Suzy Siviter. So would Terrorists. Not a good idea. I was intrigued to see how much silver was in a quarter. Not enough to go through all that work and danger.
you can just buy sodium nitrate in american hardware stores. you don't even need more than the chemistry you learn in school to make explosives with that lol
@@bettylinker4780 A little less than 1/5 of a troy oz. Ag, even though they were 90% fine. There is little danger in isolating the silver from the copper. We did that in Analytical Chem. lab.
But they're conquering America by every means allowed. Which reminds me. Any country allowing computer voting might as well just surrender. Except they already have. Deuteronomy 28.
I don't know why, but I was half expecting the words "Keep your stick on the ice." to be said at the end, let alone what I thought was going to be said while the camera was trying to focus. I enjoyed watching this, and I hope I am not on any watch list now. XD
This really brings back memories. When I was in college in the early 70s for chemistry, I made silver, copper, and mercury acetylides. Back then, the professors thought it was cool too, and experimenting in this way was expected from a chemistry student. If I remember correctly, the copper acetylide was more sensitive than the silver and degraded, turning dark brown (mix of elemental copper and carbon). The mercury acetylide was extremely sensitive and exploded while still moist as I was spreading the pieces during the drying process. It went off with a loud bang but didn't have the brisance in it's moist state to break the watch glass or glass rod I was using. It was like a cartoon explosion: loud noise, the watch glass, glass rod, and my hand blackened from the carbon residue, but no harm done. I'm fortunate to have survived those days. Very nice video and a good chemistry lesson! If it weren't for the occasional inappropriate language, I would play it for my chemistry students.
As a former coin collector I am saddened, but as an amateur mason jar chemist, I'm thoroughly entertained. I'll definitely leave playing with primary explosives up to you and others that really know what they're doing while I watch in fascination. I just received my 35% hydrogen peroxide today and I'm nervous enough handling that. LOL.
I'm using it for many things. I'm not as nervous handling it now. I just know to be careful and to fully understand anything I work with.--thoroughly read through MSDS sheets.
Matthew Wilson Matthew this is exactly my point. While this idea is a little interesting if you know and understand the science, I just feel sorry for all the 10-14 year old boys and a few girls that will likely lose their eyesight a few fingers or bad burns because they don’t understand what’s involved. Videos like this would be banned to the general public in a kinder safer Great America where our children would be safe from closet scientists..#mytwocentsworth
I'm glad that some commenters were not the fathers of you. me, Thomas Edison, Tesla, or any of the other bold geniuses who made discoveries by not being "kinder, gentler". If it weren't for risk-takers we wouldn't have the marvels we enjoy today. Thank you for taking a risk, however small or big. - from an old retired chemist who started with a Gilbert chemistry set back in the 50's, when he was 8 and made a lot of smelly, often flammable and even explosive compounds without losing any eyes or fingers.
Leave Thomas Edison out of the equation, he was in it for the money and payed off inventors that worked for him, taking their inventions and calling them his: "You work for me, so what you make is mine"....the same thing he tried to do to Tesla but Tesla told him to stuff it and went off on his own.
@@DrTeddyMMM , ... And what about 90% of the contemporary professors, do they do it differently nowdays ? Aren't they in the same boat of the feasting on the students work ?
@@DrTeddyMMM you are very naive to think that the employer does not have full rights to any invention made by his employees. Nobody would hire people to cut them out of the product they intended to make. Edison was a great commercial success. Tesla was a failure. He zeroed in on to many impractical dead ends.
excelent video my friend, i have always been interested in chemestry and wish id have excelled more from school but in my days i had to work to help support my family, still im now 59 and able to have pastimes and make my own fireworks so im sure i can use this in my pyrotechnics of the future, thank you very much and God bless you and your family
Thank you, but definitely keep this stuff away from pyro use. It's way too sensitive to be safely used for anything in the pyro field. Stick to good ole flash when you need a loud bang 👍
Great video. Entertaining and educational as well. One small suggestion if I may. Instead of sodium chloride try using potassium chloride.. Does the same job but converts both the silver and copper nitrate into chlorides and leave some good old fashioned "potassium based oxygen" in solution ready to crystallise out and use for other fun stuff. I've been doing this with my silver refining for the past year and i have recovered a little over 10kg of the stuff. I use mine to generate more nitric acid but I am sure that you can come up with many more "entertaining" things to do with it.
You do not want to react copper chloride with acetylene if you wish to dry the material. Copper acetylide is very sensitive when dry. Both copper acetylide and silver acetylide are impact and friction sensitive. I seem to recall that the copper compound is the more sensitive of the two when dry.
One of my friends at around 13years old blew up a small hill in his fathers field. He totally levelled that hill and collected about 50 dead rabbits afterwards. Some had been ejected from the hill as it had contained the main warren which had kindly accepted many small sacks of modified fertiliser. That damned hill jumped about 3-4 foot in the air and took us both off our feet even when a long ways away hiding in a drainage ditch. His dad was well pleased about the rabbits and having a field for planting crops which was normally used for cattle now and again. But when he found out how much fertiliser had been used, he wasn't a happy man.
I love everything about this video. The random starting materials, the bad background, the toxic chemicals, the terrible lab equipment, the bad safety, and not least the fact that he's making illegal explosives in his home. It's amazing, and I want to try this someday.
