NileRed - 2016-02-18
Hey guys, in this video we will be making some hydrazine sulfate starting using urea and bleach. It will be used in a future video to make Luminol! This procedure was taken from ChemPlayer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihvqdULWklY ------------------------------------------------- Merch store (NileRed Pin & Stickers): https://store.dftba.com/collections/nilered NileRed website (Glassware & Beaker Mugs): https://nile.red Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nilered Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nile.red Twitter: https://twitter.com/NileRed2 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NileRed2 Discord: https://discord.gg/3BT6UHf
There used to be a fable in the US space programme that nobody knew what hydrazine smelled like... because everyone who had smelled it was dead.
It's indeed a fable. I made aqueous hydrazine as a kid and I've lived several decades since. It has an ungodly dank smell.
Yet the taste of cyanide and prussic acid (burnt almonds) is quite well documented
I'm watching this in case I need to grow potatoes on Mars.
Robert Browne you can make gelatin out of alien bones.
Great book, must have read it 50 times
how to make rocket fuel from pee and common household chemicals
He's already got red fuming nitric acid, all he needs is a rocket! (Anyone who's interested, there's a really fun book called "Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellents" which covers the development of rocket fuels during the 50's and 60's as written by one of the guys who was there. Needless to say of chemistry for that time period, it's quite a story.
(It's easy to find a PDF for free online)
@M1k3y there's never been a bigger rocket built since the Saturn V for the moon landing. Rocket science has digressed.. strange to think about strapping yourself to a massive bomb like that lol.
@Edward Longfield "Rocket science has digressed" no no no lol very very much no. Rocket science has not regressed, most governments just didn't want to fund rocketry projects after the space race. The closest thing anyone ever got to a closed cycle engine back then were the NK33s. Now, we can have a private company building full-flow staged closed-cycle combustion engines. While we haven't been testing the limits of rockets, the physics and engineering behind them have advanced a long way and we're only now seeing those advances being applied at a large scale.
>Hydrazine
No. So much nope.
Let me use my nope on a rope.
@Awkward Seal Its called "Devil's Breath" by the Russians. Its fatal on the level of micrograms if Im correct. Check out videos of the X37b Space plane coming back and the reason the dudes are in full life support suits checking out the craft is because it uses Hydrazine as fuel.
@Brian Barrett ha ha. Now they use regular gasoline or kerosene for liquid rockets (Branson, Musk) or mix it with powdered old tires (for solid rockets). Hydrazine is too dangerous, as is red fuming nitric acid, to be useful for anything.
Epstein didn't kill himself 😂
@N K lol
@marialiyubman Well he didn't.
that bottle of "regular bleach" seems pretty suspicious.
I noticed that too. "Nope, nothing to see here officer, just some regular ol' bleach..."
@Brian Bethea-- Only an outlier bleach would feel need to tell the world how "regular" he is!! Where were you on the night of June 2nd, 1973? What did you do to Jimmy Hoffa's body?!?
That's what other bleaches want you to think
If you watch enough of CodysLab videos, you'll be pronouncing it "bletch", lol.
Pro-tip: I keep some ice made from DI water in the freezer and use that to dilute my acid.
That chipped beaker has been irking me for weeks😂.
Adam Harrington you pointed it out why😖
i remember from uni being told the role gelatin plays in this reaction is one of the mysteries in chemistry
2 Nile Red videos and 1 NurdRage video in one day! Awesome!
ikr
@*****, I didn't know about your channel but I just subbed. Gonna check some of your videos later.
+Eduardo Walcacer one of the best chem chans :)
What a great day it was :)
watch list approved
Tried this multiple times here's what I found:
1) using an EDTA solution (about 40 drops of 1M) works well as a chelating agent.
2) using a smaller volume of more concentrated bleach (not diluting it to 5%) seems to give a bigger yield (although there maybe impurities)
The case of the missing sulfuric acid
how do you clean up the hydrazine solution that spilled out during the foaming reaction?
I personally lick it
Once spilled, it'll be there forever. You can't clean. It's impossible.
You move to a new state and pretend you always lived there
NileRed -- This is almost the biggest compliment I can think of. You have improved on a chemplayer video. :D
+j_sum1 j_sum1 thanks :)
0:25 pretty much like my ex
Reminder: don't replace NaClO with Ca(ClO)2 in this reaction, for it will generate phosgene instead of hydrazine.
You mean it will generate chloramine, not phosgene (carbonyl dichloride).
Formation of Phosgene in a strong basic media? From where is the carbon (in the COCl2) supposed to come, from the gelatine?
@196Stefan2 You gotta C=O double bond in Urea
Philip Polkovnikov Guess that depends on how suicidal you’re feeling and how much you hate the people in your neighbourhood...
Thanks for showing how to make phosgene
A very interesting video. I didn't knew this method.
If you need to wash your product, why to not use cold ethanol?
I'm glad you mentioned safety issues. The overflow was a real health fire risk.
where does the carbon come from in this reaction?
From the Urea. Urea has a single carbon atom.
Yay, almost rocketfuel! :D
You can increase yield by adding EtOH after the sulfuric acid
Done this 3+ times, thanks for the great info!
11:33 Ppffff, laboratory drama.
Love Nile red in many ways I can learn while I'm lulled to sleep
Awe, I wanted to see an explosion...
wasn't hydrazine used as a RCS thruster propellant?
