@@ExtractionsAndIre Marco Reps would probably also be able to hook you up with an X-Ray source. Not sure I'd trust you with the HV required to operate one though...
@@bur1t0 yeah I don't trust me either haha. Also, it's too illegal to have an X-ray source here. Been wanting to build an XRF, but don't think I'll get away with an X-ray source
@@ExtractionsAndIre Well after reading some legislation (best thing to do on a Saturday night), the choices are make friends with a Veterinarian, Cosmic Rays, Granite counter tops, or any of the natural sources in our Heaps Good state. There should be X-rays popping up all over the shop, considering the weather patterns during the time of Maralinga. Will need a photomultiplier tube for everything except old mate at the Vet. :-/ You could try asking one of the uni's really nicely, I remember walking past some doors in Adelaide Uni that had some sketchy warnings on them.
@@ExtractionsAndIre I mean the ozone layer is damaged right? You have plenty of it in the surrounding. All you need to do is make the surrounding your system! -Last words of a thermodynamics experiment gone wrong
0:50 I did know that caesium chlorate had surprisingly low solubility, because it was this property that was exploited in the discovery of francium. Basically, francium is chemically so similar to caesium that it will co-precipitate out of solution with it. When caesium chlorate was dropped out of a solution with uranium decay products in it, the francium was able to be separated from the other decay products. It was discovered that the resulting precipitate had detectable radiation with a half-life of about twenty minutes, which was proof for the existence of a highly radioactive alkali metal.
That last cesium chlorite-sugar burn had a most excellent purple/ gray flame, just as you advertised. You nailed the reaction. I’d have come totally unhinged had I dropped all my hard earned product on the lawn.
"Every electrolysis video is me just saying 'this is a bad idea, me doing it, oh look: If it isn't the consequences of our actions'" This but my whole life.
Wow! That cesium flame was beautiful! Good work as always! When are you doing your video on the effects of high soil cesium concentrations on plant life? I see that you've already started the experiments
I love your dedication. I could only hope to have a fraction of the zeal you do for chemistry, and making these videos. Dropping the salts on the lawn would have broke me, but I would have never gotten past the electrode issue.
I have an idea for you. You could synthesize propylene carbonate from propylene glycol and urea over a zinc oxide/acetate catalyst. The propylene glycol can be used for making alkali metals by performing an electrolysis of an alkali Metal salt dissolved in the PC. Don’t know if it will work with cesium though
Highschool chemistry?? My highschool chemistry teacher would have kicked you out of the classroom AGES AGO mate!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Aussie backyard bodging at its finest! Gotta love it!
as somebody who doesn't enjoy math since his brain has accumulated too much yellow to do the math efficiently, trying to learn quantum mechanics and forcing myself into it has changed me
Where did you get your electrodes from? I remember nurdrage specifically doing a video when he needed a legitimate platinum electrode for a project and he couldnt get his reactions to work properly, then I think he did a separate video to show his cheap ebay electrodes were a knock off platinum coated piece of steel webbing (think he even proved it with a simple magnet test, obviously steel magnetic and purr platinum electrode should not be). Hopefully my memory not playing tricks this was years ago now I think
I remember this vid also, couldn't find it on a cursory search tho. Edit: I found it but its marked private now. og vid: ruclips.net/video/uDQuP4oCOgo/видео.html follow up vid: ruclips.net/video/Ex0VU9kMsgU/видео.html&t
www.amazon.ca/TWL-Platinized-Titanium-1-Inch-4-Inch/dp/B00JKXKTZO/ Thats where I got my platinum electrode. Its worked pretty well for making potassium chlorate. No corrosion so far and I've been running it for 4 weeks strait and made at least 400g of potassium chlorate using a 5v 2A laptop charger as a power supply.
I got mine from here. electrodesupply.com/electrodes/ So far I have used the MMO/titanium combination for a 20 day chlorate cell run and it held up. I think I ran a 2x6 anode at 9 amps. I have a 2x3 platinum/titanium combo from them as well that I've only used for a couple hours in a sulfuric acid cell at only 0.5 amps but it still looks brand new for what that's worth.
