Dug - 2023-12-15
Ep 6 RDX part 2
Love the vibe, channel's a hidden gem for sure
Yes, vibe is on point.
Had no idea Christian Bale moon lights as a chemist! Love it
you should have been a chemistry teacher, you're very amazing, I have chemists in my family, and they would be very proud that there are people out there like yourself still into this amazing combustible chemistry. thank you
I've missed you Dugan! Thanks for coming back <3
He uploaded less than a week ago calm down. Hes right tho good too see you uploading
@@thegold3538 this is the first video I've seen since his request for help, my bad dawg.
The literary brilliance of the intro is Shakespearean. It's poetry.
I thought it was beavis and butthead.
"It's just like Burger King, you just have it your way." Haha, good stuff.
Даг, ты лучший по энергетике на ютубу! Привет тебе из Москвы! Надеюсь посмотреть от тебя побольше химии,очень классно преподносишь материал!
its crazy to think about the factories the CRANKED out huge amounts of RDX during WWII. they had accidents too, and there are some good documentaries about the poor souls who got obliterated in factory accidents making warheads for the war effort. There is a decent pucker factor just making a small amount for research (or whatever reason) in the gram range. imagine making 20 pounds of RDX in a big vat, and then knowing you are going to cram it into a steel case later to make a gravity bomb to be dropped on Germany. 20 is just a guess, i imagine they made much larger batches at a time. its also interesting that such an old energetic is still being used right now. a lot of the munitions in Ukraine probably have RDX
There are huge environmental contamination problems around those factories that are still causing problems today unfortunately.
Been watching my notifications since the first part! Great to see you again, the energetics videos are awesome.
dank set of videos! you've done a better job teaching chem than my school teachers. thanks for the time you've spent on your vid.
The chuckle on the dump bucket for run away. The tune show visual of having too small a dump bucket ran thru my head too. Lol
I had all this info separately but he is my hero putting it all together like this in a convenient easy to understand package!
Long live the all knowing Dugan!
Oh no Dugan has enough subs to go live. …
Wow, accidentally stumbled across your semi new channel Dugan. Love the presentation of the videos, the explanation of equipment or reasons why to do it a certain way over another, it just really helps to someone with no chem background. Hope you're doing great man!
Been anxiously awaiting this one! Best cooking channel on YouTube.
so good to have you back dug. love ya man
Glad to have you back dugan!!! We missed you so much 😭
I'm watching with great interest. You look like a young Bradley Cooper)
Dugans out here doing gods work. I appreciate you, man.
Nice finaly the 2nd part! I hope this channel won't disappear like some other similar channels ...
like you said. the fact that all of this shit is going onn in the world is the reason learning energetics. knowledge is a weapon everybody is allowed to have
it was an extremely interesting presentation. I would even say as extreme as a "runaway situation" can be, from an intellectual point of view
of course hahaha! Your explanations were clear, precise and you raised points concerning reactivity linked to temperature which particularly appealed to me. You have a way of presenting the subject in such manner that was very stimulating ; you captivated my attention from start to finish.
Thank you very much for this good work, sincerely.
I love you Dugan, keep doing what you do man!
I love the fact you filmed a runaway. I've never seen one in person thankfully. But I can see how it could become deadly very quickly.
dude i must be stupid or something but i finally recognized you. glad to see youre getting by dugan. nothing but love brother. climb to glory
The risk of accumulation is way to important in your protocol due to the low addition temperature. Also there is no thermal sink that can help the synthesis get under control trough evaporation. You can adapt the procedure by having hexamine disolved in acetic acid and to add it to aceticanhydride, amonium nitrate, nitric acid and more acetic acid dropwise. Work at higher temperature in a three neck flask with a mechanical agitator, a condensor and a temperature probe. This way if you ever risk runing into a runaway, the acetic acid will boiloff , condense and keep the reaction at a safe temperature. In the industry some process are adding all reagent using flow metered pump and are performing the reaction in a jacketed pipe reactor at high flow rate.
Where in the hell are you gonna get acetic anhydride?
@@BearValleyPyro If you can't make AA you have no business making high explosives ;)
@@aterteeI have made RDX before by making HDN first. I tried this method and the yield was shit.
I am not as advanced as you, I just like messing around is all.
Yes! Finally, the YT algorithm gods approved me being recommended something like this. You would think all the KCLO3, C6H3N3O7, etc. Videos would have expedited this, but nope.
Awesome and very approachable video. Thank you sir.
😂 your choice of gentle classical music during nitration is exquisite.....does it calm the reaction down ?. Or have no influence on thermodynamics.?.. are you obsessed with triple bonded nitrogen you clever man. ❤
What if you used acetone dryice bath as the cooling element
Bro that is so fascinating. Great video
Hi Dugan, great video! One question I have is about quenching and washing with sodium carbonate / bicarbonate. In many reactions, one will not substitute for the other- the pH of bicarb solution is typically around 8.5, whereas carbonate solution is more like 12. Have you achieved the same results using either material?
Thanks for posting!
Yes that's true they are different. pKa of carb is around 10 and bicarb is about 6. The quenching should be done with water, which also acts to dilute acidity. The bicarb or carb wash is next. Either are beyond what is necessary at 5%. The actual K method uses 5% sodium carbonate wash only. Either or can be used.
