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@Dee-nonamnamrson8718 Жыл бұрын
Pointer, take it or leave it: don't put the chemical in the title. People with short attention spans are more likely to click if it's a mystery.
@longshot789 Жыл бұрын
If he was on top of things, he'd respond for valentines day.
@tedphillips2501 Жыл бұрын
Back in 1955, when I got an HO train set for Christmas, it came with a selenium rectifier. That was when I first learned Selenium dioxide was extremely toxic. Please take the warnings in this video extremely seriously.
@robotnikkkk001 Жыл бұрын
=DUDE,MAKE *_THELLURORGANICS_* ,OKAY????????????? ............U'LL BE DEVASTATED OF IT'S ODOR....1 DROP SPILLED RESULTED IN 100,000 PEOPLE EVACUATED
@austinnatecrawford4421 Жыл бұрын
The warning after the manufacturing process... hmmm.
@breadman32398 Жыл бұрын
Maybe mail some to Nilered as a final test to see if he actually has a sense of smell.
@DrMoe.Lester Жыл бұрын
I doubt it, he is the piss chemist after all.
@unexpected2475 Жыл бұрын
There's definitely precedent for that, what with the fart juice video on NileBlue where he was fine but people were dying around Nigel, and also phenomena like not smelling H2S after too much exposure to it.
@William-Morey-Baker Жыл бұрын
he is definitely nose blind. so is this guy. i think he should test his sense of smell, objectively, againts other people. not just stinky stuff, but all kinds of smell, at different levels of dilution, to see how sensitive each participants sense of smell is.
@squa_81 Жыл бұрын
Possibly one the worst ideas one can have. Imagine how confused the mailman would be for smelling something awful for days in his van
@UserBeenBanned Жыл бұрын
@@DrMoe.Lester should get him to give bear grylls a few drinks 😏
@Quake120 Жыл бұрын
If LabCoatz and NileRed ever did a collab for smelly chemistry, I think they would make a smell that is actually sentient and travels around on its own accord causing havoc.
@ZakKohler Жыл бұрын
*Reeking havoc
@Endroid. Жыл бұрын
Ignoring that, I would highly enjoy seeing them collaborate and create the most nasty and disgusting stench to ever exist.
@handpaper6871 Жыл бұрын
You are describing the Smell of Foul Ole Ron, which I believe would be best left on the alleys of Ankh-Morpork.
@auracle6184 Жыл бұрын
@@handpaper6871 thank you, I was going to comment this but I wasn't sure if anyone would get it
@peterectasy2957 Жыл бұрын
how many kilometers LabCoatz and NileRed are to each other ? -)
@dustin860 Жыл бұрын
I worked as a flavor chemist and some of the worst things I've smelled were mercaptans. Some were stong enough that they'd make my coworkers puke if I opened them in the lab. Fun stuff
@NickFrom1228 Жыл бұрын
Sounds like a topic for another video. Would be cool to have a different kind of smell compared to the thioacetone and selenium based molecules.
@ordinosaurs Жыл бұрын
In 2013, there was a leak in a plant producing that stuff in Rouen, France. The stench was felt in Paris where I live, over 100 km away. I still remember it (it happened on my birthday, it helps), it was like the whole city had been doused in diesel. Unbelievable.
@ryandoyle3413 Жыл бұрын
Someone in my lab works on thiols, they spilled a full vial and had to use 5-6L of ethanol to clean it up
@dustin860 Жыл бұрын
@@ryandoyle3413 I'd be extremely surprised if there wasn't still a residual smell. Stuff is crazy. One of the thiols I worked with would make your piss stink after just smelling it.
@dansamarco1610 Жыл бұрын
Ohhh yes, mercaptans are fucking vile. Although, while they're uniquely disgusting, they're not necessarily overpowering in their stench (imo).
@1000percent1000 Жыл бұрын
i love how all of the chemistry youtubers refer to each other occasionally, and i especially love your reference to E&F
@koussayyahyaoui4882 Жыл бұрын
Soon enough, you'll gain an immunity to bad smells just like a certain KZfaqr.
@worldsfunniestvideosandbes3684 Жыл бұрын
Is it the same person that I’m thinking of: Nigel from Nilered?
@Dharleth82 Жыл бұрын
You're a pioneer man, can't wait for the finale! Just be careful with the tellurium, I've heard some horror stories. You don't want "tellurium breath" it sounds genuinely awful.
@LabCoatz_Science Жыл бұрын
I was so worried that I would get the "selenium stench" from this endeavor, but I never did (even though I handled the selenium directly at times, and inhaled small amounts during the tests). Hopefully tellurium is in the same ballpark!
