A moment of silence for Matt's nose.

@evilotis01

11 ай бұрын

......and NileRed's cameraman

@marconiandcheese7258

11 ай бұрын

F

@noodlelynoodle.

11 ай бұрын

A moment of silence for that poor car, it's never gonna smell right again lmfao

@LabCoatz_Science

11 ай бұрын

@@noodlelynoodle. Surprisingly, even after being tortured with selenols and isocyanides, that van still smells like it came straight off the lot, lol

@noodlelynoodle.

11 ай бұрын

@@LabCoatz_Science that's insane to me lmfao I would never have the confidence to do smelly chemistry in my car I'd be so scared the smell would seep in and never go away lol

The intro makes me want a video of Nilered’s cameraman reacting to all these chemicals 😂

@That_Chemist

11 ай бұрын

I bet Reggie could be convinced

@BioCybergoth

Ай бұрын

seeing Nilered's friend suffering with Thioacetone was one the funniest bits in his video, the isocyanides might have him either vomiting or probably landing punches on Nilered just from travelling there with him, I can't wait to see that.

Crafts chemical weapon in public. Drops it on the ground. Refuses to elaborate.

@LabCoatz_Science

10 ай бұрын

I cleaned it all up officer, I swear!

_"Normally, it would be done with a mixture of tin and hydrochloric acid, but sadly, I’m not normal - and I didn’t have any tin."_

Kinda interesting how the impetus for making this was to understand what it smells like, since all sources reported it only as "indescribable"... Only to discover that it's smell is, in fact, _indescribable._

@LabCoatz_Science

11 ай бұрын

Well, partially indescribable...it's like a very weird burning plastic. But yeah, there isn't any one thing I can point to and say "that's what it smells like!"

@Matoro342

11 ай бұрын

I'd say it smells like you're being dissolved

@tktspeed1433

11 ай бұрын

​@@LabCoatz_Sciencesounds like what N,N-DMT smells like. Or well, the non burnt DMT smells like new offbrand sneakers.

@00bean00

11 ай бұрын

@@LabCoatz_Science Have you smelled Me2PhP?

@L4ftyOne

11 ай бұрын

​@@tktspeed1433get off your psychosis drugs dude

I think context has a big role in how awful something smells. I remember as a kid, sitting in class and smelling the worst fart I'd ever smelled. It turned out to be one of those glass "stink bomb" ampoules, and breaking one and smelling it again later, not having nearly the same reaction. It wouldn't be ethical, but I think the best reactions would be from randos who have no idea what is going on or where the smell came from. Anyway, the worst thing I've ever smelled, was a bucket full of fish parts and pork trimmings that a coworker had mistakenly lidded and was left in an unused building for several months. We popped the lid thinking it was a bucket of semolina and every single one of us threw up.

@LabCoatz_Science

11 ай бұрын

I agree that organic smells tend to feel grosser. For example, isocyanides may be unbearably strong, but to me, they aren't super disgusting...unlike butyric acid (the smell of vomit), which is one of the few chemicals to make me feel physically ill from the smell.

@NonEuclideanTacoCannon

11 ай бұрын

@@LabCoatz_Science For sure. We're like, evolutionarily wired to be repulsed by biological things that may be infectious. It reminds me of an experiment I read about. They had several white towels, each had been used to wipe up a different color of liquid. Brown, red, yellow, and blue. People were asked which one would be least gross to touch, and everyone said the towel with the blue stains.

@Paonporteur

11 ай бұрын

​@@LabCoatz_Sciencethere are people out there who use propionic acid and butyric acid as vinegar (acetic acid) substitutes. Vinegar contains 6% acetic acid and is added to soups and other stuff to add/eliminate flavor. Imagine adding butyric acid 'vinegar' to that instead.

