Making the stinkiest chemical known to man

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Thioacetone is something that I've been wanting to make for a while, and now, I finally get to experience its horror. Will it be as horrendously stinky as it is claimed to be? Will it make me pass out and vomit?
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[@IgnavumFortuna]

I like to imagine the conversation that transpired when renting the island. "What do you need an island for?" "Chemical weapon tests" "o.k."

[@SweetPotatoNotFound2]

Tsar Bomba reference

[@gandalf8216]

Nah, it's Canada, so it probably went like this: "What do you need an island for? You're not doing any illicit experiments or chemical weapons tests, eh? Don't worry, five hundred bucks." "Thanks"

[@thephoenixsystem6765]

I love this comment

[@issaccartwright736]

"you'll see."

[@trashcompactorYT]

@@SweetPotatoNotFound2castle bravo you mean

[@MarkRober]

You wouldn’t happen to have a spare gallon would you? (asking for a friend)

[@stick_mations]

Im sure he does

[@TypeError2033]

Why is this comment so low

[@ahrerandreas2594]

Package thieves get ready for chemical warfare

[@gerasimger15]

OH LORD YES!!!

[@AnthonyTo]

we gotta get macaulay culkin to get a whiff of this

[@omkumar5868]

"I rented an entire island" - MrBeast of chemistry, 2022

[@Zherghal]

XD

[@swyphgawd7126]

I read this comment as soon as that part came up lol

[@kyoopihd]

OMFG I saw this comment and thought it was a joke, and then got to the 26-minute mark xD xD xD

[@CzlowiekDrzewo]

Mr. Beast, but there's a soul behind his eyes

[@cIayon]

trusting google translate while doing a dangerous experiment is absolutely brave af 💀

[@hithere9941]

No joke!!😂

[@ronron4503]

😁my thoughts exactly

[@zokkoop1]

Renting an island to test a bio weapon is but the first step into supervillainhood

[@andrewphi4958]

I think on contrary - it's a humane thing to do ) True villains set up their most dangerous labs in "satellite countries" on different continent, and test stuff on unsuspecting public. Or start a war and test on enemy personnel.

[@HanSoled199]

@@andrewphi4958 Oh my god how boring can you be, it's a fucking joke

[@JesseLatourrette]

@@andrewphi4958 What about the animals that have to endure the smell lol

[@trakdropmanager8801]

yeah up next - mixing coca leaves and ethanol lol

[@remwastaken]

@@WitchMedusa what's the difference? like bio weapons are like bacteria or whatever while chemical weapons are gasses/liquids etc?

[@matthewmitchell5636]

"At one point my Cameraman had dropped dead from the horrific chemical smell, but I barely smelled anything so clearly I hadn't made enough of it" -- NileRed, totally not a Mad Scientist

[@ArloMathis]

NileGreen

[@Zentri_mistake]

Nilegreen.

[@sadjoyboy5627]

@@ArloMathis parallel universe Nile

[@Ithat1guyl]

when NileRed became NileGreen:

[@mrgreenguy]

I have been summoned

[@ryanchoi5925]

I feel like nile has just burnt off all of his receptors from using strong chemicals and now is immune to strong smells

[@lunassuperyt3445]

you're probably right 😭

[@MikeHunt-zy3cn]

You likely aren't wrong.

[@gabdcceddlappy]

Probably needs to stop sticking his nose so close to chemicals.

[@longleaf1217]

exactly what I was thinking. Bro has no sense of smell left.

[@EphemeralProductions]

Very likely that’s the case. lol

[@sailorenthusiast]

I think the reason that Nile wasn’t as phased by the smell as the camera man is because he’s already really used to smelling foul odors. As he mentioned in the intro, he’s made a lot of incredibly stinky substances over the years, and just before smelling the thioacetone he had already caught a massive whiff of the trithioacetone that had gotten on his glove. Thus, he’d more or less had developed a tolerance, similar to how people who eat spicy foods develop a spice tolerance.

[@user-bn9xy2on8i]

I concur. It is similiar to spicy foods - If you know you can take it, it becomes fare less dreadful.

[@bust3dstr8]

Also how most nurses over 50 are completely noseblind

[@scienceify2167]

4/4 marks

[@SS4KirinBolt]

no he's actually smell blind and it will put him into danger one day in this field. He should be very aware of it and consider his setback in science more to prevent accidents he can't smell in time.

[@TheDeath0fDucks]

Nile really read multiple credible sources about the horrors of thioacetone and thought "nah these guys were just weak, I'm built different"

[@Do_A_Flip]

And he was right lol

[@Leveronicus]

Yea he is.

[@MScotty90]

I'll admit, when I hear a story about something that smells so bad it cleared out an entire town, part of me wants to know what it smells like.

[@mrthanos2404]

Dude got built-in gas masks.

[@Turalcar]

To be fair, azidoazide azide turned to be overblown, for example.

[@lilsusboi8986]

Nile is two things: 1. A real smart fella 2. A real fart smella

[@KB-ke3fi]

Smart fella, fella smart, it takes a smart fella to make a smell a fart.

[@sollec9279]

@@KB-ke3fi What did you try to say, fella?

[@not_porter]

A real thioacetone smella

[@thespazticator]

Underrated comment

[@zachreyhelmberger894]

One smart fellow. He felt smart. Two smart fellows. They felt smart. Three smart fellows ...

[@soju69jinro]

the scientists originally did it with 100g... that was 0.25g, and it covered the entire island and then some more. imagine someone doing 100g in middle of manhattan. i wonder if that would trigger a state of emergency.

[@andrewpinedo1883]

Next time I'm in New York, I'll watch this video and follow along.

