But befor that there is a whole Team in HazMat suits cleaning out it Lab because they have no clue what was going on and they see bags of stuff thats Highly Toxic, Gas Bottles Standing around and what not.
It's not regional. There may be some micro community that pronounces it as such, due to too much inbreeding in the small towns of the Utah Desert, but it is not a "regional dialect" or pronunciation. I live in said "region". Cody's video was the first time I had ever heard such garbage. In this video, he's being a troll. That's clear, and I'm fine with it. But don't defend an incorrect pronunciation based upon a FICTITIOUS "regional dialect".
5:48 "as long as I keep it cool and go slow this should be relatively a simple task" immediatly afterwards "so I just broke 3 of these flasks" such a comedic cut lmao
So I've never liked the "Mad Scientist" stereotype because I think it gives scientists a bad name, but then I watch Cody's videos and I think no, Mad Science is a perfect label for this.
Adam Lacy Maybe bad handwriting is a side effect of being a “science guy”. I’m a Chemical Technology student, and my handwriting is pretty bad, IMHO. What’s really weird is that most people actually like my handwriting. I don’t know how anyone can like my handwriting, but apparently a lot of people do for some reason unknown to me. Maybe I’m just judging myself too harshly, but I guess the old saying is that we all are our own harshest critic...
Clorox is my favorite brand of beverage. Their stuff always has this kick in the flavor that I can't quite put my finger on, and whenever I drink it, it's like drinking a sleeping potion that teleports me to Dreamland. I will say that Dreamland looks more like an ICU than I expected but it's pretty sweet! Too bad the Dreamland guardians won't let me leave my special bed, though.
You shouldn't need to worry about oxygen being generated when using a platinum electrode. While the theoretical voltage needed to generate oxygen (1.23 volts) is lower than that of chlorine (1.36 volts), on a platinum surface the evolution of oxygen is actually around 0.95 volts more than is thermodynamically required, compared to about 0.10 volts more for chlorine. This makes the overall potential required for generating chlorine 1.46 volts, and makes oxygen's 2.18 volts. Along with the fact that there are a LOT of chloride ions in solution to react with, this should mean that chlorine will be favoured for the anode reaction by a large margin. Unless you run the cell at a crazily high current density, or let the concentration of the chloride ion drop very low, there should be virtually no oxygen generated from the cell.
With that bigass battery charger he has at least 5 volts and looking at the numbers on it something like 10 amps. Looking at the anode it's probably doing a good chunk of those 10 too. Even though you can run stupid high current through these cells in the first place he's probably pushing it a bit too much here. Current efficiency will also suffer a lot due to the sodium amalgam staying in the flask with the electrodes. As chlorine escapes the solution will go alkaline making "bletch" right then and there in the flask, killing chlorine production. Also there's lots of overpotential on the mercury too bringing the cell voltage even higher than 2.18V. The theoretical potentials are rough guidelines at best.
Acrylic plastic is good with chlorine. I found this out by looking at a Chemical Resistance chart for acrylic and using it in a chlorine/ hydrogen generator based on the Diaphragm cell. Your MHD pump was genius!
Being only fifteen and in highschool, I have no idea what any of the diagrams mean, but your videos have exceptional quality and that makes it interesting. Thanks Cody!
I feel incredibly dense every time you say "of course, we need to..." as if it doesn't really need explaining. I'd love to pretend I had a clue what you're talking about, but I love watching these anyway. Masterful content creator.
Cody, firstly I love your channel and your content. I hardly ever comment on videos, but I felt compelled to say that I think it would be awesome to see you build a DIY NMR spectrometer using the Earth's magnetic field! I can't think of a better youtuber for this kind of project. Please don't stop doing what you're doing.
apparently "blech" is a regional pronunciation of "bleach". Cody used it once a year or two ago in one of his vids and people went crazy over it. to be fair i had never heard it said like that before either.
It's not as bad as people say, exactly because it is so highly toxic and reactive, the smallest amount makes you run away, so unless you're not suddenly releasing a full tank of chlorine in an enclosed space, it's not very dangerous. But it sure is annoying to take a sniff of chlorine unexpectedly.
+Lajos Winkler You do know you're on UA-cam right? You'll be here until your dying breath trying to correct people's grammar let alone their logic problems.
I work on pools. At the very beginning when you were explaining what you were making on the white board I had a wave of joy come over me when I realized "Oh my goodness, he's making a salt cell!"
