I accidentally discovered lead sponge...
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- Опубліковано 26 січ 2018
- I never planned to cover this topic, because honestly I had no idea that it existed. It's really interesting what you can just stumble onto. In the future, I might revisit this and I might also try making other metal sponges.
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Nile talks about lab safety: • Chemistry is dangerous.
Music in credits (Walker by SORRYSINES): / walker - Наука та технологія
"Mommy, this rock candy tastes weird."
r/cursedcomments
Lol that made me laugh a lil
@@No-jz1jk r/beatmetoit
meth
@@quammelschroedinger780 yeah ❤
Squish it in a blimp mold and make a lead zeppelin.
please make this happen! :D
YEEESSSS!
Yes
Hahaha
Guys, this is how a DDT is made.
I don’t think the words “accidents” and “lead” should ever be in the same sentence.
Man I made lead healthy those damn accidents
“accidentally broke my pencil lead”
I accidentally ate lead...
...😵
@@prihaps i-
There were no accidents done with the lead
I love how many of his great discoveries are just him figuring out how to get rid of stuff
Some of the greatest discoveries of humanity have been finding practical uses for former waste products. Gasoline for example was originally a worthless waste product from making kerosene, considered to unstable to have any practical use.
I love how the majority of scientific discoveries are completely accidental.
Pretty much
I mean how else are we to discover something we have no idea about
It all starts with someone asking "why the heck not?"
Like potato chips
George Cowsert 12:32 AM
"I didn't have enough lead acetate"
Proceeds to pull out a seemingly infinite amount of lead from the solution.
Exactly!
It wasn't enough to grow long lead crystals like he intended, but it surely was enough to make lead sponge.
egg
@@superoriginalhandle
u'r not a seal!
bd
Honestly when you turned out the lights it looked so cinematic and I'm obsessed with it
You are obsessed with pretty weir things
@@cebollatron could be worse
@@cebollatron yeah this is a pretty tame, innocent and even wholesome thing to be obsessed with
Settle down.
Can I just say;
I love how Nile owns practically every machine on the surface of this earth-yet does not own a rubber spatula🙋♀️😂
he destroyed walmart using Nitroglycerin
Or a knife
Earth-yet
You can hear the slight posening in his voice
@@buteocks4020posening?
*Has subtitles on
"This daddy isn't something that I planned to do."
Oh my
Yea
Same i’ts, well... Quite interesting.
It’s not even on the auto generated captions. Someone, if not NileRed himself, typed that in
Check the descriptions, it shows who made them. Some drama happened like last month so trolls like this shouldn’t be common
Hmmm 🧐
Me: I'm going to bed early tonight
Me at midnight: L E A D S P O N G
Me at 2 am rn
Dr. Icepick i know ... it’s probably around 01:00 here already x) but I can’t stop !
Dr. Icepick Lol I saw this comment exactly at 00:00 EST
@@spectruum same my dude
It's 11:36 PM rn
This guys candor makes him quietly hilarious... he frequently says stuff like "my attempt was a complete failure" and "this is exactly what I feared would happen"... When so many others would be like "I meant to do that"...
7:14 look at the little piece of lead sponge that's jumping in the left corner of the container, he's so happy
Ahh yes, good old lead sponge, a favorite dessert of the Victorians.
That explains a LOT
hey - if it cures the clap, piles and flatulence I'm game to try it
I hear the taste was quite sweet.
a favorite among modern men if you’re not a coward
Sponge
If it was the 1920's, you could've sold that as a lozenge to cure consumption or gout or whatever.
mistercohaagen Market it as a "paleo" supplement.
Hysterics maybe
We've got people eating detergent... I'm positive one could sell this as a health supplement!!!
I take a poultice of lead, arsenic, and and radium for my rheumatism.
@@slappy8941 Does you wife prepare it for you?
I know it's not food... But... Hear me out....... Forbidden taffy-
:( that would taste horrible ):
It does look like moldy taffy-
*Tom reading newspaper*
This is why it's important to record your process. Even if you're making something already heavily documented, something you've done many times in the past.
Me: *My accidental discovery of the last french fry at the bottom of the paper bag*
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@@Gamer-uf1kl aco
Hahahaha😂👏🏻
it's like god is messing with us by opening up a portal inside our bag and gives us an extra lmao
@@pgre bell
Make a simple lead acid battery. Should work well with the lead foam
Compare with one made using lead sheets to see the effects of all the surface area!
