“We’ve got an 80-90% yield already and all I’ve done is weigh out one reagent.” That made me lose it, good stuff hahaha. As a clumsy chemist I can relate to that.
@@kenny4427 well everywhere at the moment is currently a weekend still. I am particularly loving this weekend. A Melbourne resident myself. A weekend hasn’t felt this good in ages I am sure there will be an increase in the nose beer uptake this weekend around Melbourne
You have appeased the yellow chem gods with this video. Chasing/targetting yellow chemstry while working with extremely hazardous gases. May this be the “sacrifice” that enables your future work to succeed.
@@ExtractionsAndIre if the above fails you, you must move to sacrificing a yellow plushie. I think a Lala teletubby doll lit on fire would make great a sacrifice and content.
This has to be one of the most cursed chemistry videos on RUclips. Almost every part of it, from using CCl4 to producing ozone from a homebuildt ozone generator housed in a plastic box (presumably as to not electrocute people via wet spills...). Not to mention the airborne tetravalent heavy metal complexes. My lab safety manual had an aneurysm followed by spontaneous combustion after witnessing that! Solid 8/10 I am thoroughly spooked and my jimmes are properly rustled.
I went back to grade 12 chemistry and biology because of your channel, working my way up to a college level right now. Mostly because I hadn't done chemistry in 8 years and wanted to at least somewhat understand what you're doing. Thinking about going into biotech as a career path, seems like a lot of jobs in the field and I couldn't decide what to do with my life.
and yet his hands are covered in some nondescript brown powder throughout almost the entire episode. Gloves are not an impenetrable barrier, and he's spreading chemicals everywhere.
@@youtube.commentator you’re really sitting in a comment section of a RUclips video telling someone they lost because they didn’t have first comment on a RUclips video. Seems to me like your ass is a bit chapped over something too
I AM STILL WAITING FOR CALCIUM FROM BONES , THIS IS YOUR REMINDER. IF YOU START NOW. BY OCTOBER 31 2021 WE MAY HAVE A VIDEO. PLEASE TO THE GODS OF NON YELLOW CHRMISTRY 💛 MAY WE HAVE OUR BONEY VIDEO!
There is a fine line between spooky and horrifying, and fluorine crosses that line before it's had its morning coffee. After the first cup it goes on to cross the line into nightmare inducing, mostly just out of habit. At about lunch it gangs up with it's heinous brother chlorine to form chlorinetriflouride and we're now well and truly into the territory of hypergolic black magic of mortal soul banishment.
I used Osmium Tetroxide frequently to give a heavy metal contrast in keratin samples, sectioned for the electron microscope. I do remember having quite a few very dark floaters in my eyes for some years afterwards!
11:15 I was like "Oh god, change your gloves, change your gloves, pleeeease" (But I trust that you know what you're doing, much more so than I. Cool video!)
I was described as a "bucket chemist" by my teacher when I was studying "A" level chemistry at school. There are only four varieties of chemistry worth doing as far as I'm concerned: 1, Pretty colours 2, Nasty smells 3, Explosions and 4, Poisons. This one ticks boxes 1 and 4.
When I was young and innocent I wondered whether ruthenium might make good jewelry. Then I learned more about ruthenium... probably okay as metal, but I’d still worry.
I work with OsO4 in the lab with some frequency. Of all the things I work with, including life-threatening viruses, other compounds, and other fun things, OsO4 is definitely the material I have the greatest respect for. . . . . Why do I smell garlic and why did everything just go black?
Thanks for the spooky video! For a better print put a piece of glass with a fingerprint in a small container along with some superglue put onto a cotton ball or paper towel. Will work a lot better
If you want something scary that's toxic, does some weird stuff, and is yellow, you could've just filled a jam jar with chlorine gas and poked a hole in the lid.
I remember that you could buy bottles of Carbon Tetrachloride as a dry cleaning agent when I was a school boy chemist. More scary was that in the early 1980s I was a computer operations manager working on mainframes, one day the computer centre's air conditioning (AC) system sprang a significant leak which required some pipework replacing; I vaguely recall a mild panic when the AC engineer started brazing copper pipe joints full of a refrigerant based on CCl4, there was a worry he was filling the machine room with phosgene!
Well, shit. I certainly wouldn't even solder or braze NEAR vapors for halogenated hydrocarbons. Hope there was some good ventilation. Then again, it was the 1980s, and burning holes in the ozone was still somewhat cool. So I guess what's important is you didn't learn what phosgene smelled like. lol
I have to say, short of working with hypergolic rocket propellants which are basically 50 shades of death that would kill you at least 7 ways before you hit the ground, this was probably one of the more dangerous things you could do.
