Making metal crystals from Pepto-Bismol

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Pepto-Bismol contains bismuth subsalicylate, and it's possible to extract the bismuth from it and use it to grow metal crystals.
This is a re-visit of a project that I attempted a few years ago: • How to Extract Bismuth...
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[@nexurianprime8530]

I love how this guy sounds equally like an expert and like he barely has a clue what he's doing. Just a perfect balance of the two

[@ItsLtime]

@Eli Rinehart That doesn't mean he can be perfect at it, He knows the idea but not the practice. they don't teach shit like how to do bizzare stuff that's for funzies. He is all on his own.

[@neobuddy2010]

@Eli Rinehart im fairly sure he actually dropped out to do youtube full time, so the initial comment is pretty accurate, he half knows what he's doing.

[@asongaboutagirl8776]

@@neobuddy2010 what i understand is that he has an undergraduate degree in chemistry & then half a masters in it too

[@michaellyons3808]

He has an idea of what he's doing he just does bizarre things lol like who does this or makes alcohol out of toilet paper

[@sleepful1917]

the nilered charm

[@sheeshburger-go4qd]

“I’ve always really liked the idea of growing metal crystals from Pepto-Bismol” is something I would have never thought I would literally ever hear.

[@Leet-iz2fz]

Saw this as he said it

[@dreingames9137]

@@Leet-iz2fz I swear that always happens

[@Emiltism]

WAIT ME THREE

[@somekidnamedoscar8651]

@@Leet-iz2fz same lol

[@Txgreyhound]

I laughed so hard when he said it. Like, what a sentence!

[@leaf1673]

This video I watched 2 yrs ago inspired me to sink a few hundred dollars into bismuth, have a minor bismuth phase, and create some pretty cool shit. Fast forward a year, I get to write a research paper on anything I want for school. I choose bismuth, have the time of my life writing the best paper ever, and get a 100. Idk if ull see this, but thanks Nigel for introducing me to my now favorite element and the rest or ur channel and sparking my interest in chemistry. Ur pretty great

[@rawr6306]

Sweet!!! That’s really great to hear. This is exactly why folks like Nigel produce things like this. I’m a chemist and has an amazing awesome HS chemistry teacher who is precisely the reason why I’m a chemist. He let me (and the few other nerds/geeks) play in the labs and just learn as much as I wanted.

[@Dariakll]

It's mind blowing how much influence a small video can have on someone's future. In my case, Channels like Nigel's are the reason I kept being interested in science and more importantly biochemistry. I never thought I had it in me but fast forward 4 years, I'm now one of the top students in my classes and even got offered some paid internships at my local research labs. Again I never even thought I'd understand anything but his videos (especially the one where he explained crystallisation) kept my curiosity going. Here I am, on my way to *hopefully* open my own lab.

[@WorldifySanity]

It's pretty strange that you took the time to write all that, yet couldn't bring yourself to write 'your' and 'you're.'

[@inayawhiting8333]

​@Crispy-Leaves stop being so picky. You just sound salty and jealous

[@naxmerr7274]

@@WorldifySanity y u care so much tho

[@Arctheicecube]

jesse. get the pepto bismol. we're gonna make some crystals.

[@DayreaverNoFake]

bismuth crystals right? ...right?

[@BobBob-bz6kw]

his ability to pronounce 8 complex chemical names in 1 sentence without messing up is crazy

[@Sword-of-Ruin]

It's normal, what?

[@winonarose7488]

The power of being a scientist. When you use and study these things a million times, it’s pretty easy.

[@cypherusuh]

Chemist learned parseltongue before they graduated, just like how doctor able to make runic inscription.

[@Sword-of-Ruin]

@@cypherusuh :V

[@ExplosivePine]

He also does these are voice overs so he has alot of tries.

[@NilesChamberland]

NileRed: *purchases 10 packages of antacid chewables* The cashier: what are all these for?? NileRed: none of your bismuth

[@Shinrakaichu]

:]

[@grizlo6716]

Underrated comment

[@Dr.Mantis-Toboggan-M.D.]

F*uck you and your creativity.

[@reetaal5338]

This made me laugh :D

[@sabby7]

Hahah clever

[@wilting_alocasia]

I'll never get over the thought of Nile going into Shoppers and buying $100 worth of stomach tablets xD

[@rawr6306]

Omg! This is my first view of one of his videos and had no idea he’s Canadian. 😅 I’m not but my partner is and I spend a lot of time in Canada so yup totally know Shoppers.

