Turning mercury into a weird sponge
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- Опубликовано: 28 мар 2019
- In this video, I continue my amalgam series and I attempt to make the so-called ammonium amalgam. This was done by combining an ammonium salt with sodium amalgam that I made in a previous video.
References:
• Link to 1865 paper: goo.gl/3NVehp
• Sodium amalgam video: • Mixing sodium with mer...
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“I found a paper from 1865.” That’s how you know Nile is going hardcore mode lol
casually whips out a paper older than Canada
Even more impressive to me is that as a layperson, chemistry is basically magic that you're never allowed to do wrong or you die, and he just wings it on this one.
Guy reads about amalgum of ammonia on Wikipedia. That's when I knew he is hardcore
999th likes :)
1K like😈😈😈
I never have any idea what he's talking about. Or the formulas he puts on screen, but I watch anyways because I wanna see funky silver liquid turn into a sponge.
my favorite thing about this channel is when the funky liquids explode
lol i respect that
There! My clone! I’ve located him! I MUST ANNIHILATE HIM!
In this case you're in good company. Nobody knows what this stuff is.
Jiminjiminjiminjiminjimin
NileRed: it's *my* turn to be confused by what i'm doing
this comment is fucking killing me
"Mom said it's *my* turn to be confused, you hog it everyday!" idk oop
@@randomthingthatexists3187 go to your corner
@@bobmcferrin908 understandable have a great day oop
@@randomthingthatexists3187 are you still there?
“I’d like to know what you think”
My brain watching the mercury stuff: “haha mercury go fwoosh”
Looolllllll
dig
Very good technical analysis
LOL
8:46. Look! It’s the void!
Sodium amalgam is a gateway amalgam. Friends don't let friends use sodium amalgam.
It starts with a simple sodium amalgam and you end up doing ammonium amalgam in a dark back alley. Winners don't do amalgams.
Simple Sodium amalgam leads to NaK.
I know its technically an amalgam too, but i'm a rebel, i say NaK is an alloy.
Slippery slope.
@Legion 2633 I hope he means alloy and not amalgum
If any amalgam is a gateway amalgam it's aluminum and mercury haha
"The sodium amalgam can be used as a gateway to other amalgams"
Sodium. Not even once
Reading that in Sheev Palpatine's voice
Gold
@@digitalsuicide0416 ok
@@digitalsuicide0416 Is that a pun?
@@ProfessionalBugLover your comment history is cringey as shit
*Nile doesn’t know what to do with something*
“So anyway I started blasting”
Nile always packing heat
9:03 “Who do I listen to... gravity, or surface tension?”
This part actually looks so weird. Like a muscle almost
It looks like it’s gonna sneeze
Using a paper from the 1800's do conduct an experiment must be quite an interesting experience! Very cool
'To test the purity of your sample, simply lick it, a suitable one will have a vaguely sharp taste. A cigarette is recommended afterwards to cleanse the palate.'
Many of these older publications have things in them that are unknown to many today. In the past many used to experiment more than people do today, and learning from experimenting is one of the few ways to get to know the real world. As such many new and wonderful things have been found among many mistakes along the way, and if someone never made a mistake they have never done anything productive. As things not turning out as planned and then correcting to make things work is how to get anything to work correctly, as nothing is completely right the first time.
@@Paul-gz5dp Citation needed
@@Invictus_Mithra Need a reference when talking about historical books? My sources are my collections and what I have found on Archive.org and many other sites as well.
@@Paul-gz5dpBro, do you think people don't reference historical books? The main thing that irked me was when you said "In the past many used to experiment more than people do today..." that's such a dubious statement and it does need a source lol. Are you in modern academia?
8:51- showing off your face like that. smh your vanity clearly has no bounds
David Shelly lmao you must brace yourself to embrace yourself.
Hey, he's sexy! 😍
Yo wtf why are your safety googles down Nile
plz can help me preparation of Hg(NH2)Cl
@@Tower0fHeaven he's using his safety squints it's cool
Neutral Radical, "I have no strong feelings one way or the other, and will fight to the death for them"
Neutral President: "I have no strong feelings one way or the other."
Also, It reminds me of the brain goop things that the flame guys turn into in Heart of Darkness.
This guy.
I adore that in order to research this experiment he had to go all the way back to 1865 to find another chemist who was like “...what if I added mercury?”
