Extracting Cadmium from a NiCd Battery

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Extractions&Ire

Extractions&Ire

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@ExtractionsAndIre
@ExtractionsAndIre 3 жыл бұрын
If you enjoyed the music in this video, it was by an artist called \aleph_{0} ( aleph0.bandcamp.com/ ) For the last few years I've been using the uncredited Aphex Twin soundcloud tracks for these video. They've been great but I'm keen to branch out. If you're an artist who makes music with the same vibes as the previous videos (so electronic music, no vocals), DM me up on Twitter to be involved if you wanna! I'm slow at replying, and quite picky with the music I choose, but I'm super keen to feature some cool beats in future videos. Thanks!!
@LasArmas_
@LasArmas_ 3 жыл бұрын
i dont like it let me do your music
@ephjaymusic
@ephjaymusic 3 жыл бұрын
Yes!!!
@sid6645
@sid6645 3 жыл бұрын
Now play some camellia bgm ehehe
@hephaix
@hephaix 3 жыл бұрын
Looks like Board of Canada.
@jonpierce8342
@jonpierce8342 3 жыл бұрын
You should collab with the youtube channel "look mum no computer"... Your welcome!
@woopstrafel3061
@woopstrafel3061 3 жыл бұрын
8 months ago in your RuO4 video, you told us to remind you in 8 months to extract Calcium from bones. Here’s the reminder
@Weldoholic
@Weldoholic 11 ай бұрын
Being a pure bred American, I genuinely enjoy stroopwaffels.
@vincedibona4687
@vincedibona4687 4 ай бұрын
Being a full human being, no one cares. 🤦🏻‍♂️
@kingtard3886
@kingtard3886 4 ай бұрын
​@@Weldoholic its literally a honey waffle cookie, no way someone doesnt
@ILoveTinfoilHats
@ILoveTinfoilHats 4 ай бұрын
​@@vincedibona4687 wait until you discover that the world doesn't recover around you, it's gonna be a whole new perspective
@TheLukasDirector
@TheLukasDirector 29 күн бұрын
​@@WeldoholicStroopwafels*, broeder uit de koloniën
@Hackcam
@Hackcam 3 жыл бұрын
"Cadmium is extremely toxic" *10 Minutes later* "The Cadmium is somewhere I'm not quite sure"
@medexamtoolscom
@medexamtoolscom 3 жыл бұрын
It can't be that toxic. In high school, I tried to make my own NiCd battery and I was heating cadmium with a propane torch to shape it the way I wanted and I didn't realize not only could I melt it but its boiling point was low enough that I was boiling it too, and I certainly breathed in some of the vapors and never had any ill effects from it. Of course that was cadmium metal and oxides, they were probably not very soluble so I wouldn't have absorbed it.
@patrickdillon5517
@patrickdillon5517 3 жыл бұрын
That's not really how carcinogens work. Cadmium fumes can cause kind damage and kidney damage, but it's also a carcinogen.
@58209
@58209 3 жыл бұрын
the cadmium is LOOSE and it it out for REVENGE
@LLPTV
@LLPTV 2 жыл бұрын
@@medexamtoolscom That's what the romans said, and chuckled while sipping wine from their lead cups
@Xnoob545
@Xnoob545 4 ай бұрын
​@@medexamtoolscom good luck
@jacobtierney4419
@jacobtierney4419 3 жыл бұрын
"Just because a project succeeds in its goals doesn't mean its not a fucking disaster" Thanks Tom, was struggling for a final sentence to conclude my thesis but this gets to the core of it.
@simennilsen5457
@simennilsen5457 3 жыл бұрын
top kek
@brhestir
@brhestir 3 жыл бұрын
😂🤣 but well done tho
@jonpierce8342
@jonpierce8342 3 жыл бұрын
Like that time the fume hood died... Just leave... Reaction was just fine!
@sudazima
@sudazima 3 жыл бұрын
im suppose to write my thesis right now, its 5am and it was due at 5 hours ago. this could replace everything i wrote in the last few hours
@ironman8257
@ironman8257 3 жыл бұрын
i have to remember this
@axelBr1
@axelBr1 3 жыл бұрын
As part of my degree course, I went to a chemical plant that was very pleased that it had recently worked out how to replace the Cadmium electrodes they had been using, with Lead electrodes, because Lead was so much safer.
@lichking3711
@lichking3711 2 жыл бұрын
that feels like a weird sentence considering how bad lead is as well. Lesser of two evils I guess
@isi2973
@isi2973 2 жыл бұрын
In 2020 I worked a bit at for an electrochem project of a doctotorant as a general lab rat. Cleaning and polishing the used cadmium electrodes was one of my jobs. I was kinda glad I had stocked up a few micro silver filter cloth masks before habd, because if the pandemic. ^^
@subliminalfalllenangel2108
@subliminalfalllenangel2108 2 жыл бұрын
Not that safer though.