@argoneum Жыл бұрын
After (mis)handling some broken Peltier device my sweat used to smell like moldy cheese mixed with rotten cabage for like a month. Don't recommend, fortunately it went away. The breath was ok though.
@cezarcatalin1406 Жыл бұрын
@@LabCoatz_Science Try other stink champions like n-butyl selenol, putrescine, 1-methyl indole (the one with the methyl group on the nitrogen, not 3-methyl indole), n-butyl isocyanide and 2-thiopheneselenol. Together those are the royal flush of olfactory horrors.
@Brain_Juice Жыл бұрын
LOL @ tellurium breath!
@untitled6578 Жыл бұрын
@@cezarcatalin1406 what does n-butyl isocyanide smell like? is there anything you can compare it to?
@Nighthawkinlight Жыл бұрын
I've done some stuff for video that would look pretty sketchy to a passing observer, but you've set a new bar here: 9:00 I salute you.
@LabCoatz_Science Жыл бұрын
Hey, nice to see you here man, glad you enjoyed the video! I salute you right back; it's channels like yours that inspire channels like mine.
@BobBob-fk7kn Жыл бұрын
Only comment let’s change that
@carpeinferi Жыл бұрын
Let's be honest, this is probably one of the least sketchy things someone could see at a park in Oklahoma.
@NickFrom1228 Жыл бұрын
Perhaps it's just me, but I haven't thought of any of your things as being sketchy. Fun perhaps, but not sketchy🙂
@Sniperboy5551 Жыл бұрын
@Nick Knight To an uninformed lay person, wearing a respirator and mixing chemicals in your trunk totally looks like Breaking Bad.
@stinooke Жыл бұрын
I honestly wondered about selenoacetone when ywatching the thioacetone video. A while back, when tributyl phosphine sulfide and selenide became commercially available again, he sent an email to the entire group to warn us against buying the selenide saying "I do not recommend buying the selenium analog because of the very bad smell of selenium compounds." As it turns out, a lab where he spent some time as a postdoc had a "stinky room" where, some 20 years prior, an incident involving some Se(-II) compound had occurred, and the room still reeked!
@_iakvb771 Жыл бұрын
naughty grad students get sent to the Stinky Room to atone for their crimes
@supersophisticated9943 Жыл бұрын
@@_iakvb771 Rule 1 of the stinky room. Talking about the stinky room to new people is very funny and we should do it as much as possible to bait them into visiting it.
@Keneo1 Жыл бұрын
@@_iakvb771to a(ce)tone for their crimes was right there
@blahsomethingclever Жыл бұрын
The triThio disappeared pretty quickly when airborne, only some tubing stank after a week long bleach bath for the equipment. But then again tri deadens the smell. Handled 3grams and after an initial half second hit, i smelled nothing (of the Stink). Still smelled everything else, my food, hot car motor. How weird. So the selenium smell sticks around? Makes sense. Or there could just be a single drop or piece that got missed. My synth of tri was odorless, pride myself on good scrubbing. Two aquarium bubblers in series through bleach. Sadly for me there was no way to purify it without a scrubbing fume hood. Being out in the countryside does not help, it got smelt 4 miles away while I still smelt nothing trying to wash the solution. Treacherous stuff. Do not do it. The danger is that those not exposed to it b before experience it like the first time you've smelt it. It's almost a tool of terrorism, one that oneself might quickly grow numb to, think a synthesis failed, etc. Don't do it
@quantrox8191 Жыл бұрын
NIce video. Just a note, for your future safety. Whenever you want or must use the respirator always do the following: wear in and after it is sealed exhale all the air in your lungs. That will push all contaminated air from the space between your face and the respirator. If you wear it and getting a deep breath without it you basically take a deep breath with all that nasty stuff you want to be protected of. It may be not so important here but if you ever come to work with larger quantities then the little wrong breath may cost you life
@BackMacSci Жыл бұрын
Man this was fun. I was worried for your safety, but it was fun😂. Time to make some telluroketone 😀
@markiangooley Жыл бұрын
When selenium semiconductor devices burn out the smell is pretty intense and vile. They’re getting less common but I had at least one selenium photocell as a boy nearly 50 years ago. Big Clive has spoken feelingly about the stench in some videos and I think has burned out at least one or two in them.
@kaboom4679 Жыл бұрын
I have worked with them and bringing one of these old reekers into the office was akin to an act of war . This was because a burned up power supply with selenium rectifiers was a very common " nuclear option " in the endless prank wars that we engaged in . Fun times .
