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Making ferrofluid from scratch

NileRed - 2019-07-05

Back in October, I tried making ferrofluid but I kept failing and I ended up giving up for a while.

Months later though, I got inspired, and I spent an insane amount of time researching ferrofluid and trying to make it. It was a very messy and sometimes frustrating process, but I was eventually successful. The method that I came up with still isn't perfect, but as far as I know, it's the best and most functional method available on the internet.

Giveaway link: https://gleam.io/UpmYi/ferrofluid-giveaway

Old video: https://youtu.be/uLAeHVRxhAU
Nile talks about lab safety:  https://youtu.be/ftACSEJ6DZA

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CallMeCancer - 2020-10-05

Me not understanding a word while sleep deprived at 3 am: I like your funny words magic man

Who The Hell Knows - 2021-02-04

@Patricio Lemus Once you get there, come back and let us know how you like it then. I'll give a fair warning, it gets very confusing, very quickly. Ex: Take sodium (explosive metal [Na]) + chlorine (deadly gas [Cl]) = Table salt (Sodium Chloride [NaCl]). Yee be warned...

Obese T - 2021-02-06

It’s the same reason you fall asleep in math class.

Rebekah Sharpe - 2021-02-07

Never related more to a comment, 2:45am 😂😂

TinyTigerTamer - 2021-02-11

This is me both while watching these videos and in my chemistry class

Simpleplanqueen5 - 2021-02-12

“I know some of these words” for real though I find your videos fascinating...I dont know anything about science but this is so relaxing and pulls me in

Siddharth Rodrigues - 2020-09-08

I just watched 36 minutes of chemistry without looking at the clock.

Asher Pfanku - 2020-12-21

teaching like this isn't something teachers get paid enough for. It requires an extreme dedication and days of research.

TheLocomono9 - 2020-12-21

@Asher Pfanku absolutely but I’m of the other side that recorded lectures and in-depth analysis is how you get people to learn and to develop themselves instead of forcing the basics and having no relatability or physical reaction. I believe teachers SHOULD be paid for this or atleast use videos like this to help explain their lessons. Completely impractical currently but moving forward that’s my ideal

Ogre Magson - 2020-12-30

@Mr.Potato gotta make a petition for Nile to be the International Chemistry Teacher. We'd all be really smart without getting painfully bored.

Tristan van Kappen - 2021-01-04

Maybe it’s just because of the nice narration and your watching this on your own device instead of shitty school speakers

Jeffrey Zhang - 2021-02-05

me 2

Ingo Schweitzer - 2020-08-28

If you ever become a crazy arch villain, we’d all be screwed. Nobody could do anything as you would release a video fully explaining everything you did to take over the world, including every mistake anyone did in trying to stop you, and how you circumvented those attempts.

Stay on the good side, you are absolutely brilliant.

Arctic Fox - 2021-01-21

@jay quickblade exactly.

jay quickblade - 2021-01-21

@Arctic Fox affirmative

UwUthinize EverOwOne - 2021-01-24

Bruh if micheal reeves and him were both super villains at the same time our only hope would be them fighting each other.

Pappy - 2021-01-28

Codyslab would become the protagonist nilered being antagonist nilered has more antagonistic qualities in my opinion

PurpleBaron - 2021-02-06

Is it possible to get him and styropyro to team up for this conquest?

Ryan Frick - 2020-08-17

"........using acid is easier safer and faster. It also gave better results"
I wonder what someone without enough context would think.

Meteorite Playz - 2020-12-23

Bones

Ogre Magson - 2020-12-30

That you're disposing a body? Not that I know anything about disposing bodies. O-O

Live Free Fungi - 2021-01-12

This guy clearly doesn't know about mushrooms.

Sextor - 2021-01-29

Weed

Gabriel Ashe - 2021-02-06

K N I F E H A N D S

Ryan - 2020-08-12

What I've learned on this channel: dont underestimate distilled water and coffee filters
Edit: thx for all the likes :)

Jonas Lundgren - 2020-12-31

I agreee, I once even heated up the water and added som some coffee powder to the filter, the result was amazing ;)

Rohit wankhede - 2021-01-01

@Jonas Lundgren ya that is pretty complex chemistry 😂😂😂 made simple with distilled water

Pepper Harlet - 2021-01-04

And drain cleaner, he uses it so much more often than I'd expect haha

saucy nonchalance - 2021-01-07

and amazon 😒

Bc K - 2021-01-09

@Benjamin Greeff a2waaw

Riley Garcia - 2020-10-10

“y’know sPoOnS?”

