Alternately, some machinist cutting fluids contain phosphorus (or sulfur or chlorine). Not sure in what quantities though. Anyway, IIRC, elemental phosphorus can go up like that.
@@kevinjones5001 It's possible, but I think it's less likely because if there was significant cutting fluid he probably would have washed it off and phosphorous would either boil off or react to form metal phosphides at the temperatures in this reaction that said metal phosphides react with water/humidity to make phosphine which is pyrophoric but it would look like a gas burning not a sparklery solid burning. So it is possible but it didn't really look like phosphorous or phosphine burning.
@@AdvancedTinkeringMagnesium and the likes reliably self ignites under certain particles size without the oxide protective layer, it was under 0.3 nanometers for magnesium, if I remember correctly? Alternatively, could it have been a magnesium hydride forming - the conditions seen favourable for something that likes to screw up alloys when encountering significant stresses or appear due to impurities in milling media in high pressure operations.
Interestingly enough i also encountered a pyrophoric substance when i did a similar potassium thermite reaction (mine was KOH +Mg), spontaneously exploded in my handed. i don't know what it is either but its reproducible if you're getting it too. some sort of magnesium potassium alloy? idk.
Very interesting. Another comment suggested that KC8 might have formed in our case. I never tested the pyrophoric properties of KC8 so I can't say if it would behave the same way. But the fact that you made a similar experience using KOH seems to indicate it is not an intercalation compound of potassium and graphite but something else.
@@AdvancedTinkering The sparks look a lot like the ones you get from ferrocerium in a lighter or what you get from a sparkler (Wunderkerze). Might really be the rare earth another commentor suggested? Or was it maybe contaminated with iron, as the sparks were also not bright white i. e. not magnesium? I haven't used KC8 so far, but it doesn't seem like organometallics throw such sparks. BuLi and AlMe3 look totally different when they burn. 🤔
I remember reading a long time ago that an explosive, possibly potassium hexacarbonyl benzene, can be created; although that was related to distilling K2CO3 with C, not Mg. Most common alloys are Al, Zn, Si, etc., nothing wild; there are some that use REs, up to a few %, but they would likely react as well, or at least, probably not condense on the lid? KC8 sounds promising though.
@@AdvancedTinkeringThey look insane. If only one could encapsulate them to stabilize them enough to make them a viable decorative item- possibly impossible with glass due to their fragility and heat sensitivity, but what about using resin vapor deposition method to cover them just thinly enough to keep from breaking apart at slightest touch?
That is by far the most potassium I have seen in any one place☠ , the beautiful purple hue is also super visible whilst pouring the ingot under mineral oil.
Very nice! A little dangerous, but still very nice! Taking a look at the magnesium crystals under the lid of the still, they look remarkably similar to the magnesium crystals that I keep/sell. In my opinion, they look like pure magnesium crystals. If they are an alloy, there shouldn't be much potassium in them. I would take some of them and test them with water and steam. Pure magnesium shouldn't react with room temperature water, but it should with steam or boiling water.
i know im being that one guy but PLEASE wear your ppe more, you really do need it here. getting burning alkali metals on your skin is horrifically painful, and even a little bit can cause a lot of damage. love the video tho! cant wait to see more
It's so fucking cheap, and it can and will make SO much difference even if you only wear some minimal PPE, but there is literally no reason not to do it. They make the joke about bold old chemist's, but it's not just a joke, it's absolutely the truth.
@@AdvancedTinkering That's exactly what I'm doing in my laboratory. You are going to have so much fun with it. Especially tossing about an ounce of the liquid into water.
Suggestion for sealing the distillation receiver: 1: Don't use a glass receiver. 2: Failing #1, you can use a PTFE o-ring instead of a viton one. You aren't dealing with nearly as high of a vacuum that you would get with a normal KF seal, so PTFE should be just fine.