[@EMC273]

​@@andrewpinedo1883xD

[@rustic_dweller]

100g is insane honestly

[@vincentlemoine3830]

The ultimate fart bomb prank 💀

[@gl1tchmania]

Oh god please no, no, NOOOO@@andrewpinedo1883

[@hunszaszist]

This is what depression is like - just trying to feel something, but nothing ever being enough.

[@louischapman3716]

💯💯

[@SpoiledBadgerMilk]

[@MikeHunt-zy3cn]

Real.

[@Eltralor]

lol

[@d7zh885]

Woah

[@destelpa]

Mad respect for Nigel's friend/camera guy. Suffering so the rest of us may know the power of this chemical

[@Cricket-kc7bp]

our boy reggie

[@Biryani2op]

Lmao

[@LovecraftianGodsKiller]

And the power of Nigel himself.

[@handcraftandtools4510]

I was afraid when he left the camera, he lost his cameraman invincibility.

[@sijam2m59]

Yes

[@angelaphsiao]

The amount of times he goes “what’s that horrible smell?”, shrugs, and goes back to his experiment is kind of hilarious

[@1pawelgo]

He probably burned his olfactory receptors while on his chemistry adventures.

[@jakobmax3299]

If smell weapons ever become a thing then nile is gonna be a supersoldier.

[@Joni-gv6kn]

Watch this man gas his entire neighbourhood in only 45 minutes

[@noobterrarian1568]

@@jakobmax3299 they exist

[@TheMono25]

im thinking mark is gunna wanna make or turn a vape pen into a dispenser for scambait glitterbomb

[@mackamikaze]

I literally just discovered Nigel but his “totally not” mad scientist ways have me enthralled. Also he’s totally on a list.

[@user-hq4hj4kl9q]

*on many lists

[@Itried20takennames]

Have worked in Occupational medicine, and not surprised that people had different reactions, or that a sudden strong smell could cause vomiting or a panic. Some people are very sensitive to chemical smells, and we would get reports along the lines that 5 people went to the ER (and were fine) in a workplace if the cleaners used a different cleaning solution with a new smell, even though harmless. Not surprisingly, when some people smell strong chemicals that are irritating, they believe they may be poisoned, which causes them to panic, which causes them to have more symptoms, then they panic more, etc. Then add in seeing another person feeling affected too, and it happens.

[@BetaDude40]

Humans seem to have evolved the ability to become sick by just observing someone else who is sick. It's why watching someone throw up makes you want to throw up, there's a chance that the whole community could have been poisoned. Of course, that kind of sympathetic reaction is a double-edged sword, but it must have worked for us to be alive to experience it!

[@raifthemad]

It might not be panic. Just a very strong sense of smell. I'm always first to notice, if something in the fridge has gone bad. I can't stand spicy foods or anything rancid. What to most people smells slightly off and tastes fine, to me is several magnitudes worse. I have, after tasting a duck, that was shot out of season, and might have smelled a bit muddy to the rest of the family, actually washed my mouth out with a bar of soap. I've never even liked balloons, because they smell awful.

[@upsidedown-pug1974]

Nile: *directly smells glass* "it's just not that bad" Nile's friend like 20 feet away: *_dying_*

[@sambecomessleepdeprived]

no comments h o w

[@harjotjuve]

lmao

[@upsidedown-pug1974]

@@sambecomessleepdeprived my question is how my random comment got 600 likes in less then 2 hours

[@skippi99r32]

@@upsidedown-pug1974 because its a popular KZbin channel????

[@eify4593]

Luck and funny

[@FaceyDuck]

Mark my words, one day Nigel is going to make the area within 500 miles of his lab completely uninhabitable.

[@emiliogarcia9473]

My sides are gone. Just imagine it.

[@Songwriter376]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@poop696969poop]

NileZoneRouge

[@vibaj16]

"Today I decided to make a hydrogen bomb, because I really just don't believe it's as bad as it's claimed"

[@AnneOmimus7531]

"Today, I'm making Sarin."

[@Varbindulga]

Spilling this chemical in a supermarket would have been a tiny bit of tomfoolery

[@CARLOSTREUIL]

I once worked in a chemical plant that made acrylic acid and downstream products of ethyl acrylate and butyl acrylate. The odor was so strong that we had to enclose the entire process pump system in a vacuum enclosure. We burned all of the air and water from the unit at 1500 F. The chemicals desensitized the operators in the unit. They tended to absorb into leather and we carried it out in our belts and wallets. I could empty a checkout lane in the grocery. Married people had to change clothes in the garage and bathe before entering their homes.

[@HartsfieldSpotting]

What exactly did it smell like? Or how would you describe it? Other than bad breath, farts, and dead animals, I can’t think of anything that smells fouler

[@TudoMr]

i feel like he could breathe 100% conncentration mustard gas and be like: "its not that bad i dont get all the stories about it"

[@VikingTeddy]

Oh his nose is definitely broken. I bet it's not that uncommon among experimental chemists. He reminds me of a chemistry teacher sub we had at school, who'd destroyed most of his sense of smell. It was worryingly easy to egg him on to use *way* too much ingredients. He also gave us (7th graders) any chemical we wanted to take home, he didn't gaf. Just wanted to do his weird expetiments. He once painted the whole classroom and some of the slower students purple with iodine gas and got a talking to from the principal. The following week we heard a muffled boom from the direction of the class. No one was allowed in to that wing of the building and chemistry classes were canceled for a month. We didn't see him after that.