One hundred and twenty three thumbs
😂
It was Nile in a past life, clearly
@@asamlos
I think you mean current life. Im convinced that nile is some kind of alchemist with some life giving serum
I’m a chem major and everytime I watch your videos I feel like I haven’t learned enough.
Same lmao
Then you could learn from Nile :>
not being cocky or a dickhead, but I’m genuinely curious as to how, I understand a lot of this and I just graduated highschool, is it because uni chem focuses on more practical applications ?
@@camerongiles1420 this is not meant to be an insult at all and i'm glad you got a good chemistry education in high school, but there's this messed up thing that happens when you really get deep into a subject where the further you go the more aware you become of how much more there is to learn
@@gentrelane That was pretty smooth explaining Dunning Kruger the way that doesn't make the other person feel bad. ;P
Excellent video and rare footage!
о, плотный салам всем нашим
Whoa, it's the русский man
@@Malik-td2ft lmao
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Hello there. Love your videos
“Turning mercury into weird stuff” is now a great series
Now for Bismuth... Fluck Yeah !
2:23 “now, as far as I know, what’s going on here isn’t really known”
When you have to write a paper on something and you have to turn 100 words into 1000 words
Now, based on the thousands of articles that I've read and browsed and reviewed, what i believe to have most likely found is the following, that the mechanism of action does not yet seem to be known by mankind and this could be an area of very interesting further research.
How am i doing? Haha. He could've just said "i dunno"
@@SoulDelSol if he said he didn't know, that would mean he just didn't know, what he said is that he knew that no one knew about that
@@Noname-67 "we dunno"
Mercury: Amalgamation sounds like a metal album
Connor Foley honestly sounds like it would be an awesome prog metal album
Bro what kind of fukcing pun god
Freddie Mercurys solo album
I think it is...
I think it sounds like an anime
Are you considering putting images of the amalgam into the wikimedia commons?
bump
Erin Cobb great great idea
Your profile pic is ironic right ?
Yeah please do it
@@sigmamale4147 Your profile pic is ironic right? It seems you got stuck in 2012
"it generated a lot of heat"
Translation: It exploded
No, it generated a lot of heat.
I know it's just a shitpost but explosions can be generated without heat, they're entirely different phenomena
@@ppppppqqqppp Exactly.
@@ppppppqqqppp so it did both.
@@frankiefrankie1120 yes
I’ve watched all seasons of this guy and never have a clue on what anything he’s talking about. Hes just the perfect voice to have on to sleep to
The amalgam series is so interesting!!
By the way, you should consider synthesizing tyrian purple (6,6'-dibromoindigo), the most expensive pigment in history!
@@Baitrix1 I don't think they make dye from that
@@Baitrix1 yea you're right
There is uranium oxide glass made in the 30's and 40's you can still find it antique shops and the glass has fluorescent green glow under ultraviolet light and some ceramic glazes was made with uranium.
@@mumintrollable Used to have a shelf of uranium glass with a blacklight above it. Was super cool.
Baitrix Heh, I remember being *very* confused as a kid when I found out that Marie Curie had isolated radium from „pitchblende“ tailings, i.e. radioactive waste she could obtain for free from the Austro-Hungarian uranium mines in Bohemia.
After all, it seemed strange that people had already been running major uranium mining operations long before the discovery of nuclear fission, and before they even knew about uranium‘s radioactive properties.
It took me years to realize that uranium had already been used to make yellow glazes and translucent green glass throughout the 1800‘s.
That said, I‘m not even sure if uranium was ever considered a particularly expensive pigment back in the day. Atleast by the time the early 20th century rolled around, yellowcake uranium was apparently considered a less valuable byproduct of the production of radium and vanadium.
He has made the beginning of the T-1000
I am surprised all of the comments are not this comment
Thought the same thing.
hehehe
Came here to say the same thing.
Thanks for helping the robot overlords destroy us Nilered.
Tbh this very similar to Polly alloy
13:26 It reminded me of those toys that grow in water
me: yes but with more tOxiC fUmEs
The amalgam holds shape @ 12:40 because you effectively "tempered" the alloy, crystallizing enough of it to lock it's shape. I'm not sure, but I think it's because of the remaining sodium in the solution that it allows this
Thanks rainbow dash
Yeah, I imagined the heat while it was a sponge is what the difference is. The heat forced a rapid expulsion of the ammonium chloride from the mercury before it has time to coalesce again. And likely briefly crystalizes it with the high energy, at least to an amorphous solid extent.
