Explosions&Fire - 2020-06-04
We construct a powerful energetic complex from a decade that no-one remembers, because it's said to be a cool colour. It was. Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ExplosionsAndFire/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ExplosionsandFire Second Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvFApMFo_AafXbHRyEJefjA Discord: https://discord.gg/VR6Fz9g Twitter: https://twitter.com/Explosions_Fire Patreon, as I've said in this here video film clip, has been 'going off' lately. Some of these fantastic names are below. I've paired you in groups of threes this time, so rather than being best friends like the groups of two were last video, in this case its a group assignment and you're all working on a powerpoint presentation together. Each work on it individually, and then just paste your slides together 10 minutes before your presentation, so it's brutally clear when it jumps from one person's slides to the next, but the sudden change in font, style and colour. Oh yeah. Anyway: William Griffin, James Guarnotta, Oliver Toth Joseph Miller, Jason Petrou, Last Son of Europa Clark from WY, Jack Steel, Zeo Jacob Langbecker, General HiPing, Ben Gearon Brian Talarczyk, Tyler Downard, Zachary Chapin The King of Homestyle, Adam Conour, AllChemystery Rowan James, Keith spoelhof, Sean Murphy Matt Jackson, uwotm8, Samonie67 Mortlet, Mark Hartsteen, Dom Vasta David Cagan, Sam Nudl, Roger -Dot- Lee Ian F, Joe Galvan, Sarah Urfer Emil Pelloso, apollo wellstein, Max Scop Sabino Lanza, Ryan Nguyen, Atmosys Corrosion, Nihilistporqupine, Chris Villarreal Anthony, Murray Grant St John, Kris Pockell Leon Schutte, Lukas Schulz, Thomas Klotz Thinkingmansgame, Aussie Chemist, Aaron Elligsen Bitcore, Thorben Zethoff, Roger Kutyna Sirius, Justin Pallo, PrettyChill Chemistry Thomas Abbott, Stephanie Mills, Alok G Singh Rossi, Justin reid, Vincent Cinfici Michael Aichlmayr, joe, Daniel Coleman David K Bennett, Jannic Rauch, Markus Rüegger Jacob Leecock, The Gayest Person on Patreon, Joppe de Zeeuw Jacob Bollen, Darren Hansen, Michael Kavulich Simon Clucas, Isaac Paciga, Elizabeth Schneider T.Chavez, John Nguyen, Craig M. Eric Stromdahl, Adam Nash, Hugh Laird Malkezadek, Punkey, Darcy David Ho, Azide Fox, Henrik Jørgensen Karsten Hoff, Christopher Stillson, Oz Sabina Michael Lang, Nile Red, Mark Blundell Luke McGoggan, Nick, MillionFoul Utulien, gug, Leon Stark Arthur McTavish, John Libal, KaiserWilhelmTheII Jonny Wright, Bruce Fitzsimons, Rorie GayKobold, David Jensen, Kristopher Rush Radil, WILLIAM BROWN, killroy225 brett j on your own, sorry. Good luck. Thanks to you all! Also here are some exciting featured guests in the description, please make them feel welcome. Its best just to read this as if i'm reading it all, and it's somehow part of some bigger, wider message or conspiracy. For any researchers interested in taking part in our show about research in chemistry called CurrentChem https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnafk93vhO35zycgVOISrQODNP4qEmFbM DM us on our Twitter, https://twitter.com/CurrentChem! Video on Octonitrocubane coming soon! Turns out I had to go mad So I could find out who I am, Stay inside and wash your f**king hands. DBF, Cthulhu fhtagn
Copper is the evilest element, most people don't expect to have copper chem fail on them because of the pretty colors, but that's where it gets ya. it lures in unsuspecting chemists with its pretty colors and uses and when you least expect it, the copper strikes. you'll have copper stains everywhere, the yields are shit, you don't know what's going on and you just wanna go home and forget about all the problems with copper, but then you return because its soo pretty like continuing to text your abusive ex. i consider copper the most insidious element in the periodic table.
Got 99% yield [5 g scale] for Goldberg (Ulmann) reaction today using CuI.
I remember my old homogeneous catalysis group, where some guy kept getting his copper complexes oxidised. no fun
@samonie67 They invented electronics to eat all the copper. Give it to us electronics geeks, we need more.
Sad chilean noises
luckily, i'm a computer guy, not a chemist, so i can just appreciate the electric and thermal properties of elemental/metallic copper
I'm bribing him with 1$ a month to perform dangerous experiments for my personal amusement.