Tristen Arctician - 2021-01-29

Where is this, timestamp

Kira Lee - 2021-02-02

@Tristen Arctician it's in his can you smell metal video at the end

Matthew Hurless - 2020-12-22

27:30 "Strongly attracted to itself and strongly repelled the rod" .... Sounds like my Ex

L Martin - 2021-01-15

Sorry your rod doesn't attract 😢

JustAKid Icarus - 2021-01-20

This made me fall onto my floor laughing and I don't know why.

Leonardo Leite - 2021-01-29

@JustAKid Icarus no you didn't

JustAKid Icarus - 2021-01-30

@Leonardo Leite How would you know?

And If you say you were watching me I am going to track you down and deal with you myself. No witnesses.

UnPrankAble 666 - 2021-02-06

Damn man/woman. Savage.

TheNameless - 2020-08-26

dude that second failed ferrofluid was a ferrosauce. when you took the magnet away it looked like soy paste or something

dr soma bhattacharyya - 2020-12-08

Ppfffffttt

Socks - 2021-01-04

Forbidden ketchup

thin eevee - 2021-01-17

@Socks evil sauce

King of the Rock - 2021-01-26

forbidden soy sauce

TheAmaz1ng StopSign - 2020-09-11

No YoU cAnT sUsPeNd MaGnEtItE cAuSe ItS nOt AlIvE
nile: YOU ARE SUSPENDED
magnetite: :(

Elias Kiser - 2020-11-21

Nile is God

GameDominator //XennonGDM - 2021-01-23

HAHA SUSPENSION GO BRRRRRR!!!

burdlo - 2019-07-05

this video is 40 minutes of nilered flexing on us

he's very proud of his ferrofluid

K. Alfsen - 2020-10-21

He's just right

ATLomega - 2020-11-02

@Michal Zielinski jesteś Polakiem?

Michal Zielinski - 2020-11-02

@ATLomega tak

糖水Zoe - 2020-12-12

@francisco guinle de barros 🤣

SniperSketchesFTW - 2021-01-29

Ok

Abel Kent - 2020-10-01

When you realize its too late to enter the giveaway
Why are we still here, just to suffer

Pino dinamite 2.0 - 2021-01-02

Become A chem,Git moneyyyys and buy stuff to make this and the super conductor,then start selling the extra stuff and boom lots of giveaways lol

Science done right - 2020-12-19

My fav part is the lubricant drawing lol
That was actually modern art dude

Eldritch Sheep - 2020-12-23

Ight so when's the "making a nuclear bomb from scratch" video coming out

kevinirby - 2020-10-12

is it just me or do I want squash the little spikes with my fingers😯

ECZPlaysGames YT - 2021-02-01

Me to

S3vere - 2019-10-02

Alternate title: 38 minutes of NileRed flexing on commercial ferrofluid vendors

Sky - 2020-12-21

@hpekristiansen my guess is they also stretch it out by using some form of filler. My guess is DiStiLLeD wAtEr

Ogre Magson - 2020-12-30

@Andaaz S. Bawa fuck sports games. If I wanna do any other sports, I'll get outside. I play games mostly for the story and or action.

Blue Velociraptor - 2020-12-31

Do u mean this in a good or bad way?

HA GAYYY - 2021-01-03

@Vinala_the_Dragoon l

DerpyWasTaken - 2020-10-05

"back in october" Hah the future is now.

zed - 2020-12-14

Hah the future is now

ISupposeThis IsMyNmw - 2020-12-25

Hah, the future- it’s now.

Binhomeless - 2020-12-24

Ferrofluid manufacturers watching this video: WRITE THAT DOWN, WROTE THAT DOWN

Lucy LUCA - 2020-08-18

Me : Oh cool! I can create some myself!
Also me after 2 minutes: Nope...

Engineer02 - 2021-02-06

whats the matter? You can get everything online for about 30 bucks total

AwolAce - 2020-09-10

This is the middle school nerd that actually did well later in life

Adarsh Venkateswaran - 2020-10-11

Most middle school nerd. Kids do well. Having a lot of interest in a subject at a young age means that you will enjoy doing that.

