I love that you were alerted to a smell, at night with no one around, that your brother had never smelled before, and assumed it had nothing to do with you making one of the stinkiest things ever concocted.
@@madj7152tf were you expecting?? he wanted to make something that stinks, and thats what he did. you knew what you were getting into when you clicked the video and watched the intro.
I think on contrary - it's a humane thing to do ) True villains set up their most dangerous labs in "satellite countries" on different continent, and test stuff on unsuspecting public. Or start a war and test on enemy personnel.
"At one point my Cameraman had dropped dead from the horrific chemical smell, but I barely smelled anything so clearly I hadn't made enough of it" -- NileRed, totally not a Mad Scientist
Things I learned from this video: 1. Nile's olfactory nerves are apparently degraded from years of inhaling various chemicals he shouldn't. 2. When something says "here's how to make 100g of the worst thing ever", 1/400th of that amount will be fine. 3. Nile can afford to rent AN ISLAND?!
The description of the smell from the article at the beginning sounded like something out of a Lovecraftian horror novel. One about a smell so horrible, it drove people insane.
Hey Nile, I’m a chemist that works with H2S all the time and it looks like you became nose blind to H2S. It’s really common to become nose blind to H2S really quickly, unlike most stinky chemicals. The only way to tell is like when your brother told you that there is a smell
@@mrpepin let's be real.. he doesn't need to test. It is pretty clear he has some issue smelling stuff. In each video he does about smells you can tell
In small quantities, H2S is VERY detectable (some sources cite 8 ppb as the odour threshold), but in higher concentrations (above 100 ppm), it has an anaesthetic effect on the olfactory system, which is worrisome because at just a bit higher levels than those at which anosmia is induced (500+ ppm), it can be fatal. My high school chemistry teacher put it this way - when you can smell H2S, you're fine...it's when you CAN'T smell it that you're in trouble. So that would suggest that nose-blindness, as it were, is a temporary thing in this case (I know of no research that shows permanence, although exposure to H2S can have other permanent neurological effects), only occurring when there is a serious failure of safety protocols to protect against exposure to high concentrations of H2S. My own experience bears this out. I also worked a lot with H2S in my research days, doing environmental chemistry. Every once in awhile I'd run a process called CRS (chromium-reducible sulphur), wherein chromium (III) chloride hexahydrate (a green chemical) is reduced to chromium (II) chloride tetrahydrate (blue) in a mercury-amalgamated zinc column, and then the chromium (II) is used (with the application of heat) to react with sulphur minerals (particularly pyrite...I was using sediment samples and trying to find the sulphide mineral content therein), resulting in the evolution of H2S gas, which is collected in NaOH traps. The whole system is continuously flushed with nitrogen, to drive the evolved H2S from sealed flasks into the hydroxide traps, and then when the reaction is done, a spectrophotometric technique (Cline's reagent) is used to measure the concentration of sulphide in the trap. A little stoichiometry, and you can calculate how much sulphide minerals (or pyrite-equivalent thereof) were in your sample. When doing this procedure, most of the H2S gets trapped, but because the odour threshold is so low, even a little bit escaping will be noticed. I never became less sensitive to the smell though, even though I rarely ran the reaction in a fume hood, so I was getting exposed to extremely low levels of H2S on a regular basis.
"So, I guess you can call this a success. I made a portable nuclear reactor out of toilet paper, crushed uranium glass, and acetone, buuuuut the yield wasn't quite as expected and it's only about half as energy efficiency as a multi-billion dollar plutonium reactor. I'm, honestly, a bit disappointed, but at least it wasn't a total waste of time since at least I can power my house for a decade, but I'm a bit too lazy to monitor it that often. I'll just put this reactor in a sealed beaker in case I want to do something with it later." - Nigel, 2025
Nah, it's Canada, so it probably went like this: "What do you need an island for? You're not doing any illicit experiments or chemical weapons tests, eh? Don't worry, five hundred bucks." "Thanks"
"This actually kind of scared me, and I worried the stories might be true and I shouldn't distill it, but there was only one way to find out" A true scientist. Thank you Nile
Every time you do not post for a longer while, I always expect that I'll find a headline along the lines of: "UA-camr chemist arrested for creating a chemical that stunk up the whole town, causing x amount of casualties"
@@EternalTheMandarinGoddess Nile Red's spirit: after seeing my dead body, i kinda thought i should not do this anymore, but i decided to continue anyway
moral of the video is that Nile's sense of smell is a complete enigma to this earth and that he's probably the mad scientist our parents warned us about when we were all kids
I think you mean the mad scientist all those tv shows and movies warned us about when we were all kids, parents were telling us that they DIDN'T exist 🤣
This guy is such a pleasure to watch. I love that he uses his brilliance and expertise to showcase the many joys of chemistry to the viewers. I'm so grateful to live in a time when access to such content is readily available. Bravo! ❤
Also, Long Covid is a bitch, speaking from experience. I can no longer smell smoke, detect the acridness of alcohol, or (god help me) my cat's litter box. I can no longer trust my nose to tell me if there's something burning, if that glass on the counter is vodka or water, or if the litter is starting to stink. That last one just means being MORE clean, but the other two are really friggin disturbing. If Nile's suffering from LC, it might drastically change how he's gotta do things in the lab. He might not be able to trust his nose for scents that provide basic, practical input for every day work there.
Every history teacher: "We learn about history so we know not to repeat it." *Nile out here learning about history for the sole reason of repeating it*
@@BuhBaBiBeBo in order to make another Hitler one has to replicate the shit childhood he had and make the kid blame the jews for it otherwise not even clones of Hitler will turn out to be like Hitler because they did not have his life experience. And if someone like Hitler was alive in this day and age obviously they are going to be quiet about it and manipulate the news on what they say until they are completely ready to carry out their plan as you learn from the failures of others. Good tacticians read about tacticians who failed and why they failed that way they don't make the same mistakes. A insane person is not a problem a smart insane person who even knows how the laws work thus can navigate through them in their favor like Hitler is a problem. But society will never get better so people like Hitler will never be born as in kids with shit childhoods won't happen if society actually invested time into preventing the next Hitler as again a smart person with nothing to lose is dangerous
It's not smelling bad enough to me yet. *makes more of it to be sure* Love to see it, we love a good super-villain arc. Creating bio weapons with the boys is kind of a vibe.
As I was watching this video...I noticed the same thing. Honestly it gets kind of annoying...to hear sentence after sentence delivered in the same cadence. Even though I find it irritating...the content is still interesting enough that I don't want to stop watching.
not sure how i was chosen by the algorithm to see this video, but i watched the whole thing and love the work you do. thanks for showing me something new, and thanks for being so professional about it. great video.
Oh his nose is definitely broken. I bet it's not that uncommon among experimental chemists. He reminds me of a chemistry teacher sub we had at school, who'd destroyed most of his sense of smell. It was worryingly easy to egg him on to use *way* too much ingredients. He also gave us (7th graders) any chemical we wanted to take home, he didn't gaf. Just wanted to do his weird expetiments. He once painted the whole classroom and some of the slower students purple with iodine gas and got a talking to from the principal. The following week we heard a muffled boom from the direction of the class. No one was allowed in to that wing of the building and chemistry classes were canceled for a month. We didn't see him after that.
@@raloniusmaximus Lol, Why woukd your mind go there? Last thing we heard he was back at the uni the school found him from, doing God knows what. He'll end up working for anyone who gives him free reign, be it a company researching a cure for cancer or a terrorist group. If he doesn't blow himself up.
It's hilarious how resistant you are to this stuff. Birds could've been falling from the trees and you'd still be going "it's actually not thaat baad" :D
It’s not that he’s resistant, it’s that he’s probably had lots of close calls with taking random whiffs of acid fumes, and they’ve burned his nostrils, personally I have the same issue, when I was growing up I found a unlabeled jug sitting outside and my childlike curiosity got the better of me, and come to find out it was muriatic acid, I can barely smell unless it’s potent in the air, or it’s a sulfur compound like sulfer dioxide, my sniffer still works good for that in warning me of my inevitable death to get away
The trees start to droop. The birds fall from the sky. Arboreal animals drop. Bugs fall, and terrestrial bugs writhe on the ground. Worms emerge, writhing. Mammals vomit. Turtles drown themselves avoiding the stench. The fish are fine tho. Nile: It’s not so bad.
Reminds me of my old chemistry teacher (a woman with vile violet hair lol). She stuck her nose right into a bottle of bromine and was like ... "yeah, it might be a bit strong". While the whole class was already green in the face, running for cover.
