Making Rocket Fuel by Mixing Bleach & Ammonia

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@jamesday3277 3 ай бұрын

I made this when I worked at Pizza hut I was cleaning and mixed ammonia based cleaner with chlorine based cleaner. It cleaned the pizza grease off the floor really good. I dumped the cleaners all over the floor and scrubbed it with a broom. As it foamed up i was coughing a lot and couldn't breathe, so I opened the back door and put a fan in the door to blow the fumes outside. I was rinsing it down the floor drain and i had to go outside to get fresh air. I walked around the corner and the fire department was evacuating the building they had the pizza buffet then. My boss was a little upset but he was impressed how clean the floor was.

@saundby 2 ай бұрын

You're lucky nobody died, starting with yourself. Really lucky, because it can knock you out well before you start coughing. Sulfuric acid will get the floor just as clean by itself, but save it for after hours cleaning and put the ventilation in first! :D

@russlehman2070 2 ай бұрын

You probably made monochloroamine rather than hydrazine, but that's fairly nasty stuff.

@PatrickKniesler 2 ай бұрын

Seed oil grease requires such chemicals to really remove.

@ninehundreddollarluxuryyac5958 2 ай бұрын

I did exactly the same thing. It really did clean the floor well. It msde s toxic gas as well.

@TeamUnpro 2 ай бұрын

The fact you're still alive is insane lol

@aeriumsoft 3 ай бұрын

ah yeah, remember doing this while cleaning the toilet and was wondering why my nose hurt

@redmadness265 3 ай бұрын

That's likely the chloramine gas irritating your nose

@phobos1963 3 ай бұрын

You wouldn't smell anhydrous hydrazine, you'd dream of smelling it once you died from it already

@superioropinion7116 3 ай бұрын

Sometimes you unintentionally reennact events that happen during world wars,it happens

@bigbasil1908 3 ай бұрын

@@phobos1963 I drank half a litre of hydrazine once and there's nothing wrong with me. Haahaahaa heeheehee wooooooohoooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!! 😛🤡

@minerscale 3 ай бұрын

That's horrifying

@Battlejunky1002 3 ай бұрын

Honey come quick the most sane polish man uploaded again

@drasiella 3 ай бұрын

Im here!

@eamonia 3 ай бұрын

Haha! I remember back when people could poke a little fun at one another about their ethnicity in a playful, funny way and we would all just laugh about it and ultimately be brought closer together over an innocent joke. I'm Irish so I make a _great_ target too but people try to be _so_ racist these days by thinking that they're being "anti-racist." There's a movie that just came out that I think everyone should be required to see..

@Battlejunky1002 3 ай бұрын

@@eamonia what are you yapping about mate ?

@littlekirby6 3 ай бұрын

@@eamonia I think all that time spent with "special needs" kids made you special needs too...

@StefanReich 3 ай бұрын

@@Battlejunky1002 You seem to have trouble understanding language

@bellowphone 3 ай бұрын

I followed your procedure; I died, my corpse got cancer, and then it exploded. Probably just a bad ice cube.

@idahosagebrush5662 2 ай бұрын

My son worked on F16s, which used hydrazine. His best friend got hydrazine accidentally dumped on him, and even though they followed all the guidelines for exposure, it still gave him chemically induced leukemia. It took him around 1 1/2 years to die a very painful death. I was told that in training, they were told that just one breath of hydrazine fumes would take 10 years off of their life.

@100pyatt 2 ай бұрын

😭😭😭😭

@kuidaorekitchen5850 2 ай бұрын

I was an F16 crew and every time you went to check to see if the pellet changed colors was an uncomfortable feeling. Sorry for your son's friend, that stuff is incredibly disgusting.

@MairinGoBragh Ай бұрын

Can confirm. I was an F-15 crew chief, but the first part of our training was on both F-15s and F-16s.

@MairinGoBragh Ай бұрын

Crew Dawgs represent! 😄

@MairinGoBragh Ай бұрын

Yup, it's that little port on the starboard side of the fuselage, ahead of the intake. If any part of it has rotated to show black, send in a hazmat team.

