarch pointless knowledge is from a personal view not majority

  • @vesh
    @vesh 2 года назад +33546

    Green and blue flames look like they're straight out of an anime, and the white flame looks paranormal

  • @kg_canuck
    @kg_canuck 11 месяцев назад +2539

    Also worth mentioning that these flames are nearly invisible in the daylight. Nitromethane is used as race fuel in high horsepower cars like Top Fuel dragsters. There are videos out there of drivers/engineers/pit crew members igniting their clothes and it's almost impossible to tell that they're on fire. Scary stuff.

    • @malcolmwhite6588
      @malcolmwhite6588 8 месяцев назад +90

      Methanol and hydrogen burning are both like that in terms of daylight both of them do have a visible flame. At night. I forget the colour of methanol. I think a deepish blue colour with a yellow tinge hydrogen burns with an almost translucent, bluish light. We had hydrogen fires at the petrochemical plant. I worked it, and you could only see the heat shimmer during the day time.

    • @Rezplz
      @Rezplz 8 месяцев назад +57

      Yes, Ricky Bobby was on fire

    • @qdaniele97
      @qdaniele97 7 месяцев назад +29

      It's also used in non-electric RC cars because gasoline doesn't scale well for engines that are smaller than your fist.

    • @malcolmwhite6588
      @malcolmwhite6588 7 месяцев назад +13

      @@qdaniele97 Interesting as a young fella I used to have a mate who dad had RC aeroplanes and I think they were the same

    • @fernando4959
      @fernando4959 7 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@qdaniele97what happens if you try to use gasolone anyway?
      Would the engine just blow up?

  • @brainkrieg1423
    @brainkrieg1423 11 месяцев назад +779

    This is a huge part of safety in racing! Fires can start in the pits during refueling and in bright light the flames are almost invisible and burn hotter than gasoline. It's crazy.

    • @samanvithamurali8902
      @samanvithamurali8902 10 месяцев назад +10

      Wait really? I'm thinking of Jos Verstappen's fire back then, but weren't the flames quite orange, like pretty visible?

    • @brainkrieg1423
      @brainkrieg1423 10 месяцев назад +31

      @@samanvithamurali8902 I'm thinking about professional (as in organized and legal) drag racing, apparently F1 cars use some kind of ultra-premium racing gasoline so that'd explain the color difference.

    • @samanvithamurali8902
      @samanvithamurali8902 10 месяцев назад +6

      @@brainkrieg1423 oh makes sense, I was talking about f1 so yeah

    • @suep9445
      @suep9445 7 месяцев назад +6

      ​@samanvithamurali8902 yes, but I've seen at other races where they were fighting flames on a member of a pit crew - and you could not see the flames at all.

    • @raffaeledelzior_d_z_2763
      @raffaeledelzior_d_z_2763 7 месяцев назад +16

      ​@@samanvithamurali8902It depends on what fuel you're using. If you use a alcoholic fuel, the flame is almost transparent, depending on the concentration. Example: nitromethane, used in drag racing, or ethanol infused petrol, used in NASCAR.

  • @FaceyDuck
    @FaceyDuck 2 года назад +14687

    “Don’t play with fire, kids”
    Nigel: “hey look at this cool white flame”

    • @albymathew5140
      @albymathew5140 2 года назад +91

      Ya I mean Nigel isn't a kid.....

    • @_YashPathak_
      @_YashPathak_ 2 года назад +24

      @@albymathew5140 but he is not saying about himself he saying that to the kids

    • @evanmisejka4062
      @evanmisejka4062 2 года назад +11

      I love playing with fire, chemistry is my no. 2 favorite subject. I am a music education major.

    • @pixeldoge8067
      @pixeldoge8067 2 года назад +17

      @S O F I A bot

    • @ze_hurting
      @ze_hurting 2 года назад +18

      @S O F I A WTF ARE YOU HERE SOFIA,YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO WORK AT MCDONALD

  • @bareodin
    @bareodin 2 года назад +2331

    "don't play with fire!"
    - guy who plays with fire

    • @4wkk
      @4wkk Год назад +10

      this comment is underated lol

    • @nicolea2839
      @nicolea2839 Год назад +8

      Well I can play with fire because I AM fire

    • @yahikoxfx9655
      @yahikoxfx9655 Год назад +11

      im not in danger skyler, iam the danger

    • @gravelordnito6950
      @gravelordnito6950 Год назад +1

      @Repent and believe in Jesus Christ please don’t ask people to repent here

    • @somerandomcook
      @somerandomcook Год назад +1

      @repentandbelieveinJesusChrist8 If you going to people's doors and knocking on them isn't effective this won't be either

  • @mikez4221
    @mikez4221 9 месяцев назад +29

    I worked at a petrochemical company. Every regulations test we took had at least on question asking what methane burns like- colorless, smokeless.
    I will remember that forever

  • @etps4444
    @etps4444 11 месяцев назад +86

    I've definitely heard of blue and maybe green flames before, but I've never even heard of a white flame before, much less ever seen one!! How amazing!!

  • @aSinisterKiid
    @aSinisterKiid 2 года назад +8512

    This is precisely why race car fires can be so dangerous when the cars are using methanol or nitrometh because the fire is basically invisible (Especially during daylight). This is where you will see those "meme" clips of a race car driver flopping around or rolling around on the ground trying to put out a fire and everyone thinks they look crazy because they don't see any flames - but the driver feels the heat and knows something is wrong.

    • @aSinisterKiid
      @aSinisterKiid 2 года назад +113

      @@THESLlCK No it isn't.