@@Mike-oz4cv I think he was noseblind before covid was a thing as well. I think ive heard its not too uncommon for chemists to become desensitised to smell after a while
Honestly? He could totally have a condition that worsens his sense of smell, and just never realized because people can't really explain to you how strong something smells lol
In my native language, the "smell" and "feel" translates to the same expression. So if I translate it back to english, you can say "Nigel just want to feel something". Kinda funny.
Nigel isn’t always expressive in his intros, but he never looks happier than when he’s talking about dangerous chemicals. It seems almost like he has to hide his giddiness. Truly an early-industrial chemist in the modern day
@@CricketEngland This information was already public as he literally just looked up the paper that had the recipe for it. Also I highly doubt anyone is going to make this as it will make their entire house smell awful and it is also dangerous. Plus, this video is almost a year old now and I haven’t heard any news about this shit being used in a public place so yeah.
@@CricketEngland This stuff is not capable of killing someone it just smells really bad lol. I doubt anyone is going to make this stuff either especially when you can just buy fart spray from a store.
@@CricketEnglandit doesn’t matter because the info was already public before he made this video. If someone wanted to make this, they would of a long time ago.
@@CricketEngland This is way too much time and money and dedication for like the average person lol. You need the money for equipment and materials, the time to watch over this for 10-12 hours straight, the chemistry background to make sure you don't just actually d!e in the process, and a large amount to affect a whole lot of people (the incident in germany was like 400x the amount nigel made). It's easier to literally make a bomb or mustard gas if someone rlly wanted to do something LOL
I won't become a chemist through this channel but he HAS helped me understand how some things can simply not be degradable unless chemically processed. And has helped me understand the flow of how to break down the long chemical names which aren't even that bad now that I've heard them firsthand
I find that Nile is very personable in a little bit of an awkward way. He is also very good at explaining and gives a good amount of background knowledge without overexplaining.
Nile is now literally a mad scientist running experiments on a deserted island because they cant be done in populated areas. His super villain arch is complete.
It's because he has almost zero sense of smell that each consecutive stinky chemical gets worse lol. His olfactory senses are only an obstacle he's yet to overcome.
So instead of smelling one rotting body in my basement, i can put ten rotting bodies into a hydraulic press to concentrate the smell and make them smell tropical
@tekodoraudor Anyone can claim that. it's proving it as a fact that requires evidence. A claim is literally just that. So I guess in your mind, all married people with children just went to the sperm donor, huh?
I wonder what NileRed considers smelling "bad" considering how many experiments and tests he's gone through on WEAPONS-GRADE bad-smelling things and declared "It's not that bad :shrug: "
He can visit a college dorm toilet after everyone poops and he goes nah just smells like shit, it’s not really that bad. In the background you hear people vomiting from how gross it was.
I love how he managed to replicate the "crazy XIXc scientist experiment accident" down to a T, except he knew it gets worse downwind and away, while the original guys were just blasting through 100g of Acetone probably going "huh, smelly but also grapey" while the Victorian pedestrians were puking the snot out. PS.: unless I'm recalling wrong, didn't Nile make 0,2g? With supposedly 100g in original event.
It's so funny to me as I just played Arkham Knight in which Scarecrow produces tons of psychotic gas to intoxicate Gotham, this is his origin story 😂😂😂
I like how you can just see the smile drain from Nile's face when the cameraman tells him he is legitimately on the verge of vomiting. Just goes to prove that Nile really does take this stuff super seriously and is always thinking about safety. Keep up the great work!
@@nom3nnescio It's how experiements work.. you need to test them. What part of literally _renting an island_ to you is not taking it seriously? You're an idiot lmao
@@gluessb You would be surprised how much masters, diplomas, phds and professorships don't safe you from being a bit mad. Making stuff that is notoriously smelly in a wide radius, while you yourself don't have a lot of experience with similiar compounds, is a bit risky and could have gone bad. I'm all for doing it anyway, by the way, but one shouldn't pretend that it is no big deal. I'm doing chemistry in an urban center, you do have to account a bit for not bothering the neighbours. In our case, though, we have much higher emissions from a nearby recycling center, street works and a bread factory.
Yeah, your friend knew it was coming and knew what it was. Based on their reaction, I could easily see people panicking if everyone around them smells this horrible smell and nobody has any idea what it is or where it's coming from, and they can't seem to get away from it; even if only a few people vomited, that would make everyone else way more worried (and also more likely to vomit).
WOW, I TOTALLY never got the joke until this point, until YOU @@mallarieluvsgirls came along and TOLD ME. Thank you for sharing that very helpful information. It is well appreciated 😒🙄😒
I remember the episode when Nile said brown almonds have no smell at all. (They smell earthy and wooden) Maybe his sense of smell is a little bit less sensitive than most.
Honestly I think this man's nose is broken. Like idk if it's chemical or congenital but after so many things not smelling right to him, that man's nose is broken.
This is the most a Nile Red video has felt like Nile green. Like, renting out an entire island so you can make a smelly weapon? Incredible punchline, great editing
This reads like such a horror story. I love the sheer jankiness of reading a century old google translated chemistry paper written by chemists that caused a disaster doing exactly what you're doing and continuing on despite the warning signs, somehow finishing without disaster, and then renting an island to test out your new bioweapon. I love the work you do and this is truly your first big step to supervillainhood.
A "new bioweapon". 😂🤣😂🤣😂 I'm sure Fauci would find a use for it. Thioacetone could cause chaos in a densely populated city. I can see why someone crazy enough could use it as a bioweapon. The smell would drive people crazy. 👃
A "new bioweapon". 😂🤣😂🤣😂 I'm sure Fauci would find a use for it. Thioacetone could cause chaos in a densely populated city. I can see why someone crazy enough could use it as a bioweapon. The smell would drive people crazy. 👃
Dude really went and rented a whole island for the video. The power of curiosity is just nuts, but I guess that's the beauty of humans lol. Keep going for more wild stuff like this. Love to see it. Happy holidays everyone.
Nile definitely has like maybe 7 functional nerve endings left in his nose. Honestly armed with such devastatingly smelly substances, it's kind of a super power.
I’m beginning to think a lack of smell is just a side effect of being a chemist, as I have a very small reaction to stinky things. Most of the time I just shrug and say “it’s not that bad” as others look at me like I grew another head.
Not sure. I'm 4th year chemistry student, and although it's the same story with me and my not related to chemistry friends, other people in the lab where I work quite often complain about the smells (even while standing in an another room) I just don't really feel... Like aldehydes, amines. However it might be some genetics, as my mom and I don't think durian smells any bad, but my father amd brother find it to smell terrible.
@@kurkuma3460 could also generally speaking be that chemists might get some possible nerve damage or damage to sensory receptors such as taste or smell as they over time might inhale small amounts of corrosive chemicals. Reminds me of those ww2 nitroglycerin factory workers that inhaled the stuff 24/7 so that their blood vessels were so dilated that they would get massive whiplash when they took a vacation or something as their dilated blood vessels contracted and they lost consciousness. They needed to whiff the stuff like glue to survive the days without work.
@@kurkuma3460 I seem to be able to smell amines in lower concentrations then some people (about 10/20 people couldn't smell an amine contamination in a solvent that seemed obvious to me), but I don't find them as disagreeable as other people. Sure, it's a bad smell, but It doesn't make me want to leave the room like SO2 does for me. Seems to me that it is not an inability to smell those substances, but something else going on with freaks of nature like us. Edit: I once had to clean out a fridge full of rotten sea food in summer at 40 °C that a wedding party forgot. Worst smell I ever had to deal with, probably because of the biological dimension of the issue. Chemicals never had such an effect on me.
@@oskariKN25 I just made a comment about this- Nile took the vial straight to the nose and that's usually a big NO for exactly that reason... You're "supposed" to 'waft' it towards your nose to make sure you don't insta-fry your sense of smell
Imagine some innocent fox just living it's best life on that island and then in comes Nigel to unleash the smell of a warcrime Edit: holy shit I'd like to thank the academy
@@nyancat8436 just because they have a better sense of smell doesnt mean they get as disgusted as we do, take as example dogs who have amazing noses and can smell fresh poop directly without bating an eye, even curiously
When I first started learning German as a 10 year old, I never would have guessed my most common usage for it is reading obscure science papers from the 19th century.
It's such a Goldmine of stuff. Siegmund Freud in German is also so hilarious, just pure entertainmet of the highest order. 19th Century German Scientists were some real mad Lads.
The thing is basicly until WW2 german was the science language and they did many major contributions to science. Then came the nazis and the german-jewish scientist had to leave the country. After the war was over germay lost all of its scientific respect and their brilliant scientist, so english became the science language..
I am german and reading the script you've found made me laugh out loud. Just the way they describe such a horrible smell in a scientific manner is hilarious. Great vid tho, totally enjoyed it.
