Hey NileRed, mind if I ask a question? The Aluminum Oxide at 3:35 to me looks like a piece of fabric, but what I want to know is if that waste from the reaction still toxic?
I have a PhD in chemistry and +30 years of lab experience. I am having fun watching things I would have never though to do. This video particularly demonstrates a problem called amalgam corrosion. This is a nightmare for service facilities. Thank you!
@@antilogis6204 Saying "I won't" means that I will not try to learn, so I'll just watch it. Whereas, "I don't" means I do not understand today, so maybe research for it tomorrow. Both are grammatically correct.
@@chevyrupleix i clearly didnt write "I wont" but "you wont", saying that you, as a viewer, wont understand anything, since you're not presenting the episode i dont see the point in arrogating to yourself the title. If it isnt clear enough Welcome to another episode of: You won't understand anything but this is cool. wouldve been neater imho. Peace.
@@antilogis6204 Oh, I see. I was referring in first-person POV though. Referring as "I" so the viewers read it as themselves, making myself out of the picture. The reason why the text is in Italic is because it emphasizes that it is a passing thought to whoever reads it rather than a person telling them that "they won't understand it".
I finished my chem class, and now I actually understand what's happening and the reactions that take place. Its nice to re-watch your videos when I understand what's happening : )
image being a medieval alchemist and accidentally dropping some mercury on an aluminum piece only to see a fibrous ghost thing literally rising up from nothing while you eat your daily single piece of stale bread . I’d start to believe in magic too.
@@ali.e7860 Not really no. There’s a famous story about how Napoleon would give his normal guest at feasts golden goblets, but for his exceptionally special guests, he would give them aluminum ones. Aluminum was much, much, much rarer than gold in the 1800s, I can’t even imagine it really being used in alchemy during the Middle Ages.
I think its really cool that you are this generations 'science guy'... I only found you recently but you have a certain effortless way of teaching and your curiosity makes it all the better. Well done and keep going!
For a project of mine, i wanna specifically know 'Knowledge the Ancient-People WISHED they knew". Whetever its through Rebirth or Time-Travel, i wanna explore what pure Knowledge can theoretically do in a Bronze-Age-Setting! ANYONE got lifehacks or pro-advice that isnt Soap?
Annoying isn't the right word... working with Mercury for fun is the scientific equivalent of free climbing an overhang under a cliff face known for rock slides. Mercury absorbs easily into the skin and bloodstream, and a small amount can be fatal. Just because this is on UA-cam doesn't mean just anyone should play with it. There are stories of scientists with even four layers of protection getting small amounts of Mercury in their system and dying. Very cool element. Very bad for living systems. 😅 It's only annoying to work with if you value your life 😏
Yesss!!! I was scrolling through hoping someone else saw it too & made a comment. Mercury is extremely toxic, I was just praying that this area is controlled & he was able to see the little drop that dipped out.
Yep, back in the 60's I worked as an Instrument Engineer for the British Power Industry (CEGB) The Instrument workshop had a lot of 'Dexion' aluminium racking and shelving.. We used a lot of Mercury and had galvanised buckets of the stuff around - every morning, when we went into the workshop, we had the fun of inspecting the Oxide 'Trees' that had grown all over the racking, benches and shelving......Nasty stuff, stay clear!!
@Humphrey Hoganwhat? This is the weirdest troll ive seen (oh and bloodletting does work, it can cure most illnesses but it makes you very vulnerable and weak in your immune system and your muscles)
Yeah, I work as a aircraft mechanic, and mercury is (besides from a health danger) a metal that do not need to be heated up to fuse with other metals. Luckily, I haven't seen it while on the job. But (most of the time) it is almost impossible to know if it has fused together. Mercury creates an intercrystalline corrosion, which is only visible through x-rays or Ultrasound tests.
@Urn Turn damn what the hell? Either you're talking to the person, in which case that's a real human fucking chill? Or you're talking to the cartoon character, which.......fucking chill?? Lmao
Even if some didn't understand it caught they attention and they still got some information of it and maybe some interest for chemistry. Even if its small its a lot more than what they get in class since in class its just boring theory and no practical part wich is the most important part in chemistry since even if you know the exact terms and stuff in practice you won't know how to do a thing. Also just teaching boring theory won't get students interest but make them hate it and never want to have anything to do with chemistry ever again. PS: In my country we don't get teached practical chemistry only theory and i don't know how it is in other countries.
One of the first experiments we did at school chemistry was to weigh a piece of Al foil, then rub it with mercury. This left a molecule thick film of Hg on the Al and it started reacting. We left it for a week, by which time all the Al had turned into a grey powder. Weighed it again and noted the increase in mass. Really practising using the balance and making observations. Bowls of mercury, in an open lab, no safety kit. Still it was about 1960. Chris
I am not a chemist nor anything even remotely scientific, (English grammar, gardening, art…) but I really enjoy seeing what people like Nile Red and the Veritassium scientist do. It’s vastly interesting.
@@bluedotsrelaxingmusic2831 stfu everyone does not have English as their native language. Oh and btw, u didn't put a full stop in the end so just shut up.
My son is 6 years old and after seeing this he watched a ton of your vids.. he says you are the best 'chemistry person' in the world. Great videos! Love 'em!!
@@takeshikovach5165 sorry, I wasn't clear. I was trying to rephrase what the other person said to point out how stupid it was. I agree, if you don't pay teachers well, you won't be able to keep anyone who is any good.
@@raerohan4241 Depending on the school, (particularly high schools), a significant portion of the funding goes towards the sports programs such as football and basketball, even though often those programs don't even lead to scholarships for the players and it's rare that the players do anything related to the sport after finishing school. I know when I was in high school, our basketball court got completely redone despite being in fairly good shape, all while our text books for most classes were five to ten years old and falling apart. This is also a school where basketball was the secondary sport compared to football. In addition, the gym where that was done wasn't the one used for PE classes, (we had a much older secondary gym for that), and for a year or so after they did it they didn't even like for people other than the basketball team to walk across that gym floor.
same haha, i thought it was like almost as high as the ceiling and it was almost about to give me major anxiety bc i have megalophobia but right as i almost clicked off the vid their hand came into frame lolol
School never tells you that the folks who cut steel into wildly specific shapes for machines are also doing chemisty and geometry. Its not your fault education doesnt know why its valuable anymore.
