Nuclear Engineer Reacts to NileRed Turning Cotton Balls Into Cotton Candy

[@tfolsenuclear]

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[@ZeL-iq5sf]

First! (Sorry I had to)

[@carlosneira]

I was wondering when you were talking about how cotton helps as a good material for the PPE would the PPE be a layered garment composed of lead and cotton or is it just cotton.

[@eredaane4656]

shipping chemicals is stupid btw, especially customs will just ruin it completly. I've once ordered a similar white powder and customs just ruined it. It was only 10g and out of those, barely 8g arrived and it was all wet. My precursor was sensitive to water (including air) and arrived useless. Luckily, since the packaging was correct and labled and had gone through the proper shipping channels, I could get my 400€ back from customs. Only took a few years of pestering them.

[@eredaane4656]

so, lab grade is usually a lot more pure then food grade, but it has very different impurities such as heavy metals (in salts for example). Food grade chemicals are also usually massproduced and end up cheaper to buy :)

[@Kontro_7]

Meaningful reaction content is the best thing ever.

[@queefyg490]

Recently have been watching Tyler and I think the same thing, he's probably one of the only reactors that will actually add important information.

[@derpderpin1568]

@@queefyg490 Nah. There's literally thousands it just all depends on the subject matter and channel.

[@アキコ2003]

​@@derpderpin1568true, there's many good reaction channels out there, but in a weird way the best ones are always the most underrated ones. The ones with the most subscribers are always the "bad" reaction channels

[@julianemery718]

Indeed, as well as this sort of reaction, the "reactor adding more context to the contents of the video" another sort I like is when the person soaks up new information like a sponge and are excited to learn.

[@arkhilious]

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[@ShadyDoesContent]

I love watching vids like these where I'm getting 2 different perspectives from different scientific professions. Just a lovely, informative vid, thank you. :D

[@tfolsenuclear]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@IDKDA216]

@@tfolsenuclearur vids are the best!

[@dalestewart4819]

Correct me if I am wrong but I believe that is how we got sweet corn. They radiated seeds in the 50s and they ended up with sweet corn.

[@Roozyj]

For a second I thought you meant those halloween candies xD

[@skoitch]

Realistically, I’d be impressed with any type of balls being turned into cotton candy!

[@zibrankhan2671]

Correction:The 2nd photo that you used to show high yield cotton is not from Pakistan. It is from Bangladesh.

[@tfolsenuclear]

Thank you for the correction!

[@richardlowery5100]

Love the reactions! I think when you mentioned hydrolysis and submarines, the process you ACTUALLY were referring to was electrolysis. Electrolysis is the breakdown of water into H2 and O2, whereas hydrolysis is the breakdown of a chemical compound due to the addition of water. Keep up the great vids! :)

[@tfolsenuclear]

Yes, I did 😅 Thank you very much for the correction!

[@John-ir2zf]

Mostly correct. Except the products of electrolysis is pure hydrogen (H1), 2 atoms and Oxygen8, 1 atom..... The correct symbolic writing of water is 2H1,1O8 but for simplicity it is short hand written as H2O.

[@PouravSandha]

​@@John-ir2zfcap fake and untalented

[@andregon4366]

​​​​​@@tfolsenuclear I don't think submarines use electrolysis. Electrolysis works by separating hidrogen from oxygen of water molecules, but sea water has salt. When you do electrolysis of salt water you pull hydrogen and chlorine from it, leaving sodium oxides as a residue. Needless to say that breathing chlorine is a bad idea. I think Veritasium made a video about how submarines produced their own oxygen. Either Veritasium or Smarter Every Day, not sure which one. For submarines to do electrolysis they would have to desalinate sea water first or have their own fresh water supply. Edit It was Smarter Every Day, not Veritasium.

[@nd_otd]

​@@andregon4366can't the submarines do distillation? With a lot of heat from its portable nuclear plant, evaporating salt water can both turn the turbines and distill it.

[@gonnaenodaethat6198]

i loved what you did with your ad slipping your openning tag line in there. really put home the idea that the best engineer realizes they are a student for life :3

[@robroysyd]

Good to hear the chemical risks of thermal power generation mentioned. A good fraction of the cost of a thermal power station is in water treatment. That's until a mix-up in the plumbing at a new power station leads to sea water going into the boiler. That was one expensive oops.

