I don't know how your channel hasn't gotten more visibility! Best chemistry experiments on KZread. Thanks!

The combination used to be called "snake in the grass" here in UK, with the two ingredients pressed into a small aluminium foil cone to make the product. Oh and BTW, a more consistent long snake can be obtained if the mercury thiocyanate is pressed into a pellet with a solution of gum arabic and potassium nitrate in water. Much larger and more impressive "snakes" can also be made from nitrated pitch (e.g. napthol pitch). A pressed pellet 15mm diameter can emit a snake over a metre in length and 25mm diameter when lit. Correct nitration requires considerable skill...

@9ziggs

8 ай бұрын

If you could touch the finish snake product, what would it feel like, texture, hard/soft, dry, oily, squishy.. and what do you think it would smell like?

I have witnessed some strange occurrences in my time here on earth, but this is some truly bizarre and beautiful chemistry. Brilliant!

Ammonium dichromate was probably the first non-household chemical I was introduced to as a kid, for the familiar 'volcano' reaction. Later I found it could also be used as a simple rocket fuel, and seemed to be among the coolest burning rocket fuels. Because of this, light weight rocket tubes could be constructed with minimal layers of paper. Even though it has toxicity issues, if I had to pick a favorite chemical, that might be the one.

@nosurprise885

Жыл бұрын

All Cr compounds are bad ass

Great, as always. I just leave this comment to convince the KZread algorithm to suggesting the video to more viewers.

@ChemicalForce

Жыл бұрын

ha-ha, I think KZread's algorithms have learned to skip this kind of comments :D

When I got the notification for this I was literally just reading an entry in a very old book "Granddads book of chemistry" discussing this experiment and how "children shouldn't do it without supervision" as if mercury isn't toxic as long as there's also an adult inhaling it with the kids!!!

Your approach to the reactions for the sake of the beauty in them is amazing. It is why kids love to make experiments in the first place.

Your channel is one of the most amazing things i have ever seen in my life. Thank you so much

Impressive - thank you for this video!

This was beautiful!!

absolute amazing!!! thank you

The amazing part about seeing this is knowing it is *real.*

SO BEAUTIFUL!!!!

WOW just amazing to watch ive never seen anything like it.

very cool video, your channel is a pleasure to watch.

Awesome video thanks

Gorgeous video 🥰

Stupefacente! Grazie.

very interesting work thank you

Thank you

absolutely amazing buddy

the pharaos serpent is still one of my favourite experiments to look at. It never stops to look amazing. now even better in slowmo

Fascinating 😊

very cool!

Awesome.

I LOVE watching these reactions in slow motion. I wish I could watch hours of this with some classical background music. Then I'll sip some hot tea and vibe.

Pretty cool! What messes you make!

ChemicalForce: Hobbies: making UHD vids of chemical reactions. Me: Hobbies: dropping tabs and watching them.

I'm not particularly smart when it comes to science however even with my limited capacity to understand what you show in your videos, I always find them fascinating.

6:29 complex chemistry but looks like a shoddy magic trick lol. Great vid!

@ChemicalForce

Жыл бұрын

Hey mate! I'm glad you enjoyed the video and I appreciate your generosity, superthank you for the Super Thanks!🤑🤑

How did this not arrive in my feed for two days? If I was making a budget scifi movie, I would film these reactions and use them for special effects.

It would be interesting to look at the reactions of intermetallides: K+Na+Cs ... tenx!

You can also simply carry out the catalytic oxidation with glowing chromium dioxide powder, then you can do without carcinogenic ammonium dichromate. We have this as a short on our channel. Non-poisonous snakes are formed by igniting calcium gluconate tablets (which any chemist who handles hydrogen fluoride should have on hand as an antidote) or lozenges containing sodium bicarbonate and sugar.

6:49 this is what Big Popcorn wants you to believe will happen if you use the popcorn button on your microwave

Those clips look like they could be used in a sci-fi horror movie!

@sootikins

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking more along the lines of Japanese tentacle p0rn - lol

Teachers when someone starts talking in class 😮

This guy just casually throwing liquid chlorine on stuff, having it splash everywhere.

@dielaughing73

4 ай бұрын

Right? I'm keeping safety behind my phone screen

imagine showing this to someone before the 1800s

The stuff of nightmares...Mine was the clean up after doing all of these demos.

It looks like a time-lapse video of a weird alien fungus growing.

If you put a fluorescent screen behind this setup and illuminate the apparatus with a shortwave mercury vapor lamp are you able to see the mercury being volatilized out of the experiment in shadow as the reaction proceeds?

