The amount of lab equipment you’ve built from scratch is insanely incredible and I’d love to see the process to doing it, your videos continue to be amazingly informative and well put together, I guess I found you via my already growing chemistry addiction 😅

Improvised vaccum filtration? DIY magnetic stirrer? Oh yeah, I know it will be the good stuff. +1 subscriber

Dude, your DIY stir plate is ingenious! That deserves a video of its own!

Something about the hand made stir plate is sending me over the edge. I'm in love with this channel and with you.

Dude's got a soulstone torch from minecraft

To make a bright blue in pyrotechnics people add a copper compound and something that emits bright green (boron and barium) together (and chloride ions are also important) becuase human eyes are the most sensitive to green so it makes the blue appear brighter so your lamp might be even brighter blue with the addition of trimethylborate or barium chloride

grind the copper sulphate in a mortor before adding. it dissolves better if in a powder form. hot water helps too.

How does it feel to be a wizard with a vlog

You can also synthesize it in small amounts quickly using HCl as an electrolyte and 2 copper bars connected to a low voltage power supply. At some point the copper will form in the negode as fast as it dissolves at the posode but the ii chloride will reach a good concentration. Start with water and add acid drop wise to use all of the HCl, and drive the water off. Also, methanol makes for a better fuel. It will handle a little bit of water better as well as having no incandescent carbon in the flame, so the green color will be more pure. That said, use heat to drive off as much water as possible from the CuCl2 before you dissolve it in the methanol. Your different colors in the solids are combinations of oxidation states and hydration, and will ultimately revert to hydrated CuCl2 (green-blue) in air. To give a suggestion just for the end goal of a green flame, boric acid in methanol is very easy to prepare and gives a little bit more "limey" green than CuCl2 but still pretty.

*sits in front of his green spirit lamp in an otherwise underrated house all Halloween night……still cooler than all other houses in the neighbourhood combined. Nice.

Good luck bro, I've been working on a stable burning blue candle or torch that doesn't melt out any metal on any container you keep it in, for six years. Making copper chloride is way easier if you just pour hydrochloric(muriatic) acid over the copper sulfate.

11:57- Yeah, that's beautiful! Glad it's on camera. That flame is amazing, thank you for showing us!

I did something similar once by dipping desoldering braid (woven copper wick) in acetone, then in hydrochloric acid. Once it had gotten a little green, I pulled it out and used it as a wick for alcohol. Flame was colored.

I like your stir plate sweet design. Im going to watch all your videos and i hope you show how you made it.

I used sand in a cast iron skillet to cook meth the sand heated slow and evenly and added a bit of cushion for the flask

Fraser the Great, my favorite wizard of all time

Nah, found one of the best videos in the internet. 100% must do

You can also mix ethanol and boric acid to get a mix of ethanol and triethyl borate, which burns with a nice green flame too. It does make a sort of hazy smoke though, probably not great to be breathing in boron aerosol.

There's no way I could ever grasp any of this science, but the end result is so magical... Which makes it good science, I believe. 😉 So cool.

I had a bunch of copper sulfate solution from electroplating and added calcium cloride to produce a gypsum salt and dispose of less toxic materials. I hadn't considered taking the reaction further.

First, of course, excellent video. Very well explained and still captivating. Second, where you from, dude? Your accent has the most interesting inflections.

That magnet stir is dope

My man, you need a separatory funnel. Also Buchner funnels are relatively cheap.

I realize that isn't a heated stirrer, but CuSO4 dissolves much better in hot water. 20 g/100 mL at 20˚C, 73g/100 mL at 100˚C Just 60˚C is enough to double the solubility from 20˚C. It becomes 39g/100 mL at 60˚C. Any heat you can add (either as hot water before the stirring) or periodically, such as putting the beaker onto a heat source, will help with the initial dissolving process considerably. Also, I haven't tried it but try just dissolving some copper sulfate directly into the alcohol. While the CuCl2 making was fun, it probably isn't needed.

