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GeH4: Germane. Highly flammable & Toxic gas!

ChemicalForce - 2020-11-05

LiAlH4 + GeCl4 → GeH4↑ + LiCl + AlCl3
In this video you’ll be able to see germane, even though it’s colorless and you can’t feel its awful smell through your display. We will get germane by the reaction of lithium aluminum hydridie in dry diethyl ether and germanium tetrachloride.
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Tengku Ariff Shah Shahrir - 2020-11-06

I just have to say thank you. Your videos show reactions that some of us might never see in our lifetimes, since they're so exotic. Hope you'll always be able to show us amazing chemistry for many years to come

Saoirse Nelson - 2020-11-06

Best germane video on YouTube, hands down!
Thank you so much for taking the time to make these videos ❤
I love the class 14 hydrides.
Do you think you might also do a video on plumbane or stannane in the future?

Royce Jacobs - 2020-11-05

I would love to see a video on Cl2O7! It can be made by distilling perchloric acid over phosphorus pentoxide.

KW PC UNOFFICIAL - 2020-11-10

@Oit Thegroit chloryl perchlorate (Cl2O6)
and other oxochlorine compounds are amazing

KW PC UNOFFICIAL - 2020-11-10

also Cl2O7 with SO3 makes really intresting strongly oxidizing and deprotonating complex

Dustin - 2020-11-20

I want a video on NO2ClO4, it's the strongest oxidizer of all perchlorates as well as a nitrating agent. Put it together with S5N6 and charcoal powder and you have the world's most powerful substitute for black powder.

Oit Thegroit - 2020-11-20

@Dustin He already did a video on nitronium/nitrosyl perchlorate.

KW PC UNOFFICIAL - 2020-11-22

@Oit Thegroit only on nitrosyl perchlorate

MrPinknumber - 2021-01-20

I remember doing something similar to the deposition reaction at university. We used silane (not germane) and a Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD) machine to make a silicon layer deposit. We did that to provoke thin film interference that would result in better light absorbance.

Farmerjohn's CountryLab - 2020-11-05

There's something very interesting about watching reactions with chemicals that I'll never be able to purchase or even see in real life.. The allure of the forbidden 😅

Angishnu dey - 2020-11-06

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Angishnu dey - 2020-11-23

@Gerry Murphy Thanks sir

BackYard Science 2000 - 2020-12-17

@Farmerjohn's CountryLab lol! I'm just now seeing this. Yeah they came a second time as well. I've been holding off on producing more videos until early 2021 to let stuff cool down. Thanks for the sub! After new years is when to expect my next video.

BackYard Science 2000 - 2020-12-17

@Angishnu dey literally just Google the chem you want. You'll be presented with hundreds of places to get most of them. You just have to find the one that'll sell to you.

Farmerjohn's CountryLab - 2020-12-18

@BackYard Science 2000 oh man a second visit too?? That's rough lol I often wonder how many more reactive chemicals and lab equipment I can order off ebay before I get a visit from someone. I'm keeping most of the chemistry experiments off camera for now though, until I learn more about the exact science of chemical reactions. Hope to see something new from you soon, you seem like a cool guy who knows his stuff!

Randall Logan - 2021-07-20

Hmmm, turns to (dark) elemental Germanium where a gas-torch contacted the tube....... with the right setup, flat white exposure plate, salt lenses, you could create photographic images of high temperature scenes! Probably not useful with all the other technologies now available but always interesting to consider. Thanks you for another great video!

Kieren Evans - 2020-12-19

There was a second year undergrad experiment where we made GeH4. We were using a schlenk line and collected it in an IR gas cell for analysis.

Random Experiments Int. - Experiments and syntheses - 2020-11-06

The formation of mirrors from colourless gases is so surreal. Beautiful demonstrations on the properties of germane!

Christian Miersch - 2020-11-07

As well as the formation of salts from purely gasses!