2:05 can you try to alter the reactions looks by doing it in an atmosphere with varying lower amounts of oyxgen (like 5% 10% etc or in a inert one) also what happens if you thoroughly mix it with other decomposing materials like (NH4)2Cr2O7 in different proportions (how would it alter the kind of "snake" that forms) 7:41 could you try to use filters for your camera to let us see through fireballs like this? (similar to the goggles glasblowers use to block the emission spectrum of sodium)

Can you tell me from where do you get these chemicals? I am a big fan of chemistry and I want to know, pls tell me.....

I wish I had your lab and the chemicals that you get to experiment with, put my unused chemistry degree to some use and have fun too! At least I get to experience it vicariously here though :)

@dielaughing73

4 ай бұрын

It's safer watching at home..

What happens with a superfine mix of the powders of ammonium dichromate and mercury thiocyanate? How about if the two salts are melted together under an inert atmosphere? Do they react there and then? (Is the latent oxygen in dichromate "accessible"?) If not, what does the cooled salt "alloy" do on heating? Are there other thiocyanates that create serpents the same way? Or how about mercury selenocyanate? Or other selenocyanates?

You gotta make a video on some Xenon compounds.

Reminds me of creatures out of David Cronenberg movies

I believe you should work with uranium hexafluoride.

i had a dream last night that there was some nootropic compound that contained mercury but somehow it was actually good for you and it was developed in soviet russia and just had benneficial effects

ChemicalForce: Chemical Serpent Reaction Me: Weren't there a million vids already o YT? Also me: Little did I know....

Bro , you can start video lectures for class 11 and 12 organic and inorganic chemistry

Reaction of alkali metals with acetyl chloride and acetic anhydride?

Looks a lot like how chemical gardens form. Are these phenomena related?

Can you mix sodium oxide and phosphorus oxide to make exothermic molten phosphoric glass

I am so glad that I don’t live downwind of your fume hood. At least I hope. 😂

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I'm trying to make a serpent mixture that uses non-toxic materials. I need materials with the following properties: Material A - melts at a moderate temperature and can set quickly preferably one that doesn't oxidize easily. Material B - produces gas at a temperature not too far past the melting point of Material A, preferably via a lower temperature combustion.

I feel like I need PPE just to watch this.

i wonder how liquid fluorine looks?.. on another note. i wonder how a large scale ammonium dichromate reaction would look like. like. a really large amount.

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6:02 p-nitroaniline serpent Every ECO celerity priest/est flying a private jet followed by security in their jet... "The _help'll_ clean it up! They "can't" understand hypocrisy?!"

This is the most bizzare chemical reaction.

I want to see what would happen if you did this inside a sealed metal box so that there wouldn't be any room for reaction to take place

I’d be very interested in seeing a video about spontaneous endothermic reactions. It’s a concept that’s very interesting to me and I’m also wondering if you can find any that don’t involve a change in state of matter. The first spontaneous endothermic reactions I can think of are: salts dissolving in water, NaHCO3 + AcOH, and CoCl2•xH2O + SOCl2. All of these involve a solid converting into gases or a solid turning into an aqueous solution (which is sort of a change in state). Are there any that exist that don’t lead to the state of matter changing? I love your videos and I want to thank you for sharing this great chemical content with us.

@ChemicalForce

Жыл бұрын

You can watch the reaction between CoCl2 and SOCl2 in my Dicobalt Octacarbonyl video

@skyethebi

Жыл бұрын

@@ChemicalForce I just meant that I’d like to hear about and watch more of these reactions. Although I did love both the video about thionyl chloride and the one about dicobalt octacarbonyl. Visually I think that the SOCl2 + CoCl2•6H2O is an amazing reaction, and I’d love to see what other really cool reactions you can come up with.

@skyethebi

Жыл бұрын

Side note: I think it’s kind of ironic that a baking soda and vinegar “volcano” is actually colder than room temperature.

Looks like alien or zombie lifeforms. Thanks for the nightmares. :D

Snake fireworks

I wonder how it would look in zero G

It looks like one of HP Lovecraft’s shoggoths 😅

If I have a big container full of banana skins and water that have been added and added the skins every other day over the last 2 years do u think I could extract potassium Metal some how

@TheMono25

Жыл бұрын

I have seen Cody's lab do something similar

@markh.876

Жыл бұрын

Low sodium salt is pure KCl but how are you going to get the potassium out? Not easily.

it looks like high quality computer animation not chemical reaction , cool

Простая реакция, но тем не менее прикольная, делал такую

C3N4? What the heck?😮

Forbidden onion rings 🤪

I've heard if the barking dog, even seen it, but the barking spider? 😒

Stuff looks like the Flood

Imagine pooing that out, then trying to explain it.

Excuse me sir, but did you just say *liquid chlorine?!*

This is Boov #4 happening

"Southpark" season 2 episode 8

I think this amazing chemical is not man made

This looks like a Tool video

First

Immediately lose 2d4 SAN.

Looks like one of those stupid snakes you light up around the 4th of July

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