A round of applause good sir. Not every chemist needs a million dollar lab set up to make great chemistry videos. I can appreciate the resourcefulness.
Ay man, I just watched the video. You asked to be reminded in 8 months to extract calcium from bones to make a spooky video for Halloween. You have been reminded.
Ruthenium Tetroxide is about 2.5 times heavier than air. Thats why the fingerprint on the test tube didnt really get visible, but the one on the outside of the beaker did. Because the ruthenium tetroxide flowed over the beaker and coated the finger print on the outside of the beaker since its heavier than air.
I love how all textbooks cite the rxn of osmium tetroxide with allkenes to perform oxidative cleavage and diol formation, but like.....I don’t know of ANY lab crazy enough to ever purchase and actually use osmium tetroxide, it is a DEADLY, DEADLY reagent. I’m scared of it, and I have worked with fluoroantimonic acid, and cyanogen bromide
Dude, you’re so polite and quiet and kind the comments and that is SUCH a departure from your classic explosions and fire content, it’s not bad it’s just so so jarring to go from “damnit Davy I built you a fucking shrine!” To “Its vixon so I hope that’s ok!}
Be afraid! 2Ru + 6NaOCl + 4NaOH -> 2Na2RuO3 + 6NaCl + 2H2O + O2 2Ru + 7NaOCl + 4NaOH -> 2Na2RuO4 + 7NaCl + H2O + O2 (having to add O2 to both for them to balance feels like it means i did this wrong, and i don't remember high school all that well, but also all the NaOCls have to balance with the NaCls, meaning the Nas from the NaOH all have to go to the Na2RuO3, for which the O's seemed to all come from the NaOCl's and I am just now realizing I am not in the right state of mind for this even so I give up) Be very afraid!
@@ExtractionsAndIre My other option was...adding protons as a reagent, which...you're reacting hydroxide with hypochlorite, so, no? unless they're being pulled out of that nasty promiscuous amphoteric water or something it's 2 am here, i should be in bed but these are fun videos and my gf likes it when i do a kiwi accent *must learn from internet*
I watch one damn NileRed video and after about 4 and a half hours, 3 or 4 different channels, and a couple puffs of the cheba, it's turned out to be an interesting evening of watching the wonderful world of molecules go haywire at the hands of educated and intelligent people who know what they are doing enough to share this and be alive enough to put out the next one :) Cheers from Denver.
I did an oxidation of - I don't remember what - but it was using catalytic amounts of ruthenium chloride with sodium periodate to generate the tetraoxide in situ. I don't remember other details but I was evaporating the mixture off and the solvent at this stage was either triethylamine or diisopropylethylamine. As I watched it condensing on the coil, I saw black material also condensing on the coil and collecting in the receiver. I later reasoned that I must have been looking at ruthenium dioxide. How was it getting there? Evaporation of the tetraoxide and its reaction with the amine to make the black solid. I then realized that this was extremely dangerous - vapors of ruthenium tetraoxide and organic solvents are an explosive mixture. I addded some bisulfite to ensure no oxidant remained. I got away with it, but that was pretty scary.
Ozone generator... that reminds me of when my radio teacher turns on the *literal Tesla coil* he keeps in the classroom for new students, no safety gear or anything, just stand back and hope to dear god nothing catches fire.
What do you do with the bit of carbon tet you used? Can you reuse it or does it have to be disposed of? Can you use sodium metal or sodium hydroxide to strip off a chlorine atom? Or like electrochemical reduction under hydrogen gas maybe?
Cyanoacrylates are way cheaper in bulk for fingerprint fuming, almost foolproof too, and difficult to destroy once the vapour deposition has taken to the oils on the surface.
I've heard RuO4 can replace ozonolysis in certain cases, i.e. celavage of C=C bond to yield C=O bonds and RuO2, that can be recycled in the reaction mixture to RuO4 with a suitable oxidiser.
“We’ve got an 80-90% yield already and all I’ve done is weigh out one reagent.” That made me lose it, good stuff hahaha. As a clumsy chemist I can relate to that.
his sense of humor is just hnnng 👌🏼 10/10
I was watching you measure that out and thinking "it's going to blow away"... Nope, you were Mr. Thumbs and dropped it everywhere. Hilarious
that got me as well :D
Ayye it’s you. Love your deuterium fuser.
