beating Chlorine Trifluoride…

[@ExplosionsAndFire]

Check out these channels for future fluorine videos too: www.youtube.com/@AdvancedTinkering kzbin.info

[@Chuck_Huckler]

Brother you didn't upload the FOOF image to wikipedia

[@RealSlowLike]

Now that you've done hexaflouride, try concentrated peroxide

[@dwgray9000]

Good choice of quote at 0:37

[@Salt_and_Peroxide]

yep ok no issue mr . thomas the tank engine

[@-r-495]

Maybe its the stick. Magic wood stick for yellow chem.

[@styropyro]

i was already blown away by seeing actual FOOF in a youtube video, but then you used a car battery to make the one of the most powerful oxidizers ever. pure insanity

[@ArbieLyvias]

A verified youtuber with only 4 likes after 13 hours is crazy

[@lele-mw2nk]

I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS

[@DUKE_of_RAMBLE]

Goddamn... "pure insanity" is probably the highest praise by Drake! 🥹 *_Well done,_* Tom!!! 🤘😫🤘

[@farx4070]

When Drake says it’s insane… It’s absolutely insane…

[@FalseHerald]

A car battery and a reaction that didn't work twice - I'm glad you could bring a touch of shed to this beautiful German lab. Fantastic video!

[@One-EyedCorvus]

Must’ve felt like home 😂

[@Kenionatus]

Didn't work twice and then worked after having dinner. The dinner is important.

[@thomasneal9291]

@@Kenionatus or, you know... charging the battery maybe helped.

[@TravisTerrell]

Lol true. But in fairness, he would've at least checked the battery if doing it in his own lab, at least touching the leads to see the spark! Just such high level thinking to not test the battery voltage before repeating the experiment, lol. Or better yet, use a cranked up lab power supply to begin with, where they could monitor the current to see when the wire heated and burned!

[@Kenionatus]

@@TravisTerrell True! Never forget to touch your tongue with both leads every time you use a car battery.

[@nocturnhabeo]

Well now you’ve done the strongest chemical reaction, on to the weakest nuclear reaction

[@KamielDV2]

We emitting particles n stuff

[@Auroral_Anomaly]

The only thing worse than chlorine fluorides are oxygen fluorides.

[@Auroral_Anomaly]

Oxygen fluorides are hell.

[@Dan-vq4pz]

Dr. Tom is in physics primarily

[@johgekpunkt9516]

WE MAKING IT ONTO THE GOVERNMENT ACT LIST WITH THIS ONE!!!

[@pezboy715]

8:28 Tom’s been doing garage chemistry for so long that he forgot how predictable well-designed laboratory chemistry is 😂😂😂

[@Bzorlan]

And then the laboratory was cursed by his very presence

[@citricdemon]

amazing what good tools can do

[@michaelwright2986]

@@Bzorlan So the Pauli Effect can work with chemists as well as physicists?

[@DjDolHaus86]

None of the "chemistry" was done in a bunnings bin filled with spiders/snakes. 0/10

[@elektronikzmbrtlar1586]

Yea this just don't feel the same

[@GilTheDragon]

Is it even chemistry then? Chemistry started in Egypt (a land rich in snakes) & stalled out in Europe until snakes could be sourced in from the Pacific & Americas

[@tegridyfarms6197]

@@GilTheDragon If climate change goes on and tempreatures rise further. We all can have lands rich in snakes and to chemistry as it was intented to be. The futre us brighter than ever!

[@NoelPather]

@@tegridyfarms6197 If you want the land to be rich in snakes, tell an Indian guy that the government is willing to pay for every snake caught in order to contain the population.

[@jatarokemuri4549]

to be fair, the spiders and snakes probably would have died

[@Rhaegar19]

As someone who has done a lot of tube sealing, I still see seals like those in my nightmares. That's what it looks like when your torch is too hot or you leave it in one place too long. The tube just collapses and makes two little tubes on either side, and once you do that you can't actually seal it any more because the tiny tubes are too strong.

[@SocialDownclimber]

*Ampoule sealing nightmares intensify*

[@randomname7918]

"Have you ever read the film Dune?", while a picture of the video game appears. Beautiful.

[@antonioarroyas7662]

That was some nerd comedy gold.

[@balaclavabob001]

And no mention of Project hail Mary ...

[@GodlikeIridium]

Lol pure beauty 😂

[@azafreak]

Exactly what I came down here for. Maniac

[@FireMissionAlpha]

@@balaclavabob001 Sentient rocks, imagine

[@thingyjim]

""the scientific approach to troubleshooting on a third attempt, which is to do exactly the same thing you did on the previous two tries but really think it should work this time" I've never related to a sentence more in my entire life. Can't wait to use this to explain to my PI why I've not changed a single variable in an experiment!!

