Nilered must not be a great gardener. he managed to kill a metal tree

@Jaybiiird

3 жыл бұрын

I guess he doesn't have a silver thumb ;)

@kayagorzan

3 жыл бұрын

A metaljack huh

@razorwolf2758

Жыл бұрын

Y’all who are thinking of making a metal joke shush

@thejadesword2520

Жыл бұрын

oof

@DarthPotato1123

Жыл бұрын

@@razorwolf2758 why

its been a year, lets see how its held up

@Stefan45678

4 жыл бұрын

2 now

@rexmortimus5520

4 жыл бұрын

Indeed

@slyquick

4 жыл бұрын

Show us your tree

@gideonbudd8945

4 жыл бұрын

Commun it's ironic that your picture is Saturn

@declanziolkowski

3 жыл бұрын

It's been two years let's see how it's held up

Awesome, I knew you were working on this video for awhile it turned out great and thanks for the shoutout! Shame about not being able to save the crystals. My idea was mix up some polyester resin and inject in into the bottom of the beaker. I bet the lead would still oxidize though.

@zaneabrams7110

6 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing with the resin, not sure if the thickness/weight of the resin would end up damaging the crystals during the pouring process. It would certainly look pretty cool if it worked though.

@TheKnaeckebrot

6 жыл бұрын

why not try to submerge it quickly in silicone-oil ... or try to put it under nitrogen / vacuum with some Iron-powder to get rid of remaining oxygen?

@kehlerpete5379

5 жыл бұрын

I remember in highschool chemistry my teacher showed us the process of lead cyanide (I'm not 100% sure thats what it was) crystalizing after she took the breaker off of the burner. I remember beautiful yellow/gold crystals seeming to form as specks and they grew and grew into an amazing Crystal structure that would all fade away back to a clear liquid as soon as it was put on the burner again. Is there any way you could re create that experiment?

@sydneyhunt6681

3 жыл бұрын

Do you think that this could be a way of cleaning up battery acid do you think anyone ?!?!?!?!?!?!? 🤔

@user-pr6ed3ri2k

Жыл бұрын

300thliker

You should do something along the lines of an "Early Chemistry" type thing, I personally really enjoy the alchemical names of compounds, and think that a series about the more chemistry portions of alchemy would be amazing.

I see this video daily in my recommendations, and i still read “Meth crystals” every time

You can try to displace out the water with a dense, clear resin. (with no dissolved CO2 of course) Then, once the resin hardens you can take it out and display it

@manickn6819

6 жыл бұрын

That's exactly what i was going to suggest. Some prior experimentation to ensure no reaction would make sense.

@pyro3138

6 жыл бұрын

^My thoughts

@jmpattillo

6 жыл бұрын

My thought exactly. You can get resins that have a low initial viscosity that may work well

@chiragpatil2052

6 жыл бұрын

A good UV resin like NOA68T and 365nm UV bulb from underneath for a few minutes should bake it well.

@nickjc1999

6 жыл бұрын

That's a very good idea, however the resin couldn't be much more viscous than the water or it might disrupt the crystals; they looked very delicate to me.

O chemisTree, O ChemisTree, How steadfast are Your branches!

@lizlee8715

3 жыл бұрын

So underrated.

@N1c0T1n3__

3 жыл бұрын

Ok, Mr White.

I was sure the title said "Growing Meth crystals" until I read it properly..

You can try to seal individual dentrites between glass slides with CA glue. With that technique I was able to preserve a snowflake.

@nameirrelevant1114

6 жыл бұрын

It didn't melt?

@googleeatsdicks

6 жыл бұрын

The CA glue was below 0 °C and cyanoacrylate needs water to polymerize. I left it in the freezer for a day and by that time the ice crystals were replaced by a white CA structure which looks exactly like the snowflake.

@nameirrelevant1114

6 жыл бұрын

Shit dude that's dope

@krtm7231

6 жыл бұрын

photo please!

@googleeatsdicks

6 жыл бұрын

I don't have photos but there are plenty instructions and photos online. Just one edit: one day in the freezer might not be enough.

“it became a miserable white crusty mess” me during my 3rd week of school

@mambafoo4083

4 жыл бұрын

Bruh U stole my joke 4 months before I even got to say it 😭

@heartcrafts3426

4 жыл бұрын

@@mambafoo4083 Don't worry bro, you at least got it 3months before I did. 😁

@jbk0

2 жыл бұрын

ummm why white...?

@kt8oz

2 жыл бұрын

@@jbk0 probably because im white. i wrote this super long ago tho i cant even remember watching the video lol

@jbk0

2 жыл бұрын

@@kt8ozoh, I thought it was because of cum lmao

Your love & interest of chemistry and science are inspiring. Keep up the good work!

"I knocked it over..." Thats like, a must for chemists, at least trice...

I was hoping for an continuous time lapse and the last one awesome! Also, the pearly white background is really nice for these videos.

You should grow it in a separation funnel, when it has fully grown, you can replace the lead solution with some other liquid by slowly emptying the funnel while you're adding the liquid. The other solution could be either an inert liquid or a clear casting plastic.

