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Making test tube liquid rockets

NileRed - 2018-10-04

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WARNING: what I do in this video is extremely dangerous. Please don't try doing this yourself.

For this video, I'll be exploring some of the science behind hypergolic liquid propelled rockets. As a fuel, I used aniline, and as an oxidizer, I used nitric acid that I made in a previous video.

Video sources:

My fuming nitric acid video: https://youtu.be/QmCdrDLyNXQ
Non-hypergolic example: https://youtu.be/1GeY0eahNAc
Periodic videos: https://youtu.be/JLCrZGgKD-k
Cody'sLab:https://youtu.be/2bDJ2xlG4m8

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Cody'sLab - 2018-10-05

I need to start working on rockets again.

Jonathan Martin - 2020-04-15

@Jared Taylor way to dox someone

Jared Taylor - 2020-04-15

@Jonathan Martin he has videos expressly stating the city he lives in. Look up his honey fair videos.

Michael P - 2020-04-16

Yea boi

Corpus Gaming - 2020-04-17

@Baseit plane

Hudson Baker - 2020-04-23

YES

Benjamin Sison - 2018-10-06

Why is this so hard? It’s not rocket scie—oh wait

KK Tan - 2019-08-17

nice one...

comicsansgreenkirby - 2019-10-24

@Neil Dickman I thought the same

我的興趣是觀察 - 2020-01-28

Rocket + Science = Rocket Science :)

damptruffgaming/Damptruffgamer - 2020-04-01

It’s rocket surgery, uncultured swine

The Simple Animator - 2020-04-05

Rocket science is easy, rocket engineering is the scary one

Vinicius Lambardozzi - 2019-07-12

NileRed: So I'm gonna use this short test tube to ensure the experiment is safe
Cody: *snorting cocaine* This 2-liter plastic bottle will be my reaction vessel

IamJiva - 2020-03-20

but yield was 92% - best in my orgsynt practice
no one inform me what source it was and what i got - as i guess by mp of source and mp of product of reducing - it 2-FA*HCL

Luis P. - 2020-04-09

@IamJiva ???

IamJiva - 2020-04-10

​@Luis P.​ ready for continue

Luis P. - 2020-04-10

@IamJiva what

IamJiva - 2020-04-10

@Luis P. synthesys lab. practice, need 2,5-dimethoxybenzaldehyde , 100gm will be good

Xtinct- - 2019-07-18

"Test tube liquid rocket" is the code word for extreme molotov.

Mf Tripz - 2019-11-23

Xtinct- ohh nasty, a compartmented glass bottle with one half the base and a quarter of the reactive chemical

simbol 33t - 2020-01-30

noice

Carolina Coreas - 2020-04-25

Buran-Energia.

Striker - 2018-10-06

Chemist’s version of a horror jump scare

Luis P. - 2020-01-08

@Jordy V. Phosgen.

Jordy V. - 2020-01-08

@Luis P. Phosgene isn't even harmfull is low concentrations

Luis P. - 2020-01-09

@Jordy V. Stroke?

Jordy V. - 2020-01-09

@Luis P. From Phosgene? I know it can can cause heart failure if exposed to enough. But it's still nothing compared to C2H6Hg.

Luis P. - 2020-01-09

@Jordy V. Nevermind.

SoylentGamer - 2019-07-29

Comments: DoNt MeSs WiTh HyDrAzInE
Nile: already made some 3 years ago with urea and bleach

cinquine - 2019-10-27

He made phenylhydrazine and hydrazine sulfate. When it comes to safety those are a world away from pure hydrazine (phenylhydrazine somewhat less so, but he made a tiny amount), which is what the rocket fuel is. Hell in the start of the hydrazine sulfate video he says clearly he will not be making pure hydrazine because it is too dangerous.

Just look at NFPA 704 for hydrazine vs hydrazine sulfate, there's no comparison.

And then there's the part where he wants to use it in rocket experiments, which means not just leaving it in a container but getting it everywhere. Yikes.

SteelWarrior115 - 2020-03-03

So fun fact, hydrazine is used to add hydrogen to BWR nuclear reactors to prevent oxidation

Mert B. - 2019-04-09

Youtuber: exists

VPN providers: its free real estate

Guicky Plays - 2020-01-11

raid shadow legends: its free real estate
world of warships: its free real estate

TransBiologist, the transest of biologists - 2020-02-11

@Guicky Plays i haven't heard of the second one yet, here's to hoping it stays that way

Guicky Plays - 2020-03-10

@TransBiologist, the transest of biologists it might be more popular on my country, its like a naval focused version of war thunder, if you have heard of that one. can't think of a good way to describe it other then it being a very repetitive pay-to-win game

pizza tonijn - 2020-04-01

Casper matress

Skyett - 2019-11-12

4:25 "WOOOOOOOOOOW" - chemical reaction

石尸丹丁丹廾彐丁囗 中仈丹仁片囗 - 2020-02-23

It`s Waaaaaouuuuhhhh

Lafond36 - 2020-03-01

Sounds like a karen

comicsansgreenkirby - 2020-03-30

no
4:20

pizza tonijn - 2020-04-01

comicsansgreenkirby lol 420

Musa Kilmen - 2020-04-11

4:54 and "POUUP"

Overton Hallford - 2018-10-06

I was told, when i was in the Air Force, that when you realize that you are smelling the hydrazine you already have brain damage.
Please be careful with that crap, dude.
I like watching your videos, don't off yourself over them!

