Turning a penny into a light bulb

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  • Опубликовано: 14 янв 2022
  • For this one, I'm going to be turning a copper penny, into a light bulb. The magic happens when a red hot penny, is lowered into a beaker, over some acetone.
    NOTE: It's important that the penny is pure copper. If it's made with zinc, it'll melt.
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  • @unexpected2475
    @unexpected2475 2 года назад +17386

    Ah, I see this lightbulb was worth every penny.

  • @KtheKing01
    @KtheKing01 2 года назад +6853

    Imagine surviving for almost 50 years just to get turned into the worst lightbulb ever by a scientist who throws around every experiment he creates

    • @danielperales3958
      @danielperales3958 2 года назад +121

      That would be awesome

    • @hopeforescape884
      @hopeforescape884 2 года назад +282

      Its actually 46 years, pardon my pedantry.

    • @danielperales3958
      @danielperales3958 2 года назад +59

      @@hopeforescape884 thanks for the fact

    • @ilv1
      @ilv1 2 года назад +41

      @@hopeforescape884 Thank you! You are good maths! We need more people like that!

    • @AmidaNyorai48
      @AmidaNyorai48 2 года назад +5

      🤔🤔

  • @tastyneck
    @tastyneck 2 года назад +632

    Penny: "Yeah, I'm getting the chance to fulfill my dream of being a lightbulb instead of just $0.01!"
    NileRed: "It was definitely one of the worst lightbulbs I've ever seen."
    Penny: ":("

    • @RedVRCC
      @RedVRCC Год назад +17

      Penny is still happy because even if penny is a bad lightbulb it's still a lightbulb that doesn't require electricity and runs on a chemical reaction.

    • @Gentleman...Driver
      @Gentleman...Driver Год назад +3

      my entire life story

    • @wartanklover67883
      @wartanklover67883 Год назад +1

      you can also say 1¢

    • @Fallen-Champion_Cox
      @Fallen-Champion_Cox Год назад +2

      :'(

    • @whynot001
      @whynot001 Год назад +2

      Don't cry, little penny, he's just kidding you

  • @exmitter236
    @exmitter236 Год назад +6

    Why did I think he was going to go through a series of horrible chemical experments to convert the penny into a real lightbulb

  • @-cherrylimeade-4872
    @-cherrylimeade-4872 2 года назад +6361

    I think he’s a wizard, but using science words to justify his magic

    • @AnishaPramanik
      @AnishaPramanik 2 года назад +64

      I think so too

    • @Kumquat_Lord
      @Kumquat_Lord 2 года назад +209

      Magic is just science we don't understand yet

    • @theboss-by5gd
      @theboss-by5gd 2 года назад +19

      @@Kumquat_Lord Fitz Simmons agree.Die Hard Marvel fans will know what am talkin abt

    • @Pushkaragravat
      @Pushkaragravat 2 года назад +6

      How old will your mother be?
      2 subscribe - 180 years ☆
      Ignore- instant death(50 years 💀))
      👇👇👇

    • @an_annoying_cat
      @an_annoying_cat 2 года назад +19

      he should sell his spellbook as merch

  • @Idlehampster
    @Idlehampster 2 года назад +3239

    NileRed is putting holes in that penny like he's John Wilkes Booth.

  • @toddnewsom8129
    @toddnewsom8129 10 месяцев назад +4

    "All I need to do is drill a hole through it." Right through Lincoln's temple. Hahaha

  • @Jourei_
    @Jourei_ 2 года назад +7

    "Worst light bulb I ever seen"
    The heck are you talking about?! That looks fantastic!

  • @WorldNews92
    @WorldNews92 2 года назад +550

    Lincoln: "Well if I'm on the penny, at least I won't get another hole in the head."
    Nile Red: "Hold my bromine."

    • @Lone-Lee
      @Lone-Lee 2 года назад +7

      Acetone would be a better replacement for bromine.

    • @trashcat3000
      @trashcat3000 2 года назад +2

      hold my chromyl chloride

    • @_shadow_1
      @_shadow_1 Год назад +9

      "Hold my beaker."

    • @ujjwal2473
      @ujjwal2473 Год назад

      hold my gun

    • @BeeDaWorker
      @BeeDaWorker Год назад +3

      @@_shadow_1 no he would just throw the beaker instead

  • @JordanNHoule
    @JordanNHoule 2 года назад +872

    It’s important to note the year of the penny. It has to be an older penny as they are pure copper. Post 1982 Pennies were zinc coins plated in copper. Zinc melts at relatively low temperatures… red hot does exist with Zinc. It will liquify and drip out of any deep scratches.

