Negative X-Don't Add Water!

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@pfcparis 11 ай бұрын

Instant fire. Just add water.

@thevikingwarrior 6 ай бұрын

Miracle burn

@workdevice7808 6 ай бұрын

Just like an Electric Vehicle.

@whoson7675 6 ай бұрын

Genius.

@nasifabdullah362 6 ай бұрын

and inhale the zinc vapours ❤️🥰

@Gamesmarts194 6 ай бұрын

Wait a second-

@plasma9675 11 ай бұрын

"So how did fire even start in the first place? " "I accidentally dropped water onto gray stuff"

@bingbong9104 6 ай бұрын

I shouldn’t have kept it in my bathroom.

@sherrigood5412 Ай бұрын

I shouldn't have kept it in my water bottle.

@gustavgnoettgen Ай бұрын

Time traveling fire extinguishing

@rainy4902 Ай бұрын

“Negative X” sounds like some sort of resident evil virus

@empath1969 11 ай бұрын

"Thus the powerpuff girls were born!!"

@Richard-jt6nt 11 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same thing!!!😂😂

@miss-astronomikal-mcmxcvii 9 ай бұрын

@@Richard-jt6nt ME TOO

@eeveeofalltrades4780 3 ай бұрын

"Now that I've added the catalyst, it's extremely unstable" **proceeds to shake it**

@FieryKitsune1 Ай бұрын

I did not have to scroll down this far to see this

@davidlloyd3116 7 ай бұрын

Silver nitrate and aluminium powder also does the same….my chemistry teacher set a short quiz and the winner got to shoot at a pile of it with a water pistol! Went on to study chemistry at university too!

@schneemann-fy6gi Ай бұрын

That makes me sad because my high school chemistry teacher was horrible, boring, and never did anything except book work. I ended up doing liberal arts in college, never finished, and now work in the service industry 😭

@maukun3406 4 ай бұрын

Police: "so what happened ma'am?" "I was just crying then my house starts buring"

@Aidenzsnow 6 ай бұрын

“One crossed wire, one wayward pinch of potassium chloride, one errant twitch! AND KABLOOIE!”

@lunarfalacy2662 Ай бұрын

chlorate not chloride

@stephan5279 11 ай бұрын

One of my favourite experiments in the lecture...

@alphagt62 5 ай бұрын

“And just like that, the Power Puff girls were born!”, Negative X!!!

@alvaroamarodeazevedo7448 8 ай бұрын

Maybe this is the secret of the ancient "greek fire" used in naval batles in antiquity. It was a mixture of unkown composition which set fire in contact with water.

@HeisenbergFam 11 ай бұрын

Instructions unclear, I caused a fire to the entire county and now im in jail, cheers

@GhostieToasterStrudel 11 ай бұрын

You’re a phony! The real Heisenberg would of already knew what to do. 😡

@XxRaceRCxX 11 ай бұрын

Thermite

@ragmanv420 11 ай бұрын

heisenberg how’d you mess this up dawg 🤯

@sunwukong1054 11 ай бұрын

Australian?

@VKSgtSLaughter 11 ай бұрын

O' Canada 😉

@user-pr6ed3ri2k 11 ай бұрын

basically how this works: Zn + NH₄NO₃ Zn could theoretically easily kick and replace NH₄ out of its partnership with NO₃, but unfortunately for it there isn't enough movement for Zn to have a chance of replacing NH₄ Adding H₂O, a pretty good solvent, makes NH₄NO₃ separate into its components, NH₄⁺ and NO₃⁻, which then start floating around in the H₂O, with the dissolution of NH₄⁺ being more relevant to Zn. Zn itself doesn't become an ion just because of H₂O, but it can forcibly give NH₄⁺ an electron due to Zn's ability to make more stable ions than the neutral NH₄•. The equation for this is Zn + 2(NH₄⁺) → Zn²⁺ + 2(NH₄•) NH₄• isn't stable in this neutral form, which causes it to decay with the following equation: 2(NH₄•) → 2(NH₃) + H₂ The total formula, including the NO₃, is Zn + 2(NH₄NO₃) → Zn(NO₃)₂ + 2(NH₃) + H₂ All this exchange produces a lot of heat, which can melt the Zn (420°C) and NH₄NO₃ (170°C). This allows for combustion of the released H₂ [2(H₂) + O₂ → 2(H₂O)] and combustion of the Zn without NH₄NO₃ [2(Zn) + O₂ → 2(ZnO)]. The molten state of the Zn and NH₄NO₃ allow for further reaction, even though the original H₂O should've long since evaporated. tl;dr the video edit: realized I accidentally wrote down the formulas for zinc(I) nitrate instead of zinc(II) (real) nitrate. This didn't change any of the explanations though, and only changed numbers by factors of 2.

