Potassium metal is like weird butter
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- Опубликовано: 17 дек 2021
- I have this little tube from Russia, and it's been sitting on my desk for over a month. However, I think it's finally time to open it. What's inside is potassium metal, and it looks gross and dirty, because it's so reactive.
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"Now, just for fun, I chopped off a thin slice of it... and put it on some toast."
That's honestly where I thought he was going with that.
well, Cody once bit on some sodium, so it's not too far fetched
Toast is dry so that would hold up well I suppose
You'll found that in NileGreen
Put it in the tostar then that bathtub what happens
NileRed : The metal is stuck and it gonna be more annoying than I thought
The metal : K
im mean ur not wrong
Man, I haven't heard a science joke that good in years XD
Says a Ni
Lol
You aren't wrong tho
Are we all some kind of nerds here or what !
It's neat how central that metal is to our nervous systems and our health in general.
Queen : *Kris get the banana
Queen : *Potassium
@@closedthedor8400 kris eat it or you'll have potassium deficiency
That makes sense. Btw, never eat seven bananas in one sitting or 30 apples at once. The potassium in the bananas will kill you and the cyanide in apple seeds will kill you.
@@lastchanc3stars who the fuck eats the seeds from apples
@@lastchanc3stars You eat apple seeds?
"So I bought this from Russia..." is how the legends start
😂😂😂😂😂
Me eating banana and drinking water: “Guess I’ll die”
I THOUGHT THAT TOO LMAOO
The reactivity of alkali metal ions is what keeps us alive.
🤮
OMG THIS IS AN AMAZING JOKE BAHAHAH
Fun fact
If you ate 40,000 bananas in 10 minutes you'd die from radiation poisoning... obviously
NileRed: “Okay, so it’s apparently stuck and it’s going to be a bit more annoying than I thought.”
I fully expected the hammer to fall… My disappointment is immense.
Don't worry man, im sure that him dropping the hammer so fast distorted the fabrics of reality thus making it disappear, he's nilered
"My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined"
These shorts are becomming the low key chemistry version of howtobasic.
Hammer would be useless, because its soft plastic tubing and it wouldnt help, because plastic would bend and crack a little, but nothing more. I was suprised, that he didnt just get some big scissors or a saw, or whatever and cut off the other end, then just push it out. It would be nice and not dented like that. But just in my mind, especially that he cut it into uneven pieces and crushed it with his finger, so it is clear, that this was not important to him
... and my day is ruined
One thing I've learned from your videos is the importance of being careful with seemingly innocuous substances. It doesn't take much to generate a reaction!
1:02 Nice cook on the Potassium, very moist and tender inside, full of flavours. Perfectly seasoned, a stunning dish.
LMAO
Nigel: " I chopped of a thin slice of it and..."
Me: "Chew on it! Please Chew on it!"
*Nigel Drops it in water and it explodes"
Me: "Yeah I'm glad I'm not a chemist..."
yh i was thinking same but then it's like oh yh the saliva!!!
HAHA same
Oof
Understandable, have a nice day
I hope u r joking but this knowledge is given to 6-7th grader that Sodium and Potassium are highly reactive materials that react with air and water😁
My chemistry teacher used to have some decades old potassium laying around since the 70s and apparently before the school took it away, he used to have demonstrations outside where he would throw a chunk of potassium into water and it would explode, like “a hand grenade”.
It also kinda looks like firecrackers or mini fireworks
SCHOOL TOOK IT AWAY LOL These modern kids miss out on fun.
@@BigEightiesNewWave It's like how my chemistry teacher in high school was told to not make white phosphorous with us in class. That's like 20 years ago, but still makes me sad. She did it in the previous school she taught at.
@@BigEightiesNewWave *cries in modern school*
At least in uni they still can do stuff like this (well on a college to college basis)
I've watched this video multiple times in the past but I never noticed the small ignition at 0:43 Really showcases how pottasium can ignite while in contact with air and constant mixing!
0:53 looks like British food
You see what if say British food?
"Time to butter my toast at Nilered's house!"
*explodes and dies*
LMAOOOO
With that comparison to butter, he totally should have spread some potassium on a slice of toast.
To be fair, it'll only explode the moment it touches your tongue.
The forbidden butter
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A metal that is soft and blow up when put in water.
Just unimaginable.
