Explosions&Fire - 2019-07-08
The chemistry in today's video is thanks to a personal grudge against a certain energetic compound made only of sulfur and nitrogen: S4N4. I also explain a heated opinion about a certain part of the visible spectrum. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ExplosionsandFire Discord: https://discord.gg/VR6Fz9g Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ExplosionsAndFire/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Explosions_Fire Special shoutout to r/yellowchemistry https://www.reddit.com/r/YellowChem/ Nightmare fuel The paper we are following: "Tetrasulfur Tetranitride, S4N4" https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9780470132401.ch26 Ok bois are you ready for the long list of patreon names going for a to z?? here we go::::: Adam Conour AllChemystery Aussie Chemist ChalkyChalkson Christopher Stillson Clark Lowe Corrosion Craig M. Dan Kaplan Daniel Coleman Elric emuwarvet Grant Trent Gregory Wong Isaac Paciga Jacob Tierney John Libal killroy225 Leon Schutte Leon Stark Luke McGoggan Michael Kavulich mirgp, no wait Azide Fox (sounds dangerous honestly) Mortlet Nile Red Oliver Toth (yellow chem loving sinner) Oz Sabina Rhodanide Roger -Dot- Lee The Gayest Person on Patreon Thomas Abbott Zachary Chapin Ok what else goes here, maybe some bonus content? Don't have anything really good this video, I didn't do too many stupid things. So i'll try and make up for it in future. This is a clip I cut from a joke that wasn't funny really (also barely made any sense, which is more a reason to cut it than lack of humour, because people complain about things not making sense more (fair enough)) https://youtu.be/icD9eS9U7Pk see you around fam
You're like a terrifying chimera of Nile Red and Michael Reeves. I love it.
cody's lab possibly?
Avalon Page BUT BETTER
Dead on. Thanks for the good laugh.
Cody's Lab meets Fairbairn Films.
I was thinking he's more the love child of Nile and AvE!
You know he's a real chemist because his labcoat is slowly getting holes eaten into it.
Yeah, when I was at uni my labcoat was eaten to shit after a semester.
akkudakkupl You haven’t Carbon engineered something until you’ve caught yourself on fire.
True. Some people in my lab had additional holes in their Coat you could put your arm through, although most just had their sleeves holed.
You know he's a real chemist by the constant stream of "colorful expletives" as he enjoys his "favorite chemical".
You know he's a real chemist because his labcoat is consists of more holes than coat :D
"it detonates when hit with a hammer in much the same way that carrots won´t detonate when hit with a hammer" god i love The Hitchhicker's guide to the galaxy
Is that a quote from Hitchhikers? (I know he said it in the video, just don't remember if it's from the book)
KingHalbatorix The real quote is:
”They hung in the air, much in the way bricks don’t”
The general form is sometimes called a "dissimile."
nightsong81 yes, thank you!
KingHalbatorix it’s from the radio show, not the book. HHGTTG was originally a radio show.
Our professor put quite a big question about S4N4's structure, synthesis and properties into our entry level anorganic chemistry exam. By pure accident I watched this video the evening before and was able to answer the questions the next day. So you saved me quite a few points, thank you!
If this chemistry thing doesn’t work out, you’ve got a backup career as a video editor. This is the funniest editing I’ve ever seen.
Thanks mate! Spent a long time on the editing for this video, glad you liked it!
@Explosions&Fire Its nearly 8:30PM and parts of this video made me laugh harder than I have have all weekend.
@gorillaau same here my dude, just stumbled upon this channel and it's some of the funniest content I've seen in a long time
Yeah, the dudes sure got a career Woking with silver halides if ever wants one.
Oh'err, hang on, what?
If you think this is good, you'll also like Michael Reeves
Trust me
I feel like I'm on a list for simply wanting to see a chemist lose his mind over a reaction.
I feel like he's on a list.
We're all on a list.
I mean... if I'm on a list, then clearly my country's governments must hand out security clearances like candy...
Mystic Thunder not that kind of list, my child.
no candy agreed
Iirc the cops came by to check he wasn't making drugs
I know it's an old comment, but I can't scroll past a K2 without saying howdy
As a (very) mature student, doing an M.Sc. in an unrelated subject, I happened to use a wash-room in my uni's chemistry department. In walks this chemistry professor who assumed that I was a colleague, and immediately starts slagging off the physics department. IT'S ALL PERFECTLY TRUE, I TELL YA. This is the best chem demo that I've seen in ages. Eat yer heart out, Nile Red.
Most discoveries in chemistry are not accompanied by "Eureka!", but more usually "that wasn't supposed to happen!". Thanks.
Had a student precipitate some mysterious black crystals once during 1st year chemistry. I was like "dude, HOW, you were supposed to do an extraction, there is literally nothing in this mixture except solvent and caffeine!". Sadly the product was cleaned away, so I never got to check what it actually was :(
@hamstsorkxxor we also had something like that in the lab, my co-student managed to turn a simple paracetamol extraction blue...
