the white stuff on the beeswax is indeed fat bloom similar to what happens on chocolate. It can also happen on candles. only fairly pure beeswax will have this bloom, so if it' happens on candles it's an indication of purity. The bloom happens when the fat is subjected to temperature changes. some of the fatty acids in beeswax have a lower melting point so they seep out and harden, and over time this produces the bloom effect.
I Love the smell of beeswax, My grandpa was a beekeeper, when I was a kid I used to help him out, he had over 80 beehives in his apiary, it was so scary and exciting at the same time to have millions of bees flying around you, I loved that feeling. I still remember the wonderful smells of bee smoker, honey and beeswax in his harvesting shed.
I melted these two together to make cloth waterproofing. The paraffin is used to cut (dilute) the bees wax and the beeswax makes the paraffin less brittle. It's marketed as Greenland wax
To minimize shrinking you need to get the paraffin just hot enough to pour, and pour very slowly. I learned that years ago making candles, Great video!
Super! It really thrills me to see younger folks actually following a scientific method. I have watched Mr Cody for several years and always been pleased with his interest and knowledge of applied sciences. It is nice to have a honest creator to be able to recommend to struggling students on certain subjects. Another example of this is Nile Red. Thank you Mr Cody for more excellent content.
As a chocolate maker, your comment about bloom intrigued me. Bloom is caused by untempered cocoa butter fat crystals on the surface and the structure is very different from tempered chocolate. I wonder if you could change the thermal properties of beeswax by tempering it..?
Chocolate with bloom is 🤮. It completely changes the taste and texture. Better to re-melt and re-temper or add it to brownie batter but don't ever it that way.
@@theCodyReeder Also the VERY cheap honey, compared to buying it in stores. A small jar goes for 11 bucks, a larger container, like a 1 qt yogurt container, is like 25.
You know, the more I read through these comments, the more it makes me want to buy a chunk of bee's wax. The more I watch Cody's beekeeping videos and read these comments, the more it makes me want to become a beekeeper.
I've BEEn... Watching your channel for about 3 years I think and it's always great to see that something as mundane as comparing wax is always made interesting. I really enjoy what you put out there. Thanks cody
bob dehunt I used the same volume of liquid, which matters when putting the wax into something like a hot water bottle. But if you want to know the difference by weight, then you’re correct.
Tomorrow another day at school my friends created a funny game in every break I get punched in the face by all of them. But when I get home to my TWO girlfriends it is all good again. I am the UA-cam Megastar. Thanks for listening dear bib dehunt
You’re videos are actually my favorite because they are always informative and interesting and it’s what you’re into which shows through, love your videos man keep on making them
he does purposely mis pronounce words to get a kick from some people.. check his mercury amalgam vs aluminium video he keeps saying "luminum" tbh though as an Aussies we say it like that
Thank you for the great video. I saw a guy use many miny tanks of parafin in a big tub of water. And then he would let hot water flow through and let the material phase change. And then run cold water through to get the heat back out. He said he needed to put the parafin into small containers to not have it boil or erupt or something. But maybe with beeswax you could take a few larger tanks in a big thank with water without running the risk of destroying your system.
Paraffin is very hard to digest so it tends to clog up the intestines. Children, dogs and wild animals have died after eating paraffin, often from scented candles.
@@李智-h7p It probably won't kill you because you are a grown person, but a small child have different size intestines, and so a lump of paraffin can get stuck and potentially kill them. Paraffin is not a laxative, but you can get food grade paraffin, and that it is used as a coating on medicine, candy etc. but even that is used in a very thin layer. Anyway I live near the beach, and I've often found seabirds that have died after eating paraffin lumps.
The smells are one of the best parts of beekeeping. Beeswax, smoke, honey & the hive. On a summer's evening, the smell of the bees dehydrating their day's nectar is just something else.
ya same but i think it would be hard to do because of the small size of the impurity's that are in it and also i think it depends how impure the wax is if you would see a difference in the properties like if you had got some very impure wax that was heavily used and full of impurity's you might see some. also i think pollen oils are what make it that yellow color and i am not sure how easy it would be to get rid of them you might be able to add something to bind to the oil and make it soluble it something easier to distill off but i am not sure.