[@thomasneal9291]

This is why I scored top in my class in Organic Chemistry LECTURE, but had to do the lab section twice just to get a B. The grad student overseeing the lab was starting to believe in curses by the time I was done.

[@Carrotsalesman]

They charged the battery, but we don't talk about it.

[@TheCammerhammer]

I can't wait to see the wikipedia entry updated with this video as a cited source for what FOOF actually looks like!

[@Kenionatus]

Primary source used, Wikipedia editors in shambles.

[@floorpizza8074]

@@Kenionatus Under rated comment.

[@FasutonemuMyoji]

@@Kenionatus(citation needed)

[@poudink5791]

@@Kenionatus it'll just get reverted. happens all the time.

[@teresashinkansen9402]

@@Kenionatus [original research?] [unreliable source] [dubious]

[@hugmynutus]

fun fact: a chemical supplier in china once claimed they would sell FOOF AND would fulfill orders up to 10_000L. I was surprised that FOOF wasn't a controlled export from china OR controlled import to the USA. Long story short. It took a few months of very frequent emailing but I did receive a full refund on my order of 100L of FOOF.

[@PatrickKniesler]

Intra national carriers didn't care what was in the carafe. International carriers cared A Lot.

[@hugmynutus]

@@PatrickKniesler They never gave me dimensions or weight, so I'm fairly confident they didn't have a clue how to ship either. Also the prices they were charging would not cover a 100L 100K vacuum carafe. Half the reason I ordered was to see if they'd even ship that.

[@andrewfleenor7459]

Do they still offer it, though?

[@hugmynutus]

@@andrewfleenor7459 I don't believe so, but that said I couldn't find the crater of the (ex)facility that tried to produce kilo litres of FOOF at industrial scale, so maybe they're under new ownership & operating smoothly?

[@rkirke1]

"The platinum wire might have disconnected" Chemists, with a multimeter right next to them: [disassembles whole pressure vessel] Nope. Electronics people: *Incoherent screaming* Car people: Fuck, Germany have some nice car batteries

[@pierreplourde]

So true! Three for three!

[@zahariburgess3660]

Ikr!, the batteries look like ones for solar

[@rkirke1]

@@zahariburgess3660 ＣＡＲ ＢＡＴＴＥＲＹ ＴＩＭＥ

[@JSTKSK]

Those specific jumper cables are really really bad, though. I lived in Germany for a while and those are the standard "gas station jumper cables". The amount of amperage you can get through them is miniscule. Kind of defeats the purpose of getting such a nice battery. I would bet money that was the actual problem.

[@Neverforget71324]

Being an EE, I noticed the same thing. I don't think they are used to handling multimeters.... and putting the total battery voltage across that skinny wire without any current limiting circuitry seemed a bit iffy to me...

[@gumby2ms]

PtF6 also lacks a picture on wikipedia. so many neat shots, oxygen floating on flourine, platinum halides.

[@poudink5791]

Since this video doesn't appear to be in the public domain (or licensed under a CC-BY-SA or GFDL-compatible license), it cannot be used as a source of images unless they are heavily downscaled to what could be considered fair use. This makes it a fairly poor source of images, unless E&F chooses to upload images from the video to Wikimedia Commons under a compatible license.

[@oo-bb4qs]

Do it do it I engage with doing it

[@posadist681]

@@oo-bb4qs me too ♥

[@Reddotzebra]

The only description you really need of this stuff is "Allows asbestos to self-ignite". This is the honey badger of oxidizers, no fucks are given.

[@kahlzun]

I was shook at "reacts with noble gases"

[@Paveway-chan]

ClF3 sets fire to ash as well 😂 and concrete!

[@davidripley2916]

Our Country sucks. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 can't have Honey Badgers as Emotional Support animals.. . . W⚓️s❕️

[@stefanfincken4359]

Honey Badger of money still immune to it though. ;)

[@Cooe.]

You know you're talking to a Brit when they think a Honey Badger is a large, dangerous animal. 🤣

[@handlesarecringe957]

If you want to get into even more extreme chemistry, there used to be a lab in Caltech that would react fluorine gas with pure hydrogen at Mach 3, then set it on fire. It was the most terrifying wind tunnel design report I had ever read.

[@xWood4000]

Why?

[@kahlzun]

Was that the tripropellant rocket engine thing?

[@SupersuMC]

Must have been fun to watch. XD

[@WhiteWolf-lm7gj]

​@@xWood4000 I'd like to second this why

[@srgtjyn2765]

@@WhiteWolf-lm7gj Third..... WHAT!?!

[@vetsplay7899]

Fuck yes tom is alive lads

[@RedTail1-1]

He has another channel. It's not like he disappeared for a year.

