Making a block of dry ice is oddly satisfying

A few months ago I bought a dry ice maker, which was pretty much just a denim sock, strapped to a CO2 tank. I really wanted a nice block of it though, so I bought a different tool thing to make it. It looks a lot more complicated than a fancy sock, but it also doesn't seem too crazy. I quickly skimmed the instructions, and the only warning, was to keep the pressure really low, so I guess I'll just go ahead and try it out.
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Nile talks about lab safety (Chemistry is Dangerous): • Chemistry is dangerous.

[@manuelx379]

Nile: "chemistry is dangerous" Me: "i don't think it's the chemistry"

[@BrowncoatInABox]

WELL! little of column a little of column b

[@tannhauserr]

It's the chemist

[@ancbi]

Nile: I am the danger

[@windowsxpmemesandstufflol]

I’m not gonna be surprised if he cuts plastic with acid or something

[@mother722]

Its the formidable nile red

[@archertor5319]

"I only need about half" expect a totally *conventional* way in which nigel separates it...

[@suhasdara3040]

This is conventional by the standards of his shorts!

[@decrioden]

@Spiceinajar yup, it his name

[@ro7396]

@Hello *foreshadowing*

[@Gameboygenius]

I was just expecting a hammer tbh.

[@rs180216]

@@decrioden i have some news you might not like...

[@JordiVanderwaal]

- Nigel, why is there white stuff in your -denim- sock? - Don't worry it's just an experiment

[@coyraig8332]

Wait a few minutes

[@rajaanquarza8553]

Sadly it ain't sticky

[@IcyColdified_]

@@rajaanquarza8553 💀

[@robertholderman7552]

You’ll find out when you go to put your foot in there !!!! LoL 😂 is the 😂

[@JigsaW-goat]

*Nigel* *white stuff* *white stuff in socks* This is too much sus in a single sentence lol

[@Loggerten]

Nile has such a strange dry sense of humor. I love it.

[@darmakx99]

*Dry ice sense of humor

[@rtos]

But his throwing around lab equipment doesn't cut ice with me...

[@vbflame5645]

These are some Ice cold puns, cool tho

[@joannah4587]

Me: he is going to take out a hammer to split the block in half Nile: *takes out a chainsaw*

[@myouniverse0613]

I thought he was gonna use like a knife

[@asher3311]

i thought maybe he would use an axe or something but i was not expecting a chainsaw lmao

[@ineedapaimonirl3260]

Was expecting an axe or something🥴

[@tanall5959]

@@asher3311 This. Either an axe, or a meat cleaver. Some kind of choppy-choppy action from off-screen. But a chainsaw works too!

[@monkeyboy1075]

This is a very AvE way to open things

[@BenEater]

0:29 Chekhov's chainsaw!

[@liamhurlburt9794]

good spot!

[@Nosirrbro]

True

[@ooooneeee]

Talk about good writing!

[@themondei746]

Hahahaha nice reference

[@underroot2545]

Ooh hii Ben!

[@cbtillery135]

NileRed is really starting to play into the whole mad scientist thing and personally I'm all for it.

[@zyphergaming3187]

Everybody gangsta until Nigel makes a thermonuclear missile

[@reypolice5231]

I not worried about him, I'm worried about all the unstable governments that each have enough to cause a nuclear winter.

[@transkryption]

I just wish he'd feed us a little better... It's hard work digging his lair.

[@lolbroklol]

When I studied chemistry, we had a dry ice maker which was just a wooden box that could be clamped closed, and had a valve inlet at the top. Made a nice smooth "cube" of dry ice for us.

[@gne9211]

Did you used a chinsaw?

[@Milesco]

​@@gne9211 That sounds awfully dangerous. Painful and bloody, too. Better to use a chainsaw.

[@AsHS7]

Knowing Nile, I thought he was gonna cut it with a sword… and yet again, caught me by surprise!