The proof of his knowledge when it comes to chemistry is proven by his unreadable writing and terrifying diagrams. Not wasting time or brain power on being tidy, that's why it is often a characteristic of skilled scientists.
Just came here from a video on magnetohydrodynanics. Literally what you suggested, using an electromagnet to propel liquid metal. If its a thing in big industry, it should be a thing in Cody's Lab
Cody, Best way in my experience to drill through glass is with a small diamond burr and water. Very little pressure is required. Bits always cause to much stress and break through when they get close, if not shattering the whole thing.
Try to collect this chlorine gas in a glass tube, liquify it with liquid nitrogen and heat seal the glass tube like you did in your previous video and that will be next level element collection...😎😮
Cody's Lab. The only channel on youtube where the guy literally invents his own hardware specifically for his own experiments. You're a fuckin genius, Cody.
Great video Cody. Man you are a knowledgeable young man. I love your work even though most of the stuff you do I have done before your means of improvisation astounds me. Great work man. Thanks for sharing.
"Maybe I'll just invent my own kind of pump" ... That reminds me: how's going the fusion reactor? XDXD (it was fusion and not fission, I think... because I remember it being the more crazy of the 2 to announce calmly)
Building a fusion reactor is not that hard. A fusor will cost a few thousand dollars and it takes some skills and precautions but it is accessible to hobbyists. Also note that while real nuclear fusion will happen, the energy produced will be very low and such a design cannot be used to power anything. It can be used as a neutron source though. And while a fission reactor is super simple in theory (just put a bunch a fissile material in a box), there is no way you are getting enough of that fissile material. We are talking like tons of natural uranium. It can be made smaller by using weapons grade uranium, about the amount that was in the Hiroshima bomb, but with the issue that if you have that, getting them into 2 pieces and smashing them together is all it takes to make an Hiroshima explosion.
Hello Cody, Have you considered building a membrane electrodialysis device (could be used for other chemicals)? I got a contact in china that can sell small amounts of anionic or cationic membranes (very difficult to find, took me ages), let me know if you are interested. Thumb up so he can see it.
Pretty sure you can accomplish the same with a divided cell with Ceramics in between. You run it in reverse for starters and swap the fluids, this puts Ions inside of the ceramic and causes it to act as a bridge for the current. Doing what he is accomplishing above can be done with ease using a Divided cell. I generally use them to make various Oxidizers.
@2:00 “And that should do it.” Love how this is so simple to you. Like, no big deal. Let me just go grab these things from my garage. You make working with these chemicals seem so simple. Not down playing what you do, just think it’s funny.
A joke, _not_ a regionalism. He has emphatically answered this common question in a comment on this very vid: *"Cody'sBLab* *1 day ago* *Bletch: Intentional mispronunciation of bleach in order to boost comment numbers. ;)"* (Cody'sBLab btw is his alternate channel persona; It _is_ Cody.)
Cody,i am quite confused about mercury... i have wondered for a long time about its dangers,in your video of flushing mercury down a toilet,you touched the mercury and was only worried about having cuts on your hands,but in 2015 you made a video on how to treat a mercury spill,and you treated it a lot more seriously...when is mercury dangerous and when isnt it?
Metallic mercury is (mostly) harmless. It doesn't react very easily, so it's pretty good at staying in its metallic form, but it does fume pretty easily. Mercury salts can be absorbed by the body and interfere with all kinds of stuff in you. Mercury salts also bioaccumulate. The organic/fat-soluble salts are more bad.
Cool experiment. Love your approach to try and produce the chemicals from scratch. Since chlorine gas liquefies with a dry ice bath, I would not worry too much about the oxygen and hydrogen at the anode flask. Run the gas thru a u bend in a dry ice bath to liquefy the Chlorine gas and seal off in ampoules.
Hi Cody. I'm loving your chemistry videos. The subject went over my head way back in my school days but your description of the processes makes me fascinated in chemistry again. I hope you inspire a great many new students. Keep it up dude!
He said blech lol......but way cool as always! Are you really sure that pump is sufficiently circulating that mercury ? I wish you explained that part better. I'm sure there's some solid principles at work there but IDK. I know you said it doesn't need to be a strong pump which it certainly isn't. But it looks like it might circulate it once per year. You should maybe test that.
