Chemistry is the kicker here. I'll watch plenty of 45 minute vids on my favorite channels but I doubt any other channel could keep my attention on chemistry like he does. Well, there's 1 other guy. I forget his name but he made the holograms. Edit: the Thought Emporium, I think. And I guess he isn't exactly chemistry but more biology and stuff. It's still super science-y and he makes it easy to watch and understand.
They normally do that if possible. You're still a potential customer for spare parts, consumables, ... Only stands to reason they'd like to help get it working.
@@Leander_2000fr tho dude, i ordered borosilicate glass from china, and the when some of it arrived shattered, they not only sent me new ones, but they even payed for the shipping too
I've a few tips for improvement for you: 1. The ideal heating curve should include 12 hours for sintering at 950 degrees celsius and around 6 hours at 400 degrees celsius for tempering. Between these phases the oven should cool down at a rate of 100 degrees per hour. This process should be repeated a couple times including re-grinding the material into a fine powder after each run. 2. You only have to add the oxygen at the tempering phase: During the sintering phase a modification of YBCO is formed which hasn't superconducting properties. The superconducting modification starts to form at temperature below circa 500 degrees (between 500 and around 300). During this phase oxygen is embedded into the crystal structure while carbon escapes (if you use Barium carbonate of course carbon is present). I think at the tempering phase it goes from a tetragonal to an orthorhombic crystal structure. So you only need the oxygen during the tempering phase. That also means that increasing the time the pellet stays at 950 C doesn't increase oxygenation. The "quality" of your superconductors only increased because you did the process multiple times. (EDIT: To form a general YBCO crystal structure in the first place you have to sinter it at 950C first before tempering/annealing) 3. You can speed up the whole process by starting (buying) with Yttrium oxide, Barium carbonate and Copper oxide directly (EDIT: with "starting directly" I mean the step of heat treating the material/powder mixture inside an oven). You just have to grind them into a really fine powder (for example inside of a ball mill) to make it work. That's also the reason why Applied Science failed this "direct" method, because he didn't ground his powder mixture. Also good video as always and greetings from Europe!
You seem to know a bit about superconductors, so I’ve got a question. Hypothetically, could this be used alongside a form of transportation? The only logistical problems I’m seeing are A) difficultly to make B) High amount of supplies/time needed for a low quantity C) keeping it cool enough for it to actually work as a superconductor, but I feel A and C could eventually be solved (if not already)
nile: [does something] i then realized that this was a terrible, terrible mistake and would ruin the whole project, except i got lucky and everything was actually fine
The thing I love about nilered is that he could easily not tell us about how he had to look stuff up or when he's not entirely sure what's going to happen, but instead the learning process is a large part of his videos, it makes him seem so much more human than a lot of other science UA-camrs.
yeah, that's exactly how science works. There is no way you can just do something without learning from others, it's impossible because science is literally building from one generation to the next.
Nile after making the aerogel video: I want to stick to lower scale projects Nile like 3 videos later: anyway so here's this 45 minute video of me making an antigravity floating witch device
HyperGamingMinecraft no words have better summed up my thoughts. This presentation and documentation of the process reignites my passion for superconductors and their chemistry. Excellent use of your time Nile. Thank you!
This is a video I keep coming back to. It's comforting. Nigel, your channel in general has allowed me to keep holding on when I was at a low point in my life, and I didn't feel like I was worthy or smart or determined enough to pursue the education and career in science that I wanted. You never let me let go of learning more about the world around me, so thank you. I'm getting my degree in physics now! Your sense of humor and sheer enjoyment of chemistry keeps me coming back to watch you do these experiments over and over again.
32:45 Seeing the meissner effect happen is like seeing an object appear in-game before it's fully loaded, then it suddenly pops to life. That was surreal.
@@InedibleMuffin haha, i saw your miku profile, and thinking we would be good friends because of our shared interest in vocaloid i looked at your profile. so i found you like genshin. what server are you on?
I really enjoyed watching this video!! It's my second time completing it. As a material engineering undergrad who has been fascinated by superconductors for over a year now, this video is a gem and a motivation. Thank you
This is an habit that is beat in your heads for your first lab report works years in every stem sections of any decent college. 😅 It is far of being always pleasuring !😂😂😂
Thank you for your attitude towards ads. I'm a British viewer of MEiDAS Touch. I start out by listening to a learned dissertation on American law, go to make a cup of tea and when I get back I'm being sold cat food.! I think they call it culture shock.
44:28 only at this point I realized that this video in fact has been going on for almost 45 minutes...felt like 10 minutes, very entertaining, interesting and educational. 5 out of 5 stars, I'll be back to see you do the magnet for sure! Have a nice day everyone!
Holly shit your right. I'm at work right now and decided to watch a quick video as a break. I just finished the video thinking it was probably 10-20 mins long only to read your comment and realize it is 45 mins long.
The chemical reaction that occurs at 13:21 seriously looks like some kind of hellish alien devil plant sprouting. Legit the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.
Hey nile, congrats on a successful result! thanks for taking the time to share not only what worked but also the obstacles you ran into. Trial and error is a huge part of experimentation, and it significantly helps the DIY sciences community to both troubleshoot, as well as not be discouraged when encountering the issues that often get cut out from the final take. Again thank you and good luck on your future projects!
ben is the best thing to happen to science on youtube. nurdrage was def up there too until he basically stopped posting. but applied science is just amazing every time. until he starts coding on that one piece of hardware whose name completely slips my mind, but they can be pieced together to run all sorts of low power, things that don't need much computing power, like scoreboards or whatever. they can be used to do basically anything tho, and it's driving me crazy that i can't remember the name. but anyway, yeah, the coding stuff is all over my head, but everything else is amazing and i love his channel so much
Exactly. Most of all is at 36:17 where he says "When it was done, they all looked good, and I was pretty excited that I now had 5 nice superconductors." Edit: it's because he does say something along those lines LOL
A couple pointers for solid-state synthesis: 1. I would recommend putting the powder in an alumina crucible when you anneal it. As you noticed, spreading it out increases the surface area and makes the reaction with the gas faster. It also saves you from having to clean the whole tube every time, and protects it in case you try to make something that will eat your very expensive quartz tube (which could be some unexpected things at the temperatures you're dealing with). 2. You can grind the powder much finer with an agate mortar. If you want to go nuts you could even get a ball mill, which I would recommend if you intend to do more powder syntheses. You already bought the press, the die set, and the tube furnace, so why not complete the set? Edit: I should clarify that by "crucible" I mean a large rectangular boat, not one of the teacup-shaped ones.
I agree with Joshua here. Using ceramic crucibles and mortars also limits the chance of metal contamination to the ceramic powder. I would also recommend to use steric acid to lubricate the pressing tool parts between each pellet - prevents it from jamming. Ideally the pressed pellets should rest on some sacrificial powder to prevent reaction with the alumina crucible. 50 ml/min of O2 should be plenty - you could probably go down to 20-30 ml/min. The oxide powder formed from the ammonium-citrate solution is composed of nano particles, so it's a good thing you work in a fume hood. Finally, you should definitely try to "freeze" the super conductor disc in place over the magnetic train track by using card board spacers - then you can turn the track upside down and the superconductor will stay in place! To accomplish this you can make a small "boat" of styrofoam with the YBCO disc in the bottom, and wrap it in aluminium foil.
I actually almost got teary-eyed at the company actually being helpful and giving detailed support. And just seeing two people far more brilliant than me in the realm of technology interacting was beautiful
They are very helpful for customers in China, we had ordered some VR machines for games with VR headsets (like motorcycles and stuff) and they troubleshoot with us to this day on daily basis.
