How To Make Beautiful Crystals From Wood & Aluminum Foil

[@llanlydia]

Hey, when's the video of growing meth crystals for people who just want to enjoy making crystals and don't spend most of their time hoarding random chemicals in their garage?

[@confuseatronica]

i made some sodium acetate to play with and it really looks like dirty cheap meth. (uh, from Breaking Bad! I would never know what cheap meth looks like for real uh huh uh huh). I've got all these coffee filters with little yellowish crystals in my kitchen now :P

[@Splarkszter]

I read this comment at the same time he said it

[@dicedoomkid]

Oh no 💀

[@matthorrocks6517]

Potassium nitrate crystals look a lot like meth.

[@thool]

Yeah but let's say we want crystal meth... Just because we respect the chemistry...

[@synterr]

wash fresh ash! :)

[@Yezpahr]

1:37 This scene is shocking every fiber in my body. I can taste it on my tongue and my nose feels the smell just thinking about it.

[@newusernamelol6579]

I love how the goal is to make it easy for a non-chemist to make and the first step is to extract pure battery acid

[@mmmhorsesteaks]

couldn't you do it with swimming pool ph lowering chemical? Basically sodium bisulfate; should not disturb the chemistry too much, should it?

[@Dan-vq4pz]

After the "...Make Some Beautiful Crystals" line I expected the 4chan ammonia, bleach and a straw infographic

[@Tunkkis]

And copper pennies, can't forget the pennies!

[@Puddingskin01]

Yeah, I was like "Oh no, I aint falling for this a third time."

[@LaForjaEspiritual]

What was it

[@B_4035mn]

@@LaForjaEspiritual Mustard gas.

[@VoIcanoman]

Back in the early '90s, I grew alum crystals for a science fair project in 7th grade. I also grew some other crystals (copper sulphate for sure, as well as sucrose and sodium chloride...but there were a couple other more exotic types...pretty sure one was chromium-based, while the other was a manganese salt). I obviously sourced the alum from the drug store, not wood, aluminum foil, and battery acid (lol, while awesome, that is a time-consuming and highly inefficient way to get alum when you can just...buy it). But aside from that, the process was the same. Super-saturate a solution, sprinkle some alum in, get the seed crystals, tie them to some fine fishing line, and grow them bigger. And over a few weeks, I did grow a couple gorgeous alum crystals. They were smallish - like maybe 6 or 7 mm in diameter, but they were perfectly clear and displayed a striking octahedral structure, just like little diamonds. It was a fun project, and I put a lot of time into it, but the judge still only awarded me a silver medal. OH, I was so mad...but I got over it.

[@skyguy7499]

That's very interesting! I'm curious to see how big you get that one crystal.

[@olswirly]

me too ? um would be cryioys about the electrical propertys of such crystals ? i mainly use quartz crystals been tinkering with . humm

[@Tyresio12]

Ech skoro już robiłeś potaż z drewna, to trzeba było drugą część ałunu też pełnym trybie DIY - z gliny, metodą prof. Stanisława Bretsznajdera :)

[@Amateur.Chemistry]

Ciekawy pomysł, pewnie kiedyś go wypróbuje :)

[@tkaczgames564]

1:05 Sanepid lubi to

[@piousminion7822]

Who knew that Rolf from Edd, Edd, and Eddy would grow up to do chemistry? :P

[@Amillie529]

🤣😂😁

[@davidjones6661]

Couldn't you use the amphoteric nature of aluminum to dissolve it directly in the wood ash solution, then dope the solution out with a really easy sulfate source like Epsom salts?

[@jerrydumas9848]

Isn't that seeding?

[@wreck_grimes6754]

8:11 "pamiętaj chemiku młody kwas zawsze wlewaj do wody"

[@david3710]

pamiętaj chemiku zawczasu, zawsze wlewaj wodę do kwasu

[@FrainFreeze]

we have good saying in croatian, putting water into acid is VUK (voda u kiselinu) VUK - wolf (dangerous animal) Voda - h2o, U - (to put something in, into) Kiselina - acid pozdrowienia dla polskich braci

[@19MadMatt72]

“AAA” - always add acid. Is how I was taught to remember.