@Godspeed7955

6 жыл бұрын

great idea

@pseudomonad

6 жыл бұрын

most casting resins aren't water-soluble, so it'd need to go via a thorough wash with acetone or something.

I love this beautiful fractal structure

Great videos, thanks for the consistent format!

How’s the tree of Saturn doing?

My man NileRed for the new year. Yisss. Love your content dude.

Growing metal crystals are always beautiful! Nice video!

love your channel, and the quality of your videos is just amazing keep it up

You read "Crystal Meth" and so did I.

@talosine2963

4 жыл бұрын

...yeah

@bunnybae483

3 жыл бұрын

Me to man

@jayc140

3 жыл бұрын

Guilty as charged officer

Peter Brown might be able to dip some crystals in resin...

@henryjiang9664

6 жыл бұрын

Aaron Higgins Pretty sure that they are too fragile, but it would be cool if it worked

@tuesdaywithanh

4 жыл бұрын

I don't know how he'd get the resin in without taking the crystals out of the water, but I would love to see it

@outistynnanyt5153

4 жыл бұрын

I was thinking tbe same thing

@cecilialopes9158

4 жыл бұрын

This comment is waaay too much underated 😂

@DestructableGames

4 жыл бұрын

Duuuuuude. Yes.

That looks super cool!

Cool stuff as always!

The first one look the best.nice large protruding crystals

I know it’s old but I love to rewatch it!

happy new year +nilered

Maaaan look at that beautiful dendritic crystal structure

Another incredible video. You’ve got my 7 year old son interested in chemistry. Couldn’t thank you enough for that!!!!

That was really neat. A good example of inorganic chem at work.

Love your videos, you're a champion. Thank you! :D

Try coating it in "CrystalGel by Rosco" - It sets to a transparent plastic-like coating, and can be thinned with water, so should be fine if you go straight from the water bath to the gel.

Beauty cannot always be captured, but maybe revisited occasionally.

your videos are so freaking cool

I was watching your new videos from my tent at the Falls Music Festival, whilst I was stuck there during the torrential rain etc. I felt right at home...

Big fan of your videos!! My interest in organic chemistry has grown because of you. Love from India!

@akhilthechemist

6 жыл бұрын

anurag gundeti see my this video you know about common chemicals and where to get them kzread.info/dash/bejne/dXuKo5d_kqfWg8o.html

I don't know why but I just love listening to his voice

it's so beautiful

Love your video thanks.

that was cool man !

I love those crystalisation vieos, for me it is much more than nice looking, it is chemical self organisation at work and I can't wrap my head around it.

I have no idea what's going on in half of your videos guys it's always fanaciting

Happy new year

Resin dip would probably be your best bet, would also add som buoyancy to make the tree spead out a bit again.

I have seen almost all your videos and I think it would really cool if you made a series on different elements as you did with Mercury

I think that's how the energy shape itself through this element and the solution do something like dismantling and slowing that energy and that's how you can see its shape like this REALLY COOL STUFF I like that

This was really cool! Thank you. I just subscribed to your channel.

The crystal growth is like watching paint dry. Fine lead based paint that is

Boil the water prior to rid any disolved gasses. If possible see if you can run the reaction in a container where you can drain the bottom. Displace the water with a light solvent like hexane or ethylacetate. Preserve it in the solvent.

Nice video and fantastic

That explains the white crust on the lead pipes I had removed in my flip houses.

Let's see the progress

It's so pretty

my class used your video during quarentine because we didn't have lab access (online). so thank you

In very surprised with how affordable your glassware is on your site! I expected it to be much more expensive, due to it being lab-grade and branded with your name. I will definitely be buying some

@TheBackyardScientist

6 жыл бұрын

oh wow just checked it out. its a better deal than stuff from ebay thanks Nile!

You could make the lead trees then dilute/displace any ions in the solution before electroplating it with a more durable metal, and also a nice shine. Gold would look really interesting.

Man, this was freakin' AWESOME. Just subbed. Hope there's an update! ^_^

It would be super awesome if the reaction could be done in some sort of concoction that could be polymerized into a plastic / acrylic matrix, without removing or disturbing the crystals!

7:50 who knew that Lead crystals could be soo relaxing 😌😌

Amazing!

Yum! Lead crystals!

Nice crystals

Go straight from the water into a solution that won’t react with resin, then right into the resin. Cast it in a clear block essentially

The colour of Galena (PbS) is pretty close to these lead crystals with slightly more blueish purple tint to it. neat.

I love to see those timelapdses, could keeping the vase in ice during the reaction slow the process and form bigger cristals? Thanks!

woooowww i watch your vedios and get very much inspired you are a genius

@NileRed

6 жыл бұрын

lol thanks!