@StuffandThings_

11 ай бұрын

@@Paonporteur Could probably get away with using the "fruits" of Ginkgo, which supposedly are edible yet are notorious for their butyric acid content

@user-xi5ej4ox5s

11 ай бұрын

​@@LabCoatz_Science Hello man. I watched all your stinky chemicals videos and I present a challange for you. You will compare a stench of evaporated mixture of all superstinky chemicals you have ever coocked and the stench of cauldron of horrors. You may ask me what is cauldron of horrors? Well, I will tell you. First of all you need a huge cauldron and open fire underneath it. In this cauldron you mix human #shit, adult male cat urina ( in large amount ) which was collected at least few weeks ago, many rotten eggs, rotten human #cum ( in large amount ), skunk gland secretion ( in large amount ), rotten meat and fish, a lot of superstinky garlic, sweat from socks which were on feet for more than 1 year ( in large amount ) and a lot of fresh #vomit. You need to homogenise that mixture and warm it to the point of boilng. Before and after it boils you should constantly mix this horrific mixture. If you have urge to #piss, to #shit, to #vomit or maybe even to #fap during the process you should do all of that in the cauldron too. After all water is evaporated from the horrific mixture you should let it all burn in the cauldron until nothing but coal remains.

I worked with tert-butyl isocyanide in undergrad. It….has the most IMPOSSIBLE to explain smell. It was definitely unpleasant, but I’d say that thiols smell worse to me. The best description i can give for its scent is: “If you took the juice that falls out of a garbage bag, microwaved it with a rubber tire until the tire burned, and then bubbled chlorine through it.” It truly smelled awful, but in a way I truly CANNOT accurately describe.

@swarthygiant1463

2 ай бұрын

That sounds a lot like getting skunked to me. I was absolutely blown away how skunk spray on you smells absolutely nothing like a skunk in the distance. Best description I can is if you took a garbage full of moldy popcorn lit it on fire, but way worse. I’ve been maced and I’d take the mace over the skunk any day lol

NileRed: Tentatively takes small cautious sniff of nastiness, plays up reaction. LabCoatz: Huffs nastiness like a crackhead, has to downplay reaction and resist the urge to puke. Truly a trailblazer.

@00bean00

11 ай бұрын

Which chemical? Which reaction to it? All I remember is him saying SBMO was not that bad

@SixTough

11 ай бұрын

Absolute chad

@ImNotQualifiedToSayThisBut

11 ай бұрын

Nile red didn't play up his reaction though? It was his camera man who kinda died wasn't he

@auroraourania7161

11 ай бұрын

@@ImNotQualifiedToSayThisBut Yeah, Nilered didn't have that bad of a reaction, and if they'd decided to play it up, he wouldn't have had his cameraman be the only one to react that way.

@sipos0

11 ай бұрын

Descriptions of thioacetone say it actually smells worse in low concentrations than higher ones, which may explain the difference in experience. I have also read a theory that thioacetone is in a equilibrium with something, and it is only one of the forms/chemicals that smells awful, but details aren't well understood.

I love how all you online chemists help each other out despite taking the micky out of each other and possibly be a bit competitive. It's so fun to watch. Cheers !

I recognize that white box your benzene was in. Backyard science 2000 recently hooked me up with a free hotplate since mine died, some wp, and sodium borohydride. Great guy, I've got to get going making videos.

I love how despite being quite professional, this has a vibe of hillbilly chemistry

Most people can honestly call a smell indescribable and it's no more an exaggeration than people commonly make in casual speech. Most people don't talk about smells in a lot of detail, and lack the vocabulary when they attempt to do so. If I needed to talk about smells with precision, first I would have to smell enough things to serve as points of reference. Presumably this is what people do when they actually need to discriminate smells for a professional purpose. Such as a chemistry youtube channel :P

Normally when KZreadrs involve their parents in stuff I find it a bit cringe, but your dad is really wholesome and it's clear that he's actually interested in this kind if stuff beyond the usual level of "supporting your kid's hobby.

@revenevan11

2 ай бұрын

I agree, it's very wholesome to see!

I glad I found you through Nile Red, he’s great but his nose has been throughly destroyed by chemicals and I sincerely doubt his judgment on stink.

@Pyxis10

10 ай бұрын

Nile red: These icocyanides don't smell bad. Everyone else: Passed out.

CaCl2 can react with amines, so thats probably why it didn’t work well to dry the aniline. Great video by the way! You should do some synthesis of perfumery chemicals for future videos. Also its good for clickbait titles “Turning lice remover into cherry flavor???” for benzyl alcohol -> benzaldehyde for example.

You're crazy for doing chemistry in the back of your car. People are going to think you're the next Walter White.

@LabCoatz_Science

11 ай бұрын

Funny you should mention that...I'm kind of doing a video playing off his line of work

@StuffandThings_

11 ай бұрын

@@LabCoatz_Science 🤨

Now you've got to do the same but with the nicest smelling chemicals you can synthesize. That would be a nice counterpoint to this saga of videos!!! Esters, long chain aldehydes, terpenes or something like that. Great videos!