Awesome video, well worth the wait. Clear a huge amount of work went into this behind the scenes. Just because .... I calculated the energetics (very rough, just Hess's law on the literature heat of formation data) K2CO3 + 3 Mg --> 2K + 3 MgO + C DH = - 655 kJ per mole carbonate, or 3.1 kJ/g of reaction mixture (1330 BTU/lb, if that's the appropriate translation to banana units 🙂) That's ... a lot. For comparison, the standard aluminium + iron oxide thermite mix releases just under 4 kJ/g, and that outputs molten iron, so over 1540 C, and this is a bit over 3/4 of the energy density. Without the cooling bath, it would go well over 1000 C, maybe close to 1200 (somewhere around 2000 F). The exotherm is so large, I wondered if 3 equivalents of Mg was overkill, and it is, *in theory* The reaction K2CO3 + 2 Mg --> 2K + 2 MgO + CO is still exothermic, DH = - 163 kJ/mol That is only 1/4 the energy output of the reaction they used here, but still plenty by most standards. Is it possible that some parts of the charge are a bit short of magnesium? If so this reaction might happen a bit. That would make the gas you see later carbon monoxide. At least worth checking that it isn't, even though you are working outside.
if the weather conditions are correct, you could have humidity condensing, setting off trace amounts of potassium, rather than a new substance that's ignited by air. this could be a substance like carbon, or a texture with nucleation sites for humidity to condense.
Gotta check back in on the grass in that field a few weeks later, metals in soil can have very interesting effects on plant life and i'd be curious to see how the field's ecology handled it
@@tomboyzelda5078it's a euphemism for a chemical needed for this experiment. Giving all ingredients on UA-cam for such a "reactive" compound is a no-no, likely ending in op being banned or suspended from the platform, which hurts viewership and the money stream. People could attempt the same at home and have horrendous consequences , possibly leading to legal action. Sponsorship gets withdrawn or suspended, just not a good thing to do all around. Thus "unicorn tears"are substituted for the actual substance. Mainly because everyone knows unicorns do not cry. They're just too damned happy all the time. Unicorns.....bastards.
@tomboyzelda5078 They just substituted a practically impossible to find imaginary substance for the _actual_ powdery purple chemical that was used. Probably for legal reasons. Most chemistry nerds recognized the stuff immediately. Fun fact: it stains porcelain pretty horribly. But you can remove the stain with some sodium metabisulphate.
Man seeing from when you guys started distilling alkali metals, at least on youtube, you can definitely see the progress youve made and all that potassium is absolutely crazy! Totally awesome video yall!
Pleeaaase make my day by making a low pressure potassium vapor lamp. It would make me really really happy if you tried that, just as proof of concept as I don’t have any capability to even try to make one.
I won't come at you because you're right, TIG is superior. Just more expensive and more difficult. But was that 5 hours welding experience a joke? I mean, those welds are FAR from great, but if you're actually just a beginner then well done. Just be sure to wear a respirator while welding stainless from now on. As a chemist, you should know the danger of hexavalent chromium. Just because there isn't much visible smoke and fume doesn't mean you aren't being exposed.
Yes, I'm a complete beginner. I would guess my total welding time is about 5 hours. That's why I thought it's funny to claim that TIG welding is the best type of welding. But I'm aware all methods have pros and cons. I mean there is a reason pipelines are not welded with TIG. Thanks for the safety advice! I will wear a respirator next time.
This is an amazing video! I love the casual way you handle the chemicals. Reminds me of days of old where chemists were bold. Kudos for a wonderful display.
Das mit den Kristallen ist eine super Idee! Wie cool ist das Video geworden!! Man macht fast alle Emotionen durch mit diesem Video aber am meisten bringt es zum Lachen ❤ Das war ein super, auch wieder lehrreiches, Video, eine tolle Teamarbeit und dann hattet ihr noch Spaß dabei, was sehr ansteckend war. Ihr kamt auch auf tolle, teils kreative Lösungen für jeweilige Hindernisse. 🎉🎉🎉
I love your chemistry! Can you fabricate a safety shield in the shape of half of an arc? Perhaps use curved plexiglass, or another reaction safe material, with a handle bolted onto the inside. Just a tinkerer's idea. Keep up the great work!
