Testing If Household Chemicals Can Activate Charcoal
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- Опубликовано: 20 июл 2021
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Would have loved to have seen a comparison with “properly” activated charcoal.
Agreed.
Yeah, i'm not educated in this, so how much iodine would it have absorbed.
@@volvo09 According to other comments it seems about 80-90, so quite a bit more effective.
watch codys other videos on charcoal, there is one where he tests proper vs homemade activated charcoal against each other.
Yeah i think that wouldve been beneficial in terms of seeing what all those numbers actually mean (like what are the baseline numbers)
finally, after all these years; deactivated charcoal!
dude is that a jab at me for gaining weight? cause it feels like you're calling me a blob of inactive carbon?.... I mean you wouldn't be wrong about that.
@@svampebob007 yes
@@svampebob007 lol Jesus haha haha!!!
lol, well played sir
"Injecting superheated steam into charcoal isn't easy - I've done it" - Cody 2021
If Cody said "Piecing DNA together from single atoms isn't easy - I've done it" I wouldn't even blink...
I mean, this is Cody we're talking about.
Cody is awesome. He also honest and well intentioned. Integrity is rare, let us appreciate the combo.
@@andersjjensen I always thought atom had electrons protons neutrons .....🥲
@@AkshayKumar-km5hx I said "Piecing DNA together from single atoms" not "Piecing atoms together from single constituents".
You could say, the lemon juice deactivated the charcoal
Most people grinding charcoal : Mortal and pestle
Cody : C I N D E R B L O C K
No mere mortal could grind such grand charcoal
Skillbilly 101 that was his upscaled M&P.
*_c i n d e r b l o c k_*
sigma grinder
Mortal and pestle sounds like a weird indie game
Glad to see that Cody is back in action and uploading regularly!
HELLO!!! I want to spend time with celebrities. Just kidding. GAGAGAGAGA! I only want to spend time with my two girlfriends and record videos for RUclips with the 3 of us. OH YEAH. Don't hate me for living the best life, dear ne
He's looking happy and healthy too. i'm glad
If you worry for him you should support him on Patreon! :)
Just don’t let him on Osmand’s podcast. He’ll end up broken like Nilered.
He needs to go back to back to making nitroglycerin
The bad science on RUclips is a menace, well done for challenging it.
Yup. It's refreshing to see someone like Cody who understands the scientific method.
Whoa whoa whoa you mean people on the internet lie? For money? Shocked!
That said, thank you Cody for continuing to be a beacon of scientific method.
@@russellthorburn9297
I agree that he seems to understand SM...
Though i feel that this must be said for other readers: that a single-trial Investigation is not "if and only if" to using scientific method ...
if you want _real_ SM, do as Cody suggests in the conclusion and repeat his results 30 times over, but instead also use a control group (same test on retail or _real_ "activated charcol" to compare titration results ... again, 30 times over) 🧐
Why the repetition? To generate higher-resolution statistics for predictive probabilities; thirty trials is the "accepted" minimum, but the more tests, the merrier - and a _more likely_ accuracy ... not to mention a higher "credibility" in a concensus, given type I or type II errors are not introduced ... (notice: probability is not tautology; science is NOT a proof) 😉
Until then, until YOU've repeated his results, consistently, Cody's results could just be outliers or even a bad test implementation 😁
@@russellthorburn9297
UNDERSTAND SCIENTIFIC METHOD ⁉️⁉️⁉️
REALLY⁉️⁉️⁉️
ARE WE EVEN SURE IT'S LEMON JUICE?!?!?
It's probably lemon & SUGAR & PRESERVATIVES juice...like all manufacturers are LIARS!!!
THEREFORE, THE EXPERIMENT WITH LEMON WILL SURELY FAIL!!!
THEREFORE CODY'S A JOKE AS WELL JUST LIKE EVERYTHING IN THE INTERNET!!!
Discusting!!
You should clean your mouth out after saying such heretical things and to do it you should use one of the most powerful cleaning substances known to man - lemon juice mixed with baking soda.
1:26 You know it's dangerous chemical, when Cody is wearing gloves.
I would too if I was dealing with dihydrogen monoxide
Especially when you think back on how many times he has eaten charcoal in his videos...
@@WanderTheNomad 😄 I prefer drinking it without gloves ;)
Just be sure it has salts in it.
@@WanderTheNomad In this video, he was using oxidane
Lol
Love how you had a call to action at the end and clearly made this partially out of concern for the effects of false information out there, great video :)
AGREED !
hmph
"No, you can't download more RAM from the internet"
--Samsung's massively successful 90's campaign to shut down the little RAM-download websites.