    • @aSinisterKiid
      @aSinisterKiid 2 года назад +425

      @@THESLlCK what part of my statement did you not read. I quite literally said the word METHANOL or NITROMETH.

    • @nmcgunagle
      @nmcgunagle 2 года назад +679

      Kinda makes that scene where Ricky Bobby is flailing around because he thinks he’s on fire more terrifying and sad.

    • @aSinisterKiid
      @aSinisterKiid 2 года назад +642

      @@nmcgunagle Yeah that's why that scene was particularly funny to some people more than others. For people familiar with race fuels and the "invisible fire" that scene hit a lil different.

    • @justinjacob9743
      @justinjacob9743 2 года назад +336

      Looks like he deleted his comment. Lmao, shut him right up. Props

  • @shaderunner8220
    @shaderunner8220 Год назад +5808

    Doing flame tests was one of my favourite parts of chem lab. Watching different metals burning with different colours felt like magic.

    • @kezia-lemonthorne2507
      @kezia-lemonthorne2507 Год назад +55

      Lucky you. I only ever get to make purple crystals. It was like the sea salt that is left after the water dries. But it was kind of cool for that color.

    • @totetate4803
      @totetate4803 Год назад +69

      Except magnesium. That one is not for watching lol.

    • @shaderunner8220
      @shaderunner8220 Год назад +59

      @@totetate4803 ya definitely do not look at magnesium while it burns. At least, not without protection, unless you wanna get flashbanged lol

    • @PainBin
      @PainBin Год назад +4

      My school did that before until a little fire broke out burning the table

    • @catlovingnerd21
      @catlovingnerd21 11 месяцев назад +9

      same!! my favorite part was when my teacher put all of the leftovers together and it was like a rainbow of flames
      we used salts when doing it btw, he didn't mix liquids together to burn them lol

  • @MalayalamTechOfficial
    @MalayalamTechOfficial 2 месяца назад +1

    Short, Precise and upto the point 👍🏻

  • @angelserenade
    @angelserenade 7 месяцев назад +2

    I remember having this experiment way back in my freshman year in college. It's cool to see those green and blue flames upclose

  • @Muonium1
    @Muonium1 2 года назад +4520

    If you do sodium in a room lit with sodium light, you get a weird black flame. because everything is either emitting or absorbing at the 589nm D lines.

    • @satya_3
      @satya_3 2 года назад +192

      Yeah man, I saw that in one of action lab's videos

    • @Muonium1
      @Muonium1 2 года назад +293

      @@satya_3 ew. do not speak that odious and cursed name in this hallowed domicile of thyne Nile.

    • @asvarien
      @asvarien 2 года назад +111

      ruclips.net/video/Kn2OyQh6o7U/видео.html

    • @aabe1189
      @aabe1189 2 года назад +35

      @@asvarien Pretty relevant link, thank you. :D

    • @satya_3
      @satya_3 2 года назад +35

      @@Muonium1 मुझे इतने कठिन शब्दो का प्रयोग काफी कष्टदाई लगता है कृपया मेरी मातृ भाषा देवनागरी में मेरा उत्तर देने का कष्ट करे।

  • @coyraig8332
    @coyraig8332 Год назад +12129

    Sodium absorbs the same frequency of light that it emits, so burn sodium salts under a low-pressure sodium lamp,
    and the flames
    turn
    black
    Edit: believe it or not I learned this from a Google, instead of a RUclips video

    • @Mr.Engine993
      @Mr.Engine993 Год назад +683

      Thanks now I feel obligated to try it

    • @renatoimperatori5289
      @renatoimperatori5289 Год назад +559

      @@Mr.Engine993 there's videos on RUclips. it's kinda trippy, it looks like a shadow

    • @m00str
      @m00str Год назад +230

      That's just the type of black magic I visit Neils channel for.

    • @Obsidian-Nebula
      @Obsidian-Nebula Год назад +27

      We've seen the video dude
      What's scary is that it was already couple years ago..

    • @jakesmerth1919
      @jakesmerth1919 Год назад +1

      get your own channel

  • @Nicole-zh7pl
    @Nicole-zh7pl 10 месяцев назад +10

    My grandfather used to have different pipes that he put into cut up water hoses and threw them into the fire pit when we went camping. It was the cool blue, red green yellow effect. Was my favorite thing growing up. The man knew how to entertain.

    • @jamesboston
      @jamesboston Месяц назад

      My dad did this. Not sure how healthy garden hose fumes are but it sure looked cool!

  • @animo4691
    @animo4691 10 месяцев назад +2

    I had done this experiment on lab when I was in school but procedure was a little bit complex and I couldn't distinguished the color difference because it's was too faint. I wish everyone has a teacher like you who made it very fascinating and easy.

  • @Kumquat_Lord
    @Kumquat_Lord 2 года назад +7715

    Fun fact, nitromethane is used in dragsters because it carries its own oxygen which means more of it can be combusted at once.
    Edit: I feel like I should clarify something. It still needs external air to combust, but at a weight ratio of 1.7:1kg instead of the 20:1kg ratio of air to gasoline used in regular cars

    • @SAVikingSA
      @SAVikingSA 2 года назад +316

      This is also why it works better in supercharged engines, because the forced air induction means you can increase the fuel in the combustion chamber even more. Nitro really loves ignition at high pressure levels.

    • @gabrielulibarri9950
      @gabrielulibarri9950 2 года назад +169

      Yup! I can't ever hear nitro mentioned without thinking of top fuel dragsters/ funny cars.
      Watching top fuel racing is like nothing else! It feels like the entire earth shakes when they launch.