[@wilting_alocasia]

@@rawr6306 Im not Canadian, but my partner is, too! XD Shoppers is one of my go-to stores 😂

[@fuzzysocks229]

I love how this dude doesn't shy away from showing how chaotic and Unpredictable chemistry can be. If he was my science teacher in hs I probably would have been a lot more interested in chemistry instead of just getting into it now thanks to passionate people like him 😅

[@rawr6306]

Actually that’s precisely why I went into chemistry instead of biology! My HS chemistry prof was fantastic and actually let us play. Guided us in not completely destroying his classroom/labs but we still burned and melted a fuckton of stuff. He was tough, critical but knew how to push and challenge us. I know I’ll sound bitter a bit but sadly this sort of literal experimentation just isn’t allowed (liability mostly) any more and it’s made chemistry [wet at least] a lot less interesting. It’s like dissection in biology. I was dissecting fetal pigs and cats, pithing frogs and watching their hearts beat, hooking up gastrocnemius muscles to drum oscillographs and shocking them with different voltages to determine the most efficient and so much more in my 7th (yes SEVENTH) grade biology science lab (it was HS Advanced Placement level). This just doesn’t happen in scene classes today. I absolutely know and so appreciate the invaluable level of education I received. If only that was still happening…

[@The_Horizon]

dude the cashier must have thought you were trying to get high off of it or something

[@CellyWelly]

Who says he isnt going to?

[@that_one_mha_fan6312]

Yeah... He must've been like,"...Is this *glue?"*

[@jomiyahminerve5431]

that would be interesting

[@nikoproto]

i guess cashiers are so sick and tired of their job that they cease to care

[@PhantomMods4]

what the fuck are you doing on a nile red video-

[@miialamia1653]

"In hindsight, I probably should've used a larger container." - NileRed 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

[@kindlin]

​@@the_rune_raven2253 You realize that 20000-20000 would be equivalent to 20-20? All you're literally saying is, "Foresight is like looking at something 20000 ft away and seeing as if it were 20000 ft away, but hindsight is seeing something 20 ft away and seeing it as if it were 20 ft away."

[@sideoutside]

300 is blind I believe.

[@ke6gwf]

@@the_rune_raven2253 so then you say 20 - 20,000. (which means that you see as clearly at 20 feet as most people see at 20k feet)

[@jamietaylor8663]

I dont think he has one honestly

[@ke6gwf]

@@the_rune_raven2253, I have never heard of anyone with 20/23 vision needing glasses. That's almost perfect. It's when you get to 20/30 or 20/40 that you start having problems. Although, I have 20/13 vision, so what do I know! But the point is, the example you gave means someone with normal vision, and so isn't an exaggeration

[@mr.mcphoenix]

Imagine playing video games and then your parent is just like “sweetie, please feed the bismuth” and you just have to shovel aluminum foil rolls into barn troughs like you’re feeding horses

[@dream_walker9726]

this had me giggling off and on for about an hour so thanks for that lmao

[@BinglesP]

Nerd/genius characters from 90's and 2000's cartoons be like:

[@TheFoxfirelight]

You should revisit this. I think a lot of people would enjoy seeing this. It will also be a good opportunity to show what you've learned since this attempt.

[@hashbrown777]

I've definitely seen him use argon injection when heating stuff and another vid with a tube furnace he could use to smelt the bismuth out of oxidative air

[@rawr6306]

@@hashbrown777yeah I was like don’t you have any N2 gas around? Sheesh… Hell generate some CO2 and blanket the tube with that for crying out loud 😅

[@mars5277]

People who buy loads of medicine for seemingly no reason: -Crackheads -Chemists

[@thatguyoverthere8441]

You mean drugs?

[@AkwarkBlue]

I don’t see a difference within that list

[@BillyWitchDoctorDotCom]

Uhh you need to be a chemist to cook meth...

[@copium5513]

So a crackhead, a chemist, and a drug dealer all walk into a bar. He sits down and orders a drink.

[@maxerpants2876]

Regolith 引きこもり he is both lol

[@justjdynyt1249]

Nile: its expensive Also nile:dumps the whole bottle on the table

[@theautodan7095]

Not to mention the pile of broken beakers and tubes. 😂

[@negljbreakergaming]

Also Nile: Burns diamonds to carbonate water

[@jazberrybear]

At this point he’s just flexing on us ;-;

[@DBK4165]

He does it cause he knows we all wanna see money thrown away like toilet paper 🤣. Some accidents do happen tho lol

[@chess4926]

@@negljbreakergaming Yeeee

[@AKA253]

I’ve been working my way through these videos that are a few years old and I always think about Nigel on Trash Taste talking about how he was interested in pyrotechnics when he was young and would put a firecracker into a pipe with a bb to shoot the bb out. When confronted that he had made a rudimentary gun, he mentioned he would sometimes put multiple bbs in the pipe at once. So he made a shotgun.

[@LIRRFAN426]

I said “pesto-bismuth” and couldn’t stop laughing for a minute. I need help

[@axehead45]

Nah it’s fine. It made you happy :)

[@b1tfl1p]

The bismuth smith really missed an opportunity to call himself the bismith

[@MalkavSaiyaYautja]

To the top!

[@SomethingSeemsOff]

So a blacksmith that plays for both sides?

[@MerpIsMe]

Something Seems Off Please never say that again LOL

[@danujus77]

Is that a motherfuckin Steven universe reference!

[@whoopssteyrs]

AngryShark it's not, but i appreciate your enthusiasm.

[@bludraws094]

Imagine the cashiers reaction when he bought ten boxes of antacid.