God I just want to put that in my mouth and chew on it
@8:50 Busted. Glasses on forehead aren't as efficient as in front of your eyes Nile
You must not be near-sighted 😘
Lol
I think he might also wear them as a precaution. Like in the lab safety video he talked about how glasses offer minor protection.
Remember, it's not safety first-it's stupidity last
little do you know is that it actually improves ir vision!!!
Love all your videos 😍😍 I’m currently doing a chemistry degree & you were a big influence to deciding to do it! Keep doing what you’re doing,
I was recently accepted to UCSB for pre chem, and I was inspired by this guy, and Cody's lab!
@@Splarff also NurdRage and DougsLab are good channels
@@justADeni I'll check them out
Glaedr_4_life :/ thumbs up half for doing something great that I wish I could do and learning more chemistry than needed to finish high school (no matter how much I loved it) because of @NileRed and half for the name! One of the strongest dragons we know of!!
@@jonathonstoner33 youre like the only one who has ever recognized the name 👌👌 best book series ever!!
The strangest thing is I might have a perspective to this. It could be a similar effect that yeast has in bread where it consumes sugar and lets off gas. The difference between the first one and second one is proofing (not sure what you would call it in chemistry) where since your giving the Mercury time to react with the ammonia the ammonia starts to replace the sodium allowing it to permeate the surface which them easily lets the hydrochloric acid quickly penetrate and react inside the mercury liquid as well as on the surface
I literally never had chemistry in school and I ended up failing a biology course because it was mainly chemistry for that term, but your videos give me hope that it's actually something I could learn if I put my time into it. You explain everything so well even someone like me, with no clue whats happening, can follow you!
12:30 ohh man that would be awesome to sculpt with, if it stayed at that state
Just need to find another polyatomic "metal" that doesn't want to fall apart so easily, I suppose.
I got anxious when he was poking it. All I could think about was "what if there waa mercury still?!" Like ahhh.
That is what dental Mercury is , Cody's lab did a video on it
@@h.r.9563 What if there was? Mercury isn't some evil curse that slowly consumes all things. It's a poisonous liquid metal. Don't eat it, don't touch it with bare skin, and you're never in any danger.
Just wanted to know condition of your lead crystals(tree of saturn).
Has been over a year
Has been over 2 years-
Bruh this comment was 2 years ago
whaT HAPPENS AT 4 YEARS
He did make a video on it, but I'm having trouble finding it. I think it was titled as growing metal crystals.
Its funny he says whats going on here isn't really known: (then proceeds to explain most likely what literally is happening)
well hes just kinda guessing
Yes, but it is what many people think is happening
Known and believed are different words for a reason. They mean different things. Once you figure that out you can try again
10:30 "and when I added a whole bunch, it murdered it"
I think the answer to 12:36 is that you heated the material which gave it enough energy to form a more stable crystal structure. When you keep heating it, it doesn't work because the crystal structure will not be fully formed and it will still be in a "melted" state. But because you cooled it the crystal was stable enough to last for a while.
he bugged the thing out
Basically tempering the amalgam?
I gotta say how awesome it is, that you found an obscure substance and experiment from the 1800's, which had almost faded into oblivion due to a lack of understanding, and managed to resurrect it into 21st century consciousness. Well done!!
"Thats what I said, sodium chloride!"
Uh. Dude? That would be salt
Lol
@KimuTone *You 're supposted to push the buttons with the pictures food of on them*
This is how I feel like I sound to my friends when I say "carbohydrate," and they say "Speak English-"
Carbonated Water oh man that hurt to read. I’m sorry
that fucking stings
Came here for the chemistry. Stayed for the relaxing voice and cute face reflected in the mercury drop. ❤️
Oh damn, someone's got a crush
*Insert joke about science and romance here*
Chemistry is in the air (I'm technically not wrong because chemical reactions are happening constantly in Earth's atmosphere)
no stanning
at this point same
I have two words for you
1:Metal
2:Play-doh
1 forbidden
2 metal
3 play dough
That’s 3
@@SoulTouchMusic93 that’s 4
@HalfaheartYT what do you mean
@HalfaheartYT “play dough” = 2 words
Can we try the following experiment:
In liquid ammonia add a cathode of mercury and an anode of platinum. Pass a current through the solution and see if the cathode turns into this ammonia amalgam.