    • @cant182
      @cant182 2 года назад +60

      A fun fact that's actually fun.

    • @UncleKennysPlace
      @UncleKennysPlace 2 года назад +38

      Yep, lower energy density than a lot of fuels, but will run at a hella steep mixture, ~ 2:1 by mass.

    • @Kohigashii
      @Kohigashii 2 года назад +9

      Yep! I don't know shit about cars but cool fun fact!

  • @MakeItWithCalvin
    @MakeItWithCalvin 2 года назад +6315

    Back when I did "nitro" RC cars, I sometimes had contaminated fuel and would burn it off and always loved the flame colour. It burnt a little different since about 80% of the fuel was methanol and the rest was nitromethane and oil. But it still looked awesome and almost otherworldly.

    • @BrianSu
      @BrianSu 2 года назад +66

      I should try this with some fuel I am trying to get rid of

    • @UnitSe7en
      @UnitSe7en 2 года назад +28

      @@BrianSu Works better to kill weeds.

    • @Scyth3934
      @Scyth3934 2 года назад +22

      same- i used to light small puddles of traxxas top fuel on fire and look at the white flame lol

    • @BrianSu
      @BrianSu 2 года назад +21

      @@Scyth3934 I bought some 25% fuel and realised it's too high for my engine, might do this to get rid of some lol. Realistically I'll probably still run it in the engine at low loads rather than waste it

    • @Zippytez
      @Zippytez 2 года назад +6

      I use SideWinder 25% fuel in my t-Maxx. The fuel works well as a fire starter, and it burns with a baby blue/light cyan flame.

  • @ChocoPandyPlayz3537
    @ChocoPandyPlayz3537 11 месяцев назад +1

    Dude, I really love your vids, always gives me knowledge than any other schools, definetly a sub for you my friend.

  • @sad-hot-guy
    @sad-hot-guy 4 месяца назад +1

    That’s crazy! Those flames look awesome!

  • @IDontWantThisStupidHandle
    @IDontWantThisStupidHandle Год назад +6359

    We were having a bonfire getting rid of old junk one year, and I threw in some old Christmas wrapping paper -- it was hypnotic how colourful the flames turned out.

    • @abhaysharmafitness
      @abhaysharmafitness Год назад +115

      pretty cool ei

    • @jameslarson3355
      @jameslarson3355 Год назад +489

      *looks around for Christmas paper* Fuck this I am way too sober to be starting a fire in the rain

    • @UltimateDillon
      @UltimateDillon Год назад +756

      Those were the souls of the elves who died making the wrapping paper

    • @sijam2m59
      @sijam2m59 Год назад +24

      Cool

    • @OogaBooga69
      @OogaBooga69 Год назад +246

      @@UltimateDillon they were finally set free

  • @lilmike2710
    @lilmike2710 4 месяца назад

    That flame looks epic blasting out of a dragsters exhaust ripping down the quarter mile too. 🏎️ 🔥

  • @DonCarlione973
    @DonCarlione973 2 месяца назад

    This young man is great.
    His content is right up my alley and it's fun to watch him 😆
    He knows quite a lot of shiz!

  • @TheJaisonIpe
    @TheJaisonIpe 2 года назад +4647

    Ah takes me back to my highschool chemistry lab days. I loved throwing different salts like barium chloride on the bunsen burner just to see it burst into a different colour flame. Kinda felt like a wizard doing that back then 😂

    • @samy7342
      @samy7342 2 года назад +281

      Lucky you who had this cool laboratory classes

    • @oliveryt7168
      @oliveryt7168 2 года назад +223

      Lucky you who survived those experiments

    • @jinhub2175
      @jinhub2175 2 года назад +124

      Lucky you who...
      idk lol

    • @zes3813
      @zes3813 2 года назад +5

      wrrr

    • @f_martinbeatrice6021
      @f_martinbeatrice6021 2 года назад +37

      then the beakers started floating

  • @thejman3489
    @thejman3489 Год назад +2767

    In high school chemistry we got to play with colored fire one day. It was really cool. If I actually tried and studied in that class I'm still not sure I would have been able to pass it but some of the labs and thought experiments were really interesting to me. Worth it.

  • @fadumomohamed2342
    @fadumomohamed2342 7 месяцев назад

    I loved this experiment back in high-school!

  • @utvpoop
    @utvpoop 9 месяцев назад +1

    Even crazier thing is that pure methanol burns with (almost) invisible flame. And because it was and still is used as a racing fuel, it would seem that the pit crew are faking the burn but in fact it really has ignited and needs to be neutralized ASAP.

  • @vaNygles875
    @vaNygles875 2 года назад +649

    Him: **Burns the whole lab**
    Also him: *"It's really interesting. What I find fun about it is-"*

    • @huluhahehe12_
      @huluhahehe12_ 2 года назад +8

      nile: **creates a nuke 3 times stronger than tsar bomba**
      also nile: "It's really interesting. What I find fun about it is-"

    • @huluhahehe12_
      @huluhahehe12_ 2 года назад +2

      @@Username12038 thats a big bomb but tsar bomba was 3,333 thousand times stronger than hiroshima and theres only five of them. so i win B).
      also, tsar bomba is 50 megatons but, what the original mass was supposed to 100 megatons which is insane because if a 50 megaton hydrogen bomb can do that then i would NEVER want to see the 100 one

    • @justin2308
      @justin2308 2 года назад

      @@Username12038 Oh, THAT’S what gets the FBI knocking?

