The problem with the chemistry in fight club is that there are just way easier ways make explosives then this with household items

"The acid mix is often referred to as mixed acid" This one is gold.

"I will not give details" on nitroglycerin production ... a de-hydrating-acid... proceed show show which one on the next slide... 👌

i like the way you showed the chemical structures, most chemistry channels just show a blank black model for a few seconds if we're luckly the atoms will be colored

I used to demonstrate napalm in the armed forces here in Denmark, and the stuff is very flexible in terms of efficiency. It doesn't need much air to reignite and never try to put it out by clapping the burning area. You will only spread the substance. You actually have to cut the natural way to combat the heat, and that is the other factor because military grade napalm is full of aluminium and magnesium, and this makes it burn very hot.

I love when he said "it's science time" then scienced all over the place

*The problem with FIGHT CLUB is that all of those companies have backups to quickly regain any lost information.* It's a nice plot though.

You and Nile are carrying the chemistry/alchemy side of youtube

Welcome to the watch list boys

I love detailed step-by-step guides for things like this. Videos like this actually keep me from fucking around and finding out, now that I know what's gonna happen if I mix gas with soap I'm much less inclined to finally try it

2:18 you were propably looking for a picture of a guy with a flamethrower, but the pic is actually a mill worker with an oxygen lance, which is, in itself, a very interesting tool

Really good vid. Where you suggested leaving soap for a few days, in general home made soap is left for a few weeks as most people don’t have laboratory heated stirring. Commercially the logistics and distribution chain allows the soap to ‘mature’.

Your channel just gets better and better!

We used to make the styrofoam/gas type back in the day. The scary part about that compound is, to put it out you have to smother it completely. Pouring water on it just causes the burning mixture to break off into smaller, separate burning puddles

As a young person many decades ago, a friend who was much older and experienced in the military from World War II gave me an education in chemistry with household and industrial sources of chemicals that I remember mostly today. With the soaps of today and yesterday, some chemicals have been removed that were quite common yesterday. One is Phosphorus, because it caused algal bloom in lakes and rivers, as well as too much water plant growth. Phosphorus is what makes soap cut through grease and oil. Even by using trisodium phosphate, the growth problem is still bad, so substitutes were made, yet don't work as well as the phosphorus of yesterday. And is why we don't see the Dawn dish soap saying it works to remove oil from wildlife or dishes, like ducklings and filthy dishes, but they still show the old recordings of the ducklings being washed in old Dawn. But you can find soaps and detergents that have phosphorous in them, if you look in the automotive sections of certain stores. I use such soaps and detergents for cleaning cars and stuff with lots of grease and oil contamination, otherwise I use the phosphorous free for other uses without oils and grease, altho I don't have to worry about water contamination with the phosphorous, as my location does not have any routes to the rivers or lakes, and the phosphorous makes the grass grow greener! As far as napalm and explosives, making them without using substitutes or even bad substitutes, like OJ, you get a better product, and a safer product, if you follow the modern process to make them. And yes, plastic labware is very important, when working with chemicals that could cause rapid deflagration or detonation!

i love how the start is quoted from breaking bad

The best description: if there is an unintended dissimulation of glass ware. Yes, I know very well about intended and unintended dissimulation of glassware.

Def do more or these types of videos. You made it quite easy to follow/understand everything as well as getting people interested in watching. Only reason I clicked on this was because I love the movie fight club, but I stayed for the science haha

One of my favorite movies! Good job man!

A little paint thinner fixes styrene getting too thick.👍

Good video. Keep them coming. You hit just the right amount of knowledge without going full chemist 😂

Awesome video! Great mix of nerd and bro teehee. Thank you ❤

This video earned a sub. Well done.

Thanks for the tutorials!

Great job, this is the closest video describing actual napalm as compared with folks making improvised gelled fuels. I happen to have experience with flamethrower operation. Here's a few tips. The improvised gelled fuels using ivory soap or similar (sodium palmitate) type soaps is thixotropic; meaning it will thicken over time. Due to this, the shelf life of the flamethrower fuel, when loaded, will eventually thicken to the point of being like mud, and will render the flamethrower inoperable. Your aluminum palmitate based soap will work much better; notice the viscosity is better and it is less "chunky", plus, it will not overly thicken when stored. I happen to have a patent document describing the production of napalm and your method is very close; there are a few differences, such as the fatty acid mix being composed of palmitate, oleic acid, and napthenic acid, that later of which is hard to come by ;) Regarding polymeric napalm, using Styrofoam or polystyrene, what we see kids making only will not function in a flamethrower, because gasoline only contains about 2% BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene/xyline) however, it can be made into the proper viscosity for a flamethrower by the following procedure: First, mix toluene and gasoline (approximately 25% toluene and 75% gasoline), then, add to it the Styrofoam until a syrup-like viscosity is achieved. This is a great flamethrower fuel with good range, I got 110 feet in my tests. That being said, any variations in viscosity can cause poor ignition or conversely, if it is too thin it will affect range. Generally I would prefer the real stuff as it is less contamination to the environment than all that toluene and plastic spewing everywhere. Also, the plastic based napalm, if left to sit several years, will harden into basically a solid plastic putty, again, that could be a real pain to get out of the flamethrower. Probably the simplest, cheapest, and quickest flamethrower fuel is approximately equal parts of used motor oil 33%, gasoline 33%, and diesel 34%. It doesn't have the range or staying power of napalm, but it is cheap, fast, and won't clog the device.