Seraphim - 2020-03-19

Overton Hallford He was using Aniline and not Hydrazine! :)

Cameron Putt - 2020-04-01

Since you brought up hydrazine, look up the history of hydrazine use in drag racing. Yes, they ran hydrazine in v-8s back then! There's many stories of cars exploding because they were parked with 'zine in the tank.

paperchasin23 - 2020-04-08

Overton Hallford he's not using hydrazine you pucey.

Luis P. - 2020-04-09

@paperchasin23 "pucey"

Buck Dog - 2020-01-12

I love how the second test just had a short “Woo!” as its sound.

Xzn VR - 2020-04-02

xD I thought that was Nile screaming

hoguesteele - 2018-10-19

"Hey kids... know where I might be able to score a little, you know... hydrazine?" 🕵️‍♂️

HoboGrifter - 2020-04-18

Urea and bleach

Alden - 2020-05-09

you know because i'm not on enough government watch lists already...

Astontrainspotter Studios - 2020-01-05

0:55 “I got a lot of comments asking me to explore liquid rockets”

shows image of shuttle using solid rockets

Astontrainspotter Studios - 2020-01-05

I hate Drew Saddic the solid rockets on the side are the only ones used at the time of the photo.

Joël Marsman - 2020-01-05

The liquid motors are firing too but as they burn hydrogen you can't really see the exhaust product which is mostly water

Astontrainspotter Studios - 2020-01-06

Joël Marsman oh true. My mistake.

MC Cheez Strings - 2020-04-05

Ikr

Justin Walker - 2018-10-04

Alternate video title: "In which Nile Red tests the structural integrity of test tubes and attempts to set fire to Montreal."

Justin - 2019-03-15

And nothing of value was lost.

Ayaan Tauquir - 2019-06-15

The Don Quixote reference here is apt

oijqwoijdowiqjdqw - 2019-11-17

So he IS Canadian after all, I thought I recognized a Canadian accent.

human giraffe - 2019-11-28

this also sounds like a florida man article

N0D0hNuts - 2020-01-11

Wow from Montreal really? Nice!

Aidan Syracuse - 2019-10-02

This same reaction occurs when you consum a jalapeño with seeds

GéngisKhàñ - 2019-12-27

Sissy

Matt - 2020-03-31

Lmfao

PixelMaster - 2020-04-09

fire shoots out of your "tube"? Yikes

Ian Owens - 2020-04-14

Lol ur not wrong

The18thguyhere - 2019-06-10

I love how it screams WOOOAAH when it fires

GameLuencer - 2019-10-02

4:25 the acid's way to say "DON'T TOUCH ME"

gabsr - 2019-12-02

I think it was Tyler1 spirit

Zionne Makoma - 2020-01-18

4:19 the first drop sounds like a cool sound effect

laurence wemple - 2019-02-27

4:22 lmao it scared him so much that he squirted

pizza tonijn - 2020-04-01

laurence wemple that sounds wrong

Xzn VR - 2020-04-02

...

Brenden Roughley - 2019-06-09

🤣 "Anyone know where I can get some hydrazine?" (knock, knock) "Wonder who that could b.................." Last episode.

cherricxIa - 2020-01-02

The first time when it lit on fire it sounded like it was screaming

Jericho's world - 2019-07-20

"So a few months ago I made some super concentrated acid"

Pillow Pants - 2019-09-10

2:10 I thought that stand was about to go to outer space lol

Luis P. - 2020-02-07

donkey kong bonzi buddy stand

Roarke Burnett - 2018-10-05

NileRed 6mo ago: "Can't make too much NOx in this fume hood, it vents right outside."
NileRed now: "Let's do 50 test rockets in this hood with RFNA"

Leo Curious - 2018-10-28

Its not really RFNA, it contains comparatively little NOx.

Roarke Burnett - 2018-10-28

I believe those big ole red/brown clouds the reaction produces contain a ton of NOx, sir or madame

Leo Curious - 2018-10-28

That is correct. But thats the reaction product, not the reactant. This NOx generation will be the case with either RFNA or WFNA.

nikos karavitakis - 2019-05-04

Still its a small ammount so its ok...For science! XD

Phan Anh Nguyen - 2020-02-18

4:25 mixture suddenly ignites in face
Nilered: "getting a bit more comfortable with this mixture"

Jack Byers - 2020-04-06

Well now he knows it'll blow up in his face, instead of thinking it might

Phan Anh Nguyen - 2020-04-06

Jack Byers *mixture suddenly ignites in face”
Nilered: “just as planned”

Nut Screw Gamer - 2020-04-09

4:23


Are you teasing me?
Are you teasing me?
Are you going to do this?