@@zachweyrauch2988 do you really think the folks cutting steel and operating those machines know all the science behind it? No lmfao, they press button, machine go brrrrr. No one on the ground floor operating machines know how or why they work, they just know how to turn it on and use it, someone smarter who knows science built it for them lmfao
He's produced substances classified by the DEA before, I don't really know how he gets away with it to be honest.. I'm definitely not complaining though, 'forbidden science' is ALWAYS the best.
@@yixnorb5971 Yes it's always been know that Canadians get away with any and every illegal activity. Police stop you for having illegal firearms in your possession? Show him your Canadian ID and you'll be on your merry way. The policeman may even guide you.
Fact: in the old days, people used mercury to polish hats, and it would make them insane because it affected their brain. That is why the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland was called Mad Hatter, because of the mercury I don't do this much, but thanks for 1k likes guys!! I appreciate it
When I was a kid we broke a mercury thermometer. We had one of those post-ww2 formica tables with the extruded aluminum rim. We played with the little beads for a little while until Mom caught us. At one point, a bead rolled off of the table and down the aluminum. Hours later I came in to see one of those white filaments growing out of it. It was really long - maybe as long as 8" or so. I wiped it off and later when it was dinner time I found it growing again. We finally had to take a knife and shave off some of the aluminum to get it to stop. Thanks for the explanation. :-)
@@LFSPharaoh only if it gets into your blood or in your body in any way, its not recommended to handle mercury without gloves but you could get away with touching it with your bare hands
Watching this just thinking of how heavy metals react upon meeting each other in our bodies (nano level). Creepy there, but cool here in your video. Thank you
@@ronrico2620 That and more... unfortunately we get exposed to heavy metals regularly - aluminum foil, car exhaust, canned food, medications, paints, pesticides, etc.
@@freedomthroughspirit I'm pretty far away from that stuff. I do as much as possible to grow my own food. When I can't I buy from a local farm. Threw out all my Teflon pans and got cast iron and stainless. Can food myself
"Which is why you aren't allowed to bring mercury on a plane." As long as you don't knock over a jar of hydrochloric acid, drop a paper towel on it, and then spill mercury as you're going to pick it up, I think the plane will be fine
That was so neat, amigo. Thank you very much. Please, have a beer on me, or a kombucha…or maybe some yogurt if you don’t like those things…something fermented and delightful. Ha I’m really thankful you took the time to do this. I love chemistry. It’s so wondrous. I’m wondering how many more amalgamations there are now. My friend, do you know why MDMA is really illegal? Not sure you know, but if you do the research and you see how our governments have been lying about unpatentable drugs for the sake of the greed of patented drug makers, it is very clear that MDMA was banned by wicked fools who accepted bribes from people who sell patented drugs. MDMA is safe but making it illegal makes the drug more dangerous. You know? I know someone who tried that substance once and it was absolutely marvelous…he did not suffer any negative side effects and he had one of the most precious and delightful experiences he has ever had. Don’t break the law though guys, he was being stupid really, because he could have been arrested at the place he was at when he bought it. The DEA is evil and they lie. They ban unpatentable drugs like MDMA, coca leaf and cannabis while lying about them. This just makes the world more dangerous and not safer. I was so disgusted when I saw how they banned the coca leaf, a terrific altitude sickness remedy, right at the same time the patented altitude sickened drug known as, “Diamox” was first released. I had coca in Bolivia, it’s so awesome, perfectly salubrious with no side effects. Think about how this mercury salt reaction could go wrong because the dishonest govt is banning mdma. I mean, what if some foolish chemist gets mercury in the mdma because of his lack of understanding? That would be highly toxic. Merck initially sold MDMA as a weight loss substance and it was fine. There are no records that I have seen of it hurting people. Global populations of people who have used MDMA safely prove that the government is lying. That drug needs to be legalized because it could help people. Please let me vent one more thing…there was a psychiatrist in California who used MDMA for couples counseling and he said it was a wonderful tool for helping couples communicate. He was very upset when the government lied about it and said it needed to be “controlled.” I am praying to God that He will put an end to this wicked scheme from Big Pharma and other stupid industry leaders, like the beer merchants in Maine who spent tens of thousands of dollars trying to stop cannabis from becoming legal so that they wouldn’t loose more money to it. Thanks for your ear. Please tell your politicians that the drug war is foolish, a lie and a policy that only harms our country and does not help. Peace to you
An interesting extension of this might be to compare the physical properties of the remaining Al to that of a nonamalgamated piece. Say mechanical strength, or thermal/electric conductivity, etc.
I'm pretty sure that aluminum is badly compromised - the lockpicking lawyer did a video where he was basically able to crumble a beefy aluminum-bodied lock after amalgamating it with mercury.
Aluminum was considered a very rare and valuable metal (even more valuable than gold and platinum) up until the late 1850's. It turns out, aluminum is not rare at all...it's just bound up in ores and oxides that needed modern chemistry to find methods to extract it from various oxides. So people from just 300 years ago would've thought you were insane for doing this.
IKR! That's some serious J-Horror shit going on there. BTW, 0:16 - "...which is why you're not allowed bringing mercury on a plane." Are you French-Canadian or something, NileRed? It's weird, because you don't seem to have an accent other than the standard Canadian English 'ou's, so hearing you say "not allowed bringing" instead of "not allowed to bring" there was quite jarring. Anyhow, thanks for the amazing video. Subscribed.
+Elementalist Lux: Already 671 now. 👿 BTW, cool profile pic. One of the most successful meldings of anime- and Western-style art I've seen. Where does that head come from?
This is wicked to watch, nifty to learn about the oxide layer on alluminum. This was really cool to see, makes you wonder what his process could be used for. Imagine this used in a movie, color the aluminum or dye it and have something look like it is growing, a little cgi and edits and it could be something nifty or freaky.