Yawar Qadr - 2020-10-25

Einstein was a jerk first then got that smart

maroon 345678 - 2021-01-18

I'm doing well being a game dev thank you

Hasi Mausi - 2021-02-07

@Adarsh Venkateswaran who enjoys anything at school? One must be quite simple minded to enjoy that. I mean seriously.

v0idsc0rpse - 2021-02-08

@Hasi Mausi i mean, if someone has an interest and their class covers that interest they would probably like that. and they also werent specifically talking about finding their passions in school either i believe.

mutantfrogs - 2019-09-29

“my spikes are bigger and more impressive” lol

Kullanıcı ismi - 2020-10-19

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

David Dobbins - 2020-10-23

I hate you

DrGay - 2020-11-08

He ain't lying

watermelon squad boi - 2020-11-09

Lmfao wtf LOLOLOLOLOOOOOL

Bec Taddeo - 2020-12-02

No YoU cAnT sUsPeNd MaGnEtItE cAuSe ItS nOt AlIvE
nile: YOU ARE SUSPENDED
magnetite: :(

Alison North - 2020-12-28

'Magnitite'
Me being a pokemon intellectual: So thats what magnimites are made out of..

Vicenzo Marsal - 2021-01-08

And alolan geodude.

Artofficial - 2020-10-04

NileRed: "Now, let's see what happens when I touch the fluid!"

[Venom has entered chat]

Luffy 27 - 2020-12-04

i love to see how he’s proud of his ferrofluid

Drop_8 - 2020-11-02

When Nile teaches me more than my science teacher ever will

BLAZENYCBLACKOPS - 2021-01-26

It’s not the information, it’s the delivery of the information that’s important.

Toothpick Provider - 2019-07-23

Everything can be fixed with
Distilled water

Hurricane - 2020-12-26

I agree with you

Holy Spoom Stealer - 2021-01-13

@Darcey Darcey distilled water also doesn’t conduct because it has no minerals

Lunalove - 2021-01-30

@Nate Davis yeeeeeee

OneMoreCore - 2021-02-01

@Nicolae Daniel Andreiu you must be great at parties

Gd IXK SA CA MD JackAttack - 2021-02-06

I got hurt.

U u u u distilled water fixes everything

John Westmoreland - 2020-12-21

do you think his well paying chemistry job pays for him being able to do expensive chemistry in his free time? imagine doing chemistry in your free time. i respect that

RedwoodRhiadra - 2021-01-06

This is his job - he quit school to become a full-time Youtuber. It's NurdRage who has the chemistry job outside his Youtube channel.

spwicks1980 - 2021-01-07

Some people really like chemistry ;)

Hasi Mausi - 2021-02-07

You don't know that youtube earns money?

Crowely - 2020-10-18

This is genuinely impressive Considering How little information there is on how to make this stuff and you still made it and made it better

The Game Challenger - 2020-11-06

37:17 as an artist that really shocked me

EDIT: can you sell me this stuff? as a toy, art, etc?

preet inderjit Singh - 2020-12-05

31:00 cute pet comes here

me - 2021-01-24

How is it cute pet? I dont see a pet

The LoonyTunes Cultist - 2020-07-14

“Where is the Iron III?”
”Gone, reduced to Iron II”

lightning _ dragon - 2020-11-24

OMG IM UR BIGGEST FAN

David Harris - 2020-11-27

Gosh, this comment section is my people, more sience nerds, and memers. This rocks!

Aeroscience - 2020-11-30

Giorno Giovana well reduction is adding electrons, so of course, what’s your point? Your trying to be a smart ass, but just stating the obvious...

Desiree Yorks - 2020-12-19

@lightning _ dragon NO IM HIS BIGGEST FAN!

Sam The King - 2020-12-19

Ah man! My pickaxe went from efficiency lll to efficiency ll !

Midnight Gloom - 2020-10-10

My parents: Stop being lazy and get off ur device

Me: watching a video that is teaching me new things

👁️ 👄 👁️

chiquilin715playsRoblox e - 2020-12-24

I sleep watching this stuff at like 1 to 4 am 👁 👄 👁

Sekai Yukki - 2021-01-03

Things that you'll never use in life

Queena Yang - 2021-01-12

@Sekai Yukki true 👁👄👁

thunder leftbeyz - 2020-08-16

Me every video : this is too long I can’t finish this
Me alert the video:just one more

Ja'Crisspy - 2021-02-06

The ultimate way to punish nile: take his distilled water from him

awechloe - 2021-02-07

😮

Alex King - 2020-09-29

While watching his videos I feel smart from learning at the same time as I feel dumb for not understanding most of the words he uses

Yomom12388 - 2020-06-03

My favorite part of all of these videos is “I needed a bunch of *insert caustic/toxic/corrosive/generally dangerous chemical here* so I went and bought it in bulk on Amazon”. Like, I just love our modern world.

