I love that the video ends with, “and that’s how to extract the element silicon from sand” as if I’m smart enough to do any chemistry more complex than baking a cake.
Cool! I’ve had extracting elemental silicon from sand on my bucket list for ages, then doping it to try to make a (not very good but functional) transistor or diode.
But you need perfect crystalline silicon no? You need to put the pure Si in a 1400deg Celsius oven, slowly cool it, and hopefully get a good enough crystal… The oven itself would be a much bigger project than burning magnesium with sand…
You'd need a perfect crystal structure and to produce P and N type by infusing with Boron or Phosphorus, plus having a high enough voltage to pass through a certain size of semiconductor. Technically doable but a lot harder than just extracting silicon from silica
Dustin, its been on my list for years too. Someone has built weak transistors from like oxide paste they had purchased. weak solar cells have been made by hobbiest. making basic diodes seem fairly simple to reproduce. Some guy makes conductive inks explained making thermocouples using pencil lead as one of the conductors. Im going to go out on a limb here but can't you buy the materials seperate then assemble them. Some rocks will actually detect radio signal if you cover them with foil on one side i get dc .4v
My understanding of chemistry is that the magnesium is robbing the oxygen from the silicon oxide atmosphere like a type of thermite, I'm surprised it didn't break the glass tube. Very interesting stuff
I really like single replacenebt reactions theirs just something about extracting an element from a compound by adding another element to the compound to replace the ion
@@krap101 yes ,but no. Not really thermite but you can do aluminum powder and sulfur. It makes aluminum sulfate. Nice burn rate,, but not a high temp. Then add it to water to make hydrogen sulfate.
@@krap101 If you have the proper proportions to generate enough heat to make the reaction. And part of the process is that the magnesium or aluminum is stripping the oxygen from the Silicon Dioxide so that IT may oxidize.
When there’s no H2O and O2 and N2 atmosphere present, sure. But that’s not what happened here. Also, the Si needed for electronics and PV needs to be very very pure, which is nothing like this clik bait setup and requires far more energy. So, even if most don’t understand this reaction, they do walk away with the BS notion that making useful Si is simple.
It's actually a very similar reaction to the making of "Town Gas," a combination of Hydrogen and CARBON MONOXIDE that was once used as heating and lighting in towns, for houses. It was made by passing live steam over hot charcoal. From this gas, we got the phrase "Gaslighting."
In the first shot you used sand, in the second you used pure silicon dioxide because normal sand found in the beach contains many impurities including iron, zinc and other metals, you should clarify this. How I noticed this: the sand at the start is clearly more yellow than the shot after (when magnesium was added.)
Hmm, how do we extract the elemental silicon from the test tube? That there my friends is the real experiment. I'd like to watch his reaction from a little further back.
This is a very similar reaction to the making of "Town Gas," a combination of Hydrogen and CARBON MONOXIDE that was once used as heating and lighting in towns, for houses. It was made by passing live steam over hot charcoal. From this gas, we got the phrase "Gaslighting."
Yes, bur the problem is that you cannot use that on solar panels! You need pure silicon! Pure silicon doesn't come from sand because it has too many impurities! Pure silicon comes from fusing high quality coal with high quality quartz at 1,800 degrees using......High quality coal! Glad I could help! :)
You’re trying to justify the high cost of Solar Panels?? Or did you think we all watched this to build our own solar panels from scratch?? But thanks for the “help”.
@@adamfirst9321 Justifying? No! I guess you have a problem with comprehension! I'm just stating facts! Sand has too many impurities and they don't make solar panels with just the use of sand! This is why solar panels are ALREADY at a high cost!! And when they break, it cost's too much to recycle all of the different components so you have to buy a newly constructed one!! But the bigger issue is the cutting down of trees in order to put these things in that don't produce much energy in the first place! And they don't work when there's no sun, or are too hot or too cold! And for what they cost it'll take decades for them to pay for themselves! And don't get me started on those wind turbines! They are even worse!
It’s a thermite redox reaction. Actually I don’t see why this couldn’t be done with aluminum too as in the conventional FeO2 thermite redox reaction except that it would take more heat and the borosilicate glass test tube might melt first
That stuff that form is a good conductor for electricity and can be used in the electronic industry but is seldom is, used to make wearable materials stronger for re-enforcement. Can also be used for material on spaceships due to its high temperature endurance capacity I think
It is not legal to take sand from the beach. In fact, in some places, you can even get in trouble for doing so. In the United States, many beaches have signs stating it is illegal to remove sand from the beach. Florida, Hawaii, and California all deem it illegal.