Could have been done less squeaky though.
Charcoal is poisonous no one eats it to save their life like he said
@@JBroMCMXCI you are so absolutely, utterly incorrect, I'm legitimately concerned.
Activated charcoal should pull out between 80 and 90 mg/g... You're welcome.
Thanks was wondering what range the positive control would be!
I'm confused, in his test 1 gram of charcoal absorbed 20 mg. And it seemed like that was from 9 mL. So that would be 2mg/mL per 1 gram of charcoal? But your measurement is in grams - 2mg vs 90grams is huge difference
@@SoulDelSol I corrected I believe.. either way just compare the 20 in this test to 80-90 ... They're the same units and everything.
That would probably depend on grain size though
Thanks, I was just about to say he should've done a control lmao.
3:17 This was not an accident. No. This was the behavioral consequence of Buddy missing. It's called compensation by induced artificial clumsiness normally attributed to one very missed feline. I feel for you Cody.
😂😂😂
Alternative Hypothesis.
It is actually Cody himself who went missing, and Buddy has assumed direct control of RoboCody, who has been cunningly disguised as real Cody. Couldn’t suppress his instinct to knock as least one glass over long enough to film the video.
Something tells me that "household chemicals" in your household is somewhat different from the average hosehold ;)
You're part of Big Activated Charcoal aren't you? Always tryin' to squash the little guy! 😉
With a cinderblock!
He literally shows you how to make real activated charcoal in another video.
@@FrancisR420 it's a joke
Shhh bro don't expose him like that XD
Big Carbon
Uh oh guys cody's getting addicted to charcoal again... I thought Hes clean now! Ugh back to rehab.Please Cody get some help
Do you honestly believe he ever kicked the habit? This stuff chars you for life, man!
I mean, he's definitely clean from toxic substances with all the charcoal he has eaten...
Just started using ,, now my toothpaste, facewash, body soap, and even my boxed water is black. I think I have a problem, wish me luck
@@SpoilerAlert__ get some help
Please don't spread rumors. I watched the entire video and he didn't eat a single piece of charcoal in this one.
You should have tested like store Bought activated charcoal so that we can see that differences from the home treated stuff and stuff made in a lab or factory.
He did that in the original activating carbon video from a few years ago.
Cody at the end: "I'm not angry, just disappointed"
I'm shocked, the internet has false information.
look at "How to cook that" debunking videos.
Well one of the big aspects of science is replicating experiments and scrutinizing them. Basically trying to prove them wrong.
So you're telling me the hot moms in my area don't want to chat!?
Who am I chatting with?
@@murilokleine fat dudes in their mom's basement...
Ha!
"maybe you think i make a fast one..." literaly nobody thinks something like that. Cody is the best.
Well some do.. unfortunately they're the same people who fall for exactly the same BS Cody is trying to debunk.
@@andersjjensen People who make conclusions and then do experiments to prove it. The wrong way around. It's an ego problem.
Cody is more trustworthy than a lot of people. :)
11:20 I've never seen Cody get so passionate over safety before.
Right? He seems genuinly concerned, almost brings a tear to my eye. I want to bring up the removal of the dislike button, this is a perfect example of where you'd see a video where activating charcoal with lemon juice would have some k likes and no dislikes. But as Cody has proven this is straight up dangerous.
Hey Cody! If you are reading this, there were some things you did wrong in the video. I work with activated carbon (AC) on a daily basis and I think you were trying to chemically activate the charcoal. First of all, chemical activation needs heat, at least 600ºC. Second, you should impregnate the charcoal with the reagents and then dry the mix for about 24h. After this step you use heat, with an inert atmosphere to prevent burning. All that is left to do is wash the AC with water until the pH is neutral. Although the quantities of activating agent seemed right you can try to change amounts used to find the optimum. Hope this helps.
P.s. you can also try using the iodine number method to find an approximate value of the AC surface area
So how should I activate it correctly
I didn't see the difference you did
@Zeinlu, thanks for the concise rundown
love ur rant! "test it, it's the least you can do" :D
just him being upset kinda makes you feel bad though, hes just one of those people you never want to upset
Cody I don't know what's different but you're looking great, man! Cheers!
i was thinking the same thing
I was thinking he gained quite a bit of weight since his breakup with Kanyon.
