"Yeah, I don't want to do this. A group of terrorists could just come running in with AK-47s and shoot at all the precious lab equipment that I have, and then a nuclear missile would come towards me in minutes. Too dangerous, I'll pass." /s
My father always told me "Son, there are accidents, and then there is carelessness. Carelessness is putting yourself in a position to have an accident."
A friend of mine was doing everything right. Solid A+ uni chem student. Someone else mislabeled one of the chemicals he was working with, and he ended up with permanent scarring on his face when combining that mislabeled chemical. Even the most trained, methodical chemist can end up in danger.
The simple idea of having a mislabled chemical is a huge "gtfo" for whoever did it. Especially in stuff like aerospace, imagine messing up a hypergolic fuel mixture that uses hydrazine or something of that style. Instant explosion or corrosive/gas.
i hope the person who mislabeled it got in major problems and pays for all medical bills from the scarred person and than some more issues too even if it was a accident, those accidents should not be forgiven for their lethallity
@@povgfuelgaming7521 my mans really said that and then gone and stunk up the entire street and then cooked it with a blowtorch and stunk up a holiday retreat for good measure
@@BrawlerEnoch Wtf you mean. How exactly was i supposed to magically see how a channels name was something different before and know you were SPECIFICALLY TALKING ABOUT THAT? I'm also not missing the joke you literally were just referring to a channel name that literally doesn't exist anymore. Also also to your first reply: Yes, Nilered made the video: "does cyanide smell like almonds" and not Mr, oh sorry, *Nile* green. You really don't know what r/woooosh is, do you? Lmfao.
@@matikuti3738 During the time of comment (referring to the first one, which was first created more than a month ago), the channel name was NileGreen. You literally fail to understand the basic concept of time, and then judge others for doing something correctly during the time of commenting, asking others to look things up before talking shit, when you're the one who fails to understand the fundamental concept that things changes as time passes. How disappointing.
Good Video, I am a chemistry professor in Wisconsin and i always try to teach my student and scholars about safety and they never listen! after last year's incident (A 16 year old kid accidently swallowed Sulfuric Acid and was rushed to the hospital!) the school principal was trying to find a educational video about LAB SAFETY to show to all the students and then we found this video! almost all of the students knew who you are and loved your channel so they listened to you and it worked! Thank you for this great video. P.S: THE KID IS OKAY!
Guess so, we were extracting hydrogen from glucose when the kid wanted to take a sip of his water and confused his water bottle for the sulfuric acid container that was on his table 🤣🤣🤣🤪🤪, luckily he is okay now @@Giblet12
*at camping site* Everyone in my team: we ran out of water :( Me: *pulls out everything Nile used to make the grape soda and a glove rack with gloves* Everyone: what you gonna do with those? Me: do you like grape soda? Everyone: no but whatever we'll drink it Me: good *follows nilered video* 100000 hours later Everyone: woah this is bussin af
Me and my colleagues were taught that working with gloves was not necessary and borderline dangerous, maybe because most times we were in the chemistry lab we had 400mL of fuming nitric acid very close
After 4 years studying biocheistry at a state colleague, I can say I was taught only 5% to what Nile covered in the video. Basically the colleague did not bother to protect its students.
Love the video. One small note. You showed your eye wash station, and you took the caps off before turning it on. Viewers should know NOT TO DO THIS IF YOU HAVE AN EMERGENCY. Proper eye wash stations are designed to pop the caps off automatically from the water pressure, saving you precious seconds that can make a big difference. Especially when you're blinded/have your eyes closed, it could cost you a lot of time trying to get the caps off. Edit: a word
Your warning about goggles in the lab is an important one. My father was blind most of his life from the 1950s til he died due to an accident in the lab (a medical lab he worked at at the time) caused by a coworker. He never saw what me or my younger brother, nor my mother looked like when he was alive because he was completely blinded due to the chemical burns.
I nearly lost both my eyes in a lab accident and my goggles barely saved them. Nearly lost them again in the field handling a chemical pump but my glasses saved me. You cannot stress enough how important eye safety is.
Lol my chem teacher was super chill. So when he got mad it was genuinely frightening. Like even if he wasn't mad at you you still felt afraid 😂. But one time we were doing a lab which primarily consisted of acids, bases, and ionic compounds and metals. And demonstrating different properties of different types of reactions. Two dumbasses decided they weren't going to do the lab so instead they were going to play catch with a baseball from opposite ends of the room. Needless to say my teacher was furious and promptly told them to leave 😅
4:24 my trick for having to wash your eyes out with a standard tap is to just cup the water in your hands and bury your eyes in the water, roll them around a bunch and blink a ton, it’s not ideal, but in an emergency it’s better than nothing. Edit: another good thing to point out is that PPE is the last line of defence. The primary means of keeping yourself safe is to attempt to remove unnecessary dangers before trying to put ppe between you and it.
I can see this as a problem for some People like Me because i personaly cant hold my eyes open even if water gets in them i wont be able to hold them open widout my hands if there is a chemical inside of them
theclockmaker yeah this is just from my personal experience of having gotten gasoline in my eyes, growing up on a farm, shit happens and you don’t necessarily always have a proper eye wash. It could potentially be done by filling up the sink all the way if it’s large enough to fit your whole face in. But you’d certainly want to still be washing your eyes while the sink is filling up.
@@Patmccalk Dont get Me wrong im not saing thats a bad advise its actualy a good one but i know for my self that it wont work ive had an acsident with my grandfather while we were building some thing i cant remember what he had some concrete liquid splash in his eyes and i had to use a 10 liter botle of water to help him wash his face and he did what you sad but a few years later same thing hapened to Me and i coudnt do it and he ended up pouring the water on my face while i was holding my eye open
Mr. Nileblue, thank you so much for thus video. I'm going to save it back and it will be required watching for some of my younger friends. I'm in my 50s and have learned many things the hard way. I still have the use of both eyes, no extra holes and all of my digits. I have lead a colorful life wearing many different hats and PPE from SCBA air supplied suits to lab coats in an automation lab. Life has been good to me. Thanks again, I'm a new subscriber. I enjoy stuff like this.
I appreciate you spreading this knowledge to your less experienced audience. I personally have no chemistry experience, but I do restore classic cars as a hobby (ungodly amounts of flammables, poisons, blindness hazards), and I was glad to see that the rules I’ve practiced are very much the same as in your video. Everybody should understand that their workplace has the potential to seriously affect more than just the person working. Nothing bothers me more that seeing other hobbyists get their young children to help them sand the lead paint off their car with zero PPE, many times even in a closed garage with no ventilation
I'm grateful that the ChemE department at my university takes safety seriously. Before we even begin an experiment we have to write up an experiment safety plan- basically they cover everything in this video: steps of the experiment, ppe, what can go wrong/what to do about it, and other safety protocols. Honestly, even though they're a pain, I can't imagine just *doing chemistry stuff* without one, and I'm glad people are bringing safety awareness to anyone who might want to attempt this stuff at home.
Also - totally recommend getting a cheap pair of scrubs for chemistry work. Firstly there's the price, secondly there's the awesome pockets, and thirdly you won't be as sad when you have to toss them because you got biocrude oil on them and it Won't. Come. Out. Ever.
I work in an alumina refinery working on acid and caustic soda pipe work and have to say if you are working with highly concentrated acids and alkalis on a daily basis diphoterine is one of the best things to keep on your person saved me so many times
had something like this at my school as well and I think the idea with these is that there's no way for chemicals to get through gaps between the buttons. It also potentially allows for the front to be longer and to act as an apron of sorts. There is of course the downside of it being harder to remove, especially if your gloves may also have chemicals on them in an emergency, but I don't think it's entirely without merit.
In my country a father and his son were trying to make a rocket for a festival. It ended up exploding and the kid lost an eye and both of his hands. The worst part is his father wasn't a chemist, he was a scientist at a observatory. So yeah...
Speaking from experience, you'd be surprised how easy it is to go Hulk and rip all the buttons off your shirt to get it off. I was on fire at the time, so I was pretty motivated.
Yes! As opposed to nylon or elastane or pure polyester. When those 3 burn, they ignite but worse they actually *melt* into a plastic like material and shrink, _fusing the burning hot material to your skin_ . It’s very hard to remove and causes more severe burns and skin damage.