Squalor-core chemist right there. That’s when you know it’s gonna be good!

“Calcium chloride is really easy to dissolve, so I’ll just add a little bit of water” *Proceeds to pour ‘water’ out sketchy labeled bottle*

Hey nice lab setup! You could build yourself a basic water aspirator. That will give you a decent vacuum for running filters and other setups normally requiring a pump

Nice how it turned into crystals on second try. That's super cool looking friend.

That stirplate :D Aye, that's done it, I'm subscribing!

Dude's a literal alchemist.

That, is awesome! Copper for the win!

Really cool that you know how to do that. I think id of just got a green battery powered led light instead. Guarantee noone mentioned the really cool copper clorhide flame in the pumpkin. But again thats a really cool hobby youve got there. 👍

Get you some Methanol. Go to the convenience store or wallymart or wherever you can find those color flame packages you toss into bonfires. Mix together. the ingredients don't ever really fully dissolve, but the flames in a lamp like that kick out blue, green, yellow, and flashes of teal and the colors are just way too awesome. I have seen bits of orange and purple also. (Load that into a home-made flamethrower from a fire extinguisher. GLORIOUS! especially over water or snow at night!)

Ooh nice spirit lamp!

Nice! You did a great job!

I love channels like yours. I wish I had the time to get into chemistry.

barium chloride works too, as it just forms insoluable barium sulfate... but now were dealing with barium chemistry which is kinda toxic.

"I dont have this chem that no ordinary person just has sitting around so instead im going to use these two chems that no ordinary person just has sitting around" Thanks bro, made it much easier to try at home.

NICE! Going to give it a try

Excelente canal, aunque no entiendo tu idioma, los químicos conocemos los procesos que estas utilizando, le llama la atención tus equipos, hechos a mano, me inspira a hacer los míos, ya wue los equipamientos para la quimica suelen ser muy caros. Saludos desde ARGENTINA 🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷

Ok not gonna lie...thats really really cool lol..I loveee like haunted Victorian Edgar Allan Poe feel...granted the only way I would have something like that spirit lamp is if i buy one lol... That is some super impressive mad scientist chemistry sir..major props to you and your channel..

First video I've watch, love it! I can see you getting a lot of use out of a 3d printer for your DYI lab gear

The into was fabulous😂 “yea it’s kinda cloudy and boring soooooo… I need to make a chemical haha

Be really cool to put this in an old style hurricane lantern.

I was waiting to hear his mom yell in the background. "Fraser are you using my good cookware for chemistry again! Ima whoop you boy!"

This is really snazzy, I subscribed

You can also get green flame with (preferably) methanol (but denatured ethanol will also work) & boric acid.

Just gonna throw this out there... I tried an induction burner with a heavy stainless steel pot filled with sand. Round bottom flask sat very pretty. Induction burner burned itself to death. If it had been a water or oil bath, maybe it would have been ok. But a "sand bath" allowed me to achieve temps that discolored the stainless steel! The discoloration was consistent was temps around 700F. The induction burner had the ability to make than happen, but could not withstand the result. It was a less expensive model, but make of that what you will.

I made a vacuum pump with a large syringe, an aquarium air tee and non return valve.

How'd you make that stir plate? Looks interesting

Make copper stearate, it is soluble in gasoline and other organic solvents. And the color of the flame will be white-green. For tinting the flame with metals, Trilon-B is best suited; it creates soluble complexes with metals, which allows you to tint the flame with ANY metal, but there is a minus - it contains chlorine, which slightly spoils the color of the flame.

YES so freaking cool

I tripped out at the reaction... When I snapped out of it I was confused as to what I'm watching until I checked the title

Curious how long yours burned for. I did this a few years back but I used HCL and H2O2 to make the copper chloride. I also used saturated methanol instead of ethanol because of the solubility. But my lamp only lasted maybe 5 mins before going out due to a buildup of slag on the wick. Were you able to get around this?