@Jefferson-ly5qe
@Jefferson-ly5qe Жыл бұрын
Lead's way better than cadmium
@theangledsaxon6765
@theangledsaxon6765 Жыл бұрын
@@subliminalfalllenangel2108 ermmmmmm yeah it’s decently so, cadmium is fuckin scary lol
@mamaymay8259
@mamaymay8259 3 жыл бұрын
Gotta love inorganic chemistry. Always trying to kill you, but at least there's pretty colors (and no tar!)
@PlaqueBaka
@PlaqueBaka 3 жыл бұрын
There is no inorganic or organic chemistry. There is only molecule and "bulk" chemistry.
@henrythompson7768
@henrythompson7768 3 жыл бұрын
@@PlaqueBaka ok Mr science man
@legitgopnik8431
@legitgopnik8431 3 жыл бұрын
Don't worry, organic chemistry will try to kill you plenty. But fewer colors, it's all a white powder.
@CCChicken
@CCChicken 3 жыл бұрын
Idk why "and no tar" made me laugh like it did, but it made me chuckle.
@josephr9487
@josephr9487 3 жыл бұрын
Instead of tar it has brown sludge
@LobbySeatWarmer
@LobbySeatWarmer 3 жыл бұрын
Battery disposal industry: Incinerating batteries is absolutely fine (1) References 1. Explosions and Fire et al: "The Atmosphere Is Nature's Bin". KZbin, 27 March 2020, 5:58
@ExtractionsAndIre
@ExtractionsAndIre 3 жыл бұрын
I'm my own worst enemy
@Snaperkid
@Snaperkid 3 жыл бұрын
No it’s not. It’s just his bin.
@AoiTheLaughingMan
@AoiTheLaughingMan 3 жыл бұрын
I have that bit screencapped for whenever my project supervisor asks how I intend to dispose of my waste.
@origamigek
@origamigek 3 жыл бұрын
Wow Extractions and Ire managed to do a collab with that famous et al guy?
@Psychx_
@Psychx_ 3 жыл бұрын
Welp, it's still better than the "good ol' chem pit".
@jukefishron
@jukefishron 3 жыл бұрын
I love the sketchyness of this video. It's like he knows just about the bare minimum to make everything work.
@dimentio1030
@dimentio1030 2 жыл бұрын
that's just how lab work is tbh. trust me on that one.
@B3nNyL3nNy
@B3nNyL3nNy 2 жыл бұрын
what's even funnier is that he has a phd
@deathkeys1
@deathkeys1 2 жыл бұрын
that is because I don't do youtube videos, imagine having less than the bare minimum and still trying, got an HCl plant project for about two years now, no proper glasware used, just some UV LEDs, mercury vapor lamp, halogen lamps(gotta have that warmth since people say that I'm just too cold), some drilled mini glass jars and test tubes, a lot of PTFE tape and epoxy, epoxy and PTFE tapes are everything to me.... got something going, gotta revive the damn thing after some new findings.... for what is worth, I managed to do it, I got about 1l of 5% HCl from the project, yes, all from table salt, water, heat, UV radiation and my hatred! no borossilicate needed, true men do chemistry without lab glassware.(of course, I might die earlier from an explosion or cancer, whatever comes first LOL)
@R411aj
@R411aj 2 жыл бұрын
@@deathkeys1 Just because project does its goals it doesn't mean that it isn't a fucking disaster
@samsonsoturian6013
@samsonsoturian6013 2 жыл бұрын
He's an actual chemist but started these videos when he was a child and still uses the same ghetto rigged gear. He likes to mock his own no-fricks-given persona.
@JH-if5rv
@JH-if5rv 3 жыл бұрын
"where's the cadmium?" is a scary game
@gordonlawrence1448
@gordonlawrence1448 3 жыл бұрын
bloody scary after that chemist got 2 drops on a nitrile glove and it killed her in a horrible manner. (Chubby Emu channel)
@konkey-dong
@konkey-dong 3 жыл бұрын
@@gordonlawrence1448 That was dimethylmercury but organocadmium compounds are arguably worse
@vincentschumann937
@vincentschumann937 3 жыл бұрын
how in comparison to where's the uranium?
@cwill2127
@cwill2127 3 жыл бұрын
@@vincentschumann937 a lot worse considering you’d likely be fine short term from uranium depending on the amount
@davidmathew603
@davidmathew603 3 жыл бұрын
Hey heey pay no mind your under 18 you wont be doing any time come out and play
@jesther2575
@jesther2575 3 жыл бұрын
"What the fuck, where is my cadmium" is the same energy as where is the lamb sauce but a little bit passive-aggressive
@blarghchan
@blarghchan 3 жыл бұрын
Yellow chemistry, mate. You knew what you were setting yourself up for...
@ExtractionsAndIre
@ExtractionsAndIre 3 жыл бұрын
I am a fool
@alephnole7009
@alephnole7009 3 жыл бұрын
@@ExtractionsAndIre just remove the yellow in post.
@among-us-99999
@among-us-99999 3 жыл бұрын
Coloured safety goggles to remove the yellow
@1224chrisng
@1224chrisng 3 жыл бұрын
green is the new yellow
@stanmacdonald1073
@stanmacdonald1073 2 жыл бұрын
Back in the 70's I helped build an apple press. After 300 lbs (yes, we were still using furlongs in the 70's too) of apples, the plating on all the screws was gone. A quick test in the university lab proved we had a tasty, toxic cadmium apple drink.
