There's actually a trick to holding the burning ball. If you hold it in your open palm, less air gets in below it and the underside burns cooler, allowing you to hold it for longer (I'm talking half a second to a whole second here). You also want to handle it *slowly*, to prevent fanning air onto the ball. You can also throw it back and forth between hands slowly in a sort of juggling motion, allowing you to hold it indefinitely. I'd also encourage you to do this without water on your hands, as it's actually safer. The next trick is with a friend try throwing them to each other, over a distance of 5 - 10 metres, the noise they make while airbourne is something to behold. Again, just like holding them, nice gentle arcs through the air, limit the speed of any movements you make, and do it in an area where you can drop it if if gets too hot. Also, tie back any long hair, and make sure you pull up the sleeves of any shirt or jumper you're wearing. The smell of burnt arm hair and bacon will go away in a day or two.
I bet this would be handy in a toothpaste tube, along with one of those spark-making rods. This stuff seems like it would be much easier to use for starting campfires than many of the other handy firestarters. If you run out of the paste, you still have the spark stick, but both should remain functional if the tube and stick got wet.
I really love that even going back 4 years your content is still totally enjoyable and educational. My 4 year old loves your videos and as soon as I'm not poor im going to make him his own lab
MrAgentMooshroom no because he probably just has shelves of certain substances and a section full of different beakers and other stir bars and stuff, he just sets all the stuff up, and he's either in his garage or outside some times
Hell yes it works! It seems like all that work paid off. I failed to pyrolyse my calcium carbonate so it got half burned which made it brown, but I turned it to calcium acetate anyway, it was very hard when I dried it so I was really unsure it would work, but it turnes out it did. Edit: Huh is doesn't last when I stored it away, it just turned into more of a liquid. Must be the impurities.
I did this experiment with my children, we started from the calium acetate we also made from eggshells. The kids loved to play with fire! The recipe is perhaps 5 times too big to be safe for children ... Thanks for an effort to make all those nice video!
The stored flammable jelly can be used as a flexible ice pack if stored in a freezer. It should also reduce the evaporation of the ethanol even though the ziploc bag.
Some people roast marshmallows in the flame of this gel in other youtube demonstrations. I wouldn't recommend eating the marshmallows because they end up absorbing the acetone that comes off of the burned byproduct or even acetylene depending on what form of alcohol they use. It's good for filling empty fondant fuel containers. Even though it's considered food grade the byproduct it produces isn't.
@xTheDeerLordx 2:56 As he mentioned, using methanol and certain types of alcohol is toxic and not recommended, even though food grade. Also isopropyl alcohol and ethanol is safe, provided the isopropyl is 99% and not 70%. Isopropyl alcohol is also expensive now. However with all fondant fuels and gel fuels there's a certain amount of toxicity from them.
Back in high school, we used to take two pieces of paper and crumple them into one ball, doused in lighter fluid, and coat them in candle wax. Light it and play hacky sack. Just a warning, you probably want to do it without shoes or a shirt, nothing baggy or anything you care about.
I'm researching how to make parrafin wax and it's made using oil and a solvent like acetone. Acetone is made by dry distilling calcium acetate. Calcium Acetate in turn is made by soaking calcium carbonate in acid, like egg shells in vinegar. So my idea is to soak some small animal bones in vinegar to form calcium acetate. Then i let it dry out. The calcium acetate will then be mixed with oil under some light heat, or in my case pine pitch. We will see what happends. Hopefully it forms sort of a solid, hence wax. I will also try just simply mix pine pitch with charcoal and ground chalk. This may or may not give a slower burn. Then I can make a bushcraft candle haha lol.
nile have you tried setting up the "support this channel" button on RUclips? I think you can use that to give like a one time donation unlike patreon where people have to sign up for monthly donations.
