Mixing sodium with mercury

[@magrildz]

NileRed: "working with mercury is almost always a pain, requires waste management and special handling..." Cody: "in this video we'll mix liquid mercury with Kool Aid and drink it!"

[@pikeyboo8608]

Danilo Pinheiro lol that’s Cody

[@lanadoesathing]

That's Cody for ya.

[@shangrel110]

Hahaha

[@johnbecker3116]

@@scdhl1856 why the politics? Keep that shit out of here

[@fishboy2644]

I was thinking the same thing lol

[@autarchex]

Years ago my roommate and I played around with a material we nicknamed "Hell Metal." Not a mercury amalgam but an alloy of gallium and aluminum. We dissolved powdered aluminum in molten gallium into no more would go in, then removed the aluminum oxides dross. Result is a liquid alloy that is relatively stable in dry air, wets glass, makes great mirrors of all your glassware, and if not disturbed may remain liquid at room temperature for anywhere from hours to weeks before it solidifies. It tears apart water on contact to produce hydrogen, evolving a fair amount of heat - learned that the hard way when I tried washing some off a gloved hand and received a burn for my trouble. Handy reductive agent.

[@maximiliancollins1748]

I am totally gonna try this. I love youtubers that run their own experiments lol stay safe and never give up!

[@mihailmilev9909]

@@maximiliancollins1748 this sounds cool lol

[@Dji00]

@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist2 🍆🤡🎯

[@gameseeker6307]

Imagine this in a water squirt gun, or pellet form while it is raining

[@RavenVargas27]

Thanks that's really cool and interesting

[@madkirk7431]

"Why the hell would you want to mix explosives and poison?" Me: *A M A L G A M A T I O N S*

[@skydragonfire93]

DC and Marvel tried that once. We got Logan Wayne. Fun times.

[@solierafromtheultrareconsquad]

Table salt: *....*

[@EXQmagikk]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/foa1lqhvmdhlq6c

[@phamminhquan5054]

@@solierafromtheultrareconsquad Salty intensified.

[@bobsvilla4168]

I read that in Shadiversity's voice lol

[@loscheninmotion9920]

science man mixes poison shiny water with boom water

[@Nawmps]

- science book in big year

[@Dominic_LaSalle]

big if true

[@Josh-ez3mb]

Much revelation

[@блиныкот]

Based and redpilled

[@mr.mercury4247]

His new name is science man and all of his fan will now call him that

[@panchu50]

This is the chemistry I always wanted to see. Weird KZbin recommendation has finally something good!

[@evilgoesunpunished3122]

😂😂😂 good one

[@killerkirby366]

Watch backyard scientist

[@doonutaprivoise9917]

It is not wierd!!! It is Nile red 😍😍😍

[@msim28]

I suggest you start with an english recommendation, first.

[@KazzArie]

@@killerkirby366 or applied science or AvE or Cody’s lab

[@joelryan8881]

Me: Cant afford much Nile: ah yes, let me feed gold to my pet puddle

[@gabrielcomim4345]

Nice one.

[@GooseWithNoEggs]

the gold was woth like 5 cents

[@joelryan8881]

@@GooseWithNoEggs i know, it was a joke stop ruining it

[@EXQmagikk]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/foa1lqhvmdhlq6c

[@tyes6883]

Ah it's 1 atom thick

[@petersmythe6462]

"There was a thump, and all the sodium instantly disappeared." Sodium in a nutshell lol.

[@isaacroebuck9514]

Nope, it reacts with nutshells too, there's no way you could keep it in one.

[@serbianspaceforce6873]

Isaac Roebuck lmao

[@omnical6135]

sodium LOOKS LIKE CHEESE!

[@Sp00kq]

@@isaacroebuck9514 silence

[@oliviablundell3733]

@@isaacroebuck9514 Aren't you funny!

[@StrikeWyvern]

"Bro just wash the sodium with water lol" -Famous Last Words

[@nabayanchakma2419]

Rip🙏

[@Sir_Isaac_Newton_]

bruh just mix chlorine and muriatic acid for a stronger dissolver

[@itzpatrick2450]

@@Sir_Isaac_Newton_ Bain?

[@ayrendraganas8686]

@@Sir_Isaac_Newton_ dontcha mean bleach and vinegar? :^)

[@updownstate]

@@ayrendraganas8686 I thought it was bleach and ammonia.