@smgdfcmfah 11 ай бұрын

Nice explanation. So what happens if you throw this into a body of water?

@user-pr6ed3ri2k 11 ай бұрын

@@smgdfcmfah The extreme volume of bodies of water will probably both quench the Zn and dilute the NH₄NO₃ to the point where the reaction cannot happen. However, for the first few seconds, the reaction should still occur, producing the ZnNO₃, NH- Hang on, just realized that there is no compound called ZnNO₃, and zinc nitrate is in fact Zn(NO₃)₂. Will correct for a bit.

@user-pr6ed3ri2k 11 ай бұрын

@@smgdfcmfah @smgdfcmfah @smgdfcmfah The extreme volume of bodies of water (H₂O) will probably both quench the Zn and dilute the NH₄NO₃ to the point where the reaction cannot happen. However, for the first few seconds, the reaction should still occur, producing the Zn(NO₃)₂, NH₃, and H₂. Considering that the simple addition of sodium (Na) to H₂O can still ignite hydrogen despite the quenching properties of H₂O, I presume that the result will be everything igniting, except for 2(Zn) + O₂ → 2(ZnO), because H₂O will probably remove all the O₂ by quenching. EXTRA (Probably won't happen in bodies of H₂O): Forgot to mention this in the original message, NH₃ can burn as well, using the following process: 4(NH₃) + 5(O₂) → 4(NO) + 6(H₂O) Zn(NO₃)₂ can also decompose at the melting point of Zn: Zn(NO₃)₂ → Zn + 2(NO₂) + O₂ Same with NH₄NO₃, at lower temperatures: NH₄NO₃ → N₂O + 2(H₂O) This effectively results in the ending compound being a bunch of zinc oxide, nitrogen dioxide, nitrous oxide, nitric oxide, and water.

@JSK-projects 11 ай бұрын

@@user-pr6ed3ri2k Thank you for the explanations. I was thinking, would the reaction with zinc also work with other nitrates, as an example sodium nitrate, maybe like this?: 2(NaNO3)+Zn=Zn(NO3)2+ 2(Na)

@user-pr6ed3ri2k 11 ай бұрын

@@JSK-projects While the reaction does work with certain other nitrates (ex: silver, copper, other unreactive metals), it does not work with your specific example. This is because sodium is much, much better at forming stable ions than basically anything else on the table, and would not allow zinc to replace it in compounds.

@CoolockIRA 11 ай бұрын

Got flashbacks when he started crushing white rocks into powder😂

@CatsBtrippin 9 ай бұрын

What do you mean¿ 😉

@thebluefriend 24 күн бұрын

I could hear the disappointment in his voice when the first fire didn't break out that great.

@hangry3102 Ай бұрын

I like how he insinuates at the end that in a certain scenario we'd be leaning over the pile of chemicals and we would accidentally drool on it

@user-no4fq3dt7d 8 ай бұрын

This is also the reaction, that happens with discord moderator's skin when he trying to shower

@cheriesmith9263 11 ай бұрын

Early 4th of July fireworks. 😂

@saltycracker3649 7 ай бұрын

Hey man, I really dig your videos, and this automatically makes me think of an old story about a Greek warfare substance that I believe was referred to as "Greek Fire", which was(from what I can ascertain) a napalm-like goo that would further ignite when water was applied to it.. I would LOVE to see you do a video on this also; I dig your thorough yet summated style of presentation.

@lotion5238 3 ай бұрын

Greek fire was actually used by the Romans

@eeveeofalltrades4780 3 ай бұрын

@@lotion5238let me guess, it was called Greek Fire because it was used to burn the Greeks.