@@NileRed00:06 what are other uses for the calcium acetate alcohol jelly ? If you aren't going to burn it, then what else is there ? Is there something else more on the topic I'm missing ? Is the alcohol jelly for another project or just a toy ? could you use it to dissolve MgSO₄ ? I got this crazy idea from watching athletes trying to rub salts on the body to release muscle aches. I tried disolving the MgSO₄ in alcohol and I believe also in a jar of water at room temperature. I didn't shake the container. Also, it failed to dissolve in room temperature water. That is surprising. Since I thought water could disolve just about everything as long as you give it time. Only disolve the MgSO₄ quickly in a steam bath. Maybe I should try taking a bath in Powerade , Metamucil , Theraflu , Codeine . Then pray for a miracle. What a great way to check out . 🤞 I am planning to use the acetone to remove graffiti. Do you think it would remove the paint from a vehicle? Yes ! My vehicle ! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Thanks for making public understandable information. I'm going to go back to the glowing baby presentation. That looks like a fun project. I'm always looking for a source of light. Also enjoyed the presentation you gave on how much water extracted MgSO₄ . 🤖I can't read books ! Do I look like a quick response scanner to you !🤖
This stuff is in gelling-for-flame purity really easy to synthesize. Just get 25% acetic acid from your supermarket, react it with as much calcium hydroxide (in the cement section of your local building supply store, you might wanna check the web for "brand" names. (Here in germany its "Calciumhydroxid" vs. "Löschkalk", which is called slaked lime. If you cant get that, try to substitute for calciumoxide. Beware that this does more damage to skin, so be more carefull. The dry/non-slurry hydroxide is not more dangerous than the acid itself, and that is not too dangerous. It is defatting thoug by creating soap.) The mixing ratio should be aroung 1 volume part calcium(hydr)oxide for 10 volume parts 25% acetic acid. Maybe even 1:30 or so. just try a small scale to get a feeling. You have to barely dissolve all lime, but you don't want more acetic acid than necessary. Anything above 10% over the required amount could lead to slower gelling. The resulting mixture (mine was a little brown stained, like tea, but that doesnt really show in the gel) can be directly used from between 1:20 to 1:5 calciumacetate-solution to (for my case) ethanol. The key is to mix it before it gells, as that prevents further mixing. I had good results pouring the ethanol into the burning container and injecting a stream of solution with a syringe. Also usefull to get the right dose. Just align and shoot as fast as you can. Try not to touch the syringe into the alcohol, and ofc you do not need the hypodermic needle. Just as simple plastic syringe suffices. If you do touch the alcohol, the syringe might require cleaning. Use cold-ish water (hot might be dangerous for your hands and the plasic of the syringe. Really cheap. Like 5 bucks for gelling a 10l bucket of ethanol. Also the only heat required is to ignite. It does however speed the reaction up.
He said it works with alcohols specifically. So isopropyl nitrate probably wouldn't work, but picric acid (another explosive, and one that's technically an alcohol since it has a hydroxyl group) might.
@@argenteus8314 It works with anything that calcium acetate has a low solubility in, so you would have to know the solubility of calcium acetate in isopropyl nitrate.
Hi, man I was looking for way, how to solify alcohol for the purposes of the computer game I am going to developed durring the summer, so I would like to thank you for this video :)
+Nile Red Awesome, I'm looking forward to it. I've been making calcium acetate from limestone and calcite as of late with plans of doing the same, so I am quite interested in seeing it.
Grant Stewart Just keep in mind that the yield isn't amazing and the product needs to be thoroughly purified. It isnt exactly the cleanest way to make acetone
+Nile Red as a catalyst for some polymerization reactions. it also reacts with air to ignite. periodic videos have a video on it. I feel it would be an interesting challenge. if I knew more of the chemistry involved I would have like to attempt it myself with a home machined reaction chamber. have a look. I'd be interested in what you think.
Just Power Electronics Pyrophoric liquids are a little too dangerous for me to make right now i think. I want to make butyl lithium at some point though.
+MegaFrostNova It's impossible to understand how Nile can only have a little over 50,000 subs. He makes awesome videos about stuff most of us can't do at home (or even if we could it's just easier *and more relaxing to watch Nile do it.
