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Making Sulfuric Acid using the Chamber Process

Cody'sLab - 2018-03-24

I experiment with one of the oldest methods for industrial sulfuric acid production. 

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Armrest - 2018-03-25

"I think its stuck, I hate when that happens."

[Pulls out blowtorch]

Pandamonaeum - 2019-06-05

[Applause]

mmmhorsesteaks - 2020-01-05

I much prefer the wood block for a stuck joint tbh. But in organic chemistry you tend to have salts in there and the blowtorch don't work too good...

BrokenPropFPV - 2018-03-24

"It's time to replace the atmosphere. starts generating toxic gasses " Evil Cody - 2018

🄽🄾🄱🄾🄳🅈 - 2018-03-25

“It’s stuck. Hate when that happens.” casually takes blowtorch (probably) from his back pocket

Gareth Baus - 2019-10-14

And the bulkiest tools keep in my pockets are hammers.

NPC S/N 1579325 - 2020-01-12

Gareth Baus

He’s a professional. 😂🤣

Cody'sLab - 2018-03-24

Uhg! Why Is it that I have to see the mistake in my chemical equations only now that I cant change it?

Shayn Toothman - 2018-04-14

Cody'sLab I found another YouTube channel that is outright plagiarizing your videos! The account name is khanhmy bodien. From the looks of it, it might be a bot of some sort. I'm posting this on some of your other videos to increase awareness! Community, let's make sure Cody sees this!

K1naku5ana3R1ka - 2019-02-23

Science with Katie Generally, once you’ve completed it, a good idea is to go away from it for a while before rereading it; that way you can get your brain out of any blind alleys and see it with a fresh mind.

teddy - 2019-08-01

Cody'sLab I was you 1000 th comment

Joe Holland - 2019-10-11

@Travis Heck Sulfur trioxide is destroyed by water. Even if it was generated in the chamber, it would be sulfuric acid by the time he started the distillation. The violent reaction is because his sulfuric acid was hot.

Travis Heck - 2019-10-12

@Joe Holland you're late to the party bud

John Doe - 2018-03-24

When a video starts with Cody wearing gloves or other protection, you know the shit's about to go down!

Gareth Baus - 2019-10-14

Or he's doing math.

Bradyn Austin - 2018-03-24

That 12 minutes went by like nothing, I love when Cody does chemistry

Maxx B - 2018-03-24

Looks like that sugar was pleased to see Cody.

phục êwê - 2018-03-24

Or it was just some sulfuric acid in its pocket.

stamasd - 2018-03-24

I would call that a success. Haven't done the exact math, but for the volumes of the gasses used you couldn't really expect much more sulfuric acid. 20ml of supposedly 90-95% acid is probably around 35g or roughly 1/3 mol. The amount of gases used for a 100% yield would be roughly 7.5L SO2 and 3.75L O2 so just over 11L total. That chamber doesn't look much bigger than 20L perhaps. That's just crude math done in my head after a shot of whiskey so I may be wrong.

Travis Sprout - 2018-03-24

HOW IS THIS 45 MINUTES AGO!?!?!

Wannabe Scientist - 2018-03-24

haha i guess he might be switching out the SO2generator, this reaction did a complete reaction I guess maybe some H2S2O7 was made since H2SO4 + SO2 + 1/2 O2 -----> H2S2O7

Žan Pekošak - 2018-03-24

Travis Sprout Patreon

Robert Hn - 2018-04-07

I suppose he made oleum. Either because of thermal decomposition of the sulfuric acid or more likely because of an ecxess of SO3 unable to react with the water wich makes these enormous fumes at the end.

CMDR DustyEggSauce - 2018-12-24

Raises glass

Cici Bradley - 2018-03-24

AvE has BOLTR's. Cody has BOLCR's (Bored of Lame Chemical Reactions)

Nick SB - 2018-03-24

What does BOLTR’s mean?

Wuuz - 2018-03-24

@nick bored of lame tool reviews.

Nick SB - 2018-03-24

Wuuz thanks;)

Agamemnon Juunes - 2018-03-25

Nick SB bored of lame tool reviews

Gareth Baus - 2019-10-14

@Wuuz I had been wondering what BOLTR stood for.

DieHard Jarzyna - 2018-03-24

Are we going to be seeing some mining episodes this summer Cody?

dnt - 2018-03-24

Yes pls!

Asgardium - Tomclanys - 2018-03-24

He pulled his mining videos 'cause YouTube would give him a strike for using explosives in it

Jay Jay Smith - 2018-03-24

+1

RC Hobbyist Extreme - 2018-03-24

DieHard Jarzyna I thought you said mines exploding for a minute there, lol.