Also- 'ana' and 'kata' are Greek for up and down; I'm sure you could figure out some chemical theory for why that is- but I always try and remind myself that if cathodes have excess negative charge- all things being equal they should weigh more & hence 'kata' & down; vice versa for up/ana!
'Winters' even in the most southerly part of Oz are positively tropical compared to the often-frosty (and sometimes snowy) winters in England. Then again, English winters are 'tropical' compared to the frigid winters in Canada, Iceland, Russia and the north eastern parts of the US.
Interestingly enough, back when I experimented with chlorates I was able to get fine separation of potassium from sodium. Just a recrystallization or two. Maybe helped that I was doing relatively large batches, 1L or so? Nice size crystals.
Seeing you drop that on the ground makes me not feel as bad. I always find some way to screw up and turn something simple into a mess. Your CsClO3 with sugar looked beautiful. The sodium one is pretty typical as, as you say, sodium dominates emissions. I think either your KClO3 / sugar composition had a little sodium in it or was especially fuel rich with hot carbon emissions. According to my experimentation with KClO3, it's actually more similar to CsClO3 than that shown in the comparisons, a bit more pink. I want to try out some BaClO3.
You know, if a fire ever swept through your yard (And I hope it never does) it'd be the most spectacular bushfire ever. Random explosions and jets of different coloured flames. Firefighters would think they were on LSD when fighting the fires.
Before the heydeys of ISIS, crystalline sodium chlorate was commonly sold as herbicide in every European garden center. So it seems that you have tested some expensive cesium-based herbicide on your lawn.
@@ExtractionsAndIre If I remember correctly, the NaClO3 herbicide was used mainly to kill weeds that grow along the grass on your lawn, so with a bit of luck the cesium salt too will leave the grass alone. Be sure to share your results ;^)
Imma be honest, I know so little about chemistry cuz I'm still making up my highschool freshmen year shit even tho im in 11th grade junior year cuz I'm in a school for big dumb dumbs like myself who decided "I don't wanna do work I don't care about my future" and have to make it all up frantically to graduate so I'm still on basic earth science and shit and have no interest in learning chemistry in school cuz the modern education system sucks ass but it's super interesting as a hobby yet the most stupid and confusing and brain hurting science/interest I've ever encountered and these videos help me expand my tiny understanding of the terrible science of "chemical mix with chemical to make new chemical or go boom boom if done even remotely wrong". I love your content bro don't worry about if you have shit skills or equipment cuz I don't think anyone who is not mentally insane truly understands chemistry.
This is amazing timing. I cleaned out my chlorate cell on Wednesday and I began to wonder if it would work equally as well with cesium as it does with potassium and sodium and if so what changes would I have to make. Would I be able to use the same MMO anode or would I have to upgrade to platinum? What sort of voltage/current levels would I have to reach? Would it even work on a small scale? Looks like you had some of the same questions I had and I greatly appreciate YOU spending the time and money to answer them for me. :) Now I guess the logical next step would be to convert to cesium perchlorate. Go on...I dare you. As long as it isn't yellow I think it'll be safe to do.
I like that I can relate to you. I dont do chemistry or anything but I feel like if I did, this is the type of chemistry stuff that I'd get myself into. "Well idk what is wrong here, but let's see if this will work. Nope it fucked it." "Wow it turned out to be really good in the end, well I fucking dropped it all over the lawn."
because oftentimes perchlorate production can be kind of a pain, but it's possible, but, why? wont he just burn it and explode it anyway? more powerful and stavle and safe sure but he wont be making rockets, just bombs from aluminium foil or some shit or just adding it into some mix to make it have nicer color
@@ExtractionsAndIre lol yessir, mmo anodes love to passivate if used at too high of current densities, or if any impurities were present during manufacturing. Typically they can be revived a bit with a dip in hot HCl to destroy the passivated surface layer.
