I love the idea of NileRed just mixing vinegar and baking soda and calling it a day at that.

@CRneu

Жыл бұрын

this would make for a pretty funny april fools day post.

@whazzup_teacup

Жыл бұрын

Sometimes that's what a day of labwork is. Just a single reaction and then the rest is sitting at a computer.

@kindlin

Жыл бұрын

Those 12 hours were probably a good time to do..... anything else.

@joelhoon1707

Жыл бұрын

@@milesdoyle Bro just typed out the entire Bible

@orionx79

Жыл бұрын

@Miles Doyle The god of the bible is evil, you serve evil. And a liar, god lies in the bible.

I love that just from the crystalization, I could instantly recognize it from being used in instant hot packs. Any super saturation setup makes for such a neat reaction, just like watching purified liquid water suddenly reacting below it's freezing temperature to all crystalize at once.

@volvo09

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, once I saw that unique slow dense spread I said "yes, this IS what is in hot packs!"

@JBroMCMXCI

Жыл бұрын

I instantly knew it was the same stuff used in hot packs after he said it was

@keithyinger3326

Жыл бұрын

During the summer I will stick my Gatorade or Snapple into the freezer for about 1 hour and 10 to 20 minutes or so. Take it out and whack it on the counter and you end up with a really good slushy. The ice crystals are so fine that it's almost like snow mixed into it. It makes it so cold and refreshing on a hot summer day.

@volvo09

Жыл бұрын

@@keithyinger3326 I remember the day someone showed me that when I worked at a dairy... I was amazed!

@Lillireify

Жыл бұрын

I feel stupid because even though I knew it I didn't connect the dots at all until Nile told me what it is :(

Nile's "And I think that's pretty cool" brings me immense amounts of serotonin

@UnwrittenSpade

Жыл бұрын

Lol I low key feel sorry for you if this isn’t a joke. Don’t get me wrong I love Nike red and I guess it’s better you get joy from him than Logan Paul hahahaha. Wait till you try “going outside” all kinds of serotonin is gonna flood ya it will be like taking some old school E pills Edit: maybe I should also say I’m joking with you sometimes my super dry humor goes over people and while I think you would know I was messing around other people won’t and will start commenting. I edited this in before anyone commented

@Donkeymaster9000

Жыл бұрын

@@UnwrittenSpade slow down

@Donkeymaster9000

Жыл бұрын

@Miles Doyle Allah is dead as god. Only death shall protect and give meaning

@dava_arvarabi

Жыл бұрын

@@Donkeymaster9000?

@notburntfries6566

Жыл бұрын

What is this comment section lmao

I used to have these reusable hot packs that had a little metal disc in them. Press down on the disc until it popped, and watch the colored fluid inside turn into crystals that produced heat. Once it cooled off, you'd place the pack into boiling water until it all remelted into fluid and you could go again.

@How_did_you_get_that

Жыл бұрын

Those where lifesavers during winter. I used to put them in my boots.

@amandahugankiss4110

Жыл бұрын

Dude. Your feet go in your boots. Your feet.

@How_did_you_get_that

Жыл бұрын

@@amandahugankiss4110 WHAT!?

@notchpoodles5864

6 ай бұрын

Hhh that’s really cool

@k_otey

4 ай бұрын

​@@amandahugankiss4110what

As a tower myself I can confirm that this is correct

@InstagramUser2

Жыл бұрын

I'm better than NileRed, My content is better!

@Trolligi

Жыл бұрын

bot moment

@andrewcavallo1877

Жыл бұрын

Hey, it’s me, vinegar. I gave you your entire career, you owe me

@Trolligi

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewcavallo1877 thanks bro

@voyageridk_

Жыл бұрын

the fuck why are there bots everywhere

the world becomes a better place whenever nigel posts

@errorbzz

Жыл бұрын

true

@katanaquits5255

Жыл бұрын

@@thesoulkz what 💀

@rainhat1

Жыл бұрын

nigel is his name

@legend528

Жыл бұрын

I saw his notificationand I was like thank god he's alive

@lord_kerman

Жыл бұрын

@@thesoulkz how

I found this guys channel on Christmas and have loved his channel ever since. Glad to have some fresh new content during the start of 2023. Thanks Nile!