‘We are limiting ourselves providing some of our experiences which only provide rough estimates. Once the freshly prepared reaction product of 100g acetone […] was distilled, the smell spread in a short time to distances of 3/4ths of a kilometer into widely remote parts of the town. Residents of neighboring streets of the laboratory complained, that the smelly substance induced fainting episodes, nausea and vomiting. At a different time an amount of 30g had caused the same commotion as in this mentioned situation. ‘
Between this and the USA weapon gas, I think we can safely say Nile is simply resistant to smelly stuff. Having the camera operator and other people immediately go OH EW WHAT IS THAT while Nile is like "It's not that bad!" is the peak of comedy, though.
Every chemist and EMT I know has absolutely broken senses of smell. The EMTs I think is a coinsidence, but the chemists all have burned out their olfactory senses from years of abuse.
I used to work with the chemical that is used to give propane it's distinctive smell (so that you know when it's leaking) - that's called ethyl mercaptan, if I remember correctly. That stuff in it's pure form is pretty nasty. Let's just say that one drop of that on clothing and you have to burn the clothing or quadruple bag it and then dump it a very long way from any human habitation - you just cannot get rid of the smell. It smells like rotten garlic multiplied by a thousand. Just being around the vapours for an hour or so is enough that it will sit in your clothing for a week or more. I generally had to add 10 litres of the stuff to roughly 1,5 million litres of liquid propane...........it's that nasty.
Idk, man, my dog got skunk sprayed a couple months ago in his last potty break before bed and he was in the house for less than 5 seconds (he had to spend the night on the porch) and it smelled so bad I nearly puked and started having an asthma attack just walking into my living room! It's like skunk smell combined with a burning tire dump surrounded by enough rotten eggs to fill an average Walmart. Skunk spray could be used as a WMD as far as I'm concerned! And my sense of smell isn't very strong/good! Not as bad as Nile's but still not great. I would've sold my soul to get that stank out of my house, no joke! 🤢🤮🤮🤮
I thought propane used sulfar.. I always perceived it as rotten eggs. I play airsoft and it's the main gas source I use when playing outside.. Using it during indoor games is awful though, for obvious reasons lol.
Really worry about Nigels sense of smell. Its clearly pretty bad, but he always smells stuff really close to try to get some sense of whatever he is smelling. Being so close so many times is going to bombard his nose with a concentrated blast of the chemicals further damaging his sense of smell.
If you are worried about Hydrogen Sulfide escaping your apparatus, you can vent to a container of granulated magnesium. You might try powdered Iron, but I don't know if that would be good enough.
Nigel stands in a room full of mustard gas he's created. Paint peels from walls as his cameraman wails in agony, even through his gas mask his eyes and throat burn. Nigel: come on, its not that bad.
He DID just accidentally make and inhale WWI era tear gas and burn his sinuses really badly when trying to make the cherry flavoring from paint thinner. So, pretty on the mark
He holds a vial of neurotoxin vapor to his nose. Everyone in the surrounding province is dead. The cameraman is a smoldering husk on the lab floor. "It's not thaaat baad."
Well I’m a nerd so I understand most of it but I think he might be cheating/lying , I’ve heard that methylmercaptan could actually be the stinkiest substance .
kind of funny how the clips to hold the different glass connections together is the same thing people use to keep their bowls attached to their bongs lol
I don’t even think Nile’s smell is gone, I think after spending that much time in close quarters in the lab he got a little used to the smell. He obviously can smell, and identify odors correctly in other videos. I think this chemical is so terrifying because the people experiencing it had 1.) never experienced it before and 2.) weren’t prepared for the smell or source of the smell, so they had instinctual bodily reactions to foreign powerful smells.
That isn’t the only reason, in the video nigel used 0.25 grams and that was able to stink up a whole island and make them fear it going to houses across the lake, the german experiment had 100 grams…. If 0.25 is that bad, can you imagine 100? Incan totally believe that that amount would be able to knock people out.
Supposedly though the more diluted it is the worse it smells (something one of the papers in the beginning mentioned) he could still be resistant of course, but because he was so close to the source every time it might be that the higher dose in the air around him made it not smell as bad as for the camera man (who sure, might not have as strong of a resistance) because he was more like 8 feet away
I think it could also be a mental effect, like your own poop smells less disgusting. You've made that smell, the origin won't harm you. And everyone elses brain: dude get away that smells unhealthy. That effect should even be worse if you encounter that smell in the wild unaware of its origin.
I theorize that Nile simply is wired to be less sensitive to smell, much how as an extreme example, certain people with autism can be extremely sensitive to smell, sound, and sight [edit: (innately.)] I believe everyone is built differently, with different "settings." It's not that he is resistant or physically less able to pick up or distinguish scents, though factors like that could play into the final result. Rather though, again, I believe we're all just built differently and have such minor nuances when lined up in a spectrum that it's inevitable everyone is slightly more or less sensitive to all senses.
Yeah, I think exactly the same. My mother was a professor of chemistry in our local university and PhD. She almost couldn't smell anything (except extremely strong smells) and always asked my father or me and my sisters to smell food if it was already spoiled
yes propably. I think I lost a good part of my smell from sniffing on everything. all scientists are curios and do stupid shit. I smell on nearly everything that isnt known to kill me. The acids, bases and other stuff seems to had an effect :). There is also a hugh variance between people in the amount of receptors
They should have brought somebody with a very sensitive nose along, like somebody that makes parfumes or a woman with a very sensitive nose. I assume his cameraman is his friend that has filmed other (smelly) videos as well and thus probably has a bit more tolerance / destroyed nose than the 'average person'. :D
I was wondering if this is even as bad as that fart spray. That fart spray induced a more visible disgust on the victim, but it seemed to be a lot more and didn't seem to travel much
@@nicjansen230 Possible, though the spray was in much larger quantities, and Nile seems to be desensitized to it, from the cameraman's reaction to a pretty small amount of it, I'd say it's definitely worse than the spray. The main issue would be keeping it completely air tight so that none of the smell leaked out during transport or when sitting there.
Toward the end, I was wondering what Kim Jong-un would think. They are generally considered to have the worst collection of chemical weapons in the world, and I could imagine him dispensing 100's of metric tonnes of the stuff on the DMZ when there's a strong downwind to Seoul.
I have 20+ years of experience in chemical industry. I used to work with phosgene and other funny chemicals in different chemical plants. Now I work for a company producing pool chemicals. I have practically no sense of smell and I had none for years now.
i have a pretty bad sense of smell and today my science class was putting liquids(teacher wouldn't say what they were) on hotplates and everyone eventually had to leave the room it was so bad but i couldn't even really smell it except for a couple of random moments(bad moments terrible smell) and i simply finished the lab and submitted my work
You wouldn’t happen to have a spare gallon would you? (asking for a friend)
Im sure he does
Package thieves get ready for chemical warfare
OH LORD YES!!!
we gotta get macaulay culkin to get a whiff of this
Another thief glitter trap in mind? :)
Nile really read multiple credible sources about the horrors of thioacetone and thought "nah these guys were just weak, I'm built different"
And he was right lol
Yea he is.
I'll admit, when I hear a story about something that smells so bad it cleared out an entire town, part of me wants to know what it smells like.
Dude got built-in gas masks.
To be fair, azidoazide azide turned to be overblown, for example.
Mad respect for Nigel's friend/camera guy. Suffering so the rest of us may know the power of this chemical
our boy reggie
Lmao
And the power of Nigel himself.
I was afraid when he left the camera, he lost his cameraman invincibility.
Yes
As a fan of the channel, I’ll admit that there was a moment of relief when he went outside and I didn’t recognize the buildings near his lab
I love that you were alerted to a smell, at night with no one around, that your brother had never smelled before, and assumed it had nothing to do with you making one of the stinkiest things ever concocted.
Right??? I got such second hand anxiety when he just went right back to the experiment lol
Wasted 43 mins of my life. Useless experiment
@@madj7152tf were you expecting?? he wanted to make something that stinks, and thats what he did. you knew what you were getting into when you clicked the video and watched the intro.
@@madj7152 As Jenna Marbles said, "This content is free on the internet; lower your expectations." 😂
@madj7152 you must be really fun at parties.
Renting an island to test a bio weapon is but the first step into supervillainhood
I think on contrary - it's a humane thing to do )
True villains set up their most dangerous labs in "satellite countries" on different continent, and test stuff on unsuspecting public. Or start a war and test on enemy personnel.
@@andrewphi4958 Oh my god how boring can you be, it's a fucking joke
@@andrewphi4958 What about the animals that have to endure the smell lol
yeah up next - mixing coca leaves and ethanol lol
@@WitchMedusa what's the difference? like bio weapons are like bacteria or whatever while chemical weapons are gasses/liquids etc?