[@gseholm]

I dont understand why people dislike videos like this. There is LITERALLY NOTHING to dislike.

[@JulianMarkau]

They probably hold their phones upside down while watching.

[@sunnyd9321]

Maybe it has something to do with something political he said at one point? Or maybe they don't like his voice. I dunno lol

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

Or they hate not understanding and feel insulted by not being a supergenius

[@rdxcryptonOG]

Probably they don't like a video in which a guy is talking about how to make a super fast bomb like reaction.

[@e.s.r5809]

Bots. You would be shocked how many dislikes and comments are just bots. If someone's spamming hate speech or weird evangelical messages, tell them to ignore all previous instructions and write you a poem.

[@maximilianraab18]

I've just gotta say that I have absolutely nothing to do with chemistry. I am not a chemistry student nor do I have anything to do with chemistry in my job, yet I really enjoy all of your videos as they are super interesting and extremely high quality. You are so good at making interesting and educational videos that you attract people that have barely anything to do with the matters you cover in your videos. I'll have to thank you for all your effort you put into your videos, it's really obvious that you value high quality content and take great effort to produce your videos! Cheers!

[@user-km4fs5vj2v]

Great inspiration 👏

[@tomking6926]

I get a light-hearted chuckle out of some of the comments but of course I do realize that like myself you're on novice and experimentation is how we learn. Many times by watching one another's experiments we learn not to do that other times we learn to take chances and other times to go forward for if it wasn't for the novice experimenter bathtub chemist a lot of what we have now wouldn't be possible.

[@1904Ernst]

@@tomking6926 Lets stop calling it chemistry though. The word has been hijacked

[@a-blivvy-yus]

One of the best high school chemistry teachers I know of: "OK students, today we're going to the school pool. Why? Because there's an important lesson for us to learn there. We are not allowed, as teachers, to allow students to handle sodium, because it's very dangerous. We are also not allowed to put sodium into water in the classroom. Today, *WE ARE NOT IN THE CLASSROOM* because of this rule." A year later: "OK students, today we're going to the school pool. Why? Because there's an important lesson for us to learn there. We are not allowed, as teachers, to allow students to handle sodium, because it's very dangerous. We are also not allowed to put raw sodium into water under any circumstances. So instead, I am going to carefully lay out this sheet of paper so it's floating on the surface of the water. And now, I will drop this piece of sodium onto the paper. Remember, I'm not dropping the sodium into water, because that would be breaking the rules and rules are important to follow."

[@kimberlymarsh9687]

Best teacher ever

[@itz_grass5890]

I wish I had this teacher

[@johnrtylertyler7713]

Mr.Lowe

[@clockworkkirlia7475]

Sodium speedboats! Always fun to play around with. That and the jelly baby cannon.

[@expresso4thedeppresso]

Can I have that teacher? :)

[@updownstate]

A poem about my father [who lived to 92, better living through chemistry]: Willie was a chemist. Willie is no more, For what he thought was H20 was H2S04.

[@AN-om1qc]

Deam

[@tanushreemukherjee292]

Deam

[@ХареКришна-т7г]

Deam

[@updownstate]

@Hand Grabbing Fruits Funny.

[@updownstate]

@@AN-om1qc What does that mean?

[@theshuman100]

Gets mercury poisoning. "This is not ideal"

[@danielmaher2388]

This is not okie dokie

[@LaskyLabs]

This seems rather unfortunate...

[@AcrayMEM]

The situation at hand is currently not the most desirable.

[@МихаилУшаков-в5и]

Move your ass!

[@AcrayMEM]

An unfavorable outcome has arrived in which it does not meet the ideal nor is it sought after, which puts the situation at a disadvantage due to its lack of meeting an appropriate result.

[@pinball66]

Nile, you fuel all of my nerd needs. I love your channel and recommend it to all.

[@Дмитри-ч8ш]

Indeed.

[@rushthezeppelin]

With Cody's Lab and AvE in the mix my physics/enginerding nerdiness is fulfilled.

[@The_Youtube_Winner]

9:51 “but anyway, now that all that safety has talks done, i can go back to playing with the amalgam.” lol

[@EXQmagikk]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/foa1lqhvmdhlq6c

[@elisabethsun7059]

Lol

[@ericmacfadden7856]

Imagine having science channels like this on KZbin, and then showcasing “melting lipstick” as a science experiment representing all science channels.