Thank you Nigel! So nice to see a short that is like back when you started. Just fun, fascinating science. Love it!!

I've seen other channels do this experiment where the towers formed are really impressive, but I haven't actually seen anyone slice that tower until now, and it looks even more impressive. Good job, NileRed!

@Wolfganger

Жыл бұрын

Number of people who asked: *0*

@Blackholebirb

Жыл бұрын

@@Wolfganger wrong

@Wolfganger

Жыл бұрын

@@Blackholebirb Oh really? Who asked then?

@Blackholebirb

Жыл бұрын

@@Wolfganger me :-)

@Wolfganger

Жыл бұрын

@@Blackholebirb Where the comment of you asking then?

As soon as you said it generates a lot of heat, I recognized it from handwamers. Neat!

My reusable hot packs did become solid when you "snap" that little coin inside and produce heat. To turn it back to liquid all you need is to boil it back in hot water until it all melted then left it to cool down to room temperature. You can reuse it as hot packs when you "snap" (rather "click") that small tiny metal piece inside the pouch and they'll start heating up again and solidify.

For reference, you'd need roughly 150g of baking soda (in excess) to neutralize the 2 liters of vinegar, assuming 5% concentration.

@maghteridon5555

Жыл бұрын

That's the amount of baking soda Nigel is using in this video?

@cameronbigley7483

Жыл бұрын

@@maghteridon5555 I don't believe so, since he mentioned adding more vinegar to the mixture. 75g per liter of vinegar will be a stoichiometric excess, if my math is correct.

@maghteridon5555

Жыл бұрын

@@cameronbigley7483 So... How did the reaction occur without oversaturation?

@cameronbigley7483

Жыл бұрын

@@maghteridon5555 For most chemicals, solubility increases with temperature. The trihydrate can dissolve 82g/100mL at 50C, but only 46.4g/100mL at 20C. Reacting all the baking soda/vinegar isn't as important as the amount of sodium acetate. tl;dr: Solubility decreases with temperature, so dropping the temperature causes oversaturation.

@cHAOs9

Жыл бұрын

Vinegar is evaporating off with the water

big W for chemistry fans today (me, a junior chemistry major - somewhat motivated by your insane projects and a drive to know how the hell most of the chem you do works)

@leosmith5209

Жыл бұрын

Can you reverse the reaction so it unfreezes?

@alanbunbun6961

Жыл бұрын

@@leosmith5209 It's less of a reaction and more of playing with saturation of a solution; he got rid of the water holding the sodium acetate in solution, so it *really* wanted to become a crystal as soon as possible (a supersaturated solution, where more stuff is in solution than naturally possible), which is what happened when it was poured. To undo it, just add the solid chunks back into a container of water roughly the same size before stuff was evaporated so it can dissolve easily

@CookingWithCows

Жыл бұрын

Literally all you need to do is heat it up. Ok, letting it crystalize in open air might have evaporated some water, but if you do it in a closed container like a sealed bag, just put the bag into boiling water

You can also start the crystal reaction with a sharp force such as tapping a stir rod against the bottom of the beaker very firmly, the commercial hot packs use a metal snap inside to start the reaction. It would be neat to see how many different weird ways you can start the crystallization! Sound? Laser? Hitting the outside of the beaker?

@westie430

Жыл бұрын

Oooh good idea!

