Recreating Old Alchemy Explosives

[@punkey0]

next video: *who* is an explosive, where Tom walks around hitting people with a hammer

[@ExplosionsAndFire]

You can never tell!!!

[@PMVault]

I’m crying 😂

[@kenny5676]

He can try hit people but he'll miss half the time

[@PMVault]

Kenny That’s a risk he’ll have to take

[@e2rqey]

For some reason he avoids Asian people................🤔

[@VaradMahashabde]

Imagine Basil Valentine taking a break from his monk stuff, walking into a room and saying, "Hello everyone, welcome back to Fulminations&Pyres"

[@dsdy1205]

No one change it it's at 666 votes

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

​@@dsdy1205to be fair I didn't start the Fire

[@georgeh5075]

"monk stuff"

[@marshmallowblaster]

You know you're reading an old paper when it discusses the *taste of mercury salts*

[@Flesh_Wizard]

I do love my steak with mercury salt😋

[@Mister_Clean]

I have no idea how our ancestors survived to pass on their knowledge.

[@josephdavison4189]

@@Mister_Clean step 1: Don’t die of the plague at the age of 3 Step 2: Marry at the age of 13 Step 3: have babys at like 19 (preferably 6 or so) Step 4: spend the rest of your life (30 years) doing insane crap until you die of a disease people didn’t know exist

[@texivani]

​@@josephdavison4189 oh my god they were actually geniuses

[@buggsy5]

Look up calomel as a medical treatment. It was used until the mid 1900's for teething problems in children, even though the harmful side effects were well known long before that. Any taste from a dose of calomel would be due to impurities, not the compound itself.

[@xm-1-24-b4]

As an engineer, everything you chemists do seems like devil magic

[@andrewmcreynolds3692]

And then some of us want to engineer the devil magic.

[@lanceadams5107]

@@andrewmcreynolds3692 dummy, engines dont have ears

[@robwoodring9437]

To paraphrase The Martian: "chemistry on paper is neat & tidy math. Chemistry in the real world is a sloppy bitch"

[@runed0s86]

It's microscopic engineering

[@Flesh_Wizard]

To be fair, Mercury is some evil shit. Especially when it's Dimethylmercury

[@seanmessick9330]

Fulminating silver is actually commonly used in those little bang snap firecrackers that explode when thrown

[@Jaydee-wd7wr]

“Face me, Sekiro!”

[@Raidon484]

*pulls out a glock*

[@CrabGodOfLegand]

That is silver fulminate. It's stupid, but it's a different chemical(AgCNO, not Ag3N)

[@gabrielmaisonet7485]

@@CrabGodOfLegandi appreciate your correction especially since chemistry is confusing enough already! thanks 🙏

[@Ornithopter470]

​@@CrabGodOfLegandsilver fulminate /= fulminating silver.

[@bwub1]

As a guy who did his PhD in plasmonics, I can confirm, it's probably ghosts

[@ExplosionsAndFire]

yeah right! it's the most logical explanation. don't start talking to me about this goddamn 'electron' mumbo jumbo

[@cezarcatalin1406]

Explosions&Fire Sir, your electronophobia demands that you shall get protonated directly inside your nucleation site ! Call me a radical but at least I am a free one that can last for more than a couple of seconds in a bed solution - unlike the energetic kind who splatter all over the place instantly.

[@tadferd4340]

@@ExplosionsAndFire Any real chemist knows that electrons are just some trash the physicists forced into chemistry because they were jealous of chemists not needing to study ghosts and other complete nonsense.

[@vaibhav1618]

@@ExplosionsAndFire I mean electrons are spooky clouds right? Aren't ghosts all cloudy and spooky too? COINCIDENCE?

[@aggrogator4045]

Were your lectures before or after underwater basket weaving?

[@commanderarto3841]

I am watching the mental decline of a chemist haunted by the colour yellow.

[@techpriestsalok8119]

And it’s amazing

[@TheArm97]

And fulminating platinum

[@TrapperAaron]

Yellow is not just feared by chemists. Check out the book chrome yellow by aldus huxley

[@conormcguire4306]

Have you seen the yellow sign?

