Dropping a match into liquid oxygen
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- So today, I'm going to be making some liquid oxygen. Oxygen is normally a gas, but it can be turned into a liquid using liquid nitrogen. It's a bit hard to see, but liquid oxygen is faintly blue. This is very dangerous, but what's fun to do, is to throw a match into it. As a liquid, oxygen is an even more powerful oxidizer and it can sometimes react explosively.
WARNING: Liquid oxygen is extremely dangerous. It's an extremely strong oxidizer and can react explosively.
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The burning oxygen sounded like that one guy in the movie theater who sucks their soda cup dry during the most important part of the movie.
I see we frequent the same theater
It’s actually the match that’s burning. The liquid oxygen just makes it burn much faster.
Just as annoying is the screeching sound of the straw being dragged up & down thru the opening in the lid
🤣😂🤣
They’re both depleting liquids in a tube, so yeah.
Love it when "Really dangerous" and "fun to do" appear side by side on this channel.
You must love this channel you're in almost every comment section lmao
Dangerous and fun oftenly go hand-in-hand.
So every video?
@@funnelingspace9268 If you've noticed that, then you must be too. Not that that's a bad thing tbh
"Today im gona Ignite a nuclear weapon on that park but this thing is dangerous and fun to do so lets light it up anyway"
Nile's short are much more interesting than tiktok copy shorts.
True af
Agreed
Absolutely!
True you get smart by watching him as well while tiktok you lose braincells
Wow, another "Tiktok bad" comment. very original.
The trust chemists have in simple glass astounds me.
After you see how much a lab Pyrex costs, its not that shocking
Maybe that's fused quartz, which won't shatter even when heated on a flame and dunked into cold water
I thought he would be behind a blast shield, but he's clearly not. Unlcear if there is a fume hood sash or face shield.
However, the match is actually the fuel here, so it limits the energy released.
The first test tube is a disposable test tube that probably costs less than 10cents and was not inspected before use because the top of it has been broken off.
It's not clear to me what the second test tube is.
what’s complex glass 😂
Glass has a lot of different manufacturing considerations that can change their properties. For one, well manufactured lab glass would have no air bubbles trapped in the glass itself, allowing said glass to tolerate much higher temperature changes than ordinary kitchen glass would.
did anyone else brace for impact when he said 'it can sometimes react exposively'?
it can sometimes react explos- cut to atomic bombing clip
Yeah, because I remember my high school chem teacher setting off a dry-cleaning bag of pure hydrogen. *BOOM! *
No but I was worried the tube would melt!
I was expecting he'd be using a set of tongs about 20 feet long operated by a student - as they're cheap to replace.
I sure did.. I thought heard some where liquid was so volatile that even those stunt guys from that old discovery show (where they'd try stuff seen in films, the name escapes me) wouldn't mess with it.
NileRed: "It can sometimes react explosively"
Video: *Hellfire and screams of the damned in a test tube*
Subtitles: [Applause]
im surprised the testtube didnt die due to the thermal shock
@@pvic6959 strong tempered glass
Excellent
He must have edited the automatically generated subtitles since it no longer says applause. What a pity, that is funny, he should have left it in there.
@Captain Pi out of amazement or anger?
for some reason this really brought me back to when i was like six, i was in a very small school of 13 kids (i lived very rurally) and our dinner lady (a danish lady called ulla) literally worked in the same room as we ate. She mustve hated me because i always asked mental questions about everything and anything. One day i asked her why the sky was blue, and she said (imagine a danish accent pensively but briskly saying) "i think its cause air is blue" and for some reason thats just a core memory for me. I know now that the sky is blue because of the refractive index of our atmosphere, but seeing the liquid oxygen being blue just awoke that core memory suddenly. Thanks lol
The air is blue because of oxygen
Why? Idk
"The refractive index is the measure of bending of a light ray when passing from one medium to another" that isn't related to the sky being blue (or orange at sunset)
Blue light, and UV light, gets bounced around more. When the sun is overhead, we see this bouncing light when we look at other parts of the sky that don't have the sun in them. When the sun is on the horizon, all light has more opportunity to bounce around, but a lot of blue light that is on the way to us ends up hitting the earth (making the sky opposite the sun dark blue) or going out into space. So the orange color is what's left after a lot of blue is gone. There's still blue color, and for the light that travels above us, the blue is more likely to bounce back towards us while the orange continues on towards places further away.
