NurdRage - 2013-02-14
We show how to make an iron heart bleed. First get 100 mL of water and add to it 1 gram of potassium thiocyanate. Then add to it 1 mL of 12M hydrochloric acid and 1 mL of 30% hydrogen peroxide. Shake up the solution until completely dissolved. Pour out the solution into a dish and drop into it an iron wire that's been shaped into a heart. Instantly the iron will appear to bleed as the chemicals dissolve the iron and produce iron thiocyanate that has a blood red color.
Thanks for the awesome experiments NurdRage, hope you enjoy your new lab. <3
Please NurdRage, if you are unable to make videos in the lab, then try to do some home science like millions of other people do. It would mean a lot for you coming back to youtube. Not just for me, but for your subscribers.
I love watching your videos while I'm trying to do Chemistry homework. You're awesome~
Watching all of your videos over again. I really miss seeing them pop up in my sub box. Too bad your Kickstarter wasn't successful :/ I wish you luck in your future endeavors whomever you may be :)
Are you completely hopeless nurdrage? :( thank you for teaching me chemistry :) you are the one who made me the best one in my class....xD thank you! but, its so sad to see you go ;(
He is back!
Hopefully you get the chance to do these videos again in the future. Best wishes stranger
It's been a year :) come back pleeeeease, even if it's only stuff you can do at home if you can't get a lab
Agree
+1
me too
What a beautiful reaction!
We miss you Nurdy.. i hope you get another job in a lab like before and start again..
lol nurd rage predicted the heartbleed bug
I really hope more videos can come eventually. I miss this channel with a passion.
Somehow, I'm getting nostalgia even without seeing your videos before.
Though we may never hear your voice again we will always remember you as our favorite anonymous chemist in our bloodied hearts
What if WE made a kickstarter for NurdRage?
God, I miss nurdrage. It'd be nice if he did an odd video every few months or so.
You know I started to take chemistry serious after watching a lot of your videos back in 2011. I also subscribed back then. That was more than two years ago. Since then I'm learning chemistry, and it's sad to see your channel, that made me love chemistry this much being finished. I think you did everything you wanted and reached your goals with teaching thousands of people, but now... 10 month without a single video... I know now you don't have the job that let you do videos with proper equipment, but watching this abondened channel is just sad.
I just watched the end of Shogun - my heart is already bleeding.
We'll miss you! Hope you can come back to educate the young!
I remember when I first stumbled across your channel when researching potassium nitrate (being immature then, I was trying to make a bomb). Subbed since 2010. Will miss your channel! Cheers!
NurdRage, return please! You're the best!
Thankyou Nurdrage. You were the first science channel I ever watched on youtube, you were the one who introduced me to the beauty and wonder of chemistry. Because of you, possibly thousands of your viewers, and potentially billions in the future will pursue science. You may be the reason for us travelling to distant stars and galaxies. Because of you, our descendants may see the light of a new sun, breathe the air of a distant world. Thankyou, from all of us, and goodbye.
Dear NurdRage, i'm from the Netherlands and really love your video's i was just wondering if you still could make a video how to make potassium chlorate using electrolysis?
I look onto this channel every now and then, but it usually ends in a tear running down my cheek.
what a romantic yet subtle way to say goodbye, he left us a heart to remember him by
Nurdrage! Please make some more videos! We miss the best Chemistry Channel on Youtube!
Hi Nurdrage, Love your channel! And i wanted to reply to your video from 6 months ago :P. When i go antique shopping i always find a lot of silver plated items especially cutlery. now i would like to know how u separate the silver from the base metal. I already found out its more expensive to do then the amount of silver is worth, but thats besides the point.
i'm gona miss this channel when you move labs, and hope you can still find a way to keep the vids coming
What would you recommend as a basic starter kit for a chemistry lab? I want to buy some beakers and flasks and stuff, but I don't know where to start!
A similar effect can be achieved by dropping iron into ethanol
Please make more videos! I really love them
He can't. He no longer works at this lab, and if you look at his about page, he states that the channel is on indefinite hiatus.
I'm sure he has reasons. I could imagine where one of those reasons involve an employer who may view such use of their lab in a sub-optimal light. I so wish he would be able to start with new content.
At least he ended on a perfect cube number of videos.
This is pretty interesting. I like you channel and am aspiring to become an environmental Chemist. I also want to be a music artist, and this kind of "bleeding heart" example is a perfect idea for visuals i can use for my track list. Any other ideas that can create a similar artistic reaction?
When I saw that guide... I felt that learning Chinese is necessary :D
I miss this dude so much
An iron bleeding heart. Wow that sounds like something out of an alchemy class.
Awesome videos! You showed me sciences!
I miss you so much, I wish you would come back ;-;
What about poly-aniline synthesis? Could you do a video for that?
Goodbye NR, we will all miss your awesome content
You can do more vids. <3
My heart bleeds now that he's gone...
cant u possibly do some kind of low cost expiraments? we NEED MORE VIDEOS!!!
That is just sad. I really liked his videos, and i guess that all of us did. He will be missed. We can only hope that he will return someday.
RIP we all hope that you will return one day ^.^
It was hard for him,even harder for us.But I know this heart on this video was meant for us. FAREWELL NURDRAGE, IT HAS BEEN A PLEASURE!
We'll see how things go. ^_^
First there were flaming hearts, now they're bleeding. I didn't know chem could be so passionate.
love the channel nurdrage. performing experiments i could never do myself.
Brainiac75 - 2013-02-14
I like your combination of chemistry and creativity :) Hope you will get access to a new lab so your talent as a chemistry video producer isn't wasted!