Color changing mercury
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- Опубліковано 19 кві 2022
- Today I have some nice and shiny mercury metal, and I'm gonna do something that I think is kind of magical.
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That's amazing. Every time you made a mixture I'd think "wow. That must be it" but then you keep adding more mixtures and it kept getting more impressive.
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I thought it was amazing even at the beginning, when he instantly turned liquid chrome into clear yellow by pouring it into something that looked like water. It just got better and better from there. Chemistry really is magic.
Thanks for the play by play cheif.
Behold, chemistry!
The fact that mercury can turn clear and be diluted with water is fascinating and also kinda terrifying
This is what people refer to when they say mercury is scary, they mean the water-soluble compounds, not the metal.
easy to kill someone with holy mercury water without even getting attention lol
@@zohaibtariq7351 thats what peole have been doing for centuries
I was wondering how poisonous it would be and if how it would taste.
Not to mention that fine airborne dust
From the perspective of history, i'm pretty sure the process for making the philosophers stone is metaphorically in regards to color, remarkably similar to this, which is really cool. in order; Nigredo or reduction, also black in color, albedo, or whitening, citrinitas, or yellowing, and rubedo, or reddening: the ruby red color achieved after it turns back from yellow when cooling is like exactly what I imagine they would've been looking for.
then it was turned into a crystal of sorts I guess?
Mix it with lead 👀👀
They misheard him, it wasn't lead into gold, it was RED into gold😅
I think the colors themselves were the most interesting part. That orange was so vibrant I couldn't believe it really was that color haha. The yellow was such a nice gold color and the red ws super pretty too ♡ definitely gonna eyedrop screenshots of these and add it to my palettes
Mercury compounds were used in paints for their brilliant colours. There is a strange irony that some of the most brilliant colours in art are made from the most toxic elements and chemicals known to mankind.
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this guy is a magician wizard scientist all together and his content is the best out there
“Magician wizard scientist”. You mean an alchemist?
@@SquishEESpark all of them
He is smart and entertaining. But all of these can be found on the internet if you look for it. You don't have to be a wizard scientists all sorts of stuff.
@@omniyambot9876 honestly before college I basically thought it was magic but now I'm in upper division taking metal chemistry and I'm like "yeah makes sense 🧍♂️" still cool tho
@@TheReck12 absolute agree. I'm electrical engineer tho. Great job👍
It is true what they say. It is amazing how many things, both useful and not, that we can do with mercury and lead. Both mercury and lead have amazing properties. The problem is that they are mercury and lead...
I am guessing it is their very flexibility that causes both their magic and their ability to get into metabolic processes that we don't want them to get into. With greater power comes greater responsibility...
Meanwhile there's hardly anything fun you can do with gold, but it's nonreactivity is why you can just chomp down on as much gold foil as you want
@@ObjectsInMotion You propably writing this comment thx to gold in electronics.
There is plenty you can do with gold but its too expensive to use its full potential.
Physically it has great properties, but chemically it really doesn't do much
You should eat them it's completely safe and fun :D
1:40 the forbidden tang
When the powder starts cooling off tho. It's amazing!!
Please post longer versions of these that show you explaining every single step. I love watching your 40 minute long videos and getting really really invested into the project
it's his shorts channel lol
Really hope he gets back to making longer videos.
@@Skiddog. If you listen to the podcast he is part of, it's not that he isn't making videos, it's that the videos take really long times to make. Sometimes he might wait months for a reaction, to which it fails, and then has to start over again.
I suppose it's because this isnt that long a project
he is just showing cool things
whereas his video lab reports are usually on much larger scale things
@@BrentLobegeier just do a bunch of different reactions over time and piece it together. Today I did 4 different reactions, and some cleaning.
It's fascinating how the reaction between Mercury and Nitric Acid has their precipitate go from: clear, yellow, urine, black and yellow, and then (metaphorical) Bromine (orange fumes and all), then back to clear.
Not bromine, it's nitrogen dioxide gas. Similar in color, similar in toxicity.
@@californium-2526 perhaps he was using "literally" in the metaphorical sense? 🤔
@@WanderTheNomad also know as "figuratively"
Urine is not a colour...
*ruffles your hair*
@@Weelki dont tell them that
"I'm gonna do something magical. The first thing I'll need is some concentrated nitric acid"
😂😂
I think it’s so cool how colorless elements can combine into compounds with unique hues.