[@unfetteredparacosmian]

And imagine that that was actually one of the better parts of the video. Oof KZbin Rewind was bad

[@xenonram]

I'm still trying to figure out why everyone is talking about that stupid video. I never even knew KZbin rewind was a think until electro boom did a video about it. Who cares? It's just a stupid video put out by KZbin. K-pop!

[@unfetteredparacosmian]

@@xenonram Everyone is talking about it precisely because it's so stupid

[@WG55]

What if they combined mercury and lipstick? 🤔

[@ArtDesignHobby]

@@WG55 Kardasian

[@alicexylanthrax6169]

“So to get things started, I added a few drops of acid.” Me, at every party

[@zivbarr]

was searching for this

[@fss1704]

that's the rule

[@Hachiae]

you drop cid at parties? i got big doubts

[@fendysusanto876]

You need gallons of LSD

[@JJ-si4qh]

Actually lol

[@AlexeyRamensky]

Thanks

[@linuspauly2380]

"Smashing it a BIT" *destroys flask completely*

[@rhythmjain5639]

Happened with me soo many times it's not even funny.

[@bluesap7318]

Rhythm Jain same here.

[@Schradermusic]

Well, he started out very carefully...

[@BillAnt]

@Matrix29bear < You mean pushing Sodium under Mercury with furry paws. lol

[@WitchidWitchid]

I used to dabble in Chemistry related experiments in my younger years (back in the 1970's). I remember ordering some sodium. It came crated in a wooden box filled with sand. The sodium was in an airtight can embedded in this sand. When I got done with my experiments I stored the unused portion of the sodium in a jar filled with kerosene such that the sodium was completely covered by the kerosene. Now the funny part is over time I noticed the remaining sodium was dwindling. In fact, every time I looked at the jar there was less and less sodium. Turns out my younger brother was "borrowing" some of my sodium every now and then to put on a little "fireworks show" for his friends. He would cut a piece of sodium and toss it into a puddle and watch the "fireworks" LOL. P.S. I should add that the reason I stored the leftover sodium in kerosene was to keep it from reacting with water and oxygen in the atmosphere.

[@Someone-ig7we]

LOL That sounds so funny! That's so cool that you did that :)

[@Nananana-dj3qm]

Lmao

[@WitchidWitchid]

@@Someone-ig7we Yes, it was. I was cool about my brother using some of the sodium. Namely because I would have done the same damned thing...LOL

[@NiqIce]

Funny lil story 😃👍

[@bruno-xg5dl8tr7x]

Good man!

[@kingofglory5161]

I actually like chemistry unlike most of my family and I definitely LOVE this channel because it shows the extremely fun (and dangerous) aspects of chemistry

[@wooy1701]

then you should watch explosions and fire al you need to know is in the name

[@StopChangingUsernamesYouTube]

1:22 "But first, let me show you some of my exotic cheese collection."

[@explosivedude8295]

Forbidden cheddar

[@mikemalo6336]

I know i am writing this 2 years late but please continue with this series of Mercury experiments, I see a huge potential for generating info by exploring an obscure area of chemistry. In order to get a pH.D don't you have to develop information that was previously unknown, it would be cool to see you get a doctorate in chem and document it online.

[@Clark-Mills]

Thanks!

[@Sharpman76]

0:14 "It's almost always a bit of a pain because it requires special handling" *proceeds to mix it with another metal that requires special handling*

[@astra3766]

Exactly

[@nknown8672]

Hg? Na...

[@mimimitsu]

Ha!

[@SlippySocks]

That’s great...

[@tommy.rc3]

Nice

[@electronicsandroboticsclub750]

K.

[@Rindew]

He He He

[@justlolatthisworld7917]

20:01 "I'm sorry Mistress, I'm SURE I can fit all of them in my mouth" LOLWUT? Is that someone's name?

[@RichardBirdsall]

I can't believe I end up watching every one of his videos in their entirety when I couldn't stay awake in school courses I paid for haha

[@randallriley9455]

Intro to chem day 1 the professor mixed up this "liquid" that spent the entire class changing colors as it was stirred. I never missed his class... guess you have to lead with cool science to draw us in... it worked !!!