[@gman332]

@@TheArm97 oui iiiijiijjjji+

[@alexhaywood3139]

We've definitely asked when is an explosive. The answer was the 60's

[@godfreypoon5148]

@Marcos Filho Ruthenium sucks, bleach sucks, olefins suck (and you suck too!!!!

[@sixstringedthing]

The precise date that the Australian Army asked "when is an explosive" was July 18, 1963. It was called Operation Blowdown and it involved 50 short tons of TNT and a rainforest on the Cape York peninsula.

[@notabagel]

The fuckin 60s, the fuckin 60s mate

[@riograndedosulball248]

I could guess that 1918 was another good compound

[@juangonzalez9848]

60s? I though the 1800s in general had some good stuff.

[@mickeydee9069]

Standing in the footprints of giants and yelling obscenities at them is the most chad move ever

[@RobertSmith-km6gi]

Was part of my job many years ago. Starting with 160 troy ounces in a reaction flask and converted to the fulminate as an intermediate to the final product. Had to make sure it didn’t get dry or the covering liquor get too alkaline. The first time I ran this process the guy who was training me said if it turns brown run and when it did he took off! I didn’t know what to do but when I stood fast he came back and clapped me on the shoulder and said you’ll do.

[@AlexBesogonov]

Be careful. Your videos are getting dangerously educational. A bit more and you might become a legitimate educational channel.

[@Brokkoli7hun]

*and get demonitized.

[@theSILKROAD210]

NileRed has a bad influence on him...

[@ExplosionsAndFire]

I sincerely apologise to anyone who may have learnt something in this video. That was not my intention and I didn't mean it, I swear

[@fubar55676]

@@ExplosionsAndFire I blame you for giving me all this knowledge that I forget stuff like passwords I hope you're proud of yourself

[@thescout6063]

Explosions&Fire I expect an unfocused, snot-filled and teary-eyed apology video filmed in front of a white background

[@thomasking4692]

Tom has reached a level of chaotic neutrality so far above our mortal understanding he can now comprehend when for explosives

[@piranha031091]

@Marcos Filho Why are you posting this everywhere?

[@robinderoos1166]

He doesn't look like he walks the eightfold path though...

[@XVIIstarPt_]

@Marcos Filho stfu

[@tomlynmathewsjr7514]

@@robinderoos1166 Fool. The eightfold path is a lie. Tom as ascended past this point, into an entirely different realm. He has become a god among men. We must fear, for he is armed with explosives and mental instability.

[@kalrbaum]

When i first saw the smoke i thought: "hey that must be gold nanoparticles. Wait, has anobody published this as a method for solvent- and ligand-free synthesis of Au-NPs?" If you get a somewhat uniform size distribution or special kind of shape this is absolutely publishable work! Maybe you could even form some kind of high entropy alloy by this kind of reaction?...

[@ExplosionsAndFire]

Was looking for someone to take some TEM images, would be very interested to see if there is any uniformity or it's a complete mess!

[@theterribleanimator1793]

@@ExplosionsAndFire guaranteed to be a mess, if it was possible someone would've already done it.

[@theterribleanimator1793]

@Benjamin McCann oh come on, something as useful as gold nano-particles being made by the detonation of a salt so easily made. If it was possible someone would've done it for how long this salt has being in circulation.

[@Tomartyr]

@@theterribleanimator1793 People have been doing it for sure, but you shouldn't assume that they knew everything about what they were looking at, could accurately measure/describe it, and then went on to publish it.

[@theterribleanimator1793]

@@Tomartyr yeah but again, how old is this coumpound. If it was possible it would've already been done.

[@LeCharles07]

They were truly some madlads. I'm sure they would be mind-blown to know that you need the forces of a collapsing star to make gold out of other stuff.

[@handlesarefeckinstupid]

Or a nuclear reactor.

