NurdRage - 2019-10-12
In this video we make a silver oxide or silver zinc battery. Related videos: Restoring Silver by electrochemistry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57iwtmT4LNQ Toning Silver by Anodization : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GajkqaSr01c Make zinc powder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X9c6epL7HQ Make silver powder: https://youtu.be/WRgSviGuEFY Donate to NurdRage! Through Patreon (preferred): https://www.patreon.com/NurdRage Glassware generously provided by http://www.alchemylabsupply.com/ Use the discount code "nurdrage" for a 5% discount. Twitter: https://twitter.com/NurdRage Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/NurdRage/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nurdrageyoutube/
After my awful high school chemistry classes, I'm now - as an adult - trying to re-learn science, and these videos are helping a lot. Huge thanks for doing your videos!
PLEASE cover plating onto graphite, especially nickel. Also, plate carbon nanotubes onto different substrates.
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Would love to see you make a Edison cell aka nickel iron battery! They are some of the longest cycle life batteries known. I have seen some in railroad use that where installed in the 50s still working as long as the electrolyte is kept topped off
Let me translate the title for our British Columbia viewers, “this battery charge, but will it chooch?”
Uhm, I’m super early so... Thanks for existing NR! Your series on sodium from NaOH was truly awesome to follow! K byeeee
Hey NurdRage, what do you think about Aluminium-Air batteries?
The ones where a piece of alu-foil, charcoal, and NaOH are used – they're amazingly simple in design and materials.
Tried making it once, and it even produced pretty good current, but I couldn't find an easy way to make carbon electrode.
See Exnube's channel.
NurdRage made a video ages ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FxIzMwOF00
Aluminium and NaOH? These two don’t combine nicely...
Could you try plating zinc or silver in the presence of a transverse magnetic field, and report if the dendrites differ or not?
No "shattering your expectations" warnings in this video?
I was expecting the same. I was SURE that a video on batteries of all things would contain a warning that this is useless in practice, given how many of his other (and potentially MORE useful in practice) videos have such a warning. Of course, I suppose if you had to rebuild civilization, knowing how to even make a primitive rechargeable battery like this would be huge.
It would be interesting to see salvaging silver from the disposable batteries.
Well, it's a lot more interesting than sticking bits of metal into a lemon to make a battery... :P
Was this a coincidence, since the Nobel in Chemistry was awarded for Li-Ion batteries?
Bro it is time for a new hot plate/stirrer...I can tell that one has had YEARS of good use. I had a critical failure during a sandmeyer because of uneven heating due to buildup on my plate once. You can imagine the smell.
can you please combine electrochemistry and organic chemistry in one video like doing electrosynthesis of some compound ?
Now that's something I'd like to see... I've been interested for years!
This is exactly where my mind is at. Good video TY!
Really cool!
I never thaught it would work that well (I was more expecting something like those "batteries" you can make by a lemon and and a piece of zink and copper - that will at most light up a small LED)
Hey! I love your videos! Thank you for making them. I love chemistry and it’s partly because of you! :D
I'd love to see a follow up with several of these in series, give it some more interesting loads
Would love to see this revisited with a compressed electrode.
Hey @NurdRage on the subject of batteries: I've always been curious about those 'molten salt' batteries. They are used where you need to have ALOT of current discharged relatively quickly but also have ridiculous shelf life. Mostly used in missiles or satellites I think. Could you do a video on it explaining how that works? How can it be shelf stable for decades and not lose charge?
They don't lose charge because while they're sitting on the shelf, they have no electrolyte through which they can discharge. The salt acts as electrolyte only while liquid and it isn't liquid until you get the batteries extremely hot. Once the salt is molten, they start to self-discharge like any other battery.
I would love to see the amonium nitrate video. Were you lucky on finding a new lab? I hope so, you are my inspiration. Love u so much
Lol, got a surprise seeing the Motorola M appear, as I did my first smartphone screen replacement myself today, A Moto-Z.
Are you going to revisit any of your old methods of sulfuric acid production, like the copper chloride catalyst approach or the electrobromine method? I appreciate your content greatly.
