NileRed - 2019-08-14
Sometime last year, I got really interested in microwave plasma, which can be made from a lot of things like lit matches, aluminum foil or just some grapes. However, when I went searching for more info about it, I really couldn't find much of anything. There was also no explanation as to why it was yellow every time, regardless of what it was made from. So, I decided to investigate this a little bit and try to get to the bottom of it. -------------------------------------------- Grape plasma paper: https://www.pnas.org/content/116/10/4000/tab-figures-data Video references: Steve Mould: https://youtu.be/8bXhsUs-ohw Veritasium (new grape video): https://youtu.be/wCrtk-pyP0I Veritasium (old grape video): https://youtu.be/RwTjsRt0Fzo Applied Science (Ben): https://www.youtube.com/user/bkraz333 Applied science video on making potassium glass: https://youtu.be/y02AXdec1sE Walter Mitty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lys1pcZbPM0 RUPhys2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhpndQJkNk0 Stupideaproductions: https://youtu.be/G7lfzA7WzVI Nile talks about lab safety: https://youtu.be/ftACSEJ6DZA ------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nilered Youtube Membership: https://www.youtube.com/c/nilered/join NileRed Merch Store (NileRed Pin & Keychain): https://store.dftba.com/collections/nilered NileRed Website (Glassware & Beaker Mugs): https://nile.red ------------------------------------------- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nile.red Twitter: https://twitter.com/NileRed2 Discord: https://discord.gg/3BT6UHf Music in credits (Walker by SORRYSINES): https://soundcloud.com/sorrysines/walker
"However, my biggest concern wasn't really safety"
--NileRed, 2019
@Science Revolution please seek medical attention
Yes, the safety of his footage
It's not "Safety First." It's "Stupidity Last."
Somewhere an osha inspector is screaming
@FirelightFS jogwheel nostaliga ;-;
is it a good idea to microwave this?
You know you're sciencing right when you find yourself drilling holes through safety warnings
Haha
Yes, because if the hole is as small as his, only a very small amount of radiation can escape. That's what knowing science is good for.
Or else you're at Unseen University...
@Cam Brown correct, it's all to do with the wavelength of the radiation being about 12cm
@Rocky_adventure_bay The micro radiation waves are too large too pass through the hole. As well as having a camera in front of it, I think he's pretty safe.
"I was worried the beaker would crack" well that didn't age well
@Kats No, as in he had to smash all (I mean ALL) of his beakers because of this.
@Arnav Singh AND THE VIDEO OF HIM SMASHING THEM WAS SO GOOD
@Charte STOP SHOUTING BUD, I CAN'T HEAR THE AWESOME SOUND OF GLASS BREAKING!
@Arnav Singh YEAH IT WAS AMAZING
I watched that first
"I think I almost broke my elbow, but thankfully the camera was fine"
My fav part 🤣🤣🤣
Lol
movie studios be like
That’s a scientician for you!
drilling through the microwave safety warning label feels symbolic
"I didn't want to damage the beaker" Welll got to tell you something.
@Velox I know you did, I'm asking why would you spend money on that.
@patman0250 you ever been told you're annoying? I mean stupid is one thing, it's obvious you think you're being funny but your jokes fall like a man jumping off a roof
@Velox If you want to brag about being annoying and stupid I'm not going to stop you. I don't know why you'd do that it's kind of weird but, whatever floats your boat. I'm a little confused though, what jokes? I don't know what you mean, maybe you're talking to someone else and mistaking it for me or something. It'd makes sense if you did, i mean you did say you went to trump college. That came out of your mouth not mine.
That's what they call foreshadowing.
Lol little did he know
Press F for all the glassware that was sacrificed for this video
Press G for Glassware
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4:39 Note: everyone thinks that "sea air" smells of ozone. But what you smell down at the beach is actually rotting seaweed!