[@wreck_grimes6754]

@@19MadMatt72 the creator is polish so i write in polish bc its a polish chemistry poem

[@experimental_chemistry]

Aluminum dissolves much easier in potassium hydroxide to form the aluminate, which could be made beforehand from calcium hydroxide (availble in every hardware store) and potash by a double displacement reaction called caustification. Adding sulfuric acid will convert the potassum aluminate into potassium sulfate and aluminum hydroxide, which redissolves again in an access of the acid. The resulting clear solution contains the desired alum then.

[@chnhakk]

But now you will have filter calcium sulfate

[@experimental_chemistry]

No, calcium hydroxide reacts with potassium carbonate to form potassium hydroxide and insoluble calcium carbonate which is easy to filter off by gravity filtration (of not too concentrated solutions were used), before aluminum is added to the potassium hydroxide solution to be dissolved in there.

[@chnhakk]

@@experimental_chemistry Whoops, sorry I somehow thought you were making calcium aluminate. But still, I wouldn't call calcium carbonate easy to filter either. That stuff really likes clogging filters.

[@experimental_chemistry]

​​​@@chnhakk No, not when letting the precipitate chill for a while until the gelatenous mass breaks down into a fine crystalline powder, which is easy to filter off by gravity or using a glass frit while doing vacuum filtration. But don't forget to rinse the frit with dilute hydrochloric acid and distilled water afterwards to clean the pores for the next use.

[@timothynelson6918]

I'm an idiot, but science fascinates me. This was fun to watch even though most of it was way beyond my skill set. Great video!

[@DoublePhoenixAlchemy]

youd be surprised how many idiots go on to do things regardless, take the presidency for example

[@doctorpurple5173]

Scientists are just idiots that are curious about science.

[@Amateur.Chemistry]

Thanks!

[@troywhite6039]

@timothynelson6918 Beyond your skill set? You can't boil water??

[@doctorpurple5173]

@@troywhite6039 Americans don't drink tea for a reason

[@sohamsuke]

Waiting for drops to fall when filtering things, can relate.

[@midwestchem368]

I really love this video as alum was one of the first crystals i grew and its always been my favorite! I made a few kilos to grow a huge crystal in a bucket but never got around to it. Maybe its time 😆 I love how you made the potassium sulfate from potash that was a really cool touch!

[@jozefbubez6116]

You should add conc. sulphuric acid gradually to water - never pour water onto acid as this will generate steam causing it to splatter!

[@king_james_official]

myslalem ze mowiles na poczatku mushroom chemistry i sie musialem upewnic XDD

[@GodlikeIridium]

Sulfuric acid: He gets it from a car battery. And I instantly know he's not living in north America. Fun fact: While in north America Sulfuric acid drain cleaner is pretty common, you'll never find it at all in Europe! Here there's only alkaline drain cleaner made of concentrated sodium or potassium hydroxide! So in north America it's so much simpler to get concentrated sulfuric acid as an amateur! European amateur chemists struggle with that 😅 And while it's an inconvenience for us knowing chemistry, I absolutely understand the reason concerning normal people: You don't want to give a normal person the same product, just different brands, with concentrated acid and base in each other. People are... People... So they'll mix them. No matter how many warnings you put on the products, they will do it! So someone decided which one is better. Base saponifies any proteins, especially hair. The main reason for most plugged drains. Sulfuric acid does catalyze hydrolization, but that's way slower. So base it is 😅

[@IR2D2I]

Very interesting project, finally something I can do at home, great! 😎

[@alexoja2918]

Can't get sulphuric acid. Not in EU.

[@fortunateson6070]

I remember doing this in College and it was so cool

[@BaronVonQuiply]

09:54 You can't fool me, I know corn when I see it. ... my apologies, I didn't notice Jonathan Davis, this was clearly Korn.

[@ginngerra9276]

Very educational video and hilarious 😂 at the same time !! Thankx

[@KymShady0157]

It was super hilarioys! Omgoodness ... Some parts were just soooo funny. Lol

[@jerrydumas9848]

Yellow chemistry..what a way to start my day off!! Good work!