@labrat2069 Жыл бұрын
Thioacetone is the best Valentine's Day gift a woman could ever want! :D
@alexhamon9261 Жыл бұрын
Epic. Here's to Nile's peer review sending you to 50k subscribers and beyond. Also have you considered working with Ordnance Lab for your flux compression generator project? They'd be all about featuring such an exotic shape charge, have their own range, licensing, HE, etc.
@wackyvorlon Жыл бұрын
Now that is something I would love to see.
@tonyquark493 Жыл бұрын
I have been into electronics since I was a child, and I can remember the old selenium rectifiers would absolutely STINK when they went bad or shorted out.
@andygozzo72 Жыл бұрын
yep, i've come across an odd one or 2 that were a bit stinky when not in use, still have one
@gamerpaddy Жыл бұрын
in german they were called Gleichriechter (spoken "gleich riecht er"), which is a derivation from the word Gleichrichter (Rectifier). it translates into "(it) smells right away" or "soon he smells"
@andygozzo72 Жыл бұрын
@@gamerpaddy hehe, yeah, i 've seen that term on german sets and service data
@tonyquark493 Жыл бұрын
@@gamerpaddy Wow thank you for that. Did not know that at all ;)
@LuMaxQFPV Жыл бұрын
Same here. That burnt selenium rectifier smell is one that stays with you for life !
@justinbanks2380 Жыл бұрын
Your dad is a freaking trooper! Going out with you doing these tests, handling and smelling the toxic and smelly chemicals without PPE. Your parents allowing you to do these experiments in the garage. (Most would see it as mad science and try and either stop completely, or gently try and persuade you to do other pursuits) I salute you and both your parents sir! Thanks for sharing with us
@neomt2 Жыл бұрын
You're not concerned about their health and long term consequences?
@justinbanks2380 Жыл бұрын
@@neomt2 @neomt2 ? I am, I actually left another comment on this video about the filter of his respirator as he shouldn't be able to smell through it if it is fitted and working properly. But his dad is an adult and chose to not wear PPE. He said in another video that his dad takes and does mobile radiology tests (you can actually see the machine in the shots where he's mixing in the back of the vehicle.) It is not like his dad is being subjected to anything blindly. He's obviously intelligent and also behind the camera for most of not all this video. So he made an informed decision. You don't have to agree with someone's decision, but when it involves the possibility of hurting or saving themselves and doesn't affect others, it's their choice. I would've thought we all would've learned this with the whole heated debate the whole world went through recently about vaccines, etc... Guess not. I was more inspired by parents that just support their children and the things they are interested in and passionate about, even if supporting those things is a burden or nuisance to themselves while they support their children. (Garage space being used instead of being available for storing what they want. Driving out to secluded spots to help film and be a second opinion on tests of smell or whatever, instead of staying home to watch a game or something they would rather do.) So many parents shut down their childrens interests or passions as soon as it interferes with what the parent wants to do.
@kaboom4679 Жыл бұрын
Captain Mercaptan , Earl of Stench ! Lots of old electronics had selenium rectifiers in them and when they blew the stench was incredible . You could build an electronic stink bomb from old selenium rectifiers . Long years ago one of my talents was successfully making and deploying such things . Not an easy task , as it is very difficult to avoid getting caught , just like deploying a suicide vest . Anyway , I will await the Tellurium Chronicles . You might also check out some phosphorus chemistry and also consider concoctions of multiple substances , such as butyric acid , and cadaverine or whatever you care to combine . Sometimes the whole is greater than the sum of its parts .
@AsmodeusMictian Жыл бұрын
I get the feeling you have your own pair of FBI agents assigned to you. I would say that you have your own agent, but with a name like that and comments like this....they probably gave you two just in case :D
@AngieDeAguirre Жыл бұрын
Video: "Worse than thioacetone" NileRed: hold my island...
@That_Chemist Жыл бұрын
having made small amounts of hydrogen selinide, I am already anxiously watching
@LabCoatz_Science Жыл бұрын
I'm just grateful that I didn't experience the flu-like effects of more serious exposure...or worse, selenosis!
@That_Chemist Жыл бұрын
@@LabCoatz_Science you legit are - you guys smelled them WAY too close to your face
@aighti Жыл бұрын
I don't know why but these past few weeks I'm really into watching people make the smelliest substances
Жыл бұрын
Ah, you too? 😊
@ikaros4203 Жыл бұрын
😂
@nonsequitor Жыл бұрын
It's always nice to see wonderful nutcases standing on the shoulders of other wonderful nutcases and sometimes even doing a kind of insane human pyramid of chemistry ;-) :-) :-)
@Nebuchadwicknezzar Жыл бұрын
The worst smell I've ever experienced was after leaving sprouted garlic in a jar of water for a long time without changing it. I wonder if I was smelling organoselenium compounds since it seems to be a similar smell to what you're describing, and selenium compounds are found in garlic!