[@Dave_0115]

Meth

[@bludraws094]

@@Dave_0115 .............................

[@Koreancatholic]

Cashier: "Rough Week?" Nile: "Yeah something like that."

[@reinatr4848]

*M Y G O A L S A R E B E Y O N D Y O U R U N D E R S T A N D I N G*

[@gabeharris926]

"you pooping sand or"

[@EmilyThomson-lg4lr]

your patience and perseverance is astounding

[@CalifornianCuttlefish]

I love this video for 2 reasons: 1. bismuth is my favorite metal and it's beautifully mesmerizing when crystalized, and 2. I love how Nile explains everything in an interesting and fun way.

[@adrianbik3366]

Alternate title: "Watch me masacre all the measuring cups in my lab"

[@FoxZFiend]

Lmao thats a fun name

[@CrowAkechi_The_Luminary]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@theplaguedoctor1248]

You mean beakers right?

[@sorbet7085]

there's a video on his alt account that fits this name better lol

[@theautodan7095]

🎖🏅 please take first and second prize for most hilarious comment. 😂😂🤣

[@catz_ee]

3:00 That was quite possibly one of the most cursed actions I have ever witnessed.

[@Xeroskia]

Watching that actually made me upset for a solid minute because I couldn't do anything about it, lmao.

[@samuelhald8471]

That shit fucked me over hard goddamn

[@jacintovski]

Yep

[@CoRLex-jh5vx]

The chunks. The thiccness. The dump. The pancake. Horrific and cursed, all.

[@SilverGummiShark]

I felt so much ANGRY.

[@billjohnston882]

I did this! It took several tries but I successfully extracted bismuth metal from pepto bismo pills. I had repeated difficulty with converting from the granulated bismuth to metallic bismuth. I added borax and that solved the problem.

[@HUSTL3HOLIC69]

From a medical standpoint Bismuth is also sometimes used as a hemostatic agent. It helps stop bleeding. Which is why it used to be so effective in Pepto, a lot of people would drink it for peptic ulcers and maybe even early stages of small bowel Crohns or Ulcerative Colitis relief. We of course have much better and widely standardized methods of treatments and better hemostat agents as well but a very interesting element nonetheless

[@KaityKat117]

"I don't recommend any of you trying this" Bold of you to assume I can understand any of this well enough to replicate it.

[@Quirkyhndl]

For real. Me at the start: "this might be a fun science experiment to try..." At the end: " I would not survive..."

[@weopdurdegenes6598]

Good profile picture.

[@KaityKat117]

@@weopdurdegenes6598 y thank you. It'll be changing soon, tho.

[@weopdurdegenes6598]

@@KaityKat117 NOOOOOO

[@KaityKat117]

@@weopdurdegenes6598 It's a new picture of my pony OC. With some major differences.

[@EGamez]

23:50 "So for these reasons, I don't recommend anyone trying this." *_Yes, NileRed, I was definitely planning on following these steps and doing this myself._*

[@OhLonesomeMe]

William Partridge deep... very deep.......

[@henriquestankescandelari908]

I think the most amazing scientific example is right there: 23 minutes of a video which are small cuts of hours of work, showing step by step of what not to do because of these reasons. Even negative findings are useful. Still, it looks pretty damn advanced, but that's the purest form of chemistry. Imo tho. Every science can be difficult, but difficult is only a way of thinking more. Its trial and error - getting data and converting it into context. Maybe, one person will see this and say: I'll try this tomorrow - maybe I can find a way. As much more numbers we get, more chances of this video having a solution.

[@mech1x]

@@OhLonesomeMe not as deep as your dad was

[@rosemarypaul6093]

If I can't make some cool crystals, why is he teasing me with his video? I need something to help a grandkids with a project about homegrown crystals. This video was no help then? Great!

[@EGamez]

Rosemary Paul If you watch NileRed, you’d know that he makes videos just to show the scientific process.

[@vynalldash_og]

"I thought it might just be PH sensitive, but when i tested it out... i found out i was right. Moving on-" I know hes trying to take us through his thoughts step-by-step but it just sounds like the best subtle flex ever-

[@draexian530]

I like these videos. Nile has an understanding of base principles which allows him to explore chemistry in a safe and effective manner. It just so happens he's also a masterful producer of video edutainment.

[@DaRkLoRdZoRc]

I love how this dude includes so many nuanced and professional laboratory techniques in his videos. >bismuth is stuck in test tube *"So I smashed it with a hammer..."* >crystals refuse to grow *"I tried poking it with a stick..."*

[@starsandsus3725]

What did you sayyyy?

[@timvanderheijden7922]

@rhys clayton so true

[@LucaDornseifer]

Timestamps: bismuth stuck in tube > 17:25 & 20:10 & 21:35 crystals refuse to grow > 28:17 & 30:39

[@potatopishee5683]

'well I need some energy to do this so I just gave my son 50L of sugar and sat him down in the lab'

[@adamyung5296]

the crystals technique is actually a legit technique tho to promote crystal growth

[@Alovatololo]

"This brand, Life, chose to make things difficult" Life is a struggle after all.