@@ElementalMaker ok! I'll look into it, but that's sounds like what has happened, I probably ruined it slowly during my last chlorate run several years ago. Thanks!
Hello. Mr. Ire,sir. Or may I just call you Extractions. I've done a lot of thinking regarding the ozone layer in recent months and the video you made about halons interested and terrified me,but also inspired me. I've come to the conclusion that until these halons decay,the ozone layer will never stop depleting. I might be wrong,but I don't think I am. In the essence of such a self feuling wildfire in the atmosphere,I was wondering about destruction of halon molecules. How can these be broken down into other molecules so they can't keep interacting with ozone? I know that doing it in your lab would probably be immensely illegal,but a follow up wideo to your extinguisher one with some formulas and theories and whatnot would be incredible. I just want to know a good jumping point. I'd greatly appreciate it and I've learned so much about chemistry watching you. Don't stop,man
Just set the voltage at max, and use the current limit to set your desired current, let the supply maintain it automatically. Red Light on=constant current mode. The voltage will move around to maintain your set current.
lol that music has a wet fart for a snare drum. I'm sure it's like some electro percussion sample or something, but I just hear a wet fart every time that snare hits.
Chlorate cells tend to produce more chlorine at a lower pH. I've never made cesium chlorate before but with potassium chlorate it isn't the end of the world if the pH rises too much so you could probably let the pH rise If u want less chlorine in your lungs😛
A reaction between a slight excess of caesium sulphate and barium chlorate might also work. Producing caesium chlorate. I love the colour. I wonder what it would look like through a spectroscope?
Aw man.. at first I was like hell yeah he made it work without too much hassle, feels good ! Then you drop it on the lawn... I felt your pain trying to scoop it out. Isn't it kinda dangerous to leave a strong oxidizer like that on the ground ? (I have zero chemistry knowledge I'm just curious)
Depends on what the oxidizer is and on how much. Something like Ba(ClO3)2 or Ba(NO3)2 contains toxic Ba ions, which would pose an issue for pets and wildlife that happened to lick the spillage (conversion of the Ba to an insoluble form by flushing with MgSO4 commonly known to gardeners as Epsom Salts- would effectively deal with the Ba exposure risk). KNO3, on the other hand, would merely make the grass greener (it provides K and N to plants). At worst case scenario, the tiny amount of CsClO3 he 'gifted' to the lawn in the name of chemistry may create a temporary little brown patch, and that's it (ClO3- has herbicidal properties). I'd be more upset over the loss of precious and rather expensive Cs-containing compound. Such tiny amount poses zero issues like groundwater contamination or run-off into rivers or lakes.
The wire mesh structure of the original electrode might have not worked due to the mesh-like structure creating electromagnetic feedback, but that should really be more applicable to coiled wire, and it would probably get worse with higher voltage. Besides that, some weird stuff in the setup could've combined to create a non-ohmic device, but I don't know too much about those.
FYI, the way I remember anion and cation or anode and cathode is by remembering the following: “Onions make you cry which is a negative emotion. Onion = anion = negative. Boom.”
Hope you make a video about chlorate-perchlorate electrolysis by using GSLD, I couldn't find any video on yt that shows the successful attempt on making that things...
Me at 11:32 - "Wow! He did a whole reaction with only some minor hiccups that he quickly fixed, and they weren't even really his fault! Good on you! Let me go down and comment how pleased I am..." Sees comment saying "first attempt" and "disaster." Me - "what? Let's just scroll back up to the video" Tom - "So I fackin' dropped it. "
The easy way to remember is: oxidation happens at the anode, reduction at the cathode. Regardless of it being a battery or electrolytic cell. + and - switch depending on which one it is, but that stays the same.
Maths with Tom: "ten volts is higher than five volts"
*Applause*
I didn't even say it with confidence
Qwik mafs!