zeta 7123 - 2020-08-28

What a time to be alive

Pink Droid - 2020-09-30

All "caustic/toxic/corrosive/etc" chemicals are manufactured from ordinary, easy to get chemicals. With very few exceptions, the only difference is how many steps between the "OTC" chems and the ones you can't buy. The only exceptions are elemental oddities. But the vast majority of chemicals are just combinations of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen. That's why the war on drugs is ultimately futile, no matter how many drugs/precursors they ban (there are a TON) usually, it isn't terribly difficult to just obtain the precursors to the banned precursors, and then make it yourself.

pharris morgan - 2020-10-10

@*Moth* r/cursedcomments

ahmed4363 - 2020-10-22

@stevemc 01 scamazon prime

stevemc 01 - 2020-10-22

@ahmed4363 You saw the vid too?

Mit Vishwakarma - 2020-08-26

I am messed up with my homework.
Wait...that can be fixed with distilled water.

RedwoodRhiadra - 2021-01-06

Nah, as Doug's Lab showed, you need tetrachloroethylene to fix homework. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AguwaDKb2ns

Cloy - 2020-12-23

Who else watches stuff like this late at night?

Zach Friedman - 2021-02-02

He looks like he’s doing a really good job of pretending he doesn’t want to cry

John Jarvis - 2020-09-19

"It let me weed out some of the crappier particles." #LegitScienceVernacular

Post Prophet - 2020-08-26

I always know when I hear him say “ to do this”.. it’s about to get real.

Mr_Dill_Pickle - 2020-10-11

Hello person 10yrs in the future that You Tube randomly recommended this to

ECZPlaysGames YT - 2021-02-01

Sup

Matthew Wyllie - 2020-10-02

My high school chemistry teacher after watching make this on my own after watching 5 times 👁👄👁

Ludalomade - 2020-12-21

0:01 yea thats me...
Ur probably corious how did i get here..

Atomickx - 2019-10-14

"The preparations were exactly the same, so I'm not sure why there would be such a difference."
Welcome to the world of nanochemistry, where sometimes the synthesis fails just because you looked at it wrongly.

Tucker Dennis - 2020-03-31

Ahh yes quantum state science but not quantum(I think its quantum state, it's like 4 am and I dont have a degree)

Curtis Ford - 2020-04-01

You might be able to increase the speed of the stirring part if you put a plate with a couple holes in the top of it that let you run the mixing rod into it, one for your dropper, and another one to let a stream of nitrogen, or some other inert gas into it, which would reduce oxidation.

Smriti Shankar - 2020-08-03

@Greaser physics looks away in panic

Jacob Frederick - 2020-08-08

I know this comment is from a long time ago, but I've heard about this in nanochemistry a lot where it just fails for no discernable reason.

I've always wondered if it's simply a factor of air pressure during certain stages of the chemical process as it is applying different levels of force which may have an impact on how the nano particles form.

I live at high altitude so I have to cook sightly differently for recipes. So, with nanochemistry I could see how it could have an exaggerated effect as you're dealing with particles that have different states of fragility at certain times.

Are you able to share any thoughts on this or am I just totally wrong?

doodily doo - 2020-09-07

@Jacob Frederick I know nothing of chemistry so take this with a heaping bag of salt, but I can see that being one factor among many. There's so many variables in every given situation it's incredibly difficult to figure them all out let alone control them

silly - 2021-01-11

“And that the length of it didn’t kill you”

That’s what she said

Mitch Winget - 2021-02-12

How the hell did the first person ever to make this stuff figure this out

Adamn Apples - 2020-12-02

What I've learned on this channel: dont underestimate distilled water and coffee filters

Maxwell Weaver - 2020-08-24

"Using acid is easier, safer, and faster"

Book Butterfly - 2019-10-01

You: [insert sciencey talk]
Me, an intellectual: hehe spikey

rat brain - 2019-10-19

Me, a dyslexic in the background: :0 spekiy

lniederkohr06 - 2019-11-18

Hahaha I do that

Astolfo The Trap - 2020-01-01

SPPPPPPIIIKKKKEEESSSSS

stiky - 2020-04-02

Hehehehe bowser's shell

Wolf lover - 2020-04-03

Black stabby stabbies :)

Bananas are Vegetables - 2021-01-11

The best line ever said goes to “This is what I had in the morning and it wasn’t exactly beautifully.”