Making Mercury Fulminate
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- In this video, I explain the process of making mercury fulminate and the dangers associated with it. I didn't turn it into one large crystal like Walt did in Breaking Bad; that requires a level of chemistry tweaking that is beyond me.
Warning:
Nitric acid is corrosive, mercury is toxic, and ethanol is flammable. These chemicals and their reaction products are dangerous. Do NoT tRy aT HoME
Song used in background: Vapour - Osoku
No ants were harmed in the making of this video.
But seriously, don't try this. There are bigger, better explosives that can be made in a much safer, cheaper way.
Are you sure about that?
Im pretty sure I saw that one ant take flight
It was yeeted out of existence
RIP that one ant at 4:32
Elaborate on the bigger better cheaper safer explosives?
This madlad clickbaited us with a hippie crystal and exactly gave us what we came here for
That's some masterful higher level joke.
exactly
Better hope the Democrats don't see you contaminating your own property with mercury. They will send Biden after you , but I wouldn't be to worried about that because he will forget where he's going anyways
Jesus Christ, man... it's not just a crystal. It's a mineral!
Npc reply’s fr
Bro looks 14 but sounds 41...
Isekai character
He's seen shit, he's done shit
@@meezivanhoutendijk3591lol fr
Fr
He looks like Todd tbh
The last thing that ant at 4:32 saw was a large hammer rising up, thinking "That ain't even gonna hit me." Then it hit him.
Bro didn't account for splash damage, and got fragged. A genuine skill issue.
LMFAOOO🤣💀💀
😢
Did it evaporate or
@@TaigiTWeseFormosanDiplomatit got blasted away and killed most likely. That Shockwave upclose was probably like a painful slap... enough to smash an ant. The fireball might be enough to burn it too.. maybe just the legs.
I like how he tells us not to try this at home but tells us how to make it with recommendations
And then says “you shouldn’t do this part inside, try it outside”
Image if tuco without knowing that its explosive would have just smashed the explosive meth with his knife and would have lost half his face.
that much fulminate would of evaporated him
and the bag in front of him killing everyone in the entire building@@billnyethespy3641
TwoCo
I assumed that was the original plan, Walt was expecting Tuco to smash it and kill himself. He didn't so Walt threw it at the safe.
Туко сначала дал бы попробовать Уолту
Another reason they stopped using fulminate of mercury in cartridge primers is due to it being corrosive/damaging to barrels if not cleaned really well after each shot (edit: should have said "Shoot"). Also, it can weaken brass in much the same corrosive manner (for reloading purposes this is bad).
Interesting
You were suggested to me on the frontpage of youtube. Keep making videos. The algorithm seems to like you.
Thanks man, that's awesome!
Same here you were recommended on my home page!!
Same here, recommend by YT and their recommendation algorithm was actually on point for once.
Me too
Same here
0:16 why is no one talking about how he winked, that was hilarious
One safety tip you didn't follow: NEVER use nitrile gloves while handling nitric acid. They catch fire on contact with it!
Wear vinyl or other gloves when handling such acids instead.
that's only an issue when the nitric acid is sufficiently dehydrated above a concentration of 90% also called Red Fuming nitric acid or White fuming nitric acid
@@Samonie67 Yeah, nitric acid at a sensible concentration will mostly just turn nitrile gloves pink
@@Samonie67That is true, however he did say he was using *concentrated* nitric acid. Usually energetic-material nitrations require either RFNA or WFNA , so I assumed he'd be using WFNA since it was clear.
@@Mystikan "concentrated nitric" acid is used to describe 68% or azeotropic nitric acid. When using fuming nitric acid, white or red, it is almos always described as fuming, not concentrated.
@@Mystikanthe other guys in here are right. This is clearly not fuming nitric acid; when he pours it, there are no fumes present. Always wear gloves with azeotropic nitric acid, especially with mercury salts
Now show me how to crystalize it
Scratch a glass rod on the side of a beaker with the solvent containing the dissolved salt. That often does it. Or get a smaller crystal and start from that. Watch RUclips videos on making giant salt crystals.
@OffGridInvestor then throw it at the local drug lord
That poor ant- at 4:32-4:35
Oh no!
lol i was thinking the same thing
Vibe check
it evaporated
@@SomethingAbtScienceDude, have you ever thought about the electromagnet in Breaking Bad?
Holy heck man, I was not expecting that voice and that quality of narration. You have something solid to build on/with right there. I've been following North02 for a while, and I'm now following you as well. Cheers and keep the science coming.
