Making Nitroglycerin
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- In this video I discuss and make a small quantity of the notorious compound Nitroglycerin. This was initially meant as a patreon-exclusive video, but I've gotten a bit behind on my uploads and figured I'd put this out here while I finish up my next release on pyridine.
(I did also speak to several of my patrons about it and most seem happy with having had this just as an early-release)
PLEASE READ: I do not recommend anyone attempt this process due to several significant hazards associated with the synthesis of this chemical.
I intentionally made a very small amount, but with compounds that can potentially undergo rapid decomposition, safety is a very fine line.
I find this synthesis to be an excellent educational model, which is the sole purpose of this video.
Considering the full synthesis is already outlined in detail on Wikipedia and Google Patents, along with over 15 different uploads detailing this process already actively here on UA-cam, felt it reasonable to post this video.
That said, heed all warnings presented in this video, and check for the legality of this process by legal statutes in your local area before ever proceeding with anything shown on this channel.
POST RELEASE NOTES: I have no idea why I said that nitronium ions could be nucleophilic in this type of reaction. I believe I was trying to make some other point when I recorded this, not even sure what it was anymore but in any case I butchered it. Note that just like an EAS reaction nitronium is the electrophile here.
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Isn't it great that I get to admire all these dangerous chemicals without having to actually make them myself? 😀
Thank you!
That's a bit of an understatement, coming from you! 😂😂
@@TooMuchMiddle came here to say the same thing.
Agree 100%
- also learning about physics and chemistry is awesome to me, so HUGE thanks to ALL UA-camrs publishing these awesome types of videos!
LOL
this is scary, some things you do terrify me.
"Amyl Nitrate - used for chest pains and nothing else"
I love you bro, that was classic.
That was funny.
huh, i'm not a patreon but i still got here, crazy
lol no not an exclusive anymore. I talked with a few newer patrons who I assumed joined for the "exclusive content" but they all just said they were happy with just having things as an early release for the most part. Still plan on having some things exclusive there regardless.
@@integral_chemistry ah ic i got confused by the patreon only talk in the middle of the vid, i ain't complaining about that tho lmao, as long as it doesn't get yourself banned... i'd recommend floatplane btw if you don't want the risk of having your channel disappearing from the surface of the earth
@@integral_chemistryMost patreon and gumroad gets archived anyway. This way you can at least make money off them and yea most people are good with like a 2 week early period or some such
RDX, please!!!
@@Alexey-u6w That's a different beast. Nitroglycerine is practically described in vast numbers of "Chemistry for Boys" or historical books from C20.
That said, it would be fascinating to hear a talk about some of the more alarmingly wrong things about the most old-school infamous cookbook of the BBS days and the precursor publication it misunderstood. Really interesting slices of history, though they're banned publications in quite a few places.
I agree with your caution and moral dilemma regarding the topic at hand but am nonetheless grateful, it was a good example of how incredibly dangerous such a small amount can be and my first time being introduced to the concept of 'drowning' reactions like this.
Thank you! I do feel in the end after looking at some of the other nitroglycerine videos here on YT that I could hopefully present the topic in a more nuanced way giving some background and safety measures that usually seem to be missing (like the drowning). Glad you liked it and learned something new :)
Video mentions skill level needed is teenager. So tru. Me and my buddies attempted to make nitroglycerin when we were teenagers. The big mistake we made was adding the glycerine all at once to the nitric/sulferic acid mixture (instead of adding it dropwise). Reaction overheated and ran away and shot a flame column about 20 feet high and sounded like a rocket (luckily we were making it outside). We never tried that again!
And then there is mercury fulminate. We successfully made that on several occassions and I am damn lucky to be here writing this today after the several close calls we had. So the moral of this story is Please, Do Not Make Explosives at Home (or anywhere else, seriously).
oh boy
I remember being scared AF when I, being 16, washed some silver nitrate crystals (recovered as excess silver nitrate from some silver mirror test tubes, left by other schoolboys) with some cold ethanol (wanted to make them dry faster)
was being cried at by my school teacher: WHAAAT ARE YOU DOING
YOU ARE MAKING A PRIMARY EXPLOSIVE
AWWW
Yeah, the old days offered many ways for an enterprising child to be violently obliterated. I have mixed views on some of the changes - mostly when it makes it difficult for me to do something interesting - but having so much tech go low voltage and ready to nope out is really good.