@bytesandbikes 3 ай бұрын

"extra angry table salt" is my new favorite name for bleach! 😀

@Placeholderdo3 3 ай бұрын

Forbidden saltwater.

@patrickw9520 3 ай бұрын

It's like saline, but with ADHD

@russlehman2070 2 ай бұрын

You can make the extra angry salt by passing angry pixies thought salt water. You get some hydrogen as well.

@patrickw9520 2 ай бұрын

@@bytesandbikes feed it acetone and keep it cold, and a touch of acid to stabilize and you get chill laid back bleach.... 💁‍♂️

@SluiceGooseProspecting 2 ай бұрын

Hydrazine was used in the drag racing world. You knew when someone was running it when the exhaust was green. Cars made insane power on it and it resulted in some serious explosions in the cars. It has been outlawed in racing for a while now but when a record needed to be broken, you would see the green monster coming out of the exhaust pipes.

@VolodymyrTorkalo 2 ай бұрын

Maybe nitrimethane?

@seventhaxis 2 ай бұрын

@@VolodymyrTorkalonitromethane is what is used today , back in the 60’s and 70’s they used hydrazine till it was outlawed

@ecleveland1 3 ай бұрын

Some years ago I went to visit my mom and dad at their house. My younger brother had moved back home with them after difficult time in his life. He had set up some kind of apparatus in the outdoor kitchen and told my mom he was making rocket fuel. Come to find out he bought a still online and was making moonshine.

@nmccw3245 3 ай бұрын

He wasn’t lying. Ethanol was good enough for the V2 rocket.

@squessi 3 ай бұрын

Instructions unclear; I'm now dead.

@trumpetpunk42 2 ай бұрын

Chemistry in a nutshell

@CptJistuce 2 ай бұрын

Instructions crystal clear, I'm dead anyways.

@jerry3790 3 ай бұрын

“The cleaning power of ammonia with the whitening power of bleach”

@AwestrikeFearofGods 2 ай бұрын

I used to work for a guy who'd mop up his restaurant with bleach and packets of window cleaner concentrate. I told him to stop, but if I recall he didn't listen to me. I can only assume the concentrate wasn't ammonia based.

@alcidecloridrix9309 2 ай бұрын

And the *cough* asphyxiating power of mustard gas...

@Taurickk 2 ай бұрын

Peggy, that's the recipe for mustard gas!

@trishblackman7403 2 ай бұрын

But wait!…..there’s more!

@Dusty-uy3ev Ай бұрын

We gotta go get all those newspapers!

@sneediumminer 3 ай бұрын

I FUCKING LOVE UNSYMMETRICAL DIMETHYLHYDRAZINE

@jonballard4453 3 ай бұрын

Not to be a smart-ass but, wouldn't it be asymmetrical and not unsymmetrical? Just asking.

@sneediumminer 3 ай бұрын

@@jonballard4453 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsymmetrical_dimethylhydrazine

@Charon-5582 3 ай бұрын

@jonballard4453 it's unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine. UDMH for short.

@jackhydrazine1376 3 ай бұрын

Everybody loves Hydrazine!

@gcewing 3 ай бұрын

@@jonballard4453 One might think so, but rocket scientists call it UDMH rather than ADMH for some reason.

@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 3 ай бұрын

Nice, I did a run of hydrazine sulphate a couple weeks ago for my ANQN project. I went through 14lbs of ice. Great video!

@GigaZernichter 3 ай бұрын

What is ANQN?

@HessuJ-zv7vm 3 ай бұрын

@@GigaZernichter 1-Amino-3-nitroguanidine Nitrate

@MultiDarkZen 3 ай бұрын

I thought he meant anon lmfao@@HessuJ-zv7vm

@jeffjones3040 3 ай бұрын

They claim that will cure cancer. Unless u take painkillers! Somehow they supposedly screw it all up.