    • @HunterShows
      @HunterShows 2 года назад +13

      95%.

    • @gadaadhoon
      @gadaadhoon 2 года назад +51

      @@HunterShows you know it's a chemistry page when threads like this start.

    • @Reth_Hard
      @Reth_Hard 2 года назад +30

      My doctor gave me a zinc based cream for my foot, does it mean I can use pennies instead?

    • @mudauvhadau170
      @mudauvhadau170 2 года назад +34

      @@Reth_Hard yes, just make sure to melt the coins and apply in liquid form... otherwise it will be too hard to smear over your feet

    • @Reth_Hard
      @Reth_Hard 2 года назад +19

      @@mudauvhadau170
      Ok I'll try it. Do you think it's going to do a better job for removing the fungus on my foot? The cream doesn't seems to be be very effective...

  • @soilmilkgaming5269
    @soilmilkgaming5269 2 года назад +32

    Nile is actually the first person to use a penny in 5 years. Congratulations!

  • @deusexaethera
    @deusexaethera Год назад +1

    Nitro engines in RC cars and airplanes use the same principle. The alcohol vapor and fresh air in the intake charge catalyze against the hot platinum glowplug coil to keep it hot enough during the intake/compression phases to be able to cause combustion when the intake charge is fully compressed.

  • @Saltedchipps
    @Saltedchipps 2 года назад +242

    He even made an accurate Lincoln with the drill!

  • @smnprz6652
    @smnprz6652 2 года назад +982

    it'd be cool to see if it works with something a little bit bigger like a copper sheet and see how the acetone fumes move through de air

    • @zwabbah4841
      @zwabbah4841 2 года назад +8

      true

    • @nifa7231
      @nifa7231 2 года назад +2

      Only for fans over 18 years old PERFECTBODYGIRLSS.WEBSITE 👈
      tricks I do not know
      Megan: "Hotter"
      Hopi: "Sweeter"
      Joonie: "Cooler"
      Yoongi: "Butter
      So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today.
      Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım ''
      Erinder: '' Sezimdüü ''
      Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak ''
      Dene: '' Muzdak ''
      Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis.
      Aç köz arstan
      Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon.
      Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan.
      Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾
      They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising
      💗❤️💌💘

    • @brusicor02
      @brusicor02 2 года назад +18

      For a large piece of copper foil, check the Royal Society of Chemistry channel: ruclips.net/video/04mw-1mELJQ/видео.html

    • @jannie4303
      @jannie4303 2 года назад +1

      Only for fans over 18 years old PERFECTBODYGIRLSS.WEBSITE 👈
      tricks I do not know
      Megan: "Hotter"
      Hopi: "Sweeter"
      Joonie: "Cooler"
      Yoongi: "Butter
      So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today.
      Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım ''
      Erinder: '' Sezimdüü ''
      Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak ''
      Dene: '' Muzdak ''
      Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis.
      Aç köz arstan
      Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon.
      Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan.
      Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾
      They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising
      💗❤️💌💘

    • @PianoMastR64
      @PianoMastR64 2 года назад +10

      How about a coil or copper wool

  • @QwertyWirt
    @QwertyWirt 10 месяцев назад +3

    Alternate title:
    -Chemistry-
    Sorcery. At its finest…
    DIY Bloodmoon

  • @Speedwreck
    @Speedwreck Год назад +6

    i was shocked when he didn’t throw anything, or break anything. quite unusual

  • @anselml2928
    @anselml2928 2 года назад +291

    This reaction blew my mind when I heard of it the first time. I tried it with coiled up copper wire. This increased the active surface area and decreased the thermal mass at the same time. It produced a decent amount of light but tended to catch on fire.

    • @DavidCowie2022
      @DavidCowie2022 2 года назад +47

      Catching on fire sounds like a very NileRed thing to happen.

    • @anselml2928
      @anselml2928 2 года назад +45

      ​@@DavidCowie2022 Honestly I expected it to catch on fire in his experiment as well. This would have increased the light output significantly.

