BNCP - A colourful super energetic

[@ExtractionsAndIre]

If you're keen for more details on the chemistry steps, my channel here is my second channel, where I have these related videos: Making the cobalt carbonato complex: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qYizlYNogd6UgtE& Making copper and nickel carbonato complexes: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6PCaKuqra-Sb8U& Officially ranking all the elements (stream): kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3rZe2yCdp18mJo& Making nitrotetrazole: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pnOQd3SNhMdob5I&

[@not_a_nugget2373]

Extractions&Ire i have only just realised that we are both crackhead Aussies named Tom who are both into chemistry and both agree on the fact that yellow is ABSOLUTE DOG SHIT

[@codykgraphics4750]

I love you man

[@northcoastaudiovisualncavc9706]

Hey mate.. baught some sulfuric acid yesterday from mtr10 mofo stuff and it is 100% clear 😁

[@ExplosionsAndFire]

The mofo is clear now???? Wow we really are living in strange times

[@atmac2162]

Extractions&Ire That purple Copper one looked like TACN. Which also turns light blue when you add extra stuff to it. To my understanding it can be made with Copper metal, Ammonium nitrate, and Generic Ammonium cleaner, then you basically just mix them together and aerate it. I did it in plastic cups, but I would love to see someone like you who actually knows what they are doing attempt it.

[@Samonie67]

Copper is the evilest element, most people don't expect to have copper chem fail on them because of the pretty colors, but that's where it gets ya. it lures in unsuspecting chemists with its pretty colors and uses and when you least expect it, the copper strikes. you'll have copper stains everywhere, the yields are shit, you don't know what's going on and you just wanna go home and forget about all the problems with copper, but then you return because its soo pretty like continuing to text your abusive ex. i consider copper the most insidious element in the periodic table.

[@JH-if5rv]

but its so pretty

[@ConstantlyDamaged]

Like a moth to a flame.

[@miscme6046]

samonie67 too true

[@bearcatben4762]

Copper is a wonderful element as long as you're only doing electrochemistry

[@bloxsclaymation]

@@ConstantlyDamaged Do you have Lämp Bröther?

[@giansieger8687]

8:48 The chemist making an abbreviation for copper nitrotetrazole must have been having a hell of a day

[@btf_flotsam478]

He was doing copper chemistry. That was a perfectly acceptable response.

[@delilas2398]

I'm bribing him with 1$ a month to perform dangerous experiments for my personal amusement. Sounds a lot more sinister if you phrase it like that.

[@StreuB1]

hahahah!!!

[@kevinw.5149]

If he was my professor I'd pay attention at least, due to american tuition taking everything else.

[@CreatureOTNight]

$1 dance monkey dance, I command you.

[@jessepinkman1471]

then dont think about it that way

[@sixstringedthing]

My plans are all falling into place. Muahahaha. Etc.

[@supernenechi]

I love how you can just take the properties you want, find some molecules that have it, slap any metal you like the name of on there and bam you get exactly what you wanted. That's SO cool!

[@christianlewis2008]

Welcome to chemistry, the science that's most like magic.

[@GrassPossum]

That's chemistry science. He's describing the reaction from point of view of reverse engineering. He's a well-educated guy, better than my chemistry given I dropped out before graduation. However I see what he's doing once he mentioned it isn't his invention but from the nineties.

[@brianjones9780]

Chemists are the most frightening of all engineers. It doesn't matter how structurally sound or how well grounded your project is, a chemist can blow it the fuck up or dissolve it with a beakerfull of something he synthesized in his garage

[@niyudi]

That's why I studied ligand field theory and the Jahn-Teller effect. To understand a 5 second bit on a crackhead video at 7:36. Totally worth it.