[@OscarHermoso]

If you're not subscribed to Extractions and Ire, go subscribe. Great videos over there - eg. extracting calcium from bones, extracting cadmium from batteries, and the legendary Cubane series.

[@davidripley2916]

. . . Survived the Yellow Chem. then ?

[@vetsplay7899]

@@RedTail1-1 I know. I am a regular viewer of said Ire

[@rcman50166]

Hi Tom, Tom here, just wanted you to know I have made DiBoron Tetrafluoride. I manufactured it on a commercial scale (WHOLE kilograms lol) with the guidance of some insanely smart people. Its also toxic, carcinogenic, pyrophoric, and generates HF, but cost $350 per gram at scale. Doubt you could make it, but I could point you in the right direction (to a limit) if you decided you wanted to.

[@Durrgon]

I don't know much about chemistry, and am really just a casual observer. But I still find the idea of all that complex setup, high tech tools, and tons of combined knowledge juxtaposed with "smack the glassware around with a wooden stick and see what happens" extremely funny.

[@simoniuszalox3293]

The stick is a important tool. It safed a lot fingers.

[@hammerth1421]

That's what PhD chemistry is like. As an undergrad, you usually have PhD students as supervisors and their conversations with each other often are quite funny. Hi Mark, what color did your reaction mixture turn today? Dark green, almost black. Wasn't it bright pink last week? Yes, it was. Don't ask me, I'm only the one writing a PhD on it...

[@wilms2328]

That's "agitating the reaction vessel" please.

[@nfrandom007]

A stick is highly advanced technology

[@jessepinkman1471]

welcome to the channel

[@Maud_on_YT]

28:37 Demon core and screwdriver action

[@NWOBHM2006]

Ignoring all the cool chemistry going on, I work in genomics and if a youtuber who does shed-genomics got in touch and wanted to come from the other side of the world to watch what I do on a daily basis and film it I would feel absolutely ecstatic and validated. Those PhD students must feel awesome. Hope they all went out on the beers after.

[@vdate]

The phrase 'shed genomics' fills me with a deep and primal fear.

[@kaboom4679]

What about the shed at the petting zoo ?

[@jhonbus]

@@vdate Shed genomics KZbinr? The Thought Emporium!

[@revenevan11]

My first thought of "shed genomics" was also "The Thought Emporium" lol, he inserted a gene for lactase into a virus that's used in gene editing, then took it as a pill and cured his lactose intolerance for a good while lol. Literally genetically modified his own intestinal cells!

[@vdate]

@@revenevan11 Alright, on the strength of that, I'll upgrade to 'combination of respect and deep and primal concern.'

[@Tishers]

This entire video was like a nightmare sequence for me. I felt sorry for the poor, innocent Xenon. It has never hurt anyone and just wants to be left alone.

[@dinhero21]

"if something goes wrong, there's usually some way to cover it up"

[@Muffin_Masher]

With access to the chemicals there ANYTHING can disappear :P

[@nictoriousdetailing]

As soon as he said it he was like ahh shit hope the boss/government doesn't watch that apart haha

[@MarcusHelius]

I saw that one as well XD

[@princepsregem4006]

That's how you can tell he's a German.

[@Molon_Labe1776]

😂😂😂

[@starbomber]

When he said "Florinated Peroxide" and I saw F2O2 I had an immediate gag reflex. I was like "Oh god, that's an oxidized oxidizer". Also, car battery might have died because it was cold, or maybe it's an old battery idk. Also dyoxygenol is the most cursed molecule I have ever seen

[@Circle9ru]

the thing is, ppl who wrote it like F2O2 should not be allowed to work with it. because its O2F2 - the oxidizer always goes last in binary molecules and in this case its fluorine oxidized oxigen, not other way around. if ppl don't know such simple thing, they should not work in the lab.

[@C_on_my_C]

"so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured" really sold me on this stuff. Also if it touches the ground or water it will explode, its like someone made it up, but its real.

[@andersjjensen]

Yup. It sounds like "a plot chemical" someone invented to get them out of a pickle because they earlier invented something unrealistically resilient.

[@Circle9ru]

well, german nazi made it in 1939. you know shit it real when nazi want to use something as a weapon, but then abandon the idea because "its to dangerous to work with".

[@Taladar2003]

That quote was from the book Ignition by John Drury Clark, highly recommended.

[@Taabro]

He left out the best part of Clark's description of ClF3: "It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals - steel, copper, aluminum, etc. -because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride which protects the bulk of the metal, just as the invisible coat of oxide on aluminum keeps it from burning up in the atmosphere. If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes."

[@Circle9ru]

@@Taabro, well, that guy is smart. there is no way extinguish that thing, except for waiting till it use out all the ClF3. the most important thing ppl should understand, if they ever going to get close to that substance, is that it sets concrete on fire and human body is much easier to set on fire than concrete.

