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_3 жыл бұрын
i dont like it let me do your music
@ephjaymusic3 жыл бұрын
Yes!!!
@sid66453 жыл бұрын
Now play some camellia bgm ehehe
@hephaix3 жыл бұрын
Looks like Board of Canada.
@jonpierce83423 жыл бұрын
You should collab with the youtube channel "look mum no computer"... Your welcome!
@woopstrafel30613 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
@Weldoholic11 ай бұрын
Being a pure bred American, I genuinely enjoy stroopwaffels.
@vincedibona46874 ай бұрын
Being a full human being, no one cares. 🤦🏻♂️
@kingtard38864 ай бұрын
@@Weldoholic its literally a honey waffle cookie, no way someone doesnt
@ILoveTinfoilHats4 ай бұрын
@@vincedibona4687 wait until you discover that the world doesn't recover around you, it's gonna be a whole new perspective
@TheLukasDirector29 күн бұрын
@@WeldoholicStroopwafels*, broeder uit de koloniën
@Hackcam3 жыл бұрын
"Cadmium is extremely toxic" *10 Minutes later* "The Cadmium is somewhere I'm not quite sure"
@medexamtoolscom3 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.
@patrickdillon55173 жыл бұрын
That's not really how carcinogens work. Cadmium fumes can cause kind damage and kidney damage, but it's also a carcinogen.
@582093 жыл бұрын
the cadmium is LOOSE and it it out for REVENGE
@LLPTV2 жыл бұрын
@@medexamtoolscom That's what the romans said, and chuckled while sipping wine from their lead cups
@Xnoob5454 ай бұрын
@@medexamtoolscom good luck
@jacobtierney44193 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.
@simennilsen54573 жыл бұрын
top kek
@brhestir3 жыл бұрын
😂🤣 but well done tho
@jonpierce83423 жыл бұрын
Like that time the fume hood died... Just leave... Reaction was just fine!
@sudazima3 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
@ironman82573 жыл бұрын
i have to remember this
@axelBr13 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.
@lichking37112 жыл бұрын
that feels like a weird sentence considering how bad lead is as well. Lesser of two evils I guess
@isi29732 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. ^^
@subliminalfalllenangel21082 жыл бұрын
Not that safer though.
@Jefferson-ly5qe Жыл бұрын
Lead's way better than cadmium
@theangledsaxon6765 Жыл бұрын
@@subliminalfalllenangel2108 ermmmmmm yeah it’s decently so, cadmium is fuckin scary lol
@mamaymay82593 жыл бұрын
Gotta love inorganic chemistry. Always trying to kill you, but at least there's pretty colors (and no tar!)
@PlaqueBaka3 жыл бұрын
There is no inorganic or organic chemistry. There is only molecule and "bulk" chemistry.
@henrythompson77683 жыл бұрын
@@PlaqueBaka ok Mr science man
@legitgopnik84313 жыл бұрын
Don't worry, organic chemistry will try to kill you plenty. But fewer colors, it's all a white powder.
@CCChicken3 жыл бұрын
Idk why "and no tar" made me laugh like it did, but it made me chuckle.
@josephr94873 жыл бұрын
Instead of tar it has brown sludge
@LobbySeatWarmer3 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
@ExtractionsAndIre3 жыл бұрын
I'm my own worst enemy
@Snaperkid3 жыл бұрын
No it’s not. It’s just his bin.
@AoiTheLaughingMan3 жыл бұрын
I have that bit screencapped for whenever my project supervisor asks how I intend to dispose of my waste.
@origamigek3 жыл бұрын
Wow Extractions and Ire managed to do a collab with that famous et al guy?
@Psychx_3 жыл бұрын
Welp, it's still better than the "good ol' chem pit".
@jukefishron3 жыл бұрын
I love the sketchyness of this video. It's like he knows just about the bare minimum to make everything work.
@dimentio10302 жыл бұрын
that's just how lab work is tbh. trust me on that one.
@B3nNyL3nNy2 жыл бұрын
what's even funnier is that he has a phd
@deathkeys12 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)
@R411aj2 жыл бұрын
@@deathkeys1 Just because project does its goals it doesn't mean that it isn't a fucking disaster
@samsonsoturian60132 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-if5rv3 жыл бұрын
"where's the cadmium?" is a scary game
@gordonlawrence14483 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-dong3 жыл бұрын
@@gordonlawrence1448 That was dimethylmercury but organocadmium compounds are arguably worse
@vincentschumann9373 жыл бұрын
how in comparison to where's the uranium?