Lajos Winkler - 2020-11-05

I was hoping you'd condense and even solidify it. Now that would be exotic. You could do it with liquid nitrogen.

Eugene Bobukh - 2020-12-02

This is a truly great video! Thank you for these series!

Speaking of Germanium, there is a tiny yet long-standing puzzle associated with its volatile compounds that keeps me awake.

The paper "Reaction of (CF3)2Hg with Group 4A Tetrahalides. Preparation and Stabilities of (Trifluoromethyl)germanium and (Trifluoromethyl)tin Compounds." by R. J. Lagow, R. Eujen, L. L. Gershman, J. A. Morrison (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 100 [1978] 1722/6) reports preparation and properties of tris (trifluoromethyl)fluorogermane, (CF3)3GeF. Its' extrapolated boiling point is reported as +19.l C, while its melting point is given as +(27-30) C. That ambiguity leaves it somewhat open whether this compound is actually a gas under the normal conditions.

Why would that be interesting? The standard mw. of (CF3)3GeF is 298.65, which -- theoretically -- makes it just 0.3% denser than the currently recognized densest gas, WF6. Of course, provided that (CF3)3GeF is a gas, which we don't really know.

Just a note. Something curious in exchange for your great work. Thank you again!

Seeking The Love That God Means - 2021-10-20

Would there ever be a case of a reaction in a liquid evolving a gas that is heavier than the liquid? Academic question, but it would be shown in the chemical equation like it was a precipitate (down arrow).

Mexi Chemia - 2020-11-19

Can you make a video about tropone and tropolone?
They are organic compounds that are very polarized. They are also very stable due to Hückel’s rule of aromaticity.
It may not seem like an interesting compound, but im sure you might find some crazy and fun way to show its properties!

terawattyear - 2020-11-05

Excellent! Such imagination and thought goes into these reactions. Beautiful camera work.

Giovanni Pelissero - 2020-11-05

Beautiful exotic chemicals! Your channel is unic!
I think many of your viewers would like to see Organic Chemistry applications of these extremely reactive compounds, as a proof of concept but also for those who studied these reactions in uni and have to do org experiments in the lab.
Example: reduction with LiALH4 and deprotonation of alcohols with metallic sodium or potassium.

Keep working, you are one of a kind of yt channel!

Louis Tournas - 2021-12-17

So Germane can be used for cooking.
I have never seen these chemicals, except for germanium in photos. I have seen GeH4 decomposing like that.
Good stuff!

sixstringedthing - 2020-11-06

I'm a pretty simple dude. I see the words "highly flammable & toxic" in a video title, I click.
Another excellent and fascinating video.
What a shame that we can't have those animated annotations in real life (yet).
They would help a lot when dealing with colourless gasses. :)

MontSaintLeon Dr - 2020-11-09

Ge can be purified this way, however, AsH3 will react similarly in the tube. So, trace impurities of arsine could not be removed.

Mayzel Vanadate - 2020-11-05

Absolutely amazing video!

Guy That - 2020-11-05

D:
It's yellow chem's agent

Vasily Ermanntrotznk - 2021-04-16

Somebody knows,the name of music,that he used,in this vídeo?

Felipe Stenzel - 2020-11-23

I look for videos of the action of this acid in the internet and I never found anything that wasn't fake! I can't wait! Please explore to the fullest, if you want to make more than one video it's great too!! ; D cheers from Brazil

Gocilew Qerty - 2020-12-26

Интересно. Химия рулит! Я в 8 классе, но понимаю почти всю органику.

Michael Free - 2020-11-05

Could you repeat this with one of the pnictogen group elements, or is that arsine for trouble?

Nablo - 2020-11-05

Aldrich Glassware
Dang, that's expensive

Hans Harz - 2020-11-14

BTW on 0:24 you can read "GDR" on the flask at the bottom (German Democrattic Republic).