You could use a peristaltic pump, because you could better control pumping speed. I also suggest to let the sodium-mercury-alloy drop into the water, so it has more surface area to react with. You could use a dropping mercury electrode in the chlorine flask, because this increases the surface area with a relatively pure surface. If you construct it in a way, where you have a platinum ring or helix and you drop mercury trough, you have a very short distance and low resistance.
I have a degree in chemistry, conducted 2 years of research in organic chemistry, tutored chemistry, worked in the analytical field for 5 years and I feel like an idiot watching Cody's videos. Very envious of the way your brain works, sir.
There's special drill tips to drill glass. Used couple of times for regular "window glass" and works very well. The tip has circular shaped sanding area, which eats through the glass.
Very interesting experiment. Didn't know about this application case for mercury. ---- Making the passive connecting tube longer does increase flow resistance too beside electrical resistance. I wonder how those to effects ballance out quantitatively.
I work as a lifeguard and made chlorine gas by accident today and everyone had to go doctors (everybody is fine) and now I look on UA-cam and Cody is casually making it for fun what a legend 😂
Soviet who Cuts no I did it in the plant room where you sort out the ratio of chlorine to put in and mixed it with something I can’t remember but it just started reacting 😂 it didn’t effect public
For replicate this in regular garage I'm almost sure platinum electrode can be replaced with dirt cheap graphite, but replace mercury would be tricky, probably molten tin will work, but system suppose to be under pressure > 31 bar to keep water from boiling, also neodimium magnets(in pump) wont work in this case cause they lose their magnetic properties at high temperature. Seems it is easier to just electrolyse molten salt, or electrolyse salt water.
To make nice holes in borosilicate, put a little bit of pressure inside the flask and then heat where you want the hole to be. if you use mouth pressure make sure to use a check valve so the hot air doesn't blow back into your mouth. The pressure will blow a little bubble where you heat. Pop the bubble with a sharp metal object and you have a nice hole.
Hi Cody, thank you for another very interesting video. I'm not sure I understand 100% how the pump works, I guess this has something to do with the right-hand rule? Why did you need a fourth tube? Might be worth a blab. ;) Very clever anyway. I may not be the most suited person to discuss this, but I was rather surprised to see that the two reactions would take place at separate locations only due to the larger electrical resistance between the two electrodes. I would expect the mercury electrode to be at the same potential everywhere, and the voltage difference to be large enough to reduce water in the NaCl solution, which did take place in the same beaker at the end. What about having the two electrodes in separate beakers and having a salt bridge? You could probably make your own with clothes trapped in a glass tube. By the way Na+/Na vs. water is around 3V, which is the voltage you measured. Thank you for your very insightful videos.
The Triggerati lol, i don't know if he can write legibly with either hand. Unless you can speak chicken, and read their chickenscratch I fuckin love the guy, but his handwriting is atrocious 😜
did you try a diamond grit burr? I would think that the grinding action if you go slow, or if you have it centered so that there is not a ton of run out to make vibration, which turns into the burr slapping into the glass breaking it, then you end up with a ground glass hole.
3:51 we all know Cody’s no “Bob Ross” when it comes to art but that’s a cracking picture of two wizards casting spells at each other!
Awwww shieeet
Holy shit I hope he sees this comment.
I initially assumed ( 0:51 ) that he was sketching a re-design for the Block 5 engine configuration...
Cody, the job is yours. --Elon.
tubeist- dan 😂 classic!
kirbysbestfan lol well we have all got to give him credit where credit is due 😉
Finished drawing looks likes wizard casting a spell on another wizard.
master cody vs youtube copyright systems
Cannot unsee
LeBiscuitz or a happy piece of toast with arms
Holy crap.......thats nuts. Cannot unsee is right!! LMFAO!!!
"Wizards only fools!"
If they ever find Cody dead it's going to take a whole team of scientists to figure out what the hell he was doing.
No, just look what's on the sd card the newest recording :D
truthsmiles if.
But befor that there is a whole Team in HazMat suits cleaning out it Lab because they have no clue what was going on and they see bags of stuff thats Highly Toxic, Gas Bottles Standing around and what not.
yet, probaly find 10 tones of chlorine gas.
And don't forget the boxes of radioactive materials.
Where can I buy this "Bletch"?
It's the sound you make when drinking it
He said bleached it with the bletch... I'm lost.
You got to go to the Clorex store
It's not regional. There may be some micro community that pronounces it as such, due to too much inbreeding in the small towns of the Utah Desert, but it is not a "regional dialect" or pronunciation.