Use a cheap 24v diaphram pressure switch for a high efficiency gas furnace. You can get them down to 0.05" w.c. (fuck all in metric) put it on your bubbler. So when it starts to pull a vacuum the pressure switch sees it, and opens argon solenoid.
I think the spontaneously exploding compound is magnesium carbide formed from the oil covered magnesium. magnesium carbide can react with moisture in the air making acetylene gas, and this reaction can be exothermic enough to burn the acetylene formed.
you could add a water(mineral oil, for safety) "jacket" around the o-ring and steel flange (perhaps the entire condenser), then the water will absorb the large temperature spike whilst also holding the temperature over 60c to prevent clogs
Perhaps the pyrophoric reaction could have been caused by finely dispersed potassium on the surface of magnesium crystals? If you have a very large surface of potassium its likely it will ignite in air
Steam jacket for the distillation spout? Heats the spout up, but with wet steam and condensate in the jacket, its harder to spike very far above 100C? Or just an open water bath, and direct a bit of the furnace exhaust towards it so it maintains a boil.
A bleed amount of argon could be fed into the still at approximately the same rate as the off gassing that was you can still tell when the off gassing has stopped but aren’t instantly into explosive distillation territory
Would it be possible to see a delayed underwater reaction with the nuggets dipped in some water soluble coating? May be interesting to film the underwater reaction, fire and gas bubbles..
On the topic of alkali metals, I think it would be a very interesting challenge to produce an ampoule of high purity lithium metal, seeing as conventional distillation methods probably wouldn’t work
Nice Roman candle , and as if making Potassium on kilo scale wasn't good enough , those Magnesium crystals are magnificent just by themselves . Very impressive .
second comment so its good for you statistics :P yes, those magnesium dendrites look absolutely stunning! they look similar to what usually takes months to achieve electrolytically with other metals! BTW, its interresting to see you go from "stock up your arsch" to more like elias with every video! also the second slowmo 18:30 really caught me off guard xD! i enjoy every video you upload more and more! please keep going and devolving into marco reps type humor!
I think that the second reaction produced an alagam mixture of potassium and magnesium similar to the old mixture of silver and mercury that was used in teeth fillings, but your potassium magnesium alagam is sensitive to the moisture in the air causing it to spontaneously combust!
You've very quickly become the Electroboom of chemistry. Well done. I'd say "stay safe out there" but wouldn't expect (or want) you to listen. I look forward to seeing your future videos in my feed. 🙂
That's a gpod guess! I never tested the pyrophoric properties of KCn so I'm not sure it behaves the same way. And NurdRage also witnessed a pyrophoric compound after making potassium with KOH. Which means there is no carbon present. But it is something worth looking into!
Bitte geh mit dem Block ins nächstgelegene Freibad und wirfs vom 5-Meter Sprungturm :D Immer wieder faszinierend was auf deutschen Terrassen hinter Büschen alles so erzeugt wird :) und was ich echt noch lustig finde ist, wieviele Leute in den Kommentaren auf Überschlau machen aber keine Ahnung haben was du mit Einhorntränen meinst xD
It amazes me how quickly it reacts with the water. I think they need to figure out how this occurs because I believe it will lead to a major breakthrough in propulsion technology.
Very nice! I think you could get together with an engineer to design an apparatus that you won't need to assemble and disassemble or expose your extremities to its holes.
A NaK/water rocket he says... right after making metallic potassium by the pound... The interesting part about all of this is the exhaust stream is destined to ultimately become the original reagent as the KOH scrubs CO2 from the air. Would seem you could do the exact same thing with sodium as well... or I'm guessing you already have... or will... 🤣 Interesting project man. The alkalis are fascinating elements.