@sunnysuryani5674
@sunnysuryani5674 Жыл бұрын
What kind of screw has cadmium in it?
@ToTheGAMES
@ToTheGAMES Жыл бұрын
@@sunnysuryani5674 a screwed up one
@Agentlefox
@Agentlefox 10 ай бұрын
RIP
@Philip-hv2kc
@Philip-hv2kc 4 ай бұрын
Cadmium plated screws and bolts were common. We been getting cadmium plated nuts and bolts from China for some time and folk don't know. Galvanized and zincalume may also have cadmium if from tjyna. Heat it red hot for a bit if the coating is brown it's cadmium oxide. Zinc oxide is white but happens to be yellow when still hot till it cools .
@uuh4yj43
@uuh4yj43 4 ай бұрын
​@@Philip-hv2kc cadmium is pretty common in nuts, bolts and other metal hardware... i found out after i made a bong out of the stuff...
@lilleeharvey
@lilleeharvey 3 жыл бұрын
Imagine inviting a friend and they see your waste bottle of green cadmium. "There's a lot of nickel in this cadmium, have you thought about separating it?"
@_sunsor
@_sunsor 3 жыл бұрын
it's just a prank, bro
@MCNarret
@MCNarret 3 жыл бұрын
**proceeds to chug the cadmium** ya?
@RKroese
@RKroese 3 жыл бұрын
"Thought about it... and decided against it."
@Mister_Clean
@Mister_Clean Жыл бұрын
🫥
@Daniel-yn2lh
@Daniel-yn2lh 3 ай бұрын
I used to make beautiful nickel sulfate crystals from the nickel oxyhydroxide I got from batteries, I left the cadmium alone. Had a whole box of the screens but misplaced them when I moved
@theq4602
@theq4602 3 жыл бұрын
We had some metal bits in our science lab in high school that was meant for showing how density worked. They came in these nice old kits in plastic bags, each piece was equal in size. Among the samples was a slug of metal that didn't look like lead, but it was very very heavy. I was curious as to what metal it could be. Read the instructions and it turns out it was a solid lump of Cadmium. That I was handling with my bare hands.
@williamchamberlain2263
@williamchamberlain2263 Жыл бұрын
Oops
@Tactix_se
@Tactix_se 6 ай бұрын
Well, elemental cadmium isn’t all that dangerous. It’s not absorbed by the skin so you’re not going to die by holding it
@uuh4yj43
@uuh4yj43 4 ай бұрын
​@@Tactix_se same as lead or even mercury. people got mercury fillings and we still fish and hunt with lead, and its mostly fine to touch(dont eat birdshot)
@asmolbean9300
@asmolbean9300 3 жыл бұрын
"is nickel magnetic" tom has a chemistry degree and saying things like this is why we love him
@beguilingfire
@beguilingfire 3 жыл бұрын
Just proves he's a real scientist.
@Flagdread
@Flagdread 3 жыл бұрын
Ok but is it though? Asking for a friend.
@beguilingfire
@beguilingfire 3 жыл бұрын
@@Flagdread Speaking as a PhD chemist and a hobby chemist (more like Tom than I'm willing to admit), I can personally confirm it. Also I know plenty of people who'd say the same thing in the same situation - all PhDs. (Yup, I'm aware this is anecdotal and therefore meaningless :') )
@Flagdread
@Flagdread 3 жыл бұрын
@@beguilingfire I will inform my friend that Mr Theal Chemist says that's it's confirmed.
@crackedemerald4930
@crackedemerald4930 3 жыл бұрын
There's only three that are and they're all neighbours
@sompka1
@sompka1 Жыл бұрын
I have fond memories of NiCd batteries from the 1990's. I had Rc cars that used 7,2v nicd packs. I used a few of those packs almost every day of my childhood and they ALWAYS just worked. I would fast charge them on a 15 minute charger and discharge them at huge currents. I shorted them many times and all they ever did was get hot as hell. NiCd is a helluva cell and would be a great choice for EV if it wasnt so toxic.
@rebeccarivers4797
@rebeccarivers4797 3 жыл бұрын
From Wikipedia "Ni-Cd batteries contain between 6% (for industrial batteries) and 18% (for commercial batteries) cadmium, which is a toxic heavy metal and therefore requires special care during battery disposal." Maybe that was all of it
@NickiRusin
@NickiRusin 3 жыл бұрын
holy fuck, that really might've been all of it
@Skyliner04s
@Skyliner04s 3 жыл бұрын
6% of fukk-all is fukk-all. I think you´re right.
@AKAtheA
@AKAtheA 3 жыл бұрын
@@Skyliner04s still, the cell should be something like 29g, he should have way more...
@jeremymcadam7400
@jeremymcadam7400 3 жыл бұрын
@@AKAtheA are we including the steel case?