@yorkshirechemist

11 ай бұрын

coumarin and cinnamic acid both smell bloody lovely, both can be prepared using the Perkin reaction between benzaldehyde/salicylaldehyde and acetic anhydride

@bromisovalum8417

11 ай бұрын

There's personal preference too. For example, I really like the smell of 4-ethoxybenzene because it reminds me of the pistachio icecream I used to get as a kid.

@reloup8969

11 ай бұрын

​@@yorkshirechemisthighly concentrated coumarin can be a bit offensive. There's a type of grass that has a root very rich of coumarin and it can smell pretty bad. But dilute it and it has a wonderful smell. I made syrup from it.

My poor roommate just received my delivery of n butyl isocyanide because I'm out of state right now. He said it was absolutely vile, made his stomach turn, and smells like "maybe overheated rusted tar aluminum". It's still in the envelope. He literally had to find a place outside to keep it

@AB-80X

9 ай бұрын

Where did you buy that?

Hes just collecting bad smells like infinity stones now

I just have stop for a minute to appreciate you all... The great, and often painstaking, amount of detail that is gone into with the overall descriptions of what you guys are smelling is wonderful! Y'all have been consistently amazing throughout this whole saga in this regard, and as someone who also appreciates strange odors from time to time--it's like I'm right there with ya! I'm not a chemist although I do enjoy and dabble in chemistry, nor do I have a particularly sensitive sense of smell so far as I can tell. However, I did begin to notice and pay attention to what sense I do have, quite early on my life. Particularly interesting to me, was just how influential certain odors were to me, such as my affinity for the smell of gasoline smelled as far back as I can recall. Or how some people began to smell 'attractive' before I really knew the meaning of that word as we all acquired our own, 'teen spirit' let's say. All the way to today 2-3 decades later, how I look forward to the smell of diesel exhaust or coffee in the morning. It's always been fascinating how certain odors/scents can cause such potent psychological and/or even physical responses such as my first whiff of ammonia. But I digress, That is all to say, I have paid, perhaps, more attention to smell than the average person, and as such I naturally have a reservoir of highly detailed, odd, and often unpleasant, descriptors in my vocabulary that I often use internally to qualify/identify new ones I come across. It is quite striking to me how similarly you or your father sound to my own internal chatter as you rattle off things like, 'plasticky superglue' (which is as clear to me, as if it had been written in some kind of smell dictionary), and all this has really made me feel like I was in the park right there with you guys. In conclusion, y'all are great at describing what these fascinating and niche odors smell like, and I enjoy that immensely! Thanks for listening to my TEDtalk 😛hope y'all have a good one!

Your dad's description was super solid and gave me a good idea of the smell

Shout out to your friends for bearing with that. Also, I loved your comparison of the different isocyanides. After digging a bit, the steric hindrance seems to be the important factor for the different odor intensity of the benzylic and aliphatic isocyanides. So maybe the shorter alkyl isocyanides might be even worse.

I just found your channel and think it’s one of my new favorites

One of your best videos yet brother

Great work! Thanks for testing multiple chemicals in a single video. 👍

Man, I am impressed with your work here. Since I work in Lab Safety professionally, I'd really like to see more eye pro, but I really appreciate you actually testing these chemicals.-

Found you through NileRed, and I'm sure glad to do so.

You are a champion of truth. Time for non lethal taste tests.

Man what a great patreon gift at the end

Enjoyable content. It's videos like these that make me want to do an extra major in chemistry

holy shit the stinky chemistry returns yet again! As always, epic video, and I can't wait to see what you make next!

Entertaining video, give your old man a medal for putting up with your stinky stuff.

Doing chemistry in a car scares me haha, nice vid!

