Is It Possible to Melt Wood in a Vacuum Chamber? The Wood Distillation Experiment
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In this video I check if it is possible to melt wood! I have had this question asked to me several times, so I attempt to melt wood in the vacuum chamber.
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I tried melting wood with fire but it "woodent
Perfect comment
Monty what?
Monty God liked his comment?
Monty I'm confused😕...
...
I got a question : how tiny is the tiniest thing you can feel with human nerves?
Ooh good question did you ever find the answer
Those little fucking bugs
Your brain man, your brain 🤣🤣
A needle. Anything that breaks the first layer of human tissue no matter how small can be felt except of course not subatomic particles that's impossible.
@F Pack no one cares
Next Episode: Melting Water
Water is already liquid,
You can solidify water by lowering the Temperature then melt it
*Don't woosh me you damn anti-nerds*
@@stizaidtl2146 Jezus, give this guy a Nobel`s price
Vaccum a Vaccum
Burning water 😳
@@stizaidtl2146 r/woooooooooosh
I know the thumbnail is photoshopped, and I know it won’t, but part of me still hopes it really will melt like that 😭
Stop Whining about stupid childish thoughts. You're in the real world now.
@@upseguest Stop ranting on people now, you are saying that in public.
@@notintheobservableuniverse2594 You realize that its _my_ opinion right? You are judging _my opinion_ .
@@upseguest You realize that its _his_ opinion right? You are judging _his opinion ._
@@kinga1925 haha nice 😂
You will never know why I got so many likes.
Sike, i said that If it DID melt, it would be liqwood
dFuZe_Stryker YT hahaha stop whit The wood puns
And u gotta lick that "liq-wood"
dFuZe_Stryker YT sans
Good Joke dFuZe_Stryker YT
Also A Wood Puns!
I wish it wood just melt
😣damn i had Hope
die you have time spoyl it?
😣damn i had Hope
die you have time spoyl it?
No
Woodnt that be awesome 😂
Cheesey as a 🐄cow
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What we actually watch:
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Me silently watching these stuff: Whatever you said..
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@@Tykdhep Say that to communists
I think you would need to depolymerize the cellulose, possibly with an enzyme. That would result in sugar which could be melted.
This would absolutely work and actually at least one person to my knowledge has turned cellulose into sugar for alcohol distillation... Although they used cellulose in the forn of tp.
Right, which, as defined here, still constitutes breaking down and therefore not melting simple wood.
Was it Nile purple
@@matthewjaj8835 a fellow man of culture I see
shut, i dont know this language
No wood does not melt. Case in point...When Dorothy killed the wicked witch, she melted but the broom stick stayed intact. Case closed.
Lol
*face palms*
Rick Wells
r/facepalm
So true. Scientists should consider this.
r/woooosh
If it was possible to melt wood it would be a lot easier to make furniture and stuff
While not possible to melt, it is possible to heat wood in water to make it bend. (Which is used in making ornate furniture and structures) Pretty cool stuff.
derektye05 this is also how they make guitars aswell as other insuments like chellos and violins.
Isn't funny that you need to soak the wood on a boat to shape it only to drive on water.
AllenMurphy93 never really thought about it that way lmao
I'm sorry but you can't drive on water.
You can sail tho.
I think this experiment could be revisited. Pump the air out, but instead of a laser, get special high temp ducting and a tight valve to seal leading to a heated nitrogen feed. Nitrogen being inert means no oxygen for combustion, so you could heat it up high enough to melt the wood on contact.
I think the oxygen in the hydrocarbons would allow it to ignite.
@@inthefade YES - The giant organic polymer contains oxygen, so you would create different molecules with new breaks and bridges, and perhaps eventually the net change would be to a more oxidized state as Hydrogen is released as gas carboxylic acids are left. In a sense that's oxidation because the carbon molecules are losing more electrons to the oxygen, even though there is no new addition of oxygen to the molecules.
As this conversation goes, it's just insane for me to think that heat does all that sh1t in the universe, no matter what is the chemical problem, apply heat, maintain heat, or reduce heat, and things interact way differently than they did in otherwise scenario.
@@RodrigoM3llo
It's all just energy, fam.
*WE'RE* all just energy. (Or more like... high functioning combustion engines, but the amount of cells we burn through and replace just on a daily basis is insane.)
Really changes a perspective.