@adamfarhadi Жыл бұрын
Great video! Watching such interesting chemistry videos from channels like yours and NileRed’s always makes me wish I studied chemistry in university 🙂.
@conradsmith9441 Жыл бұрын
This guy is an entire O Chem lab all by himself. If he works in a big lab somewhere someday he is gonna be a valuable asset.
@colemannielsen2099 Жыл бұрын
This comment gives me flashbacks from college quantitative analysis. ;)
@conradsmith9441 Жыл бұрын
@@colemannielsen2099 oh hey Coleman! What are the odds I’d run into a friend on KZfaq? 😂
@colemannielsen2099 Жыл бұрын
Haha it’s a small world for science peeps 😂 did Nile Red send you here too?
@conradsmith9441 Жыл бұрын
@@colemannielsen2099 I just found it when I looked something up. I recently followed Nile though.
@deeyablo Жыл бұрын
"This one came straight from hell." I laughed way too loud.
@nomcopterlabs Жыл бұрын
Great video! Really cool watching your channel grow this fast - you deserve it. The most terrifying part is it revealed that I already have the reagents and equipment to make this and that is dangerously tempting.
@LabCoatz_Science Жыл бұрын
Go for it, it's worth the experience in my opinion, but then again I'm insane, lol! Just doing eat it or over-expose yourself to selenium, and you'll be fine.
@blahsomethingclever Жыл бұрын
I love how relaxed you are. If anyone should do these things it should be you. Subscribed.
@supersophisticated9943 Жыл бұрын
Fam really made a shoutout to like 6 different KZfaq chemists in this one video. Also, I am totally investing in this. We have wanted to have the chemical that smells of rotting fish (trimethylamine, I believe) for a long time. That is still on the agenda, but since this is being offered so openly, I am definitely not passing it up. I can't wait to have our mother question us to an extreme level.
@sivvamsudhir2636 Жыл бұрын
yo any ideas who's the guy at 2:17 i really wanna check his video out
@alexgutter8509 Жыл бұрын
@@sivvamsudhir2636 It's explosions and fire
@sivvamsudhir2636 Жыл бұрын
@@alexgutter8509 thankss
@alexgutter8509 Жыл бұрын
@@sivvamsudhir2636No problem ! Have a great day !!
@ChristianMiersch Жыл бұрын
Thanks for this impressive test! Now we are eagerly waiting for the tellurium analogues!
@joeylawn36111 Жыл бұрын
They're rather unstable, however, especially hydrogen telluride.
@GRBtutorials Жыл бұрын
OK, so next up is tellurium, and after that… oh. Oh, no.
@LabCoatz_Science Жыл бұрын
Maybe when I'm an old geezer on my death bed, I'll make my last wish be to smell the polonium analogues, lol.
@connorwestgate Жыл бұрын
your killing it man, def one of the top chemistry channels on youtube, and your subscribers will reflect it soon
@DeathCubeKX Жыл бұрын
Before my time in electronics selenium was used in rectifiers. I've heard many old-timers say that when one of those old selenium rectifiers shorted out the smell could clear the room - and that's just from the metal burning a bit.
@Grawlix7 Жыл бұрын
I just about died laughing from the godfather of crazy youtube chemistry bit because it's so true. Love E&F!
@theKashConnoisseur Жыл бұрын
Ever since first reading Derek Lowe's discussion about thioacetone in his blog, I'd always wondered how bad they (thiols) could actually be. It seems like maybe their potency is slightly overstated, but it's nice to see the selenium analogues hold up to their vile reputation lol.
@kaboom4679 Жыл бұрын
To bad Derek has seemingly abandoned TIWW and How Not To Do It type of stories . They were absolute gems and many of the comments were pure gold as well .
@theKashConnoisseur Жыл бұрын
I understand why he's apparently stopped doing such content, as eventually the things one wouldn't work with and the stories of chemistry mishaps must eventually run dry. But it's still great stuff to revisit. Seems like every time I go back for a re-read, I feel inspired to open Max Gergel's "Ignition", which isn't a bad impulse at all!