I was already impressed by the chemistry magic in the first half, then at 2:23 he said: "and [now] it's time for the magical part" and it blew my mind.
That was a really awesome transition, just the way the Potassium Iodide liquid turned into the Mercury Iodide solid powder within the dilute solution was really cool to watch.
But definitely, the final reaction was awesome. Chemistry is cool to watch!
Reminds me of heat sensitive car paint
@@smaransure2234 Yes, and color-changing temperature-sensitive toys, as well as those temperature-indicator labels on some beverages showing when they have proper "cool" temperature. And there were even "sticker thermometers" which had a stack of different numeric temperature values showing up in corresponding temperature conditions. Remember seeing those often in aquariums in 90s.
I did a similar thing in October during my chemistry class, but instead of having mercury nitrate we had lead nitrate and potassium iodide. We had the same type of reaction occuring, a ion exchange between 2 salts, and the lead iodide precipitated, forming a nice yellow cloud once the two liquids that looked like water were mixed.
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Finally it’s here,
@@ricplays5905 please give me ur number i want u to help me in my graduated project
Please please please make more videos! We miss you here and NileBlue!!!
As a person who loves watching chemistry videos I have enjoyed the whole preparation.
Use that powder to make some paint, and paint a mug with it. Now you have a neat color changing mug. And Mercury poisoning, probably.
That's a weapon
If the paint is between 2 layers, it won't be poisonous and will still look good
Search vermilion. Not exactly this, but still a mercuric compound with a bright red color. It was used for variety of purposes including art and cosmetics 🙂
I’ll ask my pottery studio manager if I can do that. Spoiler alert- she won’t let mercury within a mile of the studio.
I really appreciate the silent beat at the end. We need a moment to appreciate what we’ve just seen. I wish more videos on YT did that so you don’t get hit in the face with a commercial and forget what just happened.
Turn on adblock
@@Odima16 they mean a commercial that's integrated into the video itself
What an interesting observation. I agree, it is nice :)
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Finally it’s here,
@@toxicpsychotic6356 my adblock can actually auto-skip in-video sponsorship ads too.
2:49 So that's how Mars formed....
1:35 forbidden tomato soup
POV:You got tomato soup from the dark web
The color reminds me of ammonium dichromate
I love thermochromism. in some industrial settings they made a yellow/orange thermochromic paint. (probably exactly this with a binder) to paint onto bearing holders and such. so a technician/operator could quickly visually inspect to see if any were starting to heat up and therefore could predict failures.
Mercury is toxic, I assume they used a different one. Maybe they did.
@@californium-2526 nope, was a different world before osha.
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Finally it’s here,
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0:55 it's bromine!
There's no doubt in my mind if you were ANY of my science teachers growing up, I would have definitely leaned more toward chemistry. You have an uncanny way of making it seem so much more interesting just from your own enthusiasm. I'm proud you're Canaidan Nigel, even if you do live in Quebec. 😉
This could well have been a full video, but instead we're treated to a short. So much work to get just a few minutes of distilled, easily consumed content. Lovely.
Uhhh it must have been a 20-30 min long video in his official channel, this is NILERED SHORTS, so I presume it obviously will be....small👀
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@@Luffy_wastaken nah hes basically given up on making full length videos.
@@LouSaydus What are you talking about? He released a new video last month. Sure hes uploading less than he used to, but his videos are longer than ever.
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3:05 its like a map showing coronavirus spreading over the globe.
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The fact that you made an entire beaker full of water-soluble mercury is truly terrifying. If you had poured that down the drain you would've poisoned thousands of people.
The red color of that powder looks really beautiful.
2:10 The Forbidden Cheeto Dust.
2:20 I really thought it was cheeto dust 😂
Since he hasn't uploaded something in 3 months i think he died recording a video or something, or it's just recording a long video
guys, he haven't uploaded from a month, RIP Bro! 🥺✌🏼
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No bro.
Check his instagram, he is posting there.
Hence, he is alive.
Anything with mercury makes me tense. I know you know what you’re doing so I guess I’ll just have sweaty palms for both of us.