I just found this channel a week or so ago and have been checking it out here and there until today. Now I’m stuck and feeling like a mischievous little boy that just found out what happens when you add the works (blue cap) and some foil into a bottle, cap it off and gtfo. Long ago (back when I was just a wee boy) one of my dads friends knew this trick and performed it with large amounts the proper ingredients (prepped with the correct ratio) then chucked it into a 5 gallon bucket that had a locking sealing lid. They quickly positioned this receptacle under an old 1-ton truck and had every stay far back. If you read this far and have picked up what I’m putting down I’m sure you know what happened next. When that glorious moment went down 2 things happened. 1) I got to watch the front end of truck jump and 2) My mind was forever tainted knowing stuff like this can be done. Now I’m a father and it’s been years since I dad or seen anything like that but watching this channel has me wanting to figure out similar experiments I can legally do in small and safe batches and have some fun with my sons while getting them interested in home chemistry. If anyone actually read this to the end and has any suggestions on experiments that would be legal safe and cool to do with my boys drop a comment. It would be greatly appreciated.
@@ElementalMaker Excellent! Glad to hear it. As a person who also has a lot of junk silver, I know exactly how that goes.
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Thank you! I am only getting into chemistry in my older age because of videos like yours and rednile, chemplayer. Thanks! I have always wanted to know how early chemists made bullet primers.
If enjoying this puts me on a watch list I don’t care. It was definitely educational and interesting to watch. Keep up the good work! Don’t let the man get you down. By the way, where did you learn all this?
And when you put the hydroxide you are actually developing just like film in photography..... If you make your silver nitrate in a darkroom and coat paper with it keep it in the dark until exposure then hydroxide you have done the photographic process
It didn't make sense to get rid of copper because copper acetylide is also an explosive and created the same way. You would have got a mix what behaves the same way.
dorzsboss the reason I removed copper is that copper acetlyide is much more sensitive to shock and friction than the silver compound. I forgot to mention that in the video, so thank you for bringing it up! Hope you enjoyed the video and thanks for checking out my channel!
it is interesting. I made both and I experienced silver acetylide being way more sensitive. It exploded when I scratched it out from a spoon. Copper-acetylide only exploded by fire, or hammering it.
Yeah, I'm guessing the copper acetylide is closer to the absolute uselessness of nitrogen tri-iodide. At least nitrogen tri-iodide (triiodide? dunno) makes a nice purple cloud. I gotta say its a little odd that you chose to wear gloves for the entire video except for the part where you reaaaally should have worn gloves.
Well, I didn't guess, I looked it up on wikipedia and saw that it was a shock and heat sensitive high explosive. I also tried to find any uses for it. If it were stable then at least someone would have used it as primer for cartridges. There are references for silver acetylide being used as a primer, but I'm guessing its not cost effective. Since neither of us has actually made it or seen it used, I can say that me calling it as bad as nitrogen triiodide is a little hyperbolic, but neither of us actually knows by how much.
Interesting ... as an academic exercise. It would have been easier just to start with pure silver (such as silver shot or fractional ounce rounds) methinks.
Any reason you didn't just cement (precipitate) out the silver using clean copper wire or plates in the nitrate solution? The cement silver would have been about 97% and a second processing could get very close to pure. More importantly, you'd recover all of the silver added to the nitrate, no messy loss. Also, the nitrate solution should have silver added until the reaction stops then the nitric acid is all used up. The undissolved silver is then easily filtered out of the saturated nitrate solution. After cementing out the silver onto copper you could then cement out the copper onto Ferrous.
"Honestly officer, I learned all this from a channel on RUclips called... ...Markiplier! He's the guy you want! If I were you I'd use the tasers first and _then_ ask questions."
I just watch this video and was seriously like WTF! Cody's lab just got shut down for a video about making gunpowder from his own piss, but this video is okay? Not that I have a problem with this video in fact I loved it. I enjoy channels such as this and Cody's lab just thought it was unfair they hit him with all of this BS but there are a hundred other channels on RUclips that post videos just like this without any repercussion. RUclips makes no sense.
I completely agree. I wouldn't be surprised if this video gets nailed at some point soon. Its so sad that what used to be an open educational platform has now turned into a nanny nation. It almost feels counteractive to build my channel seeing what Cody and other science channels are currently going though. Its really a huge shame.
I wouldn't worry too much... it's like council's. Someone needs to complain. until then it's all g! Just don't go nuking any grasshoppers. And DEFINITELY don't upset the flerfers
If you can dig deep enough you can find out how to make a flare gun, flares, and all the explosive propellant you need. Look for something like 30mm...
It's because urine is free but not everyone has a silver quarter.......lol Besides, if the Feds see this you can be charged with destruction of Government property so they have an offense readily available to them to support your incarceration should they choose to do so.
