Warning: Nitroglycerin is extreme, blah blah blah try this at home.

"nitric and sulfuric acid are corrosive" "methanol is toxic" "dont try this at home" Well there goes my plans for the evening

I went to high school in the 80s and we nitrided quite a few things in chemistry class. We made celluloid, the stuff AC/DC wrote a song about and , of course, the heart medicine. It was fun. And the tests we did afterwards in the yard nearly knocked the windows out of the school building. Fun times. Too bad all the generations after 1970 missed out on absolutely all the fun in education. Love your videos, btw. Way underrated channel!!!

I ran a biodiesel rig down in Peru for about three months. We heated the (filtered) used cooking oil in a recycled (~40 gallon) water heater. With enough time in that stage you can boil off any water that's in the oil. I then added both a measured amount of methanol and lye and let that heat some more. The water heater assembly had a clear tube connection below it which allowed the glycerine to be dropped out of the mixture. Using a complicated system of pumps, the biodiesel then goes to the first of three bubble tanks. Each cleaning stage was in an approximately 65-gallon tank with a typical aquarium air bubbler at the bottom. Once it's made the rounds it's then ready to be stored in a 55-gallon drum. We ran the volunteer truck on 100% biodiesel and it ran just fine. The glycerine then is stored and turned into soap in a different process.

The headache you get from inhaling the fume of nitroglycerin is freaking strong, multiple times stronger than not having coffee for a day (As a coffee addict). Another tip for testing any energetic compound is to tape the confined aluminium foil on the hammer instead, so you don't have to aim.

I dont understand, that someone with such interesting videos only has 16,5k subs. You deserve so much more than that. The videos are interseting, and entertaining.

Yay, another video to cement my place on one or more watchlists.

This was a fun video to watch. But all of your videos are really fun to watch. I'm really glad that I found your channel!

Biodiesel was one of the first chemical experiments i showed my seven year old nephew. Forgot to mention you could use the glucerin to make stuff go boom (:

Glycerin is quite sweet! It's one of the two main components of eliquid (or "vape juice", if you will) which is a big reason why almost all flavors are sweet. Also, fog machines 😝

Nice video! To remove water from the glycerin a vacuum distillation works perfect. Low heat and the water comes over first. When no more water comes over youre done. I use a short path distillation aparatus because it's less work with the setup and less glasswork to clean afterwards.

"this brand new, never before used bottle of oil"😂

Visually appealing to watch, informative, easy to follow all with subtle good humor sprinkled in there? Sign me up. First video watched and already subscribed.

i'm not too sure but the gel that formed could be some kind of soap. I've made biodiesel in the past and it usually formed when some water was present in the mixture, it can happen because there is some moisture left in the vegetable oil or because the hydroxide absorbed it from air, especially if it has been conserved for a long time (maybe in a not completely air-tight container). To avoid that, I usually pre heat the oil to about 120°C in order to remove all the water and "bake" the hydroxide to over 150°C to dry it completely. By the way if it doesn't interfere too much with the next reactions you can remove the solid junk and proceede anyway

Nice video. Sidenote: I don't think it matters for the hemistry, but I think this is canola oil and not sunflower oil (you can see Kujawski branding on the cap and to the best of my knowledge they only make canola oil).

You deserve a way bigger audience! Your videos are so well researched and edited!

I so love your style of honest comedy. "Because I am lazy".... relatable.

love your humour :) i often can't add up the science of chemistry, it's all spaghetti wrapped up in string encased in knotted jewelry to me, but i do enjoy watching. Thanks :)

Ah. Miss the explosive days of Cody'sLab. Blew a lock right open with nitroglycerin. And don't flick it with a knife. That was a mistake

Bardzo ciekawy pomysł z syntezą nitrogliceryny z oleju :D Oby ci przybyło jak najwięcej subskrybujących, twoje filmy zdecydowanie na to zasługują!