[@brhh]

@@VikingTeddy they can't just leave the entrance entire school curious for life about what exactly happened 💀

[@raloniusmaximus]

@@VikingTeddy either a failed experiment or a suicide

[@VikingTeddy]

@@raloniusmaximus Lol, Why woukd your mind go there? Last thing we heard he was back at the uni the school found him from, doing God knows what. He'll end up working for anyone who gives him free reign, be it a company researching a cure for cancer or a terrorist group. If he doesn't blow himself up.

[@raloniusmaximus]

@Viking Teddy sorry the booms made me think the worst, glad he isn't dead and hopefully he can put his knowledge to good use lol

[@commissariomontanaro2931]

Nile: *deep sniff* yeah i mean, it smells not so bad cameraman: *literally dies*

[@TheRazer781]

Nigel's olfactory sensors just got blasted into oblivion with all of these stinky chemicals lmao

[@7585luiz]

The day Nile think's the chemical he made smells bad we all die

[@netcore10]

his nose internals has been burned off from the experiments.

[@baileescott401]

His nostrils have declined from the frequent inhalation of noxious gasses. I bet he barely knows when someone farts!

[@theoldone22]

and it's not the first time he's made something and had this same reaction

[@sethwaggoner6497]

Watching your videos always brings to mind a jingle my father taught me that he learned in school in the 1950s. "Ol' Wally (NileRed) was a chemist. A chemist he is no more, for what he thought was H2o was H2S04."

[@Mis7erSeven]

Two man walk into a bar and are asked what they want to drink. The first man says: "I'll have H2O, please." The second man says: "I'll have H2O, too." Then the second man died.

[@nerd__698]

​@@Mis7erSeven Hydrogen peroxide huh, I wonder how was that available in a bar

[@thetherrannative]

@@nerd__698 I genuinely can't tell if you just got whooshed. That was such a deadpan delivery.

[@erfanwardana9769]

The fact that nile can smell it even with 0.25 grams even though its not that bad for him is just insane because this is only a fraction of what actually got released on 1889

[@jerepulli443]

What if a particularly nefarious and silly person would make a kilogramme of it

[@rafaelcruzs2]

Two guys doing chemistry in a forest, on a island. Not sus at all.

[@wienerrrrrrrrrrr]

Breaking Red

[@spookysomeone]

breaking good 👍

[@Phillip_Laurence_hicks]

@@spookysomeone fixing good

[@sakuhoa]

waltuh

[@reanbowlerd5988]

@@spookysomeone more like breaking wind based on the video subject

[@Izik09834]

Nile- I had to keep my eye on it very closely ALSO Nile - SO WHEN I WASNT LOOKING....

[@Miyad-Hasan]

That what I was about to say😂

[@edyr]

no nicotinamide in my drinks, thanks

[@Kolateak_]

*S O I R A N O U T S I D E*

[@SPACEHARICE]

@@Kolateak_ I was like WDYM you went outside

[@the_real_THlNG]

@@asmasaleh2432das ist ein englisches Video

[@fouss_8108]

Rule n°1 in chemistry : smell every wierd unknown chemicals you make

[@yukdro1827]

Dingo bell

[@brianbuddy2ACP]

Imagine this news headline. "Chemist causes a mass panic after accidentally releasing slinkiest chemical known into the air."

[@hennemmc5021]

When he said "I rented an entire island" I had to look if this was actually a NileGreen video.

[@justray8841]

Frr 😭

[@ActuallyHoudini]

theres no differance. its just nilegreen is more hyper.

[@virulentea4556]

Just Mr.Beast from the universe with no morals "TODAY WE RANTED THIS WHOLE ISLAND TO GAS PEOPLE"

[@Tastalgia]

Subscribe js bcuz lol goal 1K

[@ethanhutley1204]

@@virulentea4556 mr hitler

[@SetaRotta]

Imagine some innocent fox just living it's best life on that island and then in comes Nigel to unleash the smell of a warcrime Edit: holy shit I'd like to thank the academy

[@haroldhahn7044]

Don't worry about foxes. they love stinkey shit even more that Nile.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

You know the trope where, when a gunshot goes off, there's a few seconds of birds flying away? I'm imagining that.

[@nyancat8436]

yeah poor animals in the area. Some have an even better sense of smell than we do. :/

[@sgt.cupcakes8423]

@@nyancat8436 just because they have a better sense of smell doesnt mean they get as disgusted as we do, take as example dogs who have amazing noses and can smell fresh poop directly without bating an eye, even curiously

[@zenmasterorwhatever]

Nah they eat rotted carrion, they'd be like "oooh, DINNER!" lol

[@NXPhoenix3]

Every step of this was like a cosmic horror story. Thank you. I loved it.

[@khecidsdragons7777]

Dude, this is exactly how I imagine d chemistry experiments in all their glory as a kid. Thank you for making my childhood dreams come true, at least vicariously.

[@spaceman1501]

I wonder how many people vomiting it will take until Nile realizes that he broke his sense of smell lol

[@robertmickelberg3720]

Bear faints from the smell. Nile - "Come on, it is no THAT bad."

[@goku445]

Not surprising seeing with how he handles chemicals all day and seems to not be worried too much sticking his nose up to some unknown chemical.

[@Rafathegam231]

100g bro and that was like 0.25g bro no wonder

[@shotsfiredman]

@@Rafathegam231 Like imagine it 400 times as bad INSIDE of a back then bigger city

[@totallyrandom1195]

@@Rafathegam231 pfp = scary

[@moony3335]

I love how he interchangeably goes from scared that its not gonna work to scared that it is gonna work

[@divyatulsi1520]

🤣🤣💯

[@kirbynova279]

Fr

[@akunakii3782]

....itz just stupid....really wanna do such thing, while the warning signs are alrdy alarming

[@Mercurio2435]

And the end result was "kind of worked."