+John Ratko 50k subs in two years is decent growth, really. If you want him to have more, spread the word, show his videos to anyone you know and they might be interested.
NecroBanana Wasn't trying to be disparaging. Just believe he should have a lot more subs. For hands on lab work Nile's the best channel on RUclips, imho. And, yes, I do recommend the channel often. Cheers, friend!
aha! one time I mixed ethanol with a store brand frozen grape juice, and it resulted in a very sterno-like smell. Calcium Acetate is used as a ph regulator. Coincidence?
fun party trick, get some 70% easily acquired from the store, start by adding ice to very cold water and then take a spray bottle with alcohol and spray it through a candle flame at your hand, it should burn up as it gets close but it burns so fast and theirs so little that you only feel a pleasant warmth, also good for removing hair XD.
+superdau so use the acetate that turned into carbonate to make more acetate then use that to make more the burning gel? just wondering if you can continue to recycle until it's depleted?
+SJPrepper0569 In theory, yes, if you add acetic acid to the carbonate it should turn into acetate again and also all the Ca should stay in the tray. How often you can do this in reality until you somehow lost the Calcium (ash blown away; reaction products that don't turn back into acetate again; still assuming you're 100% efficient in scooping up the everything in every step) or until impurities you add with the acid just make it not work well any more, I don't know.
So for making acetone, if I use calcium benzoate, can I make benzophenone? There was a video from chemplayer but I can't seem to find it anymore and they made acetophenone
You should do a flame test. Fill two beakers with CO2 and then put matches in them. In one suspend a coffee filter of Li2O2. That should convert the CO2 to O2? Best of luck, looking forward to it! P.S. I'm currently in the process of getting glassware and a setup. so soon, hopefully ill be able to go through each of your videos and do them myself!
I had the impression that the jelly isn't easy to moldel and won't stick together to allow more or less arbitrary shapes. Do you think it is possible to control the jellification process in a way so that you can mold nice looking items?
Hi, I wondered if you could do a video on the process of methylating transition metals? just curious as to how methyl organometallic compounds are synthesised, thank you :)
I know how it sounds but... is it edible? Calcium acetate is labeled as E263 so it kinda should be. Although it's not like I'm gonna eat a snowball that contains some 99% ethanol. It's just curiousity
It's probably safe in _very_ small amounts. The problem with calcium acetate is that you probably don't want to consume too much of it, as there's a risk of hypercalcaemia. Mind you, I checked and there's less bioavailable calcium in calcium acetate than there is in calcium carbonate, which means the risk of that is less than you'd get from chewing on chalk.
we are going to make an expiremental research in which instead of eggshells, we will use golden apple snail shells. Is it a good alternative as source of calcium carbonate?
No it needs to be dissolved completely while concentrated as you’re mixing two solutions to achieve the highest yield and reaction, too much water in the experiment will make it not crash out properly and result in failure, one trick is to turn up the heat on the calcium solution to dissolve more while concentrating it at a higher temperature so it’ll eventually mix even better with the alcohol as it’s warm
If you want a nice fireball to juggle in your bare hands, use a cotton ball, or paper towel, with alcohol on it. That is what is what I am doing in my profile picture.
I've tried this twice this week, not working at all for me. Usually how my life works, something that works for everyone else will fail completely for me.
Nile Red I know there is potassium nitrate in Sensodyne toothpaste, but I don't know how to a solution that has multiple salts (sodium fluoride, potassium nitrate, etc). There is also potassium nitrate in soil. Although, I would personally neutralize nitric acid with KOH. These two substances are very easy and legal to get.
Nile Red Ammonium nitrate cold packs are hard to find and it is not pure. The easiest is to react potassium hydroxide with nitric acid and then boil off the remaining water.
I've been using HEET and looked at the label, there's a stern warning claiming it's ethylbenzene (a certain %) and that's toxic. Every single person I've come across making these videos does not address how Sterno burns top down, and doesn't produce any calcium carbonate.