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EDIT: great music choice.
EDIT2: (I'm an experienced musician) go easy on the bass, you have a good voice, let it shine, dude.
i thought the same thing the first time i met him (used to work with him IRL) 🤣🤣🤣
Funny thing is it’s basically impossible to make huge crystals of fulminated mercury like Walt did. Even if you could, it would be so volatile you’d probably blow your hand off carrying it up the stairs.
As someone studying chem, you’ve earned my sub. Fun to see someone do the shit I would try if I had the resources lmao.
very interesting i hope you can explain to me why we couldnt make a big batch like walter's just curious about the reason behind it blowing off in big batches
Walter's just built different
@@deven9766 Its own weight can be enough to set it off at times.
Perhaps he mixed it with something else that allowed it to have that form and be less volatile?
@@DrEpicPhDi thought mercury fulminate was the most stable of the fulminates? i know silver fulminate detonates under its own weight, but mercury does that, too? any idea how much mercury you have to have for it to self-detonate?
While I too played around with things like these - synthesizing severely sensitive energetic explosives is a hell of a lot safer if you use an ice bath. You basically survived playing with a glass claymore. When doing things like this, the numerous times I almost lost fingers taught me to time my time. Its fun as hell, just take time to be safe, dude! :)
I accidentally made some. I was repairing a Fortin barometer, the glass was dirty with mercury oxides so nitric acid was used. Then the glass needed drying so absolute ethanol was used. All waste was collected in a beaker for evaporation. The gray powder cracked the beaker when it went off.
lol interesting
thats probably how it was discovered in the first place when you think about it
How have the authorities not found you? I am in your walls.
Oh, the authorities know, but they're too afraid to act. And I'm even more afraid of you being in my walls.
There’s your problem. This is really a floor kind of issue.
Know what Charles, I know that isn't your real name, buddy.
2:56 fly reference from breaking bad!111
The ant at 4:32 probably fet like the nuke scene in Terminator 2😂
Excellent video.
A few tips as an explosives engineer though:
Invest in quality ear protection.
Don't wear gloves around nitric (avoid placing the beaker on a wood table too).
And finally, have fun and keep making interesting videos.
I never wore gloves but I did get some yellow spots on my skin.
Why wouldn't you wear gloves when messing with chemicals?
Dexterity?
@@noname-xo5mp
Because some gloves will contaminate it (contamination can destabilize primaries), some will directly react with it (organics and peteoleum based gloves), and others will absorb it which can be both toxic and a fire/initiation risk.
@@noname-xo5mpfuming nitric acid (which wasn’t used here) will set nitrile gloves on fire.
The meth tooth thumbnail. The usual calm delivery. Wonderful end to a science video 😂. You are Nile Red/Blue’s rotten kid brother. Keep making more!
Agree totally. Love the delivery and the irreverence. It will take time and perseverance, but you could build a big following if he invests the time.
at the first seconds of this video i thought of nile
It's such a good thumbnail as well
The calm voice unironically kinda sounded like Walt's voice to me.
NileGreen 😅
4:47 Looks like the insect survived the explosion (Left top corner)
2:18 I can totally feel the shaking of your hand 😂
PS. Your voice is so mesmerizing to listen to, added so much depth to the chemistry video.
Thanks😅
I had no idea what I was doing, so I was a bit shaky, lol.
Your videos seem very professionally made.
@@SomethingAbtScience Thanks
I think because we intrinsically understand the potential danger of all those chemicals, we have an internal fear facing it.
I did synthesis mercury fulminate once many years ago, but I was so dumb at that time I literally dump everything into the drain while decanting it.
Jesus Christ man I felt like I was watching a documentary with the speaker unseen in the background with a kid acting like he is the one speaking. That sound emanating from him threw me for a loop.
You seriously need to think about some sort of broadcasting cause you got yourself a golden voice!.
Dayum brother, that deep, silky smooth voice is made for content, keep up the good work!
Man, your content is just awesome. The jokes, the explanation, the process of making the chemical, even the bloopers at the end of the video. Definitely deserves a sub from me. Good luck in making future videos.
Your videos reminds me good old RUclips 10-15 years ago. Keep it up, looking forward for new videos!
I like how safety warning about acid appears only after you start work with the nitric acid.
How refreshing, an interesting 5 min video on something interesting. I think the only thing I'd have liked more is if you'd gone through some of the precautions/risks while doing each step if there were any
THAT POOR ANT WTF!!!
Thanks dude, now I'm on a watchlist forever 💀
You're welcome😎
It really sucks the golden age of radio is gone, because you have an amazing radio voice. Maybe make a podcast or something.