I had a moment where i realized that for no reason in particular i'm watching some random guy who i will likely will never meet rub big chunks of bee and crude oil byproduct.. Kinda comedically absurd when you reduce it.
At 5:03, you can see in the upper side of the bee's wax pan that as soon as it touched the pan walls it solidified. When the parafin touched the pan it stayed clear all the way through.
Theres sugar bloom and fat bloom. Usually, on chocolate, the effect we observe is fat bloom, caused by changes in temperature forcing the separation between the components due to different melting points. Sugar bloom is observed as white dots on the surface of chocolate, caused by the presence of water during its preparation or during storage.
Love bees wax and love propolis even more, that's probably that unique smell you're detecting. I have a friend with an apiary and volunteer to help him clean out his hives every year, all I ask is for a big old chunk of propolis. I use propolis in a tincture (ethanol), and that stuff makes cuts and cold sores go away so fast not to mention gets rid of the pain. Good stuff Cody!
I was with a specialized moving company for a while where we used bee's wax in re-assembling pool tables. We used it to smooth out the joints in the slate underneath the felt surface. I always really enjoyed the smell when we were melting the wax with a torch.
Cody'sLab it’s quite ridiculous the amount of control the government has over its people. If we went 50 years back you’d be fine. It would be considered contributing to the United States and it’s sciences rather than being illegal
There are a whole bunch of other trivia tidbits about Beeswax. Strengthening thread while working with leather, candles made of beeswax just smell better, the list isn't endless after all... I need to dig out the candle making supplies again. Thanks again Cody!
Awesome Cody. Fellow atom-wrangler here! Likely the waxy power on the beeswax, and all the inclusions, are due to beeswax being in some sort of metastable phase (exactly like chocolate, spot on!) and random nucleation events are causing various materials insoluble in the big wax ester to crash out . Probably happens from the outside in as the outer has higher stresses set up in the material during cooling. Science Baby!!!
Thank you. It is a great video. A friend gave me some beeswax that they bought from amazon. As a soap maker, I took a sample of the beeswax and a sample from the wax I use in soap making which is from California. I recorded a video that shows the beeswax from amazon did NOT turn into soap when mixing it with lye. The consistency is totally different. And it didn't smell like beeswax/honey /hive or anything like that. The beeswax from amazon was coming from China
The difference in the temperatures is constant throughout the timelapse and it's there, because you've poured the wax over a minute later than the paraffin. It just had more time to give off the heat. The proper experiment would include a second person to pour them both simultaniously, but it's unneeded, as throughout the timelapse the difference of 5 degrees is constant.
yeah it doesn't require you to pour them simultaneously, it's fairly obvious that it's a constant. the graphs should easily tell you (and they do) what's going on, it doesn't require "reddit" to see that there's constantly a 5 degree difference, did go back through the time laps to double check as a good student would do :) It's always 5 degrees cooler/warmer within the margin of error in the thermometer and reading time (when the display updates vs when the camera takes the snapshot) This is highschool science data, there's no interpretation to be made from it. Although somebody asked a good question, how about burn time, like would using different wicks affect the burn time, would a similar wick burn faster or slower? I guess this comes down to how fast it can evaporate or something like that? now this is some interesting science, not watching wax cure.
he said they have different melting point, the bees wax is higher, bu the heat capacity is the same since they cool down just as fast. even if you removed the paraffin wax from the plate 10 minutes later you you'd see the bees wax and paraffin cooling at the same rate.
svampebob007 the heat capacity isn’t the same, bees wax holds ~17% more thermal energy than paraffin wax. The temperature is the same, but that’s something different. You have something called the specific heat capacity of a material. The specific heat capacity is measured in Kilo Joules per Kg per Kelvin. In the example there is a greater mass of bees wax than paraffin wax, and bees wax has the greater specific heat capacity, so the bees wax has more thermal energy stored.
yeah yeah yeah but the heat dissipation is the same, don't know what you call that but wax and paraffin is the same. Now that I think about it it, it's kinda obvious "heat capacity" aka how much capacity it has for heat.
