It’s like how they have to add bad tastes to certain medical substances cause if they didn’t people would drink them for their intoxicating effects. If it taste yummy humans would probably drink it
Nile is the kinda guy to carefully make sure not to accidentally create an explosive and then be disapointed that the product didnt actually turn out to be explosive
I was watching a podcast a while ago where he talks about his history with explosives.. very interesting, to say the least. I'll link it if you haven't seen it yet and are interested :)
That relatable moment when you're trying to turn pain thinner into an artificial cherry flavor but you accidently make tear gas instead. We've all been there.
I mean truthfully everything in existence in relativity is close to being the same thing. The atomic structure of 78 protons gives you platinum. Add one more and now it's suddenly friggin gold. Suppose gold is "terrifyingly close" to platinum then right? Everything is just one proton, atom, or chemical link away from being somethjng completely different. The anatomy of our universe is really weird.
And it's amazing how our body has the mechanisms to tell us two of those are definitely bad and the other is perfectly fine when diluted. Evolution is amazing.
@@alterapp8880 I think I main takeaway is how easily an one thing be turned into another. Platinum and gold are not that different, but it is not easy to transmute them.
the smile he had when he realized he was done and had just taken toxic and cancer causing chemicals and turned it into soda was just like a mad scientist, and is one of the reasons chemistry is so cool.
Not even the first to do it smh. Vault had carcinogens in their Red Blitz flavor apparently Seriously though, it's always awesome watching him do stuff like this
If the 5 stages of grief were chemicals, I think he went through them all: - Paint thinner - Chromyl Chloride - Tear gas - An ozone depleter - Cherry flavor
I burst out laughing when he confirmed it was a ww1 chemical used as tear gas. I vaguely remember hearing that Benzyl Chloride in that context, but damn. Imagine getting tear gassed by a botched cherry flavouring
Love reading SDS for super dangerous chemicals and then getting to the bottom and it says like “unagreeable taste” or some shit from a crazy scientist in the past 😂
Awesome how paint thinner, cancer vapor juice and ozone depletor juice combined to make either tear gas or cherry flavor, depending on the mood of the chemicals apparently.
41:14 - "I could 100% serve this to people and they would have no idea that it was made from paint thinner" - NileRed coming up to me to offer anything to eat, drink or smell and I'm running for the hills!
I can't explain how strange it is having studied chemistry, but never really doing anything with it for 10 years and then you mention carbon tetrachloride and my brain triggered alarms just from hearing it. I'm glad you finally made synthetic cherry flavour.
I feel ya. Studied chem, but I rarely actually use anything I learned. The second a NileRed video plays, everything I learned comes rushing back and all those lessons play in my head like a slideshow.
Only Nile could accidently create teargas, purposely deplete the ozone layer and almost explode himself while trying to make cherry soda from paint thinner using a banned chemical.
This man is one of the scariest people on the platform. I feel like if you decided to mess with him, he’d drop you in a beaker with a stir bar and turn you into rock candy.
Or completely emulsify you with some kinda acid, distill you, and do it again til you're nothing but a small oily puddle he makes into some kinda confection and eats you.
You offend nile, his next video drops: "so I was talking to someone online..when they said they could beat me in a fight.. So I had an idea..I wanted to turn this box of condoms in to depleted uranium. The process is pretty simple"
the fact that nile truly believed he had done everything perfectly, and it was only after he took a whiff that he realized he made tear gas instead of cherry flavour is exactly the reason why id be terrified of doing anything like this even if i knew it was theoretically safe.
"Theoretically safe" is also a very relative term because the theory your work is based on might be more or less reliable as the papers in the end were still written by humans. Also, you thinking you did everything correctly doesn't mean you actually did. So "theoretically safe" assumes a perfect theory and practice without any mistakes, in which case it would indeed be completely safe. That's why you double and triple check absolutely everything if you're doing something potentially harmful or dangerous. Even if you get the reaction right, just a little bit of side product that didn't get washed out can seriously harm you, depending on what it is. But hey, that's why papers are published and why science has to be reproducible. The community can check your process and everything and correct any mistakes. The more brains there are that think about your ideas and practices, the closer we get from "theoretically safe" to "actually safe."
Yes that's why I love chemistry especially organic chemistry. Because you can do everything in the paper you're supposed to do and do it as precisely as possible and yet you can get something absolutely different. Man I love chemistry
@@Nitidus I study chemistry, just so my words have some merit here. The HNMR, basically makes any impurities show up right away, since its super sensitive equipment (and also really fucking expensive), so after the HNMR graph looked good, (which it did, like literally textbook perfect), there was basically no risk at that point, and is just as safe as the stuff you buy in stores.
@ihaveboneitis8259 When i was TA'ing during my PhD I had to write weekly quizzes for my students. I would just take a similar procedure to what I was teaching and minorly screw them up, bad math, wrong amount, wrong order, wrong solvent, wrong technique, etc. The students had the entire 4 hour lab class to collectively try to figure out where the mistakes were made. But they were also physically doing related but not identical procedures at the same time. It taught multitasking, attention to detail, teamwork, and problem solving. And most importantly, just because someone wrote it down doesn't mean it's right. And it was super easy to grade for me since I didnt have to write new quizzes every other night. Just ctrl+c, backspace, and screw it all up
It’s even more crazy for people who’ve ever worked as chemists considering toluene is laughably carcinogenic and Nile’s just decided to whip some up from paint stripper
I'm surprised he has any sense of smell left. Anytime he takes a whiff of something and says it faintly smells of something, I'm sure any normal person would be fainting. iirc He hardly reacted to the stuff from previous video, which stunk up everything for a mile.
The only time I ever wonder *if* something bad is going to happen is watching these videos. Every other time I'm just like okay, you say that like there's gonna be a "but".
I love that he mentions paint thinner "tasting terrible" as the main point, and then just kinda throws in the fact that its extremely toxic as sort of an afterthought
@@KamilSupinski41 How?? Why??? Like I get doing it once as a child but your brain should really be telling you that thing taste bad or whatever lol. Unless the paint thinner also thinned your brain…
He is anxious about explosions I am more anxious about the toxic fumes he's working with and fact he directly smelled a chemical weapon. Usually to check chemical smells you wave some fumes over to you and not directly sniff.