I live in said "region". Cody's video was the first time I had ever heard such garbage.
In this video, he's being a troll. That's clear, and I'm fine with it.
But don't defend an incorrect pronunciation based upon a FICTITIOUS "regional dialect".
That response doesn't even make sense in relation to what he asked.
your diagram looks like two wizards battling
It does XD
Gandalf vs Dumbledore
Bletch: Intentional mispronunciation of bleach in order to boost comment numbers. ;)
Well it works dont it?
Cody had to do it to 'em
Hm.. touché. Guess that totally does work.. 🤔
Cody'sBLab fair
You've made me investigate where it's pronounced that way. Well played.
*This is the same process that the Clorox company once used to make their **_bletch_*
Plot twist, bletch was the term clorox used in their patent file.
Haha exactly the comment I was looking for
I am just wondering if Cody is ambidextrous.
yea, he has videos where the intro is him writing codys lab with both hands at the same time. Not sure if its natural or trained
shartnita zodkeesian I think he has a video saying it was trained
Cody's ventilation system:
The whisper 5000
Really makes me nostalgic for the old cody vids where his audio sounds like he made his microphone by hand out of mercury.
"As quiet as 5000 whispers."
hahahha
Most underrated comment ever😂
Before watching video. "Ok cody what ridiculously dangerous thing are you going to do today."
shiroikin I know. I don't know if I like watching more to see his method or his madness. 😯 or 😳
Why not both?
"whatever I FEEL like. . ." Then cody turns away in disgust.
5:48
"as long as I keep it cool and go slow this should be relatively a simple task"
immediatly afterwards
"so I just broke 3 of these flasks"
such a comedic cut lmao
So I've never liked the "Mad Scientist" stereotype because I think it gives scientists a bad name, but then I watch Cody's videos and I think no, Mad Science is a perfect label for this.
Cody is ambidextrous because his handwriting is equally atrocious with either hand lmao.
(Just teasing, love ya, Cody!)
It's amazing to me how a lot of highly intelligent people have astoundingly bad handwriting. lol
Adam Lacy
Maybe bad handwriting is a side effect of being a “science guy”.
I’m a Chemical Technology student, and my handwriting is pretty bad, IMHO.
What’s really weird is that most people actually like my handwriting. I don’t know how anyone can like my handwriting, but apparently a lot of people do for some reason unknown to me.
Maybe I’m just judging myself too harshly, but I guess the old saying is that we all are our own harshest critic...
I think the word you're looking for is ambisinister!
To be more accurate he is ambisinister.
@@romainetomatoes2416 like Bill Nye my guy
When Cody says something is a bit concerning.........run.
S Harris Fast and far
... I'm just gonna shut this down. *Now*
Yeah my anxiety went to about an 11 out of 10 when he said that lol
And in this episode Cody violates the Geneva convention.
Cody became a war criminal!
Actually the convention only applies to militaries. Law enforcement and private citizens can still have chemical weapons.
Geneva convention? More like Geneva suggestion
"I never heard of it!" -Wolverines
Hey Cody, since you have both caesium and gold lying around, you should try to make caesium auride. It would be a first on youtube.
Clorox is my favorite brand of beverage. Their stuff always has this kick in the flavor that I can't quite put my finger on, and whenever I drink it, it's like drinking a sleeping potion that teleports me to Dreamland. I will say that Dreamland looks more like an ICU than I expected but it's pretty sweet! Too bad the Dreamland guardians won't let me leave my special bed, though.
This is one of the top five coolest Cody’s lab videos. Many aspects of chemistry are exemplified here. I love it when he says “it shoooould work?”
oh my god, he made a concentrated solution of sodium chloride.... demonetized
Monetized. Charge up your electrolytes, oh yeah, with eight glasses of fluid a day.
Brawndo!
@@corpsie666 What plants crave.
And it’s full of excess dihydrogen monoxide
Ocean man, take me by the hand lead me to the bletch
You shouldn't need to worry about oxygen being generated when using a platinum electrode. While the theoretical voltage needed to generate oxygen (1.23 volts) is lower than that of chlorine (1.36 volts), on a platinum surface the evolution of oxygen is actually around 0.95 volts more than is thermodynamically required, compared to about 0.10 volts more for chlorine. This makes the overall potential required for generating chlorine 1.46 volts, and makes oxygen's 2.18 volts. Along with the fact that there are a LOT of chloride ions in solution to react with, this should mean that chlorine will be favoured for the anode reaction by a large margin. Unless you run the cell at a crazily high current density, or let the concentration of the chloride ion drop very low, there should be virtually no oxygen generated from the cell.