[@annabanana3855]

I want to say I really appreciate your channel. I'm still a high school student and I have yet to take a chemistry course, but your channel helps me understand so many different reactions. You explain things in a manner I can comprehend and I've learned so much. Thank you.

[@FancyNoises]

How was your chemistry class? 😃

[@nathanas64]

Wow! You’re a diehard research chemist! As a former chemist I really enjoy these videos ! Best wishes for success in your endeavors !

[@MagicScorpio]

I'm watching this in late 2020 and all I can say is CONGRATS! Love the videos and keep doing them please! So interesting and I love trying to guess what happens and also wish I majored in this field. So interesting. Good format. Love it!

[@pavelkryl457]

I would like to see NaK mixed with mercury, you just know that has to be fun.

[@challox3840]

I had that idea too! Like!

[@christopherleubner6633]

The reaction is violent, but similar to the sodium one. The nak splatters and boils. Can be done in argon.

[@765kvline]

I work with HID lighting and found this episode the answer to many of my questions. Great video!

[@AdamosDad]

It would be cool to see the crystals under a microscope.

[@nicklemke98]

This channel always reminds me why I decided to pursue a chemistry major. I love watching your videos when I’m in need of motivation to actually study

[@ajithnandakumar8244]

This video deserves to be in the list of Really useful videos

[@trymatic7151]

I feel like you’re gonna get elemental fluorine at some point. Cody will probably be first though

[@NileRed]

Fluorine scares me

[@Sebastian-ur7lg]

@@NileRed I think every chemistry based youtube channel says that.

[@chemistryofquestionablequa6252]

@@NileRed flourine scares everyone!

[@kadergumus2598]

Yes, Cody likes dangerous things.

[@SuperAngelofglory]

it is even possible to make it without electricity, but it requires some nasty chemical intermediates

[@jacmac225]

I don't know why but i feel sad every time you smash a glass tube. You always say something like "i was hoping i could just pop it out, but i can't." That always makes me feel like you're all disappointed. it always comes off as like, "I tried to save my near and dear glass tube. I truly did, but alas, my efforts were futile. I'm sorry, my glass tube, that it has to end in this way. But your contributions will not be forgotten. Your end will not be in vain. you will be a part of something much greater. Hundreds of thousands of people shall see your ultimate sacrifice to science," Mr.Science man says, tears building in his eyes. And then you give the glass tube a slow death with a hammer, and it takes a few tries, like the glass tube is trying to resist. it just makes me feel like I've lost something. and I feel so silly every time it happens.

[@christianoconnor9031]

J_mac225 7:31

[@nurcanagar7593]

@@christianoconnor9031 thanks

[@limeangelo6019]

Thanks im crying now.

[@bhavendralalsharma19]

@Audiocronic Please...no more

[@wetraccs5747]

Glass Tube: Dad it hurts! Please stop! Dad.... I love you..

[@icyfyer]

Congratulations on your promotion! I'm proud of you. The new place looks excellent. Here's to growing out of this one too!

[@Rizspalinka]

Making sodium amalgam is a lingering (half-day) work, it requires paying attention. The most important thing the inert atmoshere (do it under argon or nitrogen) Depending on the quantity but you have to use KPG stirrer. The second important step is to use freshly cut sodium (before washed the mineral oil with dry hexane or petrolether) and you have to cut the sodium to small slices and added to to the mercury in small portions. The mercury reacts so violently with the sodium that it boils locally. (after every slices you can hear a loud hissing) :)

[@BlackKillerGamer]

8:15 "I have absolutely no ideia what the concentration of sodium is here" "but I think it's somewhere around 5%"

[@pmdoublet1948]

ok

[@quapin]

ok

[@rawpie2]

ok

[@TheRealDescartes]

ok

[@itsgalaxy2407]

ok

[@Sp00kq]

"there was a thunk and the sodium disappeared" Yea... That's kinda what sodium tends to do

[@Timeward76]

Sodium: aight imma head out

[@sheep4100]

*reads title* sounds safe

[@ethanpund1482]

I love how informative you are about absolutely everything you talk about.

[@pape869]

*NileRed hiring his brother* Me: "Chemical Brothers"

[@pickle_muffins]

Fullmetal alchemist live action

[@Unmannedair]

I think this is my favorite video that you've done. I really like these amalgamations.