Sounds a lot more sinister if you phrase it like that.
you forgot that taxes eat up a good portion of the 1$ aswell as patreon/google also take a fair cut even before that.
insert evil laughter
Dude thats just
Like
Bruh
Its so like
Normal
@Skinflaps Meatslapper "potentially blow urself up an I'll pay you absolutely nothing after you potentially survive" xD
… it’s like a sinister type of slavery 😯
@Shardsofcontent bruh
Do you even know what slavery 8s?
Transition metal chem makes me glad I'm not colourblind.
@Gabriel nah we get cars, if you see someone waiting at a green light, just know they may think it’s red. Think about how fun that makes driving
@Paw Christensen so what do red and green things look like? Do they both look red or green or some other color? Like do you just see the other wavelengths of light besides either red or green or how do you subjectively perceive it?
@Joshua Gavaghan Sorry for the late reply. I DO still see red and green, but I will never see them the same way as everyone else.. The red and green colors are kinda faded for me.. Let me give you an example.. Purple.. That color is pretty much a mystery to me, because I do not see it. Purple for me is still just blue. The more red you add, the darker it becomes, but it still just looks like blue to me, till a TINY spectrum of the perfect mix of red and blue makes me see something I guess is my version of purple.
I remember as a kid, I was playing in my garden with waterballoons. And when I was done, I picked all of the broken balloons up, all but the red and green, because those two were so similar to me that I could not see them in the grass.. I am 37 now, but this have never been an issue to me.. There are websites that actually made pretty accurate side by side comparisons on how people with various versions of colorblindness see compaired to people with normal sight.. My version is called deuteranopia
I am colourblind I watch this because I could never do it myself.
@Gabriel bruh yellow is always in the middle and green is bottom. On horizontal light it’s middle and right respectively.
(At least in US)
Glad to see you're still alive.
Whilst NileRed's Chemvideos are cool and all, your "Ghetto-esque" Chemistry is far more fascinating, and the meme game is straight up fire.
Yellow Chem Bad.
You just have yellow derangement syndrome.
@Evi1M4chine and styropyro quit chemistry altogether for the zap-zap
Yellow Chem Bad, Orange Chem Good, Blue Chem "huhn??????????"
They may both be chem youtubers, but they satisfy entirely different niches. Wouldn't even consider them comparable when Tom makes his tight and concise videos, while Nile just goes full lost in the rabbit hole on whatever he has stepped into, making a forty minute video from it.
Ex&F used a Nile Red meme in this xd
That's why I studied ligand field theory and the Jahn-Teller effect. To understand a 5 second bit on a crackhead video at 7:36.
Totally worth it.
A few years ago I had a choice to either study chemistry or computer science. I almost made a huge mistake then
LFT is bae
@Caesar cch Im studying Physics and I could have chosen to take chemistry as minor subject, glad I didn't
Nah inorganic chemistry is just disgusting. Wanted to end my life all throughout that semester.
That bit was fucking hilarious in the video though
@OliveToth electric chair
I can't believe we, the subscribers to Explosions & Fire, invented this new chemical. Great job, everyone!
Go team!!
Yes communism
Our chemical
Our chem
Fk commies, go chem
I love how you can just take the properties you want, find some molecules that have it, slap any metal you like the name of on there and bam you get exactly what you wanted.
That's SO cool!
Can't wait for the next channel: Nukes&Radiation
Truly the next step up
Love it
I would so like to do a colab for that channel..... am241Be neutron gun sounds like a good place to start
@Sophia Astatine Fissile elements have what is called a critical mass, which means taking it in it's purest state you need at least that much to make it go critical. So unfortunately not. When trying to make nukes they use the elements with the lowest critical mass possible(And a bunch of other factors, of course) in order to make it transportable, like Plutonium 239. The critical mass of Pu239 untamped is about 11kg--With a bunch of neutron reflectors, implosion geometry and tamps you can get that down to less than half that, but nothing close to milligrams.
This is why they must keep these elements in a highly enriched state(over 90%), otherwise they would need to make the bombs larger and larger in order to get more neutrons and reactions going. IIRC, if you were to try and make a bomb with the lowest weapon's grade enrichment possible(20%), you would need a bomb more or less the size of the empire state building. So naturally that would be utterly impractical to carry around.
In a reactor none of this matters as all they want is a sustained reaction, Canada's reactors have been able to get this by using natural uranium at .7% 235. You still need a lot of fuel to start it. But you can get reactors at very high enrichments also in the 60% ranges like with subs(The mass of the fuel is too small to ever detonate even though it's technically weapon's grade.) This is why you never need to fear a nuclear reactor exploding like a nuke even though it's depicted as doing such on TV, it is literally physically impossible for them to do so, any explosion at a reactor is a regular chemical one, regardless of what media says.