Kevin Vermeer I love this idea! 😀
Yes! Science and power and stuff! If you do this, try to runs something on it, like a lamp! people love lamps!
I agree but I'd try a Zinc mesh to grow the Lead onto. and turn that into a simple battery
Yeah I think a simple lead acid battery should work! I'm just waiting to see it!
9:37 it’s terrible to see what smoking can do to your lungs
The reason in the difference between runs could be that the powered zinc kind of seeded the way the lead formed.
I hope you use sepparate toasters for your chemical experiments and your toast
Well, yeah. He'd be stupid to use the same one for both.
Paul van Gemmeren r/woooosh
Ok fuck off you didn’t even do it right you prick. Go back to reddit you fuckass
Why wouldn't you
@@gefagnis someone takes the internet to serious.
>Lab environment
>Carpet
Concerned
My lab is my bedroom and it’s carpeted lol
I also do "science" in my bedroom. ;)
WolfFrags yea “science”
finish your science in some klenx or paper towel, not on the carpet.
ChrisD4335 lmao
I personally think that your your attempt with the flashlight actually went pretty well and looked very cool maybe you could have used a better flashlight but what you had at the time actually turned out good just my opinion anyway thought I would say that
"but there was also some solid stuff"
Me: "Is that a fish!?"
These slime videos are getting really complicated
My exact thoughts
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beep beep lettuce
lol
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2:51 thats a whole aesthetic right there
le a c i d
Leadsthetic
@BlondHairedDominic l e c i d
@BlondHairedDominic l e a c i d
@@demonic6042 LMAO
nile: has every chemical under the sun
also nile: does not have plastic spatula
Closed captions begins with "This daddy isn't something that I planned to do".
I hope Daddy can love you regardless of your intentions
Even if they're not novel, it's fun making discoveries in the lab. You get so excited. It is a bummer that someone else found them first but I never get enough of finding new things even if they're only new to me.
the moment when you utter the words "Hmm...that's funny." You know you're about to discover something you may not have known before.
I agree. It feels like "Haha my brain is as intelligence as *[scientists name]"*
4:32 in the background very quietly you can hear someone saying something about research
Thank you, i thought i was hearing things
Pretty sure its the same thing he says a couple seconds later. must've been an audio error
@@newjerseyhater9237 ya i'm pretty sure about that because he said research a couple seconds later
Jack Kelso yeah I heard water too
@@newjerseyhater9237 confirmed
"it didnt make a cool effect" its 2021 and the light shining through that was amazing
That's what I thought, as a photographer that shit was amazing
Would be cool to see if you could form a mold or something to protect against radiation, I believe lead is used commonly. But this being mixed with water and lead, might block more radiation (but would need to keep hydrated) with a thinner layer.
“However, that all changed when”
The fire nation attacked?
r/AntsCanada
Lewis Ho I get it
@@lewisho8114 It's from Avatar
@@luck7302 or from AntsCanada
@@samanthaweber2195 nope
That’s a toaster you don’t want your bagels in.
Huh?
Are you trying out new catchphrases or something?
@@sophia0470 WHo knows
Who toasts bagels
I have a feeling there's a cultural misunderstanding here
I feel like half the reactions you do could be used so well in movie cinematic's
7:24 forbidden kinetic sand
The fact that you had the knowledge to intuitively cause an interesting reaction without knowing about it beforehand says a lot about your talent as a chemist. I'm seriously impressed.
This is either a joke or someone who doesn't fully understand how a good portion of scientific discoveries are made, a lot of discoveries are made by complete accident, say a failed experiment and then just trying to have some fun with it or similar.
@@the_undead You have truly mistaken what he and/or she is saying... It's either that; or you're purposefully misconstruing the words of this kind person.
@@the_undead Allow me to explain for someone who is purposefully *OR* non-purposefully ignorant.
EntropyOnline is speaking of Nile's reaction. He and/or she is speaking of how he (NileRed) could generate such "an interesting reaction"¹ in regards to Nile's limited or no knowledge on the component that was created. (Which then proves his prowess as a chemist)
If you're still confused on the "interesting reaction part"... it implies (from context) its somewhat fascinating his analysis can be close to the mark.
