Update: I messed up my crimson powder in this video. Its burning is dirty. Yellow iron oxide is not a good catalyst, use red iron oxide 1-2%. I explained everything in this video kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZZiNssOYo8vdfqQ.html

When I make crimson powder I press the still hot and soft material through a fine mesh strainer. It makes it into very uniform granules without any need for grinding. It also dries more quickly.

@NinjaChemistChannel

Ай бұрын

Interesting, Ill try this.

@bnurk

Ай бұрын

@@NinjaChemistChannel it's been a few years since last time. IIRC I pushed it through with a spoon back into the pot and continued to heat it over gentle heat on the plate. Stirring constantly with a wooden spoon. When it was almost dry there was sort of a change to the texture where the granules would almost move a little by themselves when you stop stirring, almost like granulated rubber, at that time it was ready to spread over newspaper or paper plates to dry completely.

@en2oh

Ай бұрын

@@bnurk I believe this is called corning and gives you pellets of different grain sizes.

Crazy seeing your content again after 7 yearsss! The OG is back. Keep it up my friend, good seeing you wel🤙🤙

Братан, ютуб не высвечивал твои видео, рад, что ты жив

Man you are my inspiration to travel in this fantastic world of pyrotechnics, i'm so happy that you have returned here!

Glad you're alive and doing well, missed your videos

In the United States, a minor variant of this formula has been commercially available as American Pioneer Powder, sold for muzzle-loading guns. Reports are that it doesn't form hard fouling with conventional petroleum-based bullet lubricants like actual black powder or Pyrodex will. The American Pioneer Powder container doesn't contain any warnings about hygroscopicity -- but whether that's because they've created a version that's less prone to pull water out of the air, or just don't bother to warn buyers, I can't say. I have a can of it that's several years old; I loaded some cartridge ammunition from it and closed it tightly; I should see if it's still good.

@alflyover4413

28 күн бұрын

Sodium salts are much less hygroscopic than Potassium salts. I wonder if the difference between crimson powder and American Pioneer Powder, as far as hygroscopicity, is the oxidizer used.

@NinjaChemistChannel

28 күн бұрын

I tested the hygroscopicity of my crimson powder by leaving them at room temperature for few days. Humidity was 45%. It absorbed less than 1% of moisture, so i think it can be considered as non hygroscopic, at least if it was prepared same way as in the video(same temperatures, drying at 70C e t.c.)

Please never stop making videos again we need you

Glad you're back!

Welcome back my friend

Good to see your content again

Glad to see you back ninja chemist 😊.

Glad your back nc ❤

Ninja Chemist? Is that you? Man, you came back! Sorry I didn't notice that earlier, Life gets busy and there is no space for doing man's hoppy, you know what I mean 😅

You back!!!!!!

Батюшки! Приятно видеть! Лайков тебе!

Were have you been we missed your videos

Yoo, He back! You say do not use induction Heater, why would this be? Is it harder to measure temperature on that? Taking in mind that you'd use a compatible pot

@NinjaChemistChannel

Ай бұрын

It heats up too fast, too effective, its like cooking at open flame. Almost impossible to control the temperature. Hot plate you heated to 200C and thats it, you have 120C at your pan, you can cook.

Он вернулся

That looks dirtier than regular black powder. How bad does it fowl a muzzle loader?

@NinjaChemistChannel

Ай бұрын

Not dirtier. This dude tested kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y52m3KprZ6zeYKQ.html

Hell yeah your back ! Awesome video. Question I read and heard you ascorbic acid from Orange peels and wondered would that work as well

@NinjaChemistChannel

Ай бұрын

Not sure what does mean Orange peels ascorbic acid. Ascorbic acid in some tablets mixed with cellulose, such acid should be dissolved in water and filtered from cellulose. If it contains also sugar it will be impossible to purify. In any case better to buy pure ascorbic acid.

@anthonyrickardii6198

Ай бұрын

@@NinjaChemistChannel ok thank you

@anthonyrickardii6198

Ай бұрын

@@NinjaChemistChannel well supposedly to what I gather and research Orange peels has ascorbic acid can and used for health benefits and beauty products so that’s why I ask because your ascorbic acid looks white powdered crystal and the one I’m looking at and actually is dry, pulverized and homogenized orange peels and is little orange colored

@NinjaChemistChannel

Ай бұрын

Ok, I think I understood. Then orange peels cannot be used.

@anthonyrickardii6198

Ай бұрын

@@NinjaChemistChannel ok thank you

1:20 decarboxylation of ascorbic acid?