You've missed another option that leaves your silver intact and available to resell. After I dissolve my sterling silver in nitric acid I cement out the silver onto copper to recover most of the silver. The silver nitrate that's left dissolved and mixed with the copper nitrate is recovered by adding potassium chloride to precipitate out silver chloride and leave behind a solution of copper chloride and potassium nitrate. I'll then gently heat the solution to evaporate off a good deal of the water and then chill the rest in the freezer. Pretty soon I get nice heavy needles of potassium nitrate crystals which I can then filter off and wash. Now, in my case I have no need for (or interest )in any explosives so I reuse the potassium nitrate to make more nitric acid and I occasionally use it to fertilise my garden. But if one were so inclined they could use it to make black powder. Not advising...just saying. :)
Very good synthesis of silver acetylide¡¡. I guess the silver oxide can be directly reacted with nitric acid to form silver nitrate. Thus obviating the need for the crucible step
@@ElementalMaker Before our fancy pressurized bottles of gas were available, chemists and others used blow pipes. My ancient jeweler's blowpipe is kicking around somewhere.
In minecraft, you actually don't need to isolate the silver by itself, the end product while it may contain copper acetylide will still have sufficient brisance as that is also a PE.
Once you have your coin dissolved you could just place some copper metal in the beaker and pure silver metal will drop out of solution and be replaced by more copper in your nitrate solution.
Invest in a benzomatic oxy - propane ready-made kit they have the mixing torch/cutting head, connectors, tubes, i think nozzles and one of each bottle. Even a first timer can easily melt gold from jewelry or nugget form very fast. And silver is obviously not a problem.
That glass watch will not help the nitric vapours condensing... Those vapours are nitrogen dioxide . Will form nitric acid only when will contact water( your lungs contain water, righ?) , and the result is that you will have nitric acid in your lungs ( or other persons lungs, but will be your fault). In order to keep you almost safe, cover that glass beaker with a large glass bell. The water in the pan will form low concentration nitric acid when in contact with nitrogen dioxide, but the water lever must be reasonably high and in contact with the rest of the water. This recovered nitric acid can be used to lower the concentration of the nitric acid purchased from the supplier.
Copper acetylide is also explosive and can formed inside acetylene fittings if the wrong sort of brass is used. You probably did not need to remove the copper from solution.
it is very easy to make unstable silver acetylide that will simply explode for seemingly no reason. i've heard of it just going off seemingly at random while in storage. if you make this stuff, it is best to keep it in very small separate quantities.
I've never made more than a gram or so just to demonstrate its power. I would never consider making this in a large quantity, although it is much more safe if made properly than other primaries such as AP.
You made serious mistakes handling the SA.DS (you made the double salt version, which is less sensitive than pure acetylide), you should not put any primary explosive on a watch glass, you should not scrape it with metal (but with wooden stick and wodden sticks wrapped in cotton wool) and above all, wear leather gloves with forearm protection! Glasses + face/neck shieldd are a must, too. Earplugs are a no brainer. Rememeber, some primary explosives can detonate even when 25 % wet! And in some cases, water doesn't lower the friction sensitivity that much.
There's no negative effect to adding excess sodium chloride. As long as you rinse the silver chloride we'll with distilled water. ;) great video by the way. Hope it stays safe from youtube bots
16:24 "I definitely see a little bit of glass in the product, but it shouldn't affect performance much."~ElementalMaker, dividing some white powder with a blade
Concentrated nitric acid oxidizes metals creating a passivating layer. Always add a little water until it starts reacting, it shouldn't have taken that long.
You should have used a Bone Ash CUPEL instead of that porcelain crucible for fusing the Silver Oxide into a button of Silver Metal . -- (I have done professional Assaying for the Mining Industry .)
Azide doesn't have any CN, it's an N3- molecule. Its toxic effect is similar to cyanide though (blocks cellular metabolism) and like cyanide it puts out toxic fumes. Unlike cyanide though it doesn't have an antidote (the antidote for cyanide is thiosulfate, but that doesn't work for azide). So, as toxic as cyanide and no antidote. Stay away.
I used to make Mercury Fulminate at home in college. I tried to make Silver Fulminate once with some old silver quarters and it didn't work. Probably for the best since I probably would've blown my hand off.
Why not dissolve silver oxide in nitric acid without converting it back to pure silver? Converting silver to chloride is step filtering out copper ions ... which here are dangerous.
You could have skipped a few steps if you just wanted the raw silver from the coin. Yes dissolve in nitric acid. However if you put copper in silver nitrate the copper and silver switch places. Then filter the silver from the remaining copper nitrate. Less silver loss.
Indeed it was. But then again, it is completely legal to victimize US currency in the pursuit of science, and, the coin in question has long since been exempted from those stupid rules.
Yea right. A treasury agent or not. You have no evedence asshole. No harm no foul. Great job. Tell us more. He cant prove anything. And his mom fell out of a donkys ass. Thats the shit he rolles with. What a joke. Hey i have a bunch of silver can you convert it for me??????? Ha ha ha ha ha hs ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Show me ill show you. Ha ha ha ha ha fuk thats funny.
IIRC, copper acetylide also very explosive. Nice that you bothered with refining of silver, but that was unnecessary, you could just bubble acetylene through first solution to get mix of explosive acetylides.
Don't know if you need the potassium in the reaction...but I saw sreetips being able to convert silver chloride into silver oxide just using lye and stirring (careful...mighty exothermic)...then silver oxide to elemental silver with just (drum roll)...sugar! The precipitate turns black then grey
Know this is an old video, but is there a reason you started by using nitric acid and converting the nitrates into chlorides instead of just dissolving the coin in HCL?
