@@gedreillyhomestead6926 You could be right. Next time your electrics fail, go to a gay bar and say you're looking for a bear. Let us know if you're satisfied with the results.
the really nasty things would be more expensive than the wanted material, so dangerous substitution is unlikely. Anything risky in small doses (few mg) isn't likely to be given away for next to nothing.
@@MrNoipe as a one off exposure I don't think you would likely have any long term risks, or any real risk of death. If you are the whole container of it or dusted all your food untill it was done you might have an issue if it were made with certain pigments.
effect is called "streaming birefringence" also; since mica is inert and has a surface that repels, you might find some interesting effects in the toilet bowl a few days later if you eat some, which i really wouldn't.
Agreed. Many years ago, for a New Year party I purchased some capsules (the large ones) and filled them with mica glitter in the hopes that it would prove "interesting". They became known as GlitterSh** capsules. Not OVERLY obvious until "drawing an ace" so to speak - at which point, most people found that a few flecks of glitter could usually still be seen. Methylene blue to make people pee bright electric blue (or "lime green if dehydrated) can of course NOT be recommended but these too were used - and had an effect people could chat about within an hour or so.... the effect continues for a good 36 hours if you have 250mg or so.
I worked at Tioxide they produced Titanium Dioxide on a huge scale everything in and around the plant was white. your car ended up grey over time. Bloody awful place to work.
at my company once a worker droped a small amount, like 100g or something. They tried to sweep it up. The white spot is still, now 15 years later, visible. On a smooth floor.
Ha! Car getting dirty? I did a 6 month... i guess its an internship, thru highschool. 1 day a week instead of going to school you were an apprentice for the day. Structured Workplace Learning. Exellent program, highly recommended to anyone if you can. Anyway. 6 months in a titanium dioxide plant. Learnt heaps on SCADA, backups, distributed control systems, all sorta cool stuff. But PRINTERS. The whole place was SCADA on the machines, but paper for the meatsacks. So PRINTERS. Lots of them. Telling the meatsacks what to do. N titanium dioxide n printers, ooch, thats a bad combo. The packing room had a hot spare, n i literally visited them every week with 2 refurbished units to swap out. That was the worst, but every department had an ever revolving door of printer replacement. They all had email, *JUST USE EMAIL, DONT PRINT IT* but so much was printed. Got very adept at pulling apart printers n making cobbled together working units. Clearing gunk. Making a goer from the clapped out chassis. If you feel for your car, feel for the printer tech. Especially if hes the free work experience kid. The SWL program was great tho, taught me 'fuck being a fat admin'. Nuts n bolts computer stuff is way more fun than resetting passwords for a living. Also did database stuff for the agriculture dept, n HV line maintenance for the power company. Way more rounded education than any class teaches. N still fitted in upper level chemistry n maths. Didnt score great, but i wasnt doin it for the score, did it for the learning. Getting grotty with hardware n knowin how to fix shit. The best specialist i can think of. Learn to problem solve. Dont specialize in an area, learn the mindset.
Seems like we could buy pre-made beads, give 'em a lick of epoxy and dust them with glitter. Claire's Accessories might be a good place to start. I'm also wondering whether Gillian's Diamonds might work with mica glitter; LMK if you try this, plz. ObEarWorm, B52's Planet Claire: ruclips.net/video/47YAcpCa5dM/видео.html
I've done it, it works great, also mixed with florescent materials. Some early pics here: Unfortunately I do not have a camera that does justice to the effect. Even in bright summer sun. imgur.com/gallery/DSkWj64
This is hands down one of the best youtube channels there is. I never find myself bored by any of the videos you post, they're always so interesting and very much to your own interests. Please keep up the great work!
The lustre pigments you are using are the plain single-colour ones. There are also ones whose mica plates reflect different colours at different angles, so instead of seeing, say, brighter and darker gold shimmers, you see pink and green (the colours are usually complementary). These don't show up much as cosmetics because when smeared on thick, the particles aren't well-aligned so they tend to just reflect white. The shimmer effect occurs when shear in the liquid flow causes the particles to align with each other, parallel to the local shear plane. The local shear plane varies smoothly throughout the liquid causing the particles to reflect the light differently from place to place.
You've made my wife very happy. She misses Goldschlager which used to be in all the supermarkets but it's rarely found anywhere now unless bought online.
Nerdout time XD Though it has been synthesized, my understanding is that carminic acid is still almost universally created from the bodies of female cochineal bugs, as unfortunately it's not yet commercially viable (whatever your thoughts on the matter, I think we can agree that a synthetic product would probably be preferable, at the very least from a consistency standpoint) Also They're not really beetles as such, much closer to aphids say, though distinct from them
You probably then want to stay away from the other beetle extract then, which has some side effects that are desired, as against it's main application of something that kills slightly bigger bugs that eat the beetle.
Superfine mica particulates - hmmm. I've often worried how dangerous powdered makeup is - When I was in the British Army, we often used mica 'flour' to mimic soil types of drier locations when setting off explosive tests. All was well until on one occasion the wind changed and then there was a mass-panic where everyone had to get inside and batten down the vehicle seals (and engage positive pressure) as the mica was considered as being a suspected carcinogen. We even handled the stuff in full NBC suits. Taking into account that squaddies are often treated as "consumables" (the British Army in the '80s was not all that good on Health & Safety!), I am still concerned whenever I see mica being used in anything as even back in those 'more manly times' exposure was treated as a serious issue... 😁
Seems it's the case if you are in danger of inhaling lots of mica. "Mica dust in the workplace is regarded as a hazardous substance for respiratory exposure above certain concentrations. " Since it's groundup minerals it settles like stone dust, I guess. And you can't really get that out of your lungs easily. (You should also wear masks when cutting stones or being near someone cutting stones with some kind of saw.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mica#Medicine
I am reminded of the time the Royal Navy were having a ship-board missile control system designed. It was above decks and they wanted it nuclear hardened. It was pointed out to them that the system would survive but the guy operating it would not. They said that was OK, they'd just send another up from below deck. Military personal are considered fungible.