@@RomanBekker2022 D:
How else you supposed to make it if you don't make it?
@@RomanBekker2022don't you need to add acid as catalyst for fulminates?? Anyone done that? Can you explain is nitrate literally all that is needed lol?
The history of nitroglycerine in the petroleum industry is fascinating. Oil City, Pennsylvania has a museum that covers it. Moonlighting was one of the results of nitroglycerine process theft. What was so surprising to me were the descriptions of various nitroglycerine unintended detonations- not only is it powerful but extremely brisant, and people caught in the explosions were often reduced to... well, bits. Broken teeth and mist would be found at the site. And those accidents weren't rare.
When I was a kid in the Chicago area, WGN used to air Family Classics TV show had an episode called "Young Thomas Edison." At one point in the story, Young Edison was talking with a scientist on a train about this chemical he had created in his lab. The scientist immediately recognized it to be nitroglycerin. They had to stop the train and lower a bottle of it down a ravine with a long string. Since then, the notion of a liquid that would explode so easily fascinated me. Thanks for showing how wild this stuff really is.
You are correct about the sound of the explosion. It doesn’t propagate like a sound wave it’s simply a pressure front shoving the atoms of the gas out of the way.
Hey! Thanks for confirming my suspicion. Its hard to explain but it didn't sound like an ordinary loud noise if that makes sense, and my only explanation was some sort of pressure wave.
There is a really interesting book called Explosives Engineering (Paul W. Cooper) that has a section on the science behind shock waves and how they break down.
@@integral_chemistrythe shock wave is like a normal sound wave but the pressure rise is so high it goes into a nonlinear regime. Adibatic heating accelerates the front until it loses it's intensity which then it decays into a regular large amplitude wave. Up close an explosion from high explosives are felt more than heard and the sound is more like a sharp crack. When you get far it becomes a boom. Similar happens with lightning for the same reasons.
@@Slowly_Going_Mad SCIENCE IS FUN
@@Slowly_Going_Mad loved this more detailed explanation, very well said!
0:35
this from his wiki
"As a young man, Nobel studied with chemist Nikolai Zinin; then, in 1850, went to Paris to further the work. There he met Ascanio Sobrero, who had invented nitroglycerin three years before. Sobrero strongly opposed the use of nitroglycerin because it was unpredictable, exploding when subjected to variable heat or pressure. But Nobel became interested in finding a way to control and use nitroglycerin as a commercially usable explosive; it had much more power than gunpowder."
would indicate that his brother died because he was interested in trying to stabilize, not the other way around
I fabricated nitro-glycol from purified antifreeze at age 16. While it is slightly less powerful than regular nitroglycerin, it still produced a small sonic boom from a single drop on first strike with a mallet. I had basic plugs in my ear but not properly fitted and i lost hearing for at least 5min. Constant tinutitus for at least 5-10min put the fear of god into me and i thankfully did a controlled deflagration of the several grams of it i had made alongside the other >25g sample of acetone peroxide i had at room temp. Do not make explosives... i think my crude reagents at the time lead to less sensitive products, but besides that and my constant fear, i can't explain why I still have all my fingers... do not do this shit... it's next level, and i promise if you're watching this, there's a good chance you dont have what it takes/the same dumb luck i experienced to pull it off. Never work on batches above 1g, never work with equipment that produces shrapnel, always have emergency cooling and neutralizing baths (im talking dry ice and pre prepared quench solutions assuming 100% of your batch)
There are some absolutely vital bits of advice there
This is excellent advice. I thankfully don't have personal experience like this to use when I say not to do this, but I really mean it. This stuff does not play around, and that single drop detonation I demonstrated was enough to pretty much put me off to energetics altogether.