[@johnather]

Saw a butchers knife coming and then he pulled a chainsaw on me and one upped my horror movie cliché expectations

[@nebularveil5598]

Hint was in the background...

[@robertmiller9687]

I saw it in the background and was like noo.... he won't do it... and then he did

[@awsomebot1]

Thought it would be an axe lmao

[@TheAxeliono]

I also thought it would be a sword lol

[@thecrocman8849]

I like how he conducts his experiments really professionally and then at the end he chucks stuff across the room

[@mistermax2289]

classic nile red

[@christopherwilson9979]

Its like Nirvana but with chem

[@Anonymous-nr4iv]

@@christopherwilson9979 no its more like howtobasic but chem

[@christopherwilson9979]

@@Anonymous-nr4iv Kurt used to destroy his equipment after the show, thats all I meant, not hard to understand

[@thatnoctutnallizard4600]

Or drags out a chainsaw

[@JordiVanderwaal]

This entire short is more chaotic than usual. I love it.

[@jay-virm]

I love how Nile knows exactly what we want to do with it And absolutely does it

[@lloydgush]

"Why is the lab budget so expensive?" Nile: "No reason, just science."

[@amarmkulkarni]

Its all the money from patreons, right?

[@barklet6110]

Right?

[@CrimsonAkato]

* looks with a concerned smile *

[@DataLog]

Right?

[@nolongerhooman2341]

sCiEnCe

[@gandalf8216]

"Okay, pair up for this experiment everyone" >ends up with NileRed >sweats profusely

[@randomperson1844]

*makes a nuke out of dry ice and electrical tape

[@scrubbydubby7986]

>ends up with NileGreen >... >God is not willing to help

[@Mkngs7snaj]

>ends up with NileBlue >dies >becomes the experiment

[@BruceNJeffAreMyFlies]

>ends up with nilered Me> "Well I'm going to have the coolest story EVER when people ask where my hand went!"

[@sharrpshooter1]

"I only need half of this group however" *chainsaw starting noises

[@bigclivedotcom]

I've used one in the past that was literally just two thick disks of wood with a Velcro strap around them to give a vented puck shaped void between them. One disk had the CO2 inlet in the middle. Only works with liquid CO2 and guzzles its way through a tank fast.

[@louisquartersson4555]

John Wick: Takes a pistol out of nowhere Nile: *pulls up with the chainsaw*

[@randaranatunga7259]

This is the only dude who can make a denim sock sound like it’s a crucial part in a machine that can manipulate time and space

[@TheRealThomcat]

@@siestapito3520 'Body: "Colder" ' Are you a corpse?

[@woodonfire7406]

@@siestapito3520 even my one video is worth more effort than your dumb spamming Oh, and he's the only person that can make aluminium foil turn fascinating with deep and complex facts about our human society

[@rs180216]

@@woodonfire7406 wait who's video on aluminum and society? I'm curious about this now

[@DrCruel]

No. Rick Sanchez can do it too.

[@DrCruel]

@Merlijn Folkerts Ah yes. The intersectionality of physics.

[@chemomania927]

This is only thing i haven't seen being thrashed in nile's lab- half a cylinder of solid CO2

[@DyslexicMitochondria]

Haha ikr

[@tomhappening]

@@DyslexicMitochondria hey bro I watch your videos. Love your channel

[@ayan8233]

@@DyslexicMitochondria You're awesome

[@beaconblaster33]

now you've

[@chemomania927]

@@beaconblaster33 yah

[@mandubun]

“And im only gonna need half” me: he’s gonna get a big knife him: *LITERALLY TAKES A CHAINSAW* never let them know your next move they say

[@00bean00]

It was back and center though, Chekhov's Chainsaw, as it were

[@vee6472]

I knew his next move

[@mastergx1]

Reminds me of working at a paintball field. Every now and again when filling the tanks with co2 - a burst disc would rupture. When that happened - all you could do was put the tank on the ground and let it vent - took about 5 mins. When it was done the whole tank looked 3 times larger with the amount of dry ice that completely caked it.