Just Sara anything is better than what synthetics become under flame… Sticky. I’ve spent a lot of time in hospitals and I try to make small talk with the staff. I used to say that I’ve heard working in pediatrics is tough. Working the burn unit is tougher.
The problem with polyester and other synthetic fibres is that they are not only flammable, but they melt and glue to your skin when heated. I always wear 100% cotton, and absolutely would not wear anything synthetic
Now that you've covered the safety measures, it would be really great if you could also do some videos on the basic lab techniques that are widely used for most experiments (eg. distillation, column chromatographies/tlc, rotary evaporation etc.) since there aren't that many sources of information for these on youtube and those that exist are usually poorly explained or extremely out-of-date.
In school, a friend once was playing around with a lighter (VERY UNSAFE!!!). Swung around with a lit splint and jabbed me straight in my abdomen. Had I not had a lab coat, my uniform would have caught fire and I would have suffered second to third degree burns, as well as inhaling toxic chemicals from the polyester in the uniform. Luckily, my lab coat didn’t catch fire, and aside from being badly shaken, I was otherwise fine.
those side-shield attachments for glasses are designed to protect against high-velocity debris. They are not suitable for protection against liquid splashes or jets. The same is generally true of products marketed as safety "glasses".
If you haven’t experienced the pain of getting burning stuff in your eye and then washing it out for 15 minutes, let me explain what happens: pain, temporary blindness, and more pain. It hurts a lot. Longest 15 minutes of my life.
They should show this in schools. Like we learn to use these but having these examples I think are really good in understanding exaclty why we need them.
I remember walking into the second floor of a two-story lab to see a visiting professor dragging a full cylinder of CO by the valve. The postdoc with me volunteered to talk to him about lab safety. I vacated the building. Quickly. Fortunately nothing happened, but it could've gone so horribly wrong.
For what it's worth, watching your videos, it is very apparent to me that you have a LOT of expertise I have NONE of, without you having to explain that this is the case. On the other hand, my grandpa was a metallurgist, and I grew up with horror stories like "A man once drank from the wrong cup in front of Grandpa, realized immediately what he'd done, turned to Grandpa, said 'tell my wife I love her' and dropped dead." so... I do sort of expect that from chemistry experts.
God I wish we had a video this interesting during our first chemistry classes in schools. Having a dry delivery from someone who'd said the same thing for 20 years to a class full of students they know probably aren't paying attention was not the way to do it.
My very first lab experiment at university, I had to make dissolve a substance with DCM that had to be extracted using a syringe. The first time I pushed on the syringe, the tip exploded and splashed everywhere. Thank God for PPE
After receiving some training at university I became aware of the dangers and I stopped doing most chemistry at home. Especially waste managment is a pain.
i still have my pants and labcoat from my biochem days. its wild looking at all the holes that would appear seemingly at random. working in a lab with 30 other people you'd inevitably get drops or splatters here and there. really glad those holes are on those clothes and not my body. also, i always made sure to wear full coverage safety goggles, the kind that makes full contact with the skin, as opposed to side covered glasses. never trusted having so much area around my eyes potentially exposed to spills, splashes, and fumes. eye damage is super easy to get when working with many chemicals among many people, and often not easy to fix. Thankfully there were no serious injuries in the lab I worked at, but the building next to us had a lab explode during my second year, leaving the whole building closed for a week. shits wild yo.
One thing I've learned is that beyond taking physical precautions by wearing PPE it's important to be mentally prepared. Freak accidents happen. Once I was working with dichloromethane in HPLC vials, those with the spring loaded inserts. Well, the lid slipped out of my fingers and the insert shot out of the vial, underneath the fume hood screen, underneath my goggles, underneath my glasses and hit me in the eye. Fortunately I found my way to the eyewash within seconds despite being blinded. I'm just glad I didn't panic :D
That was one thing I learned in industry that carried over well into chemistry. One of the requirements to work in the plant was the ability to find the nearest eyewash station unaided while blindfolded. Fast forward a few years and in the teaching lab I drop a plastic bottle of 2M ammonium hydroxide that a careless TA had left the lid loose. The bottle hits perfectly flat on the floor and half the contents blow out the top and hit me squarely in the face. Standard safety glasses did nothing since it was coming up from below at such a shallow angle. Worse, it caught me as I was inhaling so I got a good lungful of ammonia as well as blinded by it. The nearest person was 3 labs away. I made it out the door of the lab I was in, through the prep room, through the storage room, past the office, and into the hallway to use the eyewash despite barely being able to see and not being able to inhale at all. There was an eyewash station in the lab I started in not 6 feet from me, but I went to the one I was damn well sure I could find and use without help.
When im tinkering with my SLA printer i always wear a whole face shield, since these UV resins are especially nasty to skin or eyes. when im done, i simply store the shield on top of the printer, so i cant forget to put it on. its awkward to see, how some people (especially on youtube videos) handle UV resins. Ive even seen people use latex gloves, which are useless when working with these resins, the easy penetrate latex (you HAVE to use nitrile gloves). you dont have to work in a chemistry lab to encounter dangerous stuff. again, ie 3d printing, you can buy these SLA printers for 200 bucks off ebay.
Yeah honestly, I rather stick to fdm printing. Not that SLA isn't cool but all the overhead, precautions, always avoiding accidental exposure to resins or else , post processing with IPA, UV, yadda yadda is simply insane in comparison. Very cool to have if there is actually a legitimate need for it but I kinda doubt most people will end up doing more with it than printing pretty little figures.
9:55 Also, a very important thing to not forget when using the shower is to take off your shoes first when using it. Not doing so will result in chemicals getting washed down into them and potentially harming your feet.
My dad was a machinist and one day a piece of metal snapped and hit his safety glasses. Had he not had them on that piece of metal would have blinded him.
This should be a video shown in schools. All we ever saw was a very low quality cartoon where a character got burned, blown into pieces etc... it was just kinda funny to us. It took me until shortly before graduation to realise that some of the stuff we had been doing was way more dangerous than I thought...
I remember doing a pH experiment with two acids and two alkali solutions my class did and while cleaning up, I added all of the solutions together (wasn't a large amount, we only used a small bit for each solution to test.) because it looked cool with all the colors and stuff since we were using the universal indicator. I then cleaned out the test tube over the sink using water and it actually had, I would assume, steam coming out of it. Now that I have watched this video, I'll assume it's due to the acid reacting with the water causing heat to be generated. Thankfully nothing bad happened.
It's in all our safety guides there is an annotation for this thing, and it seems weird to be there, no one would ever suck a pipete with acid, but the thing is that when your professors were students this was the way they pipeted things, there weren't normal pipetes on labs then or at least they were less usual.
@@MortalMercury he was like 40 or something, not that old. He is responsible in classes, but in the lab while mentoring thesis students he stopped giving a shit
It's funny, when you have good safety skills, it's always the dumb stuff that gives you injuries. It's like how Codyslab will distill hydrogen cyanide from cherry pits with no worries at all, but he has to go to the hospital when he slips on a slice of butter. when im doing machining, it's never the machines themselves that give me injuries. it's always a nick from an improperly deburred edge on a piece of metal, or accidentally smacking my finger into the chuck from too much torque when tightening my gibs (or something) causes me to slip.
NileBlue : I don't recommend eating anything you make in the lab . Meanwhile NileRed : Making cotton candy from cotton . Making grape soda from gloves . Making the most expensive carbonated water . Making caffeine-free redbull . Making toilet paper moonshine . Turning my own pee into an artificial sweetener . Extracting DNA from strawberries *and eating it* .
I know im gonna be a turd for this, but: The most expensive carbianted water turned diamonds (carbon) into carbon dioxide, and making carbomated water from it, and as no dangerous chemicals were used it is therefore safe. As for the strawberries, the "chemicals" used were basically just soap water, soap isnt the best thing to consume but it most likely wont hurt you unless you chug the whole bottle, therefore they are safe, the others were potentially dangerous but, well, if nobody took risks, nothing would be done. Disclaimer: do not drink chemicals, if you do(dont, you have to be insanely stupid to do so), dont blame me
When I was in college, a friend of mine had a job as a lab tech in a PC board plating shop and had access to some pretty nasty stuff like gold/potassium cyanide. He usually wore a regular button-up lab coat with a much lighter polyester snap-up lab coat over it.
while watching this i realized i was procrastinating finishing the materials hazards list for my assignment due tomorrow, but this video covers the same things i needed to watch other videos about, thus, im not procrastinating, im working!
