Making Bromine so I can throw aluminum in it (crazy reaction)

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  • @chemdelic
    @chemdelic  Рік тому +5

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  • @LabCoatz_Science
    @LabCoatz_Science Рік тому +61

    Making bromine because you want to throw aluminum in it...probably the most METAL excuse I've heard for making this stuff! Great video man, as usual!

  • @cberge8
    @cberge8 Рік тому +60

    That shot at the end was absolutely beautiful.

  • @experimental_chemistry
    @experimental_chemistry Рік тому +52

    The contamination of the product with chlorine interhalogen is not insignificant. This makes it unusable for synthesis purposes.
    A much cleaner and also efficient method is to use persulfate as an oxidizer, as I have shown on my channel.
    You just have to make sure that you use fresh persulfate that has not been stored for a long time and is therefore not yet partially decomposed.
    Instead of sulfuric acid, the ground glass joints can also be greased with less dangerous (but unfortunately expensive) silicone-free high-temperature grease based on Teflon.
    Drying bromine with sulfuric acid is less dangerous if the mixture is stirred magnetically instead of shaking, and the bromine is then separated.
    Since many hobby chemists are no longer allowed to use concentrated sulfuric acid, I wonder whether the bromine can also be dried with anhydrous calcium chloride or sodium sulfate. The hydrate should float on the bromine and therefore be quite easy to fish or filter off.
    Bromine is very easy to ampoule and can be stored relatively safely, especially if the sealed ampoules are also in an unbreakable protective container with cushioning material and concentrated thiosulfate solution.
    However, I would also advise against storing it in private living spaces or in larger quantities (more than 10 ml), as this could easily lead to an expensive rescue operation by the fire brigade's special chemical accident unit.
    Melt ampoules are cent items and can easily be obtained from well-known East Asian sales outlets.
    Neutralizing the unused bromine was definitely a waste.
    If you know that you only need a little, you can scale down the educt batch accordingly.
    Small amounts of excess bromine can be dissolved in water. Bromine water is a useful reagent that can be stored in dark bottles with Teflon-lined screw caps for up to a year when stored in a cool, dark place and is significantly less dangerous than elemental bromine.
    To neutralize bromine splashes and to rinse the apparatus, you should actually have carbonate-alkaline thiosulfate or, better yet, sulfite solution ready. The addition of alkalis prevents the annoying precipitation of sulfur with thiosulfate and the release of sulfur dioxide with sulfite.

    • @Psychx_
      @Psychx_ Рік тому

      Potassium peroxysulfate (oxone) can be bought for very cheap in kg amounts as swimming pool chemical ("pool shocker"). I do approve.
      Question: Silicone based greases (i.e. Baysilone) would not be inert enough to withstand bromine, wouldn't they?

    • @experimental_chemistry
      @experimental_chemistry Рік тому +2

      ​​​​​​​@@Psychx_
      No, they won't. They have to be based on PTFE.
      Don't confuse oxone (peroxomonosulfate) with peroxodisulfate or simply persulfate, which I meant.
      Per(oxodi)sulfate isn't and never should be used for pools, because it's too aggressive and btw allergenic, too. It's available as an etching agent for circuit boards, quite cheap and above all still not banned. Unfortunately it's not stable on the long term and therefore has to be stored cool and dark a in containers with a pressure equilization velve.
      Peroxomonosulfate isn't well suited for a quantitative oxidation of bromide to bromine, because it's too weak for this purpose.

    • @Psychx_
      @Psychx_ Рік тому

      @@experimental_chemistry Thanks a lot for the clarification!

    • @experimental_chemistry
      @experimental_chemistry Рік тому

      @@Psychx_ No problem.

  • @nenben8759
    @nenben8759 Рік тому +16

    Remember:
    It's fun to cover your distillation apparatus in aluminum foil while distilling bromine.
    To help the bromine evaporate.
    By bursting into flames

  • @Chemiolis
    @Chemiolis Рік тому +9

    thanks dad now i can finally make bromine on my own

    • @chemdelic
      @chemdelic  Рік тому +6

      You’re welcome son🗿

  • @MIH0319
    @MIH0319 Рік тому +4

    I have seen a simple and safer apparatus for making bromine: A one-neck round bottom flask with the TCCA, HCl and NaBr, a pressure equalized dripping funnel placed on top of that, and a condenser placed on top of the funnel. The bromine vapor formed can travel up through the side-arm of the funnel, get condensed by the condenser, and drops in the funnel. After the reaction, simply remove the round bottom flask and directly drain the bromine in the funnel off to another flask, where it can be stored. This can minimize bromine transfer and therefore risk of breathing in its vapors.

  • @mtkoslowski
    @mtkoslowski Рік тому +16

    I love your approach to Chemistry as well as your ability to impart your knowledge.

  • @universeble243
    @universeble243 Рік тому +7

    I've always heard that bromine and aluminum react violently but I had never seen it before and Got damn that looked metal as hell. Banger vid

  • @Mix1mum
    @Mix1mum Рік тому +4

    So THATS how you cast Fireball!

  • @OceanBagel
    @OceanBagel Рік тому +5

    That is by far the coolest fire I've ever seen in my life!