[@davespangler9125]

High glucose ratios can definitely be a problem when it comes to making cotton candy, especially in a low end machine like Nile is using here. Having cooling fins helps a lot and probably would have made a half reasonable product. Crushing or grinding it prior to running it through the machine may also have helped some to get finer threads. Those machines definitely struggle with larger pieces whereas chunks of rock candy that I make and Jolly Ranchers both make fantastic cotton candy in the upper mid grade machine I run now. As an occasional cotton candy professional (not expert), this was definitely one of my favorite videos of his.

[@Lorenzo_G_C]

Hi, I recently found your Chanel trough the KZbin recommendations and have found that you are by far my favorite react youtuber, you actually add new information to the original video, all while managing to still be funny, whit all that said I'd like to recommend weendigoon's video: the most painful death, its a very long one about a very infamous case of acute radiation sickness, but I think you would like it.

[@Richard-Freeman]

Radiation Exposer: Often wears a trench coat, though can sometimes be found wearing a lab coat.

[@blackdew2]

13:33 - i think you are thinking of electrolysis here - using electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen hydrolysis is using water to break bonds between molecules

[@isotope3234]

20:55 It's not quite true that pure water doesn't conduct electricity. Pure water actually self ionizes and at 25C, the [H3O+] and [OH-] ion concentrations are 1.0 x 10^-7 M. It's true that it is much higher resistance than salt water but it is still conductive.

[@angrymeowngi]

The more accurate phrase should have been "water is a poor conductor of electricity" or for that matter most materials even those we consider and use often as insulator. And also, just like water, conditions like temperature can change the conductivity of a material and how we get superconductors.

[@SRHtheHedgehog]

Nile Red: I did extensive research on the enzymes and acids and methods I could use to safely break down the cotton to get glucose out of it Also Nile Red: so then I just kinda eyeballed it bc idk anything about caramelizing sugar

[@romaamor55]

T. Folse Nuclear when he meets T. True Nuclear😮

[@the_bruised_bard]

This comment is so underrated!

[@deyzick32]

Hi Tyler, I have a old but gold video to share. The video "Consumed by the Apocalypse" by LEMMiNO has a segment into nuclear war after the second half of the video. I thought you might enjoy it. LEMMiNO videos are always great so I do hope you give them a chance someday.

[@Sundablakr]

I second this, lemmino has some gold content.

[@5688gamble]

I like to make Scottish tablet. Candy making is not intuitive, you just have to know by look, feel and thickness, and it is very easy to burn it. The margin between your candy having lots of burnt bits through it and being perfect or just not setting can seem frustratingly small, and when you make large batches you have to stir the thickening molten sugar and fat mixture hard. It is basically a whole lot of watching nothing happening for a long time and then a burst of activity all of a sudden.

[@bobbun9630]

On the food grade comment, he mentioned the calcium carbonate being food grade. Interestingly, he didn't mention the sulfuric acid being food grade, though it is available as food grade. Appropriate parameters for cooking sugar could likely be obtained from a book discussing candy production.

[@deanbasinger7511]

I really enjoy your content and am always looking forward to new videos. Keep doing what you’re doing because you are killing it!

[@tfolsenuclear]

Thanks so much!!

[@5688gamble]

I accept that chemistry is basically a branch of physics. But man is it a cool one! I love rearranging atoms! So many cool things you can do with chemistry!

[@scientificidiot4165]

For caramalising, could be smart to put a pure glucose sample next to it as it would stary clear and become brown when done acting as an indicator for the impure stuff

[@dcbloomer]

We use ion exchange resin to control the electrical conductivity of the di-electric water for our EDM machines at work

[@___-___]

it was weird watching a whole 40 minute video about chemicals and nuclear plants that I really enjoyed

[@DracoJ]

Aye! You got a sponsor. Good for you mate.

[@ligerstripe99]

now instead of adding that slurry to the acid in the beaker. imagine you putting that into hollow point bullets and shooting xenomorphs.

[@JunkyardBashSteve]

my man got a sponsor, he's officially a youtuber now

[@flyingelephantwalrus]

Are you planning on reacting to his "Paint Thinner to Cherry Soda" video? It might be his most dangerous conversion

[@noodlelynoodle.]