While my children were growing up I used to tell them over and over. "Be responsible for your actions and the effects they have on the people around you." And this video is another fine example of you doing just that, and I thank you for that. Rick (the king of random) mentioned you to me privately when I explained to him what I was looking for, and Cody's lab as well. I like that you educate with a practical fun time does not always mean play time attitude. And Cody has a sarcastic motif but you'll notice he mentions safety concerns in his videos as much as you do in yours and between you two all 11 grand children are engaged and aware of safety inside and out of my lab. The effect I was looking for. I sold the house with the lab last year because the kids have moved away and I don't see the grandkids much anymore. The new owner was amazed when I showed him the construction of the lab. Some of the ideas I picked up from your videos complimented my own hazmat containment nicely. I was quickly out growing my garage so I bought an equipment hanger from an estate sale. Felt silly at 1st with too much room... not for long between storage and work areas. After the foundation I installed liquid containment in the sub floor that drained into a 200 gallon tank buried under my run out area. All pressure valved incase I had a reaction in the containment area. The whole lab and storage areas were vented into a double chamber air scrubber powered with a 10 inch fan and the exhaust cabinet ran a 6" fan through a 2" pipe into a triple chamber air scrubber. I was planning for a lot of nitric acid in gold recovery. And a dry powder fire suppression system and chain fall materials handling network were the highlights.
Thank you for making this. My grandfather became an anosmiak after somebody didn't clean out the fume hood in high school (1930's) and it had chlorine inside. He got a snoot full which knocked him back and took away his sense of smell.
When it comes to particularly toxic chemicals, there's something to be said for taking more precautions than you think you need. In 1996, a woman named Karen Wetterhahn was working with some dimethylmercury, and a few drops got on her gloved hand. At the time, it was believed that latex gloves were sufficient protection, so she cleaned up the area before removing her gloves. 10 months later she died of mercury poisoning. Turns out that dimethylmercury can permeate latex gloves within seconds, and that tiny amount being absorbed into her skin was enough to give her fatal mercury poisoning.
Your thumbnail is basically what every chemistry teacher tells before teaching how to make a functional bomb strong enough to take down the entirety of school
One of the chem teachers at my school had an incident. Sulfuric acid splashed in the eyes. Not exactly sure how it happened, knowing him it's surprising he didn't have goggles. He was doing a demo I think. He's fine now, but he was off for a few weeks.
There is a reason why chemistry needs to be done by educated people. There is another thing about safety and that has something to do with character and responsibility: Some people are careless, do not follow instructions, would not listen to briefings, or ignore safety information. Some would use their knowledge to do stupid or sometimes criminal things. This is the reason why access to many chemicals is limited by laws. I know how nitroglycerine is made, but I would not use this knowledge to make it, neither would I ever share my knowledge with random people. As you can see Nile is a responsible person, so he would not do that either, but I am pretty sure he knows how to make it.
If I know how to make it, he most certainly does. It involves a process every bit as dangerous as the chemical itself, or maybe even half as dangerous. The process isn’t hard at all, but keeping your fingers afterwards might be.
@@BKScience812 People can not imagine the force that is developed by the detonation of a single drop of that stuff. But I assume showing this experiment would be also against youtube regulations. A friend of mine made the experiment and almost lost his life. He was a young man, curious, but not careless. He used all the protective gear and precautions but had no idea what kind of danger he faced. He was lucky and escaped without injury, still has his fingers eyes and ears. And he did not tell me or anybody else how it is done.
I 100% agree. But you never feel more alive than when you are trying to make and contain chlorine gas in a bootleg lab. We always used PPE but had no real lab space. Those were the days.
When I was in the military, we all had a very...cavalier attitude towards PPE. We were always told to wear it, but didn't when no one was watching. One time, I was servicing the lubricating oil in a turbine-compressor on an aircraft (basically a giant turbocharger that compresses air to be forced into a condenser to create a rapid cooling effect), and while standing directly below it while looking up, a drop of the oil fell DIRECTLY into my eye. I flinched and blinked a couple times, but couldn't get it to clear. My vision was blurry because of the oil coating my eye, and I started to get scared. Then, I remembered that we had an eye wash station like you highlighted in this video, so then I ran to it and flushed out my eyes. I turned out ok, but it was really scary. WEAR YOUR DAMN PPE
When I was in boot camp, we were instructed to clean the bathroom with just a bottle of bleach, a sponge and a bucket. No PPE, nothing. Within the first 10 minutes, a guy had splashed bleach in his face. His right eye fucked up for a while but he turned out okay. Moral of the story: military fucking sucks and I left
I've been thinking for a long time about making a video about the difference between real danger and perceived danger. It's often easier to see the danger in flashy and fiery UA-cam videos, while being careless with mundane (but statistically extremely dangerous) things like ladders and razor blades. I think an accurate perception of real danger is one of the most critical steps for safety in all activities.
I think this is because we use ladders and razor blades in our everyday life so we have the feel of fake safety and dont care. Flashes, arcs and tesla coils are something special so we are aware because we never seen something like this before and are aware.
@@milanhlavacek6730 well in chemistry some of the most dangerous thinks are the invisible vapors of some toxick substances and even some visible ones can be realy fast to end a carless persons life
@@theclockmaker633 yeah high voltage is kind of same - you cant see it but it is lethal. A lot of stuff outside of human perception is quite dangerous for humans as there is no way to know its presence without special instruments. I myself do not do much chemistry but safety is needed everywhere.
@@milanhlavacek6730 indeed it is i have worked with electricity in my home and i allways double check if its of before doing anything beter be safe than sorry
One thing to really note, even seemingly safe and simple labs can get dangerous if people fuck around. I still remember the large scale emergency response to the "Hauptschule" next to my elementary school here in Germany during my childhood. I later in life looked up what actually happened, and some of the pupils there took some random chemicles during chemie class and mixed them together for shits and giggles to see what happened. Idiots brewed up litteral flammable poison gass, and blew up the lab while poisoning themseves and a few others. So always do things with proper procedure and maybe keep an eye on what others are doing around you. I have heared multiple stories from people working with chemicals, in which it was others endangering everyone in the lab because they did not follow proper procedure and fucked around. So keep an eye out when working with others in the same lab.
@@JohnnyYeTaecanUktena a lot actually. A friend of mine who was interning as a teaching assistant had her prof show this to the class and this was shown, albeit briefly, in a HSE corporate video I had for my company.
The weird thing is that I never realized so many of these safety precautions are used across all industries. I work in healthcare and have to follow the same fundamentals.
Funnily enough, a lot of safety procedures are just common sense, but of course things like being careful with uses gloves can be a bit tricky if you're not careful or not used to taking gloves off and on
honestly I wish more industries shared more concern for material safety. I work for one of the largest shipping companies in the world, yet hardly any attention is given to proper hazmat training. Its pretty unsettling to learn that you have a dangerous hazmat on a truck only when people start getting burned through cloths, and then to find out that we didn't even have the MSDS for the chemical on file.
In the lab I used to work at, our "safety" guy was a schlub and didn't regularly flush our eye wash station. Since it didn't get used for years when it finally was pointed out in an audit, we turned it on and it was just a 10 second stream of black sludge. It was hilarious and terrifying in a 1:1 ratio.
When i was in middle school i was in science research and the eyewash and shower had to be replaced mostly because rust would always come out. Also the fume hood didnt work. Luckily there were 2
That'd be black rust, Fe3O4, from the water pipes. Imagine if the poor guy who needed to use it had oxidizer in his eyes... "local chemist burns eye sockets out with thermite".
Also: Another PPE for people with long hair is to have a hair tie or hair net, I don't know how often I've been millimeters away from catching my hair on fire.