@darkness74185

Жыл бұрын

splash it semi-aggressively against a wall so you can freeze an explosion

@treely6647

Жыл бұрын

@@darkness74185 something just seems so funny to me about the "semi-aggressively"

@shable1436

10 ай бұрын

The metal snap contains a small seed crystal, read how to do one with alligator clip

@347Jimmy

8 ай бұрын

Yelling at it to start the reaction would be priceless

Wow, that stuff is incredibly easy to make, you make it seem!! Very neat. Awesome content for your videos as always

Nigel created a supersaturated solution. He did this by boiling the water away from the sodium acetate, which created a solution that contains more than the maximum amount of solute that is capable of being dissolved. This means that the crystals want to form, but they can't, they need something to start the crystallization prosses. This is why a seed crystal was used. The "seed" allows for the crystals to start forming onto it, eventually crystallizing the whole solution. This is kind of similar to the experiment where you make water go beyond it's freezing point, and then initiate the crystallization of it with agitation or a seed crystal being a piece of ice.

@OfficiallySnek

Жыл бұрын

This experiment is also known as the hot ice experiment

@twanchee206

Жыл бұрын

So its the same as when you put a water bottle in the freezer and then tap it and it all freezes at once? Cool.

@CookingWithCows

Жыл бұрын

It's not the same

@OfficiallySnek

Жыл бұрын

@@CookingWithCows "Kind of similar"

@justjack1352

Жыл бұрын

this reminds me of how when you want to make a certain sort of chocolate, you need some sort of seed chocolate in order to make it crystallize.

As soon as I saw it recrystallize, I realized exactly what was happening. Technology Connections made a video about instant hot packs a little ways back, they're really cool to see.

@loleq2137

Жыл бұрын

So true!

@unemployedgringo

Жыл бұрын

Dude I knew it was technology connections! I was wondering where I had seen this before. Love that dude!

@danielpitts6913

Жыл бұрын

Cools to see, and warm to feel.

I've seen this video before, but I strongly encourage you to make more like this. Experiments you an accturally accomplish.

I‘m so happy, that there are new videos of NileRed. That voice and way of speaking spreads knowledge to watch it completely interested and is even perfect to fall asleep.

*"Nile Red has Officially used Acetic Acid as his first acid for chemistry this year."*

Happy New Year! I hope that everything has been well for you and your loved ones! Your videos have been missed! ❤️

Finally! My hero has Uploaded after literally seems like forever! I've been simping on you for quite a while and watched A LOT of your discussions on Safety Third and your crazy videos in William Osman's channel and with your other buddies Allen Pan and Kevin 😁☺️😇 I gotta say, my holidays was a blast because you guys made me smile... Specially your Secret Santa special which made me laugh so hard 😁😁🥳 Thank you for being back Nigel 🥰

Usually it's done the other way round: You drop a bit of crystal into the solution (instead of pouring the solution onto the crystal) and watch the solution freeze, as that will really look as if you watch water freezing in fast motion.

Finally NileRed remembered he had a shorts account lying dry for 4 months

@InstagramUser2

Жыл бұрын

I'm better than NileRed, My content is better!

@anikethdesai

Жыл бұрын

@@InstagramUser2 Good for you

@mr_ekshun

Жыл бұрын

jfc this is what I get for clicking on a video right when it comes out... gotta remember to wait till the bots get sorted out lol

@yeahmans

Жыл бұрын

@@mr_ekshun imo i just ignore them but they're usually just really damn annoying, when they say they do a crime for help because their content is better, why tf do you say you do the crimes? if a random bot says i'm better than this guy and my content is better, that's fine but empty is a dumbass

@supersipra3782

Жыл бұрын

I thought he died doing some weird yet dangerous experiment 💀

JESUS FINALLY THIS HUMAN UPLOADS

@acevalr3714

Жыл бұрын

Yippeeee

@RyanSaundercook

Жыл бұрын

He just put out a video

@tskilca

Жыл бұрын

@Empty Absolutely disgusting, even if that was a joke I don't see the humor in that. I do not understand what you are trying to do by typing that. You won't gain any respect nor gain anything you could use for your own use. Even though I do not know you, I am completely disappointed. Think about that.

