As soon as I saw the expensive olive oil, I was screaming "NOOOOO!! The chlorophyll is fluorescent!!" More expensive virgin olive oils contain more chlorophyll. It is one of the ways you can check for olive oil quality.

@NathanaelNewton

Ай бұрын

LOL

@ExtractionsAndIre

Ай бұрын

Sometimes you really can see the Extractions&Ire train wreck coming

@superme63

Ай бұрын

@@ExtractionsAndIre it"s kinda hard to miss a train wreck when it is a fluorescent train wreck. Also, isn't selenium sulfide the active ingredient in many brands of anti-dandruff shampoo? Your choice to not have that as your common substance for selenium extraction fills me with ire. 😏

@guytech7310

Ай бұрын

Doesn't chlorophyll count as quantum dots or rather Carbon quantum dots (CQDs)

@NathanaelNewton

Ай бұрын

@@superme63 Oh that's a good suggestion, I wonder what the concentration is

Extractions: 6/10 Ire: 10/10

I have learned not to attempt to make a fluorescent compound with an even more fluorescent solvent

@ExtractionsAndIre

Ай бұрын

A valuable lesson that you’d think I would have learned already, but oh well, we know now I guess

@SamanthaLaurier

Ай бұрын

@@ExtractionsAndIre Well I'm no chemist, I sincerely had not considered that solvents could be fluorescent. I have the intelligence of a brick.

@hammerth1421

Ай бұрын

@@SamanthaLaurier It's the chlorophyl from the bloody plant the oil comes from. Chlorophyl A fluoresces blood red under UV light.

@infectedrainbow

Ай бұрын

@@SamanthaLaurier Do you have the semen absorbance of a brick? If you aren't sure, I'd love to setup an experiment.

@crackedemerald4930

Ай бұрын

the florescent solvent keeps the solute on it's toes

Olives are green and your neck is red. The important part is that neither is yellow.

@CAMSLAYER13

Ай бұрын

As long as he doesn't mix them together...

@infectedrainbow

Ай бұрын

@@CAMSLAYER13 haha that would make poop

@kenny5676

Ай бұрын

Olives are green and your neck is red. So much time wasted in the shed

@youkofoxy

Ай бұрын

He needs to get more protection.

@BlackPawn14

Ай бұрын

(low-quality) olive oil is yellow, though.

Ah yes, the famous Wállët reduction method, works every time.

@joshmyer9

Ай бұрын

It's fascinating just how many compounds can act as the catalyst in that reaction.

@tibr

Ай бұрын

It even works on leather!

@Duda286

Ай бұрын

@@joshmyer9 even a phone can act as a catalyst

@mattymerr701

Ай бұрын

According to the news, avocado is the primary catalyst

@SafetyLucas

Ай бұрын

@@joshmyer9 The Wállët catalyst must sublime. It seems like it's lighter every time I check it.

Ah foiled by chlorophyll. Classic. There's a reason I wanted to make a laser out of chlorophyll. That red glow is so lovely

@Barty.Crowell

20 күн бұрын

Please do! That'd be cool as hell

"I wouldn't recommend this method, not that... why the fuck would you be doing this?"

@infectedrainbow

Ай бұрын

indeed.

@sphenodon2016

Ай бұрын

Bro said this and I realized... why the fuck is *he* doing this? Most of his viewers, myself included, are prolly not actual trained chemists, so he could do any old reaction and I'd watch and enjoy regardless. God bless him deliberately choosing funky and difficult reactions for those of us who are smart enough to realize how funky/difficult the process is (not me)

@ricknijm

Ай бұрын

Cuz we love seeing people desolve into madness, isn't it more fun when it goes alll wrong?

@kyrab7914

Ай бұрын

​@@sphenodon2016ADHD. Plus you get to a certain level of skill/time where i.e. I'll do projects once or twice a year and want new recipes but also new ingredients and methods of making/etc than before. Due to lack of time, but still wanting to do a new thing and learn smthn new.