@erdngtn9942 6 ай бұрын

Interesting. One step away from making an advanced IED

@nintendokirby64 11 ай бұрын

Instruction unclear, made three powerful girls

@pradhanh1641 2 ай бұрын

I was waiting for you to say: I can't stop it

@notplair 11 ай бұрын

Thx for giving more knowledge about the world ,some knowledge I should not be possessing

@thenamestails7152 Ай бұрын

TheNamesTails discovered Weakness to Fire from Frost Salts

@N0tAFed 11 ай бұрын

Forbidden pop rocks

@rueme4228 5 ай бұрын

Bro’s trying to make the Dark Powerpuff Girls with that Negative X

@BirdOfHermes8381 Ай бұрын

Atoms and molecules " oh excuse me. Excuse me, Excuuuuuuse meee! "

@EdKolis Ай бұрын

This is now my headcanon for how fire spells work in fantasy.

@SwapPartLLC 2 ай бұрын

Someone needs to bring this with them for a fire starter on Naked and Afraid.

@cursedlegoman5893 11 ай бұрын

I love these videos

@Can_of_arrows_sugars 7 ай бұрын

Yes

@Joeyw-2203 11 ай бұрын

You should recreate the Beruit harbor disaster. That was some combination of ammonia chemicals and heat as well, right?

@froxdoggaming3385 Ай бұрын

We in the gamedev business know negative X as "left"

@davidlloyd3116 6 ай бұрын

Potassium permanganate and glycerol spontaneously catch fire when in contact with each other.

@TheTyisawesome 11 ай бұрын

That piece of sheet metal has been through the ringer lol

@westonding8953 11 ай бұрын

Dangerous stuff!

@Richard-jt6nt 11 ай бұрын

You let Mojo Jojo into the lab and he split some negative x and the power puff girls were born

@DoctorNemmo 11 ай бұрын

For a brief second, it shone brighter than the sun.

@geraldgrieve4106 7 ай бұрын

Try silver nitrate and magnesium powder and add water.

@lMedicineMan 11 ай бұрын

So basically Driver: San Francisco. In this game main villain stole tankers full of ammonia and later some platinum to make hydrogen cyanide and use it as a chemical weapon. I wonder how similar this reaction is to what you showed just there, as I'm no industrial chemist.

@theflamingcookie6480 11 ай бұрын

holy shit i remember playing that game, so much fun

@normaltaro 11 ай бұрын

good game

@duncanburnside3572 11 ай бұрын

(Sturying for a biochem degree) i do not believe it is possible irl. Hydrogen cyanide requires a carbon atom, and there is no carbon present in ammonium nitrate (nh4no3) or platinum. Now if you had methane or another good carbon source, it might be possible, but under the conditions you describe, it is not Edit not to mention i believe it would be in bad taste to accurately describe exactly how to carry out a massively lethal terrorist attack in a videogame

@lMedicineMan 11 ай бұрын

Yeah, not very surprised here that it's like House being a 100% medically accurate TV series

@superslimanoniem4712 9 ай бұрын

@@duncanburnside3572maybe he could get the methane from a gas line in his home?

@DeadBryan 6 ай бұрын

Amazing light yellow fire 🔥

@O111e 24 күн бұрын

I've seen that this stuff can sometimes be set off just by the humidity in the air.

@faycomfaysal 8 ай бұрын

that's was done magicians before people thought magically magnificent

@glassmw9823 11 ай бұрын

That would make some spicy rock candy…

@lordzllorlordzllor3079 3 ай бұрын

Would it be possible to store this in small packets to put in a survival pack to start fires or would it be unsafe?

@KratosAurionPlays Ай бұрын

That stuff seems crazy.

@oa5828 11 ай бұрын

Potassium Permanganate is somewhat similar

@KarunaLOL 11 ай бұрын

You are a TRUE Legend if you understood atleast one thing Nile said. 😂 😂 😂

@dashadowgirl 11 ай бұрын

“k thats awesome”

@dustinholland6700 11 ай бұрын

I mean, it was explained in a pretty concise and comprehensive way, like most of his shorts.

@eavyeavy2864 11 ай бұрын

Npc

@phillpauley6672 9 ай бұрын

Scrape dust off zinc coated bolt. Add ammonium nitrate. Mix well. Add water. How hard is that to understand?