@acevalr3714

Жыл бұрын

@Empty you really are empty that thing you call a joke was really harmful for people who have gone through that experience and even if it’s a normal person seeing this it’s still bad to say these type of things please learn from your actions and never say these things again

@acevalr3714

Жыл бұрын

@Empty and even if you don’t care about having common sense on the internet if a friend sibling parent follower subscriber looks at this they will probably tell everyone and by the end you will be friendless and your siblings and parent won’t talk to you

I am teaching myself to play the drums and I am doing pretty good so far because I can see where I fall short and what I am doing wrong, but with chemistry, I just can't get into that flow state where I know what my next question is to answer

This was my most favorite chemical reaction back in high school days, I looked it up for months and saw pretty much all KZread videos about it, tho I never accomplished to try it out myself. Another reaction I loved was the slime one with borax and glue

WHEN THE WORLD NEEDED HIM THE MOST, HE RETURNED

love these experiments that use easy ingredients!

i am SO adding this to my weird tower bucket list!

BRO it's a relief to finally hear from you!! I legit thought there were accidents with some random experiments..

I remember doing something like this in my high school Chem lab, except it was with salt. Our procedure was that you make a saturated salt solution first and then heat it so that more salt could be added and dissolved. When it eventually cooled down, we added a single salt crystal and a bunch of crystals started forming. I believe that what made the sodium acetate structure so solid was that there was very little to no water. It basically became sodium acetate but in liquid state. So when he added the liquid to the crystal, all the sodium acetate fell out of the solution and crystallized around the single crystal, forming a strong structure. But then, I’m no expert and this is just my speculation/opinion. Love the video btw ❤.

It's a fun experiment! In our country, we call it "hot ice". In fact, if you wait longer, the solids will become very, very hard and less brittle.

@mandyrey7122

Жыл бұрын

Cool! In your native language how do you call hot ice?

@HansLabTW

Жыл бұрын

@Mandy Rey 熱冰. It looks like ice, but it's very Hot!

Glad to see regular videos 😁😁

FINALLY A NEW SHORT! THANK YOU!

After all this years, Nigel finally did vinegar - soda volcano

yay something safe/easy I can do at home, thanks for the great content

@SaheeliRai

Жыл бұрын

Boiling acid is not really a safe thing to do 😅

@Cineenvenordquist

Жыл бұрын

@@SaheeliRai It's been neutralized with the baking soda. Maybe another KZreadr will follow through with adapting an old print head to 3D print a tower then do a lost acetate casting of maybe an ionic fluid solvating lignins.

oh my god the knife cutting it is so satisfying that sounds like the best texture in the world i want it so badly

The liquid immediately prior to crystallization isn't a supersaturated solution, but a supercooled liquid. It's Sodium Acetate cooled below its freezing point, but lacking a suitable nucleation site. This is provided in this case by the Sodium Acetate crystal, and in handwarmers by the metal 'clicker'. The heat produced is that of solidification or crystallization, the inverse of the heat required to melt a solid.

I did this for a science fair experiment once! Very neat. Got some of it stuck in a wineglass for a few months

So cool, love how you directed it and revealed that hot packs use this

You are right, it is pretty cool!

thanks for posting nigel!

I've done this before, and it's pretty fun. But it's also hard to judge when the solution is just on the brink of crystallizing on its own. I would get to the point where I was ready to pour, and it would just crystallize in the beaker (throwing off a LOT of heat), which was still cool, but not what I meant to do. And resetting the whole thing (re-dissolving, etc.) is a pain in the butt, something that takes 30-40 min. to achieve. So maybe fine-tuning this is possible, but I wasn't able to - it's just too sensitive.

@gaboanimador

Жыл бұрын

How do you make it a liquid again?