1:45 "a blank table and some powder. Is not the weekend..." What fine taste sir...
Aka the nose beers
@@kenny4427 well everywhere at the moment is currently a weekend still. I am particularly loving this weekend. A Melbourne resident myself. A weekend hasn’t felt this good in ages
I am sure there will be an increase in the nose beer uptake this weekend around Melbourne
@@DanielWillems1995 with all you idiots running around the shops with no mask and no social distance I wouldn't get to used to being outside.
@@ToxicMrSmith Yeh I am keeping my mid-long term expectations low.
@@DanielWillems1995 lmao
You have appeased the yellow chem gods with this video. Chasing/targetting yellow chemstry while working with extremely hazardous gases. May this be the “sacrifice” that enables your future work to succeed.
I'm happy to believe that!
* Happy believer noises *
@@ExtractionsAndIre if the above fails you, you must move to sacrificing a yellow plushie. I think a Lala teletubby doll lit on fire would make great a sacrifice and content.
More *_yellow_* for the *_yellow_* god!
@@Tomartyr *Glass* for the *Glassthrone!*
This has to be one of the most cursed chemistry videos on RUclips. Almost every part of it, from using CCl4 to producing ozone from a homebuildt ozone generator housed in a plastic box (presumably as to not electrocute people via wet spills...).
Not to mention the airborne tetravalent heavy metal complexes. My lab safety manual had an aneurysm followed by spontaneous combustion after witnessing that!
Solid 8/10 I am thoroughly spooked and my jimmes are properly rustled.
You know it's gonna be good when "tetroxide" is in the name
osmium
Nitrogen
Xenon
enriched xenon hexafluoronaquadate
@@русланбуйло-ъ8т IS THAT A GREG REFERENCE
"Reminds me in 8 month" my guy remembering corpse decaying into a squeleton take about this long
That’s what I thought too.
squeleton... wtf
Are you ok
@@BIindsid3 "I don't know nufink about no squellingtons" - Hot Fuzz
3 months to go
I truly appreciate your willingness to potentially die for small interesting chemistry projects, it's truly inspirational
+
Not all heroes wear capes... Some wear lab coats...
I went back to grade 12 chemistry and biology because of your channel, working my way up to a college level right now. Mostly because I hadn't done chemistry in 8 years and wanted to at least somewhat understand what you're doing.
Thinking about going into biotech as a career path, seems like a lot of jobs in the field and I couldn't decide what to do with my life.
Hey thats cool! Biotech is a pretty big growing industry, seems like a cool place to get a job yeah, good luck!
This is awesome. I'm a chemist in the US, how'd your studies go?
"small scale chemistry is not my forte"
Neither is large scale bud. xD
.....medium scale?
@@ExtractionsAndIre yes :D
@@ExtractionsAndIre sure :p
low yield chemistry for high yield explosives
@@ExtractionsAndIre Yellow scale chemistry?
Here's your 8 month reminder about the calcium from bones extraction
It's been 8 months, this is a reminder to extract calcium from bones.
Tom mentioned on the safety third podcast that he's been messing with bones, I think it's happening!
@@robmckennie4203 It was posted 3 hours ago!!
ITS HAPPENED!!!
Well... an attempt has been made. It turned out that he could extract tar from bones. I suppose that's scary too somehow...
It's been 8 months since your 8 month comment
i dont want to see you die but god damn your way of describing chemicals is the reason i come to this channel, stay safe man
You mean a flowing source of oxygen and open arc are bad?
and yet his hands are covered in some nondescript brown powder throughout almost the entire episode. Gloves are not an impenetrable barrier, and he's spreading chemicals everywhere.
@@TheCaphits don't worry it's just cheeto dust he just has to lick it off his fingers
gotta love seeing an upload 26 seconds after it was posted
Stop being sad that you aren't first
@@youtube.commentator never said I was I actually think those people are insufferable
@@professionallurker2624 second place is first loser
@@youtube.commentator you’re really sitting in a comment section of a RUclips video telling someone they lost because they didn’t have first comment on a RUclips video. Seems to me like your ass is a bit chapped over something too
@@professionallurker2624 no reason to be sour mate
I just had a moment of "Why is someone posting a video at 1 in the morning?", and then I remembered time zones exist.
Me: Oh, why is he posting at 6 am? Same story...
1am is the proper time for my videos I think
@@ExtractionsAndIre i am enjoying your video at 3:30 am
@@ExtractionsAndIre especially with the weekend powders
@@ExtractionsAndIre I'm watching this at 1am
I AM STILL WAITING FOR CALCIUM FROM BONES , THIS IS YOUR REMINDER. IF YOU START NOW. BY OCTOBER 31 2021 WE MAY HAVE A VIDEO.