@cwill21273 жыл бұрын
@@vincentschumann937 a lot worse considering you’d likely be fine short term from uranium depending on the amount
@davidmathew6033 жыл бұрын
Hey heey pay no mind your under 18 you wont be doing any time come out and play
@jesther25753 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
@blarghchan3 жыл бұрын
Yellow chemistry, mate. You knew what you were setting yourself up for...
@ExtractionsAndIre3 жыл бұрын
I am a fool
@alephnole70093 жыл бұрын
@@ExtractionsAndIre just remove the yellow in post.
@among-us-999993 жыл бұрын
Coloured safety goggles to remove the yellow
@1224chrisng3 жыл бұрын
green is the new yellow
@stanmacdonald10732 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 Жыл бұрын
What kind of screw has cadmium in it?
@ToTheGAMES Жыл бұрын
@@sunnysuryani5674 a screwed up one
@Agentlefox10 ай бұрын
RIP
@Philip-hv2kc4 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 .
@uuh4yj434 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...
@lilleeharvey3 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?"
@_sunsor3 жыл бұрын
it's just a prank, bro
@MCNarret3 жыл бұрын
**proceeds to chug the cadmium** ya?
@RKroese3 жыл бұрын
"Thought about it... and decided against it."
@Mister_Clean Жыл бұрын
🫥
@Daniel-yn2lh3 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
@theq46023 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 Жыл бұрын
Oops
@Tactix_se6 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
@uuh4yj434 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)
@asmolbean93003 жыл бұрын
"is nickel magnetic" tom has a chemistry degree and saying things like this is why we love him
@beguilingfire3 жыл бұрын
Just proves he's a real scientist.
@Flagdread3 жыл бұрын
Ok but is it though? Asking for a friend.
@beguilingfire3 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 :') )
@Flagdread3 жыл бұрын
@@beguilingfire I will inform my friend that Mr Theal Chemist says that's it's confirmed.
@crackedemerald49303 жыл бұрын
There's only three that are and they're all neighbours
@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.
@rebeccarivers47973 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
@NickiRusin3 жыл бұрын
holy fuck, that really might've been all of it
@Skyliner04s3 жыл бұрын
6% of fukk-all is fukk-all. I think you´re right.
@AKAtheA3 жыл бұрын
@@Skyliner04s still, the cell should be something like 29g, he should have way more...
@jeremymcadam74003 жыл бұрын
@@AKAtheA are we including the steel case?
@AKAtheA3 жыл бұрын
@@jeremymcadam7400 yep
@timothyblazer17493 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.
@christopherleubner663311 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.
@Xnoob5454 ай бұрын
Misread that as "Arabic conditions" Was like "wait what"
@RaunienTheFirst3 жыл бұрын
"Where did the Cadmium go?" is not a question anyone wants to hear...
@renerpho3 жыл бұрын
It's not quite up there with "where did the Mercury go?", but it's still unnerving.
@vincentschumann9373 жыл бұрын
where da uranium go? where da hydrochlorine go?
@AKAtheA3 жыл бұрын
@@renerpho while still really bad, mercury isn't a carcinogen...
@Kenionatus3 жыл бұрын
@@vincentschumann937 At least you can find your uranium with a giger counter. Sucks if it's inside you tho.
@antman76733 жыл бұрын
@@renerpho I don’t know what is worse.
@VeryHighPriest2 жыл бұрын
I love the part where he loses the highly toxic metal
@Psychx_3 жыл бұрын
I came for the extractions and stayed for the ire
@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?
@xghale90733 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 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
@ripmorld99093 жыл бұрын
Watching Tom descend into insanity Because of heavy metal poisoning is kinda funny.
@Mister_Clean Жыл бұрын
The things we do for the advancement of science
@TheSoloduka3 жыл бұрын
Considering the battery is probably only ~5% cadmium by weight, I'd say you did well.
@quantumlab91303 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.
@ExtractionsAndIre3 жыл бұрын
'Moving on with my life' is the less harsh term I use to refer to giving up
@gordonlawrence14483 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.
@Maharani19913 жыл бұрын
@@gordonlawrence1448 +
@thomasmcelroy57853 жыл бұрын
@@ExtractionsAndIre well put!
@MadScientist2673 жыл бұрын
@@gordonlawrence1448 I was just gonna say this 🤣
@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!
@fugue79383 жыл бұрын
Baja Blast chemistry is my favorite personally.
@realname35383 жыл бұрын
It really does look like Baja Blast...
@thenetgamer23 жыл бұрын
Fuck, now I really want to drink it.