This is literally just what a pyrolysis plant is
It’s so funny to me how you do a 3,2,1 countdown to start the vacuum as if it’s about to do something immediate.
🤣🤣
I think he even counts down before taking a dump
It's a countdown to turn on the vacuum, so something did happen immediately. He hit the switch and the vacuum turned on.
3, 2, 1, zzzzzzzzzzzz........
5:34 YOU'RE WELCOME
Emily Dagna thanks a lot
Thank you
I think you mean 7:48
Emily Dagna your doing a great service to humanity.
Thx
1:38
"This is it, Luigi!
Remember: Where there's smoke..."
"There's fire!"
Never thought I would see a quote from hotel Mario.
"when there's smoke they pinch back"
No, Read big bang theory!!!
Luigi!!
1:05
That cool dude-"Attempting to melt wood 3 2 1"
(Indistinct fart sounds)😂😂😂
Wood is made of Glucose unit’s which contain oxygen plus there would also be free oxygen caught up in the fibrous tubular structures of the wood itself. Moreover the cellulose is such a giant branched molecule that it would be impossible to disentangle all the components. Substances with melting points are generally much smaller discrete molecules which involve other forms of intermolecular bonding allowing them to break away from each other given the right energy.
really interesting
Lol the thumbnail... Nice editing skills 😂
What are you talking about? I also have a cool picture of Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster if you want to see..
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I would like to see it
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I see your comment like everywhere
Pro Player 1⃣ I was hoping I wouldn't come across one of your asinine comments on this vid, but here we are
The best thing about you, you describe everything so Cleary. Keep up the good content and love your videos
Under low pressure you get sublimation, so you end up with gaz, but I wonder what would happen if you heated the wood under high pressure but without oxygen, for example in nitrogen. I also wonder what you'll get if you do the same experience with pure carbon.
Yeah it can’t ignite in a vacuum, so instead maybe surround it with carbon dioxide or nitrogen so it won’t combust
@muddybasilisk If heat couldn't be transferred in a vacuum we'd all be dead :D (because we wouldn't be heated by the sun)
@@muddybasilisk7526 radiant heat can be transmitted
@@muddybasilisk7526 Heat can be transferred in a vacuum via radiation. It won't transfer via conduction except where it touches something. no convection in a vacuum.
@@EricPalmer_DaddyOh what I meant was that it won’t ignite my bad
Can you melt wood with a laser pointer?
Proceeds to put wood into meth lab
i’ve wondered this for YEARS “why do some things burn and some things melt” AND NO ONE WAS ABLE TO ANSWER IT UNTIL NOW
lemonmania96 Bad teachers
lemonmania96 yeah
I'm 12, and I knew why before this.
It's be sure the wood doesn't melt its Ashes melt
Hi, I'm 6 years ol and i knew that they are like that before this.
I, myself am an intellectual
I can also deadlift 220 kg
Some things melt and some not, but everything can burn even metal but it have to be long over The melt tempeture but it still cant. And im 12 year and alredy know that.
Although you removed the oxygen from the air, you didn't remove the oxygen from the wood its self. So you still had normal combustion. Maybe you should try leaving the wood under vacuum for some number of hours to remove that oxygen too.
thing is even though these stray oxygens will do something similar to combustion there isnt enough to burn all of it, what's mostly happening is the different carbon chains are breaking down into smaller compounds
if you stare at a wood fire you'll see that the flame is not on the wood itslef but hovers above it, that's because of this process that makes smaller more easily burned volatile compounds
that's also how we break down petroleum into the different fuels we use like diesel
I don't think you can really get wood without oxygen, celulose is basically a chain of sugar molecules which have oxygen in their composition, at best you will always get a carbon foam like substance
You can get this result even with chemical grade purified cellulose. It still chars and pyrolyses. It’s not about any minute amount of trapped oxygen
I wonder would if it burn a finely ground wood or sawdust. 🤔
@@PrinciplesMatter there's still no oxygen in the atmosphere
What you'd get is different only in how the smoke evolves but chemically nothing changes
Although I gotta say the question is really interesting outside of the scope but it ultimately depends on how the heat is applied
With the laser I don't think we'd get much difference
Thanks. Back in school about 40 years ago I asked what the flame of the candle is made of -- and I finally got a believable answer here today.
This was actually insanely informative. Thank you!
That thumbnail editing tho
How to click bait 2018.