PLEASE TO THE GODS OF NON YELLOW CHRMISTRY 💛 MAY WE HAVE OUR BONEY VIDEO!
0:55 Personally I think spooky chemistry content only needs one element: Fluorine.
Hydrofluoric Acid, my man… hells yeah…
There is a fine line between spooky and horrifying, and fluorine crosses that line before it's had its morning coffee. After the first cup it goes on to cross the line into nightmare inducing, mostly just out of habit. At about lunch it gangs up with it's heinous brother chlorine to form chlorinetriflouride and we're now well and truly into the territory of hypergolic black magic of mortal soul banishment.
@@andersjjensen still less spooky than knowing there’s a living, breathing, wet skeleton inside you at all times just waiting for its chance
I really do believe this is the best content on youtube. Thanks for rekindling my interest in chemistry
I used Osmium Tetroxide frequently to give a heavy metal contrast in keratin samples, sectioned for the electron microscope. I do remember having quite a few very dark floaters in my eyes for some years afterwards!
that is utterly terrifying, thanks for sharing!
"It's not just gonna be a blank table and some powder, it's not the weekend." *Proceeds to also bring out the milligram scale*
11:15 I was like "Oh god, change your gloves, change your gloves, pleeeease"
(But I trust that you know what you're doing, much more so than I. Cool video!)
"Spooky action at a distance" - wasn't that how Einstein described quantum entanglement?
Agent Scully: Where did Agent Mulder go with my ruthenium sample?
Mulder: Spooky action at a distance, Agent Scully.
If your career as a chemist ever goes down the drain you could be a comedian you crack me up every time man
NOOOOOOOOO Tom I am coming back from the future to tell you not to extract the tar from bones.
I was described as a "bucket chemist" by my teacher when I was studying "A" level chemistry at school. There are only four varieties of chemistry worth doing as far as I'm concerned: 1, Pretty colours 2, Nasty smells 3, Explosions and 4, Poisons. This one ticks boxes 1 and 4.
I'm at the end now. That's pretty bloody spooky. You're a genius in developing them the way you did.
A blank table and some powder, is not the weekend.
A man of culture
Ozone and RuO4? Real poison hours I guess. Also CCl4 so rip liver, very spooky
I used to recreationally inhale carbon-T and my liver is still fine.
@@edgeeffect I'm sure there are lots of researchers who would love to study your genome 😆
"70% of the chemists of the old lived to be 70 years old, and 30% of chemists made all the discoveries. The rest switched profession."
When I was young and innocent I wondered whether ruthenium might make good jewelry. Then I learned more about ruthenium... probably okay as metal, but I’d still worry.
11:30 time to steal your fingerprints
oh no
Damnit I love how you fear the colour “yellow”. Peeing must scare the crap out of you every morning!
I work with OsO4 in the lab with some frequency. Of all the things I work with, including life-threatening viruses, other compounds, and other fun things, OsO4 is definitely the material I have the greatest respect for.
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Why do I smell garlic and why did everything just go black?
Cool but scary!
Thanks for the spooky video! For a better print put a piece of glass with a fingerprint in a small container along with some superglue put onto a cotton ball or paper towel. Will work a lot better
This was amazing 🤩 the fact that your ozone generator kept working by making a huge arc made me laugh out loud 🤣
Well, it was still making ozone, just not where it was needed.
If you want something scary that's toxic, does some weird stuff, and is yellow, you could've just filled a jam jar with chlorine gas and poked a hole in the lid.
How does the chlorine react in that situation?
@@robduxk2555
With your lungs? /s
@@robduxk2555 it would be the product of some reaction. Chuck the reactants in, shut the lid, poke a hole and run.
Without the hole in the lid, it's even more scary!
This video was so spooky that it made yellow chemistry run down my pant leg and pool in my shoes
I remember that you could buy bottles of Carbon Tetrachloride as a dry cleaning agent when I was a school boy chemist. More scary was that in the early 1980s I was a computer operations manager working on mainframes, one day the computer centre's air conditioning (AC) system sprang a significant leak which required some pipework replacing; I vaguely recall a mild panic when the AC engineer started brazing copper pipe joints full of a refrigerant based on CCl4, there was a worry he was filling the machine room with phosgene!