@Tunkkis

22 күн бұрын

​@@sphenodon2016 A personal challenge, I suppose. Otherwise, why do anything besides eat, sleep, and shit?

I thought this channel would help me better understand my wife's chemistry work. Unfortunately, she's not Australian, so she's not quite on this level, yet.

@Isissa125

Ай бұрын

we're built different

@tadcastertory1087

Ай бұрын

Does she not have a scruffy shed?

@Yostuba

Ай бұрын

tfw I will never find a trailerpark meth chemist, shes a keeper m8 you're lucky.

@amykathleen2

Ай бұрын

@@YostubaI’m not a trailer park meth chemist but I’m as jittery as one, wanna get married?

@diggysoze2897

Ай бұрын

@AmyKathleen2 we could make the most beautiful yellow chemistry, together.

Little known fact but cadmium is delicious

@ExtractionsAndIre

Ай бұрын

Cadmium and olive oil 👌👌👌👌just like your nonna used to make

@lonelystrategos

Ай бұрын

You sure you don't mean Cadbury's?

@Willrocs

Ай бұрын

@@lonelystrategosno one likes those god awful abominations

@relwalretep

Ай бұрын

​@@ExtractionsAndIrenext time you're down that way there are a couple places in Carlton that do a real good cadmium and olive oil bruschetta

@julitonano11

Ай бұрын

Cadmium cream eggs

Neat, so you can deep-fry cadmium and selenium, and the crispy bits are quantum dots.

@SafetyLucas

Ай бұрын

Breaking News: KFC has just acquired Samsung

@DanBowkley

Ай бұрын

I wonder if lard would work better...

@Ezekiel_Allium

Ай бұрын

​@@SafetyLucas bro you've made like 15 videos over like a decade why do you need the cool as hell logo?

@DuringDark

Ай бұрын

​@@Ezekiel_Alliumif you made it in preparation for making more videos and then you stop making videos, would you not just keep it since it's cool as hell?

@Ezekiel_Allium

Ай бұрын

@@DuringDark no I absolutely would I'm just baffled by how good it is lol.

Experiments like these are why we absolutely should have a sub-field in all the sciences for duplicating experiments, techniques, designs, etc. with bare minimum and maximum accessibility. Not only would that help with education and engaging people in the sciences but I bet there is some amazing discoveries to be had in simplifying techniques, possibly including bringing production costs down. For instance, The Thought Emporium using Gatorade as a replacement for extremely expensive cell culture media. Increased accessibility, increased simplicity, and decreased costs all at the same time.

@jayodea4970

Ай бұрын

As far as I'm aware, that's the nuts and bolts of chemical engineering. A chemist produces a bench top process, a chemical engineer adapts the bench top process to scale and works out how to reduce reliance on highly specialised reagents. True chemical engineering, not necessarily process engineering

@LanceThumping

Ай бұрын

@@jayodea4970 That might be one part of it, but I want to emphasize that I meant this for all the sciences. It'd be nice to see papers on tabletop entanglement demonstrations or garage genetics experiments.

@ZeLunatic

Ай бұрын

Yes! That video was great too, the results were very surprising hahaha

@Broken_Yugo

Ай бұрын

This reminds me of something I've been working on, an indicator test solution. Called for KOH and 95% ethanol, neither available locally, booze tops out at 75% in my state. I dug around a bit and found multiple people getting good results with drain cleaner grade NaOH and drug store 91% isopropyl. Should save me like 20 bucks and a week at least. Of course if I put my mind to it and dug into the research I probably could have guessed the critical parts are just the hydroxide ion in some solution that will also pick up the chemical I'm looking for, but its a lot easier and more approachable if somebody else already wrote that out.