...... Or, "why are my two lab assistants dead?" That happened to the first people to synthesize Dimethylmercury. If you can smell that it has a slightly sweetish odor.... it means you have already received a lethal dose and nothing medically can be done for you. Six weeks later you will be brain dead.
@Tinker Tailor
Yup, feck that, alkylated group 12 elements are on my Nope!-list.
Ian Bunyan and then followed by a “well fuck now I have to figure out what the hell this is...”
at the royal college of military science, one of the students works out theory of TNT and RDX is far too slow burning, so invents a more reactive chemical compound. The professor looks at it and says its already been looked at, and is highly unstable and its impossible to make. Student goes away and spends six months in the lab trying to prove the professor wrong, then he makes it. A minute later there is a massive explosion in the lab. The professor goes into the destroyed lab and sees the student in shock covered in blood, and quietly says to him, thats as far as I got too.
This was my prof's fav compound, so he made us all make it in the lab. Wish I had my inorganic chem lab manual to give you. It made some beautiful orange needles (2 - 3cm long) that were really unstable.
"Don't do a melting point test on it." BAM "What did I just say?!?"
Some folks you just kept to the other size of the lab. =D
I feel like he could've just said "It's an explosive. Don't heat it."
@Toronoc Your professor sounds like the type of person to post two throwaway sentences about it on the internet...
You gotta love how often osmium tetroxide is brought up as a reagent when you’re learning o chem for forming diols and the like , and then quickly realize that literally NO ONE in a professional lab will almost ever bother to use something so dangerous. I mean for gods sake, you’re more likely to use sodium cyanide for synthetic chemical research than OsO4.
it's the same with lithal, there are much easier ways to reduce carboxylic acids and esters to alcohols without burning the building down
I don't get why you're dissing LiALH. It's ok. As for OsO4, we just don't use it because it is so expensive
This is such a rewatchable video, Tom knows what he's doing; memes and chemistry XD
As a physicist...
...fair point
XD
I'm in the physics department, and I work with the bone-hurting juice.
That username is mint, Luigi.
High class- no really, high-class.
God I love the physics department
@Captain Jirk Of course you do, strings is part of your name.
Come to think of it... whenever my reactions turned yellow during OChem in College, I was usually hitting 50% yield instead of the expected 80% or better. With lab grade starter materials.
You're right.
This is giving me weird flashbacks of a potassium triiodidoplumbite synthesis, shit turned yellow and my yield at like 40%
@cyllxx Mine got stuck at the fucking filter and I couldn't get it off.
God that makes me happy I chose physics
He's kinda on point lol.
@Joghurt2499 Imagine a physicist being happy.
Try making dichlorine hexoxide (Cl2O6). It's formed by reacting chlorine dioxide with excess ozone. According to Wikipedia, it's a red liquid that is (surprisingly) stable at room temperature. But it explodes when it touches organic materials.
Edit: there's also dichlorine heptoxide (Cl2O7), a colourless liquid formed by the careful distillation of perchloric acid in the presence of phosphorus pentoxide (P2O5 (technically P4O10, but I'm using the empirical formula)).
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I've LOVED this entire video. WOW. that intro...just awesome, the editing...on another level, you.....I'm going to stop there.
Seriously, one of my favourites so far. Thanks for doing what you do. Keep doing this mate.
Exactly what I thought this is the first video that I watched and I love this
definitely an insta-subscribe
I forgot the name of your channel so I typed in google "youtube chemist that hates yellow" and this video was the first result x"D
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My dad worked for about a decade with HF and TFE, one of the only in academia. Got to spend a lot of time in the lab with him, several feet back with hands in pockets of course. I learned a whole lot, and he still has a tube of calcium gluconate in his desk B)
I am watching an online lecture about nitrogen right now and my prof is talking about S4N4 and how his profs used to give it to the students in the lab and how it came to multiple accidental explosions. And he also said it's fairly easy to make, as long as you have S2Cl2 and ammonia and hearing that I just felt the need to comment this
Edit: One semester later I had another professor talk about S4N4 in a lecture. And another semester later (two days ago) I finally did the exam to that lecture where I had to draw one possible structure of S4N4 (there's multiple structures with S-S bonds or without S-S bonds)
Holy crap, I laughed so hard during this video. You perfectly capture the struggle of amateur chemistry here! Greetings from Finland.
It must be some form of cosmic fate that this dude hasn’t died to colourful death-juice in years of chemistry
praise be
The best part is you figured out how to make pink snow! And I liked the blue explosion/flame. The post-pop sulfur combustion reminds me of a fuel-air bomb, which can be extremely powerful.