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There's actually a trick to holding the burning ball. If you hold it in your open palm, less air gets in below it and the underside burns cooler, allowing you to hold it for longer (I'm talking half a second to a whole second here). You also want to handle it *slowly*, to prevent fanning air onto the ball. You can also throw it back and forth between hands slowly in a sort of juggling motion, allowing you to hold it indefinitely. I'd also encourage you to do this without water on your hands, as it's actually safer. The next trick is with a friend try throwing them to each other, over a distance of 5 - 10 metres, the noise they make while airbourne is something to behold. Again, just like holding them, nice gentle arcs through the air, limit the speed of any movements you make, and do it in an area where you can drop it if if gets too hot. Also, tie back any long hair, and make sure you pull up the sleeves of any shirt or jumper you're wearing. The smell of burnt arm hair and bacon will go away in a day or two.
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I bet this would be handy in a toothpaste tube, along with one of those spark-making rods. This stuff seems like it would be much easier to use for starting campfires than many of the other handy firestarters. If you run out of the paste, you still have the spark stick, but both should remain functional if the tube and stick got wet.
I really love that even going back 4 years your content is still totally enjoyable and educational. My 4 year old loves your videos and as soon as I'm not poor im going to make him his own lab
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That's awesome, good for you! I'm really looking forward to showing my son some cool reactions in my lab, but he's only 1and a half now.
when cutting up the ball of the jelly, you refer to the alcohol as ethanol even though you used isopropanol
Do you think you could do a tour of your lab?
MrAgentMooshroom no because he probably just has shelves of certain substances and a section full of different beakers and other stir bars and stuff, he just sets all the stuff up, and he's either in his garage or outside some times
he did
"Alcohol jelly: sounds like something crazy kids from MIT would come up with.
"hey bro are you gonna join us in the snowball fight?"
"sure bro lemme just get my calcium acetate"
I like this video very much. It reminds me when I first discovered this after I added Isopropanol to dissolved eggshells in vinnegar.
I like how the fire forms kind of standing wave pattern.
Hell yes it works! It seems like all that work paid off. I failed to pyrolyse my calcium carbonate so it got half burned which made it brown, but I turned it to calcium acetate anyway, it was very hard when I dried it so I was really unsure it would work, but it turnes out it did.
Edit: Huh is doesn't last when I stored it away, it just turned into more of a liquid. Must be the impurities.
I did this experiment with my children, we started from the calium acetate we also made from eggshells.
The kids loved to play with fire!
The recipe is perhaps 5 times too big to be safe for children ...
Thanks for an effort to make all those nice video!
Plz do acetone from dry disstilation next
yes please!
The stored flammable jelly can be used as a flexible ice pack if stored in a freezer. It should also reduce the evaporation of the ethanol even though the ziploc bag.
You Sir, brought me back into chemistry. 😊✌
Sorta fun fact: Some old flamethrowers had this stuff inside as fuel
The overall shape, of the ball on fire, reminded me of old school Street Fighter Hadoukens. Now I'm in nostalgia mode.
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Some people roast marshmallows in the flame of this gel in other youtube demonstrations. I wouldn't recommend eating the marshmallows because they end up absorbing the acetone that comes off of the burned byproduct or even acetylene depending on what form of alcohol they use. It's good for filling empty fondant fuel containers. Even though it's considered food grade the byproduct it produces isn't.
No, this is not true
@xTheDeerLordx 2:56 As he mentioned, using methanol and certain types of alcohol is toxic and not recommended, even though food grade. Also isopropyl alcohol and ethanol is safe, provided the isopropyl is 99% and not 70%. Isopropyl alcohol is also expensive now. However with all fondant fuels and gel fuels there's a certain amount of toxicity from them.
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Back in high school, we used to take two pieces of paper and crumple them into one ball, doused in lighter fluid, and coat them in candle wax. Light it and play hacky sack. Just a warning, you probably want to do it without shoes or a shirt, nothing baggy or anything you care about.