I suck at sarcasm so much, I'm sorry guys
@@Treeman3 Its ok. You're forgiven lolol
@@Treeman3If it wasn't them it'd be me. We nerds come locked and loaded to drop some cool science facts.
Truck driver here; I haul liquid nitrogen, liquid oxygen, liquid argon, liquid carbon dioxide and sometimes deodorized liquid natural gas . The nitrogen, oxygen and argon are cryogenic liquids their temperature is well below zero and can cause burns (liquid nitrogen is -320 and large amounts of liquid nitrogen can temporarily displace oxygen causing suffocation) Liquid helium is -454 I occasionally transport compressed helium . Liquid helium is very expensive and hard to come by and is a nonrenewable resource. When helium escapes it doesn't go into the atmosphere it travels through the atmosphere and up into space. Like the experiment, I suggest experimenting with liquid CO 2 by turning it into dryice. Liquid CO 2 only exists under high pressure and is -70 and will burn you. If you experiment with liquid CO2 and or dryice be careful it will burn you and make sure you are in a well ventilated area it will temporarily displace oxygen and will suffocate you.
Cool information!
I like that you know the science behind what you're transporting, I think that's a critical part, you need to know the dangers of what you have
No offence but… your comment has 0 correlation to the video
“As a liquid oxygen is an even more powerful oxidiser”
Well, imagine oxygen as a *s o l i d*
I think something like that exists. It’s basically a forcefield with the consistency of jelly
You’d basically have to subject liquid oxygen to a vacuum. At a certain pressure, it will become a solid.
You mean powdered oxygen?
@@Kpimpmaster donught oxygen when?
Would solid oxygen burn? I would have thought that it would have to change to a gas first.
I never thought I would see such an efficient combustion of a match
First
Also yeah it was really cool that it used up all the carbon in the area e.g in the wood of the match
@Repent to Jesus Christ pls don’t start a war there have been too many
@Repent to Jesus Christ no
In school we saw a demonstration where steel wool "burned" in an atmosphere of pure oxygen.
Who else was hoping for the entire bottom of the tube to explode when he dropped the match in?
Where's the earth shattering kaboom?😮
I mean it still burnt through
Same
Eu esperei.
I was waiting for it to melt
Oxygen being blue is somehow rather fitting.
Liquid oxygen was one of the two things which were mixed in the F-1 engines of the Saturn V rocket which was the first stage in the stack which took people to the moon. The other was kerosene. Mix those two together and toss a match in. Then either watch your Pyrex tube explode, or hold on tight as you ride that beaker into the stratosphere.
This is a legendary visual
Scientists have to be able to stabilize it so it's weaker, and make it at scale, have to think.
Audi RS6
thats not true. @@sampleoffers1978
I like your style
*Alternative title:*
Why Grandma wasn't supposed to smoke by her oxygen tank.
All that's left was just a small part of her wig.
What that before or after she got run over by a reindeer?
@@jasonstein460 That was her sister.
Your need to write for Family Guy
See one of the kill methods for hitman 2 reboot
"ayo wanna drink some oxygen?"
"you mean breathe?"
"did i stutter?”
👁️ 👁️
👄
🧪🧪
"Don't mind me i'm just breathing oxygen"
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freezer burns and actual burns _at the same time_
Fr now I want to take a shot of oxygen 😂
This isn't rocket science. .... Oh wait, this is rocket science. Never mind.
we're burning up in here!
I spent a career in the U.S. Air Force servicing and maintaining large transport and bomber aircraft. We handled Liquid Oxygen (LOX) on a daily basis. The aircraft have LOX storage tanks that hold 25 litres on average. The Oxygen boils off into a converter/regulator that brings it down to a low pressure gaseous oxygen for breathing. Some aircraft also had Liquid Nitrogen systems for fire suppression. Of the 30 years I spent in the AF I was certified to handle cryogenics for 29.5 of them.
Thank you for your service Sir !
Out on the flightline, the LOX guys on hot days would pour LOX onto tar (the filler between the concrete slabs on the ramp). Fold the tar (to create a small taco shape), then hit it (the tar taco) with a hammer or stomp on it, loud bang was the result.