This guy looks like someone who's doing standup comedy while talking about dangerous chemistry. You've earned my sub.
I'm so glad I found this channel! Each episode is a mix of comedy and science.......I LOVE IT!
Totally agree about the yellow. Worked in an industrial lab where we made an aniline material. It wasn’t used as such but, would have made an incredible yellow dye.
I think you provide a substantial part on chemistry CULTURE. Please don't stop.
The first three minutes of this video are the greatest chemistry rant ever recorded.
*spent months on making S4N4
*proceed to light it on fire
S4N4: BURNED AND DISAPPEARED IN LESS THAN A SECOND
This whole channel is, in a nutshell, why the world is just a better place for having Australia in it 😎👍🏻
Modern day chemistry! I love how it’s educational but fused with memes and shitposting that it makes for such enjoyable content!
Thank you Integza for introducing me to this guy! This is awesome! Your writing/commentary and editing kick ass!
New channel to binge watch, nice.
Dang you should have way more likes and subs. Thanks for putting so much time and effort into this stuff for us to see. Ill try to mention this channel to as many people as I can.
This reminds me of my Physical Chemistry lab at Tufts...”You should end with 3.8 grams of white crystals with a melting point of 98.3 C”....yeah? 8 grams of yellow sludge??
sounds familiar.....smeary brownish-reddish goo that took ages to get out of the friggin bottle....."We got 69% yield!" - " You were supposed to get around 12, check your melting point" .......hmmm....?
Hm, test, if nitration is possible..how? Ah, ok, 45min at 75°C...well if that doesn´t do it...here we go...45°, 50, 55...BAM! ...Uh....was that a positive result?
I got 117% yield of a resorcinarene in a university lab - was quite proud of creating matter!
"and your end product should be roughly 10 grams of bluish crystals"
"how does 8 and a half grams of smelly red shit sound?"
I feel the same way about alkyl chlorides. It’s like all the onions I’ve chopped in my life are getting revenge on my airways simultaneously.
That reminds me of organic chemistry II labs. The tears are real
You are a good chemist... I like your chemistry as well as funny attitude
Ca. You just imagine how many different exosive projects this guy has going on at any 1 given time at different stages just to provide regular content. This an is putting it all on the line here folks!! He deserves to be way above Nile red!! Best chemist youtuber ever!!
you can see that bottled up disgust and anger about yellow chem unwind itself in this video, a truly healing experience
Having elemental sulfur as a byproduct if the intent is for it to be explosive is actually really useful. You could substitute S4N4 for the sulfur in black powder, which would mean combining it with fuel and an oxidizer. You'd get a very big bang, more than standard black powder I imagine.
Just found your channel and I love how passionate you are about chemistry. As someone who wasn't too keen on it I really enjoy your videos and hope to see new ones. You're the real life Rick Sanchez.
I think this was one of your funniest videos yet (especially enjoyed the carrots)! And the chemistry was really cool too. Congrats on proving all the people wrong who say you should just let things go and move on from your grudges :)
I came here because of the channel name, and I'm staying because of the ridiculously funny Aussie who actually knows what he's talking about when it comes to chemistry but at the same time cusses up and down 😂
I've been doing chemistry for some time now, and I would suggest you avoid "arch nemesis chemicals" completely, to keep a pleasant, comfy state of mind, one gets after feeling the ground move at detonation velocity. I've never much like sulfur myself, but sometimes you just have to use it. Then there's all the rest of the times:) have you tried det cord yet?
Seriously I just saw my first two videos of you and completely fell in love! Awesome and well-educated content, exactly what my inner nerd needs!
Glad to discover your channel. You're doing synthesis as it looks like in real. Not in those advertising videos where people is pouring water in safety glasses and gloves 😉:-). Also love your messy lab. Clear lab is a sign of lazy chemist.
I love you, doc. You and three others, one, alas is no longer with us, i.e. Chemplayer. You are doing chemistry chemistry, not just mix and match and light and run stuff, even with the light and maybe run stuff! I mean LOVE LOVE LOVE your videos. Keep up the good work and I'll keep on viewing and more than just passingly likely liking
Really good to see you chemplayer😘 thanks for the link. I am officially a member there now under a different name, tho videoless. Undoubtedly ive commented on your works. I will continue to be an avid watcher. Also there is a "chemplayer reupload" on youtube dunno if its you (?)
Explosions&Fire - 2019-07-08
Comment 'yellow chem bad' for 7 years of good chemistry luck.
Scroll past for low yields forever
Deep Forrest Alchemy - 2019-07-08
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Yellow Chen Bad
Phantom - 2019-07-08
Yellow chem bad
Mireille Bouquet - 2019-07-08
yellow chem bad
Oliver Toth - 2019-07-08
Yellow chem good !
TheBackyardChemist - 2019-07-08
jokes on you, I do computational chemistry