Important safety note: you definitely do not want to be breathing the resulting smoke from the silane reaction. Ultrafine silicon and silicon dioxide are hideously bad for your lungs, and can lead to uncurable silicosis if exposed long enough.

That's a lot of content. Way to go buddy. Now that you have a viewer base it will be easier to grow

You can put a wad of stainless steel wool into the reaction test tubes to limit movement of air/moisture/powder without creating a hard barrier that risks going boom.

Great to see a new high quality and fun up and coming chemistry channel.

Silicide. What you get when silicon kills itself.

Mg and quarz sand works very well making magnesium silicide if both are perfectly dry. Moisture disturbs the reaction and also makes it dangerous. Glass is attacked everytime Mg powder was ignited inside (glass is mostly SiO2, too!) and shouldn't be used again for heating afterwards.

In 1998-99 we used Silane as a hypergolic igniter for LOX-Kerosene engines at Rotary Rocket. It worked well for igniting the rocket engines but our test site crew hated the stuff because there always seemed to be a trapped volume somewhere in the feed system that made working on the plumbing Much Too Exciting. I had to clean the engines between tests and the resulting slag did a great job of clogging orifices in the injector and pressure-sensing ports, needing ammonium bifluoride to remove. We replaced it with a pyrotechnic device and hydrogen that was reliably started by the pyro, but these misadventures led to our first thing developed at our next company (XCOR) being a supersonic spark-torch igniter, having learned our lesson.

I just started watching this channel yesterday and every video I have seen so far has made me laugh. I love the entertainment you provide with the chemistry. Keep up the great work!

great video

1:45 “home cooked transistors taste good” 😂

Of the major chemistry KZfaqrs I don’t see how he doesn’t have more views

Every time you say Silicide, I think of cartoon characters that can't take it anymore.

It's crazy how he made the same mistake as ex&f

I was just looking at some chemistry stuff and found something really surprising. Hair and Wool are actually 5% sulfur by weight. Could you make a video about extracting sulfur from wool? I feel like you could probably just break down keratin with an alkaline hydrolysis process and vaporize the sulfur with heat (like how it's extracted from rocks industrially). You should consider making a video about this. Would probably be a youtube first, and not necessarily all that hard (unless there's something preventing sulfur from being released from keratin with just heat and hydrolysis alone).

Been waiting for this one.

Your my favorite channel

Use magnesium aluminum alloy in excess with a tiny amount of sulfur added to start the process. You need 1 part aluminum, 1 part silicon dioxide, and 2 parts magnesium. You will want a slight excess of aluminum and a tiny amount of sulfur to make it run correctly. Run in a small ceramic flower pot. The material will end up a black gray material under a white crust. Crush under an inert atmosphere and load into a flask with a backfill of nitrogen or hydrogen.

Honestly these videos are great even if you aren't going to go to the ends of the earth to make a completely perfect single-crystal ingot of silicon >:)

Amazing work!

"Until i have the resources of someone like nilered, i wont be making them" Well now you HAVE To make them once you have the resources of nile red

You are better then E&F

The beginning of the video tells me my headphones are indeed working

11:27 One issue with using soap to make bubbles is that soap is a base and doesn’t work well in an acidic environment. I’m not sure if there’s such thing as an acidic soap but if so I think it would work much better.

Nice vid

Hey great video keep them coming!

What would happen if you brought that stuff into the nitric crystals cave where temp is 121'F and humidity around 120%. Lots of reagents all ready to go and in the optimum shape for burning. Plus since the dew point is at temp 20'F higher this causes your lungs to fill with fluid and you will drown in a few minutes. I would still go there with a o2 tank and some type of cooling vest : LIKE ONE I SAW ON AN INFOMERCIAL FOR ONLY THREE PAYMENTS OF $274.95 Plus tax and shipping and hazmat and federal dangerous items levies. ,

This reminds me of the time I tried making sodium metal by electrolysis when I was in middle school aged. Little blobs would form in the molten hydroxide mix, but they float too well. They would almost instantly catch on fire after I saw a little metal blob. When I finally got a big-ish blob, it touched the + & - of the wires, short circuited them, and blew up with a loud pop that sprayed flaming bits everywhere. I put it on indefinite hold after that. Did you only dry the SiO2 in that oven? It might have absorbed a lot of water from the air and magnesium can burn the oxygen in water. I think you have to go to 450f+ to make it stop being a desiccant. Lower temps just refresh it. You could do some pyrotechnics stuff, if you're looking for ideas. RC Candy rockets(KNO3 sugar melted together) would be a good show. Making black powder and the special charcoal is a lot of work. You could also make some okay flash powder with your Mg powder and KNO3. Great work!

11:28 Silane is extremely reactive. Silane react with water

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Cooool content!!! :) PS next time use real liquid soap, not dishwashing liquid :)

🙏please make a Video about How to make Scopolamine.

God, people really want you to make silicon wafers?! Lol, these are really hard indeed, the high temperatures and apparatus is just not possible. Anyway, funny silly gas -w-

Broken test tube: I don't think you trust in my magnesium silicide.

Luckily confusing saline and silane isn't easy

Just a suggestion ,angle the test tube more to spread the product then heat back to front .Also make sure the mix is put in a desiccator overnight must be perfectly dry if not it could erupt in a large fireball. great videos

How we make Scopolamine ❔

Hi guys welcome to Mushroom chemistry 🌈🍄

So, what form is silicon dioxide in when it is a gas? Not O=Si=O?

grow a PCS boule and convert it to Monocrystalline Silicon using the Czochralski method no balls Edit : 1:42 😶 sowwy

Yeah.... Um... Need an argon reaction chamber...

real chemistry be like:

how you obtain your Mg powder ?

nice video!! i have a question because i cant find it but where did u get ur magnesium powder?

Cubane when?

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i feel like nilered fell off. i havent seen him put out any good videos in a long time. all he does is break stuff and waste money and act super immature. in his massive lab. idk maybe im a hater but idk.

Sir what is your Facebook group link ❔