">25 grams of acetone peroxide"
How tf are you alive
25g of TATP?! holy fuck dude. I feel panicky when around as little as 3g, and with full safety observed (handling it when slightly wet, only with plastic non static utensils, etc)
"25g of acetone peroxide"
Ah yes, the tree stump removal grenade💀
The nitroglycerin droplet you were hitting was actually a large amount.
When testing a primary explosive, I usually use the size of 1~4 grain of table salt.
At work, we used to have large drums delivered by Nobel containing a paste. In case of a fire, using water would have dissolved the the additives yielding the active ingredient.
The concentration wasn’t very high but during maintenance dried residue of it could set off a really bad headache.. 😉
Thank you for sharing your experience, I consider it important to inform people instead of just telling them not to do it.
Oh My! Nice!!! You've got an amazing thing going here. Keep up the great content.
Thank you so much!
Well I am on a list for sure after watching
1)How to make sodium azide
2)How to make fuming nitric acid
3)How to make nitroglycerine
in a row🥴🥴
Check out TNT next! (JK) but yeah I might be on some sort of list too idk
Pretty sure big brother has us all on a list just for being interested in science.
Trust me, we are all there
"I'm on a list.." == "I live under a tyrannical government"
ok google "how to masturbate without fingers"
I really waiting for Rdx video . That is very interesting. Thanks for the video
There's some advice i heard on Explosions and fire. You don't have to use glassware with explosives, plastic cups will produce less deadly fragments. Of course the chemical resistance is also a concern, but worth considering.
Not with the synthesis in this video because of the reagents (use of WFNA was not necessary btw) but for some other synthesis requiring water as a solvent plastic is perfectly fine.
@@herrhaber9076I believe teflon cups are preferred for this reason. Expensive, I'm sure, but better than having your glass setup decide it'd rather be an improvised frag grenade.
@@mnxs Teflon is a little bit more expensive than quality glass but is great for a lot of things. Unfortunately you cant heat it much but that's about it.
I rarely use my teflonware though because I'd rather use it when I dont want the nucleation points made by scratched (used) glassware.
Tom uses simple drinking cups which I believe are polystyrene. Polystyrene doesnt react well to conc H2SO4 :)
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1:43 yes Nobel appreciated the irony. Quote from him: “It sounds like the irony of fate that I have been prescribed nitroglycerine - internally. They have named it Trinitrin in order not to upset the pharmacists and the public.”
Downloading...
His lawyer advised him to not complete this joke
Knowledge is power. It can be used for good or evil, but we should never make things too easy for the stupids.
Right up there with Cody’s lab making Yellow cake.
@@sorryplease5071Got it. I'll just change how the chemical is made so that nobody knows. Easy work.
Homer! I never said you couldn’t, I said you probably shouldn’t!
nice detonation vs deflagration aka fast burn 🔥
1:29 "and nothing else" 😂😂😂
LMAO I forgot I left that in the final cut
Nitration of cofee filters is fun as it burns very fast, but has a secret. The paper becomes extremely acid resistant so you can filter out solutions like gold in aqua regia and other higly acidic compounds. Streight nitric acid isnt needed for making this either, a nitrate salt works just as well to create the nitric acid in situ ❤
Damn thats kinda cool
Already bought a sinter funnel for that stuff
Well i also needed it for really basic(caustic)stuff so
Yes, you are basically making plastic filter “paper”
But, of course, you cannot filter anything with organic solvents in it as it will just melt them
@@mduckernzI can't be sure of all that'd be happening when nitrating coffee filters, but shouldn't it just turn the paper into nitrocellulose? In that case, there's not very many things that would dissolve it.
When I was a teenager, I had absolutely zero chest pains, thanks Amyl Nitrate
Headaches like you wouldn't believe!
First few exposures cause pain, but one quickly adapts.
As a person gets more acclimatized to Nitro, going without is a complete nightmare!
Pain, convulsions...workers would carry nitro-tablets to deal with the pain over long weekends.
You mean, exposure to fumes?