@MrTuneslol

Ай бұрын

Truly the scuff serves a purpose. 😅

If I were to make an uneducated guess I would say it would be because you got the olive oil from the store and not a chemical supplier

@tildessmoo

Ай бұрын

Eh, super-cheap olive oil would probably have worked, too. The biggest issue was probably the impurities (mostly chlorophyll) that make good-quality olive oil taste good but are definitely not fatty acids.

@Gwallacec2

Ай бұрын

Super cheap olive oil is not actually olive oil it’s seed oil.

@tildessmoo

Ай бұрын

@@Gwallacec2 Olive oil is seed oil, just fyi. Well, seed-and-fruit oil, anyway. But I get your meaning, it's cut with cheaper oils, and... That's only kinda sorta true sometimes? (Or maybe it's moreso in Australia, idunno, my only experience is in the US.) If it's not pure olive oil, it can't say "pure" or "pressed" or "virgin" olive oil (not to be confused with "extra virgin," which is the expensive olive oil you do want for your kitchen but don't want for this experiment), and if it's not 50+% olive oil, it can't be labeled "olive oil," just "blended oil" or "oil blend" or "olive-flavored oil." Basically, if it says "100% olive oil," and it doesn't say "extra virgin," (first cold press) it's probably good; if it doesn't say "virgin" (second cold press) at all, probably better.

@Gwallacec2

Ай бұрын

@@tildessmoo olive oil is not a seed oil it’s a vegetable oil. I’m from the USA and there are several documentaries and sources you can look at confirming it’s cut with other oils frequently.

@user-qw9yf6zs9t

Ай бұрын

Olive oil is actually just like, its own thing yk?

"full of spark plugs" I smell a precious metal extraction coming. I now have chemical burns in my lungs and 7 different cancers 😊

@Mattamue

Күн бұрын

ninja rocks

I show my father (a retired physical chemist) your videos when I visit him, and he always spends the whole time flipping back and forth between uneasy laughter and hand-wringing anxiety.

I can't overstate how much I love this channel. The juxtaposition of it all is perfect. You clearly know what you're talking about... but then also... all if your items on the chalkboard have smiley faces, and that fan is desperate to give you tetanus.

@humphreybumblecuck5151

Ай бұрын

A vibe like “This old drying machine is broken so I just use it to store chemicals” Not that he’s done that exactly but similar. Jerry rigged, whatever’s on hand type of thing. It’s cozy and makes for a challenge, something about it is funny

@joshuaolander201

Ай бұрын

That poor old fan has been through a lot

@dwaynezilla

Ай бұрын

Carbon tet-anus

One problem is that nanoparticles are "sticky" and will aggregate and settle out (they are never really in solution, it's just that 5-100nm will remain colloidally suspended for a long time). The TOPO used in most of the common preparative methods serves to cap the particles to prevent aggregation. So, I suspect that any NP you may have made aggregated and were spun off with the rest of the gunge. Some literature demonstrated surface passivation with free fatty acids (oleic, stearic, etc.) so maybe it would be best to try this with oil (or lard, in the case of stearic acid) that you have first separated into free fatty acids and glycerol (via treatment with acid or base). You were getting there (conceptually) with the sulfuric acid, but probably didn't make much free acid...also, there was probably loss of CdSO4, which is likely insoluble in non-polar solvents. It's been a very long time since I ran this reaction, but I seem to recall using sodium selenite (e.g. selenious acid) as a nice source of selenium--that doesn't seem difficult to either acquire or prepare. Best of luck, this one was satisfying (I mean, using a UV-VIS to calculate particle size?! Brus...) to pull off.

@sophietaylor9753

Ай бұрын

Following on from this, could you try doing progressive fractionation in the centrifuge, to settle out different density components of the scunge, and test them separately, like in cell fractionation?