@@ExtractionsAndIre Because we know how sneaky mafs can be.
Nice job, unfortunately not everyone can be Uni grads with amazing maff skills like that. Lol
Maths: no
I originally discovered your channel because of the salt tasting video. I'm glad I stayed. Best chemistry channel 11/10.
The original cesium content!
And that right feel of aussieness and letting the mouth fly at times (swears), resonates with fellow aussies like myself
Yes, 5 stars for you
Same
me too
As someone having a PhD in chemistry, I have to say that your approach to maths is the correct one
Yes but.........
It's a PhD in Physics
@@ExtractionsAndIre good enough is something to strife for
@@ExtractionsAndIre lol!
Fuzzy math FTW
The filtrate in the first attempt looked disturbingly yellow. and then look what happened- disaster.
"I'll just add this little bit of yellow, what could go wrong!"
Extractions&Ire just wondering, were you ever bad at chemistry or did you ever hate it?
@@josh2232 i'm still bed at chemistry, and I did a degree in it so there were many days i hated it for sure
Fucking dickhead yellow is.
@@ExtractionsAndIre I dream of days when I'm as bad at chemistry as you...lol
"We're really looking for an inside project today"......"So were going to make a chlorate cell"
Then once it starts working I have to move it outside anyway haha
Try and make a cesium iodide scintillator, make x-rays visible
Oooh cool
@@ExtractionsAndIre Marco Reps would probably also be able to hook you up with an X-Ray source. Not sure I'd trust you with the HV required to operate one though...
@@bur1t0 yeah I don't trust me either haha. Also, it's too illegal to have an X-ray source here. Been wanting to build an XRF, but don't think I'll get away with an X-ray source
@@ExtractionsAndIre Well after reading some legislation (best thing to do on a Saturday night), the choices are make friends with a Veterinarian, Cosmic Rays, Granite counter tops, or any of the natural sources in our Heaps Good state. There should be X-rays popping up all over the shop, considering the weather patterns during the time of Maralinga. Will need a photomultiplier tube for everything except old mate at the Vet. :-/ You could try asking one of the uni's really nicely, I remember walking past some doors in Adelaide Uni that had some sketchy warnings on them.
@@ExtractionsAndIre I mean the ozone layer is damaged right? You have plenty of it in the surrounding.
All you need to do is make the surrounding your system!
-Last words of a thermodynamics experiment gone wrong
You're the only guy who would ask a group of strangers what to do with your cesium stockpile and not explain why you have one in the first place
Everyone should have a cesium stockpile.
For atomic clocks, of course!
"oh look if it isn't the consequences of our actions." on the floor, mate. I'm ded. I felt that on a personal level.
I've adopted that phrase into my daily vocabulary.
Thats some expensive herbicide you use on your lawn.
Edit: I love your "Bloopers"!
0:50 I did know that caesium chlorate had surprisingly low solubility, because it was this property that was exploited in the discovery of francium.
Basically, francium is chemically so similar to caesium that it will co-precipitate out of solution with it. When caesium chlorate was dropped out of a solution with uranium decay products in it, the francium was able to be separated from the other decay products. It was discovered that the resulting precipitate had detectable radiation with a half-life of about twenty minutes, which was proof for the existence of a highly radioactive alkali metal.
Wow really interesting read, I didn’t know that
Caesiem Chlorate: it's got what plants crave.
"You've herd of gatorade, I give you chloraid"
Potassium chlorate was used as weed killer, I don't think cesium would help with plant growth.
@@topduk It's from the movie Idiocracy. In the movie everyone thinks that plants crave electrolytes, leading to an ecological disaster.
One thing AvE taught me: Panic! Positive in anode, negative in cathode.
@Evi1M4chine ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
"I really should be doing this outside" is a phrase I use way too often
Yeah that and run 😁
That last cesium chlorite-sugar burn had a most excellent purple/ gray flame, just as you advertised. You nailed the reaction. I’d have come totally unhinged had I dropped all my hard earned product on the lawn.