I'm researching how to make parrafin wax and it's made using oil and a solvent like acetone. Acetone is made by dry distilling calcium acetate. Calcium Acetate in turn is made by soaking calcium carbonate in acid, like egg shells in vinegar.
So my idea is to soak some small animal bones in vinegar to form calcium acetate. Then i let it dry out. The calcium acetate will then be mixed with oil under some light heat, or in my case pine pitch. We will see what happends. Hopefully it forms sort of a solid, hence wax.
I will also try just simply mix pine pitch with charcoal and ground chalk. This may or may not give a slower burn.
Then I can make a bushcraft candle haha lol.
Did it work?
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nile have you tried setting up the "support this channel" button on RUclips? I think you can use that to give like a one time donation unlike patreon where people have to sign up for monthly donations.
+Skyler P.C. They have a button like that? I had no idea...
Here's some info on what it looks like too a viewer.
support.google.com/youtube/answer/6052077?hl=en
and here's some info on setting it up. They call it "fan funding".
www.reelseo.com/how-to-youtube-fan-funding-tip-jar/
@@NileRed00:06 what are other uses for the calcium acetate alcohol jelly ? If you aren't going to burn it, then what else is there ? Is there something else more on the topic I'm missing ? Is the alcohol jelly for another project or just a toy ? could you use it to dissolve MgSO₄ ?
I got this crazy idea from watching athletes trying to rub salts on the body to release muscle aches. I tried disolving the MgSO₄ in alcohol and I believe also in a jar of water at room temperature. I didn't shake the container. Also, it failed to dissolve in room temperature water. That is surprising. Since I thought water could disolve just about everything as long as you give it time. Only disolve the MgSO₄ quickly in a steam bath. Maybe I should try taking a bath in Powerade , Metamucil , Theraflu , Codeine . Then pray for a miracle. What a great way to check out . 🤞
I am planning to use the acetone to remove graffiti. Do you think it would remove the paint from a vehicle? Yes ! My vehicle ! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Thanks for making public understandable information.
I'm going to go back to the glowing baby presentation. That looks like a fun project. I'm always looking for a source of light. Also enjoyed the presentation you gave on how much water extracted MgSO₄ .
🤖I can't read books ! Do I look like a quick response scanner to you !🤖
4:10 that fire was lit af.
These are great fire starters for camping!
Since calcium acetate is used as a food additive, would it be safe to assume you could make some sort of edible alcohol jelly with ethanol?
Corey Heidemann not safe
Siffle doubt it
This stuff is in gelling-for-flame purity really easy to synthesize. Just get 25% acetic acid from your supermarket, react it with as much calcium hydroxide (in the cement section of your local building supply store, you might wanna check the web for "brand" names. (Here in germany its "Calciumhydroxid" vs. "Löschkalk", which is called slaked lime. If you cant get that, try to substitute for calciumoxide. Beware that this does more damage to skin, so be more carefull. The dry/non-slurry hydroxide is not more dangerous than the acid itself, and that is not too dangerous. It is defatting thoug by creating soap.) The mixing ratio should be aroung 1 volume part calcium(hydr)oxide for 10 volume parts 25% acetic acid. Maybe even 1:30 or so. just try a small scale to get a feeling. You have to barely dissolve all lime, but you don't want more acetic acid than necessary. Anything above 10% over the required amount could lead to slower gelling. The resulting mixture (mine was a little brown stained, like tea, but that doesnt really show in the gel) can be directly used from between 1:20 to 1:5 calciumacetate-solution to (for my case) ethanol. The key is to mix it before it gells, as that prevents further mixing. I had good results pouring the ethanol into the burning container and injecting a stream of solution with a syringe. Also usefull to get the right dose. Just align and shoot as fast as you can. Try not to touch the syringe into the alcohol, and ofc you do not need the hypodermic needle. Just as simple plastic syringe suffices. If you do touch the alcohol, the syringe might require cleaning. Use cold-ish water (hot might be dangerous for your hands and the plasic of the syringe. Really cheap. Like 5 bucks for gelling a 10l bucket of ethanol. Also the only heat required is to ignite. It does however speed the reaction up.