@@DiabloVal if they were american manufacturers, they sure wouldn't i bet you that, be you in USA or another country, we can see this from every shitty support from the largest tech companies in the world which happens to be american
Sometimes when watching I’ll notice that things seem too good around the 12 minute mark when it’s a 45 minute video and just start waiting for “that’s when I realized I messed up”
I had no idea superconductors were diamagnetic, nor that magnets locked in place due to flux pinning. I thought it was purely eddy currents and that only movements of a magnetic field were immediately and exactly opposed by induced magnetic fields, effectively locking the magnet (like those magnet pendulums stopped by a copper block experiments). But seeing the magnet resting on the surface jump up once the ybco cooled was amazing.
I love how much of a perfectionist he is. He puts in a ton of effort to make things as organized and visually appealing as possible and as a viewer, I genuinely appreciate that quality.
i wouldn't say perfectionist, since that's more of a maladaptive trait than an admirable quality. i would say he's more of someone that reaches for better results when it's attainable or when a solution is easily available. it would be a different story if he obsessively tried these experiments over and over again to get the "perfect" result, and a majority of these videos probably wouldn't exist if he was like that.
@@gassug2 I think they meant perfectionist with his videography, which is probably accurate. He probably tortures himself repeatedly doing something to get the right shot. But we get to see the nice results.
Yeah I work at fedex and I can tell you why. Crates are what what we call incompletables so the building can't sort them so they are manually sorted. This means it is dragged out of the truck by one person, dragged to a conveyor belt by another, pulled off that belt by another, and finally loaded into a truck by a last person. This happens in every building it goes through. Unless the crate is well made it is going to break open. I see at least one or two broken crates in QA every night.
Regarding the furnace saga: Super glad you were able to fix it. Releasing the magic smoke from your electronics is never a great time but at least the manufacturer provided advice on fixing it. Great video!
east company : here's the guide to fix it west company : here's the guide for us to fix it and you will pay for it. for you it didnt cover the warranty and you need 50% of the original price to fix it. ps. not all, but most of them
@@royk7712 That's mostly just silicon valley and start-up bullshit. Most other stuff is a lot better. Appliances are all still adequately repairable and a lot of other products, the companies will support, even outside of warranty.
I think there's many reasons why people don't upload longer videos. For a channel like this where projects are complex and require time and patience, a long video makes sense... But for a gaming channel, a video might feel bloated and unnecessarily stretched if it's as long as this. Not to mention, a lot of UA-camrs only care about money, so they create 2 mins of content, then fill it with 8 mins of nonsense to get those midroll ads. It depends on the community feedback and viewer retention more than anything though.
Because making long videos is a gamble. If something goes wrong, either it gets demonetized or simply receives poor reception from the audience, it would mean poor ad revenue and hence weeks of work just go into nothing. Consistent long videos are only possible if UA-camrs have other stable income source, e.g. sponsorship or Patreon, as a safety net.
I love how I learned in chemistry class that everything needs to be exact, measured to tiny fractions of standard units, mixed exactly right, etc... and NileRed is out here saying "I just put in a random amount, wasn't really based on anything" multiple times a video XD
@@flappy7373 yup, he spents a ton of extra time getting all the water out of the yttrium nitrate just so he can accurately weigh it with respect to the other chemicals.
Didn't realize that i had been watching this for over 40 minutes until the end where you said that it was your longest video ever. Very well made and interesting video. Thank you.
The fact that I can watch a 45 minute video about chemistry and pay attention yet I can’t pay attention in a 35 minute chemistry lesson to save my life. Gosh I wish schools did cool projects like this.
You cant always do projects like this tho, you need a lot of understanding before you can even attempt shit like this, so if all you did was projects you probably wouldnt learn as much as you could
@@judychan4344 I’d like to see you do this as your final assessment. A lot of the stuff Nile uses is very dangerous and I doubt any student would want to risk their life for a grade and if it’s a final assessment it would be really important and you can’t skip it. Even on a university level it would be insane. There’s a reason these things are done by labs and people who want to pursue chemistry beyond what schools can provide.
It’s so crazy to see some I really look up to doing an experiment I did I one of my undergrad chemistry class. And that he ran into some of the same problems we did! Of course he got an amazingly better result but they only gave us two afternoons.
I love how at 3:53 he just tosses those research papers out of his table. I thought only Julian Baumgartner was that savage to other people's failures.
I just love the roller coaster between "I found a detailed instruction" and "I had no idea what I was doing"; also, "I have to make it right" and "I just decided to roll with what I had" 😅😅 he's that rare kind of people who can easily educate and entertain ❤
this is such a banger video. it's got everything: color-changing liquids, said liquid turning into a solid snake, asmr powder sounds, fucking LEVITATION. and the storytelling is so great, too. your best work yet
Okay watching this again, I just realized how freaking genius this reaction is. Just the logistics behind it is incredible. They accomplished like six things all at the same time with the exact same reaction. It's just kind of mind boggling how they came up with this when if any single part we're missing this reaction would not have really happened the same way at all.
Okay reading this comment again i just realised how freaking retarded this comment is just the stupidity behind it is incredible he acomplished like 2 stages of looking dumb,trying to sound smart.
Oh my god what an experience! Nile once saw floating magnets so he decided to summon his own Demon Fungus, grind their flesh into a fine powder and run concentrated wind over it with ancient Chinese machinery he rebuilt himself using his father's passed down knowledge, for use in his own alchemical freeze-pucks and projects. 10/10 a m a z i n g
I guess I'm a minority though, because I immediately guessed he was doing the nitrate-citrate synthesis. I was actually a bit worried when he did it in an open beaker, as I have personally seen the synthesis done in a chimney apparatus, as some materials when made this way kind of impersonates a rocket in reverse... (Our labs are no longer allowed to do it that way as it creates way too much nano-particles which are kind of bad for yo if you inhale them, and even doing it in a fume hood is not enough in some cases....) So yes, that synthesis can be described as 'opening the gates to hell' The hell just only shows up 20 years later in the form of lung cancer :-(
@@srenkoch6127 truez my grandfather may he rest in peace was in charge of the electronic section in the chemistry department at a Uni and he also got cancer, presumably from soldering for so long, plus who knows what was in the devices he fixed. Always need to wear protective equipment when dealing with carriable particles/fume and alike.
Dude, I never, ever watched a video so long without skipping a part of it. Or getting distracted. I also don't have the possibility of supporting with money, nor am I passionate about science nearly as close as you are. But I can surely leave a thumbs up and a nice comment. Keep up with the good works. Seems like you love what you do, and if I ever get across another one of your videos, be sure I will not skip the ad. And hopefully othe people who read this comment don't skip the ad either, is the best way we can help, if is not with money ;)
So, you explaining superconductors in this way has actually SOLVED A HUGE PROBLEM that I had. I'm a writer, and I have an image, but no way of understanding the image I was seeing. But now that image will be written accurately and not just thrown in arbitrarily and without being possible.
Bradley Hennessee Not even joking, my school won’t let seniors come back. Freshman, sophomores and juniors are allowed. But not the class of 2021, were still online🤷♀️
Dude I love that you're not afraid to admit that there is a learning curve to all of your experiments. It might not be the best way to learn, but hard lessons always stick with you the most.