@cetomedo Жыл бұрын
From what I can tell, the stories are accurate, but a main part of it is ignored. The chemists whose friends ended up having to prove to them thioacetone was vile never said they smelt anything that bad. The way it was proven to them was by showing the detectable range, rather than the potency. I think the main problem is that chemists with experience smelling weird compounds eventually have their sense of smell dulled to the point that something capable of knocking out a sensitive person doesn't make them feel that much. That was the case with NileRed's videos too, with his friends having a far, far stronger reaction than he did to all the smelly compounds he made. I imagine this guy's dad, constantly being with him in all these experiments, also has a more 'defended' sense of smell. In the worst of the stories, the people that got affected the worst were always common folk, and there was no mention of the exact percentage of the people that got knocked out, other than the fact that it wasn't a majority. The closest we got to seeing an actual average person react to the smell of thioacetone was NileRed's friend, who was still definitely compromised as he smelt the compounds used in producing thioacetone and probably smelt a variety of other chemicals. I think we're just underestimating how wildly a person's sense of smell can vary in strength.
Жыл бұрын
Lol indeed! Just for the record. “Ignition” is by John Clark - mr Gergel wrote something similarly entertaining, but I don’t recall the name.
@theKashConnoisseur Жыл бұрын
@ Oh gosh, you're right! Gergel's was "Excuse Me Sir, Would You Like to Buy a Kilo of Isopropyl Bromide?"
@zalzalahbuttsaab Жыл бұрын
15:52 (Dad sampling): "Oh! Let me sample this horrific odour!) 🤣🤣🤣
@andie_pants Жыл бұрын
I for one am glad Nile sent us your way. Been loving your content!
@HariharMohan Жыл бұрын
Tellurium costs only $32 per 100g so not as expensive as it’s rarity would suggest. I’m very curious to see how bad it smells! You could perhaps publish these findings in a research article!
@LabCoatz_Science Жыл бұрын
I'll definitely be trying tellurium this summer, as soon as school gets out!
@flomojo2u Жыл бұрын
@LabCoatz If you have a peltier cooler you have bismuth telluride, and since bismuth has such a low melting point it's very easy to inadvertently melt a peltier device if you don't cool it properly... as I found out the hard way, so it's not necessary you smash it or anything to get the contents out of the porcelain sandwich.
@tazman1937 Жыл бұрын
Organotellurium is a great way to poison yourself right quick
@k.c.sunshine1934 Жыл бұрын
It would be interesting to find some skunks in the campground and see if you can make the shunks run from the smell ;-) . Great work!
@Ulvens Жыл бұрын
New subscriber here. Nice concept, and video. Glad to see someone doing full format chemistry again. Nile mostly does shorts nowadays, and I'm not into it.
@BackYardScience2000 Жыл бұрын
Me neither. His channel went downhill and he doesn't even really do chem anymore. Just quick shorts that make him money. That's all....
@grattamania Жыл бұрын
i watched the whole video, and now i have to watch them all, truly congratulations for all the work you do, greetings from Italy!
@nici6603 Жыл бұрын
Good thing I am German so I can read those articles easy (although I admit that the translation is almost perfect now). Only downside is that here in Germany the amount of restrictions gives me headaches (can‘t even buy Peroxid solution concentrated more than 12%). I’d dunno how this is in other country‘s but damn it i just wanted to make some proper piranha solution (oh and you also can‘t buy any Sulfuric acid with a concentration beyond 15%, but in contrast to hydrogen peroxide you can just distill it). Oh yeah same goes for nitric acid, I mean let‘s be honest, what am I supposed to do with a concentration of just ONE percent…
@victordonchenko4837 Жыл бұрын
Add sulfuric acid to a nitrate salt, pure nitric acid after distillation :)
@erikseavey9445 Жыл бұрын
They're just scared Germans might almost take the world over again because Germans are too awesome for their own good so they restrict the heck out of you lol
@DUKE_of_RAMBLE Жыл бұрын
I wonder if you could get a *bunch* of: cabbage, asparagus, garlic, whole eggs, and durian fruit. Then toss them all in a pressure cooker... BUT, instead of the weight installed, put a short chunk of rubber hose in order to adapt your condenser. _(might need a splitter, to give you an access point so you can periodically add more water... or, alcohol? 🤔)_ *ALL* in an effort to get all of those stenches concentrated down. _Just_ to see how all of these *food-grade* stinks compare when combined... 😊👍
@christopherleubner6633 Жыл бұрын
Just add some rotting fish too let it all rot and ferment. 😵😲💩
@YCbCr Жыл бұрын
@@christopherleubner6633 Surströmming distillate? Sounds fun :D