Awesome

Thanks for sharing 👍

nice job man~

Wow the blue flame looks really cool 😎

Copper chloride be like: I could be green, I could be blue, I could be violet sky, I could be hurtful, I could be purple, I could be everything you like

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Cool stir plate! What kind of motor do you have in there?

If you haven't yet,; a brake bleed hand pump works for a vac alternative. Harbor freight has them. Don't get it if it's not on sale. It fluctuates from 20 to 40 all the time. That's the game they play.

Why not grind the copper sulfate into more of a finer powder? would that not drastically speed up the dissolving process?

13:40 walter white lol

Has anyone looked into formation of dibenzodioxines, particularly TCDD in a flame that also burns copper chloride?

I think with an excess of HCl it should have a blue flame? I think it matters if it's Copper Chloride (I) or Copper Chloride (II)?

That was so cool! But can I use copper acetate since I running out all my copper chloride?

Any particular reason for mixing up a CaCl solution instead of just dissolving the CuSO4 directly in conc. HCl and then evaporating?

Did you build the magnetic stirrer yourself?

Nice

I know its been two years, but i would really like to know if such lamp release any toxic fumes while burning. I would love to make some incense sticks that burn green, red and so on, but i don't know how safe it would be. Or candles, as well.

Can we make it cheaper with copper dust + salt water, Then boil it till dry and mix it with fuel? IDK will it work or not.

It wont work with mineral oil? Because mineral oil pushes the water out of the wick. So even with a layer of water on top, oil lamps still work.

you really need to get some glass pans for boiling down chemicals, its 100 times more efficient, and then blow a fan onto it and you can double that

Interesting

It looks a bit like the stuff I got when I made some electrolysis experiments using copper for electrodes and a solution of table salt in water as electrolyte. But it will still have a lot of sodium in it, that would be brighter than the green light from copper.

I threw a load of copper turnings in hydrochloric acid and then distilled off the water once all the copper had been eaten.... sadly all the hydrochloric acid vapours made loads of my steel tools rusty though.

what happens if you use sodium chloride instead of calcium? or potassium for that matter? or will it just not work cus table salt isn't acidic?

can we get a workshop showcase at some point?

Was there an actual green flash when the blue stone was added @ 1:13 or was that a camera glitch?

Did u burn your hand?

The added magnesium sulfate will not completely stay in the water either. Even if you could make sure you got all the water out you would still have magnesium sulfate contaminating the alcohol copper chloride.

love your stuff... instead of convection heating try microwave heating?

Would centrifuging your solution speed up the process?

The end solution you. Got from it all Is there anyway of just buying that instead of having to magiver ah hole set up

Did you bake the Epsom salt before dessicated

You can separate water out with salt

u know the air freshners u plug into power point. glass make good lamps for paracord melting work. turn down a alum nossle plug with cotton wick or rolled up napkin.

was there any smell from the lamp I mean differently from normal

Green is from tetrachlorocuprate complex ion

For those who need to know, copper sulfate dissolves better in hot water.

Do you have proper air extraction in the lab?

Why did you put water in the steel pan and not oil? Surely on an oil bath evaporation of water will be much faster as you can actually boil it.

I don't have a vacuum filtration system or a fume hood, so I'm just going to wrap the calcium sulfate in an old t shirt and try and suck the copper II chloride out like a toddler would suck bathwater from a webkinz. Please note that you should be wearing protective gloves while handling the t shirt chemical sack, as copper II chloride can be irritating to the skin maybe

I like the part where you make a spirit lamp.

Can you just use regular salt?

Could you have crystalized the copper chloride then added it to the alcohol?

Looks like jupiter

My experience with copper sulphate is that it doesnt matter if you add it slowly or all at once, it will still be a pain in the ass. Heating helps a bit but it can only do so much.

That is a festive molotov cocktail.