The mercury can do subtle brain damage over chronic exposure. All that brown nitric gas - not sure what kind, but certainly corrosive - can rapidly cook your lungs. :D
Yeah it's pretty scary lol, I get anxious when I see him handling it
inorganic mercury isn't as dangerous as organic mercury. it's an important distinction
0:40 It looks like Bromine
1:48 What my orange juice looks like after a year.
Started watching this, muted, without seeing who posted it and I could tell from the subtitles that it was NileRed. This dude has such distinct speech patterns I can hear his voice when I'm reading his words.
Imagine Nile as a magician…
Nile: “What colour did you think of?”
Audience: “Yellow”
Nile:”watch this” *turns on hot plate*
Purple.
@@generalginger7804 then he has grape soda made from plastic gloves for you
Orange
@@I-love-boston-moms da mercury iodide orange juice stuff
My mind throughout this:
“omg he just mad forbidden V8”
*moments later*
“OMG He just made forbidden Flamin Hot Cheeto dust that can turn itself back to regular cheesy Cheeto Dust”
*late night thoughts*
2:17 my favourite sound I've heard this year. that's like a "you can feel this sound" sound
"hey john sorry to interrupt you making kraft mac and cheese but have you seen my mercury powder?"
Thermochromism is probably my best kind of reaction so far,can you keep oscillating it indefinitely or is thefe like a threshold wherin it becomes irreversible after that?
I assume the compound degrades over multiple heating/cooling cycles and the effect isn't as prevalent.
@@joeljustin The colour change in this case is related to the crystal structure. The compound probably wouldn't degrade much (air might react a bit with it), but the crystals would break down when they shift, probably crushing the powder even finer, which could affect the observed colour.
I guess after enough heating it would just turn to mercury iodate or oxide so it probably couldn’t go forever but that would probably take a while
But there is another pretty common compound that does this. its zinc oxide, it turns from pure white into bright yellow when heated. and since it already is an oxide it should not degrade over many heating cycles
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Finally it’s here,
I see now why mercury is called the fast-footed messenger.
he brings us NileRed videos faster!
It would be dope to see stuff like this used for practical effects in movies / TV
This is ur best video yet. Just kept going and getting better and better
0:56
i legit thought that was how u made bromine
I love organic chemistry, hope to see you do those more in the future!
It's inorganic here
Organic chemistry always contains carbon and hydrogen like CH4
@@priyanshrawat442 did I ask?
@@hyperplayer22 it's called hydrocarbons, and yes, everything with carbon is fascinating. I just gave my suggestion :(
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Dude you're voice during these shorts sounds so good. It keeps my interest. Love your stuff.
The powder looks incredible with it's color, it has a nice yellow and red to it and the texture kinda looks cool
Mercuric iodide colour was a very soothing and satisfying one
0:43 looks like bromine
2:05 And THATS how they make Kraft Mac n Cheese powder 😉
Really a great informative video sir
You have lots of patience
I’m so happy you picked up more mercury experiments! I was just thinking about your series on mercury alloys and wishing it would come back.
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Finally it’s here,
2:36 It turns Nile red, you might say!
I love chemistry so much. Glad that you mentioned back my memory.
If you add more KJ, then mercury creates complex. If you add AgNO3 is possible to get Ag2[HgJ4] which is even more temperature sensitive
This video was so interesting 🤩
Thank you so much
Literally, your channel has made me love chemistry ,you deserve a lot more million subs 🥰
At 1:11 it basically looks like water, but imagine how heavy it would be.
Thank you for your experiments!
So cool!! Love the colors
I miss your longer videos, even though I didn't 100% understand everything that was happening, I love those videos. I know it takes a long time and a lot of effort, I'm waiting for the day you upload a new one💖
I was so ready for you to say the final ingredient was orange food dye.
everything you do is magic Nile...you should look into opening your own Chemistry Online school or something...you've certainly made chemistry an interesting subject to me...and I'm sure others feel the same...
When the orange fumes started going off, I thought:
"Nooo... *BROMINE..."*
Imagine if the mercury for this demonstration of thermochromism was sourced from a bunch of broken thermometers. It would be like a full-circle magic trick.
2:18 forbidden cheeto dust
your videos make me fall in love with chemistry
2:30 **cursed cheese powder**
This 3:30 min short has the energy of an 1 hour project.