@@Galaxivist and allow me to explain to you how the mind of somebody with autism works. Somebody with autism will always take what they read at face value with The only exception being if it is eluding to a concept that they already understand so an inside joke for example. So unless it is an inside joke that they already get or something to that effect they will take what they read at face value especially if they have seen people who are that f****** idiotic in real life before, because I have seen people who would genuinely say something like that not as a joke or an exaggeration or whatever but because they genuinely believe that for concepts that are much MUCH easier to understand.
Having high functioning autism is simultaneously a blessing and a curse because you are easily going to be the most literal person in the room or in the discussion thread or wherever you currently are, and if what this particular group of humans is talking about is something that deeply interests you you are probably going to be the most knowledgeable person on that thing unless there's somebody who does that professionally and has been doing it for years now, and you are going to go into so much detail that unless it is a topic that interests them they are almost certainly going to be bored within 5 or 10 minutes. You also get smart asses on the internet who try and open your eyes to the obvious misunderstandings that you have a lot of the time who think they're being so helpful or are doing their best to piss you off when it's like yes I know I've tried to correct these flaws but I can't.
And I know I can't because I've tried and tried and tried and then I tried some more and then I gave up because spending months or even years doing basically the exact same thing with absolutely zero progress when you can't think of any better way to do what you're trying to do kind of just leads to you giving up and deciding you know what I'm going to go do something more productive than waste my time trying to fix a flaw that I don't even know how to fix when it's only a minor nuisance in the grand scheme of things
@@the_undead You're unbelievably cringe inducing. Stop leaving comments. You're ridiculous. You're a clown.
I really love that subtle darkness when the light was only from the flashlight. Better than the higher contrast attempt in my opinion.
I left some electroplating solution in a closet for too long (I think it may have been contaminated with zinc) and a very similar sponge can form with copper. The solution was originally a very high concentration copper acetate and water solution, and I think that some zinc dissolved into it over time. I found it recently and noticed a weird wiggly solid sitting at the bottom, and that’s when I remembered this video.
9:43 blob in the middle got cheeks
"When I squished it..." Is that a chemical term?! :D
@Dr. M. H. Physics? How?
@Dr. M. H. Um. Yea that makes more sense, i do more quantum mechanics rn so i kinda forgot normal physics Quantum mechanics are that different lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@Dr. M. H. Oh so im not supposed touse that term ok! Well i learn something new everyday!
@Dr. M. H. Ok thanks!
@Dr. M. H. Although u can use um yeah to denote confusion followed by agreement ur right and so are your parents, its better left with children and plus im in class 8 learning quantum mechanics! (Ive done the electrodynamics, integral calculus classical mechanics, differential equations etc using my maths teacher who also teaches physicd and ny fathers help) so does that include un "scientist" Im not so sure but is that sort of thing like hard or unique or something? Would like to know from u since u have more experience
"This video -"
My brain: "is sponsored by..."
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4:15 thats 5yr old me playing with mud lmao
I realize this is an older video, but still wondering what the thermal conductivity is. The stuff reminds me of aero-gel.
Also: get a strainer! 😄
"Put them all in my toaster to get rid of the water"
can't put it in the microwave
Should try making a battery. I think you'd be the first on youtube to make a lead acid battery out of lead sponge. Would be cool to see how it performs.
hm
Hm?
hm!
Hm.
hm…
1:44
6 year old me making potions in a hole in the backyard
One day he’s going to “accidentally” discover a new element
You were so close to the first PN junction commonly used in electronics:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_detector_(radio)#Whisker
I found it especially ironic you used the meter on the diode(PN juunction!) check function, which also reads out the bias voltage of the PN junction, without landing on the thought of it nearly being a diode. Galena (the crystal form of lead ore, often on a piece of quartz when found in nature) was typically used often with just an ordinary safety pin's point being used to make the PN junction.
Oneday you might also try messing around with germanium to make a germanium diode which can also be used to rectify AM out of the air. They're very effecient and take about half the voltage of a silicon diode. Come to think of it I don't think I've ever seen the voltage of a Lead diode ever posted anywhere on the net.
@@dacomputernerd4096 maybe i have to confirm tho but i can give u maybe 60% certainty?
Im not the best at chemidtry
nerd
@@theisthecool1105 ꒐꒯꒐ꄲ꓄
@@theisthecool1105 ur that one pootis guy who got shot once and killed the guy who shotted u right
Ha ha science stuf go brrr
0:01 subtitles on "This daddy isn't something that i planned to do," thx youtube
Lol
“it just ended up getting furrier and it never grew any crystals” me bruh
13:07 the little bubble moving around distracted me for so long
Do any of them float like pumice?