"Every electrolysis video is me just saying 'this is a bad idea, me doing it, oh look: If it isn't the consequences of our actions'"
This but my whole life.
Cesium and chlorate cells, two of my favourite things. Very nice.
Awesome flame colour too, cool stuff.
Wow! That cesium flame was beautiful! Good work as always! When are you doing your video on the effects of high soil cesium concentrations on plant life? I see that you've already started the experiments
I want a lot of highly flammable substances and a lot of highly oxidising substances
Who doesnt?
I love that I can't be sure if "MMS electrode" was intentional or not. Some of the people selling that stuff have been charged recently
It's about time
how is the Cs metal project going it's been so long i barely remember sending you those Cs2CO3
Errrr... I'll get to it. One of these days!
Ah good to see someone in Australia finally found the recipe for clouds.
MMO, MMA, MMS, MMM all in the same video. I appreciate your consistency
Such a Flex being able to check your own video for chemistry advice
"ah look if it isn't the consequences of our actions" .... I'm saying that when the kids come home
I love your dedication. I could only hope to have a fraction of the zeal you do for chemistry, and making these videos. Dropping the salts on the lawn would have broke me, but I would have never gotten past the electrode issue.
11:58 that physically hurt to watch
You need MMS solution to run an MMS electrode.
That Caesium flame is so beautiful man
I have an idea for you. You could synthesize propylene carbonate from propylene glycol and urea over a zinc oxide/acetate catalyst. The propylene glycol can be used for making alkali metals by performing an electrolysis of an alkali Metal salt dissolved in the PC. Don’t know if it will work with cesium though
Wish I had an NMR electrode. Sounds cool
Highschool chemistry?? My highschool chemistry teacher would have kicked you out of the classroom AGES AGO mate!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Aussie backyard bodging at its finest! Gotta love it!
"maths: no" I feel
Seriously I need it as a reaction gif.
as somebody who doesn't enjoy math since his brain has accumulated too much yellow to do the math efficiently, trying to learn quantum mechanics and forcing myself into it has changed me
That MMS/MMA/MNM electrode changed names several times :D
Learned a new word today: Flocculent. Thanks for that I guess...
Well done having the patience to stick with the project through all the fumbling. Just reassures me that im in the correct job field.
Where did you get your electrodes from? I remember nurdrage specifically doing a video when he needed a legitimate platinum electrode for a project and he couldnt get his reactions to work properly, then I think he did a separate video to show his cheap ebay electrodes were a knock off platinum coated piece of steel webbing (think he even proved it with a simple magnet test, obviously steel magnetic and purr platinum electrode should not be).
Hopefully my memory not playing tricks this was years ago now I think
I remember this vid also, couldn't find it on a cursory search tho.
Edit: I found it but its marked private now.
og vid: ruclips.net/video/uDQuP4oCOgo/видео.html
follow up vid: ruclips.net/video/Ex0VU9kMsgU/видео.html&t
www.amazon.ca/TWL-Platinized-Titanium-1-Inch-4-Inch/dp/B00JKXKTZO/
Thats where I got my platinum electrode. Its worked pretty well for making potassium chlorate. No corrosion so far and I've been running it for 4 weeks strait and made at least 400g of potassium chlorate using a 5v 2A laptop charger as a power supply.
I got mine from here. electrodesupply.com/electrodes/
So far I have used the MMO/titanium combination for a 20 day chlorate cell run and it held up. I think I ran a 2x6 anode at 9 amps. I have a 2x3 platinum/titanium combo from them as well that I've only used for a couple hours in a sulfuric acid cell at only 0.5 amps but it still looks brand new for what that's worth.
Also if anyone knows where to get a good lead dioxide anode that would be great. I'm trying to build a perchlorate cell.
@@tomh2628 feanorforges here on RUclips makes and sells lead dioxide electrodes on Ebay
So much chaos in a single video. I love it.
that filtered solution has a dangerously yellow tint while the crystals are forming.