Я когда-то тестировал разные катализаторы, если хочешь, могу поискать свои записи по этому поводу

@NinjaChemistChannel

Ай бұрын

Было бы неплохо. Напиши сюда результаты тестов если можно.

@ChimeraChemLab

Ай бұрын

@@NinjaChemistChannel Не могу найти свои текстовые записи, но на одной из флешек должны быть видео Когда появится время искать постараюсь найти

Any good for a rocket motor?

@NinjaChemistChannel

29 күн бұрын

In theory should be good. Crimson powder when it hot is not liquid so its hard to pack to rocket motor. One dude made small nozzleless rocket motors from it.

i didn't understand a word you said but yes

anything on how well this works for guns? does it clog it up?

@NinjaChemistChannel

Ай бұрын

I have very little information, mostly speculations. According to the article: pyrosource.fandom.com/wiki/Crimson_Powder The residue on ignition is only 28% compared to about 50% using black powder. In addition, the residue from burning golden powder is water soluble, unlike many other propellants. Sulfur is bad for gun barrels, crimson powder does not contain sulfur. I don't tested it in gun since I don't have one. I've heard other people tested sugar based sulfurless BP substitutes, they used 1.5-2x bigger quantities of such powder to reach same effect that BP does, but they were very happy that It burns cleaner. Crimson powder should perform much better than sugar based BP substitutes and give almost the same power as BP charge. Thats a theory, It needs testing. Upd: one dude tested crimson powder in guns kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y52m3KprZ6zeYKQ.html

@WeebRemover4500

Ай бұрын

@@NinjaChemistChannel hm, interesting. important if experimenting to keep in mind that copper oxide if used instead could catalyse the barrel to rusting

@WeebRemover4500

Ай бұрын

@@NinjaChemistChannel oh and i think if you wanna water-proof the granules, you can buy some ice fountains and dissolve in acetone, then spray dilute solution of that nitrocellulose lacquer onto the granules, it should cover the surface nicely and make it water-resistant for longterm storage, ice fountains are made of good quality NC

@NinjaChemistChannel

Ай бұрын

Just found. One dude tested crimson powder in guns kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y52m3KprZ6zeYKQ.html

@WeebRemover4500

Ай бұрын

@@NinjaChemistChannel i shall endure the low production quality of 19 american minutes of fumbling, interesting.

Неплохо себя также показывает жёлтая версия, на аскорбате калия (натрий брать не рекомендую, гигроскопично получается). Т.е. гасится аскорбиновая кислота карбонатом калия по стехиометрии, и дальше по технологии

@NinjaChemistChannel

Ай бұрын

Пробовали и жёлтую версию, она существенно уступает малиновому пороху.

Buti If I'm looking for a black powder substitute it's because I can't get potassium nitrate.

@NinjaChemistChannel

Ай бұрын

I'm afraid that its impossible to make BP substitute without potassium or at least sodium nitrate. If you can't buy it then need to make it by yourself.

@brocktechnology

Ай бұрын

@@NinjaChemistChannel Interestingly, NurdRage published on just this topic minutes ago. thanks for the reply.

@_muody

Ай бұрын

@@brocktechnology Apart from various conversion methods you can actually make your own calcium/sodium/potassium nitrates from scratch "at home" if you have access to living soil and urine :-)

@markzambelli

Ай бұрын

@@NinjaChemistChannel Would Ammonium Nitrate (I have 300g of 99.9% industrial fertiliser from a local farm for adding to my garden) work at all? I know that decomposes and is nasty (the recent Beirut explosion showed that)

@NinjaChemistChannel

Ай бұрын

@@markzambelliNot directly. Need to convert it to potassium nitrate first.

Maybe the yellow iron oxide is converting to black iron oxide where as using black iron oxide gets converted to red iron oxide to make it "crimsen" Maybe just jibberish...

@_muody

Ай бұрын

It's actually the red iron oxide that can convert to black in boiling water. It's one of the steel blueing methods.

i am almost sure that if you "fry" yellow iron oxide you get red iron oxide

Try to reduce the music .. it's very irrtating

@bobhope4949

Ай бұрын

I thought it enhanced the video🫠

Highly corrosive. I don't recommend.

@NinjaChemistChannel

Ай бұрын

Proofs?

As a native British citizen I wish this gentleman would speak slower because I am finding his narrative hard to follow. Interesting nevertheless 👍

Cool music😅