[@MudakTheMultiplier]

16:01 "we have decided it will work" That's real german engineering for you!

[@raideurng2508]

"Spontaneous ignition with xenon" is not something you hear everyday....

[@Invisifly2]

*Cryogenic* xenon at that.

[@SomberCorvid]

Awesome to see that Tom is enjoying the good old sterni at 29:26 Its one of the cheapest beers that you can get in germany and many describe it as filthy dishwater (disgusting) but I call it filthy dishwater (affectionate) Good that you experienced some german uni culture

[@sokjeong-ho7033]

he drinks vb i think he can stand germany's finest

[@strategicbacon7349]

*places elemental fluorine and oxygen in a tube and gives it a tan*

[@Flesh_Wizard]

*jumpstarts fluorine with a car battery*

[@Bennici]

What these here super reactive elemental gases need desperately is MORE ENERGY!

[@recurvestickerdragon]

I know what's wrong with it ain't got no gas in it

[@thomasneal9291]

@@recurvestickerdragon that... is actually pretty much what happened here. They literally forgot to charge the battery.

[@26acorn34]

FOOF rings a bell as one of the “things I won’t work with” chemicals from Derek Lowe’s list on his blog In The Pipeline…

[@geoffreyentwistle8176]

Alongside chlorine trifluoride, yes... 😂

[@gavros9636]

"Being a high energy oxidizer, dioxygen difluoride reacted vigorously with organic compounds, even at temperatures close to its melting point. It reacted instantaneously with solid ethyl alcohol, producing a blue flame and an explosion. When a drop of liquid 02F2 was added to liquid methane, cooled at 90°K., a white flame was produced instantaneously, which turned green upon further burning. When 0.2 (mL) of liquid 02F2 was added to 0.5 (mL) of liquid CH4 at 90°K., a violent explosion occurred."

[@cwfreeman]

It was because of that post that I named my cat FOOF. He's not a good namesake, as he's not the right color or the right amount of angry. But he's fluffy, so I consider it good enough.

[@laurenmp7486]

Yep it's one of the things he covered in the "Things I Won't Work With" list.

[@Calilasseia]

Derek Lowe's "Things I Won't Work With" section is a Baedecker tour taking in everything you NEVER want to be up close and personal with in an uncontrolled setting. Or in some cases, even a controlled setting. It's interesting to note that the Nazis found ClF3 too hot to handle. Yes, the same Nazis who deployed a hydrogen peroxide rocket plane IN COMBAT. Meanwhile, the Americans made a ton of the stuff, let it leak, and had fun watching concrete and gravel burn like petrol. By the way, there's a French video featuring some suave jazz backing music, showing what happens when you let your inner pyromaniac loose with ClF3. Enjoy when you find it.

[@thatJackBidenTalksAbout]

"beating chlorine trifluoride" - uhh, is that a good idea? 😅😅 19:55 I believe "it would be a problem, indeed" is German for "it would be very exciting" which I believe is Journal of Energetic Materials for "we'll need new glassware"

[@Flesh_Wizard]

13 minutes in and they're jump-starting the fluorine with a car battery. I love this channel

[@BrooksMoses]

And they did, in fact, beat lightly on the container of chlorine trifluoride with a stick.

[@GlassOmen]

Love your channels! I have a videography tip. If your camera lenses take filters you should pick up a circular polarizer. You can eliminate reflections on glass or water and see through cleanly. The only downside is it cuts down your light exposure a little. Keep up the great work. Your videos are always a treat ⚗️

[@Monoryable]

As someone who is not a chemist, the thought of oxidising oxygen is insane 25:56

[@jusi9442]

Tbh i think its also scary to every chemist

[@26acorn34]

as someone who is a chemist it is also insane

[@waltysalamander]

It’s insane to anybody who knows anything about Chemistry. I’m just a high school AP Chem student and that blew my mind too.

[@RocketSurgn_]

Chemistry was always a massive weak spot for me in sciences vs say physics (thus my AE undergrad) but I had to take JUST enough to suspect it’s even scarier for those that know more about chemistry. Until you get to the niche of chemists that work with rocket fuels who probably sigh whistfully at the missed potential of multi-fluorine chemistry if only didn’t do its job of energetically destroying things SO well that it also tends to destroy the things (and potentially people) trying to use it… a special lot who do important work, those guys.

[@brolohalflemming7042]

Also not a chemist, but became interested after reading the "Things I will not work with" series. I've since learned a bit more about chemistry, mostly that this is as close to those reactions as I ever want to get.

[@skyclaw]

“An excess of the elemental fluorine,” and other phrases that should cause you to run away really _really_ fast.