A lot of times the oxygen on a sub is created by a oxygen candle rather than a hydrolisis machine so they don't only have one source

[@maxistoeger13]

drank everytime he said nuclear powerplant, now im in the hospital

[@mariemccann5895]

Awesome, love the commentary.

[@michaeltempsch5282]

Maybe Milo Minderbinder / M&M Enterprises (in Joseph Heller's Catch 22) should have done this, instead of just dipping the cottonnballs in chocolate, after havng bought up the Egyptian cotton harvest and having issues getting it sold...

[@Verechter]

Too coarse a grain and you can clog your machine, whereas, too fine and you run the risk of an end product with a slightly charred taste. Looks like you managed to do both, gratz!

[@notsparks]

NileRed became Canada's largest carbon emitter by making cotton candy 😂

[@mduvigneaud]

Tyler, a while ago on a Discord server I asked people how they would feel about GMO cotton. My opinion is that we need GMO products. I mean... we wouldn't have had penicillin in WWII without out.

[@zerowitches]

Never thought about it, but where are nuclear rods made and how do they get to the power plants?

[@Sluggga]

They're made when a mommy nuclear rod and a daddy nuclear rod love each other very much and then the power plant stork comes and takes the energy to the plant

[@zerowitches]

lol

[@Rorschach1024]

Hydrazine? In a cooling loop? DAYUM!

[@dack42]

I think you are confusing hydrolysis with electrolysis...

[@Sergote12]

Is it possible to use Mass Spectrophotometer to check what’s inside the weird looking sugar?

[@christophkitterer131]

You did not do a reaction to plastic gloves into hotsauce like you suggested ☹️ You reacted to the plastic gloves to grape soda which is a different video. Maybe you react to the hotsauce one? 🙈 I have yet to watch that too.

[@MatterBaby68]

nice you finally have your own Segway

[@HrLBolle]

27:40 isn't that basically the same stage (Molasses) you'd go thru in industrial sugar production?

[@woogha]

I'm always down to watch a ***puts on shades*** chemical reaction.

[@error4o461]

Now THATS a Christmas Story!

[@amanawolf9166]

8:12 Me: *listening to chemical list * Okay, not bad "... Hydrazine ..." Me: *nearly spits out drink * Dayum!

[@chiefbosnmate]

Hydrazine?!! nasty nasty stuff

[@Meow_Zedong]

Regarding your question earlier in the video, I think he would be wise enough to know that carbon credits are a greenwashing tool and not a realistic way to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. I don't know this for a fact, and if he didn't know about them he'd probably just say he doesn't know enough to have an opinion on them.

[@iamlorddems3859]

All is one, one is all

[@Hamish_Whitehaven]

you need to watch a video from him where he made bromine

[@xjunkxyrdxdog89]

That "ginsing" is why you don't let children handle mail. You would be amazed what the USPS has detected on mail, and you never know what your mail has come in contact with. Paranoid? Maybe a bit. But safe.

[@soul69690]

Make a reaction on nile reds videi about makeing hot sauce using plastic gloves

[@robinkelly1770]

Rè electric shock in water. Electricity always takes the easiest path (path of least resistance) and the human body is more resistant than water (except of course dialectric water) so if yiu are totally immersed in water and touching nothing but water you will receive NO shock. The potential surrouning you is the same in all directions. The sjock occurs when you touch something else that is conductive... As an aside if you are surrounded by 50,000 (or more) volts - everything you are touching is equal you get no shock. It is why birds on a high voltage wire receive no shock unless they touch 2 wires of different potential...

[@TheGhostGuitars]

This is the reason why I don't buy anything on places like Alibaba, Temu or any other Chinese marketplaces. It's a game of chances on whether you get what yer expecting or not. And even if ye do get what yer expecting, odds are its so cheaped out that its useless.

[@barefootalien]

Haha, nice ad read transition there.

[@salempasangasp]

27:53 ig he shouldve bleached it for some clear color

[@anthonyshiels9273]

My Chemistry Professor in Maynooth University taught us this: May her rest be long and placid. She added water to her acid. She forgot that we had taught her To add her acid to her water. The Rev. Professor Michael T. Casey, O. P.

[@skydivenext]

I always forget this No matter how much I learn and relearn and im my 4 year of college lol I'm supposed to be a chem eng in a year lol

[@skydivenext]

That's why think college is bullshit I forget everything in a minute

[@mrgreen2769]

Sugar is refined.