Edit: What is truly unimaginable is how someone bought up how Islamic God doesn't exist on a chemistry video in my reply section.
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You might want to look into group 1 of the periodic table
Forbidden butter
check the other alkaline metals u may find them interesting
I suppose your a stranger to chemistry
The teacher wondering what I'm doing with a dirty bar if butter and a huge bucket of water.
@Miles Doyle noone cares
@@DonW15 I care
*_POOOOOOF_*
you know its character development too early when nilered does this in his lab instead of an open area later on in his videos
NileRed few years ago: you shouldn't cut old potassium metal in case of superoxides mix with unreacted metal and produce violent fire
NileRed now: cuts it
Well, it's not old potassium this time.
@@Eggscargot I heard they are quite good at changing the content in test tubes in russia.^^
When you see old Pottasium you’ll know it instantly trust me
@@melissa5553 don't click this link guys
@@filthycasul1804 yup
My chemistry teacher (early 90s) showed us what happens when a little piece of lithium is dropped in a breaker of water, from behind a screen. It fizzed and popped. Then he did the same with some sodium and it REALLY fizzed and popped. He then did the same with a piece of potassium and the whole thing exploded. Very cool 🙃
He noted that he wouldn’t do it with caesium as he quite liked the chemistry lab building...
I recall the metals were stored in oil-filled jars to keep them away from the moisture in the atmosphere.
Mine accidentally dropped an entire block of sodium into water. His words before the experiment were "We should hear a squeaky pop".
I got the sodium demonstration in 8th grade. Our teacher cut off a bigger than usual chunk before dropping it into the pan of water on her desk. The black mark on the ceiling tiles was still there when I graduated
It was after these demonstrations that we learned why our chemistry teacher had a bunch of holes in the ceiling above their desk area.
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@@illiji915 yeah same the black mark is literally still there on the ceiling 🤣
My brain: this is not butter we are not putting it on toast
Also my brain: *forbidden b u t t e r*
I can't believe it's not butter!
Also me shocked asf that bananas has metal in them :○
I always get the vibe to use potassium and sodium crackers in festives
Nile: 'Honey, why does the sandwich taste different?'
His wife: 'We ran out of butter so I used the one in your lab.'
Nile : My time has come🤣🤣
*Instantaneous combustion and explosions ensue*
@@NOT_A_ROBOT LMAO😂😂
I don't get it
@@fictionindianspaceprogram-222 so she used potassium instead of butter. potassium explodes in water so...
My teacher was demonstrating how potassium reacts when it makes contact with water, but the science department gave her a bottle with a huge chunk of it and she even said "I'm so tempted to chuck this in but it'll destroy the class" everyone for the next 10 minutes were asking her to do it, she never did
In my chem class, we did that with a large chunk of sodium (same type of exothermic reaction--it's directly above potassium on the periodic table) and it did the expected, set on fire, a few sparks, and then a chunk just *launched* itself into the ceiling and embedded itself there. The teacher had done this demonstration before, so even he was caught completely off-guard. That hole/burn in the ceiling stayed there for the at least the next few years, when I graduated.
No science class has ever existed in which the students *didn't* ask the teacher to drop the whole block of Potassium/ Sodium into the water.
In my chemistry class, our teacher was demonstrating these reactive metals by dropping small beads into a huge thick glassed tank of water. Apparently the bottle containing potassium was almost empty, so he emptied the last of it into the tank before calling an end to the experiment... Then the scraps of potassium clumped together and shot the side of the tank like a bullet, blowing a chunk out of it and sending water everywhere.
well i'm old and was a bad kid but my chem class our teacher had a big container of potassium, it somehow found its way into my possession.... i threw a good sized chunk in my local creek, nothing happened at first but then it shot about 15 feet into the air! that was my only experiment, and after the teacher threatened to get the police involved unless it was returned and somehow it returned! ya i was a dumbass, smartened up quick though, luckily!
My Chemistry teacher was named Mr. Butt. He was such a chad, extremely buff dude, and yes, he copped it for having that name, but had a bulletproof demeanor and was a fantastic teacher. When we had our potassium experiment, everyone did as these comments are saying and begged him to throw the whole block in. He took us to a nearby lake at our school and like a shotput (with gloves on) hurled the 1 kilo block of potassium into the water. Type of guy to suddenly smash a watermelon and look at you and just say "physics".