I think this guy is like some kind of proof you may not need to know math very well to do chemistry.
Real tough winter you got down there.
Also- 'ana' and 'kata' are Greek for up and down; I'm sure you could figure out some chemical theory for why that is- but I always try and remind myself that if cathodes have excess negative charge- all things being equal they should weigh more & hence 'kata' & down; vice versa for up/ana!
'Winters' even in the most southerly part of Oz are positively tropical compared to the often-frosty (and sometimes snowy) winters in England. Then again, English winters are 'tropical' compared to the frigid winters in Canada, Iceland, Russia and the north eastern parts of the US.
Interestingly enough, back when I experimented with chlorates I was able to get fine separation of potassium from sodium. Just a recrystallization or two. Maybe helped that I was doing relatively large batches, 1L or so? Nice size crystals.
I do 3-5l batches and it's really easy to separate, it's definitely a function of size.
Seeing you drop that on the ground makes me not feel as bad. I always find some way to screw up and turn something simple into a mess. Your CsClO3 with sugar looked beautiful. The sodium one is pretty typical as, as you say, sodium dominates emissions. I think either your KClO3 / sugar composition had a little sodium in it or was especially fuel rich with hot carbon emissions. According to my experimentation with KClO3, it's actually more similar to CsClO3 than that shown in the comparisons, a bit more pink. I want to try out some BaClO3.
Hey it worked, thats a great purple color!
You know, if a fire ever swept through your yard (And I hope it never does) it'd be the most spectacular bushfire ever. Random explosions and jets of different coloured flames. Firefighters would think they were on LSD when fighting the fires.
Oh yeah you're not wrong
Before the heydeys of ISIS, crystalline sodium chlorate was commonly sold as herbicide in every European garden center. So it seems that you have tested some expensive cesium-based herbicide on your lawn.
Oh I hope the lawn doesn't die there but I guess we will see :(
@@ExtractionsAndIre If I remember correctly, the NaClO3 herbicide was used mainly to kill weeds that grow along the grass on your lawn, so with a bit of luck the cesium salt too will leave the grass alone. Be sure to share your results ;^)
Man idk what the fucks going on half the time in these vids but I love them
Beautiful flames! Worth the wait imo
touching absolutely everything with multimeter prongs is a mood
That lawn had been plotting against you the whole time. But you overcame.
Imma be honest, I know so little about chemistry cuz I'm still making up my highschool freshmen year shit even tho im in 11th grade junior year cuz I'm in a school for big dumb dumbs like myself who decided "I don't wanna do work I don't care about my future" and have to make it all up frantically to graduate so I'm still on basic earth science and shit and have no interest in learning chemistry in school cuz the modern education system sucks ass but it's super interesting as a hobby yet the most stupid and confusing and brain hurting science/interest I've ever encountered and these videos help me expand my tiny understanding of the terrible science of "chemical mix with chemical to make new chemical or go boom boom if done even remotely wrong". I love your content bro don't worry about if you have shit skills or equipment cuz I don't think anyone who is not mentally insane truly understands chemistry.
Really cool stuff! What you did with the solution electolyte shifting to manage the voltage will really help me in one of my ongoing projects!
I love your floral print cupboard
This is amazing timing. I cleaned out my chlorate cell on Wednesday and I began to wonder if it would work equally as well with cesium as it does with potassium and sodium and if so what changes would I have to make. Would I be able to use the same MMO anode or would I have to upgrade to platinum? What sort of voltage/current levels would I have to reach? Would it even work on a small scale? Looks like you had some of the same questions I had and I greatly appreciate YOU spending the time and money to answer them for me. :)
Now I guess the logical next step would be to convert to cesium perchlorate. Go on...I dare you. As long as it isn't yellow I think it'll be safe to do.