[@zezus001]

underrated

[@JushGraham]

"Chose to make things difficult" As if they anticipated this maniac to exist lol

[@aayushpaswan2941]

dopplers effect :- kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIaspnepi8qto68

[@OatmealFr]

Holy shit that’s deep

[@RNGclips_]

Bro only 4 replies

[@aaronsprojects9622]

I really want to believe that Nile bought groceries too when he got 10 BOXES of pepto 🤣. To be a fly on the wall when he was checking out.

[@VoiceofLilith]

My father was a chemist and would love that I'm watching this.

[@temra7063]

I love how he didn't stop pouring it out of the bottle in that one scene. He just let it overflow all over the table. (hey yall, i hate to be cringy, but i really do appreciate the likes and comments. thanks!

[@Altazor-fh9of]

He poured *harder* when it was about to overflow

[@fraffen2677]

a true anarchist

[@mariepatricia1975]

I watched with such confusion and then shrugged. We should know if hes going crazy we won't notice because he's a chemist and we've seen the other things he does.

[@chess4926]

After he says it’s *expensive*

[@justinleggett4769]

That gave me soooooo much OCD

[@monkeseeaction21987]

Me at 10pm: imma go to bed early. Me at 3am: Making metal crystal from pepto bismol

[@user-xp9jo2rv3q]

When I read that I thought it said making crystal meth.

[@ngstop2603]

Martin Ma I don’t need sleep I need answers

[@JorgeJimenez-ng1yb]

3:03 am 😂🤣

[@pokerface1225]

Haha ha 🤣freaking hilarious!

[@londonr6422]

Ahahahahha

[@degened2990]

You don't even look old enough to have had time to learn all this stuff. Hats off to you bro. Love your shows.

[@ethancooksey7350]

I love how I always think it’ll work out the first time he gets me every video

[@pleaseclap3335]

Before watching the video: "those crystals look so pretty, I wanna make some myself!" After watching the video: "...nevermind"

[@alexubel]

No kidding. Pretty convoluted process really. This also isn't the best video to go by, given how poorly his came out.

[@The_Big_Jay]

$120 4 days work Tons of lab stuff

[@pleaseclap3335]

@@The_Big_Jay It's a lot more expensive if you don't have all the necessary lab stuff, which I don't

[@The_Big_Jay]

@@pleaseclap3335 R.I.P.

[@coleshelly283]

You can buy a pound of pure bismuth for like twenty bucks on Amazon I think. I was interested in bismuth like a year ago but never got any, I saw some people just heat it in a pot and break it apart

[@isupposethisismynmw640]

This is basically 1/2 the chemical process of making bismuth from pepto, and half “I really had no idea at this point so I just started heating it up”. Love it

[@aayushpaswan2941]

dopplers effect :- kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIaspnepi8qto68

[@azuredragonofnether5433]

I'd like to add another thing to 1:47 where Bismuth is used commercially; Due to its low melting point, it is/was also used as a fuse, to keep households from catching fire when high amperages flow. Although simple and relatively cheap, the downside of it is that the fuse cannot be repaired and you have to resort to buying new ones when one or many are affected. To add insult to injury, many old households including the one I live in still maintain such archaic methods while new or renovated households use switch circuit breakers.

[@TheFlyBullet]

Somebody else possibly already suggested this, but to isolate the bismuth from air, you could have used the same technique that is used in welding metals, because hot metal wants to oxidize too - just blow some argon or xenon on it, to separate it from air..

[@BinglesP]

He did this technique in his purple gold video for Aluminum actually

[@northdakotabeast1547]

My heart starting racing as he poured the whole Pepto bottle. That's new lmao

[@marbleswan6664]

NorthDakotaBeast your heart was racing? Some pepto could help.

[@PRODNEZUMI]

Word percentages in the video: Science words: 33% “However,”: 67%

[@sauercrowder]

"I was worried that there would be way too much stuff in it, but there turned out to be a lot less than I thought."

[@christopherjz]

Though

[@nato6831]

Christopher JZ aaaaaaaah

[@clarastevens8683]

"To fix this,"

[@CosmaPaulaton]

Or "of a problem"/"bismuth"

[@JoJo-fan-right-here]

NileRed is the only person that could turn pepto into metal without being considered absolutely insane.

[@myquiescentmind6101]

First video I ever saw of Nigel's. Was hooked from here on out, despite having a rather massive disdain for chemistry at the time. Still don't have an interest or love for it but it's always beautiful watching and listening to people who do. And I can say I have a genuine appreciation for the field now.

[@OrangeC7]

You chemists are all crazy, please never change.

[@LeCharles07]

You should see the chemists that are also rocket scientists. "There are, after all, some chemicals that explode shatteringly, some that flame ravenously, some that corrode hellishly, some that poison sneakily, and some that stink stenchily. As far as I know, though, only liquid rocket fuels have all these delightful properties combined into one delectable whole." Isaac Asimov, Foreword to _Ignition!_ by John D. Clark (Which you should totally read. It helps if you know chemistry but there are sections that you don't need to know much chemistry to follow along.)