[@virgomachine9217]

This is how scientists create disaster strictly from curiosity

[@jazza231]

Do you ever think about releasing papers of more in-depth explanations of exactly how you do things? I've seen a lot on your channel you try many procedures that can sometimes be very obscure to see which works best, and I think it could be helpful to the world of chemistry to get both a video and the written explanation. Love your videos so much, I've been bingeing them recently!

[@yourfriendErnan4]

I just love how exited you seem when making these experiments, it's nice seeing a content creator actually having fun.

[@IceMetalPunk]

Things I learned from this video: 1. Nile's olfactory nerves are apparently degraded from years of inhaling various chemicals he shouldn't. 2. When something says "here's how to make 100g of the worst thing ever", 1/400th of that amount will be fine. 3. Nile can afford to rent AN ISLAND?!

[@chemistryofquestionablequa6252]

Making bank on those shorts. Smart move, but I prefer these long form videos.

[@theunknown4834]

Apparently an island is ~850 bucks

[@rockjockchick]

@@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 me too

[@chemistryofquestionablequa6252]

​@@theunknown4834 there are thousands of islands in Quebec, they're really not very expensive.

[@mysticmusical]

After the diamond water schtick are we really surprised? 😂

[@Renzsu]

It's hilarious how resistant you are to this stuff. Birds could've been falling from the trees and you'd still be going "it's actually not thaat baad" :D

[@tybell4949]

Imagine had he not just made .1% of the original amount

[@yellowice0]

It’s not that he’s resistant, it’s that he’s probably had lots of close calls with taking random whiffs of acid fumes, and they’ve burned his nostrils, personally I have the same issue, when I was growing up I found a unlabeled jug sitting outside and my childlike curiosity got the better of me, and come to find out it was muriatic acid, I can barely smell unless it’s potent in the air, or it’s a sulfur compound like sulfer dioxide, my sniffer still works good for that in warning me of my inevitable death to get away

[@stoneforest2639]

The trees start to droop. The birds fall from the sky. Arboreal animals drop. Bugs fall, and terrestrial bugs writhe on the ground. Worms emerge, writhing. Mammals vomit. Turtles drown themselves avoiding the stench. The fish are fine tho. Nile: It’s not so bad.

[@BrandonSLedford]

Lol ya.. Im the same way as him .. really resistant to bad smells

[@AC_memes]

The trees could be the one falling and he'd be like "not that bad"

[@commenter4368]

Any life in the area around the island he has exposed the chemicals to: Henry what the hell is that smell? Henry the bird: *Unconcious*

[@ianzempel]

the detail of aligning the v/o and the video to say upwind at the same time is so good, I see you

[@tookitogo]

I think we need to establish a baseline for Nigel’s sense of smell by having him smell surströmming.

[@alexanderberg1553]

Is there any way to bring this to his attention, i especially wanna have a side by side with his cameraman :D

[@nibblitman]

I mean I feel this video has made it clear his nose is broken.

[@eliastosteberg1663]

Yes please that stuff is so bad. My parents apparently ate that stuff inside and the smell stayed for a while.

[@Can-bc3jg]

That's a really good idea

[@RancidGravy621]

Maybe he can extract something useful that developes through the fermantation. Maybe he can make grape soda out of it xD

[@turoni314]

Nile is truly on a journey of "I just want to smell something"

[@Vollification]

His nose is broken!

[@unvergebeneid]

Hahaha, exactly what I was thinking. This is the olfactory version of cutting yourself just to feel something 😄

[@BlueSodaPop_]

Honestly? He could totally have a condition that worsens his sense of smell, and just never realized because people can't really explain to you how strong something smells lol

[@vidhanp482]

one nose man?

[@filipkratky5007]

In my native language, the "smell" and "feel" translates to the same expression. So if I translate it back to english, you can say "Nigel just want to feel something". Kinda funny.

[@Dinoman4617]

I have been watching you for almost a year now and I love your videos. I hope you never stop!

[@SentinalSlice]

To distinguish the grapefruit flavor is amazing.

[@brendanware2930]

Nigel *after years of burdening his nose with unholy chemicals* : idk if it smells that bad really 🤷‍♂️

[@chrismccabe1795]

yah all of his senses are gone from hydrochloric acid burning his nostrils...

[@GreetMe-rv7rh]

Nigel is an SCP at this point... This much exposure shouldn't leave a [REDACTED]

[@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890]

0 relations at all 🗿

[@GreetMe-rv7rh]

@@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890 fair point but it's youtube so who cares

[@stoopsartsunlimited]

I mean, it's all relative, right?

[@mattwardproductions7399]

"Hey kids, let's make a chemical weapon with easily available chemicals"

[@Skylancer727]

Let's make a crayon out of uranium so it will glow in the dark! 👉👉

[@angrypooper9733]

"Let's turn Mustard gas into Mustard sauce and make a sandwich"

[@mattwardproductions7399]

​​@@Skylancer727 This one's worse. He actually just demonstrated how to use acetone, sulphur, iron and hydrochloric acid into a weapon of mass disruption.

[@RagbagMcShag]

kids in 21000 will pull pranks on a whole nother level

[@alphasushi9178]

I know what I’m doing this summer vacation ferb

[@Alpaka_Lolo]

How you synced “slightly upwind” at 33:55 is highly commendable!

[@karenremus9681]

Great work! Super interesting history, and your technique is impeccable!