@leflavius_nl53703 жыл бұрын
Operation Soda Steal
@TheGamingLegendsOfficial3 жыл бұрын
@@leflavius_nl5370 Operation Soda Steel
@TheGamingLegendsOfficial3 жыл бұрын
@Tiddy Blaster nah man I think I was making a metal joke to reference MGS or something
@LHS_Shadow Жыл бұрын
20:16 I absolutely love this edit with the casual "Where's the Cadmium" text
@ASlutty9SUnit3 жыл бұрын
This entire video was just the laugh of a broken and tortured man. Top notch content, my dude.
@oisinmurphy8242 Жыл бұрын
You got my like for the name
@bsanchez3563 Жыл бұрын
Same subbed
@vincedibona46874 ай бұрын
Fucking simps… 🤦🏻♂️
@Kethriss3 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.
@TheAttacker7322 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.
@grekygrek3 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.
@TheGiselaSchumacher3 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
@yurikoffy57123 жыл бұрын
“absolutely do not open these” *6 seconds later* “oke, so my plan is to take this apart”
@Operator8733 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 Жыл бұрын
The camera joke at the end is your best joke so far on both channels
@KingJellyfishII3 жыл бұрын
ah yes "where's the cadmium" my favourite game to play on a long car journey
@Alexander_Sannikov3 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.
@oscarlama3 жыл бұрын
Also cadmium is really soft and you could chew on it mate
@ExtractionsAndIre3 жыл бұрын
That's one way to test for cadmium I guess
@Ninjastahr3 жыл бұрын
Cadmium test: Have someone drink the solutions. If they're dead, there was cadmium!
@QueenDaenerysTargaryen3 жыл бұрын
👍
@robmckennie42033 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-hv2kc4 ай бұрын
Tasting the compounds is a good method of identification and was widely done in the pre 20th century.
@KayakerMagic3 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 Жыл бұрын
You ever heard of peer review?
@margodphd Жыл бұрын
@@atlas42185... that's not remotely the same
@pgtmr27138 ай бұрын
@@atlas42185Pee'er review? Payer review... there it is.
@itzspookytv6863 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 🕙.
@thedude77263 жыл бұрын
MVP comment
@vertiform_city3 жыл бұрын
@@thedude7726 Most volatile peroxide?
@itzspookytv6863 жыл бұрын
@@vertiform_city i love this 😂
@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 Жыл бұрын
Good
@jortand3 жыл бұрын
Tom: I'll do some inorganic chemistry to get a break from the yellow sulphur: allow me to introduce myself
@richardwebb53172 жыл бұрын
Some cadmium compounds make fine yellow pigments.
@erich13943 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.
@shipmanjd3 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
@scentre92763 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 ^^
@ExtractionsAndIre3 жыл бұрын
Thanks mate!!
@alexanderkroboth33103 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.
@hammerth14213 жыл бұрын
Solution: buffer the shit out of it!
@marinahildebrand58683 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.
@alexanderkroboth33103 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.
@alexanderkroboth33103 жыл бұрын
@@hammerth1421 Yeah, I think adding sodium acetate to the solution should do it.
@dillonhofsommer56483 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 Жыл бұрын
"Let's play a little game called 'WHERE'S THE CADMIUM?'" Answer: IN MY BLOODSTREAM!
@RetromagneticDesigns3 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:)
@ExtractionsAndIre3 жыл бұрын
Yeah lol I'm still learning. I can tell when it's wrong but I'm not good at correcting it yet
@RetromagneticDesigns3 жыл бұрын
@@ExtractionsAndIre All good man! Just saying. ^^ Awesome video, as usual! I'm still chasing the cadmium with you, about halfway through.
@graealex3 жыл бұрын
All that's missing now is a proper microphone that doesn't make him look like he's doing Karaoke.
@b--n3 жыл бұрын
@@graealex that's why I come here. I like to pretend he's singing me sweet chemistry songs in spoken word.
@hdrotciv3 жыл бұрын
@@graealex That's why we're here! Chemistry Karaoke is the best!
@paulanhalt3609 Жыл бұрын
Changing the color of the nitric acid solution was genius subtle humor
@ryanniedernhofer3 жыл бұрын
I’m really liking this slightly more high end/main channel editing keep it up!
@themachine31774 ай бұрын
You always use the absolute best music in these videos!! I always love watching them and finding new amazing songs, thanks man.
@garbleduser3 жыл бұрын
Always remember, if you're not satisfied with your yield percentages, just say the purpose of this test was qualitative, not quantitative.
@corey84202 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.
