NileRed - 2017-12-23
Today I'll be making glowing stuff again, but this time I'm going to try out a more environmentally friendly method. In the previous video, the active chemical I made was TCPO. This required 2,4,6-trichlorophenol as a precursor, which is damaging to the environment. The prep for this video uses wintergreen (methyl salicylate) instead, which I made in an edible chem video. Edible chem video: https://youtu.be/3NN9IUvrKi4 Previous video: https://youtu.be/w_CYwd6cHUA Procedure from: https://goo.gl/ikYdRt ------------------------------------------ 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 Music in credits (Walker by SORRYSINES): https://soundcloud.com/sorrysines/walker
It's interesting that wintergreen is part of this reaction. If you put a wintergreen Life Saver in your mouth, look in a mirror, turn off the lights, and bite down on the candy with your mouth open, you'll see little sparkles of light. Apparently the static electricity generated when the candy crunches will excite the wintergreen, which then gives off brief flashes of light. No other flavor of candy will do this.
Happy Holidays!
I thought that was a piezo thing. I didn't know it was static.
Nerd
* Butdontaskmebb * nerds candy will not work.
Its called triluminesnse
Nearly broke my teeth and saw no sparks, would smashing it with a big ass hammer work?
Tasting impure wintergreen? No problem. Using it for synthesis, uhh no I think I'll have to make something more pure.
Mykel Duso yeah hahahahha i wanted to comment that. You would guess its the other way around
Yeah well the impurities were probably mostly food-grade.
Reagent-grade is actually higher in quality than food-grade; a lot of contaminants that can ruin reactions are fine in food-grade.
@K1naku5ana3R1ka Indeed lab grade and food grade arent even neighbors.
Back when I was in high school, a friend of mine's dad has some huge bottles of the same stuff used to fill glow sticks. We made a 2 liter bottle of the stuff up. Then we heated the bottle up, it was glowing so bright you could see clearly in the room with no lights on! It was definitely a fun time, especially because we were also doing some experiments with lysergic acid diethylamide at the same time! The 90's were a great time to be alive!
HydraLord1221
Is that because you don’t know it off the top of your head?
Maybe I said that because this is a chemistry channel. Also I know quite a bit about chemistry, I made nitric acid on my channel. Someone's just jelly I got a "loved" from NileRed. That made my Xmas!
Last week on lsd I tied ballons to represent hybridized orbitals.. It really locked the concept in my head! Im in ochem1 btw
hell yeah it was a great time. OCs, not OPs. doctors shipping 3 months worth of norcos and then claiming it never arrived and getting more. fuck. wish i could have enjoyed those times.
Can’t it be done in this decade?
"Enviromentally mean"
D:<
Highly technical term, too advanced for you
IDWpresents: Insert Rick and Morty copypasta.
Possibly carcinogenic? Is there any chloro aromatic molecule that's even remotely good for you?
Benzene is literally cancer sauce, so it's not suprising if you chlorinate it, which like with chloroform makes it even more cancerous.
How about diclofenac? Two chlorines on an aromatic ring, and it is reasonably safe for humans, it is quite widely used. There are also some others like bupropion, clindamycin (an alkyl chloride!!), clonazepam, though that last thing is so potent at its pharmacological target that the dose is super low, like 0.5 mg low, but the others have much larger doses. Do not forget thyroid hormones either (yes, its iodine, but still). So in fact there are a lot of chlorinated compounds that are good for you, if you dose them appropriately when you need them.
opl500 no
@TheBackyardChemist Dichlofenac is really impressive indeed.
Base compound is diphenylamine!
2 chlorine atoms struck to the 2nd benzene ring!
A CH2-COOH added to the 1st benzene ring!
many marine organisms produce halocarbons. Including carcinogenic ones like carbon tetrachloride :/
>low yield
must be nilered
:(
:D
Dude works to clean.
Shit needs some dirt in it
DarkIzo he always spill some of the starting materials so its not a surprise
>low yield
Must be another Irish potato famine.
"Glow Stuff"
G L O W S T U F F
+Random
look at the idiot talking to himself
bok is not me is another random cat
I am the 222 like
@Random you are the random cat
8:55 Nuka Cola Quantum
Hydra Overray You mean quartz? Since quartz is the green one, whereas quantum is tonic blue...
domonator5000
no, quartz is the color of mtn dew whitout
Rc glow.