    • @aayushpaswan2941
      @aayushpaswan2941 2 года назад +1

      intresting fact:- ruclips.net/video/YIs3th01NV0/видео.html

    • @aayushpaswan2941
      @aayushpaswan2941 2 года назад

      intresting fun fact:__ ruclips.net/video/YIs3th01NV0/видео.html

    • @trevorhast5367
      @trevorhast5367 Год назад +4

      Nile's drill blew Lincoln's mind as well

  • @jacobcasler8684
    @jacobcasler8684 2 года назад +118

    "drill a hole in the penny"
    *John Wilkes Boothe wants to know your location*

    • @eggsbenedict96
      @eggsbenedict96 2 года назад +2

      You got the reference too

    • @izzyash775
      @izzyash775 2 года назад +1

      Who is John Wilkes Boothe?

    • @Javimtz32
      @Javimtz32 2 года назад +1

      @@izzyash775 The man who murdered Abraham Lincoln

    • @shenxvy
      @shenxvy 2 года назад +1

      @@izzyash775 The dude who assassinated Abe Lincoln
      Oh, well, Booth killed him, but Boothe is a different story

    • @DoctorBleach
      @DoctorBleach Год назад +1

      @@izzyash775 He was the guy who killed Abraham Lincoln.

  • @teenspider
    @teenspider Год назад +4

    The way he turned the penny into a light bulb was mindblowing, even the penny itself was mindblown

  • @bravo_01
    @bravo_01 2 года назад +3

    RIP Penny 1976-2022

  • @dooplets._.5776
    @dooplets._.5776 2 года назад +226

    "just drill a small hole in it" I see what you did there Nigel

    • @needless6997
      @needless6997 2 года назад +3

      Can you explain?

    • @linux_fox
      @linux_fox 2 года назад +58

      @@needless6997 He made a hole in Lincoln's head

    • @fc027bonthalakasiyogeswara5
      @fc027bonthalakasiyogeswara5 2 года назад +8

      I was searching for this comment, lol

    • @dooplets._.5776
      @dooplets._.5776 2 года назад +23

      @@needless6997 Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by being shot in the head, he drilled a hole in his head

    • @samantoniak1657
      @samantoniak1657 2 года назад +17

      Wtf is with these bots in the replies

  • @hellosirimlookingforcrackg776
    @hellosirimlookingforcrackg776 2 года назад +240

    “When life throws you lemons, make lemonade”
    Also
    “When life throws you pennies, make a crimson red blinding hot lightbulb”

    • @jannie4303
      @jannie4303 2 года назад

      Only for fans over 18 years old PERFECTBODYGIRLSS.WEBSITE 👈
      tricks I do not know
      Megan: "Hotter"
      Hopi: "Sweeter"
      Joonie: "Cooler"
      Yoongi: "Butter
      So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today.
      Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım ''
      Erinder: '' Sezimdüü ''
      Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak ''
      Dene: '' Muzdak ''
      Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis.
      Aç köz arstan
      Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon.
      Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan.
      Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾
      They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising
      💗❤️💌💘

    • @aayushpaswan2941
      @aayushpaswan2941 2 года назад

      intresting fact:- ruclips.net/video/YIs3th01NV0/видео.html

    • @thatguy8777
      @thatguy8777 2 года назад +4

      Y'know, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! I'm gonna get my scientists to invent a combustible lemon, and burn your house down! With the lemons!

    • @yogolee69
      @yogolee69 2 года назад

      seems like i heard somewhere in a song ig

    • @zenRazor
      @zenRazor 2 года назад +2

      Wow, i finally found "Portal" fan!

  • @KingMB_XJ_Official
    @KingMB_XJ_Official Год назад +2

    0:20 Not the first time Lincoln had a hole in his head.

  • @RinceCochon
    @RinceCochon 2 года назад +1

    Its remind me an object called "chaufferette" here in France.
    It work with a little platinium mesh on the top of a coton filled metal container impregnated with lighter fluid (like a Zippo, but larger).
    When you heat the platinium, it start to catalyse it and produce its own heat for several hours.
    Very usefull in cold winter evening, for keeping your hands warm in your pockets ^^
    Please let me know how you call this object in English, i'm curious to hear it :)

    • @fizzyplazmuh9024
      @fizzyplazmuh9024 2 года назад

      We have similar in America. Like a large whisky flask. Place in the coat or back pocket for hunters or hikers in cold weather.