The drill auger screw thing is possibly my favourite part if the contraption And the craziest thing: I thought of that EXACT thing just a few days ago before having watched this video, and it took me very long to think of it I'll use it for wood chip feeding and a bigger drill though Coincidence?
Yay Potassium thermite!
It's a way to make uranium metal right ?
......... hear me out, Cesium Thermite next!
When Nurdrage comments on a video it has my full attention
Hi nurdrage!
@@Enjoymentboy Hes in the video too!
I had a great time doing this project with you, I hope we can do a lot more stuff like that in the future. ;-)
You are always such a great addition to this channel!
Same! I'm sure this won't be our last project together ;)
Really nice finally seeing the finished video, also had a great time experimenting with you, let me know when you need more turning done
Mach mal ganz auf deusch
This is why you never leave your Germans at home unsupervised
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Reden wir hier von Kalium?
maybe the magnesium was an alloy called "Elektron" it contains zinc and some rare earths that could cause the pyrophoric effect you experienced.
Interesting. I've never heard of it. But I will look it up.
@@AdvancedTinkering Does it match what you saw?
Alternately, some machinist cutting fluids contain phosphorus (or sulfur or chlorine). Not sure in what quantities though. Anyway, IIRC, elemental phosphorus can go up like that.
@@kevinjones5001 It's possible, but I think it's less likely because if there was significant cutting fluid he probably would have washed it off and phosphorous would either boil off or react to form metal phosphides at the temperatures in this reaction that said metal phosphides react with water/humidity to make phosphine which is pyrophoric but it would look like a gas burning not a sparklery solid burning. So it is possible but it didn't really look like phosphorous or phosphine burning.
@@AdvancedTinkeringMagnesium and the likes reliably self ignites under certain particles size without the oxide protective layer, it was under 0.3 nanometers for magnesium, if I remember correctly?
Alternatively, could it have been a magnesium hydride forming - the conditions seen favourable for something that likes to screw up alloys when encountering significant stresses or appear due to impurities in milling media in high pressure operations.
Yes, those Magnesium crystals are fascinating and beautiful.
2:39 you know things are getting real when you use the cardboard box funnel 😂
Interestingly enough i also encountered a pyrophoric substance when i did a similar potassium thermite reaction (mine was KOH +Mg), spontaneously exploded in my handed. i don't know what it is either but its reproducible if you're getting it too. some sort of magnesium potassium alloy? idk.
Very interesting. Another comment suggested that KC8 might have formed in our case. I never tested the pyrophoric properties of KC8 so I can't say if it would behave the same way.
But the fact that you made a similar experience using KOH seems to indicate it is not an intercalation compound of potassium and graphite but something else.
That's pretty cool, I might have to look into that a bit
@@AdvancedTinkering The sparks look a lot like the ones you get from ferrocerium in a lighter or what you get from a sparkler (Wunderkerze). Might really be the rare earth another commentor suggested? Or was it maybe contaminated with iron, as the sparks were also not bright white i. e. not magnesium? I haven't used KC8 so far, but it doesn't seem like organometallics throw such sparks. BuLi and AlMe3 look totally different when they burn. 🤔
I remember reading a long time ago that an explosive, possibly potassium hexacarbonyl benzene, can be created; although that was related to distilling K2CO3 with C, not Mg. Most common alloys are Al, Zn, Si, etc., nothing wild; there are some that use REs, up to a few %, but they would likely react as well, or at least, probably not condense on the lid? KC8 sounds promising though.
Same here. I assumed it to be K reacting with atmospheric water vapor??
+1 vote for an apparatus to make various metal crystals. Final products should look good!
I will try to make it work!
@@AdvancedTinkering Cool, can't wait. Bismuth crystals have been done all over YT, but the oxide layers make for great colours.
Also useful for other stuff, I dont remember what though. Ohh yeah copper crystals are great for thermal epoxy.