Gyaneshwari Gunaseelan - 2018-03-25

Psst. He's building his fusion reactor there

Truly Infamous - 2018-03-24

Oh yes. I love me some Cody'slab.

John Smith - 2018-03-24

Love me some lab, long time. 💙💚💛💜

suraj lal - 2018-03-25

+John Smith lmao

Nawar Hughes - 2018-03-25

Truly Infamous love your profile pic

Im Lost - 2018-04-03

diabetus

Samuel Aros - 2018-04-06

Truly Infamous I

Double Dare Fan - 2018-03-25

If Cody was frozen in carbonite, would the result be CodySlab?

Make a mold of Cody.
Fill mold with chocolate.
Integrate choco-Cody into a slab of chocolate.
Result: Cody Solo in Chocolite.

JayMark2049 - 2018-03-25

Hahahaha!

Ian Macfarlane - 2018-03-25

😂😂😂

Teemo - 2018-03-28

Grant thompson is that you?

MSteamCSM - 2018-03-24

well, that was totally over complicated. Maybe something with V2O5 next time?

Mikes Science - 2018-03-24

“Making nitric acid is a lot of work” I felt like that was a lot of work

Rigel2112 - 2018-03-24

Watch his video refining uranium. That was work!

Mikes Science - 2018-03-24

Rigel2112 I’ve seen it but there’s other ways. Not as concentrated but did you see his video on sparking electricity through air then bubbling it through water.

Carlos Vega - 2018-03-26

Now we need a how to on plutonium and were set to conquer n. Korea.

Mikes Science - 2018-03-26

He did one on Uranium and how to make yellow cake (a precursor to stuff much nastier)

TheIdeanator - 2018-03-24

You could probably speed up the process by sticking the chamber on one of those ultrasonic transducers that mists the water.

DiaveD - 2018-03-25

Commercial ultrasonic transducers have a metal casing. That will dissolve in nitric acid contaminating the product. The only materials that can withstand reliably nitric acid and nitrogen oxides are glass and ptfe.

kieran firkin - 2018-03-25

your phrasing in your first comment was a little confusing

DiaveD - 2018-03-25

Sorry my boi <3

Luke Kwiatkowski - 2018-03-28

No ur stupid
Ooohhhh get rect stupeeeddd

Sean Walton - 2018-03-29

The commercial process sprays water into the cavity. So you're not "out there."

Aussie Chemist - 2018-03-24

But won’t it be problematic if the reaction was actually taken in a lead lined chamber, as the nitric acid will react with lead and form lead nitrate, and in the presence of sulfuric acid, the nitrate will reform nitric acid and further attack the remaining lead?

Spooky Wizard - 2018-03-24

Aussie Chemist lolz dude once the nitric acid reacts with lead it's gone as the salt, it won't get regenerated. Then the sulfuric acid produced at that point will catalyze the rest of the reaction

Aussie Chemist - 2018-03-24

Pb(NO3)2 + H2SO4 = PbSO4 + 2HNO3

Spooky Wizard - 2018-03-24

Aussie Chemist and then a layer of insoluble PbSO4 would form which can't be attacked by HNO3. Either way you put it the walls are going to be fine.

Aussie Chemist - 2018-03-25

Spooky Wizard that happens only when the lead sulphate is formed directly on the surface of lead, the lead sulphate that forms under this type of condition is not as structurally sound as the lead sulphate that is formed with by reacting only Sulfuric acid and lead. Besides with this much stirring that was going on, I highly doubt it will stay intact

Cody'sLab - 2018-03-25

Lead doesn’t dissolve well in a mix of nitric and sulfuric acid. Similar to how silver won’t dissolve in nitric mixed with hydrochloric.

THE FOX - 2018-03-24

Cody: it's stuck!
Proceeds to pull out a blow torch.

JayMark2049 - 2018-03-24

THE FOX --- Yes, it's a good way to do it.

THE FOX - 2018-03-25

Me: gets my hand stuck
Cody: proceeds to pull out some thermite

JayMark2049 - 2018-03-25

LMAO !

Ian Macfarlane - 2018-03-25

At least he didn't get the butter out.

THE FOX - 2018-03-31

That's when you should be afraid...

James Ross - 2019-09-17

"That's the best smelling thing I have made all day!"
I am officially boggled.

John E. - 2018-03-25

Does the dehydrated sugar burn well?