I want to see this
what is the platinum supposed to do?
@@theEtch be sufficiently inert ?
Hey nileRed, thank you so so much for this channel. I am currently enrolled in a high school chemistry class, and i might not know what most of this is, it is really interesting and what some might call “fun” for me. These small tidbits and facts are incredibly interesting, and i am always talking to my chemistry teacher about this kind of stuff. Thanks!!
The reason it doesn't work with the nitrate might be because of the strong oxidising nature of nitrate ions. I imagine NH4 radicals would be very good reducing agents and the nitrate ions might just oxidise them as soon as they are formed. Ammonium nitrate in itself decomposes on heating to make H2O and N2O as the NO3- ions oxidise the NH4+ ions. You could try adding ammonium nitrite instead and seeing if any nitrogen gas gets evolved. All in all an amazing video. Looked forward to it since that Instagram post. 🙌
plz can help me preparation of Hg(NH2)Cl
Moo Moo Yeah, even plain old ammonium nitrate will comproportionate to form nitrous oxide upon slow heating, and N2 and O2 when exploding.
And I would expect NH4 radicals to be *much* more reactive in redox reactions than NH4+ cations.
@@pemuelmichaelis8961 Wow. Thanks! I didn't know that 😁. And yes, NH4 radicals must be very good at reducing but the problem with my theory is that why does ammonium sulphate work in that case. Sulphate ions are weakly oxidising and they should oxidise NH4 radicals quite easily. NileRed says that only ammonium nitrate caused a problem. Can you think of a reason for that? Maybe it has something to do with the solubility of HgSO4 and HgNO3. Hg might interfere with the reaction and cause only the sulphate ions to precipitate. I really don't know, I'm still in high school 😅.
@@user-dy9ut5nf5m I don't know about Hg(NH2)Cl but I think Nessler's reagent (K2HgI4) reacts with ammonia to make Hg(NH2)I. This then reacts with water to make something called iodide of Millon's base. I can't type the structure of that over here although it's just two mercury atoms bridged by one -O- bond and one -(NH2+)- bond.
@@moomoo2214 Dear Moo, I suspect that in evaluating the sulfate ion kinetic considerations are strongly relevant beside the mere reduction potentials. However, it would interesting to test some quaternary ammonium compounds. They should solve many difficulties.
That aluminum snake at the start looked a lot like my reaction to the notification that there was a new Nile Red video
@@dylankhandaker8988 true
@@dylankhandaker8988 I know I sure did. He's a QTπ!
mannys9130 good joke though I do agree
It reminded me of my crotch in the morning
Morning boners are a regular for me, but boy are they annoying
You went poo in your pants?
"As far as I know, no one knows what's going on"
I really love how you put everything in practice! Really interesting series!
Mercury is probably the weirdest element out there
Every other metal at room temp: nothing
Mercury: makes weird fucking amalgams that nobody understands
@c6amp Gallium?
Edit: No.
@c6amp Thank you.
12:35 Imagine a non-toxic handable metal that traps gas acting like a malleable clay until it airs out retaining the shape you give it.
8:37 Now that, that was cool
This reminds me of the Incredibles scene where he tries to escape but those black balls attach to him and expand
I know you screamed "it's alive!!!" at least once filming this reaction
WOW! that was so beautiful when you were paying with it with your hands. truly one of your most visually appealing videos
Hi! I’am doing an essay about mercury for school. You videos are helping me a lot. Thank you and carry on with this great series!
When you said it was soft, had very little resistance but kept its shape, I immediately thought of clay, specifically the colored kind you buy at craft stores and dry it in a conventional oven!
I used to play with clay all the time and they way you described it sounds exactly like that!
I also think the final test, with the solid amalgam, looked the coolest since it retained a lot of the original shape/structure. It also expressed really interesting properties, that the other tests lacked.
I love your NileRed mug.
Keep up the good work.
8:46
when u accidentally turn on your front camera
Almost through with all the older videos. Binge watching anything for the first time!That's the price for being late and discovering Nile's channel a few days ago...
Here's to your amazing channel! There's so many things I like about your channel:
You do a lot of interesting chemistry that isn't just explosions or gimmicks
You explain everything that's going on to the best of your ability
You don't pretend to know everything and do a lot of your experiments on a 'trial and error' basis
You look at bits of chemistry that aren't as well-known or studied
Keep up the good work :)
12:50
You created a mercury playdoh that I can see being used as an expensive 3D printer filament for PCBs. It looks fun to squish.