I'm seeing a lot of people who don't have this Probably cause they don't reciprocate it and people get tired of putting in all this effort for them Then they whine about being single when they literally don't do anything that's worth appreciating except go to work
Wow, I have always wondered... Now multiply that process by a magnitude of 2000 and you get the first step for mono crystalline electronics grade silicon.
There is going to be a significant portion of magnesium silicide produced. This reaction is pretty messy overall. You could test for magnesium silicide by dumping the reaction mix in a large not glass container with water. You should expect a small silane explosion as a positive test result.
See further investigations on this experiment here ua-cam.com/video/uQL1UaE1WJY/v-deo.html
Can i borrow some of them from you?
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That's how you get subscribers with shorts
Looks like that's how you deform a beaker
What uh what..... do you do with it next? I live near a beach and have a sandbox out back. What is the point of extracting it?
I love that the video ends with, “and that’s how to extract the element silicon from sand” as if I’m smart enough to do any chemistry more complex than baking a cake.
relatable 🤣
I like cakes
My man just mixed two things together and heated it.
If you can't do that, then that's a big L.
I mean.....baking a cake is a bit difficult
I would say baking a cake is significantly more difficult than what he did lol
Next: let's make a graphics card out of it
And sell it to miner
@@indonesia_playa and then buy a minor
@@lonewolf2193 🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿
@@lonewolf2193 lol that got me
@@lonewolf2193 i buy milf sounds fair ??
Why extract silicon from sand when there’s a whole valley in California made out of it
It's silica not silicone
@@diychad7268 Did you see that? I was the joke flying right over your head
@@diychad7268 It’s a joke, not thesis
Heeee
@@austincox1239 how the hell do you expect us to know its a joke? This is the internet where someone would actually think that
Cool! I’ve had extracting elemental silicon from sand on my bucket list for ages, then doping it to try to make a (not very good but functional) transistor or diode.
But you need perfect crystalline silicon no? You need to put the pure Si in a 1400deg Celsius oven, slowly cool it, and hopefully get a good enough crystal… The oven itself would be a much bigger project than burning magnesium with sand…
You'd need a perfect crystal structure and to produce P and N type by infusing with Boron or Phosphorus, plus having a high enough voltage to pass through a certain size of semiconductor. Technically doable but a lot harder than just extracting silicon from silica
Dustin, its been on my list for years too. Someone has built weak transistors from like oxide paste they had purchased. weak solar cells have been made by hobbiest. making basic diodes seem fairly simple to reproduce. Some guy makes conductive inks explained making thermocouples using pencil lead as one of the conductors. Im going to go out on a limb here but can't you buy the materials seperate then assemble them. Some rocks will actually detect radio signal if you cover them with foil on one side i get dc .4v
@@mike289homebuilt5Rocks that detect radio signals? No freaking way! What kind of rocks are they? What should I Google? 😁
@@My_Name_Is_Mud. Look up 'crystal radio set'
Next video: How to extract extracted silicone from a test tube
That's what I said, sure its extracted but useless lol
You use paper towel and a hammer.
@@sciencebus3119 extremely technical process lol
silicon is not silicone
@@MWilk098
The hammer cares not if it's a tomato or a potato.
The hammer will answer your jammed silicon woes.
My understanding of chemistry is that the magnesium is robbing the oxygen from the silicon oxide atmosphere like a type of thermite, I'm surprised it didn't break the glass tube. Very interesting stuff
chemistry is amazing
True, but watching some fire for 3secs doesn’t lead to understanding it.
I really like single replacenebt reactions theirs just something about extracting an element from a compound by adding another element to the compound to replace the ion
Like Indiana Jones
I was worried the test tube was going to explode. It did get red hot.
Yea me too
Usually these lab equipments are designed to withstand high heat
Lab tubes are made from a type of quartz so they don't explode due to heat, stoners know that well since bangers/buckets are made from quartz
@@starfreighterpilotgriffith6263 but isn't quartz itself silica?
@@AchiragChiraggyup I thought so too
This can also be done with aluminum powder, but it makes lots of heat.
Does a thermite reaction work with nonmetals?
@@krap101 yes ,but no. Not really thermite but you can do aluminum powder and sulfur. It makes aluminum sulfate. Nice burn rate,, but not a high temp. Then add it to water to make hydrogen sulfate.
@@krap101 If you have the proper proportions to generate enough heat to make the reaction. And part of the process is that the magnesium or aluminum is stripping the oxygen from the Silicon Dioxide so that IT may oxidize.