[@KizuRai]

...Was this a chemistry joke?

[@denzelnganga1914]

True, we all need mad scientists to hold up civilization

[@wetraccs5747]

society is held up by mad scientists

[@denzelnganga1914]

@@wetraccs5747 how else will we get flying cars and light sabers and laser guns?

[@adamDoesMath]

i rlly don’t know how you got me to watch 37 minutes of science

[@vynniev9611]

Cuz he's having fun 😏 Public school teaching without passion go brrrr

[@DanteTimberwolf]

@@vynniev9611 I'm like failing everything. Just stopped caring

[@vynniev9611]

@@DanteTimberwolf lol I'm the wrong person to come for advice. I barely got through my senior year and almost went to court because of how often I was late or absent. Only reason I graduated is because irl I'm a short, timid and polite girl and people felt bad jevdkbekdhfkf. Also covid make school mean fuckall. Uh. Hm. Anyways don't be like me because you'll ABSOLUTELY fail but just try to get as much sleep as you can because its the cause of like 50% of people's issues and the free time you get in place of it isn't actually worth it. You weren't even asking for advice I'm just mad rn

[@xEvilRaptorx]

@@vynniev9611 gawd damn, I almost got held back cause of credit hours. I hated doing the homework cause it was so basic feeling. Almost never made it to school on time but my first hour teacher, senior year, liked me. Got out with half a credit hour to spare

[@gage3180]

Humans are naturally curious and enjoy learning new things but it's not the same when your being forced to learn those things (in school) it's kind of like when people say "I hate learning" You don't hate learning you hate having information shoved down your throat

[@reinatycoon3644]

Oh wow @2:18 Bismuth crystals are sooo pretty! I think I just discovered my favorite mineral on Earth.

[@drriccy6063]

For the melting process, I would've said to use some sort of inert gas like Argon to prevent any oxidation

[@CertifiedDeadMemes]

I salute you for not eating the salicylic acid, it looked soo good.

[@Winlonghorn_iso]

yea I would have tried to eat it

[@valentine6162]

It could be edible, though i wouldn’t risk it

[@saucelessbones5872]

information is best for damage control

[@---kp1hm]

It would be edible in small doses.

[@nico8439]

@@---kp1hm thank you for this information

[@lava3218]

Imagine walking into a store and purchasing their entire stock of pepto bismol only to have to explain to the cashier that you're not buying it to get high you're buying it to extract the bismuth

[@tink6225]

how does Pepto bismol get you high

[@lava3218]

@@tink6225 irrelevant, as long as the cashier doesn't know.

[@pessinieminen4341]

@@tink6225 i think you can make meth from it but im not sure

[@tink6225]

@@pessinieminen4341 inch resting

[@MahoganyFem]

@@tink6225 LOL LOL

[@radiosgalore9362]

Fun fact: Bismuth is radioactive, however, it is generally not shown on periodic tables as such because it's half life is twenty quintillion one hundred quadrillion years, or 2.01x10¹⁹, or over a billion times the age of the universe.

[@michaelellis8726]

​@@johnfreddy78that's what he said

[@bgat911]

Such a well made video. Fully explained and entertaining. I wish my chemistry teacher was half this good..

[@applemauzel]

3:38 NileRed: "I would like to buy 10 boxes of Bismuth." CVS worker: "You have my sympathies."

[@sonofredearth]

"Had some quick drying plaster that I had lying around", as one does

[@partypickle1015]

Working in general construction, I can relate.

[@Winlonghorn_iso]

Black Gradient I read this right before he said it

[@Fin-xw8in]

random happens here same

[@b.m.4415]

I know I have some

[@margretrosenberg420]

Not to mention all the test tubes, beakers, spare measuring cups and spoons, vacuum filter, blowtorch...

[@armedandredee]

I love your voice-overs. I listen to your videos instead of a sleep talk-down.

[@Roblidon]

I just realized why I like his videos so much, after like half a dozen of them in a row: it's the way he always sounds like he's leading to something, even when he isn't. Sometimes he's just clearly detailing what he's doing, but with forward motion and anticipation. My Adhd stays hooked on so I can watch entire videos without getting distracted.

[@blxckmxrkxt]

_yes_

[@ortussiridus1680]

Tbh, his videos are some of the only ones I never get bored of. Almost every other youtuber has this problem where it's hard to keep track of their content and stay "fully" in tune, but not with nigel. He always knows just what to say without sounding like a full on narrator and knows how to keep things interesting. That's one of the reasons I love his videos.

[@jii.]

Yep. That cadence. Every sentence is a journey; towards some wacky science...

[@geoffreyentwistle8176]

I'd never thought about it that way... It would explain why I really enjoy a number of educational and maker channels - there's a story with each video, and a driven and enthusiastic narrator.

[@emmalu55]

I have thought about it before but didn't have the words for it, you nailed it!