@VoIcanoman

Жыл бұрын

@@gaboanimador You heat it. This is simple super-saturation. A lot more sodium acetate can dissolve into 90°C water than 20°C water, but saturating the solution at 90°C and then cooling it ever-so-gradually will allow this state of disequilibrium to persist, wherein the sodium acetate wants to drop out of solution, but can't...at least not without a stimulus (like adding a tiny crystal of the same material to the liquid...or merely striking or scratching the wall of the vessel holding the solution). Once you provide that stimulus, and it crystallizes, all you have to do is stick it on a hot plate and heat it up again, and the solid will once again dissolve, and you can do the demonstration again. Well, that's the theory at least. In practise, it really doesn't take much to cause the solution to crystallize as it cools down. Therefore, about half the time you try to get it to room temperature as a super-saturated solution, it will crystallize without you intending that to happen. That's my experience with this, anyway. Maybe my solution was just too concentrated to work properly, or perhaps my acetate wasn't pure enough, and there were other things coming out of solution that formed nuclei for sodium acetate crystals. I don't really know. Just...know that this demonstration has driven thousands of science teachers insane, and for good reason.

Finally! A video without Nigel using his hammer :')

One of my favorite science experiments as a kid

That's really interesting to know that it's used in food hotpacks because usually all food items (including the heating component) kinda need to be food safe incase of contamination.

Looks delicious.

i absolutely love your videos and binge the shorts you post :) what the actual hell is wrong with these bots.. i just wanted to be nice :(

@InstagramUser2

Жыл бұрын

I'm better than NileRed, My content is better!

when he says "and im gonna do something that I think is pretty fun" it's gonna be some funky stuff

We really missed u. It's great to see you post again.

Yesss now I can grow a weird tower like I always wanted🤩

@Cineenvenordquist

Жыл бұрын

Now you're building with the power of hydrated glop! 😒 Maybe you can do a variation w.r.t. the art installation that spouted like red lipstick all over its room. Continuously.

1:39 pour your what? 🤨🗿

love this man's idea of fun. and it always is

This seems like a neat thing to fill a large jar with before plunging my hand into its depths.

When The World Needed Him Most, He Returned.

@Trolligi

Жыл бұрын

Pov literally every comment after a hiatus

@InstagramUser2

Жыл бұрын

I'm better than NileRed, My content is better!

Nile, your videos are the reason I am the top test scorer in science in my school, you're the reason I'm interested in science and I am fascinated

@filonin2

Жыл бұрын

*you're

@Davetherave3154

Жыл бұрын

@@filonin2 you didn't have to correct me, sorry

@vituperation

Жыл бұрын

@@filonin2 Hey. They said top scorer in science, not English.

@Davetherave3154

Жыл бұрын

@@vituperation respect :) thanks

@michaelfischer8756

Жыл бұрын

@@filonin2 In this context, *your* is actually correct. You wouldn't say "Nile, you are videos are the reason etc.." You're welcome!

I have a feeling that the romans used this method to make their sculptures

This is literally so cool, why didn’t we have this experiment in high school, so much funner than dissolving salt into water come back weeks later and see the salt remaining

i love how aigo is growing a tower lol

Would it be any faster to concentrate the liquid by freezing?

@Cineenvenordquist

Жыл бұрын

No because it can crystalize cued by frost. Doesn't stir well then.

@nileredshorts Please correct me if I’m wrong, but my understanding is that the effect is due to the solution being supercooled, not supersaturated. It freezes when disturbed or a seed crystal is added because it’s liquid below its freezing point.

I have some re useable hear packs that have sodium acetate in them. Thank you for explaining how it works.

Sodium acetate is what those heating packs are made of, isn't it? The things that have the little clicker in it that you boil it it stays liquid and then when you click it or hit it hard enough it will solidify and get hot

@cameronbigley7483

Жыл бұрын

That's correct. It's very energy-inefficient due to the latent heat, but it's certainly a great hands-on reusable resource for demonstrating supersaturation, as well as latent heat.

If you feel like doing this at home I do recommend using vinegar concentrate (or pure acetic acid). This way you don't waste lots of time and energy boiling off the water.

It blows my mind how such a TINY spec of something can make such a reaction to form a large volume/structure

It kinda looks like the experiment where you pour almost frozen water on the floor and it turns to ice.

@Cineenvenordquist

Жыл бұрын

Supercooled water! Yeah, set up that competition I guess...heat of crystallization v. how supercooled the water is. Could be a fountain magic trick maybe ..