[@braek2766]

“In my mind, there was only one logical thing to do……. I rented an entire island”

[@dallenzao]

Mr beast moment

[@Nevir202]

He booked a ticket to Japan... Wait, wrong channel.

[@NoseyMemes]

@@Nevir202I understood that reference

[@JustGolight8907]

Before it gets popular and 344 like

[@mikeoxmall69420]

@@Nevir202 released it in a neckbeard's room and the smell improved

[@evillttlimp]

I love this series of a slightly anosmic chemist's perilous quest to find a smell that moves him

[@gravity00x]

why did i laugh so hard

[@James2210]

slightly

[@Silburific]

"Perfume: The Story of a Murderer", but it's a modern comedy instead of a horror story.

[@barefootalien]

Poetically and hilariously phrased. Love it!

[@Lordmuhkuh23]

"slightly anosmic", lul... the dude wouldn't smell a doom fart point blank into his nostrils

[@JangoAC]

Your videos are done so well man.

[@rowanwilliams5522]

Hard work was put into this video @nilered good job!

[@hmmurdockofids]

I love that you were alerted to a smell, at night with no one around, that your brother had never smelled before, and assumed it had nothing to do with you making one of the stinkiest things ever concocted.

[@RCSDominoToppling]

Right??? I got such second hand anxiety when he just went right back to the experiment lol

[@kaelang12]

you know it's bad when you gotta *rent an entire island* that's gotta be high up on the list of things supervillains do, right?

[@Moon_Metty]

Yes, but for the best result, the island needs at least one volcano.

[@kaelang12]

@@Moon_Metty volcano AND an underwater lair

[@ricseeds4835]

@@kaelang12 Obviously a lair, that goes without saying. He's renting the island this time. We should worry when he actually owns the island

[@YahyeAli123]

@@kaelang12Or a lair inside the volcano surrounded by lava

[@billyboy1er]

It's so funny to me as I just played Arkham Knight in which Scarecrow produces tons of psychotic gas to intoxicate Gotham, this is his origin story 😂😂😂

[@j0hnny_R3db34rd]

ethylene glycol and elemental sulfur This method involves the reaction of ethylene glycol with elemental sulfur in the presence of an oxidizing agent, such as hydrogen peroxide or bleach. The reaction is carried out at high temperature and pressure, and the product thioacetone is separated from the reaction mixture by distillation. C2H6O3 + S → C2H5SH + 2 CO2

[@jesspalko2622]

I am a chemist, and I am so glad we have people as crazy as Nigel so I don't have to do any of this 😅 Bro rented an ISLAND for this. He's like, the Coyote of the chemistry world LOL

[@vsGoliath96]

Honestly? After years of harsh lab chemicals, it's entirely possible that Nile's sense of smell is basically shot at this point.

[@SINDRIKARL1]

@@operationcrossroads3584 Probably easier for someone who's got a Bachelor's in Biochemistry than a regular joe.

[@SGW4K]

Exactly

[@MrLargonaut]

Also, Long Covid is a bitch, speaking from experience. I can no longer smell smoke, detect the acridness of alcohol, or (god help me) my cat's litter box. I can no longer trust my nose to tell me if there's something burning, if that glass on the counter is vodka or water, or if the litter is starting to stink. That last one just means being MORE clean, but the other two are really friggin disturbing. If Nile's suffering from LC, it might drastically change how he's gotta do things in the lab. He might not be able to trust his nose for scents that provide basic, practical input for every day work there.

[@alexd4102]

based

[@mclarenfox6310]

I'm you 1k like 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

[@Psyduc]

Nile: The potential hazard makes me panic. Also Nile: So anyway I started blasting

[@monad_tcp]

I think he's was more worried about the hazard of the police getting involved.

[@kiranaun9593]

I can so easily imagine those words in his voice and it's terrifying

[@RKroese]

Crappy old meme is crappy and old.

[@druidofthefang]

"panick"

[@clessalvein876]

Quote from 29:00, “I very nervously started blasting it” Meme seems perfectly fitting to me!

[@preettygoood7774]

NileRed: Likes the way Red Bull tastes Huffs cyanide Doesn't think literal US military weaponized poop fumes smells that bad

[@Luci9314]

I watch all of your videos and still not understand a thing your doing, but you make it so entertaining ❤

[@Simon-Zephyr]

Imagine being friends with Nile, and you get a text saying "I've just rented a private island, wanna shoot a video about something smelly?"

[@jasonchiu272]

I'm gonna arrive suited up as if I am going to the heart of the Chernobyl disaster.

[@TheAnnoyingBoss]

"The only weapon for self defense I brought is this splash potion from the pits of the catacombs"

[@SkyLordPanglot]

@@TheAnnoyingBoss DnD character. Chemist with dead sense of smell. They call him Nile The Red

[@nightglide_]

Don’t tell MrBeast 💀

[@pineapple7024]

@@nightglide_ Last to pass out wins $100,000 lmao

[@Lambda.Function]

Nile definitely has like maybe 7 functional nerve endings left in his nose. Honestly armed with such devastatingly smelly substances, it's kind of a super power.

[@royalexodus2666]

or a handicap, imagine there's an actual chemical gas leak of some kind and he can't figure it out.