GetThoseMasks OffThoseKids and end Children’s church services with a Disney cartoon 🤔 Nowadays... you can swim outdoors in all these metals thanks “con”trails!!? (But some of us got to be guinea pigs and have our lives ruined by the practice runs ☢️🧬☣️🧬☣️🧬☢️
@@lfrn1532 medieval age ? Yes, they just made a statement and you replied with "fuck you" And yes they are dumb for believing in a sky daddy (I don't want to have another religious debate if you wanna be dumb then be dumb it's none of my business)
@@_s_5713 He's saying ( I think) that the structure formed at 4:42 is kinda like discord and he is saying on the behalf of Microsoft, do we really need a logo, when we can just make a 2d version of it (like at 4:42) (encouraging the "don't turn me into an oversimplified logo meme)
Something about these videos is oddly captivating to me. I think it’s the minimal sound. Some channels think they gotta add music, and sometimes even sound effects, here, it’s dead air between narration, and it’s kinda all I need.
No matter how many videos I watch of this reaction, I think two things always remain identical. 1. It’s freakin awesome. 2. I imagine the tall reactions as *”Cousin It.”*
Nigel: A somewhat common but highly illegal use of this reaction is in the production of MDMA Also Nigel: Anyway, I think that's about it for this video Me: ...so close.
@@simonwang8540 bruh u legit copied this from another comment and put it as a reply to what are u doing u stole this comment from Best Moments and he has 1.3K likes
Wait a minute.. the way the aluminum extrudes and creates “structure”… could this be applicable in 3D printing? The alum can”grow” to serve as degradable scaffolding for complex structures…
Elemental mercury is not very dangerous at all really. For anyone curious to learn more check out a couple mercury videos on Cody's Lab. He explains this better than I could.
Can we have another mercury video, please? I'm interested to see if there's an Iron or Iron oxide amalgam. I was reading recently that mercury reacts differently during amalgamation when in a vacuum and may combine with things that normally float.
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Hey NileRed, mind if I ask a question? The Aluminum Oxide at 3:35 to me looks like a piece of fabric, but what I want to know is if that waste from the reaction still toxic?
I also saw this first on Facebook.
hey nile, lad bible is using your content without giving credit or anything..
Here's another using a clip from your video ua-cam.com/video/A0vDdwhuSik/v-deo.html and looks like they're trying to do an anti-vaxing thing with it.
facebook.com/UNILADTech/videos/2006919449585766/?hc_ref=ARR9yDQfr1CslMUN8YgbYnm8Ng0vN78Dh8OSvEW_4yxVSBzIMIsNiityDm9NCiJoPZs
I have a PhD in chemistry and +30 years of lab experience. I am having fun watching things I would have never though to do. This video particularly demonstrates a problem called amalgam corrosion. This is a nightmare for service facilities. Thank you!
Is this problem can be prevented sir?
@@brilianfifarsyah1780 ye dont go around carrying mercury
@@brilianfifarsyah1780 keep putting mercury in safe hands.
Imagine vaccine contain aluminium and mercury and is injected to baby body
@@ws3157 imagine your baby dying from smallpox
Things I learned today: Do not use an aluminum boat to cross a lake of mercury.
You can, just don't hit anything while you do it, and make sure the lake also hasn't got small puddles of acid on top
@@raffaeledivora9517 that would only happen in the wet season so it's all good
If you do you can rise, you can rise above the clouds, higher than stratosphere.
Aratan Aenor too late. I am now one with the boat tendrils
If you have to... make it quick
Welcome to another episode of: _I don't understand anything but this is cool._
Hahaaaa
you won't instead of i don't but yeah
@@antilogis6204 Saying "I won't" means that I will not try to learn, so I'll just watch it. Whereas, "I don't" means I do not understand today, so maybe research for it tomorrow. Both are grammatically correct.
@@chevyrupleix i clearly didnt write "I wont" but "you wont", saying that you, as a viewer, wont understand anything, since you're not presenting the episode i dont see the point in arrogating to yourself the title. If it isnt clear enough
Welcome to another episode of: You won't understand anything but this is cool. wouldve been neater imho. Peace.
@@antilogis6204 Oh, I see. I was referring in first-person POV though. Referring as "I" so the viewers read it as themselves, making myself out of the picture. The reason why the text is in Italic is because it emphasizes that it is a passing thought to whoever reads it rather than a person telling them that "they won't understand it".
I finished my chem class, and now I actually understand what's happening and the reactions that take place. Its nice to re-watch your videos when I understand what's happening : )
“Anyway, when I poke at it....” Spoken like a true scientist.
“You can see that it’s not structurally very strong.
@Mark English, I hope you speak it, Good sir.
@Mark r/engrish
Our chem teachers: you must write absolutely 100% in a formal matter or you lose points.
Scientists all the time: oooh shiny shiny pokey pokey.
@@tungstenwhizard4361 the more professional you are, the less professional you get. That makes sense 💯
image being a medieval alchemist and accidentally dropping some mercury on an aluminum piece only to see a fibrous ghost thing literally rising up from nothing while you eat your daily single piece of stale bread . I’d start to believe in magic too.
dude for real. stuff like this must have really seemed magical to alchemists. i really dig this channel.
did they have pure aluminium back then?
@@ali.e7860 prolly not you're right. but something would have happened.
@@ali.e7860 Not really no. There’s a famous story about how Napoleon would give his normal guest at feasts golden goblets, but for his exceptionally special guests, he would give them aluminum ones. Aluminum was much, much, much rarer than gold in the 1800s, I can’t even imagine it really being used in alchemy during the Middle Ages.
Sadly they did not have aluminum back in the Medieval ages. But it would be cool huh?
I like how he just casually drops "this process is also used in the production of MDMA" at the end there
To my credit; I had to look that up.
Car battery acid is used in the processing of cocaine
Methylenedioxymethamphetamine...say that 10 times fast
@@dryraincoat3161 i can't even say it once
Any videos on how to produce MDMA?
I think its really cool that you are this generations 'science guy'... I only found you recently but you have a certain effortless way of teaching and your curiosity makes it all the better. Well done and keep going!
For a project of mine, i wanna specifically
know 'Knowledge the Ancient-People WISHED they knew". Whetever its through Rebirth or Time-Travel, i wanna explore what pure Knowledge can theoretically do in a Bronze-Age-Setting!
ANYONE got lifehacks or pro-advice that isnt Soap?
Bill Nile the science guy
@@noone-os5pj😂
🎶 NILERED THE SCIENCE GUY 🎶
“then i quickly add some mercury and...”
*spawns lovecraftian creature in his lab*
A'mallgamash-teyion that comes from planet Mahr'curaiy
ph'nglui mglw'nafh cthulhu r'lyeh
@@toastfan23 ok nick
@@esotoire ok boomer
@@toastfan23 ??? How do you know twilightsoulja's age?