@@aquanano1 I believe the drops if they touch your skin they get absorbed and make your heart race
So in other words, its addictive with horrible withdrawals
Thanks for the tutorial, mate.
(Nah, but this was a really interesting video, great editing.)
Thank you very much! Always appreciate substantial feedback :)
This had to feel like magic for the first human to experience the explosion of a liquid
Another “Banger” ⚛️💥⚛️
Hey guys glad we made it on the list together
Dark night of the soul before I ever mix up that stuff in my shop.
Yeah 0/10 don't recommend.. it's actually turned me off to all energetics which is sad because there's some much cooler ones out there.. probably get over it eventually
For the Nobel invention still has ONE video here on yt
Would love to be able to do this stuff, but happy to see others whom I can live vicariously through
I worked for the Admiralty Research Establishment in Holton Heath Dorset. During WW2 it was a cordite factory. Nitroglycerin was produced 24 hours a day. One night there was a panic and the air raid warning was sounded. The lab dumped the batch of Nitroglycerin into the chamber under the lab.
The following morning the director was upset as it was a false alarm he ordered the Nitroglycerin be recovered.
They started to pressurise the chamber. The Nitroglycerin had gone acidic which makes it even more unstable.
The chamber exploded destroying the lab above and killing the two workers.
The explosion broke windows in Poole town 4.25 miles away.
I misread this as liquid nitrogen remained confused until you said it exploded and I finally reread it
Gotta download this quick. I also got the RDX video before it got taken down after a few hours
How do you download a video without premium? Probably just screen record, right?
@@andrewdoesyt7787 Someone is too new on ytdloading business it seems kek.
Which rdx video?
The shockwave from this reaction is technically not a sonic boom, but only technically. They both produce a shockwave rather than ordinary sound, and the cause of that is still SOMEthing going faster than the speed of sound in air. They absolutely would sound the same, and if confined to a chemistry laboratory would probably look the same after one reflection.
The technicality is that one is created by an object moving through the air in excess of the speed of sound, creating a mach cone shaped shockwave, and the other is already a shockwave in some other medium, created by the chemical reaction front, and would probably not be cone shaped unless the medium in question is very long and narrow.
Otherwise, they are both shockwaves.
I only even mention this because I feel a scientist like yourself can appreciate this level of sheer pedantry.
@@CloudCuckooKing pretty sure that's why in the literature it's called a blast wave where the shock is the leading component of it.
Spoiler:
He mixed it with diatomaceous earth and stuffed it into a wooden tube sealed with wax.
*waxed paper tube* in the more or less final versions
"Kaboom?"
"Yes Rico, kaboom"
I've made methyl nitrate & ethylene glycol dinitrate, but was a bit squeamish about glycerol trinitrate, and here's why. Liquid NG is shock & friction sensitive, as we all know, but is safe to handle, if due caution is exercised. Frozen NG is inert. It can't be detonated. But when it's transitioning between the solid & liquid phases, it's VERY sensitive! I've read stories about trucks employed to transport it, exploding, when their refrigeration systems failed. NG melts at 55 deg.F, so I imagine, it would go through freeze/thaw cycles, during a lab synthesis. When produced industrially, temperature is tightly controlled, and it never freezes. Any comments?
REally enjoy watching these chemical channels. I am, however, way too lazy to try any of it.
Nitroglycerin wasn't the first discovered explosive stronger than black powder. That title belongs to fulminating gold c:
I was looking for this
The first affordable one
Mercury fulminate?
@@Alexey-u6wI'm pretty sure it was fulminating gold because mercury fulminate is much more complicated. If i remember correctly, i think the gold compound is made by reacting ammonia with an oxide of gold, which is pretty simple
Comparing a small explosion to a revolver is the most American thing that I have heard
Thanks for the upload.
Great video. I would be scared as hell to make such a quantity of this compound since it is so unstable.
Even though i was allowed to make some explosiv chemicals under the suppervision of our university for a show at our university, i would still not perform this reaction under any circumstances. And i would definitely not recommend to perform this reaction to anyone without chemical knowledege, except if you like to loose your fingers, hand or what ever is to close to it.