[@bucky13]

I'll forever be impressed at the heights this man has been able to take a chemistry channel on KZbin. Chemistry has always been impressive and fun.. but it's really hard to convince other people of that.

[@Jonathan-cn1nv]

I’m more impressed with him not cutting the table with the chainsaw

[@rekhanilajagi5276]

Bucky can yoy lend me some bucks?

[@bloblovlalalulu3422]

It bored me as a subject in school but totally cool here lol

[@theoutergod8666]

Honestly, I was always looking forward to chemistry, ever since first grade, but when we reached it, the teacher only showed formulas into us and never cared for mentioning of practical uses or even smallest of experiments. While it didn't kill my interest, it killed some of my enthusiasm.

[@kilroy987]

I was interested in chemistry somewhat until I took Organic Chemistry and couldn't remember all the exception cases for reactions. The application aspect went out the window and it was all memorization.

[@holycowsicle]

Nile’s comedic timing is always great with the end-gags.

[@whatsupeveryone]

ok

[@Wasabi574]

@@whatsupeveryone ok

[@whatsupeveryone]

@@Wasabi574 ok

[@Wasabi574]

@@whatsupeveryone ok

[@whatsupeveryone]

@@Wasabi574 ok

[@animekid69]

One thing I always appreciate is the appropriate tool for the appropriate job in each video

[@Not_A_Plant2552]

Me: patiently waiting for him to crush, throw, kick, or launch whatever he has been doing since the start of the video.

[@Mixcoatl]

"different tool thing" this man truly is a scientist.

[@fork2309]

Unrelated but anyone here know what that thing actually is called?

[@fork2309]

@@heart_break1 looked it up and holy shit its 500 dollars

[@A7MDRetr0]

@@fork2309 what’s it called?

[@fork2309]

@@A7MDRetr0 “dry ice maker”

[@some_random_merc]

NileRed: *slams the sock on the table* Also NileRed: “I really wanted a block”

[@talha1349]

Well the original wasn't in a clean block like this one so that's why he wanted to try again

[@funwithfish1507]

@@talha1349 bruh :|

[@shit_tiger]

@@funwithfish1507 I believe what she meant was that a block was impossible to achieve with the original machine. Not that he just slammed it on the table and couldn't manage to figure out why it wasn't a block.

[@JigsaW-goat]

@@shit_tiger *BRUHHHHH* -_-

[@TheAnantaSesa]

@@shit_tiger I think it WAS a block but stuck to the fabric sock so he would have needed to wait a short while for the edges to sublimate and free themselves.

[@Zebra.Lionfish]

Used to do something similar with sodastream tanks (since they make the carbonated water using CO2) to add a cool effect to coctails using powered dry ice 🎉 The hardest part was making a tool that pushed in the valve pin long enough to not have the gas freeze through your thermal glove 😅

[@strykenine7902]

Glad to see you're spending your time wisely.

[@Memer44]

When he said “I only needed half of it.." I was 100% damn certain that something's gonna blow up thru my mobile screen.

[@Caronage_]

howtosciencebasic

[@Induction-Machine]

#shayerkishore

[@user-zy4xe9yt4o]

Everyone speaking about Nile using chainsaw. Me : That was a shattering kick.

[@-Chicken_]

This joke *cuts deep*

[@sayori3939]

Yeah i kind of wanted to be kicked that way....

[@Adventist9917]

Nile uses shatter kick. It's super affective!

[@zagreus3698]

@@sayori3939 You would be obliterated on contact, not to mention *he only needs half of you*

[@lanye2708]

@@zagreus3698 dear lord almighty 😩

[@babyvampyt2800]

nile was wayyyyy to comfortable and precise with that chainsaw for me to not believe he isnt a serial killer in a movie

[@xanderplayz3446]

Was watching this while uninstalling onedrive. Keep up the great work!