A very informative and enjoyable video! A bit too bright for my taste but still very good! I really like the brightness with the dark background.

You are a serious but still funny chemist. Keep up the good work!

SO I saw this in my feed and immediately assumed it was a Nile Red video. It's cool to see someone else doing some crazy stuff like this.

I can’t wait to replicate this at home as soon as my mom leaves for work.

Thank you for a very good and educational video. I have no intention of making nitro, but you video has removed several doubts and concerns.

In Germany you write a small scientific paper in 10th grade. Ive made my about Biodiesel. I look forward to your video about it :)

I made a very small amount of Armstrong mix once. Packed it into a little bit of duck tape and whacked it with my shoe. Now, that was something that really REALLY didn’t want to exist. It exploded so violently that it chipped the concrete and echoed throughout the city of Akita for several seconds.

It’s one of your early subscribers here i’ve been waiting for this fire video since you said you were going to make it on the 15k subscriber post

Dude thanks! Ive been looking for a way to make nitroglycerin since i saw it in an episode of graceland and watched it jump out pot and go boom. Crazy.

ah the power of chemistry 😁 from a common vegetable oil to one of the most powerful explosives known.. Nice video!

Sweden really liked your video, keep it up man!

Amazing job well do congrats on 16k

O czesc. Tez robiłem nitroglicerynę, na chemii na uni zostawili nas po godzinach z mieszaniną nitrująca pod dygestorium ^^

For the yield on average triglycerides have a molar mass of around 885 g/mol and TNG mmass is 92.09 g/mol. This makes glycerine 10.41% of vegetable oils mass stoichiometrically. If you started with 425ml vegetable oil (i know you said 400 but the markings on the beaker say otherwise) that would be 391 grams adjusted for density. If you had a perfect yield the total amount of glycerine from oil would be 40.73 grams. So, finally, your approximate yeild would be 13.01% (5.3/40.73). This is just my calculation based on web sources and, like stated in the video, getting a precisce triglyceride molar mass is difficult. Hope this was interesting.

Legit love your voice, it's hysterical

It's great to see your channel grow! I'd like to do the biodiesel synthesis

Hey Amateur Chemist! Thank you for doing these videos. Your English is fantastic. Love your accent and your choice of words. May I give a suggestion? If you REALLY want to sound English, remember that the 'a' or 'an' preposition changes depending on the vowel of the subject: a CEMENT road, an ASPHALT road. I see even Americans getting it wrong. You tha man Chemist!

Always a pleasure to see your videos !! i have a question: how do you get concentrated sulfuric acid in europe ? Lastly it could be really cool to have your own discord server to chat with the community

this is a amazing video, your very underated

I watched all of it and i almost lost time that was so fantastic

The cloudiness in the alkali hydroxide solution in methanol is caused by carbonates btw. Those form very fast by air and the carbon dioxide in it reacting with the alkali hydroxide. They are extremely sensitive to CO2 besides being extremely hygroskopic. The reactions shown really are cool and interesting, because they are so easy and only need a few very common chemicals. But the synthesis of nitroglycerine is very dangerous, especially when done correctly to get as much of a yield as possible. This needs to be done with very specific amounts of educts and at specific temperatures, producing lots of fully nitrated nitroglycerine, which is pretty sensitive. Doing the easier synthesis keeping the temperature rather low yields a mixture of nitroglycerine and partly nitrated glycerine, which is much safer. And very cool detail that you mentioned that nitroglycerine isn't a typical nitrate but an ester! Edit: Fun fact: The chemists working in dynamite factories (back then personal safety wasn't really a thing. Not comparable with today, where security is the most important thing. In the west at least, not really in china, india etc...) took up so much nitroglycerine by skin contact etc. that when they went on vacation, they had to take dilute (medical) nitroglycerin with them to inject from time to time, because they were so exposed to it and got such a tolerance that they suffered from extreme headaches without it! Back then work in a lab meant lots of new discoveries, but I still prefer working in a modern lab with modern safety precautions^^

Always remember to check the purity of your bases with the unholy oil indicator. Yellow chem.