I have become familiar with the smell of burning hair before I finally started being more careful. My hair has never caught fire but it really should have
And for those who only have hair ties as their option, always put your hair into a bun (not a ponytail) that way it’s very unlikely to get caught in something. I always wondered why my high school AP bio teacher told me to tie my hair into a bun instead of a ponytail, but after hearing disastrous stories in college, I finally knew why that was the case
I've personally nearly permanently damaged my eyes when I was about 15 and was curious what batteries looked like on the inside. I did not wear goggles. I was using tools like needle nose pliers from out garage and for whatever unknown reason the battery exploded. the electrode shot up and collided with my eye faster than i could blink. I was close to the shower and thankfully I knew to rinse out my eyes. I wasted no time to get undressed or anything i just turned the shower to full, got in and rinsed my eyes. They burned horrible bad and i was screaming in pain. I had flashbacks for about a year afterwards. the doctors at the ER told me that I was lucky and the ocular specialist told me that I had sustained minor burns around my eye socket and I had a small indent from the electrode hitting my eye luckily it missed my pupil by a few millimetres. All that to say that I have always been extremely cautious ever since.
Nasty, glad you're ok. As a kid, I used to disassemble used up 4.5V zinc carbon batteries for the carbon rods, to use for carbon arcs and electrolysis. For some reason we'd gotten an alkaline battery once, which had each cell in a sturdy steel can instead of plastic, tar and corroded zinc. The cell had a tiny vent hole in the top plastic ring, which appeared to be the only weak point. I hammered an awl into it, and pressurized liquid squirted out. I was lucky that it missed me entirely.
I had a friend as a kid who had a glass eye, apparently they'd poked it with a pair of scissors. So glad I have good eyesight, not something I take for granted. Gotta take care of these peepers :^) Glad it didn't go worse for ya.
NileBlue: Safety is something that I have always taken seriously. NileRed: I like to mess around with dangerous explosive carcinogens that look like blood because its fun.
"If I don't feel comfortable dealing with the worst possible scenario, then it's not something I should be doing."
Excellent advice.
"Yeah, I don't want to do this. A group of terrorists could just come running in with AK-47s and shoot at all the precious lab equipment that I have, and then a nuclear missile would come towards me in minutes. Too dangerous, I'll pass." /s
@@doak_ yooooooo... is that a reddit "/s"?? cringe this is youtube
@@kriszenn1125 >:OOOO
do the joestar tactic
then you shouldn't do anything because literally anything you do has a worst possible scenario you wouldn't be comfortable dealing with.
My father always told me "Son, there are accidents, and then there is carelessness. Carelessness is putting yourself in a position to have an accident."
My father always told me "I wish you came into this world stillborn".
"There are accidents and there is cowardice. Cowardice is when you won't do something because an accident will happen"
your father was a wise man.
Reminds me of some firearms experts saying "almost all of what people call 'accidental discharge' is actually negligent discharge."
My shop professor always said "Don't be sorry just be right"
If you're playing with chemistry you may not have time to be sorry
I'd be inclined to add Murphy's Law of Laboratory Work to the list: "Hot glass looks exactly the same as cold glass."
same with metals hot metal for the most part looks like cold metal
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 (done the mistake once and never did the same since then)
You just activated my mental scars
Hot Ceramic, too looks like cold Ceramic, it's not only metal and glass :)
@@SpaceDave1337 that thing melted my book cover because I don't realise it was super hot and I stupidly put it above my book.
He's the only person that can make me watch a safety training video and make it enjoyable.
Yeah, Even as a person who loves chemistry personally, I found this video a lot more enjoyable than I expected, and of course, Invaluable lessons.
I AGREE
A friend of mine was doing everything right. Solid A+ uni chem student. Someone else mislabeled one of the chemicals he was working with, and he ended up with permanent scarring on his face when combining that mislabeled chemical. Even the most trained, methodical chemist can end up in danger.
Waldegrave that’s one way to get thrown out of a lab, to not label or wrongly label chemicals, exactly for this reason.
The simple idea of having a mislabled chemical is a huge "gtfo" for whoever did it. Especially in stuff like aerospace, imagine messing up a hypergolic fuel mixture that uses hydrazine or something of that style. Instant explosion or corrosive/gas.
i hope the person who mislabeled it got in major problems and pays for all medical bills from the scarred person and than some more issues too
even if it was a accident, those accidents should not be forgiven for their lethallity
@@wypmangames its a shame but that won't undo anything ya'know?
@@unculturedswine5583 no it won't but if I were the guy I would totally
A little tip from a glass-blower, when dealing with a lot of broken glass, hit it with a spray of water to reduce the amount of dust.
Glass makes dust? I didn't know...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@marstv9048 Microscopic glass shards will be chipped off any time glass fractures and breaks
As long as there isnt a chemical that reacts to water thats on it
I was just thinking of this
Fucking love watching glass blowing.... truly a skill of the ages
-Reads title
-Clicks
-Is very relieved to count 10 fingers on NileRed's hands
Who's nilered?
@@Otzkar Some other guy, nvm
Wow guys
@@SuperAd1980 the nile lore is really deep it seems.
I think ya'll are in de-nile.
17:02
NileBlue: I will not do the project if it smells bad
Also NileBlue: makes military grade stink liquid
and thioacetone
@@oof3000 yup just saw that one
@@povgfuelgaming7521 my mans really said that and then gone and stunk up the entire street
and then cooked it with a blowtorch and stunk up a holiday retreat for good measure
he really changed his stance
@@MrDrury27 Stunk up an entire private island
hey i think that nile blue is ripping off nile red
ayeeee thats true
i was jsut going to say that.
Ye he similar
oooh very funi becuse you knoe same persn difremt channl
I wonder why.........
Meanwhile, in Cody's Lab, "whoops, I think I inhaled some mercury." Coughs. "There, got it."
😳
@KimuTone correct
"Eh, I don't have any cuts on my feet so I can just put my bare feet into this mercury and I'll probably be fine"
Cody out here carrying around dry ice with his bare hands
@@chair547 bio chemists and geo chemists hit differently
NileBlue: "Chemistry is dangerous"
NileRed: "Does cyanide smell like almonds?"
NileGreen:...
(the guy below kinda hilarious)
@@BrawlerEnoch red*
@@matikuti3738 green*
@@BrawlerEnoch Wtf you mean. How exactly was i supposed to magically see how a channels name was something different before and know you were SPECIFICALLY TALKING ABOUT THAT? I'm also not missing the joke you literally were just referring to a channel name that literally doesn't exist anymore. Also also to your first reply: Yes, Nilered made the video: "does cyanide smell like almonds" and not Mr, oh sorry, *Nile* green. You really don't know what r/woooosh is, do you? Lmfao.
@@matikuti3738 During the time of comment (referring to the first one, which was first created more than a month ago), the channel name was NileGreen.
You literally fail to understand the basic concept of time, and then judge others for doing something correctly during the time of commenting, asking others to look things up before talking shit, when you're the one who fails to understand the fundamental concept that things changes as time passes. How disappointing.
Good Video, I am a chemistry professor in Wisconsin and i always try to teach my student and scholars about safety and they never listen! after last year's incident (A 16 year old kid accidently swallowed Sulfuric Acid and was rushed to the hospital!) the school principal was trying to find a educational video about LAB SAFETY to show to all the students and then we found this video! almost all of the students knew who you are and loved your channel so they listened to you and it worked! Thank you for this great video.
P.S: THE KID IS OKAY!
Swallowed sulfuric acid? How did he manage that? Eating or drinking anything in a lab is a good way to end up in the hospital
Guess so, we were extracting hydrogen from glucose when the kid wanted to take a sip of his water and confused his water bottle for the sulfuric acid container that was on his table 🤣🤣🤣🤪🤪, luckily he is okay now @@Giblet12
Always remember to wear your gloves, they will protect your hands and can also be turned into grape soda.
The latter being more important
Though TBF, those DINP gloves are getting rarer, and I don't miss them even if I have the stuff to do the latter.
*at camping site*
Everyone in my team: we ran out of water :(
Me: *pulls out everything Nile used to make the grape soda and a glove rack with gloves*
Everyone: what you gonna do with those?
Me: do you like grape soda?
Everyone: no but whatever we'll drink it
Me: good
*follows nilered video*
100000 hours later
Everyone: woah this is bussin af
@@miguelbaltazar7606 u all ded
Me and my colleagues were taught that working with gloves was not necessary and borderline dangerous, maybe because most times we were in the chemistry lab we had 400mL of fuming nitric acid very close
He’s a teacher? I thought he was a very smart 17 year old
i think he meant a teacher assistant. You could still be in college and be one of those
@@SwoggersLOL He is a teacher, he's said before that his students decorated the chalkboard in the background.