Hope u know that these videos are amazing! They're edited simply, but its just all perfect. High quality and feels so genuine. I hope u never stop, ur my favorite chemistry youtuber rn! 💯 wish i could give 100 thumbs up. Greetings from Sweden

@LabCoatz_Science

11 ай бұрын

Thanks man, I hope I'll be able to continue posting to this channel throughout my life, with progressively better/more unusual projects! People like you definitely make it worth it!

excellent narrations good editing great video

awesome video dude, can't wait for more of these

The way the phenyl isocyanide was being described is pretty much the exact way people describe the smell of DMT smoke, a lot of people say it's like burning plastic/rubber/garbage but with organic components to it, it's never smelled bad to me personally and I get more of a jasminey kinda fresh plastic power tool case smell from it usually when I've smelled it when someone's smoking it at a concert but for a lot of people they can't stand the smell whatsoever and this is the only thing I've ever heard the smell described in a similar way

@nicknorthcutt7680

2 ай бұрын

DMT doesn't smell too bad, I've smoked it many times. It has an interesting smell but nothing too bad tbh.

@noodlelynoodle.

2 ай бұрын

@@nicknorthcutt7680 when smoking it I feel like it smells different to how it does when other people are smoking it just like how weed and tobacco are but dmt has always smelled amazing to me regardless of who's smoking it, part of it could be people who are inexperienced and are actually burning it rather than carefully vaporizing it with a lighter and so they're smelling a harsher version cause they're destroying it rather than just vaporizing it

@MultipleObjectSelector

Ай бұрын

It smells like burning rubber when it is burned rather than vaporized.

You might have heard of gas mask. It is a thing that filters out various chemicals from air you breath. Could be a good idea to use while performing such syntheses ;)

@theRPGmaster

11 ай бұрын

You might not be able to find filters for isocyanides. The military ones are generally pretty good at filtering out smells, in my experience, but that'll depend on the chemical.

@hadeoxdc4312

10 ай бұрын

that kills the purpose of the video of testing the smells oh so smart one

@larry_k

10 ай бұрын

If the goal was to smell all the chemicals involved in synthesis, including byproducts, in uncontrolled way, then yes, sure@@hadeoxdc4312

@AB-80X

9 ай бұрын

@@hadeoxdc4312 Not really. You can wear PPE while you're working, and then remove it or the testing.

Orry about your sample. The video was awesome 👌

Very intresting. It would be also intresting to make a closed space test and maybe also make cyclohexyl isocyanide, benzyl isocyanide and ethyl isocyanoacetate (from glycine probably) 2. Phosphines would be your next boss

The madlad is at it again!

Dude that was so cool! I'm really happy the n-butylamine and ethanolamine got to be put to something really awesome. I like to see how excited you get for these compounds keep it up man another great video!

@LabCoatz_Science

11 ай бұрын

Hey, speaking of the ethanolamine, I've been trying to run the Henry reaction with it, and I've been having some issues. How did you run your reaction between the catechol aldehyde and nitromethane? I ran mine with a few drops of ethanolamine, 0.5g nitromethane, 1.1g aldehyde, and 1-2mL ethanol, and I got a red gooey substance after adding water and cooling in the fridge. How did you get such nice, yellow crystals?

@midwestchem368

11 ай бұрын

@@LabCoatz_Science you've probably got some tar or side reactions going on. The reaction of aldehydes and nitromethane is really delicate and can be rapid depending on the conditions. The post i tagged you in a believe that reaction was 1 minute i stopped it because it rapidly went blood red rapidly. A smooth transition to blood red over an hour or more is ok its easy to hit the right point of stopping. Finding a stopping point is a little hard at first because the red color is also normal to see. Try 1g of aldehyde, 1ml of nitromethane, 1ml of ethanol and 1 drop of ethanolamine as a test and if you notice it go dark blood red way too fast(like within a minute) try to stop the reaction by adding a drop or 2 of water. This will precipitate out the product and then ice bath it to get the most out. It is usually easier to control the larger the scale but reagents are precious and nitrostyrenes dont have too many uses. The last most part is everything does need to be dry until you're ready to precipitate the product. Its goes through a beta nitroalcohol intermediate followed by dehydration to the nitroalkene. This is alot of what I know about this reaction and if you want to practice it without wasting aldehydes try to use vanillin as a substitute. I hope this helps man and if you have anymore questions feel free to reach out I'd be more than happy to help!

@midwestchem368

11 ай бұрын

@@LabCoatz_Science I forgot did you reflux it? If so what temperature? 45-55c is a good heating range I use a hot water bath. If it's not tar then it's a polymerized product. Also how long did you run the reaction?