It’s a secondary explosive meaning it requires pressure and heat to go off Primary explosives go off with either pressure or heat. Common primary explosives are blasting caps Common secondary explosives are like c4
@@kingsrevenge9234 No. Now is a terrible time to become an artist. There is too much supply of art and not enough demand, and now AI art is also a thing.
defensive chemistry x) i guess that might be a good mindset to have when working with potentially dangerous chemicals. and one you might get with enough failed experiments
You can trust Nile to make drinkable soda with highly toxic chemicals, but can't trust him to make a simple chocolate chip cookie with near pure ingredients. 😂😂😂
Man seeing that Chromyl Chloride container again was really like seeing an old friend, I don't know why but seeing stuff return from old videos makes me really happy
NileRed's career path is absolutely wild. Went from doing reactions in a garage to full blown pioneering experimental chemistry, with actually academically documented processes the whole way. Real life professional Mad Scientist.
@@FartInYourFace234 mean he is talking about a very technical topic and chemistry is all but trial and error and he clearly researches things during it
@@FartInYourFace234i imagine its because its fucking chemistry and if you have nile yelling at you like your back on ur fyp it would be less than enjoyable huh 😂
@@FartInYourFace234 that's pretty rude, not gonna lie. i dunno about nile but i have pitch and tone trouble while speaking due to a learning disorder, there's nothing wrong with that and it certainly doesn't make him "without consciousness". not everyone on youtube has to sound and act like mr beast. i'd like to see you come close to him in terms of skill, compassion, intelligence, etc, but i fear i'm hoping for the impossible 🤣
the way you say "especially how terrible tasting and toxic paint thinner is" sounded like it comes from experience. i could not help but chuckle thinking has he tried paint thinner before.
“Never eat anything that comes from the lab” Soap fries, strawberry DNA, aspirin mints, synthetic glove grape soda, literal piss crystals, paint thinner soda. The list is just getting bigger.
That's because he is, which is probably one of the most endearing aspects of his personality: There's no machismo, no false-confidence, just straight up humility. Confidence should come from the results, not from one's personal estimation of their abilities.
If you can find a chemical that vaguely looks like octyl acetate, you can make orange soda. Octyl acetate is one of the main components of artificial orange flavour
NileRed, as a chemist, I want to thank you for bringing real synthetic chemistry to the popular side of youtube in an engaging way. There is so much to be learned from chemistry - it doesn't have to be painful to learn, it really is a beautiful and magical discipline.
@@TheKeksadler The most unbelievable part of most fantasy novels is that magic systems are not scientifically tested. Like, if we discover real magic tomorrow, it will become a science almost immediately. Chemistry makes sense now, and to trained chemists, but really isn't so different, and that's what I love about this content.
@@Dangermad Yeah but it's still ironic considering the hubub about those yellow dyes was because they were derived from benzene. Stuff that is reacted professionally vs a backyard chemist making cherry flavor from some really nasty stuff.
A single oxygen molecule is the difference between water and hydrogen peroxide. One is a perfectly safe and consumable chemical that is necessary for all life on earth, the other is a dangerous and highly corrosive chemical (at higher concentrations) that would destroy your insides if you drank it.
@@Flesh_Wizard I feel like if I was some omnipotent being just getting rid of one oxygen atom on every molecule that had one would be terrifying and terrific prank/experiment.
Its not the knowledge nor the expertise that we should be in awe about. Its his gargantuan titanium balls for doing all these in the first place. Its like the Indonesian Nilered that made some candy from those vicks gels.
It is shockingly easy to accidentally create ww1 chemical weapons. People make mustard gas all the time when they mix bleach with other cleaners to make a "super cleaner". (Don't do this!)
I love that even though Nile hasn't uploaded for roughly 5 months, 1 million people still show up in under 17 hours to see the mad alchemist do his experiments.
I think NileGreen was actually such a successful meme that it grew NileRed's actual fanbase. There might be people here who are seeing their first or second new release.
I like looking at Ex+F's video, enjoying the lengths he went through and time he spent looking to get his hands on just a little carbon tet... then witnessing Nigel just pull a giant bottle of it out of his stash.
When i was 15 i got the idea that drinking paint thinner was probably an easier way to unalive myself than medicine, took one drop of it and gave up the same moment, it doesn't just taste bad, it *burns*
@@sadbtch2976 reminds me of when I took like 7 pain killers a day for a few weeks because it’s useless trying to actually OD on them, so I was trying to just kill my liver lmao- Hope you’re doing alright 👍🏻
😕 Oh damn, I guess I must be somewhat of a lightweight, because I never drink paint thinner straight. Sure, I'll sometimes do it in shots, but I always chase it with liquid plumber or WD-40. But more often than not, I just make cocktails of paint thinner, ammonia & bleach. 📛{Warning: don't consume toxic chemicals like paint thinner and household cleaners}!!
@@HighlanderNorth1 Yikes. You need to drink more often and make sure to increase purity. It gives you a hard time when you first do it, but it's definitely worth it!
@@Kaanfight Yeah, well, maybe there's some esophageal burns, but more importantly, these chemicals kill harmful bacteria on the way down, so, bonus....
_"Up until now, things seemed to be going super well, and I was honestly kind of surprised by how smoothly it had all gone."_ _-NileRed, 16 minutes into a 45 minute long video_
This was followed by making a chemical weapon and then trying to fix it using a banned ozone depleting solvent from a semi-sketchy source. Classic Nile
“Would you like to drink paint thinner and a liquid that causes cancer?” “No, that’s dangerous.” “Would you like a cherry soda made from paint thinner and a liquid that causes cancer?” “Of course, delicious.” I love chemistry.
@@hardcoreholman303 then you should go off eating many baked goods, as almond extract (a common ingredient in a lot of baking) tends to contain benzaldehyde... also consider refraining from eating salt, because salt is made from sodium and chloride, both very toxic on their own. We must refrain from consuming anything that is a product of toxic chemistry ingredients (dies from lack of sodium intake)
I'm not sure, but it looked like he put the paperclip in between the stir plate and the container with the stir bar, possibly to strengthen the magnetic force because it was too far away? I don't know how stir bars/plates work lol
@@PJM257you do not want a stir bar in the bath as this would interfere with the stir bar in your flask. The magnets are string enough to turn even like 15cm away, and you only need very minor movements in the bath. A paperclip does the job just fine
"It of course wouldn't be cherry without the colour, so I also added some green food dye." Genuinely thought he was gonna make green colored cherry soda and you know what? I was gonna accept it as if it were the most normal thing possible.