all I can think of is bees wax plus ammonium nitrate rocket motors coming from this. Then again, knowing Cody from seeing most of his past vids, he'll make an igloo out of bees wax in winter to see how warm it is. Go Cody Go! thank you for info on bees wax I didn't know.
video idea: use paraffin wax and beeswax to waterproof two pairs of pants and see which one holds up the best. my guess would be the beeswax would work better
@@theCodyReeder ... I would also be interested to see how paraffin holds up against beeswax in the waterproofing paste. The recipes vary but the one I prefer is from purgatoryironworks here on UA-cam. It's one part boiled linseed oil, two parts turpentine, and two parts beeswax, by weight. Melt the beeswax, then stir in the linseed oil and turpentine. Stir it together and it makes a great waterproofing paste. I had been using equal parts of each ingredient but found that his formula dries a lot faster. I would like to see how paraffin stacks up.
As a matter of fact, Filson clothing company sells “tin” pants which have been waterproofed with some kind of wax. Kind of expensive but I hear they’re nice
Beeswax melted with a little bit of food grade mineral oil makes a pretty nice cutting board treatment, just rub it on once it solidifies and buff off the thick parts
One thing that’s not mentioned is when you light beeswax candles, the flame tends to be brighter, be less Smokey, and lasts longer. Also, it smells like honey when lit.
Beeswax is composed of many different waxes, with different melting points, you can with a fair bit of work, divide it by range. The lowest melting point wax is incredibly close to being liquid on a warm day, the highest barely softens. This separation will happen with thermal cycling, so as a heat storage system it may need a sitirrer.
6:13 I think the most intriguing part of this video was unintentionally showing off how the frames of the time lapse camera are taken consistently to the point where the second hand on the clock in the background always has 3 'positions' it appears to sit in until shifting to 3 new positions after a few moments. Really cool!!
Bees wax is actually used on tambourines because of that jumpy type of friction. My band teacher shows us the different sounds it can make with the bees wax on the rim of the tambourine.
There's some more physical chemistry to dive into in those curves - the slope of the beeswax as it cools and the relatively flat spot on the paraffin curve, implying the beeswax has a greater range of molecular weights making a less sharply defined melting point? It would also be fun to compare energy content via the heating ability of a single candle, and luminosity of a flame
Cody, your channel sometimes reminds me of a wonderful book my grandfather had (I might still have it somewhere). I think it was called "Everyman's Inquire Within" and was full of tips for what we now call DIY, including stuff like how to make your own shellac with beeswax. There is so much "old" knowledge that's liable to be forgotten as it's overtaken by modern technology, but potentially useful nonetheless.
Well Cody, have watched your channel for a long time now... You haven't blown up, posioned, or otherwise really hurt yourself. To be honest, that wasn't my bet. Lol. Yet here you still are making very interesting videos. Never figured I'd say this, but hanging out for a weekend would probably be a fun little vacation. You have impressed me with your variety of knowledge. Thanks for all the effort bud.
I was wondering why i was so unmotivated i remembered that i switched accounts on youtube and i wasn't subscribed on the account that i switched to. I never realized how great these videos are.
Cody, I love your channel. I swear you could make a video about anything (literally melting wax) and make it interesting. I credit it to your ability to describe everything in detail but still understandable to anyone who may not have a background on whatever the subject may be. It is also great to see a channel devoted to educational purposes have as many subs as your channel does. Congrats man!
I've used beeswax to lube cast lead bullets for years , it offers less smoke and a higher melt temp allows for the wax to stay on the bullet for its entire trip down the bore
the white stuff on the beeswax is indeed fat bloom similar to what happens on chocolate. It can also happen on candles.
only fairly pure beeswax will have this bloom, so if it' happens on candles it's an indication of purity.
The bloom happens when the fat is subjected to temperature changes. some of the fatty acids in beeswax have a lower melting point so they seep out and harden, and over time this produces the bloom effect.
What makes impure beeswax? Is it mixed with another kind of wax?
Is it possible to distil/purify beeswax ?
wait a minute... so if it is fat, then it is possible to make a bees soap then!
You can easily find soap made from bee products. Would love to see Cody do this though
Yooou're right
I Love the smell of beeswax, My grandpa was a beekeeper, when I was a kid I used to help him out, he had over 80 beehives in his apiary, it was so scary and exciting at the same time to have millions of bees flying around you, I loved that feeling. I still remember the wonderful smells of bee smoker, honey and beeswax in his harvesting shed.