[@Amateur.Chemistry]

Thank you!

[@Snarlacc]

A small note, these crystals can become ugly and white with air humidity even when lacquered. Best you keep them with some drying agent like silica gel. You can add copper sulfate to tint them a very beautiful blue, I guess food colouring might also work, but I am not sure.

[@rnts08]

Mmm crystal

[@zodd0001]

Great crystals ! Can I invite you to watch my fatty acids preparation video ?

[@Amateur.Chemistry]

Thanks! I watched your video and it is really good, I will maybe give the procedure a try sometime :)

[@zodd0001]

@@Amateur.Chemistry thanks for watching

[@uppe]

I just watch these for the pronunciations, like it's an alien from another planet who somehow learned English but has no idea how the words are meant to sound. Funny! But sometimes the subtitles are really non-optional 😅

[@Amateur.Chemistry]

Yeah, I know that, I am constantly trying to improve as you can probably see if you watch some older videos but I still have a long way to go :)

[@uppe]

@@Amateur.Chemistry You’re doing great! Watch more content in English and really absorb how words are spoken. I’m also a non-native speaker and we will probably never be perfect and that’s okay too!

[@icebluscorpion]

How do you get big Optical great crystals of this substance?

[@Amateur.Chemistry]

You would have to grow its crystal the way I showed in the video but much slower and in a better controlled environment

[@icebluscorpion]

@@Amateur.Chemistry if you can achieve that, then you will be a rich man, pal. Google search for Optical great doped KCrSO4 crystals or KTiOPO4, hack even the KAlSO4 has intresting Laser properties. If you go down that rabbit hole😂

[@Palmit_]

yes. something i can do! :) yayy! :D Thanks bro.

[@HubsLab]

great video man!

[@Tiberius-84]

Officer: Um, what ya got there? Ohhh.. Those are wUd crythdulthz!! Officer: Get the fuck out of the car.

[@Emerybirb]

Have you considered drying your chemicals with some anhydrous water?

[@jamesmurphy449]

I've seen big commercial filters, like the ones used to make maple syrup.. that use big rolls or sheets of filter paper like that.

[@williambradley611]

Hello

[@Amateur.Chemistry]

Hi :)

[@scottpitner4298]

I remember as a kid seeing a classic cartoon like bugs bunny or something. In it, as a prank to someone in the cartoon he got a spoonful of white powder out of a container that said ALUM. Stuck it in the guys mouth and it made his mouth like retract in like instant cotton mouth or something. Years later I saw it as an ingredient in grocery stores where spices are. Don’t see it any more but always remembered that cartoon. Seems like another bad idea type challenge that kids would try now a day. lol

[@chemicalmaster3267]

@Amateur Chemistry If you´re interested I can tell you a way I found to purify and extract the potassium from wood, plant and vegetable ashes as pure potassium carbonate, which is better than just leaching all the potassium salts from them.

[@kerrimtthefrog1001]

Well I’m interested in knowing.

[@chemicalmaster3267]

@@kerrimtthefrog1001 Oh, really? Alright! This is how it goes: Step 1: Treat the ash solution with calcium chloride to precipitate calcium carbonate and other anions that form insoluble calcium salts and then filter the mixture and save the filtrate. Step 2: If there is any excess of calcium chloride in the solution, just add oxalic acid / sulfuric acid / potassium or sodium oxalates or sulfates until no more precipitate is formed and then filter the mixture and save the filtrate. Step 3: Boil the solution to concentrate it until crystals start to appear and then allow it to cool to room temperature. After that, add the minimal amount of water to redissolve any crystals that may still present. Step 4: Prepare a saturated solution of sodium bitartrate a.k.a. sodium hydrogen tartrate by reacting sodium hydroxide, carbonate or bicarbonate with tartaric acid in the right ratio and then boil the solution to concentrate it until crystals start to form. Step 5: Mix the saturated solution of sodium bitartarate with the saturated solution of impure potassium chloride to precipitate potassium bitartrate a.k.a. potassium hydrogen tartrate. If you want, you can put the mixture in an ice bath or in a freezer to squeeze a little bit more yield. Step 6: Filter the crystalline precipitate and wash it a few times with ice cold water and ethanol, and then let it dry. Step 7: Heat the dry potassium bitartrate in a glass container like a test tube or a round bottom flask, for example, up to more or less 200 ºC until no more water and other fumes are released. It is going to char and get black, but that is to be expected. After allowing the solid to cool to room temperature, extract to resulting potassium carbonate with water and filter the solution to remove the black byproducts. Step 8: Evaporate the solution and you´ll have high purity potassium carbonate.