[@panzerschiff9805]

Motherfucker was at MY UNIVERSITY and I didn't even notice Maaaaaaan

[@graealex]

Tja

[@LukaGG-lp2hx]

Glad to hear you're safe

[@mastershooter64]

I'm glad you didn't go near him, you might've gotten caught up in the explosions and fire

[@maximal9857]

Tja

[@ExplosionsAndFire]

Honestly every time I walked around campus and spoke in my Australian accent I felt pretty noticeable haha. Nice campus though, the cafeteria thing was great

[@ChefDzhugashvili]

"The procedure Niklas was following specifically mentioned a car battery, and so he went out and got a car battery with jumper leads for this experiment." This is the most German thing I've heard.

[@stefangadshijew1682]

If you carefully study Tom's videos, you might see a pattern of "The procedure calls for X, but I believe Y is fine" and start to appreciate a well written procedure. :D When I write down a procedure and something sounds quirky, it's usually because I tried something different and it didn't work.

[@Bennici]

The thing is, car batteries are readily available and cheap, compared to a lab-level power supply that can deliver this much power. Most "cheaper" power supplies can only go up to like a few amps, which might not be enough to really *burn* the platinum wire (depending on thickness and temperature around it). I am assuming you absolutely do need the 100-200 amps you can easily get out of a car battery, which is 20 times cheaper than a power supply to boot. It is a surprising tool if you hear it for the first time, but it absolutely makes sense I think.

[@thomasneal9291]

@@Bennici yup. you just have to remember to CHARGE it first.

[@jurajvariny6034]

@@Bennici they could have plugged it directly into mains XD but seriously, AC is less prone to arcing than DC, if they had a short somewhere in all the stainless steel stuff, that with car battery would be ...interesting.

[@christiannorf1680]

@@jurajvariny6034 You forget the subtle but important difference that unlike the car battery, the mains can actually kill you

[@locasciocarlos]

i have 44 years old, my high school was a chemistry specialty (In Argentina we have this high school called industial school) and i see the ptF6 - Xe reaction when i have 17 years in black and white video. really is the first time seen the colors. Thank you very much dude!!

[@penteractgaming]

That glass is the GOAT if it survived being exposed to liquid nitrogen temperatures then a torch right after without shattering. Oop never mind

[@christiannorf1680]

Borosilicate will do that for you

[@themareofnight1554]

25:25 that is the most i've seen him excited over a yellow product so far

[@youkofoxy]

12 thousand years of civilization and technological progress, a quite well equipped lab handling some of the most dangerous chemicals know to man. And what they use to poke it? a wood stick. A freaking wood stick.

[@tristangates2797]

The fact that they didn't poke it with their finger is in fact a good sign that evolution is working.

[@thomasneal9291]

jesus, the wood stick was just to knock condensation off the outside of the reaction vessel without changing its temperature. Is everybody in these comments just making a joke, or are you all stupid? Asking for a friend.

[@jurajvariny6034]

@@tristangates2797 and for some time, there was licking involved in chemistry too

[@SupersuMC]

@@jurajvariny6034 Not the tongue! XD

[@bartolomeothesatyr]

@@jurajvariny6034 Licking the samples is still occasionally a thing in field geology.

[@theharwizard8093]

24:13 I know you put “(don’t worry this really doesn’t make much sense to anyone else either)” but what in the rhyme of the ancient fuck is O2+

[@rocketcello5354]

I thought Cl+ was bad when I got to aromatic chemistry, but O2+ scares me on a different level. What's next, F+

[@hammerth1421]

@@rocketcello5354 Electrophilic fluorination is a thing. Stuff like Selectfluor (euphemism for it doesn't explosively fluorinate everything to the perfluorinated product) has F+ in one of its mesomeric structures and that's the one which actually reacts.

[@rocketcello5354]

@hammerth1421 Jesus christ. You chemists scare me, there's a reason I wanna go into physics not chem

[@Margarinetaylorgrease]

It’s the adulting version of O2, only available after 9, sorry 7pm

[@rosetintedtomb]

the O2 subscription service obviously

[@Speedro5]

Further proof that the color yellow means that you did something that you shouldn't

[@AnWe79]

Super cool to see the flourine lab set up and all the experiments! And also the mix of high tech and low tech, banging the vessel with a stick, awesome!

[@simoniuszalox3293]

Before they started to use the stick they had to get a new PhD student whenever something went wrong. So the stick is truly awesome!

[@Frommerman]

Florian Krause working in a Fluorine lab is some real nominative determinism.

[@hammerth1421]

St. Florian is the patron saint of firefighters XD

[@EatRustledJimmies]

How good did it feel to walk in to another university and introduce yourself as Dr. Explosions and Fire?

[@yesthatkarim9601]

I’m pretty sure Doctor Explosions & Fire is a character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

[@andrews.4780]

That was actually pretty crazy to see oxygen become oxidized and forming an O2 salt. Fluorine chemistry is terrifyingly amazing.