If Nile accidentally made tear gas while trying to get cherry soda, I can only imagine how those WWI scientists got accidental cherry soda while trying to do a weapon
While watching him break down and build back and break down and build back chemicals and materials on a molecular level, I'm still impressed and amazed with stir bars.
I remember seeing a short advertising the stir bars for mixing drinks. You could always buy one for home use (and for showing off) if you have the money (I can't remember how much they were).
The amount of time, money and effort Nile puts in to make things you can buy for a few US dollars with extremely interesting chemistry is both absolutely hilarious and infinitely admirable and respectable. Truly, the master of transformation.
Dude, I instantly remembered the toxic blood flask and the way you sealed it, and busting the glass tip open and pouring that mad creation back out is the best thing I've seen in ages.
Military scientists: Shit, I accidentally made cherry flavor instead of tear gas. NileRed: Shit, I accidentally made tear gas instead of cherry flavor.
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This man is a magician…, also I like my browser just the way it is, so I’m ok…
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hello
Nice
When you’re at 15/45 minutes and the process is almost done you know something went terribly wrong
It's like when all the characters are finally really happy but you're only halfway through the book.
Fr 😭
@@Tristan-M-1 💀 That's too accurate
YES omg i was like how does he have anything else to talk about and then doom struck
I am at 13:33 when he's just said 'things seem to be going really well' so this is giga accurate
i like how "horrible tasting" came before "toxic", his priorities are in the right place
I like how "horrible tasting" and "toxic" also applies to cherry soda in the first place!
It’s like how they have to add bad tastes to certain medical substances cause if they didn’t people would drink them for their intoxicating effects. If it taste yummy humans would probably drink it
@@Roger__Wilco I think the joke was that he said paint thinner instead of soda
@@1onemile1 I think he got the joke
@@1onemile1 no, the joke was literally in the beginning talking about paint thinner
Nile finding a way to tear gas himself is just so on brand. He's the electroboom of chemistry
Nooooo Explosions and fire is the electroboom of chemistry
@@Gamerzsociaty explosions and fire and Nile are the yin and yang of Electroboom chemistry
@@TheDonutMan3000 that's a good way of putting it tbh lmao.
@@TheDonutMan3000styropyro: hold my death rays
@@WeedShaggy He's the Electroboom of physics I guess
"Potentially violating the The Geneva Protocol to create cherry soda" Haha I love these videos man.
Geneva Convention? HA! More like Geneva SUGGESTION!!!
Nile is the kinda guy to carefully make sure not to accidentally create an explosive and then be disapointed that the product didnt actually turn out to be explosive
Is it such a crime to want a little explosive? As a treat??
@@nahometesfay1112 on a plane it is. 👁️ 👄 👁️
LMAO SO TRUE
I was watching a podcast a while ago where he talks about his history with explosives.. very interesting, to say the least. I'll link it if you haven't seen it yet and are interested :)
@@HazedIdiot C'mon a little bit of hydrogen never hurt anybody
Nile: "I'm going to make cherry stuff"
Also Nile: "I've accidentally tear gassed myself"
I love you Nile.
Chemistry is crazy
Average day for Nigel
You got me thinking of nile green
Very helpful tear ga… I mean cherry flavor recipe.
I'm gonna make cherry soda
attempt 1 fails
I'm going to make cherry soda with an internationally banned liquid
That relatable moment when you're trying to turn pain thinner into an artificial cherry flavor but you accidently make tear gas instead. We've all been there.
I’ve personally accidentally made multiple high grade explosives while trying to make soup🥱🤮
Hate when that happens 🙄
I've personally made soup
im cACKLING
@@grug925 I just accidently turned water into wine at a party...
I swear Nigel could accidentally make crystal meth while trying to make rock candy in one of these videos
I don't think that video would be shown.😂😂
He did make rock candy but no meth lol
It's genuinely terrifying how close paint thinner, cherry flavor, and tear gas can be chemically
I mean truthfully everything in existence in relativity is close to being the same thing. The atomic structure of 78 protons gives you platinum. Add one more and now it's suddenly friggin gold. Suppose gold is "terrifyingly close" to platinum then right? Everything is just one proton, atom, or chemical link away from being somethjng completely different. The anatomy of our universe is really weird.
And it's amazing how our body has the mechanisms to tell us two of those are definitely bad and the other is perfectly fine when diluted. Evolution is amazing.
@@alterapp8880 I think I main takeaway is how easily an one thing be turned into another.
Platinum and gold are not that different, but it is not easy to transmute them.
@@wuguxiandi9413 It's not easy, but it can be done. We've done transmutation before, even into gold, but it's just not worth the cost.
Eh, that’s how matter works. Everything is “almost something else.”
the smile he had when he realized he was done and had just taken toxic and cancer causing chemicals and turned it into soda was just like a mad scientist, and is one of the reasons chemistry is so cool.
Not even the first to do it smh. Vault had carcinogens in their Red Blitz flavor apparently
Seriously though, it's always awesome watching him do stuff like this
@QuintanaCS o.o i drank that as a child. Oh shit
not just toxic and carcinogenic, but flammable, corrosive, caustic, and explosive. he used CHROMYL FUCKING CHLORIDE to make CHERRY SODA.
@@PanthorPapa84 Same o.o
Still toxic and cancer causing lmao
If the 5 stages of grief were chemicals, I think he went through them all:
- Paint thinner
- Chromyl Chloride
- Tear gas
- An ozone depleter
- Cherry flavor
Or also:
- The orange
- The peach
- The apple
- The pear
gas gas gas!
Last one agent XYTOSXVOLINE
But But But Paint thinner is an ozone depleter
I burst out laughing when he confirmed it was a ww1 chemical used as tear gas. I vaguely remember hearing that Benzyl Chloride in that context, but damn.
