Making bakelite plastic (Part 1)

[@joshua572]

"I tried several times to get it to explode" got to love these chemists.

[@OrangeC7]

It's like they're all mad And I won't have it any other way

[@wellmakeitworth1316]

Only if your watching from afar

[@psychronic8327]

Back when the government was more "we need to be proactive with deterance measures in case of war" And less "this lab can't use carcinogenic chemicals"

[@johnathanblackwell9960]

TNT was originally used as just a yellow die, took a while to figure out it goes boom I guess.

[@GraemeGunn]

lol "these chemists"

[@theCodyReeder]

wait... I have a bakalizer like thing!

[@Shibbymatt]

Do it.

[@myrlewulf6256]

Cody'sLab As soon as I saw this I thought of you

[@pvc988]

LOL… I was just about to tell him that Cody has some crazy pressure vessel so he could send you some of the resin.

[@Bananakid11]

hmm so you're going to work together? =)

[@RaExpIn]

I'd love to see that on your channel! :D If you want it to be less toxic you could use resorcinol instead of phenol.

[@slook7094]

When I took industrial hygiene, my teacher showed us a formaldehyde detector and told us that he'd demonstrate it but that there's not likely any formaldehyde nearby us. I raised my hand and asked if there was any bakelite nearby, because that should have formaldehyde. He was surprised that I knew about that and said that he had a battery case or something made of black bakelite. So we set the monitor next to it and it worked! It detected a little bit of formaldehyde!

[@Aerosklice]

Nail polish would work too

[@lostpony4885]

Fema trailers have plenty

[@robertsaget6918]

Nerd

[@fizzyegg]

@@robertsaget6918 get a life

[@MMOchAForPrez]

​​@@lostpony4885 forma trailers 😂

[@gmc9753]

When I was in junior high I was really into chemistry and there was a chemistry book in the school library that had all sorts of dangerous experiments (mercury, nitric acid, fireworks) including making bakelite. This was back in the 70's.

[@soultransmuter8166]

gmc9753 styropyro got a vid about a book like this

[@mememaster147]

My sister gave me her old chemistry textbook from the 80s that had a pyrochemistry section, including how to make mononitriletoluene with a warning that if you cook it too much you'll get TNT...

[@rlt94]

My dad always liked to say that he survived something called "70s-poisoning" hahaha

[@smileyjackflanagan6053]

Got to love the pre 9/11 era.

[@firstmkb]

Nitrogen triiodide and every energetic reaction I could find in the High School chem lab. That was an amazing place to play.

[@thescrimble]

"If someone gave this to me and said nothing, I would probably try to eat it" -Nile 2017

[@BetonBrutContemporary]

Ah yes, the forbidden cookies.

[@ellejendario97]

Same

[@cucumber_999]

it went from a maple leaf to a heart in the thumbnail

[@sadmac356]

Ah, the forbidden gummy

[@californium-2526]

Edible chem - stage B bakelite

[@theolddeus9672]

Bakelite pool balls are pure auditory perfection.

[@ChuckFickens1972]

@Lee SmarterEveryDay Get smarter tomorrow by learning the difference between your and you're.

[@totenkopfan6296]

Even better, victorian celuloid pool balls. They caused loud crack when they hit another, guys were pulling guns on it, lol

[@rhodesianwojak2095]

@@totenkopfan6296 nice

[@totenkopfan6296]

@Fen Vulpeus That's what caused all the fun stuff

[@maggots7131]

Fen Vulpeus i remember i learned a lady burned to death because of that

[@efenedick1305]

The knowledge that there's a machine out there called "the Bakelizer" that looks like a steampunk bomb but just makes cool plastic brings a smile to my face

[@shanemcdowell3628]

Bakelite was also used to make Kalashnikov style magazines due to it being cheaper than steel and more durable than aluminum.

[@N54MyBeloved]

This is the only use I've known for bakelite unill now lol

[@galvanizeddreamer2051]

Similar chemicals, but it was a fiberglass reinforced version called AG-4S. Tough as hell from what I've heard.

[@neonman54]

Hell, a guy made entire gun frames out of the stuff. German krobov? I think thsts his name.