Shoutout Mr. Butt you were/ are a legend.
this reaction would be even more insane with smthg like caesium and with larger amounts of it
Yea
At first I was like "I wonder what it'll be like to chew it" then I saw what happens when it reacts with water and instantly changed my mind I don't wanna know what it'll be like
Everytime NileRed says "Now just for fun" he fulfills some of my fantasies.
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@@gian-pm4hj I hate you...
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@@gian-pm4hj You got me with the read more like 3 times ngl.
@@gian-pm4hj Man, I tapped on your read more, more than 5 times until I realized you fooled us. Good one dude 😁👍
Are we gonna talk about how it made a small spark and smoke when Nigel was trying to get it out the tube? Lol
yup xD
I was about to. Potassium can form superoxides on the surface, which are contact explosive. If he were to squish the yellow stuff, bad things could've happened.
@@phizc What yellow stuff?
@@sabrakt the yellow stuff on the potassium, that’s potassium superoxide (KO2)
Yeah, that's really tame
My high school physics teacher used to chuck a wad of this in a giant fishbowl filled with water. One day he put too much and the whole bowl exploded - I don’t think he does demonstrations anymore 😂😂
Now that’s some sparkling water! ✨
My chemistry teacher demonstrated with this before. This stuff is so reactive that you can’t touch it with your fingers otherwise the moisture of your hands will cause a reaction.
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Same thing if you drop a banana in water, or your mouth. Fake news hahaha
This man has to have incredible discipline to not just toss the whole thing into some water for a bigger boom.
Who said he didn’t after the video?
Self preservation.
I love that it almost combusted when he was trying to get it out.
finnaly we found it, the forbidden butter
1:27
Nigel: “I chopped off a thin slice of it…”
My Brain: “…and ate it”
The forbidden steak
@@AD-ui6sk That would be bananas.
"and put it on toast" i thought he was going to say :(
😂
I was looking for this comment
I legit thought he is going to spread it onto a weird slice of bread
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Damn XD
Loll, weird bread!? 😂😂😂
That little puff of smoke when trying to remove it from the container was a warning. Heavily corroded potassium auto ignites when handled roughly.
the way the knife went thru it and hit the table, ughhhh that was so satisfying
It's widely known at my uni that some years ago at the chemistry department (which is where I study) there was a pretty big explosion (no one died or anything but some people had to go to the hospital) and like half a lab was destroyed. From what my general chemistry professor says it was actually potassium that caused the explosion.
My teacher did that in class once, nobody got hurt but I'm pretty sure the principal called her
KRIS EAT THE DEADLY EXPLOSIVE BANANA
"Kris! Get the banana!"
"Potassium"
I knew im not the only deltarune fan that clicked on this because of the meme. Cheers mate!
@@ducky_urban Cheers to you too chap!
Ah. I was looking for you. Pretty sure the reason I got recommended this is that half of the deltarune meme videos have 'potassium' as a keyword
I expected this to be the top comment tbh
Potassium indeed.
useful tip if you mix it with sodium it makes an alloy that is innert and makes the potasium safe and you can seporate them by dumping them into water
I want this guy as my chemistry teacher
Frfr
@@redwithblue yep i love chemistry and nuclear science and history
@@redwithblueIf you leave on a red cloth table lamp with a regular kind of bulb in the bedroom and an oval tubular vintage bulbed desk lamp on in the office next door. There's 1 lamp in each room. You wait to see which type of bulb burns out first, how long it takes and why.
Would you consider this example to be doing a type of experiment?
Me: Mom, can we get some butter?
Mom: We have butter at home.
The Butter at home:
that's some expensive ass butter.
The other way around, butter is the cheap potassium.
the forbidden butter
I appreciate that your videos are over a minute long, so that the normal RUclips player is used. I absolutely hate the YT shorts player because I can't rewind.
Pretty cool New Year's trick actually
“It should at least slide out”
the bottle and potassium metal: nah
Potassium's reaction to water is so unstable that even the small fragment with high surface area plus the moisture on Nile's tool at was enough to self-ignite.
That's insane.
All of the Alkaline metals will do this. The farther down the periodic table you go, the more violent the reaction.
@@bryanboone7363 You mean reaction to water?
@@patstaysuckafreeboss8006 Yes.
@@bryanboone7363 Very interesting thanks
@@bryanboone7363 time to put francium in water-
"Kris, get the potassium block"
"Potassium"
It took an astonishingly long time for this to show up
Potassium
This is what I came to the comments section for.