Imagine getting tear gassed by a botched cherry flavouring
Every time you make a flavor from a probably toxic chemical you just add an OH thing and like thats it. It’s crazy how giving it a hat makes it epic.
Big fan of how he points out how horrible tasting paint thinner is before mentioning that it's also toxic.
The one thing I know about paint thinner is that that shit tastes horrible!
@ethanshoemaker5582hell nah it smells like stinky bug
That made me laugh out loud🤣
Love reading SDS for super dangerous chemicals and then getting to the bottom and it says like “unagreeable taste” or some shit from a crazy scientist in the past 😂
Hi😊😊@@abbydabbs5519
Mad respect to Nile for always being able to resist licking the stirring rods.
His intrusive thoughts didn't work.
This comment is slightly concerning...
Intrusive ass thoughts
Just because he doesn't show it, doesn't mean he doesn't do it.
Nah he does it off camera
Nigel accidentally making tear gas while trying to make cherry flavor is the most on brand thing ever
Aw darn I just made a WWI weapon and not cherry flavor! Aw darn, happens all the time!
Whoops!
@@marykatereinagel8325 interesting I accidentally made agent orange while trying to turn popsicle sticks into plastic
@@ThePixelated_kris Oops. I was trying to make cocoa flavour and accidentally rediscovered sarin gas. 🤣
little happy accident
You dont need all of this. Paint tinner is already a good soda
Pant thinmer 🤤
I love how when things don't work out the first time, nile just pulls out the banned liquids
He did *what now?*
time to destroy the ozone layer
"okay, time to release the kraken"
@@bulletthecorgi3245 Pulled out a banned/illegal substance like he does 70% of the time
@@thomascoleman594 what other banned substances has he used
Awesome how paint thinner, cancer vapor juice and ozone depletor juice combined to make either tear gas or cherry flavor, depending on the mood of the chemicals apparently.
CHEMISTRY!!
carbon tet is cancer juice too
The mood of the chemicals! 😂 I couldn't have said it better myself!
*Generally Considered Safe For Human Consumption
-FDA
I wanna paste this on my wall XD
Nile's videos are like a movie. Everything seems to be working out fine, but then you realize that you're not even halfway through the plot yet
ok
@@vantruongthi9105 great job, best possible way anyone could claim the first reply, bravo
@@vantruongthi9105 you aren't funny
41:14 - "I could 100% serve this to people and they would have no idea that it was made from paint thinner" - NileRed coming up to me to offer anything to eat, drink or smell and I'm running for the hills!
Might contain some of that tear gas stuff!!!
Nile: can't bake a cookie using the purest ingredients available
Also Nile: makes a good cherry drink using extremely toxic chemicals
NileBlue vs NileRed
the duality of man
@@alem.g.5616 NileGreen:
@@ness3446 smart
@@ness3446 nilegreen: the cookie is radioactive and explosive
Chemistry is so hilariously polar sometimes. It's just so crazy that cherry flavour and world war 1 tear gas can both be synthesized from toluene.
ha polar. like chemistry.
Not to mention trinitrotoluene (TNT) is very chemically similar, too.
@@pineapplequeen13 To be fair, you can add nitrogen to most things, and it makes those things want to blow up. It's rocket science.
@@Bennici Rocket science is easy, it's those rocket surgeons you gotta watch out for.
I'm still trying to wrap my head around paint thinner + blood red cancer juice + ozone hole puncher = yummy cherries.
Like, what the hell?
I can't explain how strange it is having studied chemistry, but never really doing anything with it for 10 years and then you mention carbon tetrachloride and my brain triggered alarms just from hearing it. I'm glad you finally made synthetic cherry flavour.
I feel ya. Studied chem, but I rarely actually use anything I learned. The second a NileRed video plays, everything I learned comes rushing back and all those lessons play in my head like a slideshow.
>carbon tetrachloride
I lost my shit there
Maybe you guys should make videos like Nile turning random things into other random things.
(Just don’t die)
@@Lee-One but imagine the content you could make if sth goes really wrong wrong
I had chemistry too and when he mentioned that substance i immediately had PTSD
5:30 the subtitles say "graduated cylinder", did that cylinder actually go through the entire education system?
Only Nile could accidently create teargas, purposely deplete the ozone layer and almost explode himself while trying to make cherry soda from paint thinner using a banned chemical.
Ok
@@thereocim gonna ok your ass
@@thereoc💀💀😭😭😭😭
@@cheesyonionsok
@@ayoung17huangok
The fact that he tried making cherry soda and instead ended up with a war crime is so in character of him
That silly goose nile always committing war crimes 😊
It wasn’t the tasty, cherry flavor he was hoping for 😢
Maybe they made the same accident, back when they invented this war crime. It just turned out not to be flavour, but something with another use...
Only time will tell
Very reminiscent of the time he made an atomic bomb (NileGreen)
i love how NileRed will drink cherry soda made from paint thinner but NileBlue is scared of eating a 100% pure cookie
He probably anticipated the disappointment 😂
Dude is much more at ease with toxic, corrosive carcinogens than with baking.
He's a chemist not a baker
@@florianellerbrock8922🫥
It was a mildly sweet chalk cake not a cookie
This was such an emotional rollercoaster, i really cried when the whole teargas situation occurred
This man is one of the scariest people on the platform. I feel like if you decided to mess with him, he’d drop you in a beaker with a stir bar and turn you into rock candy.
Or completely emulsify you with some kinda acid, distill you, and do it again til you're nothing but a small oily puddle he makes into some kinda confection and eats you.
You offend nile, his next video drops:
"so I was talking to someone online..when they said they could beat me in a fight.. So I had an idea..I wanted to turn this box of condoms in to depleted uranium. The process is pretty simple"
@@DTS__ “so we open up this brand new NEVER BEFORE USED box of condoms”
"So for this video I will turn this mf into muriatic acid"
@@FatalPhenom
Actually, he’s probably toss you in something alkaline, not acidic.
the fact that nile truly believed he had done everything perfectly, and it was only after he took a whiff that he realized he made tear gas instead of cherry flavour is exactly the reason why id be terrified of doing anything like this even if i knew it was theoretically safe.