Great question, I'd assume given it's historical use in blasting caps it packs quite a punch, but I haven't compared it to those so I can't say for certain
you got a point there. anyways. i believe in the freedom for one to do what one wants as long as it does not hurt others and it is a interesting video even if it is dangerous
I remember one time I was melting pennies and I was trying to get enough metal to fill up a spoon and usually the penny would kind of shrivel up in a little bit of silver stuff would rip out the one time I was lighting a penny on fire and it immediately started glowing into a great big ball of fire and I had to move it away from my face and by the time I looked back the entire thing that disappeared except for a little tiny Corner that I was still holding with a needle nose pliers. I remember thinking if you had a stack and 50 of those man I'd be one hell of a thing... No one ever believed me though...
Fair warning RUclips almost shutdown my channel for a similar video.
Cody'sLab thank you for the warning Cody! I'm honored to have a comment from my all time favorite youtuber!
Just came from cody's new video :D You were in recommended
Haha Cody here. I´ve SADS also. 9 months hang. Age restrict was use. I wish a lot diamonds from own sandals or from anything. Into a New Year...:-)
what?
Cody'sLab RUclips is a pile of raging crap . glad to see you still running , Cody
If only we had intelligent programs on mainstream TV like this, something you can actually learn from.
Suzy Siviter. So would Terrorists. Not a good idea. I was intrigued to see how much silver was in a quarter. Not enough to go through all that work and danger.
Betty Linker: I was referring to the chemistry/science aspect rather than explosions; but any terrorist can just google stuff like that anyway.
you can just buy sodium nitrate in american hardware stores. you don't even need more than the chemistry you learn in school to make explosives with that lol
@@bettylinker4780 A little less than 1/5 of a troy oz. Ag, even though they were 90% fine. There is little danger in isolating the silver from the copper. We did that in Analytical Chem. lab.
But they're conquering America by every means allowed. Which reminds me. Any country allowing computer voting might as well just surrender. Except they already have. Deuteronomy 28.
I don't know why, but I was half expecting the words "Keep your stick on the ice." to be said at the end, let alone what I thought was going to be said while the camera was trying to focus.
I enjoyed watching this, and I hope I am not on any watch list now. XD
Agent Hambo glad to hear you enjoyed it! Love myself some AVE as well! Thanks for checking out my channel
Me too! Machinist, electronicles and explosives must put us on the next level of watch list. Congratulations! "Focus you fuck!".
Everyone needs a hobby!
Agent Hambo uncle bumblef$%k
exactly
This really brings back memories. When I was in college in the early 70s for chemistry, I made silver, copper, and mercury acetylides. Back then, the professors thought it was cool too, and experimenting in this way was expected from a chemistry student. If I remember correctly, the copper acetylide was more sensitive than the silver and degraded, turning dark brown (mix of elemental copper and carbon). The mercury acetylide was extremely sensitive and exploded while still moist as I was spreading the pieces during the drying process. It went off with a loud bang but didn't have the brisance in it's moist state to break the watch glass or glass rod I was using. It was like a cartoon explosion: loud noise, the watch glass, glass rod, and my hand blackened from the carbon residue, but no harm done. I'm fortunate to have survived those days. Very nice video and a good chemistry lesson! If it weren't for the occasional inappropriate language, I would play it for my chemistry students.
As a former coin collector I am saddened, but as an amateur mason jar chemist, I'm thoroughly entertained. I'll definitely leave playing with primary explosives up to you and others that really know what they're doing while I watch in fascination.
I just received my 35% hydrogen peroxide today and I'm nervous enough handling that. LOL.
Then why do you need 35 % peroxide for ?
I'm using it for many things. I'm not as nervous handling it now. I just know to be careful and to fully understand anything I work with.--thoroughly read through MSDS sheets.
"former" coin collector? Did you end up turning all the coins into explosives? :p
Matthew Wilson Matthew this is exactly my point. While this idea is a little interesting if you know and understand the science, I just feel sorry for all the 10-14 year old boys and a few girls that will likely lose their eyesight a few fingers or bad burns because they don’t understand what’s involved. Videos like this would be banned to the general public in a kinder safer Great America where our children would be safe from closet scientists..#mytwocentsworth
LOL. Nope. I still have them all. I just don't grow the collection. My kids will get my collection some day.
I'm glad that some commenters were not the fathers of you. me, Thomas Edison, Tesla, or any of the other bold geniuses who made discoveries by not being "kinder, gentler". If it weren't for risk-takers we wouldn't have the marvels we enjoy today. Thank you for taking a risk, however small or big. - from an old retired chemist who started with a Gilbert chemistry set back in the 50's, when he was 8 and made a lot of smelly, often flammable and even explosive compounds without losing any eyes or fingers.
Leave Thomas Edison out of the equation, he was in it for the money and payed off inventors that worked for him, taking their inventions and calling them his: "You work for me, so what you make is mine"....the same thing he tried to do to Tesla but Tesla told him to stuff it and went off on his own.
@@DrTeddyMMM , ... And what about 90% of the contemporary professors, do they do it differently nowdays ? Aren't they in the same boat of the feasting on the students work ?
I had one of those kits
Chlorinetriflouride, the best part of the old chemistry sets.