[@anonymousanonymous6214]

​@@handlesarefeckinstupid we are unable to do nuclear fusion to that level currently, We can only do nuclear fission efficiently (which makes lighter elements not heavy)

[@nicoschadjidemetriou4373]

I remember I was making 50 years ago fulminating mercury in a simple way: You put in a test tube Hg and pure alcohol (99.9) to absorb the water produced, then you drop slowly concentrate HNO3 while cooling the test tube.It was produced a white crystallic powder. You wash it with alcohol and dry it.You finished.

[@jesscorbin5981]

Is utility alcohol nonreactive with surfactants?

[@vincedibona4687]

@jesscorbin5981 Meh, just wing it whatever you have. Chuck that in a vial, you’re good to go.

[@PijiPlays]

"Can't get excited unless the explosive has tentacles or some shit." Ah I see you also are a man of culture.

[@bakeurstew1434]

I thought I was the only one that heard that, @Explosions&Fire are a also a degenerate?

[@ExplosionsAndFire]

@@bakeurstew1434 just trying to reach the fans u know, relating to them on the things i know they like

[@bakeurstew1434]

@@ExplosionsAndFire lmao

[@ExplosionsAndFire]

@TenOndra uhhhhhhh, sure yeah

[@keziahdelaney5156]

I feel like any man of science eventually becomes bored without tentacles.dont know what that means but we all wind up there

[@jack1701e]

"Large scale manufacturing with only the loss of some life" Perfect!

[@ExplosionsAndFire]

It's the 1800s way!

[@Patrick-857]

I don't know how to tell you this but essentially nothing has changed in the modern era.

[@vincedibona4687]

@Patrick-857 Sausage has far less human in it now than it did back the.

[@ChaosPootato]

*POP* "Eh?!" Now that's science

[@sixstringedthing]

*B A N G* "Jeeee-zuz". Now that's how you find God.

[@loveblowsbad]

@@sixstringedthing Yes, yes, speaking the lords name in vain is a sign of divine inspiration... Keep up the good work... Ave Satana...

[@elloo98]

More or less my experience in the electronics laboratory.

[@necrobynerton7384]

@@elloo98 OOF some dumb idiot short circuited a fuking 240V mains socket Glad it wasn't a big enough wire to melt the plastic coating and fry the dude and it just did a little bang

[@vikramkrishnan6414]

@@necrobynerton7384 When I was in the 2nd year of my engineering, forgot to connect the AC-DC adapter before my circuit. That combined with exceeding the rating of the capacitor caused it to go boom causing shrapnel everywhere

[@gianlucatartaro1335]

3:31 I love how, despite NileRed having so much educational and professional content on it, Nigel is still best known for using pee, lube, and just making stinky things in general 😂

[@andreaskav7124]

nile is the scientist. nigel is the redneck

[@martinivers489]

The German "Feuerwerkbuch" from 1420 mentions a substance called "Schießwasser", a liquid propellant for firearms. It has been concluded to likely have been methyl nitrate.

[@robinvanderpal372]

Calling it "Schießwasser" is such a German thing to do lol

[@Mp57navy]

Alchemy: Immortal Life Chemistry: Killing people with explosives.

[@sealpiercing8476]

Alchemy: immortal life, but it doesn't work Chemistry: Killing people with explosives very reliably. Also the Haber process. Which was then used to make more explosives.

[@theSILKROAD210]

@@sealpiercing8476 The Haber-Bosch process is only the synthesis of Ammonia, the Ostwald Process (oxidation of Ammonia to Nitric Acid) was developed to produce Nitrates and make Germany independent from Nitrates obtained from Guano "Chile-Salpeter" and was unfortunately a contributing factor to the length and severity of WW I.

[@sealpiercing8476]

@@theSILKROAD210 I omitted the oxidation step for punchiness of the joke. The ammonia came from the Haber process, which I'm under the impression is more widely known by name.

[@godfreypoon5148]

@Marcos Filho Ruthenium sucks, bleach sucks, olefins suck (and you suck too!!!!

[@rnedisc]

@@sealpiercing8476 " Also the Haber process. Which was then used to make more explosives. " And more people!

[@gl1500ctv]

"Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should." Since when? Is this even the same channel?!?

[@godfreypoon5148]

@Marcos Filho Ruthenium sucks, bleach sucks, olefins suck (and you suck too!!!!