  • @ZaCloud-Animations___she-her
    @ZaCloud-Animations___she-her Год назад +2524

    About 10 years ago, I bought a set of birthday candles that make flames of various colors. Blue, red, green, white, orange, & a very yellow-yellow, IIRC. They still work as of my birthday last month (I always let them cool completely, then wash & dry the cake-ends carefully before putting them away; we reuse them over the years). My local grocery store randomly had them in a vendor aisle display. Y'all can probably search for some online. They're really cool! 😎

    • @Draco-oi9bb
      @Draco-oi9bb Год назад +15

      Do the candles not burn down?

    • @thenoobalmighty8790
      @thenoobalmighty8790 Год назад

      @@Draco-oi9bb only if you light them and leave them on the cake for hours you stupid noob haha

    • @user-yl4rh8vn8c
      @user-yl4rh8vn8c Год назад +51

      @@Draco-oi9bb Eventually.

    • @christopherwellman2364
      @christopherwellman2364 Год назад +65

      @@Draco-oi9bb He/She keeps them after they're blown out.

    • @ZaCloud-Animations___she-her
      @ZaCloud-Animations___she-her Год назад +74

      @@Draco-oi9bb We only light them long enough to do the birthday song then blow them out. If you're efficient, they can last a dozen or so uses each. (And we don't light as many years old as we are anymore, we do like 5 or 6, it gets the point across, LOL. So that helps them burn less while the lighting is going on.)

  • @JORGE_BRASILEIRO
    @JORGE_BRASILEIRO 8 месяцев назад

    This was probably the best frame I've ever seen of a matchbox

  • @geterdonein01
    @geterdonein01 8 месяцев назад +1

    That’s surprising. When Top Fuel nitromethane dragsters burn fuel, you’ll see a yellow or occasionally a green flame just before the engines blow up. I did not at all expect a grey flame.

  • @AxelDayton
    @AxelDayton 2 года назад +963

    Being an engine nut, I freaking love Nitromethane. It's oxygen carrying properties, it's volitility, and it's beautiful flame.

    • @THESLlCK
      @THESLlCK 2 года назад +12

      Favorite part is that it’s soooooo much more compressible than gasoline, but also much weaker.

    • @HashiNuke
      @HashiNuke 2 года назад +8

      *volatility

    • @Hman9876
      @Hman9876 2 года назад +10

      Who needs pressurized atmospheric oxygen when you can just pump in a fuel that is its own oxidizer hehehe

    • @huleyn135
      @huleyn135 2 года назад +10

      Fucking its* not it is.

    • @anastasisparastatidis5479
      @anastasisparastatidis5479 2 года назад +4

      The only reason I don't like nitrometh is coz when you fill up the tank on the drag strip, it literally burns your eyeballs😂

  • @patrickdabs
    @patrickdabs 2 года назад +622

    When I used to go to nitro altered drag races with my dad as a kid, I always loved seeing the thick white/grey flames come out of the exhausts. My dad taught me about chemical alterations to flame colors in terms a 5 year old could understand, Thanks dad.

    • @kristhomas4039
      @kristhomas4039 Год назад +5

      Was it during the day time that you were able to see the white fire ?

    • @davelowets
      @davelowets Год назад +3

      @@kristhomas4039 No. Only at night.

    • @jamesbuckner4791
      @jamesbuckner4791 Год назад +1

      @@kristhomas4039 nitro's tend to run yellow in the day time. You also can tell if an engine is running smoothly or not by the color of the flames as well

  • @mackyme001
    @mackyme001 4 месяца назад

    My first time seeing this fire color. Amazing!

  • @GenXerJeri
    @GenXerJeri 5 месяцев назад

    That was f'n awesome, dude!

  • @prowers2623
    @prowers2623 Год назад +1091

    I'm SOOOOOO freaking glad that I had the most awesome chemistry teacher. She made sure to always be friendly and fun in her classes and everybody loves her. I'll never forget the day she burned a bunch of stuff to show the different colors of the flames and about how she used Goku transforming into a super-sayan to explain how light works.

    • @thenonfurry
      @thenonfurry Год назад +63

      that sounds freakin awesome

    • @callmecharlie4250
      @callmecharlie4250 11 месяцев назад +18

      man, I was just left behind when I took chemistry.
      aced the college course I previously took over the summer, but completely failed my high school class. understood the material fine but just couldn't keep up with the work.

    • @supersaiyangoku7547
      @supersaiyangoku7547 11 месяцев назад +9

      People who use cartoon in real life are all failure

    • @prowers2623
      @prowers2623 11 месяцев назад +49

      @@supersaiyangoku7547 lol I see what you did there with your name

    • @konstant_ly
      @konstant_ly 11 месяцев назад +7

      Wait I need to hear this explanation

  • @coralbelike9716
    @coralbelike9716 2 года назад +411

    “dont play with fire”
    i’ll do whatever the fuck i want if it looks like that

    • @sengajermyn9914
      @sengajermyn9914 2 года назад +4

      Yooo
      Also heads up, please watch what you put in your comments you make,
      You do realise that I could be a kid right?

    • @mihanovak2228
      @mihanovak2228 2 года назад +38

      @@sengajermyn9914 grow up kid then

    • @kenkaneki830
      @kenkaneki830 2 года назад +24

      @@sengajermyn9914 your supposed to be 13+ for RUclips anyway 💀

    • @matguimond92
      @matguimond92 2 года назад +7

      who tf cares I was playing conkers bad furday and gta vice city when I was 10

    • @jhitom
      @jhitom 2 года назад +2

      Comment if you like blur

  • @minerxen
    @minerxen 7 месяцев назад +1

    Enchantment:
    Soul flame
    Effect:
    Burns spirits

  • @mimikyoo
    @mimikyoo 8 месяцев назад

    Cinematography game on point 👌

  • @dfquartzidn6151
    @dfquartzidn6151 2 года назад +856

    When I went camping in middle school, we had a big bonfire in the middle where we just toss anything that should be good for fuel. There was a log which still had its tree sap and the fire that was burning turned apple green.