Sulfuric Acid - 2018-03-24

I'm feeling humbled 😊

Vibudh Sharma - 2018-03-24

Sulfuric Acid hello acid, we meet again. Remember when you burner my pinkie on the 8th of August, 2004? You were so sassy back then, you probably won't even remember what you and I were like together

Mistypix Studios - 2018-03-25

you need to go out

Chumban Shukla - 2018-03-25

Wow! Cody is working with actuall lab appartus! I thought that he would rig up his own apparatus as usuall.

Ian Macfarlane - 2018-03-25

He made the beakers out of silica sand.

TheSuperCommentGuy - 2018-03-25

"Alright everyone, welcome back to Cody's Lab!"
-Cody'sLab

Marian-Remus Gurgu - 2018-07-06

whispering Uuugh i think it's stuck... Hate when that happens
whips out blowtorch

Molb0rg - 2018-03-24

"I ,, would say ,, that's ,, dehydration"
)))

Javin 12345 - 2018-03-25

I love the sulfuric acid and sugar reaction at the end, yours went pretty fast

Strothy2 - 2018-03-24

3...2...1... DEMOEYTIZED!!!

Sharan V - 2018-03-24

lmao this is absolutely mental

Vibudh Sharma - 2018-03-24

Demon-etised

John Smith - 2018-03-24

Is it demoneytized or demonetized? Or demoneytised? Demonetised? Demonized?

Bebe Reyes - 2018-03-25

John Smith potatos or potatoes

Strothy2 - 2018-03-26

welp make mistake get tens of likes... because youtube that's why!

Technician 122 - 2019-12-29

Cody's comment at the very end of the video was what got me

*Chuckling*"That's the best smelling thing I've made all day!"

Naman Jha - 2020-01-18

well this making an acid by using another acid PERFECT XD

Survival Bert - 2018-03-26

Your might want to consider roasting some ore (e.g., from your mining series) to get the sulfur dioxide.

Tommy Rad - 2018-03-24

"best smelling thing I've made all day" LMAO. At the same time, I was thinking... that reminds me of my morning "big job" LOL

Tom Wang - 2020-01-02

Chemistry teacher: don’t add water into acid
Cody: let’s add about 100ml of water.

TestTubeBabySpy - 2018-03-25

The black gloves make you look like evil scientist! Dr. C-Don!

Seth Bordelon - 2018-03-24

This channel is like the part of science class you actually looked forward to, its the only thing to make me miss going to school

Saladbar - 2018-03-24

Haha it looks like “Pissolution”

Michael O - 2018-03-24

He already did that video.

TheHonestLoaf - 2018-04-01

"I would say thats a dehydration... neat"-cody

M L. - 2019-05-16

Today we will be making gold. The first ingredient is gold.

Soumil Sahu - 2018-03-26

"that happens"

PULLS OUT BLOWTORCH

Faded.09 - 2018-03-25

Can you do a video on collecting the carbon from the sugar reaction and doing a carbon based experiment like a graphene capacitor concept

Ian Macfarlane - 2018-03-25

"Hope you enjoyed"

Cody, don't ever worry about not making enjoyable content.

DASWorkshop - 2020-01-13

That boil down of the H2SO4 must have been VERY good, the fuming was extreme when transferred to the beaker, and I've never seen sugar outgas like that on contact. Seems like you got into Oleum territory somehow.

Ibai - 2018-03-24

“Hate when that happens...” [Cody grabs the torch...]

*** - 2018-03-26

Always do things as you oughta, add the acid to the water!

great vid, thanks!

iexist sometimes - 2018-03-24

"Traditionally this wpuld be a lead lined wooden box the size pf a cathedral" os definitely my favourite thing to come out of youtube in a long time

Petal 2 Metal - 2018-03-24

I love how much you love chemistry... and I love your channel. Thank you!!!!!!

Aubin Grémaud - 2018-03-25

Love the chemical reaction cards, allows me to understand what's going on. A wonderful addition !

francis hosey - 2018-03-26

I appreciated the walk thru on the chemical reaction!!

Harry Bonsor - 2018-03-24

that was such an interesting video, i learn so much from this awesome channel.

whatarewedoing - 2018-03-24

"....and start making the acid", yes please do, have wondered how well you would be able to do it haha

Bryan P - 2018-03-25

I have seen the after effects of sugar acid reaction happening in a tanker car. End result carbon was everywhere and poor guy who was stuck opening the top hatch was knocked off the top.

Coffee2Go - 2018-03-24

I would really want to have you as my Chemestry Professor, Cody :D