But thanks for the vid and the insight into this compound. 😁
very great👌 .
You can also make tetryl?
im fairly sure in the mechanism oxygen acts as a nucleophile not an electrophile and attacks the nitrogen of the nitronium ion forming an oxonium ion that loses a proton regenerating the acid and making the end product
Got to do a little deep dive on this stuff when I worked in explosives safety. Scary is right.
That's what I do too, use the ice bath to crash out nitrations. Less to clean after. Also, too late to not try it. Lol
Its definitely my go-to these days, not sure why I ever bothered using a whole separate beaker for literally no reason lol
@@integral_chemistry it's good to have enough water right there in case you have a runaway nitration too. Just tip the beaker over instead of having to carry it to a crash bucket. It's all around a better plan, just make sure you have enough water to completely quench the reaction.
I saw somewhere that wood pulp and a particular fertiliser is mixed with it
I love seeing you make stuff so i don't have to 😊
Bro's just hitting an explosive with a hammer for "science" lol
hehe
if yall wanted to know, nobel just soaked up the nitro into cat sand because for some reason it decreased its sensitivity
Diatomaceous earth
@@scrappydoo7887 yesss , i forgot what it was called , thank you
No you use wood pulp, sawdust, flour or starch for the mixture and you add a very small amount of antacid to neutralise any acidity of course stir the mixture before you add nitroglycerin.
For the love of good don’t freeze it so it’s semi froze that makes it even more dangerous. But it should be cold but still a liquid.
I think the reason why is because it gets rid of the micro bubbles that can fracture and cause a detonation I think.
“It’s about as loud as a .38 special”
Ah, a man of culture
LMAO no idea why that's the best comparison I could think of
c2n14 is just about as (shock) sensitive. (in the same order of magnitude) but more powerful and able to be set off in smaller quantities. It's notable as it's not (as) toxic as other explosives, only giving off various forms of nitrogen gas and a touch of carbon. I wonder if there's a viable method to produce it in, as it were, useful quantities. If the risk for using it as a weapon weren't so high, I'd enjoy a video series on seeing if it can become an ecologically safer explosive. no more heavy metals! no more strange toxic compounds
Fun fact: the reason nitroglycerin is so shock sensitive is due to presence of microbubbles in the liquid. When it is struck, those microbubbles compress and heat up, causing a deflagration to detonation transition. Alfred Nobel's method of stabilizing nitroglycerin effectively eliminates these microbubbles.
Perhaps I should consider joining your Patreon for access to exclusive videos like these.
lmao there will be a couple exclusive videos in time, right now there's only one since I put this here but I've got 4 more planned over the next couple months
I have never seen a hobby chemist make more than 1g of nitro, and they used no glass vessels. One other thing is there is also a cold method for making TNT where the electro levels are such that you need to keep it at roughly 0C with 4C being where the reactions stop.
well, considering your 38 special is propelled by a mixture of nitroglycerin and nitrocellulose, id say that is a fairly accurate assessment.
Nice work 👍
Super! Thank you very much!
whats there to think about its mostly just some accid and cotton? and tnt is when you add clau to stabilize
Dynamite but yeah, TNT is a particular molecule
Now drink it
big headache coming your way if you do
Now imagining a 'edible chemistry' series, like NileRed, but very very much not like NileRed.
Its temping °^°
@queazocotal not sure if NRed will be up to much after the last exploit with Be 🫣
0:45 I will tell you guys. He stabilized nitroglycerin by mixing it with diatomaceous earth, which is where the name dynamite is partially derived from.
5:08 that metal needle against the glass seems dangerous
If I remember correctly, fuming nitric acid is not required for this synthesis, azeotropic nitric acid should work too, which makes it even more accessible (and dangerous).
Also aside from the explosion hazard, inhaling the fume of nitroglycerine also produce very acute headaches that anyone making it should beware of.
aaaaaand now we're all on another watch list.. well done! ;p
I thought you would get a ceiling fan coupon for being on that list?
Just curious, how were you legally able to make this? Can I legally do it in a lab if it’s just a minor amount?