@@AdvancedTinkeringThey look insane. If only one could encapsulate them to stabilize them enough to make them a viable decorative item- possibly impossible with glass due to their fragility and heat sensitivity, but what about using resin vapor deposition method to cover them just thinly enough to keep from breaking apart at slightest touch?
That is by far the most potassium I have seen in any one place☠ , the beautiful purple hue is also super visible whilst pouring the ingot under mineral oil.
And that’s how the first German reached the moon.
" what you just say was incredibly wreckless on our part " 💀
Very nice! A little dangerous, but still very nice! Taking a look at the magnesium crystals under the lid of the still, they look remarkably similar to the magnesium crystals that I keep/sell. In my opinion, they look like pure magnesium crystals. If they are an alloy, there shouldn't be much potassium in them. I would take some of them and test them with water and steam. Pure magnesium shouldn't react with room temperature water, but it should with steam or boiling water.
Potassium graphite is pyrophoric. You have carbon and potassium :)
Potassium intercalated graphite - KC8
"Hmm. This picture is not correct"
K.
Posted to two different chs?
i know im being that one guy but PLEASE wear your ppe more, you really do need it here. getting burning alkali metals on your skin is horrifically painful, and even a little bit can cause a lot of damage. love the video tho! cant wait to see more
It's so fucking cheap, and it can and will make SO much difference even if you only wear some minimal PPE, but there is literally no reason not to do it. They make the joke about bold old chemist's, but it's not just a joke, it's absolutely the truth.
Great video! The system worked great, the yield was insane and the E&F reference was perfectly placed.
Thanks!
that is quite the brick!
whats next? potassium brick house?
lebkuchen haus from potassium metal??
No, a Sodium/Potassium alloy (NaK) rocket engine ;)
@@AdvancedTinkering That's exactly what I'm doing in my laboratory. You are going to have so much fun with it. Especially tossing about an ounce of the liquid into water.
@@AdvancedTinkering uhh niiice!
**peacefully testing the potassium maker**
NurdRage: umm so hey guys isn't that a thermite reaction
**blows up**
Pretty excited to hear the NurdRage cameo.
Suggestion for sealing the distillation receiver:
1: Don't use a glass receiver.
2: Failing #1, you can use a PTFE o-ring instead of a viton one. You aren't dealing with nearly as high of a vacuum that you would get with a normal KF seal, so PTFE should be just fine.
Awesome video, well worth the wait. Clear a huge amount of work went into this behind the scenes.
Just because .... I calculated the energetics (very rough, just Hess's law on the literature heat of formation data)
K2CO3 + 3 Mg --> 2K + 3 MgO + C DH = - 655 kJ per mole carbonate, or 3.1 kJ/g of reaction mixture (1330 BTU/lb, if that's the appropriate translation to banana units 🙂) That's ... a lot. For comparison, the standard aluminium + iron oxide thermite mix releases just under 4 kJ/g, and that outputs molten iron, so over 1540 C, and this is a bit over 3/4 of the energy density. Without the cooling bath, it would go well over 1000 C, maybe close to 1200 (somewhere around 2000 F).
The exotherm is so large, I wondered if 3 equivalents of Mg was overkill, and it is, *in theory*
The reaction
K2CO3 + 2 Mg --> 2K + 2 MgO + CO is still exothermic, DH = - 163 kJ/mol
That is only 1/4 the energy output of the reaction they used here, but still plenty by most standards.
Is it possible that some parts of the charge are a bit short of magnesium? If so this reaction might happen a bit. That would make the gas you see later carbon monoxide. At least worth checking that it isn't, even though you are working outside.
The thing about this video that surprised me the most is the fact that potassium metal is barely more dense than mineral oil.
if the weather conditions are correct, you could have humidity condensing, setting off trace amounts of potassium, rather than a new substance that's ignited by air.
this could be a substance like carbon, or a texture with nucleation sites for humidity to condense.