@aga5897 2 ай бұрын

@@HessuJ-zv7vm sounds like explosive bat droppings ;)

@letrainavapeur 2 ай бұрын

Very interesting. A few years ago we used Hydrazine in boiler feed water as an oxygen scavenger, originally it was supplied in 20l plastic containers and decanted manually, later it was supplied in EBC's and injected automatically

@hectoramasiani62 3 ай бұрын

the polish chemist has entered rockets, this is the beginning of the end!!😆 seriously tho your content is peak👍

@RicoElectrico 3 ай бұрын

Poland can finally into space!

@TheSmokeofAnubis 3 ай бұрын

I honestly thought he was French!

@Bardinho69 3 ай бұрын

Wait for the uranium arc

@johnnixon4085 3 ай бұрын

When I was working hazmat we put about 1 pint of hydrazine in about 1 gallon of water in a 5 gal bucket. Then we poured in about 1 pint of 30% H2O2. After a couple seconds it generated a column of steam the diameter of the bucket and about 20' high. It drove the bucket over 1" into the ground.

@DaniilPetrakov 3 ай бұрын

- yellow chemistry - grudges - wildlife sighting yep, he's turning into Tom from Ex&F

@MakeItWithCalvin 14 күн бұрын

Yellow chemistry, is... TRASHHHHHHH

@Nitsirtriscuit 3 ай бұрын

Low yield might be related to low concentration in your feedstocks, but also heating your solution so early makes me wary that you may have gassed your ammonia faster than it could react. To prioritize yield with such low quality feed I would do the first steps of the process in ice baths, even though that will reduce the reaction rate.

@Zoroff74 2 ай бұрын

I was thinking about having heard of bleach not keeping well because it apparently is very spontaneous about leaking out chlorine gas over time. Question might be if ammonia also has some long time evaporations issues, especially in plastic containers.

@jamesc37 2 ай бұрын

At the dawn of history I worked with a missile system that used UDMH for fuel and Inhibited Red Fuming Nitric Acid for an oxidizer. Fun time

@lisashelleybutterfly 3 ай бұрын

here's a quick rhyme to help remember about mixing acid and water do what you oughtter, add acid to water not water to acid, OMGGG OMGGGG IT BURRRNNNNSS IT BURRRRRNSSS WHY GOD WHY-cid

@EgonSorensen 3 ай бұрын

In Danish: Vand i, derefter al and'et i (Water in, thereafter all else in)

@Flesh_Wizard 3 ай бұрын

go go gadget steam explosion

@FurtiveSkeptical 3 ай бұрын

Not pretty, but it certainly gets the point across.

@gutschke 3 ай бұрын

Erst das Wasser, dann sie Säure. Sonst geschieht das Ungeheure.

@LaserGuidedLoogie Ай бұрын

Yep, my high school Chemistry teacher used to walk around the room repeating that all the time.

@rebase 2 ай бұрын

Good idea! Now I can store bleach and ammonia in a single bottle, and get an empty one which I can repurpose for drinks!

@thereal757_ap 2 ай бұрын

Those snap transitions are straight butter. Thanks for another banger of a video.

@DerDrako 3 ай бұрын

Ah, yes, acid to water... I forget it everytime, but luckily the steam quickly reminds me. (I am scared of H2SO4, since a former lab assistent managed to spill boiling H2SO4 over his hand. Luckily the ER was just 10 min away by foot and he recovered fast.)

@EddieTheH 2 ай бұрын

H2SO4 at room temp doesn't bother me much, heated it's a far wilder beast!

@aga5897 2 ай бұрын

@@EddieTheH Acid-to-Water is a Myth. Boiling H2SO4 then adding 3% H2O2 is how i clean up the brown 96% hardware store acid with no issues. Mineral acid spills are never good, but with reasonably fast access to water, no biggie. Clearly, avoiding such events and planning beforehand is better.

@EddieTheH 2 ай бұрын

@@aga5897 Boiling sulphuric acid will absolutely munch flesh, bumping is terrifying.

@hjdorn 3 ай бұрын

It blows my mind how a molecule so innocent looking can be so horrible.

@JathraDH 3 ай бұрын

Still probably not as bad as Chlorine Triflouride though lol.