Sweet As Creampie he said he was in lab tech 6 years ago when he cleaned after the students... this guy is older lol, phd student or post doc
He is in late 20s. He has left his job. Now makes UA-cam videos for a living.
He is definitely older than Sam Denby aka Wendover Productions and younger than Tom Scott ;)
Hey with the lab coat, you should have also mentioned that the labcoat is designed to be thicker than a normal jacket/coat/shirt.
Hey! Haven’t seen your content for a while. Glad you’re coming back!
@@ellierose6050 I never go anywhere! It just takes me a while to animate :)
TV/Drug store labcoat ≠ chemistry labcoat
i did not expect to see you here
and made of nonreactive fabric,certain fabrics will literally catch fire when exposed to certain acids
After 4 years studying biocheistry at a state colleague, I can say I was taught only 5% to what Nile covered in the video.
Basically the colleague did not bother to protect its students.
That’s terrible.😨
... this is about half of what I learned in my high school chemistry class. That is really, exceptionally sad
For us, we were being reminded from time to time about most things, and got heads up when using something dangerous
i am a chem studuent and we have a class spesifically made for lab security
He seems so angry and passionate when talking about breaking safety procedures and its honestly so wholesome.
Bro shut the fuck up on your “wholesome” shit zoomer
....sooo hot! ;p
Love the video. One small note. You showed your eye wash station, and you took the caps off before turning it on. Viewers should know NOT TO DO THIS IF YOU HAVE AN EMERGENCY. Proper eye wash stations are designed to pop the caps off automatically from the water pressure, saving you precious seconds that can make a big difference. Especially when you're blinded/have your eyes closed, it could cost you a lot of time trying to get the caps off.
Edit: a word
That is true!
Your warning about goggles in the lab is an important one. My father was blind most of his life from the 1950s til he died due to an accident in the lab (a medical lab he worked at at the time) caused by a coworker. He never saw what me or my younger brother, nor my mother looked like when he was alive because he was completely blinded due to the chemical burns.
Im so sorry for your loss. Now he sees how beautiful his family that he created. ❤️
I nearly lost both my eyes in a lab accident and my goggles barely saved them. Nearly lost them again in the field handling a chemical pump but my glasses saved me. You cannot stress enough how important eye safety is.
My chem teacher had a rule: Don’t be an idiot and watch out for idiots. This was high school btw and ppl can be immature
Thems are words to live by, Mr. Warrior sir.
Same advice my father gave me about driving. Wonder if the fact that he's a research scientist working in a lab has something to do with it lol
Meanwhile, in Cody's Lab, "whoops, I think I inhaled some mercury." Coughs. "There, got it."
Lol my chem teacher was super chill. So when he got mad it was genuinely frightening. Like even if he wasn't mad at you you still felt afraid 😂. But one time we were doing a lab which primarily consisted of acids, bases, and ionic compounds and metals. And demonstrating different properties of different types of reactions. Two dumbasses decided they weren't going to do the lab so instead they were going to play catch with a baseball from opposite ends of the room. Needless to say my teacher was furious and promptly told them to leave 😅
The problem is that there's too many idiots to watch out these days :q
And then there’s NileGreen…
4:24 my trick for having to wash your eyes out with a standard tap is to just cup the water in your hands and bury your eyes in the water, roll them around a bunch and blink a ton, it’s not ideal, but in an emergency it’s better than nothing.
Edit: another good thing to point out is that PPE is the last line of defence. The primary means of keeping yourself safe is to attempt to remove unnecessary dangers before trying to put ppe between you and it.
I can see this as a problem for some People like Me because i personaly cant hold my eyes open even if water gets in them i wont be able to hold them open widout my hands if there is a chemical inside of them
theclockmaker yeah this is just from my personal experience of having gotten gasoline in my eyes, growing up on a farm, shit happens and you don’t necessarily always have a proper eye wash.
It could potentially be done by filling up the sink all the way if it’s large enough to fit your whole face in. But you’d certainly want to still be washing your eyes while the sink is filling up.
@@Patmccalk Dont get Me wrong im not saing thats a bad advise its actualy a good one but i know for my self that it wont work ive had an acsident with my grandfather while we were building some thing i cant remember what he had some concrete liquid splash in his eyes and i had to use a 10 liter botle of water to help him wash his face and he did what you sad but a few years later same thing hapened to Me and i coudnt do it and he ended up pouring the water on my face while i was holding my eye open
@@Patmccalk Oh man, I was under my car repairing a fuel line once, and got an eyeful of gasoline. Not fun!
KingNast somethin I would honestly not wish upon my worst enemy.
Mr. Nileblue, thank you so much for thus video. I'm going to save it back and it will be required watching for some of my younger friends. I'm in my 50s and have learned many things the hard way. I still have the use of both eyes, no extra holes and all of my digits. I have lead a colorful life wearing many different hats and PPE from SCBA air supplied suits to lab coats in an automation lab. Life has been good to me. Thanks again, I'm a new subscriber. I enjoy stuff like this.
“This is the easiest way to spice your food with-“
*gets windex ad*
I’m not even joking. That happened
I appreciate you spreading this knowledge to your less experienced audience. I personally have no chemistry experience, but I do restore classic cars as a hobby (ungodly amounts of flammables, poisons, blindness hazards), and I was glad to see that the rules I’ve practiced are very much the same as in your video. Everybody should understand that their workplace has the potential to seriously affect more than just the person working. Nothing bothers me more that seeing other hobbyists get their young children to help them sand the lead paint off their car with zero PPE, many times even in a closed garage with no ventilation
I'm grateful that the ChemE department at my university takes safety seriously. Before we even begin an experiment we have to write up an experiment safety plan- basically they cover everything in this video: steps of the experiment, ppe, what can go wrong/what to do about it, and other safety protocols. Honestly, even though they're a pain, I can't imagine just *doing chemistry stuff* without one, and I'm glad people are bringing safety awareness to anyone who might want to attempt this stuff at home.
Also - totally recommend getting a cheap pair of scrubs for chemistry work. Firstly there's the price, secondly there's the awesome pockets, and thirdly you won't be as sad when you have to toss them because you got biocrude oil on them and it Won't. Come. Out. Ever.
I work in an alumina refinery working on acid and caustic soda pipe work and have to say if you are working with highly concentrated acids and alkalis on a daily basis diphoterine is one of the best things to keep on your person saved me so many times
9:35
At my school we had these brilliantly designed lab coats with buttons that ran *up the back so the person wearing it couldn't reach them.*
NO WAY 😭
they just wanted people to have their hulk moment and rip it off by flexing their back muscles 💪🏻
they just wanted people to have their hulk moment and rip it off by flexing their back muscles i guess 💪🏻 😭
Oh my god why would anyone design a product like that
had something like this at my school as well and I think the idea with these is that there's no way for chemicals to get through gaps between the buttons. It also potentially allows for the front to be longer and to act as an apron of sorts. There is of course the downside of it being harder to remove, especially if your gloves may also have chemicals on them in an emergency, but I don't think it's entirely without merit.
In my country a father and his son were trying to make a rocket for a festival. It ended up exploding and the kid lost an eye and both of his hands. The worst part is his father wasn't a chemist, he was a scientist at a observatory. So yeah...
i wanna see him ripping off a labcoat's buttons while he's wearing it to show how hard it is to remove it
Speaking from experience, you'd be surprised how easy it is to go Hulk and rip all the buttons off your shirt to get it off. I was on fire at the time, so I was pretty motivated.
When on fire, polyester/cotton blends are really good at quickly falling away from the skin instead of melting or becoming clingy.
That is very good to know!
I was taught that when working around forges, people wear only natural fibers, because it's better to have a slow smolder than meltage.
Yes! As opposed to nylon or elastane or pure polyester. When those 3 burn, they ignite but worse they actually *melt* into a plastic like material and shrink, _fusing the burning hot material to your skin_ . It’s very hard to remove and causes more severe burns and skin damage.
Just Sara anything is better than what synthetics become under flame… Sticky. I’ve spent a lot of time in hospitals and I try to make small talk with the staff. I used to say that I’ve heard working in pediatrics is tough. Working the burn unit is tougher.
Regarding button up lab coats: in an emergency simply grab at the top and rip open and downwards. The buttons will bop right off the coat.