I think he would need a platinum anode to make perchlorate but i could be wrong
I like that I can relate to you. I dont do chemistry or anything but I feel like if I did, this is the type of chemistry stuff that I'd get myself into. "Well idk what is wrong here, but let's see if this will work. Nope it fucked it." "Wow it turned out to be really good in the end, well I fucking dropped it all over the lawn."
His general...method...is the same one I use to get through life
i was wondering why i love chem but i’m so bad at it, then i remember i’m subscribed to THIS channel
Drinking game: everytime Tom says "flocculant", take a shot. Just don't come crying to me when ur dying if alcohol poisoning.
Great vid, Tom ❤️
Hello friend you are still as cooked as the day I stumbled upon this beauty
Fully expected you to just light that patch of grass on fire.
Why not to make Cesium perchlorate? Isn't it more stable and more powerful oxidizer? Btw, good video as always.
because oftentimes perchlorate production can be kind of a pain, but it's possible, but, why?
wont he just burn it and explode it anyway?
more powerful and stavle and safe sure but he wont be making rockets, just bombs from aluminium foil or some shit
or just adding it into some mix to make it have nicer color
They had us in the first half, not gonna lie
But the end was somewhat successful! So good job
The flame color was really nice though.
making attemps and mistakes are all great content . keep it up
Nice job mate! Really good video. Got the purple flame!
Fucking love your use of Aphex Twin for these videos
Loved the video. I think the mmo anode may have been a bit passivated.
Yeah, is that a thing that happens, do you know?
@@ExtractionsAndIre lol yessir, mmo anodes love to passivate if used at too high of current densities, or if any impurities were present during manufacturing. Typically they can be revived a bit with a dip in hot HCl to destroy the passivated surface layer.
ElementalMaker first!
@@ElementalMaker ok! I'll look into it, but that's sounds like what has happened, I probably ruined it slowly during my last chlorate run several years ago. Thanks!
@@ExtractionsAndIre let me know if you'd like a new mmo anode, I have a massive mmo anode I can cut a strip off and mail to you.
"I was so quick blaming myself rather than the electrode" xD
For good electrolysis set the voltage low and the current high. Wipe your electrodes in between.
Hello. Mr. Ire,sir. Or may I just call you Extractions. I've done a lot of thinking regarding the ozone layer in recent months and the video you made about halons interested and terrified me,but also inspired me. I've come to the conclusion that until these halons decay,the ozone layer will never stop depleting. I might be wrong,but I don't think I am. In the essence of such a self feuling wildfire in the atmosphere,I was wondering about destruction of halon molecules. How can these be broken down into other molecules so they can't keep interacting with ozone? I know that doing it in your lab would probably be immensely illegal,but a follow up wideo to your extinguisher one with some formulas and theories and whatnot would be incredible. I just want to know a good jumping point. I'd greatly appreciate it and I've learned so much about chemistry watching you. Don't stop,man
Just set the voltage at max, and use the current limit to set your desired current, let the supply maintain it automatically. Red Light on=constant current mode. The voltage will move around to maintain your set current.
Everyone's favorite hero - the inanimate carbon rod
I was loving the recovery method on the lawn. Lol. JFWY
The cattode is pussative is how i used to remember which ones which hope it helps someone outhere
lol that music has a wet fart for a snare drum. I'm sure it's like some electro percussion sample or something, but I just hear a wet fart every time that snare hits.
Came for the extractions. Stayed for the ire.
Chlorate cells tend to produce more chlorine at a lower pH. I've never made cesium chlorate before but with potassium chlorate it isn't the end of the world if the pH rises too much so you could probably let the pH rise If u want less chlorine in your lungs😛
So, at what point do I add the hydrogen explosion to the cell? That’s a requirement right?
7:15 That moment when the question you couldn't figure out was wrong all along
Very nice information, you should do more tests with cesium chlorate with sulphur,red and white Phosphorus and other chemicals.
halfway through a chemistry degree and "cesium chlorate" gave me whiplash
A reaction between a slight excess of caesium sulphate and barium chlorate might also work. Producing caesium chlorate. I love the colour. I wonder what it would look like through a spectroscope?