@DUKE_of_RAMBLE Жыл бұрын
@Lil Yeet Now I've gotta ask.... Did you do it for chemical science? Or for culinary science? 🤓
@DUKE_of_RAMBLE Жыл бұрын
@@christopherleubner6633 God that sounds awful! *_SPEAKING_* of scat... At this point, I feel like the pressure cooker will never get that stank out of it, so.... _might as well_ toss in all the bodily fluids as well! 🥴🤢 If anything, it'll yield the best non-clickbait, clickbait title! 🤣 _"I Combined All of These Things for_ _SCIENCE, and _*_THIS_*_ Happened..."_
@danielbueche5686 Жыл бұрын
I'm very glad that you and nilered are able to handle these reactions and I am glad that he refured you because I can't tell you how much I love chemistry and never tire of reactions
@yaboi_jesus9577 Жыл бұрын
I’m glad NileRed gave you a shoutout. He really led me to a hidden gem with your channel. I believe you’ll be just as big as he is someday
@laurensvisser7623 Жыл бұрын
Selenium truly is the worst. I've had two encounters with broken selenium rectifiers in my life. Once accidental - a PSU capacitor shorted out and blew up the rectifier. I ran out of the room with the device in my arms practically gagging, to let the device waft out outside. Once intentional. I had a known bad rectifier. Put it outside, on my balcony. Closed the door. Powered it up. No i didn't like my neighbors. I could smell the stench through the door. It is POTENT. The smell is a mixture of rotten broccoli, bad farts and rotten eggs. M
@OueGrame Жыл бұрын
LabCoatz 2024: making telluroacetone
@Brain_Juice Жыл бұрын
This is a great video, well shot, edited, informative great job... More ppl should see this very entertaining and educational!!!! Rising star!!
@DrTacoPHD665 Жыл бұрын
15:55 once his dad puts his arm down, he really looks like he's green-screened in. Everything else in the photo is blurred but he's crystal clear and positioned right at a straight line to mask off of.
@Petemate69 Жыл бұрын
Great content mate! You should really wear safety glasses when handling acids man you don't want to go blind
@lordsqueak Жыл бұрын
As a swede, I wonder how it compares to surströmming. I'll be honest, the reaction to the smell in the video seems,, kinda tame. But I guess you're not supposed to eat it, like with surströmming, so there is that factor to account for. ;)
@NameyNames Жыл бұрын
I kind of like the smell of surströmming, so I'd imagine that this is a LOT worse. Or ... better? Would love to smell it sometime.
@lisotunali3807 Жыл бұрын
I dont know how i ended up in this part of youtube but man am i here for this
@arnautarnautsen2564 Жыл бұрын
I have been scouring youtube for this video for months! Thank you! Also, as somebody nearly killed by hydrogen selenide, kudos for the courage.
@arnautarnautsen2564 Жыл бұрын
@@Paonporteur It isn't anything particularly interesting: I diluted potassium selenide outside of an aspiration hood (because, idiot); the solution's pH was *theoretically* high enough that no hydrogen selenide should have evolved, but wasn't mixed well enough, so it did. Luckily, it only lasted a couple of seconds, then the potassium oxide at the bottom of the vial (i.e., under the selenide) decided to dissolve as well. Not a great two seconds, though.
@arnautarnautsen2564 Жыл бұрын
@@Paonporteur Honestly, no. I read everywhere that it smells horrible, but I think it has the same problem as hydrogen sulphide, i.e., in higher concentrations, it interferes with the functionality of your olfactory nerves, and you can't smell it any longer. I knew I was inhaling it because it feels like your lungs are paralysed, a feeling that starts in your throat and proceeds down your airways, but I couldn't smell anything, not even before the exposure symptoms or after the whiff was over. If it can be of any help, a Polish colleague of mine, who had smelled in trace concentration, described it as resembling the smell of rotten horseradish, referring, however, to a type of horseradish they eat in Poland, and I am not entirely sure it's the "standard" one.
@______IV Жыл бұрын
Is there a best smelling compound? I’d like a sample of that one.
@LabCoatz_Science Жыл бұрын
Honestly, that award would probably go to vanillin. If I recall correctly, it has one of the lowest odor thresholds, and it smells good to most people, so you could argue that it is the best-smelling "smelliest compound".
@______IV Жыл бұрын
@@LabCoatz_Science : I’ve never smelled isolated vanillin, but I want to now. Of course I’ve smelled vanilla which contains hundreds of other compounds besides vanillin, but only monsters don’t like the smell of vanilla so you’re probably right. Thanks for sharing all of your hard work!
@theoverlord3839 Жыл бұрын
So excited... im sure you can ship me 5 grams of *coughs* not this substance
@michaelhicks8603 Жыл бұрын
Bro!!! You are an absolute legend for the honourable mention of the S-tier lord of Yt chem, Mr “yea nahhh” E$F.