"Theoretically safe" is also a very relative term because the theory your work is based on might be more or less reliable as the papers in the end were still written by humans. Also, you thinking you did everything correctly doesn't mean you actually did. So "theoretically safe" assumes a perfect theory and practice without any mistakes, in which case it would indeed be completely safe. That's why you double and triple check absolutely everything if you're doing something potentially harmful or dangerous. Even if you get the reaction right, just a little bit of side product that didn't get washed out can seriously harm you, depending on what it is.
But hey, that's why papers are published and why science has to be reproducible. The community can check your process and everything and correct any mistakes. The more brains there are that think about your ideas and practices, the closer we get from "theoretically safe" to "actually safe."
Yes that's why I love chemistry especially organic chemistry. Because you can do everything in the paper you're supposed to do and do it as precisely as possible and yet you can get something absolutely different. Man I love chemistry
@@Nitidus I study chemistry, just so my words have some merit here.
The HNMR, basically makes any impurities show up right away, since its super sensitive equipment (and also really fucking expensive), so after the HNMR graph looked good, (which it did, like literally textbook perfect), there was basically no risk at that point, and is just as safe as the stuff you buy in stores.
That’s exactly why I really want to do it. I’m just scared of having problems and not knowing how to fix them :(
@ihaveboneitis8259 When i was TA'ing during my PhD I had to write weekly quizzes for my students. I would just take a similar procedure to what I was teaching and minorly screw them up, bad math, wrong amount, wrong order, wrong solvent, wrong technique, etc. The students had the entire 4 hour lab class to collectively try to figure out where the mistakes were made. But they were also physically doing related but not identical procedures at the same time. It taught multitasking, attention to detail, teamwork, and problem solving. And most importantly, just because someone wrote it down doesn't mean it's right.
And it was super easy to grade for me since I didnt have to write new quizzes every other night. Just ctrl+c, backspace, and screw it all up
Nile trying to make cherry flavoring and making tear gas instead is just me with every project I've ever attempted
Me: plants some flowers
The flowers: ignite
and it started from paint thinner lmao
I'm crying rn, it burns
Yea, why not finish off a pepper spray product with the first batch?
I feel like Nile is the chemistry equivalent of programming.
"Let's see, the output should be 128,063."
Output: 🐿
"... Well shoot"
"Such a small change."
*checks the length of the video*
"Seems about right"
If that tear gas was enough to cause trouble to Nile's smell system for hours, it would pretty much instantly kill us all in a single whiff
maybe this is secretly an origin story for Nigel's smell
@@brobeckskazooremixes8703 He did mention it's been 2 years since that ill fated first attempt
Imagine the British, French and Russian soldiers who experienced that first hand in WW1 or the Jews in WW2.
@@beetlebg3759 if ww3 ever happens nile will be safe by turning the poison into grape cola
Fair point
Next you need to turn cherry soda into paint thinner
Perfect
hopefully the paint thinner is cherry flavoured
ok
he should just do all the steps backward lol
🤔
I Like how he pulls out these toxic chemicals like “a friend gave this to me not but 7 years past” and pops them open like aged scotch
It’s even more crazy for people who’ve ever worked as chemists considering toluene is laughably carcinogenic and Nile’s just decided to whip some up from paint stripper
@@robwoods1808 paint thinner* sorry
@@kingsrevenge9234 No
@@kingsrevenge9234 No
@@kingsrevenge9234 you sound like you're in high school so no, absolutely not.
Ohhh gosh, that's very nice that now you got Portuguese audio. Haha" Too many other people from Brazil can enjoy your videos now. 😇 Thank you Nile!!!
Ah yes chemistry: the only field in which one mistake could turn your cherry flavor into tear gas
Next time, on Nile Red: "Making crystal meth out of pig feces and composted tangerines!"
@@stephencaudle1766 that's definitely nile green
I'm surprised he has any sense of smell left. Anytime he takes a whiff of something and says it faintly smells of something, I'm sure any normal person would be fainting.
iirc He hardly reacted to the stuff from previous video, which stunk up everything for a mile.
@@stephencaudle1766 NileWhite
@@Flesh_Wizard ohh, Br Bad reference
i like how nile narrates every sentence as if the next step ended in a catastrophy
lmfao it keeps us on our toes
The only time I ever wonder *if* something bad is going to happen is watching these videos. Every other time I'm just like okay, you say that like there's gonna be a "but".
thanks, Space Reptile!
Tbf it usually does
he be hypin' up the explosive fun times very much this time, his disappointment at the lack of such was fun too.
What I love about Nile´s videos is that his narration always makes you feel like something is about to go horribly wrong...
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It's because every sentence sounds like he's going to end it with "but then something went horribly wrong".
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Ahhhh I can't unhear it now. I knew there was something weird about his videos.
"But this ended up not being a problem."
This dude just casually revealed how every American soda is made and got away with it
I love that he mentions paint thinner "tasting terrible" as the main point, and then just kinda throws in the fact that its extremely toxic as sort of an afterthought
Toluene is not that toxic after all. It mainly serves as a substitute for benzene in many products which is really toxic.
When I was younger I used to eat copius amounts of the paint thinner my mom used before she found out.
@@KamilSupinski41 ☠️💀👁️👄👁️ what
@@KamilSupinski41 How?? Why??? Like I get doing it once as a child but your brain should really be telling you that thing taste bad or whatever lol. Unless the paint thinner also thinned your brain…
@@alexreid1173 tbh it taste good. I used to steal straws from the drawer and literally slurp it up.
Nile: Anxious about exploding
Also Nile: Sad about no cool explosions
Nile red: Anxious about exploding
Nile blue: Sad about no cool explosions
The duality of man
Again ... Our "chef" is on the loose!
In fact, Nile is making me hungry right now, not only for explosions, hehehe:)
He is anxious about explosions I am more anxious about the toxic fumes he's working with and fact he directly smelled a chemical weapon.
Usually to check chemical smells you wave some fumes over to you and not directly sniff.
It’s a secondary explosive meaning it requires pressure and heat to go off
Primary explosives go off with either pressure or heat. Common primary explosives are blasting caps
Common secondary explosives are like c4
round of applause for this man, PLEASE!
HE SAVED ALL THAT FOOTAGE OF FAILING, EVEN AFTER 2 YEARS.
Not only the footage, but also his original mixture
That’s just science for you. You don’t through away anything. Ever. I worked in a lab in college with a sample that was at least 20 years old.