  • @Auroral_Anomaly
    @Auroral_Anomaly Рік тому +4

    If you’re counting astatine, you should count tennessine because it is even heavier and is also too radioactive to get a large quantity of.

    • @guythat779
      @guythat779 Рік тому

      But you can naturally find bigger quantities of astatine, kinda pointless to mine tho

    • @Auroral_Anomaly
      @Auroral_Anomaly Рік тому

      @@guythat779 Bigger quantities, by this you mean a few grams in the whole earth.

    • @guythat779
      @guythat779 Рік тому +1

      @Hydrolysisisfun googled real quick and yeah youre right, actually even less than a gram at any given point. But it's still more special since it's naturally occuring, tennesine is completely synthetic and if we count synthetic atoms we cant restrict ourselves only to the ones we made in a lab because the only difference between the halogen we made and the next one is just our knowledge of them meaing the heaviest halogen is unknown

  • @Nuovoswiss
    @Nuovoswiss Рік тому +1

    The route I've heard before is basically the same method of using sulfuric acid and salt to generate HCl gas, but apparently with NaBr instead it makes some elemental bromine, which is easy to separate from any HBr produced. If you need HBr gas for something, it would be neat to see how much bromine is produced by that route.

  • @chir0pter
    @chir0pter Рік тому +3

    that was a very aesthetic redox reaction

  • @nuniyoa
    @nuniyoa Рік тому +4

    that chemical reaction is absolutely evil looking

  • @pogrammer
    @pogrammer Рік тому

    That reaction between aluminum and bromine looked like actual depictions of hell.

  • @m.i.c.h.o
    @m.i.c.h.o Рік тому +1

    That is easily one of the most beautiful reactions I've ever seen. Love this channel, keep it up!

  • @chir0pter
    @chir0pter Рік тому

    1:10 could probably also use a perfluoroalkyl or PFPE grease no?

  • @pallasproserpina4118
    @pallasproserpina4118 Рік тому +1

    8:35 have you ever wanted fireworks that ALSO bleed?

    • @Pimpyourpooch
      @Pimpyourpooch 4 місяці тому

      😂😂😂😂😂 very dramatic indeed !

  • @tedfeats1719
    @tedfeats1719 Рік тому

    Hi. Could you please recreate the procedure to oxidize ethers to esters with tcca

  • @EnUsUserScreenname
    @EnUsUserScreenname Рік тому +1

    Bromine seller, I'm going into battle, I need your strongest bromines!

  • @simplydarkhalf3974
    @simplydarkhalf3974 Рік тому

    Cool new intro ❤

  • @barbarabrkovich1988
    @barbarabrkovich1988 Рік тому +1

    This makes me want to get into some shenanigans at the lab

    • @chemdelic
      @chemdelic  Рік тому

      Silly goose activities👀

  • @bruh---___---
    @bruh---___--- Рік тому

    It's scary but beautiful at the same time.

  • @MenkoDany
    @MenkoDany Рік тому

    Where'd you get that Bro? At the Bromine?

  • @Kargoneth
    @Kargoneth 9 місяців тому

    Pretty distillation of your vanquished foe's blood.
    The reaction with the aluminum was cool.

  • @simplydarkhalf3974
    @simplydarkhalf3974 Рік тому

    Nick Cannon with child support ☠️ A white boy chemist that watches wildin'out

  • @medul8039
    @medul8039 Рік тому

    thank you Chemdelic

  • @antonschollum3128
    @antonschollum3128 Рік тому

    Oh baby here we go! ps: nice EDP reference my bro

  • @TagetesAlkesta
    @TagetesAlkesta Рік тому +1

    Splash potion of harming

  • @DOCB-op1qc
    @DOCB-op1qc 8 місяців тому

    I've seen a few sources say this can be done with hydrogen peroxide & NaBr. Seems simpler. Is there something wrong with that?

  • @miinyoo
    @miinyoo 10 місяців тому

    Burning blood. I'll have to remember that for when a producer mentions he needs it for a shot. Surely making bromine on a film set would be safe, right? 🤣

  • @nunyabisnass1141
    @nunyabisnass1141 Рік тому

    Can you turn urea into ammonia using def fluid?

  • @theotherther1
    @theotherther1 Рік тому

    Throw aluminum in me, bro!

  • @Disc_11
    @Disc_11 Рік тому

    8:40 Looked like a sneak-peak into the depths of hell lmao

  • @theEVILone0130
    @theEVILone0130 Рік тому

    Damn it man now I want some bromine and aluminum foil. I'm not going to mess with it because I don't know what I'm doing and I sure as hell wouldn't start with bromine

  • @Swooskii
    @Swooskii Рік тому

    Stellar video as always :)

  • @barbarabrkovich1988
    @barbarabrkovich1988 Рік тому

    Does bromine have to be stored in a dark container?