Yeah :D
It was so bad xD
The Last Knight horrible attempt at using the smudge tool in Photoshop
We’ve all been there
There are many science channels on youtube with over millions of subscriber. but none of them are like this, while other channels just depends on animation and imaginary concept, this channel does everything practically. Not saying they are bad ,in fact they all are great, but they all look amateur when comes to practicals. I'm glad i found this channel.
Thanks buddy:)
"manual do mundo" is a brazilian channel that works like this one
DEAD SOUL yeah great. Want me to name those channels? We're on same comment. Haha
DEAD SOUL you should check out Cody's Lab if you haven't already.
I kinda think that Cody's Lab is for chemistry stuff and action lab is for physichs stuff. They both are pretty interesting and important things. I only think what woud happen if they join togheter like theory of relativity and quatum mechanics? Would it be impossible?
ah yes its time for me to drink some good old wood.
Sound like liquid smoke, the smokey food additive you can buy at the groceries, super nice in marinades.
Pyroligneous acid is indeed used in smoke flavoring.
4:15
That’s one way to smoke some tree.
Duuude I thought the same thing then I saw your comment I was like eyyyyy
Ah yes smoke wood everyday
"nIcE riG"
Melt wood? Man, you introduce us to more and more impressive concepts every video. So glad that I subbed.
I’ve had this question for years! THANK YOU SO MUCH 🙏
Man, what an informative piece of media. I don't know what I need this information for, but thanks!
please stop it with the misleading thumbnails
otherwise, great video
yeah, thats the point.
Howitzer 0 how stupid must someome be to believe the thumbnail is an actual not photoshoped photo?
how stupid do you have to be to watch a video of a guy attempting to melt wood for 7 minutes
Bearzy hmm true but your here too
Z X touché
This is similar to how some of the first light bulb filaments were made. They heated cotton thread up really high in a vacuum. It pyrolyzed and left almost pure carbon behind that they then used in lightbulbs.
I didn’t know that!
Upon more recent reading it turns out that it was bamboo or paper used as the source of the carbon.
What about melting wood?
metamorphicorder You are correct there were two people who try to make light bulbs Joseph Swan what's the one who technically used cardboard by using thick paper. But the first real patent light bulb was from Edison who use sewing thread so yeah you're correct about that
Christopher Lefont i think it depends on what country's patents you are looking at and how you analyse those patents vs extant examples of the original prototypes or known exemplars of the device of known pedigree and date. There were according to my reading yesterday at least two patents outside the US for electric light bulbs that predate edisons. As well as the globar i believe. I couldn't find any mention of actual cotton thread or other textile based filaments of any note with a cursory search. I remember carbonized thread being mentioned specifically in a history or science text book in school years ago. Im sure it would work and was likely done but would likely be very short lived unless it was used as very low current and it would suffer from temperature induced output fluctuations if it was used in a vacuum bulb rather than a inert gas filled one which was a later development. By that time there were other filament options developed.
Very interesting! Never thought I’d be watching wood combust on UA-cam in the middle of the night LOL
That is the only time in my life that wood being melted has come up. I've never heard it even being suggested as a joke. Well done. 🇦🇺🖖😀
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You can't because the Thumbnail is fake.
@@gunnsnow9057 The only reason to make a fake melted wood thumbnail is if he didn't have real melted wood to show.
The thumbnail is fake because you can't melt wood.... but the reason you can't melt wood is not because the thumbnail is fake
That was a joke, dood.
Somebody's on the right track...
or to make suspense
You have the BEST vacuum chamber experiments!!!
This is very informative and interesting really.
Thanks man and keep it up
I have wondered about this since I was a kid (ie. do all things melt? That seems to be the general idea of the 3 states of matter... but some things like wood or cloth just don't seem, melt-ey?) Everything about the vid is well explained, competently done AND mercifully free of idiot sound effects. Thanks for creating this!
OMG same
@dejuren all of which are capable of melting. It seems that you weren’t a bright kid. Nor a friendly one. A combination surely to lead you to an unfulfilled life.
Cloth melts while burning
@@justisweinmann4423Synthetics I can certainly believe - do you happem to know if it's true for natural fibers?
Hope this is not something you had to learn as an EMT or medical professional, It would be terrible to suffer or to treat.
5:34 Thank me later
[BSK] Chaos no
Just...no.