@Infini_Ryu You can also skew the critical mass by increasing density though, compressing the material to increase the likelihood of a neutron collision with a nuclei. However ultimately it was mostly a joke on Tom's small scale safety. 😅
@Explosions&Fire uh yes
8:48 The chemist making an abbreviation for copper nitrotetrazole must have been having a hell of a day
When it comes to hitting stuff with a hammer - did you ever consider attaching it to the head of the hammer instead of just trying to hit it?
Dammit Jim, he's a chemist, not an engineer.
Besides, where's the fun in that? It's like using cheats in Saints Row.
@Mark Fergerson I’m ashamed I didn’t think of this. I would’ve just put it in the bottom of a tube and dropped a weight.
@James Harding Nothing like an impromptu pipe bomb in the morning!
@vomErsten You say that, but I tried to make some homemade rocket fuel for a high school Chem class. It was literally a pipe bomb.
And yes, I did have the proper paperwork.
Thanks for the upload, this is easily my favorite channel on YouTube. I wish you the best and hope you take good care of your fingers and lungs.
thanks mate! take care of yourself too
We need to start a "Replace the Axe Head With an Anvil" fund for this man of science.
"These crystals are so big and so good I could probably stick them in my braces and get a solvable diffraction pattern the next time I go to my next dental checkup" I need to remember that one! LOL
I love the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde nature of this channel and Extraction and Ire. One is explosions and shouting and the other is distilling stuff to Aphex Twin.
I started my master's thesis in organic chemistry 3 weeks ago. Everything I make is fucking yellow
That's shit. Hope it gets better, and you get to blow some shit up.
But transition metal chemistry is pretty to watch.
Drink more water
Or yellow mixed with tar...
Stop pissing in you chemistry set.
Needs more nitrogen. Then it will look like shit.
I stumbled onto your channel a few weeks ago, and while I'm completely chemistry illiterate, I am enthusiastic about all forms of science. And you make these entertaining enough that even when you lose me scientifically (immediately) I'm still laughing and love watching the chemistry. Keep it up man!
Congrats on the 100k dude, you deserve it. You made chemistry interesting for me and I keep rewatching your videos. Your presentation is hundo p the best in category
Evi1M4chine and aussie
Great to see success! Was a great experiment and beautiful little crystals.
And highly energetic to boot.
Hey, thanks for the help with it by making your videos! You're always one step ahead mate. Hope you've been well
Haha I love how in the octonitrocubane paper it says that they discovered that cubane acyl azides are a primary explosive and then in parenthesis say "fortunately without serious incident." So I'm just picturing a bunch of fancy scientist scratching the explosive with a knife and after seeing the explosion just having that oh shit look on their faces as they turn to the 100 gram pile they have laying there.
Also I know that's not what really happened... damn at least I hope lol.
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@GerSHAK ....
Scientists are, in my university experience, more silly than fancy when they can get away with it, so even if I can't read whatever you're trying to say, maybe you're right.
Oh yeah, well what about OctoCuNTZ?
Wasn't she a Bond villain?
"Octopuff in cumquat"? Anyone?
I believe that was his wife. She had issues, but none of them really that bad
@Bezahlter Systemtroll there's no way we're going to see an octopus smoking eight cigarettes
@CreatureOTNight COTN she wasn't blonde, she was YELLOW
I’m pretty sure she was Ariel’s daughter
Too hard? Sounds like a long-term project goal! Can't wait to eventually see a video on octonitrocubane, I'd watch a feature length struggle
Explosions&Fire: Does complex chemistry using sophisticated terms whit the end goal being to create a powerful explosive compound.
Me: Oh look colours! So cool!
I had dreams about the cobalt classes in my chemistry labs. The colors! This was during the 70s and there were really fine drugs going around. But I transgress, I agree, cobalt is the bestest of elements, and it's nice to have such an expert such as yourself enforce it's standing. Cobalt #1!
Just make Octanitrocubane
@Explosions&Fire i dont know anything about chem but just the fact it has cube and octo in its name... do it pls I must know
@TheApexSurvivor Nah, octakis(nitrylamino)cubane or GTFO :D
Heptanitrocubane!
@Explosions&Fire don't give up on octonitrocurbane noting is too hard
Octakis(triazidomethyl)cubane. Or cubane-1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8-tetrakis(azaepoxide) but all hydrogens are replaced with nonaazido-tert-butyl. Maybe even octakis(2-azidotetrazol-5-yl)cubane.