2Mg + SiO2 -> 2MgO + Si
It possible? Really?
I think there was some hydrogen formed in the reaction that made the pop
When there’s no H2O and O2 and N2 atmosphere present, sure. But that’s not what happened here. Also, the Si needed for electronics and PV needs to be very very pure, which is nothing like this clik bait setup and requires far more energy. So, even if most don’t understand this reaction, they do walk away with the BS notion that making useful Si is simple.
That answers my response question.
You forgot to account for interactions with the water vapor in the atmosphere ☝️🤓
Now make a video that how to extract element silicon from testtube
It’s a short video that features a tiny hammer and safety goggles.😊
I believe the flame coming out of the test tube might be silane, if there was water present in the sand
Magnesium vapour oxidising to MgO?
Me to bacha nikla 10 ka😂😂
I think there is some carbon in the setup. Carbon burns with a blue flame.
It's definitely SiO2 + 2Mg -> Si + 2MgO. No hydrogen involved.
It's actually a very similar reaction to the making of "Town Gas," a combination of Hydrogen and CARBON MONOXIDE that was once used as heating and lighting in towns, for houses. It was made by passing live steam over hot charcoal.
From this gas, we got the phrase "Gaslighting."
In the first shot you used sand, in the second you used pure silicon dioxide because normal sand found in the beach contains many impurities including iron, zinc and other metals, you should clarify this.
How I noticed this: the sand at the start is clearly more yellow than the shot after (when magnesium was added.)
Hope u would make such beautiful nd conceptipnal videos in future also
Historical tip: sillakin used to be spelled and pronounced sil-i-con
And, for some reason, sil-i-con and sil-i-cone are similar sounding but completely different things...
Still is
@@Fightre_Flighteuh silicone on a made from silicon, doesn’t make sense that their names are so close but they absolutely are related to each other.
Car guy: *"Now give
me a continuous loop of that fire pop"*
Apparently youtube has just been directing me to more and more mad scientists
So that’s how “sand” makes computer chips in a horrifyingly oversimplified way?
Goldschmidt reduction is my favorite exothermic reaction.
I'll have to check out this reaction. Thank for the tip
the glas always explodes in my chemistry class 😂
That magnesium wants the oxygen worse than the silicon does lol
Yes, he used magnesium to extract oxygen from silica, it will also extract oxygen from carbon dioxide, burn in it.
@@bhatkat greedy metal... Lol
Magnesium down bad
Now i can show this in my lab haha
Bro the test tube literally melted 💀
Yes
And it's ok
Test tube are cheap
i wonder if some of the test tube was consumed in the reaction. isnt the glass test tube also made of silicon dioxide?
That's a kind of termite reaction
i prefer its cousin the ant reaction
Hmm, how do we extract the elemental silicon from the test tube? That there my friends is the real experiment. I'd like to watch his reaction from a little further back.
You should put a book out with all these diy extractions and reactions
You're like the middle ground between Nile red and Cody's lab
Nile red makes things complicated. May be his version of this will include whole periodic table ingredients 😂 he's useless and boring
@@prtygrl5077 I'm not going to lie, that's your problem.
@@thoroughlyunoriginalname I'm not going to lie, that problem you mention is your problem 😂 not mine 😂
"and that my friends is how you smoke meth."
Nope. I know from experience. I was stuck to one end of a meth pipe for years. 7 years sober now. We can change if we do the work.
“Elemental silicone” pfftttt yeah right you can’t fool me I’ve seen the movies. That’s venom
This are the only things I like about chemistry.
🔥🔥🔥
This reaction produce Si and MgO right?
Awesome, please do phosphorus next
That's cool thanks for the upload brother!
So the reaction goes like this :
2Mg + SiO2(sand) -> 2MgO +Si+ heat
Gives a whole new meaning to the name "Silicon Beach"
Awe, i thought you were going to show the separation and refining to high purity. Great demo though!
"Let's watch this reaction from a little further back..."
"oooh"
Subscribed immediately ✌️
that high boutta leave me twaccckkkked
Amazing 👏👏👏👏
So next time I'm stranded on a desert island, I can just build a radio set!
This is a very similar reaction to the making of "Town Gas," a combination of Hydrogen and CARBON MONOXIDE that was once used as heating and lighting in towns, for houses. It was made by passing live steam over hot charcoal.
From this gas, we got the phrase "Gaslighting."
I love chemistry you get learn who things go bom
So smooth that no phase separation is seen at all?