@@MONTY-YTNOM Arrrggghhh - that brings back fun (not!) memories - oatmeal biscuits and a litre of ice-cold water (mid-winter). The biscuits were already in the chamber when they lit the pellets - so they were WELL coated in the gas particles. Then getting punched in the gut to make sure you got a good lungful or three after taking off your respirator... B'stards! 🤣🤣🤣
I'm inclined to think the dodgiest part of the mica powder isn't the mica, but the fact that it's from a Chinese seller. Would make me a little more suspicious of using it for cosmetics, let alone ingesting it. That said, very interesting little experiment! I'm a dork and adore random things like this.
hell yeah I totally would not eat something from a chinese seller in an unmarked bag that's not meant for eating in the first place. The yellow one is probably Uranium Oxide or something..
@@beware_the_moose The one thing you can trust Chinese sellers with is to go for the cheapest option, and both asbestos and uranium oxide are more expensive than mica... =p
Back when l was in my teens, the headshops had little capsules called, Cosmic Dust, that you dropped into a bottle of water, and ooed and ahed to the swirly patterns it made...verrry much like the glitter sample! I made an homage to that, using Pearl-X pigment, in one of those bear-shaped honey bottles. Thanks for the ebay info...it looks like the exact same product, for a fragment of the price!
I think it's the structure of mica that makes it poor at inducing nucleation - there's plenty of space between the plates for the gas to get trapped rather than being released.
I've started messing with epoxi resins lately, and i think they can be a very good extra for some resin constructions... and since it's so viscous, it won't settle down waiting for it to cure... Excess? At home, we say "the only vice danger... is to run short..." (vage translation, i'm spanish) so yeah, more glitter, more shine!!! yay!!!
I really wouldn't recommend eating or drinking anything with finely powdered mica in it. Why? Time for story: When hiking in Switzerland about 20 years ago, our mountain guides told us on every occasion they could that we were never to drink glacier meltwater unless we could put it through a super-fine filter first. Snow meltwater was fine, but not glaciers. The reason being that glaciers act like giant sheets of sandpaper as they grind their way down a mountain, scraping rocks against rocks. So the ice picks up finely crushed rock particles, including mica, which is a component of many rocks. These particles end up suspended in the meltwater, and because they are so small, they take a long time to settle out, so even if you think the water looks clear, it will still have some suspended mica in it. You can use a puritab to sterilise the water (killing off any bacteria), but that does nothing to the mica content. When you drink it, the tiny mica particles have a similar effect on the lining of your stomach and intestines as asbestos dust has on your lungs. This is why mica powder is classed as a carcinogen by ingestion - and probably by inhalation too.
@@qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqw Go look up an MSDS on mica powder. It will tell you that there is evidence of it being a human carcinogen, aka cancer suspect agent. Asbestos is a carcinogen as well, albeit probably more reliable and certainly more infamous.
@@lloydevans2900 It only mentions that it's a minor inhalation hazard, and that it may cause discomfort if swallowed... and that it does not have any toxic or carcinogenic effect shown if fed to animals
@@qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqw Ok, take a look at this MSDS for mica of all grades: www.igasplc.com/media/29416/MICA-All-Grades-SDS11310.pdf The relevant quote you want is as follows: "there is sufficient evidence that inhaled crystalline silica in the form of quartz or crystobalite from occupational sources causes cancer in humans" True, that is for inhalation, not ingestion. But you have to consider the mechanism for how particles of asbestos, mica, silicates or quartz cause a carcinogenic effect. It is not a chemical effect at all - it is a physical effect, caused by the sharp microscopic particles causing physical damage to body tissues and cells. Imagine billions of pieces of sandpaper grinding away inside your lungs for years on end. It takes a while for the cancers to show up: Mesothelioma from asbestos has an induction period of 15 to 20 years. If the particles of asbestos or mica can damage lung tissue (and they can), then they can damage stomach or intestinal tissue in the same way. The only reason cancers of the gut are less common from asbestos or mica is that they rarely get into food or drink, so the lungs are the usual route of exposure. However, if food or drink did somehow get contaminated today, I would expect cancers of the relevant organ systems to start showing up in the mid--2030s. Mica might not be as bad as asbestos, but would you want to take the chance with it? I know I wouldn't.
True - not all asbestos is created equal. Chrysotile is fairly harmless as the shape of the fibre is fairly soft and curly compared to amosite and crocidoloite which are really spikey when viewed under microscope. It's believed that the tissue irritation caused by the shape is what leads to cancer over time. All chemically the same thing.
@@googleeatsdicks Umm, we do. We didn't evolve alongside mineral nanoparticles and it's a pretty big deal that's only recently being documented in the medical literature. They're finding more and more accumulation of nanoparticles in organ and soft tissues all across the food chain. This is also the premise of the microplastics problem that's much better documented.
@@googleeatsdicks It's milled until it floats freely in air and then combined with a dopant, and you don't think it produces any coated particles in the sub 100 nanometer scale?
@@googleeatsdicks Oh yeah, the difference being that mammals have evolved for millions of years next to the trace amounts that nature produces, and that industrial processes produce orders of magnitude more of them, and that(especially in this application) they're concentration is comparatively insanely high, but let just pretend that 1 and 1 billion are roughly the same....