Today I learned that besides being toxic and liquid at room temperature, the properties of mercury also include being "super annoying"
I’m told it’s super obnoxious but it expands when you do this which I bet is fun to sit and watch
Annoying isn't the right word... working with Mercury for fun is the scientific equivalent of free climbing an overhang under a cliff face known for rock slides.
Mercury absorbs easily into the skin and bloodstream, and a small amount can be fatal.
Just because this is on UA-cam doesn't mean just anyone should play with it.
There are stories of scientists with even four layers of protection getting small amounts of Mercury in their system and dying.
Very cool element. Very bad for living systems. 😅 It's only annoying to work with if you value your life 😏
😂😂
it's so mad to think we used to play with mercury as kids lmao...
Step 1: Cover your bald head in aluminum
Step 2: Pour Mercury over it
Step 3: H A I R
Man 😂😂😂😂
LMFAOBA(SHSHSSH
Step 4: P A I N
Oooop
Lmaoo
I bet Nile’s parents are really proud of him and his efforts. If he was my son, I certainly would be.
@@gameblock9853 the podcast is really that name ...?
im his dad and im very proud of him
@@lontongtepungroti2777 mengtiber nampak HAHAH
I live close to his house and i'm concerned with the amount of glowing green barrels that go inside his lab
1:22
"So I took out all the mercury"
That one drop: "SEE YA"
Yesss!!! I was scrolling through hoping someone else saw it too & made a comment. Mercury is extremely toxic, I was just praying that this area is controlled & he was able to see the little drop that dipped out.
@@TheNamesAllison well it looks like he is rushing to catch it right away.
LMAO
Lmao im still laughing hahahah i must have rewatched it 5 times
"I'm FREEEEEEE!"
“Anyway, when I poke at it”
Glad to see the scientific method alive and thriving.
👍🏿 ua-cam.com/video/zvTu5OPwx7A/v-deo.html .
I'd love to see this performed in zero-g!!!
Imagine the structures that could form if the amalgam didn't have to fight against gravity.
That's a really insightful statement. I would also like to see that now, lol.
@@Sabamonster
I dunno about insightful, rather, it seemed to me to be the logical continuation of this kind of experiment.
Stick it to the ceiling
@@thatzombiesguyyy2076 ...what
@@thatzombiesguyyy2076 the mercury would fall off
I’ve watched this and other NileRed videos so many times, and it never gets boring
“Because Mercury is super annoying.”
“So it kind of does nothing.”
Priceless😂
Basically aqua
mercurial minds
Why is mercury me?
@@hlly20 oop-
Mercury isn't priceless its a key component in sensors and even remote control sensors ...thermometers ...electronics
This is how the chemistry should be taught in schools.
Yes!
It would actually be fun to listen to.
Facts this needs more likes
But if one person accidentally smellled or smelt the mercury they would die
@@deanwang6399 yh so we need to take the necessary precautions too
If chemistry was presented this way in school, I would never forget any reaction taught, ever in my life.
not every reaction involves making a tower of metal oxide.. you'll forget it anyway
@@aaronstone6183 bro he means by an experiment
Most reactions are pretty boring...
teaching us how to make drugs, I wouldn't forget
TELL ME ABOUT IT
Yep, back in the 60's I worked as an Instrument Engineer for the British Power Industry (CEGB) The Instrument workshop had a lot of 'Dexion' aluminium racking and shelving.. We used a lot of Mercury and had galvanised buckets of the stuff around - every morning, when we went into the workshop, we had the fun of inspecting the Oxide 'Trees' that had grown all over the racking,
benches and shelving......Nasty stuff, stay clear!!
imagine showing this chemical reaction to a medieval peasant
"WITCH!"
You'd probably end up on a burning stake
@Humphrey Hoganwhat? This is the weirdest troll ive seen (oh and bloodletting does work, it can cure most illnesses but it makes you very vulnerable and weak in your immune system and your muscles)
Good luck finding metallic Aluminum. If you could you'd become the richest guy.
Probably get you burned at the stake.
Alchemist 400 years ago : So then i added these 2 things together.
Villagers: BURN THE WITCH!!
Thats actually pretty accurate
Underrated comment
But that wasn't at the time of the salem witch trials which were in the 1900s something something and that wasn't 400 years ago
Why is this so true...
Arctiix Muun Pheoniix n-no??? the salem witch trials took place in the late 1600s. which is 400 years ago.
So we're just going to ignore the fact that he's growing string demons and calling it chemistry, ok
Looks so creepy watching it 'grow'
@@truncate7 wait until you see something else "grow"😏
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣I almost spit out my water😂😂
De-moon! 👆
This is how we make building in the future
The magic of chemistry is how the "magic" isn't made mundane by explanation, only more awesome.
Harry potter
"The silver stuff you see."
Everything's silver.
Yes
Wkipedia says that aluminum is a *type of silver*
😅😅😂😂🤣🤣
@@samtheking5759 wha-
@@OneDotLeader what?
@@maximkoneva6517 how is it possible
Yeah I can see how this might bring down an airplane.
That's Savage!
@@IndianFootballUltrasTV bruh
Yeah, I work as a aircraft mechanic, and mercury is (besides from a health danger) a metal that do not need to be heated up to fuse with other metals. Luckily, I haven't seen it while on the job. But (most of the time) it is almost impossible to know if it has fused together. Mercury creates an intercrystalline corrosion, which is only visible through x-rays or Ultrasound tests.
@Logan Adams 👍🏼👍🏼
This 1st what I was think 🤔
This is nightmare fuel, this is the coolest and creepiest amalgamation I've ever seen.
I so agree!!
What is nerd bird bitch boy doing in NileRed’s comments
These replies 😭🤚🏾
These replies 😭🤚🏾
@Urn Turn damn what the hell? Either you're talking to the person, in which case that's a real human fucking chill? Or you're talking to the cartoon character, which.......fucking chill?? Lmao
me watching this half asleep: "i like your funny words magic man"
😭 same but I'm disturbed by it
Sitting on my couch in my overly heated living room in my big oodie thinking the exact same thing as I struggle not fall asleep too early😅
fr
So that’s what “hair metal” is.
Genius
yes
Toxic genre.