The problem with polyester and other synthetic fibres is that they are not only flammable, but they melt and glue to your skin when heated. I always wear 100% cotton, and absolutely would not wear anything synthetic
Meanwhile in my high school chemistry class someone poured sulfuric acid all over the table just to see the bubbles as it was being cleaned up
Now that you've covered the safety measures, it would be really great if you could also do some videos on the basic lab techniques that are widely used for most experiments (eg. distillation, column chromatographies/tlc, rotary evaporation etc.) since there aren't that many sources of information for these on youtube and those that exist are usually poorly explained or extremely out-of-date.
I'd love to see a video when you actually dispose of the stuff in your waste drawer, and the process of getting a company to get rid of it.
In school, a friend once was playing around with a lighter (VERY UNSAFE!!!). Swung around with a lit splint and jabbed me straight in my abdomen. Had I not had a lab coat, my uniform would have caught fire and I would have suffered second to third degree burns, as well as inhaling toxic chemicals from the polyester in the uniform. Luckily, my lab coat didn’t catch fire, and aside from being badly shaken, I was otherwise fine.
those side-shield attachments for glasses are designed to protect against high-velocity debris. They are not suitable for protection against liquid splashes or jets. The same is generally true of products marketed as safety "glasses".
If you haven’t experienced the pain of getting burning stuff in your eye and then washing it out for 15 minutes, let me explain what happens: pain, temporary blindness, and more pain. It hurts a lot. Longest 15 minutes of my life.
They should show this in schools. Like we learn to use these but having these examples I think are really good in understanding exaclty why we need them.
I remember walking into the second floor of a two-story lab to see a visiting professor dragging a full cylinder of CO by the valve. The postdoc with me volunteered to talk to him about lab safety. I vacated the building. Quickly. Fortunately nothing happened, but it could've gone so horribly wrong.
For what it's worth, watching your videos, it is very apparent to me that you have a LOT of expertise I have NONE of, without you having to explain that this is the case.
On the other hand, my grandpa was a metallurgist, and I grew up with horror stories like "A man once drank from the wrong cup in front of Grandpa, realized immediately what he'd done, turned to Grandpa, said 'tell my wife I love her' and dropped dead." so... I do sort of expect that from chemistry experts.
God I wish we had a video this interesting during our first chemistry classes in schools. Having a dry delivery from someone who'd said the same thing for 20 years to a class full of students they know probably aren't paying attention was not the way to do it.
Finally a lab safety video that isn’t a cringed 80s nightmare. I hope they start using this in schools instead of the other ones
My very first lab experiment at university, I had to make dissolve a substance with DCM that had to be extracted using a syringe. The first time I pushed on the syringe, the tip exploded and splashed everywhere. Thank God for PPE
Chemistry is such a beautiful thing, pretty much everything is trying to kill you, even water.
draco darkness
y e a h t h a t s e e m s a b o u t r o i g h t
A bit like Australia.
@@claretlover1 Touché
After receiving some training at university I became aware of the dangers and I stopped doing most chemistry at home. Especially waste managment is a pain.
i still have my pants and labcoat from my biochem days. its wild looking at all the holes that would appear seemingly at random. working in a lab with 30 other people you'd inevitably get drops or splatters here and there. really glad those holes are on those clothes and not my body.
also, i always made sure to wear full coverage safety goggles, the kind that makes full contact with the skin, as opposed to side covered glasses. never trusted having so much area around my eyes potentially exposed to spills, splashes, and fumes. eye damage is super easy to get when working with many chemicals among many people, and often not easy to fix.
Thankfully there were no serious injuries in the lab I worked at, but the building next to us had a lab explode during my second year, leaving the whole building closed for a week. shits wild yo.
One thing I've learned is that beyond taking physical precautions by wearing PPE it's important to be mentally prepared. Freak accidents happen.
Once I was working with dichloromethane in HPLC vials, those with the spring loaded inserts. Well, the lid slipped out of my fingers and the insert shot out of the vial, underneath the fume hood screen, underneath my goggles, underneath my glasses and hit me in the eye. Fortunately I found my way to the eyewash within seconds despite being blinded. I'm just glad I didn't panic :D
That was one thing I learned in industry that carried over well into chemistry. One of the requirements to work in the plant was the ability to find the nearest eyewash station unaided while blindfolded. Fast forward a few years and in the teaching lab I drop a plastic bottle of 2M ammonium hydroxide that a careless TA had left the lid loose. The bottle hits perfectly flat on the floor and half the contents blow out the top and hit me squarely in the face. Standard safety glasses did nothing since it was coming up from below at such a shallow angle. Worse, it caught me as I was inhaling so I got a good lungful of ammonia as well as blinded by it. The nearest person was 3 labs away.
I made it out the door of the lab I was in, through the prep room, through the storage room, past the office, and into the hallway to use the eyewash despite barely being able to see and not being able to inhale at all. There was an eyewash station in the lab I started in not 6 feet from me, but I went to the one I was damn well sure I could find and use without help.
I read it as springlock lmao
When im tinkering with my SLA printer i always wear a whole face shield, since these UV resins are especially nasty to skin or eyes. when im done, i simply store the shield on top of the printer, so i cant forget to put it on. its awkward to see, how some people (especially on youtube videos) handle UV resins. Ive even seen people use latex gloves, which are useless when working with these resins, the easy penetrate latex (you HAVE to use nitrile gloves). you dont have to work in a chemistry lab to encounter dangerous stuff. again, ie 3d printing, you can buy these SLA printers for 200 bucks off ebay.
Exactly the same here.
Yeah honestly, I rather stick to fdm printing. Not that SLA isn't cool but all the overhead, precautions, always avoiding accidental exposure to resins or else , post processing with IPA, UV, yadda yadda is simply insane in comparison. Very cool to have if there is actually a legitimate need for it but I kinda doubt most people will end up doing more with it than printing pretty little figures.
its especially dangerous if you start doing sketchy chemistry for bad people
A face shield is another form of face protection that is phenomenal in safety. Especially for those individuals that wear prescription glasses!
9:55 Also, a very important thing to not forget when using the shower is to take off your shoes first when using it. Not doing so will result in chemicals getting washed down into them and potentially harming your feet.
I love how white phosphorus has air as one of the bad things to mix it with
My dad was a machinist and one day a piece of metal snapped and hit his safety glasses. Had he not had them on that piece of metal would have blinded him.
Nileblue: "Chemisty is dangerous"
Nilered, on the other hand: "Making deadly chemicals on my parents garage."
Nilegreen:...
This should be a video shown in schools.
All we ever saw was a very low quality cartoon where a character got burned, blown into pieces etc... it was just kinda funny to us. It took me until shortly before graduation to realise that some of the stuff we had been doing was way more dangerous than I thought...
I remember doing a pH experiment with two acids and two alkali solutions my class did and while cleaning up, I added all of the solutions together (wasn't a large amount, we only used a small bit for each solution to test.) because it looked cool with all the colors and stuff since we were using the universal indicator. I then cleaned out the test tube over the sink using water and it actually had, I would assume, steam coming out of it. Now that I have watched this video, I'll assume it's due to the acid reacting with the water causing heat to be generated. Thankfully nothing bad happened.
NileBlue: You should wear gloves an goggles!
Codyslab: Hold my Mercury.
7 minutes ago....
nononono cody would be more like "Hold my beer while I sip this mercury"
Cody is doing things way too irresponsibly. He almost got severely hurt way too many times already.
nilebule - "Chemistry is dangerous."
nilered - "so today I am going to touch a Radioactive bucket"
this is why i watch you doing these experimants, so i do not have to.
Couldn't have said it better myself. I'm quite content with enjoying the wonders of chemistry from afar.
I once saw a professor use his mouth as a pipete pump because he couldn't find one. Good times
It's in all our safety guides there is an annotation for this thing, and it seems weird to be there, no one would ever suck a pipete with acid, but the thing is that when your professors were students this was the way they pipeted things, there weren't normal pipetes on labs then or at least they were less usual.
@@MortalMercury he was like 40 or something, not that old. He is responsible in classes, but in the lab while mentoring thesis students he stopped giving a shit
It's funny, when you have good safety skills, it's always the dumb stuff that gives you injuries. It's like how Codyslab will distill hydrogen cyanide from cherry pits with no worries at all, but he has to go to the hospital when he slips on a slice of butter. when im doing machining, it's never the machines themselves that give me injuries. it's always a nick from an improperly deburred edge on a piece of metal, or accidentally smacking my finger into the chuck from too much torque when tightening my gibs (or something) causes me to slip.