A thing I recently noticed about RUclips. There are too many great channels with subscribe counts less than 5k that are so underrated.
I really enjoyed this, I hope the algorithm blesses you.
My number one tip for easy video improvement would be enhancing the colour levels to make it pop. You've got some beautiful footage, but because you're leaving it stock everything feels kind of flat. I'm presuming you're editing in Premiere but if not just google how to do this for your relevant program.
Effects -> Lumetri Color -> Drag on to your video clips -> From there you'll want to head to your clip settings and look for the Lumetri Colour -> Basic Correction options.
A good kicking off point would be to increase the temperature and saturation until just before you start looking spray tanned/deep fried. Adjust the shadows and blacks so that areas that represent the darkest parts of your frame look true black rather than a washed out grey. Then mess with the whites and highlights until everything looks bright and clear and crisp. A really good tip for colour balancing in general is to find a white point (eyes, teeth, shirt etc), something that you know is white essentially, and keep referring back to it to make sure it is true white. If it starts to have colours bleed into it then dial back the temp/saturation until you find a healthy balance. At that point (and some people may prefer to do this first) mess with the exposure. You do not want this to look like an emo myspace picture if it washes out a single bit of detail then you've gone too far. BUT you do want it to be bright, to be attention grabbing, so do crank it up at least a bit.
By this point it's probably going to be pretty difficult to remember what it looked like normally and most people will start worrying they've made it worse. If you look back on the panel with all your clip settings and effects, right next to where it says 'Lumetri Color' you'll see a little 'FX' symbol. You can toggle that on/off to see what the clip looks like with and without the settings. The best thing you can do is get it wrong a bunch of times, after a while you'll start to just understand how the different parameters interact.
And please don't think this is me suggesting the colours in your video look bad, I honestly think this is a great production. I just respect the grind and hopefully this will save you some time on your way.
Wow, great advice! I never even thought to mess with color enhancing. I'm using Lightworks, but it should be capable of everything you mentioned here.
Unfortunately, I'm in the middle of editing another video and made lots of cuts, so there are so many clips I'd have to drag it onto, but there may be ways around that.
I'll need to mess around with it a bit.
I appreciate the helpful tips though and I'll definitely implement that into future videos.
@@SomethingAbtScience Honestly it'll add so much production value on, most people think they need to keep buying more expensive cameras but there's hundreds of dollars of extra production value just in editing your colours.
An extra tip: If you've already cut up a bunch of clips and want to apply something to them all after the fact, just select them all and then put them into a 'nest' (again that's adobe slang other softwares may vary) and then just apply whatever adjustment you want to make to the 'nest' so it effects all the sub-clips youve just added. A 'nest' is essentially a way of grouping clips into their own separated sequence!
Good luck to you dude!
@@SomethingAbtScience we use LightWorks too over at BerylCNC, and we are very amateur. Great to hear this advice from others who know what they are doing.
2:26 like an old man with Parkinson's or a young kid doing his first couple energetic additions. Too adorable. Ah, remembering the good ole days.
Great Video, not only was it cool to see how Walts explosive crystal was made, you also made the Video quiet entertaining. Keep up the spirit!
Man, I'm new in chemistry, and I can say that your safety standards should be better, stay safe mate, love your channel!
Myth busters made this look way more complicated
Well it's good to see Todd finally doing progress in chemistry
I have heard sounds from all the world yet none as beautiful as your voice.
If you want to have some serious fun, make Silver Fulminate. Just... don't make it in large quantities. Its own weight can set it off, and probably even while wet.
Sounds fun! I'll probably try that at some point.
Almost left on the clickbait, but this turned out to be worth the watch
Awesome! Didn't think that stuff would actually work irl
4:32 the insect 🐜 got obliterated 💀💥
"Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today."
That was the best video opening ever!
I remember this on Mythbusters. They said Walt actually couldn’t make a crystal that big. It would explode under its own weight. Many explosives are like that which is why they usually have some kind of inert filler like sawdust, wax, or plastic.
You won me over by that nifty bait and switch there brother!👍
Really nice video man, keep up the great work
Love the insano style action there
Silver Fulminate is used in those snap rocks/ popers that you get with fireworks and you throw on the ground to set them off. Would that be made the same way but with silver instead of mercury
I believe so. Although I'm a 7th grade dropout, so don't take my work for it.