    • @chemdelic
      @chemdelic  Рік тому

      An ampoule is generally used as bromine leaks out of everything

    • @experimental_chemistry
      @experimental_chemistry Рік тому +1

      If you are able to order elemental bromine, you'll get it delivered in special capped brown glass bottles. Completely dry bromine cannot react with itself, so it would be possible to store it in transparent bottles, too.
      But as long as there are traces of moisture, it will react with the water and releases HBr gas on decomposition under the influence of light over the time, so that unwanted pressure might be built up inside the bottle. That's why bromine water definitely has to be stored in dark bottles and cool places und elemental bromine has to be dried before sealing it into ampoules.

  • @joshuacampbell17
    @joshuacampbell17 Рік тому

    do i smell a video on a particular Shulgin compound coming soon 👀

  • @GREATLORDPOOH
    @GREATLORDPOOH Рік тому

    That was the most beautiful thing sense Annie killed all this jedi brats

  • @corbechupacabra
    @corbechupacabra Рік тому

    that reaction was EPIC!

  • @alansoriano3533
    @alansoriano3533 Рік тому

    Nice bro🎉

  • @elpolar55
    @elpolar55 Рік тому

    why the blue color in the fire at the end?

    • @nuniyoa
      @nuniyoa Рік тому

      maybe heat?

    • @guythat779
      @guythat779 Рік тому

      Great question, i think it's alumimum burning white but appearing slightly blueish on camera

  • @squishyghost1234
    @squishyghost1234 Рік тому

    I showed my class your videos and the students said it felt cringy every time you try to be wittily funny with the awkward dry jokes. I sadly had to agree with them. 😅
    Your channel is still cool. I told them to subscribe to you and other chemtubers. 😅 (Chemtubers 😅 I found out that is what gen-z call chemist youtubers. How creative! )

    • @chemdelic
      @chemdelic  Рік тому +1

      Even if you don’t find my jokes funny, I still appreciate the support 🙏

  • @jayerjavec
    @jayerjavec Рік тому

    Bromine.
    It's faaaantastic!

  • @keisisqrl
    @keisisqrl Рік тому

    Ah, you’ve made *hell*

  • @takeohtyme
    @takeohtyme Рік тому

    Bromine?
    Yeah, bro mean.

  • @altkev
    @altkev Рік тому

    Was this produced/filmed by the same people who did GOT Season 8?

  • @TheSeriez1977
    @TheSeriez1977 Рік тому

    Liquid firecracker

  • @samsthemank
    @samsthemank Рік тому

    New mic?

    • @chemdelic
      @chemdelic  Рік тому

      No but I need one bad😂

    • @samsthemank
      @samsthemank Рік тому

      @@chemdelic Oh, haha. It sounded different (in a good way) so I assumed there was an upgrade. Hopefully soon!

  • @Sniperboy5551
    @Sniperboy5551 Рік тому

    I see “gone sexual,” I click!

    • @chemdelic
      @chemdelic  Рік тому

      Had to change the title cause I got ad suitability issues 😂

  • @heat_wave5774
    @heat_wave5774 Рік тому

    Is the video up on OF yet?😝

  • @TheBackyardChemist
    @TheBackyardChemist Рік тому

    I accidentally 5 grams of bromine.
    What should i do,

  • @tjcaruthers5593
    @tjcaruthers5593 Рік тому

    Ok so bromine and aluminum don't mix got it.....unless you want to see an energetic reaction.

  • @VeganerPaul
    @VeganerPaul Рік тому +1

    It's so sad that you just destroyed again after making it

    • @chemdelic
      @chemdelic  Рік тому

      I couldn’t store it unfortunately. Thought I would use more at the time but never did. Should have lowered the amount I made.

  • @reptilianbrother5618
    @reptilianbrother5618 Рік тому

    Dayum

  • @mtfcadet7569
    @mtfcadet7569 Рік тому

    Bromine moment

  • @jc5445
    @jc5445 Рік тому

    Fire's cool.

  • @ACME_Kinetics
    @ACME_Kinetics Рік тому

    You sound uncannily like Anthony Jeselnik

  • @Turamulli
    @Turamulli Рік тому

    comment for the algo

  • @zaksrdanovich9649
    @zaksrdanovich9649 Рік тому

    How to create hellfire.

  • @gefagnis
    @gefagnis Рік тому

    im boutta brom

  • @brandonmcevoy-g4n
    @brandonmcevoy-g4n 8 місяців тому

    now do Dibromoethane

  • @alch3myau
    @alch3myau Рік тому

    .. Eh.

  • @elpolar55
    @elpolar55 Рік тому

    second I guess

  • @LilCletus
    @LilCletus Рік тому

    Please stop with the text to speech.

  • @xTheDeerLordx
    @xTheDeerLordx Рік тому

    Holy cringe

    • @chemdelic
      @chemdelic  Рік тому

      That’s what the channel is!

  • @sistersplitter
    @sistersplitter Рік тому

    Why are you bald

  • @MyStupified
    @MyStupified Рік тому +1

    first

    • @frogz
      @frogz Рік тому +1

      YOU WIN.....nothing at all

    • @frogz
      @frogz Рік тому +1

      nothing at all....nothing at all....nothing at all....nothing at all....

  • @dumboyeeter4448
    @dumboyeeter4448 Рік тому

    Most beutiful halogwn is iyodyne