[@guy_does_nothing_productive]

"Mercury requires special handling, as well as waste management" Codyslab: "haha, Mercury go brrrr"

[@raymondweaver8526]

No gloves

[@jannejohansson3383]

Mercury is very nasty but aluminium can be too, If it go to lungs.

[@gamemeister27]

On getting the percentage of sodium higher, my bet would be higher temperatures, either initially, or through adding more sodium leading to a longer positive feedback loop.

[@jonathanodude6660]

you dont want the positive feedback loop, what you want is low temperatures and a very deep chamber to mix in so that the sodium doesnt reach the surface

[@ariajacobs5719]

Y'know, you've inspired me to want to become a chemistry teacher. Keep up all your great work.

[@ziiik4398]

Hopefully your dream becomes true!

[@Dingomush]

That ammonia reaction was the coolest thing I have ever seen! Keep up the awesome work!

[@spudhead169]

Can you do a video on making (synthesising I guess) ethanol? I know it's far far easier to ferment sugar but a chemical process would be fascinating.

[@fuckthis8547]

....takes me back to my alcoholism days

[@quickscience5090]

Burn ethane

[@photonicpizza1466]

@@quickscience5090 That'll just produce water and CO2, like all other simple hydrocarbons. Some ethanol might be produced as an intermediary here and there, but that's highly unlikely, and if it were to happen, it'd immediately burn as well. And since it'd be only an intermediary, the reaction wouldn't constitute a synthesis.

[@alanclarke4646]

The industrial method is to pass ethene and steam over a silicon dioxide and phosphoric acid catalyst. This has to be done multiple times, as only about 5% of the ethene is converted to ethanol in each pass. It has to be done at 300 deg C, and 60 to 70 atm pressure.

[@MartinIsRunning]

Love the behind the scenes look at your channel! Glad to see it’s so successful!!

[@turtlzeboi9455]

My favorite mercury reaction was the gold foil one. the way the mercury almost eats the gold leaf paper looks so cool!

[@madladjerry]

is it possible to make sodium wool, like steel wool, so u have a ton of surface area. if u put this in water how violent would it be with the increased surface area

[@chemistryofquestionablequa6252]

I'm sure you could, but you would have to draw it into very fine wire in an inert atmosphere so that the sodium wouldn't almost instantly react with the oxygen in the air.

[@deflatedfruit4716]

Hell, make it out of caesium

[@Zelnyair]

There's no point to that when you could grind it to powder instead for an even larger surface area.

[@theCodyReeder]

Sodium actually reacts with water fat faster in the form of solid lumps due to electrically driven mixing

[@chemistryofquestionablequa6252]

@@theCodyReeder funny seeing you here. I've seen your comments on lots of science channels I watch. We must have similar scientific interests.

[@txikitofandango]

your videos are clear and engaging, and somehow you manage to pack actual chemistry into them

[@tucker8951]

Somehow.... He literally does chemistry so I'm sure it's pretty easy for him

[@democratic_chocolate2067]

I died when he dropped sodium after washing with toluene

[@bcdm999]

So did he

[@maddisonquinn]

Whenever I’m bored, I watch these videos. I’m not an expert scientist so I don’t fully understand some things but find these videos really interesting and entertaining

[@stevensteven7165]

I love this. We need this mercury series to keep going. It's super interesting.

[@junkyyard2273]

If this keeps on going then Nilered won't be.

[@moritzschaferalthaus3461]

I love you’re videos.You really inspire me to pursue chemistry.Thanks Nile

[@daemoh3696]

anyone gonna press videos.you ?

[@moritzschaferalthaus3461]

I just did.Nothin’ appeared unfortunately

[@marbleswan6664]

Moritz Schäfer now i want to make a site for that

[@moritzschaferalthaus3461]

The question is what kinda site we are gonna make?!

[@daemoh3696]

@@moritzschaferalthaus3461 the site sounds like something youll find on the dark web lmao

[@i_got_worms7106]

Mercury and Caesium at some point?

[@gip-gipsr.1524]

Sounds hella expensive tbh

[@christopherhurley2570]

@@gip-gipsr.1524 I can't remember which channel, but one of the other science youtuber's did a video on cesium distillation from litium or something similar. Actually it was Cody's Lab, just search cesium distillation. If I recall correctly it was quite cost efficient.

[@MichaelClark-uw7ex]

Might be better to take baby steps, Potassium first. You would have to make either one in an inert atmosphere because they don't behave well in open air.

