I’ve hardly EVER seen that ridiculous of an amount of destruction from such a small amount of reagent. And the long delay is so sinister and dangerous, might lull you into a false sense of security and suddenly it detonates
@Milan Velky Nah it seems like a pretty useless binary. Both components are a pain, the delay is long enough that you can't mix it ahead of time but short enough that it probably doesn't work well at much larger scale than this. There's better stuff out there for... um, interested parties.
From 1970-1972, I, as an undergrad chem major, had a job in a spectroscopy lab. They studied boranes among other things. One of my jobs was to seal gaseous boranes in glass through... glass blowing. I din't like that particular task, since the stuff had a habit of exploding in my face. (I had face protection, but still...) It also stinks. The green flames still frighten me! That's why I got into computers!
Not to say that I would be any better at that job, but I would just be rolling around on the floor and laughing if something exploded in my face. That is my knee-jerk reaction to all dangerous situations
I really appreciate how you properly expose for the highlights in your slow motion. So many people allow the bright parts of reactions to get completely blown out to white. Only one or two of these out of 20 or so did. Cinematography is important, nicely done.
While my career as a chemist was spent focused mostly on making things NOT to explode, I greatly appreciate you doing so many of the things I never got to try, for a number of reasons. Primarily, blowing things up in a lab that isn't mine while on the clock is frowned upon in industrial chemistry settings. Beautiful video work.
I suppose there are those Energetic Materials Chemists whose (admittedly exciting and interesting) job role is to design novel compounds and compositions that go 'bang' for military and civillian applications alike (DSTL is one such example). And there's the academics and lecturers such as Andrew Szydlo, Chris Bishop and Peter Wothers, who perform chemistry demos (including demos of 'energetic' chemical reactions) in front of a public audience, with the hope of inspiring new generations of scientists.
I have the wonderful “The Chemical Elements and Their Compounds” by Sidgewick it has a section on perchloric esters where they wore iron masks to protect themselves.
Absolutely incredible, and a little awe inspiring to be honest. The slo mo and cinematography in general is so good and the reactions were beautiful to watch.
If you just want to make green flames, mix boric acid with a bunch of methanol, add some drops of acid and set it on fire. Unless you're in the EU, then you're screwed because boric acid is too toxic for mouthbreathers like us.
It is a very rare occasion when I actually like the music added to a UA-cam video. This is one of those rare occasions. What music are you using? Btw the music really enhances the already excellent videos!
@@NebulonRanger Yeah, but boranes can and will be very useful in about 400 years, we our planet has run out of gas, oil, coal and uranium. The (useful) electrical (!) energy content of 10 grams B₁₀H₁₄ corresponds to about 100'000 litres of Diesel fuel (Read my post above). The only waste is ordinary helium gas. Mr. Jamal Kashoggi was poised to inform the world about these things in the New York Times - but he didn't survive his attempt.
I’m so glad I wasn’t able to get ahold of these chemicals when I was a teenager. I did enough damage with black powder and flash powder. I almost lost a hand…
another absolute masterpiece. Felix, every video of yours is truly a treat and they're only getting better and better. The editing, the exotic reactions and reagents, the dense scientific content... just exceptional. Absolutely exceptional.
This video easily contains some of the most wildly beautiful reactions I’ve ever seen. I now know that what we thought were interstellar Nebulas were actually photos taken through the window of your lab.
That combination has been tried experimentally as a rocket propellant. Cue rapid unscheduled disassembly. Find out about more hideously dangerous rocket propellant experiments by grabbing a copy of John D. Clark's "Ignition!". PDF versions are available.
a) Osmium tetroxide? Absolute lad. This is literally my first time ever seeing OsO4, even in a video. b) I'm starting to see why the US Department of Defense abandoned boron additives in favor of JP7 when looking at fuels for the SR-71. Watching the carborane soot makes me think "fouling problems" was a bit of an understatement.
Triethyl borane (TEB) was used to light the JP-7 fuel for the SR-71 engines, due to its high pyrophoric activity in air! See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triethylborane for details.