@isaacthedestroyerofstuped7676 3 ай бұрын

@@JathraDH That looks innocent to you?

@JathraDH 3 ай бұрын

@@isaacthedestroyerofstuped7676 It is a simple looking chemical yes. It is made of nasty things though lol. But nitrogen is hardly innocent in the chemical world either. I mean it is the basis of most explosives.

@magneric 3 ай бұрын

@JathraDH It's also plant food

@JathraDH 3 ай бұрын

@@magneric Nitrogen? Indeed.

@danielnarbett 3 ай бұрын

Saying that 'chemistry is a science of grudges' sounds exactly like the Explosions&Fire guy 😂

@MuwaUWU 3 ай бұрын

Help me to convince him to stop calling them "flasks" and call them "tar receptacles" instead

@MuwaUWU 3 ай бұрын

"WheRE's ThE cADmIuM"

@danielnarbett 3 ай бұрын

@@MuwaUWU and beware YELLOW!

@MuwaUWU 3 ай бұрын

@@danielnarbett ... Because yellow is evil

@danedwards5605 3 ай бұрын

@@danielnarbett

@jeffreyfugh7602 3 ай бұрын

You have the starting material for the next video: a Wolff-Kishner reaction!!!!!!

@nunyabisnass1141 3 ай бұрын

Gesundheit

@FurtiveSkeptical 3 ай бұрын

I assume Wolff and Kishner are no longer with us...🤔

@nicku1 Ай бұрын

@@nunyabisnass1141 🤣

@laurieandrus1430 3 ай бұрын

oh goody, it’s time to Play what three letter list am I on now? 😂

@AwestrikeFearofGods 2 ай бұрын

YES

@kimtae858 3 ай бұрын

You didn't have to grab your hydrazine bucket at any point in this video so you're doing much better than Tom of Extractions and Ire

@MsMondbluemchen 3 ай бұрын

Wonderful. A language which I can understand. Really well done, sir. Great video. I wouldn't dare to carry out this reaction.

@montey1017 3 ай бұрын

The minibike drag racing will never recover from this information

@anon_y_mousse 3 ай бұрын

Awesome, now I can make my own fuel to get back home!

@rex8255 2 ай бұрын

The Amateur Chemistry Channel, Our motto: Safety First(ish)

@twocvbloke 3 ай бұрын

I'm sure I made the stuff after chucking a load of bleach int he bin outside when a bag of cat litter had split open, spilled out, leached out the ammonia from the cat pee and when the two mixed out came a cloud of white gas that looked like I just freed a deadly ghost from some form of prison as it wafted off up the street... :P

@yorkshirechemist 3 ай бұрын

that was most likely a monochloramine/water vapour aerosol - not on a par with anhydrous hydrazine, but still very nasty

@garrettmillsap 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for taking the big risk to help educate us!

@SilverLight1.8e308 3 ай бұрын

After vacuum filtering, new crystalls usually form from the sloution. But these new crystalls are not so pure.

@rogeratygc7895 2 ай бұрын

Although your accent is strong, it is easy enough to understand. Great video!

@ZebulonMatthew 2 ай бұрын

Never tell me the sky is the limit when there are footprints on the moon.

@InternetFiend68 3 ай бұрын

ngl, there are many cans(where I work) which are filled to the brim with concentrated hydrazine solution with some unknown thickening agent. So one of my colleagues put his bare hand in it and stirred it surprisingly nothing happened to him.

@BooBaddyBig 3 ай бұрын

Yeahhhh. About that. It's APPARENTLY benign, but absorbed through the skin and can be inhaled, and then it goes off to the liver, and in about 5-10 years or so causes liver cancer. Rocket scientists use to carry it around in open beakers, then the animal testing results came back and suddenly everyone was wearing moonsuits. Avoid, avoid, avoid.

@firstmkb 3 ай бұрын

Yet.

@EddieTheH 2 ай бұрын

Cancers usually aren't immediate. Hope he's already done his breeding.