Some years ago, while still working as an engineer, I was mistakenly invited to a reception for wealthy, self-important upper crust types. I almost tore up the invite, but then realized it provided an opportunity for free drinks and possibly some tasty nibblies. I evicted the moths from my tux, and went off to this event, figuring I could drink, eat and sneak out. It was indeed very grand. For my first drink I was presented with a clear cocktail made with an alcoholic beverage containing flakes of real gold. The flakes had a relatively large cross-section although being very, very thin. The "golden" liqueur was more viscous than water; if the bottle was shaken, the gold flake was stirred up and then settled quite slowly. I was told by the bartender that it was a commercial product, labeled as being safe for human consumption. I doubt that there was very much gold per bottle, but the effect was interesting. I did not buy a bottle of this stuff - Spey valley single malt being my preference - but I learned a curious fact later, when talking to a classmate who had gone on to specialize in waste-water treatment. The city where we both lived had a wide river flowing through it, the sources of which were streams and rivers coming down from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. There is enough gold in the river that hobbyist "gold-seekers" work the river banks upstream of the city from spring thaw to autumn freeze-up. Most of what's recovered is fine particulate or "gold dust" - large nuggets are rare. Every year, the river brings more, and it settles out along the way. The city-owned utility company - clever people that they are - take advantage of this. All city water is drawn from the river. and waste-water and sewage-treatment plants are are all equipped to recover any gold from whatever passes through. My colleague mentioned that the newest treatment plant, brought on-line that spring, had already recovered more than 3 kilos of very high-purity gold. The amount coming from each household is small, but when concentrated and extracted, the monetary return is worthwhile, and helps offset the start-up and operating costs. Households pay for both incoming water supply and waste-water treatment, so "flushing money down the drain" is not just an idle comment.
Do you have any spare glitter lamp parts? I’d like to see how the mica glitter looks in a glitter lamp when compared to regular glitter, or would the mica be too dense to work?
If anyone wants to google these type of powders, the correct term for this type of 'shimmer' is 'rheoscopic fluid'. Other things that make liquids rheoscopic include fish scales.
BIG CLIVE! Can you do a "lamp projoect" using this the mica glitter? The heat from the circuit could have some cool effects along with some rgb LEDs and what not... love your videos concerning modifications and your projects. I am always AMPED to see you going with the FLOW while staying CURRENT and original. You are a true veteran of the voltages sir. Cheers!
I used to know someone who worked with glitter for craft stuff, and she bought mica once for something... And, well, everything got sparkles all over them. Good lord the mess that stuff made put even the finest glitter to shame for how pervasive it was. For months, we would move something that was in the office that "The Sparkle Incident' was done in, and there would be a fresh cloud of it from just the stuff that settled on top! I would imagine that dosing out the mica would have been far easier, if you dumped the whole pot into a small bit of liquid. Then you could use an eyedropper, rather than those little scoops. Which, while adorable, I kept imagining would get tipped over and then the desk would forever sparkle.
Nothing like watching one of your alco videos with a beer in one hand and a shot of Fireball in the other.... Keep up the good work Clive... Always educational and entertaining!
The things that grizzly Scotsmen get up to in the harsh winters on the Isle of Man... I imagine that some spectacular fights must start over whose glitter is more glittery. ... It's like a really bizarre Monty Python sketch really. But great fun, Cheers Clive.
if you have a bar and you want to display those glitter bottles, put them on a heat source. there are those lava lamp type things with water and glitter in them that make a nice effect, i'm pretty sure it would work with this as well
@@bigclivedotcom but the heat will make them rise up again... if it works in those little glitter lamps, then why shouldn't it work with your beverage? as a decoration i also wouldn't heat up a bottle of alco-- i mean, adult beverage :)
@@chrisakaschulbus4903 The specific gravities of the glitter and liquid have to be close to get a glitter lamp effect. In this case the mica has a gravity of about 3 times that of water, so it would be hard to make it buoyant. (I tried.)
@@chrisakaschulbus4903 I've made a few videos about glitter lamps. As soon as I got these glitters I tried them, and initially there is some movement, but the mica quickly settles at the base.
wow, i was watching some older bigclive videos and clicked on this one on the right side of a older video thought whats the resulkt with the setteling out and then saw ouuhh the video is about 20 minutes old haha
There is a town in South Africa called Mica, named of course because of the mines there having as main product Mica, in all it's forms. The road to the town goes through some cuttings, which exposes veins of the mineral the town is named for.
I don't know about the UK but in america we have a cinnamon alcohol called "Goldschlager". It's having gold particles inside. I don't drink alcohol very often but I really like this one. It's very sweet tho.
The mica isn't the issue in cosmetic grade stuff, it's whatever they coat or mix it with to give it color. The white pearl is usually titanium dioxide coated mica.
1:39 - This is a bit misleading. Cochineal (E120) is not synthetically produced in relevant quantities (there _are_ some fermentation-based processes to make it, but they are more expensive than extracting it from cactus beetles). What happened was that a lot of food manufacturers replaced it with _different_ (synthetic, "vegan-friendly", and in some cases toxic) dyes. One of them (E124) was sometimes listed as "Cochineal Red A", but is unrelated to cochineal or carminic acid, and usually called "Ponceau 4R".
I redirect my university students that study electronics and mechatronics engineering to your youtube to check out circuit analysis and design. And yes, these types of videos definitely do not make me regret my decision. :P
555 is the designation of the integrated circuit timer that sells about a billion units per year. Probably one of the most popular ICs of all time... but I'm sure BigClive already knows that.
Want to celebrate 555K subscribers. What can we do with the number 555, what kind of things does the channel cover that might involve the number 555... Oh, of course! Potassium aluminium silicate!
My dogs shampoo shimmers but is more smoother and liquid looking, no tio2 in the contents but there is alkyl dimethyl amine oxide. Whatever causes the shine settles out of solution so it might be possible to remove it. It's also what causes the foaming, as when used without shaking it's like using plain water.
In my country we have the Rolkem brand of food colouring. The Copper color lists Titanium dioxide, iron oxide, gold, and mica as ingredients. Also makes for interesting drinks...
@@bigclivedotcom Do you think say 5W at the bottom and some kind of heat sink at the top would set up enough convection currents in a liquid like water to keep it circulating? Or oil maybe as it has a lower specific heat capacity?
Only time I've used "mica" is replacing microwave waveguide covers and buying big sheets of mica to cut up for them, is it the same mica? never really thought of it as gold coloured unless it's a colouring?