@@taylorxwx2367 wat
@@commanderzavala9328 Toxic, get it? Mercury is toxic?
imagine if this happened on a colossal scale, like a giant tower appearing out of nowhere
It would probably blow over really quickly
Haha
scp material right there
It would be... really slow though? In the video, the reaction footage is sped up like 200 times.
The tower of do-
*tower falls over*
JOE I TOLD YOU NOT TO USE MERCURY AND ALUMINUM
Students: This is how chemistry should be taught in class.
Also students : didn't understand a single thing.
Yea
i feel the same in biology and physics
Pretty much.
That’s why they need to teach it
Even if some didn't understand it caught they attention and they still got some information of it and maybe some interest for chemistry. Even if its small its a lot more than what they get in class since in class its just boring theory and no practical part wich is the most important part in chemistry since even if you know the exact terms and stuff in practice you won't know how to do a thing. Also just teaching boring theory won't get students interest but make them hate it and never want to have anything to do with chemistry ever again.
PS: In my country we don't get teached practical chemistry only theory and i don't know how it is in other countries.
One of the first experiments we did at school chemistry was to weigh a piece of Al foil, then rub it with mercury. This left a molecule thick film of Hg on the Al and it started reacting. We left it for a week, by which time all the Al had turned into a grey powder. Weighed it again and noted the increase in mass.
Really practising using the balance and making observations.
Bowls of mercury, in an open lab, no safety kit. Still it was about 1960. Chris
Imagine doing this on a larger scale.
It'll get oxidised
itd be cool if the structure could hold it up properly
id like to see that
@Cosmic Gaming Redditors are a plague in modern society, if they existed during the middle ages, they would be burned.
@@the_nautillus9176 I bet that guy doesn’t even use reddit
@@re-blitz Probably.
"one highly illegal use of this is production of MDMA. Anyways i'll end the video here" if he continued he'll probably show us how to make mdma
I can show u
You just know there's some idiot somewhere chugging thermometers because he thinks it'll get him buzzed.
@Alex Wilmes Show me 🤝?
@@apack8730 sure
Alex Wilmes Write me an email👍
3:56 "which is the silver stuff you see"
He says in a frame where literally *everything* is silver
I literally said out loud “….but everything’s silver…”
Pal...look at the side of the plate on the right side, there is some silver stuff and ya that's what he was talking about
@@TerryJandu_official no need to be so condescending
*ok*
i think everything was grey and the corners were silver.
I am not a chemist nor anything even remotely scientific, (English grammar, gardening, art…) but I really enjoy seeing what people like Nile Red and the Veritassium scientist do. It’s vastly interesting.
I found it funny that this video just simply grabs my attention more then how school tries to explain themselves
@Crab In German Correct
You should watch grammar videos too
I learn more on this channel in 30min than I did in my whole chem class all year.
@@bluedotsrelaxingmusic2831 stfu everyone does not have English as their native language. Oh and btw, u didn't put a full stop in the end so just shut up.
@@artrisk1304 stfu, clearly you haven't seen the first 3 comments above me
Me at school: sleep during Chemistry class
Also me at home: stay late and spend hours watching Chemistry videos 🙁
Same!!!
Same 😂😂
the videos are actually interesting
same, my interest in chemistry started in university when i had actual experiements and not stuck with a class at the same reaction after 4 weeks
Just goes to show how shitty our education systems are
1:23 "So I took out all the mercury"
* ONE DROP FLIES OFF TABLE *
*PANIC ENSUES*
I wonder why there aren't more comments on this
🤣🤣🤣
@@MetaIIo I'm dead 🤣
NEWM
I watched this moment a thousand times omg
It’s interesting to go back to older videos like this, and it’s cool to hear the changes in NileRed’s voice.
Science:
My mind: Lets shoot an aluminum rocket into the planet mercury.
My mind:it looks like it could make some cool smoke,let’s boil it
Ur brain is on an atomic level
I thought it looks like tasty banana.
Lol 😂 😂 😂
@Jordon Rosen you stole that from one of the top comments but ok
Nile is like the fun version of Walter White
Walter White produced some stuff which was also fun.
He's the 2020's version of Bill Nye! For you younger generations that was a scientist that showed cool things about science. Lol
Jesse, we need to make fun chemistry videos
Jesse, I created a particle accelerator in a garage.
Jesse, we need to burn a gummy bear
you just randomly appeared in my raccomended, im not disappointed. this is really cool!
Same here
@I SugaMuda l sorry dude, im italian and the word is "raccomandazioni" so i spelled it wrong. no need to be passive aggressive
WHY DID I ONLY GET THIS RECOMMENDED TODAY!? It’s pretty cool
wow. what do you expect from youtube, empty feed?
stop this bullshit of recommended
@@leart78 language
It’s moments like these that remind me there are still good people in the world.
My son is 6 years old and after seeing this he watched a ton of your vids.. he says you are the best 'chemistry person' in the world. Great videos! Love 'em!!
This is how chemistry should be taught
Unfortunately most schools are underfunded. And most funds end up going to stuff like electronics, IT, wages, etc.
@@raerohan4241 which are also very important things.
"Unfortinately, a large portion of school funding goes toward paying the teachers."
@@derp195 teachers are already underpaid. You need better teachers, you need to pay more salaries.
@@takeshikovach5165 sorry, I wasn't clear. I was trying to rephrase what the other person said to point out how stupid it was. I agree, if you don't pay teachers well, you won't be able to keep anyone who is any good.
@@raerohan4241 Depending on the school, (particularly high schools), a significant portion of the funding goes towards the sports programs such as football and basketball, even though often those programs don't even lead to scholarships for the players and it's rare that the players do anything related to the sport after finishing school.
I know when I was in high school, our basketball court got completely redone despite being in fairly good shape, all while our text books for most classes were five to ten years old and falling apart. This is also a school where basketball was the secondary sport compared to football. In addition, the gym where that was done wasn't the one used for PE classes, (we had a much older secondary gym for that), and for a year or so after they did it they didn't even like for people other than the basketball team to walk across that gym floor.