[@loadeddice4696]

@Marcos Filho mate stop

[@SollowP]

Isn't that basically Science 101? "It's not a question about 'Why? It's about Why not?!'"

[@necrobynerton7384]

@@SollowP "Science isn't about why? It's about why not! WHY is so much of our science dangerous? Why not Merry safe science if you love it so much? In fact why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you on the butt on the way out? Because YOU ARE FIRED!" -Cave Johnson, firing a box

[@noalear]

This intro is more effective than coffee, because I immediately emptied my bowels. Very funny shit the whole way through! Love the mic!

[@acronus]

Call it the "max VU maneuver"

[@doggonemess1]

@Marcos Filho Why do you keep saying that? And it's spelled olefin.

[@sviatoslaviigorevich7360]

Really man, I'm a physics guy but secretly love chemistry. I love the language you use, nobody talks science in such lovably raunchy terms like you do. I fucking love it.

[@drnojtm2598]

every so often i find myself back watching all of these videos because struggling through a degree without comedic relief and good chemistry which is basically impossible. Thank you for these videos :)

[@SeiberGraff]

"involves too much human urine" *excited nilered noise -i dont think urine was actually used *sad nilered noise

[@DoingDennis]

In abouts hes near the bottom of patreon list

[@unknowunknown9096]

Add it to urination in n web

[@bushhawk5460]

The real question is: Can you make Fulminating Fulminate?

[@finerz321]

Bushhawk “exploding explosive”

[@TheBackyardChemist]

How about ammonium fulminate? Or hydrazine fulminate?

[@Maharani1991]

+

[@californium-2526]

@@TheBackyardChemist I don't think ammonium or hydrazinium would make stable fulminates... :P K+ -CNO is known - potassium fulminate. Not that explosive since Hg-C bond is a weak covalent bond. K-C bond is a pure ionic bond, allowing for more stability.

[@bladdnun3016]

@@californium-2526 Well, both ammonium cyanate and ammonium azide exist. As far as I know, ammonium azide is not that sensitive, comparable to sodium azide, and ammonium cyanate is not even really explosive at all. The hydrazinium compounds probably exist too, but I wouldn't want to be near the azide.

[@franglish9265]

In really wonder if that guy who "made" fulminating platinum, just fudged his results by adding other metal fulminates to it, or accidentally made an azide of sodium or potassium that inadvertently ended up in his final "culminating platinum"

[@ExplosionsAndFire]

Who knows, it could be the case, but it's strange to not be able to replicate it then anyway, because he gave pretty detailed steps.... But then again I was guessing at the meaning of most of the steps so anything could have easily gone wrong hm

[@Nixeu42]

@@ExplosionsAndFire It's fairly likely you misidentified one of the compounds in question. This has been brought up in the comments section of that vid, in that the "potash" mentioned was likely short for caustic potash, or potassium hydroxide. I think I managed to confirm that by looking at a couple of contemporary books that collected the known reactions for various metals, which recorded the reaction in different terms than Davy used, though I might be misremembering. By the by, I know those sources said that the acid used was plain old nitric acid, so it's possible that using red fuming nitric acid caused problems (or not, I'm not sure, I'm still a chem student). While we're here, I might also want to mention (again) that the synthesis supposedly makes platinum sulfate at some stage, which hasn't been synthesized in modern laboratory conditions. There are recent-ish theoretical chemistry papers speculating on the properties of the compound. The paper exclusively uses the formula Pt(SO4), rather than "platinum sulfate", and thus only comes up when you search for the chemical formula. So even if you can't replicate the entire process, you could still be making something worthy of a paper with this procedure.

[@the_n3ve]

@@ExplosionsAndFire should come back to that couple of years later as with S4N4 and have another episode dedicated to Personal Growth ™

[@JohnDobak]

@@ExplosionsAndFire I remember seeing you respond to the poster who detailed the classical definition of potash but never following up with another attempt using the knowledge gained. For shame Tom.

[@JohnDobak]

@@Nixeu42 Forget it, he's scared of the potential for success.