I'd say run a test for oxygen anyway to avoid making dangerous assumptions.
With that bigass battery charger he has at least 5 volts and looking at the numbers on it something like 10 amps. Looking at the anode it's probably doing a good chunk of those 10 too. Even though you can run stupid high current through these cells in the first place he's probably pushing it a bit too much here.
Current efficiency will also suffer a lot due to the sodium amalgam staying in the flask with the electrodes. As chlorine escapes the solution will go alkaline making "bletch" right then and there in the flask, killing chlorine production.
Also there's lots of overpotential on the mercury too bringing the cell voltage even higher than 2.18V. The theoretical potentials are rough guidelines at best.
And of course, my AP chem teacher just explained this as "chlorine generates instead of oxygen because EXCEPTION."
I think his big battery charger easily gets too much amperes, so it's easy to assume this will produce some oxygen, but it's not important.
octet33, the plague of "education". Anyone that tries to actually get smart is culled.
0:50 witches
2:30 witches making potion for some satanic ritual
The right one is a wizard and it's under my control! 😎
LOL!
I love the way you made the pump. You are a real life MacGyver.
+0Calvin:
Don't you mean McGroobber?
Acrylic plastic is good with chlorine.
I found this out by looking at a Chemical Resistance chart for acrylic and using it in a chlorine/ hydrogen generator based on the Diaphragm cell.
Your MHD pump was genius!
Teach us how to separate holy water from regular water
just boil the hell out of it
I don't think people realize how clever this comment is, was it intentional?
TheFluffyNeko old joke... I'm actually ashamed of making it
what's the solubility of holy water anyway? If you drop it into the ocean, does the entire ocean become holy water?
Damian Reloaded I guess that depends on how concentrated the prayer was.
Being only fifteen and in highschool, I have no idea what any of the diagrams mean, but your videos have exceptional quality and that makes it interesting. Thanks Cody!
Bleach/Chlorine gas scares me. The feeling of my lungs after inhaling that crap from an accident. IT ONLY TAKES ONE TIME TO SCARE YOU.
oh I'm aware
He said in one of the first q and a videos that he already had a pretty bad accident with chlorine
bromine is much more dangerous, omg i remember breathing bromine fumes and coughing alot and that was scary
It takes zero times to scare me
I feel incredibly dense every time you say "of course, we need to..." as if it doesn't really need explaining. I'd love to pretend I had a clue what you're talking about, but I love watching these anyway. Masterful content creator.
I love your channel and it has inspired me to start perusing chemistry as a occupation and hobby.
Cody, firstly I love your channel and your content. I hardly ever comment on videos, but I felt compelled to say that I think it would be awesome to see you build a DIY NMR spectrometer using the Earth's magnetic field! I can't think of a better youtuber for this kind of project.
Please don't stop doing what you're doing.
hey, you seem to be talking about interesting shit, pls talk more.
To those that understand the "blech" reference... true fans!!
Anybody care to explain?
apparently "blech" is a regional pronunciation of "bleach". Cody used it once a year or two ago in one of his vids and people went crazy over it. to be fair i had never heard it said like that before either.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don't get it. please elaborate.
I don't think anything will change his mind if everyone told him the pronunciation back then.
BLETCH! One of my most favorite anime series! Thanks for the mention @Cody'sLab!!
Playing with Chlorine? this is Cody alright.
Necriptos I was just watching about the first world war chlorine gas attacks too!
I'm sure glad Cody is a nice guy because if he was Dr. Evil there would be hell to pay to whoever his chosen enemies were..
It's not as bad as people say, exactly because it is so highly toxic and reactive, the smallest amount makes you run away, so unless you're not suddenly releasing a full tank of chlorine in an enclosed space, it's not very dangerous. But it sure is annoying to take a sniff of chlorine unexpectedly.
Why do some people keep writing chlorine with a capital letter? It's not a personal name.
+Lajos Winkler You do know you're on UA-cam right? You'll be here until your dying breath trying to correct people's grammar let alone their logic problems.
You are so advanced now, it blows my mind. Straight genius... I love you, homie... Keep up the amazing content. And please, be careful.
When Cody said sodium chloride all I could think about was Jimmy Neutron.