12:16 where do you get those pipettes with the glass bulb for extra capacity in the middle of it? I can't seem to find those, at least not on Amazon.
Link me! :-)
Hoffman as in the chemist who made LSD, or a different Hoffman? I know hydrazine is used in the manufacture of lsd but it’s also used for other stuff so I was just wondering.
ERIC SMITH Albert Hofmann who discovered LSD was born a few years after the death of August von Hofmann whom the reaction in this video was named after. Interestingly the latter is considered as one of organic chemistry‘s most important pioneers.
Really Simple Synthesis with good results. Thank you ! In other syntheses I had a lot of problems.
Nile I am interested in amine and its ability to trap CO2 when cool and release it when its heated. Also I would like to know more about its hazards and toxicity. Think you could possibly do a video on this?
They make rocket fuel in my town at a chem plant down the road....lol i always google rocket fuel plant explosion at least once a year to make me feel safer! (Insert extreme sarcasm here)
It would be fun to see a diazammonium salt reaction, and make red dye color. I think it was one of the first dyes to be synthesized.
Reaction equation please. Love your vids man.
Cleaning Mercury ! Love your videos!
Acetone sound interesting
Cleaning my mercury!
What? Not making hydrazine? Mwahahahaha.
Twenty two grams of YOU REAct?
Please upload friedel crafts reactions
ok, just for exploring the science, how would pure hydrazine be extracted from this? would it be distilled off before the sulphuric acid was added?
pengiwn95 i thought the exact same thing when I saw this video
NileRed DO IT!
It's called vacuum distillation, followed by a final dewatering step with molecular sieves. It could poison you, blow you up, or merely catch fire. Good times.
I heard when hot hydrazine vapours hit the air, an explosion will occur, it can be done in a nitrogen atmosphere so purge the glassware setup with nitrogen for a few minutes to make sure no air is in the glassware setup.
@The Democratic People's Republic of Nikita
Just start with dimethylated urea.
Thanks, very useful reagernt!
"I wouldn't want to but anything contaminated in the freezer where my food is..."
"So this sulphuric acid just came from the fridge..."
There's a significant difference between Sulfuric Acid and Hydrazine. A VERY significant difference.
@ :30 but that's the best part
11:26 couldnt a reflux condensor work?
Very informative thank you.
Since you can edit your video(s), you could have just overlapped a photo of the H2SO4 canister.
Thank you NileRed you have inspired me to peruse chemistry in university. I also have a question is it possible to extract urea out of urine?
+RealChemistry lool:))
Chem Player have a video about it.
+Westportlad
I would guess "no." I wondered the same thing, not wanting to spend more money for 22g. From what I have found while researching was that the urea is mixed in with a lot of other "crap" and truly isolating it would fail. I looked into urea sulfate (a real compound) but found nothing... no detail... no solubility. I went ahead and bought it (5lbs for $13!). Again I used 22g. Well, at least I can make home made instant coldpacks for emergency prep.
Sean Walton ahahahahahhahahahahahahahah, bro, never challenge nile.
Yeah, he did a video on extracting urea. It’s still a better idea to get it out of cold packs; cheaper, less work, higher purity, and less smelly.
a gas?
so when using a vacuum pump you put the reaction equilibrium to the product side --> better yields
Nice choice!! I would like to know why didn't you use a distillation process instead of adding sulfuric acid? if we can do so can we use any drying agent to dry our product?
I ask chem player this same question , in the powdered form will it mix with fuel / alcohol for intern combust engine , with same affect as pure form ????
jimmy theskid R.I.P. chem player
DEAD_P1XL - 2017-11-06
Huh, rocket fuel is made from piss jello.
Who'd have thought?
Alexandre St-Laurent - 2018-07-26
dooksb4u Cody did that one from pee too!
MISTER - 2018-10-08
@Ungregistered User they mean blackpowder and yes codyslab has made that
czdaniel1 - 2019-03-23
Parliament empowered the Peter men [as in Saltpeter, aka Potassium Nitrate] in the 1600's [See Feb.1646 example link at end of this post] to dig anywhere in the country [including underneath your home bathroom] to get that precious liquid gold for the state!
King [England] Charles-I is said to have proclaimed as policy: In 1626, King Charles I ordered “his loving subjects [to] carefully and constantly keep and preserve in some convenient vessels or receptacles, all the urine of man during the whole year, and all the stale of beasts which they can save and gather together whilst their beasts are in their stables and stalls, and that they be careful to use the best means of gathering together and preserving the urine and stale, without mixture of water or other thing put therein. Which our commandment and royal pleasure, being easy to observe, and so necessary for the public service of us and our people, that if any person do be remiss thereof we shall esteem all such persons contemptuous and ill affected both to our person and estate, and are resolved to proceed to the punishment of that offender with what severity we may."
Feb.1646 saltpeter act by Parliament https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/acts-ordinances-interregnum/pp828-830
Potato Boy - 2019-11-16
Gunpowder is also from dirt.Sulfur,potassium ore,and sticks for charcoal are all in dirt.
Buck Starchaser - 2019-12-01
@czdaniel1 KNOCK KNOCK
Who's there?
Constable Wiggums
Good day, constable. What may I do for you?
Oh, I'm just here to take the piss.
Very well. Piss off then.