Making lead crystals that taste sweet

[@theCodyReeder]

The remaining grey powder was probably silver, tin, or other metals that wher alloyed with the lead.

[@JoshuaSobel]

Cody'sLab possibly antimony as well.

[@sarahbingham1133]

When is Cody tasting the sugar of lead

[@ChallengeTheNarrative]

@@JoshuaSobel Adam Antimony?

[@yamakiguerra1129]

Its weird that lead (ll) oxide reacts with acetic acid but lead (ll) hydroxide does not react with acetic acid

[@dirtgee]

Cody'sLab aww cool seeing you here cody

[@practicallyalive]

"Sir, would you like leaded or unleaded sugar?"

[@friendlylunatic1316]

“Leaded, thanks”

[@mattlogue1300]

Hehe

[@madkirk7431]

Oh, you must've misheard me, I said "Leaded gasoline"

[@woulg]

My nipples are killing me, gimme the leaded sugar please

[@cyansea4]

I would have diesel sugar

[@Genny207]

2:06 The saying goes: "The only difference between poison and medicine is the dose"

[@General12th]

To be fair, _any_ amount of lead is bad for you. The fact that it can help purify something with its deadliness doesn't make it any less deadly to you.

[@EdwardTriesToScience]

well with that logic, any amount of water is also bad for you because it dilutes your nutrients

[@General12th]

​@@EdwardTriesToScience A moderate amount of water is more beneficial than harmful. No amount lead is good under any circumstance.

[@MrJdsenior]

@@EdwardTriesToScience HARDLY. Now if you drink ENOUGH of it in a short enough time, it can actually kill you. Without it, you die fairly quickly, too. Some metals are REQUIRED in trace amounts for bodily functions, or you are functionally compromised and sometimes die prematurely. Lead appears to be purely detrimental, but I expect in small enough quantities even lead has little to no deleterious effect. The body actually can dispose of lead very slowly, but it takes very little to grossly overwhelm this minor capability. Don't ingest or inhale lead, it's bad. Medicines are ALL toxins (look it up), and that is why they kill you when grossly overdosed, and why in some cases that is a VERY VERY small dose. Some require single digit MILLIONTHS of a gram level, where 454 grams equals one pound. That means some can kill with single doses of 1/100,000,000 pounds (or one one hundred millionth of a pound), that is a damned small amount, a weight that were I to drop in in your hand with your eyes closed you wouldn't remotely know when I did. It's equivalent weight to a piece of regular notebook paper about 1/64" on a side, if I did the quick math right. THAT is a toxin/poison (they are not necessarily the same thing).

[@lolzmanxd3368]

Nah, I chugged my cough syrup when my throat was itchy and now I can control the speed at which time goes, I'm a god

[@gato4002]

"Lead" and "Taste Sweet" are two things I never thought I would see in a sentence together.

[@gamistry2947]

You seriously didn't know that lead tastes sweet?

[@zyloft2053]

Gamistry dude, even when I was younger I knew lead was toxic so I wasn't gonna try, and didn't know anywhere that had some

[@bread9276]

laed paint chips are sweet

[@hiimemily]

@@bread9276 wall candy

[@bread9276]

@@hiimemily yep

[@jamietong6375]

“For survival purposes you would expect lead to taste bitter” My 3am brain: how does lead need to survive?

[@Xnoob545]

For YOUR survival, stuff that's dangerous to you tastes bad on purpose so you don't die but apparently with lead it's not the case

[@ricasiogaming7873]

Lol 😂

[@aynain1810]

😂

[@Jesus_Christ_loves_you_alot]

I know this is like a year later but getting enough sleep is important. Also Jesus loves you and there is a point to life 😊

[@relaxandfocus5563]

Maybe you got some sugar from Nile?

[@melody3741]

This is my favorite edible chem episode.

[@richardwu9013]

Melody hol up

[@yeetdosis39]

Lmao wtf man

[@jeffgoldblunt]

No don't

[@Nathan-mu8zy]

@@jeffgoldblunt he is joking

[@jeffgoldblunt]

@@Nathan-mu8zyI'm also joking, It was a bill wurtz reference

[@aloysiuskurnia7643]

*sees title* Ah sweet we're making sugar *Plays video* "Lead is a toxic element..."

[@Enderborn272]

Ya gotta open with that cause he knows how stupid some people can get.

[@Nugcon]

the forbidden sugar

[@skidwarfarebo2171]

@@Nugcon can’t stop laughing

[@KingThrillgore]

>toxic element Didn't stop GM and Dupont in the 1940s

[@Jeffrey314159]

Sugar of Lead, or Lead Acetate was created as a byproduct of Romans cooking sweetening herbs for their wine in pots made of Lead. This may explain what drove Caligula mad. He loved his wine sweetened with this 'defruiter' as I believed it was called.