@leemadsen3821

Ай бұрын

@@sophietaylor9753 Good thinking because it works--and has been done to great effect, but seems like something that's out of reach for the typical home scientist...where shack-space is at a premium. For example, similar to cell component fractionation (in terms of size and geometry, some NP being quite a bit smaller,

@lucascsrs2581

Ай бұрын

Would soap help somehow?

hi, spanish here. Just to mention, usually, when a olive oil is more expensive, it's less pure than the cheapest one. That's because the "virgen extra" denomination means that all the olive oil was extracted only using mechanical methods, which are less efficient to extract the olive oil. But, extracting in that way it keeps some of the hues thats makes it more valuable in cuisine. The refined oil, the cheapest one, it's obtain by a combination of methods (mechanical and chemicals, mainly) that makes it more pure, but have a bland flavour.

Heck yeah, existential crisis chem man posted

As this was what my research project for the past two years was, the title is terrifying. Looking forward to seeing your backyard shed version of my laboratory labors!

The fact that Australians call their currency "dollary-doos" has to be the most unhinged thing to come out of the 21st century.

@Christian_Bonsai

Ай бұрын

There was a genuine petition here in Australia a few years ago that several hundred thousand people signed to changed the physical Australian dollar to “The Aussie dollary doo” Just for shits and memes

That solidified selenium olive oil goop is only halfway towards becoming some form of blursed homemade dandruff soap.

@brianbarrett2487

Ай бұрын

Uncle Tom's Head and Shoulder Tonic!

Quite annoying that olive oil manufacturers don't list their products' propensity for dissolving cadmium and selenium.

The only logical conclusion is that expensive olive oil is expensive because it already comes with quantum dots

The issue with cheap olive oil is it's often cut with if not almost entirely canola oil

@progamerr4999

Ай бұрын

How can you even call it olive oil then?

@andrewlit2202

Ай бұрын

Wonder how you can be sure it's pure... Maybe from a proper chemical supplier... Hmm....

@TheBaldingPied

Ай бұрын

@@progamerr4999 you lie

@ImCrimson

Ай бұрын

@@progamerr4999 Food fraud is rampant, and olive oil is among the most faked foodstuffs. Some estimates suggest up to 80% of the olive oils in stores do not actually live up to their claimed standard. Extreme droughts around the Mediterranean has caused supply to drop and prices to soar, which has attracted scam producers.

@hayuseen6683

Ай бұрын

​@@TheBaldingPiedYou're calling a question a lie which seems like you're replying to the wrong person

I must be stupid because I've been watching this channel for years and only just now realized that... Extractions and Ire: things don't go well Explosions and Fire: things also don't go well but there's a happy ending.. maybe.. after 3-5 years

@humphreybumblecuck5151

Ай бұрын

Extractions and Ire is supposed to be “procedure” and explosions and fire is “result” The lines though, oh how they blur.

@SethCrowderMusic

Ай бұрын

I thought it was because he does... Firework... Stuff on the other channel and chemistry nerd stuff on this one

@silverrey7379

Ай бұрын

Can't wait for him to have a collab channel with LegalEagle called "Extortions and Wire"

I can't imagine being the chemist who is tasked with producing lab grade olive oil.

@peper.r1005

Ай бұрын

A mediterranean one probably, we use it as much as other people use butter

@Gwallacec2

Ай бұрын

Cheap olive oil is not actually olive oil it’s seed oil.

@heresie

Ай бұрын

prolly called up an olive farm/olive oil factory to get samples the very first press out of a clean press, then purified it of the stuff that might interfere with any relevant reactions

@mfbfreak

Ай бұрын

And wine made from grapes with the seeds in it, is seed wine, not grape wine! Wake up, sheeple! /s

@mattymerr701

Ай бұрын

​@@Gwallacec2 can you stop going into the comment section and saying shit you have no idea about? Thanks 👍

Finally got to watch one of these immediately after drop instead of finding out weeks later when i check

Good to see you, Dr.