@bentos117 2 ай бұрын

your colleague is a smart person

@jamesc37 2 ай бұрын

Self cleaning gene pool

@MatthewCook-z2c 2 ай бұрын

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

@experimental_chemistry 3 ай бұрын

Nice and well-presented - always a pleasure to watch. 👍

@Amateur.Chemistry 3 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@phobos1963 3 ай бұрын

I remember working with hydrazine as a reducer quite a lot when I used to work in a nanoparticles lab, it was quite fun, and I wasn't really scared, since it wasn't anhydrous

@gutschke 3 ай бұрын

A lot of these chemicals aren't all that scary, if you are working in a properly equipped lab. I am a lot more queasy about watching somebody make something like hydrazine in their proverbial basement, though

@MisterPerson-fk1tx 2 ай бұрын

@@gutschkean extension cord to a hotplate outside makes one invincible, no need to worry.

@راوي-ن3ه 3 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for all your efforts. Please make a video on the synthesis of theophylline or amoxicillin. People will benefit from it.

@AwestrikeFearofGods 2 ай бұрын

8:13 Why bother to wait overnight for the layers to separate, only to disturb the liquids by pouring shortly before using the separatory funnel? You could have poured them into the separatory funnel before overnight storage (assuming they are not corrosive to the separatory funnel's valve).

@RobertLouise-u9f Ай бұрын

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

@DinahRuther 2 ай бұрын

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

@rambles2727 3 ай бұрын

"Come to bed honey its time for your nightly dose of chloramines 🥺"

@homewordbound4970 2 ай бұрын

This stuff is like magic idk what's happening but its good to watch ❤

@ElviraSaxton Ай бұрын

The green tea and avocado smoothie turned out exactly as would be expected.

@SusieTommy 2 ай бұрын

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

@ProjectPhysX 3 ай бұрын

Delicious hydrazine!

@daryljohnston5154 2 ай бұрын

I enjoyed watching your video, I found it very entertaining, very funny. THANKS!

@SpencerEsther-ts6yg Ай бұрын

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

@richardclarkson1990 2 ай бұрын

Years ago I used hydrazine hydrate with a Pd/C catalyst to reduce aromatic nitro groups to amine. I remember it was pretty straight forward.

@RaymondSwanson-u9y 2 ай бұрын

I did that once by accident. Mixed the wrong cleaner in the sprayer. I dumped that down the drain as soon as I felt the plastic bottle start to melt in my hands within a second or so. That's the one and only time I did that.

@philipgrobler7253 Ай бұрын

The old name for the gas produced by mixing ammonia and chlorine or bleach is called Mustard Gas, it was used in chemical warfare mainly by the Germans during WWII.

@LrmaRoger 2 ай бұрын

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.

@grumpy3543 2 ай бұрын

I love that the safety precautions for toxic fumes is to send it to your neighbors downwind. 😂

@MairinGoBragh Ай бұрын

Holy shit dude, my grandfather was a chemist, I'm a biologist, and I was scared for you.

@kolbyking2315 3 ай бұрын

Making Rocket fuel from Urine would be funny. Urine -> Ammonia -> Hydrazine

@bentos117 2 ай бұрын

stranded, rogue space travellers use this recipe all the time

@skyrailmaxima 3 ай бұрын

I always boil down to 25% solution volume before cold crashing. This will significantly increase your yield, as plenty of hydrazine sulfate is still in the mother liquor. Cold reduces solubility, it does not bring it to 0.

@photonik-luminescence 3 күн бұрын

Ah yes, exactly my thoughts when i search up what i can do with my home chemicals and you see a chemical that sounds like something otherworldish😂. You should make a rocket 🚀 (joking). Good video as usually!

@steezin_4no_reazon 2 ай бұрын

Mek is used as hardener in gibreglass resin aswell and if you add too much itll litteraly catch on fire

@AlexthunderGnum 2 ай бұрын

It is amazing how the most toxic chemicals are actually very simple in formula. What is also amazing, is how I am still alive after experimenting with chemistry at school age in a poorly ventilated basement. :)

@timothywaters8249 3 ай бұрын

Let's talk about the elephant in the room... NCl3. Tom (Explosions and Fire) made this on his channel to explore the energetic properties. Not saying you should repeat that, but if there are any cool uses for it (besides blowing yourself up), I would be curious to understand more about it seeing how it's easy to create. Can you produce it in low/no UV light conditions? Are there wavelengths of light that won't excite it? Would an inert atmosphere help?