[@sixstringedthing]

Defrutum. I believe it is very very similar to the Sapa mentioned in the video, but the preparation method differs slightly. It wasn't just Caligula, if my history serves it was something of a craze, and possibly responsible for some of the more... interesting events in Roman high society during the time of its use.

[@kylejarvis2517]

Thanks!

[@jamesverhoff1899]

The term for those crystals growing through each other is twinning. It happens a lot in crystals in geology; I'm not sure why.

[@MrEbenezer13]

A tip from one amateur chemist to a real chemist. If you get some kind of very smooth, almost "fatty" tupperwave (usually the cheapest stuff, cause it's got more fatty plastic), you will be able to evaporate the crystals and later on just lift them up, because the plastic trays work like teflon, it doesn't stick. It's done miracles for me, and I would never use anything but cheap fake-tupperware stuff now for my crystallizations, at least if I want to be able to pick my crystals up easily after the water has evaporated.

[@Quintinohthree]

Erik Persson Sounds like what you need is some perfluoridated alkyltrichlorosilane.

[@NileRed]

Interesting, thanks.

[@Megabobster]

Erik Persson Tupperwave is my favorite music genre.

[@TheGayestPersononYouTube]

Megabobster the songs last a lot longer that other genres

[@johndifrancisco3642]

Erik Persson, Fatty Tupperware and fatty plastic? I don't think you're doing the dishes correctly. :P Would a silicone baking pan liner work? Sounds close to what you are describing.

[@brandondekroon7264]

Imagine making lead into crack rocks and telling everyone it's sugar

[@smapa1185]

Well, that's a quicker and more painful way to kill or maim crackheads...

[@corettaha7855]

brandon dekroon or crack

[@rudmanpaul2812]

Seems legitimate

[@bobthebuilder1360]

Looks more like meth or molly

[@Kampos94]

@@bobthebuilder1360 looks nothing like MDMA crystals. a

[@williamkennison8920]

lead acetate is the reason kids like the taste of lead paint chips on old homes and other buildings.

[@alexwang982]

William Kennison Ew

[@caillousdad5786]

No way lol. I remember paint chips being bitter and kinda spicy... which is what made me curious to try as a kid xD

[@personmcdudeguy]

@@caillousdad5786 by old, he means houses built in the 60s or earlier. If you're young enough, your house could have been built after lead was removed from paints.

[@funnyguy6197]

same

[@lil_weasel219]

its not lead acetate, but other many other lead compounds are sweet

[@notlunalust]

I've been binging these videos whenever I'm stuck in the bathroom with stomach pains, since the videos are so soothing, and nothing makes me happier in these moments than hearing distilled water being used

[@elisebrito2402]

you have no idea how much i relate to this comment lol

[@notlunalust]

@@elisebrito2402 water sounds are soooo soothing it's almost unreal

[@calebcaldwell1142]

I’m literally on the toilet rn

[@Fr3ak_MM8BDM]

Guess people like you need to keep your autism from swelling up somehow

[@ecwfaithful]

I do the same thing when I can't sleep

[@programexe2544]

fun fact, if you play this at 1.25x speed, it sounds like him nowadays

[@SalzmanSoftware]

I realize this too! I think he speeds it up when he does voiceover’s

[@Nkswan]

Holy my mans right

[@DeezNuts-]

Woah i thought u were cappin but its true

[@General12th]

​@@SalzmanSoftware That's not how you pluralize "voiceovers".

[@BlipSS]

I'd say it's closer to 1.18x speed

[@user-pt1cz4ot1e]

“It’s inevitable that some of the crystals will break, but I want to keep this to a minimum.” *Also, violently shakes bowl.*

[@mynaemsophie]

IV

[@0Ihs_]

@@mynaemsophie hi i killed your son. again.

[@papastalin69]

@@mynaemsophie LXIX

[@galixy_gacha5926]

@@papastalin69 LXII LXXII LXXV LXVIII 0d 0a Edit: Hex decimal

[@Mario-hv7xc]

​@@papastalin69 69 in Roman numerals

[@KamuiPan]

You could do a series on this ancient chemistry and start replicated here on youtube!

[@seeranos]

KamuiPan I second this!

[@rvdp6191]

I thirt this !

[@hiiambob89]

Ditto

[@zad08]

五th

[@min_nad]

Yesss!

[@MRblazedBEANS]

ah man my nipples are soo sore... think ill rub some lead acetate on them!

[@granddukeofmecklenburg]

Jumper cables work wonders on sore nipples...

[@Brite-um2tq]

​@@granddukeofmecklenburgit only works once!