[@shanemcdowell3628]

@@neonman54 As much as I love bakelite, I would not trust a rifle made out of lmao. Those weird prototype bullpups the Soviets made look jank as hell

[@testname4464]

Bakelite AK stuff has an aesthetic that is so satisfying 👌👌👌

[@sugars2070]

"With great difficulty, I jammed it back into the mold" _UPSIDE DOWN_

[@stoneforest2639]

OH MY GOD IT IS UPSIDE DOWN

[@alanstarkie2001]

Even though it's an early form of synthetic material, Bakelite has a certain tactile and visual quality that modern plastics just haven't got. I remember that it had a strong smell though.

[@jalexoneschanel1356]

Sort of like formaldehyde?

[@bighands69]

It is a dense plastic that very few modern plastics can get near to.

[@aserta]

Only if you had it exposed to either light or water/moisture. In pristine condition, it's almost odorless (mostly because it's so dense, so there's less sites for stuff to escape). That aside, it really is a beautiful plastic. It has a nobility run of the mill plastic does not. Not even resins can emulate its cool feel. And it lasts (when maintained properly) for ever. Despite its shortcomings, it would be a much better plastic for certain objects so they don't break as fast.

[@harlanmcdiarmid]

Smells like naim....

[@s.teamspark3858]

man i just love how it looks so much, and I like that as a plastic, it was very purpose-built. Everything made with bakelite wasn't made to be disposable.

[@ElectraFlarefire]

If you wish to revisit this, you should be able to build a workable bakerlizer(sp) using a steel 'pressure pot' of the type used for paint sprayers. Mine has a working pressure of 80 psi(And according to steam tables, should be good at keeping water from boiling below about 160c) and has a silicon seal that should hold well with the heat. Do be careful do to the whole 'steam explosion' risk if you wish to go down this path. :)

[@NileRed]

+Electra Flarefire interesting. I'll think about it

[@alexusali9650]

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[@paulskalla6845]

I wonder if an old autoclave would work.

[@richardbrooksshnee]

@@paulskalla6845 ~40psia will get you the 270°F. You're looking for a temp range between ~266°F and 392°F. ~200psia on the high side... So a 30psi pressure vessel could barely do the job at sea level if you don't get runaway. Pretty sure a standard autoclave is a low pressure unit and taps out at 15psig. A decent temperature control set up set to the low end could prevent runaway... So an 80psi vessel could probably safely do the job. But a higher quality high pressure vessel would be best. But I'm pretty sure making aerogel would be a more useful and easier endeavor unless you're making something designed to sustain impact.

[@ParedCheese]

A pressure vessel, or at a pinch, a repurposed pressure cooker shouldn't be too hard to set up for the resol production, but I guess it will still "froth up" when the pressure is released? Maybe less than with steam bubbles though. 😁 I'm sure something small-scale wouldn't be too difficult, and it would be great to see and actual Bakelite object being moulded an baked. ♥️

[@theeldestrelic]

And Good ol AK pattern magazines ;)

[@nick-dm3if]

i have tons of them they are great

[@perfectlynormalhuman5473]

Yeah but for 7.62 aluminum/steel are kinda better than the bakelite/ ag-s4 mags

[@googlepissoff5776]

I was a kid when they were affordable, now they are 80 dollars. Makes me wanna cry :(

[@david-lb7ij]

@@googlepissoff5776 you've seen em for $80?! lol

[@googlepissoff5776]

@@david-lb7ij Yes lmao, shits crazy. Still pissed about the Ukraine shit no more imports of anything cool.

[@NicolasBana]

Cody will surely enjoy using his pressure chamber as a bakelizer !

[@1st_ProCactus]

That would be better than seeing a video for the sake of a video. How many times to we need to see marshmallows :\

[@NicolasBana]

Well, as any good test, it's one that's performed everytime ! But still.

[@1st_ProCactus]

Its not a good test. Nothing can be learnt from putting them in a vacuum. Its the job of gauges to judge various states of low pressure, Not marshmallows.