Do you think you could use isopropyl nitrate instead of alcohol? Invisible napalm / plastic explosive anyone? ;3
Try it.
Adam Harrington Sadly I don't have any, and I don't have the proper apparatus or reagents for nitrating isoproponol myself..
He said it works with alcohols specifically. So isopropyl nitrate probably wouldn't work, but picric acid (another explosive, and one that's technically an alcohol since it has a hydroxyl group) might.
@@argenteus8314 It works with anything that calcium acetate has a low solubility in, so you would have to know the solubility of calcium acetate in isopropyl nitrate.
I can't get my 70% isopropyl alcohol to gel in the 99.8% calcium acetate and 50ml water mixture. Am I missing something?
Hi, man I was looking for way, how to solify alcohol for the purposes of the computer game I am going to developed durring the summer, so I would like to thank you for this video :)
This stuff was once made and sold in large quantities as "Chafing dish solid fuel" in India
I used it in the 60's when I was staying at a hotel for lathe night tea making.....it was a pink colour, sold in a small tin and called solid meths.
Is water needed or could I pour powdered calcium acetate into a 70% isopropyl alcohol
I detect some guilt for making those piranha solution videos 😅
It's a useful acid though
It perfect for quick campfire starter
Very well done.
Make acetone from calcium acetate dry distillation! I've been looking forward to this one forever!
+Grant Stewart haha sorry. It has been a while. That is the next one that will be uploaded
+Nile Red Awesome, I'm looking forward to it. I've been making calcium acetate from limestone and calcite as of late with plans of doing the same, so I am quite interested in seeing it.
Grant Stewart Just keep in mind that the yield isn't amazing and the product needs to be thoroughly purified. It isnt exactly the cleanest way to make acetone
+Nile Red Definitely. I'm also interested in the reddish oil that allegedly comes over after the acetone with higher heat.
Looks like i'm not the only one who's wondering if you can make chewable shooters with this method.
This was cool. A few times you said “isopropanol” which appears to be unintended.
I'd really like to see you attempting the synthesis of Trimethylaluminum There are some interesting papers online about the procedures too.
+Just Power Electronics what is it used for?
+Nile Red as a catalyst for some polymerization reactions. it also reacts with air to ignite. periodic videos have a video on it. I feel it would be an interesting challenge. if I knew more of the chemistry involved I would have like to attempt it myself with a home machined reaction chamber. have a look. I'd be interested in what you think.
Just Power Electronics Pyrophoric liquids are a little too dangerous for me to make right now i think. I want to make butyl lithium at some point though.
Is there a way I can contact you out of RUclips comments, an email?
Colloids are fun to play with. XD
Nice vid, wish i could do this stuff at home..
+MegaFrostNova It's impossible to understand how Nile can only have a little over 50,000 subs. He makes awesome videos about stuff most of us can't do at home (or even if we could it's just easier *and more relaxing to watch Nile do it.
+John Ratko 50k subs in two years is decent growth, really. If you want him to have more, spread the word, show his videos to anyone you know and they might be interested.
NecroBanana Wasn't trying to be disparaging. Just believe he should have a lot more subs. For hands on lab work Nile's the best channel on RUclips, imho. And, yes, I do recommend the channel often.
Cheers, friend!
FrostNova you can and for the low low price of $40000
It is not alcohol jelly, but, calcium acetate jelly with alcohol (metanol or ethanol). After alcohol burned, the fire is acetone burning.
Nice stuff man :D going to try it out if I get some anhydrouse alcohol^^
Collect washed egg shells to make your calcium acetate
Just wondering if this is similar to hand sanitiser. Been wondering how that stuff doesnt just evaporate etc.
aha! one time I mixed ethanol with a store brand frozen grape juice, and it resulted in a very sterno-like smell. Calcium Acetate is used as a ph regulator. Coincidence?
fun party trick, get some 70% easily acquired from the store, start by adding ice to very cold water and then take a spray bottle with alcohol and spray it through a candle flame at your hand, it should burn up as it gets close but it burns so fast and theirs so little that you only feel a pleasant warmth, also good for removing hair XD.
can you reuse the calcium carbonate once the alcohol has been burned off?