@@drflash36 That's true but they did investigate "zip" fuels ... basically lots of boron compounds added to give extra oomph. There was also the rocket fuel attempts: seems rocket engines don't like their injectors being filled solid with green glassy deposits. Led to some interesting chemistry but not for fuels ;) John D Clark's book Ignition! has a whole chapter on it.
incredible work! The score as always ties in and those are some beautiful shots. I don't know why the slomo guys haven't come to your subterranean compound with their phantom 4k yet.
Very nice! Tip : Film some of the nicest reactions top down (camera over the experiment, protected by glass), on a vantablack background and use black spoons or matches, film with a wide angle so nothing moves out of frame. Sell the footage 😁 I'm sure it would make for amazing source material in video editing for space themed videos.
What really makes the decaborance fuming nitric acid reaction so scary to me is that, for a few moments, it seems entirely innocent. It just sits there and fumes. Then, without any warning or notice, it explodes forcefully enough to punch through thin layers of steel. Crazy.
very cool video! something that may be of interest is that decaborane was the starting material for the synthesis of the most "gentle" superacid known to date; it takes a crystalline form and can easily be stored, but it's such a powerful acid it can protonate benzene, most likely because the electron-poor borane cluster is exceptionally good at stabilising negative charges
Dude... holy fuck. Been a long time fan of watching chem experiments on youtube and I've never seen anything like this. Those last two reactions were nuts. Didn't expect it to blast a hole in those containers. Was that steel or aluminum? I'm presuming the second one was steel, as it looked like it had rust on it. Definitely earned my sub, haha.
Did you accidentally get some Explosions and Fire footage there at the end? Holy bananas that was a serious reaction. Glad you didn't get hurt from the first attempt, before you knew what it was going to do.
As a youngster burning trimethyl borane was one of the reactions that made me interested in chemistry, I love the green color. I appreciate the soundtracks you choose for the slow-motion footage, really adds to the suspense.
I had forgotten what you said about suggesting we watch them all many times until I was here again in less than 24hrs. Those reactions are really beautiful. Thanks for sharing that
The reactions are spectacular! I don't really understand chemistry, even though I took it 3 times in college. I wanted that nursing degree, and on the first day of my third try, the professor asked if I was going to be there for the rest of his life. I told him no, just until I pass with a C. I got my C, it was a pity grade, I don't care. Chemistry is cool, but I can't grasp it.
@@jesseparrish1993Watching and liking videos about chemistry doesn't necessarily translate into understanding. Without the difficult and tedious legwork watching someone do chemistry gives you an *illusion* of understanding.
@aethrya thank you. I am retired now, but I worked some really challenging areas- high-risk nursery, emergency room, even a few years on an ambulance. Ran a 3-doctor OB/GYN office as a cool down before retiring. If my body wasn't falling apart, I'd love to be working at 70.
This channel should have 10 million subscribers. This is the ONLY channel on UA-cam I would consider becoming a patreon of. You truly do the most extreme reactions!
Wow. The photography of these reactions is top notch. This is artwork on it's own and I could easily see the clips behind intro movie credits or something.
The sooty, incomplete combustion with solid flakes of carbon/solid oxides/whatever is left unburnt flying upwards are always incredibly beautiful, especially in slowmo. Also probably unbelievably cancerous.
well in california we have worse things to worry about… like trees 😂 prop65 labels are so ubiquitous that if there actually was a good reason to have a label on something nobody would even bother reading it anymore and assume its bs. they have them on literally everything now, so im starting to think living in california causes cancer 🤔
Yes... Borane! Love them but best to stay away lol! Thanks, man for working with such dangerous reagents just to educate and entertain us! People like you is what chemistry is about, not only some formulas and reactions written on a book! Period.
I like how this channel, unlike many other chemists on UA-cam, is playing with some extremely noxious materials. We probably won't see osmium tetroxide and boranes on Cody's Lab any time soon.
I love your combination of visually stunning multi-chromatic reactions, flames with an ethereal sinister green hue, or seemingly "solid" flames, all coupled with explanations of the reactions and their products. I wish my wife would let me repeat these experiments in the kitchen, but she won't let me...........
I absolutely love your productions !! someone else commented that you'd introduced a new art form combining the reactions with synced music and pro quality photography. Simply amazing!!!!