@LabCoatz_Science

11 ай бұрын

@@midwestchem368 I refluxed it in boiling ethanol directly on the hotplate for about three hours, and then boiled off most of the ethanol after I figured out I had too much (aka, probably too hot for too long, lol). I'm thinking next time I'll try simply warming it in a hot water bath for thirty minutes and then crashing everything out in cold water. I might also try the reaction with little to no solvent...idk, I'm interested to know how you did the reaction!

@midwestchem368

11 ай бұрын

@@LabCoatz_Science when you get it then it's very exciting! It's a reaction that loves to hassle people. Try what you said a hot water bath and less reaction time. Ethanolamine tends to reach completion faster than other catalysts. I made a mistake on the proportions i gave in my previous comment. The catalyst is a balancing point too. Too little and the reaction is slow too much then you blow past the end point and will probably have tar like in my case it happened in literally 1 minute which means I used too much catalyst which was 4 or 5 drops to 1g of aldehyde. You're right though it's better to use a little less solvent so it doesn't need to be reduced you can always add more later if you need. If you get the proportions close it should transition to that red color a little more slowly than my 1 minute reaction time. When you get crystals save some if you want to repeat it because seed crystals help alot. You got this man! The best proportions I have found for very small scale are 1g aldehyde, 1ml nitromethane, 1 drop ethanolamine, 0.5-1ml ethanol. You can also add a drop or two of glacial acetic acid before the ethanolamine. This reaction does work a little better with amine acetates but it's not 100% necessary.

Great video. Im so glad I subbed a while back

Great video! For synthesizing primary amines one might look at the Delepine reaction. Haloalkanes react with hexamine (aka urotropine) to form primary amines. Hexamine is quite easy to obtain from fuel tablets at least in Europe. Keep up the great work, I really enjoy all of your videos! :)

@AB-80X

9 ай бұрын

I believe Hexamine is now regulated, after it was discovered that Syria uses it as an acid scavenger in its Sarin.

When you think yellow chemistry is bad. Green chemistry.....hold ma beer, son, watch this.

I'm really enjoying your content... Keep it up

ive happened to have the stupid idea to make phenyl isonitrile on a tiny scale because it supposedly smells bad and yeah i can vouch it smells bad, it simply just is horrible. i agree with the descriptions you and your friends gave, burning sharp odor like plastic/burning fat and an organic smell sorta like seaweed/fish (pyridine imo), the worst part is smelling it leaves a horrific taste in your mouth. a chemist i know told me that a coworker used to work with isonitrile chemistry and the drawer they used for storage still stinks XD ive made thioacetone and yeah isonitriles are simply worse overall

I look forward to your attempt at making the Tellurium analog of Thioacetone to complete the sink family

@LabCoatz_Science

11 ай бұрын

You know I will! Not sure how that'll go though...I know I'll be able to make/test some tellurols, but a tellurone like telluroacetone might be too unstable to exist (especially in the presence of atmospheric oxygen). I'll certainly try though!

Are you in Oklahoma? That's crazy. Your budy's shirt is missing an S between the O and U on his shirt, and the color is all wrong. My hometown is just like 30 minutes east of you.

*Pure distilled Genius at Display in this Video.* 🤩 👍 I Vote he gets the Chemistry Nobel Prize! 👍

One thing that gets missed in discussions about foul chemical smells is that the worst ones don't come from isolated compounds. Decayed organic materials, autoclave stench and military malodors get a good deal of their offensiveness from the fact that they present a rich "bouquet" of smells. Likewise, pure organosulfurs are unpleasant, but they really come into their own as part of a mixture, especially since every low MW sulfur compound stinks in its own way. You haven't lived until a grad student's experiment smells and tastes like the back of your throat got sprayed with aerosolised, burning carnivore shit.

Haha why would you synthesize this *in a car*?! Props to everyone involved, really entertaining stuff

@LabCoatz_Science

11 ай бұрын

We needed power for the hotplate and didn't have an extension cord long enough to reach the nearby camping tables...and we also didn't want anyone watching and thinking we were cooking meth or something, lol

Got my shipment! *Holy mother of god and all that is holy* Why did I ever think that was a good idea?! ;-) Heated it up and - INSTANT regret. My friends and I - nay - they entire neighborhood will not forget that anytime soon. lmfao

Love all the OU love - makes me feel right back home

Glad I finally got to see this happen

It’s 3 days after thanksgiving 2023 and I think this guy needs to smell what I’m cooking

The fight over stinkiest continues! Love it! Stink on!