[@8bmaitreyapatil168]

"I just need half of it." Calmly proceeds to cut it with a chainsaw and kick the other chunk.

[@benjiunofficial]

The kick was the objective. That was the half he needed. He disposed of the remaining half by flushing it down the lab toilet.

[@quadra5443]

@@benjiunofficial lmao

[@ImieNazwiskoOK]

@Benny Lawrence (minutes later( HEY! WHY THE FUCK DOES GAS COME OUT OF TOILET?! I NEARLY FROZE MY ASS.

[@Hatenver]

Nile be like: "To show you the power of science, I sawed this ice in half!"

[@djekdozovitch3679]

Wow thats a lot of damage!

[@Blacksmith574]

@@djekdozovitch3679 LOTTA DAMAGE!!!!!

[@pattinero756]

And repair it with only flex tape

[@debot7365]

@@Blacksmith574 *FLEX TAPE* IS HERE

[@razorwolf2758]

What has become of us?-

[@eclairesrhapsodos5496]

You are so funny and entertaining and interesting. Love your channels. I wish teachers be showing your vids to future kids on chemistry lessons lol.

[@arxtsss]

lol your right! this is oddly satisfying. cant wait till the next vid!

[@cruzi7024]

I was expecting something crazy when he's about to cut but never thought it would be a chainsaw.

[@oldbeetina]

I though it was gonna be a katana or sth

[@chadgorosaurus4898]

Then he just punts the dry ice to heaven

[@SeanSkyhawk]

We actually see it in the background, as a five second foreshadowing

[@howtodrinkwaterin5simplesteps]

Bro i thought he was gonna swing an axe down on it

[@dartcalm69]

For some odd reason I pictured him cutting it with a chainsaw but I was still shook when he actually did it-

[@The.RandomTube]

1:37 Nile:- "This isn't perfect tho" Me literally 10 seconds later when he uses a fricking chainsaw to cut the dry ice:- "This video is perfect."

[@ArdyneusTheGod]

I placed some dry ice into a Snapple bottle one time. Since I know about the solubility of gases and liquids, I correctly guessed that it carbonated the drink. The high amount of pressure inside the bottle caused the carbon dioxide to go in solution. It was in the perfect conditions, since lower temperatures and higher pressure increase the solubility of gases.

[@CEMAL.APE.]

I love how I am learning so much about without being forced to learn I watching his videos i’m not going on boring classes

[@8bmaitreyapatil168]

I love how aggressively he beats the sock

[@rubywest5166]

...I’m glad I know the context for this sentence

[@oppositeonion3871]

sussybakaamogusimposter100%

[@SacredDaturana]

"Listen you were supposed to beat INTO the sock"

[@clark987878]

How to make a carbon foot print :)

[@MrCh0o]

That's why you should proof-read your comments

[@8bmaitreyapatil168]

"I loosened it up a bit", Nile said calmly

[@degariuslozak2169]

"I only need about half" Casually pulls out chainswaw

[@who_wantsit]

I tried Nile's experiment here, using my own parts and tank from my shop. It doesn't work. I learned this. His tank has a tube in it that sucks liquid Co2 from the bottom of the tank. My bottle is a welding bottle, not a beverage dispenser bottle. So, I flipped my bottle upside down, and I got dry ice.

[@aniruudhh]

*”A little bit of banging and smashing stuff is what makes nilered videos perfect”* -Sun tzu, the art of loving chemistry

[@MuhammadAhmad-pl4sj]

''I didn't say that'' - Sun Tzu, the Art of Making Up My Quotes

[@westie430]

@@MuhammadAhmad-pl4sj 🤣🤣

[@cat_maid_]

This man really just said "I just need half of it" So damn calmly, then whips out a whole chainsaw without saying anything 😟📸

[@joannah4587]

Facts 😭

[@cat_maid_]

@@joannah4587 fax 🙄👋

[@randaranatunga7259]

Mans murdered his creation, like a true scientist

[@kellypg]

Lol you must be new here

[@firstletterofthealphabet7308]

it was casually sitting in the background a moment before, knowing nigel you shoulda seen it coming😂

[@Digital111]

1:35 It looks like a frosty roll of toilet paper

[@rake10]

This will hurt real bad if you do use it as one

[@theoxistWHATTHEFU-]

0:04 guys that's my sock!