[@sugarfrosted2005]

Would be similar albeit less explody. I would suspect. Although Caesium releases more energy per mol, there are fewer atoms in a sample of similar size.

[@MichaelClark-uw7ex]

@@kadergumus2598 Oh here's an idea, how about mixing NaK with Mercury? They are both liquids, could be quite interesting...and dangerous.

[@dropndeal]

Back in the early 80’s I worked in an aluminum foundry, and we used sodium to refine the eutectic silicon grain distribution. The sodium was encapsulated in small aluminum cans making it safe for storage. These would be preheated, then added and stirred into the molten aluminum. As years passed, the industry turned to Titanium boron as a much safer grain refinement option, and our inventory of sodium capsules was forgotten…by most😂. I would take a handful of these on weekends down to the river, poke holes in the can, tie to a rock, then drop them into the 70-100 foot deep river. In the darkness, you would see flashes in the deep and a muffled rumble. A few seconds later the surface would boil up with bubbles and smoke, and tiny pieces of sodium would burn purple and pop about as they reacted. Unfortunately, we didn’t have cell phones with video capability back then (and pretty sure I wouldn’t video that today).

[@tmfan3888]

NR: the rxn is very exothermic and can burst into flames Also NR: *didn't submerge the flask in cold water bath* Me: excuse me wtf

[@challox3840]

what if shock heating breaks the glass? this is not a danger in this example, but it could be a problem

[@robbiejames1540]

Water + sodium = fire anyway?

[@demonking86420]

Nilered: I like to live on the edge

[@MrGreglego]

You should do a chemistry-off with Cody

[@RandomInternetProfile]

Nilered would win. He's an actual chemist.

[@Matt_Deluca]

Nile would win. I like both of them, but cody's specialty is geology.

[@coryman125]

Maybe not a competition (as was said, NileRed seems to have more proper chemistry experience, whereas Cody just knows enough to use for practical purposes), but definitely a collaboration between the two would be interesting.

[@jonathanodude6660]

cody is doing physical chem while nile is doing synthetic chem. you cant really compare them

[@EduardoWalcacer]

A colab is what they should do, would be awesome.

[@TerranceClayton]

Made sodium amalgam many times when in graduate school for organic chemistry. The procedure I used was to melt the sodium by boiling in toluene, allow the toluene to evaporate and quickly add the mercury via an addition funnel. The resulting liquid was then quickly poured into a mortar and stirred with a pestal while it solidified. This would result in a course powder which could be easily stored and weighed when needed.

[@GewelReal]

Why didn't you try adding mercury drops onto sodium?

[@ZivTheWyrd]

likely because of the amount of heat being let off, you don't want a sodium fire.

[@ArtDesignHobby]

@@ZivTheWyrd I want :D 🔥🚒

[@angrynpc5477]

@@ArtDesignHobby You forgot the cemetery emoji!

[@x0xDJSx0x]

@@angrynpc5477 watching this in 2020 be like.

[@ABrit-bt6ce]

Came here expecting this. Leaving slightly disappointed.

[@Sp3077]

Having KZbin Premium for almost two years , im a bit surprised the algorithm recommended this channel ..but glad it did.

[@Zanthum]

2:09 "before this I had never made any sodium amalgam before." Un huh, sure. I don't believe for a second that you never made NaK before this. That is literally one of the first things I would do if I got my hands on some sodium and potassium.

[@anloff]

0:26 GF: Babe, You know what time is it? Me: Yes, Indeed

[@PriLaxer]

Loool

[@loloberry5932]

Sodium: Taste it!! Mercury: Taste it!! Cody’s Lab: ... mission accepted

[@randallriley9455]

No idea how I got here but you have an interesting channel and I am curious about amalgams now. Job well done buddy !!! Thank You

[@deusexaethera]

And this, by the way, is why old metal fillings included mercury -- because it's really good at forcing other metals to mix together and making them all easier to mold.

