Was making phenolphthalein when I got the notification! I got phenol on my phonecase I was so excited. Probably should take care of that.

We are going to attempt to make bromine, distill sulfuric acid, melt some metals and make some alloys, and build a new fume hood in our lab.

Made some chloropentaamine cobalt (III) chloride & some sodium oxalate for another project :)

erm...yip.....my ...why don't you rig up a suck back trap ? so that your reactants are trapped into a second bottle rather than transfer all the way back to your reactor ?...but at least your way forces all of your NH3 into your solution....hey, btw, ask me if you have something in mind to make but don't know how or think it might be too hard....I can likely help...

I assume you will be using a vacuum to distill your acid ?

Damn right

Same. Lol

The words “abate” and “succ” are not something i thought id hear together

its a good style~

It looked good man!

Looks nice man.

In retrospect, yes, I should have used ice cooling to increase the absorption!

i never wiffed ammonia, now i feel like smelling it it dhouldnt be worse than low concentration of pure chlorine, right?

@@VerbenaIDK it's different. I think Cl2 lingers a bit more and is real dangerous if the concentration is high. Ammonia is a sharp assault on the nasal passages and sticks in the back of the throat. I do not know how they compare at the same concentration.

@@j_sum1 i dont think ammonia would be as bad as chlorine in terms of hurting nose i need to get some ammonium bicarb soon to make some ammonia so ig ill find out

@@j_sum1 my ammonium bicarb arrived, made some ammonia gas and i few like dying when i smell even just the ammonium bicarb deconposing horrendous, worse than chlorine, even if i only smelled it in small concentration, atleast it's good to some extent, i kind of like it but ammonia just fuck it, slightly weirdly sweet sharp (also weirdly, it's familiar? i dont think i ever smelled ammonia before but it seems like i did) nothing like i expected, i expected pungent strong urine not this shit that destroys my nose atleast i can make hydrazine later when i feel confortable and make sone explosives but goddamn fuck this shit also ammonia doensy linger on the throat for me, it stays in the nose for a while and has a weird cooling effect on my nostrils, and the smell lingers quite a while and like tom once said in the first video of nitrotetrazole synthesis, it gets the eye too, my eyes are still kinda watery from trying to make ammonia, i can sme ammonia before it fucks my eyes up i think but god is it bad, atleast a cool gas

Yellow Chem Bad

Watch his video on tetrasulfur tetranitride

@QueHubo Parcero have you ever seen an inverted funnel trap be used before? It’s not possible to pull that much liquid in before the water level goes too low and breaks the seal of the liquid at the end of the funnel. That’s the whole point

Eyyy thanks!!

Hur hur hur.... "shitload" I love lots of "nasty chemical smells".... but, amonia? Nooooo!

You are right, I should have cool the solution! But with the air bubbler on the end, a long column is not needed, I didn't smell any ammonia leaving the solution!

Interesting, that ammonia process was without smell. Maybe, that the bubbles with normal air increase absorption of ammonia gas.

Im sure you did it in a 2 liter soda bottle

@Benjamin Joshua Beggs That's true. I am trying to find a use for it, since I have plenty.

Sulfur dioxide is easier to generate and dry than ammonia, and it's higher density makes it easier to work with than ammonia ;) (although the pain of inhaling it is worse I'll give you that)

Ah, well you see I said worse then ammonia. I'm going to have to say no to that compound in general.

I guess that makes them equal? You know, one smells bad and the other kills you faster

Sulfur trioxide still worse.

BF3 is pretty nasty

Doesn't it get all gross from the tubing it goes through? Or is it just me that uses filthy old tubing oops

@@ExtractionsAndIre I used a small piece of some cheap rubber tubing I had on hand (should have checked the compatibility) - in my case I needed less than 10 cm to connect the bottles and it haven't shown any deterioration (I could use PTFE but the bottles are not the same type and you know how hard it is to bend or attach this material - I am still trying to work out an all glass setup for ammonia solution production). It was however such a short piece of tubing I was able to wash it with a brush. I may try the setup used in Doug's Lab "Ammonia Generator" video - here he was dripping ammonium salt solution on sodium hydroxide, then heated the resulting solution to drive rest of the ammonia out of the solution. Maybe this could limit the suckback but he said he has suckback issues also. I tried few times and the suckback with ammonia is evil - even if I watch out for it - it always happened spontaneously and vigorously.

I use the same. If you connect the tubes correctly the saturated solution will be pushed back to the initial container. It really is the easiest and simplest solution.

@Benjamin Joshua Beggs Uhm at our middle school we we're doing it with some copper strip and concentrated nitric acid on the benches out in the open. So the fumes while not a big quantity were just escaping into the room :) This other time we worked with ammonium dichromate. That was fun as well.

Yeah, once when I attempted nitration of starch as a teenager, I got a runaway reacton on my parents closed balcony, It was horrific, everything was dark red and red fumes were pouring out. Everything metal was corroded after that.

I love working with ammonia it’s one of my favorite chemical smells 🤤 yes I’m one of those weird people lol

It'll just be an hour of me complaining about having to do cleaning

@Extractions&Ire that's why we want it. Also, if you haven't been cleaning all the glass you've been using for older videos, I bet you'll have a hell of a time figuring out how to get some of the more unsavory mixes off the glass. It'd be fun to see.