[@elferson]

Title: "Making lead crystals that taste sweet" First 1 second: "lead is a toxic element"

[@detumaki]

Its NileRed. That he didn't find a way to make this more dangerous is shocking

[@randomprimary]

Famous last words: "I really wanted some nice crystals"

[@CatsBtrippin]

My first words

[@chaumas]

"Glacial acetic acid", for those wondering, is just undiluted acetic acid. It's called that because its melting point is about 17℃, so it starts solidifying into crystals at close to room temperature.

[@kam5195]

Um meth? Is it true that they give "crack babies" sugar?? To make them calm down?! To replace their mother's addiction during pregnancy?? Wow 😳

[@paulmccartney2327]

Your wrong about the halting problem

[@Sturdy_Penguin]

So...what you're saying is, that if I have sore nipples, I need to chug some vinegar and eat parts of car batteries?

[@mackycabangon8945]

Kody Montes Yes

[@PacoRobbins]

Take some Pepto at the same time to combat the stomach pain you're inevitably going to be feeling.

[@handanhan]

I would highly recommend it

[@MrJdsenior]

Nah, just eat and drink the whole thing, your nipples will pain you no more after a short while (neither will anything else, for that matter).

[@kickmcmelon18]

Are you deaf? You got the first part right but you rub the batteries ON you sore nipples...

[@MrGoatflakes]

"tear apart a car battery and roast the lead dioxide found inside" sounds like good advice xD

[@phorzer32]

I will do it.

[@chemistryofquestionablequa6252]

It's fine if you know the risks and plan for them.

[@gayusschwulius8490]

It's honestly not nearly as scary as it sounds

[@punishedexistence]

I remember once in my chem class in college I made a solution of lead nitrate and stuck the beaker in the lab drawar. We went away on summer break and I came back to my same drawar which still had the beaker in it fully evaporated and had about 3 huge almost purely clear lead nitrate crystals along with many smaller ones. It was so beautiful I had to put them in a test tube with a cork and took it home. Sadly I think someone stole them where I had them displayed, maybe thinking it was quartz. Well, let's hope they didn't open it and play with the crystals...

[@chemistryofquestionablequa6252]

Would serve them right if they got poisoned.

[@Moritz___]

well if so carma is a bitch

[@ayyymacaroni]

Wait they stole the whole cork? Out of your freaking house? Who does that?! I hope they *did* open it and play with the crystals.

[@CatsBtrippin]

They probably thought it was something “sweeter” 😉 Can only hope so 🙏

[@xeveniahdarkwind178]

Thanks for the educational videos.. I have loved chemistry and science since I was a child.. and thanks for helping me reconnect with who I used to be before my stroke..

[@zoesbv]

oh wow :(

[@melvin_milton]

Thx for the recipe I stroked the big crystals on my nipples and it really helped

[@fisrtnamelastname3083]

Ah yes, healing or banishing crystal, led

[@jkobain]

Making sugar? I don't see the «Edible Chem» suffix in the title…

[@mycelia_ow]

It still has lead

[@KingThrillgore]

Lead is generally considered to be bad for you.

[@luisp.3788]

@@mycelia_ow why

[@luisp.3788]

@@KingThrillgore why

[@luisp.3788]

why does nobody get jokes, how much of the crystal do people make before watching anything in life unfold

[@Dosbomber]

Lead has sugar in it??? NO WONDER LEAD IS SO TASTY!! ()

[@medexamtoolscom]

Let's get together and drink paint! We'll have a Sherwin Williams Christmas!

[@rradiosilencee]

@bachelors of trolling degree, 2013 yummy 🤪🤪🤤🤤🤤🥴🥴

[@mauz791]

@Andrés Valverde pretty much

[@pilotavery]

No, lead can be made into a special kind of sugar compound

[@mouthwashs0da]

@Andrés Valverde autistic outbreak??? Oh no, my autism is breaking out *sneezes* darn allergies

[@whyisblue923taken]

"Eat lead!" "Is it sweet? Hey, stop shooting at me!"

[@jaggonjaggon7695]

Lead was used in pipes, too, but mostly because lead pipes are easy to bend and work with because lead is soft. It wasn't that much of a problem, because most of the time a layer of chalk formed on the inside of the pipes that stopped the lead from getting into the water.

[@Baptized_in_Fire.]

No. It isn't chalk. It is a lead salt. You still get lead poisoning

[@robustix4530]

"I wanna avoid breaking the crystals as much as possible" *shakes them around like some kind of maraca*

[@michaelmanos2064]

lol

[@LilacDownDeep]

14:58 Holy tamales on a biscuit LOOK at that twinning! That is BEAUTIFUL. I'd buy that in a *heartbeat* just to show to my geologist friends.