@@kingsrevenge9234 No. Now is a terrible time to become an artist. There is too much supply of art and not enough demand, and now AI art is also a thing.
science is just failing in the right direction
Look at me i support a country i dont even live in and is a money laundering scheme for the US president
oh so THAT's why they say never to directly smell anything in chemistry and only to waft it
I love how every time he describes things, it sounds like it's about to go wrong
"And what happened next... Was exactly what I thought would happen."
I was expecting him to say "until (negative outcome)" whenever he explains what is happening
"Up until now, things had been going very well"
"I was really hoping..."
defensive chemistry x)
i guess that might be a good mindset to have when working with potentially dangerous chemicals. and one you might get with enough failed experiments
Every time he says “up until this point” my heart rate spikes
nile, the way you say things with a calm tone but an underlying hint of chaos that everyone can hear is EXACTLY why i love ur videos
It sounds like he's always one sentence away from saying "but then everything went to pot"
Ok
He's the most quietly chaotic person I've ever seen 😂
a true chaotic neutral
“I think I made teargas while trying to make cherry soda flavoring
This recipe is so incredible! My brother loved it so much that he lay down on the floor and hasn't moved for hours.
he must be resting from all that work!
@@bradentheman1373 😂😂
Mine to l shared it with my family tree though
@@bradentheman1373 yeah, he was so exhausted that we had to move him to a dark box.
@TheAmyrlinSeat We also went to a nice park with cool stones with interesting messages engraved on them!
I think he is the only person who made a war gas *accidentally*
You can trust Nile to make drinkable soda with highly toxic chemicals, but can't trust him to make a simple chocolate chip cookie with near pure ingredients. 😂😂😂
that's sooo funny, lol!
Including literally banned chemicals he just so happens to have hanging around.
He's truly become a mad scientist and we're all here for it.
@@tomasgoes definitely the mad scientist we needed😂
lol
Hey, those nearly pure ingredients were expired. He tried his best. But yeah it was bad.
Man seeing that Chromyl Chloride container again was really like seeing an old friend, I don't know why but seeing stuff return from old videos makes me really happy
I am thinking right now that it was the most probable source of contaminants for the runs, I was almost screaming to check for purity.
NileRed extended universe.
Same
NileRed's career path is absolutely wild. Went from doing reactions in a garage to full blown pioneering experimental chemistry, with actually academically documented processes the whole way. Real life professional Mad Scientist.
I aspire to be like NileRed
@@FartInYourFace234 mean he is talking about a very technical topic and chemistry is all but trial and error and he clearly researches things during it
@@FartInYourFace234so you belive he has no consciousness because of his voice?
@@FartInYourFace234i imagine its because its fucking chemistry and if you have nile yelling at you like your back on ur fyp it would be less than enjoyable huh 😂
@@FartInYourFace234 that's pretty rude, not gonna lie. i dunno about nile but i have pitch and tone trouble while speaking due to a learning disorder, there's nothing wrong with that and it certainly doesn't make him "without consciousness". not everyone on youtube has to sound and act like mr beast.
i'd like to see you come close to him in terms of skill, compassion, intelligence, etc, but i fear i'm hoping for the impossible 🤣
41:14 "I could 100% serve this to people and they would have no idea that.. it was *cute evil laugh* made from paint thinner"
You just know when Nile ends up with a finish product just 14 minutes into a 45 minute video that something had to have gone horribly wrong 😂
It does twice
Yeah when I got to that part of the video and then looked at the remaining time I knew it couldn't have been that simple.
@@R2Bl3nd hahah that just what i thinked when saw the remaining time...
i found it really suspicious when he kept saying "it should have been pretty easy to just do *x*" xD
He accidentally made military grade tear gas. Happens more often than you think.
Nile: *doesnt blow himself up*
Also Nile: Im both relieved and disappointed
I like how he documents everything like it’s a tutorial while we watch for entertainment
Turning paint thinner into cherry soda
It's just a video version of lab notes
wait you guys are just watching these?
the way you say "especially how terrible tasting and toxic paint thinner is" sounded like it comes from experience. i could not help but chuckle thinking has he tried paint thinner before.
i have
Only Nile can make a 40 minute video with the words "All I have to do next" 30 times in the first 5 minutes.
Poor Nile, he thought he made cherry flavor and took a big whiff only to find out that he had made tear gas.
Poor nile he will be missed, now hes been replaced by the nile blue guy
I mean, if you don't see that in chemistry, where will you lol
His lil smile that dropped- just the slow confusion to disgust
😂
Happens to everyone, no big deal
Going from paint thinner to cherry soda, stopping off on tear gas along the way is wild, i love science
Don't forget that you need to add an extremely dangerous carcinogen to make an explosive along the way.
@@kingsrevenge9234 no. Go to art school instead if possible
You just know he kept that stuff in his cabinet of triumphs along with the rest.
0:20 Nilered just casually knows what paint thinner tastes like
I love how Nigel always says things like it went horribly wrong and his lab blew up, and then just goes "but, it was fine"
Great way to keep the audience engaged until the end
Right, all the "this is supposed to be simple" and "everything's been fine up until this point" kept me guessing when he was going to explode
Turning paint thinner into cherry soda
Well, it's a way to dismiss his... Non-successes. Which happen quite often.
I like how UA-cam doesn’t tag this as dangerous misinformation
"Chemistry is usually a huge pain, but sometimes it just kind of works"
-NileRed, 2023
*Makes tear gas instead of cherry soda*
@@ayush-rana PERFECTO
you can tell hes a professional
Thanks for telling me what nilered said because I left both my ears and the captions at home
16:34 if anyone was wondering
“Never eat anything that comes from the lab”
Soap fries, strawberry DNA, aspirin mints, synthetic glove grape soda, literal piss crystals, paint thinner soda. The list is just getting bigger.
hot sauce
@@justinliu7788 toilet paper alcohol
Cotton cotton candy
Cyanide? Nile likes to sniff it.
Wait until you find out about nileblue
We’ve all been through that one time where we tried to make chery flavoring but accidentally made a chemical weapon
The way Nile explains what’s going on sounds like even he’s unsure about everything.