Maybe try sodium dithionite someday as a reducing agent to make aniline? I haven't tried making aniline with it, as in my country you can buy aniline as an OTC reagent (and you cannot buy HNO3 and H2SO4 which makes nitrobenzene harder to obtain), but it works very well with toluidines, xylidines, and luminol.

I hate that burning plastic smell. Not plastic burning but that chemical smell that duplicates it but much worse. Burns the nostrils and makes you choke. Good job on your creations my guy. Your father’s description is so perfect.

WOW!!!! 1st thank you for sending me this sample, 2nd 🖕🫵 for sending me this sample! Holy Shit that was WAAAYYYY worse than the last one. Honestly I stopped by my mailbox on the way to work today, my plan was to take this sample to work and have them try it like the last one. As soon as I got it out of the mailbox (STILL SEALED in the package) I could smell the HORRIBLE 🤢🤮 burnt rubber/plastic chemical smell. THERE WAS NO WAY I was going to put it in my car let alone take it to work. So when I got off work I got it out of my mailbox, (smelled the package again) 🤢 and directly threw it away in an outside garage can. WOW, you truly have out done yourself. I really believe if someone would leave this in a building, they would evacuate it, seriously! I don’t think I will be getting any more samples from you. But, I very much enjoy your videos and hope you continue! 👍👍

10:47 I love how it feels like he’s listing his qualifications for a job interview.

Thanks for this! I remember asking for isocyanides on your selenoacetone video. Sadly I live outside the US so can't get a sample :( Phosphines next?

My city recently had an odor blanket it that sounded oddly similar to the isocyanides, a foul mixture of burning rubber and burning plastic with an odd organic undertone. Called the fire department and they were able to get it sorted out, but never did find out what the cause was or where it came from.

This is great, but we need a reference that we can buy in the store: Swedish Surströmming. Please open that, and put it on the chart, so we know what you have here.

The best source of readily available tin is at a sporting goods store. They are trying to (and have in some places) remove lead from fishing, so sinkers are made of either steel or tin now. Its pretty easy to tell the two apart.

Dad is the real MVP, also please send some to NileRed :D

"Thanks man..." Oh the power of friendship..

A lot of smells have a weird perception response in the sense that low levels end up smelling good. Sort of like how skatole (like scat as in poop) smells flowery in low concentrations; to the point where it's used in some perfumes. Apparently some mercaptans have this feature as well.

Have you smelt grease pit that wasn't kleand for 10 years. It smells like sour, rotten, burning oil end I don't now somting

You can use zinc for the nitrobenzene reduction step too - and that should be a bit easier to get hold of than tin, tends to work a bit better than either iron or tin, and isn't magnetic like iron. In fact I first did the nitrobenzene to aniline reduction in A-level chemistry at school, about 25 years ago.

I was working with isocyanides on my PhD and this is the best description of the smell I come up with: “what if the sweet smell could be bad” but this smell isn’t similar to any other group of compounds. In the synthesis of isocyanides the best method I found was dehydratation of formamides with tosyl chloride in quinoline (which kind of stinks itself), but isocyanide vacuum distilled (remember liquid nitrogen trap!) from solution is almost pure (95%, over 99.9% after additional distillation) and yield is usually over 80%. The methods that require extraction and evaporation of solvent works only on very non-volatile isocyanides, in other cases most of the product evaporates with solvents and leftover is still contaminated. Glassware after synthesis of isocyanides can be easy clean by let is sit in diluted acids, it takes usually 1-2days but isocyanide will completely hydrolysed and smell will disappeared.

Imagine the cops rolling up on you and seeing all that glassware and equipment emitting the smell of burnt plastic and fish lol

Inviting my friends over to smell the odors I'm about to produce. Around here, we just call that a chili cookout.

I wonder how having the compounds in an enclosed space would change the smell intensity. You'd be able to get higher concentrations, I imagine.

Your biggest challenge was iron, steel wool. Bechamp reduction was cool.

Great video, so interesting

you can buy phenethylamine HCL in supplement shops - freebase it and make phenethyl isocyanide?

Would isocyanate be useful to synthesize this stuff? Two part closed cell foam uses this for one of the parts.

Great video keep it up

Most isocyanide chemicals smell like hot rubber combined with an acrid burning plastic like smell. Actually you can use the stirrer's magnet itself to stirr the steel wool around in the flask.