[@mnimmajeff6047]

*Geology noises*

[@CrayfishCraig]

I know right, my geology professor has some excellent example of twinning in the schools collection, but Dang is it nice

[@ambi_cc8464]

Biscuit tamale moment

[@fisrtnamelastname3083]

Crunchcrunch

[@cubaku]

*Anyway,*

[@WritingMyOwnElegy]

lead and iron oxide makes thermite sugar and KNO3 makes rocket fuel, *_a weapon to surpass metal gear?_*

[@joeschmoe3815]

Aluminum, not lead

[@WritingMyOwnElegy]

@@joeschmoe3815 hm i feel like somewhere someone added lead to the mix, but on its own i guess not

[@joeschmoe3815]

@@WritingMyOwnElegy I mean, yeah, maybe. I mean, Aluminum is highly electro positive and protects the Iron from oxidation during the reaction. I am not really sure what lead would do in the process? Increase ductility? Maybe? Yeah, why not? Have a nice day!

[@ricardo_9726]

Solid rocket moter

[@WritingMyOwnElegy]

@@ricardo_9726 *motor, and i did not specify the phase of matter of the rocket fuel, so what's your point.

[@Eagerphill]

I would love to see a video on if he can test if lead glass decanters actually leach lead into the liquids they hold.

[@emsifloru9519]

Better title: Forbidden candy

[@romajimamulo]

"Folk remedy for sore nipples" I'm sorry, what? Why do need one for that

[@sarahp6512]

Breastfeeding

[@zeehobo]

Titty twisters

[@duckyducktm9197]

Two types of people

[@wbwillie]

@@zeehobo I don't really think the purple nurple existed in those days... but I could be wrong

[@jacobdavis6604]

@@wbwillie I feel they've probably lasted as long as there have been nipples and family members that need annoying

[@lucegibbs6044]

I almost failed high school chem and I remember almost none of it yet I’ve decided to subscribe to a ton of them

[@pietrotettamanti7239]

I love those inorganic chem videos. They're simple, clear and the result is always a ~90% yield and great purity. They're satisfying.

[@evelynlamoy8483]

I still remember eatting leaded paint when I was little and didn't realize that was bad. Delicious

[@fisrtnamelastname3083]

Crunchcrunchcrunch

[@ETORERIGO]

Bro lost 5 iq points from eating lead paint

[@dhumparoo]

Loved the recrystalization in this video! Can you do more crystal growing videos?

[@NileRed]

I might not make a dedicated video, but I try my best to grow crystals when I can

[@great__success]

professional crystal growing involves thermostat and constantly rotating seed crystal...but I think this could be done homemade...if you leave the crystal just sitting you will never get nice results

[@snowdaysrule]

A I always wondered how people got such nice crystals, guess there's a lot more too it than just letting the solvent evaporate slowly lol! Good info

[@Eye5x5]

@@NileRed Get a barrel of methylamine and make the blue.

[@ColinRies]

I received my acetic acid literally today, so I can get going on this synthesis very soon :) nice video, the idea of introducing the viewers by some historical uses of a compound is really good. Keep up the good work!

[@DrakkarCalethiel]

I get mine tomorrow. Can't wait to do the synthesis, it's very easy and great to to after work.

[@ColinRies]

Drakkar Calethiel or after school in my case :) Being interested mainly in organic chemistry, I rarely have something interesting to quickly do in one afternoon, as most things require quite some time... This is a nice and easy thing to do. I might use some 30% hydrogen peroxide though, but I know where to find it :) I wish you luck and have fun!

[@DrakkarCalethiel]

Colin Ries Thanks! Organic chemistry is very interesting but often takes hours to complete. I have to do it with 20% h2o2 because it's the highest I could get over a good friend and with 90% acetic acid.

[@DrakkarCalethiel]

Or I just get some lead oxide. Its pretty cheap so I don't have to waste my precious peroxide.

[@ColinRies]

Drakkar Calethiel I haven't found lead oxide yet, but it appears to be the superior method. I got myself 500g of lead metal a few weeks back, so I want to use that... The only days I can really do organic chemistry is on Fridays and Saturdays because I can start in the early afternoon and continue working until late in the morning. I have had 16 hour sessions in the basement quite often, starting at 3 in the afternoon on Friday and working straight through until Saturday morning at 7 or 8. It's really difficult to go to bed when it's bright outside and the birds make noise, but you get accustomed to it :P Are you planning to grow crystals?

[@mmmhorsesteaks]

There's a trick where you repeatedly re-heat a solution with smaller crystals in it until you just dissolve the tiny ones so only the larger ones will carry on growing. It's time-consuming, but a fine way to grow large, "flawless" crystals. I do not know the term in English and cannot immediately find it on google.

[@NileRed]

Interesting. I never heard of that before

[@mmmhorsesteaks]

NileRed never tried it; don't have the patience myself ;-) if memory serves, it exploits the kinetics of dissolution because of the comparatively larger surface area of smaller crystals. The term (as old as the alchemists apparently) in dutch is "digereren" but I don't know/can't find the word in english.

