I got a case full of cesium ampules and BROKE them

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REACTION TIMING:
0:00 Сesium demonstration
3:40 I break a cesium ampoule
6:28 Cesium and water reaction
7:18 Cesium and FUMING NITRIC ACID (~100%)
7:55 Caesium and Fluorosulfonic acid (HSO3F)
8:37 Cesium and Bromine
9:22 Caesium and Iodine monochloride
10:55 Caesium and Iodine trichloride
11:48 Dissolution of cesium in liquid ammonia
12:51 Сesium in liquid ammonia and Iodine monochloride
13:27 Caesium and chloroform
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[@Nighthawkinlight]

Wow, if an ampule of cesium had no danger it would make for a great toy. Forming and melting crystals by hand heat.

[@poppedweasel]

If I trusted myself enough, I'd certanly buy an ampoule.

[@louistournas120]

@@poppedweasel It cost about 100 to 150US$ for a 1 g ampoule. I just like my mercury ampoule.

[@yaykruser]

@@louistournas120 Yeah, making that stuff yourself is much cheaper.

[@louistournas120]

@@yaykruser Yes, I have seen 2 people do it by starting with CsCl which is a cheap source of cesium. They used lithium as a reducer. They also used a distillation setup under vacuum to collect the cesium gas and condense back to liquid. It is probably the same for other alkali metals and earth metals. The salts are a cheaper source for the element.

[@pikatheminecrafter]

Gallium is non-toxic, and has a similar melting point.

[@Mrbg123]

The quality of these videos is incredible

[@fft2020]

Brutally unbelievable ! The early videos were also fantastic but now the exquisite quality of this videos puts then up there in the top 5%

[@ChemicalForce]

I still have a lot of low-quality footages. Now I don't know what to do with it 🥲

[@MadScientist267]

@@ChemicalForce Montage? Or maybe as part of some "year of" type deal?

[@madmattdigs9518]

I agree. Top notch

[@evilferris]

@@ChemicalForce make a second channel

[@alexpotts6520]

Honestly one of the most impressive things about this is how steady you are able to keep your hand to drop a tiny droplet perfectly onto a tiny lump of caesium

[@michaeltopham5842]

lol was thinking the same thing!

[@kaanylmaz4080]

08:00 he missed.

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[@aarneuuk9601]

THIS is the Perfect way to present an explosion! From beginning to end, constant slow-mo speed, constant camera angle, no fluff. This way you allow the viewer to take in the experience, not push a "cinematic" experience onto them. Thank you for the pleasure!

[@JosiahGould]

"Existence is pain." - Cesium An element so angry putting it in ammonia makes it tear off electrons hard enough you can see them with the naked eye. I dearly wish my Chemistry class had been more practical and demonstrative, I may have payed attention.

[@ToxicityAssured]

Fist you pay, then you play.

[@BackYardScience2000]

Putting any alkali metal in ammonia produces solvated electrons though. Even the group 2 metals do that, and even some others.

[@GaiusCaligula234]

Any alkali metal does that, stop it with the cheesy comments

[@RryhhbfrHhgdHhgd356]

@@BackYardScience2000 I would argue that all the group 1 and 2 elements share the philosophy of Cesium that existence is, in fact, pain.

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[@ChristianMiersch]

7:55 Just casually the much requested reaction with fluorosulfonic acid. This is the best chemistry channel on KZbin and will continue to grow.

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I sure hope so, this channel is a hidden gem.

[@superme63]

I'd love to see you do a Collab with Gav & Dan, or Destin. The quality of their slow-mo, paired with your chemistry knowledge, would be an amazing combination.

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I second that 100%

[@jhyland87]

I appreciate the amount of effort you put into that intro, lol. Was awesome. Also, it's hard to overstate the production quality of your videos. They're undoubtedly getting much better (and they were never bad to begin with). You will certainly reach 1M subscribers rather quickly :-D

[@BackYardScience2000]

Whole heatedly agree!

[@ChemicalForce]

Thanks 😀

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Couldn't agree more. This channel is the very definition of a hidden gem. I await every video.

[@alysdexia]

overdramatic and slow; hard -> touh; will -> shall

[@jhyland87]

@@alysdexia what?...

[@ryanc473]

I don't think I'll ever stop being amazed with the ease with which this man handles absurdly dangerous chemicals safely. Including while combining them in the specific ways that make them exceptionally dangerous in the first place. My hat is off to you, good sir!