Love the mic peaking in the first second of the video, it really sets the shed chemistry mood, lmao

I've done some research on olive oil standards in Australia (riveting stuff) that may be of help. First off, the standard for extra virgin olive oil requires that there is no more than .8 grams of oleic acid per 100ml so the mono saturated fat line cant possibly be only oleic acid and can't help us, however you do still probably end up being correct that the fancy olive oil is worse for you because the cheap stuff was only olive oil, and that has a maximum oleic acid content of 1g per 100ml. Now the helpful part, there is a standard for "olive oil not fit for human consumption", and that specifically lists an oleic acid content higher than 3.3g per 100ml. I'm going to guess that the paper used that kind of oil, though if it came from Poland I have no idea what standards they set. If you really want to use store bought oil, "Ordinary Virgin Olive Oil" has an acid content of 2-3.3g per 100ml which is notably higher than the maximum content of US olive oil that is considered fit for human consumption at only 2g per 100ml. I would love to see this reaction work, olive oil chemistry is peak extractions and ire

@guystokesable

Ай бұрын

Stop telling me that he has peaked, I still believe he will make meth one day, I mean he has the guys glassware.

Ugh, I remember doing CdSe quantum dots in aqueous solution and how difficult it was to get one successful run and all the failures also glowed red. And here you are with so many more, new ways for things to go wrong compared to what we dealt with. The paper we were using left out some important info on reagent amounts which is what our problem was, but like you pointed out, you have so many things that could be causing failure.

tom i just want you to know that everybody fully approves of your mustache

"because then it'll sublime and i'll be asking 'where's the cadmium'" It's..in my lungs!!!

"Cheapest olive oil I can find" - during the year where olive oil prices are at record highs because of a bad harvest. Good timing, Tom!

"Full of spark plugs" I honestly thought you were going to say it was full of spiders.

@nicholasneyhart396

Ай бұрын

I mean it is Australia, there are probably a dozen or more spiders in that box as well.

@FleshWizard69420

Ай бұрын

Just saving some for later

i have a 4 hour ride to the airport this is a solid 40 mins worth of it

Yes! My morning just got 100x better

One of my profs in university were doing quantum dots, and it's intrigued me since. Thanks for this!

I work for a university, and we do this experiment with our freshmen. We use pure oleic acid as the solvent. It was pretty cool, one of our teams got a full set of quantum dots this year. Violet, blue, green qdots are always so difficult to collect as they only exist for a short period of time after the reaction starts. Wish I could post the picture here, they're beautiful.

@kimtae858

Ай бұрын

Don't rub it in, man! Poor guy has it bad enough with a lab covered in burnt olive oil. (Hopefully he tries again with a cleaner solvent though)

Are we 100% sure that is actual olive oil? "It's reliably reported that 80% of the Italian olive oil on the market is fraudulent." and that's Italy, Australia rate is probably near 96% lol

@ChrisWijtmans

Ай бұрын

yep get portogeese olive oil.

@nathanjeffs2509

Ай бұрын

It’s usually still olive oil just not from Italy it’s cheap shit from North Africa

@alexphelps7042

Ай бұрын

Only becasue EU is hyperprotective of region specific foods its not fradulent in the sense that its made of not olives, the distributers fail to disclose that it is imported or if it is made in EU they did not comply with all permits & regulation. A simlar thing is done to fancy cheese on the continent

@nathanp3366

Ай бұрын

That doesn’t mean what you think it means

@nicholasneyhart396

Ай бұрын

Most of that fraud olive oil is real, it is just made in Morocco or Egypt most of the time.

I work in a nano synth lab now. atmosphere, temperature, and moisture is really important. degass the olive oil first ( I have to degass the lab grade ODE, OLAc, OLAM...etc), get some sort of better temperature control and measurement (nanoparticles are highly sensitive to heating rates and maturation times), and lastly go back to using argon or N2. Oleic acid is a good surfactant and can help the seed mediated growth but you really dont need that much of it so dont worry about that. can use hexanes to wash the particles and the IPA to crash them out via centrifugation.