This is really thorough and well explained, great work! I always chuckle a little at them making THAT MUCH dynamite using human fat in Fight Club. I think the orange juice recipe was probably the producer trying to not quite tell people how to make napalm, but still be kinda close. Btw, there are several different napalm varieties, some of which do involve polystyrene. The original aluminum palmitate one is my favorite though, it’s not quite as bad for the environment.

love the wise cracks. however the advice to use plastic and the reason why was the funniest thing ive heard all month. but its serious advice at the same time. we all know there are those who find things out the hard way. by the way glycerin can be found on the shelf in some wallgreenes you dont have to bother with soap unless you like to use it for your laundry to keep things white

So good subbed!

Awesome vid muh dude. Since we're all on a watch list i say go for breaking bad.

The intro with the walter white quote is fantastic. Fight club and breaking bad is the perfect duo

The things you find on KZfaq, pretty sure I was on a list already but now I am for sure.

Nice video, From what I remind from my search onto the subject as a teenager was that "Napalm" comes from "Na palmitate" or what is the same "sodium palmitate"... thus a mix of a gooi soap and gasoline. :o) I like the idea of Al-palm (aluminium (3+) palmitate); but it could work with Ca-palm (calcium (2+) palmitate). ;o) Regards, PHZ (Philou Zrealone from the Science Madness forum)

"Rapid unplanned disassembly" is probably my new favourite term for explosion

Palmoil has 12% mystricin oil in it ❤❤❤❤❤ Wow

Please do Oppenheimer next, I found this video to be very useful

Rapid unplanned disassembly! Lol

Great Video. Of course we're focused on the chemistry of using the glycerine byproduct in the Saponification process which turns out isn't the easiest byproduct to extract. Going outside of the scope of the movie and focusing on the isolation of glycerine from animal fats, it seems like the Transesterification process used in biodiesel production would give you much better yield of glycerine which is already separated. And you get biodiesel which also has its own place in energetic chemistry.

Cool. Never really gave it too much thought. I was interested in plastics and sulfas, as strange as that sounds. You can make cars with plastics, and paint, and save lives with sulfas. A lot of chemistry in those two ideas. Liked the presentation.

I have a good one for you. In Lost they find old sticks of dynamite and they say that because they sat so long nitroglycerin formed on the outside of the dynamite sticks. They said the slightest disruption will set it off and I always wondered if that was accurate.

Well done, sir!

Your eBay chems are great haha. Didn’t know you had a YT channel

*Bonded? Bound?* nice work again go to your happy place!

Wheeler: This napalm just isn't that effective Also Wheeler: Here's how you make REAL NAPALM

Well, the first rule of fight club. Is never talk about fight club. Since we broke rule number one already. I guess, this guy is right and it's just easier to make nitroglycerin...

Not to be pedantic, but did you use 100% gasoline or e90 which is 10% ethanol?

I would love to see The Walking Dead, there is a particular episode where they are in an underground lab and they use nitric acid to sterelize the zombie remains, also i feel like you can find something else Also would love to see (probably wont happen becuase long synthesis) Saving Private Ryan, specifically the Sulfa drugs (sulfur antibiotics) I think Sulfanilamide is doable Also love your vids

Would like to see a video on how to make a clean burning, safe propellant like the commercial smokeless powders for rifle cartridges, you can make one component, nitro cellulose but it is not safe to use by itself and also a good stable primer compound that is not corrosive or to toxic

Point of clarification during the conflicts in Viet Nam and Korea, the US switched over to polystyrene and deisel. It was vastly cheaper and worked just as well or better. There weren't as many flame-throwers as boms using the stuff. So maybe they used polystyrene for dropped ordiance, and soap for the flame-throwers.

DIY napalm is wild

The movie "blown away" has some interesting kabooms 🤯

Welcome back to the FBI watchlist boys! Also, 6:06 looks a bit sus 😅

"A rapid unplanned disassembly of glassware" holy hell I'm using that with my colleagues

If you made biodiesel instead, you would have gotten a better glycerin yield. That's what they should have done in the movie instead. Heck they could have made "green" ANFO! Also just think of the pucker factor involved with demolishing a building with just nitroglycerin!

“The chemistry between a man and woman” we must’ve been watching different movies

The storyfoam thing been known for a long time yeah.. I am already a middle aged man, but I used to play with that stuff as a kid in our yard

Nowadays it's probably way easier to get copious amounts of glycerol by opening a vape store and nobody would care. But then, and now, it probably would be far more troublesome to get the barrels of nitric and sulphuric acid needed to perform this feat for the private citizen. If you can get those in large quantities, you won't have any trouble getting the glycerol far easier and cheaper.

You can also make napalm with laundry detergent liquid

Gotta watch

Take notes! Jokes aside, this is a really neat video!