I totally agree, beeswax is one of the best smells I've ever smelled.
😑😑😑
Those wonderful smells of bee smoker were probably good ol' mj.
@@Colaglass why. just why. I wish I could report you for jokes that try to ruin happy childhood memories and stories.
What's wrong with ol' grandpa enjoying some chill with his bees, TheMiningTeam
I wish I could excrete excess fat
Heroic Age that’s deep 🤯
Or make soap. Rendered from the fat of your enemies!
What about the oils that are on our skin? Those are lipids, aren't they?
@@Nicksperiments no it isnt. shut up
Take fat blocker pills and go nuts at a bbq place. 😉 You’ll be excreting fat like you wouldn’t believe on the porcelain throne.
I melted these two together to make cloth waterproofing. The paraffin is used to cut (dilute) the bees wax and the beeswax makes the paraffin less brittle. It's marketed as Greenland wax
You want more flexibility you can melt vaseline AKA petroleum jelly in with it.
@@johnpossum556 or even just a little mineral oil
@@johnpossum556 I thought petroleum jelly was napalm.
@Alex Lawson petroleum jelly aka white petroleum aka petrolatum aka soft paraffin is not napalm
kaka akak dude chill
I think the most important differences is that Paraffin Wax is an Alkane, Bees Wax is a Lipid.
Is the beeswax a saturated fat since it was solid at room temperature if so can we consume it as its a triglyceride?
@@nealmistry2375 yes, and Cody actually once fried a chicken wing and a banana in Bees Wax (someone link to it)
@@1224chrisng thats how I found Cody's Lab. I wanted to see if the beeswax I had lying around could be used for deep frying.
beeswax is mostly wax, so a fatty acid esther with a long chain alcohol, not glycerol like triglycerides
@@nirodper "Esther" Don't talk about Esther like that.
To minimize shrinking you need to get the paraffin just hot enough to pour, and pour very slowly. I learned that years ago making candles, Great video!
Super! It really thrills me to see younger folks actually following a scientific method. I have watched Mr Cody for several years and always been pleased with his interest and knowledge of applied sciences. It is nice to have a honest creator to be able to recommend to struggling students on certain subjects. Another example of this is Nile Red. Thank you Mr Cody for more excellent content.
Wesley Townsend electroBOOM is another good source. he makes videos about electricity and explains the science of it in a way anyone can understand.
at the end it looks like cody has cat ears
nekody
@@Timsturbs no.
codyan?
i was going to comment the same thing
Gay For Brae he’s a furry.
hey cody i love your vids and i showed your channel to my science teacher and now we watch your vids in class
That's awesome!
Cool!
Me too!
So, nobody is gonna talk about the spider that magically appears at 3:42 ? Magic at it's finest gentlemen!
I just went on to check if someone noticed it
Where's ear wax?
As a chocolate maker, your comment about bloom intrigued me. Bloom is caused by untempered cocoa butter fat crystals on the surface and the structure is very different from tempered chocolate. I wonder if you could change the thermal properties of beeswax by tempering it..?
I remember eating that white powdery chocolate how can you recreate it for nostalgia
Chocolate with bloom is 🤮. It completely changes the taste and texture. Better to re-melt and re-temper or add it to brownie batter but don't ever it that way.
@@alexthomas6602 melt some chocolate that's not meant for cooking and then let it sit without tempering. It usually tastes pretty bad, though.
Beeswax smells so good, like a warm and fuzzy smell - having a block that big must be so nice!
I worked at a beekeeping supply company, we handled tons of it at times. You can imagine the wonderful smell.
Benefits of being a beekeeper 😁
Cody'sLab I’m very jealous! 🐝
@@theCodyReeder Also the VERY cheap honey, compared to buying it in stores. A small jar goes for 11 bucks, a larger container, like a 1 qt yogurt container, is like 25.
You know, the more I read through these comments, the more it makes me want to buy a chunk of bee's wax.
The more I watch Cody's beekeeping videos and read these comments, the more it makes me want to become a beekeeper.