@AKAtheA
@AKAtheA 3 жыл бұрын
@@jeremymcadam7400 yep
@timothyblazer1749
@timothyblazer1749 3 жыл бұрын
NiCads also can function in the cold very well, which is why they used to be the standard for military aircraft, and are currently in use for Arctic conditions. Specifically...flooded NiCad were used. Yep. They used hydroxide electrolytes and lasted pretty much forever. Marathon was the brand. I got a hold of a pack of these, flooded them and used them for an electric snowblower conversion back in the early 00's. You have to use nickel plated connectors because the solution is so basic.
@christopherleubner6633
@christopherleubner6633 11 ай бұрын
Those batteries have some Wheaties, lots of prompt current. Need 10 cells to make a 12V jump pack. The aircraft packs are 24V or 48v usually.
@Xnoob545
@Xnoob545 4 ай бұрын
Misread that as "Arabic conditions" Was like "wait what"
@RaunienTheFirst
@RaunienTheFirst 3 жыл бұрын
"Where did the Cadmium go?" is not a question anyone wants to hear...
@renerpho
@renerpho 3 жыл бұрын
It's not quite up there with "where did the Mercury go?", but it's still unnerving.
@vincentschumann937
@vincentschumann937 3 жыл бұрын
where da uranium go? where da hydrochlorine go?
@AKAtheA
@AKAtheA 3 жыл бұрын
@@renerpho while still really bad, mercury isn't a carcinogen...
@Kenionatus
@Kenionatus 3 жыл бұрын
@@vincentschumann937 At least you can find your uranium with a giger counter. Sucks if it's inside you tho.
@antman7673
@antman7673 3 жыл бұрын
@@renerpho I don’t know what is worse.
@VeryHighPriest
@VeryHighPriest 2 жыл бұрын
I love the part where he loses the highly toxic metal
@Psychx_
@Psychx_ 3 жыл бұрын
I came for the extractions and stayed for the ire
@DashieDasher
@DashieDasher Жыл бұрын
it hadn't even occurred to me until I saw that yellow at 18:30, that's the same cadmium yellow that's used in oil paints isn't it?
@xghale9073
@xghale9073 3 жыл бұрын
20:20 "I'm getting really sick of this" You know, you might not want to be saying that around good old cadmium...
@zachw2906
@zachw2906 Жыл бұрын
Gotta say, I love how you just throw things at the problem until it works - much more entertaining than other chemists who follow exact steps and never make mistakes on camera
@ripmorld9909
@ripmorld9909 3 жыл бұрын
Watching Tom descend into insanity Because of heavy metal poisoning is kinda funny.
@Mister_Clean
@Mister_Clean Жыл бұрын
The things we do for the advancement of science
@TheSoloduka
@TheSoloduka 3 жыл бұрын
Considering the battery is probably only ~5% cadmium by weight, I'd say you did well.
@quantumlab9130
@quantumlab9130 3 жыл бұрын
It seems that whenever you try to get something from a battery, the question is always where’s the cobalt or where’s the lithium and you give up and never come back to it again.
@ExtractionsAndIre
@ExtractionsAndIre 3 жыл бұрын
'Moving on with my life' is the less harsh term I use to refer to giving up
@gordonlawrence1448
@gordonlawrence1448 3 жыл бұрын
That's why I stick to zinc carbon for recovering stuff. The carbon rods make half decent electrolysis rods for some purposes and I;ll be buggered with a horseshoe if I'm paying for platinum ones. Also the zinc can be useful and it's easy to clean.
@Maharani1991
@Maharani1991 3 жыл бұрын
@@gordonlawrence1448 +
@thomasmcelroy5785
@thomasmcelroy5785 3 жыл бұрын
@@ExtractionsAndIre well put!
@MadScientist267
@MadScientist267 3 жыл бұрын
@@gordonlawrence1448 I was just gonna say this 🤣
@Hairy_Lee
@Hairy_Lee Жыл бұрын
I recall working on a submarine during a refit and was surprised to find a locarton which contained cadmium plated equipment. Lovely colour though!
@fugue7938
@fugue7938 3 жыл бұрын
Baja Blast chemistry is my favorite personally.
@realname3538
@realname3538 3 жыл бұрын
It really does look like Baja Blast...
@thenetgamer2
@thenetgamer2 3 жыл бұрын
Fuck, now I really want to drink it.
@leflavius_nl5370
@leflavius_nl5370 3 жыл бұрын
Operation Soda Steal
@TheGamingLegendsOfficial
@TheGamingLegendsOfficial 3 жыл бұрын
@@leflavius_nl5370 Operation Soda Steel
@TheGamingLegendsOfficial
@TheGamingLegendsOfficial 3 жыл бұрын
@Tiddy Blaster nah man I think I was making a metal joke to reference MGS or something
@LHS_Shadow
@LHS_Shadow Жыл бұрын
20:16 I absolutely love this edit with the casual "Where's the Cadmium" text
@ASlutty9SUnit
@ASlutty9SUnit 3 жыл бұрын
This entire video was just the laugh of a broken and tortured man. Top notch content, my dude.