  • @corbanlyon2140
    @corbanlyon2140 2 года назад +17

    0:23
    How to make a penny more historically accurate

    • @dipandas3913
      @dipandas3913 2 года назад +4

      And literally no one is talking about that

    • @angusyang5917
      @angusyang5917 2 года назад +3

      John Wilkes Booth flashbacks intensify

  • @dragondemonsyne
    @dragondemonsyne 2 года назад +18

    Probably worth noting that for US pennies, you need to use a pre-1982 penny for this. Pennies from 1982 onward are copper plated zinc, and trying to heat them that hot may cause the zinc to melt.

    • @Perririri
      @Perririri 2 года назад +1

      I think that you can use any Canadian penny

  • @josephjackson1956
    @josephjackson1956 Год назад +2

    You really did drill a hole through Lincoln’s head. Funny easter egg.

  • @bunnyf1uff620
    @bunnyf1uff620 2 года назад +1

    Its like someone moving around blocking a full red moon from your view that looks like a shadow

  • @00kidney
    @00kidney 2 года назад +404

    I love the smell of acetone (and an overheated penny) in the morning 🤓

    • @nifa7231
      @nifa7231 2 года назад

      Only for fans over 18 years old PERFECTBODYGIRLSS.WEBSITE 👈
      tricks I do not know
      Megan: "Hotter"
      Hopi: "Sweeter"
      Joonie: "Cooler"
      Yoongi: "Butter
      So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today.
      Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım ''
      Erinder: '' Sezimdüü ''
      Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak ''
      Dene: '' Muzdak ''
      Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis.
      Aç köz arstan
      Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon.
      Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan.
      Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾
      They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising
      💗❤️💌💘

    • @patrickjacques2833
      @patrickjacques2833 2 года назад +8

      Apocalypse now joke.

    • @ray.shoesmith
      @ray.shoesmith 2 года назад +7

      But is it good for your kidneys?

    • @datpudding5338
      @datpudding5338 2 года назад +1

      But especially acetone

    • @aayushpaswan2941
      @aayushpaswan2941 2 года назад

      intresting fact:- ruclips.net/video/YIs3th01NV0/видео.html

  • @aspirant_IIT-KGP
    @aspirant_IIT-KGP 2 года назад +51

    "at first it didn't look like much was happening .." is always the sentence he says before something cool happens

  • @heinzie5
    @heinzie5 Год назад +1

    "at first it diddn't look like much was happening" is nilered's version of the lockpicking lawyer's "the pick bosnian bill and i made"

  • @3possumsinatrenchcoat
    @3possumsinatrenchcoat Год назад +3

    show of hands, who else was waiting for a hammer smash in the last five seconds.

  • @ninjanerdstudent6937
    @ninjanerdstudent6937 2 года назад +171

    I would love to see a series of this where you build your own light bulbs with different metallic parts.

    • @nifa7231
      @nifa7231 2 года назад

      Only for fans over 18 years old PERFECTBODYGIRLSS.WEBSITE 👈
      tricks I do not know
      Megan: "Hotter"
      Hopi: "Sweeter"
      Joonie: "Cooler"
      Yoongi: "Butter
      So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today.
      Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım ''
      Erinder: '' Sezimdüü ''
      Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak ''
      Dene: '' Muzdak ''
      Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis.
      Aç köz arstan
      Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon.
      Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan.
      Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾
      They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising
      💗❤️💌💘

    • @aayushpaswan2941
      @aayushpaswan2941 2 года назад

      intresting fact:- ruclips.net/video/YIs3th01NV0/видео.html

    • @aayushpaswan2941
      @aayushpaswan2941 2 года назад

      intresting fun fact:__ ruclips.net/video/YIs3th01NV0/видео.html

  • @monkeyman7950
    @monkeyman7950 2 года назад +13

    Abraham on the penny: *get a hole drilled in his head*. Also abraham: "Oh god its happening again"

  • @MisatoBestWoman
    @MisatoBestWoman 2 года назад +29

    When I saw the title I thought this was gonna be like making an actual mini lightbulb from the penny …
    I love these videos science confuses me but this is great fun engaging content

  • @derralgerken
    @derralgerken Год назад +1

    Lincoln just can’t stop getting holes in his head.