+SJPrepper0569 Depends on what want to use it for. Some of it might be CaO though. If you want to make more calcium acetate, it would probably work.
+Nile Red that's what I was wondering if you could rehydrate it then add more alcohol and make more burning gel
+SJPrepper0569
You start out with calcium *acetate*, but end up with calcium *carbonate*. That's not the same
+superdau so use the acetate that turned into carbonate to make more acetate then use that to make more the burning gel? just wondering if you can continue to recycle until it's depleted?
+SJPrepper0569
In theory, yes, if you add acetic acid to the carbonate it should turn into acetate again and also all the Ca should stay in the tray. How often you can do this in reality until you somehow lost the Calcium (ash blown away; reaction products that don't turn back into acetate again; still assuming you're 100% efficient in scooping up the everything in every step) or until impurities you add with the acid just make it not work well any more, I don't know.
I 1st thought for real that Nile blue was your alter ego twin.
So for making acetone, if I use calcium benzoate, can I make benzophenone? There was a video from chemplayer but I can't seem to find it anymore and they made acetophenone
+Rsaramallac Apparently it is possible. www.prepchem.com/synthesis-of-acetophenone/
+Nile Red Can i have a link to your other YT channel? i couldnt find it
search "Nile Blue"
it should come up right away
I want to make some of this for my doomsday bag, If it starts to dry out, can you regenerate it by adding more alcohol to the bag and mixing it?
Yes, I would think so. Do note that the alcohol you need to use would have to be anhydrous.
Hey Nile. Please please please make that video on Lithium Peroxide. I'm really looking forward to it!Best wishes,Hampton.
I have it made and everything, i just need a way to demonstrate it
You should do a flame test. Fill two beakers with CO2 and then put matches in them. In one suspend a coffee filter of Li2O2. That should convert the CO2 to O2? Best of luck, looking forward to it!
P.S.
I'm currently in the process of getting glassware and a setup. so soon, hopefully ill be able to go through each of your videos and do them myself!
U can use sodium polycrylate to. 😊
this would be good for firing carbon mixed with it.
you should make the mercaptan (Thiol) they add to gasoline for the smell. it's like pure rotten egg smell.
+Shayne Lafferty It is super potent I think. Not sure ill make it. I will be making some pure cadaverine and putrescine though...
I had the impression that the jelly isn't easy to moldel and won't stick together to allow more or less arbitrary shapes.
Do you think it is possible to control the jellification process in a way so that you can mold nice looking items?
Does this work with other acetates? I'm thinking about creating nice coloured flames with transition metals
it depends, because some acetate salts are rather soluble in alcohols , such as sodium acetate
Hi, I wondered if you could do a video on the process of methylating transition metals? just curious as to how methyl organometallic compounds are synthesised, thank you :)
no Tim, he will never make a video on that.
It's so weird to see what looks like a flaming snowball that doesn't melt
Do you think we could get a video on the synthesis of cyclohexylamine?
Any chance you could do a video on deep eutectic solvents?
The closest i can get to this is jello shots
Fun fact: Moonshiners spread this on their toast.
Just a thought. Can the jel be wax coated? For a simple fire starter.
plz try extracting Dimethyltryptamine from a organic source.
You just need a plant with dmt and a few solvents and chemicals
Have you tried making jellied alcohol with methylcellulose?
I know how it sounds but... is it edible? Calcium acetate is labeled as E263 so it kinda should be. Although it's not like I'm gonna eat a snowball that contains some 99% ethanol. It's just curiousity
It's probably safe in _very_ small amounts. The problem with calcium acetate is that you probably don't want to consume too much of it, as there's a risk of hypercalcaemia. Mind you, I checked and there's less bioavailable calcium in calcium acetate than there is in calcium carbonate, which means the risk of that is less than you'd get from chewing on chalk.