Gotta check back in on the grass in that field a few weeks later, metals in soil can have very interesting effects on plant life and i'd be curious to see how the field's ecology handled it
Isnt potassium used as fertilizer
@@themunchies123 Yes, it’s a component in many fertilizers. But not in a pure state. 😊
8:10 yeah blowout will go sideways, and as mr. Newton concluded, still will go in oposite direction sideways, so clamp it down good. Godspeed! :D
My exact thoughts when I saw that deflector trotted out .
Really depends on if the blowout is big enough, they probably assume any force is just absorbed by the still because of the weight difference
@@RaineyPeng sure, but burst at the begining of video when 4 kg of mass was trown pretty high up tells that it was quite energetic event :)
Nice @explosionsandfire cameo af 17:30 😂
"There are old chemists and there are bold chemists but there are no old and bold chemists".
😂
unicorn tears are super purple. who knew?
Yes. It's not a verz well known fact.
What do you mean by unicorn tears? Is it a euphemism for something? Stumbled onto your channel/video and I’m hella confused even after googling a bit
@@tomboyzelda5078it's a euphemism for a chemical needed for this experiment. Giving all ingredients on UA-cam for such a "reactive" compound is a no-no, likely ending in op being banned or suspended from the platform, which hurts viewership and the money stream. People could attempt the same at home and have horrendous consequences , possibly leading to legal action. Sponsorship gets withdrawn or suspended, just not a good thing to do all around. Thus "unicorn tears"are substituted for the actual substance. Mainly because everyone knows unicorns do not cry. They're just too damned happy all the time. Unicorns.....bastards.
@tomboyzelda5078
They just substituted a practically impossible to find imaginary substance for the _actual_ powdery purple chemical that was used. Probably for legal reasons. Most chemistry nerds recognized the stuff immediately.
Fun fact: it stains porcelain pretty horribly. But you can remove the stain with some sodium metabisulphate.
“Honey, where are my baking trays?”
I was not ready to hear NurdRage =)))
Those magnesium crystals were incredible! I suppose this is a supercharged version of physical vapor deposition.
17:17 the forbidden muffins :-x
Thanks for the recipe. Definetly gonna try it!
What reagents did you use to synthesize unicorn tears? It's for a school assignment.
Edit: you got nurdrage on the video? Amazing!
4:24 “i think we lost some potassium here” lmfao i love your sense of humpr
Man seeing from when you guys started distilling alkali metals, at least on youtube, you can definitely see the progress youve made and all that potassium is absolutely crazy! Totally awesome video yall!
Pleeaaase make my day by making a low pressure potassium vapor lamp. It would make me really really happy if you tried that, just as proof of concept as I don’t have any capability to even try to make one.
Sounds dope!
I won't come at you because you're right, TIG is superior.
Just more expensive and more difficult.
But was that 5 hours welding experience a joke?
I mean, those welds are FAR from great, but if you're actually just a beginner then well done.
Just be sure to wear a respirator while welding stainless from now on.
As a chemist, you should know the danger of hexavalent chromium.
Just because there isn't much visible smoke and fume doesn't mean you aren't being exposed.
Yes, I'm a complete beginner. I would guess my total welding time is about 5 hours. That's why I thought it's funny to claim that TIG welding is the best type of welding. But I'm aware all methods have pros and cons. I mean there is a reason pipelines are not welded with TIG.
Thanks for the safety advice! I will wear a respirator next time.
This is an amazing video! I love the casual way you handle the chemicals. Reminds me of days of old where chemists were bold. Kudos for a wonderful display.
You're the type of scientist that would have worked on the Rocketdyne Tripropellant rocket
Das mit den Kristallen ist eine super Idee!
Wie cool ist das Video geworden!! Man macht fast alle Emotionen durch mit diesem Video aber am meisten bringt es zum Lachen ❤
Das war ein super, auch wieder lehrreiches, Video, eine tolle Teamarbeit und dann hattet ihr noch Spaß dabei, was sehr ansteckend war.