@oisinmurphy8242
@oisinmurphy8242 Жыл бұрын
You got my like for the name
@bsanchez3563
@bsanchez3563 Жыл бұрын
Same subbed
@vincedibona4687
@vincedibona4687 4 ай бұрын
Fucking simps… 🤦🏻‍♂️
@Kethriss
@Kethriss 3 жыл бұрын
There's something very enlightening about how he seemingly haphazardly blows through chemical processes trying to figure it out as he goes after skimming the literature and documentation until it gets to where he wants it...and then says that he's struggling with putting together Ikea furniture which is famous for explaining the process step-by-step to make sure that even college students can get it put together.
@TheAttacker732
@TheAttacker732 2 жыл бұрын
I don't know why, but some people just inexplicably struggle with Ikea directions. I had to help a friend with his Ikea desk, after he got stuck ~6 steps in.
@grekygrek
@grekygrek 3 жыл бұрын
Man...stumbling upon your channel was like a gift bro. Seriously i watch other chemists but none of them were comedian chemists lol. Love it man gonna binge everything now.
@TheGiselaSchumacher
@TheGiselaSchumacher 3 жыл бұрын
I'm really glad you made this video. I've been contemplating the extraction of cadmium from NiCd batteries for a couple years now as a means to add elemental cadmium to my element collection. You have made it quite apparent to me that ebay prices really aren't that bad xP
@yurikoffy5712
@yurikoffy5712 3 жыл бұрын
“absolutely do not open these” *6 seconds later* “oke, so my plan is to take this apart”
@Operator873
@Operator873 3 жыл бұрын
"Just because a project succeeds in its goals doesn't mean its not a fucking disaster." I need this on a T-Shirt. It's going to be my slogan for life now.
@NihilisticRealism
@NihilisticRealism Жыл бұрын
The camera joke at the end is your best joke so far on both channels
@KingJellyfishII
@KingJellyfishII 3 жыл бұрын
ah yes "where's the cadmium" my favourite game to play on a long car journey
@Alexander_Sannikov
@Alexander_Sannikov 3 жыл бұрын
discovered this channel a couple days ago, can't stop watching. the commentary is mostly what makes it interesting for me. despite the lack of tar.
@oscarlama
@oscarlama 3 жыл бұрын
Also cadmium is really soft and you could chew on it mate
@ExtractionsAndIre
@ExtractionsAndIre 3 жыл бұрын
That's one way to test for cadmium I guess
@Ninjastahr
@Ninjastahr 3 жыл бұрын
Cadmium test: Have someone drink the solutions. If they're dead, there was cadmium!
@QueenDaenerysTargaryen
@QueenDaenerysTargaryen 3 жыл бұрын
👍
@robmckennie4203
@robmckennie4203 3 жыл бұрын
@@Ninjastahr if you drink the reaction mixture, you get to use all the amazing testing equipment they have at the hospital :D
@Philip-hv2kc
@Philip-hv2kc 4 ай бұрын
Tasting the compounds is a good method of identification and was widely done in the pre 20th century.
@KayakerMagic
@KayakerMagic 3 жыл бұрын
I appreciate the honesty of showing us the failures as well as the successes. I fear traditional publishing does not publish the failures so we never hear the reality.
@atlas42185
@atlas42185 Жыл бұрын
You ever heard of peer review?
@margodphd
@margodphd Жыл бұрын
​@@atlas42185... that's not remotely the same
@pgtmr2713
@pgtmr2713 8 ай бұрын
​@@atlas42185Pee'er review? Payer review... there it is.
@itzspookytv686
@itzspookytv686 3 жыл бұрын
Can you do the calcium from bones reaction?🙏🏼 in the spooky scary ruthenium tetroxide video@0:44 you said to remind you in 8 months time n i would love to see it 🕙.
@thedude7726
@thedude7726 3 жыл бұрын
MVP comment
@vertiform_city
@vertiform_city 3 жыл бұрын
@@thedude7726 Most volatile peroxide?
@itzspookytv686
@itzspookytv686 3 жыл бұрын
@@vertiform_city i love this 😂
@therealbregeduur
@therealbregeduur Жыл бұрын
Fun fact, in Germany, you are considered worse than the devil if you trow even just one battery ever in the normal bin. There are collection boxes in every supermarket
@LoveOverwhelming
@LoveOverwhelming Жыл бұрын
Good
@jortand
@jortand 3 жыл бұрын
Tom: I'll do some inorganic chemistry to get a break from the yellow sulphur: allow me to introduce myself
@richardwebb5317
@richardwebb5317 2 жыл бұрын
Some cadmium compounds make fine yellow pigments.
@erich1394
@erich1394 3 жыл бұрын
I like how things aligned so that you ended up with really pretty colors all around. Even the yellow looked okay next to the green and blue.
@shipmanjd
@shipmanjd 3 жыл бұрын
As an artist I have to say that the sulfides and sulfoselenides of cadmium are the flat out no question best opaque yellows, oranges, and reds. They have fantastic tinting strength and they soak up oil greedily. Long Live Cad Red
@scentre9276
@scentre9276 3 жыл бұрын
Greeting from a new subscriber! This was the first video i watched and let's just say that I really enjoyed it. Please keep up the good work. Love the enutisiasm, anger xD and how you make "not-so-fun" scenarios fun (cleaning for example). thank you man and if you see this I wanna wish you a safe day ^^
@ExtractionsAndIre
@ExtractionsAndIre 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks mate!!