[@5minutehacks989]

i've heard much about the allusive gold fulminate from Nile Red on the Safety Third podcast. It's nice to have an indepth history on the substance and to finally see the reaction!

[@chewy560]

Made a half beaker full of fulminating gold or something similar (we also has H2O2 in our solution) by mistake. Work colleague was in process of drying it in oven when the small sample he had dried on the end of his spatula exploded. We suddenly knew we had a problem.

[@dwaynezilla]

I feel like physics at this point is a hundred year stretch of guys going "well that doesn't make _any_ sense, and *also I hate it*. Let me see how I can disprove it" while then accidentally adding proof for it and furthering the absurdity of it all.

[@Kylemsguy]

So accurate. Relativity already feels wacky enough, but then you get into quantum mechanics and.......

[@drdca8263]

Kylemsguy so I’ve only watched one online course on QM, and without like, doing any assignments (wasn’t enrolled, just watched the videos), but, honestly, Is QM really all that weird? Like ok, sure, there’s the “how do we interpret measurements?” , but besides that, like, from what I’ve seen so far of it, the math all makes sense? I guess I’ll admit that spin seems kinda weird. But not that weird? There were parts that were *impressive*, but it isn’t so much “no fair, it shouldn’t work that way” and more “I didn’t expect that to simplify out or factor in that way”. Maybe all the popsci I saw first made me sufficiently used to the entry-level weird parts that I no longer was bothered by them when I watched the actual classes?

[@lemon93]

@@drdca8263 qm isn't that bad people just have a hard time thinking of a particle as wave.

[@shrimpfry880]

i didn't have physics in high school because of all the extra biology lessons

[@allenhonaker4107]

Maths physics and chemistry are the religion of obsessive compulsive bean counters.😎😎

[@zockertwins]

I got an ad for tuna right when you started talking about mercury...

[@ExplosionsAndFire]

product placement. for the mercury. placed into the tuna product

[@sixstringedthing]

"...and now with our revolutionary bioaccumulation farming technology, you get orders of magnitude more mercury for your dollar!"

[@howiedewin3688]

I wonder if he could try making fulminating tuna?

[@marcussmart3275]

@@ExplosionsAndFire it's the great circle of life mate haha

[@marcussmart3275]

@@howiedewin3688 can you imagine the stench from that one...I dont think smell has ever seen that many levels of stank.

[@JuliaC-sp5qk]

Chemists now: I'm gonna make sure I don't eat or drink in the lab in case I accidentally ingest something dangerous Chemists in the 1800s: mmm this mercury explosive is salty :)

[@talong1588]

How do you think we found out that nitroglycerine is a good heart medication

[@halomika4973]

​@@talong1588The *what*

[@vincedibona4687]

NileRed: *makes cookies, freeze-dried Chinese, sodas, candy, and hot sauce in his lab*

[@captainj7522]

I vaguely remembered your channel about 2 months ago and I just found it tonight again I’ve never been happier to have a video recommended

[@robmckennie4203]

"no, it's safer to work at a small scale!" is what i tell the women i sleep with

[@timurtheterrible4062]

So Nile is now known as the piss guy?

[@jamsheeddevotee7588]

*R Kelly wants to know your location*

[@piranha031091]

I mean... didn't chemplayer make nitrourea from their own piss too?

[@edgeeffect]

Prof. Andrea Sella was "the piss guy" for me a good few years before Nile Red got into it.

[@RyanMan767]

nah, Cody is definitely the piss guy.

[@cezarcatalin1406]

Hi comrade !

[@maxb.5905]

Dude you really stepped up your editing game! Nice job.

[@ExplosionsAndFire]

Thanks mate!

[@koolaidman007]

The perfect synthesis of education, chemistry, and shit posting. Leave it to the Aussies.

[@ndac6324]

I’m glad your channel is catching on man. I’ve watched you put so much work into these vids for a while now. Easily one of the most entertaining science channels on yt 👍

[@Lthies20]

The more often I come back to this the more I'm amazed that Walter White made such massive crystals of fulminating mercury.