Wow - I never expected to see this in a UA-cam video - I did my PhD on high Tc superconductors in the 90s - mostly BSCCO but some YBCO along the way. You avoided alot of the pitfalls but a couple of things from a potentially unreliable memory that might help make a cleaner product. Cu nitrates have variable water contents up to 6 H2O, it's never just a trihydrate from the bottle (it's often labelled x.H2O) so you will have some weighing error and probably a touch short of Cu. It's actually common to err on the copper-rich side as CuO can act as a flux during sintering - it also helps avoid making a very undesirable green Y-211 impurity phase. Going with the citrate 'chemie douce' route to form YBCO is a good choice as direct solid-state is a pain to get pure. Seeing a glass tube in a furnace at 950degC made me cringe a bit - we used high purity alumina tubes but not exactly good for filming (cheaper mullite tubes should work fine too at these temps). Our samples went into ceramic boats to avoid contact with the well-used and dirty tube - we used zirconia boats for best product as Al will enter the YBCO crystal structure at low levels. However using a bit of powder as a sacrificial layer should help contamination from any container. A useful trick for getting better pellets is to use a tiny drop of ethylene glycol as a binder - it burns out during firing. I don't remember the exact temperature we used for sintering but the usual solid-state chemistry fire-grind-pelletize-fire repeat until powder X-ray diffraction says you're finished was par for the course. The annealing/oxygenation of pellets was done as a separate step at a lower temperature (~500degC if my memory serves?) for a long time as the product you want tends to lose oxygen at high temperture. Very well done for making something clean enough to show such a clear Meissner effect - in the early years many a student failed repeatedly before getting something that worked👏
The most important lesson of this video is: The author is not afraid attempting something he has initially no idea if he will succeed or not. This is the most important attribute of a true engineer. If you fail, try something else, repeat until you succeed.
The most important lesson of this video for me: Subscribe to NileRed. Second place lesson: No I can't just make a bunch of superconductoring magnets on the cheap.
3rd lesson : me dum dum, so I just like watching his videos and going "damn that's easy" but never actually doing it myself because I KNOW I'll mess it up
@38:50 I knew a guy who, after doing calculations "lost" about 500g of nitroglycerin. They found it after doing the math 3x. It had gotten entrained in filter media in a purification setup. Good thing it was still kept cool! You don't want to "vaporize" 500 mg of nitroglycerin in a lab setting! Impressive superconductor synthesis! And it worked!!!
500 milligrams of nitroglycerin or 500 grams of nitroglycerin? If it's the latter, I have to wonder why anyone would be making that much in a lab setting.
maybe, but you never know. i have a singular friend who works in the national postal service (so, this is completely anecdotal) and most of the destroyed shit actually come like that. you never actually find out who broke it because it just passes hands and EVERYONE acts like that. from the shipyard handler, truck driver to the mortal postalman.
Based on real events following the watching of a video - 0:09. Compelling drama - 13:17. Emotional rollercoaster - 19:22. Best portrayal of betrayal since Julius caesar 18:41. A raw depiction of the fragility of life - 28:23. Simply marvelous - 42:33.
I love the advertisements I get while watching NileRed videos. Why yes, of course I'd like to purchase equipment to help me with my Nitrogen purification and Liquid Chromatography\Mass Spectrometry.
@@dominicklipari You do, but some people will believe what they read without question because a number of people vouched for it. It cracked me up how NileRed did some of the calculations in his head while reading and was like, "Wait. This is horseshit..." 😉
Gotta say, you're one of the coolest chemists on UA-cam. You actually make science and chemistry interesting. Keep it up, looking forward to when you decide to make the neodymium magnet.👍😁
21:11 I love the part where your dad helps you. I don't know why - but i find it nice and it give me a smile! Thanks to all dads out there. You give us the help we need to fix our little problems. Until the time comes and we can help you.
Let's offer a course on Western/liberal marriage: Lesson #1: Don't ever argue with your wife because that is emotional abuse and she will call the police and accuse you of hurting her. Police don't need any evidence to arrest you, so enjoy your stay in prison. Lesson #2: Don't you ever dare to deny your wife having sex with others. You don't own her. If you're a real man, you'll actually help her find a boyfriend or two and let them use your bed while you sleep on the couch. Lesson #3: Be fair to each other, but remember, she can accuse you of abuse at any time and destroy your life Lesson #5: If your spouse wants to change "their" gender, don't argue. Just be happy for "them," you transphobe. Lesson #6: Want a divorce? Don't want a divorce? Doesn't matter. She can leave you for any reason or no reason at all. She gets to take at least half your wealth, custody of your children, and you pay all her legal fees. She might even end up living with her boyfriends in the house you bought, with your kids.
"It turns out that I was just being impatient, and I simply needed to wait longer for our Dark Lord to emerge from the portal I had created in my beaker."
I remember a couple of kids in my grade 9 science class back in 1989 making this stuff in the high school chemistry lab. Blew my mind as a 13 year old kid that something could just float there like that. Been fascinated by superconductors ever since.
What gets me is that his inflection is so consistent describing both success and failure that if you aren't looking at the video time remaining you don't know if he's about to describe what went wrong or if the next line is going to be, "...and it was."
I just now realized that he has turned the observations part of a chemistry lab into a whole UA-cam career... i always hated writing down my observations but watching this I understand it really is important
Ok so if u want the formula for ybco (this is just the chemicals) yitrum hydroxide you should know how to make it a hydroxide Barium hydroxide Copper hydroxide Oxygen cus u can not convert oxygen in to a hydroxide So this is the formula for the chemicals buy it from Amazon and u should get ybco Ok so I say that the actual formula is harder to find if it is not detailed sorry Ammonia is something that for me stops reaction/neutrilizes to btw u could drink the citric acid when it was 6.5 - 7 that is the ph level for pure and fresh water
That capacitor fix is so lucky dude. My main experience with capacitor problems comes from 01 Xboxs and old monitors, basically anything from very late 90s/ early 00s (cap rot). It is a 50/50 pretty much that you test the equipment, capacitor is already exploded/ ready to pop, and then you got electrolytic juice helping the current flow jump the circuit and maybe pass a resistor, fry the board, etc. The fact that nothing was fried is gods grace lmao
As a chemist I found 100’s of journal articles with dumb calculations that led no where and the methodology seemed so illogical this is so relatable
As a dumb person i have no idea whats going on
@@blendyboi5023 your not dumb lol just chose a different career path I’m probably incapable at whatever you do
Just a curious random im just watching for interesting facts and brain cells.
I wonder why that is. Typically, a journal which publishes rubbish calculations pays a serious price in lost reputation.
@@amir_hamzah oh ok ty
There arent many youtubers that can make me sit and watch a 45 min video without getting bored especially when i know nothing about chemistry.
AND WATCH ALL HELL BREAK LOOSE
exactly! i literally just finished watching the video and holy fuck it's 4am 💀 this was such a good project
Wow, the moment I read your comment I realized this video was 45 minutes long, felt more like 15 or so
Chemistry is the kicker here. I'll watch plenty of 45 minute vids on my favorite channels but I doubt any other channel could keep my attention on chemistry like he does. Well, there's 1 other guy. I forget his name but he made the holograms.
Edit: the Thought Emporium, I think. And I guess he isn't exactly chemistry but more biology and stuff. It's still super science-y and he makes it easy to watch and understand.
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i love that the random tube furnace company not only responded but actually helped you out and annotated your own picture of the damaged board
They normally do that if possible. You're still a potential customer for spare parts, consumables, ... Only stands to reason they'd like to help get it working.
all the alibaba customer support ive gotten so far was always way better than any other like amazon etc
@@Radnugget rly? Nile didn't even mention the name of the company
@@Leander_2000fr tho dude, i ordered borosilicate glass from china, and the when some of it arrived shattered, they not only sent me new ones, but they even payed for the shipping too
@@ananteshesha5788 damn, that's dedication right there.
