Making glow sticks from scratch
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Today I will be making some glow sticks from scratch. First I have to make a common glow stick chemical called TCPO. Then, I'll combine the TCPO with a few other chemicals to make some homemade glow sticks.
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Hi Nile Red. Dye chemist here. This is a great video but I just wanted to give some commentary about the dye concentration you used. Fluorescence is highly efficient and more concentrated solutions (even just a few mg) will self quench the fluorescence. It may seem counterintuitive, but try even less dye for more light output. Dye molecules are flat and nonpolar and will form non fluorescent aggregates at high concentrations. This is a static quenching mechanism. Dyes can also deactivate excited neighbors through collisions, so-called dynamic quenching.Colder solutions will also be brighter due to decreased thermal deactivation of the excited state. This may not be noticeable though because dye excitation in a glow stick is based on local collisions in a reaction mixture where reaction kinetics determine light output. Higher temp will give faster rates therefore more light output. I would be curious to see if you could achieve comparable brightness in a fridge with the added benefit of extending the life of the glow stick. Keep these videos coming!
Vincent Martinez This was quite a lot of interesting information:D I didn’t know the effect it could have with how bright it could be!
Go commit dye chemist XD - Great advice, great post!
The 1% of actual chemists watching him
99% non chemists watching his video
Im just gonna act like i know what your talking about...
Hi mr smart I’m quack
I prefer radioactive materials in my glowsticks
Tritium ftw
Mmmm cancer
oh hey marie curie
tiny tonic *Maria Skłodowska-Curie. She wasn't French. She was Polish.
Terrus Ciekawostki i never said she was french or polish, forgive me if i misspelt her name
me: "shakes a glowstick"
Molecules inside it: *WOW IM EXCITED*
“THIS IS THE BEST ROLLERCOASTER”
YEAHH WEEEEW-WHOOO GLOWSTICK PARTYYYY!!!
*IT'S OUR TIME TO SHINE*
It’s so excited it literally can not hide it
Just don't use this tactic on your GF XD
I once watched a guy drink a the content of a glowstick once at a rave party. I'm here to find out if he survived.
What was your conclusion?
He probably got very ill. That shit is bad for u.
It makes my skin and lips burn, and it tastes nasty, minus the risks due to the glass…
@@gowther6419 why tf you drinkin it
I bit one as a kid, didn't get any glass in my mouth but ended up with glowing lips.. And it does taste nasty lol.. Probably 20 years ago and I remember it well. Didn't get sick either but I doubt I swallowed any.
Me, from the yt recommendations: "ohh cool i can make glow sticks"
Me, 40 seconds into the video: "oke, I can not make glow sticks"
Ikr it would just be so cool to be able to make ur own glow sticks ):
I feel like this for all his videos
Its actually hard when you think about it
I would be able to do it but in germany you cant get legally all this chemicals as private person
@@r1w3d legalize it (420)
Your voice is so nice to listen to
Welcome I agree, I want to sleep on a bed made of his and Morgan Freemans voice.
Listen to professor stick
I could fall asleep to it. But I love science so I feel conflicted😂
morgan freeman is the best voice eva
Basically asmr
“nice and sTiNkY”
For real. Barfingly stinky.
xD
Uh oh
Hav u ever smelled it it smells like rotten chicken
Legit thought he said niacin stinky but that makes more sense
I watched this with my parents, and they informed me that I drank the glow part numerous times as a child and it explains a lot
lmao same
I once did that when i was 5, i thought that my belly would glow in the dark, instead it ended up having to get pumped 😭 (i had hidden, and drank like, 12 large glow sticks before my parents came to tell me it was dinner time)
@@-nightlyfireflies-9561 imagine being the person that pumped your stomach, just taking out some radioactive looking goop
@@adriancampbell2357 yeah, like "wtf did this child drink!?" just to find out i drank glowsticks being stupid
@@-nightlyfireflies-9561 I bet you lit up their day though
Crap, now i have to cancel my glow stick video plans. hhehehe
but nice work!
I'm still waiting for a collab between you two :)
NR is way, wwayy better than NR
ha, no way. I am sure you can do it better in your own way.
+Thisisgaming stfu loser
Jjaro V stop taking to yourself, it's embarrassing
I love how he says "sigma" with a tired annoyance. He hates buying from sigma.