    • @julianward5436
      @julianward5436 2 года назад +103

      Was trying to melt a random ring I found and the flame went rainbow. Pity I didn’t get an elemental analysis done. Ended up burning rather than melting

    • @VoidKing666
      @VoidKing666 2 года назад +22

      That sounds so cool! What was everyone’s reaction?

    • @dfquartzidn6151
      @dfquartzidn6151 2 года назад +29

      @@julianward5436 Did you managed to identify the item after that?

    • @FiensZy
      @FiensZy 2 года назад +83

      @@dfquartzidn6151 it was probably a ring

    • @dfquartzidn6151
      @dfquartzidn6151 2 года назад +12

      @@FiensZy Oh dang. Wonder how that got there. What material was it made out of?

  • @terryenby2304
    @terryenby2304 2 года назад +857

    Ooooo pyro fun!
    I like the purple flames a lot, can’t remember what causes them… but the almost colourless flame is pretty awesome!

    • @nik.akhmetov
      @nik.akhmetov 2 года назад +93

      Potassium ions probably…

    • @ndeepanshu6541
      @ndeepanshu6541 2 года назад +132

      Potassium chloride: Makes a purple flame.
      Cesium: Makes a purple-blueish flame.

    • @o_o............
      @o_o............ 2 года назад +7

      @@ndeepanshu6541 pretty sure no one was referring to cesium...

    • @paranum1161
      @paranum1161 2 года назад +72

      @@o_o............ but someone was referring to purple ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • @ndeepanshu6541
      @ndeepanshu6541 2 года назад +18

      @@o_o............ pretty sure, no one asked for your opinion.

  • @colesterdude2851
    @colesterdude2851 7 месяцев назад +2

    Those fires are extremely dangerous as you can't actually see the flame itself in normal light. In nascar, years back one of the put crew got lit up by it and nobody knew what was going on

    • @griffinfaulkner3514
      @griffinfaulkner3514 3 месяца назад

      I think that was INDYCAR or CART, both of which used methanol fuel for a while. NASCAR never used it as far as I can remember.

  • @WeeFreeMan78
    @WeeFreeMan78 Год назад +2658

    As a firefighter, I feel this man is a potential danger to society
    As a science geek, I just love it 😄

    • @RafaelMunizYT
      @RafaelMunizYT Год назад +144

      you ain't no firefighter
      _reads username_
      understandable.

    • @wizard1189
      @wizard1189 Год назад +57

      I want a house set with white fire.

    • @WeeFreeMan78
      @WeeFreeMan78 Год назад +24

      @@RafaelMunizYT 😁

    • @moretzsohn7701
      @moretzsohn7701 Год назад +39

      because it is a very energy dense fuel, it is still used on dragster cars for racing, however, since the flame is basically translucent, if a fire breaks out, there is just no way to know that shit’s on fire. methanol fires caused a lot of trouble even in F1 back in the day, I think it got banned tho

    • @Justanotherfan2
      @Justanotherfan2 Год назад +35

      There was a truck spill one time with this stuff. In broad daylight the firefighters could only use IR cameras to put the fire out as it was the only way to see it.

  • @Gzxlim.
    @Gzxlim. 7 месяцев назад

    Blue, green and white flames look so cool

  • @SaaScofagus
    @SaaScofagus Год назад +429

    Imagine knowing how to synthesize these chemicals and going back in time to live as a cool alchemist

    • @Tayanator
      @Tayanator 11 месяцев назад +100

      It be a shame that you would be burned alive at the stake for witchcraft lol

    • @shakurfaith
      @shakurfaith 11 месяцев назад +27

      And risk getting killed?

    • @greenapple9477
      @greenapple9477 11 месяцев назад +26

      Thats essentially how a Dr Stone character was introduced. I feel lazy and dont wanna go into detail, but Im sure someone else would.

    • @aries666dc
      @aries666dc 11 месяцев назад

      A good portion of scientific discovery and advancements were held back due to the stupidity and ignorance of the masses. You make blue fire in the 1800s and they'd tie you a tree and set you on fire with the same chemicals

    • @evilshadowshadow1249
      @evilshadowshadow1249 11 месяцев назад +23

      @@Tayanator nah get closer to the king and tell him you can help in war and conquer the world. Or tell him it’s science that can be used to make the king look like a god and he will hire you 🤣.

  • @MCjossic
    @MCjossic 2 года назад +468

    Could you do a full video on different fire colours, with more examples than green, blue, and (the totally awesome) white? I’ve always found different colours of fire fascinating.

    • @chef4025
      @chef4025 2 года назад +14

      You're British...

    • @Defirence
      @Defirence 2 года назад +4

      @@chef4025 ???

    • @chef4025
      @chef4025 2 года назад +11

      @@Defirence he's British

    • @neonoah3353
      @neonoah3353 2 года назад +3

      Yeah, it would be cool if he could bot only do more colours, but also go more in deep about each.

    • @Treppy__
      @Treppy__ 2 года назад +7

      @@chef4025 I KNEW I WASN'T CRAZY, I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE

  • @hinataboke6905
    @hinataboke6905 11 месяцев назад +2

    You'll be remembered among all the chemistry students .
    Huge respect for you.