[@krazedferret]

Well you see, the thing about that is that it's a TV show and not a 100% accurate reflection of reality. Especially since the crystals were huge and would have detonated under their own weight, were all in a larger bag (a pound I think?) together rubbing against even more of itself, and the explosion from a single crystal was powerful enough to blow out the side of the building yet somehow did not simultaneously detonate the rest of the compound in the bag that was sitting on Tucos desk which Walter then picked up to use as a "shield" so they wouldn't shoot him. But it's also implied in the show that what he made wasn't regular mercury fulminate. When Tuco asks him what it is he replies "Fulminated mercury, with a little tweak of chemistry." But it still doesn't really make sense that it could be sensitive enough to detonate from being thrown but not detonate from the other reasons I listed. Oh well, still a great scene and a great show regardless!

[@mokatwenty]

What's with the Melbourne Bitter on the speaker. You need to store dangerous chemicals better than that...

[@petermc_grann4192]

I came here for the laughs and the rants on yellow- I stayed for the learning. Man, good video.

[@mauz791]

Agreed. The man's a fun chemistry teacher now

[@Thomas-vn6cr]

I suck at chemistry, but adore your memes/editing, and am starting to think that these videos are an insight into what a typical Australian class is like.

[@diggah]

Is it wrong that I’ve watched this vid over 10 times now? I’m no chemist (I got a D in gcse chemistry in 1994) but your voice is very relaxing and oh boy do we need a lot of more of that right now. Cheers chap.

[@taiwanluthiers]

Silver fulminate is used in those snap pop kids play with. It's sensitive stuff. Basically if you open it up, it's a bunch of pebbles with a tiny amount of silver fulminate. Even just sifting through it will cause it to go off. I have no idea how they even manufacture the stuff. I mean all those toy contact explosives are dangerous as hell to manufacture because they often involve stuff like armstrong's mix and the like.

[@alexdoescrazystuff]

I have finally been early, wanted to say your channel is my favorite channel, and wish you good luck with the cubane project.

[@ExplosionsAndFire]

Thanks mate! We're going to need all the luck we can get I think

[@robinderoos1166]

I wonder where the tentacles explode our of?

[@gamingmarcus]

Thanks for reminding me that I once learned about surface plasmon resonance. I'm 100% siding with ghosts.

[@Kanitoxx]

I once made like 5g of silver fulminate, while drying it, it exploded due to too much of it piled in one place, I was working in a ceramic plate and plastic utensils to reduce the explosion risk hahaha I failed at that and ended up with 2 weeks without hearing well and a damn buzzing sound...

[@PropheticShadeZ]

That's beautiful

[@RandomInternetProfile]

Because SCIENCE

[@francisbrewster4948]

..... OMG .....

[@berrodude]

Interesting note about mercury fulminate; It was the original compound used in the primer caps for early firearm ammunition. It was used in this way as opposed to replacing gunpowder as the excessive explosive power made it impractical as a propellant but ideal for an ignition primer.

[@francisbrewster4948]

VERY GOOD information there .... thanks very interesting, useful as understanding history & firearms .... thanks to you !!

[@japanime555]

-Amazing content -bizarre upload schedule -Australian You are canonically the Maxmoefoe of chemistry and I absolutely love it

[@p0ptop]

This is the first time one of your vids has come up in my feed on its own. Every single other one I've had to go lookin fer.

[@ExplosionsAndFire]

Progress!

[@TheBoshy]

Will it Fulminate? KZbin's hottest new show

[@ryancraft2890]

I've watched this video many times now. It's fun every single time. The energy is great and the edits a perfectly chaotic. Like, I just love this guy.

[@troymorgan3346]

I found this via a rabbit hole on the internet.. but I've not watched this guy for 3 hours straight.. not for the chemistry.. but bc of how freaking excited he is..

[@Chiovarie]

SCUFFED NILE RED RISES ONCE MORE

[@Darasilverdragon]

he's Nile Yellow

[@DoingDennis]

Except hes at the bottom of the patreon list

[@deoris5778]

Me trying to wacth a video at 2am *EXPLOSIONS AND FIRE*

[@evilferris]

Ex&F: Man, I wish Mercury wasn’t so toxic… Gallium: Hi!