Burn time of a candle made from each?
And total heat output.
Yes 👍
and light output
As I was scrolling past I misread this comment as saying "Butt time of a candle" and thought this was a very different comment.
@@boletarianbread7349 me too.
THAT OUTRO WAS SO AWESOME!!!!!
I've BEEn... Watching your channel for about 3 years I think and it's always great to see that something as mundane as comparing wax is always made interesting. I really enjoy what you put out there. Thanks cody
Wouldn't you need the same weight of wax for this test to work? 2 lbs parrafin. 2.5 bees wax
bob dehunt
I used the same volume of liquid, which matters when putting the wax into something like a hot water bottle. But if you want to know the difference by weight, then you’re correct.
Tomorrow another day at school my friends created a funny game in every break I get punched in the face by all of them. But when I get home to my TWO girlfriends it is all good again. I am the UA-cam Megastar. Thanks for listening dear bib dehunt
@@theCodyReeder oh. That makes sense, thank you.
@@AxxLAfriku please for the love of God stop posting this crap on every damn video ever.
@@AxxLAfrikuLol, take your pills kiddo.
You’re videos are actually my favorite because they are always informative and interesting and it’s what you’re into which shows through, love your videos man keep on making them
"Acrosst it"
Big Boi Neptune lol. I noticed it too. I still love his videos.
It's a regional dialect thing.
he does purposely mis pronounce words to get a kick from some people.. check his mercury amalgam vs aluminium video he keeps saying "luminum"
tbh though as an Aussies we say it like that
finn kristiansen don't forget "blech"
Also "MOFSET" on his recent mercury amalgam video
Great. Your experiments on beeswax help people better understand the difference between beeswax and paraffin.
lots of tea lights use wax made from soy. it is a lot softer than paraffin especially at room temperature
Aw shoot, I didn’t think of that.
doesnt really matter though, still a really interesting video!
Made from soy
Is softer
Theres definitely a theme
Yeah, I had some that was soy based, they dont last very long which is a bummer
Thank you for the great video.
I saw a guy use many miny tanks of parafin in a big tub of water. And then he would let hot water flow through and let the material phase change. And then run cold water through to get the heat back out. He said he needed to put the parafin into small containers to not have it boil or erupt or something. But maybe with beeswax you could take a few larger tanks in a big thank with water without running the risk of destroying your system.
Soooo ... when does that hybrid rocket motor you talked about is coming ?
Ya cody can’t wait
This winter if all goes well.
Cody'sLab can’t wait 😊
Seriously Cody. You are the only channel where I watch every video. Awesome vids Man
No taste test ? :/
Bee's wax tastes better, I know from experience.
Duh, of course, i just wanted Cody to take a mouthful of paraffin :D
Paraffin is very hard to digest so it tends to clog up the intestines. Children, dogs and wild animals have died after eating paraffin, often from scented candles.
bro, parrafin (mineral oil, whatever) is used as a laxitive. the parrafin wax cant kill u
@@李智-h7p It probably won't kill you because you are a grown person, but a small child have different size intestines, and so a lump of paraffin can get stuck and potentially kill them.
Paraffin is not a laxative, but you can get food grade paraffin, and that it is used as a coating on medicine, candy etc. but even that is used in a very thin layer.
Anyway I live near the beach, and I've often found seabirds that have died after eating paraffin lumps.
The smells are one of the best parts of beekeeping. Beeswax, smoke, honey & the hive. On a summer's evening, the smell of the bees dehydrating their day's nectar is just something else.
This was so scientific and I loved it.
I love how you can see the timelapse camera takes a picture once every 20 seconds. Clock creates a triangle shape because of that
Could you refine beeswax (distill) it to get it to a purity like Paraffin? Would it change the properties?
We are two people living far apart. (I'll guess)
And have the same question within a minute.
Cool!
I want to see this too
Can I see this please
ya same but i think it would be hard to do because of the small size of the impurity's that are in it and also i think it depends how impure the wax is if you would see a difference in the properties like if you had got some very impure wax that was heavily used and full of impurity's you might see some. also i think pollen oils are what make it that yellow color and i am not sure how easy it would be to get rid of them you might be able to add something to bind to the oil and make it soluble it something easier to distill off but i am not sure.
