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Visit https://www.thebismuthsmith.com/ to save 25% on all of his bismuth decor items! ---------------------------------------- Pepto-Bismol contains bismuth subsalicylate, and its possible to extract the bismuth from it and use it to grow metal crystals. This is a re-visit of a project that I attempted a few years ago: https://youtu.be/grpSfjUImUs Nile talks about lab safety: https://youtu.be/ftACSEJ6DZA ------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nilered

My friends Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/ray.uppal/ Sorry, the Teespring store is closed, but I'm working on making the t-shirts available elsewhere! ---------------------------------------- In this video, I continue my amalgam series and I attempt to make the so-called ammonium amalgam. This was done by combining an ammonium salt with sodium amalgam that I made in a previous video. Link to 1865 paper: https://goo.gl/3NVehp Sodium amalgam video: https://youtu.be/SoOyaDWIoMA Nil

In this video, I get a bit back into making compounds with odors and scents. I chose to go with Raspberry Ketone, because I thought it was an interesting molecule and the synthesis seemed fun. However, in the future, I think I'm going to venture into the territory of nasty smelling compounds. For some reason, I enjoy the suffering that they bring. Procedure: https://bit.ly/2P8pBpv Nile talks about lab safety: https://youtu.be/ftACSEJ6DZA ------------------------------------------- Patreo

Metal has no odor and you can't smell it. But what are we smelling then? It turns out that it's mostly a chemical called 1-octen-3-one, which is generated when your skin oils react with metal that you've touched. I thought this was really interesting, and I decided to try making pure 1-octen-3-one myself and to see what it smelled like. Procedure: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004040390202004X Background info: https://www.nature.com/news/2006/061023/full/news061023-7.ht

A few months ago, one of my patrons sent me a bunch of old gold jewelry for me to refine. I originally thought that it was going to just be some gold plated stuff, but it turned out to be quite a bit of gold. I was able to purify out all of the gold and then melt them down into some small 24K pure gold bars.

For this video, I make a chemical called manganese heptoxide, which is an unstable and strong oxidizer. It looks for any excuse to decompose and it reacts violently with most organic things. I tested it on a few things like cotton balls and paper, as well as solvents like acetone and ethanol. I also tried firing a small liquid rocket with it.

Back in October, I tried making ferrofluid but I kept failing and I ended up giving up for a while. Months later though, I got inspired, and I spent an insane amount of time researching ferrofluid and trying to make it. It was a very messy and sometimes frustrating process, but I was eventually successful. The method that I came up with still isn't perfect, but as far as I know, it's the best and most functional method available on the internet.

Sometime last year, I got really interested in microwave plasma, which can be made from a lot of things like lit matches, aluminum foil or just some grapes. However, when I went searching for more info about it, I really couldn't find much of anything. There was also no explanation as to why it was yellow every time, regardless of what it was made from. So, I decided to investigate this a little bit and try to get to the bottom of it.

In this video, I make one of my favorite chemicals, which is a nice and carcinogenic chromium-based liquid.

**Major correction: I wrongly and repeatedly referred to T. Reesei as being a yeast, when it is actually another type of fungus. Yeast is also a type of fungus, so my comments about reaction conditions remain true, but it is incorrect to call T. Reesei a yeast. Or to say that the cellulase came from yeast. **small correction: I also said that 20ml of 20% , when it was supposed to be 25ml. For this video, I'm going to be doing exactly what the title says, and I'll be turning a roll of toilet p

For this video, I'll be making the world's first real diamond water. To do this, I'll be burning diamonds, which are nearly pure carbon (and definitely not "forever"), to make diamond CO2 gas and then using that CO2 to make extremely expensive carbonate water. Contest link: http://bit.ly/2ZwEPd8 Nile talks about lab safety: https://youtu.be/ftACSEJ6DZA ------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nilered Youtube Membership: https://www.youtube.com/c/nilered/j