[@AlexBesogonov]

Gallium is nowhere near as fun. It's not that heavy and it wets pretty much everything (skin, glass, metals).

[@durshurrikun150]

Galium and cesium are solid at room temperature though.

[@ivantheterrible7696]

@@durshurrikun150 only because the dipshits in charge decided the range for "room temperature" to be based on their homes in cold-temperate climates, which isn't really reasonable.

[@durshurrikun150]

@@ivantheterrible7696 At standard conditions, aka 1 bar 298,15K Cesium and gallium are solid. So only mercury and possibly francium are liquid in standard conditions.

[@ivantheterrible7696]

@@durshurrikun150 not the point. I'm complaining about 25 C° being the "standard" to begin with.

[@barretprivateer8768]

The biggest explosion in the video was my eardrums turning to mist as the drivers in my headphones slam into my skull at 0:10

[@migarsormrapophis2755]

"Explosives are entirely a human invention" The Bombardier Beetle and the Sun: "Allow us to introduce ourselves"

[@francisbrewster4948]

Yes i thiught about bombardier beetles .... perhaps its not an explosion, it is a fast reaction of liquids contained in a vessel ---- Even gunpowder is a slow or "low" explosive ---- as he says here

[@bomb4r719]

*Holy God I wish public education was like this* Explosives are just sexy

[@privateger]

Of course you have a Megumin profile picture.

[@bomb4r719]

Look, I'm a weeb shitposter, what more do you expect from me

[@theSILKROAD210]

a man of culture !

[@bakeurstew1434]

I fucking love this guy, explosion Loli best loli

[@TheRAMBO9191]

Ahh yes, school bombings are just so fun. No. We do not need people to learn how to do bombs.

[@gabeverk]

Love this channel. It brings good memories of the "fun" chemistry

[@Slathos1]

not fun chemistry is part of why I am a software developer now :

[@gabeverk]

@@Slathos1 awwww

[@VAbel03]

8:37 solution: *explodes and goes everywhere* E&F: *hentai noise*

[@useazebra]

You turned gold into expletives. Well done.

[@dane1382]

hell yeah! i learned about fulminations and how they practically founded modern chemistry in high school chem, and its still interesting

[@chaboii]

Science: here's a cool compound, blows up like freakin nuts Britain: hey Afghanistan, come here, i wanna show you something

[@Darasilverdragon]

any time britain, france, spain, the netherlands, or portugal wants to show your country something, just fucking leave it. Make a new country somewhere else. You're better off.

[@azertyuiop432]

@@Darasilverdragon Now it's 'Murica

[@robmckennie4203]

And they still get owned 😂

[@SomeKidsAtHomes]

i remember this channel a few years ago when it only had a few hundred subs and I always hoped that you get enough subscribers so you could continue to produce cool content and not stop :) Thank guys, love ya!

[@iNerdier]

Tom is going to die of jaundice one day isn’t he.

[@toastpoint]

Nah, but his kidneys are just going to say "peace out" one day

[@iNerdier]

Toast Point but it’s the yellowest way to go!

[@GarryDumblowski]

Something that I find interesting about the "Gold sulfur" is that sulfur was considered to be one of the elements of the "Tria Prima", or a set of elements which is different from the... other set of elements that they also used. The other two members were mercury and table salt, and part of the reasons they thought they could turn base metals into gold was because every metal was some mixture of mercury and sulfur. It's entirely possible that they thought this experiment was, in a sense, pulling the sulfur from the gold and using that to create an explosive. Makes me wonder where they thought the mercury went? And what did they think was happening when they tried mercury fulminate?

[@tzook4080]

This is the first video I have ever seen of yours. I am, at this moment; 1 minute and 3 seconds in. And you're my favorite channel now. Thanks.

[@flyingshards595]

When life gives you yellow chemistry... Really enjoyed the video, great intro!

[@edgeeffect]

When life gives you yellow chemistry... you just distill your own pee.