@@mckryall I really hope this isn't a problem. Mystery chemicals given some of the stuff he plays with not great. Like pretty sure you just throw away the glass ware it's not worth possiy killing yourself if you use the wrong safety precautions.

I have heard of it and it looks super scary/exciting, but yeah I also hit that roadblock of cyanuric chloride. Hard to make, hard to get.

@@ExtractionsAndIre lol, yeah, no shit it is hard to make, I for one really do not want to make cyanogen chloride, especially since it is a listed chemical weapon, so probably would get you in trouble

That's cool, although I always worry about using up my ammonium nitrate, because it's hard to get more!

@@ExtractionsAndIre here we can buy bag of 50kg for $50USD... you can get it even cheaper if you have a friend with farm, they are using like tons of it in the fields... sadly you cant find potassium nitrate, that's how i found out about the reaction with sodium hydroxide, i was trying to make sodium nitrate actually... i bought my first 50kg bag of ammonium nitrate back when i was only 13y old ;)

go to Bunnings and get Ammonium Sulfate....mix with NaOH..job done....both available there and OTC and easy too

I used to do that but I found it always accelerated wayyy too fast for me! Maybe I have a slow reaction speed haha

@@ExtractionsAndIreAlso, if you add a large funnel or tube on the end of it big enough to accommodate all the water, it, it can stop the suck back

Might get some gas escape tho

@@TheHuntermj yeah that's a good option. Simple, and usually works well, I have done it a few times. But I needed to practise this setup because I have to put dry ammonia into a flask that won't fit a funnel, and can't have any suckback!

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I'm guessing he means least favourite he's actually come into contact with. SO3 is rarely used because of how nasty it is and most chemists basically refuse to work with flourine. Whereas ammonia is used all the time.

@@xeigen2 I know... 😄

Hmm it's hard to argue that one honestly, stay safe out there people

Your right there mate! Not only does it smell worse than an outback drop dunny, but it can give you lead poisoning

Okay, how do you go about making lead vapor? I mean obviously if you heat it enough... but that's a lotta heat. It's fairly inert last I checked...

@@jamesg1367 Its pretty easy to make actually. Lead has a fairly low melting point (something like 327 degrees) and can be melted in a pot over a stove. Once Liquefied the Lead will begin to evaporate. The actual rate of evaporation is very slow, however gaseous lead has an extremely strong smell - (smells like cancer mixed with petrol with a wiff of brain damage). Hence you don't have to boil the lead - just liquefy it.

JamesG I milled black powder with lead stuff and some of the lead turned to powder. Could smell it when I lit the stuff. Not sure what to do with it now, no good way to dispose of it.

crazy old obsolete idea of a suckback trap.????....not at all obsolete....it is used in heaps of modern industrial process..and lab bench setups....what are you on about ?

That is a good question, it usually goes a pinky orange. Maybe a phenol impurity in NaOH? Or any aldehydes?

Home cleaning ammonia might as well be phosgene as far as I'm concerned, just super sensitive to its smell in particular. have to wear a respirator if there's a chance of some being produced/used.

One of these days. But the actual reason I need the ammonia is actually pretty strange, you shall see :P

@@ExtractionsAndIre looking forward to both projects then!!

Nope, hard to get without soap in it

Yeah, real soapy and dilute

@@ExtractionsAndIre Oh. I guess we're lucky to have access to the soap-free 22% ammonia here! (Why would they even mix it with soap? Isn't the whole point of using ammonia for cleaning that it evaporates without leaving a residue?)

no, that's not the reason...the reason is that ammonia is very basic and has a nice habit of dissolving protein very well, it breaks down organic material like a solvent....we used it for exactly that purpose on casein in the lab once...

@@psycronizer Yeah, but sodium hydroxide works even better for that, and doesn't stink!

Can use urea, and you always have access to that because pee

I do have close to a liter of conc ammonia solution, so why would I need to make a new one? Well, I'm bad. The next video is where I actually use the ammonia...

@@ExtractionsAndIre well I'm not complaining about the new vid though 😂😂 so keep going

does something prevent the commercial 30% ammonia from being distilled up to the required higher concentration? like how drinking alcohol can only get up to 96% by distilling. I don't know ammonia well, I really am asking.

What should I react with ozone?

eugenol

Dude I love chlorine

@@ExtractionsAndIre But chlorine is yellow. How can you love it?

@@ExtractionsAndIre Don't get me wrong. 80% of what I do is chlorinations, but it's still super unpleasant... I just don't understand what you find so repulsive about ammonia lol. It's pretty mild...

@@haska9706 chlorine is yellow..... you're right.... hmmm.... Ok no it's actually more of a green. Chlorine is green

@@williamackerson_chemist Ammonia is hard to work with for me. It's colorless, so hard to trace. It's basic, so my usual method of drying through conc. Sulfuric doesn't work. It also apparently doesn't like being dried with CaCl2. It is not very dense so it doesn't flow through or sit in an apparatus well. Also, I hate the smell

don’t be weird man