[@12345NOU54321]

Defenestration23 called it "Ostwald ripening" in another comment. Sounds cool.

[@nephdrummond3168]

NileRed Neither have I, do you think you'll attempt it in a video for any reason?

[@mmmhorsesteaks]

12345NOU54321 thank you so much, it really bothered me I didn't have a term for it :)

[@redactedbananas]

You could spell out NileRed on a single crystal with enough care and patience.

[@BristlyBill]

honestly the crystal clear filtering was so satisfying

[@NortelGeek]

2:20 For men's hair color? I know we have coarser hair than women, but is there a special reason for it being in men's products?

[@argenteus8314]

I notice you don't seem to have made a video synthesizing your namesake, Nile Red dye. Are you unable to do so, or just not interested? Or am I mistaken (It's very difficult to search your channel for a video about a chemical with the same name as your channel)?

[@jansenart0]

Probably because obtaining or synthesizing the 5-(dialkylamino)-2-nitrosophenols with 1-naphthylamine, 3-(dialkylamino)phenols with N-alkylated 4-nitroso-1-naphtylamines, or N,N-dialkyl-1,4-phenylenediamines with 4-(dialkylamino)-1,2-naphthoquinones as a precursor would be a pain in the ass to make a youtube video about.

[@luisp.3788]

@@jansenart0 He said somewhere that he does eventually want to do it.

[@General12th]

@@jansenart0 Well, you could say the same thing about synthesizing Prussian blue. We just call it something other than its full chemical name of iron(II,III) hexacyanoferrate(II,III).

[@BloodyBobJr]

"Folk remedy for sore nipples" Yikes, had some real kinky folks back in the day

[@zwitter_zwitter]

Breastfeeding

[@recursiveslacker7730]

a e s t e t h i c c ouch, the baby’s gonna get dosed with lead

[@mauz791]

@@recursiveslacker7730 They didn't know that though, similar thing with thalidomide

[@bj.bruner]

People have always been kinky, they've just been more open about it the last half century because of the sexual revolution. I personally think the sexual revolution was a detrimental step the Western world took, but I'm not here to dictate to you what to think.

[@steernaught]

3:07 Ferb, i know what we’re gonna do today

[@mordirit8727]

NileRed: there were _many_ downsides to moving the crystals around, and literally no upsides to it. So I moved them, and had a lot of work fixing the mess. That tracks.

[@superistrash4170]

Two words that should never be in the same sentence, lead, and sweet.

[@rhysun]

When I was at primary school in the early 1980s someone discovered that the drainpipes had a pleasantly sweet taste to them. Soon enough a drainpipe-licking craze swept through the whole school and during recess groups of children could be seen huddled around each drainpipe. Sadly, drainpipes aren't painted with lead compounds any more so kids these days are being denied all the free sweetness that we all took for granted when we were their age.

[@soupmuncher.]

aw man i wish little kids could lick drain pipes nowadays

[@trickshot646]

Now all I have to do is slowly add to my enemies tea, and just wait...

[@annesophieg-n]

i never get tired of seeing crystallization. so pretty! so cool!

[@roskisrotta5531]

Please im addicted to your videos even tought i dont understand anything about it

[@MatthewCobalt]

I've never heard of someone "roasting" lead before.

[@bobbybaucom4489]

Look up metal refining and you will.

[@hairlesscat6458]

Ha your lead is more toxic than cyanide. BOOM ROASTED

[@MatthewCobalt]

@@hairlesscat6458 You roasted cyanide. I think it's the other way around?

[@xx_redwood_xx9737]

Lmao lead doesn't even directly kill you most of the time Lmaoooo it just makes you dumber

[@jmmjjmmjjmmj]

lol that lead got a big ass forehead XDDDDD

[@joshuabuilds3051]

"I will now sell this bag of lead sugar to the first tweaker I see downtown"

[@friendlylunatic1316]

*whistles*

[@PuffleFuzz]

Tweaker: hey this isn’t Coke/meth! (I’m dumb when it comes to drugs)

[@polarknight5376]

@@PuffleFuzz both drugs are appropriate here.

[@jerrysstories711]

10:34 I was surprised by this reaction! I totally would have thought that the H2O2 would oxidize the acetate and ruin everything. Fascinating.

[@witchypoo7353]

You know something’s dangerous when even Nile won’t eat it. Man’s a human goat at this point

[@kbraggs]

This was a fantastic demonstration on the nuances of crystallization. Such a challenge to perfect.