  • @rsprajapati6437
    @rsprajapati6437 2 года назад +1476

    This gives a whole new meaning of "Money can lighten up your life".
    Edit:-- Thank you so much for 1k likes. I never got that much likes before 😱

    • @kijash17
      @kijash17 2 года назад +41

      The amount of bots is insane

    • @Pushkaragravat
      @Pushkaragravat 2 года назад

      How old will your mother be?
      2 subscribe - 180 years ☆
      Ignore- instant death(50 years 💀))
      👇👇👇

    • @jeron9272
      @jeron9272 2 года назад +6

      lmao just buy a light bulb with the money

    • @sitproperlywhilewatchingph423
      @sitproperlywhilewatchingph423 2 года назад +14

      Report this bots 😑

    • @bluewind5273
      @bluewind5273 2 года назад +2

      @@Pushkaragravat touch some grass kid

  • @-hc__
    @-hc__ 2 года назад +23

    He didn't break it.
    My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

    • @aayushpaswan2941
      @aayushpaswan2941 2 года назад

      intresting fact:- ruclips.net/video/YIs3th01NV0/видео.html

  • @Arcian
    @Arcian 2 года назад

    I like how NileRed Shorts is like a halfway point between NileRed and NileGreen.

  • @aSpyIntheHaus
    @aSpyIntheHaus Год назад +1

    That was a great demonstration!

  • @alphaparticle1331
    @alphaparticle1331 2 года назад +60

    "Welcome to today's TV Episode where Nilered makes his own light bulb using a penny."
    ~Chemistry Today.

    • @nazah_
      @nazah_ 2 года назад +4

      Calamity of bots is here!

    • @Matityahu-the-God
      @Matityahu-the-God 2 года назад +2

      @@nazah_ ikr, they just swarm the comments sections. If you want to read relevant replies, you have to wait hours 🤣

    • @--TOM--
      @--TOM-- 2 года назад +1

      This guy should actually have his own show, like neo bill nye the science guy type vibes

    • @alphaparticle1331
      @alphaparticle1331 2 года назад +1

      @@--TOM-- lmao

    • @PikTheRedPikAUTTP
      @PikTheRedPikAUTTP 2 года назад

      @@nifa7231 shut up you hacker

  • @aikenbullet5337
    @aikenbullet5337 2 года назад +326

    Hey Nile. Your experiments are very educational. I like them very much. Honestly I learn more from them than any of my school books. I am very interested in chemistry myself as well. Thank you Keep up the good work. Love from India

    • @PimPonio68
      @PimPonio68 2 года назад +6

      Nile needs to see this

    • @ksinitial
      @ksinitial 2 года назад +29

      U learn more from this than your school books? U must not have read them...

    • @AddictiveGaming_
      @AddictiveGaming_ 2 года назад +2

      @@ksinitial Aiken is right I got 70% in Chem exam but I still learn from Nile

    • @SuzdalPanic
      @SuzdalPanic 2 года назад +14

      @@ksinitial Some people process information better through hands-on instruction. Learning to turn a penny into a lightbulb is a lot more engaging at first glance than a textbook.

    • @zavvie809
      @zavvie809 2 года назад +7

      @@SuzdalPanic yea and what did you actually learn lol. It's a nice showcase demo that's useless in practice. And you have 0 clue why it works or how to use knowledge from this in similar experiments (at least with the information from this video). And most of his videos are like that, specially shorts. You could make an argument for some long videos *maybe*
      Truly, if you learn more from this than textbooks then the textbook authors are incompetent, as they're competing with virtually 0 knowledge gained...

  • @HighVoltageMadness
    @HighVoltageMadness 2 года назад +1

    I just did this reaction with some copper wire. Another channel showed how acetone vapours can be used in combination with an HHO torch to braze copper very easily.

  • @nihan7145
    @nihan7145 Год назад +1

    He drilled exactly where Abraham Lincoln was shot...

  • @Crowbars2
    @Crowbars2 2 года назад +17

    Cerium, iron, manganese, nickel, platinum, rhodium, palladium, as well as copper can all catalyse the reaction between hydrocarbons and oxygen. But nickel can produce nickel tetracarbonyl, which is poisonous.
    If you have any of these metals lying around, it would be interesting to see if there are any differences when they react. Does the "light bulb" get brighter? Is it a different colour? Do they get hotter?

    • @tsm688
      @tsm688 2 года назад

      any silvery coins like, say... *nickels* should be made of mostly nickel.