I bet you saw the safety film “The Man From Lox”. It was either an Air Force or a Navy training film on the dangers of LOX. It’s probably too politically incorrect to show anymore but we used it as a training film in the 80s at Air Products. I worked with LIN my whole career at Air Products and as you can see you can inadvertently make LOX by mistake. Oxygen easily gets absorbed in clothing and all you need is a spark to get turned into fireball. Thank you for your service.
C-5 crew chief here. I hated servicing LOX and LN2.
Or great balls of fire. The classic tech school hit about the dangers of servicing jet fuel.
It's really important to point out here that, even in liquid form, Oxygen is NOT flammable. It merely allows that which is to burn more (hotter/completely).
LOX is a oxidizer. It by itself is not flammable. Anytime LOX is introduced with combustible materials or flammable and combustible liquids, sources of ignition should be eliminated due to the possibility of extremely vigorous combustion.
@CycloidalHeadachethere's still a lot of people out there that think oxygen itself is flammable..
@@MercedesE63S-AMGI like that: "vigorous".
@@longbow6416 I would wager most people believe that.
Could this be used as a fuel in an internal combustion engine?
"Now this is really dangerous but fun to do..."
Yep, that is chemistry in a nutshell, everybody
As a chemist, I agree.
Im wondering wth would happen if you drank it would you be able to drink oxygen instead of breathing? Probably not but I’m curious
@@ewelinastoj4259 Theres just one single issue you didn't account for:
_You breathe with your lungs, not your stomach_
@@ewelinastoj4259 your stomach would freeze as it's really cold. And your esophagus would both freeze and be attacked by the oxygen.
I don't think it would be a good idea.
Edit: Your esophagus would basically both freeze and be oxidized, which basically is like burning. So it would be frozen and burned at the same time.
Life in a nutshell
You had me at "This is very dangerous, but I'm gonna throw a match in it."
That has got to be the cleanest burning anything anywhere ever.
Yes. For a better clean fuel mix it with liquid hydrogen
Smoke is just material that didn’t burn so you’re right
"That's a clean burnin' hell I'll tell you hwat"
-Hank Hill
I had no idea it could burn so readily at such a cold temperature!
Hydrogen would burn cleaner as it would only produce water vapor. This reaction also produced water vapor, but it also produced, at the least, carbon dioxide.
Its always really funny to hear "oxygen is a good oxidizer". its the chemistry equivalent of "the floor here is made of floor"
Well, you can use oxygen-free oxidizers if you really want to…oxygen is popular because living things on Earth are designed to be compatible with the presence of oxygen.
The more powerful options like fluorine are generally going to be quite toxic, and they might also have a tendency to dissolve your engine, which can be a downside.
Oxygen being a gas/liquid as opposed to a solid also makes it easier to design a working engine, as opposed an exploding one.
Not the same, Einstein.. It's like saying "The liquid floor here is a better floor than in your home."
You think you really did something clever there. 😂
@jpgalo99 you're the one that's dumb , what a stupid analogy. Oxygen is the origin of oxidation, of course it's a good oxidizer.
He was using the term specific to the reaction. And he mentioned that liquid form is stronger than in gaseous form you dolt 😅 try again next time somewhere else lol think before you post 📯
@@theodoremurdock9984So then it's a floor-free floor 😮
Liquid oxygen exists:
My Brain: "drink it"
Me: "no it's like -200 degrees"
My Brain: "DRINK ITT"
If we were able to drink liquid oxygen without any harm, I would imagine that it would taste like distilled water.
@@wolfdesign3636 or just nothing
Glad I wasn't the only one
@@ErlkingHeathcliff69 nothing tastes like nothing
@@ATemplarIGuess It must, because if nothing tasted like something then it wouldn't be nothing.
the burning sounded like the average fight between siblings choking each other
"And it can sometimes react explosively"
_points camera really close to tube_
and yet no explosion 😑
And i squint my eyes and brace for explosion like i'm there
If you mix liquid nitrogen with liquid oxygen, you get liquid air.