That's because he is, which is probably one of the most endearing aspects of his personality: There's no machismo, no false-confidence, just straight up humility.
Confidence should come from the results, not from one's personal estimation of their abilities.
I always love the "I added something called ..." It always feels like he found a random, labeled bottle of some chemical just lying around.
That’s just your average science major… Telling this as an astrophysicist
He always sounds like hes about to say "but it didnt work", so you cant predict when hes actually gonna say something failed
Of course who would be confident in making cherry flavor from paunt thinner and accidently making tear gas
If you can find a chemical that vaguely looks like octyl acetate, you can make orange soda. Octyl acetate is one of the main components of artificial orange flavour
Antifreeze (Ethylene glycol) -> Ethylene -> 1-octanol -> Octyl acetate.
@@AScottishPenguin turning antifreeze into orange soda
Gotta add it to the Food and Drink list
Commenting so he sees this, really want to see this
Commenting because I WANT TO SEE THIS @NileRed!
Drinking orange flavored antifreeze to cure my creators block
NileRed, as a chemist, I want to thank you for bringing real synthetic chemistry to the popular side of youtube in an engaging way. There is so much to be learned from chemistry - it doesn't have to be painful to learn, it really is a beautiful and magical discipline.
I've been saying "Science is Sorcery" for a while now.
Magical AF.
If youtube existed when I was a kid, I'm pretty sure my career path would be drastically different.
@@ArtisanJanelle Science really is just controlled magic. I mean we've managed to convince sand to *think*.
@@TheKeksadler The most unbelievable part of most fantasy novels is that magic systems are not scientifically tested. Like, if we discover real magic tomorrow, it will become a science almost immediately. Chemistry makes sense now, and to trained chemists, but really isn't so different, and that's what I love about this content.
@@Phriedah Absolutely. Any piece of fantasy media that properly "sciences" their magic is 100x more immersive and interesting than the alternative.
3:37 i thought he was talking about the cardboard for a second 😭😭
I read your comment when it appeared 😂
Can't believe he made a chemical weapon while trying to make soda. Truly a NileRed moment lol.
Definite Mr. Green vibes there.
When you try to make Cherry flavoring but accidently make tear gas
Time stamp?
@@_Vark_ 18:07
I tried making Nuka cola is my piss supposed to be glowing
Other influencers: don’t eat fruit roll ups they use GMO sugars and red 40
NileRed: I made paint thinner soda
Real
Gotta love charlatans
Tbf, he knows practically every chemical that he had in that stuff
@@Dangermad Yeah but it's still ironic considering the hubub about those yellow dyes was because they were derived from benzene. Stuff that is reacted professionally vs a backyard chemist making cherry flavor from some really nasty stuff.
paint thinner is totally not GMO and totally organic and gluten free
the vast difference between tiny changes in the molecules is insane. like, a single water molecule is the difference between tear gas and cherry soda
A single oxygen molecule is the difference between water and hydrogen peroxide. One is a perfectly safe and consumable chemical that is necessary for all life on earth, the other is a dangerous and highly corrosive chemical (at higher concentrations) that would destroy your insides if you drank it.
A single oxygen atom seperates hydration and death 😉
@@Flesh_Wizard I feel like if I was some omnipotent being just getting rid of one oxygen atom on every molecule that had one would be terrifying and terrific prank/experiment.
0:14 yeah, i’ve been wondering that too
As a chemistry PhD, I’m impressed by your chemistry knowledge and expertise, as well as the fact that you have an NMR at your house…
Nile has spent a ton of money on his lab XD
Its not the knowledge nor the expertise that we should be in awe about. Its his gargantuan titanium balls for doing all these in the first place. Its like the Indonesian Nilered that made some candy from those vicks gels.
They make surprisingly nice benchtop NMRs nowadays. Still expensive, but only $10,000 per 10 MHz instead of a $100,000 or a million
you should start hearing the safety third podcast, then you'll learn how unhinged he truly is
@@nobody2685not quite
NileRed is the only UA-camr that would accidentally make a chemical weapon from ww1 while trying to make artificial cherry flavor from paint thinner.
that and explosionsand fire
“Accidentally”
@@clintonbehrends4659 Sounds more like extractions and ire ;)
It is shockingly easy to accidentally create ww1 chemical weapons. People make mustard gas all the time when they mix bleach with other cleaners to make a "super cleaner". (Don't do this!)
He's probably the only UA-camr to do either individually, much less together. Probably the only one ever for the latter.
I love that even though Nile hasn't uploaded for roughly 5 months, 1 million people still show up in under 17 hours to see the mad alchemist do his experiments.
We love Nigel.
I think NileGreen was actually such a successful meme that it grew NileRed's actual fanbase. There might be people here who are seeing their first or second new release.
ikr
chemistry is unsuprisingly very entertaining :D
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I honestly like how he keeps his mistakes and failures in the video. It’s like he learns from his mistakes.
the blatant omission of now nile got his hands on an internationally banned chemical in the first place is just gold 😂
Before it was banned, it used to be used as a fire retardant, if amateurs look hard enough they can still get it from really old fire extinguishers.
ok
I like looking at Ex+F's video, enjoying the lengths he went through and time he spent looking to get his hands on just a little carbon tet... then witnessing Nigel just pull a giant bottle of it out of his stash.
the fact he got it /for free/... this man istg 😂😂
what's the banned chemical?
This man is the definition of quality over quantity.
Very true, I wish he uploaded more frequently but I know some of these videos take forever to produce. Always worth the wait.
yes
64 likes
@@jaredb908 you can't rush chemistry
@@ICantThinkOfAFunnyHandle intro level lab students when they find the hotplates: Observe
Nilered: wants to make cherry flavoring
Also Nilered: *accidentally made tear gas*
wait till nile blue tries this
Math checks out
bruh
I seriously could not stop laughing at the tear gas. Definitely one of the funniest channels on youtube. 🤣
1.5k likes lol
I like how you described paint thinner as “bad tasting” as if you’ve tried it
You can never be sure with Nile
You haven’t??
How do you think he got this idea?