Less than 5 grams and don't store it
Looks like the cotton nitroglycerin would be an excellent fuel for a model rocket provided that you take the right precautions
Any cool experiments to do with sublingual nitroglycerine tablets I have my grandpas old tab vial because I thought it looked cool and it was full. I want to do something cool with it in his memory
No nitroglycerin was NOT the first explosive that was considered more powerful than black powder. Before nitroglycerin we had other explosive like mercury and gold fulminate. We just couldn’t use it too often because of their sensitivity 🤓
Very good point, all the fulminates are a good deal older.. I guess I should have clarified "non-primary explosive" but regardless good catch.
@ no worries! I enjoyed the video. I think by todays standard nitroglycerin would be considered a primary explosive because of its sensitivity. Even when it was soaked in diatomaceous earth or saw dust and made into dynamite.
Why the massive excess of HNO3?
I wasn't sure anyone would notice that lol. Basically I made a math error scaling down an industrial procedure. I don't think I properly accounted for using 99% nitric instead of 67%
In A Level Chem, we made di-nitro phenol (same method as TNT, but phenol instead of toluene & did not go the last step to make Tri Nitro Phenol). We were warned to take care as we could make an explosive that could self detonate if we were not careful!
Nitro glycerin production is More dangerous? No signing the lab ceiling there then…
I take nitroglycerin almost every day for my heart disease! It's a wonderful vasodilator, tingly and sweet in the mouth.
.38 special, like any other cartridge, does not have a single fixed muzzle velocity; the specific velocity would depend on the bullet, grain, barrel length, etc.
“Don’t try this reaction yourself”
But what If I’m being hunted down by a time traveling murder robot from the future?
Ahh yesss, another one on the energetics list of to dos. 😎
just a few days ago i read that you can mix this with diatomaceous earth to make a "solid" wrap that in something like paper to restrict expansion and add a fuse to create dynamite.
would you mind trying an experiment to see if that is valid?
Thank you for the video. May I suggest to make your videos more interesting and score more likes that you be less "monotonic" in your narration.
No problem! and thanks for the advice, it is something I'm working on (and believe it or not its a lot better than it used to be lol). It feels weird trying to force the genuine enthusiasm I have when I'm sitting in front of a mic, but I feel it comes with experience.
Oh and another word of caution as to why no one should make it, if you get a drop on your skin you could pass out from how thin it makes your blood and if you don't pass out you'll still feel SICK
3:27 You should have used a dry ice acetone bath or liquid nitrogen
Unrelated question, but does anyone know where a fella could get some fuming nitric acid? Asking for a friend
Its usually cripplingly expensive or inaccessible, so I've always just made it from scratch lol
(also don't try to make this)
is it safe to stir the nitroglycerin sediment when washing the nitroglycerin at 04.55 seconds of the video. because usually I wash it slowly with cold water. afraid of exploding when shaking it. considering the explosion is very strong
Yeah its definitely better to be safe than sorry, especially with larger quantities. Nitroglycerine is very unstable, but its instability is a bit overstated. It won't detonate if you drop a vial of it, and I'm not sure its even possible to detonate this stuff with aggressive stirring underwater.
That said, better safe than sorry with this stuff.
I already know how to make this, but a former friend found an even easier way to attain a quantity by scraping sweating dynamite ,in hind sight it was extremely foolish. OMG, his dad had bought a case of dynamite to remove stumps to make a garden, he was frugal and had 2/3 of it left and stored it in a shed away from the house by a hundred yards. His son my friend was borderline genius and studied dynamite at the library and satisfied his literary curiosity next was his physical satisfaction. OH BOY, he scraped enough material off the sticks to fill a standard test tube to with in an inch from the top,yikes.
WALE well , he did the unthinkable he took it to science class. , 9th grade,. When he got off the school bus he decided to have some fun, he used an eyedropper to drop a tiny amount on the side walk and it sounded like a firecracker, all the kids thought it was cool (1968) no fear he got to class and placed the vial in a wood test tube rack on the teachers desk. When asked what he had for show and tell, he said frankly . nitroglycerin scraped off dynamite sticks, the teacher was visibly alarmed, the Principle was walking by and the teacher said to him we need to do a fire drill albeit quiet and he told him why.