I work on pools. At the very beginning when you were explaining what you were making on the white board I had a wave of joy come over me when I realized "Oh my goodness, he's making a salt cell!"
*about to go to bed*
*cody makes a video*
That pump is too cool. Thumbs up Cody, thanks for the video.
The proof of his knowledge when it comes to chemistry is proven by his unreadable writing and terrifying diagrams.
Not wasting time or brain power on being tidy, that's why it is often a characteristic of skilled scientists.
or, rather, mad scientists.
Just came here from a video on magnetohydrodynanics. Literally what you suggested, using an electromagnet to propel liquid metal. If its a thing in big industry, it should be a thing in Cody's Lab
Cody, put your fume hood fan motor OUTSIDE while keeping the air suction in the hood to REDUCE FAN NOISE
please
Quit yer bitchin
Cody, Best way in my experience to drill through glass is with a small diamond burr and water. Very little pressure is required. Bits always cause to much stress and break through when they get close, if not shattering the whole thing.
Try to collect this chlorine gas in a glass tube, liquify it with liquid nitrogen and heat seal the glass tube like you did in your previous video and that will be next level element collection...😎😮
underrated comment right there :D
chem lab next level thinking
and then kill everyone in the neighborhood
Cody's Lab. The only channel on youtube where the guy literally invents his own hardware specifically for his own experiments. You're a fuckin genius, Cody.
real science!
Triangular beakers, also known as "flasks"...
Also known as stereotypical chemistry bottles
conical flasks
Also known as erlenmeyers
Great video Cody. Man you are a knowledgeable young man. I love your work even though most of the stuff you do I have done before your means of improvisation astounds me. Great work man. Thanks for sharing.
"Maybe I'll just invent my own kind of pump" ... That reminds me: how's going the fusion reactor? XDXD (it was fusion and not fission, I think... because I remember it being the more crazy of the 2 to announce calmly)
I'm by no means rushing them. I'm just wondering if it's gonna happen. ^^ - I cannot really imagine that, to be honest. XD
Building a fusion reactor is not that hard. A fusor will cost a few thousand dollars and it takes some skills and precautions but it is accessible to hobbyists. Also note that while real nuclear fusion will happen, the energy produced will be very low and such a design cannot be used to power anything. It can be used as a neutron source though.
And while a fission reactor is super simple in theory (just put a bunch a fissile material in a box), there is no way you are getting enough of that fissile material. We are talking like tons of natural uranium. It can be made smaller by using weapons grade uranium, about the amount that was in the Hiroshima bomb, but with the issue that if you have that, getting them into 2 pieces and smashing them together is all it takes to make an Hiroshima explosion.
" such a design cannot be used to power anything" you clearly haven't seen our design. ;)
Oh, whow! I will take that as my progress update!
Such a tease, Cody : l
Awesome! Thanks for giving the introduction explaining the process. It makes a lot more sense now than it did in the first edit.
Hello Cody, Have you considered building a membrane electrodialysis device (could be used for other chemicals)?
I got a contact in china that can sell small amounts of anionic or cationic membranes (very difficult to find, took me ages), let me know if you are interested.
Thumb up so he can see it.
Pretty sure you can accomplish the same with a divided cell with Ceramics in between. You run it in reverse for starters and swap the fluids, this puts Ions inside of the ceramic and causes it to act as a bridge for the current.
Doing what he is accomplishing above can be done with ease using a Divided cell. I generally use them to make various Oxidizers.
@2:00 “And that should do it.” Love how this is so simple to you. Like, no big deal. Let me just go grab these things from my garage. You make working with these chemicals seem so simple. Not down playing what you do, just think it’s funny.
0:21 So I've heard Cody say "Blech" instead of "Bleach" before too. Is that a regionalism or a joke? Does anyone ever actually say it that way?
A joke, _not_ a regionalism. He has emphatically answered this common question in a comment on this very vid:
*"Cody'sBLab*
*1 day ago*
*Bletch: Intentional mispronunciation of bleach in order to boost comment numbers. ;)"*
(Cody'sBLab btw is his alternate channel persona; It _is_ Cody.)
Micah Philson Oh thank you, I was wondering, thought maybe he was avoiding setting off some sort of UA-cam algorithm.
he is saying "luminum" as well =D
And acrosst
I have no idea what Cody just did. I just like watching people that know what they're doing with chemistry. :)
Cody,i am quite confused about mercury... i have wondered for a long time about its dangers,in your video of flushing mercury down a toilet,you touched the mercury and was only worried about having cuts on your hands,but in 2015 you made a video on how to treat a mercury spill,and you treated it a lot more seriously...when is mercury dangerous and when isnt it?