Hey dude! I got the perfect substitute for octronitrocubane, it is called Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane. It is quite a complex molecule, but the synthesis really suprized me!
what i love most about chemistry videos is that even though I've seen them before i retain very little information each viewing and its always a pleasure to watch again
I really like this video, because he goes through a lot more of the chemisty and process this time (at least it seems that way, I haven't been watching for very long).
"Lets just chuck a whole lot of amonia in there" - Beirut 2020
"Hey, whats with all these seized fireworks?"
-a bored dockworker, probably...
One dude really loves his copper chemistry.
Jokes aside, I love how you explained the construction process of the molecule so that even chemistry-curious fuckers like me can follow along—kinda.
"JUST RAM IT".
- Tom, 2020
By now i'm convinced he is getting more crazy with every video. Nice editing again mate :)
The most chemistry I have ever done was in high school.
I still love these videos.
The highest Chem I took was 202 in college, for a civil engineering degree. And I understand the words he’s saying, but the sentences may as well be Attic Greek.
Honestly, in these trying times, a little bit of chemistry shitposting is exactly what the doctor ordered. Thank you.
Weird question but could you make an explosive glass? Like a pane you and see through but could explode when heat is added. Love the channel btw
I guess you could make an explosive polymer that resembles plexiglass.
@Crazy Nerd Inventor I feel like we have just been added to a list 🧐
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@Philip Miller already on it, just got another red x added...you're welcome.
@Philip Miller He has a polyvinyl nitrate video but it isn't made transparent IIRC lol
If cobalt is so great, why isn’t there a sequel?
Do you mean Cobalt(II)?
Man, these videos are hilarious, and very interesting! Love it!
Hey asking for a friend cough how do you stay motivated long term? Like- when a project is going poorly and you need to wait months for supplies to arrive or something like that- how do you keep yourself focused on your goals?
Would it make a good race fuel? That’s what the real question is, especially when you need a fast piston speed and high RPM.
I have to say, I hope you never stop making videos, educating and entertaining. Your content is real fun man. Much love to you. Keep on keeping on.
Been watching this channel for around a year now and just wanted to say it's helped to inspire me pursue a masters in chemistry, as I've recently received an offer from York University I'm obviously doing something right, so thanks for the fun and inspiration keep uploading the great content :)
Thanks for the explanation of the fragmentation analysis on the cans.
I've always wondered how a tannerite explosion would fair if you ground up both parts separately before combining. Thoughts anyone? Has this been done? Would it be more energetic, less, would it have any noticeable or measurable effect?
Co III has inert low spin complexes (6 d electrons). That is fancy on its own. You put them in concentrated acid and they survive for quite a while. You can see some of the transitions in their going.
Well we don't actually have the [Co(NH3)6]3+ in solution here, well small amounts at most, the intermediates are actually aquo complexes (which explains the purple color)
Well, probably the most fun I've had watching fulminates in decades. I really enjoy the cans, they demonstrate velocity as I've only seen on a far larger scale, from ten miles or so away. "Shatters the back of the can". Cobalt, number one, humm, might be something to that. Thanks.
Thanks to you i spent an hour reading about relative effectiveness factors, detonation velocities, and octanitrocubane on wikipedia when i should be sleeping because i have to go to school for something completely unrelated to explosives in a few hours.
Damn. He said "it feels long" and "too hard" in the first 60 seconds of the video. This is gonna be a good one.
I want to see him publish a paper using quantified measurements of damage to Strongbow cans.
Also, “pretty fuckin’ alright” needs to be in the conclusion.
If you're looking for energy density, you want the lightest transition metal that works. Have you tried scandium?
Extractions&Ire - 2020-06-04
If you're keen for more details on the chemistry steps, my channel here is my second channel, where I have these related videos: Making the cobalt carbonato complex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWPdP2LyaLo&
Making copper and nickel carbonato complexes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr_7xtxJ_9c&
Officially ranking all the elements (stream): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIvJ9LA8Ib8&
Making nitrotetrazole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB-FAWOb590&
Sion - 2021-11-02
What happens if you mix the orange powder with the blue powder?
(or dissolve both & re-crystallize it, what do you get out? Boom? Also, what color?)
Tucker Thompson - 2021-11-27
@Explosions&Fire woof
M862 Msar - 2021-12-21
thioacitone
Kylen Monahan - 2021-12-29
Do a video on C3H5(NO3)3
Mark Holub - 2022-01-21
What about RDX?