Nile red is like the only science channel out there that is both comedic and understandable
Applied science he referenced in this video is a pretty amazing channel also very understandable.
Bill Nye The Science Guy.......
@@salenaforsyth8430 you mean Bill Nye the Democrat propaganda guy? 😂
@@Tanookiiii seriously though tech ingredients and applied science are both very good and easily understandable channels.
I've a few tips for improvement for you:
1. The ideal heating curve should include 12 hours for sintering at 950 degrees celsius and around 6 hours at 400 degrees celsius for tempering. Between these phases the oven should cool down at a rate of 100 degrees per hour. This process should be repeated a couple times including re-grinding the material into a fine powder after each run.
2. You only have to add the oxygen at the tempering phase: During the sintering phase a modification of YBCO is formed which hasn't superconducting properties. The superconducting modification starts to form at temperature below circa 500 degrees (between 500 and around 300). During this phase oxygen is embedded into the crystal structure while carbon escapes (if you use Barium carbonate of course carbon is present). I think at the tempering phase it goes from a tetragonal to an orthorhombic crystal structure. So you only need the oxygen during the tempering phase. That also means that increasing the time the pellet stays at 950 C doesn't increase oxygenation. The "quality" of your superconductors only increased because you did the process multiple times. (EDIT: To form a general YBCO crystal structure in the first place you have to sinter it at 950C first before tempering/annealing)
3. You can speed up the whole process by starting (buying) with Yttrium oxide, Barium carbonate and Copper oxide directly (EDIT: with "starting directly" I mean the step of heat treating the material/powder mixture inside an oven). You just have to grind them into a really fine powder (for example inside of a ball mill) to make it work. That's also the reason why Applied Science failed this "direct" method, because he didn't ground his powder mixture.
Also good video as always and greetings from Europe!
Damn, is your job making superconductors? If so, cool
**visible confusion**
This dudes brain is way bigger and wrinkly than mine, I trust him
You seem to know a bit about superconductors, so I’ve got a question. Hypothetically, could this be used alongside a form of transportation? The only logistical problems I’m seeing are A) difficultly to make B) High amount of supplies/time needed for a low quantity C) keeping it cool enough for it to actually work as a superconductor, but I feel A and C could eventually be solved (if not already)
this dude knows shit
nile: [does something] i then realized that this was a terrible, terrible mistake and would ruin the whole project, except i got lucky and everything was actually fine
Omg this made me laugh so hard. Love it.
Elyse G.엘리스 지 yes that happen XD
me: hah you idiot
grape god lol what’s happening
happened quite often when I worked in r&d
The thing I love about nilered is that he could easily not tell us about how he had to look stuff up or when he's not entirely sure what's going to happen, but instead the learning process is a large part of his videos, it makes him seem so much more human than a lot of other science UA-camrs.
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yeah, that's exactly how science works. There is no way you can just do something without learning from others, it's impossible because science is literally building from one generation to the next.
@@CellRus True on that
Absolutely, his mistakes are just as entertaining and interesting as his successes.
That’s by far the best part of his videos, I think. He doesn’t just make chemistry tutorials, he tells stories.
This video has a ridiculous amount of pretty visuals in it
He certainly does a good job getting all the good shots.
The fact that there was no reviews yet the company was there to help him with any issues is great....he should give them 10 stars
He wasted days trying to troubleshoot the issue and they badly packaged it. 1 star
@@Joe-Mama978 The issue was operator error, so it's not their fault. The bad packaging is though.
@@austinhoang1814 true so at least 3-3.5 stars
@@drhades4240 Honestly I’d give an honest 4
That is an odd thing with folks that make the *good* knockoff products. They have great support. Sometimes.
Such a great video dude. I love how you included all the little twists and turns in the adventure to making it.
And let us not forget about the friends we made along the way.
You make some great art!
Omg hi 😍
Omg. Bobby? I didn't know you like to watch Nile red to! Great artwork My dude❤️❤️
I never thought i'd see you here!
Nile after making the aerogel video: I want to stick to lower scale projects
Nile like 3 videos later: anyway so here's this 45 minute video of me making an antigravity floating witch device
oh my f**king god
u still watching??
lol
HyperGamingMinecraft no words have better summed up my thoughts.
This presentation and documentation of the process reignites my passion for superconductors and their chemistry.
Excellent use of your time Nile. Thank you!
@@Svetty00 It looked like a demonic morel fungus entering our reality through a portal from Hell, rather than the standard Pharaoh's serpent.
Pat The Plant lol
This is a video I keep coming back to. It's comforting.
Nigel, your channel in general has allowed me to keep holding on when I was at a low point in my life, and I didn't feel like I was worthy or smart or determined enough to pursue the education and career in science that I wanted.
You never let me let go of learning more about the world around me, so thank you. I'm getting my degree in physics now!
Your sense of humor and sheer enjoyment of chemistry keeps me coming back to watch you do these experiments over and over again.
just put this video on to go to sleep after watching it atleast 20 times already because its just so comforting :)
@@sophiemitchell4554 seriously this one alone I can't even count how many times I've slept to it, probably 50+
Nigel lol
Props to this guy so much, He spends thousands of dollars and weeks just to make a small magnetic pellet to make metal float and spin
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@@RaiderOfTheLost No one cares.
@@RaiderOfTheLost you you are ziy/zoy
Doubting your assertion about thousands of weeks..
Tube furnaces are incredibly useful -- you can have a reaction up to 960°C in the presence of any gas which is awesome
32:45
Seeing the meissner effect happen is like seeing an object appear in-game before it's fully loaded, then it suddenly pops to life. That was surreal.
Lol
what’s your genshin uid?
@@diamonial lol how do you know I'm on genshin and why are you asking here
@@InedibleMuffin haha, i saw your miku profile, and thinking we would be good friends because of our shared interest in vocaloid i looked at your profile. so i found you like genshin. what server are you on?
@@diamonial oh lol people liking Miku isn't rare at all though. I'm on the Asia server
NileRed’s videos are getting closer and closer to movies 😂
Man’s production quality is gonna pass Disney
if NileRed was in theatres, i'd be a huge cinephile
Most viewed video:
"How to make cocain"
Lol the next few will be shorter. These longer ones have taken my soul to make
@@NileRed its all chill. We love your videos
I really enjoyed watching this video!! It's my second time completing it. As a material engineering undergrad who has been fascinated by superconductors for over a year now, this video is a gem and a motivation. Thank you
“I wasn’t sure how much to use, so I ended up just putting in all of it.” So, the standard NileRed procedure then.
As chemists say: A lot helps a lot (some direct translation from german: Viel hilft viel) 😉
Full send dude, full send
SEND IT
ok
27:08 ish
What I love the most about Nile Red is that he shows us all his mistakes and how he learns from them
Exactly
It’s important to document the entire process and every video seems to be a thesis and an amazing example of the scientific method
This is an habit that is beat in your heads for your first lab report works years in every stem sections of any decent college. 😅
It is far of being always pleasuring !😂😂😂
I love how he gives us directions like I can make this
Your profile rickrolled me
Lol
I mean, no we can’t... due to budget and skill... but in theory! I wish I could lmao
He's rickrolling us.
I made it 124 like😳
Thank you for your attitude towards ads. I'm a British viewer of MEiDAS Touch. I start out by listening to a learned dissertation on American law, go to make a cup of tea and when I get back I'm being sold cat food.!