Holy smokes, that last niteric acid reaction was crazy! I wonder if there wasn't some obscure highly nitrated compound forming and concentrating during all that fuming, and then, once it reached a threshold, it just let go.
It could be a matter of the reaction warming up slowly until some threshold is reached. Or that it's catalyzed by a product of the reaction between the fuming nitric acid and the metal. Clearly the experiments must be performed many times to test! :-)
Simply amazing. I haven't been in a lab in 20 years since graduating college with my degree, but have always been drawn to chemistry. These videos you produce help keep me informed and also show off exactly why I loved chemistry so much in my youth. (And honestly still love it here as an older gentleman myself). Thanks again!
When I saw the hole left in that metal bowl, I was blown away, just energy from just a few grams os power and nitric acid, but your all videos are incredible, but this takes the cake.
I love that green flame you get with boron, such a cool effect. The decaborane with nitromethane was so beautiful, especially the little streamers that went spiraling out from it. That's so unusual to get particles with visible rotation and tails like that, like little fireworks. But that last one, dude, I audibly screamed "holy s***" when that went off, was not expecting something so violent. It's interesting how the acid soaks through the whole pile and turns it yellow first, like it's getting all the oxygen spread evenly throughout, and only then, boom. Incredible video.
Okay, ChemicalForce is now hands down THE best Chem channel on UA-cam! I mean I love Explosions&Fire, but that's just for the shitposting style he has. Bit this, this is on a WHOOOLE 'nother level!!!
This is some of the coolest footage of anything I’ve ever seen. It doesn’t look real. You do an amazing job catching it with the right lighting and all. I would love to see it even slower
Really nice slow mo footage! For next videos, maybe add a tiny watermark or put the channel name visible. This kind of quality footage often gets misused for tiktoks, fake news etc..
I read somewhere that boranes were being considered as fossil fuel replacements back in the 70’s. The idea was that the hydroboron bond is even more energy dense than the hydrocarbon bond, and it doesn’t emit CO2 into the atmosphere. As nice as it may have sounded, for obvious reasons this never caught on
I wish I had more thumbs to give!!! Fantastic work and what a neat mix of triggers (my fav was when you used warm water to melt the stuff.. Super!) and the slow motion parts really let you appreciate the complexity. I also really appreciate the synced music/cinema tics/presentation/etc, it brings the work from an A to A++ You could sell (or donate) content like this to schools, I bet you could excite a whole new generation of awesome-chemists
Astonishing footage of some amazing reactions that I'd never have done myself. I think, with nitric acid, there's often a gradual increase in reaction speed as temperature increases. But, with the decaborane, although you can see the gradual ramping-up of the reaction rate (as NO2 gets evolved faster and faster), the gradual increase is followed by an extremely rapid runaway!
These are some of the most beautiful reactions you have captured on video. I couldn't help but think this kind of thing could be used for practical special effects in movies. The real thing is always so much better than what they can come up with using CGI, and your lighting and composition are spot-on.
I love this guy and his channel. His vast knowledge, passion, intelligence, voice, editing skills, music choice, all of it...dope channel. I bet this dude could make you some good drugs.
I really wish this channel could collaborate with Slow-Mo guys for those super high frame rate shots, our eyes miss so much detail in the moment of reaction, a flask of chemicals suddenly becomes empty space and a puff of smoke so fast in that moment.
That decaborane and nitric acid explosion was nuts
fucking jump scared me
I’ve hardly EVER seen that ridiculous of an amount of destruction from such a small amount of reagent. And the long delay is so sinister and dangerous, might lull you into a false sense of security and suddenly it detonates
@Milan Velky Nah it seems like a pretty useless binary. Both components are a pain, the delay is long enough that you can't mix it ahead of time but short enough that it probably doesn't work well at much larger scale than this. There's better stuff out there for... um, interested parties.
Was it a detonation?
@@costa_marco
If not, it is right on the edge of deflagration to detonation transition.
“Melting osmium tetroxide”
Is a phrase I never thought I’d hear from a person who didn’t immediately die afterwards XD
It's a gold-plated and lively way to distribute a test tube around its immediate environs, that's for sure. Sorry, osmium-plated, which is worse :P
Ha!