Damn, you're a cutie.
@Rick_Earth C137 Someone know something about human nature, the red pill
Ooooh isn't he though!
you too anette
is this gay?
Anette Svea Åsgård thanks
The vacuum filtration is still magical.
10:09
You went to sleep and woke up 24 hours later?
lol, i meant its a good thing i didnt wait all nice to watch it disappear
I guess ethyl acetate did the 24h sleep magic :P ...anyway I love that sweet smell - is it possible that body metabolizes ethyl acetate into ethanol and vinegar ? Then it would be pretty safe solvent.
Yes, it is indee a pretty safe solvent. I think that under acidic conditions the ester bond is hydrolized, and then the products must be acetic acid and ethanol.
Oh, so that's how they produce 'cooking wine'. Drink ethyl acetate and pee in a fancy bottle. ;p
yes it does, the body is full of esterase enzymes that hydrolyze esters, a lot of drugs actually use this trick to modify the effect length or absorption from the gut, they make an ester out of the drug, it gets absorbed, and eventually cleaved to release the active form of the drug
"Possibly carcinogenic" Focusing on the "Possibly" that's how you know that you are doing some really odd things compared to most at home chemist's.
Chloroform IS carcinogenic.
Merry Christmas from Australia, NileRed!!
I thought I'd let you know that I'll be releasing photons from the quinine in my Gin & Tonics throughout the silly-season via chemiluminescence using a blacklight and/or my 405nm laser-pointer.
Have a fun time Dude! See you in the New Year. 👍
Yeh. G&T under UV light. I recommend Plymouth, or perhaps Tanquerey.
Boodles
You made Pyridine? Willingly? You are far braver than I, Dr. Red. I haven't had the need to deal with it and it's insupportable stench since the mid 80s, and it could probably wake me from a dead sleep.
Ive worked with it some time and IT wasnt very unpleasent.
NileRed
Oh, but you’re MY doctor. ;)
I had a chlorine leak in my old house’s garage some time ago and it was just god awful as it woke me and my dog in the middle of the night. If not for my pet, I most likely would be either dead or in the hospital. I willingly went into the garage which had no oxygen as the chlorine concentration was so high the room was green so I can open the door. I was coughing like hell for well over 12 hours and nearly was hospitalized. Be real careful what you do in life. It’s not like I had a fume hood or any safety equipment since it’s Illegal to do this chem stuff in Jersey but I did it regardless for mental health care
Holy sh*t, what were you even doing that you needed enough chlorine gas to turn your house into a WWI battlefield?
TheMrVengeance it was due to a small earthquake in the middle of the night because I stored a significant amount of muriatic acid and potassium permanganate in a shelved cabinet where the acid spilled onto the permanganate which is why things went to shit. I had them stored like this because I was planning to dissolve gold the very next day. However that obviously didn’t happen😂. At least in the end I was fine.
Phthalate esters are easy to make, I made a video on making diethyl phthalate from ethanol and phthalic anhydride. I'm sure you have the chemicals, so you should make a video comparing TCPO in diethyl phthalate to MCPO in ethyl acetate.
I like the fact that materials can absorb radiation and disperse it at different rates depending on what it is.
A kind of chemical inductor of sorts.
y'know that footage of you pouring the glow fluid back and forth would make a solid short outtro. throw in some music and bam!
If you reply I will scream in my house
Lol hey
@NileRed gottem😂😂😂
Any chance you could do a tour of your lab/set up? Would be really interesting
I heard of this radium stuff and supposedly it glows pretty well.
you: "it's a flavoring agent for things like candy and gum-" [shows lifesaver package]
me: immediately smells strong mint despite not being near any of it
brains are weird
The vacuum filter...my favourite apparatus..😂
Does that mean that the commercial glow sticks are are contributing to environmental damage or do some likely use this alternate chemistry?
Almost definitely environmental damage. Most dont break open though, so I imagine most stay contained.
but, you know, outdoor parties, a few glow sticks get thrown into the woods...