[@caesarcch3879]

A few years ago I had a choice to either study chemistry or computer science. I almost made a huge mistake then

[@lambdabaryon]

LFT is bae

[@MisterPyOne]

@@caesarcch3879 Im studying Physics and I could have chosen to take chemistry as minor subject, glad I didn't

[@cwill2127]

Nah inorganic chemistry is just disgusting. Wanted to end my life all throughout that semester. That bit was fucking hilarious in the video though

[@cwill2127]

@@lambdabaryon electric chair

[@samdelucia5074]

what i love most about chemistry videos is that even though I've seen them before i retain very little information each viewing and its always a pleasure to watch again

[@benjytom7371]

Can't wait for the next channel: Nukes&Radiation Truly the next step up

[@ExplosionsAndFire]

o no

[@patrickjanecke5894]

Only way to get a functioning Orion drive, since nobody else is crazy enough to do it.

[@transkryption]

@@ExplosionsAndFire oh yeah! kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWqbY52abbyLl7s

[@5roundsrapid263]

Cody’s Lab tried that once. The authorities ended it pretty fast.

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

Fission and Geiger fits a bit better.

[@Frogmood]

the way you describe chemistry sounds like the insane babbling of drunk on the street corner and I understand about as much of it. i love it, its great, never change

[@geofftnz]

Transition metal chem makes me glad I'm not colourblind.

[@spencer3389]

Can't have yellow chem if you see it as green!

[@Scorpionclaw1984]

Interresting fact.. I AM in fact, red-green colourblind.. 😔

[@Gabriel-yk4it]

@@Scorpionclaw1984 no car for you

[@copperchopper4626]

hold up this vid is released 1hour ago how is this comment 1day old?

[@derivativ3]

Chem makes me glad I’m not blind.

[@Dhaffyd]

I had dreams about the cobalt classes in my chemistry labs. The colors! This was during the 70s and there were really fine drugs going around. But I transgress, I agree, cobalt is the bestest of elements, and it's nice to have such an expert such as yourself enforce it's standing. Cobalt #1!

[@Nono-hk3is]

I can't believe we, the subscribers to Explosions & Fire, invented this new chemical. Great job, everyone!

[@ExplosionsAndFire]

Go team!!

[@AusWelder529]

Yes communism

[@ANNYMU-zc9oj]

Our chemical

[@arthurmernard5879]

Our chem

[@Tunkkis]

I shall hereby patent is for the lot of us, me et al.

[@Xw3dn3sd4yX]

"I don't even remember what smooth teeth taste like." Past me waiting at the ortho felt that.

[@No-uc6fg]

Glad to see you're still alive. Whilst NileRed's Chemvideos are cool and all, your "Ghetto-esque" Chemistry is far more fascinating, and the meme game is straight up fire. Yellow Chem Bad.

[@userPrehistoricman]

You just have yellow derangement syndrome.

[@revimfadli4666]

@Evi1M4chine and styropyro quit chemistry altogether for the zap-zap

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

Yellow Chem Bad, Orange Chem Good, Blue Chem "huhn??????????"

[@SophiaAstatine]

They may both be chem youtubers, but they satisfy entirely different niches. Wouldn't even consider them comparable when Tom makes his tight and concise videos, while Nile just goes full lost in the rabbit hole on whatever he has stepped into, making a forty minute video from it.

[@Ang3lUki]

Ex&F used a Nile Red meme in this xd

[@Borsuk3344]

When it comes to hitting stuff with a hammer - did you ever consider attaching it to the head of the hammer instead of just trying to hit it?

[@markfergerson2145]

Dammit Jim, he's a chemist, not an engineer.

[@jamesharding3459]

@@markfergerson2145 I’m ashamed I didn’t think of this. I would’ve just put it in the bottom of a tube and dropped a weight.

[@vomErsten]

@@jamesharding3459 Nothing like an impromptu pipe bomb in the morning!

[@jamesharding3459]

@@vomErsten You say that, but I tried to make some homemade rocket fuel for a high school Chem class. It was literally a pipe bomb. And yes, I did have the proper paperwork.

[@mjrippe]

Or using an anvil/metal slab instead of an axe head? But that's not what this channel is about ;)

[@Rhodanide]

Just make Octanitrocubane

[@ExplosionsAndFire]

Haha kidding kidding...... unless...?