[@ashlyalasagas1121]

1:55 alternative title: making dry ice and kicking it aggressively

[@OrdanKarris]

nile in every video: "one single drop of this could kill me and all of the people seeing this video" also nile: " *aniways im going to play with it and sometimes kick it and spread it in all the room* "

[@burger-jd8cx]

its dry ice bro not polonium

[@starsnipe-yp5hx]

@@burger-jd8cx Dry ice could kill ya if tou zmell it

[@GrinceMaster73]

@@burger-jd8cx he wasn’t referring to this specific video but to all of his

[@gabrieltorres6484]

@@burger-jd8cx dry ice in a closed room can kill you as co2 is toxic. At least a few people die every day from it and a few hundred have to go to the ER.

[@pedrofava1222]

that final was for the boys tysm you made my whole week with those 2 seconds

[@JJordan1012]

Nile... YOU THE MAN!

[@rolosilver3256]

0:11 Asian parents when kid gets 99.999999999999999999% in a test.

[@J3nn13Sonn]

Lol

[@SigmaKyrgyzstan]

Get 1>0 then 4>2 then 2>1 then 4>0 then 4>0 = 1>0 is 0>0>0>0>0>0>0>... so on

[@TylerInTraining]

My favorite was him skimming the instructions for warnings, not for actual instructions. True pioneer. haha

[@SarahAbramova]

This man amazes, confuses, and frightens me.

[@tylerallen0719]

I love when he breaks the stuff 🤣🤣🤣 best videos are when he does it

[@sanjayg6766]

Nile : and I only need about half. Me: oh, probably for something useful Nile : Throws it down, scatters it in th entire room. Me: Oh, I see

[@copterinx0468]

I think he destroyed the half he wasn't using.

[@themightyquinnm190]

I absolutely love the passive chaotic energy this entire channel gives off 😂😂

[@chrisgeorge84]

I like how he used the technical term for the “strap thing”

[@AIMLESS180]

Love the videos have been sitting here for twenty minutes watching these

[@whatd0605]

0:41 Idk why but I was expecting "So, I turned the pressure to maximum"

[@drcaiius]

You should try making transparent dry ice, instead of the simple compacted stuff! I was looking that up at random a few days ago, and it seems both possible and within the realm of manufacture.

[@canigetahoooyyyaaaaa7319]

WHAT 😳 I didn’t know that was a thing! I bet it would be so much longer lasting! That’s awesome I’ll check it out :) thanks for the info

[@UltraGamma25]

@@canigetahoooyyyaaaaa7319 hoooyyyaaaaa

[@nowonmetube]

Any sources?

[@drcaiius]

@@nowonmetube No hard sources; I was curious about it one day, and found a post talking about it somewhere as someone who had it happen as a result of an accident or something. You are gonna need to use Google-Fu to get any details.

[@nowonmetube]

@@drcaiius yeah but I don't know what to put in the search engine (I use statpage, which uses Google somehow)

[@9cwai958]

Love the foreshadowing

[@JohnLabu21]

The ending is magnificent!

[@8bmaitreyapatil168]

This is the BEST chemistry channel on KZbin.

[@Seamens]

Nile :"Either way I don't need the whole chunk of it, and i only need about half." *Cuts it in half with a Chainsaw*

[@JSTheAnonymousOne]

I wasn't expecting the cutting method, but I love it

[@kathryncarter6143]

Way cool! Good job!

[@8bmaitreyapatil168]

After seeing his videos, his neighbors be like, "Take the kids, we are moving."