That camera angle made me believe that tree was several feet high, then I saw ur hand come into frame and realized it was about as big as it 😂
Yeah, Camera angles really make a difference.
same haha, i thought it was like almost as high as the ceiling and it was almost about to give me major anxiety bc i have megalophobia but right as i almost clicked off the vid their hand came into frame lolol
Same here
Lol Same 🤣
Same
crazy to think this might be most popular thing nile will ever be involved in
Bruh I dont have a bad chemistry teacher but this made me like 100 times more interested in chem then I have been all year-
School never tells you that the folks who cut steel into wildly specific shapes for machines are also doing chemisty and geometry.
Its not your fault education doesnt know why its valuable anymore.
@@zachweyrauch2988 You are also the first person to tell me exactly why geometry is useful so thank you
Pool - geometry & physics 😁
@@zachweyrauch2988 do you really think the folks cutting steel and operating those machines know all the science behind it? No lmfao, they press button, machine go brrrrr. No one on the ground floor operating machines know how or why they work, they just know how to turn it on and use it, someone smarter who knows science built it for them lmfao
I guess you also weren’t interested in english
"yeah and you can also do something illegal with this....aaaaanyways, gotta go!"
He's produced substances classified by the DEA before, I don't really know how he gets away with it to be honest..
I'm definitely not complaining though, 'forbidden science' is ALWAYS the best.
@@skatterpro he's Canadian
@@JohnSmith-xm4dk That explains it.
@@yixnorb5971 Yes it's always been know that Canadians get away with any and every illegal activity. Police stop you for having illegal firearms in your possession? Show him your Canadian ID and you'll be on your merry way. The policeman may even guide you.
@@JohnSmith-xm4dk Yeah it's almost like different countries have different laws or something
Fact: in the old days, people used mercury to polish hats, and it would make them insane because it affected their brain. That is why the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland was called Mad Hatter, because of the mercury
I don't do this much, but thanks for 1k likes guys!! I appreciate it
you're almost correct. workers used mercury nitrate as part of the process of turning the fur of small animals, such as rabbits, into felt for hats.
i thought it was the vermillion they have used for coloring the hats
@@ISirSmoke ohh
@@ISirSmoke beaver hats
Lead makeup
1:21 That one little drop said "I must go, my people need me"
Me: *don't understand a single thing*
Also me: *still watching cause it looks interesting*
My dad said if I wanted to be smart go watch some videos and I thought about this and it was in my reccemondation
My brain hurt
Bruh some of the chemical equations shown were similar to the exam i took today
@@eton5541 it will only get crazier haha
@@flynncarter229 if you dont understand it, learn stuff until you do. Understanding chemistry is useful.
first guy to discover this:
OH NO GOD
WHY
GOD NO
JESUS CHRIST
PLEASE FORGIVE ME
WTF
Yoooooo😭😭😭😭
This is how you summon Cthulhu.
Yeeessss
@@skitsothefucc7507 x2
same
When I was a kid we broke a mercury thermometer. We had one of those post-ww2 formica tables with the extruded aluminum rim. We played with the little beads for a little while until Mom caught us. At one point, a bead rolled off of the table and down the aluminum. Hours later I came in to see one of those white filaments growing out of it. It was really long - maybe as long as 8" or so. I wiped it off and later when it was dinner time I found it growing again. We finally had to take a knife and shave off some of the aluminum to get it to stop.
Thanks for the explanation. :-)
Brian Godfrey that’s really neat 😁 thanks for sharing this
Thanks for bringing back to mind a childhood curiosity....playing with the mercury from a broken thermometer.
Isn’t that deadly?!
@@LFSPharaoh Apparently not. My brothers and I are all still kicking.
@@LFSPharaoh only if it gets into your blood or in your body in any way, its not recommended to handle mercury without gloves but you could get away with touching it with your bare hands
Watching this just thinking of how heavy metals react upon meeting each other in our bodies (nano level). Creepy there, but cool here in your video. Thank you
You mean like how aluminum and mercury are in the covid vaccines?
@@ronrico2620 That and more... unfortunately we get exposed to heavy metals regularly - aluminum foil, car exhaust, canned food, medications, paints, pesticides, etc.
@@freedomthroughspirit I'm pretty far away from that stuff. I do as much as possible to grow my own food. When I can't I buy from a local farm. Threw out all my Teflon pans and got cast iron and stainless. Can food myself
@@ronrico2620 Awesome, that's the way! Reducing exposure. Homegrown food, etc. 🌱🌱🌱🙏
I revisited this video for the same reason. Heavy metals are in vaccines too.
my chemistry teacher would be proud if she knew i watch this
i am proud of you friend :)
Mine would be too xD
is your teacher mr white?
@@mauricelamonte7906 no
@@Clavinohou are u sure ?
Now I understand why back in the day people thought this was witchcraft.
Duh
@@waldolemmer same comment from someone
This is nothing compared to Leonardo da Vinci's party tricks.
Yes.. because the word is there!
But nobody would say it's God's craft either and things go wrong only to blurt out " oh my God " or of astonishment!
Me not understanding a single thing:
*hmmm... interesting.*
Same.😂
@ᴘʟᴇᴀsᴇ ʜᴇʟᴘ. ᴋᴀʀᴇɴ ᴛᴏᴏᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴋɪᴅs as a huge chemistry nerd 😭 I can
@ᴘʟᴇᴀsᴇ ʜᴇʟᴘ. ᴋᴀʀᴇɴ ᴛᴏᴏᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴋɪᴅs ok bet 😈 u just gotta surrender ur human rights and we all good 😳😳
same
@@yeahspoiledmilk Me too. I can understand everything
This is probably the first Nilered video I watched; it's still epic
you joind youtube 17 h ago
@@FFMacker yeah this is my first comment after not being able to add one for years
This is how elsa built her castle of ice.
Lol yeah
Ohhhhhhh😂😂😂😂😂 you got it bruh.....
@ZINDAO bruh
@ZINDAO bruh
Oh-
"It didn't do much damage"
My guy is making Pokemons from elements now.
Haha!😂
I thought the same!
I caught a Zekrom in Pokémon GO when I read this OMG
@@RainbowKidTeeHee cool!
Wait...Zekrom is released in Pokémon GO?!
Dehydrated water
"Which is why you aren't allowed to bring mercury on a plane."
As long as you don't knock over a jar of hydrochloric acid, drop a paper towel on it, and then spill mercury as you're going to pick it up, I think the plane will be fine
And as long as it doesn't react 180x real life
lawl, I was looking for this comment.