When i was 15 i got the idea that drinking paint thinner was probably an easier way to unalive myself than medicine, took one drop of it and gave up the same moment, it doesn't just taste bad, it *burns*
@@sadbtch2976 reminds me of when I took like 7 pain killers a day for a few weeks because it’s useless trying to actually OD on them, so I was trying to just kill my liver lmao-
Hope you’re doing alright 👍🏻
I've been drinking my paint thinner straight up all this time and it could've tasted like cherry soda? This is a revolution!
😕 Oh damn, I guess I must be somewhat of a lightweight, because I never drink paint thinner straight. Sure, I'll sometimes do it in shots, but I always chase it with liquid plumber or WD-40. But more often than not, I just make cocktails of paint thinner, ammonia & bleach.
📛{Warning: don't consume toxic chemicals like paint thinner and household cleaners}!!
@@HighlanderNorth1 Yikes. You need to drink more often and make sure to increase purity. It gives you a hard time when you first do it, but it's definitely worth it!
Mmmmmm, esophageal burns
@@Kaanfight
Yeah, well, maybe there's some esophageal burns, but more importantly, these chemicals kill harmful bacteria on the way down, so, bonus....
Nile really is the only guy who's able to use a chemical that's internationally banned to make cherry soda
What chemical?
@@Rxceo he says in the video
@@Rxceo carbon tetrachloride
I think its just banned commercially, because I have also used it in my chemistry practical labs
@@SahilSirajUV radiation caused radical formation which depleted the Ozone layer, it was very damaging
Anybody else accidentally shake their phone around 25:02 and see the powder look like it’s wiggling? Maybe I’m just sleep deprived
I see it too and I’m tired lol
_"Up until now, things seemed to be going super well, and I was honestly kind of surprised by how smoothly it had all gone."_
_-NileRed, 16 minutes into a 45 minute long video_
A great example of why you never try to predict how much longer the video lasts until it ends LOL.
This was followed by making a chemical weapon and then trying to fix it using a banned ozone depleting solvent from a semi-sketchy source. Classic Nile
Everytime he says "up until now, everything was going well" makes me always believe something catastrophic is about to happen.
He does that a lot. At one point, he really emphasizes "*supposed* to" like three times, and I was certain it was going to go wrong.
"Sometimes chemistry just... kinda works, and I thought this was one of those times."
Video time: sixteen minutes out of *45.*
I love how occasionally NileRed accidentally shows us how to make chemical weapons like it’s a goof up
He’s making chemical weapons of mass destruction 😮💨
I also love how occasionally NileRed accidentally shows us how to make chemical weapons like it’s a goof up
You always manage to explain things in such a simple way.
“Would you like to drink paint thinner and a liquid that causes cancer?”
“No, that’s dangerous.”
“Would you like a cherry soda made from paint thinner and a liquid that causes cancer?”
“Of course, delicious.”
I love chemistry.
I think I'm off soda now
@@hardcoreholman303 then you should go off eating many baked goods, as almond extract (a common ingredient in a lot of baking) tends to contain benzaldehyde... also consider refraining from eating salt, because salt is made from sodium and chloride, both very toxic on their own. We must refrain from consuming anything that is a product of toxic chemistry ingredients (dies from lack of sodium intake)
@@brickch4pel oh l see you're being an ass. LoL 😂
@@brickch4pel To be fair you shouldn't drink soda for many reasons, just maybe not this one.
@@hardcoreholman303 table salt is sodium chloride my guy.
You know that Nigel is embracing his inner mad scientist when he is using a paperclip instead of a fancy stir bar
I'm not sure, but it looked like he put the paperclip in between the stir plate and the container with the stir bar, possibly to strengthen the magnetic force because it was too far away? I don't know how stir bars/plates work lol
@@PJM257 Probably, it also helped to stir the water around to keep it cool
@@PJM257you do not want a stir bar in the bath as this would interfere with the stir bar in your flask. The magnets are string enough to turn even like 15cm away, and you only need very minor movements in the bath. A paperclip does the job just fine
In professional labs we use paperclips in oil or water baths all the time. They also need to be stirred to more evenly disperse the heat
Also, the fact that he's using chromyl chloride.
"It of course wouldn't be cherry without the colour, so I also added some green food dye."
Genuinely thought he was gonna make green colored cherry soda and you know what? I was gonna accept it as if it were the most normal thing possible.
I was waiting for someone to mention this
@@brendanschuett yeah, I'm surprised no one brought it up 'cause it completely left me flabbergasted and confused lol
That one functional group makes a huge difference.
If Nile accidentally made tear gas while trying to get cherry soda, I can only imagine how those WWI scientists got accidental cherry soda while trying to do a weapon
“Hans, is the gaz ready??”
“No Lutz, but we made really great smelling oil!”
chemistry is wild
@@wedmunds if that’s the case, imagine how bamboozled the allied forces be when the bombs fell.
While watching him break down and build back and break down and build back chemicals and materials on a molecular level, I'm still impressed and amazed with stir bars.
I remember seeing a short advertising the stir bars for mixing drinks. You could always buy one for home use (and for showing off) if you have the money (I can't remember how much they were).
@@lisahenry20They're pretty cheap
Depends on the specific version but the cheap ones are only like 16 bucks for a 10 pack
Stir bars still confuse me 😭
Its essentially a magnet stirred by the stir/heat plate right?
The amount of time, money and effort Nile puts in to make things you can buy for a few US dollars with extremely interesting chemistry is both absolutely hilarious and infinitely admirable and respectable. Truly, the master of transformation.
Our class had a project where we listed the uses of synthetic materials. My group chose toluene and I listed “Can be turned into cherry flavored soda”
When the project is almost done and it's 25% of the way through the video, you know it's going to be a good one
Dude, I instantly remembered the toxic blood flask and the way you sealed it, and busting the glass tip open and pouring that mad creation back out is the best thing I've seen in ages.
Military scientists: Shit, I accidentally made cherry flavor instead of tear gas.
NileRed: Shit, I accidentally made tear gas instead of cherry flavor.
What about cherry flavored tear gas? Lmao
@@willspicer3190you a genius
Tear gas flavored cherry maybe?
@@A8-367 I mean it a good idea but like who wants to eat tear gas
@@Sn0wzyme
His defeated facial reaction after smelling his "edible" teargas was perfect
I love the phrase "edible tear gas."
The “Nile’s Cherry” part was really funny😂