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Making nasty soap

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What I have here is just a bunch of drain cleaner and I'm gonna use it to make some nasty soap. And by nasty, I mean that I'll be using things like celery, Oreos and skatole for the scents.

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Making color changing mercury

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Today I have some nice and shiny mercury metal, and I'm gonna do something that I think is kind of magical.

More specifically, I want to make color changing mercury, and to do that, I need to make mercury (II) iodide. What's special about mercury (II) iodide is that it exhibits something called thermochromism, meaning that it changes colors, at different temperatures.

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Turning air into alcohol

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For years now, I have been dreaming of turning air into alcohol and after years of work, I am happy to say that I finally did it!

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Catalyst - https://pubs.acs.org/accacs/article-abstract/11/18/11742/417288/Direct-Conversion-of-CO2-to-Ethanol-Boosted-by?redirectedFrom=PDF (Thank you Yang Wang!)

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Chapters:
00:00 - How it's even possible
2:54 - Getting H2O/CO2 from air
9:23 - Building the reactor system
13:09 - Picking the catalyst
15:03 - Making the Fe based catalyst
31:57 - Wetness impregnation
35:41 - Making the CuZnAl catalyst
47:07 - The result of 2 years of work
49:49 - Adding the CO2/H2O
1:02:38 - Running it for the first time
1:11:32 - Upgrading the system
1:12:45 - Running it again
1:19:35 - Cleaning up the result
1:23:05 - Tasting my air alcohol

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These metals melt when pushed together

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For a while now, I've wanted to try mixing gallium and indium metal together by shoving them into each other, where something interesting should happen.

More specifically, they form an alloy that's liquid at room temperature, and when mixed with tin, they form something called Galinstan. Galinstan is a lot like mercury, and is often used as a less toxic replacement, in things like thermometers.

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Making liquid nitrogen from scratch (an absurd amount)

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For as long as I can remember, I've always been fascinated by liquid nitrogen and I've always wanted to be able to make it myself, but I never did because it just seemed too difficult. Recently though, for some unknown reason, I felt that I was ready to try doing it, despite having basically no experience with stuff like this, and I decided to just go for it.

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Chapters:
0:00 - Liquid air & my LN2 mission
02:25 - Researching & my plan
04:33 - Getting all of the pieces
14:23 - Attaching the cryocooler
20:06 - Does the cryocooler work?
28:30 - Testing the Dewar
29:49 - Putting everything together
35:51 - The moment of truth
41:37 - Extracting the LN2
46:47 - My LN2 dream is now real!

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Making a bouncy ball from scratch

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For this one, I'm going to try to synthesize a bouncy ball. Basically I'm making something called Thiokol rubber, and hopefully as a ball, it'll be bouncy.

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Potassium metal is like weird butter

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I have this little tube, that been been sitting on my desk for over a month. What's inside is potassium metal, that looks gross and dirty because it's so reactive, and it's soft like weird butter.

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The clear ice myth

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A while ago I made some perfectly clear ice using a cooler, and I thought it was pretty cool. There were a lot of comments though, that said I could have saved a lot of time and effort, by just boiling the water, so I've decided to test that out.

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Liquefying nails is crazy

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This is just a bunch of regular nails and I really want to try and liquefy them. Normally this would be pretty difficult, but I bought this little induction heater on eBay, which should be able to do it.

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Mixing sodium and potassium is crazy

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For a while now, I've been wanting to make an explosive liquid metal, and all I need is some sodium and some potassium. And after mixing them together, I eventually had a perfect liquid metal ball. Finally, I pulled some of it out with a syringe, because there's just one thing I have to try.

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