But think of the chances! Even ONE time is TOO many times! Lol
@@kurtr1181 Ah, so we have to watch for the terrorists to use this trick on those 12 hour flights to Australia.
H
That was so neat, amigo. Thank you very much. Please, have a beer on me, or a kombucha…or maybe some yogurt if you don’t like those things…something fermented and delightful.
Ha
I’m really thankful you took the time to do this. I love chemistry. It’s so wondrous. I’m wondering how many more amalgamations there are now.
My friend, do you know why MDMA is really illegal? Not sure you know, but if you do the research and you see how our governments have been lying about unpatentable drugs for the sake of the greed of patented drug makers, it is very clear that MDMA was banned by wicked fools who accepted bribes from people who sell patented drugs. MDMA is safe but making it illegal makes the drug more dangerous. You know?
I know someone who tried that substance once and it was absolutely marvelous…he did not suffer any negative side effects and he had one of the most precious and delightful experiences he has ever had.
Don’t break the law though guys, he was being stupid really, because he could have been arrested at the place he was at when he bought it. The DEA is evil and they lie. They ban unpatentable drugs like MDMA, coca leaf and cannabis while lying about them. This just makes the world more dangerous and not safer.
I was so disgusted when I saw how they banned the coca leaf, a terrific altitude sickness remedy, right at the same time the patented altitude sickened drug known as, “Diamox” was first released. I had coca in Bolivia, it’s so awesome, perfectly salubrious with no side effects.
Think about how this mercury salt reaction could go wrong because the dishonest govt is banning mdma.
I mean, what if some foolish chemist gets mercury in the mdma because of his lack of understanding? That would be highly toxic. Merck initially sold MDMA as a weight loss substance and it was fine. There are no records that I have seen of it hurting people. Global populations of people who have used MDMA safely prove that the government is lying. That drug needs to be legalized because it could help people. Please let me vent one more thing…there was a psychiatrist in California who used MDMA for couples counseling and he said it was a wonderful tool for helping couples communicate. He was very upset when the government lied about it and said it needed to be “controlled.”
I am praying to God that He will put an end to this wicked scheme from Big Pharma and other stupid industry leaders, like the beer merchants in Maine who spent tens of thousands of dollars trying to stop cannabis from becoming legal so that they wouldn’t loose more money to it.
Thanks for your ear. Please tell your politicians that the drug war is foolish, a lie and a policy that only harms our country and does not help.
Peace to you
this is more interesting than everything i learned this school year
Same
@@ryucartel351 you must've been homeschooled
Yup
Idk man, the powerhouse of the cell is a great competitor
Follow your heart and focus on parts of science that get you excited and read lots about it.
The thumbnail legit looked like a silver wig
I was going to say the same. 😄
A messy wig that hasn’t been brushed
My grandma hair be like:
That's true😂
looks like the ring movie
An interesting extension of this might be to compare the physical properties of the remaining Al to that of a nonamalgamated piece. Say mechanical strength, or thermal/electric conductivity, etc.
I'm pretty sure that aluminum is badly compromised - the lockpicking lawyer did a video where he was basically able to crumble a beefy aluminum-bodied lock after amalgamating it with mercury.
👍🏿 ua-cam.com/video/zvTu5OPwx7A/v-deo.html .
@d☆__o A boomer smarter than you.
@d☆__o im sure you're liking the viewbots
My actual name is Amal 😭
1:23 that one drop went yeet
Aluminum was considered a very rare and valuable metal (even more valuable than gold and platinum) up until the late 1850's. It turns out, aluminum is not rare at all...it's just bound up in ores and oxides that needed modern chemistry to find methods to extract it from various oxides. So people from just 300 years ago would've thought you were insane for doing this.
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The pyramidal capstone of the Washington monument is made of aluminum..
It’s not even in Minecraft 😣😣😣😣😣
Napoleon had a set of Aluminum dining ware, which he was very proud of.
Chandler Wright lmao. Now we drink from aluminum cans and throw them away
1:23 Lmao, that one mercury ball was like "Bye."
Mans really went skrrt
Its called a globule
*to space*
That mercury went warp speed Imao
Adios
How to grow a ghost.
Samara Morgan/Sadako Yamamura
IKR! That's some serious J-Horror shit going on there. BTW, 0:16 - "...which is why you're not allowed bringing mercury on a plane." Are you French-Canadian or something, NileRed? It's weird, because you don't seem to have an accent other than the standard Canadian English 'ou's, so hearing you say "not allowed bringing" instead of "not allowed to bring" there was quite jarring. Anyhow, thanks for the amazing video. Subscribed.
666 likes
+Elementalist Lux: Already 671 now. 👿 BTW, cool profile pic. One of the most successful meldings of anime- and Western-style art I've seen. Where does that head come from?
Xd
This is wicked to watch, nifty to learn about the oxide layer on alluminum.
This was really cool to see, makes you wonder what his process could be used for.
Imagine this used in a movie, color the aluminum or dye it and have something look like it is growing, a little cgi and edits and it could be something nifty or freaky.
Ahh, so that is how we are gonna make string cheese for our terminator-overlords
Chese
@@xx_insert_cool_username_he6876 , thank you))
@@PolinaLee94 *robotic eating sounds*
@@xx_insert_cool_username_he6876 chesecak ☺
@@seratarsybagusibrahim5018 nom
7:30 “is in the production of mdma.......... anyway... i think that’s about it for this video.” JUST GONNA DROP THAT STATEMENT LOL
Next video: How to make MDMA
And he wasn't/isn't joking, either!!!
If you Google this reaction all the results are for MDMA. Researching this video was probably a nightmare.
What’s that?
@@alcyonae thats great!
Nowadays: this is science
Medieval times : DaRk MaGiC
Me: a bar trick
GetThoseMasks OffThoseKids and end Children’s church services with a Disney cartoon 🤔
Nowadays... you can swim outdoors in all these metals thanks “con”trails!!? (But some of us got to be guinea pigs and have our lives ruined by the practice runs ☢️🧬☣️🧬☣️🧬☢️
Same thing. Technology has the same appearance of magic, and it doesn't have a conscience so it can be used for good, evil, or mundane.
@@lfrn1532 such a constructive comment
@@lfrn1532 medieval age ?