Metallic mercury is (mostly) harmless. It doesn't react very easily, so it's pretty good at staying in its metallic form, but it does fume pretty easily.
Mercury salts can be absorbed by the body and interfere with all kinds of stuff in you.
Mercury salts also bioaccumulate. The organic/fat-soluble salts are more bad.
Oskar Skog so short term contact is fine,its only long term exposure that is harmful?
No. It depends very much on what kind of mercury you're dealing with.
Playing a few times in your life with METALLIC mercury should be fine.
if the mercury is left to sit, it can react with whatever it's sitting in and for much more dangerous compounds
one of my favorite videos from you so far
What's the point of the mercury and the pump, why not just use a Hofmann apparatus?
5:48 "As long as I keep it cool and go slow, this should be a simple task" ... "so I just broke three of these flasks"
comedic timing A+
Making blehch in triangular beakers....
let me guess, you're gonna use some 'luminum too at some point? (｡･ω´･｡）
Some a-loo-mini-uhm
you won’t believe what he used to refine the platinum. Aqua reegah.
One of your best videos so far
possitively GAStly if your pulling a vacuum shouldn't it be negitively GAStly
Very ingenious lab apparatus. I didn't fully understood that flat 'sputnik' like 4-ways pump, but I found it cool and all worked nicely. Chem is try.
bletch?
ffhighwind Ultra Bletch!
ffhighwind yeah tf is bletch
I’ve heard him pronounce bleach that way in another video. Maybe a regional pronunciation?
No, you just haven't been watching him long enough to under stand it
ffhighwind only true fans will understand the reference
you know it's good content when a 1.5M subs channel is still making 2005-looking content this year
"Blehtch" - Now I can't say "Blee-ch" any longer. Thanks Cody!!
Cool experiment. Love your approach to try and produce the chemicals from scratch. Since chlorine gas liquefies with a dry ice bath, I would not worry too much about the oxygen and hydrogen at the anode flask. Run the gas thru a u bend in a dry ice bath to liquefy the Chlorine gas and seal off in ampoules.
Your existence is partially why I applied for chemical engineering.
how's that going?
Hi Cody. I'm loving your chemistry videos. The subject went over my head way back in my school days but your description of the processes makes me fascinated in chemistry again. I hope you inspire a great many new students. Keep it up dude!
He said blech lol......but way cool as always! Are you really sure that pump is sufficiently circulating that mercury ? I wish you explained that part better. I'm sure there's some solid principles at work there but IDK. I know you said it doesn't need to be a strong pump which it certainly isn't. But it looks like it might circulate it once per year. You should maybe test that.
You could use a peristaltic pump, because you could better control pumping speed. I also suggest to let the sodium-mercury-alloy drop into the water, so it has more surface area to react with. You could use a dropping mercury electrode in the chlorine flask, because this increases the surface area with a relatively pure surface. If you construct it in a way, where you have a platinum ring or helix and you drop mercury trough, you have a very short distance and low resistance.
2:05 wizard left and priest on the right.
I have a degree in chemistry, conducted 2 years of research in organic chemistry, tutored chemistry, worked in the analytical field for 5 years and I feel like an idiot watching Cody's videos. Very envious of the way your brain works, sir.
Glad to see you on Everyday Astronaut's livestream :)
There's special drill tips to drill glass. Used couple of times for regular "window glass" and works very well. The tip has circular shaped sanding area, which eats through the glass.
whats the intro music?
spencer wells , Newsroom riot
this is why i subscribed to this channel, chemistry demo at it's best. awesome Cody!!!
The most surprising thing that Cody Don has ever done is saying bleach like Bletch
wreck3000 You call him codydon but you dont get the joke *sigh*
MightyPotato oh no, whoops!
Is he joking? I've never heard that pronunciation before.
Can we have an explanation of how that pump works? Awesome as always!
Is there a specific reason he says blech instead of bleach?
To get people to comment more.
Cody'sLab sneaky lol
Cody'sLab noice ;D
Very interesting experiment. Didn't know about this application case for mercury. ---- Making the passive connecting tube longer does increase flow resistance too beside electrical resistance. I wonder how those to effects ballance out quantitatively.