From 1970-1972, I, as an undergrad chem major, had a job in a spectroscopy lab. They studied boranes among other things. One of my jobs was to seal gaseous boranes in glass through... glass blowing. I din't like that particular task, since the stuff had a habit of exploding in my face. (I had face protection, but still...) It also stinks. The green flames still frighten me! That's why I got into computers!
What did the boranes smell like?
@@oitthegroit1297 There was some variety. From sickeningly sweet to sulfurous, IIRC.
@@ihbarddx Weird how they'd smell like that.
Not to say that I would be any better at that job, but I would just be rolling around on the floor and laughing if something exploded in my face. That is my knee-jerk reaction to all dangerous situations
😅 comps are much healthier
I really appreciate how you properly expose for the highlights in your slow motion. So many people allow the bright parts of reactions to get completely blown out to white. Only one or two of these out of 20 or so did. Cinematography is important, nicely done.
Thank you! 🤗
Osmium tetroxide with the music at 10:23 was just awesome. No idea why but all I could think was "why is this such a vibe?!"
While my career as a chemist was spent focused mostly on making things NOT to explode, I greatly appreciate you doing so many of the things I never got to try, for a number of reasons. Primarily, blowing things up in a lab that isn't mine while on the clock is frowned upon in industrial chemistry settings.
Beautiful video work.
I suppose there are those Energetic Materials Chemists whose (admittedly exciting and interesting) job role is to design novel compounds and compositions that go 'bang' for military and civillian applications alike (DSTL is one such example). And there's the academics and lecturers such as Andrew Szydlo, Chris Bishop and Peter Wothers, who perform chemistry demos (including demos of 'energetic' chemical reactions) in front of a public audience, with the hope of inspiring new generations of scientists.
I have the wonderful “The Chemical Elements and Their Compounds” by Sidgewick it has a section on perchloric esters where they wore iron masks to protect themselves.
Absolutely incredible, and a little awe inspiring to be honest. The slo mo and cinematography in general is so good and the reactions were beautiful to watch.
those unconstrained detonations punching holes in steel. Wow.
Love it when that happens *intentionally
13:17 Just like a high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) weapon. 🤣
This is incredible! The green flames really make everything even cooler. The cinematography is also amazing, I absolutely love it.
If you just want to make green flames, mix boric acid with a bunch of methanol, add some drops of acid and set it on fire.
Unless you're in the EU, then you're screwed because boric acid is too toxic for mouthbreathers like us.
Green flames >>> yellow chemistry
It is a very rare occasion when I actually like the music added to a UA-cam video. This is one of those rare occasions. What music are you using? Btw the music really enhances the already excellent videos!
Reacting even in the solid phase is truly impressive. Decaborane doesn’t play around 0.o
Yeah boranes are terrifying.
@@NebulonRanger Yeah, but boranes can and will be very useful in about 400 years, we our planet has run out of gas, oil, coal and uranium. The (useful) electrical (!) energy content of 10 grams B₁₀H₁₄ corresponds to about 100'000 litres of Diesel fuel (Read my post above). The only waste is ordinary helium gas. Mr. Jamal Kashoggi was poised to inform the world about these things in the New York Times - but he didn't survive his attempt.
As soon as he said it was “stable,” I was like, “Yeah… those double hydrogen bonds are *sure* known for that…”
I’m so glad I wasn’t able to get ahold of these chemicals when I was a teenager. I did enough damage with black powder and flash powder. I almost lost a hand…
Me too mine was tatp but hand still attached so no problemo
im happy u didnt lose ur hand
o-carborane and nitromethane not that impressive? Feliks, c'mon man that looked awesome.
another absolute masterpiece. Felix, every video of yours is truly a treat and they're only getting better and better. The editing, the exotic reactions and reagents, the dense scientific content... just exceptional. Absolutely exceptional.
This video easily contains some of the most wildly beautiful reactions I’ve ever seen. I now know that what we thought were interstellar Nebulas were actually photos taken through the window of your lab.
Fascinating channel. Greetings from India.
Whaaaaaat!? Decaborane + fuming HNO3 = such enormous explosion??!! WTF??
Amazing! ! !
get E&F in here!
@@ephjaymusic yessssss
That combination has been tried experimentally as a rocket propellant. Cue rapid unscheduled disassembly.