The fire drill was out of the ordinary and quite interesting. My friend was asked to escort the Principal to his office, my friend's father was asked there and the boy was given a 3 day suspension, nothing came of it as there was no malice, the dynamite was taken care of and the pure nitro was removed by the county b**b squad . The incident was covered up... well and it never got out to the
other parents, the reason I know this he told me and also I was there on the outside watching it unfold, I asked him just before summer break what happened . I had to vow not to blab for at least 2 years.
Oh yeah a chemistry text book said One ounce of nitroglycerin has enough stored energy to lift 9 tons 9 feet. How's that.
Wow the things young minds will explore out of curiosity and innocence.
It’s called dynamite because NG was mixed with diatomaceous earth to stabilize it.
shhhh lol
Sorry, but the part about its name is incorrect... It's a common misconception. The part about using diatomaceous earth is correct but the name dynamite has nothing to do with that material being used... A quote direct from Wikipedia, sourced from American Heritage and Collins Dictionary: "Nobel originally sold dynamite as 'Nobel's Blasting Powder' and later changed the name to dynamite, from the Ancient Greek word dýnamis (δύναμις), meaning 'power'."
Thanks for the public tutorial on how to make a class A explosive! I'll be sure to use this for trustworthy purposes only any not for any illegality whatsoever.
How to make it is described in books 😅. I read about how to do it in a book 33 years ago in my small hometown library 😅
It's not my fault officer, this video was on my notification list..
_Dun dew it dun make nitro._
Chemists taking ergot and making trippy stuff: aight
Isn't it a good idea to use plastic labware when working with tetchy energetics like this? The idea being if they detonate unexpectedly, glass shrapnel is a lot worse than chunks of plastic.
That's okay, isekai manga have already taught me how to stabilize nitroglycerin into dynamite.
What you do with the leftover chemicals
I neutralize the rinse water with sodium hydroxide and then dump it. Unlike TNT, this reaction doesn't produce any carcinogenic or environmentally toxic byproducts.
@@integral_chemistry thx i think if you did some videos how to deal with leftover chemicals will be good to watch
Hey mate, the nitronium ions are electrophillic, same as in nitration of aromatic compounds.Glycerols hydroxide oyxgen atoms are nucleophilic, not electrophilic as you said.
Getting your hands on fuming nitric is the problem. I have 70 percent from the lab, but supposedly that’s not strong enough?
Is it possible to use nitroglycerin medication in explosives?
So can potassium nitrate be using instead of fuming nitric acid?
Probably yeah, however the temps here are so low compared to nitrocellulose that the potassium nitrate might crystallize, that would be my only concern.
@@integral_chemistry Actually, if KNO3/NaNO3 & H2SO4 are used, HNO3 is generated "in situ," so the nitrate salt would not crystalize out.
@@Pootycat8359how much of these salts would be equivalent to the nitric?
@@oremooremo5075 Do the stoichiometry: MNO3 + H2SO4 ---> MHSO4 + HNO3. And it would be good to add a little extra H2SO4, to speed up the reaction. And remember, this H2SO4 is in addition to what's required to protonate the HNO3, to make the nitronium ions.
Does he have an exhaust hood somewhere up above? I did all my stuff under a glass enclosed hood. 😂
This sh!t terrifies me. I wouldn't be in the same building with it, much less a home lab.
1,000,000,000,000% this chemical is in the "f that, going to watch videos on it instead" category.
Y'all stay safe out there!!
Dynamite is NG, diatomaceous earth, and sometimes dried wood pulp.
Dear GCHQ, I promise I'm just interested in Chemistry. It's bonfire night in the UK and I'm indoors watching explosive materials on the internet, rather than throwing them at police cars. I'm probably not worth chasing...
So what license did you need before you made nitro?
What quantity could you have made without the BATFinks knocking on your door really hard?