  • @cmdr_scotty
    @cmdr_scotty 11 месяцев назад +12

    Standing next to an engine running on nitro-methanol is also one of the most unreal experiences!
    You feel each exhaust pulse right through your chest!

  • @PierceArner
    @PierceArner 2 года назад +225

    It's so interesting that we're very used to different colors of solids, liquids, gasses, & lights… but making different colored flames still always seems a little bit unreal and strange when you see them.
    I wonder if it's because we think of "fire" as an object rather than as a state that can be changed, or if it's that the color spectrum of light different flames give off is something that's almost always artificial rather than natural (like how certain LED lights can mess with how real/fake something looks based on how well/poorly it mimics natural light).
    Cool stuff as always!

    • @PierceArner
      @PierceArner 2 года назад +6

      @@dysjectamembra5322 That's what I meant as fire as an "object" that's always a certain way. Mostly it's orange when burning things, the blue is in the context of gas stoves, or blue/white in acetylene torches - but those others aren't like the type of fire that burns more passively the way it does in this.
      I've seen plenty of colors of fire before, but it never takes away that sense of it having a strangely ethereal feeling when I see it.

  • @isabelwoolf
    @isabelwoolf Год назад +619

    THIS IS SO COOL. And the white flame is absolutely gorgeous!! The kind of top-tier content that I signed up for in this awesome channel. 10/10 fun, educational. Thank you for what u do

    • @prawiraagung4011
      @prawiraagung4011 Год назад +1

      white is the best!
      imagine if it's black bro damn

    • @hsjs1117
      @hsjs1117 Год назад

      @@prawiraagung4011 why the hell are you bringing race into this?? go away bro no one likes you

    • @kristinalopz1623
      @kristinalopz1623 Год назад

      Stupid, you've never seen a different colors of flames????
      This was purely stupid. Jmo

    • @mattgair
      @mattgair Год назад

      Cool

    • @January1983_1
      @January1983_1 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@northernlad2004 black wouldn't even be possible tho bc it's the absence of light and fire makes light

  • @deep-seeker
    @deep-seeker 9 месяцев назад +1

    This bit of knowledge is lit.

  • @myheartwillstopinjoy8142
    @myheartwillstopinjoy8142 11 месяцев назад +6

    I used to CRY because I hated physics and chemistry so much in highschool. I felt so anxious anytime I had a physics lesson and I had the worst grades.
    Somehow, even for me who hates chemistry, you make it seem interesting and I watch a lot of your content.

    • @test5093
      @test5093 3 месяца назад +1

      Its interesting for most people because in school they teach and explain chemistry. And this is just a demonstration without any theoretical explanation of how it works.

  • @zizzy1262
    @zizzy1262 Год назад +507

    Can confirm it's real! We did stuff like this in chem lab last semester. It was a pain in the ass to have to describe the colors in detail when most of them were variants of yellow, orange, or red tho. But some were really cool colors!

    • @-_deploy_-
      @-_deploy_- Год назад +3

      I did the same as you, lol. It was a great experience.

    • @erdniealinik
      @erdniealinik Год назад +15

      thanks for the confirmation I was just about to think it was fake if it wasn't for you!

    • @mahyargharehdaghi9383
      @mahyargharehdaghi9383 Год назад +5

      ​@@erdniealinik what a hero they are

    • @EllaalL
      @EllaalL 11 месяцев назад +1

      The most I’ve done in a chem lab is make green crystals… I haven’t taken an orgo lab yet though…

    • @callmecharlie4250
      @callmecharlie4250 11 месяцев назад +3

      @@erdniealinik you can actually buy little packets that you add to campfires to make them burn rainbow colors in some places. it's pretty fun to bring on a camping trip and looks super cool.

  • @erdemmemisyazici3950
    @erdemmemisyazici3950 Год назад +604

    Cool. That would be an incredible decorative piece in a wedding where you have a black and white theme with flowers, food, furniture, and a giant torch burning this fire to illuminate it where only the bride and groom appear to be in color. 😄

    • @taeromann5929
      @taeromann5929 Год назад +79

      It's cool until it burns out the entire thing

    • @Sebek1000
      @Sebek1000 Год назад +190

      Until the whole venue suffocates in burned methanol gas

    • @bibule
      @bibule Год назад +20

      I’ve been invited to a black and white themed marriage as a kid, and now that I think about it I wished there were this kind of fire

    • @Mr.Engine993
      @Mr.Engine993 Год назад +17

      @@Sebek1000 then ig it'd be a good idea to properly ventilate the fumes away from people xD

    • @davelowets
      @davelowets Год назад +17

      Ever breathe burned Nitro fumes?? NO, you haven't....

  • @TheOMAha94
    @TheOMAha94 11 месяцев назад +5

    In my graduation exam, i measured some heavy metal solutions in flame-AAS-spectroscopy. It was some lead salt which made a bright white flame. It was like nitromethanol, but brighter and more opaque, almost like a flame of milk.

  • @operez1990
    @operez1990 6 месяцев назад +1

    My middle school teacher presented this to us and I loved it. She also had a red flame which was from Lithium Chloride or Strontium Chloride.

  • @en392
    @en392 Год назад +86

    It’s crazy how this is one of the accidental non short videos that made you more money than the short version would have made

  • @randaranatunga7259
    @randaranatunga7259 2 года назад +111

    That methanol flame looks like a whisp
    Honestly so mesmerizing to watch
    I could watch that all day

    • @IceColdGeico
      @IceColdGeico 2 года назад +4

      Agree. He should do a longer high resolution video of one, then loop it - awesome screen background.