[@mundolukas]

I swear to god my mind made up the sweet taste in my mouth while watching this

[@fisrtnamelastname3083]

Crunchcrunchcrunch

[@ashW110]

Lead acetate is awesome compound, especially due to its use in the clandestine chemistry. Even though I am aginst the recreational use of synthetic drugs such as crystal meth but since the breaking bad show I love to research this topic. I was kind of hoping you cover a limited info about its use in the production of P2P, knowing it is perhaps the easiest route from PAA that does not require any Acetic anhydride. Since Chem player stopped making videos, you are the most informative chemist on youtube. Keep up the great work. I wish I were living in Canada or another country where I won't have to limit myself in my chemistry hobby. Unfortunately, here in the UK stereotypical authorities will consider you as a terrorist or a commercial drug manufacturer for such a hobby.

[@argenteus8314]

Why are you against the recreational use of synthetic drugs? Crystal meth is pretty bad, sure, though I still feel people should have the right to make bad decisions if they want to, but there are plenty of very safe synthetic drugs, like LSD.

[@ashW110]

Because synthetic/semisynthetic psychoactive drugs you getting off the street are mostly impure, and the biggest danger is not the drug itself. However, the organic drugs such as cannabis is a different story, all you really need is a visual observation to determine the quality. In any case, it is true every human should be given a right to make a bad decision that does not affect anyone apart from the person who makes this decision.

[@argenteus8314]

Well, I'm glad we can agree on the right to make your own bad decisions at least. The purity is a real problem for many drugs, though with a bit of knowledge it's not really that hard to purify further to a safe degree. For LSD in particular, though, the impurity isn't really a big concern (assuming it really is LSD, which can be verified easily through reagent testing or even just taste), since the amount on a given tab is so incredibly tiny. Supposing one had a way to reliably know that the product was suitably pure, perhaps due to prohibition ending: Would you still be against the use of synthetic drugs under these circumstances? And how do you feel about drugs that are natural, but must be (or simply are) extracted from the plant matter through chemical means, like DMT?

[@ashW110]

Psychoactive substances is one of my favourite subject, I don't talk about it very often though as due to its illegal status majority will consider you a criminal just because of your interest. What you are saying is very true with little knowledge in chemistry it is quite easy to rid of cutting agents, and coloured impurities from street bought drugs. However, is usually not the biggest concern and to get the purity to 95%+-, it takes allot, and you can never make it 100% no matter what you do. Now, let's imagine hypothetically a drug user who has some knowledge in chemistry and no financial problems. That person is willing to lose 70% of the dope to get it to 95% purity. What is this remaining 5% of impurities and what long term affect will it do to your body? So yeah, buying drugs off the street is not the way to go even if you are an intelligent enough to know how to purify alkaloids such as cocaine or methamphetamine, etc. When it comes to LSD, I can't imagine how one can purify it? Knowing that one hit is around 100-200 micrograms one gramme would make 5000-10000 hits. It will probably cost as much as the two-story house in the centre of London to buy the workable quantity of LSD for purification and who willing to lose even 1%? About organic drugs such as DMT, cocaine, morphine, etc. These may be just as impure due to chemicals used for the extraction. Of course, if you are a good chemist and do extraction yourself you may get a relatively pure product. However, without costly equipment, you can never get it to pharm grade. In my opinion, the war on drugs is the biggest mistake humanity has ever done. People use psychoactive substances because they have particular problems that caused by some events in their life or some genetical mental defects, and the substances are the only thing that can stop these individuals from suffering. From my research, I know that drug addicts are only dangerous when they are severely addicted, and they can't get what they need. Take food from an average individual for a few days, and that person will be as dangerous to society as a drug addict that can't satisfy its addiction. So we all have an addiction to food, and if food abused, it can also lead to death or ruin someone's life(overweight). Perhaps I am crazy, but I can clearly see all the benefits from legalisation of psychoactive substances. The improvement of the economy, reduction of crime and death rates related to drugs, increase in employment and new areas of research for science. Negative sides? There will always be individuals who willing to abuse drugs despite the harm.

[@argenteus8314]

I wasn't saying you can purify LSD, it would probably be among the hardest to purify, especially given how fragile of a molecule it is. But with only around 100ug per tab (more often around 40 nowadays if you get it off the street), whatever impurities are there are likely in such a tiny amount they're not likely to hurt you. The other thing is that it's so hard to make, anyone with the capacity to make it has the chemistry knowledge to produce a reasonably pure product. The solvents and such used for DMT extraction (And I suspect the extraction of other natural product drugs, though I don't know much about the details) are unlikely to leave many impurities in the end product if done by someone remotely competent. Most of them will evaporate completely. Any impurities in the product would have already been in the plant material, and the most common natural source has no known toxins. There's also some attempts at using solvents that are relatively safe to consume like limonene so that if any did remain, it wouldn't be an issue. I completely agree with you that all drugs should be legal, of course. I imagine that was clear from my comments.