Do they absorb liquids or filter like activated charcoal?
Can they be molded and carved then dried and used for plastic casting?
Does the surface area make the lead react faster in reactions?
Can it be used in place of a more expensive catalyst in any reactions?
Using it as an electrode, does the increased number of nucleation sites allow it to split water more quickly or produce a higher yield of O2 and H2?
HOLY SHIT THIS MAN GOT THE QUESTIONS!
please someone upvote it!
Ill look into the floating question and the filtering.
It would definitely react faster than normal lead, but i dont think it can really replace any catalysts (I could be wrong though).
@NileRed in science, you'll never know what will happen next after a discovery ;)
I read “LEGO sponge” but I wasn’t disappointed
I accidentally turned the subtitles on and the first sentence made me rub my eyes with fists like a cartoon character
this could be used as an alarm switch since it is conductive and brittle, so placed on faults or places where friction movement is expected you could make cutoff switches/triggers
i thought lead wasn't conductive but af you add a conductive powder or something it may work as a one -time switch
I'm not sure though
i don't know
i don't know
i just don't know
Make the container much deeper ... several meters ... so the reaction is completed before bottom is reached.
Before the bottom, you could place a net of some sort, catching the sponge, so it can be lifted out without being squashed at all.
It would cost so much money
@@bastienpabiot3678 worth it
@@bastienpabiot3678
A net and a clear plastic tube cost a lot of money?
The comment above suggests a *container* that is a few *meters* deep...
@@antony9956 precisely
Extract the stuff that makes you cry from onions.
That's just onion juice it vaporizes very quickly so to extract it would require a vacuum with no suction so unless he's going to space I don't see that happening anytime soon. But I would love to be proven wrong go ahead nilered
It's just juice man
1st line of subtitles:
"This Daddy isnt something that I planned to do"
Love rewatching these videos!
What about electroplating it with something like nickel or aluminum, and melting out the lead to form a sort of metal aerogel?
There's a similar method for the production of Raney-nickel, an extremely active hydration catalyst. You form a Nickel/aluminium alloy and etch out the aluminium witch conc. NaOH, but you don't an "aerogel" like product, in fact it's quite dense.
My favorite drinking game is starting a Nile Red playlist and taking a shot every time he says "Well, anyway".
see you on the floor
The fact that you "my lead is making a clinky sound :)" camera also picked up just a little of what I can only assume is you rambling is adorable imo, tho it's gonna drive me a little batty that I can't figure out what you were saying
13:42 - I think it could be the concentration window in combination with fine crystals from the powder that stay in suspension and get dragged in between the granules (crystallization nuclei) + the amount of zinc granules added? Also "scratching" the surface of the granules could make some different effect.
You should send those to Cody's Lab asking him to guess what kind of a rock is it without checking your channel
It would be a great collab
Yeah, that's nice. Send a great guy a chunk of high surface area solid neurotoxin and tell him it's a random rock. Next we can send him some solvated mercury salts and tell him to try and figure out what sweetener is in it.
I wouldn't expect Cody to lick it as the first test but I get your point
You can get poisoned by lead without licking it... same way mercury can poison you.
No, you can't actually
Oh really? Okay then am idiot goodbye.
nobody:
him every episode: “yknow i could of put it in a waste bin and call it a day. but i wanted to do something interesting.”
*Being a scientist summed up in a single comment*
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ua-cam.com/video/4hG-g6X9fqI/v-deo.html Just an fyi
Nobody uses this format anymore
@@johnapple6646 This is a clear lie, because the person you replied to obviously just did
Wow lead sponge is something that i learnt today . Nile red is the only channel that suprise me (keep up the good work).
Video: *starts*
Subtitles: this daddy isnt something that i planned to do
I've had great success making silver sponge using the same process, it has some very interesting properties that I must show.
Dude! The scenes from @2:41 through @3:26 are beautiful! That could be a stock background video or video display in an art gallery.
You could test mixing gunpowder before the lead and im not really sure if that would even work but i feel very interested
Video: "This video isn't something that I planned to do"
Subtitles: "This *_daddy_* isn't something that I planned to do"
turning the lights off and using the flashlight looked really cool imo, its awesome to see white powder being dropped into clear liquid and turning black
It might be interesting to try getting some zinc wool (like steel wool, but zinc), and seeing what the structure is, the longer strands of zinc might add a good deal of strength.