I think everyone hates buying from sigma. Only thing they are good for is the safety data sheets
What is sigma
Closedsleet noice
@@E_Rico Sigma Aldrich. A massive chemical supply company.
Cooe thanks
I gotta say, Nile...as the son of a chemist that worked as one for 50 yrs, you are by far the most funny and interesting chemist I’ve ever come across. This channel is amazing and you are a super ambassador for the world of chemistry. Chemists DO have a sense of humor. I recall watching Breaking Bad with my dad and he hit pause...looked at me, smiled and said...’Son, if I were a different kind of man, I could make a pile of highly pure meth that would curl peoples toes’. He’s not that guy, obviously, but everyone in the room busted out laughing because we knew it was true. You definitely get a sub and I’ll hit you up on patreon. I’ll also share this channel with pop.
I like that glow stick isn't quite perfect. It makes me appreciate how much work has gone into making them better for the market versions.
awww yea nile red getting lit with the glow sticks
please make silly string in one video
Ohh yeaaa, make some silly string and play with it ahah
The chlorocarbons needed for them will be hard to get or make, maybe he can make another gas to use
@@Jovian_Freelance aren’t patents only for selling products?
yes yes yes
I actually made the tcpo in the lab and it's so awesome to see the compound made and utilized! Great vid!
2:35 Nile cookin up bones fr lmao
9:07 "mix it up" *proceed to shake it 900 times a second*
Iceypumpkin head an ad started right when he started shaking and I saw a blur then it went to an ad
9:06 for better timestamp
Wow, congrationlations on getting ALL THE WAY UP, Nile!
You know you have ARRIVED when you're able to buy from Aldrich as an individual... 👍
I still cant! Haha, I have a friend who has a license who is able to help me out.
NileRed; Haha, aww damn! I really had hoped that at least you would be allowed some freedom to pursue 'amateur' chemistry (since you obviously know what you're doing and everything gets really well documented on video).
I really find it extremely sad that a small subset of people were allowed to ruin such a noble scientific hobby for the rest of us; however, I am equally happy that you have still been able to find ways of doing these projects (with the support of people who do still have access) AND of publicly sharing them with the rest of the world.
Hopefully, one day, your business will have grown enough that you are able to pursue all of your scientific questions, without anyone trying to hold you back...
Thank you, again, for all of the hard work that you have done to bring the highest level of quality, practical org. chem. to RUclips!
NileRed What license? How do I get it? >:)
Reptillian; There are different types depending on the industry your company specializes in.
Usually small businesses would buy from resellers, but once a company becomes large enough they can apply for a license to cut out the middle man.
It is a pretty involved process, however, since you need to be 100% sure that the public cannot (within reason) gain access to the chemicals any easier than if they had never been moved from the manufacturer's premesis in the first place.
In practice this means that both the manufacturer and the relevant authorities have to be satisfied with your security infrastructure and access protocols, during every inspection, which pretty effectively prohibits all small groups from conducting their own experiments/research.
Needless to say, it really warms my heart that someone, with only some undergraduate training and a passion for science, can still find enough support to share some real chemistry with us all, for free!
The best thing about you is that you know you are a genius and brilliant but still so humble and down to earth. Kudos man.
These videos have not only taught me more than school but it’s is super relaxing. Please keep making more. Your the science goat of you tube Nile
I absolutely love your videos. I'm not an expert of any kind in chemistry, in fact, I'm at my last year in high school, but I have a strong interest in chemistry and I learn so more and more everytime I watch your videos. Continue making great content it's sooo interesting :)
(+Jasmine Bédard) I’m a bit Young than you from what it sounds like (by about two or three years), but I started reading up on clandestine chemistry (because it’s really interesting and you can easily find multiple routes to an exact molecule) things online and analyzing the reactions involved, and now I’m writing my own routes based off of reactions I see and when reading try and predict the next step, and am getting better at all of that. I recommend if you want to get into chemistry you do something like that.
It’s been 4 years did you go to college?