"At one point my Cameraman had dropped dead from the horrific chemical smell, but I barely smelled anything so clearly I hadn't made enough of it" -- NileRed, totally not a Mad Scientist
NileGreen
Nilegreen.
@@ArloMathis parallel universe Nile
when NileRed became NileGreen:
I have been summoned
Judge: "Why did you continue with this experiment?"
Nile: "Your Honor, there was the only one way to find out."
Nile core
"you pleed not guilty" 💀
@@AggressiverZT "pleed" is wild
@@deadlystalker7483you’re wild
@@CL0WN0XD yesh I ahm👅
The amount of times he goes “what’s that horrible smell?”, shrugs, and goes back to his experiment is kind of hilarious
He probably burned his olfactory receptors while on his chemistry adventures.
If smell weapons ever become a thing then nile is gonna be a supersoldier.
Watch this man gas his entire neighbourhood in only 45 minutes
@@jakobmax3299 they exist
im thinking mark is gunna wanna make or turn a vape pen into a dispenser for scambait glitterbomb
Mark my words, one day Nigel is going to make the area within 500 miles of his lab completely uninhabitable.
My sides are gone. Just imagine it.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
NileZoneRouge
"Today I decided to make a hydrogen bomb, because I really just don't believe it's as bad as it's claimed"
"Today, I'm making Sarin."
Things I learned from this video:
1. Nile's olfactory nerves are apparently degraded from years of inhaling various chemicals he shouldn't.
2. When something says "here's how to make 100g of the worst thing ever", 1/400th of that amount will be fine.
3. Nile can afford to rent AN ISLAND?!
Making bank on those shorts. Smart move, but I prefer these long form videos.
Apparently an island is ~850 bucks
@@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 me too
@@theunknown4834 there are thousands of islands in Quebec, they're really not very expensive.
After the diamond water schtick are we really surprised? 😂
The description of the smell from the article at the beginning sounded like something out of a Lovecraftian horror novel. One about a smell so horrible, it drove people insane.
The Smell out of Space
Hey Nile, I’m a chemist that works with H2S all the time and it looks like you became nose blind to H2S. It’s really common to become nose blind to H2S really quickly, unlike most stinky chemicals. The only way to tell is like when your brother told you that there is a smell
L nose sense
This comment needs to be upvoted for Nile to see (and test if he is really nose blind to H2S).
@@KnitBrain or W depends
@@mrpepin let's be real.. he doesn't need to test. It is pretty clear he has some issue smelling stuff. In each video he does about smells you can tell
In small quantities, H2S is VERY detectable (some sources cite 8 ppb as the odour threshold), but in higher concentrations (above 100 ppm), it has an anaesthetic effect on the olfactory system, which is worrisome because at just a bit higher levels than those at which anosmia is induced (500+ ppm), it can be fatal. My high school chemistry teacher put it this way - when you can smell H2S, you're fine...it's when you CAN'T smell it that you're in trouble. So that would suggest that nose-blindness, as it were, is a temporary thing in this case (I know of no research that shows permanence, although exposure to H2S can have other permanent neurological effects), only occurring when there is a serious failure of safety protocols to protect against exposure to high concentrations of H2S.
My own experience bears this out. I also worked a lot with H2S in my research days, doing environmental chemistry. Every once in awhile I'd run a process called CRS (chromium-reducible sulphur), wherein chromium (III) chloride hexahydrate (a green chemical) is reduced to chromium (II) chloride tetrahydrate (blue) in a mercury-amalgamated zinc column, and then the chromium (II) is used (with the application of heat) to react with sulphur minerals (particularly pyrite...I was using sediment samples and trying to find the sulphide mineral content therein), resulting in the evolution of H2S gas, which is collected in NaOH traps. The whole system is continuously flushed with nitrogen, to drive the evolved H2S from sealed flasks into the hydroxide traps, and then when the reaction is done, a spectrophotometric technique (Cline's reagent) is used to measure the concentration of sulphide in the trap. A little stoichiometry, and you can calculate how much sulphide minerals (or pyrite-equivalent thereof) were in your sample. When doing this procedure, most of the H2S gets trapped, but because the odour threshold is so low, even a little bit escaping will be noticed. I never became less sensitive to the smell though, even though I rarely ran the reaction in a fume hood, so I was getting exposed to extremely low levels of H2S on a regular basis.
Nile is two things:
1. A real smart fella
2. A real fart smella
Smart fella, fella smart, it takes a smart fella to make a smell a fart.
@@KB-ke3fi What did you try to say, fella?
A real thioacetone smella
Underrated comment
One smart fellow. He felt smart.
Two smart fellows. They felt smart.
Three smart fellows ...
I love how he interchangeably goes from scared that its not gonna work to scared that it is gonna work
🤣🤣💯
Fr
....itz just stupid....really wanna do such thing, while the warning signs are alrdy alarming
And the end result was "kind of worked."
This is how scientists create disaster strictly from curiosity
"Bro is smells"
"nah its not my Thioacetone its sewage or something else"
I absolutely love Nigels tone, he constantly sounds like he’s going to give you some slightly disappointing news but then pretty much never does.
"So, I guess you can call this a success. I made a portable nuclear reactor out of toilet paper, crushed uranium glass, and acetone, buuuuut the yield wasn't quite as expected and it's only about half as energy efficiency as a multi-billion dollar plutonium reactor. I'm, honestly, a bit disappointed, but at least it wasn't a total waste of time since at least I can power my house for a decade, but I'm a bit too lazy to monitor it that often. I'll just put this reactor in a sealed beaker in case I want to do something with it later." - Nigel, 2025
@@droughdough that reactor then proceeds to go nuclear after a month in the beaker, leveling Nigel's lab and anything within a fifty mile radius.
@@InsertedFeels chernobyl 2: Nile Style
@@droughdough and then he proceeds to use the reactor in a ship to go to Uranus to react all of the methane gas there
He sounds like the “movie phone” guy from the 90’s
I like to imagine the conversation that transpired when renting the island.
"What do you need an island for?"
"Chemical weapon tests"
"o.k."
Tsar Bomba reference
Nah, it's Canada, so it probably went like this:
"What do you need an island for? You're not doing any illicit experiments or chemical weapons tests, eh? Don't worry, five hundred bucks."
"Thanks"
I love this comment
"you'll see."
@@SkibidiLabubucastle bravo you mean
"This actually kind of scared me, and I worried the stories might be true and I shouldn't distill it, but there was only one way to find out"
A true scientist. Thank you Nile
It’s the scientific method: fuck around and find out.
No. That's not true scientist. He's just a utuber doing this just for views.
true mad scientist
Show me a chemist that lost his sense of smell without telling me he has no sense of smell.
Every time you do not post for a longer while, I always expect that I'll find a headline along the lines of: "UA-camr chemist arrested for creating a chemical that stunk up the whole town, causing x amount of casualties"
Wait let me see if it's in the list on what's gonna happen
Or even worse "UA-camr chemist found dead after creating deadly chemical"
@@EternalTheMandarinGoddess Nile Red's spirit: after seeing my dead body, i kinda thought i should not do this anymore, but i decided to continue anyway
Nilegreen moment
Anybody else see the writing in the mix at 6:22 ?
Imagine being friends with Nile, and you get a text saying "I've just rented a private island, wanna shoot a video about something smelly?"
I'm gonna arrive suited up as if I am going to the heart of the Chernobyl disaster.
"The only weapon for self defense I brought is this splash potion from the pits of the catacombs"
@@TheAnnoyingBoss DnD character. Chemist with dead sense of smell. They call him Nile The Red
Don’t tell MrBeast 💀
@@nightglide_
Last to pass out wins $100,000 lmao
moral of the video is that Nile's sense of smell is a complete enigma to this earth and that he's probably the mad scientist our parents warned us about when we were all kids
hes probably fucked up his nose from years of smelling chemicals
I think you mean the mad scientist all those tv shows and movies warned us about when we were all kids, parents were telling us that they DIDN'T exist 🤣
wtf kind of parents do you have
my parents never warned me of mad scientists hahaha
HE EVEN GOT AN ISLAND TO DO HIS EXPERIMENTS
LITERAL MAD SCIENTIST
This guy is such a pleasure to watch. I love that he uses his brilliance and expertise to showcase the many joys of chemistry to the viewers. I'm so grateful to live in a time when access to such content is readily available. Bravo! ❤
When he said "I rented an entire island" I had to look if this was actually a NileGreen video.
Frr 😭
theres no differance. its just nilegreen is more hyper.
Just Mr.Beast from the universe with no morals
"TODAY WE RANTED THIS WHOLE ISLAND TO GAS PEOPLE"
Subscribe js bcuz lol goal 1K
@@virulentea4556 mr hitler
Honestly? After years of harsh lab chemicals, it's entirely possible that Nile's sense of smell is basically shot at this point.