@@SomethingAbtSciencebased
Yes
i was not expecting a tutorial when i clicked on this video
now im probably on another list
4:38 the bug was smited lol
Smithen *
im subscribed before you blow up cos ur content is success bound as hell
You can also make silver and gold fulminate, might be less toxic but more expensive. Many chemistry books I read told you about the fulminates but never how to make it.
Some countries stockpiled mercury so they can make fulminate for primers in artilliary shells.
Fulminated mercury was also used in an old movie called "Mister Roberts" with disastrous results.
Awesome stuff. Try picric acid next. React with mercuric nitrate. Make it go bang.
RIP ant walking by powder.
When I was a teenager, my brother was going to college for organic chemistry. He'd always come home with tiny samples of cool stuff, wanting to do show and tell with me. One afternoon, he taught me how to make this stuff, and lead azide as well. So when I saw the Breaking Bad episode, I was like, "What the fffff is that supposed to be? WTF is with that insane explosion from that mystery obviously-not-mercury-fulminate crystal?? HOW DID HE BLOW OUT ALL THE WINDOWS BY EXPLODING IT AT HIS FEET AND HE'S COMPLETELY FINE?!!1!"
Now I'm thinking how funny it would have been if he'd used the real thing, done a dramatic batman throw at his feet and got just a very loud bang.🤣🤣
4:33 RIP Ant. Never forget your sacrifice for science.
take care detonating that stuff bro, you handled it with bare hands.. although elemental mercury isnt very toxic you can never be sure of unwanted side products
Very true. That mercury wasn't very clean at all, who knows what kind of mercury salts were made.
@@SomethingAbtScience deadly bath salts 🤤
Wtd
That bug was sent into orbit during the hammer experiment.
1:53 The Forbidden Whiskey!
😂
4:33 Rest in peace... ant
My friend blew up his backyard making silver fulminate. He went on to become a cop and served in the bomb squad. No joke
No RUclips or internet in those days. He downloaded a copy f the anarchists cookbook over a 1200 baud modem from the compuserve bbs. Those were the days 😂
Internet... proudly helping people kill people since 1983.
Nice video, nice voice, educating, fascinating and not boring to watch, overall 10/10
It's not really unexpected if mercury fulminate explodes from heat, shock, or static if we are already expecting this as evidenced by 1:10 Thanks for a great video.
I liked how the detonation wave propagated around and set off the other pile. Mercury fulminate is squirrelly.
4:26 definitely scared the shit out of that ant
good video man, keep at it, was worth re-recording
Why tf is his voice so deep
Giant Bawls
You need to sell ringtones doing Heisenberg...like "YOUR GODDAMN RIGHT"!
This shit's da bomb!
Bro you should have your own show! You'll go places!!
Don't stop making videos lad
This is an old favorite recipe of mine. My whole family has loved me making it for years. Highly recommended!
Are yuo uncle fester by any chance?
Thanks, man. I always wanted to be on the FBI's watch list.
Seriously though, cool video :)
Thanks! Same here, lol
Well it's better than being ruled out as someone who is completely incapable of ever making anything like this or similar, just by having a 5 min conversation with them.
Chemistry made fun through videos like this is a great way to get people excited about science! I have been into pyrotechnics for around thirty years so am drawn to energetic substances (NOT METH). I don't have the courage to make anything more than what goes into fireworks and model rocketry but really like watching! Great video, got a new sub!
This... Is not bad.
Good job bringing the people to your vid!😎👍
hi guys welcome to fact or cap
Edit: I’m in jail
That hammer surprised me with a "jeez"
Great and informative video.
No. 50 grams can't blow up an entire building. That was fictional for the show.
4:32 You sent that ant straight to another continent
clicked off at 0:16
4:34 that ant got absolutely fucking vaporized
you're going places, mate
Tight! .... Tight-tight, yah!
😂
RIP little ant that walked into the explosive hippie crystal
NO ONE should ever make this, which basically is the same as 'everyone has equally good reason to make this', so I think you're very much right in making it :)
Pfftt. "Kind of very dangerous" is my favourite type of "very dangerous"
why is his voice so soothing and deep im so confused
0:18 Smoothness like no other
Your vocals are attentive. I can actually understand what You're speaking. Great video 🎉
4:32 RIP the ant that got to close
Your voice is made for radio, smooth and comforting.
Your looks big screen
Your intelligence is icing on the cake
Okay sweet. Found another amazing science channel. Absolutely subscribing.
Syropyro and Nile are my favorite ones. You’re up there too now.
4:30 RIP the ant
4:32 rip ant
he tells us not to try it yourself, but also explains literally every single detail