@alexanderkroboth3310
@alexanderkroboth3310 3 жыл бұрын
When you put H2S into the Cd(NO3)2 solution it decreases the PH again by regenerating the acid: Cd(NO3)2 + H2S -> CdS + 2HNO3 I'm pretty sure that's the reason for the low yield.
@hammerth1421
@hammerth1421 3 жыл бұрын
Solution: buffer the shit out of it!
@marinahildebrand5868
@marinahildebrand5868 3 жыл бұрын
My guess is that within a weeks time, most of the CdS oxidised into some mixture of sulphite and sulphate. Cadmiumsulphate is fairly soluble in Water at 772 g/l.
@alexanderkroboth3310
@alexanderkroboth3310 3 жыл бұрын
@@marinahildebrand5868 Cadmium sulfide was used as a pigment in paint, so it should be fairly resistent to oxidation, but according to Wikipedia, it does react with HCl.
@alexanderkroboth3310
@alexanderkroboth3310 3 жыл бұрын
@@hammerth1421 Yeah, I think adding sodium acetate to the solution should do it.
@dillonhofsommer5648
@dillonhofsommer5648 3 жыл бұрын
Turn that arrow into an equilibrium arrow and I think you have your answer. Once CdS reacts with acid, the H2S can just fly away as a gas.
@Mister_Clean
@Mister_Clean Жыл бұрын
"Let's play a little game called 'WHERE'S THE CADMIUM?'" Answer: IN MY BLOODSTREAM!
@RetromagneticDesigns
@RetromagneticDesigns 3 жыл бұрын
That new cam produces some crisp footage! I like! (the colors are a bit intense though, wrong base curve setting in the video editor maybe? o:)
@ExtractionsAndIre
@ExtractionsAndIre 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah lol I'm still learning. I can tell when it's wrong but I'm not good at correcting it yet
@RetromagneticDesigns
@RetromagneticDesigns 3 жыл бұрын
@@ExtractionsAndIre All good man! Just saying. ^^ Awesome video, as usual! I'm still chasing the cadmium with you, about halfway through.
@graealex
@graealex 3 жыл бұрын
All that's missing now is a proper microphone that doesn't make him look like he's doing Karaoke.
@b--n
@b--n 3 жыл бұрын
@@graealex that's why I come here. I like to pretend he's singing me sweet chemistry songs in spoken word.
@hdrotciv
@hdrotciv 3 жыл бұрын
@@graealex That's why we're here! Chemistry Karaoke is the best!
@paulanhalt3609
@paulanhalt3609 Жыл бұрын
Changing the color of the nitric acid solution was genius subtle humor
@ryanniedernhofer
@ryanniedernhofer 3 жыл бұрын
I’m really liking this slightly more high end/main channel editing keep it up!
@themachine3177
@themachine3177 4 ай бұрын
You always use the absolute best music in these videos!! I always love watching them and finding new amazing songs, thanks man.
@garbleduser
@garbleduser 3 жыл бұрын
Always remember, if you're not satisfied with your yield percentages, just say the purpose of this test was qualitative, not quantitative.
@corey8420
@corey8420 2 жыл бұрын
I watch tour videos and probably 95% of what you say I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, but I still keep watching. You have a gift my man.
@EgonSorensen
@EgonSorensen 3 жыл бұрын
Extracting Cadmium - From Battery ✔️ Extracting Gallium - From LCD ✅ Extracting Indium - From LCD ✅
@PedroDaGr8
@PedroDaGr8 3 жыл бұрын
Then make CdSe and InGaP quantum dots. I used to make these extensively.
@hardwareful
@hardwareful 3 жыл бұрын
extract Gallium from duckweed
@_Hal9000
@_Hal9000 3 жыл бұрын
Extracting Europium from old Vakuumtube monitors.
@somamakesyouhappy703
@somamakesyouhappy703 3 жыл бұрын
What the fuck are all you guys extracting this shit for, domestic terrorism?
@sid6645
@sid6645 3 жыл бұрын
Indium from LCD? Sounds tough as balls.
@iridiumcaptain
@iridiumcaptain 2 жыл бұрын
I remember I once bought an Ikea Kallax cube shelf for my dorm room in college. I drove 4.5hrs to the dorm with it, arrived in the evening, and stupidly decided to try to assemble it that night when I had to go to class early the next morning. I was up until about 2am trying to fit that fucking shelf together. It was so frustrating. It should've been so easy. It was not easy at all.
@Girvo747
@Girvo747 3 жыл бұрын
The production quality has become quite a lot better, well done mate :)
@nixel1324
@nixel1324 Жыл бұрын
Man, I love when chemistry involves lots of brightly colored liquids. Feels like cartoon science, in like a good way.