I think they call it culture shock.
44:28 only at this point I realized that this video in fact has been going on for almost 45 minutes...felt like 10 minutes, very entertaining, interesting and educational. 5 out of 5 stars, I'll be back to see you do the magnet for sure! Have a nice day everyone!
Holly shit your right. I'm at work right now and decided to watch a quick video as a break. I just finished the video thinking it was probably 10-20 mins long only to read your comment and realize it is 45 mins long.
Lol, what! I assumed not much time had passed, damn. This is good content
I would happily watch extended uncut versions of Nile's videos.
Dude l just realized too haha
@Steve Owen the football player?
To look for PDFs ONLY on google add this to the end of the search term:
"filetype:pdf"
Preinstallable on Roblox I type in .pdf at the end
Yeah but that was a pdf on a journal website
or just use sci-hub
The chemical reaction that occurs at 13:21 seriously looks like some kind of hellish alien devil plant sprouting. Legit the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.
@@srs6128 r/wooosh
@@peanutbutter9778 no it's not
@@srs6128 you're not getting the joke.
It looks like a demon tree sprouting
@@srs6128 you removed the first comment. Shame!
Hey nile, congrats on a successful result! thanks for taking the time to share not only what worked but also the obstacles you ran into. Trial and error is a huge part of experimentation, and it significantly helps the DIY sciences community to both troubleshoot, as well as not be discouraged when encountering the issues that often get cut out from the final take. Again thank you and good luck on your future projects!
Ben from applied science: *Literally does anything*
NileRed: " Its kinda ugly"
He’s negging the scientific method itself.
@@Wertsir "Is it actually good science if it isn't pretty when all's said and done?"
13:22 look like the portal of hell was
opening up
13:26 NileRed successfully summon unknown entity.
ben is the best thing to happen to science on youtube. nurdrage was def up there too until he basically stopped posting. but applied science is just amazing every time. until he starts coding on that one piece of hardware whose name completely slips my mind, but they can be pieced together to run all sorts of low power, things that don't need much computing power, like scoreboards or whatever. they can be used to do basically anything tho, and it's driving me crazy that i can't remember the name. but anyway, yeah, the coding stuff is all over my head, but everything else is amazing and i love his channel so much
NileRed's intonation makes me expect a "But it failed miserably..." after every sentence
My thoughts exactly.
Literally bro, I get all nervous
@@joshuaosei5628 That's how good the narration was. Because same.
Exactly. Most of all is at 36:17 where he says "When it was done, they all looked good, and I was pretty excited that I now had 5 nice superconductors."
Edit: it's because he does say something along those lines LOL
Yeah, I need him to narate my life
A couple pointers for solid-state synthesis:
1. I would recommend putting the powder in an alumina crucible when you anneal it. As you noticed, spreading it out increases the surface area and makes the reaction with the gas faster. It also saves you from having to clean the whole tube every time, and protects it in case you try to make something that will eat your very expensive quartz tube (which could be some unexpected things at the temperatures you're dealing with).
2. You can grind the powder much finer with an agate mortar. If you want to go nuts you could even get a ball mill, which I would recommend if you intend to do more powder syntheses. You already bought the press, the die set, and the tube furnace, so why not complete the set?
Edit: I should clarify that by "crucible" I mean a large rectangular boat, not one of the teacup-shaped ones.
What's it like to be smart?
@@TheWoodchuck94 I wouldn't know, I just have a lot of experience with this specific thing.
@@TheWoodchuck94 It's a burden. You understand shortcomings.
I agree with Joshua here. Using ceramic crucibles and mortars also limits the chance of metal contamination to the ceramic powder. I would also recommend to use steric acid to lubricate the pressing tool parts between each pellet - prevents it from jamming. Ideally the pressed pellets should rest on some sacrificial powder to prevent reaction with the alumina crucible. 50 ml/min of O2 should be plenty - you could probably go down to 20-30 ml/min. The oxide powder formed from the ammonium-citrate solution is composed of nano particles, so it's a good thing you work in a fume hood. Finally, you should definitely try to "freeze" the super conductor disc in place over the magnetic train track by using card board spacers - then you can turn the track upside down and the superconductor will stay in place! To accomplish this you can make a small "boat" of styrofoam with the YBCO disc in the bottom, and wrap it in aluminium foil.
@@dankhill6851 /r/iamverysmart
“The crate has come apart”
Nile:”Huh…”
Yeah I would react the same way 😂
summarizing the entire channel in one sentence
"i had no idea how much to use, so i used all of it"
"If in doubt, flat it out."
I forgot who said that.
"Then on top of it, I added a metal spacer thing..."
@@BIONGAFT_PHIGHTING no? That literally isn’t true
@gamtax I always heard when riding a dirt bike when in doubt gas it ,and damm it actually worked 🤷♂️👍
@@gamtax i think it was colin mcrae who said that
When he talks, he sounds like he’s giving an explanation that leads to a question but the question never comes.
Bro why does this make sense?
Holy shit i never noticed
Inverse vsauce
To me it always sounds like after every pause he’s going to say something bad happened
@@derekbigpowers1993 same actually. I wait for the dreaded "but, unfortunately..."
I actually almost got teary-eyed at the company actually being helpful and giving detailed support.
And just seeing two people far more brilliant than me in the realm of technology interacting was beautiful
I sharted myself
They are very helpful for customers in China, we had ordered some VR machines for games with VR headsets (like motorcycles and stuff) and they troubleshoot with us to this day on daily basis.
They better be helpful if I paid 2k for it
@@DiabloVal if they were american manufacturers, they sure wouldn't i bet you that, be you in USA or another country, we can see this from every shitty support from the largest tech companies in the world which happens to be american
Seeing the ferrofluid on the edges move at the end was crazy! Really helps to visualize what was going on in the magnetic fields
"Turns out I was just a little impatient"
*portal to hell opens and releases an eldritch horror without any warning or acknowledgement*
Exactly my thoughts
it scares me
those were really grosss
Do you mean a furry? (This is a joke on the _other_ furries.)
Hell tree
the genuine happiness in his gasp at 21:27 is gold
Sometimes when watching I’ll notice that things seem too good around the 12 minute mark when it’s a 45 minute video and just start waiting for “that’s when I realized I messed up”
Hey now this isn't Gourmet Makes!
I try not to look at the video length to keep my suspension =p
edit. I also do that with Gourmet Makes 😅
I had no idea superconductors were diamagnetic, nor that magnets locked in place due to flux pinning. I thought it was purely eddy currents and that only movements of a magnetic field were immediately and exactly opposed by induced magnetic fields, effectively locking the magnet (like those magnet pendulums stopped by a copper block experiments). But seeing the magnet resting on the surface jump up once the ybco cooled was amazing.
I love how much of a perfectionist he is. He puts in a ton of effort to make things as organized and visually appealing as possible and as a viewer, I genuinely appreciate that quality.
That a trait I noticed in most of his videos. It's genuinely great to see that
i wouldn't say perfectionist, since that's more of a maladaptive trait than an admirable quality. i would say he's more of someone that reaches for better results when it's attainable or when a solution is easily available. it would be a different story if he obsessively tried these experiments over and over again to get the "perfect" result, and a majority of these videos probably wouldn't exist if he was like that.
@@gassug2 I think they meant perfectionist with his videography, which is probably accurate. He probably tortures himself repeatedly doing something to get the right shot. But we get to see the nice results.