[@harrickvharrick3957]

@NileRed I find myself 50 yo and I still remember many things that were made of bakelite. In my grandmother's house, the telephone, the wall sockets (outlets) and parts of her toaster were made from bakelite, for instance. All things made of bakelite I remember were coloured black. They all shared one aspect, they would break easily.. the bakelite used for them was hard, but brittle - it would not live up to any kind of impact. I always thought that that was just what bakelite was like, that it was an unavoidable sort of imperfection of the kind of material. Watching your video however makes me wonder if that brittleness actually rather was due to the amount of fillers that the producents of all those things put into it. I can imagine that using fillers would make it much cheaper to produce things that were made of bakelite. And, if I understand correctly, it was already put under pressure to cure it in the forms used - which also would have made it very easy to fill them up with a powdery filler first, then flood make that filler and make it absorb a much lower amount of the actual bakelite whilst still in liquid form. And when it was cured its surfaces would be as smooth as the insides of the forms that were used were, and you totally wouldn't be able to tell by sight that any fillers were in it anyway. .. until you actuality broke the household item that it most likely was what they made, and even then you'd only be able to tell be cause of the grainy inner structure that now got exposed. You think that is how it was, or were other effects causing these properties? And thank you by the way!

[@aserta]

You very likely had the cheap bakelite that came after the patents expired, which were made to capitalize on it. It's not the main reason, but it's one of the major reasons why bakelite is pretty much extinct today. Once the patents expired, nobody did things right and just wanted in on the action, subpar products caught the market and so a lot of the stuff is cheap and brittle. Properly made bakelite is very strong, it behaves less like a plastic and more like a composite. I have original bakelite bars, from the original manufacturer pre 1930's and they're very durable. Some chips exist, wherever they were dinged and dropped over the years, but no shattering or cracking. And we're talking about thin stuff, used to promote the product, not actual use items that would've had various strength inducing features like fillets or ribs.

[@Speedojesus]

@@aserta I think another thing is also just the quality of molds and products. Vintage Italian and French coffee stuff is chock full of black bakelite handles and knobs, most of which have held up much better than most plastics even from the 90's to 2000's on game consoles or kitchen appliances.

[@DjResR]

Soviets used the bakelite far into 1980's that was quite robust and withstanded time quite well also, I remember seeing switches and outlets from 1960's still intact in 2000's, some even outside in the sun._

[@tibo6749]

It was probably made with novolacs method

[@bioemiliano]

I used bakelite in school while hand making electronic boards, and that stuff was hard and robust, you'd have to hit it with a hammer to make it break, and it just like 4mm. I don't remember having to struggle a lot when sawing it, I think it was similar to cutting softwood. And I do remember the insides being whitish and grainy, so I guess it was a novolac

[@hedgehogelite8573]

NileRed: is chemist Also NileRed: jams bakelite back into mold in the **wrong orientation**

[@kaylynhandley1920]

:P I don't think he did

[@trashcompactorYT]

@@kaylynhandley1920 he totally did

[@kaylynhandley1920]

@@trashcompactorYT oh ok

[@kinggenderman1874]

That's what my dad said when I came out :D

[@totallynotfrompornok2407]

“I hit it with a hammer for fun”

[@jacquelinehavermann1975]

I spaced out for a bit and had a good chuckle when he said "I turned off the toaster." Never thought a toaster would be used in science lol

[@kevinbyrne4538]

Thank you. I can see that you spent a lot of time researching, doing the chemical experiments, taping, editing, ... Your efforts are _much_ appreciated.

[@mr.conductor6168]

"Release Bakelite into all passages and pipes up to Section 803!" I know I'm not the only one...

[@anonymoustraveller4180]

Yes! I'm glad I'm not the only person that thought of that.

[@sasukecruz2000]

Finally a neon genesis evangelion reference

[@Davvg]

yep

[@seeker3631]

based and EVApilled

[@jansolo9320]

Ha was looking for this

[@B3Band]

Novolacs sounds like a drug Ask your doctor if Novolax is right for you.

[@ChronicallyZER0]

Blood Bath and Beyond - Pop Goes Metal Covers yes it sounds like a laxative

[@Ali_D_Katt]

Novolax sounds like a laxative for your nose.... So a decongestant ? Lol.... Now that's a weird thought, laxatives are just a decongestant for you colon

[@sankang9425]

'Clean your bathroom with a brand-new novalacs!'