Well, shit. I certainly wouldn't even solder or braze NEAR vapors for halogenated hydrocarbons. Hope there was some good ventilation. Then again, it was the 1980s, and burning holes in the ozone was still somewhat cool. So I guess what's important is you didn't learn what phosgene smelled like. lol
@@theLuigiFan0007Productions it smells like freshly cut grass.
2:28 that's a great start - put this in your portfolia, you'll get hired in no time!
2 days since the vid- is this you tom? Or is this just a extractions and ire's greatest hits compilation?
...why isn't it me?
It is a Mr. Cummingstrong
@@ExtractionsAndIre that's the ultimate question.
Ah yes RuO4, O3 and a big ass purple arc, this is indeed spooky
Unrelated, but I like your profile pic!
This made me wonder if you can make photographic prints from ruthenium somehow, i.e. ruthenotype ;)
I have never ever heard about such reaction during graduation. But goddamn, do I love the possibility of dying a horrible death by chemicals.
Don’t know if I should excited or concerned with that comment
The most visuallty appealing part of that for me was watching that emulsion of carbon tet break after shaking
I have to say, short of working with hypergolic rocket propellants which are basically 50 shades of death that would kill you at least 7 ways before you hit the ground, this was probably one of the more dangerous things you could do.
So it's been 8 months here to remind you of the bones
A round of applause good sir. Not every chemist needs a million dollar lab set up to make great chemistry videos. I can appreciate the resourcefulness.
Ay man, I just watched the video. You asked to be reminded in 8 months to extract calcium from bones to make a spooky video for Halloween. You have been reminded.
Ruthenium Tetroxide is about 2.5 times heavier than air. Thats why the fingerprint on the test tube didnt really get visible, but the one on the outside of the beaker did. Because the ruthenium tetroxide flowed over the beaker and coated the finger print on the outside of the beaker since its heavier than air.
this channel as a whole is just pure bliss to watch.
Hey, it's been 8 months. Extract some calcium from bones! 0:43
A reminder to do an extraction of Calcium from bones, precisely 8 Months later. Love your videos, man!
I love how all textbooks cite the rxn of osmium tetroxide with allkenes to perform oxidative cleavage and diol formation, but like.....I don’t know of ANY lab crazy enough to ever purchase and actually use osmium tetroxide, it is a DEADLY, DEADLY reagent. I’m scared of it, and I have worked with fluoroantimonic acid, and cyanogen bromide
Searching E&F dictionary...
"fumehood" not found
The fume hood is what he's wearing whilst swearing about spilling all the ruthenium sponge
I'm always bloody fuming and I live in the 'hood
my favorite Halloween chemistry is making a flame with trimethylborate (boric acid and methanol). lovely green color
"#2, you should be able to do some sort of spooky action at a distance". Wait, we're bringing physics into it now? Damn, back to the books....
Chemists in school look at their textbooks and say "wait it's all quantum physics?" And physicists are behind them saying "Always has been"
right after "stain my skin with ruthenium oxide" i got a loud obnoxious whiskey ad with no warning, very spooky and on topic
the way the paper moves while you hold it made me think it would spill a second time
I've dreamt up some stinky synthetic applications for this stuff, such as preparation of tropinone from dibenzyl ketone.
Dude, you’re so polite and quiet and kind the comments and that is SUCH a departure from your classic explosions and fire content, it’s not bad it’s just so so jarring to go from “damnit Davy I built you a fucking shrine!” To “Its vixon so I hope that’s ok!}
Haha I can swear more here if it helps
“It’s not the weekend” Lol
Dude love the choice of music, got my sub.
imagine deliberately making yellow
2:50 Have you ever heard of equation balancing? Or is that the spooky part?
Oh no
Be afraid!
2Ru + 6NaOCl + 4NaOH -> 2Na2RuO3 + 6NaCl + 2H2O + O2
2Ru + 7NaOCl + 4NaOH -> 2Na2RuO4 + 7NaCl + H2O + O2
(having to add O2 to both for them to balance feels like it means i did this wrong, and i don't remember high school all that well, but also all the NaOCls have to balance with the NaCls, meaning the Nas from the NaOH all have to go to the Na2RuO3, for which the O's seemed to all come from the NaOCl's and I am just now realizing I am not in the right state of mind for this even so I give up)
Be very afraid!
There was some gas generation, so maybe it does produce O2?