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You can easily bleach beeswax in sunlight
Researching for cheapest diy floor wax recipe. This info is great. Appreciate it.
I had a moment where i realized that for no reason in particular i'm watching some random guy who i will likely will never meet rub big chunks of bee and crude oil byproduct.. Kinda comedically absurd when you reduce it.
I don't need this information in life, but I sure will remember this forever unlike all actually useful information I have learned over time.
Great video !
At 5:03, you can see in the upper side of the bee's wax pan that as soon as it touched the pan walls it solidified. When the parafin touched the pan it stayed clear all the way through.
Yeah it's the same effect on chocolate, the fat christals change structure and make the opaque layer with the temperature changes
Theres sugar bloom and fat bloom. Usually, on chocolate, the effect we observe is fat bloom, caused by changes in temperature forcing the separation between the components due to different melting points. Sugar bloom is observed as white dots on the surface of chocolate, caused by the presence of water during its preparation or during storage.
Love bees wax and love propolis even more, that's probably that unique smell you're detecting. I have a friend with an apiary and volunteer to help him clean out his hives every year, all I ask is for a big old chunk of propolis. I use propolis in a tincture (ethanol), and that stuff makes cuts and cold sores go away so fast not to mention gets rid of the pain. Good stuff Cody!
Am I the only one that just wants to take a bite of the beeswax? Anybody else with me?
Locked Strike well now I do
Seek help...
J/k I love the smell of bees wax... its like. A barn mixed with the smell of fresh stacked hay... only sweeter.
Comb honey is basically a bite of wax + honey
I love that you show the differences between the two types of wax.
Interesting vid but that music is giving me Cyriak flashbacks! :-p
ikr
hahaha rightttt
I was with a specialized moving company for a while where we used bee's wax in re-assembling pool tables. We used it to smooth out the joints in the slate underneath the felt surface. I always really enjoyed the smell when we were melting the wax with a torch.
How is the nuclear reactor going?
Harry Sheppard
Turns out that’s very illegal
@@theCodyReeder since when has that stopped you?
The NRC does tend to frown on DIY reactors, yes. Build a fuzor instead?
Might get demontitezed ;-)
Cody'sLab it’s quite ridiculous the amount of control the government has over its people. If we went 50 years back you’d be fine. It would be considered contributing to the United States and it’s sciences rather than being illegal
Love these experimental videos
What happens when you make a paraffin-beeswax alloy?
A bar of waxium
You get a commonly used, waterproofing agent.
You can turn yourself into a bee with enough waxium by crafting the Bee Set at the nearest blacksmith.
The stinger is already in your pants, son.
Adds would tell you that it is '' new and improved and a product of doing years of research ''
@@mononokehime3182 lmaooooo. Underrated comment of the year.
This was only uploaded less than an hour ago and has 13k views. For a video about beeswax, that's pretty good.
Cody has really come a long way.
[Taste test]
There are a whole bunch of other trivia tidbits about Beeswax. Strengthening thread while working with leather, candles made of beeswax just smell better, the list isn't endless after all... I need to dig out the candle making supplies again. Thanks again Cody!
Bruh that short stop motion animation at the end must've took a long time to do.
Awesome Cody. Fellow atom-wrangler here! Likely the waxy power on the beeswax, and all the inclusions, are due to beeswax being in some sort of metastable phase (exactly like chocolate, spot on!) and random nucleation events are causing various materials insoluble in the big wax ester to crash out . Probably happens from the outside in as the outer has higher stresses set up in the material during cooling. Science Baby!!!
I like the new intro music
Thank you. It is a great video. A friend gave me some beeswax that they bought from amazon. As a soap maker, I took a sample of the beeswax and a sample from the wax I use in soap making which is from California. I recorded a video that shows the beeswax from amazon did NOT turn into soap when mixing it with lye. The consistency is totally different. And it didn't smell like beeswax/honey /hive or anything like that. The beeswax from amazon was coming from China
The difference in the temperatures is constant throughout the timelapse and it's there, because you've poured the wax over a minute later than the paraffin. It just had more time to give off the heat. The proper experiment would include a second person to pour them both simultaniously, but it's unneeded, as throughout the timelapse the difference of 5 degrees is constant.
yeah it doesn't require you to pour them simultaneously, it's fairly obvious that it's a constant. the graphs should easily tell you (and they do) what's going on, it doesn't require "reddit" to see that there's constantly a 5 degree difference, did go back through the time laps to double check as a good student would do :)
It's always 5 degrees cooler/warmer within the margin of error in the thermometer and reading time (when the display updates vs when the camera takes the snapshot)
This is highschool science data, there's no interpretation to be made from it.