[@Daniel-ou4fb]

Reminds me of nova lox. With a light schmear and some capers.

[@Null-value]

Daniel Nova lox - bursting with flavor!

[@annelieseocallaghan801]

Brilliant, I have an old Bakelite radio. The history and chemistry of plastic is fascinating.

[@HarborLockRoad]

Thats exactly what im here for! The WW2 german Volksempfanger radio cases are bakelite, id like to reproduce them in printed plastic with Bluetooth speakers inside for ww2 reenactments, i bet everyone in the reenactor community would buy them.

[@rheticus5198]

I just bought some cheap electrical switches made of soft plastic that melted when I tried soldering the metal connection tabs. Since the switch can fail, I will not use them except for low current and voltage applications, far less than the switches "rating." The old bakelite switches are really durable. Always wondered how it was made.

[@maxieprimo2758]

While bakelite has been phased out of popular use, its usefulness in containing rogue Eva Units cannot be understated.

[@ThePhobophile]

Basically the only reason I know what bakelite is is from watching Evangelion back when I was in high school, so that’s the first thing I think of whenever I see it haha.

[@BostonWells]

@@ThePhobophilethe anime? 😂😂 I’ve always told my mom that anime teaches us things 😂

[@janm7163]

Bakelite was used a lot for weapons right after they replaced wood furniture and before polymers took over, the FAL and G3 among some examples used it

[@testname4464]

Don't forget AKs, classic AK-74s are defined by bakelite

[@skibur848]

@@testname4464No furniture was made for AK’s out of bakelite besides some pistol grips. It was mostly just magazines.

[@SeanPennII]

The MP40

[@CarlosFernandez-mh2jf]

@@skibur848My Bulgarian AK came with some bakelite furniture

[@fork2309]

🎵 goin nuts, hearin voices all night, grab that ak and im loadin up a bakelite 🎵

[@Omapk]

Bakelite has such a lovely color

[@marmite-land]

Yes, considering you can give it the colour you want

[@dirrtbikekid7]

Use a pressure pot. I’m a dental technician and when I do acrylic repairs(Methylmethacrylate monomer/polymer) monomer liquid and powder. When I do a dental repair I put it in a pressure pot. You can control the temperature and of course pressure. By putting my repairs in the pressure pot it would heat it up to cure it but also the pressure would make sure no porosity(bubbles) in the acrylic. There are some really nice and fancy ones but the one we use it’s pretty cheap I mean you can find them for like $50-$100 probably at Walmart or something. I don’t know if that’s the same thing as that cool device that guy made but it just heated it up and then pressurized it sounds to me like a pressure pot that has a adjustable temperature gauge that I use at work for the exact purpose of curing acrylic and avoiding porosity. Maybe check it out. Love your videos!!!!! Long time fan

[@warefairsoda]

Wow, never realized just how complex a molecular structure Bakelite is.

[@mattiemathis9549]

I was fascinated by the way he described the molecular reactions. When he explains things like that it really helps me understand what is happening and why. ❤

[@yesthatkarim9601]

the formal name for Bakelite, poly­oxy­benzyl­methylene­glycol­anhydride, gives a better idea of the complexity of the molecule 😅

[@pk-ou1lj]

Fun fact: Bake lite was used as furniture for many firearms back in the day, especially popular in the Soviet union. It proved much more tough, wear resistant and weatherproof than wood. however, although very hard, when bakelite breaks it fractures in extremely jagged an sharp edges. It was removed from firearm furniture in no small part due to soldiers getting impaled by their weapons if they fell on them the wrong way...

[@rimanahbvee]

I dont really believe the latter, other plastics became available

[@simplyvince1744]

Bakelite is one of those products that isn't made as much anymore but is actually higher quality than what is currently being used instead. Since it isn't as soluable it holds up more than other polymers. Actually, a lot of people test to see if their thrift store jewelry finds are bakelite by swiping some acetone on the surface. Modern plastics will melt while bakelite is uneffected. Since "vintage" bakelite is worth a bit of money as lots of people collect it, this is worth testing for say an eBay/etsy seller. I find this concept fascinating since putting plastic in acetone is one of my favorite things to do... I make jewelry and sometimes redesign cheap costume jewelry. The easiest way to get cheap plastic rhinestones/cabochons out of a metal bezel is just to drop it in a bowl of acetone and it's just really cool to watch or to repeatedly poke the melting plastic with a toothpick.