@@bigclivedotcom yeah, I commented before you showed the other colour listings haha, for some reason making a colour stick to a fine particulate without it clumping didn't compute in my mind
Hey Clive. I happened to notice that your lighting changed again at some point in the recent past? I remember about a year ago you changed your LED lighting to a nice soft white warmish, high CRI light and it looked great. See your video on teardown of a faulty Samsung Lithium 18650 cell from back in 2018. The lighting looked so nice. I'm not saying that I DON'T like your current lighting, but I'm not saying that I do, either... We have these GE Reveal LED bulbs here in the US. May I recommend you try those out? The Plastic housing looks like a very light purple or pinkish color and when they made them in incandescent the glass was ALSO purple-ish (those were THE best light ever BTW). They filter out some of the yellow wavelengths but still manage to give off a nice soft white light that is NOTHING like the ugly blue "daylight" 5000K + color temperature bulbs. The newer REVEAL bulb housing may not look as purple if at all but I know they used to. ALL the lightbulbs in my house (I actually counted how many light bulbs I currently have in various fixtures around my house and also outside and I was shocked to realize that there are about 70 bulbs in all the lights in my house) except for about 5 of them are all GE Reveal LED bulbs. There are other companies making LED bulbs like this now too. I think Philips has something similar now. If you happen to look at the GE bulbs just remember that it is the REVEAL not the REFRESH or RELAX.
Well that's one way to electrically insulate your digestive tract... :P Though, it does make me wonder if it has the same effect as shitter glitter pills, but I don't really need to know that answer......... :S
I can't believe I spent my night watching a big bear electrician add glitter to vodka... And I enjoyed it
what is bear meaning?
@@Francois_Dupont clive looks like a bear
@@Francois_Dupont A male homosexual with a large beard.
Electricians working with electricity tend to growl a lot and so are called bears (in Scotland anyway). 👹
@@gedreillyhomestead6926 You could be right. Next time your electrics fail, go to a gay bar and say you're looking for a bear. Let us know if you're satisfied with the results.
'Suitable for cosmetics, but came from a Chinese seller, so be careful when applying it on your skin. Let's drink it instead.'
the really nasty things would be more expensive than the wanted material, so dangerous substitution is unlikely. Anything risky in small doses (few mg) isn't likely to be given away for next to nothing.
@@RobertSzasz could have lead in it, nice and cheap.
@@MrNoipe as a one off exposure I don't think you would likely have any long term risks, or any real risk of death. If you are the whole container of it or dusted all your food untill it was done you might have an issue if it were made with certain pigments.
Or cheap Melamine - don't forget the tainted dog food that killed many. I buy Chinese stuff, but NEVER anything to eat.
@@GEKay-xt2cq and the tainted baby milk powder that was also bulked out with melamine!
effect is called "streaming birefringence"
also; since mica is inert and has a surface that repels, you might find some interesting effects in the toilet bowl a few days later if you eat some, which i really wouldn't.
Agreed. Many years ago, for a New Year party I purchased some capsules (the large ones) and filled them with mica glitter in the hopes that it would prove "interesting". They became known as GlitterSh** capsules. Not OVERLY obvious until "drawing an ace" so to speak - at which point, most people found that a few flecks of glitter could usually still be seen.
Methylene blue to make people pee bright electric blue (or "lime green if dehydrated) can of course NOT be recommended but these too were used - and had an effect people could chat about within an hour or so.... the effect continues for a good 36 hours if you have 250mg or so.
"Chatoyance" is also a term associated with the effect.
doing them seems really common, just search for "pimp your shit"
My ex girlfriend wanted to have a st Patrick’s day party, all the food was green...next day so was my poop...
shit gold nuggets
The other big question: *does it glitter on the way out?*
The mica almost certainly will. That stuff won't igest, so it'll come out exactly the same way as it came in.
@@IkBenBenG My bet is it will look a lot different. The real question is which exit will it come out of?
Clive's tried that one before ruclips.net/video/RSVKDmMMZUE/видео.html
@@georgeprout42 He didn't show the results though.
But he did give a written account in the video description
"YoU'rE EaTiNg BeEtLes!" 🤣
Let's not tell those people what confectioners shellac is made from!
1:40 in case someone wants to skip/rewind to that point.
Eats meat every day, but complains about eating bugs. I honestly don't see much difference.
@@theRPGmaster You don't see much difference between a bug and meat?
@@xenonram they don't see much a difference between proteins. :3
Locusts are high in protein, and low in fat. Much better for you than beef! Also easier and far less polluting to farm, what's not to like!
I worked at Tioxide they produced Titanium Dioxide on a huge scale everything in and around the plant was white. your car ended up grey over time. Bloody awful place to work.
at my company once a worker droped a small amount, like 100g or something. They tried to sweep it up. The white spot is still, now 15 years later, visible. On a smooth floor.
I worked at the competitor Laportes/Huntsman..My lungs are still suffering with inhaled sulphur fumes/ TiCl4..amazes me the stuff is food safe!
@@urbanspaceman2007 yep I can emagin back when I was in Tioxide H&S was a less of an issue.
@@alainfelger93 I google the plant I worked at and just about everything is white. You dont turn up for work in your new car thats a fact.
Ha! Car getting dirty? I did a 6 month... i guess its an internship, thru highschool. 1 day a week instead of going to school you were an apprentice for the day. Structured Workplace Learning. Exellent program, highly recommended to anyone if you can.
Anyway. 6 months in a titanium dioxide plant. Learnt heaps on SCADA, backups, distributed control systems, all sorta cool stuff. But PRINTERS. The whole place was SCADA on the machines, but paper for the meatsacks. So PRINTERS. Lots of them. Telling the meatsacks what to do. N titanium dioxide n printers, ooch, thats a bad combo. The packing room had a hot spare, n i literally visited them every week with 2 refurbished units to swap out. That was the worst, but every department had an ever revolving door of printer replacement. They all had email, *JUST USE EMAIL, DONT PRINT IT* but so much was printed. Got very adept at pulling apart printers n making cobbled together working units. Clearing gunk. Making a goer from the clapped out chassis.
If you feel for your car, feel for the printer tech. Especially if hes the free work experience kid. The SWL program was great tho, taught me 'fuck being a fat admin'. Nuts n bolts computer stuff is way more fun than resetting passwords for a living. Also did database stuff for the agriculture dept, n HV line maintenance for the power company. Way more rounded education than any class teaches. N still fitted in upper level chemistry n maths. Didnt score great, but i wasnt doin it for the score, did it for the learning.