  • @metro_1543
    @metro_1543 7 месяцев назад

    Thats honestly fire lowkey

  • @andrescientos
    @andrescientos 9 месяцев назад

    I liked the Boric Acid & Methanol green fire.

  • @ayushisawant8003
    @ayushisawant8003 2 года назад +274

    that fire spark tho before the match is actually lit is just-

  • @db0ii
    @db0ii Год назад +311

    I remember doing a project in chemistry class where we were testing different things to see what color they would burn & I was so amazed because that was the first time I've ever seen different colored flames other than the orange we are used to seeing

  • @rcp9ty
    @rcp9ty 7 месяцев назад +1

    In college we had a lab that taught us how to make flames in ever color of the rainbow. However someone didn't clean the equipment properly and our first experiment resulted in a color changing rainbow flame 😅

  • @WWZenaDo
    @WWZenaDo 9 месяцев назад +1

    Neat, but DAMN! The fumes must be terribly toxic.

  • @stickyfox
    @stickyfox Год назад +354

    This used to be common knowledge back in the nitro RC era. Video cameras were too expensive and didn't work in the dark back then.
    Antifreeze also burns with an invisible (and very hot) flame under the right conditions. A good mechanic knows to be very careful popping the hood of a disabled/crashed vehicle; you could reach or stick your face into a fire without knowing it.

    • @black99rt
      @black99rt Год назад +7

      Make nitro great again.

    • @exodeus7959
      @exodeus7959 Год назад +13

      Ricky Bobby wasn’t hallucinating. Doctors misdiagnosed the situation.

    • @TrashPanda71
      @TrashPanda71 Год назад +3

      I had some old RC nitro that absorbed too much moisture so we put it in an open top metal can and lit it, cool silver flame ... till it burned off and left the caster oil and started spitting and popping... ahh miss nitro trucks.. wait, nah electric is alot more Fun.. lol

    • @chandlerbraaten847
      @chandlerbraaten847 Год назад +1

      @@TrashPanda71 electric is more fun in that its less work. But a properly running nitro car sounds good banging through the gears. And it smells good. I miss my nitro cars. The modern electric stuff is so much better though. 😄

    • @dewmontain123
      @dewmontain123 Год назад +1

      Lol well thats good to know. 😄

  • @hawky766
    @hawky766 2 года назад +13

    0:58 fire from madness combat :O

  • @YoJimBoHugabaJoe
    @YoJimBoHugabaJoe 7 месяцев назад

    Used to have a lighter that held a stone in front of flame ,not sure what the stone was made of, that produced a pink flame

  • @Realechnimquiz1
    @Realechnimquiz1 3 месяца назад +3

    1:06 fire in 1950 be like

  • @Maeve.36
    @Maeve.36 2 года назад +74

    I'm doing a flame test in chemistry class next week, so good timing.

    • @an_idi.ot_
      @an_idi.ot_ 2 года назад +1

      Its been a week, did you do it?

    • @Maeve.36
      @Maeve.36 2 года назад +3

      @@an_idi.ot_ he was gone for like 3 or 4 classes sick, so we had to skip it. :(

    • @an_idi.ot_
      @an_idi.ot_ 2 года назад +1

      @@Maeve.36 ah, sorry for u...

  • @worldtraveler930
    @worldtraveler930 2 года назад +102

    Ah yes I remember back in the 70's watching race car drivers flopping about trying to put out fires that the cameras of that era could not see.

    • @The4stro
      @The4stro 2 года назад +1

      what do you mean could not see?

    • @worldtraveler930
      @worldtraveler930 2 года назад +13

      @@The4stro Cameras of that era were unable to view the flames of Nitro methane.

  • @jmcneill777
    @jmcneill777 7 месяцев назад

    Dang Lil B was really onto something with that blue flame/green flame/ white flame mixtape series

  • @robertc.iredale9769
    @robertc.iredale9769 2 месяца назад

    DUDE THAT'S AWESOME!

  • @xboxboy93941
    @xboxboy93941 2 года назад +27

    Lithium gives off a pretty pink. We had several salts burning in my high school chemistry class once (copper, aluminum, lithium, and a few others) all giving off different colors. My teacher was spraying them with (I believe) Methanol to keep the fire going. The lithium flame was his favorite:
    *sprays each salt flame across the bench*
    "Not my favorite, not my favorite, not my favorite, FAVORITE!"
    *sprays lithium fire a bunch, making a huge tall pink flame*

  • @the.topnetwork
    @the.topnetwork 2 года назад +78

    Itachi: *"ILL TAKE THE ENTIRE STOCK"*

    • @bimoprasetyo6862
      @bimoprasetyo6862 2 года назад +3

      Ameteratsu 🔥

    • @Michael-mn4ef
      @Michael-mn4ef 2 года назад +1

      Amaterasu*

    • @My-World2007
      @My-World2007 2 года назад +2

      U can make Amaterasu by taking a salt water soaked tissue and lighting it on fire ,make sure that there is a sodium lamp that is on in the room and there is no other source of light

    • @the.topnetwork
      @the.topnetwork 2 года назад +2

      @@My-World2007 instructions unclear: how do i stop this black flame thing bro..its burning my house and how tf do i stop the blood coming from my eye

    • @alenpaulvarghese
      @alenpaulvarghese 2 года назад

      @@the.topnetwork Omai Wa yowai

  • @pohnnyjeak6298
    @pohnnyjeak6298 8 месяцев назад +2

    Could you share the solution for the green flame? I'd like to see if it'd work in a zippo as lighter fluid

  • @AbrarShaikh2741
    @AbrarShaikh2741 8 месяцев назад +1

    You forgot about invisible fire.