Tried this but I made 2 mistakes.
1. I didn't wait for it to cool to 20C before quenching.
2. I poured it into the bicarb wash pail instead of the icewater pail.
There was a tiny amount of precipitate but not much I only did a 4 gram batch so I thought it might have worked.
I filtered and there was hardly anything in the coffee filter . . . After I squeezed the water out of the filter and scraped everything up there was an amount the size of half of a standard marble. It burned like it was supposed to, but the yield just wasn't there. Did I screw it up with the 2 mistakes?
First time also so didn't expect allot but also didn't expect nothing. 😂
Could be my HNO3 but it is still funing so IDK . . . I shall try again.
Now this one I did master before I turned 18. TNT not so much.
good job!
Watching the part 1 thought about seeing your eyes illuminated...
E posdivel eu nitrar o rdx com acido nitrico 70% com nitrato de amonia pra almentar a concentracao
How does a guy get started in amateur accelerants I find chemistry fascinating but don’t know where to start
Sciencemadness forums
Based on solubility, acetone accounts for the majority of chem costs for RDX, even for one recryst. cycle. Dissolve/crash seems prohibitive except as expedient for small experiments/demos. I wonder if repeatedly cycling solvent temp while alternately filtering crystals and (nearly) re-saturating solution using perhaps 100ml:60g acetone-RDX ratio (after 10-ish cycles) would not accomplish the lion’s share of the purification done in a 100ml:15g crash. Just a thought.
You can recover it by distillation if you really want but watch the temperature.
Thank you for part 2. Now i will go to work.
Lookin healthy buddy
Thanks! I lift and run? Maybe that holds me up. Last brain lesions took about 2 years recovery but Im pretty strong again now.
@@duganashley1337 It's insane you look like a new person. Everyone thought you were totally fucked before.
I got better for now@@lililililililili8667
how to plasticize the RDX?
That Intro could every much be out of a beavis and butthead episode. Anyways
The protocol is interesting, however, I can see quite a few security flaws. You should avoid using glass for the nitration and should use PTFE/Plastic
How low can you get the reaction temperature? Like could you use a dry ice ethanol bath instead of an ice bath?
You scare me with those nitrile gloves and wfna! I do the nitrile glove test as a party trick
You can spill quite a bit on them when wearing then wipe it off and the glove wont ignite.
Great video, totally fascinating to see the actual reaction.
Isn't anyone worried about idiots ending up hurting people with this info..?
I already wrote a rebuttal to this, but I guess youtube deleted it. This is the future of "free speech" I suppose. --Anyways. To repeat, The US government alone has negligently killed more civilians with their explosives accidentally, than all terrorist or civilian explosive incidents in US combined. It's like saying: "arent you worried if you show people how to safely use guns, that someone will commit murder or shoot themselves?"
Who should be afraid brother luke, point us to their whereabouts?
Good to see you're doing well\
I start with HDN. I have a dozen PDF files on this subject.
HDN is 2x lower heat of nitration, but direct hexamine is a magnitude faster to yield. But the k method uses hexamine. HDN can be substituted if weight is adjusted. But in RDX generally, HDN isn't necessary. I have found during keto rdx synthesis, HDN is almost mandatory because of the wild heat of reaction. I've had actual live runaways out of nowhere during K6 using hexamine. while RDX is fairly safe. @darianballard2074
@@duganashley1337 Fun stuff. I love to make PETN over just about any other compound like this. Have you ever tried doing melt cast with ETN? I've done ETN melt with RDX and also done it with PETN. Very powerful mix and no need for pressing. Good video by the way. 😁
Thank you. Ive watched all of your videos in the past and enjoy them as well. I appreciate PETN too. I prefer it over RDX. I absolutely love ETN. erythritol is $3-$4/lb. I haven't covered it yet because it is a dangerous topic if I don't really cover it well. So many people blow off their body parts and kill themselves with ETN. @@darianballard2074
HI brother
Can you give me a pdf on the topic of RDX please
@christopherleubner6633 - 2023-12-17
One very neat thing to do with RDX is to mix with a small amount of aluminum powder and graphite and bind it with a sparing amount silicone or another plastic such as PVC. This makes it moldable and very insensitive. However, using a small capacitor it can be easily detonated without needing a blasting cap. About 1kV at 5uF or so delivered by a high speed switch with about 1mm electrode spacing at the surface of the charge. Have a blast ❤
@duganashley1337 - 2023-12-17
Interesting, thanks! Will have to do a video on some various PBXs sometime.
@duganashley1337 - 2023-12-30
this channel is for people over 18 years old@@pazsion
@masonrockwood6280 - 2024-05-08
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@comrademonke5934 - 2024-05-17
are you sure that RDX can be detonated by electric shock instead of lead azide, I had done some research in the past and all of the answers said it's semi impossible, so idk.
@christopherleubner6633 - 2024-05-30
@@comrademonke5934yup the plasma and shockwave will detonate it reliably. What happenes is the aluminum and graphite conduct and form an arc. The pressure wave fron the arc plus the extreme heat detonate the RDX bulk material. The capacitor must be low ESR, wiring must be heavy and the switch must be fast.❤