[@myperspective5091]

For one summer when I was in my senior year of high school I worked at a winery. At the winery I worked in the part where they stored the freshly pressed wine in large stainless steel vats. one of my jobs was to clean those Vats after they transferred the wine into barrels. When I was cleaning the Vats I found that there was always this yellow crystal substance in the bottom of the the vat. when I first saw it I thought it was sulfur but it didn't smell like sulfur. It stank like battery acid. It would instantly give me a headache if I had to handle it. I eventually refused to do that job because I couldn't get within arm's reach of the stuff without getting a headache from it. I asked to use a respirator . The company didn't provide a respirators for the job. It was a small family-owned business. I wonder if that substance was lead oxide like what was shown in this video at 01:15.

[@myperspective5091]

I figured it was some other mineral that was in the ground that the grapes vines we are absorbing through the roots. None of my other coworkers knew what it was either. We all joked about it being some type of chemical that was left over from the fertilizers or insecticides that were sprayed on the plants.

[@myperspective5091]

@@imcookin Thanks. I’m on You Tube daily. I’m always still interested in science

[@farvatron]

Of course we enjoyed your video! you're a fricken genius dude!

[@nathandevine552]

Is this what i accidentally created when i was a kid when i soaked tire weights in a heavily chloranated solvent and forgot about them for several months....they had clear crystals all over them

[@Rubikorigami]

1:55 TRULY AN ARTIST.

[@danielgorzel7222]

Cant a chemist be an artist?

[@Rubikorigami]

twoja stara They definitely have the creativity to find new things so NO EXCUSE! 😂

[@loganplumlee3840]

hey NileRed i think a good, simple video you could make is extracting sugar from coca-cola, it should be simple and show just how much sugar is in soft drinks

[@jetoler7379]

if it's trying to show how much sugar is in soft drinks he should do it with fanta or mt dew.

[@wilholloway2924]

Or Sunkist

[@nathansfarcioc5575]

Or read the side

[@JohnChime1999]

sooo overdone

[@jakeshaw6827]

A cooler much simpler video would be making ice from sudafed lol

[@vebjrndrefvelin4873]

NileRed: Uses hundreds of coffee filters Also NileRed: Never drinks a cup of coffee ever

[@HeEde.]

This desert is delicious, what did you use to make it so good. Lead, it’s the secret ingredient.

[@carolcaicedo]

Dude that's amazing. I suggest extracting it from paint that contains lead (if any is still found in the market) to see the amount of lead visually

[@martingardener]

Quick question.....wy do acetates tend to supersaturate without crystallising compared to other salts? Works for sodium acetate and such but is this generalised to other metal acetates? What about other carboxylates? Interesting.

[@truixmatia5709]

This was a great video

[@akselimaaranen3859]

12 hours ago...

[@thewolfin]

Patreon

[@christinemurphy8862]

Truix Matia I

[@trevorc3063]

"Making Sugar of Lead - Edible Chem!"

[@DweeD1516]

Yo NileRed that song in the outro is absolutely amazing! Thanks for giving credit to the artist but also just thought I'd make this comment because the vid is older and maybe you havent heard it in a while and completely forgot about and might wanna give it a listen again and refeel so to speak lol what made you like it when you first heard it nd enough to add it here. Maybe you know the artist but anyway I REALLY enjoy it and all the videos you both are genius.

[@munshi_man9736]

"Plumbo Funbo" Sweet Lead Candy (ARTIFICIALLY SWEETENED WITH LEAD)

[@akselimaaranen3859]

Try tasting that!

[@novathemagus3740]

Aksu Fin You would be a terrible chemist

[@qwertykeyboard5901]

Aksu Fin No

[@nicholastrombone9899]

I was going to make that joke

[@Filmer1eX]

Nah, smoke it from a crack pipe instead

[@ryandoe11]

CodysLab is going to taste it on his next video! which is why i searched youtube about this stuff

[@povnw8985]

5:20; I love this part.

[@sparrow6190]

Oh come on, I was waiting for the taste test! Taste your rock candy! You went through all that work and bragged about it's sweetness, only fair to taste it for us. 🥰

[@Nawaf-]

I like chemistry. But I never realized I love it! All thanks to you and your great videos. Thanks for your hard work 👏 So good and quality content

[@bread9276]

hey its everyone's favorite snack, PAINT CHIPS

[@bananana6380]

I like roasting car battery liquid. That’s because it doesn’t roast me.

[@gigglysamentz2021]

2:48 NileRed, one of the rare people who ends up doing two experiments when he planned to do only one. I do the opposite every day XD

[@nameless......................]

