+lightvsdark21 Hey, thanks! Let me know if you want to see anything. Maybe I can make a video for you.

you heard correctly :)

the smell sounds lovely. It's good we do not have smell-a-vision :)

+mechadrake I can only imagine. Some of the phosphorus compounds I work with are truly foul but I'm pretty sure S2Cl2 is on another level.

@@elnombre91 The smell is not easily described, but it is by far the worst I have encountered. I wouldn't say it necessarily smells like rotting flesh, although it is reminiscent of that. It smells more like what you would expect a chlorine compound and hydrogen sulfide to smell like. For the most part, however, you do not come into contact with it during this synthesis since it must not contact the air.

I agree the beaker usage is top notch

apart from alkalies, a lot of reducing agents come to mind for dealing with chlorine (FeCl2, sodium sulfite and thiosulfate, even carbonate and bicarbonate)

I don't recall him saying it was with cotton, so could be glass wool? That's what I would use. And I'm sure he knows better too.

He uses glass wool, not cotton.

Instead you could use a gas washing flask, filled with conc. H2SO4, and bubble the clorine through it.

no mercury chemistry! Yes, its interesting, but if there is soluble or even organic mercury anywhere around me id escape asap its not a fucking joke to play with these kinds of things

Wanting to make meth, are we?

Morten Harrysson he's getting it to work right now bro

He got it to work about a year ago and posted a video on it.

Agreed! Amazing channel

theawt Not in 2018 Bro!! He is posting more videos

@@KTEX78 and now he's awol again. He disappears about every other year and never updates on whether he will continue making videos or not.

+Barnekkid But it certainly won't taste like whiskey!

+Zmrzlinafication Or smell like it.

it must be carbon. all types of sulfur react with chlorine, so considering the excess of chlorine and high temperature in the flask, the remnant was definitely not sulfur

+slateflash Working on it, I promise. It's harder than it seems!

+Doug's Lab Make a video on iodine heptafluoride too.

And Doug goes awol again without making the video...

@@DougsLab You could dehydrate sodium bisulfate to sodium pyrosulfate, and then on heating it would yield sodium sulfate and sulfur trioxide gas. According to wikipedia you should then be able to get thionyl chloride by bubbling that through sulfur dichloride. What complications are you running into? Here's a preparation from a cookbook I have: Flask A of the apparatus in Fig. 166 is charged with pure 65% oleum, flask B with 100 g. of SC12 (see p. 370). Flasks is slowly heated in an H2SO4 bath, while B is cooled with an ice-water bath. The stoichiometric quantity of SO3 is thus gradually distilled onto the SCl2. The reaction proceeds with SO2 evolution (use a hood!). Partial solidification of the flask contents frequently occurs at the beginning. However, the contents should again be completely liquid when the addition is completed. If necessary, the flask is heated at the end for a short time on a water bath. Flask A is then disconnected, the ground joint at Q is stoppered, and the mixture is slowly distilled through a column (use a hood!). The mixture must be protected from contact with atmospheric moisture. The middle fraction is further purified by repeated careful fractionation, with S added to the distillation charge in order to convert all sulfur chlorides present to S2Cl2. The contents are distilled through an efficient column until a completely colorless product, coming over at 76-77°C, is obtained. The yield is about 80% of theoretical.

+WeekendScience There are quite a few uses. I will hopefully be demonstrating some in upcoming videos! When I disassemble the chlorine generator I use a spray bottle with aqueous ammonia to neutralize the remaining gas. The fan sucks out the NH4Cl smoke.

Calcium hypochlorite.

I had to google that... Mustard gas >_

The Cl2 is getting used up so if the rate of Cl2 production is low enough it should all get taken up by the S without any excess getting past the reaction flask Also at 8:52 of the video you can see a line attached to the vacuum adaptor which likely leads to the back of the fund hood for any excess Cl2 to vent.

Sex!!!!!

SEX, sodium ethyl xanthate.

the SCl4

Avon Pubudu Jayaweera it will most certantly not create concentrated hcl, easier to distill it to its azeotrope and work with that.

Why bother with such palaver..? It's far more simple to just burn sulphur and bubble the SO2 through ice cold hydrogen peroxide solution (as strong as you can get) chemplayer has a good tutorial on b!tchute detailing the proceedure.

@@antejl7925 The yield is vastly different. The SO2/peroxide method gives a linear yield. Sulfur chlorides are a self creating catalyst the rate of production is exponential and the reaction proceeds at room temperature.

What reaction is that? (S2Cl2 + ethylene)

You evil busted...

1. sulfur mustard gas (by reacting it with ethylene) 2. make a C-S bond by reacting it with hydrocarbon thats pretty much everything

mark wellman what's that

Why? They are expensive and the same results can be produced with much less glassware and money.

Interestingly, one can slow the playback of youtube videos right there in settings.

Perfectly fine speed for me

knock off of an edgelord.

How is it a knock off? Cody rarely does anything as technical as this. I watch both for different reasons.

Doug's videos go back 7 years or more. Cody was a 12 year old when Doug started making videos LoL

Bradyn Austin dafuq are you saying? Cody's channel is older than doug's

No no no. Doug's lab was making videos WAAAAAYYYYYY before Cody did. Doug has had 3 different incarnations, this is just his most recent.