[@michaelmiranda178]

Isn’t bakelite the type of plastic they used for plastic parts on early electric guitars? That stuff “gassed off” and became brittle after a while right? (I might be confusing it with a different type of plastic)

[@SmilingAtom0-9]

That's bc bakelite is a thermosetting polymer and once it's set, it can't be reheated for recycling, unlike modern day plastics

[@opl500]

Could've tried putting it in a pressure cooker.

[@NileRed]

I was thinking about it, didnt end up trying it.

[@Patchuchan]

Bakelite still used in some applications that require high heat resistance and good electrical insulation properties such as vehicle ignition components and electrical outlets.

[@HeirOfNothingInParticular]

And ashtrays.

[@raquellydoesntsocialize]

I have a very old music box modeled to look like a piano; it is brass with a bakelite cover. It is absolutely stunning!

[@leredrasscul]

When Seele try to invade HQ and reach terminal dogma

[@doristhebartender6725]

I clicked on this video because of that scene

[@game_crasher5725]

I was searching for that comment

[@Chrono-bo4zc]

virgin third impact vs chad nilered

[@wawan8759]

Oh shit, that was Bakelite!?

[@Not_an_alligator]

I love thinking about how much this is gonna confuse folks who don't know what it's referencing

[@phototron3333]

I love how I was thinking "hmmmm I'd like to see how bakelite is made. Oh! I bet Nile has probably made some before" and sure enought here we are!

[@Calacene]

During a Properties of Materials course I took, we pressed steel samples into bakelite pucks with one face showing. with the larger size of the puck we spent a long time polishing the steel until the grains of the steel were visible under a microscope

[@mrm6001]

As someone who's just started working in a plastic factory this is very informative and interesting

[@blaindorsey1858]

They cover Eva unit 01 with this In end of evangelion I think

[@pmcKANE]

NileRed - if you want to turn your toaster oven in to a temperature controlled environment then you may want to look in to getting toaster over temperature controllers for surface mount printed circuit board production. I've used one for PCB prototyping for a few years and they work surprisingly well. The toaster modification is a temperature controller that keeps the oven within a defined range instead of an arbitrary numeric "heat" level that you can calibrate quite accurately. They're not hard to make if you don't want to buy one either, plenty of DIY projects around.

[@DeltaOps3]

I did a full report on the history of polymers. Very interesting how much stuff and how many jobs it fit into and replaced, like horners, people who worked with heating animal horn or crushing it into pulps to form complex items like combs, piano keys, etc, was eventually taken over by people who worked with natural rubbers and bakelite.

[@DaBurntToaster]

i never liked chemistry before watching your videos man, thanks

[@jebug29]

It's been a while since I've had the chance to sit down and watch your videos, but I'm really happy to see you doing polymers! Especially something like Bakelite, which isn't covered nearly enough.

[@jamestrotman3238]

your stuff helps in Chem classes, thanks dude

[@jamestrotman3238]

but do you have any tips for doing titrations?

[@1234lavaking]

Swampy Mudkipz when you see the first flash of color that goes away once you swirl it, you need to do it very very very slowly. Slow and steady wins the race with titration.

[@jamestrotman3238]

1234lavaking how about the calculations?

[@1234lavaking]

Swampy Mudkipz okay, so you have to figure out how many mL of titrant you used, the titrant is the one that you know the concentration is. Convert the mL to liters and multiply the molarity of the titrant by that amount in L. That's the amount of moles of titrant you used. Then do your molar conversion based on the coefficients in the equation, and that is the moles that were reacted in the solution of unknown concentration. So divide that by the volume of unknown, in liters, and boom! The concentration of your unknown solution.

[@suckinDiesel44]

c'mon man the calculations are easy. Just google how to do them and practice.

[@victorconstantine9408]

Of the little research I have done on the matter of Bakelite, it needs a pinch of "lignin" a.k.a. "wood flower". When you get your Bakelite recipe down, perhaps you can sell some "Nile Red" keychains created of your sacred polymers. I love and appreciate your videos more than my words can convey. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!