@EgonSorensen3 жыл бұрын
Extracting Cadmium - From Battery ✔️ Extracting Gallium - From LCD ✅ Extracting Indium - From LCD ✅
@PedroDaGr83 жыл бұрын
Then make CdSe and InGaP quantum dots. I used to make these extensively.
@hardwareful3 жыл бұрын
extract Gallium from duckweed
@_Hal90003 жыл бұрын
Extracting Europium from old Vakuumtube monitors.
@somamakesyouhappy7033 жыл бұрын
What the fuck are all you guys extracting this shit for, domestic terrorism?
@sid66453 жыл бұрын
Indium from LCD? Sounds tough as balls.
@iridiumcaptain2 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.
@Girvo7473 жыл бұрын
The production quality has become quite a lot better, well done mate :)
@nixel1324 Жыл бұрын
Man, I love when chemistry involves lots of brightly colored liquids. Feels like cartoon science, in like a good way.
@timobatana67053 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
@ChrisContin2 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_3 жыл бұрын
Yeahhhh funny Aussie chem man is back
@air85362 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
@theartistsanvil3 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!
@MillionFoul3 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 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.
@pyromen3213 жыл бұрын
This was a wild episode of Cadmium Pranks! Gotta love when what was expected to be a 5 minute project takes months!
@mrpink33383 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.
@joeldysart53143 жыл бұрын
Lab coat in the summer ✅ Short sleeve in the winter ✅
@WoodyWilliams3 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_Ned3 жыл бұрын
Seeing that cadmium just PLUMMET out of solution was amazing. Good work!
@katiepatrick4252 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
@ephjaymusic3 жыл бұрын
When you said "glassware graveyard" I was laughing so hard 😂😂😂
@Hailfire083 жыл бұрын
The pained laughter throughout
@joshmontgomery-williams50743 жыл бұрын
All of this top notch chemistry and all I could focus on was the Melbourne Bitter can hanging out in the background 😄
@shawnbaxter10013 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!
@brendanupton12343 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.
@jonpierce83423 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?
@atirat73883 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.
@seannoe7503 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-OU8122 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___Ginger3 жыл бұрын
God, i am loving this new camera. I can see every little detail of your face!
@nobody-zp8tv3 жыл бұрын
Been watching the channel for a while. Just noticed the transpride flag on your chalkboard. I am absolutely here for it
@GigasGMX3 жыл бұрын
Today I learned that green is actually just a shade of yellow.
@therealbregeduur Жыл бұрын
Cadmium after the separation: Give me my Nickel back!
@Kris-ws3 жыл бұрын
7:52 thats how i imagine what the start of an accidental nuclear explosion looks like
@evangorski7992 Жыл бұрын
**screwdriver slips**
@heinrichkn6475 Жыл бұрын
damn the music on your channel is hella good!
@sherlock_norris3 жыл бұрын
TIL why Bob Ross has a color called Cadmium yellow
@twothreebravo3 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?!?!
@nunyabisnass11413 жыл бұрын
Cadmium yellow is still available in many places.
@markopolo21723 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-if5rv3 жыл бұрын
But theres also Cadmium red which is O.K.
@jaggederest3 жыл бұрын
@@markopolo2172 Nope! It's still cadmium selenosulfide in most oil paints, if you look at the SDS
@AgentLokVokun11 ай бұрын
The amount of suspicion and concern I had at the start is now eclipsing my morbid curiosity. Congrats.
@captain_lex3 жыл бұрын
Gotta love the midnight upload schedule keep it coming
@juk-hw5lv3 жыл бұрын
This channel is pure gold. Whereas eg. NileRed is concentrated knowledge, you're memeing and cursing while doing amazing chemistry
@Pay-No-Mind3 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 👍😊
@sweetiewolfgirl3 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.
@robertlapointe40933 жыл бұрын
So, is green your "new" yellow? And, yes, nickel is ferromagnetic.
@natesturm4483 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
@riccardogrigolato8743 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.
@antongolovko11493 жыл бұрын
Wow, you really uped your quality since I was last on your channel. Keep it up! :)
@ExtractionsAndIre3 жыл бұрын
thanks!
@RadioactiveGloryHole3 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.
@ExtractionsAndIre3 жыл бұрын
I'd hate to think what other heavy metals are in the run off from landfills. Probably all of them
@katyushaslab76353 жыл бұрын
@@ExtractionsAndIre collect runoff from landfill, extract heavy metals. profit?
@RadioactiveGloryHole3 жыл бұрын
@@ExtractionsAndIre pretty much.
@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 Жыл бұрын
I think the videos in which you're especially confused, frustrated, and suffering are ironically have the most entertainment value.