Getting grotty with hardware n knowin how to fix shit. The best specialist i can think of. Learn to problem solve. Dont specialize in an area, learn the mindset.
Plenty of extra to mix with your epoxy, for making moulded LED strings, Clive!
Good idea
Seems like we could buy pre-made beads, give 'em a lick of epoxy and dust them with glitter. Claire's Accessories might be a good place to start.
I'm also wondering whether Gillian's Diamonds might work with mica glitter; LMK if you try this, plz.
ObEarWorm, B52's Planet Claire: ruclips.net/video/47YAcpCa5dM/видео.html
I've done it, it works great, also mixed with florescent materials. Some early pics here: Unfortunately I do not have a camera that does justice to the effect. Even in bright summer sun. imgur.com/gallery/DSkWj64
This is hands down one of the best youtube channels there is. I never find myself bored by any of the videos you post, they're always so interesting and very much to your own interests. Please keep up the great work!
The lustre pigments you are using are the plain single-colour ones. There are also ones whose mica plates reflect different colours at different angles, so instead of seeing, say, brighter and darker gold shimmers, you see pink and green (the colours are usually complementary). These don't show up much as cosmetics because when smeared on thick, the particles aren't well-aligned so they tend to just reflect white.
The shimmer effect occurs when shear in the liquid flow causes the particles to align with each other, parallel to the local shear plane. The local shear plane varies smoothly throughout the liquid causing the particles to reflect the light differently from place to place.
You've made my wife very happy. She misses Goldschlager which used to be in all the supermarkets but it's rarely found anywhere now unless bought online.
Goldschlager is in almost every liquor store in the states. What country are you in?
@@xenonram Judging by the Scotish flag in his avatar nad that his username is the French word for Scotland I'm going to guess Italy?
Edible gold leaf in your choice of drink? ruclips.net/video/gOpf0_qRpxs/видео.html
@@bigclivedotcom I'm not buying her bloody gold leaf, she'll get glitter and like it or lump it.
@@PaulEcosse It's cheap, because it's literally molecules thick.
Nerdout time XD
Though it has been synthesized, my understanding is that carminic acid is still almost universally created from the bodies of female cochineal bugs, as unfortunately it's not yet commercially viable (whatever your thoughts on the matter, I think we can agree that a synthetic product would probably be preferable, at the very least from a consistency standpoint)
Also They're not really beetles as such, much closer to aphids say, though distinct from them
You probably then want to stay away from the other beetle extract then, which has some side effects that are desired, as against it's main application of something that kills slightly bigger bugs that eat the beetle.
I'd run a chemical analysis on the Chinese mica. I would not trust that there are no toxins in that stuff.
Indeed, also It might be adulterated with natural mica with many times contains asbestos.
Superfine mica particulates - hmmm.
I've often worried how dangerous powdered makeup is - When I was in the British Army, we often used mica 'flour' to mimic soil types of drier locations when setting off explosive tests. All was well until on one occasion the wind changed and then there was a mass-panic where everyone had to get inside and batten down the vehicle seals (and engage positive pressure) as the mica was considered as being a suspected carcinogen. We even handled the stuff in full NBC suits.
Taking into account that squaddies are often treated as "consumables" (the British Army in the '80s was not all that good on Health & Safety!), I am still concerned whenever I see mica being used in anything as even back in those 'more manly times' exposure was treated as a serious issue... 😁
Seems it's the case if you are in danger of inhaling lots of mica.
"Mica dust in the workplace is regarded as a hazardous substance for respiratory exposure above certain concentrations. "
Since it's groundup minerals it settles like stone dust, I guess. And you can't really get that out of your lungs easily. (You should also wear masks when cutting stones or being near someone cutting stones with some kind of saw.)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mica#Medicine
I am reminded of the time the Royal Navy were having a ship-board missile control system designed. It was above decks and they wanted it nuclear hardened. It was pointed out to them that the system would survive but the guy operating it would not. They said that was OK, they'd just send another up from below deck.
Military personal are considered fungible.
When you put it like that... :/
It's not something you'd want to breathe a lot of. It carries the usual hazards of particulate dust.
@@MONTY-YTNOM Arrrggghhh - that brings back fun (not!) memories - oatmeal biscuits and a litre of ice-cold water (mid-winter). The biscuits were already in the chamber when they lit the pellets - so they were WELL coated in the gas particles.
Then getting punched in the gut to make sure you got a good lungful or three after taking off your respirator...
B'stards! 🤣🤣🤣
I'm inclined to think the dodgiest part of the mica powder isn't the mica, but the fact that it's from a Chinese seller. Would make me a little more suspicious of using it for cosmetics, let alone ingesting it.
That said, very interesting little experiment! I'm a dork and adore random things like this.
Hey, boss, we just found a market for all that asbestos powder we couldn't shift.
also the fact that mica is mined by children slaves.
hell yeah I totally would not eat something from a chinese seller in an unmarked bag that's not meant for eating in the first place.
The yellow one is probably Uranium Oxide or something..
@@beware_the_moose The one thing you can trust Chinese sellers with is to go for the cheapest option, and both asbestos and uranium oxide are more expensive than mica... =p
@@beware_the_moose Uranium oxide is edible. It's yellow cake.
I love this look, has an alchemical feeling to it.
Back when l was in my teens, the headshops had little capsules called, Cosmic Dust, that you dropped into a bottle of water, and ooed and ahed to the swirly patterns it made...verrry much like the glitter sample! I made an homage to that, using Pearl-X pigment, in one of those bear-shaped honey bottles. Thanks for the ebay info...it looks like the exact same product, for a fragment of the price!
If you add it to a carbonated liquid, doesn't it cause massive nucleation with such fine particles?
It didn't seem to have too much of an effect with the ginger beer.
I think it's the structure of mica that makes it poor at inducing nucleation - there's plenty of space between the plates for the gas to get trapped rather than being released.
The Irish Sea is going to be slightly sparklier now.