[@haska9706]

Honestly if you tried to apply for a grant claiming you'd make someone immortal, you'd still get turned down

[@Dirkietje8]

6:45 Postdoc life

[@shotgunjackalQ]

I love this episode so God damn much. It'll come on while I'm gaming and every damn time I end up picking up my phone and just watching this episode. With other episodes I'll watch parts of it but this episode always makes me stop and pay attention.

[@battletommy8918]

I just love how you just put science and comedy into one video.

[@TheBoshy]

Can't wait for the fulminating platin-

[@fritz5448]

0:37 sad Bombardier beetle noises

[@privateger]

Michael Reeves hasn't uploaded in a while. You haven't either. I really missed my crazy scientist dosage.

[@micahphilson]

6:14 "I don't believe physics is real" _gets his PhD in physics_ Ah, the scientific process!

[@davidmalone7069]

I love this channel found it last night, very good find

[@pvtbadtouch6540]

Big ups to this citated piece of research

[@SolarSeeker45]

As a modern alchemist I can tell you that they use a LOT of metaphor. When they say Sulphur of gold. They mean a compound made of gold which has similar properties to sulfur. Mostly a low melting point and the ability to exhibit the colors yellow,red, black ,white, and red in that order.

[@wardedthorn6523]

What do you *mean* a modern alchemist

[@MattB1792]

0:38 Well, there are not primary eplosives in the nature, but secondary explosives exist. Look here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_beetle

[@CatboyChemicalSociety]

thats not even an explosive. thats just a hypergolic mixture of peroxide and a catalyst!

[@DanielGBenesScienceShows]

“Ghosts”... Explains why much of my childhood involved neighbors questioning mushroom clouds and bangs they heard, and people with shiny badges stopping by to “have a little look around”, while I jumped haphazardly in childlike naivety on the burnt trampoline in the backyard saying to myself... “don’t look in that shed”.

[@Dunkster74]

That fulminating silver has got to be one of the angriest explosives I've seen, jesus.

[@SuperSqwiggy]

Wait, so you've just been doing alchemy this whole time? That's why you don't have papers dude.

[@PorkpieJohnny]

1:00 EW MATLAB

[@eertikrux666]

Nilered: *Singlet oxygen video* Me: *Watch later but haven’t watched until a year later* F&E: *This* Me: N O W

[@SophiaAstatine]

The fuck is F&E? Furries and erections? Fulmimation and endangerment?

[@steampunkastronaut7081]

"Fun & Excitement"

[@hadinossanosam4459]

@@SophiaAstatine Fulmination&Exotherm

[@SophiaAstatine]

@@hadinossanosam4459 Ooooo! That's a good one.

[@RaglansElectricBaboon]

You are a genuinely entertaining and informative nutter. Thank you.

[@Add_Infinitum]

I think this is one of his best videos, the humor is so on point

[@ataphelicopter5734]

Patreon people here 18 hours ago...

[@RationallySkeptical]

0:09 You should have just started the video here.

[@aperturescienceguy2737]

"Somewhere between, idunno, like, the big bang and, yesterday" This is now my go-to for when someone asks me when something happened

[@notsam498]

"they'd win so many grant funding rounds".....I love you man.

[@peanutsveryepicchannel8699]

Low explosive = detonates somewhat randomly High explosive = detonates controllably

[@v7bp25aq]

I love this channel! I am a programming student and I wish there was a channel like this but for programming.

[@mrhassell]

The first explosion, was antimatter. When an antiproton, meets a proton, they anhilate each other on a quantum scale. This works, regardless of the big bang, so it's really the oldest explosion to have ever occurred and its completely natural.

[@apaleslimghost]

the "eh???" at the exploding silver nitride off-camera at 8:28 is absolutely sending me

[@SensoryAlterations]

"It was during one of these, elaborate alchemy sort of, fucking around with gold with the boys, kind of, session that the first primary explosives were made" Lost my shit hahaha

[@mikedeaker5779]

you are by far the most entertaining and informative youtuber in the history of the world

[@creditsunknown7974]

"Chemical explosive" Don't do mah man the bombardier beetle dirty like that, come on