And that's how you can breathe underwater 😂
@@Kevin-i6t5i just like in the movie "The Abyss"
@@Kevin-i6t5i erm ackshually you'll have to mix other gases like carbon di oxide, helium, argon, etc. in order to get the actual composition of gas in the air erm erm erm 🤓
@@Gozieaaanot really, only the Essentials using proper ratio
@@MrSkinkarde how's that a not really then, air is composed of various other gases so you would need to add other gases to get true liquid air with the composition of earthly air
Was anyone else extremely uncomfortable with him handling the liquid-nitrogen-cooled test tube with his bare hands?
Clearly, he would not grab the part that is actually touching the liquid oxygen or nitrogen. But glass is not particularly great at conducting heat, and the section that is not in direct contact with the liquid (nor close to that part) would be warmed by the surrounding air much quicker than it would be cooled by the produced, quickly warming oxygen vapor inside, or the colder, lower part that heat will be moving toward ever so slowly. Realistically, the top would be a little cold but perfectly safe to handle. Though I would also assume that he had already used this set of tubes with liquid nitrogen before and knows about how cold they get at the top with this small amount of liquid inside.
More importantly, though, you can easily gauge the temperature of the tube by seeing at which part the water vapor in the air starts condensing and freezing onto it. Any part over that line will be above or barely below 0°C.
I was uncomfortable with the homemade broken test tube
No.
This is why men have always lead science. Safety third.
It’s fine to touch liquid nitrogen quickly with your bare hand
"This is horrifyingly dangerous. So lets have fun!"
I love this channel.
00:42 Eating Pop Rocks be like:
You brought back so many memories, thanks!
*lighting a single pop rock and wait for it to be burnt by a crisp whilst oxygen liquid and eating it*
@u know me? bruh
@u know me? that’s worse then a rick roll
If you ever wondered how Pop Rocks work: Sugar is heated until it is liquid and then it is exposed to CO2 gas under high pressure (40 bar / approx. 580 PSI). When the sugar is then cooled, pressurized CO2-Bubbles remain in the sugar that explode when you chew on the pop rocks or when they dissolve.
it’s no secret that the liquid oxygen is definitely blew
I thought it would be blown like trees.
Lol wut
i think you spelt blue wrong
@@paulrenzshop6471 the oxygen is blew though
“I have the power of chemistry on my side!” -Gordon Freeman
" " - Gordon Freeman
@@davidholmes2932 it’s actually a reference to a episode of Freeman’s Mind made by Ross Scott
@@Darkspace. mans a modern major general
@@lexibigcheese yep, from SMG’s to RPG’s he carried quite an arsenal!
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Do this experiment next :-
1) first we will make water
2) in order to create water we will add :
• oxygen ( gas form )
• hydrogen ( gas form )
• water ( liquid form )
3) now we need fire
4) to create fire :
• a lighter
• and a thin wooden stck coated in an oxidizing agent such as pottasium chlorate , mixed with sulfur , filters and glass power, aka "matchstick"
5) put the matchstick on fire
6) fun thing 🌟🤩:
Put the matchstick in the water you created
Conclusion : the fire on the matchstick will go out 😵💫😮😯
@Afreakingballoon if your using water as an ingredient you don't need to make it
And the small part that is left is mostly the fine glass powder in the match head. It's added to increase friction to better ignite matches.
Thank you!
@built different can you not post random things unrelated to the video
No, it's going to be almost the whole match head. Because the products of the chemical reaction in the match head are mostly solids. The match head is a solid mixture of an oxidizer and a reducer, and it doesn't even combine with oxygen in order to be spent in the first place. A match head reacting isn't truly fire for this reason, and this is also why it wasn't affected by the liquid oxygen.
In the captions, the match burning in the oxygen is marked "[Applause]"
That’s cuz it’s really remarkable XD
For a moment, it looked like the sudden heat was going to make the glass fail.
I was half waiting for a blob of molten glass to drip off.
Probably came close to that. I think we can see the tube deforming a bit.
I like how in the last second of the video the intrusive thoughts attack again when Nile saids: "now this is very dangerous but fun to do"
One of the most impressive things to me is that that glass tube went from super super cold to burning temperatures in seconds and came out fine. I know how and why pyrex works but it's still super impressive to me.