[@karstenhoff9158]

@@ExplosionsAndFire or, you know, just make hexanitrohexaazaisowurzitane, but then again you don't like secondaries

[@Rhodanide]

@cas curse My guy, I'm broke as all hell.

[@JH-if5rv]

@@ExplosionsAndFire octonitrotetrazol

[@BlackWolf42-]

To hell with that, I'd say make N60. It would probably be easier. (bucky balls with Nitrogen instead of Carbon)

[@twosquids]

I should have told the girl at the bar I was going home to watch weird chemistry videos and maybe she would have liked me

[@timbrushaber856]

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't hiding in a toilet at work so I can watch this video

[@torchofkck4989]

Hindsight is 20/20. (Not 20#s n 20 min.s....) Never estimate the value of bluetooth.

[@philipfrye3628]

I have to say, I hope you never stop making videos, educating and entertaining. Your content is real fun man. Much love to you. Keep on keeping on.

[@supersmashsam]

"These crystals are so big and so good I could probably stick them in my braces and get a solvable diffraction pattern the next time I go to my next dental checkup" I need to remember that one! LOL

[@luxuriousturnip181]

Always fun coming back to old episodes "Don't say octanitro cubane. I can't make octanitro cubane. Stop suggesting it. The synthesis is too hard. " Two months later on extractions&Ire Project plan: Cubane sysnthesis is released. The internet successfully peer pressured a physics PHD into making a highly complex chemical, in a shed in australia, using chemicals from pool supply and hardware stores, and a weird box with LEDs from Amazon. Will he succeed? Maybe, but not before using the last of his sanity as the final ingredient in what is increasingly appearing like the life's work of a deranged 14th century alchemist. I don't know where you're going, but godspeed and good luck you magnificent chemist.

[@richard0crewe]

I love the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde nature of this channel and Extraction and Ire. One is explosions and shouting and the other is distilling stuff to Aphex Twin.

[@planetrob555]

Your wit, timing and intelligence all make for GREAT COMEDY. You should be seen by more people.

[@agentwashingtub9167]

“The molecule doesn’t want to exist in its current form.” Just @ me next time

[@Maharani1991]

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[@Felixkeeg]

I started my master's thesis in organic chemistry 3 weeks ago. Everything I make is fucking yellow

[@jaygopinath1694]

learn to use the toilet my advice

[@trevorgreenough6141]

That's shit. Hope it gets better, and you get to blow some shit up. But transition metal chemistry is pretty to watch.

[@reecebeck971]

Drink more water

[@chemistryofquestionablequa6252]

Or yellow mixed with tar...

[@paulcragg1315]

Stop pissing in you chemistry set.

[@joelharrison5007]

Been watching this channel for around a year now and just wanted to say it's helped to inspire me pursue a masters in chemistry, as I've recently received an offer from York University I'm obviously doing something right, so thanks for the fun and inspiration keep uploading the great content :)

[@Tbird761]

We need to start a "Replace the Axe Head With an Anvil" fund for this man of science.

[@ZackofSpades]

I'll never not be impressed by how all of this stuff is conducted alone. So much damn work and time, and hurdle after hurdle on top of that. You really have to not only love what you do, but you have to love it when it's pissing you off as well. Mad respect.

[@Braveskin]

Thanks for the upload, this is easily my favorite channel on KZbin. I wish you the best and hope you take good care of your fingers and lungs.

[@ExplosionsAndFire]

thanks mate! take care of yourself too

[@Watsurname2]

All this patreon support and this man still beats a reaction out of his compounds on a rusty old axe head. His Strongbow habit is out of control

[@ExplosionsAndFire]

I like the axe head !

[@lotfiattaf7782]

8:15 F O R B I D D E N Energy drink

[@uristmcdwarfington8863]

The spiciest gatorade

[@leeterthanyou]

angery kool ayyd

[@panzerschiff9805]

When you want your Energy drink to be even deadlier than it already is.