[@davidripley2916]

Wait till you see Singlet Oxygen 💀

[@andrews.4780]

@@davidripley2916 Apoptosis has a video on it.

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

@@davidripley2916 He he, red sun is pretty warm.

[@MiningStar]

Omg I was learning for my finals when u were at Galilea; some friends of mine actually met you! Huge fan :) Decided to pursue medicinal chemistry because of you and Hamilton Morris and will start my PhD at Freie Universität in a year.

[@blarghchan]

I CANNOT believe you found a way to get access to FOOF. I didn't even think anyone bothered with making it these days, just because of how impractical it is. Sure, they aren't producing industrial quantities or anything (because WHY), but still! Hope you had a good time in Germany, I know I enjoyed my brief time there.

[@Sakounette]

The fact that FOOF sounds like a french slang for the lady bits made the video even more funny to me.

[@kaboom4679]

It's a slightly stronger burning sensation , but yeah.

[@bprud6443]

Could we make some FOOFOON next ?

[@mahieuwim]

It is exactly slang for ladies bits in (Belgian) Dutch.

[@Chiberia]

I love that you were geeking out so hard with the other PhDs that you completely forgot you were filming. Makes this so much more legit.

[@ZoldZsolt]

Oxidising the oxygen, now that truly wasn't on my 2024 bingo card.

[@genderender]

dioxygenyl is fucking cursed and should not exist. chlorine trifluoride was bad enough, but oxidizing oxygen?

[@notgonnadoxxmyself2219]

Nice! I've always wanted to see FOOF, and I think through a computer screen is probably a safe enough distance.

[@shamooo]

DROP EVERYTHING WE ARE SO BACK

[@abs0lute-zer061]

Certified helldiver moment

[@ho0t0w1]

What's odd about Spice is Herbert was good friends with the undisputed king of mycology, Paul Stammets, and the Spice was blue to represent bluing being the indicator of psilocybin present in hallucinogenic mushrooms, he's even spoken openly about how surprised he was how few realized the parallel! I've also read the film and seen ALL the books! I own the original copies...😊

[@ryanc473]

My favorite Australian chemist that routinely "plays" with explosives posted on a Sunday morning on my drive home from work? Hell yeah!

[@heh2393]

Man saturday nightshift is the worst thing I have heard of

[@ryanc473]

@@heh2393 it's not so bad if you're used to it/work in a profession where it's just, a common thing. For reference, I work in healthcare at a hospital, and honestly, a Saturday nightshift is often among the best shifts (since no managers in the morning, and it tends to be fairly quiet, relative to the weekday shifts). And it definitely beats a holiday nightshift lol, regardless of the day of the week of the holiday. Or at least, is it's among the best shifts for those that routinely work nightshift lol, since I know nightshift in general isn't great for everyone

[@thor1829]

​@@ryanc473 I hope you didn't watch the vid while driving though, or you risk having to stay even longer at your place of work :P

[@ryanc473]

@@thor1829 only realized the upload when I got home, but immediately watched it right after lol

[@Nevernotpushing]

12:00 Xenon actually has the potential to be used as a safer anesthetic than N2O, but it’s too expensive to be used widely. It’s the only base element with a psychoactive effect

[@trumpetwizard7250]

Holy shit???? Main channel upload???

[@theKashConnoisseur]

He remembered the password.

[@BiTreeFrog]

Is there a secondary channel????

[@trumpetwizard7250]

@@BiTreeFrog yeah Extractions and Ire, the uploads are far more frequent lol

[@guntherrittengard3326]

Explosions and fire must now attempt to make a LFTR (Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor) in his shed. Also if the chemistry creature graces this comment with his eyes: i love you and your work, you make so many people happy

[@citricdemon]

nuclear physics is actually really simple and very easy. I am a nuclear physicist.

[@xghale9073]

No way! I've had a tour with Dr. Hasenstab-Riedel in that very lab and spent a ton of time at that university doing summer courses for students. Amazing to see you hanging out there of all awesome labs in Germany

[@The_gaming_PI]

"hypergolic with asbestos, sand and water" isn't flourine chemistry just great 😂

[@AsmodeusMictian]

When I first learned about it, I legit couldn't comprehend how in the hell you IGNITE sand. Water I understood, asbestos caught me off guard. BUT F'ING SAND? O_o -wot?

[@Flesh_Wizard]

It doesn't matter what you are, you WILL get oxidised

[@The_Keeper]

Flourine chemistry: "If it exists, it can burn."