Find out about more hideously dangerous rocket propellant experiments by grabbing a copy of John D. Clark's "Ignition!". PDF versions are available.
Awesome fires with those "black snakes" appearing out of thin air.
Stunning! I absolutely love all of it but the last "pop" with decaborane and Nitric is just madness... Thank you!
Amazing fluid dynamics of combustion.
a) Osmium tetroxide? Absolute lad. This is literally my first time ever seeing OsO4, even in a video.
b) I'm starting to see why the US Department of Defense abandoned boron additives in favor of JP7 when looking at fuels for the SR-71. Watching the carborane soot makes me think "fouling problems" was a bit of an understatement.
Triethyl borane (TEB) was used to light the JP-7 fuel for the SR-71 engines, due to its high pyrophoric activity in air!
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triethylborane for details.
@@drflash36 That's true but they did investigate "zip" fuels ... basically lots of boron compounds added to give extra oomph. There was also the rocket fuel attempts: seems rocket engines don't like their injectors being filled solid with green glassy deposits. Led to some interesting chemistry but not for fuels ;) John D Clark's book Ignition! has a whole chapter on it.
incredible work! The score as always ties in and those are some beautiful shots. I don't know why the slomo guys haven't come to your subterranean compound with their phantom 4k yet.
I think I can afford this camera when I hit a million subscribers 😏
@@ChemicalForce you should do a collaboration with them! (obv after you make them sign NDAs so they can't reveal your location :) )
@@ChemicalForce Subbed!
Very nice!
Tip : Film some of the nicest reactions top down (camera over the experiment, protected by glass), on a vantablack background and use black spoons or matches, film with a wide angle so nothing moves out of frame. Sell the footage 😁
I'm sure it would make for amazing source material in video editing for space themed videos.
What really makes the decaborance fuming nitric acid reaction so scary to me is that, for a few moments, it seems entirely innocent. It just sits there and fumes. Then, without any warning or notice, it explodes forcefully enough to punch through thin layers of steel. Crazy.
This channel keeps on getting better and better! Those slow motion shots were just breathtaking!
Замедленная съёмка завораживает!
It's so cool how fast things go even when 40x slower!
very cool video!
something that may be of interest is that decaborane was the starting material for the synthesis of the most "gentle" superacid known to date; it takes a crystalline form and can easily be stored, but it's such a powerful acid it can protonate benzene, most likely because the electron-poor borane cluster is exceptionally good at stabilising negative charges
Dude... holy fuck.
Been a long time fan of watching chem experiments on youtube and I've never seen anything like this.
Those last two reactions were nuts. Didn't expect it to blast a hole in those containers.
Was that steel or aluminum? I'm presuming the second one was steel, as it looked like it had rust on it.
Definitely earned my sub, haha.
Yeah I'm used to being impressed by this channel, but some of those especially decaborane and nitromethane made me go "DAAAAAAMN!"
Wow, o-carborane is such a beautiful compound. That lilac color is amazing
Did you accidentally get some Explosions and Fire footage there at the end? Holy bananas that was a serious reaction. Glad you didn't get hurt from the first attempt, before you knew what it was going to do.
As a youngster burning trimethyl borane was one of the reactions that made me interested in chemistry, I love the green color. I appreciate the soundtracks you choose for the slow-motion footage, really adds to the suspense.
I had forgotten what you said about suggesting we watch them all many times until I was here again in less than 24hrs. Those reactions are really beautiful. Thanks for sharing that
Я з України залюбки дивлюсь ваші професійно зняті відео. Дуже дуже гарні реакції.
The reactions are spectacular! I don't really understand chemistry, even though I took it 3 times in college. I wanted that nursing degree, and on the first day of my third try, the professor asked if I was going to be there for the rest of his life. I told him no, just until I pass with a C. I got my C, it was a pity grade, I don't care. Chemistry is cool, but I can't grasp it.
If you go out of your way for videos like this, you've grasped it better than a lot of the kids who made an A.
I bet you're a great nurse :)
@@jesseparrish1993Watching and liking videos about chemistry doesn't necessarily translate into understanding. Without the difficult and tedious legwork watching someone do chemistry gives you an *illusion* of understanding.