As a tower myself, I can confirm this is accurate and works.

SODIUM ANDREWTATE??

ive been watching your content for a while and im literally watching a vod of paymoneywubbys stream where he mentions you and i just thought that was cool👍🏾 Great vid btw

thank you I loved this

“this is just regular vinegar, and im gonna do something thats pretty fun” *proceeds to down the whole jug of vinegar*

this is so cool because I actually have one of those instant hot packs and I find them amazing

You can do this with water if it's pure enough and the temperature is just right. I used to have a precision refrigerator I used to keep bottled water at 29F to drink it as cold as possible. Would instantly freeze if you hit the bottles hard.

Fun fact:Sodium acetate is also a flavor and texture agent added in many foods. Try adding a mix of baking soda and vinegar (after letting sit) to soup, melted cheese, and such things and enjoy :)

The sodium acetate solution really blurs the line between a supersaturated solution and a supercooled liquid. Crazy stuff.

And if you heat it, it will melt below 100 degrees C and has a nice capacity to hold heat, (so some of the heat packs can be re-used just by putting them in hot water.)

This is the OG youtube experiment. Everyone and their mom was doing sodium acetate hot ice experiments in 2008-2010 youtube era. I remember NURD RAGE did it first and I'm sure this is Niles little call back to that era.

This type of a experiment can also be done with ice and half frozen cool water . As you take out the water from the freezer make sure that the water is not disturbed much ....and then pour it carefully onto solid ice cube and you can actually form this type ice tower ...

This is one of the most satisfying things I've ever seen.

i was obsessed with this experiment as a kid. I must've seen hundreds of "hot ice" videos.

Glad to see you back nile

That's wild! Love it!

Nilered.. We missed you so muchh.. Pls don't stop uploading videos on this channel..

I find all these posts fascinating... I never could get my brain wrapped around chemistry, but things like this show us just how intricate and beautiful our world is.

Sir, Its really amazing. I am chemistry teacher I often show your videos to my students in the class, they really enjoy, and make curious in learning chemistry.

@jonnyboi7671

11 ай бұрын

Sir....give me a kiss

Is this the same stuff that's in those reusable hand warmers that you put in hot water to "recharge" and oftentimes come with a metal button you pop to start the reaction?

this is that stuff or winnter time where you have a bag of it. click a clicker inside and it becomems solid giving of heat for cold hands for about 30 min heating it up in lets say boiling water (keeping the crystalised substance dry in a closed bag) will liquify it again and its a re-usable heat battery storing the energy from boiling it untill needed

Bro you could easily put this on the main channel. It's got the good good vibe

‘First, We’re going to take some vinegar and add some baking soda to it.’ Wait, I know this one!

Ah yes another wonderful thing to try as a dnd artificer with a biochemist DM

i did this 2 months ago. It was really fun but smell was horrible. Ps if u use higher % vinegar u dont need to boil a lot of water. I used 70%

technically I think you don't even need the starter crystal in the dish (ofc it makes it more repeatable) but the energy of the impact should be enough too.

Just awesome 🪄✨😌..keep rocking 🌟

@shalinishalu7333

Жыл бұрын

Say your channel name...

Finally, something I can try at home!

Finally something that i can do at home without poisoning whole neighborhood 💀

the first nile red I've done at home, to make reusable hand warmers (not the exact same process).

In Germany you can buy 25% acetic Acid in basically every supermarket. We call it "Essence of Vinegar"(Essigessenz). So I would just refrigerate this, put it into an ice bath and slowly add the stochiometric amount of NaOH while stirring. Neutralizing with NaHCO3 is always like a pita for me.

I know what is going to happen, and I still smile and go "oooh, ahhh" and smile, call my kid over, watch it again, and do the same thing! (Turns out my kid is already a fan). I love it! Thanks!

They also tried to use it in combustion engines - to heat them up immediately. No more cold starting... Unfortunately it wasn't stable enough, the sodium acetate would crystallize spontaneously under test conditions.