@robertwehrle Жыл бұрын
As someone who did extensive work with organoselenides for my PhD work, there are a few points that I should bring up. While acidic conditions increase longevity, any selenols you made pretty quickly oxidize to diselenides when exposed to oxygen in the atmosphere, much, much quicker to thiols, especially smaller molecules like the ones in the video. To this, you were most likely smelling a variant diselenide instead. For a more efficient, but technically challenging synthesis of your selenols, I would recommend going through Grignard reagents than transmetalate with the selenium metal, much more options are available at that point for potential future videos.
@LabCoatz_Science Жыл бұрын
I considered the Grignard pathway, but ultimately settled on this method, since it was basically a "one-pot" synthesis with claimed yields greater than 90%. With the 1,4-butanediselenol, I think I was mainly smelling the diselenol, since we made it and smelled it within a timespan of roughly thirty minutes, and it was sealed off from the air for most of the time, so very little oxidized (in contrast to my isopropaneselenol and diselenoacetone samples, which were not sealed off and consequently had visible signs of oxidation).
@KernelLeak Жыл бұрын
I'm not sure if the USPS has a "no mail" list, but I'm sure if you mail that stuff around you might just find out... :/
@LabCoatz_Science Жыл бұрын
There is a restriction on poisonous materials, and selenium is toxic (although there isn't any data available on most selenols or selones). To get around it, I'm only sending trace amounts: enough to be smelled, but not enough to be measured or considered dangerous!
@KernelLeak Жыл бұрын
@@LabCoatz_Science Keep us posted, then... :P (I'll get me non-lab-coat...)
@thomassynths Жыл бұрын
I thought it was amusing when you said you up-played your reaction to the thioacetone... in all these chemical tests you don't really to appear to be _that_ offended by the smell from your visible reaction. No gagging and constant retching.
@LabCoatz_Science Жыл бұрын
Yeah, I've never smelled something bad enough to trigger my gag reflex. Most smells just don't offend me that much! But there are some things that make me cough and pull away, like pure chlorine gas, acid vapors, or irritants like chloramine.
@bzuidgeest Жыл бұрын
I'm not a chemist, but this reminds me. Vintage electronics when old enough sometimes contain selenium rectifiers. When one of those blows up it stinks to high Heaven and the smell can linger.
@HodorsLeftShoe Жыл бұрын
Now more and new sponsors along with massive channel growth. Well deserved
@ivuldivul Жыл бұрын
Nilered: "It's not that bad..." 😂
@ExplosionsAndFire Жыл бұрын
God bless German Wikipedia 🙏🙏🙏
@LabCoatz_Science Жыл бұрын
What would we do without Germany!
@stalecisco666 Жыл бұрын
😂 😂 That intro was funny, also your production is looking pretty professional. Great vid.
@notmyname327 Жыл бұрын
Great video! Loved the Extractions & ire reference
@ahmadmazbouh Жыл бұрын
ah shit.. here we ho again
@kazyclay Жыл бұрын
I hope this channel explodes (in a good way), you definitely deserve it!
@Xenotrickster Жыл бұрын
Shout out to Periodic Table! Genius of a man. Glad you are a fan!
@sciencething1449 Жыл бұрын
One things hobby chemists do is show the world what certain chemicals really are, like Ex&f with c2n14, you and nilered with thioacetone and more stuff. i like that.
@BerzerkaDurk Жыл бұрын
Wow. Did Nigel's shoutout really lead to you gaining 23k subs? That's amazing.
@pyrazine Жыл бұрын
i found your channel through nilered and i just wanna say, very excited to have more high quality chem youtubers! subscribed and can't wait for more
@TheYouTubeAquarium Жыл бұрын
Just sent some funds your way from Fresno, CA! Excited for my little package to arrive. Keep up the good work!
@bustacobbaproduction Жыл бұрын
When you referred to Tom from Explosions&Fire as the Godfather of crazy YT chem i laughed well hard 🤣🤣Dude lowkey is the GOAT tho
@unexpected2475 Жыл бұрын
18:15: Can't wait for your 1,000,000 subscriber special where you make polonoacetone and livermoroacetone.
@justinbanks2380 Жыл бұрын
Not sure if you'll understand this reference but at 12:20 you are doing the Joey Tribbiani from Friend's but about smelling the fart acting. When you don't know what to say or need a minute to remember your lines, you smell the fart. 😂
@buen0excellente837 Жыл бұрын
The intro alone had me stoked for the rest of the video.
@wazsam2723 Жыл бұрын
I was waiting for this!