@@ExtractionsAndIre My other option was...adding protons as a reagent, which...you're reacting hydroxide with hypochlorite, so, no? unless they're being pulled out of that nasty promiscuous amphoteric water or something
it's 2 am here, i should be in bed
but these are fun videos
and my gf likes it when i do a kiwi accent
*must learn from internet*
@@ExtractionsAndIre
Ru + 2NaOCl + 2NaOH -> Na2RuO3 + 2NaCl + H2O
Ru + 3NaOCl + 2NaOH -> Na2RuO4 + 3NaCl + H2O
Big yes to more exotic metals and hopefully their possibly reactive fulminate versions. Teach me
I watch one damn NileRed video and after about 4 and a half hours, 3 or 4 different channels, and a couple puffs of the cheba, it's turned out to be an interesting evening of watching the wonderful world of molecules go haywire at the hands of educated and intelligent people who know what they are doing enough to share this and be alive enough to put out the next one :)
Cheers from Denver.
Reminder to extract Calcium from Bones.
"I was thinking about spooky things and then I thought of yellow chemistry; yikes!"
Extract calcium from bones, heres your reminder
NO DYING!
Dyeing is ok.
Lost at least 10% yield just from measuring the reagent
ah yes, enslaved chemistry
Enjoy that warmth for 4 months. I've got 4 months of rain, slushy snow, ice and darkness ahead.
I'd rather take the hot weather and deadly sun rays.
Ah yes, Calcium from bones. Still waiting for that video from Cody.
I love spooky action at a distance
"Spooky Action at a Distance," Bell would be proud, but Einstein might be a bit perturbed.
Intentionally doing yellow chemistry. That's courage.
Spooky action at a distance!
I did an oxidation of - I don't remember what - but it was using catalytic amounts of ruthenium chloride with sodium periodate to generate the tetraoxide in situ. I don't remember other details but I was evaporating the mixture off and the solvent at this stage was either triethylamine or diisopropylethylamine. As I watched it condensing on the coil, I saw black material also condensing on the coil and collecting in the receiver.
I later reasoned that I must have been looking at ruthenium dioxide. How was it getting there? Evaporation of the tetraoxide and its reaction with the amine to make the black solid. I then realized that this was extremely dangerous - vapors of ruthenium tetraoxide and organic solvents are an explosive mixture. I addded some bisulfite to ensure no oxidant remained.
I got away with it, but that was pretty scary.
'bout time for that "extract calcium from bones" reminder :D
White powder on the weekend? What a line
5:08 That is a very good and nice grip on that container.
"semi-expensive, but accessible"
*Sigma Aldrich lists 5g at $691 USD*
Holy moly. I got it for about $13USD per gram
idk why but i really want to know what it tastes like
Ozone generator... that reminds me of when my radio teacher turns on the *literal Tesla coil* he keeps in the classroom for new students, no safety gear or anything, just stand back and hope to dear god nothing catches fire.
I never knew about this channel all I knew was explosion and fire glad I found it
Ur energy's great love ur vid thanks for ur passion of science
between this and niegel huffing cyanide i am definitely spooked
What a spooky video. Everyone seems to have spooky chem videos now.
Please become the yellow superhero we all need, upside down man
You're certainly one of my favorite creators here in lubetube. I hope you'll make mang more.
Hi, I need your help, how to oxidize or metallize rhodium nitrate? help me please.
with sodium nitrite I can?
If bad work practices were Halloween content then it would be Halloween all year round on this channel
Ah my old friend Osmium tetroxide….the good old days of preparing specimens for electron microscopy
Remember to try and extract calcium from bones. 8 months have passed.
I'd like to see more content like this. Just some mini-vids between main ones. It's pretty awesome.
What do you do with the bit of carbon tet you used? Can you reuse it or does it have to be disposed of? Can you use sodium metal or sodium hydroxide to strip off a chlorine atom? Or like electrochemical reduction under hydrogen gas maybe?
Yo it's been 8 months. Here's your reminder to extract calcium from bones.
Came for the chemistry, stayed for the seemingly inevitable death.
"Not just a blank table and some powder, because it's not the weekend" 🤣 fuck yeaahhh, get on the bags
Cyanoacrylates are way cheaper in bulk for fingerprint fuming, almost foolproof too, and difficult to destroy once the vapour deposition has taken to the oils on the surface.
and they don't try to kill you nearly as much as RuO4 does!
Is that an old SAAB I see in the back of the garage in te beginning of the video?
Yeah it's a SAAB 900i
I've heard RuO4 can replace ozonolysis in certain cases, i.e. celavage of C=C bond to yield C=O bonds and RuO2, that can be recycled in the reaction mixture to RuO4 with a suitable oxidiser.