I have no idea of chemistry whatsoever but your videos are just so fun to watch
It's not that difficult, but the formulas can be quite confusing
it's nice to know that the molecules in the glowsticks get excited, bc I'm also excited to see them glow
your glow stick is such a nice color and it’s so bright, woah
i really like the color
I feel like NileRed actually has the mind of an 11 year old in the body of a chemist. Glow sticks! Soap! Nylon! 'Let's so if any of these acids will hurt if I spill some on my skins!'
Bronze Manul please don't insult him... I'm a 19 year old college student studying to become a chemical technician, and I'm confident that NileRed knows his stuff better than myself. Therefore, I suggest you back off if you have nothing nice to say.
hyvää-elämää-98 no one was insulting.
hyvää-elämää-98 I don't think he meant that as an insult. "Body of a chemist" sorta implied that he's got the knowledge and such a chemist, but the boundless curiosity of an 12 year old
curiosity is the essence of discovery :D
BronzeManul, you just described a typical genius. :)
"My glowsticks are so horrible, guys. I made this chemical that works perfectly and presented a video better than most people can even dream of doing. I'm so awful!" ಠ_ಠ
You made glowsticks basically from scratch. I can't even get proper velveted meat for Chinese food. Stop being awesome and so damn humble. You're making the rest of us look bad! Ya jerk.
You have to let it sit in corn starch , egg whites, baking soda and Chinese cooking wine.
Then you fry at a low simmer, only to about half to 3/4 done, if the oil is too hot the meat gets tough.
After this it’s done. Also a lot of authentic recipes will use MSG and it is also another type of meat tenderizer.
Steve Reynold so much respect to you for commenting this, especially a year later 😂
Steve Reynold omg I never knew I needed that random advice. Thank you stranger.
To restate:
1. Marinade meat with a mixture of corn starch, baking soda, egg whites, maybe MSG, and cooking wine. (Is there a preference for type/flavor/variety? There seem to be as many Chinese cooking wines as European cooking wines.)
2. Pan-sear to medium-rare or medium.
Wonder how Bromelain would work in place of MSG as meat tenderizer - maybe add some pineapples and call it Hawaiian velveted meat?
@@StephenGillie If I want Velveted meat,I buy a brick of Kraft,cut off a slab,nuke it til soft,and pour it on Spam,lol.J/K,will have to try your advice soon,Thanks!
I always hated chemistry, but since i found ur page, i started loving it.! Thanks!
I've wondered this for a long time: Why do glow sticks glow longer if they are kept in the freezer?
I assume it's because reactions happen more slowly at lower temperatures so the chemiluminescent reactions can continue for longer before they exhaust the reactants? That's just an educated guess though
@@rosiecairns9697 You are correct! They also glow dimmer when cold and stronger when hot, but that affects the glow-time for the reasons you described.
Terrible glowstick? You made it! From scratch! Nothing terrible about that!
I agree, that second glow stick you made looked really nice with the more concentrated dye... who knew such a mistake could result in such a beautiful display of chemiluminescence!
You're definitely in my top 5 favorite science channels on RUclips. I love your videos.
It might be interesting to have two spray bottles with the chemicals in, and then spray them in the air next to each other in a dark room. I am curious o see if it would make a glowing cloud where they meet in the air?
That'll be really cool to see
@@jrmckim But terrible to breathe.
Or you can just spray the two already mix and have your glowing cloud.
We did a chemiluminescence lab in ochem lab. Took like 2.5 hours for a 5 second reaction hahah
And the real kicker is that 2.4 hour lab theory they taught... they dont even know if it's correct!
@Dgstowe Meh... The luminol we use was really really old. Even with the lights off I couldn't see it nor could most of the class. I think those that even saw it were probably imagining it.
Well I'll be damned. Homeboy made a glowstick
Light sticks are literally so cool I love them 😩❤️❤️❤️
This man NEEDS to release all the mods he has been apart of I'd get almost every single one.
it's always a good day when nilered hooks it up with a vid
Yup
Almost had a breakdown when you showed the reaction mechanism. Just took my organic 2 final and had to learn like a hundred reaction mechanisms. It was not fun. I cried a lot this semester. I even contemplated dropping out of college. It was a nightmare.
Otherwise, great video! I love your content!
Spoiler: no you haven't. It's probably closer to 5, repeated 20x each
@@LA-MJ Ever heard of hyperbole?