@conradsmith9441 Жыл бұрын
“That is the worst smell I have ever smelled in my entire life” *proceeds to continue wafting into his nose* 😂😂😂
@Chemiolis Жыл бұрын
Chemists when they make something stinky: dad can u plz smell this 😭😭
@LabCoatz_Science Жыл бұрын
A moment of silence for the chem Dads who sacrificed their weekends and noses for science.
@Dylan-fk1do Жыл бұрын
40 seconds in and I'm waiting for this channel and video to blow upppp. Keep up the great stuff!
@stavroslibavius9699 Жыл бұрын
You are awesome ! Greetings from Greece, I look forward to the corresponding experiment with tellurium !
@notsparks Жыл бұрын
Glad to see you followed through with selenium promised after the NileRed drop. Congrats on the 20k new followers, too. Looking forward to what oddities you come up with next.
@NerdlabsSci Жыл бұрын
hey labcoatz! nice job! also congrats on 20k subs!
@call.me.heisenberg6990 Жыл бұрын
Your dad has seen it all, I suppose. While you gently wave a bit of the smell in your direction he takes a full nose of it. Legendary.
@jonathanhenderson9100 Жыл бұрын
This is so wholesome like I wish my dad would hang out with me in a park smelling stinky chemicals I made for my KZfaq video
@youssefashraf6 Жыл бұрын
First time viewer and instant subscriber here. Love your content absolutely a gem and especially how you explained your process with that in situ solution! A bit of constructive criticism though, I am a chemistry lover even though I'm from a totally different background and for me the theoretical part about selenols was a bit of a blur, would be stoked to see theoretical stuff in a more exciting form.
@jacobe2995 Жыл бұрын
worst smell I ever experinced was a rotten potato leaking black liquid that I forgot in my cupboard for a few months.
@wardenpotato Жыл бұрын
Absolutely amazing video, loved every second of this, you deserve so much more than 26k subs, hope you grow to huge numbers.
@ryankassel5691 Жыл бұрын
You're a legend. Thanks for your work
@callum7280 Жыл бұрын
Dude is only calm, even with something smelling that bad, just calm
@myristicinman4566 Жыл бұрын
I thought I smelled something odd outside the other day, I thought it was the dog
@dougadams9419 Жыл бұрын
I remember the smell of a Selenium Rectifier burned up in the old radio receivers. You could tell right away why the radio quit working. "Radio and television receivers used them from about 1947 to 1975 to provide up to a few hundred volts of plate voltage. Vacuum-tube rectifiers had efficiencies of only 60% compared to the 85% of selenium rectifiers, partially because vacuum-tube rectifiers required heating. Selenium rectifiers have no warm-up time, unlike high-vacuum rectifiers. Selenium rectifiers were also cheaper and simpler to specify and install than vacuum tubes. However, they were later replaced by silicon diodes with high efficiencies (close to 100% at high voltages). Selenium rectifiers had the capability to act as current limiters, which can temporarily protect the rectifier during a short circuit and provide stable current for charging batteries."
@brendanschuett Жыл бұрын
I love seeing periodic table of videos at the start!
@frenstcht Жыл бұрын
The only thing I know about chemistry I learned from Explosions&Fire: If it's yellow, it's bad.
@Reneholleman1 Жыл бұрын
Used to work in a place where they added Mercaptan to the natural gas. Everyone had to go through the pump street and your colleagues would lock the doors. It just went into your pores and clothes, weeks later people would ask about it still.
@nashton9964 Жыл бұрын
I think a good word for the last one is "piercing" based on what I've seen from your face. I have some perfume materials that are the same way and need major diluting.
@d0nnerknispel64 Жыл бұрын
I love this intro idea, great work!
@josephnicholas6159 Жыл бұрын
It's interesting that you mentioned cooked asparagus. I worked around ethyl mercaptan early in my career, and to me it smells like creamed corn in strong concentrations and not at all like the typical "natural gas" smell. once you get down wind a bit, it takes on the characteristic odor.
@fsvideos-rc Жыл бұрын
@NileRed was right, I really liked your channel, congratz. Now I have two channels for watching chemical explosions 😅
@lars3509 Жыл бұрын
Now I am being hyped up for the NileRed reaction video creating an even more potent Eau de death. Or worse, a NileBlue video. Good Video, especially the intro
@WooShell23 сағат бұрын
We had the dubios opportunity to create some selenophenol back at school lab once.. even though the fume hood was quite tightly closed, enough escaped that half the class ran for the next sink to puke in. Selenium compounds are no fun to play with. Holy crap that stuff was vile..