Mate, this video was a Godsend, I was looking everywhere for how to make tar, thanks a bunch.

Sweary chemistry videos are the best chemistry videos.

"When am I gonna get good?" Anyone that can make Azidoazide Azide on the first go without blowing themselves into the next time zone is good.

"tar"- the best argument against organic chemistry, thanks for showing us the perils of organic chemistry.

Tar (and 1,4-dioxane) from Ethylene Glycol ;)

We need a glassware cleaning episode.

If it makes you feel better I did this about a month ago on a 1 liter scale and it not only boiled over but blew the stopper out from my distillation head and splattered tar over the ceiling. Also you're luck to be in a warm climate I actually had to heat the water in my condenser for the final distillation to keep the dioxane from freezing, it was about -5c in my lab space.

One of my favourite things is the comparison of Nile red and nurd rage which stay professional with explosions and fire and the “well shit” method

Truly my favourite chemist. You make me proud to be an Aussie. I found that when I made dioxane for NR’s sodium synth I just used yellow product and ended up with clear and dry dioxane after two rounds of distillation for two seperate batches of sodium. No extra work and a fair yield of sodium. Keep up the good work, always love the videos.

It always sounds so simple until I see you do it and remember that my luck tends to be the same as yours. Pray for me, I need acetic anhydride and diethyl ether.

The maxmofoe of chemistry.

2:44 is why I watch Extractions&Ire :)

Distill the Becks, maybe you will wind up with a drinkable product!

This is a great video. Educational, entertaining, humours, educational and quite beautiful at times. Bravo sir!

Next time can we see a tar synthesis? Let's explore the wonders if tar.

Fun Fact: Ethylene Glycol was used as a additive to wine in Europe for a while until it was banned for health risks.

So glad to see a rubber hose cushion on your ringstand for your sep funnel. Sets my teeth on edge every time I see a sep funnel on bare iron... I'm just waiting for one to break. One YTer even had a large sep funnel full of Br2 and H2SO4 he just slammed onto an iron ringstand. That could become a problem from which there's no recovery.

this is the only channel where I can satisfy all my tar and aussie wordsmithing needs.

at 12 minutes i was going to say, at least it's not yellow, then you said it yourself

great video m9!

gotta love the slow motion replay of the time lapse, quality content right there

I would try a sand bath instead of a water one. I've used regular play sand to heat large round bottom flasks. Works great just takes more time to heat up.

Love that you put aphex twin in the vid

Ah Dioxane, the chemical which caused me to write the "no orgo in the house" rule ... At least until I finish building my fume hood.

So. Very. Familiar. (Except for the rain. We don't get that round here.) It is like you made a movie of my lab notes. The yield is crap. But the colours from the decomposing dye at the beginning are really pretty. Good luck cleaning the flasks.

I am sure his neighbour think he cooks ICE on the weekends with all the smells.

You are my favorite tar synthesis channel.

You would've gotten a high yield if you had used a VB box instead of a Becks box.

I suggest you get one of those pieces of glassware made to stop boiling over. They are very simple and let vapor pass, while liquids boiling over get stopped and flow back down.

Honestly the quitting which you're ahead bit fucking killed me, considering my own lab woes 😔

The "sorry dad" xD I feel ya

That massive string of f bombs spoke to me on a spiritual level

Ah. the good old "box of beer on its side" trick. A staple of the true chemist. And I don't know why you were so upset when the tar boiled over and contaminated your product. It's not like it was yellow.

I want that green condenser 💚

No need for a lab jack when you have a box, a brick, and a really small table.

it shat itself

that AFX track in the timelapses is very well-chosen

@9:14; beautiful yellow color. 🙂👍

I wonder if the tar is caused by acrolein polymerization. Also, yellow isn't bad if your product is a nitrated arene. I hear essence of piranha vitreol should clean up the tar.

I don't like to watch you fail, but it's funny how much i relate to a person struggling to articulate just how much they fucked up. "It's nearly midnight, gotta be up early and my whole set up is covered in... fucking... cancerous......... shit..... >:( " XD

Having fun with the slow motion I see

love your videos!

Epic vid mate

Dot 3 brake fluid contains large amounts of diethylene glycol (DEG), which is better for this kind of thing that just ethylene glycol (MEG).