  • @eozzz
    @eozzz 11 месяцев назад +64

    One of my favorites experiments I've made I forgot the detailed process of it but I remember doing an experiment where if you had the correct elements and high enough heat you could get a PURPLE FLAME to make it better we took a rotating platform, placed a metal mesh trash bin with the experiment inside of it and started spinning it... The airflow through the holes of the mesh trash bin rotating made the flame rise up creating a PURPLE TORNADO FLAME EFFECT that looked AMAZING!

    • @athanasg.1936
      @athanasg.1936 Месяц назад +1

      And you FORGOT? 😡😱😭

    • @mikeoxmall69420
      @mikeoxmall69420 Месяц назад

      I think potassium chloride is the purple fire chemical

  • @adilhussain3124
    @adilhussain3124 2 года назад +48

    Nile is doing all the things our mothers told us NOT to do and I love him for it.

  • @The28studio
    @The28studio 9 месяцев назад +1

    Christopher Nolan would love this.

  • @KevinPlayzReal
    @KevinPlayzReal 9 месяцев назад

    When you set your fire to dark mode

  • @AdrianHernandezObradors
    @AdrianHernandezObradors 2 года назад +404

    NileRed: "that has almost no color"
    Me, a physicist, seeing white: * visible confusion *

    • @ZoofyZoof
      @ZoofyZoof 2 года назад +72

      Black and white are not colors because they don't have specific wavelengths. White light contains all wavelengths of visible light.

    • @DeathDealer_1021
      @DeathDealer_1021 2 года назад +19

      @@ZoofyZoof yes, we get it. stfu

    • @ZoofyZoof
      @ZoofyZoof 2 года назад +86

      @@DeathDealer_1021 I don't think you get it. This guy is calling himself a physicist yet it is literally a physicist's job to know these simple basic things.

    • @bokkenka
      @bokkenka 2 года назад +81

      @@ZoofyZoof "has almost no color" does not equal "White light contains all [colors]"

    • @dscham1507
      @dscham1507 2 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/evQsOFQju08/видео.html

  • @undertaco7120
    @undertaco7120 2 года назад +8

    0:21 Ash Crimson flames
    0:30 Dabi flames
    0:53 Holy Spirit flames

  • @tiffychevelure9107
    @tiffychevelure9107 11 месяцев назад

    That reminds me of the Black Flame Candle from Hocus Pocus! 😮 super cool!

  • @mhxxd4
    @mhxxd4 8 месяцев назад +1

    How does it look with lights on?

  • @BuiHieuDong
    @BuiHieuDong 2 года назад +20

    That burning nitromethane (with methanol) looks like a ghost in a horror movie.

  • @Moldyinjera
    @Moldyinjera 2 года назад +56

    You learn better when it comes from this guy. He's good at explaining things, so it keeps the viewers interested. Thanks champ.

  • @Kona120
    @Kona120 7 месяцев назад

    Dang we did the aluminum and copper one in chemistry but I had NO IDEA it did that when you lit it on fire

  • @theradiumgirl9298
    @theradiumgirl9298 7 месяцев назад

    Specialized killstreak fire

  • @kaahzvi5820
    @kaahzvi5820 Год назад +9

    This was one of the most enjoyable minute of YT. No BS intro just str8 minute of fun

  • @smergthedargon8974
    @smergthedargon8974 2 года назад +41

    I'd really like to see a video on you making all the interesting kinds of flame you can produce - colors, combinations thereof, etc.

  • @cutejustice
    @cutejustice 4 месяца назад

    Ngl I was hoping for pink flames but that was just as cool 👏

  • @Festivex1
    @Festivex1 3 месяца назад +1

    Seriously learned how to conjure abyssal flames

  • @HaloHighlightz
    @HaloHighlightz Год назад +35

    Thanks for sharing! Also, that match running along the strike plate was really satisfying for some reason 😂

  • @skewdtchr85
    @skewdtchr85 Год назад +35

    I remember learning abt the different colored flames in my hs chemistry 2 class. I loved learning it then and love learning more now (22 years later).

  • @aarushgamer5817
    @aarushgamer5817 8 месяцев назад +1

    The last fire made me forced to think that "am I color blind?😅😅😂"

  • @1.............................
    @1............................. 7 месяцев назад +1

    bro got the titanium white boost

  • @cleenred8520
    @cleenred8520 Год назад +65

    Extremely dangerous, especially when it was used for racing because you could put the fire out quickly but you don't not know if you were still on fire until it burned you as the flames are pretty much invisible.

    • @batscove
      @batscove Год назад +4

      What

    • @Zenthio
      @Zenthio Год назад +23

      ​@@batscoveThere was a real accident just like cleen says. A man was screaming for help as he was burning, but there was no "flame" in his body.

    • @YouTubeUser8567
      @YouTubeUser8567 Год назад +3

      It’s still used in racing

    • @pleasediepara
      @pleasediepara Год назад

      ​@@batscove how was this confusing

    • @kittydisco4u520
      @kittydisco4u520 Год назад +2

      @@pleasediepara because the dude worded it horribly

  • @ToxicMothBoi
    @ToxicMothBoi Год назад +6

    Thanks dad for showing me all these cool chemistry things. Thanks to you ive started loosing thru books and reading stuff online about chemistry and now im kinda into it

  • @deniskovac2489
    @deniskovac2489 2 месяца назад

    Damn, invisible fire. Just like on the track. Nice.

  • @ProGoober
    @ProGoober 8 месяцев назад

    Now if I took that out of context he would be canceled