Slightly more fabulous
I've started messing with epoxi resins lately, and i think they can be a very good extra for some resin constructions... and since it's so viscous, it won't settle down waiting for it to cure...
Excess? At home, we say "the only vice danger... is to run short..." (vage translation, i'm spanish) so yeah, more glitter, more shine!!! yay!!!
I ate some "food safe" glitter one time, it didn't dissolve, was like a mouth full of sand 😂
That's the controversial stuff. Basically "non-toxic" but not nice in your mouth. The mica feels like chalk.
"food safe" doesn't mean edible. There are many food safe silicones. Supposedly your cutlery is food safe, too.
Ah, but what did it look like at the other end...
@@bigclivedotcom it was blue, both ends
@@bigclivedotcom that's why mica rhymes with pica
"If it's worth doing, it's worth doing to excess." So true.
Except when it's not, of course.
I love playing with the Gold vodka in our local Asdas like this one ruclips.net/video/H_QkRr605Vg/видео.html
lol excellent
With so much glitter, there's no other way to get through it all in one lifetime 😂
Could have fun with that mice glitter. Swimming pools, fountains etc.
Hi foam hand wash powder does have a much bigger result though.
Sesame Street guest staring Count Clive.
one scoop ... hahaha, two scoops... ha ha ha three scoops.... ha ha ha..
Hello I am Mica, thanks for including me in the video.
Might I say you are looking *fine* today!
Fancy that. I bet it would look great in a ginger ale or a lemon-lime, just the right amount of bubbly and clear
2 questions i have are, does it work in a glittery lamp, and since this is clive does it make your poop sparkle?
The mica looks FABULOUS!
mica is also used as windows for high temperature furnaces and in lenses for similar applications of high heat tolerances!
"I think the particles are much finer in this one" *points at both bottles simultaeously* xD
I thought this video was going to be about glittery LEDs controlled by a NE555.
I really wouldn't recommend eating or drinking anything with finely powdered mica in it. Why? Time for story: When hiking in Switzerland about 20 years ago, our mountain guides told us on every occasion they could that we were never to drink glacier meltwater unless we could put it through a super-fine filter first. Snow meltwater was fine, but not glaciers. The reason being that glaciers act like giant sheets of sandpaper as they grind their way down a mountain, scraping rocks against rocks. So the ice picks up finely crushed rock particles, including mica, which is a component of many rocks.
These particles end up suspended in the meltwater, and because they are so small, they take a long time to settle out, so even if you think the water looks clear, it will still have some suspended mica in it. You can use a puritab to sterilise the water (killing off any bacteria), but that does nothing to the mica content. When you drink it, the tiny mica particles have a similar effect on the lining of your stomach and intestines as asbestos dust has on your lungs. This is why mica powder is classed as a carcinogen by ingestion - and probably by inhalation too.
source on that bro?
@@qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqw Go look up an MSDS on mica powder. It will tell you that there is evidence of it being a human carcinogen, aka cancer suspect agent.
Asbestos is a carcinogen as well, albeit probably more reliable and certainly more infamous.
@@lloydevans2900 It only mentions that it's a minor inhalation hazard, and that it may cause discomfort if swallowed... and that it does not have any toxic or carcinogenic effect shown if fed to animals
@@qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqw Ok, take a look at this MSDS for mica of all grades:
www.igasplc.com/media/29416/MICA-All-Grades-SDS11310.pdf
The relevant quote you want is as follows:
"there is sufficient
evidence that inhaled crystalline silica in the form of quartz or crystobalite from occupational sources causes cancer in humans"
True, that is for inhalation, not ingestion. But you have to consider the mechanism for how particles of asbestos, mica, silicates or quartz cause a carcinogenic effect. It is not a chemical effect at all - it is a physical effect, caused by the sharp microscopic particles causing physical damage to body tissues and cells. Imagine billions of pieces of sandpaper grinding away inside your lungs for years on end. It takes a while for the cancers to show up: Mesothelioma from asbestos has an induction period of 15 to 20 years.
If the particles of asbestos or mica can damage lung tissue (and they can), then they can damage stomach or intestinal tissue in the same way. The only reason cancers of the gut are less common from asbestos or mica is that they rarely get into food or drink, so the lungs are the usual route of exposure. However, if food or drink did somehow get contaminated today, I would expect cancers of the relevant organ systems to start showing up in the mid--2030s. Mica might not be as bad as asbestos, but would you want to take the chance with it? I know I wouldn't.
True - not all asbestos is created equal. Chrysotile is fairly harmless as the shape of the fibre is fairly soft and curly compared to amosite and crocidoloite which are really spikey when viewed under microscope. It's believed that the tissue irritation caused by the shape is what leads to cancer over time. All chemically the same thing.
To me those bottles look like samples of river water taken downstream of the Flint Michigan sewage treatment plant.
many strip clubs there i wonder ?? ;-)
seems like a great way to get fabulous glittery kidney stones
@@googleeatsdicks Umm, we do. We didn't evolve alongside mineral nanoparticles and it's a pretty big deal that's only recently being documented in the medical literature. They're finding more and more accumulation of nanoparticles in organ and soft tissues all across the food chain. This is also the premise of the microplastics problem that's much better documented.
@@googleeatsdicks It's milled until it floats freely in air and then combined with a dopant, and you don't think it produces any coated particles in the sub 100 nanometer scale?
@@googleeatsdicks Oh yeah, the difference being that mammals have evolved for millions of years next to the trace amounts that nature produces, and that industrial processes produce orders of magnitude more of them, and that(especially in this application) they're concentration is comparatively insanely high, but let just pretend that 1 and 1 billion are roughly the same....
Some years ago, while still working as an engineer, I was mistakenly invited to a reception for wealthy, self-important upper crust types. I almost tore up the invite, but then realized it provided an opportunity for free drinks and possibly some tasty nibblies. I evicted the moths from my tux, and went off to this event, figuring I could drink, eat and sneak out. It was indeed very grand. For my first drink I was presented with a clear cocktail made with an alcoholic beverage containing flakes of real gold. The flakes had a relatively large cross-section although being very, very thin. The "golden" liqueur was more viscous than water; if the bottle was shaken, the gold flake was stirred up and then settled quite slowly. I was told by the bartender that it was a commercial product, labeled as being safe for human consumption. I doubt that there was very much gold per bottle, but the effect was interesting.