    • @angusyang5917
      @angusyang5917 2 года назад +2

      @@tsm688 Actually, US nickels post-1965 are 75% copper, 25% nickel

    • @Crowbars2
      @Crowbars2 2 года назад +2

      @@tsm688 O...K... Do you know of any rhodium, cerium, or manganese coins?

    • @tsm688
      @tsm688 2 года назад +1

      @@Crowbars2 rhodium and cerium are hard to get, but manganese is the black gunk which you get out of your tap. Maybe someday Nile will make a video about turning the gunk from your tap into a lightbulb...

    • @angusyang5917
      @angusyang5917 2 года назад +1

      @@tsm688 Rhodium jewelry can be bought, and cerium can be reduced from cerium oxide, sold as a glass abrasive.

  • @BobMotster
    @BobMotster 2 года назад +4

    A penny from 1976. Maybe it's a collector's item. Thank god Nile preserved it. Oh, wait...

    • @Doran.
      @Doran. 2 года назад

      Ah. That explains why it's solid copper

    • @tsm688
      @tsm688 2 года назад

      @@Doran. Is it? No reason it needs to be.

    • @angusyang5917
      @angusyang5917 2 года назад

      There are plenty of pre-1982 pennies in circulation, I once picked up a penny from 1967 right off the street

  • @rat_dragon
    @rat_dragon Год назад +1

    "Here's how to turn a penny into a pendant if you want to look poor but pretend to be rich"

  • @scottl.1568
    @scottl.1568 2 года назад +2

    THANK YOU for finally giving me an explanation for those rare times as a kid when I found some fucked up penny with a little hole in it... I figured they were used for some kind of experiment but I never knew what...

  • @thunghiempenicilliumchryso933
    @thunghiempenicilliumchryso933 2 года назад +19

    Hagrid: "Yer a wizard, Nile"
    Nile: "I'm a what?"
    Hagrid: "A scientific wizard".

  • @vehrix
    @vehrix 2 года назад +14

    Did anyone else notice that Nile has his own branded beakers lmao.

  • @SkyBungis
    @SkyBungis 2 года назад

    Thank you Nile, very cool :)

  • @youseemerage9711
    @youseemerage9711 2 года назад +2

    NileRed: "One of the worst lights I've ever seen"
    The penny trying his hardest: :'(

    • @IAmMisterD
      @IAmMisterD Год назад +1

      "Well maybe your best isn't good enough"
      *Sad penny noises*

  • @pipandchuk6545
    @pipandchuk6545 2 года назад +7

    He's both a genius and mad scientist

  • @krisdotts1776
    @krisdotts1776 2 года назад +5

    Honestly reminds me of a red dwarf star, barely strong enough to light up the little stuff that might orbit it.

  • @stormchaser1423
    @stormchaser1423 Год назад +1

    aaaahhh, now i get it, John Wilkes Booth was trying to make a light bulb.

  • @MultiDarkZen
    @MultiDarkZen 2 года назад

    Whenever Nile gets an idea this lightbulb will appear over his head in a cartoony fashion

  • @furiousgamer2332
    @furiousgamer2332 2 года назад +5

    Thought he would turn the penny into a literal lightbulb

    • @gunkanjima3408
      @gunkanjima3408 Год назад

      This video is terrible. You can also set a wooden log on fire to illuminate the room. I guess this qualifies as turning a log into a lightbulb too, but also known as a fireplace lol

  • @amanrv
    @amanrv 2 года назад +17

    Binging on your videos since the past week. Please keep making long form videos. They're much more fun than the short ones. Don't get me wrong, the short ones are great and funny, but I just prefer the educational aspect of the long form videos.

    • @nifa7231
      @nifa7231 2 года назад

      Only for fans over 18 years old PERFECTBODYGIRLSS.WEBSITE 👈
      tricks I do not know
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      Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım ''
      Erinder: '' Sezimdüü ''
      Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak ''
      Dene: '' Muzdak ''
      Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis.
      Aç köz arstan
      Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon.
      Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan.
      Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾
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    • @DeezNuts-
      @DeezNuts- 2 года назад +1

      Yes i agree

    • @freehat2722
      @freehat2722 2 года назад

      I concur.

  • @KaiserTom
    @KaiserTom 10 месяцев назад +1

    Truly this was the Nilest of Reds.