Remember when he tried to make cherry soda and *teargassed himself?*

[@gigglysamentz2021]

@@nameless...................... Ha ha ha good points XD

[@MoldyStir-Fry]

The white backgrounds in your videos constantly remind me how dirty my phone screen is 😅

[@jackreeves954]

i wanna see nile red do mdma synthesis

[@gwenturo9550]

2:00 after your epsom salt video, all i can see is "Water 1/4 oz., Dissolved in a glass of water."

[@applepieavi1517]

3:14 instructions unclear i kept roasting the lead and roasted its mom too but nothin happened

[@Harshit_patel.....30]

Did you try using the f word?

[@Toaster-of_random]

@@Harshit_patel.....30 which one?

[@Harshit_patel.....30]

@@Toaster-of_random the ultimate one- fat

[@sargon6000]

@NileRed Could those metal impurities be antimony? I know lead is usually alloyed with antimony.

[@dumbo800]

Unlikely. That was lab-supply lead shot. Antimony is used to harden lead used for birdshot. Tin is usually used for rifle ammo, IIRC (I know that was the purpose in my grandfather's reloading supplies, but idk if that is still the process today).

[@sargon6000]

Interesting. I used to have antimony impurities in the lead acetate I made years ago, which was very fine and couldn't be properly filtered.

[@jpdemer5]

Classroom or "science" grade lead shot is the same product as is used for shotgun shells, and it will contain 2-3% antimony, and sometimes a graphite coating as well. You can buy pure reagent-grade lead, 99.99% or better, from a chemical supplier, but because it's not manufactured by the ton, it's considerably more expensive than the "ballistic" grade.

[@libradomoreno7720]

Chemical Engineer I was melting some and when I tilted the platform the liquid lead separates from some unmelted stuff

[@gabemerritt3139]

@@libradomoreno7720 ok so just forge it easy enough

[@CZpersi]

Romans also used lead plumbing, which slowly poisoned them, but made their water sweet to taste.

[@voidedwinner1478]

It didn't. Due to the water being mineral rich, a layer of limestone would form inside the pipe preventing contact with lead and water. That and the water was constantly flowing too quickly and would not gather any lead from the metal. It has to be still for the lead to enter the water.

[@puppieslovies]

@@voidedwinner1478 you're close, but not on the money. Rome's tap water is estimated to have higher lead concentration than natural sources by a noticable amount, just not to a degree of severe poisoning It would gather lead from pipes, and no it doesn't have to be still for that to happen. It just has less time for lead to accumulate per liter of water, which is different from none at all

[@sensokaeru7070]

You've just given me an idea to improve my rock candy making process. With sugar, of course, not with lead.

[@syos1979]

Finally that sweet sweet Flint Michigan Flavor

[@Justaxo]

How to make prime:

[@Breadman-MIA]

Drink prime!

[@Noobsquaredgd]

Logan Paul puts this in his prime.

[@polydullmemes3497]

14:12 "so I picked out all my crystals~"

[@czaplan1]

6:53 "This shit happens pretty slowly" lol

[@trueKENTUCKY]

Now this is what should be made into cotton candy

[@fizzyplazmuh9024]

Utilize Ostwald coursening. Raise and lower the temp above and below saturation point cyclically. The tinier xtals keep dissolving away first to feed the larger xtals when the solution saturates again. Any wall timer set to go off for a few minutes every hour does nicely. You can literally just keep eating away the little ones and clear the tank of all but a few big ones and never have to dig around or get your fingers wet

[@inspectorboat7525]

no taste test? i feel scammed

[@masio69]

9:06 that literally looks like it’s teleporting lol

[@hawks1ish]

8:15 today Nile Red makes Meth and Coke lol

[@robertclapper4167]

Nile flexing with NileRed on the beakers. That is so awesome

[@FlatBroke612]

"Remedy for sore nipples" wtf!

[@pyromen321]

It's for TWC and Comcast employees

[@josephpotter5766]

Yup for some reason lead was commonly prescribed for nursing mothers right up to the late nineteen forties! Hell, hospitals in the states were still issuing moulded lead foil nipple shields to nursing mothers in the sixties!

[@TheGayestPersononYouTube]

FlatBroke612 long nights at the club, man

[@claymodelexpert]

Joseph Potter explains all the Alzheimer patients today

[@johndifrancisco3642]

SORE NIPPLES SUCK! mostly

[@randomclipsandstuff7203]

Next up: How to make crystal meth

[@jakeshaw6827]

Man I was going to comment that but changed my mind lol I bet this dude is really cooking ice and using a youtube channel as a cover lol

[@chrisb.7787]

boil sudafed the powder from a lithium battery and rat poison. Don't forget to burp the baby or you will burn your house down.

[@NicMG]

Heisenberg Jnr

[@wakkowarner8810]

Forget meth, I want to see a tutorial on making LSD.