@ Sure. But I've been in chemistry classes with those A students and I've run a lab, so my opinion stands. Intrinsic motivation counts for a lot.
@aethrya thank you. I am retired now, but I worked some really challenging areas- high-risk nursery, emergency room, even a few years on an ambulance. Ran a 3-doctor OB/GYN office as a cool down before retiring. If my body wasn't falling apart, I'd love to be working at 70.
This channel should have 10 million subscribers. This is the ONLY channel on UA-cam I would consider becoming a patreon of. You truly do the most extreme reactions!
At points in the slo-mo with the "soot" looks like liquid flame turning solid. Very cool effect.
A brave man is one who plays with OSO4 🙏
Thanks!
Thank you! These dollars are as green as a boron flame 🤑
Wow. The photography of these reactions is top notch. This is artwork on it's own and I could easily see the clips behind intro movie credits or something.
No words,only widened eyes and involuntarily opened mouth!
Extremely fascinating to watch! This is how chemistry should be taught.
Impressive reactions and impressive editing. Thank you for your work!
The sooty, incomplete combustion with solid flakes of carbon/solid oxides/whatever is left unburnt flying upwards are always incredibly beautiful, especially in slowmo.
Also probably unbelievably cancerous.
well in california we have worse things to worry about… like trees 😂 prop65 labels are so ubiquitous that if there actually was a good reason to have a label on something nobody would even bother reading it anymore and assume its bs. they have them on literally everything now, so im starting to think living in california causes cancer 🤔
Yeah probably lots of exotic "tar" organics in there.
Those Flames are beautiful in slow motion very cool
Yes... Borane! Love them but best to stay away lol! Thanks, man for working with such dangerous reagents just to educate and entertain us! People like you is what chemistry is about, not only some formulas and reactions written on a book! Period.
I like how this channel, unlike many other chemists on UA-cam, is playing with some extremely noxious materials. We probably won't see osmium tetroxide and boranes on Cody's Lab any time soon.
I love your combination of visually stunning multi-chromatic reactions, flames with an ethereal sinister green hue, or seemingly "solid" flames, all coupled with explanations of the reactions and their products. I wish my wife would let me repeat these experiments in the kitchen, but she won't let me...........
Spectacular Explosions. 🙂🙏
This is one of your highlights, thank you and take care.
I absolutely love your productions !! someone else commented that you'd introduced a new art form combining the reactions with synced music and pro quality photography. Simply amazing!!!!
8:51 that little droplet coming out on the left of the bowl 👌
Chemical Art! Love it!
Incredible video, the way those fuming nitric acid drops turned green through the higher was amazing
7:00 - Could be wrong, but if theres sufficient heat for a reaction, could it not be amorphous boron carbide?
Holy smokes, that last niteric acid reaction was crazy! I wonder if there wasn't some obscure highly nitrated compound forming and concentrating during all that fuming, and then, once it reached a threshold, it just let go.
I wonder if such a compound could be formed and be (relatively) at low temperatures?
It could be a matter of the reaction warming up slowly until some threshold is reached. Or that it's catalyzed by a product of the reaction between the fuming nitric acid and the metal. Clearly the experiments must be performed many times to test! :-)
Felix you are an absolute LEGEND. 😝🤘Thank you for making this!!! Honestly it's about as close as I care to get to this stuff! 😨
Simply amazing. I haven't been in a lab in 20 years since graduating college with my degree, but have always been drawn to chemistry. These videos you produce help keep me informed and also show off exactly why I loved chemistry so much in my youth. (And honestly still love it here as an older gentleman myself). Thanks again!
By far, by far the best chemical takes. Pure beauty!
FINALLY, someone documents carborane!
Now I'm craving popcorn.
Luckily i always have some
When I saw the hole left in that metal bowl, I was blown away, just energy from just a few grams os power and nitric acid, but your all videos are incredible, but this takes the cake.
Awesome footage (again)! Thanks for creating and sharing.
I'd love to know where you find the music for your videos. It makes them even more epic!