It feels like it’s been a couple of years since we’ve seen you doing experiments with such conviction. Glad to see you back. :)
0:51 On account of his hair, Cody has officially turned into a mad scientist
That clock looks like one of those old radium clocks
Given that this is Cody we're talking about, I wouldn't be surprised if he does have a radium clock.
@@leftoffcolfax Yeah, and strontium digits.
He did a vid on the radioctive boyscout, maybe you remember
Except the US government confiscated all of Cody's radioactive material.
@@AmaroqStarwind Not of all of it, he got to keep a few of his uranium samples. It's not that hard to get hold of radium clocks
the lemon juice did not cause the charcoal to fail. the charcoal just did its job by filtering the lemon juice. the charcoal was all used up by time you got to the iodine test.
9:24 he literally said that too
Cody, you are looking good.
So glad you are back, and looking happy and healthy.
I’ve always had an interest in science, but your videos have really reignited my love of experimenting and learning.
I am going to be teaching a small group of kids in a few weeks, and having them do some experiments. I hope I can have a similar effect on at least one of them as you have for me.
Keep up the great work.
Glad to see you keeping well Cody. It looks like you've been enjoying making videos more and doing ones you actually want to do. keep doin what you're doing bud.
Ah yes, my favourite RUclipsr
Cody Slab!
It's not a slab, it's a cinder block. ;)
I get a burst of happiness when you post
Great video and tests Cody, thank you!
Missed the uploads. Glad you have been uploading more content. I look forward to watching your videos with my middle son. Appreciate ya much! Please keep on keepin' on!
dude it's fate that you make this video... i have been looking into making this just tonight haha. thank you
3:21 Ah yes, knocking chemical solutions over is a great thing to do when you've waited hours for it to soak.
It's the control. Aka the charcoal and water solution. :P
@@ALTruckerDad water is still a chemical
@@kiyoshiinoto ok, and? That doesn't change the fact that charcoal in water is about as dangerous to spill as water in water.
@@ALTruckerDad it was the control,
@@ALTruckerDad Yes, I happened to hear that part when he mentioned it earlier in the video than the spot I mentioned
Great video as always. Off to watch the bonus video.
Thanks for the information. It is really good of you to actually do the experiment.
You didn't show us how a gram of real activated charcoal would perform!
I was thinking the same thing. I have no clue how well real activated charcoal would have performed. Without those numbers one could conclude that the lemon juice didn't get activated and the rest did.
I think he showed it in his old activated charcoal vid
Actually I have.
It would have absorbed much more iodine
@@Sqwince23 he specifically mentions the water as beeing an inert control
Thanks Cody, really appreciate your vids man.
Been pretty depressed lately and binge watching your old vids has helped me get out of bed and try again.
Thanks man.
try some Wim Hof breath work. It really helps!
@@m3sca1 Thank you kind stranger
Since the loss of Grant, your channel is one of only a very few that I can rely on for good chemistry and science content. Keep at it and please don't ever stop. Much love and respect.
agree 100% with your conclusions!! awesome to see you back and your videos again!!
new mythbuster right here
if only the million dollar companies would know how to activate charcoal, people doing tik tok videos are just way smarter than them ;)
That is not necessarly the case, large scale plants economics don't always translate to the amateur chemist, take ammonia production : for a company there is no question that the Haber-Bosch process is the economical way to go but it necessitates tools that make it impractical for the average backyard scientist and alternative chemical methods become attractive. So I think this was worth to investigate even if it was a likely failure
@@theophrastusbombastus8019 damn, some actual critical thinking without the usual arrogance that might come with it. I like your attitude!
Crowd sorcing ideas can often yeald good results, you may need to sift out the bad ones. The fan showdown is a good example of this.
@@Sanchairudo Thanks dude, I appreciate the comment!
@@theophrastusbombastus8019 You just described the difference between a chemist and a chemical engineer :). The chemist creates the process in the lab and the chemical engineer figures out how to bring it to an industrial scale.
Thanks Cody for bringing me a great video again.
Have a great Day. I really miss your style of video from todays youtube
Congratulations on the almost 2 mil subs ! Always happy to see you.
Enjoyable and important experiment Cody. Thanks Sir, you are the bomb!
11:00 this is the first time i've heard Cody irritated on cam.
And rightfully so. Getting angry about people being dangerously irresponsible is a good reason to me.
Cody, I’m a very very long time viewer of yours although I’ve gone through many RUclips accounts. I started watching you quite some time before the mine series began even. I’m so glad to see you uploading again and hope all is well. I would love to see a vlog updating us on your happenings!
Lookin great Cody! I'm glad to see you're back!