We keep 3 liquid oxygen tanks at work to fill portable oxygen units. When one of those units didn't seal properly during the fill, I learned how shockingly good oxygen is at staying liquid at room temperature. A small amount collected around the slot the unit fits into to fill, and it lasted for a good 30 seconds just bubbling away before it finally fully evaporated and left a nice deposit of frost
That's because of the leidenfrost effect. The surrounding stuff is so hot(relatively) that the liquid in question bounces away from the material(like a miniature gas explosion) creating a gap between materials, and gas is a good insulator. Paradoxically, because of this effect, the colder the liquid is(relatively to the other substance) the longer the liquid lasts.
An example would be to drop a red hot nickel ball into a beaker of water. Despite the extreme temperature difference, the red hot nickle ball will stay really hot for a long time as the water that touches is is forced away by the instant vaporization.(there's an entire youtube channel dedicated to using a red hot nickel ball on things. go check it out)
@@MekamiEye name of the channel?
@@pythogron carsandwater is the youtube channel
@@MekamiEye thanks
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Tions,Thank You 😮
By far the best shorts channel on UA-cam
Agreed
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Also it educate you just slightly
Man had the opportunity to make the funniest cut off.
I randomly found NileRed and I am now addicted to it
You can catch up on the shorts pretty quick.
Yeah, im glad UA-cam recommendations were finally on point.
Then check out the other, greater NR, nurdrage. That one is the paragon.
fun fact. if you pour oxygen (even in gas form) on a road in the summer sun, the asphalt on the road will catch on fire. the asphalt has a very low ignition temperature but the air doesn't have enough oxygen for it to spontaneously combust
Must be why the dinos went extinct. There was more oxygen in the atmosphere back then so their roads must've caught on fire often.
Will it stay on fire or just flare up and go out when the extra oxygen is used up?
"Now this is dangerous, but what's fun to do is..."
Basically most chemist's.
@@butwhy.5498 basically most chemist nowadays
Dangerous = FUN!!!
@@thats6kinda6sus6 Chemists throughout history. Prank your friends with your newly discovered high explosives!
This brought back memories of me using my children’s home chemistry kit. I used to do similar experiments - dangerous as hell but lots of fun.
Yes, oxygen is blue. I once saw a tanker truck carrying liquid oxygen. It had a vent value, and the gas coming out was definitely blue.
The Oxygen is NOT Blue…!!! It only reflects more blue light…!!!
Subscribed- dude I was sold on the starightforward title and the short and simple video... none of those 20 minute lectures before seeing it burn.
i need a version of this without the voiceover, just because the sound of the match hitting the oxygen is the most fun sound I've heard in a while
"This is really dangerous, but fun to do." Your sense of humor never disappoints. 😂
“it’s still a little to hard to see” “so i’m gonna put it in an even smaller tube” would’ve been so funny to me
I wish they did chemistry like this in schools, pupils would find it much more interesting and challenging
you are the only person that can make this kinda youtube stuff interesting, the rest makes it feel like school lol
My old chemistry professor was like this. If the teacher knows their stuff and loves their job... it doesn't feel like school either. :3
the “bŵōǒöœôǒŵ” from the lighting on fire was such nice asmr i swear i could fall asleep to that
ngl, I actually feared to get jumpscared by the explosion when he said "it can sometimes react exposively", haha
Now you can see why it's used as a rocket oxidizer
Nile: "Liquid oxygen is faintly blue"
Me: "So that's why it's blue in Galacticraft"
Liquid oxygen is also slightly magnetic. You can hang the bike from a string and pull it with a magnet
i love how he does all this while im here getting freaked out when a drop of water lands on the stove when im cooking
Well I mean can't blame especially when it comes into contact with hot oil oh boy here comes a burned skin
If you somehow get water to land on boiling oil then you should be freaked out
this guy is the reason i love chemistry....and have third degree burns on my hand and part of my face
Wins the internet today! LOL
@2.6B views , i used to have content on my channel. i recently took my videos down to protest youtube censorship policies so that my content would no longer generate ad revenue for a platform i disagree with on principle. i removed my content in a tiny act of protest, in other words.
@2.6B views , then why were ad running on my content? some videos had tens of thousands of views.
@2.6B views i understand there is no impact. it is a matter of principle. i have taken my content to other platforms that respect free speech and will grow with those platforms.
@2.6B views well i have more than that check my total views too
I use to deliver cryogenic liquids here in the Northeast. At the plant liquid nitrogen (LIN) would be made first because it assisted in the making of liquid oxygen (LOX). LOX is not flammable or combustible, it's an accelerant. It just makes things burn hotter.