[@koocl1949]

“Which was not safe, but anyways” Me when I have fun but what I am doing is not safe

[@VitorPereira-xy6bx]

i love how i scrolled through this comment right as i heard him say that

[@toomuchiridium]

Me making potions in the bathroom

[@josep9016]

lol

[@commie281]

"Oh no! Anyways..." -Jeremy Clarkson

[@sepsysmurf6982]

Me walking on the thin cement wall on the side of the street

[@Nathansus]

The pharmacy worker was probably so confused like "Why did this guy come in, study the boxes, then buy 10 of them"

[@ryanmcauliffe5347]

I'm like 8 hours into watching your videos. You are a gem unto this earth!

[@zerou24]

"This is really flameable" "i used my heatgun to speed it up"

[@blitz7488]

I see absolutely no problem with this process of time efficiency

[@LL-tr5et]

@@blitz7488 good luck *staying alive*

[@unicornqueen268]

I was the 333 like

[@deoxal7947]

So is flux but I still put my soldering irons to it

[@Saveord]

Speed is key

[@moosedraw3731]

“Until it looks mixed” **is mixing 2 clear liquids**

[@redfaldas7524]

If you mix HCl and water, you can see them both.

[@robinconkel-hannan6629]

You can see fine planes as the liquids mix if you have good lighting..

[@alexjff3018]

yeah what they said, mixing 2 clear liquids you can see a clear separation. Take acetone and hexane for example in an extraction, it looks like a surface of water that separates the two miscible layers.

[@subject204ghost3]

The mixture actually looks a bit yellow after the mixing

[@chadnewville6980]

Go back and look at the bottom of the container when he first starts pouring the acid in and you can see the "ripples". They slowly go away as he adds more and then all together when it was stirred.

[@constantinosefstathiou1866]

Pulverize the tablets, mix their powder with an excess of sugar and heat in a crucible. You will directly receive metallic bismuth.

[@oorjamulchandani9137]

Imagine the cashier's reaction to nile buying 10 boxes of pesto bismol chewable He probably thought - "Damn bro you CONSTIPATED." lol

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

there is a reason they're individually packed: it has been shown that separate pills are less prone to overdoses (accidental and deliberate) than just a jar full, exactly because it takes much more effort to open and ingest dangerous amounts.

[@Bro1212_]

Crazy that suicides go down when pharma companies make it a pain in the ass to OD, I would say it’s funny but in reality it’s kinda sad

[@lordarthur2165]

@@Bro1212_ This usually works because suicide is a quicky thought, you don't plan ir and anything, so when the method you was going to use takes more time, it's enough for the suicidal ideation to simply go away. That's why it's also recommended, if you have guns, to live the ammunition and the gun in different rooms. This little time of complicating the suicide method can be enough to make the person stop themselves.

[@iiiii94]

@@lordarthur2165 thats simply not true. Suicide is often planned rather then an "impulse".

[@Sharklops]

while that's a great point, I imagine they're also packaged that way because it's the sort of medicine you might want to carry with you in a pocket or purse or something if you know you'll be eating something that might unsettle your stomach

[@spritely]

Bismuth subsalicylate's LDLo in humans is 700mg/kg so I doubt that was the reason I'm this case

[@lesto12321]

"i did it slowly" proceed to pour acid less carefully than i would pour water.

[@Trebinhas]

The video was sped up. It's literally in the corner of the screen

[@aerisdragon8952]

The one thing that i learned in chemistry was to pour with confidence and speed. You don't want chemicals tricking down your arm

[@greendreadmonplays8078]

THIS DUDE IS A GENIUS! HE DOES THE CRAZIEST THINGS, AND ITS SO COOL!!!

[@annabelrubio2148]

I just wanna imagine what the person who checked out all 10 boxes of pepto thought while he was buying them 😂😂😂

[@lemmetalkaboutthis]

I've never seen someone stay so absolutely calm while everything was going wrong ...I love it

[@rxzLKhxljYI55KK]

new possible ship of this sub and nile red

[@NiminaeOld]

#chemist

[@lemmetalkaboutthis]

@@rxzLKhxljYI55KK never been shipped before, thank you for this, 10/10

[@Bolt99K]

3:05 that overpour was unexpected lol

[@loupandsnoop]

For a moment, I thought I was watching a collab with HowToBasic

[@ZeLunatic]

The absolute madlad!

[@damnfez]

I got scared when that happened. Idk why. Then i got mad.

[@2FAB4U2B]

That guy was screaming inside of me: "IT'S TIME TO STOP!"

[@voelz1670]

I was laughing when that happened due to how weird and out of place it was.

[@chinascoming4u]

The patience and determination of this man is incredible 😄 i cant wait to try doing some experiments of my own

[@moohsinatabassum5915]

I like his robotic voice,like there is no emotion in his speech, and that's the reason why people didn't caught Nilegreen at first .

[@chillingonthesofa]

watching this in the hospital while waiting for the doctor to come in to see me. thank you for intriguing me and helping me to calm down.