I like what he did with this video.

aphex twin very strong

I like your lab boy replacement xD

And that kids; Is how vape juice is made.

I would like to see how you clean glassware

It’s beautifully clear...AND COLORLESS!

Lmao "looks like the expensive stuff, which I'm using. but sorry dad...doesn't matter..."

Aaaand the black sludge cometh.

aphex twiiiiiiiiiiiiiin

Fucking great man

Glad to see you re at least drinking German beer

It's your show still going I love it keep up the good work you Aussie son of a b h

extractionsandfire...........I am trying this experiment to see how much acetaldehyde i can make. I know not much but i am curious how much. Going to add a lot more sulfuric acid to raise the boiling point of the pot. Trying to get the pot to boil HOTTER at 170 to 180C to get an elimination making acetaldehyde instead of an SN between 2 ethylene glycols making dioxane. I figure that is what you would do if you want to make ethene instead of diethyl ether. So maybe it will raise the yield of the acetaldehyde. Guess i will find out tomorrow

to heat round bottom flask just sand is very efficient

Cool. That's how Chemistry is!

It’s unnecessary but why didn’t you distill the Coolant fist? It takes a while to do but I think it’s worth the extra effort plus you can dry it for easier dehydration. I feel your pain with the screwup! Dioxane is seriously unpleasant to deal with. It gets sickly very fast. The Acetaldehye isn’t particularly pure either. I tried to keep mine but it polymerised quickly into black goo...

People don't like watching you fail... Or at least I sure don't. It's watching you go through the learning process (in its entirety) that we like to watch, and maybe learning from your mistake so we don't repeat them. SoOoOooo.. Thanks for takin us along for the ride, mate! :-) P.S. plus, ive always thought you learn more from failures and being wrong than you do when everything goes to plan...

We don’t watch your vids to see you hurt yourself. For that we watch Electroboom. You gonna make sodium a la Nurdrage with that Dioxane?

1:06... Hmm green condenser... tribute to saint patrick’s Day. Clever girl.

Did you get a new camera? Those were some cool close-up slowmo shots!

Just wondering; Why do you put (what I assume is) detergent into the cooling water?

Excellent camerawork and swearing in this one.... I've got to look up what dioxane is used for.... I hear the name and all that comes to mind is "Bopal".

I love that you are not a snowflake chemist, you don't give fuck about cursing and I LOVE that about you because you really make yourself relatable and a normal person who acts like you or I.

I wonder if they stick crap in the ethylene glycol to mess with chem like this.

shouldn't a vacuum adapter have stopped the tar build up?

How does one clean this tar

0:18 : So... are you going to make sodium by the NurdRage process? ^^

Awesome! How did you clean the tar in the flask and everything, it looks like pain to scrub in there and also like a huge waste of organic solvent if that is used...

"you can see,there's more in the pot...then there is what we got.!*BARS!*....*BARS!*"

shit ton? Is that a metric or imperial measurement?

German beer!

Using Dioxane in place of THF?

Love your channel but just wanted to say there is at least one scenario where yellow is good haha. THC oil haha

¿Diethylene glicol would work too? I only find ethylene glicol with that.

Out of all good german beers it is BECKS? :D

Wouldn't this reaction also cause minor amounts of crown ethers to form? You might want to check the residue

By way of assaulting you with my 20-20 hindsight... might it have been helpful to distill the glycol as a first step? Maybe get free of whatever dye and shit was in there and so reduce the byproduct count?

Like how do u dispose all these failed attempts and byproducts??

people who don't swirl the sep funnel like that aren't real chemists tbh

how much acetaldehyde do you predict you separated out of it?

Fire?

Why don’t you use ice bath

I'm like 666.....weird

Is there a reason for dyeing the condenser water green?

Also is conc. sulphuric acid meant to be yellow?

Can that tar be considered a polymer?

Why is it always more fuckin tar

WHY ARE YOU DISTILLING RIGHT TO LEFT REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Do not put this in your Vape, It tastes like an open and burnt a**hole.

Brother boring.

I like the fact you dont play smart, but carry on and get the job done, calling commercial mixtures colloquial terms so we peons with ADD keep watching and learn. In highschool if your channel had existed id have kept up with it. Thank you.