I love the high quality video footage that you shoot. Very interesting to see the reactions
I love that green flame you get with boron, such a cool effect. The decaborane with nitromethane was so beautiful, especially the little streamers that went spiraling out from it. That's so unusual to get particles with visible rotation and tails like that, like little fireworks. But that last one, dude, I audibly screamed "holy s***" when that went off, was not expecting something so violent. It's interesting how the acid soaks through the whole pile and turns it yellow first, like it's getting all the oxygen spread evenly throughout, and only then, boom. Incredible video.
Okay, ChemicalForce is now hands down THE best Chem channel on UA-cam!
I mean I love Explosions&Fire, but that's just for the shitposting style he has.
Bit this, this is on a WHOOOLE 'nother level!!!
Thanks 😏
@@ChemicalForce Naah my man, thank you! 😄🙏
This is some of the coolest footage of anything I’ve ever seen. It doesn’t look real. You do an amazing job catching it with the right lighting and all. I would love to see it even slower
Thanks 👍
Really nice slow mo footage! For next videos, maybe add a tiny watermark or put the channel name visible. This kind of quality footage often gets misused for tiktoks, fake news etc..
These are best videos of an explosion in slow motion that I have ever seen.
Thanx cool experiments informitive and well presented
There borane reactions are amazing, especially the slow motion footages!!
It was brilliant, amazing, perfect and so on.
I read somewhere that boranes were being considered as fossil fuel replacements back in the 70’s. The idea was that the hydroboron bond is even more energy dense than the hydrocarbon bond, and it doesn’t emit CO2 into the atmosphere. As nice as it may have sounded, for obvious reasons this never caught on
Mostly for jet and rocket fuel for the military. The biggest issue was the boron oxides forming deposits and ruining machinery I think.
Turning chemistry into art. Love it.
Gorgeous fire and explosions!!
Every your video is beautiful. But now it is awesome. Thank you.
I wish I had more thumbs to give!!! Fantastic work and what a neat mix of triggers (my fav was when you used warm water to melt the stuff.. Super!)
and the slow motion parts really let you appreciate the complexity.
I also really appreciate the synced music/cinema tics/presentation/etc, it brings the work from an A to A++
You could sell (or donate) content like this to schools, I bet you could excite a whole new generation of awesome-chemists
Stunning video.
Wow, I really love the explosion forming part at the end of the video
Astonishing footage of some amazing reactions that I'd never have done myself.
I think, with nitric acid, there's often a gradual increase in reaction speed as temperature increases. But, with the decaborane, although you can see the gradual ramping-up of the reaction rate (as NO2 gets evolved faster and faster), the gradual increase is followed by an extremely rapid runaway!
Particularly beautiful photography.
boranes are awesome 😀 my fav min 10 decaborane this video is truly great!
These are some of the most beautiful reactions you have captured on video. I couldn't help but think this kind of thing could be used for practical special effects in movies. The real thing is always so much better than what they can come up with using CGI, and your lighting and composition are spot-on.
Thanks for the comment! Few people understand how difficult it is to set the correct exposure when shooting video, especially on a high-speed camera
Thanks for another amazing video. Combine borane green flames with some burning strontium compounds for your Christmas special video.
I love this guy and his channel. His vast knowledge, passion, intelligence, voice, editing skills, music choice, all of it...dope channel.
I bet this dude could make you some good drugs.
Your videos are amazing!!!!!
I love the green flame of most boron compounds they look lovely
The physical structure of the decaborane molecule is really cool.
Simply stunning.
You should definitely put a watermark on those slowmos, the nitromethane with decaborane is truly beautiful.
I really wish this channel could collaborate with Slow-Mo guys for those super high frame rate shots, our eyes miss so much detail in the moment of reaction, a flask of chemicals suddenly becomes empty space and a puff of smoke so fast in that moment.
Wow so coool ! This has to be the best video i've seen so far.
Your videography is outstanding. Some of the most satisfying imagery I've ever seen in this video.
thanks mate :D
Beautiful shots as always!
can you cover silanes? Especially the ones barely big enough to not be pyrophoric
The camera work is amazing in this one.
Delayed and extremely explosive reaction. Sounds like the stuff nightmares are made of.
Came for the chemistry, stayed for the *amazing* photography skills. Thumbs and subs.
Welcome aboard 😏
6:20 that slo mo looks so cool