[@wettoast8902]

You good chief?

[@ssbmfiji5079]

oh hey i have watched nilered in the hospital a few times hope ur doing better now

[@TheBeybladeBuds]

Same

[@lj1393]

Hope your ok now 👍

[@chillingonthesofa]

@@wettoast8902 yep!

[@ExiaDuzzry]

Students: Chemistry is stupid. NileRed: Hold my distilled water.

[@butwhydoh2482]

I think you mean *distilled mercury*

[@andrewwilkerson8186]

Bet you wont drink 5 gallons of pure distilled water

[@CptWindwalker82]

@@andrewwilkerson8186 i wouldn't drink 5 gallons of normal water lol

[@aeviwright7846]

@@andrewwilkerson8186 I drink about a gallon of distilled water a day because of old pipes in our house and the local spring water tastes bitter. It's not dangerous in any way as long as you maintain a healthy diet seeing as you get more electrolytes from food than water anyway. It may have a slightly easier time penetrating and over-hydrating cells but the journey to the stomach where it then mixes with acid and food is a short one and after mixing it's no longer an over-hydration risk.

[@Sharpless2]

@@aeviwright7846 about the same here. Just that our pipes are fresh as we renewed them a few years ago, i just like the "taste" of distilled water.

[@abner6841]

love how he drops the Tums tablet into hydrochloric acid with his bare hands at the start of the video

[@jbbw667]

These videos are great because this guy doesn't give up.

[@nope_avi8164]

nilered: completely overflows the measuring spoon me: *_internal screeching_*

[@brodieholderness3897]

The worst part is the bit that got on the handle :(

[@fightergala4655]

Me: internal laughing

[@Ammoulamalid]

Me: intenal cries in screams in Jedi lord

[@zaccheus5270]

Me: external screeching

[@kalamitinoiz9251]

Yes

[@GraceLJW]

I love the hastily-sharpied "NOT FOOD" on the side of the strainer 😆

[@AlwaysBolttheBird]

The only way to do it. I I have some I use for woodworking and you got to label them

[@kwibloupthesomething]

@@AlwaysBolttheBird have you eaten wood shavings instead of noodles by accident?

[@Yeetuz.Deletuz]

@@kwibloupthesomething so relatable man😔

[@flwrcrwnbncr]

me @ 8:21, trying to figure out what ㅗ ㅓ ㅜ 디P어 means, before FINALLY thinking “maybe it’s NOT weird korean” and turning my phone upside down to see it says “NOT FOOD” 🤦‍♀️

[@VendlandFX]

Give em the bismuth, Nile! Love your videos. You make chemistry wicked fun.

[@granttherock9121]

When a chemistry channel includes “making” and “crystal ” in the title, you know you’re gonna have a good time.

[@csturgis]

making crystal meth

[@granttherock9121]

Charles Sturgis Yeah...that would be the joke.

[@jamesbliss9533]

9:04 Uncanny....this guy sounds just like Dinesh D'Souza

[@ArmanBaig]

But if you’re not safe... you’re gonna have a bad time!

[@granttherock9121]

@Pierce Markusic yes.

[@NO-co4pu]

"for some reason they were all individually packaged" lol that killed me

[@editname6868]

Pi likes and no comments?

[@vvskiitlesvv]

atleast it wasn't the plastic & foil packaging- these you can easily cut up each side

[@hashbrown777]

I loved "these chewables are the same stuff but cheaper" and only noticed way too late that it's not the same, it's chewable, and is full of gelatenised starch

[@user-pr6ed3ri2k]

killed

[@TheOneWayDown]

I hate those packages. If I'm reaching for the pepto, it's because my GI tract is fighting a war and I'm definitely taking whatever the max I can take is. Just throw it all in a bottle and I'll take 2 like I do with ibuprofen, good lord

[@HenrySciortino]

Nigel has such a distinctive voice he could legitimately be an asmr commentator

[@WestOfEarth]

Bismuth, like water, expands when it solidifies. Probably why it stuck at the bottom of the test tube. Water and Bismuth are some of the few elements/molecules that become less dense in solid form compared to liquid which I think is pretty cool.

[@ceruleanwake8876]

The overflow of the pepto at the beginning was really startling lol. I enjoy it when Nile is goofy:)

[@insert_username_here]

You’d have a field day over on NileBlue and NileRed Shorts.

[@chanchanchan7031]

Bro you should check out some of the videos on William Osman 2, he’s in some

[@93DS]

he was in a silly goofy mood Ü

[@scream8190]

3:07

[@megagaming8337]

top 10 dangerous chemicals:- kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXndp2ljqK6lodU

[@camrollins2314]

This dude sounds like he's tryin to explain why he's late for work

[@hesperaux]

I lold hard

[@johnnye87]

Friend: where have you been for the last week? Me: Well I was reading the back of a bottle of Pepto-Bismol and I noticed.... *ADHD rabbitholes: know the warning signs*

[@WA7272IO72]

Haha

[@chriskrausesmovie]

i believe any reason he has

[@Nick-nh4nf]

LMAOOOO

[@Just1Nora]

Those unique square crystals are known as hopper crystals because they look like grain hoppers. I looked up instructions for growing the crystals after falling in love with them at a jewelry conference...the easiest way is to melt a large cup full of bismuth metal and then pour out the excess once the crystals have formed to your liking. Steel measuring cups were recommended as seeding vessels. Without proper temperature control it's as much art as science.