Yes, bur the problem is that you cannot use that on solar panels! You need pure silicon! Pure silicon doesn't come from sand because it has too many impurities! Pure silicon comes from fusing high quality coal with high quality quartz at 1,800 degrees using......High quality coal! Glad I could help! :)
You’re trying to justify the high cost of Solar Panels??
Or did you think we all watched this to build our own solar panels from scratch??
But thanks for the “help”.
@@adamfirst9321 Justifying? No! I guess you have a problem with comprehension! I'm just stating facts! Sand has too many impurities and they don't make solar panels with just the use of sand! This is why solar panels are ALREADY at a high cost!! And when they break, it cost's too much to recycle all of the different components so you have to buy a newly constructed one!!
But the bigger issue is the cutting down of trees in order to put these things in that don't produce much energy in the first place! And they don't work when there's no sun, or are too hot or too cold! And for what they cost it'll take decades for them to pay for themselves! And don't get me started on those wind turbines! They are even worse!
Auhhhh, when a science guy during an experiment go's" Ooouh" I've already left the room ! Just keepin it real.
😂
Ahh * Yes the Power of Alchemy Always gets me Excited 👄🦇
Sweet... always wondered where I can get more silicone.
This is really amazing
Holy shit!!!
This whole time I’ve been using a pair of tweezers, and a magnifying glass to extract my silicon! 😂
Great video
Thank you 😊
How do you extract it from the vial?
Cool! So…it’s silicon metal! Can you hammer it into sheets? Cast statues with it?
Wow
Really cool. Now you can grow your own boule
So this means my silicone based tires in my magnesium alloy wheel on sand is basically a element's family reunion...
He sounds like if quagmire and Cleveland brown had a son
Cool, but can you extract the plastic that is in the sand from the beach?
Eureka! Now I'll create my own silicon valley!
Let's watch this reaction from a little further back 😂 very wise
dude got some neat ass bong
Old School Crackheads got seriously excited at first
That test tube clip looks like a little figure 😂
Are you gonna show us how to make a processor out of it in your next video?
Everybody wondering about the black substance while I'm enjoying the pop sound from the test tube.
cool, now how do you get the magnesium?
peter Griffin does science
It's took me a while to realize you were saying "silicon"
What i care about is that root/tree branch/vine pattern that occurrd at the top of mixture
not me who thought the first thing was a pencil
I like the pacing of this series
Nice
It’s a thermite redox reaction. Actually I don’t see why this couldn’t be done with aluminum too as in the conventional FeO2 thermite redox reaction except that it would take more heat and the borosilicate glass test tube might melt first
Look at it "grow" at the end. That's cool
So...how do you extract it from the glass??
Partial purification can be accomplished by immersing the reaction products in acid. See the video here ua-cam.com/video/uQL1UaE1WJY/v-deo.html
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Are you using quartz test tube? That looks like a very hot substance.
Got me thinking u had fent for a min
I love these kitchen scientists
Make a video to show how to make obsidian.
Now tell me how to get magnesium ?
That stuff that form is a good conductor for electricity and can be used in the electronic industry but is seldom is, used to make wearable materials stronger for re-enforcement.
Can also be used for material on spaceships due to its high temperature endurance capacity I think
Ooh, next, Magnesium silicide
Like this? ua-cam.com/video/uQL1UaE1WJY/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared
I'm just amazed how the test tube didn't break
Mindustry players are gonna love this
“man ! You charcoaled the pipe again , No mas 4 u , hombre 😂
More energy and more energy for everything. People need to understand energy is everything.
Seeing the Big beaches and deserts now I wonder if there is really a lack of magnesium to make gpu chips >:v
It is not legal to take sand from the beach. In fact, in some places, you can even get in trouble for doing so. In the United States, many beaches have signs stating it is illegal to remove sand from the beach. Florida, Hawaii, and California all deem it illegal.
You sound just like the Blendtec "Will it blend?" guy.
What beach was that because that sand is as clean as the stuff in a bag
You doing is right but magnesium is expensive than silicon 😂
This is so the type of thing I would start by remote control from behind a blast shield.
I'm seeing a lot of people who don't have this
Probably cause they don't reciprocate it and people get tired of putting in all this effort for them
Then they whine about being single when they literally don't do anything that's worth appreciating except go to work
Wow, I have always wondered... Now multiply that process by a magnitude of 2000 and you get the first step for mono crystalline electronics grade silicon.
"now class quickly clean out your tests tubes"
😳
There is going to be a significant portion of magnesium silicide produced. This reaction is pretty messy overall. You could test for magnesium silicide by dumping the reaction mix in a large not glass container with water. You should expect a small silane explosion as a positive test result.