[@thomasneal9291]

cesium is very reactive, but is not actually that dangerous on its own. you might be thinking of the radioactive isotope of it, 137. THAT is a great source of gamma radiation.

[@andremarques3317]

cesium is chemically safe. What makes it dangerous are radioactive isotopes like cesium 137. Cesium 133 is non-radioactive, so its like copper or aluminium

[@robertlangley258]

Yeah he's probably responsible for some of the bombs that's gone off in America.

[@BackYardScience2000]

I've only ever had cesium combust in air by itself once and that was when I was bottling 10g and spilled it. But it spread out a LOT and I think that the high surface area was what caused it to catch fire. I just dumped a bunch of mineral oil on it and extinguished it quickly and was able to save around 4g.

[@nocturnhabeo]

I hope it wasn't in your backyard.

[@BackYardScience2000]

@@nocturnhabeo actually.....

[@chris7695]

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[@robertlangley258]

R-I-g-h-t, and you just happened to have some mineral oil near by Mr. Fumblefist, hope you were removed from your position for being too clumsy with dangerous chemicals.

[@trulyinfamous]

​@@robertlangley258whiny little baby

[@firefly618]

Some of these reactions start very slowly, showing little to no effect for several seconds after contact, and then explode in less than a millisecond. To me this is a great display of the explosive power of the exponential function. Even when the base is only slightly above 1, you only get a limited time before the function explodes. (Try plotting y=1.001^x in something like Desmos and then zoom out until you see anything happen.)

[@ChemicalForce]

ibb.co/mDc64Dq 😀

[@koreyhayden1368]

Ya, that's because all the reactions are in slowmo....

[@ShouldOfStudiedForTheTest]

I love how your bromine drop mostly missed Cs, but the energy managed to throw it around through the air.

[@MrCh0o]

With fluorosulfonic acid the miss was quite a happy accident. It was beautiful

[@christopherj3367]

The videos always amaze me. Loved the second to last "cesium in ammonia and iodine monochloride" those colours.

[@gotyouchip1179]

Mesmerizing colors. I loved jt

[@gotyouchip1179]

I'm sure that ammonia combo boiling everywhere smelled great, but that's what fume hoods are for of course.

[@MrCh0o]

A whole lot of chloroform being exploded in every direction must've also been quite an experience

[@danwhite3224]

WOW! I don't think I've ever seen so much caesium in one place before! The quality of these videos is awesome

[@thomasneal9291]

cesium is used as a drilling fluid, it isn't that uncommon.

[@deltab9768]

I think part of why it reacts so violently in water (more than potassium, for example) is because of its actual reactivity, but part of it is it’s dense enough to sink below the surface before bursting. That means that instead of blowing up into the air it blows into more water completing the reaction.

[@YuPuWang]

And another part of the explosiveness comes from cesium’s low melting point, turning into a liquid with minimal heating from room temperature. The said liquid then gets its electrons ripped off by H2O and causes a Coulomb explosion where bits of positively charged alkali metal particles violently repel one another. This is exactly the reason why NaK explodes like cesium does, sodium produces delayed explosions (if it does explode at all), and lithium simply does not explode when thrown into water.

[@lordroo8484]

But the effect is quite different if compared to a Na/K alloy.

[@Electronichub_05]

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[@luke144]

Cesium bismuth amalgam has some pretty interesting properties. I would love to see a beautiful bismuth Crystal dissolved in some gold cesium. The aliens are sure to come after such alchemy.

[@YounesLayachi]

Nice try, alien cleric xD

[@christopherleubner6633]

It reacts violently with bismeuth forming a wierd dark reddish intermetallic material. Mercury reaction is similar to that of sodium. 🤓

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[@MyDj56]

This video was absolutely incredible, but I feel like I would've enjoyed more commentary on why certain things were the way they were. Like the pinkish purple smoke, or how slow the liquid combination was to come out of the tube. That being said, this video was absolutely fantastic, and I'm overjoyed that I got the opportunity to watch it

[@rbowdenscipio3408]

Very much agree!

[@davidwilliams3244]

Wow that near instant reaction with the Fuming nitric acid was incredible.

[@giordy9013]

The reaction with HSO3F and the Iodine compound (that purple cloud was so beautiful) are simply awesome, such a great video quality, keep going!

[@MyUsernameIsAlsoBort]

This is so cool! I love seeing cesium reactions, and bromine is one of my favorite elements, so seeing them both react together is amazing!