[@andersjjensen]

@@AsmodeusMictian Sand is (mostly) silicon dioxide. Silicon would like to donate two electrons and oxygen is a wimpy little noob that has to GTFO when flourine shows up and shows who's boss. So basically flourine can burn things that has already been burned once. That, scarily enough, constitutes pretty much everything we consider inert, except for the noble gases. Carbon dioxide? Not actually inert. Ceramics that can withstand a few thousand degrees in a pure oxygen atmosphere? Not actually inert.

[@AsmodeusMictian]

@@The_Keeper lol You're not wrong.

[@alexpotts6520]

Lowkey seeing the red-to-yellow Xe-PtF6 reaction gave me chills. A bit of history, recreated 60 years later and on camera for the first time.

[@kylebowles9820]

"its beautiful" Tom: "😅 ...its a horrible yellow"

[@Circle9ru]

well, in this case its really "horrible yellow", because if something go wrong that yellow liquid can be last thing you ever see...

[@JosephCatrambone]

20:29 Nearly a century later and our methods have evolved to hitting things with our technologically superior sticks.

[@rocketcello5354]

I'm very glad to see you cited Ignition for ClF3, it's a great read

[@pamelawhitfield4570]

Brilliant book for all chemists with pyromaniac tendencies! 😅

[@yesthatkarim9601]

i saw the _Ignition!_ quote and laughed and that’s when i knew it was going to be a great video. 😅

[@Pseud0nymTXT]

22:47 his mere presence turning it yellow

[@Quarkee]

Idk why I saw the thumbnail and thought "oh cool. A video on Ex&I" but then when I saw it was posted on Ex&F my sense of "uh oh" went from 5 to 100.

[@k1ngjulien_]

congrats on the nobel prize for the cubane series dude! i all ways knew you could do it!!!

[@bastiat691]

PtF6: "Brother, may I have some electron?"

[@brugbo613]

PtF6 doesn't *ask*

[@yesthatkarim9601]

PtF6 punches you in the face 👊💥 so hard that electrons just go flying off you. Then it picks up your electrons off the floor and says I’LL BE TAKING *THESE.*

[@bobjonson143]

I like how he casually mentions they're accidentally oxidizing oxygen

[@seralele]

The car battery brought that authentic shed feel to the lab

[@insipidpanda6097]

I love the fact that now the number 1 picture results for searching up FOOF is from E&F

[@Mr.LaughingDuck]

This is one compound that I truly pray that NileRed *never* does on his channel.

[@blarghchan]

You've seen the shit he's bought just to do "one-off" videos, if he felt he could pull it off, you know he would.

[@jurajvariny6034]

"this is fluorine in a bottle" *tosses it with loud clanking*

[@johannesgutsmiedl366]

It might happen some day... I feel like chemists are drawn to Fluorine like moths to the flame

[@gragaloth6237]

Aw man he went to a professional lab, I guess no crack head chemistry in this one -pulls out car battery

[@echo_9835]

Damn, the germans keep their chemistry sheds clean. No rats, no rust, no spiders. Where's the challenge in chemistry without those?

[@jusi9442]

Dont let it fool you, we have a lab with roofs inside the room to protect the machines from the "rain" (leaking pipes from the lab above)

[@mamaymay8259]

The truth is, we don't. Roughly 3-4 times a year, boss man will send an email that says "we have very important guests coming tomorrow, please ensure the lab is clean" without any prior warning - then it's cleaning day. Two days later, it's back to a controlled mess. Tom would qualify as such important guest. (This is talking about general German labs, maybe those specific people are just clean freaks). There's less crazy wildlife though.

[@yesthatkarim9601]

can chlorine trifluoride really be all that dangerous if there are no spiders involved? spiders get all 4s on the NFPA diamond _plus_ the -W- (water reactive) symbol. sometimes there are even radioactive spiders!

[@stefangadshijew1682]

I believe that the convenient thing about flourine chemistry is that if you allow for a certain amount of mishaps, it's self cleaning.

[@Kwazzaaap]

@@stefangadshijew1682 Allows for new job openings too!

[@briandeschene8424]

Thank you for this wild adventure in chemistry! The professional patience exhibited by your laboratory hosts was commendable. It is refreshing to watch people who are very good at what they do persevere against obstacles.

[@SophTheLaunchTechnician]

Explosions and Fire upload? On the same day as a Starship Launch?!

[@ExplosionsAndFire]

if the booster stage wasn't caught I wouldn't have uploaded

[@petrolak]

It's like early Christmas day. I was very nice this year.

[@fffwankie]

and neither exploded

[@yesthatkarim9601]

@@fffwankie 😅 SpaceX had enormous successes today, but i’m pretty sure there was an explosion. Starship did its water landing and lasted a few seconds. Then at T+1:05:55, in footage taken from a buoy, there’s a HUGE detonation that turns into an orange mushroom cloud. so yeah, great success, but at the very end, it went FOOF 💥 lol

[@EliasExperiments]

Haha such a fun video and it was so great having you over in germany! Thank you for the shoutout!