NileBlue :
I don't recommend eating anything you make in the lab .
Meanwhile NileRed :
Making cotton candy from cotton .
Making grape soda from gloves .
Making the most expensive carbonated water .
Making caffeine-free redbull .
Making toilet paper moonshine .
Turning my own pee into an artificial sweetener .
Extracting DNA from strawberries *and eating it* .
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bru just discovered disclaimers 💀
@@matthewfaughn3212nah just dum as rocks 😂😂
I know im gonna be a turd for this, but:
The most expensive carbianted water turned diamonds (carbon) into carbon dioxide, and making carbomated water from it, and as no dangerous chemicals were used it is therefore safe. As for the strawberries, the "chemicals" used were basically just soap water, soap isnt the best thing to consume but it most likely wont hurt you unless you chug the whole bottle, therefore they are safe, the others were potentially dangerous but, well, if nobody took risks, nothing would be done. Disclaimer: do not drink chemicals, if you do(dont, you have to be insanely stupid to do so), dont blame me
@@errorian404 small correction: don't drink dangerous chemicals
When I was in college, a friend of mine had a job as a lab tech in a PC board plating shop and had access to some pretty nasty stuff like gold/potassium cyanide. He usually wore a regular button-up lab coat with a much lighter polyester snap-up lab coat over it.
i hope u understand that ur youtube success isn’t just bc of chemistry but also bc of YOU and your attitude
while watching this i realized i was procrastinating finishing the materials hazards list for my assignment due tomorrow, but this video covers the same things i needed to watch other videos about, thus, im not procrastinating, im working!
Nile looks like a clumsy one because of his goofy nature but love how he was truly invested into safety of every project he did.
While my children were growing up I used to tell them over and over. "Be responsible for your actions and the effects they have on the people around you." And this video is another fine example of you doing just that, and I thank you for that. Rick (the king of random) mentioned you to me privately when I explained to him what I was looking for, and Cody's lab as well. I like that you educate with a practical fun time does not always mean play time attitude. And Cody has a sarcastic motif but you'll notice he mentions safety concerns in his videos as much as you do in yours and between you two all 11 grand children are engaged and aware of safety inside and out of my lab. The effect I was looking for.
I sold the house with the lab last year because the kids have moved away and I don't see the grandkids much anymore. The new owner was amazed when I showed him the construction of the lab. Some of the ideas I picked up from your videos complimented my own hazmat containment nicely.
I was quickly out growing my garage so I bought an equipment hanger from an estate sale. Felt silly at 1st with too much room... not for long between storage and work areas. After the foundation I installed liquid containment in the sub floor that drained into a 200 gallon tank buried under my run out area. All pressure valved incase I had a reaction in the containment area. The whole lab and storage areas were vented into a double chamber air scrubber powered with a 10 inch fan and the exhaust cabinet ran a 6" fan through a 2" pipe into a triple chamber air scrubber. I was planning for a lot of nitric acid in gold recovery.
And a dry powder fire suppression system and chain fall materials handling network were the highlights.
Thank you for making this. My grandfather became an anosmiak after somebody didn't clean out the fume hood in high school (1930's) and it had chlorine inside. He got a snoot full which knocked him back and took away his sense of smell.
“Safety is something I’ve always taken seriously”
Literally *YEETS* a hammer at a beaker.
When it comes to particularly toxic chemicals, there's something to be said for taking more precautions than you think you need. In 1996, a woman named Karen Wetterhahn was working with some dimethylmercury, and a few drops got on her gloved hand. At the time, it was believed that latex gloves were sufficient protection, so she cleaned up the area before removing her gloves. 10 months later she died of mercury poisoning. Turns out that dimethylmercury can permeate latex gloves within seconds, and that tiny amount being absorbed into her skin was enough to give her fatal mercury poisoning.
Your thumbnail is basically what every chemistry teacher tells before teaching how to make a functional bomb strong enough to take down the entirety of school
I'm a hardcore darkviper fan and have watched not even one of your vids, but I think this is a very good and adult response
I love how he just made a 23 minute long video of explaining how chemistry is dangerous
One of the chem teachers at my school had an incident. Sulfuric acid splashed in the eyes. Not exactly sure how it happened, knowing him it's surprising he didn't have goggles. He was doing a demo I think. He's fine now, but he was off for a few weeks.
Contrary to popular belief Chemistry is NOT dangerous. You can drink from the waste beaker without a single side effect.
Very informational and also the fridge part just reminded me that I put beer cans in the freezer for a quick chill!
7:00
Karen Wetterhahn's ghost has entered the chat
i can't imagine if it was methylmercury
@Michael Gibson umm she died over 2 decades ago.....
thats why id never play around with chemists. any job that requires you to keep an EYE WASHING STATION nearby is too much for me
There is a reason why chemistry needs to be done by educated people. There is another thing about safety and that has something to do with character and responsibility: Some people are careless, do not follow instructions, would not listen to briefings, or ignore safety information. Some would use their knowledge to do stupid or sometimes criminal things. This is the reason why access to many chemicals is limited by laws. I know how nitroglycerine is made, but I would not use this knowledge to make it, neither would I ever share my knowledge with random people. As you can see Nile is a responsible person, so he would not do that either, but I am pretty sure he knows how to make it.
If I know how to make it, he most certainly does. It involves a process every bit as dangerous as the chemical itself, or maybe even half as dangerous. The process isn’t hard at all, but keeping your fingers afterwards might be.
@@BKScience812 People can not imagine the force that is developed by the detonation of a single drop of that stuff. But I assume showing this experiment would be also against youtube regulations. A friend of mine made the experiment and almost lost his life. He was a young man, curious, but not careless. He used all the protective gear and precautions but had no idea what kind of danger he faced. He was lucky and escaped without injury, still has his fingers eyes and ears. And he did not tell me or anybody else how it is done.
Now I want a vid of you combining all the incompatible chemicals!
Chemistry is dangerous, that’s why I watch you do the dangerous stuff and still gain the benefits of entertainment
quite
Totally agree with you John 👍
I 100% agree. But you never feel more alive than when you are trying to make and contain chlorine gas in a bootleg lab. We always used PPE but had no real lab space. Those were the days.
youtube in a nutshell
@@hunterhicks6726 What's a bootleg lab? One with no chemistry license?
When I was in the military, we all had a very...cavalier attitude towards PPE. We were always told to wear it, but didn't when no one was watching. One time, I was servicing the lubricating oil in a turbine-compressor on an aircraft (basically a giant turbocharger that compresses air to be forced into a condenser to create a rapid cooling effect), and while standing directly below it while looking up, a drop of the oil fell DIRECTLY into my eye. I flinched and blinked a couple times, but couldn't get it to clear. My vision was blurry because of the oil coating my eye, and I started to get scared. Then, I remembered that we had an eye wash station like you highlighted in this video, so then I ran to it and flushed out my eyes. I turned out ok, but it was really scary.
WEAR YOUR DAMN PPE
Cleaning a bathroom and a drop of bleach landed in my eye it burned like fuck
@@liquidsleepgames3661 lel
@@stateofmissouri5651 the man got bleach in his eye
@@hugebuffman3619 thats facts but he did portray it as a funny moment, my b for not expressing condolences im sry mr trekami that sucks
When I was in boot camp, we were instructed to clean the bathroom with just a bottle of bleach, a sponge and a bucket. No PPE, nothing. Within the first 10 minutes, a guy had splashed bleach in his face. His right eye fucked up for a while but he turned out okay. Moral of the story: military fucking sucks and I left
I've been thinking for a long time about making a video about the difference between real danger and perceived danger. It's often easier to see the danger in flashy and fiery UA-cam videos, while being careless with mundane (but statistically extremely dangerous) things like ladders and razor blades. I think an accurate perception of real danger is one of the most critical steps for safety in all activities.
I think this is because we use ladders and razor blades in our everyday life so we have the feel of fake safety and dont care. Flashes, arcs and tesla coils are something special so we are aware because we never seen something like this before and are aware.
People often feel invincible until it's too late, I agree completely.