[@mrkekss6566]

That was one of the best Sponsoring ideas that i saw, very well made

[@danielb42oswagg53]

*Every video Nile Red Ever Makes* “In hindsight I should have used a bigger container”

[@jonnamechange6854]

I'm not sure if he could have found an antiflocculant to stop the frothing? Aside from being a little bit labour intensive regarding the recovery of bismuth, would it be too rude for me to suggest he should have let the bismuthsmith make the video instead?

[@zedbags]

3:02

[@sushidood3388]

3:06 my ocd :(

[@rhiannon6529]

Store clerk: so *why* do you need 400+ Pepto bismol pills? NileRed: uhhhhh... Flu season?

[@batuhanozerr1736]

Or he could say i'm gonna make a experiment

[@WolfLykaios]

He's a chemist. He probably end up explaning what he was going to do, and the store clerk would have understood none of it.

[@ninakachina7137]

Diarrhea cha cha cha?

[@bluehorizons8913]

I thought Pepto Bismol to stop yourself from having explosive shits.

[@lancejobs]

Art, In a flat tone no one will thing to long about it. Knew a guy that used that while hoofing a spool of barbed wire across campus xp

[@shanefowkes7451]

Love this idea, just from an educational point of view this has to be 1of the best examples of alchemy at work, science I mean science

[@turtle6316]

5:54 spicy piña colada

[@slinkytime8412]

watching this video is like listening to a friend trying to explain a very complicated TV series that youve never watched.

[@matthew5145]

"yeah that's real interesting, which one are we talkin about now?"

[@mele8332]

Disco Deaky 😂😂😂 Pleasure doing bismuth WITH you

[@mele8332]

Peka Silk “you really dont remember do you”

[@AsymptoteInverse]

Bismuth subsalicylate is one of those strange medicines where I wonder how its effects got discovered. It doesn't seem like a very obvious leap to me. "Well, I've successfully dissolved bismuth metal in salicylic acid. Guess I'll eat it now."

[@Mazaskazi]

lol

[@TheCurle]

Don't forget that the person had to have had indigestion for it to actually do anything, too.

[@sylvie_on]

Nice fractal pfp

[@castlehill6717]

Curle I can see the commercial now... “Johns heartburn was so bad, he decided to end it all by drinking the unknown chemical concoction he threw together that evening...... And END the pain he did. Way to go John.. Way to go.” “Woo Pepto-Bismol”

[@FastForwardPlans]

The secret of most weird discoveries is they were made on accedent.

[@antewaso8876]

love this bismuth for some reason has been a fave of mine but what you do is awesome!

[@xaidenbooth2438]

I love how this guy sounds equally like an expert and like he barely has a clue what he's doing. Just a perfect balance of the two whoever said this yes i agree

[@zaffyr]

Bismuth is my favourite metal 1. It is hevy, wich feels really cool when holding 2. It melts at a low temperature 3. It is also slightly radioactive 4. When melted, it has cool colors and the scraping off thing is extremely satisfying 5. You can make cool looking crystals with not much effort. 10/10 would recommend

[@thomasmaltais8503]

osmium feels better

[@edgarb.6187]

6. Compared to most heavy metals, it is actually pretty safe to handle.

[@tannersrdr2clips432]

Why is it good to be radioactive that's just added danger

[@castor9907]

@@tannersrdr2clips432 it's stupidly minor, bananas are far more radioactive afaik

[@tannersrdr2clips432]

@@castor9907 oh cool I like it a lot more then

[@yaboifab2]

Salicylic acid foam? more like forbidden whipped cream

[@leeeeeeeeeeeeeviathan]

nothing's forbidden if you're not a coward

[@theboiwhokraveskrave3416]

@@leeeeeeeeeeeeeviathan fax

[@dannyb.2911]

Spicy whipped cream

[@terrence5423]

@@dannyb.2911 you monster.

[@wiwaxiasilver827]

Really soothes your inflammation lol

[@shinylugiagames270]

"unfortunately this brand 'life' chose to make things difficult for me" sounds rly relatable...

[@dawnevans6775]

Wow they look so beautiful,you can look at the(your) diff.formations and say ,"I made these".👍Thanks for your video.

[@thinkstump]

"Accidentally", chemist code for rage quit lol

[@mtnation2923]

THUNDERBULGE I was about to comment something like this lol

[@anonymus.6660]

THUNDERBULGE I was about to comment something like this lol

[@imademyusernameforapurpose3299]

THUNDERBULGE I was about to comment something like this lol

[@furyjaguar8034]

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[@LolLol-ey7ro]

THUNDERBULGE I was about to comment something like this lol