[@neddreadmaynard]

Dude,the heart shaped item was perfect, duel colour in one process! As the Bee Gees once said "You should be dancing, YEA!" Of course cheap jewellery was not your mission statement, but still....As always, stellar content. Love from the UK.

[@mattiemathis9549]

I want to try and make the heart one! It was awesome!!!

[@veryberry39]

If I'm remembering what I was told, this stuff was also used in combination with cloth wiring. The house my friends and I just moved out of had cloth wiring throughout, so I learned a bit about it while I was there. The bakelite would crumble away, and of course cloth rots as well, leaving live wires exposed to each other.

[@chemistryofquestionablequa6252]

Some of those wires are aluminum too, aluminum can burn...

[@c.brionkidder9232]

"joolery"... interesting video and excellent voice over quality. Your mastery of chemistry is very respectable.

[@TheUnluckyWolf]

Me, watching these videos, after failing chemistry: I like your words. Magic man.

[@wilting_alocasia]

Bakelite just makes me think of my grandmas ☺️ They had all sorts from combs to jewelry to toilet roll holders ! Everything was bakelite!! I hated it, it was always so ugly, but at the same time I miss it because I miss my gmas

[@astralchemistry8732]

Thanks,this was very interesting! You must have spent a lot of time on making this video. I liked the in depth presentation of the mechanisms. Keep up the good work!

[@NileRed]

+Astral Chemistry it took me a long time. Thanks!

[@throow]

I remember when I was a kid, the bicycles had handles of this and 2 of my cousins would set those handle on fire on parked bikes. Bad boys.

[@jalexoneschanel1356]

@Bean Oof Bakelite is flammable and children are naughty

[@urlocalkevin3733]

We still produce bakelite on work to this day. One of my favourite products to work on!

[@pencrows]

I thought pool balls were made from a ceramic or something. my life is a lie

[@zytwaar5470]

In the past, they were made from ivory

[@firstmkb]

Ivory, then celluloid. I had never heard of them using Bakelite, but I only know SOME random things.

[@jalexoneschanel1356]

@@firstmkb and then after celluloid they became Bakelite because celluloid was too brittle and flammable

[@nattypezman4894]

I was making that resin into the early 2000's. The plant didn't have fancy things like a control room 😆. You controlled the heat , which was steam through 6 inch coils inside a big kettle with a 2 inch ball valve. Then when you needed cooling you shut the steam off and switch to cooling water to control the exothermic reaction. 40,000 lbs of phenol and around 10,000 lbs of formaldehyde, i can't remember what the catalyst was. It was an interesting job 🤣🤣🤣. Exciting also, especially when someone mixed the wrong things together or lost control of the exothermic reaction of a batch.

[@KP-lq2ux]

bakelite was used for ak rifle magazines for a long time, properly tough stuff even today.

[@perfectlynormalhuman5473]

Mostly for 5.45 mags and like the new 100-series mags

[@jmm1233]

bakelite moulding reminds me so much of the old way curing bakes of ceramics , there defiantly an guild art to two methods

[@RaExpIn]

Nice video! I've done this reaction with resorcinol back then, which is less toxic than phenol, but it also puffed up.

[@everfluctuating]

nile, you should know not to eat candy from strangers

[@conoba]

No Bakelizer -> Use pressure cooker filled with brine?

[@grenmoyo3968]

MainsOnTheOhmsRange NOOO

[@km5405]

i don't think that would work ; the water being released in the bakelite prepolymer does not have the brine inside of it .....aside from that im not sure the brine would not affect the reactants .... and then theres buoyancy problems with the stuff you are trying to polymerize. .............. another huge problem is the corrosion very hot brine would do to a pressure cooker (and possibly embrittlement due to gas and other stuff working its way into the metal's boundaries) ...... and it just generally sounds like a bad idea; pressure cookers cant handle THAT high off pressures; if you are not carefull you have a bomb on your hands; brine might have a higher boiling point but that doesn't mean it wont build up pressure at elevated temperatures.

[@kilavuzyeminlitercume4724]

How about dangling or supporting it on a platform within the pressure cooker?