[@adamantris2]

When he said that he needed only half of the block, i expected everything but a **fucking chainsaw** to be used.

[@daverapp]

"Pretty much just a denim sock, strapped to a CO2 tank" Sounds just like my wedding night

[@herminionz]

these endings man, they are great, great indeed

[@spaceghoul8921]

Me:**Expects it to him to crush it in the table.** Nile: **Whips out a fucking chainsaw.**

[@alwayzsleepy8749]

01:29 the dish is ready. It looks yummy.

[@cmills1008]

I love channel. This kid is living the life!!

[@darkjill2007]

I was looking into how to make dry ice a few months ago when I heard about dry ice sublimation cleaning. I didn't want to do it at scale. I just wanted a little bit to try it out.

[@Eye5x5]

This guy cares so much about safety but so little at the same time, I love it.

[@existentialcrisis8011]

You don't have a chem lab, you have a fun room for adults If only learning chem was this fun

[@YuvrajSingh-dp1ft]

Nile: it's fragile Also Nile : *takes out chainsaw*

[@spritesevenadam925]

NileRed: chemistry is dangerous Also NileRed:

[@Dusterisp]

"I only need about half" Uh-oh, rampant and chaotic destruction incoming [Neatly chainsaws block into two solid halves] Huh, no chaotic rampant destruction [Football kick] ... Oh.

[@vvexx400]

1:16 : my laptop with shaders on in minecraft be like

[@tiddybearkush]

Nile Red never disappoint you

[@pikaboystudios3842]

dude sublimation looks soo cool

[@yameenahmed1723]

1:46 *thanos liked that*

[@J3nn13Sonn]

Im so interested in science! Thanks you for inspiring me to learn

[@studywithknowledge1713]

Yeah me too :)👍🏻

[@Yezpahr]

When the parodies just aren't good enough anymore, we can rely on the real NileRed to churn out good content.

[@anime._.weed7153]

I like how he knows everything he's doing and still sounds like he's confused😂

[@thatSkyKosmoTactical]

No one else: NileRe: saws a block of dry ice in half and drop kicks it.

[@itskristy5239]

him: “It’s more fragile then I thought” also him: *using what looks like a buzz saw to cut ✨the fragile dry ice✨*

[@varixalint]

Do you not know what a chainsaw is?

[@exolord_trinity1495]

@@varixalint lmfao normal tiktok users

[@tarasb2242]

Actually, cutting with a chainsaw does not put such a shattering impact on an ice block as, say, cutting with a knife or an axe would. So it's quite smart, beside being simply fun.

[@telurbiru1711]

Average tiktok user

[@Jayce_Alexander]

"Using what looks like a magical moving saw to cut the fragile dry ice" Oh Kristy. Never change.

[@clairavoyant1212]

"a different tool-thing" why does this phrase make me happy

[@SeabornNomad]

That kick splosion at the end was cool, not gonna lie.

[@97Corvi]

1:50 Nile, the God of Violence

[@piop4155]

0:19 well that looks like you know

[@IshowSongNames]

Yep

[@KilaKaKa]

Jesse

[@windowsxpmemesandstufflol]

Forbidden kind tho

[@based4649]

Cum

[@CHRISXTR3M3GAMING]

Love the plot twist and cliffhanger ending. Anxiously waiting for part 2 where you reveal what you wanted the dry ice for

[@misery55]

nilered: *"safety first"* nilered shorts: *cuts dry ice with chainsaw*

[@COfmBrd]

0:52 kids that think vape is cool be like:

[@lerkzor]

Any idea when you plan to do a whole video again? I really miss the long-format videos where I can learn something that I will never use in my daily life.

[@jinhur8193]

Gotta watch out messing around with dry ice in areas where ventilation can be an issue

[@gabrielsilveira8246]

Nile is a master of subverting expectations. I figured he would just smash it, but this is so much more violent than it has any right to be lol