@@DrTeddyMMM you are very naive to think that the employer does not have full rights to any invention made by his employees. Nobody would hire people to cut them out of the product they intended to make. Edison was a great commercial success. Tesla was a failure. He zeroed in on to many impractical dead ends.
excelent video my friend, i have always been interested in chemestry and wish id have excelled more from school but in my days i had to work to help support my family, still im now 59 and able to have pastimes and make my own fireworks so im sure i can use this in my pyrotechnics of the future, thank you very much and God bless you and your family
Thank you, but definitely keep this stuff away from pyro use. It's way too sensitive to be safely used for anything in the pyro field. Stick to good ole flash when you need a loud bang 👍
Great video. Entertaining and educational as well. One small suggestion if I may. Instead of sodium chloride try using potassium chloride.. Does the same job but converts both the silver and copper nitrate into chlorides and leave some good old fashioned "potassium based oxygen" in solution ready to crystallise out and use for other fun stuff. I've been doing this with my silver refining for the past year and i have recovered a little over 10kg of the stuff. I use mine to generate more nitric acid but I am sure that you can come up with many more "entertaining" things to do with it.
You do not want to react copper chloride with acetylene if you wish to dry the material. Copper acetylide is very sensitive when dry.
Both copper acetylide and silver acetylide are impact and friction sensitive. I seem to recall that the copper compound is the more sensitive of the two when dry.
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NightHawkInLight. excellent video
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed!
" I made significantly more than I wanted to" code talk for "yikes! I better pay attention before I lose a hand!
kandkmotorsports your damn right there!
and for legal purposes lol
kandkmotorsports lol. A triangle firecracker blew up in my hand. Still have both hands but hearing loss in left ear and tinnitus
One of my friends at around 13years old blew up a small hill in his fathers field. He totally levelled that hill and collected about 50 dead rabbits afterwards. Some had been ejected from the hill as it had contained the main warren which had kindly accepted many small sacks of modified fertiliser. That damned hill jumped about 3-4 foot in the air and took us both off our feet even when a long ways away hiding in a drainage ditch. His dad was well pleased about the rabbits and having a field for planting crops which was normally used for cattle now and again. But when he found out how much fertiliser had been used, he wasn't a happy man.
I love everything about this video. The random starting materials, the bad background, the toxic chemicals, the terrible lab equipment, the bad safety, and not least the fact that he's making illegal explosives in his home. It's amazing, and I want to try this someday.
It's surprisingly not illegal in most US jurisdictions as long as you follow the rules.
This video is what got me into energetics and chemistry in general. Now i have a pretty full amateur lab and lots of knowledge. Thankyou!
That is so awesome to hear! Thank you!
I just found this channel a week or so ago and have been checking it out here and there until today. Now I’m stuck and feeling like a mischievous little boy that just found out what happens when you add the works (blue cap) and some foil into a bottle, cap it off and gtfo.
Long ago (back when I was just a wee boy) one of my dads friends knew this trick and performed it with large amounts the proper ingredients (prepped with the correct ratio) then chucked it into a 5 gallon bucket that had a locking sealing lid. They quickly positioned this receptacle under an old 1-ton truck and had every stay far back. If you read this far and have picked up what I’m putting down I’m sure you know what happened next. When that glorious moment went down 2 things happened. 1) I got to watch the front end of truck jump and 2) My mind was forever tainted knowing stuff like this can be done.
Now I’m a father and it’s been years since I dad or seen anything like that but watching this channel has me wanting to figure out similar experiments I can legally do in small and safe batches and have some fun with my sons while getting them interested in home chemistry.
If anyone actually read this to the end and has any suggestions on experiments that would be legal safe and cool to do with my boys drop a comment. It would be greatly appreciated.
I am impressed. Well done. You have an amazing understanding of the process.
Jim Ferguson thank you Jim! I appreciate it! Thanks for checking out my channel!
As a numismatist, I highly disprove of this!
As an amateur chemist, I love it!
No fear, my hoarde of silver I plucked that coin from has all been declared junk grade, so no numismatic value
@@ElementalMaker Excellent! Glad to hear it. As a person who also has a lot of junk silver, I know exactly how that goes.
Thank you! I am only getting into chemistry in my older age because of videos like yours and rednile, chemplayer. Thanks! I have always wanted to know how early chemists made bullet primers.
They didn't use silver acetylide, which is too sensitive. They used mercury fulminate, which is made by a similar procedure.
You’re like a grown up, manly Cody’s lab...
A Martin haha why thank you. Love Cody's channel!
I've always thought Cody was a bit of a fop but so am I so
Thanks Much; Initially thought you were going to produce
silver fulminate👍
If enjoying this puts me on a watch list I don’t care. It was definitely educational and interesting to watch. Keep up the good work! Don’t let the man get you down. By the way, where did you learn all this?
And when you put the hydroxide you are actually developing just like film in photography..... If you make your silver nitrate in a darkroom and coat paper with it keep it in the dark until exposure then hydroxide you have done the photographic process
It didn't make sense to get rid of copper because copper acetylide is also an explosive and created the same way. You would have got a mix what behaves the same way.
dorzsboss the reason I removed copper is that copper acetlyide is much more sensitive to shock and friction than the silver compound. I forgot to mention that in the video, so thank you for bringing it up! Hope you enjoyed the video and thanks for checking out my channel!
it is interesting. I made both and I experienced silver acetylide being way more sensitive. It exploded when I scratched it out from a spoon. Copper-acetylide only exploded by fire, or hammering it.