@@operationcrossroads3584 Probably easier for someone who's got a Bachelor's in Biochemistry than a regular joe.
Exactly
Also, Long Covid is a bitch, speaking from experience. I can no longer smell smoke, detect the acridness of alcohol, or (god help me) my cat's litter box. I can no longer trust my nose to tell me if there's something burning, if that glass on the counter is vodka or water, or if the litter is starting to stink. That last one just means being MORE clean, but the other two are really friggin disturbing.
If Nile's suffering from LC, it might drastically change how he's gotta do things in the lab. He might not be able to trust his nose for scents that provide basic, practical input for every day work there.
based
I'm you 1k like 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
Every history teacher: "We learn about history so we know not to repeat it."
*Nile out here learning about history for the sole reason of repeating it*
@@Epical_TV Hitler
Well science is repeatability of reactions from other people's history papers on their own experiments
@@BuhBaBiBeBo in order to make another Hitler one has to replicate the shit childhood he had and make the kid blame the jews for it otherwise not even clones of Hitler will turn out to be like Hitler because they did not have his life experience. And if someone like Hitler was alive in this day and age obviously they are going to be quiet about it and manipulate the news on what they say until they are completely ready to carry out their plan as you learn from the failures of others.
Good tacticians read about tacticians who failed and why they failed that way they don't make the same mistakes. A insane person is not a problem a smart insane person who even knows how the laws work thus can navigate through them in their favor like Hitler is a problem. But society will never get better so people like Hitler will never be born as in kids with shit childhoods won't happen if society actually invested time into preventing the next Hitler as again a smart person with nothing to lose is dangerous
But.. but.. it's science, not history, so it has to be repeated 😄😂
@@AntonioNoack science experiment to make Nigel have a actual sense of smell?
It's not smelling bad enough to me yet.
*makes more of it to be sure*
Love to see it, we love a good super-villain arc. Creating bio weapons with the boys is kind of a vibe.
I think we need to establish a baseline for Nigel’s sense of smell by having him smell surströmming.
Is there any way to bring this to his attention, i especially wanna have a side by side with his cameraman :D
I mean I feel this video has made it clear his nose is broken.
Yes please that stuff is so bad.
My parents apparently ate that stuff inside and the smell stayed for a while.
That's a really good idea
Maybe he can extract something useful that developes through the fermantation. Maybe he can make grape soda out of it xD
Nile really leaves an ultra dramatic pause in the middle of 99% of sentences
Great way to help with ease of editing too, doncha know.
he’s worse than obama
It always feels like he's about to say that something went wrong
As I was watching this video...I noticed the same thing. Honestly it gets kind of annoying...to hear sentence after sentence delivered in the same cadence. Even though I find it irritating...the content is still interesting enough that I don't want to stop watching.
He´s a true drama queen.
I love this series of a slightly anosmic chemist's perilous quest to find a smell that moves him
why did i laugh so hard
slightly
"Perfume: The Story of a Murderer", but it's a modern comedy instead of a horror story.
Poetically and hilariously phrased. Love it!
"slightly anosmic", lul... the dude wouldn't smell a doom fart point blank into his nostrils
not sure how i was chosen by the algorithm to see this video, but i watched the whole thing and love the work you do. thanks for showing me something new, and thanks for being so professional about it. great video.
i feel like he could breathe 100% conncentration mustard gas and be like: "its not that bad i dont get all the stories about it"
Oh his nose is definitely broken. I bet it's not that uncommon among experimental chemists.
He reminds me of a chemistry teacher sub we had at school, who'd destroyed most of his sense of smell. It was worryingly easy to egg him on to use *way* too much ingredients. He also gave us (7th graders) any chemical we wanted to take home, he didn't gaf. Just wanted to do his weird expetiments.
He once painted the whole classroom and some of the slower students purple with iodine gas and got a talking to from the principal. The following week we heard a muffled boom from the direction of the class. No one was allowed in to that wing of the building and chemistry classes were canceled for a month. We didn't see him after that.
@@VikingTeddy they can't just leave the entrance entire school curious for life about what exactly happened 💀
@@VikingTeddy either a failed experiment or a suicide
@@raloniusmaximus Lol, Why woukd your mind go there? Last thing we heard he was back at the uni the school found him from, doing God knows what.
He'll end up working for anyone who gives him free reign, be it a company researching a cure for cancer or a terrorist group. If he doesn't blow himself up.
@Viking Teddy sorry the booms made me think the worst, glad he isn't dead and hopefully he can put his knowledge to good use lol
Nile: *directly smells glass* "it's just not that bad"
Nile's friend like 20 feet away: *_dying_*
no comments h o w
lmao
@@sammerzimmer my question is how my random comment got 600 likes in less then 2 hours
@@upsidedown-pug1974 because its a popular UA-cam channel????
Luck and funny
I wonder how many people vomiting it will take until Nile realizes that he broke his sense of smell lol
Bear faints from the smell. Nile - "Come on, it is no THAT bad."
Not surprising seeing with how he handles chemicals all day and seems to not be worried too much sticking his nose up to some unknown chemical.
100g bro and that was like 0.25g bro no wonder
@@Rafathegam231 Like imagine it 400 times as bad INSIDE of a back then bigger city
@@Rafathegam231 pfp = scary
Seriously when you started paddling to the island I prediced it and I still laughed so hard I almost hurt myself. Thanks NikeRed. Love your vids. ❤
It's hilarious how resistant you are to this stuff. Birds could've been falling from the trees and you'd still be going "it's actually not thaat baad" :D
Imagine had he not just made .1% of the original amount
It’s not that he’s resistant, it’s that he’s probably had lots of close calls with taking random whiffs of acid fumes, and they’ve burned his nostrils, personally I have the same issue, when I was growing up I found a unlabeled jug sitting outside and my childlike curiosity got the better of me, and come to find out it was muriatic acid, I can barely smell unless it’s potent in the air, or it’s a sulfur compound like sulfer dioxide, my sniffer still works good for that in warning me of my inevitable death to get away
The trees start to droop. The birds fall from the sky. Arboreal animals drop. Bugs fall, and terrestrial bugs writhe on the ground. Worms emerge, writhing. Mammals vomit. Turtles drown themselves avoiding the stench. The fish are fine tho.
Nile: It’s not so bad.
Lol ya.. Im the same way as him .. really resistant to bad smells
The trees could be the one falling and he'd be like "not that bad"
Nigel is by far the most extreme example of nose blind while still actually being able to smell at all
Did he have COVID19 and didn’t recover from it?
It's like being a fireman and not being able to feel heat.
Reminds me of my old chemistry teacher (a woman with vile violet hair lol). She stuck her nose right into a bottle of bromine and was like ... "yeah, it might be a bit strong". While the whole class was already green in the face, running for cover.
@@Julia68yt
and how it turned out?
did she die?
@@Mike-oz4cv I think he was noseblind before covid was a thing as well. I think ive heard its not too uncommon for chemists to become desensitised to smell after a while
Nile is truly on a journey of "I just want to smell something"
His nose is broken!
Hahaha, exactly what I was thinking. This is the olfactory version of cutting yourself just to feel something 😄
Honestly? He could totally have a condition that worsens his sense of smell, and just never realized because people can't really explain to you how strong something smells lol
one nose man?
In my native language, the "smell" and "feel" translates to the same expression. So if I translate it back to english, you can say "Nigel just want to feel something". Kinda funny.
Nigel isn’t always expressive in his intros, but he never looks happier than when he’s talking about dangerous chemicals. It seems almost like he has to hide his giddiness. Truly an early-industrial chemist in the modern day
I just watch this channel to reaffirm our boy hasn't died from something horrible.
check out safety third, it's a podcast he does with other sciencetubers
This guy😂😂😂😂😂 doesn’t have any nostrils 😂😂😂
@@eliudelliud2810 men hate nostrils. So I’ve heard.
@@Le_dank_memez Bold of you to assume I don't already lol
honestly now i understand why people think that a youtuber died when they havent uploaded for a while
the fact that he rented an island makes it feel like a crazy holiday special episode of nilered
anime beach episode
Maybe it was Halloween belated special!
Made an island unfit for birds, you mean!!!
Its the nilered beach episode lmao
He went all out on the budget.
Remember, this is only 0.25g of this stuff. The people in the experiment made 400 times the amount Nile Red did. It’s insane how potent it is
@@CricketEngland This information was already public as he literally just looked up the paper that had the recipe for it. Also I highly doubt anyone is going to make this as it will make their entire house smell awful and it is also dangerous. Plus, this video is almost a year old now and I haven’t heard any news about this shit being used in a public place so yeah.