@version365 7 ай бұрын

This ain't Nile 😂

@8OneteAm Ай бұрын

I think this is what makes fireworks

@NeverEndingFire13 Ай бұрын

I love how is Green

@EmpressOfExile206 8 ай бұрын

You just gave me a brilliant idea 💡 I think there's a "no-bake _negative X_ cake" with my ex's (pun intended) name on it, just *_dying_* to be made‼️ 😈💯

@ParisFletcher 10 ай бұрын

The irony of trying to stop a fire with water.

@RedPlayer_1 11 ай бұрын

"It starts 'em on fire"

@barnazadori9227 11 ай бұрын

What if I make snowball sized balls out of this and start throwing it at people in swimming pools?

@_Sree_ 11 ай бұрын

😂😂

@kolelokaram8541 11 ай бұрын

You would develop the sudden need for a lawyer.

@joshuakarr-BibleMan 8 ай бұрын

What about dry, like epsom salt?

@MochiFeelings 4 ай бұрын

And what become of the mixture after combustion? Does it have any other uses afterwards? Genuine question here

@CrookedGravityAnimations Ай бұрын

And finally, add water to make your fire

@davidgriego549 3 ай бұрын

It would make a pretty good fire starter in emergency situations long as you don't do something stupid with this stuff

@goldwolfgaming7821 6 ай бұрын

Then in iowa we all travel 1-3 hours to meet with family, :)

@phillpauley6672 9 ай бұрын

Does this also work with potassium nitrate? Will this or my mix ignite magnesium powder? That'd be a great survival fire starter in wet conditions... Unless you get it wet... Keep the components separate! 😂

@N0P3Sugar 5 ай бұрын

Perfect for creating more fire while they're putting put fire 😂😂

@SkylabBeats 9 ай бұрын

Natural pop rocks 😋

@MUTHU_KRISHNAN_K 11 ай бұрын

I am dying to taste it ,atleast once in my life 😑 It's very strange to see a fire 🔥 (no explosion) caused without any ignition spark

@sachinb8469 5 ай бұрын

Now I know how batman can create those gadgets

@JohnAlbertRigali 6 ай бұрын

You’re entering NileRed’s territory.

@Shadowpixy 11 ай бұрын

Wouldn’t mixing the chemicals in an aluminum container add aluminum to the catalyst? Isn’t that why you’re supposed to mix chemicals in glass so that they don’t come in contact with other contaminants, metals, etc.? Forgive my ignorance, I don’t need everybody to jump on me I’m just asking a question.

@kabir. 11 ай бұрын

Dr Stone in real-life ❤

@redgravegaming9519 11 ай бұрын

Now do another experiment where you chug it down like a Friday night beer pong.

@tonyjd40 7 ай бұрын

What was the catalyst he added?

@namecomingsoon9517 11 ай бұрын

Instructions unclear. I made the perfect little girls

@darrellcook8253 5 ай бұрын

Pink blue and green? Way to go professor!

@awoman3 Ай бұрын

FBI

@ismayonnaiseaninstrument8700 11 ай бұрын

So THAT’S what they meant by ‘spittin’ fire’!

@yaslerfuj 11 ай бұрын

He needs to put something like this in a small fire and try to put it out with water and see what happens.

@Metal_Master_YT Ай бұрын

(For future reference everyone, make sure to do whatever he tells you not to in the title or the experiment wont work)

@aswinkc 11 ай бұрын

If we use Aluminum powder instead of Zinc powder will it work ?

@willythemailboy2 9 ай бұрын

Probably not, as aluminum is actually too reactive. The oxide coating forms effectively instantly and thus the ammonium nitrate solution wouldn't be able to come in contact with aluminum metal. That's why lighting thermite is so difficult: you have to heat the aluminum powder high enough to melt it out of its oxide coating.