@@Mycatjake1 My point was 'learning 100 mechanisms' is not the way orgchem is supposed to be learned, or taught.
@@LA-MJ I had a crappy professor who made us memorize mechanisms, which is probably why I have to retake the class.
And anyway, like I said, it was hyperbole. I know I didn't literally learn 100 mechanisms. It just felt that way.
Sort of reminds me of my chemistry lessons. The teacher literally just takes a random text from the internet that even remotely is about chemistry (last thing he chose was a scanning tunnel microscope text excerpt because haha you can see atoms, wow) and turns it into a concentration practice where you have to separate the words, and throws shit around and screams when you have a spelling error. Thank you, my class mates now know how to construct that microscope, but if I'd mention the period system, the girls would call me a pervert because they'd think I was talking about periods.
This is the most beautiful glow sticks I've ever seen
This video you explain WHY you do steps a little better than even newer videos including water baths and so forth. I like that.
I read starch instead of scratch and for the whole video i was like 'when is the starch gonna be used?'
Duuuuude I could've used this a few months ago when I did this reaction for a project in o chem 2. Great video!
Wish we did cool stuff like this in chemistry class back in early 2000s...then I would have paid more attention. New subscriber here man...love your videos. Thanks for sharing.
Blown away love your videos.
No way.... He's done it. He's built glowsticks :'D
Great video! Thanks for making this for us to enjoy and learn from.
nice testing !we also use infrared dye to make 15 inch infrared glow stick for military
Wow your glow stick is amazing
because the T in TCPO is short for Tri which is 3, cant it be 3CPO which is almost a brass robot? C3PO
Nile, my grandfather was on the chemist team that created the first glow sticks I want to send you the patents and his old notes to check out!
If it works, it's not terrible. Great job! ❤
I swear Nile can make just about anything
Nile you are a legend.
Ay I just synthesized some ethyl acetate today... Why? Because.
Also Nile, why are you beating yourself up over your glowstick design? How many people do you think make their own glowsticks? Other than NurdRage, of course.
This video totally cleared up a foggy area of my understanding of chemical reactions
That is so cool!! I alway wondered how glow sticks were compiled!!
now just teach us how to make MDMA
231ian1 open this video “ aluminium amalgam video in which he was saying about mdma production by it
Just read tikal and Pikal they are available online and have step by step instructions on MDMA production. Although the precursors are hard to get, specifically safrole or sassafras. I used to purchase it in make your own rootbeet kits however its dirty and expensive.
@@SuperHoneyOil lmao rootbeet
Phenylamines I've know and loved xxx
lsd instead?
one time in middle school my friend and I bought several hundred glowsticks, cracked them, and then FLUNG THE CONTENTS (glass and all) all over my bedroom walls to make constellations.
I remember the first time getting a glow stick necklace as a child. I was sad when the glow went out since I didn’t realize their effects were limited.
I love how most of us don't understand half of what he is saying but still enjoy all the extra explanation
Me a law student watching Chemical bonds at 1:40 am instead of preparing for my moot court competition.
I am going to glow my clients 🤣🤣
Can you make a glow stick with quantum dots? So create a reaction that emits UV, the quantum dots absorb it, and emit a controlled color. Could be a cool video demonstrating quantum dots.
The soothing voice and the cool chemistry going on and the accurate explanation of what's happening with a bit of humor...
Why that would be the makings of the best chemistry channel on RUclips 🤔
Thanks, Its good to learn something new no matter when or how.
Great learning experience :)
When we were using them extensively in the Army in the 80's -- calling them "chem sticks" -- I never realized how recent of a marvelous invention they were. The patent for the design with the glass inside was only issued in 1976. These must have contributed a terrible toxicity to the landfills after being used.
Modern ones are non toxic. Not sure about the old ones tho
A solid precipitating out of a gas reaction? That's certainly something I've never seen before. Very cool.
This video was very illuminating
Nilered deserves a tv show so he has a mega budget so he can make kids interested in chemistry and possibly take it up!
That’s pretty awesome that you’re learning to draw! YES! Would absolutely love to see your progress! I love seeing new artists improving and learning! And hey, if ever yiu have any questions, ask away. 😁
This guy has inspired me alot and my uncles gf went to a class with you Nile or some crap idk but ur amazing and I have even done some of these
For a homemade 1st time, I think your glow stick came out well! 🤗
So does it actually deteriorate over time eventually causing it to no longer work? Or would it glow again every time you shake it?