  • @Army247-
    @Army247- 2 года назад +1

    I love how Nile always sounds like he has no idea what he is doing

  • @Ibloop
    @Ibloop 2 года назад +9

    I’ve actually had this question before. I was watching the amazing world of gumball with my brother some years ago and the character named “penny” lit up. My brother said “what if someone made a penny into a lightbulb” or something like that. Now it actually happened

    • @pennyyiscool
      @pennyyiscool Год назад +1

      my nickname is penny

    • @Ibloop
      @Ibloop Год назад +2

      @@pennyyiscool hello penny

  • @Harry3112
    @Harry3112 2 года назад +5

    That's the light bulb I need in my house. So cheap yet beautiful

    • @aayushpaswan2941
      @aayushpaswan2941 2 года назад

      intresting fact:- ruclips.net/video/YIs3th01NV0/видео.html

  • @siesgosiesgo2614
    @siesgosiesgo2614 2 года назад +1

    penny at first: NO DONT MAKE ME DOTTED PENNY
    penny at last : thanks mate

  • @jayj.7524
    @jayj.7524 Год назад +1

    I think you made John Wilkes Booth smile in his grave.

  • @exactly28jugsofspoiledmilk
    @exactly28jugsofspoiledmilk 2 года назад +2

    Straight up gave Lincoln a lobotomy.
    Absolutely cold.

  • @hritulnawale333
    @hritulnawale333 2 года назад +5

    It was Definitely one of the best light bulbs I've ever seen

  • @linux750
    @linux750 Год назад +1

    Although, with a few adjustments (like adding a few mirrors or aluminum foil structure around) it can be a potential light for making camera film photos.

  • @SamBrickell
    @SamBrickell 2 года назад +1

    I think in a couple years he's going to be making horcruxes on this channel.

  • @michaelmoorrees3585
    @michaelmoorrees3585 2 года назад +3

    Sir Humphry Davy made an electric incandescent light, using a platinum filament in the early 1800s. Davy also performed many chemistry experiments with sketchy safety practices. If alive, today, Davy would definitely qualify as a member of the Safety Third RUclips channel !

    • @aayushpaswan2941
      @aayushpaswan2941 2 года назад

      intresting fact:- ruclips.net/video/YIs3th01NV0/видео.html

  • @queenofdramatech
    @queenofdramatech 2 года назад +3

    This looks so cool! I know you shouldn't try this at home, but I wish I could!!

    • @hamjudo
      @hamjudo 2 года назад +1

      We have got to update the building codes. New homes should have fume hoods built in.

    • @MonstertruckBadass
      @MonstertruckBadass 2 года назад

      I mean... you can, nobody is going to stop you

  • @z_myst
    @z_myst 2 года назад +1

    Money can’t be destroyed but it can be shredded

  • @TheStormyClouds
    @TheStormyClouds Год назад +1

    I feel like making a penny a bit hot does not qualify it as a light bulb.

  • @chadatchison145
    @chadatchison145 2 года назад +37

    How long does the reaction last, and can it be scaled up to any practical purpose?

    • @zockertwins
      @zockertwins 2 года назад +19

      It lasts as long as there is enough Acetone evaporating beneath it. Acetone evaporates relatively quickly, but if you keep enough of it below the penny, you could keep it going for a while.

    • @laughinggoat9343
      @laughinggoat9343 2 года назад +28

      Report the bot above me:)

    • @tsm688
      @tsm688 2 года назад +12

      It can last until it runs out of fuel. Plenty of small gas heaters and gas soldering irons use it.

    • @EdwardTriesToScience
      @EdwardTriesToScience 2 года назад +6

      This reaction was once used to make formaldehyde from methanol, you can also use acetone to make ketene (literally what he's doing, why didn't he mention any safety precautions?) a gas more toxic than cyanide but can be used to turn water into acetic acid and acetic acid into acetic anhydride

    • @tsm688
      @tsm688 2 года назад +2

      @@EdwardTriesToScience at these temperatures, won't it all just burn?

  • @Kapil__Lanjewar
    @Kapil__Lanjewar 2 года назад +164

    "Definitely one of the worst light bulbs I've ever seen..." the ability to criticize his own work sets him apart from other Homosapiens I have known. Nile a Great human.

    • @Qw3rtScapes
      @Qw3rtScapes 2 года назад +3

      @Wimi Sasha reported

    • @randomguy6328
      @randomguy6328 2 года назад

      @Risma ajisona reported.