Yeah, I'm guessing the copper acetylide is closer to the absolute uselessness of nitrogen tri-iodide. At least nitrogen tri-iodide (triiodide? dunno) makes a nice purple cloud. I gotta say its a little odd that you chose to wear gloves for the entire video except for the part where you reaaaally should have worn gloves.
htomerif No, you gess wrong. Copper acetylide does not explode by touching it.
Well, I didn't guess, I looked it up on wikipedia and saw that it was a shock and heat sensitive high explosive. I also tried to find any uses for it. If it were stable then at least someone would have used it as primer for cartridges. There are references for silver acetylide being used as a primer, but I'm guessing its not cost effective.
Since neither of us has actually made it or seen it used, I can say that me calling it as bad as nitrogen triiodide is a little hyperbolic, but neither of us actually knows by how much.
I love your disclaimer at the beginning of the video. " let me be the dummy" I thoroughly enjoy your content
I've always been fascinated with chemistry where did you learn to be so proficient at it?
Interesting ... as an academic exercise. It would have been easier just to start with pure silver (such as silver shot or fractional ounce rounds) methinks.
Holy s***! Great job. I am impressed!
"don't try it at your home"
Ok, I'll do it in my room
But... Isn't that still at your home? Or are you rocking a tree fort room or some wild shit?
@@ElementalMaker some wild dorm room btw and close to the tree fort
That's where I painted my bike when I was 17. I didn't know it was going to make so much overspray HA! Our house was 15' from my dad's body shop.
Not that I'd recommend anyone try this, but if you do, only quarters made in 1964 or prior have silver in them
"lab grade equipment" ... made me lol
Enjoyed your video thanks for sharing "WOW"😀👍🙄
David Bennett thanks a bunch!
AP also has a nice loud snap to it.
Any reason you didn't just cement (precipitate) out the silver using clean copper wire or plates in the nitrate solution? The cement silver would have been about 97% and a second processing could get very close to pure. More importantly, you'd recover all of the silver added to the nitrate, no messy loss. Also, the nitrate solution should have silver added until the reaction stops then the nitric acid is all used up. The undissolved silver is then easily filtered out of the saturated nitrate solution. After cementing out the silver onto copper you could then cement out the copper onto Ferrous.
All through the video I was waiting for a BANG and a piece of hand to land on the table, a scream and then a blank screen. :-))
"Honestly officer, I learned all this from a channel on RUclips called...
...Markiplier! He's the guy you want! If I were you I'd use the tasers first and _then_ ask questions."
The real hero here is that god damned wood q-tip
Filters, filters, filters. To prevent as much loss as possible, we chemists use filters while decanting.
Cool but man what a lot to go through. Oh well, thats chemistry for ya. Enjoyed the video, thanks for making it.
I just watch this video and was seriously like WTF! Cody's lab just got shut down for a video about making gunpowder from his own piss, but this video is okay? Not that I have a problem with this video in fact I loved it. I enjoy channels such as this and Cody's lab just thought it was unfair they hit him with all of this BS but there are a hundred other channels on RUclips that post videos just like this without any repercussion. RUclips makes no sense.
I completely agree. I wouldn't be surprised if this video gets nailed at some point soon. Its so sad that what used to be an open educational platform has now turned into a nanny nation. It almost feels counteractive to build my channel seeing what Cody and other science channels are currently going though. Its really a huge shame.
I wouldn't worry too much... it's like council's. Someone needs to complain. until then it's all g!
Just don't go nuking any grasshoppers. And DEFINITELY don't upset the flerfers
We need an uncensored platform to watch.....
If you can dig deep enough you can find out how to make a flare gun, flares, and all the explosive propellant you need. Look for something like 30mm...
It's because urine is free but not everyone has a silver quarter.......lol Besides, if the Feds see this you can be charged with destruction of Government property so they have an offense readily available to them to support your incarceration should they choose to do so.
You've missed another option that leaves your silver intact and available to resell. After I dissolve my sterling silver in nitric acid I cement out the silver onto copper to recover most of the silver. The silver nitrate that's left dissolved and mixed with the copper nitrate is recovered by adding potassium chloride to precipitate out silver chloride and leave behind a solution of copper chloride and potassium nitrate. I'll then gently heat the solution to evaporate off a good deal of the water and then chill the rest in the freezer. Pretty soon I get nice heavy needles of potassium nitrate crystals which I can then filter off and wash. Now, in my case I have no need for (or interest )in any explosives so I reuse the potassium nitrate to make more nitric acid and I occasionally use it to fertilise my garden. But if one were so inclined they could use it to make black powder. Not advising...just saying. :)
Very good synthesis of silver acetylide¡¡. I guess the silver oxide can be directly reacted with nitric acid to form silver nitrate. Thus obviating the need for the crucible step
When I was a kid they sold slivers of wood dipped in that Silver salt and dried out, then sold for Cigar loads ...lol
I bought some of those at a county fair years ago. They were fun! Also bought some flash paper off the same guy.