I did not buy a bottle of this stuff - Spey valley single malt being my preference - but I learned a curious fact later, when talking to a classmate who had gone on to specialize in waste-water treatment. The city where we both lived had a wide river flowing through it, the sources of which were streams and rivers coming down from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. There is enough gold in the river that hobbyist "gold-seekers" work the river banks upstream of the city from spring thaw to autumn freeze-up. Most of what's recovered is fine particulate or "gold dust" - large nuggets are rare. Every year, the river brings more, and it settles out along the way.
The city-owned utility company - clever people that they are - take advantage of this. All city water is drawn from the river. and waste-water and sewage-treatment plants are are all equipped to recover any gold from whatever passes through. My colleague mentioned that the newest treatment plant, brought on-line that spring, had already recovered more than 3 kilos of very high-purity gold. The amount coming from each household is small, but when concentrated and extracted, the monetary return is worthwhile, and helps offset the start-up and operating costs. Households pay for both incoming water supply and waste-water treatment, so "flushing money down the drain" is not just an idle comment.
I made a video where I added gold leaf to whisky.
Thought a 555 would be involved...
that would have added a delay
@@beware_the_moose LOL'd, thank you :-)
This oscillator loop cycle is like: Add glitter, shake, look, talk, add glitter, shake, look, talk, add glitter, shake, look, talk...
Do you have any spare glitter lamp parts? I’d like to see how the mica glitter looks in a glitter lamp when compared to regular glitter, or would the mica be too dense to work?
It settles after a short time.
If anyone wants to google these type of powders, the correct term for this type of 'shimmer' is 'rheoscopic fluid'. Other things that make liquids rheoscopic include fish scales.
BIG CLIVE! Can you do a "lamp projoect" using this the mica glitter? The heat from the circuit could have some cool effects along with some rgb LEDs and what not... love your videos concerning modifications and your projects. I am always AMPED to see you going with the FLOW while staying CURRENT and original. You are a true veteran of the voltages sir. Cheers!
Upvoted for terrible punnage :-)
I used to know someone who worked with glitter for craft stuff, and she bought mica once for something... And, well, everything got sparkles all over them. Good lord the mess that stuff made put even the finest glitter to shame for how pervasive it was. For months, we would move something that was in the office that "The Sparkle Incident' was done in, and there would be a fresh cloud of it from just the stuff that settled on top! I would imagine that dosing out the mica would have been far easier, if you dumped the whole pot into a small bit of liquid. Then you could use an eyedropper, rather than those little scoops. Which, while adorable, I kept imagining would get tipped over and then the desk would forever sparkle.
The question everyone wants to know big clive, how glittery does it look out the back door?
I wonder if there's profit to be had in marketing sparkle farts?
Nothing like watching one of your alco videos with a beer in one hand and a shot of Fireball in the other.... Keep up the good work Clive... Always educational and entertaining!
J2O has some gold glittering flavours... very nice too.
Clive you didn't test to see if the glitter was conductive 🤔
Mica is a good insulator (actually used as a cheap and safe alternative to asbestos in electrical heating equipment), and so is titanium dioxide.
Projecting a light through it might look really awesome!
The things that grizzly Scotsmen get up to in the harsh winters on the Isle of Man...
I imagine that some spectacular fights must start over whose glitter is more glittery.
...
It's like a really bizarre Monty Python sketch really.
But great fun, Cheers Clive.
I was hoping to see you pour yourself a shot of each to try and report on.
Great video again Clive!
But will it mix with Buckfast ? That would make it look classy like .
You've basically made rheoscopic fluid. There are a lot of cool scientific demonstrations and desk toys that use it.
Cool, thank you; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheoscopic_fluid
Would fifty grams be enough to surprise the mother-in-law with a golden shower?
I bet 5 grams would be plenty. 50 would be impossible to stuff into the shower head without painting the entire bathroom gold.
if you have a bar and you want to display those glitter bottles, put them on a heat source. there are those lava lamp type things with water and glitter in them that make a nice effect, i'm pretty sure it would work with this as well
The glitter settles out quickly with gravity.
@@bigclivedotcom but the heat will make them rise up again... if it works in those little glitter lamps, then why shouldn't it work with your beverage?
as a decoration i also wouldn't heat up a bottle of alco-- i mean, adult beverage :)
@@chrisakaschulbus4903 The specific gravities of the glitter and liquid have to be close to get a glitter lamp effect. In this case the mica has a gravity of about 3 times that of water, so it would be hard to make it buoyant. (I tried.)
@@bigclivedotcom "(I tried.)" oh ok, thanks anyway for replying :D
@@chrisakaschulbus4903 I've made a few videos about glitter lamps. As soon as I got these glitters I tried them, and initially there is some movement, but the mica quickly settles at the base.
wow, i was watching some older bigclive videos and clicked on this one on the right side of a older video thought whats the resulkt with the setteling out and then saw ouuhh the video is about 20 minutes old haha
Clear lacquer and mica = awsome spray job.... 😀👍
This is why we all love you Clive 😂
That workbench is gonna be glittery for all eternity now
There is a town in South Africa called Mica, named of course because of the mines there having as main product Mica, in all it's forms. The road to the town goes through some cuttings, which exposes veins of the mineral the town is named for.
You'll be looking fabulous at work tomorrow.
I don't know about the UK but in america we have a cinnamon alcohol called "Goldschlager". It's having gold particles inside.
I don't drink alcohol very often but I really like this one. It's very sweet tho.
If you search my videos for gold you'll find the gold leaf whisky one.
Thanks for the video Clive! I don't drink but this is great to know for making props like potions for videos or DnD.
The mica isn't the issue in cosmetic grade stuff, it's whatever they coat or mix it with to give it color. The white pearl is usually titanium dioxide coated mica.
Actualy i drank a british drink, called Tofka that it has the same glittery effect, and i'm still alive, and is tasty AF.