[@rkedansk6611]

er du en AL ? der taller eller er i 2 der taller ? ok gg.

[@cypriandominiak3731]

😳😍😎

[@R-Tex.]

Grow malachite crystals next!

[@danielash1704]

It's a very good chance for true potassium and fructose gas I think it was the fiscal year of my life I remember it was in my experience as a young man I was amazed of different kinds of Crystals which could be used in gas states essentially have a carbon substrate that forms autonomously in liquid state and added higher temperatures this is a Tallow flow crystal clear glaze and steel stainless steel coating is a heat resistant stainless with the surface densities high enough to make defense of corrosion

[@Phosphoric1111]

That’s chemical distributor website you linked has some VERY illegal reagents.

[@NiceLadyCincy]

I was thinking this might be a fun project for my grandson until you started talking about sulfuric acid.

[@oleboy555]

potazh

[@user255]

9:16 The brown impurity is probably iron from the aluminum foil (typically contains 5%).

[@mizzzlicia1832]

Carbon is fun

[@pazsion]

Alum is nonlonger used because potassium alum is a nurotoxin... Aluminum in general particulaly if breathed in ir eaten.

[@SammyGDude]

I think you're doing it great. one tip to do it even better is to place a smaller pad of wood under the blocks you chop so you can dig a hole in your patio bricks and plant a tree to chop down later.

[@Kirby-jp1pk]

I'm going to do that now!!🙃💎on 2024march Tuesday03/12

[@kcbaskerville7084]

☕ 🦍 The giant filter is for brewing giant coffee for giant monsters with narcolepsy.

[@ethmanolboy6816]

fun fact: Potassium gets its name from 'potash', since theres a lot of 'Potash-ium' salts in it.

[@savagesarethebest7251]

I would not recommend anyone to try it, but Alum can stop a bleed in a pinch but it hurts as ..

[@sobertillnoon]

You washed the charcoal? Or did you charcoal filtered some water?

[@hallucinati]

Ok, so... i can do this at home? Woth like, Tupperware?

[@GMCLabs]

I ran an experiment for almost 1 year growing copper sulfate crystals. I got 1 thats almost the size of my fist!

[@vishva8kumara]

Looks like a good candidate to make lenses for a high power laser..

[@romibob.5932]

You started talking about it being non-toxic but then you mentioned using battery acid. I hope you meant unused sulfuric acid used for batteries. Otherwise your non-toxic crystals will have toxic Lead. Please avoid using Lead acid.

[@Amateur.Chemistry]

The acid I used is completely free of lead because I distilled it, you can see that in the video about it

[@vishva8kumara]

Aluminum comes with an oxide layer. Expect a rapid reaction once enough acid cuts through it. I think that solution suddenly got cloudy at the point there was just enough reactants of each specie molecule-to-molecule (stoichiometrically)

[@АлександрКузнецов-д6п6г]

Why can't we use Na instead of K? Will not cristalize?

[@swaree]

4:06 mistborn gang where y'all at

[@bobedwards8896]

This is so cool! i love it

[@paramatematico198]

Better methanol from wood.

[@Amateur.Chemistry]

I will definitely do that sometime

[@killmimes]

When I burned wood, I was told I have a very nice Ash!

[@dydanna]

I think he just showed us how the paper making process works 🤣

[@cjprestidge1773]

Can I ask why you (and others I have seen) only choose a quick pour-through form of washing the ash initially? Is it to obtain only the most water soluble aspects and avoid other impurities? This must be it - since surely a substance would normally be mixed with hot water and stirred - then filtered.