I'm not proud of what I saw in the woods, done with those glow sticks but I am sure glad none of them broke (ya know, environmental damage and all).
Is the actual amount super toxic or does it have retention like DDT?
John Di Francisco what did you do with the glow stick you fiend!
2:16 "why are my yields so low?" <3
Hey NileRed, could you do a video on testing the mercury content of tuna? Thanks!
Also, whats the meaning behind your channel name?
p.s. I'm going to ask Cody's Lab to do the same on his next video, I'd love to see both you guys do that!
hmm i could try to figure something out. Might be cool
Thank you, I'd appreciate it. I imagine the quantities extracted would be minute, but from what I've seen in some studies, significant to health.
NileRed Send me a sample, our lab is equipped with an ICP-OES instrument, I'll run it for freesies
8:31 You were left in the dark. Hahahaha
Would it be possible to crystallize the elements that react to create a slow releasing long last chem light?
"Just because I figured it would look cool" lol my kind of reasoning
I'd love to see a video of you making and eating ATP (Adenosine triphosphat).
>phthalates
>tetrahydrofuran
Kreygasm Kappa
Hey, could you use alchemy to make the stone of wisdome?
Thanks!
Next on Edible Chem: Nuka-Cola Quantum made from MCPO in a nontoxic solvent (maybe ethanol? or maybe something inert) using a food-safe oxidizer and fluorescent dye.
Seriously though that would be really cool, and the reaction products would most likely taste nice and minty...think of how great that would be at a party!
Lol, i am not sure if its possible to make an edible version.
While the math with LD50s for the breakdown products and H2O2 works out in favor of one of those little one-shot liquor bottles as the scale, the ester itself could be highly toxic. I have not yet found any information on it so I wouldn't try it even if you actually could come up with a way to do it. Cool video though man, keep up the good work!
Add to that, that LD50s aren't the only thing to worry about. You obviously don't want to be drinking a lethal dose of anything, but you also wouldn't want to end up with some kind of weird liver/kidney disease in 25 years time or go blind or something.
have the same thought about nuka)
TheMrVengeance Most definitely! Chemists already have enough to deal with in terms of cancer rates, a diseased liver or kidney (probably kidney if the ester is broken down into oxalic acid in the body) on top of that is not something worth the risk...but if it ended up not being at all dangerous to human health, glowing beverages would be rather cool...I guess we will have to stick to tonic water and a UV light until someone is stupid enough to drink a glowing liquid and lucky enough to have no ill effects even at a large quantity!
Do you ever get good yields? Xd
9:21 so, that's how they make quantum nuka cola
2:15 You distilled the essence of chromatic aberration.
Thank you for these beautiful pictures... ligtning is a magical phenomena !
Sweet! And since you're doing green chemistry, how about some radium? Love that awesome green glow.
Great videos NileRed greetings from a chemistry fan in Honduras
I want the 36 hour live stream where you watch a glowing bottle
I just saw a luminous blue cloud in the mostly clear night sky with the crescent moon off to the side unobstructed, it was beautiful, I've never seen that before.
9:27 Yes it looks cool! :)
36 hours! Results approved. 👍 (I like wintergreen too)
5 GUM WANTS TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION
"Ogzalyl"
please Nile I need your help 😭 , If I want to prepare a solution that contains 25mg of Cl ions in one litre how much NaCl should I put?
Every video I've watching includes the phrase "I think this yield is pretty low" maybe your expectations are just too high? :)
It’s really interesting to me that the liquid, while flowing between containers, doesn’t seem to glow very much at all.
Love your content, keep it up!
Merry Christmas! Keep it up. Greetings from Austria. ^^
Ethan Van Goethem - 2017-12-23
all I'm getting from this is NileRed sleeps for 24 hour periods
Xander - 2018-11-30
@Epstein didn't kill himself This is his job, by the way :)
K1naku5ana3R1ka - 2019-01-12
No, he went to sleep, woke up when it was light, and didn’t realize the bottle was still glowing until the next night when it was dark again.
Joshua Perry - 2019-10-23
All i'm getting from these replies is that you're surrounded by dipshits.
borkdogey - 2019-11-20
@Bradley Irving mood
John Doe - 2020-02-23
This thread is toxic