[@matt_cah]

"If something goes wrong there is usually some way to cover it up." What a beautiful quote. Danke sehr Nikolas. 😂😂😂

[@fritzdow4819]

That was absolutely a meaningful lapsus 😂😂😂

[@DavidSchmitt]

Pilots: Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing. Chemists: Any reaction you can walk away from is a good reaction.

[@ghostlag6976]

Hidden "Let me be real for a moment I absolutely hate reading these names" spotted in the credits 29:33

[@pegzounet]

That thumbnail is the mother of all "what could possibly go wrong?" To top that, you'd need plutonium hemispheres and a screwdriver.

[@ChaoticEnigma-]

I swapped from the SpaceX starship livestream to this, always a good day when Tom uploads

[@markosullivan6444]

Brilliant video! As an ex-industrial chemist, seeing people put their bare hands on the equipment in that fume cupboard freaked me out.

[@hammerth1421]

Like concentrated nitric acid, fluorine is one of those substances where gloves can actually be harmful to you because they light on fire and now molten plastic adheres to your skin. And you can't really make PFA gloves, fluorinated polymers have awful material properties.

[@markosullivan6444]

@@hammerth1421 I was thinking more of the potential for HF being present.

[@zebdeming]

While not chlorine trifloride, the king of not giving a fuck,James Cambell made hydrofloric acid from R134. I'm kinda surprised you didn't do some literature review

[@gatergates8813]

James Cambell is such an inspiration- the fact that he's lost a few fingers to his experiments but keeps at it anyways

[@jackdodge222]

bro really witnessed the manufacture of an extremely reactive oxidizer then immediately went to a kegger. goals

[@TiagoJoaoSilva]

Wait, more hardcore than ClF3? And he pulled "Ignition" out? Oh no... FOOFin' hell!

[@scotsbillhicks]

I doubled back. I knew I was wrong T-Stoff was the infamous Me163 fuel component. N-Stoff was the name the Germans gave to ClF3. They wanted to use it against fortifications such as the Maginot line. They tested it on some and enjoyed the results, even going so far as to set up a factory to manufacture it. I have seen no material explaining how they were going to transport it from factory to battlefield. I wonder if it was a self-preservation scam. Demonstrate to the suits its potential, select a site for your facility then settle back safe in the knowledge to no sane official will come anywhere near you to check up.

[@hackdurbrain]

I believe they used steel tankers or were planning on it until they spilled an entire tanker and realized the errors of their ways

[@Someonewhoprobablyexists]

Glad you survived, you were playing with some dangerously yellow chemistry there.

[@666lianne666]

Yes and also yellow chemistry is chemist slang for biochem stuff FYI.

[@Fruckert]

I appreciate that some of the chemistry procedures here appear to be "poke it with a stick to see if it's still doing anything"

[@einlebewesens9166]

I wish you had come to Marburg. I study there and Prof. Kraus is a really nice guy. And in the end, you were here and I didn't know

[@JohnnyWishbone85]

I saw the title and I pressed like. That's all I needed to know. Whatever you're doing in this video, I support it unconditionally.

[@LexsZero]

Can we appreciate the wooden stick they routinely use to knock the frost off their reaction vessels.

[@ghunter0939]

This was fun to watch, both for the chemistry and the human interaction. Happy for you dude.

[@3AM_Ideas]

REMEMBER FOOF? IT‘S BACK!

[@pvc988]

Don't let any Pentiums near it.

[@pauln6803]

But not for long.

[@greenaum]

Tip: Use a clamp-type ammeter to measure the current flow in the battery leads. That will tell you how much power is flowing, so at least you'll know it's working.

[@jansenart0]

Some channels, I see a new video, I click without thinking. This channel, I see a new video, I click before it can be removed.

[@hacxman1]

these were my absolute top favourite molecules for a long time. massive thanks for filming and sharing this!

[@anoobis117]

Don't let 6:08 make you forget the atmosphere is nature's bin

[@xenomancer1]

FOOF is one of those anti-bucket list chemicals. It is one of the compounds that gives me nightmares at scale. Fluorine is bad enough. FOOF is angry in a way that doesn't need a hug. FOOF dissolves hugs. Don't try to hug FOOF.

[@Circle9ru]

tbh, i wuldn't recommnd to hug fluorine too...

[@alliecat1008]

the guy who does fluorine chemistry is named Florian? you simply can't make this up

[@GodlikeIridium]

Tom: "Ever had one explode on you?" Niklas: "Not YET" 😂👌 Those German scientists, gotta love them^^ Thanks Prof. Dr. Hasenstab-Riedel, Niklas and Gesa for allowing Tom into your lab 😅 🇨🇭❤️🇩🇪