@timobatana6705
@timobatana6705 3 жыл бұрын
I could never do anything like this it scares me to heck. You videos are a great way for me to act like I am a smart scientist and I am with you in the lab. Bravo on the content and who you are as a person
@ChrisContin
@ChrisContin 2 жыл бұрын
Cadmium is very, very similar to iron-nickel when in sulfate acid, such as nitric-oxide acid, sulfuric acids, or nickel-cadmium ion acid (which you used twice)! The result will be iron-sensitivity, which is highly dissolvable with sulfuric acid, but not with fulric (or formic) acid. You were actually recreating the science of the battery itself, generating a voltage very likely by adding and removing different highly-sensitive-set ions to the solution! Great video, a lot of fun to watch! Take care, an Immortal Speaking.
@XVIIstarPt_
@XVIIstarPt_ 3 жыл бұрын
Yeahhhh funny Aussie chem man is back
@air8536
@air8536 2 жыл бұрын
13:06 I believe the very good test you were about to mention was drinking the beaker of mystery goop and if you die its cadmium
@theartistsanvil
@theartistsanvil 3 жыл бұрын
Dude, I love your videos, I know very little about chemistry and will never try any of this, but it is truly fascinating. Keep it up and don't get cancer or melt your face off. Have you ever had things go property-damage bad? Or hospital bad? Or police-called-on-me bad? Viewer questions video in the future? Thanks mate!
@MillionFoul
@MillionFoul 3 жыл бұрын
Imagine how cool it would be to have toxic element goggles that could turn your work area for this project into a fun multicolored death zone
@otterconnor942
@otterconnor942 Жыл бұрын
At my old job, I grit blasted off cadmium from aerospace parts. I legally had to have a respirator and have annual blood tests to see if I could still work.
@pyromen321
@pyromen321 3 жыл бұрын
This was a wild episode of Cadmium Pranks! Gotta love when what was expected to be a 5 minute project takes months!
@mrpink3338
@mrpink3338 3 жыл бұрын
I know I'm late to this party but the H2S is probably reacting to make some Sulfuric acid as it bubbles through the solution, dropping the PH and increasing the solubility of the cadmium in solution. This would explain why it seems the reaction stops after a certain amount of time. To keep it constantly going you would probably need to adjust the PH back to slightly acidic when the reaction stops.
@joeldysart5314
@joeldysart5314 3 жыл бұрын
Lab coat in the summer ✅ Short sleeve in the winter ✅
@WoodyWilliams
@WoodyWilliams 3 жыл бұрын
As much as I love your talking, watching your face and laughing the jokes (and I do, don't go changing), I enjoy this format too. I was torn between listening to you and grooving to that beat. Chills.
@Sir_Uncle_Ned
@Sir_Uncle_Ned 3 жыл бұрын
Seeing that cadmium just PLUMMET out of solution was amazing. Good work!
@katiepatrick425
@katiepatrick425 2 жыл бұрын
I've watched this and most of your vids multiple times. I'm not a chemist or anything like that. Idk... it just seems comforting to hear you speak about toxic chems and explosions Katie~ she/her
@ephjaymusic
@ephjaymusic 3 жыл бұрын
When you said "glassware graveyard" I was laughing so hard 😂😂😂
@Hailfire08
@Hailfire08 3 жыл бұрын
The pained laughter throughout
@joshmontgomery-williams5074
@joshmontgomery-williams5074 3 жыл бұрын
All of this top notch chemistry and all I could focus on was the Melbourne Bitter can hanging out in the background 😄
@shawnbaxter1001
@shawnbaxter1001 3 жыл бұрын
The time line on the "easy to assemble" home cabinet (IKEA) to the week later for the first result of the experiment was awesome!
@brendanupton1234
@brendanupton1234 3 жыл бұрын
I live on Long Island, New York. My Parents live upstate. There are lots of ways for me to get from where I am to where my parents are. The shortest route mileage-wise, and the one the GPS almost always selects, is on a road called the Cross-Bronx- Expressway. This road is always a bad decision, because no matter what time of day, day of the week, or day of the year, the traffic is always jam packed. No matter how many road signs say it will take 10 minutes to cross it, no matter how much the GPS wants me to take it, and no matter how tempted I am to do so, I have trained myself to drive twice the distance (frequently in half the time) to avoid it, because once I get on this road, life sucks. Yellow Chemistry is your Cross-Bronx-Expressway. Always a bad decision. :-) Glad you're back making videos! You have been missed. I hope the internship went well.
@jonpierce8342
@jonpierce8342 3 жыл бұрын
Somehow the struggle of getting the chemistry to work is enjoyable when it is someone else struggling, and it takes less than an hour to sort out on vid... Somehow even super low yields are amazing... Sorry bud. Keep up the great work! Test the ph in the solution after it stagnates... I think the hydrogen sulfide is bringing the solution back around... Try buffering the hell out of it?
@atirat7388
@atirat7388 3 жыл бұрын
I like that this shows the whole process of the project including ideas and fails. It is filmed with the camera in one hand and also the mic at the beginning just makes it so amateur and genuine. It is the first video I have watched on the this channel and it seems to be the complete opposite of NileRed's videos. I like both.