@@libtrs838 he literally blew up a bunch of glass on nileblue just for the perfect shot lmfao
420 likes lol
“It’s actually damaged, like severely damaged, they shipped it in a crate and the crate has completely come apart” -fedex guy 2020
“Huh”
See what had happened was i was messing around and it fell and now im going to lie
Yeah I work at fedex and I can tell you why. Crates are what what we call incompletables so the building can't sort them so they are manually sorted. This means it is dragged out of the truck by one person, dragged to a conveyor belt by another, pulled off that belt by another, and finally loaded into a truck by a last person. This happens in every building it goes through. Unless the crate is well made it is going to break open. I see at least one or two broken crates in QA every night.
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Regarding the furnace saga: Super glad you were able to fix it. Releasing the magic smoke from your electronics is never a great time but at least the manufacturer provided advice on fixing it. Great video!
east company : here's the guide to fix it
west company : here's the guide for us to fix it and you will pay for it. for you it didnt cover the warranty and you need 50% of the original price to fix it.
ps. not all, but most of them
that part got me anxious
I use old electronics to start fireworks xd
@@royk7712 west company sounds like Apple.
@@royk7712 That's mostly just silicon valley and start-up bullshit.
Most other stuff is a lot better. Appliances are all still adequately repairable and a lot of other products, the companies will support, even outside of warranty.
That is the prettiest blue ive ever seen
hey i saw your comment 👋
I'm glad that we live in a time when people can make these cool reactions and not be burned at the stake for practising witchcraft.
*Starts raising skeletons*
**Manufacturers tons of instruments and equips the skeletons**
@@Known_as_The_Ghost Necromancy only challenge
I’m really liking these long videos, i don’t know why so many youtubers worry about making their videos too long, the more Nilered, the better
Because people leave them in between and youtube stops recommending videos left in between.
I think there's many reasons why people don't upload longer videos. For a channel like this where projects are complex and require time and patience, a long video makes sense... But for a gaming channel, a video might feel bloated and unnecessarily stretched if it's as long as this. Not to mention, a lot of UA-camrs only care about money, so they create 2 mins of content, then fill it with 8 mins of nonsense to get those midroll ads.
It depends on the community feedback and viewer retention more than anything though.
Because making long videos is a gamble. If something goes wrong, either it gets demonetized or simply receives poor reception from the audience, it would mean poor ad revenue and hence weeks of work just go into nothing. Consistent long videos are only possible if UA-camrs have other stable income source, e.g. sponsorship or Patreon, as a safety net.
NileRed really managed to make me have an anxiety crysis over whether a pellet was "superconducting" or not.
Fausto silva meu inimigo
Wait...
Yep he did it also to me he made me have an anxiety crisis
carai, tem BR em tudo quanto é canto mesmo
@@brunosp86 com certeza
funky faustão cat KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
I love how I learned in chemistry class that everything needs to be exact, measured to tiny fractions of standard units, mixed exactly right, etc... and NileRed is out here saying "I just put in a random amount, wasn't really based on anything" multiple times a video XD
only siths deals in absolute
Ehh he measures the important amounts. Imo he should have been more precise with the oxygen but w/e
NileRed is not a chemistry channel, it's a complex baking one.
Yeh he measures the things that are important to measure, but eyeballs the things that aren't as specific
@@flappy7373 yup, he spents a ton of extra time getting all the water out of the yttrium nitrate just so he can accurately weigh it with respect to the other chemicals.
"So i kinda procrastinated for the next year and a half"
We all felt that
What does procrastination mean
Rude not to answer
Lol
@@johnnydept8975 dude i was literally asleep when you commented
@@johnnydept8975 it means to basically just be lazy and not do something you need to do for a while
Didn't realize that i had been watching this for over 40 minutes until the end where you said that it was your longest video ever.
Very well made and interesting video.
Thank you.
I didn't notice till I saw this comment
I said the same thing
The level of problem-solving Nile does with chemistry is like magic.
That tube furnace is mega cool. Great job on this video
Really? Must be broken.
You need a PUMP
MINECRAFT players: I just proved that furnaces are REAL!!
OMG I AM SUBBED TO NIGHTHAWKINGLIGHT
The fact that I can watch a 45 minute video about chemistry and pay attention yet I can’t pay attention in a 35 minute chemistry lesson to save my life. Gosh I wish schools did cool projects like this.
Yeah me too, but schools will definitely not buy half the things in the video to actually do the project and it looks like it took quite a long time.
You cant always do projects like this tho, you need a lot of understanding before you can even attempt shit like this, so if all you did was projects you probably wouldnt learn as much as you could
@@Wet-Milk I was thinking more of a final assessment sort of thing.
@@judychan4344 I’d like to see you do this as your final assessment. A lot of the stuff Nile uses is very dangerous and I doubt any student would want to risk their life for a grade and if it’s a final assessment it would be really important and you can’t skip it. Even on a university level it would be insane. There’s a reason these things are done by labs and people who want to pursue chemistry beyond what schools can provide.
Expectations: cool experiments, fun learning
Reality: ok class turn to page 73 and Jonathan read for us please now I’m gonna watch some game grumps
lets all take a moment to respect all the equipment that is destroyed or damaged in the making of this channel
It’s so crazy to see some I really look up to doing an experiment I did I one of my undergrad chemistry class. And that he ran into some of the same problems we did! Of course he got an amazingly better result but they only gave us two afternoons.
I love how at 3:53 he just tosses those research papers out of his table. I thought only Julian Baumgartner was that savage to other people's failures.
Seeing the fanbases overlap makes me happy
lol those research papers are not failures..they were published
@@al-aurum2457 same idea as previous reconstruction on a painting. It was done, but still usually a failure.
Nile doesn't critique with that much anger.
@@bleysmcnutt5500 nile also doesn't work with 100 year old masterpieces that can fall apart at any moment
I just love the roller coaster between "I found a detailed instruction" and "I had no idea what I was doing"; also, "I have to make it right" and "I just decided to roll with what I had" 😅😅 he's that rare kind of people who can easily educate and entertain ❤
Nile: They used a number that was blatantly just wrong
Also Nile: Not to blast them or anything
Also Nile again: *Shoves report off table*
😂🤣🤣
Sheauwn that part was hillrioua
He yeeted the paper enough
DID THE MATH!
Nile: They used a number that was blatantly just wrong
Also Nile: I dont know how much oxygen i need, so im just gonna use a blatantly wrong ammount
Coming back to this after the discovery of room temperature superconductors
It's cool when youtubers clearly don't give a f about the algorithm and the perfect length for maximizing ads, and just give you great videos
Thank the sponsor. Dude just spend at least 3k dollars on this video.
He has to cater to the demand of his sponsors and patrons, so it's in his interest to provide the highest quality content.
jesus christ he bought a 2 grand furnance, the least I can do is watch all the ads xd
this is such a banger video. it's got everything: color-changing liquids, said liquid turning into a solid snake, asmr powder sounds, fucking LEVITATION. and the storytelling is so great, too. your best work yet
Dont forget the demon rising from hell
Snake? SNAKEEE? SNAKEEEEEEE!!!!
this video is clearly nuts
13:21 this looks like a demonic ritual wtf
It looks really cool tho
Dang you got a checkmark but I didn't 😔
true
I never expected you to like chemistry
The Horizon Gang still rises
I love the little furnace story thb, could have easily cut it from the video, but I find knowing the whole process very interesting!
Okay watching this again, I just realized how freaking genius this reaction is. Just the logistics behind it is incredible. They accomplished like six things all at the same time with the exact same reaction. It's just kind of mind boggling how they came up with this when if any single part we're missing this reaction would not have really happened the same way at all.