Yes, they just made a statement and you replied with "fuck you"
And yes they are dumb for believing in a sky daddy
(I don't want to have another religious debate if you wanna be dumb then be dumb it's none of my business)
So this could be whats being pulled out of peoples bodys when they pass away.
That’s what I’m wondering
Nice. Looks like some form of nano fiber.
What electric properties does it have ???
E
@@regenpalkar4385 E
E
Yes
E
4:42
Discord: Hey… I like that shape. Do we still need a logo?
I don’t get it? Unless it’s not a joke
@@_s_5713 He's saying ( I think) that the structure formed at 4:42 is kinda like discord and he is saying on the behalf of Microsoft, do we really need a logo, when we can just make a 2d version of it (like at 4:42) (encouraging the "don't turn me into an oversimplified logo meme)
@@thewatcher8657 Wow excellent work good sir
archelogist with a metal thing scrapes off some random hair and discovers discord's ancient ancestor
😀
if only science taught in school was as interesting as this...
@@mementomori4817 yep I guess so ;(
in order to learn the cool stuff, you gotta understand the boring ones.
I never went to school.
@@ItsAzurian were you homeschooled?
@@anarchy8968 No, I'm saying in general.
2:00 IT'S SO CUTE FOR NO REASON, THE REFLECTIONNNN
brain: Eat it
???
Stomach: Oh god please no
Right??? It looks like it would taste like the dragons beard candy
Da fuc! That thing looks like a ghost._.
Low carb noodle recipe
Me:
My brain: mercury spaghetti
Me: *no*
My brain: MERCURY SPAGHETTI
Me: *NO*
My brain: ITALIAN ALUMINUM
Me: *NOOO*
LMAOO
OOOOOO
No.
The forbidden spaghetti 😮
Lmaooo
People are always thinking about how fantastical and insane magic would be in real life when we've got science here just waiting to be acknowledged.
Science can't make my hand shoot fireballs... Yet
Tbh science is literally just a process of understanding things, In a world with magic it would just be another science.
@@sbbillusionist yet
Science and magic are the same unless the magic is like very game breaking
@@smallmailman3992 exactly
Something about these videos is oddly captivating to me. I think it’s the minimal sound. Some channels think they gotta add music, and sometimes even sound effects, here, it’s dead air between narration, and it’s kinda all I need.
"I spun the thing around and when I noticed that the other side looked a lot cooler I was a little bit sad"
I CAN'T TAKE IT 😂😂😂
*starts talking about the production of MDMA*
"WELL thats about all the time we have today folks......"
I had no idea what MDMA was, so I Googled it... 😮Ohhh.
I was watching through my home page on subtitles once I saw mdma I clicked but that's when the video ended with a minute till video ends wtf
Well get on with showing how to make MDMA..
Michael Wade you didn’t know what mdma was?!?
Lmao
Right?
Thanks!
Can you imagine being an alchemist in the old days and finding this out....
Lol
Or being a pilot and finding this out
I HAVE MADE LIFE
@@meh9114 😂
Hmm this mercury stuff is pretty strong i wonder what would happen if I spilled on this aluminu- *HOLY FUCK WHAT IS THAT*
No matter how many videos I watch of this reaction, I think two things always remain identical.
1. It’s freakin awesome.
2. I imagine the tall reactions as *”Cousin It.”*
This is irrelivant but your name is cracking me up
@@katlyn9575 woulda been better if it was 'Holèllujah' in my opinion 🤷🏼♀️😂
lol the Addams will be proud
👍🏿 ua-cam.com/video/zvTu5OPwx7A/v-deo.html .
Nice description
Mercury: *eats gold*
39M People: InTeREstINg
clout: exists
desperate people: let thee suckle at thou teet
22 mil
SAcRiLEgiOuS
Zombie Rusher: make unoriginal joke
225 people: InTeREstINg
같이좀 웃자 외국인들아
I just sent this to my chemistry teacher from 10th grade. You do some amazing work dude!
not many people can still be entertaining even when you don't know what they're trying to do, hats off to you sir
@@andrefruth41 what
@@andrefruth41 no
@@cm5g
He's right, do your research
@@PheenieIcecreamluver
Absolutely yes
@@jad2290 no 😡
Nigel: A somewhat common but highly illegal use of this reaction is in the production of MDMA
Also Nigel: Anyway, I think that's about it for this video
Me: ...so close.
“Next week come back and watch me make MDMA”
What his name is Nile but then again I haven’t watched the whole video well that’s his channel name
Well I mean I know his name is Nigel but just say Nile it’s a little weird
@@simonwang8540 bruh u legit copied this from another comment and put it as a reply to what are u doing u stole this comment from Best Moments and he has 1.3K likes
@@BeetleSmasher dude chill it's not like they have 1k likes here, they only have one lmao
LMAO- I THOUGHT IT WAS THIS HUGE THING THEN HIS HAND CAME IN I- 😂😂😂
SJJSJSJSJSJSJ I THOUGHT IT WAS A MOUNTAIN
@Anomaly RIGHT 😂
SAME I thought it was like 6ft tall
finish your damn sentence
@@杰不是失败 Ikr you type out your comment there’s no need to act surprised and leave it there
Wait a minute.. the way the aluminum extrudes and creates “structure”… could this be applicable in 3D printing? The alum can”grow” to serve as degradable scaffolding for complex structures…
Level Up!
You gained +6 Brain Cells!
I want more but I'm not sure if I'm smart enough
Minus 100 million for all the MDMA I did back in the 80s 🤣
Brain Cells ≠ Random Information
Lmao
Elemental mercury is not very dangerous at all really. For anyone curious to learn more check out a couple mercury videos on Cody's Lab. He explains this better than I could.
6:38
NileRed: To show you how much damage was done, I cut this plate in half!
The cut was the damage
Damage the plate to see what damage was there. Later on: "the Mercury wasn't so amazing in destroying the aluminium"
*That's A Lot Of Damage*
yeah we watched the video too
I CUT THIS BOAT IN HA-
6:20 It looks like it was trying to save itself from falling. What monstrosity have you created sir?
Jay Renolds yeah it grew little legs to stabilize itself
At least we know it doesn’t have a brain....
Right...?
Can we have another mercury video, please? I'm interested to see if there's an Iron or Iron oxide amalgam. I was reading recently that mercury reacts differently during amalgamation when in a vacuum and may combine with things that normally float.