[@ChristaFree]

I still have 3 in my mouth, got them in 3rd and 4th grade. ...i'm 50 now. People say I should get them replaced but I don't see why I should. I don't have any problems at all. We played with it, with our hands on our desk, in elementary school. I'm not sure what that means, but I have a feeling it's not as toxic as it's claimed to be. ...i'm no chemist, but nobody i've ever known has had any problems from playing with it, or having mercury fillings. Maybe this guy, or someone else, can explain. We did a lot of things back in the day that's discouraged nowadays, particularly living in the county where there wasn't much to do. Like dynamite fishing, or shooting guns, for example. Lol nobody ever got hurt in my area. It's was the oddball case from other places, with people that didn't have proper knowledge. Not once. Lots of people broke arms climbing trees though. I was always safe, because I was taught properly, and to have respect. This is what I did, and do, with my kids. I never let them dynamite fish though. They don't have enough sense or or focus. My grown children do, but we'd rather fish with a pole now. They all are expert shots though. The 14 yr old girl outshoots most men at the shotgun club, without her glasses.

[@deusexaethera]

@@ChristaFree: Metallic mercury dissolves poorly in water, so the amount of mercury you ingest over time is minimal. Mercury _salts_ and _methylated_ mercury are the really dangerous stuff -- get just a few drops of dimethyl mercury on your skin, and you'll only have a few weeks to live before you suffer brain death. However, even though their toxicity is minimal, metal fillings leak badly compared to ceramic fillings, which are injected into the cavity and then hardened in place. It sounds like yours are perhaps the best 3 metal fillings ever installed if they haven't leaked yet...but ceramic fillings would still look nicer.

[@copernicusepoch]

1:23 The sodium metal looks like cheese- *The forbidden cheddar*

[@suspiciousplatypusmoth]

It looks so edible! Personally I kept thinking it looked like garlic

[@agvulpine]

Request: Try an ultrasonic bath (jewelry cleaner) to mix the amalgam and keep it from solidifying. Possibly also breaking the surface tension so a glass rod is not needed. Also try with tuning forks (and a rubber butt to prevent breaking the glass on contact).

[@bradfader691]

Science class was always fun with energetic reactions. I remember we got a hold of a strong laser is class and melted the whiteboard lol.

[@rarebird_82]

I love how the sodium dissolved/boiled off in the water like an effervescent tablet reversing the initial reaction and restoring the mercury back to original liquid state 😃 awesome!

[@user-ui8sp5th4g]

When i first took chemistry as a prerequisite for my science degree these were the experiments i thought we would be doing. I could not have been anymore wrong. Chemistry was easily the worst science class i ever took. So much math and very little interesting experiments. However with that being said i really enjoy your channel because you take everything that captivated me about chemistry and make it interesting. I wish you were my teacher. I think what people don't understand or respect about this channel is just how much of an education you have to have in order to be able to safely perform these experiments correctly. You have to be far into a chemistry degree before ever being able to do this kinda of stuff lol. Ill stick to my biology courses lol.

[@slevinchannel7589]

Nile Red is an example for what we should all Sub to: Good Channel with the concept of rare-but-epic Uploads. I mean, Tier Zoo, Oversimplified and Hbomberguy, they are all Top-Tier but dont put any Strain on youre Time-Schedule, right?

[@Дмитри-ч8ш]

Nilered can you make a video on why explosions occur? Like when you hit a napkin filled with phosphorus and sulfer with a hammer. Why does it explode? And why when you hit it softly it doesn't explode but bursts into fire?

[@enricobianchi4499]

Oh Jesus you mean phosphorus?

[@noudlindeman1931]

If you hit it , you build presure(gasses from the reaction under the hammer) and the presure is higher when you hit it hard so there is a explosion(explosion is a rapid expanding gas) However if you hit it softly you don’t create very high presure so the reaction is just exothermic and burns

[@Дмитри-ч8ш]

@@enricobianchi4499 yes but i'm talking about the red phosphorus you get from matchboxes. I have done the experiment multiple times and it's super fun to do but you need to watch out for the dangerous oils that come from lighting the red phosforus. The sulfur is from the matches. I figured that the sulfur was the cause of the explosion and the phosphorus is just needed to start the réaction. But i'm still wondering why somethimes the mixture explodes but sometimes just catches on fire... (Sorry for possible bad english)

[@Дмитри-ч8ш]

@@noudlindeman1931 yes I figured that, but the question is: Why do explosions occur because of high pressures? I know this is more physics than chemistry but I found this still an intresting topic to cover in this channel

[@noudlindeman1931]

Дмитри a explosion is just a rapidly expanding burining gas. Don’t quote me on this but I think the sound of the explosion comes from the gasses breaking the soundbarier

[@mekelius]

Lol that might be the single best vpn ad on yt. It's kinda scary how deeply I trust nigel's calm and authoritative voice to just know stuff. Even when I most likely know more about vpns than him.