[@AKAtheA]

@Evi1M4chine and cobalt!

[@tatianatub]

high energy gfuel

[@RyanMoser]

@ 0:44 Perhaps, but you did it anyway! Cubane 2023, bay beeee!

[@dilbert1903]

"Lets just chuck a whole lot of amonia in there" - Beirut 2020

[@jdhill770]

"Hey, whats with all these seized fireworks?" -a bored dockworker, probably...

[@KirbzYyY]

I love the SCP and NileRed refferences

[@andrewfleenor7459]

What SCP reference?

[@patrickjanecke5894]

@@andrewfleenor7459 [redacted]

[@peterkoster3438]

@@andrewfleenor7459 Also the blinking indicator

[@DroneDocs]

I'd never thought I'd say this but the personality really makes the non-yellow chemistry even more exciting.

[@VikramHaridas]

Congrats on the 100k dude, you deserve it. You made chemistry interesting for me and I keep rewatching your videos. Your presentation is hundo p the best in category

[@finerz321]

Evi1M4chine and aussie

[@whatevernamegoeshere3644]

"The patreons are forcing me to do it at a gunpoint" Azide fox with 7 dollars and a gun in hand: "You draw my fucking fursona on the chalkboard right now"

[@ExplosionsAndFire]

The accuracy of this hurts

[@spencero3278]

I stumbled onto your channel a few weeks ago, and while I'm completely chemistry illiterate, I am enthusiastic about all forms of science. And you make these entertaining enough that even when you lose me scientifically (immediately) I'm still laughing and love watching the chemistry. Keep it up man!

[@EchelonIV]

"...and get a solvable diffraction pattern during my next dental check up" okay. I legit laughed out loud. Best wishes, a protein crystallographer.

[@sciencepluspotato1294]

Explosions&Fire: Does complex chemistry using sophisticated terms whit the end goal being to create a powerful explosive compound. Me: Oh look colours! So cool!

[@NekuZX]

Precisely what I wanted from a channel named Explosions&Fire. 10/10 would recommend.

[@Andrew-my1cp]

Haha I love how in the octonitrocubane paper it says that they discovered that cubane acyl azides are a primary explosive and then in parenthesis say "fortunately without serious incident." So I'm just picturing a bunch of fancy scientist scratching the explosive with a knife and after seeing the explosion just having that oh shit look on their faces as they turn to the 100 gram pile they have laying there. Also I know that's not what really happened... damn at least I hope lol.

[@Maharani1991]

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[@Andrew-my1cp]

@@Maharani1991 ....

[@SophiaAstatine]

Scientists are, in my university experience, more silly than fancy when they can get away with it, so even if I can't read whatever you're trying to say, maybe you're right.

[@codyhoward7626]

Lol I have no idea what he's talking about, but I can't stop watching these. Maybe I'll pick up the lingo, but right now I'm here for the fantastic visual comedy.

[@AllChemystery]

Great to see success! Was a great experiment and beautiful little crystals. And highly energetic to boot.

[@ExplosionsAndFire]

Hey, thanks for the help with it by making your videos! You're always one step ahead mate. Hope you've been well

[@hugovilag]

33% Science, 33% Explosions, 33% Memes and 1% Maybe getting monetized *lol*

[@00Q722]

Thanks for the explanation of the fragmentation analysis on the cans.

[@experienceaeiou]

ex&f: don't ask me to make octonitrocubane, it's too hard ex&f: hauld may beeeah

[@pp7x79]

By now i'm convinced he is getting more crazy with every video. Nice editing again mate :)

[@tomhewitt8017]

As usual, subtitles are on point 0:14 - 'Hot tape noises'

[@GenericAnimeBoy]

2021 Tom: "The synthesis [of octanitrocubane is...too hard] 2023 Tom: "Please give me ideas to distract from my unfinished PhD" 🫠 Edit: "Do you remember the 90s? No. See, no one does." *ad roll* 🫠🫠🫠

[@Rhodanide]

3:15 made me question my entire aesthetic. Gee, thanks, Tom

[@7dizzy7332]

3:15 do you remember the 90’s . No *Balkans: we don’t talk about that*

[@ConstantlyDamaged]

One dude really loves his copper chemistry. Jokes aside, I love how you explained the construction process of the molecule so that even chemistry-curious fuckers like me can follow along-kinda.