@@CricketEngland This stuff is not capable of killing someone it just smells really bad lol. I doubt anyone is going to make this stuff either especially when you can just buy fart spray from a store.
@@CricketEnglandit doesn’t matter because the info was already public before he made this video. If someone wanted to make this, they would of a long time ago.
@@CricketEngland
This is way too much time and money and dedication for like the average person lol. You need the money for equipment and materials, the time to watch over this for 10-12 hours straight, the chemistry background to make sure you don't just actually d!e in the process, and a large amount to affect a whole lot of people (the incident in germany was like 400x the amount nigel made). It's easier to literally make a bomb or mustard gas if someone rlly wanted to do something LOL
@@CricketEngland Your fighting a one sided argument so I suggest you shut up and go about your day.
Did I just watch a 43 minute chemistry video at my own will
Nile- I had to keep my eye on it very closely
ALSO Nile - SO WHEN I WASNT LOOKING....
That what I was about to say😂
no nicotinamide in my drinks, thanks
*S O I R A N O U T S I D E*
@@Kolateak_
I was like WDYM you went outside
@asmasaleh2432das ist ein englisches Video
I feel like nile has just burnt off all of his receptors from using strong chemicals and now is immune to strong smells
you're probably right 😭
You likely aren't wrong.
Probably needs to stop sticking his nose so close to chemicals.
exactly what I was thinking. Bro has no sense of smell left.
Very likely that’s the case. lol
Lmao, I love how Nile's smelling the flask directly going "that's not too bad", while the cameraman is just edging away.
I was edging this morning
I’m convinced Nile has burned his nose senses away and can’t smell anymore
Nigel *after years of burdening his nose with unholy chemicals* : idk if it smells that bad really 🤷♂️
yah all of his senses are gone from hydrochloric acid burning his nostrils...
Nigel is an SCP at this point... This much exposure shouldn't leave a [REDACTED]
0 relations at all 🗿
@@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890 fair point but it's youtube so who cares
I mean, it's all relative, right?
Nile: *deep sniff* yeah i mean, it smells not so bad
cameraman: *literally dies*
Nigel's olfactory sensors just got blasted into oblivion with all of these stinky chemicals lmao
The day Nile think's the chemical he made smells bad we all die
his nose internals has been burned off from the experiments.
His nostrils have declined from the frequent inhalation of noxious gasses. I bet he barely knows when someone farts!
and it's not the first time he's made something and had this same reaction
I can't understand how I've managed to be entertained by this channel for YEARS without understanding anything he's talking about.
Same, but i think its the educational part. Knowing what some chemicals csn and cant do.
I won't become a chemist through this channel but he HAS helped me understand how some things can simply not be degradable unless chemically processed. And has helped me understand the flow of how to break down the long chemical names which aren't even that bad now that I've heard them firsthand
I find that Nile is very personable in a little bit of an awkward way. He is also very good at explaining and gives a good amount of background knowledge without overexplaining.
Also his ideas are like chemistry class on crack, very entertaining
You know what smells are right? Then you do understand...
an·os·mi·a
noun
the loss of the sense of smell, either total or partial
Nile is now literally a mad scientist running experiments on a deserted island because they cant be done in populated areas. His super villain arch is complete.
For real I thought for sure he was going to make the island forever unbearable and is that spooky island that no one goes to in 20-30 years.
He still needs a volcano!
@@Boostocalypse "this city used to have a popualtion of 50,000, now its a ghost town"
I was ready for Nile to just casually say 'so I decided to resurrect Baumann and Fromm to ask them about thioacetone'
Same XD
same lol
ah, yes. what every smart scientist should do when they have a question to ask
...but it turns out they only speak German so I need to use Google translate 😂😂😂
same omgg 💀💀
I love how nile is constantly trying to create bad smells while it has been proven multiple times that he has almost zero sense of smell whatsoever 😂
My guess is that during one experiment or another some chemicals got into his nose and burnt his sense of smell
He wants to smell something
It's because he has almost zero sense of smell that each consecutive stinky chemical gets worse lol. His olfactory senses are only an obstacle he's yet to overcome.
Maybe he really wants to experience whatever other people are talking about
Basically me. XD
Always great to be told to look for the source of a smell when you can't smell jack all.
So instead of smelling one rotting body in my basement, i can put ten rotting bodies into a hydraulic press to concentrate the smell and make them smell tropical
At this point, I would like video evidence that NileRed is capable of smelling anything nasty at all.
He has no olfactory nerve. He sniffed to many chemicals and crystallized them 😂
@@Olsenator pics or it didn’t happen 😂
He gagged at putrescine I think
@tekodoraudor pregnant women?
@tekodoraudor Anyone can claim that. it's proving it as a fact that requires evidence. A claim is literally just that.
So I guess in your mind, all married people with children just went to the sperm donor, huh?
I like how Nile's first reaction to reading that this chemical is hellish and has the worst smell in the world is to try and make it
And then act like it’s nothing much when he first made it.
@@CausingChaos. I was scared he was gonna try to drink it
100% will be responsible for the future zombie outbreak
This isn't true. His first reaction was to buy it.
@@adamkares7549 and you can smell if a horde is within 500km
I wonder what NileRed considers smelling "bad" considering how many experiments and tests he's gone through on WEAPONS-GRADE bad-smelling things and declared "It's not that bad :shrug: "
He's probably lost his sense of smell.
Who needs smell anyways
We'll know after he tests his thinner-soda
He can visit a college dorm toilet after everyone poops and he goes nah just smells like shit, it’s not really that bad. In the background you hear people vomiting from how gross it was.
I love how he managed to replicate the "crazy XIXc scientist experiment accident" down to a T, except he knew it gets worse downwind and away, while the original guys were just blasting through 100g of Acetone probably going "huh, smelly but also grapey" while the Victorian pedestrians were puking the snot out.
PS.: unless I'm recalling wrong, didn't Nile make 0,2g? With supposedly 100g in original event.
@39:00 felt like just unleashed the chemical beginnings of a zombie apocalypse
you know it's bad when you gotta *rent an entire island*
that's gotta be high up on the list of things supervillains do, right?
Yes, but for the best result, the island needs at least one volcano.
@@Moon_Metty volcano AND an underwater lair
@@kaelang12 Obviously a lair, that goes without saying. He's renting the island this time. We should worry when he actually owns the island
@@kaelang12Or a lair inside the volcano surrounded by lava
It's so funny to me as I just played Arkham Knight in which Scarecrow produces tons of psychotic gas to intoxicate Gotham, this is his origin story 😂😂😂
I like how you can just see the smile drain from Nile's face when the cameraman tells him he is legitimately on the verge of vomiting. Just goes to prove that Nile really does take this stuff super seriously and is always thinking about safety. Keep up the great work!
If he really would take this seriously he wouldn't do this. But hey, utuber gotta have his views!
@@nom3nnescio It's how experiements work.. you need to test them. What part of literally _renting an island_ to you is not taking it seriously? You're an idiot lmao
@@nom3nnescio bruh he has a master's degree in this shit, pretty sure he knows where to set boundaries
@@nom3nnescio bro left 27 hate comments find something better to do 💀💀💀 grumpy ass
@@gluessb You would be surprised how much masters, diplomas, phds and professorships don't safe you from being a bit mad.
Making stuff that is notoriously smelly in a wide radius, while you yourself don't have a lot of experience with similiar compounds, is a bit risky and could have gone bad.
I'm all for doing it anyway, by the way, but one shouldn't pretend that it is no big deal.
I'm doing chemistry in an urban center, you do have to account a bit for not bothering the neighbours. In our case, though, we have much higher emissions from a nearby recycling center, street works and a bread factory.
Yeah, your friend knew it was coming and knew what it was. Based on their reaction, I could easily see people panicking if everyone around them smells this horrible smell and nobody has any idea what it is or where it's coming from, and they can't seem to get away from it; even if only a few people vomited, that would make everyone else way more worried (and also more likely to vomit).
I guess there's only one way to find out what would happen if a large amount of it was released on an unsuspecting population...
@@ungrave5231 👀
He*
@@ungrave5231 That's extremely specific. I really want to know what you're going to do.
@@taigaforest2009 why are you like this?
27:33
Nile: Yeah, still smells terrible
28:50
HE HAS A BLOWTORCH IN A FOREST AND HES SWINGING IT AROUND WHAT
Nile torturing his cameraman with the smell of the chemical while he's desensitized to the smell is pure evil 😂
Isn't his cameraman also his friend? Wow, some friend Nigel is.