Sounds like I could drink a litre and then die; Toffee Vodka: ruclips.net/video/lrWUEYs-O_I/видео.html
For a really special effect, cut the vodka with tritium dioxide. Glow in the dark drinks!
Of course, serious effects down the line may ensue...
Interesting to see how much of the mica glitter spread into the air in front of the camera right after adding it to the left bottle.
Even just unscrewing the lid gets the stuff airborne.
Congrats on 555k subscribers 🎉🎉
How can you tell the difference between Bing Crosby and Walt Disney?
Bing sings but Walt Disney
1:39 - This is a bit misleading. Cochineal (E120) is not synthetically produced in relevant quantities (there _are_ some fermentation-based processes to make it, but they are more expensive than extracting it from cactus beetles). What happened was that a lot of food manufacturers replaced it with _different_ (synthetic, "vegan-friendly", and in some cases toxic) dyes. One of them (E124) was sometimes listed as "Cochineal Red A", but is unrelated to cochineal or carminic acid, and usually called "Ponceau 4R".
I redirect my university students that study electronics and mechatronics engineering to your youtube to check out circuit analysis and design.
And yes, these types of videos definitely do not make me regret my decision. :P
555 is the designation of the integrated circuit timer that sells about a billion units per year. Probably one of the most popular ICs of all time... but I'm sure BigClive already knows that.
Want to celebrate 555K subscribers. What can we do with the number 555, what kind of things does the channel cover that might involve the number 555... Oh, of course! Potassium aluminium silicate!
My dogs shampoo shimmers but is more smoother and liquid looking, no tio2 in the contents but there is alkyl dimethyl amine oxide. Whatever causes the shine settles out of solution so it might be possible to remove it. It's also what causes the foaming, as when used without shaking it's like using plain water.
maybe u could make glittery resin lights for a project or glow in the dark pebbles with glitter plus preseco glitter ruins preseco
Welp.... Looking like the next 50 videos will be highlighted in glitter.
How random, best thing I've watched this week.
In my country we have the Rolkem brand of food colouring. The Copper color lists Titanium dioxide, iron oxide, gold, and mica as ingredients. Also makes for interesting drinks...
Glass tube and some resistors generating heat while running LED's and you could use that for a glitter lamp.
I tried. The mica may well float in the air, but it settles in the liquid quickly.
@@bigclivedotcom Do you think say 5W at the bottom and some kind of heat sink at the top would set up enough convection currents in a liquid like water to keep it circulating? Or oil maybe as it has a lower specific heat capacity?
Would this work with Jello shots? Like adding it to vodka and then doing the jello with it?
If the glitter doesn't settle before the Jello sets. So, maybe stick 'em in the freezer immediately after you made 'em?
Might be interesting in those Gillian's diamond lamps or such?
The mica tends to settleb at the base.
Adding something from China into your drink.. I am not sure I would be brave enough for that.
You might be surprised how many food ingredients are from China.
I am certain Clive has done a video similar to this at least twice before, and that's a good thing!
Now I have to go try this.
Reminds me of Goldschlager. That had real gold flake in it, but not nearly as much. edit: sp
It (and Goldwasser) still does. Books of gold leaf are surprisingly cheap.
Interesting video!!!!!!!!
congratulations on 555K subs.
second time I heard bigclive use that XS-Tech quote from Alien Encounter (the non Disney , Disney ride) .. very nice
And the next morning after a whole bottle of unicorn tears, you can't stop shedding real tears from laughing so hard after looking in the toilet bowl!
Needed some LED backlights.
Intresting to watch after I anodize some titanium and shocked me lol
Only time I've used "mica" is replacing microwave waveguide covers and buying big sheets of mica to cut up for them, is it the same mica? never really thought of it as gold coloured unless it's a colouring?
It's a coating that gives the shine and colour.
@@bigclivedotcom yeah, I commented before you showed the other colour listings haha, for some reason making a colour stick to a fine particulate without it clumping didn't compute in my mind
Interesting! NE555 drinks that also insulate you from the inside!
How did you know I was sitting here saying how many scoops you added?
"Let's keep it family friendly"
LOL
Will there be a follow up video of the end results when it comes out again ...
about time for a poundland Halloween decor update.
How is it now Clive? Give it a shake for us!
Both still just as sparkly when shaken.
congratulations Clive !
What a fantastic experiment...... You can consume your results and hopefully not get glitter pee :)
Hopefully you do, then you go do a pee test. Let the lab techs try to figure that out.
Hey Clive. I happened to notice that your lighting changed again at some point in the recent past? I remember about a year ago you changed your LED lighting to a nice soft white warmish, high CRI light and it looked great. See your video on teardown of a faulty Samsung Lithium 18650 cell from back in 2018. The lighting looked so nice.
I'm not saying that I DON'T like your current lighting, but I'm not saying that I do, either...
We have these GE Reveal LED bulbs here in the US. May I recommend you try those out? The Plastic housing looks like a very light purple or pinkish color and when they made them in incandescent the glass was ALSO purple-ish (those were THE best light ever BTW). They filter out some of the yellow wavelengths but still manage to give off a nice soft white light that is NOTHING like the ugly blue "daylight" 5000K + color temperature bulbs. The newer REVEAL bulb housing may not look as purple if at all but I know they used to.
ALL the lightbulbs in my house (I actually counted how many light bulbs I currently have in various fixtures around my house and also outside and I was shocked to realize that there are about 70 bulbs in all the lights in my house) except for about 5 of them are all GE Reveal LED bulbs.
There are other companies making LED bulbs like this now too. I think Philips has something similar now.
If you happen to look at the GE bulbs just remember that it is the REVEAL not the REFRESH or RELAX.
It might be the white balance setting. The auto mode doesn't like the wood background.
Well that's one way to electrically insulate your digestive tract... :P
Though, it does make me wonder if it has the same effect as shitter glitter pills, but I don't really need to know that answer......... :S
Cheaper than gold leaf. I wonder if fish scales would work as food grade?
They also used mica in old fireplace windows since when it gets hot it goes clear as a window