The science always works better when you change multiple variables at once. It makes it go faster

The olive Oil turns solid because of the high heat and selenium the cis double bonds in the fatty acids all turn trans. This makes the packing of the molecules much easier, and that's why it freezes at same temperature after extended heating

@herrbrahms

Ай бұрын

So in case the cadmium waste wasn't bad enough, he also made those horrible *trans fats.*

Doctor Physics is back like benzene!

@gfhrtshergheghegewgewgew1730

Ай бұрын

remember carbon tet? it's BANNED

Just a tip, olive oil is yellow so be careful

you planning to get the platinum and/iridium from them sparkplugs aren't you?

@FleshWizard69420

Ай бұрын

I smell an extraction coming. My lungs are burning

I live off your uploads been around for 4 years and i remember you buying and making some of the ingredients used. I love you!!!

I would love to see you make synthetic opal, its exactly half way between the last video and this one. All you need is water, ethanol, ammonia, and tetraethyl orthosilicate. It grows spheres just like the quantum dots, but the size is controlled by TEOS concentration.

does melting test tube fall into the break glas category? at least it must count as a precursor....

I think the oil probably started polymerising at that temperature which is why it went solid

Wow! What a privilege to have been allowed to follow your channel and your progression of learning over time. I've always loved your offbeat sense of humor, mate. And the way that you constantly push your boundaries. Safely, heh heh heh, always safely, of course!

years watching this channel, never seen this man once follow his own advice and not fuck everything up for no reason, so fucking awesome

Platinum group metal recovery from spark plugs?

@internetuser8922

Ай бұрын

Exactly what I was thinking.

@stasi0238

Ай бұрын

Bro would do something to get negative yeld in that recovery.

@stasi0238

Ай бұрын

Platinum would get out of his safe to lessen the yealds

Nile Red makes content for rich people in comparison to this program. E&I is out here repping the trailer park nerds messing around in the shed. Dont get me wrong i LOVE Nile Red. But the vibes here are TOP NOTCH mate! Thanks for explaining higher level chem in a down to earth way.

Just to confirm what you were saying concerning the oleic acid content, generally the 'higher quality' of the oil, the lower concentration of free fatty acids. For our analysis method we had to spike an oil sample with oleic acid for use as a QC as most off the shelf oils from retail sources lacked the FFA concentration to be used as a valid QC.

Sincerely love your jank chemistry set ups

Now do it with palm oil

Test the PH value of the Olive Oil, On a cooking oil acidic scale, virgin Olive Oil is 6.6. Canola is about 0.071. Bee wax is listed between 17 & 36. I suspect the acidic level contributes to the formation of CdSe. Another option, might be to bubble some hydrogen into the oil, but you might get quantum dot margarine! Not sure how you make Olive oil more acidic, maybe add oxalic acid. Another option to try is linseed, which I think more acidic than Olive Oil.

Congrats Dr!

I love learning AND feeling smarter than my teacher at the same time. Thank you. 😘

Australian man goes wild again and creates quantum dots that spawn Kangaroos from the 4th dimension.

Are you aware of this recent technological innovation called a hat?

I know zero, zip, nada, even nada 3 about chemistry, I know some elements and that’s about it, and that being said it’s a lot easier to follow your videos and understand them than a lot of other people on KZread that do this, awesome videos !

Problem is most "olive oil" these days simply isn't. It's a blend of different oils.

@duxangus

Ай бұрын

Slop oil 😞

@guytech7310

Ай бұрын

@@duxangus Oh No, not those "Stop Oil" Morons again! /sarc

@pedroff_1

Ай бұрын

Many places have laws that force mixed oils to be disclosed as so. As for olive oil fraud, AFAIK, what happens is more kn the department of selling hot-press oil as cold-press and the likes

There are suspicions that many olive oils are adulterated. So, getting a source with a paper trail is reasonable for research purposes

The algorithm has blessed me with this timeless masterpiece. 🙏🏅🙌 Great job, keep it up!

techno selection was top notch. Most of the tracks we heard in this episode sounded like they were from Richie Hawtin's Minus label. Top grooves

22:53 You mentioning your PhD is on fluorescence is funniest shit ever.