[@Gozieaaa]

Cyanide leaks and his life goes skoini noi ni noi ni noi ni noi ni oi ni noi ni noi

[@G.A.C_Preserve]

​@@royalexodus2666 not all bad stuff smells bad

[@ilonasasmonaite9078]

@@Gozieaaa i mean he has a friend for a reason-

[@smallknuckles5708]

Stinkman

[@naohaotingala6433]

Respect to cameraman for putting up with nile's antics, a true friend right there

[@dayanesquivel3616]

Thanks for bring this experiment til the end. I thought you were going to give up but you didn’t until you got it 🙌👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@timmytenor1940]

Remember, this is only 0.25g of this stuff. The people in the experiment made 400 times the amount Nile Red did. It’s insane how potent it is

[@timmytenor1940]

@@CricketEngland This information was already public as he literally just looked up the paper that had the recipe for it. Also I highly doubt anyone is going to make this as it will make their entire house smell awful and it is also dangerous. Plus, this video is almost a year old now and I haven’t heard any news about this shit being used in a public place so yeah.

[@timmytenor1940]

@@CricketEngland This stuff is not capable of killing someone it just smells really bad lol. I doubt anyone is going to make this stuff either especially when you can just buy fart spray from a store.

[@jacksongonzalez2297]

@@CricketEnglandit doesn’t matter because the info was already public before he made this video. If someone wanted to make this, they would of a long time ago.

[@MashaMallowplaylists]

@@CricketEngland This is way too much time and money and dedication for like the average person lol. You need the money for equipment and materials, the time to watch over this for 10-12 hours straight, the chemistry background to make sure you don't just actually d!e in the process, and a large amount to affect a whole lot of people (the incident in germany was like 400x the amount nigel made). It's easier to literally make a bomb or mustard gas if someone rlly wanted to do something LOL

[@RK-_]

​@@CricketEngland Your fighting a one sided argument so I suggest you shut up and go about your day.

[@GreatBanshee]

Every history teacher: "We learn about history so we know not to repeat it." *Nile out here learning about history for the sole reason of repeating it*

[@drippylad3973]

@@Epical_TV Hitler

[@Penstrike]

Well science is repeatability of reactions from other people's history papers on their own experiments

[@JohnnyYeTaecanUktena]

@@drippylad3973 in order to make another Hitler one has to replicate the shit childhood he had and make the kid blame the jews for it otherwise not even clones of Hitler will turn out to be like Hitler because they did not have his life experience. And if someone like Hitler was alive in this day and age obviously they are going to be quiet about it and manipulate the news on what they say until they are completely ready to carry out their plan as you learn from the failures of others. Good tacticians read about tacticians who failed and why they failed that way they don't make the same mistakes. A insane person is not a problem a smart insane person who even knows how the laws work thus can navigate through them in their favor like Hitler is a problem. But society will never get better so people like Hitler will never be born as in kids with shit childhoods won't happen if society actually invested time into preventing the next Hitler as again a smart person with nothing to lose is dangerous

[@AntonioNoack]

But.. but.. it's science, not history, so it has to be repeated 😄😂

[@JohnnyYeTaecanUktena]

@@AntonioNoack science experiment to make Nigel have a actual sense of smell?

[@frenchtoast.mp4]

this guy always manages to keep me on edge man… every time he says probably or supposed it makes me feel like its gonna go horribly wrong.

[@gbredstone1516]

"There was no way i was going to be breaking it apart in my fume hood"..."So i rented an entire island."

[@jackyfan]

I just watch this channel to reaffirm our boy hasn't died from something horrible.

[@Le_dank_memez]

check out safety third, it's a podcast he does with other sciencetubers

[@eliudelliud2810]

This guy😂😂😂😂😂 doesn’t have any nostrils 😂😂😂

[@Lucina..]

@@eliudelliud2810 men hate nostrils. So I’ve heard.

[@jackyfan]

@@Le_dank_memez Bold of you to assume I don't already lol

[@kilwom]

honestly now i understand why people think that a youtuber died when they havent uploaded for a while

[@yepimontv3764]

Nile really leaves an ultra dramatic pause in the middle of 99% of sentences

[@kurtownsj00]

Great way to help with ease of editing too, doncha know.

[@NithinJune]

he’s worse than obama

[@RizenST]

It always feels like he's about to say that something went wrong

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

As I was watching this video...I noticed the same thing. Honestly it gets kind of annoying...to hear sentence after sentence delivered in the same cadence. Even though I find it irritating...the content is still interesting enough that I don't want to stop watching.

[@foreverpinkf.7603]

He´s a true drama queen.

[@Sentrme]

I love that you recognized credit of LabCoatz. Thank you for being a humble scientist

[@Lucas-ow5el]

Nilered: looks like no one has made it in 60 years 🤔 Also nilered: lets just cook some up real quick 😃

[@roboninja565]

Nigel stands in a room full of mustard gas he's created. Paint peels from walls as his cameraman wails in agony, even through his gas mask his eyes and throat burn. Nigel: come on, its not that bad.

[@GiraffeFlavoredCondoms]

He DID just accidentally make and inhale WWI era tear gas and burn his sinuses really badly when trying to make the cherry flavoring from paint thinner. So, pretty on the mark

[@ashketchup7354]

"This is unpleasant but it really can't be more than a 6/10" *cameraman vomits and passes out*

[@Sergio-lu2rl]

the cameraman never dies

[@NotOnLand]

He holds a vial of neurotoxin vapor to his nose. Everyone in the surrounding province is dead. The cameraman is a smoldering husk on the lab floor. "It's not thaaat baad."

[@goldberg91]

this is the only case someone is stronger than the guy behind the camera

[@Lucina..]

At this point, I would like video evidence that NileRed is capable of smelling anything nasty at all.

[@Olsenator]

He has no olfactory nerve. He sniffed to many chemicals and crystallized them 😂

[@Lucina..]

@@Olsenator pics or it didn’t happen 😂

[@archkull]

He gagged at putrescine I think

[@devilish_9344]

@tekodoraudor pregnant women?