When he's just like, zooming in, probably thinking, "this'll make for great content"... he really is an evil scientist hahahha
To be fair, I'd occasionally eat eggs and lettuce before going to a friend's place when I was a teenager
@@Machodave2020it’s a harmless joke. acting like dude is drugging unknowing innocents lol
WOW, I TOTALLY never got the joke until this point, until YOU @@mallarieluvsgirls came along and TOLD ME. Thank you for sharing that very helpful information. It is well appreciated 😒🙄😒
I remember the episode when Nile said brown almonds have no smell at all. (They smell earthy and wooden)
Maybe his sense of smell is a little bit less sensitive than most.
Honestly I think this man's nose is broken. Like idk if it's chemical or congenital but after so many things not smelling right to him, that man's nose is broken.
@@StonedtotheBones13 Yeah, I think his sense of smell has basically been destroyed after years of harsh lab chemicals
a "little bit less sensitive" is being generous when nile remains unfazed by the thioacetone while the camera man starts panicking
There's a thick callous in the inside of his nose
‘a little bit’ 😂😂😂😂
Two guys doing chemistry in a forest, on a island. Not sus at all.
Breaking Red
breaking good 👍
@@spookysomeone fixing good
waltuh
@@spookysomeone more like breaking wind based on the video subject
“I cant make it in my lab, so i rented a whole island.” -Nile
This is the most a Nile Red video has felt like Nile green. Like, renting out an entire island so you can make a smelly weapon? Incredible punchline, great editing
This reads like such a horror story. I love the sheer jankiness of reading a century old google translated chemistry paper written by chemists that caused a disaster doing exactly what you're doing and continuing on despite the warning signs, somehow finishing without disaster, and then renting an island to test out your new bioweapon. I love the work you do and this is truly your first big step to supervillainhood.
A "new bioweapon". 😂🤣😂🤣😂
I'm sure Fauci would find a use for it. Thioacetone could cause chaos in a densely populated city. I can see why someone crazy enough could use it as a bioweapon. The smell would drive people crazy. 👃
A "new bioweapon". 😂🤣😂🤣😂
I'm sure Fauci would find a use for it. Thioacetone could cause chaos in a densely populated city. I can see why someone crazy enough could use it as a bioweapon. The smell would drive people crazy. 👃
Dude really went and rented a whole island for the video. The power of curiosity is just nuts, but I guess that's the beauty of humans lol. Keep going for more wild stuff like this. Love to see it. Happy holidays everyone.
you too, and have a great 2023 :D
*1 year later* you too, have a great 2024 :D
There are thousands of islands in Quebec, it probably wasn't expensive.
You never shit where you eat
When you're both curious and well off enough you can just throw money at something to find out, the sky is the limit
23:56 Who also thought, that there was a hair on the screen?
Nile definitely has like maybe 7 functional nerve endings left in his nose. Honestly armed with such devastatingly smelly substances, it's kind of a super power.
Cyanide leaks and his life goes skoini noi ni noi ni noi ni noi ni oi ni noi ni noi
@Royal Exodus not all bad stuff smells bad
@@Gozieaaa i mean he has a friend for a reason-
Stinkman
This sounds like an evil villain origin story 😂 he could take over the world
I’m beginning to think a lack of smell is just a side effect of being a chemist, as I have a very small reaction to stinky things. Most of the time I just shrug and say “it’s not that bad” as others look at me like I grew another head.
Not sure. I'm 4th year chemistry student, and although it's the same story with me and my not related to chemistry friends, other people in the lab where I work quite often complain about the smells (even while standing in an another room) I just don't really feel... Like aldehydes, amines. However it might be some genetics, as my mom and I don't think durian smells any bad, but my father amd brother find it to smell terrible.
Did you ever clean fat traps? I just happend to be around once and no pungency will impress me anymore.
@@kurkuma3460 could also generally speaking be that chemists might get some possible nerve damage or damage to sensory receptors such as taste or smell as they over time might inhale small amounts of corrosive chemicals.
Reminds me of those ww2 nitroglycerin factory workers that inhaled the stuff 24/7 so that their blood vessels were so dilated that they would get massive whiplash when they took a vacation or something as their dilated blood vessels contracted and they lost consciousness. They needed to whiff the stuff like glue to survive the days without work.
@@kurkuma3460 I seem to be able to smell amines in lower concentrations then some people (about 10/20 people couldn't smell an amine contamination in a solvent that seemed obvious to me), but I don't find them as disagreeable as other people. Sure, it's a bad smell, but It doesn't make me want to leave the room like SO2 does for me.
Seems to me that it is not an inability to smell those substances, but something else going on with freaks of nature like us.
Edit: I once had to clean out a fridge full of rotten sea food in summer at 40 °C that a wedding party forgot. Worst smell I ever had to deal with, probably because of the biological dimension of the issue. Chemicals never had such an effect on me.
@@oskariKN25 I just made a comment about this- Nile took the vial straight to the nose and that's usually a big NO for exactly that reason... You're "supposed" to 'waft' it towards your nose to make sure you don't insta-fry your sense of smell
As someone who's extremely sensitive to smell....i felt Nile's friend with every smidgen of my soul . You're the hero here lmao 😭💙
Imagine what a dog or a cat would smell
He's probably not especially sensitive, that thing probably smells bad as f*ck
I think Nile's sense of smell is just terrible.
NileRed: It's ok
Cameraman:
Imagine the sense of dread you would feel if NileRed states that something smells bad.
Or NileBlue....even worse.
It would be the movie "Stink Bomb"
In that case I would warn anyone I knew was within 100 miles of him... lol
NileGreen would be like: " it's just the odor of a nuke, y'all are just too weak"
Paint thinner into soda
Ah yes, paint thinner.
Imagine some innocent fox just living it's best life on that island and then in comes Nigel to unleash the smell of a warcrime
Edit: holy shit I'd like to thank the academy
Don't worry about foxes. they love stinkey shit even more that Nile.
You know the trope where, when a gunshot goes off, there's a few seconds of birds flying away? I'm imagining that.
yeah poor animals in the area. Some have an even better sense of smell than we do. :/
@@nyancat8436 just because they have a better sense of smell doesnt mean they get as disgusted as we do, take as example dogs who have amazing noses and can smell fresh poop directly without bating an eye, even curiously
Nah they eat rotted carrion, they'd be like "oooh, DINNER!" lol
When I first started learning German as a 10 year old, I never would have guessed my most common usage for it is reading obscure science papers from the 19th century.
It's such a Goldmine of stuff. Siegmund Freud in German is also so hilarious, just pure entertainmet of the highest order.
19th Century German Scientists were some real mad Lads.
The thing is basicly until WW2 german was the science language and they did many major contributions to science. Then came the nazis and the german-jewish scientist had to leave the country. After the war was over germay lost all of its scientific respect and their brilliant scientist, so english became the science language..
There was a time when chemists were often required to learn German, so they could read the literature. "German for chemists" was a thing in colleges.
@@Pugnare-et-vincere Freud was extremely incorrect about a number of things though.
Not that it should devalue any useful contributions he made.
@@MartinFinnerup that's why it's funny!
25:12 It's so funny how Nile's expression changed here 😭😭
"I rented an entire island" is going to be a god tier Out Of Context soundbite for the next wave of NileRed parody videos
Also “So I asked my friend behind the camera for one final sacrifice”
NikeGreen doesn't use soundbites, he uses an AI voice generator, he can make Nigel say quite literally anything he wants🤣.
@@TheExplosiveGuy NileGreen isn't the only parody channel
@@RubyRoks he's the only one that matters😉.
@@TheExplosiveGuy Not really, but okay
I am german and reading the script you've found made me laugh out loud. Just the way they describe such a horrible smell in a scientific manner is hilarious. Great vid tho, totally enjoyed it.
What all did it say?
@@samharman7732 Summary: Don't make this chemical. It stinks.
Isn't Germany the country that elected Hitler?
‘We are limiting ourselves providing some of our experiences which only provide rough estimates. Once the freshly prepared reaction product of 100g acetone […] was distilled, the smell spread in a short time to distances of 3/4ths of a kilometer into widely remote parts of the town. Residents of neighboring streets of the laboratory complained, that the smelly substance induced fainting episodes, nausea and vomiting. At a different time an amount of 30g had caused the same commotion as in this mentioned situation. ‘
😂 thank you for tanks Germany 🇩🇪 Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦
Between this and the USA weapon gas, I think we can safely say Nile is simply resistant to smelly stuff. Having the camera operator and other people immediately go OH EW WHAT IS THAT while Nile is like "It's not that bad!" is the peak of comedy, though.
Every chemist and EMT I know has absolutely broken senses of smell. The EMTs I think is a coinsidence, but the chemists all have burned out their olfactory senses from years of abuse.
You have so much of equipement in your lab. A FTIR and bench NMR, waw, and all the glassware. That is so cool.