Thanks for sharing subscribed great video. I'm interested in chemistry and will be watching your videos to learn more.

Great upload, very interesting, very informative, and very well done. What was that object thrown into the mix that started spinning and did the mixing for you? Back in the days when we did chemistry at school, we had no such thing which makes me wonder if it is something that has come around later or if it was available three decades ago🤔. If it was, I would like to call my old chemistry teacher and make him come over and stir my coffee...once a week for two years.😅😅

You know those people who breakdown video's for you to understand I hope someone makes one.😂kidding! 😊good video!

They say biodiesel has lower energy density than diesel, but quite a good alternative especially to places where a lot of used cooking oil as well as small scale cooking oil processing facilities.

Amazing video, I would never try to make nitroglycerin myself as this stuff is very unstable and could go off 💥 on its own!

From other making bio diesel recommend using NaCl instead of NaOH for the esterification step, because, one, in solution the Na and Cl disassociate, allowing the same reaction but only more heat required, two, no accidental Soap produced from NaOH reacting directly with the newly formed fatty acids.

Very interesting instructive and entertaining thank you for shearing your knowledge.

You took of the sticker but the print of our best polish cooking oil is still there in the cap ^^ Good video tho!

I found this video more of a comedy than a tutorial 😂 but as unstable as that stuff is it's insane to try that at home

Glad this isn't censored. The processes involved in making bio diesel are nice, but i'd hope you approach it on a more industrious scale. The impurities in your nitro glycerine suggests that maybe the biodiesel video will produce it sub optimally or inefficiently, but i hope to be surprised. I view this as an important piece of 1800's technology and would hope that industrious folk retain this knowledge specifically because of it's parallels to soapmaking and biodiesel, which are themselves crucial technology for people to retain.

When I think of Nitroglycerin, I am reminded of the old western movies. Where it is transported in small glass bottles on a wooden wagon. It always seems to end badly!

lol loving the commentary (You got my sub lol)

I've made biodiesel before and yeah it's almost the same process (minus the nitration) but we'd normally throw away all that glycerine, never occured to me that I've thrown away litres of stuff that could go boom if you wanted to hah. cool video.

Can't wait to watch the video on biodiesel!

Im excited for this one

Great video! Thank you for the inspiration!

Cool video. Chemistry is fascinating. If I could do it all over again I would have became a Chemist.

Mmmm... Dynamite. You are hearby awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Next video: Making plutonium fuel rods (don't try this at home)

Safety is paramount ! I do all my experiments in my brother's room, so that my stuff won't be affected in case something goes sideways... 😉

At the beginning of this I was like yes I want to do this and then you got into it and realized holy shit this is way too dangerous and I decided not to. but this amazing. great video

Thank you for doing this safely. I like to see the chemistry, but I do not want to involve myself with chemicals such as these.

Any chance you can show us a safe way to make a small to medium thermonuclear device at home using common household items? Thank you.

This guy is definitely trying hard not to make a nuke in his backyard

Lazy, but it worked ! Nice video. Good call to destroy it after synthesis - there really is no point 'storing' anything that you know how to make. As a vasodilator, generally 5% in water sprayed under the tongue works. Interestingly it still isn't fully understood why it works first on the veins before the arteries. Maybe i got those switched around.

Glad I could experience this safely from my home.

no worries, I know explosives and would never attempt to make nitro glycerine, I like my fingers, toes, eyes, hands etc., but the chemistry is cool to watch

I definantly didn't download this video.

Where I live, they sell a solid glycerine for soap making, but I wonder how pure it is, being a solid at room temperature? I would have saved the nitrification acid mix, as they don't break down, and can be saved. While the acids do reduce in concentration, they still work for small projects. I take nitroglycerine pills for a heart arrhythmia problem, and I get a headache from it, but not as bad as the migraine headaches I used to get!