I work as a lifeguard and made chlorine gas by accident today and everyone had to go doctors (everybody is fine) and now I look on UA-cam and Cody is casually making it for fun what a legend 😂
I am curious. Do tell.
Soviet who Cuts no I did it in the plant room where you sort out the ratio of chlorine to put in and mixed it with something I can’t remember but it just started reacting 😂 it didn’t effect public
Thanks for the science, Cody. Applied science is especially fun from you. Keep rocking, brother.
Sorry i only get off brand BLECH
The picture you drew of the equipment set up looked like 2 wizards fighting.
Keep up the good work Cody!
Bletch, is that a Utah thing or what? 😂
For replicate this in regular garage I'm almost sure platinum electrode can be replaced with dirt cheap graphite, but replace mercury would be tricky, probably molten tin will work, but system suppose to be under pressure > 31 bar to keep water from boiling, also neodimium magnets(in pump) wont work in this case cause they lose their magnetic properties at high temperature. Seems it is easier to just electrolyse molten salt, or electrolyse salt water.
Most people think it's "bletch", some think "blech", and a minority think "blehch"; but we all know it's "bhlhehtchh"
seven of the e's are silent.
Do it’s actually, beheleheehetececehehe
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING *sarcasm*
I work at a chlor-alkali manufacturing plant. Very interesting to see this small scale as opposed to the large scale I see at the plant
So did anyone lay a bet on chlorine poisoning?
It's running at 10/1 even.
I've had my money on mercury poisoning for a while now...
What are the odds on accidental combustion/small explosion?
I'm still sticking with ATF raid
WierdUA-camGuy if we were, we wouldn't say it explicitly.
I'm betting on butter.
the standing waves the pump is making in the mercury at around 14:00 are fascinating
Yay
Edit : I love your videos
Nice
good job on being first
I clicked on the notification so fast haha
When I clicked the video all I saw was your comment.
Same
Edit : I love them too
To make nice holes in borosilicate, put a little bit of pressure inside the flask and then heat where you want the hole to be. if you use mouth pressure make sure to use a check valve so the hot air doesn't blow back into your mouth. The pressure will blow a little bubble where you heat. Pop the bubble with a sharp metal object and you have a nice hole.
Your drawing ended up looking like two KKK members dancing around a lightning bolt. Just saying. I love your videos
Charles Little
Took the ASCII right outta my keyboard.
Demonetized!
Hi Cody, thank you for another very interesting video. I'm not sure I understand 100% how the pump works, I guess this has something to do with the right-hand rule? Why did you need a fourth tube? Might be worth a blab. ;) Very clever anyway. I may not be the most suited person to discuss this, but I was rather surprised to see that the two reactions would take place at separate locations only due to the larger electrical resistance between the two electrodes. I would expect the mercury electrode to be at the same potential everywhere, and the voltage difference to be large enough to reduce water in the NaCl solution, which did take place in the same beaker at the end. What about having the two electrodes in separate beakers and having a salt bridge? You could probably make your own with clothes trapped in a glass tube. By the way Na+/Na vs. water is around 3V, which is the voltage you measured. Thank you for your very insightful videos.
You're ambidextrous too!!!
Yeah he can write illegibly with both hands... ; )
So am I, but I got two off hands for the price of two.
I'd give my left hand to be ambidextrous.
The Triggerati lol, i don't know if he can write legibly with either hand. Unless you can speak chicken, and read their chickenscratch
I fuckin love the guy, but his handwriting is atrocious 😜
The Triggerati oh, i see i misread your comment. +1
Would have been funnier if my dumbass read your comment correctly the first time 😂
I use a dremel tool and diamond burr to make holes into glassware. Works very well.
to make their bletch
Love all your vids man, specially these ones!
Now let's make some sodiumperchlorate!😂😁👌🏼👍🏼🤙🏼😅
Hi :D
Wooden Weaponry 👋🏼
To go with the hydrogen?
Im so glad Cody paid a shit ton to go to school so we get cool videos.
Did anyone else notice that he writes with both hands in the beginning of the video?
Emerson Dove he taught himself to do so awhile ago.
Fascinating from start to finish.
Am I hearing you pronounce bleach, blech?
No, we are the ones who pronounce Blech Bleach.
*SCIENCE BLETCH*
did you try a diamond grit burr? I would think that the grinding action if you go slow, or if you have it centered so that there is not a ton of run out to make vibration, which turns into the burr slapping into the glass breaking it, then you end up with a ground glass hole.