Sulfur Nitride, My Arch Nemesis - Ex&F

The chemistry in today's video is thanks to a personal grudge against a certain energetic compound made only of sulfur and nitrogen: S4N4. I also explain a heated opinion about a certain part of the visible spectrum.
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Nightmare fuel
The paper we are following:
"Tetrasulfur Tetranitride, S4N4"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/a...
Ok bois are you ready for the long list of patreon names going for a to z?? here we go:::::
Adam Conour
AllChemystery
Aussie Chemist
ChalkyChalkson
Christopher Stillson
Clark Lowe
Corrosion
Craig M.
Dan Kaplan
Daniel Coleman
Elric
emuwarvet
Grant Trent
Gregory Wong
Isaac Paciga
Jacob Tierney
John Libal
killroy225
Leon Schutte
Leon Stark
Luke McGoggan
Michael Kavulich
mirgp, no wait Azide Fox (sounds dangerous honestly)
Mortlet
Nile Red
Oliver Toth (yellow chem loving sinner)
Oz Sabina
Rhodanide
Roger Dot Lee
The Gayest Person on Patreon
Thomas Abbott
Zachary Chapin
Ok what else goes here, maybe some bonus content? Don't have anything really good this video, I didn't do too many stupid things. So i'll try and make up for it in future. This is a clip I cut from a joke that wasn't funny really (also barely made any sense, which is more a reason to cut it than lack of humour, because people complain about things not making sense more (fair enough)) • me hitting a can with ...
see you around fam

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What's wrong with nano?

[@blueredbrick]

Yeah, nano rocks !! Much of the chemistry i was doing (yes Im a chemist) became much more interesting and having lots or feedback tools so that I could iterate faster to get something workin in a syntesis. Classicly chemists are awesome at finally creating a method to make something, but suck at determining all its properties, from the molecule level to macroscale. Psychisists are more precise in determining what they made in a whole range of properties, but see the synthesis as a burden and also suck at repeating a synth. Ever seen a pysisist keeping a logbook on paper, even writing down the ambiant pressure, humitity, time of day, temperature, what sort of illumination of the room was used. batch numbers of chemicals apart from the actual chemical brand/repacker. In what conditions the stuff arrived. How it was stored. NEVER put back a chemical into the container when there is still a bit left on a spatula or beaker etc. Over time (years maybe) a container may be contaminated with a gazilion different things, Glasware awareness. NileRed had a brilliant example of glassware going wrong during some plasma experiments. Very cool. But stuff like that is more common than I thought when I started doing actual experiments (already as a kid, trying experiments i found in a yellowed old chemistru book). But this whole issue of the two camps just evaporates when you do nano chemistry and nano materials physics under the same roof. It forced me (more from the chemistry side) to become more precise and actually now i love using the sweet equipment like SEM/TEM/XPS you name it, and sure also the bulk chem stuff. And it forced my peers arriving from the more physics side to step up their game and actually make stuff, a pure laser dye for example, and do it again a year later. On paper it all seems so trivial. But actually doing it is very different, even in a fully equiped lab environment. Sigma Aldrich is not the holy grail, their stuff at least should be analyzed and purified before using it when it fails after try after try. The chemical lab is there anyway, why not do a destilation and scavenge the last bit of moisture out of it. So its the best from both worlds. Nano is here to stay, and a material does not just consist of a chemical. And yep, also the physic background guys begin wearing the coat after being pissed that stains are there to stay and that washing only creates holes in the fabrics. Finding comfortable safety glasses is an whole other mission. Those stupid painfull cuvix nose destroyers are not inviting to works with. Yet, hand a eye naked college a cumbersome blastproof faceshield when he/se does not like to wear glasses. The next day they'll have proper ones. Another nice one is: just keep "spilling" acetone or basicly any other chem onto the box of gloves if they are latex ones. After a few day the boxes will magicly be gone and be replaced by proper nitrile and PE and neoprene ones. When any viny boxes arrive by accident, repeat the "spilling" and put a large white sticker on the box over the word vinyl, and use a black marker just stating " PVC (polyvinylcloride, 60-80%, 20-40% PHTALATE derived plastasizers" And just for the lolz, do a few practice runs of holding ones breath, BUT refrain from taking an inhalation just before you begin counting. Fun. Fume hoods are cool, but can handle only so much.(actually they are a pain in the butt, but yeah) And when a tube bubbling in NH3 goes wrong you'll have to act. Ignore the stinging pain from the NH3 dissolving into your arms at the localtion you by accident scraped against a wall somewhere. Lube the tubing cut at a slight angle, dont get the lube on the gloves, and fasted the the tubing again but better and resume the procedure. (Teflon tape is awesome, also protecting any parts that cannot nastyness). Once in a while check the oil in the vacuumpump, make sure its correct. Dont skimp on the two opposing backflow flask to protect the pump and the vacuumdistlilling setup. If some gas (like water) must be captured before entering the pump, also go all the way with a scrubbber, better too large then to small, if only to prevent blockage of gasflow. Bring a bit of foodgrade epsomsalt and sprinkle it into the coffee/drink of a college. They'll never bring food to the place again. Jeeeh for science ! Theory AND practical. Sorry for the rant, it was triggered by good memories.

[@pietrotettamanti7239]

@@blueredbrick this is the first time that reading a lab advice youtube comment gave me useful informations instead of cancer. Thank you sir.

[@Adelaide-audits.]

Hilarious aye ! Keep it up!

[@greggrobinson5116]

I love the jaunty music that accompanies your researches for the Philosophers' Bomb. It reminds me of my graduate student days when we used benzene for everything (it was so cheap!) and smoked cigarettes at our desks.

[@fano72]

I think you provide a substantial part on chemistry CULTURE. Please don't stop.

[@alllove1754]

I love you, doc. You and three others, one, alas is no longer with us, i.e. Chemplayer. You are doing chemistry chemistry, not just mix and match and light and run stuff, even with the light and maybe run stuff! I mean LOVE LOVE LOVE your videos. Keep up the good work and I'll keep on viewing and more than just passingly likely liking

[@chemplayer103]

Rumours of our death have been somehow overstated... www.bitchute.com/channel/chemplayer/

[@alllove1754]

Really good to see you chemplayer😘 thanks for the link. I am officially a member there now under a different name, tho videoless. Undoubtedly ive commented on your works. I will continue to be an avid watcher. Also there is a "chemplayer reupload" on youtube dunno if its you (?)

[@eduardo_gama]

How the hell a chemistry channel is so funny? Good job sir

[@nikhill5340]

I see the 'I love NR' in the top left. you are not the only one :)

[@riverfx]

"What am I doing with my life, I smell like piss and shit and all I have is fucking sulfur" - Ex&F 2019

[@rittenbrake1613]

0:34 The Physics Department 😂😂😂

[@TheDevlynnHawke]

I love the use of "Ladies and Gentlemen" with reference to "Explosions and Fire", well done.

[@shafayrajput7837]

Memes, right amount of swearing and science equals to the best channels on youtube..🤣💯💥