What the fuck did just happen here?
@@Bacony_Cakes I'll tell you what, Potassium's what happened.
"Now just for fun, I'm going to try to make Francium... and feed it to my neighbours
Does this mean you can mold this into something like how a clay would?
"Kris Get The Potassium."
*It's Like Weird Butter.
"Banana."
What is it.
@@Bananappleboy ???
Nobody: ah yes soft metal.
Me: KRIS GET THE BANANA
The weird butter becomes angry butter in water. Understood
Nobody:
My eyes: danger
My brain: f o r b i d d e n b u t t e r
REALLY surprised it didn't arrive with an oil coating around it. In school, that's how our teacher kept lithium and potassium, to revent them from reacting with the oxygen in the air/water vapour or exploading if any liquid water touched it.
Also noticed this and found it a bit concerning.
think the oil is just so it doesnt tarnish and degrade. Sodium and potassium don't really pose a danger in open air unless the humidity is ridiculous
it's from Russia dude what do you expect
joking though, K and Na doesn't react in open air unless it's too humid.
He got it over a month ago, and nothing happened. Unless you expose the metal to “nondry” air, it does not do anything, so a vile in a vacuum sealed bag is just fine.
Its probably vacuum sealed
Imagine if he didn’t use just a thin slice, but the entire stick. It’d look like the manganese heptoxide explosion, except about 4 meters larger.
Group 1 elements are so cool
That's so satisfying😍
Its really dangerous to cut potassium like that, especially if it's not new. Potassium superoxide (KO2) may form in oxide layer. When it is being pushed into potassium, they may react and self-ignite. (KO2 + K = K2O + Heat) You can actually see some smoke at 0:42, it may be the result of this reaction occurring on his putty knife. If that large piece caught fire, it would be a disaster.
Such accident happened to me once. Luckily, the chunk i was cutting was oxidized and had almost no potassium in it. Still got a minor burn.
@@merenkov iirc he already did a video about it a year or two ago
I'm sure he was ready for that.
ah yes, motion tracking potassium. exactly how i thought i would start my day.
lmao
Kris get the banana
"something i bought from Russia"
secretly brought some uranium
We did this in our chemistry class but the pop it made was so loud that people in other classes came out to look (I live in Australia so our classrooms are all in different buildings around the place, plus we did this outdoors too)
Whenever words "Russia" and "experiment" will come together, the shit is gonna be good
It's always so strange to see how these elements react to things while knowing that potassium for example is an essential nutrient.
Ye i got some raw potassium nuts for my flowers, guess they not so raw as they say or my water container would have blown up long ago
their ability to react and bind to so many things is what makes these elements good for sustaining life.
@@lilkurd2000 It’s not exactly raw but the concentration of an element that affects it.
But mostly it’s just advertising right there.
Without it your hart stops
@lilkurd2000 it is probably not pure potassium but potassium sulfate or potassium chloride. And even then it's probably diluted to about 50% concentration.
Squishy, yet satisfying.
Doctor: you need more potassium.
Guess i gonna burst into flame.
Imagine if someone got potassium metal as a gift from someone and tries washing it because it looks “dirty”
the perfect murder
Guys dont reply to the 3rd reply if you ignore the bots enough they will dissapear hopefully
@@legitimate8463 if everyone reports them, hopefully the account will get shut down
@@cyrucom then they'll just make another account
That would be so funny
*Butter + Creeper = Potassium.*
Making banana more useful
"What I have here is something that I bought from Russia..."
such a fun sentence, and just listening to it out of context brings up so much fun possibilities
"Damn, this potassium looks a bit dirty. I'd better go wash that off."
kris get the banana
potassium
1:35 well that looks like mighty fun.. how about dropping a big block into a public swimming pool... at night when it's closed obviously..
Massive underwater fireworks show
Drop it in the swimming pool in a hot Summer at 11:00 AM for a minimum ammount of trolling
It’s just a prank
Potassium is always doomed to be thrown in water
I love how you always toss your stuff around. 😂
“Nile Get The Potassium”
All great stories start from "What I have here is a something I bought from Russia"
Only like their stream of warming gaz from the north.
Aged horribly...
...like every comment suddenly getting 70 replies supporting a now bad country doing bad things to a small random country.