Him: "This is dangerous"
Still him: *goes ahead to do it*
LOX and hydrogen are used in rocket fuel. The downside is that both liquids boil off, relatively easily. Any rocket that uses these two fuels has to have more LOX and hydrogen has two be continually refueled until about three minutes before launch. The space shuttle used both fuels in that orange external tank. That same fuel is what destroyed challenger. When the SRB’s went through Max Q; the shuttle was also hit by the jetstream. The ceramic seal was broken at this moment. That ceramic seal was created within the initial seconds of launch. Because the SRB‘s used solid fuel; they operated much like fireworks. As the solid fuel continued to burn it eventually burned a hole in the right SRB. This allowed flame to lick the bottom of the external tank. Once the booster had burned a hole through the external tank; it also burned through the part of the tank that holds liquid hydrogen. When it ignited, it destroyed the bottom half of the tank. The other half was subjected to the force of the ignited hydrogen and like a rocket within a rocket; the other half of the tank shot into the LOX tank, which was sitting right above the hydrogen part of the tank. The LOX tank, then ripped apart; Causing the entire stack to collapse. The oncoming air hit shuttle in a direction that exceeded its angle of attack limits. That wind and the force of the mixing fuels ripped challenger apart.
This channel is exactly what I need from yt
"It can be explosive"
Can we all give it up for the little three fingered robot hand thingy? So courageous, so brave.
He took that hand from a B1 battle droid.
Imagine liquid Oxygen + liquid Nitrogen and you burns it
Well when it started it's career holding test tubes for the chemist, it was a little five-fingered robot hand thingy.
That's a very interesting sound, I hope someone somewhere recorded such a sound to use in movies and games.
This guy is the reason why i started to love chemistry.
every man's last words
"now this is dangerous but fun to do"
Ranks up there with hold my beer😅
This guy is one heartbreak or head injury away from becoming a batman villain🦹♂️
the test tube didn't even melt or shatter, I'm impressed
I'm more interested it seems to be cut in half.
Here are some things that can spontaneously ignite when in contact with enough liquid oxygen
1. Asphalt
2. Titanium
3. People
When I did cryo safety training we were told that if we got lox on us the only things we were able to do were stand still and pray.
That's insane!!!! When I took first aid, we were told the O2 would react with any grease or oil contamination on the regulator...
“And it can sometimes react explosively”
_Our guy gets in real close with the macro zoom._
Ironically oxygen cannot burn. It instead makes it so that *everything around it suddenly burns a lot better*
Duh, its an oxidizer, not a combustible.
Its the red skull of chemicals
@@_420_69 Yet, the vast majority of people believe that oxygen, at least in its liquid form, is combustible. I once had to explain that to a safety rep where I work. Someone who should know better.
Well, I learned something today.
Oxygen CAN burn!!
O2+O = O3
Ozone. Ozone is burnt oxygen
I love these little video shorts because I know nothing of science. They’re enjoyable for a couple of reasons for me. One reason is that I’m always scared to death that a really bad side effect/reaction is gonna happen, it’s like watching a good horror movie 😂 the other thing is while I’m learning. I’m not really retaining that knowledge but I’m impressed by what this guy knows. Very cool and beneficial channel!
“I use the liquid to make the Liquid”
This is why space shuttle always have a 50/50 chance of going boom
It should be said the oxygen simply accelerated the burning of the available fuel. (the match) Holding a match in your hand it burns slowly because of the available oxygen in the air. Add more oxygen it burns faster. Oxygen by itself is not flammable.
Thats what i was gonna ask. If oxygen is a fuel
i believe dropping a burning match in a pool full of liquid oxygen should in theory be harmless as the greatest extent of the fire will be burning the match. But dropping it in a pool of petrol would be disastrous.
Correct. Like a turbo charger on a gasoline engine.
@@aaronleperspicace1704 drop a burning tree into a pool of liquid oxygen.
@@robbyddurham1624 As soon as the tree fuel is exhausted the remaining oxygen can no longer support the burn
I like how he just casually takes the tube that got cooled by liquid nitrogen out with his bare hand and says « it s very dangerous » and « it can t act explosively » and doesn’t seem to have much protection
Did you pick up the test tube with bare fingers?