@aswinkc 9 ай бұрын

@@willythemailboy2 Thank you

@darrellcook8253 5 ай бұрын

Isn't zinc and sulphur reactive? Zinc powder, burning sulphur, ammonium nitrate and dry chlorine makes a great way to die suddenly. I've mixed up my own concoctions when I was a kid. Mixed in glass with a glass stir stick remotely by a kitchenaid mixer and it went off by itself depending on its mood. The mixtures are critical. Some go boom while mixing some go boom hours after mixing for no apparent reason, some go boom handling it or at the slightest tap and others wouldn't do diddly. One fizzed one rearranged the whole garage. Kids don't try this at home.

@thevikingwarrior 6 ай бұрын

What ever you do, don't put that powder into your mouth! You saliva will give a new kind of headache worse than anything kind of headache.🔥🔥🔥

@mechatech9897 6 ай бұрын

Wait! Is this how fireworks, no, WATERWORKS are made?

@agentraum6993 7 ай бұрын

So thats one ingredient to a la boomba.

@daft_icup 10 ай бұрын

aint that the chemical that made the power puff girls

@jeramieshebester3408 7 ай бұрын

Whe you take 1 bite of a taco be- nevermind

@tntomega Ай бұрын

What is the catalist i can understand you mix ammonium nitrate with zink an add water and mix after you put catalist that you not sayed what is it I know you need ammonum chloride too

@neilredelinghuys3263 11 ай бұрын

will that ignite thermite?😊

@Ayushkumarburnwal 11 ай бұрын

Is this reaction takes place in household batteries ?

@exoticmatter9546 11 ай бұрын

My Brain: Eat it!

@zaglezigawa8415 7 ай бұрын

Now... Where's chemical X? I want my Powerpuff girls!

@bkm83442 6 ай бұрын

Dehydrated fire -- just add water.

@gankie1956 11 ай бұрын

Ammonium Nitrate + stuff = boom

@CB_agotchi 11 ай бұрын

Will it ignite thermite?

@thunderclaws3341 Ай бұрын

What was the catalyst

@anshvanshtyagi5555 11 ай бұрын

This video wanted to be short but due to +1 more second it became a video😅😂

@michaelfouse6317 5 ай бұрын

The Negative X mixture and water get along about as well as my ex wife and I

@philthompson9633 11 ай бұрын

Negative X = Iron Oxide?

@bob-the-one 11 ай бұрын

Dr. Can you give us an explanation on what happened to the titan sub? Like what happens during an inwards explosion and why?

@damienearl8302 7 ай бұрын

If it helps, even three months later, it's basically because there was likely a breach in the walls and all the air got sucked out Since things like oxygen and carbon dioxide are lighter then water, they naturally rise to the surface when the two are introduced to each other, the former will always rise to the top...and the more water there is on top, the more violently the air gets sucked up So then when you have a craft that low down, and even a slight crack forms in the walls, all the air gets sucked out toward the surface of the water with such intense force that the craft crumples in on itself

@f.n.8540 6 ай бұрын

@@damienearl8302 the weight of oxygen has nothing to do with it, the problem was the pressure

@HolahkuTaigiTWFormosanDiplomat 11 ай бұрын

So storage them separately before using

@systemiens 27 күн бұрын

Can you imagine the matches to start those ? 🤔

@abhinavdixit1236 11 ай бұрын

Now make chemical X and then power puff girls

@aroundandround 2 ай бұрын

So the first time you added water, nothing happened, but the second time, it started a fire?

@seb_0711 11 ай бұрын

What happens if you put a ton of it into a swimming pool?

@John-ir4id 11 ай бұрын

Then all the children at your daughter's pool party will die.

@darrellcook8253 5 ай бұрын

The end.

@ebmario874 4 ай бұрын

Title: dont add water!! Thumbnail: *adds water*

@azaankhan5495 11 ай бұрын

cool video title: starting a fire with water

@thenamestails7152 11 ай бұрын

My intrusive thoughts be like "EAT THE FORBIDDEN SUGAR NOW"

@troxical3341 Ай бұрын

spicy sugar

@thenamestails7152 Ай бұрын

@@troxical3341 it looks more like Frost Salts. If you eat it, you gain Weakness To Fire

@MarkoMikulicic 11 ай бұрын

oh gloves? James has gloves !? that stuff must be super dangerous!

@dondin6093 11 ай бұрын

What about the humidity in thr air?

@darrellcook8253 5 ай бұрын

Heating pads. Till you sweat on them. Then things get exciting.