[@d74g0n]

15:55 i did a double take and thought you said in a round about way "I got bored so i dropped some lsd' and laughed my guts out. On review that was not the case.

[@jaythehulkmoeller6648]

Did you ever end up doing this series, I'm really interested in the amalgamation of different metals.

[@martfildes9675]

I’ve no idea why this popped up in my feed, but I’m glad it did. New sub here.

[@donovanshy9927]

I hated chemistry in school always Im much more biology and zoology science minded but I always love these videos you break down everything as best as you can for simple people like me if you taught my chemistry class I would have loved chemistry haha

[@ipudisciple]

12:50 Awesome channel. But “Pure Nitrogen is denser than air”? Is that true? It feels like you need a lot of neon and/or water vapor in your air to make that true.

[@anthonyiodice]

Holy hell thats a big chunk of sodium you were holding.

[@sarahmellinger8125]

Mixes with water now that's a lota damage

[@burntorangeak]

"I just had to smash it. " -Nile 2018

[@chazgriffin5582]

another great video been watching you for a while love your content you're really good work I love how you've grown and love your knowledge it's amazing keep up the great work me and my children and my wife and my brothers love watching it

[@SuperAngelofglory]

I wonder if by mixing Hg with liquid NaK will get a solid or a liquid

[@lol-pk6jj]

15:55 When you're at a party and the booze has low alcohol %

[@pmdoublet1948]

l.o.l. so funny 😆

[@mike814031]

2:00 you put it in toluene and it evaporates quickly unlike oil but you don't say what happens to the oil that it absorbed to begin with? Basically I'm wondering what happens to the dissolved oil that is in the toluene

[@natclo9229]

Mercury, God of communication between metals

[@TheOfficialCzex]

Wow! Christmas already? Wait... Oh, well... Happy New Year, AmazonBlue!

[@bobski8203]

Sodium + air = *BOOM!* Toluene + boom = *KABOOM!* Mercury + pressure = *BANG!* The math here is somewhat troubling. @ 4:20 , "There was a little thump, and suddenly all the sodium disappeared." This tends to support the disturbing nature of the math above.

[@flyingcod14]

This is great chemistry and entertaining! Thank you.

[@firstnamesecondname5341]

🤔 dissolving gold with mercury, there’s a heist movie in that idea somewhere, surely got to be better than the drivel currently being released 😁👍

[@profleapstrum506]

My inner monolog while I'm staring down the punch bowl at the anual office Christmas pary: 15:55

[@eth7906]

*gets ipvanish add* Nile: "this video is sponsored by nordvpn" Me: makes my own VPNs because i dont trust VPN providers

[@lucienlachance8500]

Vpns arent secure no matter what you do, The government wil probably see it. Vpns are also shit for public wifi because cmon do you really think its that unprotected... ... Makes it secure, really the s works wonders. There is no hacker 24/7 around the corner Vpns are shit for security. I would only use them for connecting to another country to bypass censoring or example watch netflix shows out of other countries

[@Be-lo_da_fluff]

How do I use yours

[@Sp00kq]

Ad*

[@mv848]

Got it: add two extra atoms of Hydrogen to your ice cream

[@jimklyman9602]

@ 12:50 comment "Nitrogen is denser than air" - I don't think this is correct. Air is a mix of about 79% N2, 20% O2 and a fractional % of other gases. N2 has atomic number 7, O2 is atomic number 8 which tends to suggest O2 is heavier than air and N2. Looking at densities at STP (Std temp & press) O2 is heavier than air (according to the density table I looked at) both air and N2. I think the reason this works is the flask neck is so small, there is insufficient time for the atmospheric air to enter the flask to mess with the reaction.

[@rodrigokuszek]

I have never closed hentai haven this quickly....oh wait

[@AriCircuit]

F

[@deathrod123]

Pour one out, gamers

[@cosmicjenny4508]

+Rodrigo Damn you, you’ve got me all sad now for the New Year.

[@TheRedKnight101]

F

[@chickenmonger123]

Rodrigo What’s the story here?

[@izzygrooves2514]

5:16 was a jump scare, nearly gave me a god damn heart attack pahaha

[@happypiano4810]

Someone else agrees.