Maybe the height of the container allowed the reaction to take place more thoroughly before depositing on the bottom. This could explain the difference in the small scale.
Making sponge of a catalyst would probably make it more efficient.
Not sure it's the best way to do it though.
Spongelead Zincpants.
that's fun, and congrats on the lab studio! I can't wait to see the progress time lapse vid. I'm happy for you!
I love when scientists get excited over new discoveries
"This video isn't something I planed to do"
UA-cam captions: "This daddy isn't something that I planned to do"
Make a Foam Lead Slug and send it to Taoflandermaus to shot it out from a 12ga shotgun. (It will probably just turn into lead powder and won't hit a thing.)
He's in Canada.
Doesn’t really make it illegal, Canada has alright gun laws
Canadian gun laws aren't bad, they're just poorly written by idiots who don't know better. Things like aks that already are "prohibited" b/c they are automatic also means that anything that looks like an AK, even if it is considered "non-restricted", are automatically illegal simply b/c they are considered a "variant". Basically, if it looks "scary", there's a good chance it's illegal here.
or Demolition Ranch
well theres a point to it , if you get a ak thats semi auto if you know enough you could probally just make it into a full auto and gangs could definitively have a network to import them from the us ready to be made full auto
Perhaps you could try to get a microscopic look at it, to see the structure? You could also try to experiment with adding certain materials to toughen the structure. For example, experimenting with pouring in certain powders, before the zinc dust, that the lead sponge can form around. You could experiment with crushing materials that don't react with lead or zinc into dust and pouring it in before the zinc dust. Or you could try putting larger things similar to ball bearings, to make the lead sponge form a lead sponge covered ball or crystal. You could also try putting everything in a mold instead, and (attempting, at least) to take it out and have it in different shapes. But that's all just me putting random ideas out there. =P
At 10:44 it sounds like seashells
The non-auto english captions as soon as the video starts:
"This daddy isn't something that I planned to do"
I think this would be a really fun thing to use for sculpting. Since it's clay-like, you could carefully shape something that would later look like a common rock with minerals on it
With lead, it’s not recommended
Bro will be sculpting his death 💀
fun
Uh, probably best NOT to leave chunks of lead all over...
bees
oh dude you created a harmless black hole at the beggining
When you very gently tapped the dried pieces together the sound reminded me of clinkers from when we would burn coal in the fireplace.
Those shots of the powder going in could be used in a movie. Looked cool.
3:33 *Leaked footage of Spongebob’s seizure*
That was awesome! The color change was also DEFINITELY ENHANCED with the flashlight, even w lights off, almost especially. Reminded me of clouds becoming thunderstorms. I absolutely love your channel man. Your videos are very knowledgable and if I don't have the materials to make my attempt or if I don't have the cohones, I still always love what I see. Keep up the good work man!
idk what you could use them for but they look like really cool fantasy mountain stock photos
OMG the subtitles - The first line says: "This daddy isn't something that planned to do"
You could make some slugs for Taofledermaus out of the densest and medium type to give him something interesting ^^
Otto Knabe that was my first thought.
Poof led powder it would be great for riots make the protesters down from lead poisoning lol
Make some of the sponge using zink powder but make a wire and mesh frame for the sponge to accumulate on and then carefully lift it out and wash it in an HCl bath and then cut it to size and make a lead acid battery cell, That would be an Awesome thing to see and I'm sure many of the viewers will like that to .Great work keeps up the good content Nile.
I imagine the first time someone thought of alchemy was when they somehow grew lead crystals, or something very similar.
the lead sponge before being taken out looks edible and i want to eat it
+NileRed Did you have to get any permits or anything for renting a commercial space as a lab? Or since you're a non-production hobbyist was that not an issue? What about storage and open flame or your gas supply? Sorry if I sound intrusive, just curious about the details
Just commenting because I'm curious as well
Same here
Yeah. Same
Allahu Akbar!
Shit wrong place
7:02 i thought you put your whole arm in there and got concern
HELP THE CC AT THE START "This daddy isn't something that I planned to do" is killing me 💀
Did you try slicing any into cross section?
I think a coin shaped sample would be really interesting.