For those wanting to use sodium hydroxide, maximum conductivity if achieved at 15% by weight in water.
Excellent! Very insightful. Thorough explanation of battery technology challenges. A favorite and reference for sure.
im glad to see you're doing okay!
Can you try making some fused salt batteries some day? I know sounds quite work intensive and dangeorus, but they seem like such interesting pieces of chemistry as well as quite power dense. I think they would be very interesting from an educational point of view, as there is limited info on them, more so in video footage form.
such a cool video, thank you!
thank you so much for your great content.
Neat. I have a bunch of silver coins and bars. Gonna make a huge battery!
Naw, I'm not ruining my silver.
Wow nice. Good work bro . I will definitely try some concepts from this in my videos
Could silver be made tarnish-proof by having it permanently connected to zinc? Maybe e.g., a silver coin made with a zinc core?
I was wondering if you have done a video on Leyden jars? Using different metals , materials ?
24 grams KOH I can do.
It may be impossible to reach 10,000, but one day you would be able to show your identity (even if such Money is not reached?
P.S: I admire you a Lot, greetings from Colombia.
If I remember right, the lunar rovers were powered with silver oxide batteries.
Lithium Ion replaced it... Well then, you konw what to build next for a better result
Cool video, looked into Zinc-carbon-batteries myself some time ago. A video in building a lithium ion battery would be really great, even though i doubt whether that is doable without a to high risk of something going boom...
I work with KOH daily... nasty stuff!
That coin that was in your vid was rare if it was from 1218 or 1923
Hello. Have you an idea how coating flyash with zinc oxide?
I need to make a thermal reflective paint.
Make a video showing us how a chemist makes a drink!!
I saw a talk some years back which found they could prevent dendrite formation by plating with an off-set AC current (eg a DC mean voltage of +0.5, but with peaks up to +1.5 and troughs to -0.5). Would be cool to see this replicated. I can't recall what frequencies they used, but the basis for it was that the "deplating" parts of the waveform would erode the dendrites, and diffusion would flatten out the concentration. You might even be able to use something simple like a joule thief to accomplish the offset-AC.
nice. hopefully youtube algorithm will bring this video to top !
Likes and comments make a difference in recommends.
@Keith Reynolds that's why i'm commenting ^^ he is making goood shit for years
@The Chemical Workshop and why I added myvcomment. ;D I'm not as prodigious at making videos but I have a neat electrical motor I made and put up on my channel. Views comments and likes if you feel like it would be appreciated. :D
NurdRage? Yes, please!
I dont know anything about what you're saying, but that shit was dooooope
Can you make more videos on how to make different types of batteries and the range of affordability to create each type???
Dendrites can be "zapped" with a fast high-voltage charge pulse, ~250V, extending the life of some rechargeable batteries. I remember that from an old electronics educational kit.
I saw a youtube video where a guy was able to grow zinc crystals instead of the porous zinc that usually forms. Not sure how he did it though
Might be unintended, but the upload is nicely timed with the 2019 nobel prize in chemistry.
I really enjoyed this one. Thanks.
NurdRage - 2019-10-12
I'll try my best to release the next video next week, but it'll likely be the week after.
(video will be on making ammonia gas, or purifying dirty ammonium nitrate from instant cold packs.
Robin Thrill3r - 2019-10-13
I did a video on my old channel of
Ammonium nitrate and nitro methane.
Was pretty cool..
Robin Thrill3r - 2019-10-16
Hey NerdRage! I got a quick question...
Recently I've been needing a strong methylation agent and was looking into Dimethyl Sulfate as a good option..
Only problem is to import or get it in such large quantity (metric ton) would be pretty expensive...😩
Would there be an easier way to synthesis it? Preferably a cost effective route?
hido1995 Hido - 2019-10-20
@NurdRage , the ampere-mete should be connect on serial mode not on parallel mode, Nice video, i like chemistry and i wait for an other video
Generical FishTycoon - 2019-10-23
Hey you got the exact same troy ounce buffalo coin I bought just last week, nice! :)
Faycel Djebbar - 2019-11-01
Ur the best!