2:55 forbidden kraft dinner
Please post longer videos explaining each and every cause of the effects
I love this thing in chemistry when you mix two colorless liquids and gets some solid colorfull stuff
Even though he does reactions that are pretty basic that almost anyone can do, it’s still magical to watch any of them all the way through
I think the real magical part was when two colorless liquids mixed and formed an orange solution. One of the most beautiful chemical reactions I have seen.
It even takes a look of bromine. I am impressed
Alchemy deals with mercury a lot. I wonder whether the processes described here were also used in alchemy experiments.
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Since reading the case of the prof who dropped one drop of Dimethylmercury on her glove and died a absolutely horrifying death and have an absolute phobia of mercury compounds, especially organic ones. So my questions:
1) How deadly is that red fume, and does it even contain mercury at all?
2) At the stage where you make the orange powder, how bad would it be to inhale some of the powder if it "puffed" a bit into the air from handling it?
1. It is NO2. Very irritating but not so deadly.
2. Pretty much deadly. I wouldn't stay nearby without a good respirator.
Answers to your questions
1) Why do I even need to answer the questions? Just do not inhale anything that seems toxic or dangerous to your health and wear protection to minimize inhalance of the material.
And if you acidentally inhale what you think is a lethal amount, you'd probably want to get it checked out right away.
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1) The red fumes will be mostly NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) which is being given off due to the nitric acid decomposing / reacting with the mercury. It's toxic in its own right, but since there's mercury nitrate being formed, there's bound to be a small amount being carried away with it. Mercury nitrate is what used to make hat-makers go mad. It's not as lethal / dangerous as dimethyl mercury, but still something to take extreme care with. It's pretty clear Nile did all that in his fume hood.
2) The orange powder (mercury iodide) is about as toxic as the mercury nitrate, but maybe slightly safer because it can't vaporise.
Pretty cool. It even went from an amorphous powder to a crystalline one. Afterwards it is sparkly! Man I miss working in the lab...
Just FYI, it was always crystalline
Soooo beautiful!!! I liked both reactions
Leaving on a RED LAMP IN THE BEDROOM ABD OVAL LIGHT IN TGE OFFICE..
The fact that this was discovered, is completely fascinating
So cool to watch!
That's interesting! Back then, I made silver tetraiodomercurate(II), which is yellow and turns orange, when heated.
I was able to make mercury iodide by direct reaction with the two elements mercury and iodine. the double displacement rxn you did was pretty cool looking though! Nice stuff!
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This seems a much cleaner way of doing it. Mercury isn't very reactive so I'd imagine to get it to combine directly with iodine you'd have to get it pretty hot, and then there are whole bunch of concerns about the final purity (how do you stop the mercury reacting with atmospheric oxygen as well as the iodine?) and moreover safety (the mercury can vaporise and you end up breathing it in).
@@alexpotts6520 The two actually react at room temperature! It is just slow. I left the stoppered flask outside in the sun to react and it took less than 2 days for it to react completely
That's now in my list of favorite reactions!
That mercury went through a whole ass character progression. Now isekai it.
2:43 "some of it started turning yellow"
*oh no*
Byproduct is reddish brown NO2 gas
Thanks! Wanted to ask, but knew someone in the comments would probably already know.
For those wondering NO2, Nitrogen Dioxide, is toxic, and not to be confused with N2O, Nitrous Oxide, which is Laughing Gas.
My favorite experiment so far!
I love these shorts so much
Chemistry can be so beautiful some times.
I’ll admit, I get giddy every time I see a new Nile video Notification!
Love the presentation.
Good video. Have you ever considered working with round-bottomed flasks with ground joints and glass funnels etc.?
How did you dispose of the waste (filter paper and solvent)?
This is so cool! And the powder reminds me of thermal pigments that are pretty easily found online for crafts. My question is, what are those pigments made out of? Mercury? Or other thermochromic substances? (As there are different colored ones available, not just red/yellow.)
As a chemist I'm pretty sure there is no mercury used in toys. Those are organic compounds I think. Inorganic pigments are often toxic because of the metals like cadmium, mercury oder lead.
@@ninijusan2906 Ah, ok, interesting, thank you!
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the definition of "wait, there's more"
Now i have the simple idea that how food color is made out of mercury
So THAT’S how they make cheeto dust!
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Dude, you make me love chemistry so much!
WOW! THAT'S LITERALLY AMAZING
1:31 looks like cheese puff dust😳
Sameeeeee
And why so shy like a virgin?