I was wondering what might happen if you had a glow stick that had a powder that was magnetic (like iron) inside, then a small magnet on each end of the stick so that the magnetic fields are overlapping slightly, would it cause the liquid to constantly stir (be excited) or would the powder just settle between the two magnetic fields?
Disregarding the whole magnetic stirring of liquids, let alone doing so with no additional energy ad infinitum.. the excited molecule comes into being from the remains of a broken down TCPO molecule. Shaking is not what excites it, it's a part of the chemical reaction where TCPO is all used up after breaking the vile. Shaking merely makes the reaction happen faster.
It's *sort of* like stirring in sugar to make a drink sweeter. Stirring helps it dissolve so it doesn't pile up at the bottom for ten minutes. Stirring for an hour wont make it any sweeter
HOLY SHIT! THIS IS AWESOME!
I would say that the fact you were willing to take all that time with all those chemicals and got good results. It was good!
Awesome! Can't wait to try it out!!!
dark to sudden white screen. ya killin my eyes
Such bad glowsticks.. But also so pretty!
Keep an eye out for some interesting shaped plastic bottles you can make custom shaped ones in next time? :)
Dear Nile ,your video made possible making CPPO .
Thanks for your help
It looks like Baja blast mountain dew😂😂1:20
hey, could you do a Kharasch reaction? i've seen it on books, but never on practical. it's fun how chemistry does have it's exceptions, haha
Hey man, love your videos. The black background has given me an idea. Can you please make a video on the chemistry behind new black paints, such as Surrey Nanosystems' Vantablack, or Black 2.0? Black 2.0 can be purchased easily from the website of the artist, Stuart Semple. You could even try to paint things with it, such as the background, whilst amking comparisons. Stuart has a video saying something about the large spacing of the base allowing for more pigment to be added, so I would be very interested to know more about that.
Thanks for all your exceptional videos and the background knowledge that you provide.
OutOfNamesToChoose that would be interesting . that and some of these new exotic plastics
I really want to. Ill look into black 2.0. I tried to buy vantablack a while ago, but I couldnt find anywhere that was selling it.
NileRed Thank you and good luck! There's an interesting back story to Stuart making Black 2.0 in that he requested the assistance of chemists to spite the artist Anish Kapoor- who was granted permission by Surrey Nanosystems to be the sole artist who can use Vantablack. Interestingly, under the T&C's of using Black 2.0, Stuart explicitly stated that through its purchase, an agreement is made to NOT give it to Anish.
PBS Idea Channel here on RUclips recently had an interesting video on the subject.
And after seeing all this work just to make a "bad" glowstick, I so appreciate buying them or getting them from work even more...
This makes me so happy.
I need to know... Are you actually a chemist? (Like is it your actual job?)
Hes a 1300s alchemists trying to make gold from leaf
Hey Nile, can you synthesize monomethylhydrazine? For rocket fuel?
What about unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine? It's lovely.
0:45 I like your funny words magic man
I’ve used great courses when school was on shut down it’s pretty good it has a good learning video
6:24 *how to make glowing cocaine*
TCPO... Toluene... These names sound weirdly familiar...
I drank glow stick Juice when I was a kid taste funky....
tbh this is insanly super cool
I wonder if Gus has approached Nile to cook some “Blue Magic”.
9:08 Barry Allen in action
Awesome. Anyone that can follow a recipe and simple instructions can make this at home.
You know once before they remember that for the cost of the chemicals, the time and trouble you can buy glowsticks in many forms and colors at the dollar store in three packs or more for a buck.
A perfect make-shift glow in the dark light
Snapping the tip off sounds painful :P
You speed through the explanation of some genius design and then say it's not very good ? XD
Well, it could indeed do with some optimisation.
But for a quick and dirty design with apparently little planning behind it the result was rather impressive...
Thanks!
when i was a kid, i got a used chemistry set from the thrift store. and one of the projects in it was glow sticks, but the chemical for it was 98% gone. So i only got to make like a tiny drop of glow stuff that you could barely see. Ever since then, ive wanted to make more.