[@sixstringedthing]

"JUST RAM IT". - Tom, 2020

[@alexderis939]

Damn. He said "it feels long" and "too hard" in the first 60 seconds of the video. This is gonna be a good one.

[@snahlder6008]

4:48 Scene from NileRed video it seems...

[@theclingyfox7899]

Lost my shit at 7:34. I wish you existed when I was in high school. I always had a interest in science, especially chemistry and astronomy, and if your channel existed back when I was in high school no doubt I'd have gone to college for chemistry. Informative, entertaining, and hilarious videos. Love u

[@JammyBriton]

Too hard? Sounds like a long-term project goal! Can't wait to eventually see a video on octonitrocubane, I'd watch a feature length struggle

[@beachboardfan9544]

OCTANITROCUBANE!!!!!!!!!!!! Cmon this vid is 4 yrs old, surely your synthesis skills have grown in the past 4 yrs....

[@GrandIronTarkus]

The most chemistry I have ever done was in high school. I still love these videos.

[@jeppelarsen6582]

I Love how you say "So is BNCP the best explosive of all time... Well nothing is perfect, but I reckon it pretty fucking alright!"

[@dampishmoon2098]

I know nothing about chemistry I just watch these videos for that soft Australian accent

[@-NGC-6302-]

2:35 Fluorine appears to be misspelled this concludes my hourly mandatory tax-audit levels of pedantry

[@checkedmorrow7355]

The next step would probably be making pentazoles

[@ExplosionsAndFire]

Look, the progress that the field of pentazole chemistry keeps making.... It might actually be possible soon

[@cezarcatalin1406]

Explosions&Fire How about you make something simpler... tetranitropentaerythritol ? You can mix petroleum jelly, ammonium perchlorate and PETN in 1:3:2 proportion to make a plastic explosive.

[@bezahltersystemtroll5055]

@@cezarcatalin1406 he alread did, check out his old stuff on vimeo n00b 😛

[@ShouldOfStudiedForTheTest]

@@ExplosionsAndFire Can you make this thing ? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-Dimethylaminophenylpentazole (Can an electron withdrawing pentazole on the pther hand even be made?)

[@Maharani1991]

@@ShouldOfStudiedForTheTest +

[@yeetyeet7070]

Love your strongbow hole-can collection, very important, very scientifiic

[@Paksusuoli95]

Wish I could thumbs up more than once. You're hilarious

[@rohanahlawat5809]

Nice jazzy music in the background! Thanks for teaching me something, again!

[@edgarsmittenheighnjenkson9226]

I need to take a chemistry class so I know wtf is going on

[@SIGSEGV1337]

Just google the words he uses and read the paper he mentions

[@payaori7809]

Can go boom

[@inferior2884]

Mix stuff and stuff go boom

[@lemon93]

Nitrogen go bomb, or weird molecule shapes go boom.

[@SIyMarbo]

I just found your channel yesterday fkn love it m8 been binge watching and gaining big brainus

[@soulthief33]

Can we all appreciate how much danger his phone is always in?

[@quiggsy8571]

I'm glad that I'm able to understand so much of these videos, very clear.

[@jeroengrimmelikhuijzen6819]

2:35 Nylon, my favorite element

[@thexbigxgreen]

One of the reasons I love your vids so much is hearing The Presidents at the start of every one! They were one of my fav bands when I was a young lad in the 90s. That very album is still among the ones I love the most in its entirety Edit: lmao I remember the 90s

[@jamesharding3459]

The highest Chem I took was 202 in college, for a civil engineering degree. And I understand the words he’s saying, but the sentences may as well be Attic Greek.