Ihr kamt auch auf tolle, teils kreative Lösungen für jeweilige Hindernisse.
🎉🎉🎉
This is exactly why I always keep some: *_UNICORN TEARS_* on hand.
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Nice! Love how you give the bad example to learn from! Someone got to do it!
This is the kind of dodgyness I expect from Explosions and Fire, I love it, 10/10
I love your chemistry!
Can you fabricate a safety shield in the shape of half of an arc? Perhaps use curved plexiglass, or another reaction safe material, with a handle bolted onto the inside. Just a tinkerer's idea. Keep up the great work!
2:00 What about Friction Stir Welding?
Diese kurzen clips auf Deutsch sind einfach zu lustig 😂 Situationskomik würde ich das nennen
Great german accent, Great German Science, Great Success!!!
youve got a new sub
You know there's something called humidity that could be reacting with the magnesium criso
Use a cheap 24v diaphram pressure switch for a high efficiency gas furnace. You can get them down to 0.05" w.c. (fuck all in metric) put it on your bubbler. So when it starts to pull a vacuum the pressure switch sees it, and opens argon solenoid.
I think the spontaneously exploding compound is magnesium carbide formed from the oil covered magnesium. magnesium carbide can react with moisture in the air making acetylene gas, and this reaction can be exothermic enough to burn the acetylene formed.
Don't know if someone mentioned it here, you should team up with integza for the rocket part. Great video!
So this was posted to two different chs!
you could add a water(mineral oil, for safety) "jacket" around the o-ring and steel flange (perhaps the entire condenser), then the water will absorb the large temperature spike whilst also holding the temperature over 60c to prevent clogs
when i grow up i wanna be just like you and share my love for chemistry to the world.
Love the whole process, cool experiment. If you need a kind of PLC to control the still or the furnace or whatever let me know.
Can you do this with Na2CO3 to get sodium metal?
Should be possible, yes.
Perhaps the pyrophoric reaction could have been caused by finely dispersed potassium on the surface of magnesium crystals? If you have a very large surface of potassium its likely it will ignite in air
Amazing video. Noob question here; can the same process be used to generate sodium by substituting sodium carbonate?
I would like to try that eventually :D
In Elias's video I thought he said "There are no old and bald chemists" and I was like what??😆
I was hoping that you would throw the entire ingot into very big body of water
This is dangerous.....Guys be careful in the future ok?
Steam jacket for the distillation spout? Heats the spout up, but with wet steam and condensate in the jacket, its harder to spike very far above 100C? Or just an open water bath, and direct a bit of the furnace exhaust towards it so it maintains a boil.
Large scale reactor/distiller is working, now we demand a loaf-shaped cesium ingot
10 Loaf's !!!!
Finaly the video is out.
A bleed amount of argon could be fed into the still at approximately the same rate as the off gassing that was you can still tell when the off gassing has stopped but aren’t instantly into explosive distillation territory
Due to high temperatures and a presence of excess magnesium, a magnesium-potassium alloy could have formed.
Which could be highly reactive to air.
Would it be possible to see a delayed underwater reaction with the nuggets dipped in some water soluble coating? May be interesting to film the underwater reaction, fire and gas bubbles..
Cooles Projekt! Den Gasofen kann man bestimmt auch noch mit einem 2 Punkt Regler Temperatur kontrollieren, wie bei einer Heizung.
On the topic of alkali metals, I think it would be a very interesting challenge to produce an ampoule of high purity lithium metal, seeing as conventional distillation methods probably wouldn’t work
So viel Spaß! 1:01, deine Nachbarn war wahrscheinlich nicht zu froh. (So much fun! At 1:01, your neighbors probably weren't too happy.)
Nice Roman candle , and as if making Potassium on kilo scale wasn't good enough , those Magnesium crystals are magnificent just by themselves .
Very impressive .