E999
Even a blind Squirrel finds a nut occasionally. 😁
Ever feel like this is how ufos are controlled?
Okay reading this comment again i just realised how freaking retarded this comment is just the stupidity behind it is incredible he acomplished like 2 stages of looking dumb,trying to sound smart.
@@lukadevcic2905, LMAO-
Oh my god what an experience! Nile once saw floating magnets so he decided to summon his own Demon Fungus, grind their flesh into a fine powder and run concentrated wind over it with ancient Chinese machinery he rebuilt himself using his father's passed down knowledge, for use in his own alchemical freeze-pucks and projects.
10/10 a m a z i n g
Nile Red vids have the best storylines
Yes, NileRed has the most fascinating plots for his movies
I 100% believe real alchemists have probably made the Demon Fungus and believed it a sign they're close to discovering the philosopher's stone.
"It was just so gross, that I honestly thought I had messed something up... Turned out I was just being impatient."
[SUMMONS DEMON]
It looks like a gate to hell.
14:32 is when the Dark Souls boss wakes up
Ah yes, my favourite compound, Ammonium Demonate
That looked soooo cool
Summons Bob Marley
i loved the part where the capacitor said "its capacitin time" and then it capatited all over the board above it
13:13 "I actually started thinking that I would have to start over but it turned out that I successfully summoned my desired demon"
haha true, i also thought he opened a gate to hell! 😄
I thought the same exact thing. "pleasant surprise" and "cool" lol
I guess I'm a minority though, because I immediately guessed he was doing the nitrate-citrate synthesis.
I was actually a bit worried when he did it in an open beaker, as I have personally seen the synthesis done in a chimney apparatus, as some materials when made this way kind of impersonates a rocket in reverse...
(Our labs are no longer allowed to do it that way as it creates way too much nano-particles which are kind of bad for yo if you inhale them, and even doing it in a fume hood is not enough in some cases....)
So yes, that synthesis can be described as 'opening the gates to hell' The hell just only shows up 20 years later in the form of lung cancer :-(
Søren Koch bro it was a just a fun little joke
@@srenkoch6127 truez my grandfather may he rest in peace was in charge of the electronic section in the chemistry department at a Uni and he also got cancer, presumably from soldering for so long, plus who knows what was in the devices he fixed. Always need to wear protective equipment when dealing with carriable particles/fume and alike.
“I was just being impatient” *gate to hell opens up*
*"WARNING. DEMONIC INVASION IN PROGRESS"*
HAHAHAHA! Demonic snake comes out...
looooooool
Nile: "Why do I hear BFG Division?"
Dude, I never, ever watched a video so long without skipping a part of it. Or getting distracted. I also don't have the possibility of supporting with money, nor am I passionate about science nearly as close as you are. But I can surely leave a thumbs up and a nice comment. Keep up with the good works. Seems like you love what you do, and if I ever get across another one of your videos, be sure I will not skip the ad.
And hopefully othe people who read this comment don't skip the ad either, is the best way we can help, if is not with money ;)
LMAO SAME I CANT EVEN WATCH A MOVIE WITHOUT STOPPING BUT I WATCHED THIS WITHOUT GETTING DISTRACTED
WOW I LITERALLY THOUGHT TO COMMENT THE SAME THING
All I get are unskippable ads so that’s not a problem 😂
The only youtuber apart from nilered who can make me watch extremely long videos is pyrocynical
i have a premium membership
but, i surely wont skip the ad if it came with his videos, this guy is awesome
his content is litaf
So, you explaining superconductors in this way has actually SOLVED A HUGE PROBLEM that I had. I'm a writer, and I have an image, but no way of understanding the image I was seeing. But now that image will be written accurately and not just thrown in arbitrarily and without being possible.
13:21
*AS HELL OPENS, THE SCREAMS OF THE DAMNED ECHO THROUGH THE PORTAL*
IM IN ORBIT💀💀
imagine showing this to the salem witch trial people
Underrated coment lol
I was literally just thinking that it looked like a demon rising from hell when I saw that!
What the FUCK
13:21 - casually summons demon.
Didn't expect to see someone famous in this comment section 😳
Bleep bleep I'm a dipsh*t...
Hello
Oh hey
Lmao I had honestly thought it was editing at first cause that's literally what it looked like.
Due to the pandemic, this guy is now my science teacher.
Honestly.
Bradley Hennessee
Not even joking, my school won’t let seniors come back. Freshman, sophomores and juniors are allowed. But not the class of 2021, were still online🤷♀️
He's been my chem teacher for a long time. Lol
✌🖤
Wheresmy240 right i was boutta say due to lack of income hes been mine
Nile is one of those people who will make a saw trap one day and make cute plastic glove soda the next day.
Dude I love that you're not afraid to admit that there is a learning curve to all of your experiments. It might not be the best way to learn, but hard lessons always stick with you the most.
Failing is always the best way to learn.
In many ways failing is more informative than success.
@@jacobmarley2417 yeah, and lots of scientific breakthroughs have resulted from either byproducts or failed synthesis in experimentation
Wow - I never expected to see this in a UA-cam video - I did my PhD on high Tc superconductors in the 90s - mostly BSCCO but some YBCO along the way. You avoided alot of the pitfalls but a couple of things from a potentially unreliable memory that might help make a cleaner product.
Cu nitrates have variable water contents up to 6 H2O, it's never just a trihydrate from the bottle (it's often labelled x.H2O) so you will have some weighing error and probably a touch short of Cu. It's actually common to err on the copper-rich side as CuO can act as a flux during sintering - it also helps avoid making a very undesirable green Y-211 impurity phase. Going with the citrate 'chemie douce' route to form YBCO is a good choice as direct solid-state is a pain to get pure.
Seeing a glass tube in a furnace at 950degC made me cringe a bit - we used high purity alumina tubes but not exactly good for filming (cheaper mullite tubes should work fine too at these temps). Our samples went into ceramic boats to avoid contact with the well-used and dirty tube - we used zirconia boats for best product as Al will enter the YBCO crystal structure at low levels. However using a bit of powder as a sacrificial layer should help contamination from any container.
A useful trick for getting better pellets is to use a tiny drop of ethylene glycol as a binder - it burns out during firing. I don't remember the exact temperature we used for sintering but the usual solid-state chemistry fire-grind-pelletize-fire repeat until powder X-ray diffraction says you're finished was par for the course.
The annealing/oxygenation of pellets was done as a separate step at a lower temperature (~500degC if my memory serves?) for a long time as the product you want tends to lose oxygen at high temperture.
Very well done for making something clean enough to show such a clear Meissner effect - in the early years many a student failed repeatedly before getting something that worked👏
Contamination from the tube didn't really enter my mind. I thought it was quartz? In any case still very helpful advice!
The furnace tube is quartz, not just plain glass.
The most important lesson of this video is:
The author is not afraid attempting something he has initially no idea if he will succeed or not. This is the most important attribute of a true engineer.
If you fail, try something else, repeat until you succeed.
The most important lesson of this video for me: Subscribe to NileRed. Second place lesson: No I can't just make a bunch of superconductoring magnets on the cheap.
3rd lesson : me dum dum, so I just like watching his videos and going "damn that's easy" but never actually doing it myself because I KNOW I'll mess it up
4th lesson: if it fails, it was probably the oxidation
engineer gaming
Instructions unclear. I am now destitute and turning tricks to fund my potato battery project.
It's amazing how you keep things interesting for 45 minutes.