@seannoe750
@seannoe750 3 жыл бұрын
Damn, bud, yellow really is your nemesis. Regardless; awesome video. Inorganic Chem is always cool to watch because of the pretty colors 😎
@will45-OU812
@will45-OU812 2 жыл бұрын
My heath thanks you i source a lot of things and was going to open some of these up and well your video stopped that thanks again. Cant see anything about Australia without thinking about Steve RIP Steve Erwin. Will always be missed by very many people.
@Crazy___Ginger
@Crazy___Ginger 3 жыл бұрын
God, i am loving this new camera. I can see every little detail of your face!
@nobody-zp8tv
@nobody-zp8tv 3 жыл бұрын
Been watching the channel for a while. Just noticed the transpride flag on your chalkboard. I am absolutely here for it
@GigasGMX
@GigasGMX 3 жыл бұрын
Today I learned that green is actually just a shade of yellow.
@therealbregeduur
@therealbregeduur Жыл бұрын
Cadmium after the separation: Give me my Nickel back!
@Kris-ws
@Kris-ws 3 жыл бұрын
7:52 thats how i imagine what the start of an accidental nuclear explosion looks like
@evangorski7992
@evangorski7992 Жыл бұрын
**screwdriver slips**
@heinrichkn6475
@heinrichkn6475 Жыл бұрын
damn the music on your channel is hella good!
@sherlock_norris
@sherlock_norris 3 жыл бұрын
TIL why Bob Ross has a color called Cadmium yellow
@twothreebravo
@twothreebravo 3 жыл бұрын
I thought the exact same thing when I saw he was doing Cadmium chemistry, does he not watch Bob Ross? Does he not know the absolute Yellow he's in for?!?!
@nunyabisnass1141
@nunyabisnass1141 3 жыл бұрын
Cadmium yellow is still available in many places.
@markopolo2172
@markopolo2172 3 жыл бұрын
Cadmium yellow may be available but im pretty sure the use of actual cadmium in the paint colour got banned in most countries although I could be wrong though im not a paint expert
@JH-if5rv
@JH-if5rv 3 жыл бұрын
But theres also Cadmium red which is O.K.
@jaggederest
@jaggederest 3 жыл бұрын
@@markopolo2172 Nope! It's still cadmium selenosulfide in most oil paints, if you look at the SDS
@AgentLokVokun
@AgentLokVokun 11 ай бұрын
The amount of suspicion and concern I had at the start is now eclipsing my morbid curiosity. Congrats.
@captain_lex
@captain_lex 3 жыл бұрын
Gotta love the midnight upload schedule keep it coming
@juk-hw5lv
@juk-hw5lv 3 жыл бұрын
This channel is pure gold. Whereas eg. NileRed is concentrated knowledge, you're memeing and cursing while doing amazing chemistry
@Pay-No-Mind
@Pay-No-Mind 3 жыл бұрын
Yellow+Blue= Green! Such a pretty green too. So glad you're back bud, missed the content, it's really helped me though a tough lockdown 👍😊
@sweetiewolfgirl
@sweetiewolfgirl 3 жыл бұрын
I used to open batteries on my free time back in like 2012, I found a ton of different materials used but I did it for the little button batteries you often found. There was a black colored powder, slight yellow fluid, and once the cadmium. I never had any bad experiences, so never thought about why i shouldn't. Now I now that cadmium batteries exist and are highly toxic.
@robertlapointe4093
@robertlapointe4093 3 жыл бұрын
So, is green your "new" yellow? And, yes, nickel is ferromagnetic.
@natesturm448
@natesturm448 3 жыл бұрын
00:00 to 20:00 - the "do not try this at home" actual extraction success and benefit of knowledge gain 20:01 - the "do not try this at home" part
@riccardogrigolato874
@riccardogrigolato874 3 жыл бұрын
just to cheer you up, this is a good video that shows how scientific thinking and scientific method solve problems trough variuos experiments.
@antongolovko1149
@antongolovko1149 3 жыл бұрын
Wow, you really uped your quality since I was last on your channel. Keep it up! :)
@ExtractionsAndIre
@ExtractionsAndIre 3 жыл бұрын
thanks!
@RadioactiveGloryHole
@RadioactiveGloryHole 3 жыл бұрын
It wasn’t just incineration that was a problem with ni-cad batteries it was cadmium leeching into ground water from landfill disposal. That’s still a problem with the old landfills that are full of these.
@ExtractionsAndIre
@ExtractionsAndIre 3 жыл бұрын
I'd hate to think what other heavy metals are in the run off from landfills. Probably all of them
@katyushaslab7635
@katyushaslab7635 3 жыл бұрын
@@ExtractionsAndIre collect runoff from landfill, extract heavy metals. profit?
@RadioactiveGloryHole
@RadioactiveGloryHole 3 жыл бұрын
@@ExtractionsAndIre pretty much.
@ehhhh5536
@ehhhh5536 Жыл бұрын
I watch a lot of these videos from creators where it seems perfectly planned and executed. Tom is a month in and is like, where is the cadmium??
@Halfrightfox
@Halfrightfox Жыл бұрын
I think the videos in which you're especially confused, frustrated, and suffering are ironically have the most entertainment value.
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