Did you watch the video
0:42 sounds like the suction tool they use at the dentist’s office for removing moisture from your mouth
Pour on iron to instantly rust it (I'm not sure if you have a video of this already but Nile it would be pretty cool to see you rust metal with liquid oxygen then remove the rust chemically).
Is it drinkable?
Yes, but once.
Who else literally feels like UA-cam is their best friend during Covid ?
My right hand is
Alternative title: How to make a sun in a testube.
"it can sometimes react explosively"... Puts it in a glass tube!
The fact that Liquid Oxygen is also slightly magnetic is pretty cool
Nile: Really dangerous
Also Nile: Fun to do
Understandble.Have a wonderful day...
what kinda memeing is this? :c do better, mate
when you discover his channel 2 minutes ago and see a new short uploaded
"What's definitely dangerous but fun to do is to throw a match into it" 😂😂
Back in the 90s there was a web page that belonged to some chemistry professor who liked to pour LOX onto a hibachi full of charcoal. He had a few videos but it was the 90s so they were pretty chunky. I remember he said that he poured because he found out the hard way that soaking a briquette and then lighting it would detonate with almost as much force as a stick of dynamite. fun times. I think it may have been on geocities.
Is it just me or is that match head weirdly kind of adorable lol
@Dominik Harder That makes sense
It really is just you
I'm actually a bit concerned
Just you.
Actually, I'm with you, it is kinda cute.
That dry wood is perfect fuel for that little test! Super neat!
It's a perfect match!
deadass thought it would go out since it's liquid, then my brain was like: 'oxygen is how things burn ya dummy'
This actually isn't a dumb thought; oxidation is indeed what causes things to burn (though the oxidizer doesn't have to be oxygen; flourine is an even more powerful oxidizer than oxygen!) BUT, chemical reactions often require some input energy to start, even if the reaction as a whole is exothermic.
The match itself is a good example. Yes, the chemicals in the match put off energy when they burn, but they won't just spontaneously burn at room temperature. You have to put in some energy (heat via friction in the case of the match) to get that reaction started. For that matter, wood burning is an excellent example as well: it has to be heated hot enough to start a chemical decomposition reaction to release flammable gasses before it will actually burn, but once it starts burning, it puts off more energy than was put in to start the reaction.
Wondering if the liquid oxygen was so cold that it would put the match out before the oxygen could start reacting with the flame is a perfectly valid interpretation of what is actually happening, and without testing it (or checking the charts of the reaction initiation energy vs the amount of heat the lit match generates vs the temperature of the LOX... which is of course all data learned from prior tests), you can't say for certain.
I don’t know what I’m more impressed by, the crazy reaction or the incredible heat resistance of that glass 😮
God: How'd you die?
You in Heaven: I choked on oxygen
God: Tf
0:39 When someone throws me into a bad situation. (Nile red: Whoever is doing that, Matchstick: Me, Oxygen: Bad situation.)
0:41 Me: NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU. 0:58 My remaing happiness after the situation.
🤔..................🤷♂️!
That's an entertaining quickie . You need to tell us if the combustion region became hot amidst all that coldness. I almost think the tube went from far sub zero temperature to very high temperature . I believe that would require quartz glass tube rather than borosilicate tube . Maybe though it didn't get so hot but that intense light emission has gotta be temperature dependent . Or is it like the glow of phosphorus?
Im pretty sure it even made a hole in the tube, you can see smoke coming out of it
You are definitely part crazy. Glad you lived to post this.
When science and social media combine its actually pretty educational
"Just because it's a BAD IDEA, doesn't mean it won't be fun!"
- all of human history
When I was in the Navy, the one thing I respected the most was LOX. Evil, evil stuff.
Why? It’s just gas. Unless you get the liquid on your hands or skin, it’s pretty harmless. The only way it can do damage is if something explodes next to it. I use one for glass work and have done some silly things to get tanks to and from the supplier. They’re about as harmless as a water tank most of the time
@@pyroglyphicsglass "most of the time"
a leak near some good fuel, metal hits metal creating a spark and BOOM
It's kind and gentle compared to udmh, the old school liquid rocket fuel
"Thinking quickly, NileRed made some liquid oxygen with a squirrel, some tape, and a bottle of liquid oxygen"