You need a small silicone spatula for getting precipitates out more easily
i remember melting silver oxide into silver on a charcoal briquette using a straw to blow on it back in high school chemistry class
Very cool! Never would have thought to try that!
@@ElementalMaker Before our fancy pressurized bottles of gas were available, chemists and others used blow pipes. My ancient jeweler's blowpipe is kicking around somewhere.
In minecraft, you actually don't need to isolate the silver by itself, the end product while it may contain copper acetylide will still have sufficient brisance as that is also a PE.
yep your on a list for sure. don't worry I'm on a list to
Once you have your coin dissolved you could just place some copper metal in the beaker and pure silver metal will drop out of solution and be replaced by more copper in your nitrate solution.
Invest in a benzomatic oxy - propane ready-made kit they have the mixing torch/cutting head, connectors, tubes, i think nozzles and one of each bottle. Even a first timer can easily melt gold from jewelry or nugget form very fast. And silver is obviously not a problem.
You really should use a pipette with the nitric acid, it is possible that it can leak while pouring.
So interesting to watch. You know your stuff very well.
Sacco Belmonte I appreciate it! Thanks for checking out my channel!
i don't care how old you are. reactions where stuff instantly falls out of solution is always fun.
superdupergrover absolute truth! Salting silver out of solution is way too fun! Thanks for dropping a comment and checking out my channel!
Great video. Thanks!
Glad you liked it! Thanks for checking out my channel!
water helps with the acids ionization as well, concentrated HNO3 will not react as fast until you dilute it with water to make it ionize.
Nighthawkinlight sent me here too. Love your videos! You obviously are a chemist.
LOL 11:51 , all of that from a complete silver quarter. Now that IS amazing.
That was actually just a small portion of the silver recovered, those quarters about about 93% silver.
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Naww, they're all busy watching porn on hunters laptop.
Nope , putting thoughts in my head.............................. Guy Fawkes springs to mind....................
That's super cool never knew you could do something like that
OOOOOR....Nitric acid and Mercury! Fulminate of Mercury! Big badda-boom!
When you make the bangs you should have a decibel meter so we can get an idea how loud it is
As I coin collector, I was very very scared at the title, but nice video.
Still that coin.
Glad you enjoyed, I too felt bad for the coin, but science is worth the sacrifice! Thanks for checking out my channel!
That glass watch will not help the nitric vapours condensing... Those vapours are nitrogen dioxide . Will form nitric acid only when will contact water( your lungs contain water, righ?) , and the result is that you will have nitric acid in your lungs ( or other persons lungs, but will be your fault). In order to keep you almost safe, cover that glass beaker with a large glass bell. The water in the pan will form low concentration nitric acid when in contact with nitrogen dioxide, but the water lever must be reasonably high and in contact with the rest of the water. This recovered nitric acid can be used to lower the concentration of the nitric acid purchased from the supplier.
Copper acetylide is also explosive and can formed inside acetylene fittings if the wrong sort of brass is used. You probably did not need to remove the copper from solution.
it is very easy to make unstable silver acetylide that will simply explode for seemingly no reason. i've heard of it just going off seemingly at random while in storage. if you make this stuff, it is best to keep it in very small separate quantities.
I've never made more than a gram or so just to demonstrate its power. I would never consider making this in a large quantity, although it is much more safe if made properly than other primaries such as AP.
You made serious mistakes handling the SA.DS (you made the double salt version, which is less sensitive than pure acetylide), you should not put any primary explosive on a watch glass, you should not scrape it with metal (but with wooden stick and wodden sticks wrapped in cotton wool) and above all, wear leather gloves with forearm protection! Glasses + face/neck shieldd are a must, too. Earplugs are a no brainer. Rememeber, some primary explosives can detonate even when 25 % wet! And in some cases, water doesn't lower the friction sensitivity that much.
There's no negative effect to adding excess sodium chloride. As long as you rinse the silver chloride we'll with distilled water. ;) great video by the way. Hope it stays safe from youtube bots
I don't know how you figure this shit out, but I'm glad you share!
Thanks Jason! Glad your enjoying!
I enjoyed watching you on Nurdrage too.
Lol no relation to nurdrage, although I love his videos.
You could easily pick out that piece of glass with a slightly wet Q-Tip
16:24 "I definitely see a little bit of glass in the product, but it shouldn't affect performance much."~ElementalMaker, dividing some white powder with a blade
Concentrated nitric acid oxidizes metals creating a passivating layer. Always add a little water until it starts reacting, it shouldn't have taken that long.
NEVER COMMENT BEFORE FINISHING THE VIDEO...sighs.
Yeah it was a bit of a brain-fart on my end! Thanks for checking out my channel!
Wait I thought he ended up doing that?
OH DAMNIT! NEVER COMMENT BEFORE READING THE OTHER COMMENTS!! :-P
Hahah'
Tomás Allende: Would adding more water to NaHo for Aluminium reaction also help prevent the passivating layer?
You should have used a Bone Ash CUPEL instead of that porcelain crucible for fusing the Silver Oxide into a button of Silver Metal . -- (I have done professional Assaying for the Mining Industry .)
You don't need acetylene for melting gold and silver, propane-oxygen is used all the time, they even use it for glass.
That was so awesome
Until now, I was completely unaware of metal azides. Thank you very much. It seems that mercury fulminate is an azide also.