[@_Jay_Maker_]

@tekodoraudor Anyone can claim that. it's proving it as a fact that requires evidence. A claim is literally just that. So I guess in your mind, all married people with children just went to the sperm donor, huh?

[@wrathboyzgamers]

This guy rented an entire island just so he could help his friend endure the bad smell. That’s how you know Nile is a good friend

[@SkellyGamingCreates]

The most stinky chemicals are my farts at 3:00 am in the morning

[@TtechA-ml2ju]

Lol

[@cyee7]

I was ready for Nile to just casually say 'so I decided to resurrect Baumann and Fromm to ask them about thioacetone'

[@GuardianTiger]

Same XD

[@cakeface7]

same lol

[@hanbigim]

ah, yes. what every smart scientist should do when they have a question to ask

[@elousie1187]

...but it turns out they only speak German so I need to use Google translate 😂😂😂

[@ghadachammas6346]

same omgg 💀💀

[@phelanii4444]

Every time you do not post for a longer while, I always expect that I'll find a headline along the lines of: "KZbinr chemist arrested for creating a chemical that stunk up the whole town, causing x amount of casualties"

[@AC_memes]

Wait let me see if it's in the list on what's gonna happen

[@EternalTheMandarinGoddess]

Or even worse "KZbinr chemist found dead after creating deadly chemical"

[@Crobat7269]

@@EternalTheMandarinGoddess Nile Red's spirit: after seeing my dead body, i kinda thought i should not do this anymore, but i decided to continue anyway

[@alien_in_white_3]

Nilegreen moment

[@milesnichols8497]

Anybody else see the writing in the mix at 6:22 ?

[@jaredgrim6223]

Id be curious to smell this, being in the death industry, owning a crematory and running a removal business with a coroner’s office, I have smelled hundreds of decomposed bodies. But I would honestly like to know if anything actually smells worse than the things I’ve been around

[@User-rm3gn]

Imagine Mark Rober using this for his glitter bomb

[@nicjansen230]

I was wondering if this is even as bad as that fart spray. That fart spray induced a more visible disgust on the victim, but it seemed to be a lot more and didn't seem to travel much

[@DreadKyller]

@@nicjansen230 Possible, though the spray was in much larger quantities, and Nile seems to be desensitized to it, from the cameraman's reaction to a pretty small amount of it, I'd say it's definitely worse than the spray. The main issue would be keeping it completely air tight so that none of the smell leaked out during transport or when sitting there.

[@TheUltraDinoboy]

@@DreadKyller Also releasing it in the middle of a residential area full of non robbbers is not a good idea

[@-danR]

Toward the end, I was wondering what Kim Jong-un would think. They are generally considered to have the worst collection of chemical weapons in the world, and I could imagine him dispensing 100's of metric tonnes of the stuff on the DMZ when there's a strong downwind to Seoul.

[@fishyfinthing8854]

It will not just bomb the thief, it will bomb the entire thief's neighbor.

[@emojack]

I love how nile is constantly trying to create bad smells while it has been proven multiple times that he has almost zero sense of smell whatsoever 😂

[@XMarkxyz]

My guess is that during one experiment or another some chemicals got into his nose and burnt his sense of smell

[@mrglass2837]

He wants to smell something

[@derpyasian2343]

It's because he has almost zero sense of smell that each consecutive stinky chemical gets worse lol. His olfactory senses are only an obstacle he's yet to overcome.

[@werneryc]

Maybe he really wants to experience whatever other people are talking about

[@Skylancer727]

Basically me. XD Always great to be told to look for the source of a smell when you can't smell jack all.

[@user-gx2rv4yo7u]

Nile: 11:03 I thought that it was just a waste of my time The liquid: how dare you… fine I’ll give u the reaction u wanted 🙄

[@St4nford]

everything you just described about the foul smell is honestly much better compared to when you walk in the bathroom after my mom just finished up her duty.

[@laminatedsamurai]

So....what I'm taking from this is that Nigel's sense of smell is just completely shot from being in a lab for so long.

[@nose3301]

or he's a psychopath

[@mortisCZ]

I have 20+ years of experience in chemical industry. I used to work with phosgene and other funny chemicals in different chemical plants. Now I work for a company producing pool chemicals. I have practically no sense of smell and I had none for years now.

[@someguywithatophat7599]

@@mortisCZ thats fucked up, you are missing out on the joy of smelling your favorite foods :(

[@milkiesLoverboi69]

@@someguywithatophat7599or the joy of waking up on winter to ur stinky sheets after a long night of stinking it down there

[@wraithlaceration625]

i have a pretty bad sense of smell and today my science class was putting liquids(teacher wouldn't say what they were) on hotplates and everyone eventually had to leave the room it was so bad but i couldn't even really smell it except for a couple of random moments(bad moments terrible smell) and i simply finished the lab and submitted my work

[@GoldballIndustries]

He made the smelliest chemical Known to Man, and only smelt 'Something'. This means things.

[@axelrubiocarrillo9719]

Pure acetic acid probably

[@psirvent8]

I was thinking the same. Maybe he smelled too much hydrogen sulfide ?

[@GoldballIndustries]

@@psirvent8 uh oh

[@tomatotom984]

Wouldnt that fk up his taste too? Damn

[@pottingsoil723]

@@psirvent8 That's temporary

[@levileme8062]

Here's a man who loves what he does, and he's good at it. That's always good to see.

[@crazycary17]

So I think my mommy or daddy might be scientists because i found a whole bunch of thingys under their bed in a shoebox shaped just like the flask thing at 27:47. I sure hope I can do science stuff like them when I grow up!