(youtube do not demonetize me, i am not even 1k subs to earn ad revenue nor would i want to)
This video was so oddly satisfying. Watching the knife slice through it and watching it squish down when you pressed your finger on it. Oh so good.
“What I have here is something I bought from Russia”
*The beginning of every catastrophic disaster that has happened*
When he cut off a thin slice I definitely thought he was going to spread it on toast.
Me too lmao!!!!!
Glad I wasn’t the only one with this thought
"Kris you did it"
"Potassium"
Watching you cut that was weirdly satisfying.
Now if only Bananas exploded like that when you put them in water, Tropical Island Wars would be much more fun!
Despite my full awareness that this is, in fact, an extremely deadly material which can explode at the slightest notice, monke brain say "is soft, put soft thing in mouth."
every single time, i wanna taste plutonium so bad
There is a RUclips channel where somebody bit into a piece. Should be able to find it easily enough I think.
Yeah, but it’s kinda bitter tasting 😁
@@Roboprogs hol up, how do you know?
@@saturnsandjupiters358 I was joking. Column I metals in the periodic table are known as alkali metals, such as sodium turning in lye. Alkalines (high pH solutions) are bitter.
My favorite thing about potassium is something I learned rather recently. It's the name. By taking the ashes of burnt wood or other plants in a pot, mixing in and then evaporating away the water, a useful material was created called potash (very clever naming). The mineral substance created was useful for various things in ye olde pre-industrial times. Eventually, when people were getting around to discovering elements, a new one was discovered that was found in large quantities in this potash. This great genius effectively named it potashium, but decided that "potassium" sounded much more latin and science-y.
That's just so... charming. Like, "Hey I found a new element, I got the sample from my basement, I shall call it basmentium."
Nowadays you can only name elements after famous people or the same town.
@@Bacony_Cakes That's not a rule, you could name it Buttfuckium if you get IUPAC to agree on it
@@bdnugget I swear the IUPAC has a Ytterby fetish.
JETZcorp I'm sure there's a dad joke waiting to be made about the true reason why they changed that last letter in potash :)
al-qali Kalium
i think the olden day wizards and other myths were just people throwing potassium at each other and yelling fireball
Anybody ever notice you can always get interesting, fascinating and unique things from Russia?
When the chemistry teacher at my school still worked a a uni many years ago, he did a demonstration of alkaline relations like he always did. He got a small piece of sodium and put it in a glass conic flask with water, and held it up for the class to see as it reacted. However, the flask he had used was wider on the bottom and narrower on top that usual, causing a gas buildup to happen inside without anyone noticing. So when he put another now smaller piece of sodium in, the spark ignited the gas and caused the flask to explode in his hand. Nobody was hurt, but I do believe a student's phone was destroyed. A video of the incident exists online somewhere iirc.
What can also happen is the bead of potassium sticking to the side of the beaker while it's burning and heat shattering it immediately.
This is why I love chemistry, metal as fuck
@@Nami8302_OwO “ *metal* as fuck”
I see what you did there
@@tacopizzasandwich621 and I'm so glad you did, also, your name sounds like a very interesting hangover induced monstrosity
@@Nami8302_OwO somewhere out there, someone crushed up some tacos, put it on a pizza to make a taco pizza, and then put it in between 2 pieces of bread to make a taco pizza sandwich
I like my potassium metal medium rare
i like how you upload short videos in general rather than limiting it to a minute and going by the youtube definition of a "short." Lets you show cool stuff that wouldn't need a whole full production video
Nile red has the safest and the best firework by his side😂
Kris get the banana!
Potassium.
"Kris Get The Knife"
"Insert Sans Reference"
I knew it, explosive butters exist..
The Army fr keeping their sights on him
When you first hear that it's from Russia, you know it's gonna be good.
Imagine if it was Cs metal instead.
chemistry really is crazy man, how can you expect to throw this random soft metal on WATER of all things and it turns into explosive fire, amazing
Imagine someone bits this thinking it's some exotic blue cheese
When he sliced it it felt like those realistic cakes that people cutted
KRIS CUT THE POTASSIUM
The queen would be proud of all that potassium you got there
Turns out she fills everything with pure potassium that's why there are so many explosions.
i wish i had these practicals in class 10 so it was like too easy to remember all this stuff
I thought that the thing he was cutting in the thumbnail was a fish LOL.