W O O O O O O O O O O O O O O W W W W W W

Justin Wang - 2019-11-08

8:36 It looks like as if a mushroom cloud coming out of the test tube.
There is a even better mushroom cloud at 9:05!

dosmastrify - 2018-10-08

10:35 "we've lost the center core"

OrangeC7 - 2019-03-24

6:53 is it just me or does the test tube on the left look almost cinematic when it's burning in slow motion?

Guy Fieri - 2020-01-12

"I was getting a bit more comfortable with this mixture"
splashes rocket fuel on camera

pancreasman 69 - 2018-10-05

Did you noticed the cylindrical shape of the smoke at13:53?

Gretchen Caldwell - 2020-01-01

4:25
no one:
me alone in a large room:

Nick H - 2018-10-04

Please do not mess with Hydrazine, it is incredibly toxic. A fairly small accidental release can put your entire neighborhood in serious harm.

On a lighter note, it looks like your throat needs to be smaller. You need to achieve "choked flow" at the throat for much effectiveness. When properly choked, the speed of gas is Mach 1 and it hits equilibrium and no additional speed is possible. This then allows supersonic physics to kick in and accelerate the gas further down the nozzle. If not choked you are not supersonic and dealing with different equations and not accelerating past Boyle's Law. I have some nozzle design textbooks from college I can scan for you if you want to get something going better, has all the calculations needed.

Also see if you can adapt and afford a "choked flow Venturi". They are typically used for gas flow measurement and are exactly the shape you need if you can adapt to it.

Uveeertherw - 2019-08-03

@Gerardo Amaro I know it's a joke, but the govnerment doesn't care

Uveeertherw - 2019-08-03

@Gerardo Amaro Also why the fuck are you bothering a 1 month old joke you stupid necroposter

Killbird 334 - 2019-08-18

Nile does what you say and 10 seconds later of doing it,





north korea wants to know your location

Eek Rats - 2019-10-01

YOUR THROAT SHOULD BE SMALLER!!! hahaaha

unholy_ghost111 - 2019-10-03

fume hood

Audiocronic - 2019-11-19

14:55 that’s getting toward the sound you’re looking for.

Cat man - 2019-10-07

10:23 words of a previous a meth addict 😂

pentoxide - 2019-12-30

The reaction goes:
AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

that one gay furry - 2019-03-09

man i love science now
thankyou fam you got me into my new fav thing
CHEMISTRY REEEEE

Seth1483 - 2018-10-04

"A patron even sent me this: Ignition."

Why do I feel like that patron is Scott Manley?

Shishma Haider - 2019-08-23

Yeahhh 😂

Xzn VR - 2020-04-02

It has to be

João Pedro G. - 2020-04-10

on the second try
Nile: puts aniline on the reaction
The reaction: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-

Dærker - 2018-10-06

I'd like to see this reaction in a flask rather than in a test tube :)

김성윤 - 2018-10-06

I was expecting Scott manley here D :

Reeo Cheh - 2019-10-04

13:30 sums up the last time i hooked up lol

Drakkar Calethiel - 2018-10-04

Going to watch this before it gets deleted...

soundspark - 2018-12-02

@NileRed Even with the pirate friendly VPN ad?

Caters Carrots - 2019-03-07

I watched the video on Cody's lab about making uranium metal from ore about a year ago and I don't understand why it got deleted. It was a perfectly good video.

Stormthorn67 - 2019-06-01

@xWood4000 advertisers demonitize. Youtubers themselves delete (not wanting you to see a video they cant make money off of) unless they got a copyright strike. But I suspect Nile cares too much about science to pull a video just because it was demonetized.

xWood4000 - 2019-06-01

@Stormthorn67 That is true. YouTube itself does delete videos though.

Samuel Gomola - 2019-08-19

@NileRed Yes, survuvived an im happy to see! Now im reading Ignition, chemicals also chemists descibed in this book are amazing, i love it!

Anonymous Anon - 2020-04-06

The reaction sound like Tom when he screams.

komix !! - 2019-06-17

Blasted into the acid is now gonna be my band name, I call it!!!

Un Pingouin de Sophistiqué - 2019-03-05

Those rocket fuels igniting sound like banshee screams goddamn

Drew Jaqua - 2020-04-19

"There was a slight popping the moment it touched the acid and it made me flinch a bit " I'm dead XD

Chicken Man - 2020-04-19

no one:
literally no one:
The one kid at the back of the class: 4:25

Sky_stider223 - 2019-05-19

Lol 10:57
I was just thinking that but in a different way

kieran jervis - 2020-04-01

id be interested to see how the hight of the neck changes how the reaction occours

Jonny - 2018-10-05

1:15 "probably fortunately for him"
hahah

chara dremur - 2020-04-12

That was less painfull

Madeline B - 2020-04-07

every time the reaction happened i was like “yep, looks like a rocket to me”