Although somebody asked a good question, how about burn time, like would using different wicks affect the burn time, would a similar wick burn faster or slower? I guess this comes down to how fast it can evaporate or something like that? now this is some interesting science, not watching wax cure.
They were heated at the same time tho
he said they have different melting point, the bees wax is higher, bu the heat capacity is the same since they cool down just as fast. even if you removed the paraffin wax from the plate 10 minutes later you you'd see the bees wax and paraffin cooling at the same rate.
svampebob007 the heat capacity isn’t the same, bees wax holds ~17% more thermal energy than paraffin wax.
The temperature is the same, but that’s something different.
You have something called the specific heat capacity of a material. The specific heat capacity is measured in Kilo Joules per Kg per Kelvin. In the example there is a greater mass of bees wax than paraffin wax, and bees wax has the greater specific heat capacity, so the bees wax has more thermal energy stored.
yeah yeah yeah but the heat dissipation is the same, don't know what you call that but wax and paraffin is the same.
Now that I think about it it, it's kinda obvious "heat capacity" aka how much capacity it has for heat.
all I can think of is bees wax plus ammonium nitrate rocket motors coming from this. Then again, knowing Cody from seeing most of his past vids, he'll make an igloo out of bees wax in winter to see how warm it is. Go Cody Go! thank you for info on bees wax I didn't know.
Melt paraffin and beeswax and Mix it together.
Glad to see you cover this, I just bought a chunk of honey comb with honey in it to eat and was questioning the wax lol .
Paraffin* is a material... UA-cam doesnt like chemistry so we wont alow this kind of dangerous actions
Nah they'll "allow" it to get traffic, they just won't monetize it.
Right, UA-cam only sanctions melting lipstick...
So because Cody is talking about types of wax I learned about wax tonight
video idea: use paraffin wax and beeswax to waterproof two pairs of pants and see which one holds up the best. my guess would be the beeswax would work better
That’s interesting! Might simplify that to shoes/socks for less surface area to cover. I agree that beeswax would likely last longer.
@@theCodyReeder you could try a mixture of both, too. 😊
@@theCodyReeder ... I would also be interested to see how paraffin holds up against beeswax in the waterproofing paste. The recipes vary but the one I prefer is from purgatoryironworks here on UA-cam. It's one part boiled linseed oil, two parts turpentine, and two parts beeswax, by weight. Melt the beeswax, then stir in the linseed oil and turpentine. Stir it together and it makes a great waterproofing paste. I had been using equal parts of each ingredient but found that his formula dries a lot faster. I would like to see how paraffin stacks up.
As a matter of fact, Filson clothing company sells “tin” pants which have been waterproofed with some kind of wax. Kind of expensive but I hear they’re nice
@@theCodyReeder they actually mix them together to make "greenland" wax which is used commonly to waterproof hiking gear
Oh UA-cam... This type of content would never have existed on TV. UA-cam is so good to me.
I wonder what would result from distilling beeswax
Try steam distilling it.
"Tracked in on the feet of the bees..." Aw... that's so cute. I don't think I've heard anyone talk about bee's feet before.
6:18 NurdRage's suicidal bugs were a bit late.
Also can you give us updates on your wax shielded nuclear reactor?
Beeswax melted with a little bit of food grade mineral oil makes a pretty nice cutting board treatment, just rub it on once it solidifies and buff off the thick parts
2:36 Half of the universe is dead now. Great
You are awesome, sir. Thank you for the continuing education and entertainment.
11C ambient temperature ? Where do you live, in the freezer ?
Critical Point 11C Ambient? Lol that's not very cold!
Sam T
Really? Today it was 22C in my apartment, and I turned on the heat!