Dude I love your videos, please keep making them.
Love the content! I do believe this experiment should’ve had 2 more controls. One control being untreated charcoal, and the other being purchased (known) activated charcoal
Would love to see the last experiment with the titration for an activated charcoal control to get an impression on what improvement to expect.
Edit: just saw it in your other video. Activated is like ~45x more, so very significant difference. Very cool!
Your videos are fascinating. they are really fun to watch
Thank you for makeing me understand which solution to use
It helped a lot
❤
Tipping it over right when it's about to get good, that my kind of science. Haha why its funny when you it
"So if you see a video like this, test it!"
Here I go Nile Red, I knew you lied about that cyanide being poisonous!...
Funny you say that, Cody has a video where he drinks cyanide
Thanks for testing this!
Thank you for your time and effort’s to teach me that which I have wondered about. You saved me from making mistakes and your right we owe it to ourselves to do our own testing.
Have a great day.
One day Cody is gonna make gold from lead.
And Im here to watch it.
He made a golden bullet, that's sorta similar.
Yeah not really a thing unless you have a particle accelerator.
He'll need a philosopher's stone first
I love that the most exasperated thing I've ever heard Cody say it "Test it yourself! It's the least you can do!" Legend!
I've missed your chemistry videos :) ty for the video, it was interesting!!
Certainly most of us can understand your frustration over these videos of simple ways to make things that are completely fabricated BS. Thank-you for trying to set the record straight with good science. Great to see you making videos regularly again.
Happy 2M!
sees "actually making activated carbon" link: I see where this is going
Super interesting! I, too honestly, I learn so much from you man.! I thank you for the knowledge you share!
Great stuff as always
Can you do a Lord Kelvins Generator with Mercury? Would love to see it!
No
Or, how about, no?.
I think that could be interesting but I'm not sure it would actually generate any more charge than water
@@bcikablam3578 Or any charge separation at all actually due to the high electric conductivity as it’s very hard to get a significant charge separation in the mercury
@@GreenCaulerpaI'm pretty sure better electric conductivity means better charge separation. Adding salt to the Kelvins Generator makes it better!
CODY IS SO CLOSE TO 2M SUBS🤩🥳🥳....LOOKING FORWARD FOR THE 2M SUBS CELEBRATION VIDEO
Thank you Cody, You do awesome work.
Loved the video Cody. You are an amazing scientist a great RUclipsr and an all round good person.
thanks for saving my time, i was about to try to make "activated charcoal" at home
Wait, superheated steam isn't a household chemical?
Not if you're cooking right.
@@crackedemerald4930 Depends on what you're cooking
Happy 2 million subscribers Cody!!!
Thank you for this video!
That clock is tripping me out
Cody Slab , We need a chicken hole base update!
Cody "slab" xd
@@entityunknown2 When you wanna build a lab, you start with a slab.
Always a great day to see a Cody’s Lab video.
Great stuff Cody 👍
at least we've found a way to de-activate charcoal
10:26 moments like this make me comfortable in life because I know that even though people like Cody are incredibly intelligent, we are all human and sometimes even people like Cody say things like 'sawn'
Congratulations 2m subs!!
Wow, thanks for the upload!
Still waiting on that geology series you promised back when you were doing cody's mine
I miss codys mine
you had drawn CODY SLAB - on a slab of concrete... who is going to clean that up?
He probably had permission to doodle on that particular slab.
@@dennyhhhh That was a Cody slab, he's permitted to write on these
Enjoyed the content. Hope you’re doing well Cody. Much love from VA
Brilliant thanks Cody. Miss your videos. I would have liked to see bought sample of activated charcoal compared with the others to highlight that the rest still is only charcoal. But nice methodology and almost :) flawless execution
4:38 "hopefully we'll end up with just the charcoal" thats true for all the methods :P
Is there an already established electrolytic method for activating charcoal of a generally useful grain size? It seems like with the right setup, possibly using a carbon cathode and an anode made with charcoal grains conglomerated with an inert binder that can be easily dissolved out after electrolysis combined with the right electrolyte and voltage, it should be possible.
Dissolved out by what? The water in the electrolyte or non-polar solvents that are adsorbed by the charcoal?
@@mytech6779 Tbh, idk lol. That was just a top of the head idea with no further consideration put into it; the grain/binder anode probably wouldn't work out now that I think about it a bit more because of more than a few different reasons. Maybe cycle through appropriately sized anodes after a certain elapsed period producing the proper micro porosity and which are then crushed to the desired grain size? Idk, was just a random thought that crossed through my mind so it might not be possible in any configurationn, at least with any worthwhile efficiency or effectiveness.