[@robbiejames1540]

But hang on, isn't the bakelizer pretty much a just pressure cooker? High pressure steam vessel providing heating over 100C?

[@techobsessed1]

Why brine?

[@sciencedogsandallkindsofcr9104]

Whenever I want to sleep i watch one of your videos, I don't know what it is but your voice just calms me

[@KowboyUSA]

Sweet! There was a lot of bakelite around when I was young, now of course not so much. I've known what it is and how it was made for many years, but have never had a chance until now to actually see the process performed.

[@carlinianam0s]

"If somebody handed me this and said nothing, I would probably try to eat it." Nile... 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@nilnileer]

yummy

[@iNthGineer]

It's also the only substance capable of safely containing an angel in stasis... Yes, I'm that old!

[@WayneEarls]

You and Cody's lab should try this in his pressure vessel.

[@NileRed]

Ive messaged him!

[@WayneEarls]

Sweet. I was watching him earlier, and he mentioned your channel. You have another new subscriber sir. Good luck!

[@mushroomtoad2000]

i like how nile red tried thrice to have a violent reaction nobody would want

[@science_and_anonymous]

I have always wanted to make bakelite but I have never found a very good synthesis of it. thank you so much :)

[@ExplosiveKaboom]

DANG! TWO VIDEOS IN ONE DAY? WHAT IS THIS! :) :)

[@TomsLab]

LimitlessDeadline But also no videos for two weeks...

[@china-bot6695]

*me knowing what mole means..... "im something of a scientist myself"

[@LunarPurin]

Did anyone else have like... Yugioh PTSD when he said Polymerisation?

[@samlabo1688]

Got it boi

[@ryoumiru593]

all I had was elemental hero flame wingman flashing through my mind

[@TheDeadOfNight37]

12:52 Is the center... NILE RED?

[@bp4freak]

Bruh

[@Ebowleslap]

No it’s Niler Ed

[@SmilesEdgeworth]

Is it bad that after I heard him say polymerization, I heard the rest of that sentence like a card effect?

[@joshhyyym]

Great video. It made me realise how long it has been since I studied organic chemistry, and how much I miss it.

[@GordonChil]

Nigel’s voice sounds much younger.

[@jvanvynck]

Nile, do you have your PhD in chemistry? I'd be interested in watching a video about your actual chemistry background.

[@tibo6749]

I don't think he has a PhD

[@weirdalfan37]

For anyone looking at this more recently, the last I saw is that he was working on his masters in biochemistry in 2015.

[@heathersvanity8648]

As a collector of vintage bakelite, I found this extremely fascinating! Not that all of your videos aren't, of course.

[@literalfeline]

Fun gun fact, the MP40, a German WWII submachine gun, used bakelite grips. Though, the grips were disliked as they were uncomfortable. This led to the grips being swapped into wooden ones.

[@chemistryofquestionablequa6252]

So were the grips on Walther and Luger pistols

[@squidcaps4308]

Bakelite is still used to this day. For ex my desktop CNC has bakelite in its frame. It is tremendously rigid and good for such applications that need precision mechanics.

[@Xoxo-Raccoon]

Who else is just randomly binge watching NileRed

[@thiagoeafins2734]

ME! and omg his voice sounds so different in this

[@Xoxo-Raccoon]

@@thiagoeafins2734 Yes it changes, I think it's because he upgrades mics

[@thiagoeafins2734]

@@Xoxo-Raccoon I thought it had more to do with age

[@Xoxo-Raccoon]

@@thiagoeafins2734 Might be both tbh

[@selp07]

1 Canada leaf 2 melted grape jellyrancher 3 offbrand Valentines candy

[@markjurkovich7814]

I wish they'd bring bakelite back. Everything made from it was tough! You could practically use it like a hammer!

[@giuseppefusco1189]

can't you use a pressure cooker to keep water from boiling?

[@bastienpabiot3678]

the quicker cooking is obtained by heating water higher than 100°C

[@bastienpabiot3678]

so the pressure cooker présent water from boiling

[@thekingkiller1339]

Fun Fact! Bakelite was also used to seal Evangelions!

[@MsCpcheats]

I don't suppose you could you could do something related to textile dye synthesis? There are a lot of colourful compounds but few make good use as dyes.