Smells like Octopussy
@Danger Bear delicious
@Cute Dog n o m
Yummy
2:45 That’s called foreshadowing xD
I've been sitting here yelling "Dude, it's the sodium in the glass!" at my phone for at least ten minutes. I'm glad he finally figured it out.
I felt pretty smug thinking it was the glass the whole time, then he mentioned the NO and Oxygen reaction and I felt stupid, then he mentioned it was the glass and I felt smug.
Sometimes, there's so much going on, that we forget about very basic things.
When making semiconductor devices, you can't overlook this kind of details. The slightest contamination coming from the beakers and growth chambers can lead to catastrophic results due to the addition of unwanted impurities that change the electrical properties of a semiconductor.
I'm thinking of all the other commonalities: The matches, the glass, the plate, the hole, the phone, the microwave itself..... if all else fails, sunspots and aliens.....
@Guy That Firstly I didn't take into account the soot-variable and jumped straight to the glass- contaminating-the-plasma answer but when Nile talked about soot, I was amazed at my ignorance. LOL. What an irony!
BTW can you pls time stamp the orange-plasma-in-the-middle-bit.
Sometimes the journey is more interesting then the conclusion.
Thanks for the warning. I'll try this in my neighbor's microwave.
589nm waves: THEY SEE ME ROLLING/ THEY HATING!
1:51 The seriousness in his face while he says "I also thought that it was just a decent excuse to just have fun and play around with plasma"
"y'know, sPoOnS?"
Ah yes, the S P O O N.
What's the context here?
@DouglAsshat for the quote, or "S P O O N"?
@Hotmud9 both
Why does his board say y'know spoons
And why are you saying s p o o n
@DouglAsshat I don't know why his board says "y'know, sPoOnS?"
I say S P O O N because of a man known only as Regit.
I got salad fingers vibes
"I went online grasping at straws "air plasma yellow" " died LOL
“I then got the spectrum for both of them, and I DIED when I saw there was still this massive spike of sodium.
His beakers are labeled nile red, don't know why but I thought that was cool
He sells them on his website. (Though currently only the smaller ones)
I imagine the buildings breakers for his lab are simply labeled "Nilered" so he can go turn them back on every time he trips them.
This is how we should learn stuff at school...Its so much more interesting
Lol you didn't do science experiments in chemistry?
@Brian Myers eh...not really...I think we might have done a few if it wasn't for corona virus but still, I just find it all much more boring in school, just the way its taught
"I almost broke my elbow, but the camera was fine".
Girls with the time machine: Hi grandma!
Men with the time machine: Mark your beakers NileRed!
Good one
no
“However, my biggest concern wasn’t even safety” 🤒
As soon as you started finding sodium everywhere, I just thought "what about the glass?" ^-^
"I almost broke my elbow, but thankfully it didn't damage the camera at all" Lol for the content!
This comment makes me laugh 😂
Lol, I was thinking there would be someone commenting about that
Exactly wat I got me cackling😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
Elbows heal, cameras don't.
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The demons of Ex&F have come for you: yellow chemistry
And the yellow color on the match might be coming from the treatment of the wood on the match the paraffin wax is a mixture of solid straight chain hydrocarbons and ammonium phosphate. Multiple factors could be due to the yellow color
You know you're sciencing right when you find yourself drilling holes through safety warnings
"I was worried it would crack the beaker but it apparently didn't have any problem at all"
That one didn't age well
What are the “that didn’t age well” comments referring to? The thing that melted was the plastic
@Danielle Wilson They was referring to the video where he broke all of his beakers because the beakers that was used here was breaking.
@Catcat I was so happy for you
@Danielle Wilson It’s on his other channel NileBlue titled “I had to break all my beakers.”
"I always heard forks were dangerous to put in the microwave, so I tried those."
The forks had to much heat capacity.
@sad linus how did what go?
@Wei Zhao are you okay?
@Wei Zhao not aure whocpissed in your cereal, but I hope tomorrow is a better day for you.