Yeah wondering if I should get a spectrometer
I like how you picked green over yellow for your video editing simulation of a room full of chlorine,
Oof, losing chems to Mother Nature is always a sad moment
We call them alligator clips in the US. We don't have crocks over here.
Yes we do, and the population is growing. It's the American crocodile.
If you make a blunder-free video, I’m unsbubscrubing and down thumbing!
I've got some good news for you then
Lol boi.. I wished u did that explosive plant vid
Aw man.. at first I was like hell yeah he made it work without too much hassle, feels good ! Then you drop it on the lawn... I felt your pain trying to scoop it out. Isn't it kinda dangerous to leave a strong oxidizer like that on the ground ? (I have zero chemistry knowledge I'm just curious)
Depends on what the oxidizer is and on how much. Something like Ba(ClO3)2 or Ba(NO3)2 contains toxic Ba ions, which would pose an issue for pets and wildlife that happened to lick the spillage (conversion of the Ba to an insoluble form by flushing with MgSO4 commonly known to gardeners as Epsom Salts- would effectively deal with the Ba exposure risk). KNO3, on the other hand, would merely make the grass greener (it provides K and N to plants). At worst case scenario, the tiny amount of CsClO3 he 'gifted' to the lawn in the name of chemistry may create a temporary little brown patch, and that's it (ClO3- has herbicidal properties). I'd be more upset over the loss of precious and rather expensive Cs-containing compound. Such tiny amount poses zero issues like groundwater contamination or run-off into rivers or lakes.
@@garycard1456 Cheers!
The wire mesh structure of the original electrode might have not worked due to the mesh-like structure creating electromagnetic feedback, but that should really be more applicable to coiled wire, and it would probably get worse with higher voltage. Besides that, some weird stuff in the setup could've combined to create a non-ohmic device, but I don't know too much about those.
Next project make thing go boom.
Nice video on the production of chlorate weed killer:-)
I so thought you would light your lawn on fire to see the flame color.
It'll probably die anyway :(
You could just vacuum the chlorate away before the rain dissolves, so the lawn doesn't die
11:37 I can feel my heart crack
Two parts Plutonic Quarks, one part Cesium and a bottled water. equals Dark Matter
FYI, the way I remember anion and cation or anode and cathode is by remembering the following:
“Onions make you cry which is a negative emotion. Onion = anion = negative. Boom.”
Hope you make a video about chlorate-perchlorate electrolysis by using GSLD, I couldn't find any video on yt that shows the successful attempt on making that things...
@Extractions&Ire you should make a super acid and dissolve some stuff with it
So many super acids use fluoride ions... hate them... But yeah could do? If I learn how to do anhydrous chemistry better
ooh, that does sound interesting. i hope you can find a way to make that work :)
@@ExtractionsAndIre go for it man, im sure people would love to see you working on it. (obviously its up to you to decide if you want to do it or not)
@@ExtractionsAndIre fuck it mate dont listen to these.
anode starts with a, a+ , positive
Me at 11:32 - "Wow! He did a whole reaction with only some minor hiccups that he quickly fixed, and they weren't even really his fault! Good on you! Let me go down and comment how pleased I am..."
Sees comment saying "first attempt" and "disaster."
Me - "what? Let's just scroll back up to the video"
Tom - "So I fackin' dropped it. "
I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who mixes up the anode and cathode.
The easy way to remember is: oxidation happens at the anode, reduction at the cathode. Regardless of it being a battery or electrolytic cell. + and - switch depending on which one it is, but that stays the same.
@@6alecapristrudel yeah, I know but even with that I get it wrong occasionally. :P
I think of Cathode Ray Tubes (CRT or TV tubes), which use an electron beam.
@@DDendrite think about you want a A+ grade product
I was about to suggest doing some strontium chemistry, then I looked it up and found out that road flares are banned there.
Ooo nice purple flames