11:30 Likely potassium intercalated carbon. Very very pyrophoric.
12:30 Looks like it will indeed blend!
Casually pouring a liter of molten potassium... Sounds fun
I like that it only took u 5 hours to arrive at your TIG welding is superior analysis
You make science look fun and exciting thankyou
Guys, I enjoy watching you so please keep the risks manageable. Oh, and have the neighbors complained yet? Just curious.
Very very cool. I just got done making a few pounds of sodium to produce some NaK.
Also yes, unicorn tears glycerin is very helpful.
second comment so its good for you statistics :P
yes, those magnesium dendrites look absolutely stunning! they look similar to what usually takes months to achieve electrolytically with other metals!
BTW, its interresting to see you go from "stock up your arsch" to more like elias with every video!
also the second slowmo 18:30 really caught me off guard xD!
i enjoy every video you upload more and more! please keep going and devolving into marco reps type humor!
I think that the second reaction produced an alagam mixture of potassium and magnesium similar to the old mixture of silver and mercury that was used in teeth fillings, but your potassium magnesium alagam is sensitive to the moisture in the air causing it to spontaneously combust!
you are quickly becoming one of my favorite mad scientist youtubers
You've very quickly become the Electroboom of chemistry. Well done. I'd say "stay safe out there" but wouldn't expect (or want) you to listen. I look forward to seeing your future videos in my feed. 🙂
I’d personally love to see you guys make another apparatus to make those crystals, they are stunningly beautiful!!!
yes to all crystal growing experiements. crystals are such a fascinating area of study.
Can that pyrophoric fireworks thing be KCn (intercalates) in any way?
That's a gpod guess! I never tested the pyrophoric properties of KCn so I'm not sure it behaves the same way. And NurdRage also witnessed a pyrophoric compound after making potassium with KOH. Which means there is no carbon present. But it is something worth looking into!
Wow never seen so much K in my life
Bitte geh mit dem Block ins nächstgelegene Freibad und wirfs vom 5-Meter Sprungturm :D Immer wieder faszinierend was auf deutschen Terrassen hinter Büschen alles so erzeugt wird :) und was ich echt noch lustig finde ist, wieviele Leute in den Kommentaren auf Überschlau machen aber keine Ahnung haben was du mit Einhorntränen meinst xD
The crystal growing idea would go down a storm in the mineral collectors market, I would certainly have a specimen.
How does it is in use in your blood . A necessary electrolyte?
damm those magnesium structures are pretty. exellent merch opportunity
I would love seeing a magnesium crystallizer
I will definitely try to make it work!
ES IST KEIN PFUSCH WENNS FUNKTIONIERT!!! Sehr cooles Projekt!
Danke!
...Waren seine letzten Worte.
A killo of potassium bought from ligma-balldrich would be 4000 dollars so you are balling
1:03 thanks for the information that what was happening was not a suitable method. Wouldn't have known otherwise
I love NurdRage cameo.
0:58 _what a flame_
It amazes me how quickly it reacts with the water. I think they need to figure out how this occurs because I believe it will lead to a major breakthrough in propulsion technology.
It is a coulomb explosion.
Very nice! I think you could get together with an engineer to design an apparatus that you won't need to assemble and disassemble or expose your extremities to its holes.
A NaK/water rocket he says... right after making metallic potassium by the pound...
The interesting part about all of this is the exhaust stream is destined to ultimately become the original reagent as the KOH scrubs CO2 from the air.
Would seem you could do the exact same thing with sodium as well... or I'm guessing you already have... or will... 🤣
Interesting project man. The alkalis are fascinating elements.
The drill auger screw thing is possibly my favourite part if the contraption
And the craziest thing: I thought of that EXACT thing just a few days ago before having watched this video, and it took me very long to think of it
I'll use it for wood chip feeding and a bigger drill though
Coincidence?
Very very cool. I appreciate all your time and effort.
The grown crystals look like a dendrite growth in the air. Super cool