FUCK I LOVE SCIENCE AND THE INTERNET YESSS

@nommy8599

Ай бұрын

Why are you shouting?

@mahin300

Ай бұрын

@@nommy8599 EARS STILL RINGING FROM EXPLOSIONS & IRE

Great video. Love to see science youtubers make new cocktails like quantum shots with cadmium.

As much as I miss the meme heavy editing I love that your humor is still present. The bit about "the science appreciating it when you commit to a bit" was hilarious

Bisexual quantum dot lighting

Great video man!

Its a dark day indeed when E&F ends the video with "Maybe you should just go get the proper solvents.."

please, don't give up! please make more videos about it^-^! we know you can do it.. :D !

I think it may be the paperclip causing the issue, maybe the iron from the paperclip, or the nickel reacting with the elements. (they're usually nickel coated so it prevents it from rusting over time) For my setup, I took some of the ptfe tubing and shoved an iron rod in it with the ends rounded over and then used a torch to heat the tubing while twisting it to close the ends off around the iron bar and melt it to seal it up and encapsulate the iron bar inside the teflon tubing.

I really enjoy the music you use

The trick to not getting things to stick with olive oil is to preheat the pan

would be cool if you explained what quantum dots are, their potential usage, why they might be important and so on.

Man I love your videos, they are just so rewatchable

Its a good day when i get a video of Australian shed chemistry!

I started listening to Aphex Twin again, thanks to you, Tom. Come here to learn, enjoy the music...

Hey btw, part of the reason I love this channel is because you tend to do everything from home hardware. Love seeing you struggle, don’t be afraid to stick with the silly bits!

man, there was some really good music in this episode.

My favorite alchemist at it again

I watched this while on the treadmill and had to pause every time that music with the high pitched ticking went on because I thought the motor was going out on it.

TiL that EVOO is a solvent. Was finally able to get the funk out of the French press I forgot coffee in and boiling water couldn’t clear. Thanks m8 for being a role model for kitchen cleanliness.

I was working on a product once and ran across a paper detailing a non-invasive level sensing method for a container of liquid by measuring the resonance of the container. It was from a Spanish university and they were experimenting specifically to measure vats of olive oil

Hi Tom, I haven’t seen that much Alkyne chemistry on KZread and german Wikipedia says that propiolic acid forms an explosive silver salt. The synthesis seems alright so maybe you’d want to check out that molecule :D

28:48 "A bit more patience, a bit more money spent on olive oil, TLC, maybe the chemistry will appreciate that." Narrator: It didn't.

yes you should do the precious metals (I'm guessing iridium?) extraction from sparkplugs videos that sounds quite fun lol

Thanks for the vid. Better luck next time

I would be very interested in your various montage-playlists.

As a Manganese nanochemist (Lies i'm an out of depth biochemist) I work with manganese oleate reductions for crystal growth and can vouch firsthand for their ease of production (and low toxicity compared to cadmium) - Have you considered using surfactants for nanoparticle growth and shape limitation perhaps?

just did my ap chemistry exam a week ago, you were a huge inspiration, thank you for everything (and shoutout cadmium)

"Please don't make any weird noises" "Fuck it, that'll do" "I'm giving up" Man, it was like going through my PhD all over again

Everyone’s talking about the olive oil and im over here tensing up over the centrifuge

This is my favourite channel on YT. Shed Chem.

thank you for giving it the effort anyway, maybe I should get some olive oil from Aldrich.. How did you clean it up? Generally interested! Cheers!

Was watching your stuff yesterday and it had been ages since an upload, glad ya still alive!