"i hope you lerned something new and now don't want to make nitro glycerin"😂

Tolles Video!❤

i really enjoy your videos !!! one thing that puzzles me is you are not in the youtube's recommendary , "hey i just coined a new word " LOL , ,,,,,,,,,,,of the ( top 10 chemistry channels ) !!! ....................................................... anywho keep up the good work !!!

Nitroglycerin is also heart medicine. It's a vascular dilator. So if you knew dosage side and SHTF you could keep grand from having a heart attack or stroke.

Here we go! To another watchlist.

I would like to know what was the thing you put into it to make it spin to mix it while it heats up. I could use it for cooking some food .

the bio disel part was very interesting, what would be the cost in larger scale?

Super! Fascination! Thank you very much! I am probe sodium amalgame into vegetable oil.

"Hey - I've just made a couple of litres of nitroglycerine - what do I do now? Hello... hello.... anybody there?"

Hi I used to regularly run My Diesel Land Rover on used vegetable oil I got from the local restaurants. All You need to do is drip it through a filter to get the impurities out and add 5% of white spirit or paraffin/kerosene. It ran just fine but smelled of frying burgers! ; - )

I did not watch this, it was just sitting in my KZfaq recommendation which is hilarious.

Can ethanol alcohol be used instead? What about just mixing burnt or slaked lime (from roasting oyster shells) with the oil, wouldn't calcium stearate precipitate out ? Calcium stearate being insoluble should just be filtered out. Would that make glycerin? Calcium stearate is supposedly what soap scum is that forms on a bath tub, comes from soap (sodium sterate ) reacting with calcium in the water.

woww nitroglycerin we needed a manual for that

My dad worked on a hydroelectric project in the '50s. He told how they used to use gelignite to make a camp-fire because it burns real good. Soldiers in Vietnam used C4 stuck to the bottom of a canteen cup to heat water for coffee, sometimes scooped out of claymore mines. Is there anything HE can't do?

Is it possible to make medical Nito into the explosive kind? I'm assuming the medical type is greatly diluted, however not sure how you could re constitute it safely.

If you use glycerol instead of methanol, can you make mono- and diglycerides?

Aaaaand now we’re probably on a watchlist. Thanks dingus

So interesting BUT your killing me with your narration! 😂😂🙉 Was it a form of deterrent? 😅

I wonder how well the biodiesel is lubricated vs regular #2 pump diesel. Would an additive be needed?

Just throwing this in here: YT has been recommending me very small channels much more than usually lately. And I mean videos with 20 views kind of small. I clicked on this video from front page.

4:18 OG NileRed crossover 😂😂

3:17 - the soap wouldn't be any "pain to separate" fro, glycerine - back in high school we were making soap on "Industrial chemistry" classes/ lab work, and I happened to be assigned , at one of those, with making soap. Long story short, is separates "by itself" after the reaction is done - all you need to do is to keep it warm (so the soap would stay liquid) and just wait. It takes few hours to separate the soap and glycerine, but other than that it totally "painless". EDIT -tej no, jakie "no promoting any oil company" - przeca każden widzi, (4:33) że to olej KUJAWSKI... ;-)

If you were to add aluminum flash powder, would it set off a spontaneous combustion and if not would it accelerate the explosion?

Hi! Is this gasmask is protecting me from Nitrogen-dioxide , The red fume when we drop something into hn03 for example copper, and what kind of gasmask filter you use ? Coal? thx

“This is a terrible idea…” I’m intrigued “…very dangerous, but also can save lives…” I love the dual argument “…so, here’s how to make it…” I think we’re friends now.

Corn jelly is neat heat it up very slowly add ground corn for more oily fun.

Can't wait to make my first batch!

As cool as it is to make the boom boom juice, I'm mostly interested in the biodiesel. Can you show a process to turn waste oil or waste vegetable oil into biodiesel?

You're a real heartbreaker and I need my medicine