@38:50 I knew a guy who, after doing calculations "lost" about 500g of nitroglycerin. They found it after doing the math 3x. It had gotten entrained in filter media in a purification setup. Good thing it was still kept cool! You don't want to "vaporize" 500 mg of nitroglycerin in a lab setting! Impressive superconductor synthesis! And it worked!!!
500 milligrams of nitroglycerin or 500 grams of nitroglycerin? If it's the latter, I have to wonder why anyone would be making that much in a lab setting.
Nerd
@@nikkiofthevalley for recreational purpose. XD 😆
The lab go boom boom
@@nikkiofthevalley to "fix" a very big mistake, clearly.
i aint gonna lie the guy on the phone sounds like somebody who just dropped a big crate on the ground
maybe, but you never know. i have a singular friend who works in the national postal service (so, this is completely anecdotal) and most of the destroyed shit actually come like that. you never actually find out who broke it because it just passes hands and EVERYONE acts like that. from the shipyard handler, truck driver to the mortal postalman.
Poor guy, he must have been shitting bricks
@@MsHumanOfTheDecade Does this imply that shipyard handlers and truck drivers are _immortal?_
"somehow" it came apart
didn't he though...👍
Can we just take a moment to appreciate that NileRed spent thousands of dollars for one video?
yo imagine someone pulling up to you and just dose this
i was about to say that it has 8 million views but WHAT
IT HAS NO ADS?
Yes it does
@@Xnoob545 it does have ads
even if it doesnt show midrolls there are ads at the start and the end
and evem still, i can see a midroll
Mrbeast: "Those are rookie numbers"
I've been using nilered videos as background noise for about a year now no joke. They help me go to sleep
Based on real events following the watching of a video - 0:09. Compelling drama - 13:17. Emotional rollercoaster - 19:22.
Best portrayal of betrayal since Julius caesar 18:41. A raw depiction of the fragility of life - 28:23.
Simply marvelous - 42:33.
and you missed this one 18:08 The rise of Alibaba Intelligence
Et tu, Furnace?
Beautiful comment
I love the advertisements I get while watching NileRed videos. Why yes, of course I'd like to purchase equipment to help me with my Nitrogen purification and Liquid Chromatography\Mass Spectrometry.
My are the stupid mobile ads
what adds? Just Get UA-cam Premium.
I love how NileRed actually checked the documentation and was like:
"What? Hmmm. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Wrong. WHO WROTE THIS??"
Dont you have read the document to see whats on it....
Insanely funny observation!!! ROLFLMAO
@@dominicklipari You do, but some people will believe what they read without question because a number of people vouched for it.
It cracked me up how NileRed did some of the calculations in his head while reading and was like, "Wait. This is horseshit..." 😉
Yeah I know you ment fact check the paper not read it... but I saw the opportunity
@@dominicklipari Whatever. Your name isn't even real. 😎
I'm glad that you're posting shorts because I didn't even know to this date that this video existed.
Gotta say, you're one of the coolest chemists on UA-cam. You actually make science and chemistry interesting. Keep it up, looking forward to when you decide to make the neodymium magnet.👍😁
20:30
_"Capacitor goo"_
*TECHNICAL JARGON INTENSIFIES*
“I honestly thought I would have to start over”
he says as when suddenly the gates of hell open inside of the beaker
O o f
That’s exactly what I thought when I saw it.
Yes exactly i was like..
Summoning demons are we
Right? It looked like a portal to hell opened up and a demon was shitting out of it from the other side.
when?
Your videos are so well made and very appealing and informative. The esthetics are a big part of what makes your videos riveting. Well done!
The tale of the furance was a wild ride from start to finish
Samantha B *it had a tale?*
21:11 I love the part where your dad helps you. I don't know why - but i find it nice and it give me a smile! Thanks to all dads out there. You give us the help we need to fix our little problems. Until the time comes and we can help you.
Let's offer a course on Western/liberal marriage:
Lesson #1: Don't ever argue with your wife because that is emotional abuse and she will call the police and accuse you of hurting her. Police don't need any evidence to arrest you, so enjoy your stay in prison. Lesson #2: Don't you ever dare to deny your wife having sex with others. You don't own her. If you're a real man, you'll actually help her find a boyfriend or two and let them use your bed while you sleep on the couch. Lesson #3: Be fair to each other, but remember, she can accuse you of abuse at any time and destroy your life Lesson #5: If your spouse wants to change "their" gender, don't argue. Just be happy for "them," you transphobe. Lesson #6: Want a divorce? Don't want a divorce? Doesn't matter. She can leave you for any reason or no reason at all. She gets to take at least half your wealth, custody of your children, and you pay all her legal fees. She might even end up living with her boyfriends in the house you bought, with your kids.
"It turns out that I was just being impatient, and I simply needed to wait longer for our Dark Lord to emerge from the portal I had created in my beaker."
@Baylor Loney me crawling out of my bed:
Yeah principally because you have to be starved to do it
He be summoning demons
@@kushokyu7204 that do be true doh
@Hawk Moon r/wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh
Nile. The first person to do something carefully after saying that they'll do it carefully
A science channel, asmr crushing YCBO and a hydraulic press channel. What more could you ask for.
A hot knife?
@@MattGDesign true
I remember a couple of kids in my grade 9 science class back in 1989 making this stuff in the high school chemistry lab. Blew my mind as a 13 year old kid that something could just float there like that. Been fascinated by superconductors ever since.
nile "i was honestly really nervous" red
Nile "I was honestly really nervous (not really)" Red.
caspar valentine rename his channel nervous Nile.
“What I had at this point should’ve been the final YBCO”
*15 minutes left*
Me: oh no
Hahaha best comment here
What gets me is that his inflection is so consistent describing both success and failure that if you aren't looking at the video time remaining you don't know if he's about to describe what went wrong or if the next line is going to be, "...and it was."
I just now realized that he has turned the observations part of a chemistry lab into a whole UA-cam career... i always hated writing down my observations but watching this I understand it really is important
"turns out I was just being impatient."
*gate to hell opens*
Doom Guy requests your location
Yes, that was the moment I got genuinely scared
LMAOO ybco wants to know your location
It looks like sumn out of resident evil 7
It's like a snake firework
"... and it didn't immediately light on fire... which was a good sign."
That's pretty much what I'm having on my tombstone.
lol me too
if you died it means that it did light on fire
Ok so if u want the formula for ybco (this is just the chemicals) yitrum hydroxide you should know how to make it a hydroxide
Barium hydroxide
Copper hydroxide
Oxygen cus u can not convert oxygen in to a hydroxide
So this is the formula for the chemicals buy it from Amazon and u should get ybco
Ok so I say that the actual formula is harder to find if it is not detailed sorry
Ammonia is something that for me stops reaction/neutrilizes to btw u could drink the citric acid when it was 6.5 - 7 that is the ph level for pure and fresh water
that honestly sounds like something you'd hear from John Mulaney
@@thunderb00m delayed reaction
34:55 - video shows a brick being cut.
In my ear:
Is that brick singing "Happy Birthday to You"?
I heard it the first time and I’m unable to hear it again 😂
*y e s*
Omg you are awesome!!! You are my new secret crush.....But I won't put you in a furnace
n o
thanks i can't unhear that-
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That capacitor fix is so lucky dude. My main experience with capacitor problems comes from 01 Xboxs and old monitors, basically anything from very late 90s/ early 00s (cap rot). It is a 50/50 pretty much that you test the equipment, capacitor is already exploded/ ready to pop, and then you got electrolytic juice helping the current flow jump the circuit and maybe pass a resistor, fry the board, etc. The fact that nothing was fried is gods grace lmao