[@TastyChubz]

Brilliant is the perfect sponsor for you haha.

[@SullySadface]

I'm only a cotton candy journeyman but part of it is that I can't elaborate and may have already said too much

[@og_loud5712]

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[@globetrotteur8642]

Well now you definitly need to watch the hot sauce one, it's my fav video of NileRed

[@Cartel_UA]

Indeed

[@kkuro7054]

I love Nile Guy's purity of chemical dorkiness, but sometimes his insistence on not "researching" basic craft skills -- from cookbooks or woodworkers or jewelers -- gets a little much :)

[@xjunkxyrdxdog89]

Id love to hear more about nuclear gardening.

[@ledlebrgr5380]

Someone's gonna hear "nuclear cotton" and wonder if you can make clothing out of it (in theory). It's me, I'm someone

[@Eluderatnight]

Its a metal so cast/shape it into a round bar and turn on a lathe to make nuke wool. Spin wool into thread, thread into clothes.

[@PIutonium-239]

Could you react to Cody’s lab extracting uranium from its ore

[@angrymeowngi]

Well, an Incredible Hulk but made of cotton... how do we order and is there same day delivery?

[@samuellourenco1050]

You are referring to the electrolysis of water, and not hydrolysis of water, which doesn't exist.

[@adamdobias4669]

love your vids keep it up

[@4shotpastas]

"I'm used to seeing all the different kinds of urine..."

[@ws6002]

It's 'artisanal' cotton candy.

[@ThaTrisme]

Love his videos

[@mrhoogles]

re: turning into the hulk, you don't know that.

[@johnohm8067]

So many hydroxyls

[@mortenrl1946]

11:26 so you're saying the scientists took that whole "irradiate life to create overpowered mutants" thing that was pure fiction, and made it happen? 🤣Nice.

[@Soyinutul]

please check the backyard scientist making rokets and his lasers

[@malinok-p9o]

would you do another Quantum Science Energy Facility video beacuse i got a update could you do a gameplay on it

[@slurpgod7887]

Another sponsor, W

[@generalprincecodyhedgewolf2944]

Prison way to get candy floss

[@oOo0oOo0oOo]

I feel like, if you're in 100% pure water, you ARE the impurity. ⚡🩻💀

[@OfficialVillagerTranslator]

You should react to the entire skibidi toilet series, its a documentary about a future on where people are converted into toilets due to insane gamma radiation from the "Great Emitter"

[@an_official_scratcher_alt]

Please react to this: "Turning Styrofoam into Cinnamon Candy" by Nile Red.

[@firstdonuts]

I am the cotton candy master

[@Mister_Matthew]

My sound was quite and honestly I thought you said cock and balls at the start 😂

[@true1nstinct685]

I love your reaction videos! Also, Pakistan is my country.

[@true1nstinct685]

I love your reaction videos! Also, Pakistan is my country. Edit: I liked my own comment.

[@Blitzfan-ti3kc]

Good video

[@GonieAn]

i am a certified cotton candy expert(jk)

[@eidodk]

Food grade doesn't mean what people think. Food grade means it has been tested to not kill people, not at all that it is pure. You can see his mistake, when he did his "cleanest cookie" recipe. He spent way too much money on clinically tested ingredients, when all that means is that the ingredients has been measured and that they have exact measurements of the impurities in them.

[@pilsplease7561]

This is not accurate, as someone who works in the wine industry and produces cheese as a hobby, food grade really means its pure.

[@eidodk]

@@pilsplease7561 It does not. It ONLY means that it is not dangerous for you to eat. For instance for it to be food grade, the FDA allows for 75 insect fragments in 50 grams of flour.

[@pilsplease7561]

To be honest some of the shit that ends up in bins of grapes from harvest crews will make you never want to touch wine again the alcohol content of wine pretty much protects it from a lot of nasty bacteria and etc. But I have seen dead birds, mice pocket knifes, rubber bands, and a whole host of stuff, each and every bottle of wine has at least 1 spider in it as well. @@eidodk

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[@Tagson]

I wonder if you'd ever imagine also do videos where you play video games, if so I'd somewhat suggest Factorio, it's quite technical which you might like. Love from Estonia 💙🖤🤍