[@intothecalm420]

Absolutely Epic! So cool. Thanks

[@benjamindegroot5857]

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[@blbubble2106]

Reactions looks litteraly beautiful.....❤

[@tuxeedospeedo]

Coolest footage I have seen in a long while. Thanks!

[@benknotes9450]

If science class were this cool, we'd have so many more scientists.

[@tomkandy]

The ones that survived would be very skilled

[@benknotes9450]

@lightingnerd we need more teachers like that.

[@experimental_chemistry]

Feliks hasn't only inscenated his 100th video, he celebrated it - congratulations! This very precious metal was worth it!

[@fjs1111]

So awesome, thank you!

[@marcochiarini3168]

Stunning!!! This is something i've never seen!! Thanks for the Amazing video!!

[@vxbrxnt]

Hello ChemicalForce! Traditional soaps use NaOH and KOH as bases and LiOH is used to make lubricating grease. I wonder what happens if more exotic forms of base such as RbOH or CsOH were used instead. What kind of "soap" would they produce? Perhaps this could be an interesting idea for a future video.

[@129140163]

I would like to see this too! I’d like to see what kinds of soaps RbOH and CsOH would make. And for that matter, FrOH and 119OH/UueOH if they ever manage to make element 119.

[@vxbrxnt]

@@129140163 If only Francium was stable enough to do chemistry with. It would've probably looked like extremely reactive dark metal liquid (or almost) at room temp

[@nicolascuyato3580]

Dude I'm so jealous, I wish I could lay my hands on some wonderful chemical compounds like you and make things blow... I'm a chemistry student and I'm so freaking excited to have my own lab someday :'D

[@ChemicalForce]

Never give up on reaching your goal :D

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[@fft2020]

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[@Tiniuc]

My dad is a retired chemist, and he absolutely loved this video.

[@samuelb6960]

You could turn some of the stills from your high speed footage into art.

[@heisenbergstayouttamyterri1508]

Destroying those cesium is really heartbreaking for a poor chemist like me! By the way the vid is as always extraordinary!!!!

[@MrJef06]

I wouldn't even want to break the nice 99.99% ampules, they're beautiful ;-) but it is in the name of science!

[@heisenbergstayouttamyterri1508]

@@MrJef06 Cesium is rare but very expensive to produce! Would've been cool if he recycled the cesium he destroyed!! But that's absolutely tedious and might not be even worth doin'! If I was him, I would store it and periodically show it to people just to prove I'm expert in chem coz I got access to a rare reagent! 😂😂😂

[@ChemicalForce]

@@heisenbergstayouttamyterri1508 I've looked at it for many years. Now I feel better 😅

[@heisenbergstayouttamyterri1508]

@@ChemicalForceHaha nice! 👍👍👍

[@jaccurtis5789]

These reactions are so beautiful! Especially the iodine ones

[@4k-os]

Congrats and thank you!

[@StuffandThings_]

Cesium is so interesting compared to the rest of the alkaline metals. I wonder if you could show some of the soluble cesium compounds to show why the radioactive isotopes are so dangerous?

[@thomasneal9291]

this is not the radioactive isotope of cesium (137). you can only get that as a byproduct of nuclear reactors, and no regular citizen can own it without special permits. cs137 is a heavy gamma emitter, which is what makes it so dangerous. you would not be storing it in glass ampules :)

[@therealtimmytfpv862]

Amazing stuff! Thank you for the great video!

[@lgeiger]

12:51 That's one of the most beautful chemical reactions I've ever seen.

[@ChrisTuttle]

I actually had to catch my breath. Usually I watch in awe, but this time other people in the house could hear me yelling OMG. What a treat it is. Thank you my friend!

[@boarbot7829]

Thanks for the advice, was about to go and transfer my vast caesium stash to my chloroform storage unit! So glad someone told me!

[@bagger87]

Great work. Thank you.

[@TWEEMASTER2000]

Wow i've always wondered what cesium looked like, thanks for doing all those reactions!

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Some chemical reactions are so beautiful! I love when you mix chemicals!

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Amazing video! Thank you so much.

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Beautiful reactions with iodine cloride again! Thanks!

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Beautiful!

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Beautiful video, the Cesium in ammonia reacting with ICl was amazing.

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This was a beautiful demonstration, thank you. Chemistry is so amazing

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Awsome intro and the ICl reaction😍

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Just epic cinematically wise! The utterly and entirely mad reactions are as satisfying as they could be aswell. Cheers.

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My favorite video of yours to date.

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