No. It is acetilide, not azide. Neither the fulminate. Azids has N3 part. Silver-acetilide is Ag2C2. Silver fulminate (also explosive) is AgCNO.
Thanks for clarifying that.
Sagrotan
Yes, about as toxic as cyanides.
It must be the CN portion
Azide doesn't have any CN, it's an N3- molecule. Its toxic effect is similar to cyanide though (blocks cellular metabolism) and like cyanide it puts out toxic fumes. Unlike cyanide though it doesn't have an antidote (the antidote for cyanide is thiosulfate, but that doesn't work for azide). So, as toxic as cyanide and no antidote. Stay away.
Would love to have seen shock sensitivity testing 🙂
This is the same stuff in pop snappers so yeah its sensitive
@@kaliumnitraat that is silver fulminate
@@Epiphalactic i dont consider giving a shit something i should do
I used to make Mercury Fulminate at home in college. I tried to make Silver Fulminate once with some old silver quarters and it didn't work. Probably for the best since I probably would've blown my hand off.
Thank you for sharing -- good education. But please prevent long-lasting damage to the sense of hearing!
Now this is my kind of chemist
ALL MEMES TO BE EXTERMINATED A glad you like it!
Why not dissolve silver oxide in nitric acid without converting it back to pure silver? Converting silver to chloride is step filtering out copper ions ... which here are dangerous.
You could have skipped a few steps if you just wanted the raw silver from the coin. Yes dissolve in nitric acid. However if you put copper in silver nitrate the copper and silver switch places. Then filter the silver from the remaining copper nitrate. Less silver loss.
It's the chemical equivalent to AvE! :D
Wow great synthesis of silveracetylide.
For the cool stuff you do you should have a lot more viewers. I think You Tube don’t like you! But I do!
This video is awesome!
Roses are red, violets are blue, I’m on a watchlist and now so are you
Basically how to make out of your grandad old coin collection explosive for a civil war
As a treasury agent I am sorry to say you're under arrest. That quarter was a victim.
Indeed it was. But then again, it is completely legal to victimize US currency in the pursuit of science, and, the coin in question has long since been exempted from those stupid rules.
David Green we are all victims of a corrupt government, maybe let this one go.
The US dollar is next to worthless anyway, why even mention it? Thanks US treasury...
Your right, we can’t go after real crooks like Hillary!
Yea right. A treasury agent or not. You have no evedence asshole. No harm no foul. Great job. Tell us more. He cant prove anything. And his mom fell out of a donkys ass. Thats the shit he rolles with. What a joke. Hey i have a bunch of silver can you convert it for me??????? Ha ha ha ha ha hs ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Show me ill show you. Ha ha ha ha ha fuk thats funny.
You got a thumbs up!And a sub!Ãn i rang the bell.
Love it!
You can ignite this explosive, but can it also be detonated by impact, like silver fulminate?
you just earned my sub sir. Congratulations on a great video.
It's a good thing then that I don't mess with chemistry.
IIRC, copper acetylide also very explosive. Nice that you bothered with refining of silver, but that was unnecessary, you could just bubble acetylene through first solution to get mix of explosive acetylides.
What's the premium for employing policemen after dark?
Copper Nitrate!
- I'll get my coat.
Don't know if you need the potassium in the reaction...but I saw sreetips being able to convert silver chloride into silver oxide just using lye and stirring (careful...mighty exothermic)...then silver oxide to elemental silver with just (drum roll)...sugar! The precipitate turns black then grey
Very nice video.
thanks for sharing.
WOW, cool chan.! Now you've got another member... ME.!.. Seriously, good & comprehencable material with detailed info.! I'm sold. :)
Is that the same stuff that's in throw-pops?
no those are silver fulminate. Its more sensitive iirc
Know this is an old video, but is there a reason you started by using nitric acid and converting the nitrates into chlorides instead of just dissolving the coin in HCL?
Silver won't dissolve in hcl
@@ElementalMaker Ah, so then it won't react unless it's in solution. I see.
@@Fate.s-End yessir, and to make the salt we did here, it must be silver nitrate in solution.
Nice video. Is this as powerful as nitrogen tri-iodide or even acetone peroxide?
Great question, I'd assume given it's historical use in blasting caps it packs quite a punch, but I haven't compared it to those so I can't say for certain
With my manual dexterity I will be content to be a viewer and not a burn victim.
you got a point there. anyways. i believe in the freedom for one to do what one wants as long as it does not hurt others and it is a interesting video even if it is dangerous
Appreciate it Eddie. Hope you enjoyed the video! (Other than the poor old coin loosing its soul LOL)
I wonder what the thermite would be like with silver oxide...
For as cheap as silver is, I would have just bought some damn silver, instead that whole process.
I remember one time I was melting pennies and I was trying to get enough metal to fill up a spoon and usually the penny would kind of shrivel up in a little bit of silver stuff would rip out the one time I was lighting a penny on fire and it immediately started glowing into a great big ball of fire and I had to move it away from my face and by the time I looked back the entire thing that disappeared except for a little tiny Corner that I was still holding with a needle nose pliers. I remember thinking if you had a stack and 50 of those man I'd be one hell of a thing...
No one ever believed me though...
It was zinc burning they are a mostly zinc core