Making soap is one way of doing it however you could instead use Methanol making biodiesel which has applications elsewhere and glycerol whilst also making it easier to seperate by distillation

Great video! Here's a question; in the original Terminator movie from 1984 Sarah Conner and Kyle Reese make explosives using moth balls, corn syrup, ammonia - can you make any real explosive using these ingredients?

The military napalm burns better because the military adds magnesium which will ignite and even burns even under water. I can't remember off hand what temp magnesium burns at but I believe it's 1800 degrees making water not able to put it out. It burns so hot it actually separates the hydrogen and oxygen giving it fuel to keep burning. I know this because of my WW2 veteran grandfather.

Dude, what would be a good solvent for the white deodorant stains ?

The burning test should have had just gasoline on the block of wood as a control.

It would have helped if you nitrated the frozen oj before mixing with gasoline 😜

That reminds me the MythBusters did an episode on the natural gas exploding a house

What type of burner was that at 8:20 the multiple peaks looked useful for heat distribution

😂 OH shit the table is on fire! 😂

I used powder from fireworks and some clay I found to make what I think is a c4 kinda too powerful though , and the play doe ore clay fragments almost killed me. So my tutorial on making explosives.

14:54 Probably the craziest thing you said during the entire video 😭

A friend in high school tried to make nitro in his parents' basement 35 years ago. All he got was a cloud of yellow smoke/gas which might have been chlorine gas--not good

Making explosives is soooo much easier! Ever wondered why on Hydrogen peroxide its always stated to never mix it with organic solvents? Well, now you know.

The original script for the book had true recipes for napalm etc, but it was strongly recommended that he change them slightly for the final version.

you can make napalm b with petrol and expanded polystyrene

Does the aluminum sulfate still create hydrogen when reacting with the lye in the soap?

I thought Napalm was short for napthalene which is a mix of naptha and styrene which the military then adds magnesium and what all other accelerants

my cats LOVE beef tallow. they go insane when they smell it and start growling lol

in the book they talk about making plastic explosives and the reason there's no explosion at the end of the book is because Tyler used a method which the narrator says has never worked for them

Dissolving polystyrene into gasoline also makes kickass napalm, also called gangsters napalm due to its use in firebombing rival clubs

Was the recipe to make napalm really necessary?

Hold up… 14:35 now you made soap… Now you can make some more napalm

Can’t you use more orange concentrate

having the balloons pop muted aside for the really loud one is quite cruel

In the next episode, I will show you how to optimize the jet of your homemade heat warhead to achieve maximum penetration.

I worked at a soap making company for years, you can buy glycerin from soap making companies and skip many of those steps with the salt and filtering. Also nitroglycerin is one of the major ingredients in modern smokeless powder or so I'm lead to believe, but as for modern explosives it's all rdx or something cooler.

May I ask if the concentrations of the solutions in this video are all in 1 M?

Holy fuck and this is where i start

I don't know about the orange juice, but the gas is a most likely and the soap is a definitely.

If stlll relevant there's an movie from 1994, "Blown Away" about some Irish bomber in Boston i think

Did i just learn how to make a better fight clup napalm

i just watched through the orange juice napalm section and have a few things to point out, + i am just an amateur chemist, i might get this wrong, but the orange juice mixture isn't really "napalm" its just likely a super quick equivalent to the sugar rocket mix where you mix sugar with a oxidizer, the sugar is naturally present in the orange juice, and this keeps the mixture burning while the other counterpart produces oxygen consistently to create a flame that it hotter than usual and combusts better, i might be wrong, i am just assuming that something in gasoline is a oxidizer, i don't know, and i have another thing to ask instead of point out, theoretically if you creating a formulation of thermite (Al + Fe2O3) and your napalm mixture, wouldn't this create a napalm with a superior heat?, the only 2 downsides i can think of are solubility, where the thermite mixture does not dissolve in the napalm mixture, which due to both of the ingredient of the most common mixture of thermite being powders, they probably wont, and another is that because it is burning hotter, it will consume the fuel more quickly, and hence negate the point of making napalm anyway, what do you think?

Better to dissolve in water and than add isopropyl and (additional) salt out. Isopropyl is the easiest solvent to recover as its azeotrope is barely evident.

Breaking Bad!? Sweet, I'm _finally_ gonna get to learn how to make... Awww... Nevermind. You really had us going there, too.

Try polystyrene and zippo fluid, or diesel and Laundry liquid.

Dude I've always wanted to see red powder in a cotton candy machine potassium nitrate sugar and iron oxide so you would have gun cotton candy lol

Famously the recipes in the book and movie were censored. The OJ replaced the Styrofoam (a crude form of napalm, much easier to make), and for the other one, lets just say there are easier way to make that using typically lye, and salt peter.

"Anyone with high school chemistry knowledge could figure it out" This was part of a test I wrote in high school lol

Does anyone know's if it works with vegetal glicerin ?

To obtain the glycerol starting from tallow, wouldn't be easier with a transesterification with methanol and sodium hydroxide as catalyzer? the extraction would be with a better yeld...

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