I absolutely applied your efforts! It would be really interesting to explain to a sheriff state trooper or park ranger what you all were doing on the back of your car. I could see some ill-informed cock is powerful enough to start arresting people for a mobile meth lab because he saw glassware and isn't informed enough to know anything about chemistry.

Yea, Butyl compounds tend to have that effect. Add an isocyanide to that precursor, and it's just a poor match for humans.

Have you ever smelt new industrial rubber boots? I'm work with them almost daily and they are rank.

“I was only successful in reducing my yield” god that’s relatable lol

So I'm curious, one day, I had some permanent marker with the casing made of metal, like a sharpie, but a european brand, and it had a plastic wrapper glued around it, like that showed the brand name and instructions, I ripped the wrapping and it was just the bare metal and some remnants of glue, and it smelled horrible, really really bad, and the odor was actually pretty much how you and especially how your dad described the smell of those chemicals, so I wonder if, for some reason they put some sort of isocyanide for some reason in there. Probably not but I'm curious now

These chemicals you are describing are some that I have never heard of. I bet they really do reek.

60% of the Time, It Works Every Time!

Love these series 👍🏻 the worst smell I've ever smelled, unborn manure, from the slaughterhouse. Couldn't get used to it either, retch tendencies. 🤮

I dont know why but I have an extremely odorous sample of sodium cyanide. It stinks so bad not like regular HCN I have smelled a lot cleaner HCNs. It kinda smells rubbery and plasticy and burned. I havent cleaned it too well.

This reminded me about my one experience with DMT. DMT has an aweful taste and smell when heated. I know firsthand. Its like if you went into a bike shop and sniffed the new bike tires but combined that with tonsil stones and fish. One of the most unpleasent and nauseating odors ive encountered honestly.

@TACTICALwaffle2

11 ай бұрын

That was my first thought when he was describing it, based on my experiences. I’m going to order a sample so I can see how close it is

@nollie_ollie8358

11 ай бұрын

@TACTICALwaffle2 yeah you should I'd be interested to hear back if you do how close it is and what differences in scent profile it has. We are some drug sommeliers 😂

@untitled6578

10 ай бұрын

​@@TACTICALwaffle2any updates? i'm curious if they smell similar

Dude. Well played.

How does this stinky gas compare to adamsite or DM?

I've worked with these chemicals for a few months and they are, to this day, the worst things I've ever smelled. My supervisor would sometimes hold a flask under my nose as an 'analytical test' for the presence of these horrible smelling compounds. It may sound funny, but I'd rather be kicked in my nuts than smell one of those chemicals in those quantities ever again. Obviously, I quit my job there. Even when I smell the slightest whiff on the lab where I'm working now, I get traumas from isocyanides. Maybe the best description of the isocyanide smell, just like you mention in your first reactions in this video, is that you don't smell these compounds with your nose: you feel them in your nose, throat, sinuses and lungs. Thanks for sharing this video, and I'm glad you found your stench champion.... eventhough I hope there is an even worse smelling chemical waiting for you in the future :)

LabCoatz but no LabGoggles whyyyy

I don't understand half the words in this video. I'm here for the stink reactions.

working in the Mould making industry I worked with Isocyanate as a catalyst for polyol, is this stuff you're making in the same family?

@NinoNiemanThe1st

6 ай бұрын

No they're not in the same family at all. Similar atoms do not correlate with stinky odors, or toxicity for that matter whatsoever. Even though isocyanates can smell bad, they are not in the same league as isocyanides (or cyanides for that matter, which smell like bitter almonds).

Donkey's years ago I had the opportunity to smell 'skatol', (I think that's how it is spelled) . It's essence of urine, apparently used by perfumers. It was in a glass bottle inside another glass bottle and it still took five minutes of scrubbing to get the smell of piss off my fingers.

@cooldude7301

11 ай бұрын

Skatole smells like poop not urine

The lab in The car is awesome haha. Give me breaking Bad vibes

Is there any relation to the chemical in mustard, horseradish and wasabi? Allyl Isothiocyanate

@LabCoatz_Science

2 ай бұрын

A little. If you add a sulfur atom on the end of an isocyanide group, you get an isothiocyanate group. I didn't make an allyl isocyanide though, so that's pretty much where the similarities end. The smells are completely different.

I got flashbacks when yout friend smelled the Tert-butly isocyanide