@@milanhlavacek6730 well in chemistry some of the most dangerous thinks are the invisible vapors of some toxick substances and even some visible ones can be realy fast to end a carless persons life
@@theclockmaker633 yeah high voltage is kind of same - you cant see it but it is lethal. A lot of stuff outside of human perception is quite dangerous for humans as there is no way to know its presence without special instruments. I myself do not do much chemistry but safety is needed everywhere.
@@milanhlavacek6730 indeed it is i have worked with electricity in my home and i allways double check if its of before doing anything beter be safe than sorry
One thing to really note, even seemingly safe and simple labs can get dangerous if people fuck around. I still remember the large scale emergency response to the "Hauptschule" next to my elementary school here in Germany during my childhood. I later in life looked up what actually happened, and some of the pupils there took some random chemicles during chemie class and mixed them together for shits and giggles to see what happened. Idiots brewed up litteral flammable poison gass, and blew up the lab while poisoning themseves and a few others. So always do things with proper procedure and maybe keep an eye on what others are doing around you. I have heared multiple stories from people working with chemicals, in which it was others endangering everyone in the lab because they did not follow proper procedure and fucked around. So keep an eye out when working with others in the same lab.
Ahh ja Hauptschüler machen Hauptschulsachen, geil
"the labcoat, however, can be taken off in seconds. ladies."
I didn't get it
give me your warming heart ironic considering your username
@@ohhxcake5434 hey don't laugh at my username, it used to be give me your fucking money, but i couldn't chat in live streams so i changed it to this
@@swago69 this is a bruh moment, sorry man
Bruh just tell my the fucking meaning of the joke
I watch people on youtube do chemistry because I know that I don't know how to do it safely myself.
Good
Some kids think differently sadly...
Explosions and fire is a fun channel to watch if you hate safety.
Same
Nor could I afford the glassware...
NileBlue: "chemistry is dangerous."
NileRed: *BROMINE CAN KILL YOU* "Bromine is a really cool element!"
Oooooo look at the PRETTY red gems!
Also Nile; So I decided to smell Cyanide and boil Mercury....
Ex&F: How can Osmium toxicity be real if our eyes aren't real?
Chromyl Chloride is toxic, a carcinogen, fumes like crazy, and is potentially explosive. It’s my favorite chemical to work with!
@@initialyeet3951 also manganese heptoxide!
I wonder how many educators have used this video for their safety introductions
Probably not much
@@JohnnyYeTaecanUktena a lot actually. A friend of mine who was interning as a teaching assistant had her prof show this to the class and this was shown, albeit briefly, in a HSE corporate video I had for my company.
@@tengkualiff congrats sounds like anecdotal evidence to me
@@JohnnyYeTaecanUktena What do you expect in the comments section of a UA-cam video? this aint no college bro
@@matthewe3813 I have no idea what your comment means
I actually think this is a NileRed video, not a NileBlue one. EVERYONE needs to know safety.
Ellie Johnson Agreed.
Yeah, NileRed should upload something like this too! Or maybe they could both collab together for a video.
Yes he should upload it to NileRed.
Ellie Johnson word
@@MatBaconMC wHat ArE yoU SayIng? tHey ArE thE SamE peRsoN!
“It’s not safety first it’s stupidly last” my favorite and most used Nile Red quote
stupidity
But yeah, that's a well-phrased little sound bite.
Who's Nile red
@@ammyvl1 the guy in the video
VwertIX :/
@@vwertix1662 no that's nile blue
The weird thing is that I never realized so many of these safety precautions are used across all industries. I work in healthcare and have to follow the same fundamentals.
Funnily enough, a lot of safety procedures are just common sense, but of course things like being careful with uses gloves can be a bit tricky if you're not careful or not used to taking gloves off and on
Whether it is a hospital or a chemistry lab, you can't lick the floor
PPE DPI OR EPI are a standard in every job in every country
honestly I wish more industries shared more concern for material safety. I work for one of the largest shipping companies in the world, yet hardly any attention is given to proper hazmat training. Its pretty unsettling to learn that you have a dangerous hazmat on a truck only when people start getting burned through cloths, and then to find out that we didn't even have the MSDS for the chemical on file.
@@blend3461 I'm referring to procedural precautions more than PPE.
Carol never wore her safety goggles. Now she doesn't need them. Edit: Fixed a typo
I don't want to use my name you dick. IF YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW 😂
A classic for laser safety training as well
Because she got fired from her job and got her license revoked.
@@fluffy_tail4365 How many times can you look into a laser beam? Once per retina.
Shake hands with danger.
talking about serious health and safety concerns
background: *y'know sPoOns?*
Never understood that...
He must be a fan of The Room.
@@IceBergGeo maybe cause chemists only know spatulas :D
@@FLODDI100 he uses plastic spoons to taste good edible chem...
@@IceBergGeo *plastic spatula ;)
In the lab I used to work at, our "safety" guy was a schlub and didn't regularly flush our eye wash station. Since it didn't get used for years when it finally was pointed out in an audit, we turned it on and it was just a 10 second stream of black sludge. It was hilarious and terrifying in a 1:1 ratio.
imagine if someone clueless decided to use the station before that...
When i was in middle school i was in science research and the eyewash and shower had to be replaced mostly because rust would always come out. Also the fume hood didnt work. Luckily there were 2
@hawkturkey all the research students were there. This was after school
That'd be black rust, Fe3O4, from the water pipes. Imagine if the poor guy who needed to use it had oxidizer in his eyes... "local chemist burns eye sockets out with thermite".
Awww man....I laughed out loud to your 1 to 1 ratio comment. Thanks 😊 for the safety story
Also: Another PPE for people with long hair is to have a hair tie or hair net, I don't know how often I've been millimeters away from catching my hair on fire.
I have become familiar with the smell of burning hair before I finally started being more careful. My hair has never caught fire but it really should have
And for those who only have hair ties as their option, always put your hair into a bun (not a ponytail) that way it’s very unlikely to get caught in something.
I always wondered why my high school AP bio teacher told me to tie my hair into a bun instead of a ponytail, but after hearing disastrous stories in college, I finally knew why that was the case
@@Malysitos I want to add it's better to keep it in a ponytail inside your collar if it's heavy enough that the bun may come undone by gravity.
or a mullet!
True!!!
I've personally nearly permanently damaged my eyes when I was about 15 and was curious what batteries looked like on the inside. I did not wear goggles. I was using tools like needle nose pliers from out garage and for whatever unknown reason the battery exploded. the electrode shot up and collided with my eye faster than i could blink. I was close to the shower and thankfully I knew to rinse out my eyes. I wasted no time to get undressed or anything i just turned the shower to full, got in and rinsed my eyes. They burned horrible bad and i was screaming in pain. I had flashbacks for about a year afterwards. the doctors at the ER told me that I was lucky and the ocular specialist told me that I had sustained minor burns around my eye socket and I had a small indent from the electrode hitting my eye luckily it missed my pupil by a few millimetres. All that to say that I have always been extremely cautious ever since.
Ouch! Thanks for sharing, and glad you were OK.
Oh my god you’re so lucky it didn’t take your eyesight 😰, I’m sorry you had to go through that, you must’ve been so scared!
Nasty, glad you're ok.
As a kid, I used to disassemble used up 4.5V zinc carbon batteries for the carbon rods, to use for carbon arcs and electrolysis.
For some reason we'd gotten an alkaline battery once, which had each cell in a sturdy steel can instead of plastic, tar and corroded zinc. The cell had a tiny vent hole in the top plastic ring, which appeared to be the only weak point. I hammered an awl into it, and pressurized liquid squirted out. I was lucky that it missed me entirely.
Washing litium with water, bad thing! But I don't blame you, you were 15, and I'm glad to know you are fine after all
I had a friend as a kid who had a glass eye, apparently they'd poked it with a pair of scissors. So glad I have good eyesight, not something I take for granted. Gotta take care of these peepers :^) Glad it didn't go worse for ya.
NileBlue: Safety is something that I have always taken seriously.
NileRed: I like to mess around with dangerous explosive carcinogens that look like blood because its fun.
Both are opinions that could co-exist just fine.
...and then I'll eat the thing I just made in this lab
well *technically* he can do that because he's already covered safety lmao
Cuz he is being safe mate
Nilegreen: lol