    • @oliverj.8266
      @oliverj.8266 2 года назад

      Perorted.

    • @tanegram
      @tanegram Год назад

      Being self-critical is fundamental in science and analyzing results.

  • @ironyinc3453
    @ironyinc3453 Год назад +1

    Historically accurate penny

  • @amodelanime2
    @amodelanime2 Год назад

    This is why I love ur channel always learn something new

  • @aniketmaity8901
    @aniketmaity8901 2 года назад +6

    That effect looks cool though
    Edit: The reaction he was talking about is the oxidation of acetone to acetaldehyde, which is a highly exothermic reaction and red hot copper acts as a catalyst in the process

  • @barxmorOnYT
    @barxmorOnYT 2 года назад +5

    "But it was definitely one of the worst light bulbs I've ever seen"
    Him literally making a light source from a Penny

  • @tizio5103
    @tizio5103 Год назад +1

    Lincoln: Not again, damnit!

  • @TheDiamondBro
    @TheDiamondBro Год назад +1

    he really recorded himself committing a crime XD

  • @user-ur9lt3vu6v
    @user-ur9lt3vu6v 2 года назад +3

    I LOVE YOU NILE!!!,

  • @marktaylor865
    @marktaylor865 2 года назад +3

    Hands up everyone who thinks nilered has been paid to put out shorts in lue of features by youtube? 🙋‍♂️

    • @Spootnik
      @Spootnik 2 года назад

      It's just a way to make content quicker and therefore earn more. Nobody is paying anyone to do this, it's just a numbers game and I think in Niles case, much much easier since some of his long videos can take months of work.

    • @marktaylor865
      @marktaylor865 2 года назад +1

      @@Spootnik how many ads have you watched on the shorts? It's not many. No way they make more money on shorts. You're making excuses.

  • @dantebmorrison
    @dantebmorrison Год назад +1

    nilered is the equivelant of aperature science. science isnt about why, its about why not

  • @mynameismyname8841
    @mynameismyname8841 2 года назад +1

    That is so darn fun to look at! If I didn’t know it was a sectional 2D representation of the gases it would be much less mesmerizing I must add

  • @TheTarrMan
    @TheTarrMan 10 месяцев назад +2

    You punched a hole right in Lincoln's head huh?

  • @Hfr596
    @Hfr596 2 года назад +1

    Chemistry between you and chemistry is very good

  • @CarthagoMike
    @CarthagoMike 2 года назад +1

    Friend of mine once tried this with a British penny, but for some reason it didn't work well for him.
    So he made a necklace of it instead. Now he walks with a 1933 around his neck, truly a penny necklace.

  • @shreya0910_
    @shreya0910_ 2 года назад

    "At first, it didn't look like much was happening"
    WHY DID I HAVE IT MEMORIZED T^T

  • @JeevanSamagar
    @JeevanSamagar Год назад +1

    🔥🔥🔥 These fires came while listening 🎧

  • @fmdj
    @fmdj 2 года назад

    Love it, will try at home

  • @lake5044
    @lake5044 2 года назад +1

    Me: Mom, can we have a light bulb.
    Mom: We have a light bulb at home.
    Light bulb at home:

  • @engineer0239
    @engineer0239 2 года назад

    Dindnt expect copper to be such a good catalyst!
    Tried it myself and it totally worked! Amazing!

  • @lennonmclean
    @lennonmclean 2 года назад +1

    I would like to see you make a copper ingot out of all of your pennies
    The raw copper would probably sell for more than the Pennies themselves

  • @ChrisD4335
    @ChrisD4335 2 года назад

    putting the hole through lincoln's head just makes the likeness more accurate

  • @chickenman404
    @chickenman404 Год назад

    The bitter irony of a coin with Lincoln's head on it getting a hole put in it.

  • @MaximQuantum
    @MaximQuantum 2 года назад +1

    Survival tips by NileRed

  • @WastedElephant
    @WastedElephant 4 месяца назад

    All I need to do is heat it up with a blowtorch until it's red hot. Now it's a lightbulb.

  • @dennyshei4849
    @dennyshei4849 2 года назад

    Imagine going to the store and seeing NileRed lightbulb eco-friendly

  • @angr3819
    @angr3819 Год назад

    Thank you

  • @PhantomMYG
    @PhantomMYG 2 года назад +1

    John Wilkes Booth would be proud