[@Add_Infinitum]

I really like this video, because he goes through a lot more of the chemisty and process this time (at least it seems that way, I haven't been watching for very long).

[@philipdmiller]

Weird question but could you make an explosive glass? Like a pane you and see through but could explode when heat is added. Love the channel btw

[@CrazyNerdInventor]

I guess you could make an explosive polymer that resembles plexiglass.

[@philipdmiller]

@@CrazyNerdInventor I feel like we have just been added to a list 🧐

[@Maharani1991]

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[@coopergates9680]

@@philipdmiller He has a polyvinyl nitrate video but it isn't made transparent IIRC lol

[@70M80]

Ah yes, Australian and Chemistry. Two things I have no understanding of but continue to be fascinated by.

[@LavenderSystem69]

Love the inclusion of the clip of NileRed smashing his beakers because he didn't know which ones were compromised from plasma testing after he accidentally mixed them back into the general pool of his glassware

[@abenson1985]

Lol!! I love this!! Just got recommended this channel and am binge watching for more insights into my own job as a lab technician in the chemistry manufacturing industry

[@zzzetsulive]

Should’ve made octanitrocubane

[@BobWidlefish]

“It’s not yellow” that’s basically victory right there. Kudos’

[@pyromen321]

If cobalt is so great, why isn’t there a sequel?

[@bruhmoment1835]

Do you mean Cobalt(II)?

[@peteri6020]

"They're forcing me... at gun point." Says ol' mate with a shed full of high explosives.

[@timothycanty9384]

A golden nugget of a channel that I got lucky to find. Keep up the good entertaining science

[@RedDogForge]

I watch this vid about twice a year, as a pick-me-up..it makes me happy. Thanks Tom :) ❤❤

[@AtomicLobster69]

Your channel is giving me some sketchy inspiration and I absolutely love it.

[@MoorishBull]

I’ve learned more about chemistry from your channel than I did in 4 years of highshool

[@joeybab3]

I can’t stand that KZbin keeps unsubbing me from you guys... your content is always an interesting watch

[@siaa7078]

you're on my top 10 people i don't wanna be around when apocalypse happens

[@nalinea18]

As a Physicist I did a double-take at you first mentioning cobalt and spent way too long trying to figure out if you were joking. Turns out I've spent too much time in the Nuclear lab lately, as I had completely forgotten that there are also _other_ kinds of Cobalt than Cobalt-60. How marvelous is that? Here I was thinking you're upgrading to salted bombs. I need a better lab-life-balance.

[@micropyro7470]

You blow me away with all that chem talk. Love it

[@jacobabrams5854]

Holy shit I didn’t think taking chem 2 in college would help but I actually understood this video. Money well spent

[@milangiroux]

Great video love that piano jazz at the end

[@iryanmadayana1904]

Regarding the beautiful and entirely reasonable abbreviation for Cu-Nitrotetrazole that the paper authors strangely decided against, this just reminds me of another beautiful paper about COPPER NANOTUBES... and yes, in that one, they DID use the expected correct abbreviation. Truly inspirational.

[@tuftman6092]

dude, I love your content, this is top tier :)

[@ryanatkinson2978]

"I don't even remember what smooth teeth tastes like" I can relate

[@pascalejude404]

i understand all the words in this video seperately. good stuff :) i am watching in ignorant awe

[@johnmcclain3887]

Well, probably the most fun I've had watching fulminates in decades. I really enjoy the cans, they demonstrate velocity as I've only seen on a far larger scale, from ten miles or so away. "Shatters the back of the can". Cobalt, number one, humm, might be something to that. Thanks.

[@fritzdow4819]

I should be writing papers and projects but I'm in the gym at 1 a.m. looking at this. Life's good and I am aware about it .

[@carlubambi5541]

Amazing to see the color changes in reactions

[@MrTitanicfanatic2]

This channel could become the Michael Reeves of high explosives and I, for one, am here for that.