[@honted]

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[@sabrinaleedance]

When his friend goes "shut it down" I just imagine him laughing manically and eventually going "there IS no way to shut it down "

[@michaelwaddell9461]

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

[@amorag59]

38:59

[@Andrew-Kerr]

There are no brakes on the stink train!

[@Captain-Jinn]

I wonder what NileRed considers smelling "bad" considering how many experiments and tests he's gone through on WEAPONS-GRADE bad-smelling things and declared "It's not that bad :shrug: "

[@goku445]

He's probably lost his sense of smell.

[@bootvolume]

Who needs smell anyways

[@YandreYak]

We'll know after he tests his thinner-soda

[@jonweinraub]

He can visit a college dorm toilet after everyone poops and he goes nah just smells like shit, it’s not really that bad. In the background you hear people vomiting from how gross it was.

[@Cormalek]

I love how he managed to replicate the "crazy XIXc scientist experiment accident" down to a T, except he knew it gets worse downwind and away, while the original guys were just blasting through 100g of Acetone probably going "huh, smelly but also grapey" while the Victorian pedestrians were puking the snot out. PS.: unless I'm recalling wrong, didn't Nile make 0,2g? With supposedly 100g in original event.

[@John-jd7mm]

In the shop I once worked, the company handed out a turkey to each employee at Christmas time. Fast forward to August. One turkey had been left in the freezer... but someone had moved the freezer and evidently the plug had come out of the wall... that meant the power had been disconnected for up to eight months. Someone opened the lid, and well, I was about 100 feet away. Never smelled anything worse in my life!

[@petejohnson8397]

Friend of mine went catfishing with another friend on a friday night. He forgot about the bait and ended up leaving a tub of chicken livers under his seat over the weekend. August. Southwest Ohio. Black El Camino. Windows up.

[@petejohnson8397]

He cleaned that car 3x. He had to drive that car with his head hanging out the window like a dog taking a ride for a month.

[@dougb27]

Well, considering a symptom of exposure to h2s is loss of smell it makes sense why you’re not affected by it.

[@reubenp7840]

Nile is now literally a mad scientist running experiments on a deserted island because they cant be done in populated areas. His super villain arch is complete.

[@Boostocalypse]

For real I thought for sure he was going to make the island forever unbearable and is that spooky island that no one goes to in 20-30 years.

[@rogerrabbit80]

He still needs a volcano!

[@TheAnnoyingBoss]

​@@Boostocalypse "this city used to have a popualtion of 50,000, now its a ghost town"

[@larsswig912]

i just admire his determination to smell thioacetone. "I rented an entire island" took me out

[@SolarReannex]

it would be way more dedicated if he said 'Oh I just bought small Eastern Europe country to explode it'))))

[@craigwheeler4760]

The serious nature of the accident in Germany 130+ yrs ago happened. I am convinced it was just as bad as they claimed it was. No exaggerations on their part. Nigel and his friend were feeling it seriously on an entire island with just 0.25 grams of the stuff. The incident mentioned in the 1800's had over 100 grams. That must have been brutal!

[@danielsurvivor1372]

​@@craigwheeler4760 I'm kinda sad the dosage was so small and Nile didn't try more...

[@yeetiminguspro3438]

This seems like a great weapon for the Military, don't know why it isn't being used. (Don't say war crime because it is non-lethal)

[@mikeoxmall69420]

"Welcome back to Total Drama Island! For today's challenge, you have to be the last one to vomit in our Thioacetone Challenge!"

[@vvj3498]

"So i rented out an entire island"

[@d3athreaper100]

Dude, I am like this as well. People will say something is absolutely horrendous smelly but to me its just a new smell. In fact some "bad" smell i actually consider quite plesant like fresh hot asphalt or even skunks. They smell so weird i kinda like smelling them

[@Scott-hu3np]

Everyone else - "The smell is horrific and causes vomiting and fainting" Nilered - "it's not thaaat badddd"

[@ludvig3242]

Tbh, people are probably gonna have that reaction to just smelling a bit of sulfur

[@peterschelfhout6318]

Does that mean he loves to eat ass? (just kidding! xD)

[@mutexin]

@@ludvig3242They definitely haven't smelled rotten corpses.

[@snow24121]

@@ludvig3242 Methionine is an amino acid that contains sulfur. I was taking samples of it just yesterday at work and MY GOD that stench caused me some trauma.

[@sarbanisarkar8748]

@timmytenor1940 Why don't you read that comment?

[@theautismiochian]

I like how Nile's first reaction to reading that this chemical is hellish and has the worst smell in the world is to try and make it

[@CausingChaos.]

And then act like it’s nothing much when he first made it.

[@patcaza6166]

@@CausingChaos. I was scared he was gonna try to drink it

[@adamkares7549]

100% will be responsible for the future zombie outbreak

[@RagingAcid]

This isn't true. His first reaction was to buy it.

[@mikeoxmall69420]

@@adamkares7549 and you can smell if a horde is within 500km

[@alwayslive7460]

thank you for sharing

[@jardeldaluz]

Brasileiro aqui, muito obrigado por ter traduzido seus vídeos! Seu canal é demais

[@NedoMacego]

Agradecemos!

[@NedoMacego]

Agradecemos!

[@amateural]

"This actually kind of scared me, and I worried the stories might be true and I shouldn't distill it, but there was only one way to find out" A true scientist. Thank you Nile

[@cr4shmycar118]

It’s the scientific method: fuck around and find out.

[@nom3nnescio]

No. That's not true scientist. He's just a utuber doing this just for views.

[@ninjashuriken]

true mad scientist