[@TheyTookStrawb]

Nilered: the chill mad scientist.

[@Isometrix116]

0:13 People who buy comblock guns will have something to add :)

[@lephishe6271]

Perpetually drooling over bakelite handgaurds (though I read that soviet "bakelite" gun parts is actually a different plastic that is also fiberglass reinforced)

[@sumanmajumder1526]

if you want an explosion use a test tube and fill it with phenol and formaldehyde. make sure volume of phenol must be greater than formaldehyde. use concentrated HCl to catalize. fill the test tube nearly to its mouth, approx. 9/10 th part. no need to heat, as heat will generate all by itself. and you will get a glue after the explosion.

[@oldcowbb]

bakalizer, aka Pressure cooker

[@agent57]

I feel like it would be fun to see this revisited in Nile's new lab, to see if he could give it the full bakelizer-style treatment.

[@giuseppefusco1189]

I would love to see you making celluloid from nitrocellulose and camphor!

[@MrStiruam]

Not to be nitpicking or anything but the mechanism at 15:39 is wrong. You've drawn some sort of oxidation-reduction. Instead a benzylic -OH should attack a quinone methide. There is also an error in the structure at 16:00.

[@Blalack77]

That is so fascinating - to see a solid object/mass form from a mixture of various liquid chemicals... I know this isn't the only reaction that does something like that, but the entire concept is captivating. Chemistry is like the closest thing to real, actual magic in my opinion. I want to learn chemistry. I'm thinking about going back to college for pharmacology and either dual majoring or minoring in chemistry (since my IT degree has not worked out at all). But even if I don't go back to college, I still want to learn chemistry on my own. Are there any good authoritative/concise/in-depth/free resources for learning chemistry? Maybe that could help if I did decide to take chemistry classes too.

[@kentworch]

I love the Nile red and blue videos, just wish the other parts for the multi-part videos were linked in the description.

[@Professionalpatternrecognizer]

"My phenol is a little bit dirty" giggity.

[@yasseralshafee]

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[@nadnerb_sr20]

0:13 and magazines for various AK models

[@abrahamcastillo8500]

Use the powderized bakalite and mix it in during the strung stage, and let's see what happens.

[@shinypaintf588]

i like how the yellower one looked like a heart and had red in the middle, it's almost poetic lol

[@ESSBrew]

Would a pressure cooker work, or is there something different going on in a bakalizer?

[@plokoon4217]

It probably would, because you just have to increase the pressure so the water doesn't boil, ain't nothing fancy.

[@aserta]

The pressure in a pressure cooker isn't anywhere near what the Bakelizer would have. I mean, it's a thick cast iron egg, that alone is indicative of how much we're talking.

[@MadScienceWorkshoppe]

I was just thinking an instant pot might work. I think an important question is whether the pressure needs to be kept up as it cools, or if once it polymerizes the pressure is less important.

[@raziasultana5222]

ur first bakelite sponge thingie looks like the first cookies i baked. lmao

[@TheMisterEnderman]

Oh man, am I hyped for making bakelite! Really appreciate the ammount of work you put into your videos, i love them! Just one question: You did already show how to make things, that could be used as pigments for paint (you did basic cooper carbonate). Could you please do a short video about another pigment? For example prussian blue or since you love mercury so much cinnabar (HgS)? I would really love that! Greetings from Germany!

[@NileRed]

Ill look into it!

[@TheMisterEnderman]

wow, what a quick answer! Thanks a lot, keep up the great work!

[@DrakkarCalethiel]

NileRed That would be great,!

[@charlestaylor7591]

I'd love if you make a video about making Paris Green (Copper (II) acetoarsenite). I made it recently myself and the color changing solutions are really beatiful to watch. I am sure it would make a great video ;)

[@jonasstrzyz2469]

I love HgS would it be possible to grow HgS crystals?

[@MrSzero13]

LOL, aint gonna lie i thought of dabs when you were getting the resin out the beaker lol, great video

[@erictaylor5462]

14:30 Do you have a pressure cooker? That might be helpful.

[@mariosmarios13]

My guy Nile is like a wizard Internet: ... Nile: Here have some plastic