[@micheleromaine7782]

Just to clarify. That’s ASH and not ass ?🤪

[@Cnielsenyoung]

At some point, can you do a simplified version of this for kids. Maybe using alum - which wr can get at the grocery store? Thanks so much. This is an awesome! video

[@eve_squared]

I love the giant filter paper, not only because of the absurdity but it genuinely probably filtered about as quickly as if you were to use a vaccum filter since the huge surface area and high material volume you can process in one batch.

[@SammyGDude]

Tbh probably tastes better than green apple protein.

[@LadnarRekrap]

I found it interesting that the solution had to remain at a constant rather than be buried like some methods of growing crystals calls for of which these steps that were emplioyed all viable in that process also. Good job.

[@djsnowman06]

I understand that it isnt in the spirit of the experiment, but aluminum sulphate can be bought as a soil acidifier for changing the color of some pH sensitive plants, such as hydrangeas.

[@KymShady0157]

Great video .. I appreciate the time you spent making it n documenting the process/procedure. Great job!

[@danielash1704]

I knew that Sonics would help speed up the pathways itself a low level of Sonics that push pulls the fluid dynamics

[@cianmoriarty7345]

1:37 _cursed chemistry lo intensifies_ 😹

[@MrHichammohsen1]

This one was GENIUS! Thank you so much for everything.

[@danielash1704]

Soda Ash has a pathway to crystal light in L E D substantial amounts of light emitting

[@tom23rd]

What chakra will these crystals heal? 🤣

[@lesleadarkstar]

You had me till the car battery……

[@kronk4621]

I highly dislike the government.

[@RoseFBN]

Ok? Fuckin weird place to bring it up.

[@kronk4621]

@@RoseFBN But now you know that I highly dislike the government.

[@theoldantleredmyth]

Which one? Or just all of them in general? If all of them, is it strictly animosity towards the current governments of the word, but not the construct? Or do you find issues with the entire prospect of governmental hierarchy?

[@kronk4621]

@@theoldantleredmyth Mainly the American government right now, but I'm always open to change.

[@kronk4621]

@@theoldantleredmyth And yeah I just kind of hate the idea of a government. We should just agree that some things are bad, some aren't bad with good reason, and others are good. Basically the only reason a government exists is to make a specific group of people a lot of money for literally no work.

[@beblissnow5947]

Is this an AI accent translation app ?

[@przemysawkot1888]

Polish creatin haha 😂 pozdro mordo

[@maximianocoelho4496]

Dude Dude Dude, dont overuse "!?"...

[@coreycoffell6219]

I love videos that show me how to acquire the once basic chemistry set components.

[@napalmholocaust9093]

The shaving use is as a styptic.

[@YoungJence]

his accent is so pure yet i understand him perfectly. such a soothing voice

[@PackthatcameBack]

THE CRYSTALS ARE CALLING!!

[@TheZombieSaints]

Lol why does that giant piece of filter paper exist? I mean I get you an make your own filters, but how expensive are filters compared to making your own 🤔 😂 Great video too, I'm going to try this one. Ty for this one. 👍👍

[@TheZombieSaints]

Forgot to mention, great crystals too! Can't wait to see how it looks in the future 👌

[@DonCarlione973]

This was pretty cool! Awesome results bro ✌🏼

[@chasharris1976]

That was pretty cool

[@ВиталийРадзиховский-з6у]

Теперь он разбогатеет и купит себе новую лаболаторию😂😂

[@cheeserdane]

Thats some hot ash!😂

[@NoahSpurrier]

You can also start with alum, which is available in most grocery stores in the spice section.

[@krisbergin8628]

and potash which is sold at any gardening section

[@gilusosa]

POLAND MENTIONED

[@olie304]

I can't imagine most people have a vacuum filter and good ventilation at home...

[@Amateur.Chemistry]

You can make the crystals without these things by working outdoors and using regular gravity filtration, I used these to make things go faster and safer :)

[@emeryhazlehurst932]

*Promo sm* 🌟

[@Kirby-jp1pk]

Ha

[@Sparkey]

Looks easy enough.

[@albedo6300]

JUHU Polak

[@compositeboson123]

sounds like a good investment