I used to work with the chemical that is used to give propane it's distinctive smell (so that you know when it's leaking) - that's called ethyl mercaptan, if I remember correctly. That stuff in it's pure form is pretty nasty. Let's just say that one drop of that on clothing and you have to burn the clothing or quadruple bag it and then dump it a very long way from any human habitation - you just cannot get rid of the smell. It smells like rotten garlic multiplied by a thousand. Just being around the vapours for an hour or so is enough that it will sit in your clothing for a week or more. I generally had to add 10 litres of the stuff to roughly 1,5 million litres of liquid propane...........it's that nasty.
Get fucked??? .. sorry...?? I'm leaning for the latter. Regardless, Hahahahahahaah.
Ethyl mercaptan (ethanethiol) was, I believe, in the Guiness Book of Records at one time as the world's smelliest compound.
sounds like the equality of dumpsters filled with sewage and mixed with bananacake
Idk, man, my dog got skunk sprayed a couple months ago in his last potty break before bed and he was in the house for less than 5 seconds (he had to spend the night on the porch) and it smelled so bad I nearly puked and started having an asthma attack just walking into my living room! It's like skunk smell combined with a burning tire dump surrounded by enough rotten eggs to fill an average Walmart. Skunk spray could be used as a WMD as far as I'm concerned! And my sense of smell isn't very strong/good! Not as bad as Nile's but still not great. I would've sold my soul to get that stank out of my house, no joke! 🤢🤮🤮🤮
I thought propane used sulfar.. I always perceived it as rotten eggs. I play airsoft and it's the main gas source I use when playing outside.. Using it during indoor games is awful though, for obvious reasons lol.
Really worry about Nigels sense of smell. Its clearly pretty bad, but he always smells stuff really close to try to get some sense of whatever he is smelling. Being so close so many times is going to bombard his nose with a concentrated blast of the chemicals further damaging his sense of smell.
What sense of smell? He doesn't have one. Never has.
True. He should avoid doing this.
I guess years of being around all this chemical steams and everything, his smelling sence is destroyed.
His smelling Cells are burned
like one of the core basic safety lessons of chemistry is to waft chemicals instead of smelling them directly lmao
hey mob pfp….
Note to cameraman: if Nigel keeps this up, there may very well be a “last” time he ask you smell something
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FiRsT cOmMeNT
"Yo this smells horrible-" **immediate death**
@@DanIsDistant that’s the video I am waiting on Nigel to make. Not the “how to” but the I am sorry I killed a small town video
If you are worried about Hydrogen Sulfide escaping your apparatus, you can vent to a container of granulated magnesium. You might try powdered Iron, but I don't know if that would be good enough.
Nigel stands in a room full of mustard gas he's created. Paint peels from walls as his cameraman wails in agony, even through his gas mask his eyes and throat burn.
Nigel: come on, its not that bad.
He DID just accidentally make and inhale WWI era tear gas and burn his sinuses really badly when trying to make the cherry flavoring from paint thinner. So, pretty on the mark
"This is unpleasant but it really can't be more than a 6/10"
*cameraman vomits and passes out*
the cameraman never dies
He holds a vial of neurotoxin vapor to his nose. Everyone in the surrounding province is dead. The cameraman is a smoldering husk on the lab floor.
"It's not thaaat baad."
this is the only case someone is stronger than the guy behind the camera
The lid of a paint can, the most commonly used chemistry tool, according to my very limited survey.
Ofc it’s always the paint can lid, you use floor tiles?
It's crazy how I understand nothing of what he says and yet I still love to watch him do the work and nod to everything he says
Don't worry, you're not the only one
@@CavemanZerron Are any of you chemists, or am I the only one out of the three of us?
Well I’m a nerd so I understand most of it but I think he might be cheating/lying , I’ve heard that methylmercaptan could actually be the stinkiest substance .
@@victory6924 probably just you, I'm a blacksmith
nothing? Nothing even about things he says is dangerous but does it anyways
kind of funny how the clips to hold the different glass connections together is the same thing people use to keep their bowls attached to their bongs lol
I don’t even think Nile’s smell is gone, I think after spending that much time in close quarters in the lab he got a little used to the smell. He obviously can smell, and identify odors correctly in other videos. I think this chemical is so terrifying because the people experiencing it had 1.) never experienced it before and 2.) weren’t prepared for the smell or source of the smell, so they had instinctual bodily reactions to foreign powerful smells.
That isn’t the only reason, in the video nigel used 0.25 grams and that was able to stink up a whole island and make them fear it going to houses across the lake, the german experiment had 100 grams…. If 0.25 is that bad, can you imagine 100? Incan totally believe that that amount would be able to knock people out.
@@Monyatoi agree that if he had used more he probably wouldn't be able to use the lab for a VERY LONG TIME
Supposedly though the more diluted it is the worse it smells (something one of the papers in the beginning mentioned) he could still be resistant of course, but because he was so close to the source every time it might be that the higher dose in the air around him made it not smell as bad as for the camera man (who sure, might not have as strong of a resistance) because he was more like 8 feet away
I think it could also be a mental effect, like your own poop smells less disgusting. You've made that smell, the origin won't harm you. And everyone elses brain: dude get away that smells unhealthy. That effect should even be worse if you encounter that smell in the wild unaware of its origin.
I theorize that Nile simply is wired to be less sensitive to smell, much how as an extreme example, certain people with autism can be extremely sensitive to smell, sound, and sight [edit: (innately.)] I believe everyone is built differently, with different "settings." It's not that he is resistant or physically less able to pick up or distinguish scents, though factors like that could play into the final result. Rather though, again, I believe we're all just built differently and have such minor nuances when lined up in a spectrum that it's inevitable everyone is slightly more or less sensitive to all senses.
The more Nilered videos I watch The more I'm CONVINCED Nile deep fried his sniffer from all the chemistry. mans got no sense of smell XD
Yeah, I think exactly the same. My mother was a professor of chemistry in our local university and PhD. She almost couldn't smell anything (except extremely strong smells) and always asked my father or me and my sisters to smell food if it was already spoiled
yes propably. I think I lost a good part of my smell from sniffing on everything. all scientists are curios and do stupid shit. I smell on nearly everything that isnt known to kill me. The acids, bases and other stuff seems to had an effect :). There is also a hugh variance between people in the amount of receptors
They should have brought somebody with a very sensitive nose along, like somebody that makes parfumes or a woman with a very sensitive nose.
I assume his cameraman is his friend that has filmed other (smelly) videos as well and thus probably has a bit more tolerance / destroyed nose than the 'average person'. :D
@@ayporos if they did they would have to deal with the body
When his friend goes "shut it down" I just imagine him laughing manically and eventually going "there IS no way to shut it down "
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
38:59
There are no brakes on the stink train!
its not shutting down its no
imagine making the news: Guy re-invents stinkiest chemical because he was curious to how it smelled like
Imagine Mark Rober using this for his glitter bomb
I was wondering if this is even as bad as that fart spray. That fart spray induced a more visible disgust on the victim, but it seemed to be a lot more and didn't seem to travel much
@@nicjansen230 Possible, though the spray was in much larger quantities, and Nile seems to be desensitized to it, from the cameraman's reaction to a pretty small amount of it, I'd say it's definitely worse than the spray. The main issue would be keeping it completely air tight so that none of the smell leaked out during transport or when sitting there.
@@DreadKyller Also releasing it in the middle of a residential area full of non robbbers is not a good idea
Toward the end, I was wondering what Kim Jong-un would think. They are generally considered to have the worst collection of chemical weapons in the world, and I could imagine him dispensing 100's of metric tonnes of the stuff on the DMZ when there's a strong downwind to Seoul.
It will not just bomb the thief, it will bomb the entire thief's neighbor.
So....what I'm taking from this is that Nigel's sense of smell is just completely shot from being in a lab for so long.
or he's a psychopath
I have 20+ years of experience in chemical industry. I used to work with phosgene and other funny chemicals in different chemical plants. Now I work for a company producing pool chemicals. I have practically no sense of smell and I had none for years now.
@@mortisCZ thats fucked up, you are missing out on the joy of smelling your favorite foods :(
@@someguywithatophat7599or the joy of waking up on winter to ur stinky sheets after a long night of stinking it down there
i have a pretty bad sense of smell and today my science class was putting liquids(teacher wouldn't say what they were) on hotplates and everyone eventually had to leave the room it was so bad but i couldn't even really smell it except for a couple of random moments(bad moments terrible smell) and i simply finished the lab and submitted my work
“In my mind, there was only one logical thing to do……. I rented an entire island”
Mr beast moment
He booked a ticket to Japan... Wait, wrong channel.
@@Nevir202I understood that reference
Before it gets popular and 344 like
@@Nevir202 released it in a neckbeard's room and the smell improved
Thanks!