Youre better off using physical/chemical methods to etch away at the inside of the charcoal. Freeze/thaw cycles might even be useful.
@@dustinsmith8341 You're likely correct in your assessment; although if a means is possible I can think of a few different scenarios in which it could be a more attractive method of production in certain circumstances.
The closest thing I could think of is electrochemical exfoliation which is actually used to produce few layer graphene after sintering or partially oxidized carbon nanoparticles/nanoplatelets or whatever depending on your source material. This is a proposed „green“ synthesis of mass producing graphene rather than with cvd or hummer‘s method.
Though activating charcoal with the chemicals cody covered above is generally fine though the impregnated carbon has to be heated with say the KOH to ~600-1000C to activate it
thanks for posting cody i take time to watch all of your videos just for the fun of the science involved. bummer that these didn't workout more in your favor but not a whole lot of good comes from worrying over spilled charcoal, best of luck in the next one!
Loved this video. Its always a good day when cody posts
"Test it! That's the least you could do!" I love this. I got in what to most seems like a very petty argument with a youtuber recently in a comment section because he was giving opinions on hunting arrows and their effectiveness, but his stance was in complete contradiction to what testing shows. The people who put the info out include a couple guys who have post graduate STEM degrees and spent their whole careers studying ballistics. The tests can be replicated with just a scale and a $100 chronograph, and I tested it out and got very similar results. It drove me nuts though because people take his advice and if they do they are going to go out and try to take the life of an animal with a much less effective setup, and even though he knows this and tests stuff out on his channel all the time, he does not seem to have any interest in taking an hour and testing it for himself. Call me what you like but I think if you are going to go kill an animal, you owe it to the animal to do everything you can to be an effective, efficient killer and minimize its suffering. To have hunting be such a big part of your life and refusing to take an hour to find out if your thoughts on arrows are off base blows my mind. When I thought my setup might not have been as effective as possible, it was my obssession to gather quantifiable data and correct that.
I gave up being worried about people spreading b.s.
The individual that takes bad advice is doomed if they don't realize that there's very little good advice available anywhere.
I mean, how do you explain to someone that any moron can and probably will offer bad advice all over the internet?
How is someone not aware of that?
Even the "experts" often are inaccurate when it comes to various subjects.
I feel like everyone should be issued a book when they are born, that explains how they can evaluate information.
It's astounding how many people assume they are born with those skills.
I understand where you're coming from. I just think the people offering bad advice are a symptom of the more fundamental problem.
Peace.
Hey you should Kalab with ghost town living!!!
Glad to see you.
Watched both videos.
Glad to see your still pushing threw i enjoy you and your channel it seems the algorithm doesn't tell me when you have a new video I have to check your channel every now and then I even have the bell activated and i'm subcribed.
I like the intro with the charcoil , you should keep that one
OH YES, HERE WE GOOOO!
cody videos are a treat in and of themselves - extra bonus points for charocal stuff! good to see you again cody!
EDIT
bummer.. it really would have been too good to be true :/
thanks for clearing things up!
Support him on Patreon and you’ll have lots of Cody content :)
I think the setup you have for the charcoal looks really nice, and the clock is a nice touch
Hope you've been ok Cody, love your work.
I like when he whispers "your fine" to the charcoal after he puts it back into the jar. Cody makes me feel not as weird or at least not alone in my weirdness 😊 Now when my family/friends say "your weird" my response is "I know isn't it great" . . . Thank you Cody
Just stopped to say, I enjoy watching Cody'sLab and even more when he seems at least enthusiastic, please never give up Cody, you made me want to learn science :) (chemistry? Wait, was it physics???? WHAT DOES CODY NOT DO!?!?!?!)
What? He made you learn a science you don’t even know?
@@j.strike.8366 no no, he made me want to learn science I don't have the slightest idea of :)
@@fresanegra77 Well.. Oki... I’m not trying to be mean or argue but the last bit of your original comment makes no sense to me that’s all :’)
@@j.strike.8366 alright no worries, I kind of did it on purpose, kind off, not to make it look like.. Idk but more like to show Cody's ability to do more than science, like, digging a hole underground
@@fresanegra77 Ohhhh! I see :’)
Thanks for all your hard work cody. You are making life much more bearable right now, please never forget that you make the world a much better place for some of us.
Thanks Cody glad to see you buddy great video god bless