@shwetashenoy3005

6 жыл бұрын

maria Taylor 😁😁😄

@Robocop-qe7le

6 жыл бұрын

Shweta Shenoy groupies

I thought it said "Meth Crystals" and I got extremely worried

Stumbled on this one by accident, wonder if you would be interested in designing an experiment to determine how much if any lead is actually dissolved out of glass crystal decanters into liquors? My first thought is that over time, any lead on the surface of the crystal will be dissolved out and they will be safe. If so, how long would that take? etc. Thanks for all the cool videos!

Tin crystals are very fine as well but I leanred that using corningware to melt it and then cooling it gets crystals to grow because the corningware is a ceramicglass that allows the cooling to take long enough for crystals to grow. Would likely work for lead too. Probably any metal that doesn't exceed melting point of the corningware.

This would make a nice Christmas decoration. Who needs snoflakes when we have lead crystals!

I like to see from you some basic lessons of chemistry.it will be amazing !Thank you anyway!!

I have done something similar before: dip a tiny drop of mercury into a little bottle of dilute silver nitrate solution (and then permanently sealed the bottle). this is called diana’s tree.

2:26 and 7:38 are my favorite parts of this video, but the whole video is great

Every time this comes up in my feed I think it says Meth Crystals for a second. I've seen it before but YT really wants me to watch it so I did.

this will go viral on facebook for sure.

your demo was far better than the backyard scientist

That might be 300x more amazing in 0 gravity, imagine the tree growing from every side to everywhere

Would be nice to see a video about and with chlorine trifluoride. That would be highly interesting.

I don't know a lot about chemistry but I think you should do the tree of Saturn and ( fast enough to avoid the lead carbonate but still slow enough to give the lead tim) evaporate the water to see if the lead builds structure slowly

You could try adding Something to the Water that Turns it into Gel for preservation

Maybe try doing a snow globe type thing....use a container with a screw on lid, like a Mason jar & glue the zinc to the underside of the lid. Screw the lid on and let it do its thing, so that once the 'tree' is done growing, you can just gently turn it over, so it looks like it grew upward. Then it can stay in that solution, no worries about oxidation/calcification.

Also, try dipping it in a beaker full of something like a urethane finish. Dip it just like you rinsed it.

To get bigger crystals: What about adding gelatine or some other nonreactive water soluble thickener? That way the density of the water will be enough the lead will be more apt to try spread horizontally. When u took it out it it collapse cause buoyancy in air

Should try and preserve it in a block of resin. That'd be pretty cool if pulled off well. Need a vaccum chamber to get all the air out from the crystals though.

If you keep the solution cool while the crystals are forming, would that result in bigger crystals?

Why do the crystals preferentally form at the top of the zinc block?

@sonicthehedshot9789

6 жыл бұрын

The lead crystals form at the surface of the zinc because that's where it gains the electrons needed to reduce into elemental lead. Water has high resistivity so the closer the lead is to where the electrical current is strongest it will form.

@jpolowin0

3 жыл бұрын

@@sonicthehedshot9789 That doesn't explain why the growth was fastest at the top. My guess is that the feathery crystals were growing from the wire, and were different from the ones that grew directly from the lead. The obvious test would be to repeat the experiment in such a way that the wire wasn't in contact with the solution.

you could dry it thoroughly maybe using vacuum chamber then cast it in resin

Thank you YT for sending me a notification for this video that just got released... wait a second...

4:51 yeah, i’ve had days like that

Hi Can you please do a q and a type video? that'd be awesome! I love your videos keep up the good work!

@NileRed

6 жыл бұрын

I will eventually

@Tweald

6 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

Do the wash step then add it to a solution hard set hairspray. Leave in solution for a while to ensure a full coat. Then you should be able to remove, dry and then cast in epoxy or something.

Welding supply store, cylinder of argon or nitrogen, insert tree solution container in 1l beaker. Fume hood off. Maintain a constant, regulated flow of gas to purge beaker. Use a syringe, pipette or dropper loaded with a clear, uncured epoxy. Displace the tree solution. Your choice whether or not to break smaller container. Feel a sense of accomplishment.

That was interesting

I was really looking forward to this video, and was not disappointed. I was thinking the lead crystals would be a lot stronger though, and I planned to do this and seal it in acrylic as a keychain or something but I doubt the would survive the heavy arcylic goop. Also, doing this in a large ampule could be cool. happy new years! Also, could this be done with stannous acetate, seeing as they have the same valence electrons?

@NileRed

6 жыл бұрын

I think I remember reading somewhere that someone tried it and it didnt work. It still might be worth trying though.

Submerge the lead tree in a jar of clear resin, wait for it to set and there you go

@KnakuanaRka

5 жыл бұрын

Not so sure about that; any water remaining would mess it up, and the viscous resin would damage the tree as it was submerged.

@masacatior

3 жыл бұрын

Groovy baby, yeah!

Maybe you could move it directly to a cup of thin resin. The crystals might spread out again as it's lowered in.

Nice video of the crystal growth. I wonder if zinc in a pure form would be useable to clean-up non-acidic lead waste solutions?

Lab tour

You could try to preserve it in a clear epoxy by slowly immersing it into a thinned down epoxy.

we need an update! :D