Y'know spoons?
"The power of the sun, in the palm of my hand."
“All of this plasma was incredibly hot and I was worried that running it for a while would damage the beaker”
Foreshadowing anyone?
Doing the ufo from MacGyver episode "The Visitor" might be interesting.
I just watched a "How its Made" about making match sticks, they soak them in Ammonium Phosphate.
scientist life priority
"I explode the screen of my phone and almost broke my elbow .... but thankfully the camera is OK"
@Beskamir I hope it's a joke ...
I have free healthcare since I'm born, it save my life 2 times (heart problems), but I hate it because people are so dumb when they don't pay directly ....
Bruised elbows will heal, but getting a new smartphone is a slightly bigger inconvenience.
@Lee Nux Yep, I was joking. Public healthcare is incredibly beneficial for society.
*YouTuber life
Nile is a YouTuber
i dont care you broke your elbow
blue plasma: exists
sodium from the beaker: i'm gonna end this man's whole carrer
NileRed: "The biggest peak was at 760, which corresponded to Potassium."
Me: 'Kay
Was it not potassium?
@riffage1588 no, not potassum. That's purple, around 360
11:11
"and i bought a new phone"
he really cares about video quality
When you microwave wood a flammable gas comes off. It's igniting like neon gas does
2:43
“All this plasma was incredibly hot, and I was worried that running it for a while would crack the beaker, but it apparently didn't have any problem at all”
“apparently didn't have any problem at all”
Welp, it turns out that there were problems all along.
RIP beakers
@patman0250 Since you're apparently a bit behind everyone else, it turned out that the plasma in this video introduced stresses into the glassware he used and eventually they started breaking. He had no idea which ones he used for the plasma so he had to break all of them.
@Techno Bacon Did you just say you're behind everyone else? That's crazy usually people don't put that out there but hey whatever floats your boat kid.
@patman0250 You have to try harder than that.
@Techno Bacon You have to try hard to do what?
@Wei Zhao I'm patman patient number o250.
All the microwaves in the video: My time has come.
"Sendung mit der Maus" claims that matches are soaked in salt water as part of the manufacturing process (https://youtu.be/y2r7PBdl7m8?t=177). That would explain the sodium.
i remember hearing in high school chemistry that sodium contaminates everything
Love your all hand gestures when you're talking directly to the camera.
>I nearly broke my elbow
>thankfully I didn’t damage the phone much
Nile’s priorities are straight
@ThePCguy17 ayyy
He said "thankfully it didn't damage the camera at all ", you got 4 words out of this sentence correct, congratulations! (that's 50%)
@Michael Denny C1 science bitches
This guy sounds like he has an Injury Notebook that says, "Charlie Babbitt squeezed and pulled and hurt my neck".
@Wei Zhao They still grow back though
"I almost broke my elbow, but thankfully it didn't damage the camera at all" Lol for the content!
I never knew Chemistry could be that interesting before i found your channel.
"and i b o u g h t a new phone" //sad plebeian wallet noises
"If you have any mysteries like this, leave them in the comments, and I might actually try them."
[egg explodes]
...i found that very entertaining for some reason
When you found this video after finding the video where his beakers start exploding.
Loved this Mystery version of your chem videos. Had the beaker villain pegged within the first 10mins. Sodium leaching from glass is my daily bane. I enjoy your problem solving and content!
Sporkyz - 2019-08-14
Man, if there's one thing I've learned during this video (other than the science), it's that Nile really cares about the quality of the video above all else.
Noe Morgan - 2021-03-07
@Mason Toby testing it out right now. Looks good so far :)
Daan P - 2021-03-07
@Noe Morgan i hate nilered he doesnt support blm or joe biden..
toby for president and nilered in prison
Luka P - 2021-03-09
@NileRed yea because you can break every bone in your body but it'll be fine since the video quality is good
H4L0 MA57ER77 - 2021-03-13
@NileRed you don't clickbait either