Pcorf Creations - 2020-11-15

Put some fluorantimonic acid into the glass and it will gradually eat through it.

Ionut Niculae - 2020-12-09

@Hans Harz True, 80% of my glass is new old stock i bought around Germany, Jenaer, rasotherm, and Schott West Germany, they are more durable than even new from the box new ones from Schott, Chemglass or Sigma. Sigma i bet my money has moved production to China. not that there are some Chinese companies that make good glass. But nothing like old german glassware, period

Hans Harz - 2020-12-09

@Ionut Niculae I get these notifcatations on google. Thanks a lot. You are quite happy to own these tools, really :)
Do you have a NS 29 set?
Combinded with NS 14?
I love Rasotherm, Boral Pula, old Schott etc. Yeah the connectors of the coolers have no plastic srew craps, who needs them anyway if the glass is top notch?

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Angishnu dey - 2020-11-06

Why this channel is soooo underrated!!!!


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Christian Miersch - 2020-11-07

He's still developing, but at the same time the channel seems more niche than periodic videos, so that puts an upper limit to the numbers. I guess if he just continues uploading he will grow into the 250000 range.

Matt Smith - 2020-11-05

I'm dying to see the fluoroantomonic video. I love your videos and I love watching the reactions even when I don't know exactly whats happening lol

Chris Henniker - 2021-09-06

Could it make a good race fuel or rocket propellant?

Nadi _ - 2020-11-05

Can you make experiments with flourine gas?🤩

r0galik - 2021-01-27

Isn't elemental silver and H2GeO3 + HNO3 the product of the reaction at 2:25?

Vasily Ermanntrotznk - 2021-04-16

Beatiful and Amazing experiment !
Congrat my friend,you're running,to a tridimensional mind!

fla playa - 2020-11-11

Looks like the "Getter" in vacuum tubes when sublimated on glass surface.

Atlas Reburdened - 2020-11-05

Ah yes, the gas that's always on topic.

Rob Kline - 2020-11-05

Very relevant comment.

08-Dung Nguyen Trong - 2020-12-10

I'd like to see some acetylide reactions :)

DavidFMayerPhD - 2021-11-19

You handle SO MANY toxic materials that I am amazed that you are still alive.

Luke - 2021-06-23

I come here to relax! This dude is the best!!

ATLHooligan - 2021-03-14

Can you make a version of your videos where the audio is in english?? Your titles intrigue me but it sucks not being able to understand whatever language this is in. Thanks!!

Kevin Luo - 2021-03-20

It's in german

MZoe - 2021-10-29

Keep the Steudel and the Brauer's Handbook spirit up!!!

pineapple ‎ - 2020-11-05

Can you do a video about persulfates?

Cody - - 2020-11-05

great stuff!

Bigcubefan - 2021-11-23

>"Dry ether"
>Handles it in open air

Bro, what?

android - 2020-11-15

Please try Titanium hydride + ammonium perchlorate

Basil - 2020-11-30

I come from searching the anti_____ acid in action, but subscribed to see the rest.

Clinton Gryke - 2020-11-05

I love these videos

Aureolin - 2021-01-26

Wow never thought I’d see that. And because it’s black you could say it created a black mirror.

Piyush Shukla - 2020-12-13

Can you make a video on potassium ferrate
@chemicalforce

Саша Устинович - 2020-11-05

Amazing!
Can you do the same whis stannane?

artman40 - 2022-09-03

I assume more complex germanes are a pain to make.

MrGoatflakes - 2022-01-26

Seems fairly germain to the topic at hand 😁

TactaGhoul - 2021-01-26

I guess you could say this video is germane to chemistry.

joeylawn - 2020-11-05

“The gosh dang Germans got nothing to do with this” 😉😛
Props to you if you get the reference....

Edvards Treijs - 2021-01-18

Mix liquid CH4 and O2!

Copper Chopper - 2020-11-05

thats exotic not gonna lie