Critical Point Utah
11C freezer temperature? What are you keeping solid in that freezer, wood?
9C is a common temperature now in Moskow
One thing that’s not mentioned is when you light beeswax candles, the flame tends to be brighter, be less Smokey, and lasts longer. Also, it smells like honey when lit.
How are you?
powdered meat
Tired. I’ve gotta stop marathoning video production
@@theCodyReeder take it easy for now
@@theCodyReeder Take a break go on vacation. Enjoy life; there is nothing wrong with that.
Thx Cody, you made a boring subject into something very interesting.
You’re a great teacher 😃
3:34 and 7:41 why Cody????!!!
Beeswax is composed of many different waxes, with different melting points, you can with a fair bit of work, divide it by range. The lowest melting point wax is incredibly close to being liquid on a warm day, the highest barely softens. This separation will happen with thermal cycling, so as a heat storage system it may need a sitirrer.
*This is none of my bees-ness but ok*
6:13
I think the most intriguing part of this video was unintentionally showing off how the frames of the time lapse camera are taken consistently to the point where the second hand on the clock in the background always has 3 'positions' it appears to sit in until shifting to 3 new positions after a few moments. Really cool!!
Cody I’m early
I like the shape of these. Like gold bars!
Bees wax is actually used on tambourines because of that jumpy type of friction. My band teacher shows us the different sounds it can make with the bees wax on the rim of the tambourine.
There's some more physical chemistry to dive into in those curves - the slope of the beeswax as it cools and the relatively flat spot on the paraffin curve, implying the beeswax has a greater range of molecular weights making a less sharply defined melting point? It would also be fun to compare energy content via the heating ability of a single candle, and luminosity of a flame
Wow that transition of translucency in the paraffin from 6:10 - 6:12 is amazing.
That animation at the end was pretty cool!
Cody, your channel sometimes reminds me of a wonderful book my grandfather had (I might still have it somewhere). I think it was called "Everyman's Inquire Within" and was full of tips for what we now call DIY, including stuff like how to make your own shellac with beeswax. There is so much "old" knowledge that's liable to be forgotten as it's overtaken by modern technology, but potentially useful nonetheless.
Well Cody, have watched your channel for a long time now... You haven't blown up, posioned, or otherwise really hurt yourself. To be honest, that wasn't my bet. Lol. Yet here you still are making very interesting videos. Never figured I'd say this, but hanging out for a weekend would probably be a fun little vacation. You have impressed me with your variety of knowledge. Thanks for all the effort bud.
Reminder that Cody is the perfect man
Cody's lab got a Cody's slab (of wax). Brilliant!
when you said that the freezing point is the same as the melting point, you melted my brain.
I like that you use the metric system to tell temperature.
The noise from your fingers on the beeswax is quite enough for a Halloween episode... you monster! ;-s
Best looking science hands on UA-cam
The yellow one really seems like the bee's knees! Thanks Cody!
Cloth coating, beeswax vs paraffin. Water resistance and heat conservation test next please.
I like the clock added into your videos for reference
You Can tell the time lapse was taken at 20 second intervals because the second hand made a triangle on the clock, and a third of 60 is 20
I was wondering why i was so unmotivated i remembered that i switched accounts on youtube and i wasn't subscribed on the account that i switched to. I never realized how great these videos are.
Cody, I love your channel. I swear you could make a video about anything (literally melting wax) and make it interesting. I credit it to your ability to describe everything in detail but still understandable to anyone who may not have a background on whatever the subject may be. It is also great to see a channel devoted to educational purposes have as many subs as your channel does. Congrats man!
Love the 70s educational music for the timelapse.
Goosebumps at 3:30
hi cody jim here, been watching and trying to get my grandchildren to watch. You try to answer the question "why" and i like that. all the thumbs up
Science and discovery in its purest form. Love the videos Cody. Keep em coming
I've used beeswax to lube cast lead bullets for years , it offers less smoke and a higher melt temp allows for the wax to stay on the bullet for its entire trip down the bore
The greatest battle after thanos vs the avengers
I think some people wont give a fuck about this video, I find it quite interesting. So happy for you and your success finding your audience.
Thannks for using metric system by the way! Very considerate