3d printer filament that only lasts for a few minutes?
I'm so in love with all the blue that is created!!! sooo cool!
This is a really cool reaction. I'd love to see it on a bigger scale.
been watching a ton of your videos recently (even more than usual), i was craving a new video!!!! thank you !!
enjoy! :)
Oddly the same, I’ve binged through over the last two weeks and laughed when I saw he posted a video, literally thought of that the night before he posted this.
Please do osmium and mercury amalgam there is no documentation on it
Osmium is really expensive so i dont think we would do it
Alexandru Postole ya osmium is quite expensive so I highly doubt he’ll be doing it anytime soon
Wasn't mercury used to make osmium alloy pen nibs? I don't have a link but I remember somebody back in the fountain pen era used mercury to form an alloy with osmium and iridium that could be melted and machined.
@@pixelpatter01 Osmium and iridium nibs are still made today, I dunno what the manufacturing process is though.
That would be ridiculously poisonous.
amazing video. Love your channel man! It's nice to have a scientific chemistry channel that is fun, explorative, and inquisitive.
His channels are amazing I love how fun it is to watch his videos his channels makes me want to learn more about our planets properties and what it can do and provide
9:50 one of the coolest things I’ve seen
Hey dude. Just wanted to thank you for my 7.5/10 in chemestry. I was never good at it, but your videos help me to retain stuff better!
Seeing the amalgam when it was "frozen" reminded me a lot of something you use for modeling, the way it holds its shape.
Wow! The test without water at 9:50 could be the coolest thing I have ever seen.
12:50 Looks like a silver toxic blue tack
bruh my mom walked in at the beginning and lowkey thought I was watching videos of bongs
If I actually end up having a chemistry job, I might be able to do something with this. Thanks for all the cool experiments and explanations
This is awesome... thanks for sharing. Mercury is a really interesting element to study, has so many properties
2:20 "as far as I know, what's going on here isn't really known" did he just work his way around saying he doesn't know what's happening?
Watching your videos always reminds me of how much I loved chemistry, it's such a fascinating subject.
Ive never seen acid look "smokey" before. Never ever, awesome experiment nile really enjoying your content
12:20 like the texture of almost below room temperature play-doh
12:15 I think you just just made the start of a T-1000.
Very pretty in 1080p60! I really enjoy your videos quality, physically and non-physically! You are paced perfect and have great filming skills. Your voice is also nice.
I’m the best possible way, your videos help me fall asleep. Sleeping is really difficult for me but your videos are relaxing, interesting, and overall just peaceful. I also really enjoy your content when I’m not trying to sleep but I really treasure it because of how much it helps me. Just thanks I guess.
I think you would have been a great teacher for me back in high school for chemistry. I hate chemistry, but you make it look like magic.
8:52 hey you should be wearing eye protection
Hey I know you probably don’t read comments but I love your channel and enthusiasm for chemistry. I’m no chemist but you’ve inspired interest in a previously uninteresting subject for me. Thank you!!!!
I'm gonna be honest, the most impressive part about this video to me was the fact that you based it off of a paper from 1865.
"The sodium amalgam can be used as a gateway to other amalgams some consider...unnatural."
Love the science video's man!!! Keep it up!!!
1:17
Hardcore mode
ON
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Watching nilered is like watching someone make minecraft enchantments in real life and i really life it
I would love to have a t-shirt with the cobra on it ! Keep it up , love your vids.
When you were playing around with it around 12 minutes in i honestly thought it looked like some kind of Metallic silly putty
I recon this is one of your coolest underrated videos!
I searched up ammonium amalgam in google images for a project I'm doing for school and screenshots from your video are the only ones available. As a faithful subscriber for many years, I thank thee.
12:17 ah I see, it's okay to be amazed on your first time 😏
12:10 d- did you just make metal play-doh????
Nyle: *uses paper from 1865*
*Ah yes, the *classics**
12:30
It has similar properties as cold chocolate pudding
12:15 this is amazing
2:12 WHAT THE HELL CHEMISTRY IS SO COOL
Please keep this series going
Holy moly.. this is cool. especially the suspended state! My guess is that you were stalling the decay of the amalgam by flooding it with the components it was trying to dissipate. (Heat and the solution)