So this would not be considered a precipitate?
cannot wait for the red phosphorus vid!
Is this safe to put in a tube and squirt it onto wood to use as fire starter?
Nice. Made some with ethanol but it "melted" to running jelly after a day???? How to store this correctly and maybe recreate solid form?
What do you think about making a cinnamic acid by using benzaldehyde and acetic anhydride? Of course with steam distillation process;)
Hi sir is this possible with a 70% ethyl alcohol?
I think if we use 70% alcohol we woudn't need add more water. Only calcium acetate and alcohol.
Wait did NileRed just teach me how to make Napalm?
You can also use it to protect yourself from extraterrestrial viruses.
Its kinda like charcoal that burns pretty long
we are going to make an expiremental research in which instead of eggshells, we will use golden apple snail shells. Is it a good alternative as source of calcium carbonate?
You need calcium acetate, not carbonate.
Now mix gasoline with Styrofoam!
Make sure to super saturate the calcium acetate solution and use alcohol that’s some what concentrated
Does it jellify if you put the dry calcium acetate in the concentrated alcohol ?
No it needs to be dissolved completely while concentrated as you’re mixing two solutions to achieve the highest yield and reaction, too much water in the experiment will make it not crash out properly and result in failure, one trick is to turn up the heat on the calcium solution to dissolve more while concentrating it at a higher temperature so it’ll eventually mix even better with the alcohol as it’s warm
Flammable snowballs
So, is this basically Sterno? If no can you make sterno?
Could you make a flame thrower out of this?
Meh, it's solid so not really practical.
+Ilgaz Er use more alcohol then, it could also just have more compressed air in it.
+The Chemistry Kid use only alcohol with compressed air is easier
do you need to use high concentration ethanol? or could you also use 10% to 30% ??
Is there a reason this wouldn’t work with denatured alcohol?
If you want a nice fireball to juggle in your bare hands, use a cotton ball, or paper towel, with alcohol on it. That is what is what I am doing in my profile picture.
How do they make the fire jelly that pops and snaps?
Saw flammable jelly trap?
Mistake at 3:59. You said ethanol instead of isopropyl.
I've tried this twice this week, not working at all for me. Usually how my life works, something that works for everyone else will fail completely for me.
Very nice 👍
alcohol jelly
aka mario fireball lol
AWESOME!!!!
Hey, Nile; what font do you use in your video thumbnails? It looks familiar and I'd like to use it. Thanks!
It is @Adobe Gothic Std B in MS Paint
Does this light with a spark of a ferro rod also?
could you use isopropyl nitrate?
Are you using white vinegar or cleaning vinegar?
Would have been nice to have the calcium acetate prepared from household materials
He did make it from vinegar and eggshells
What is the app I'm supposed to download that will help the channel?
Not so much Stern-O as Fun-O?
Show us how to make potassium nitrate without nitric acid, ammonium nitrate and sodium nitrate.
+uchihasurvival I am not sure of any easy way if those aren't used. Are you?
Nile Red I know there is potassium nitrate in Sensodyne toothpaste, but I don't know how to a solution that has multiple salts (sodium fluoride, potassium nitrate, etc). There is also potassium nitrate in soil. Although, I would personally neutralize nitric acid with KOH. These two substances are very easy and legal to get.
uchihasurvival I think the easiest is still to get it from ammonium nitrate cold packs
Nile Red Ammonium nitrate cold packs are hard to find and it is not pure. The easiest is to react potassium hydroxide with nitric acid and then boil off the remaining water.
+uchihasurvival But... why? Why would you do that?
HEET, yellow bottle blue label is 99% methanol. FYI
I've been using HEET and looked at the label, there's a stern warning claiming it's ethylbenzene (a certain %) and that's toxic.
Every single person I've come across making these videos does not address how Sterno burns top down, and doesn't produce any calcium carbonate.
I wonder what would happen if you inject tert Bu Lithium soln inside the unignited ball