[BSK] Chaos I can't thank you since your making me skip so much knowledge
[BSK] Chaos iii
Thanks
These video's never cease to amaze me
Awesome Video! just found your channel a few weeks ago and I can't stop watching
Can you melt wood in vacuum?
5:34 No you can't.
Aaaalrighty then. Next video!
Because who cares why right? ...
thank you
RageWolf Yeah
thanks
Bored.In.California righttt I was like oh ok u can’t... sooo he just wasted 5:34 if my time next video👉🏽👉🏽😭😂
The coolest way to kill an ant
Very educational thank you!
I swear this guy videos always pop up whenever I decided to sleep, and his title alone enough to attract me to watch the video lol
If you turn the volume all the way down at 5:35 it looks like he's casting a magical enchantment on the block of wood :P
Caleb Kroeze this is funnier than i expected...
Lol it does
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I am 100% sure that he was the best in his class when he was younger
0:30 I'm gonna put this wood in my vacum chamber... lol
Wow golden information thank you very much
I'm glad I'm not the only one that asked thier chemistry teacher this back in 10th grade
If pyrolyzing wood is of interest, you may find the coking of coal to also be interesting. When coal is coked, it gives off many gasses that are similar to petroleum. These gasses are captured and processed through a refinery to produce many useful products. The foamy solid carbonaceous (98% C) material left behind is coke.
The destructive distillation of pine tar produces turpentine and rosin.
I thought that, in a blast furnace, with 1xCoal, you would produce 1xCoal coke and 500 mB of Creosote Oil, in about 3000 ticks
are we still speaking english?
Coal is destructively distilled in a coke oven where O2 is excluded. The coke is roughly (very roughly) 75% of the weight of the coal and the gasses are roughly 25% of the weight of the coal.
The gasses go thru a refinery.
The solid coke goes into a blast furnace along with iron ore and limestone. O in the iron ore combines with C in the coke to produce metallic iron and gaseous CO2. Limestone melts and floats away impurities in the iron ore.
Wikipedia probably has good articles on this.
Brody H No, I'm speaking minecraft XD
I hoped someone would get the joke :(
action lab: trying to melt wood with laser
laser: but i want to melt the glass
Thankyou Bro.
Thankyou for giving the different of Informations of chemical reactions.
Thankyou you for your greate efforts
I love your videos because I'm learning a lot. Keep up the good work.
Btw, congrats on 1 million subscribers
I've been here for a while, love your videos.
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I like your pic
Thank you bro .We love your videos,cause it contains some cool science stuff
I did not know that. Thanks for the insight.
This seems similar to the concept of a “wood gas generator”.
Thanks for the video.
Your videos are the best! So informative!
I got a chemistry set for Christmas in the 70s and one of the experiments was producing wood alcohol with a setup similar to yours. I've looked at modern chemistry set and I'm very glad I was born in the 60's.
My tution teacher told me that wood melts in vacuum. There is no oxygen in vacuum.That is why wood melts instead of burning.
theoretically, yes, but that would be molten carbon, not wood
@@WLxMusic Carbon can't melt. It sublimates instead. Especially in a vacuum.
This is my favorite channel. Really cool and interesting topics and so diverse. Good educator and I really enjoy it
couldn't agree more!
Ikr. He does experiments that no other people do and post it on youtube
Charles Prest yup bro
Charles Prest he copies off of another channel, unless he has two channels the real channel is king of random
Ugly Spider no he doesnt, show proof then.
Great scientific finds here. I used to wonder about this myself. Did not think to try though.
I saw somebody comment on another one of his videos that he should make a book called "A guy and his vaccum chamber" and its probably the truest comment ive ever seen 😂😂
I learn more from here than school and it’s way more fun
I was thinking about this today
You're one amazing teacher 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I asked my friends about this and they called me crazy
Great vídeo, like the majority of all other ones from this channel !! 👍👍👍
5:36 for answer
TrailRipper thanks
Thanks
Every video need this
I wonder why he didn't like your comment.
Thanks
what a surprise, wood can't be melted whoopty doo
How fun and interesting is that! l loved it and now l will look at wood burning differently! l never noticed that the flame isn't burning the wood, way cool and thanks so much and l will check out the great courses!
Momma O don't you look familiar
Momma O p
then you probably never extinguish candles flame with fingers... that's why it does not burn your skin. the only heat you feel is same as you tip your finger on that melted tallow. well whatever.