@S730SD 3 ай бұрын

NCl3 used to be used for bleaching flour, until some wazoo in FDA whined about it.

@Amateur.Chemistry 3 ай бұрын

Nitrogen trichloride seems to be way too unstable for any practical experiments, however, I might give its properties a look in the future :)

@kennedy67951 3 ай бұрын

Awesome mate.😊

@WielkiKaleson 2 ай бұрын

If you have hydrazine, you might venture to make luminol (by nitration of phtalic anhydride / acid, reduction and double cyclic "amidation"). That is: I know a guy who did it in a basement (he did not used self-made hydrazine, though).

@tedhampe3937 2 ай бұрын

That's mustard gas also baned as a warfare agent so very funky it's used as rocket fuel so it begs the question how damaging is this stuff to the world when planes and or rockets burn this over head

@MaureenKent-j8k 2 ай бұрын

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

@Maxipaddict 2 ай бұрын

Please hypothetically consider the blocked air shafts as what we now call "burst discs" and the chambers as reaction vessels. That thing was built for a Purpose.

@GeoffreyClemens 2 ай бұрын

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

@TheTruePopeFrancis 2 ай бұрын

I love mixing hydrazine and hydrogen peroxide!

@RosalindHewlett 2 ай бұрын

The waitress was not amused when he ordered green eggs and ham.

@MerlinSaroyan 2 ай бұрын

Even though he thought the world was flat he didn’t see the irony of wanting to travel around the world.

@ronoconnor8971 2 ай бұрын

I worked in a satellite fueling company but that building we had to trade IDs for chits 1/2 mile away in case of explosions. Hydrazine safety videos had to be viewed every six months to be admitted

@christopherleubner6633 3 ай бұрын

The reaction works best if stronger bleach is used, the best way to get that is to use pool shock and cause sodium and calcium to swap places by adding sodium carbonate solution to it. Cool both the bleach and ammmonia solution. Skip the MEK and use a little geletain instead. After that i just distill it and titrate the distillate with H2SO4. The hydrazine distills off with the water so not much wories ❤

@MauriceHarvey-k6s 2 ай бұрын

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.

@yorkshirechemist 3 ай бұрын

nice work! only one thing, your yield of hydrazine sulphate would be improved by boiling down the solution until it becomes saturated at boiling point, and solids start appearing I recently tried this using catalytic amounts of N-chlorosuccinimide, as per a 1957 paper, but the yield was pretty terrible, and dichloroisocyanurate didn't work at all, being too acidic incidentally, gelatine has quite an unusual role in this reaction, as it acts as a catalyst for hydrazine formation, speeding up the reaction relative to the competing side-reactions; by contrast, in the Hofmann rearrangement it doesn't really seem to do anything, and has apparently been carried over from ammonia/hypochlorite method without accounting for the differences in the chemistry

@Matthew.Morycinski 2 ай бұрын

If I remember correctly, some inhibitor is added to bleach, to reduce the possibility of producing much hydrazine by accidentally mixing it with ammonia. Perhaps that's why your yield was poor.

@TaylorBernard-p5z 2 ай бұрын

Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict from life, but the ability to cope with it.

@HappyHarryHardon 2 ай бұрын

My Uncle used hydrazine in the 1960s as a fuel additive.

@matthias-i7b 2 ай бұрын

i've heard that hydrazine is found in button mushrooms(AGARICUS BISPORUS ) maybe a bit less work just extracting?

@YvetteMontgomery-v6h 2 ай бұрын

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

@jimsvideos7201 3 ай бұрын

Legendary.

@Rachel-e5m 2 ай бұрын

The rain pelted the windshield as the darkness engulfed us.