Momma O I highly appreciate your optimistic attitude in this comment.
I'm not sure that's the character flaw you think it is...
1:03 3,2,1 excuse me.
It took me a few seconds to get it but when I did I chuckled a bit
I believe that's how charcoal is made, isn't it? The energy winds up liberating certain elements from the atomic structure of the wood, changing its composition well before it changes phases.
my prediction is it'll be like pyrolysis
My prediction was it would be like broken-down misinformation.
5:26 "This literally _is_ the wood..."
This is why the channel is (strategically) classified as *Entertainment* , not Education. You can get away with semantic murder and YT won't call it out.
Now you are aware of your own blinking.
+tubeist- dan
Well, in a sense, it is literally the wood, as it is literally comes from the wood. Besides, he explains *in the video* that the compounds are broken down in to smaller ones, so I don't know what the problem is.
This comment is cursed. Anyone who reads it will focus on their own breathing.
5:37 could have said earlier at the start of the video
He could, but he woodn't.
Where's the fun in that
Thanks for saving my time.
How good ideas you have I like it
Bring back Mythbusters. Make this guy Grant’s substitute. Another 20 years of great educational entertainment.
I have seen you growing keep going man
I never realized how bad I needed to know this.
And I'm glad I tend to check the comments first, there's always someone being a hero when it's some long winded video with like 1 or 2 minutes of interesting content.
After the processes does the liquid catches fire?
Yes, tars are very much flammable.
I've always wondered this since elementary school so thanks a ton for elaborating on this where my teachers could/did not. Maybe they didn't know or maybe I just couldn't understand those words at the time.
Absolutely perfect job at explaining this! A+++ Good job! Thank you!
When I saw the thumbnail I thought it was a melting ice cream lol
I’m hungry
You are the greatest scientists
you could make some really cool art with that technique
That "liquid wood" is actually a thing you can buy, sort of.
It's a flavouring thing used in cooking, called Liquid Smoke, which consists only of the liquified residues of the burning of a certain type of wood.
It's quite efficiant, in its limited range of possible usage.
It's EXCELLENT for ribs. Add about 3 drops into a bowl of whatever else you're slathering on them before stuffing them in the fridge to marinate.
Mikael Karlsson I
Mikael Karlsson Homer Simpson used that shit in his moon waffles
its good for ribs, beef jerky and pulled pork
Mikael Karlsson
Ok I’m going to sleep now
Me at 2 am: can you melt wood?
Not you at 2 am
Literally watching this at 2am after having the same spontatious thought 😂
Being a giant molecule does not necessarily mean it cannot melt. In general, a lot of plastics melt without breaking down into simpler molecules. But indeed the case of wood/cellulose and rubber is very interesting!
plastic is a long polymer chain..on melting it actually breaks down to many monomers...
Yeah,but polystyrene (aka styrofoam)can melt and then reform.
My buddy and I actually tried this in Highschool. It was pretty cool.
I freakin love your hair style!
My hairstyle is...I forgot to style my hair...lol
The Action Lab I think it's called a quiff, but you just perfect it.
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2:37 HOLY SHIT IT MOVED
yeah it was a ghost
A ghost farted
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@@memesquad5182 lol
Can't forget Wood magnets attached to upside down suction cups whilst using a left-handed screwdriver to install onto your AirShadowslicer 9000! Lol...
Seriously though.
I love this channel!
Good stuff as always!
Ur editing skill are good
A really long fancy way of saying "no"
The Action Lab. Y'all should get a contract with (PBS) Public Broadcast Station. Y'all could really teach alot of people about alot of things.
Video really made me want to get back into distillation and shows how simple it really can be
No...
Pyrolysis will result in the decomposition of the Wood, even if no “Combustion” occurs.
The wood “breaks” down into the various components, and the long-chain polymers, like lignin, prevent the remaining materials from “Melting.”
You MIGHT be able to get it to “Melt” if you could lower the melting point of Carbon substantially below the 3500°C it requires at standard pressure to “melt” Carbon, which would then be below the temperature of the “pyrolysis” which causes the constituent breakdown OF the wood.
Soo if I'm reading this correctly it is:
"No..." the video isn't entirely accurate.
If [the remainder of what you said] is achieved, then you could possibly cause the wood to melt?
Zac
“Possibly” being the key.