Hey, welcome to the channel! I'm Dr. Josiah Newton and I have my PhD in chemistry (I am an organic chemist specializing in fluorine and sulfur). We're creating videos about science, but mostly chemistry. I hope that our videos will provide you with some new insight, or at the very least I hope that you will enjoy my anecdotes about organic chemistry.
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What. The. Fuck.
im offended cause you never showed a Ketamine Hydrochloride synthesis ... do you no how to do that??.. cause i heard there is a really hard last step to it! is that true??
For context, I'm autistic adhd and dyslexic, my dad owned an auto body collision repair shop and was also, very proficient with all trades, growing up we had a garage with big barrels with corrosive chemical signage. I would sit and stare, seriously contemplating that ✋🏻 pic with a chunk missing and a test tube with a drop.... I couldn't fathom what that meant. I couldn't grasp a liquid disappearing a sharp chunk 😂 (I'm also aphantasic i have zero mental imagery SooooOo yeah). I'm impressed i never opened a barrel bc i was dying to know. Just a for instance on how my brain processes info, we had a wood burning stove, I'd watched my mom and dad poke at logs in the fire many times, when they left the room i stuck the poker in the fire, pulled it out, it was black, so i wrapped my 5 year old hand around the tip bc 'it wasn't red and red means hot" Common sense isn't common, it comes with experience. So my dad's auto body shop was also filled with ALL kinds of chemicals, i never truly knew how close to death i was.... Tolulene and isocyanates My dad would paint WITHOUT a respirator 😂 and smokes 2 packs of cigarettes a day.... But the thing that almost did him in was the ammonia build up in his brain from trying to drink himself to death and went into acute liver failure. He was sent home on hospice. That was 15 years ago and he's still puffing away at 60. That man has more lives than a cat. Sorry for my string of disjointed incoherent ramblings😂
When people realize it's not survival of the fittest it's survival of that which does not suck too badly..... Hence after 60k years we're still just as dumb as ever😂
Also allegro is great in poland
"You're like potassium.... 'K"... lol
I think you missed one of the riskiest compounds, based on hearsay - Benzoylmethylecgonine. Carfentanyl should make the list two, although it wouldn’t be a 4/4/4.
Wait you were _seeking_ yellow?
*MR OBALAR* ON KZread CURED ME TOTALLY
*MR OBALAR* ON KZread CURED ME TOTALLY
I’ve actually had a lab accident before because of a bad clamp. It got stuck when I fastened it and seemed like it was fine, but a few seconds later as I had just left it came crashing down and broke a flask, spilling its contents over the lab bench. Also, I’m with you, all these clamps loosening up all the time is so fucking annoying. And then when you have these standalone stands, the screws in the bottom come loose as well.
Gloves are stupid many times. Gloves will NOT save you from all chemicals and most moronic lab students wear the same pair of gloves ALL day, cross contaminating everything with who knows what. It's fine when they're required, but to just blanket statement say they should always be used is absolutely stupid imo. Your skin is a fantastic barrier for a lot of chemicals.
a friend of mine in middle school perforned electrolysis on water in a glass beaker with no safety equipment wouldn't you know it, it violently exploded while was close to it fragmentation weapon aside she apparently didn't really suffer any damage
I got hot concentrated sulfuric acid sprayed onto my arm. It immediately ate thru my tshirt. It's a good think I was wearing safely glasses and a full face shield. Moral of the story, know where your emergency showers are and how to use them. At least I've got some sweet scars on my arm!
They still made me finish my shift BTW. Thankfully the burns were splotchy and not one giant sheet. It never really hurt that bad, but it sure looked gnarly, especially when it was pretty fresh.
I am a veterinarian, so I took 2 chems, 2 O-chems, biochem, plant biology, microbiology, physiology, toxicology, pharmacology, parasitology, and all the various small and large animal medicine courses especially emergency med and exotic and aquatic med/toxicology. OMG I've been watching this channel for days and there is something from ALL OF THOSE COURSES on this channel and I can't stop binging. I love the toxin and medications ones but really I'm just obsessed with this channel now xD I can recognize something in each video that helps me study and stay sharp.
I may have misheard you but it sounded like you said tetra-azido-tetrazole. Bro regular azotetrozole is a touch explosive that energetics labs won't even handle. That made my ass pucker just hearing it 😬
I'd be more comfortable taking 200mg MDMA...
Really surprised to not see Tetraethyl Lead here.
so i keep Flerovium (FI) in my house. 😇
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VX only deserve S leaderboard.
Did you know some recreational drugs have antimicrobial effects? Some examples: 2-FDCK, 3-MeO-PCP
Bulck supplements is s tier for sure
The industry really has a hard time substituting normal sugar as every sweetener tastes different in conjunction with different food and drinks and pH level and other sweeteners. That is why so many sweeteners exist, are used and mixed.
Fluoroquinolones also are extremely strongly contraindicated for anyone with collagen disorders like EDS. It turns a moderate risk for tendonitis into a high risk of tendon rupture. I've interacted with people who permanently lost the ability to walk because of it.
Bromine in F tier?
Everything?
Why do I like it when people say salt lake
I’m not sure if I’m jealous or glad that I missed out on chemistry labs due to overpop and my profile not having expanded chemistry… Although missing out on phys labs due to covid and shitty time management was sucky, although my top-dog high school doesn’t have *that* good equipment for some reason…
This video is known to the state of California to cause cancer
Finally I found you
Nothing too terrible from my years of school chemistry, but a few smaller incidents. Once, just before a fellow student was in the process lighting off a bunsen burner, we were called away to the room next door. They already had opened the gas valve, but not lit the flame. We returned a few minutes later, and were hit by the garlic smell. We went like "yeah, we should better air out the room first." There was also a fist-sized crater in one of the wooden tables, which I was told was related to "something with alkaline metals". In another school, we did the classic of potassium in water again. Second round, it was a student's turn to drop a large chunk of the metal (without tweezers or gloves, just wet with the parrafin) into the water. After a slight delay, it exploded, splashing the solution everywhere. I visited the school a few years later, there was still potassium salt residue in the lamp shade above the teachers table. In the same school, we also had someone spill an entire bottle of formic acid for ester synthesis by knocking it over with the glass pipette onto their trousers. They only wanted to undress after it started to burn a little. It was washed off, and afaik nothing beyond temporary skin redness occured.
Thew police should be depraved of all of them.
Take a short look at this: www.tdi.texas.gov/fire/documents/fmred022206.pdf Some chem students (PhD candidates) were disturbed because a 160L nitrogen dewar was "leaking" so removed all the safeties and replaced them with PLUGS. The explosion blew out interior walls and cracked a 114" conbretye beam interior to building. I was part of the investigation team, wowzers. Visiting the apocaylpse. Funny (as in odd, not humorous) some of my students at UTSA complained about "leaking tanks" the very same way. I got a call one evening from Uni police department to bring my hazmat gear and report to undergrad science building due to "lealking tanks" - turns out it was a mostly empty LS160 left in the hall for pickup, venting nitrogen. False alarm, guys, everybody go home.
Its a year late, but from a welder, the dilute soap solution works really good to stop fogging. What you do is put dilute soap (foaming soap works too, its prediluted) on a cloth, wipe the goggles down thoroughly, then wipe them once with a dry section of the cloth to clean off the worst of it. It is _slightly_ worse than brand new goggles, but it keeps them from fogginv for awhile, and the slight haze is way better than foggy goggles.. When I was doing oxyacetylene welding I had to reapply it between once a day and once a week, and that was for 8 hour days.
Hello, sorry to ask. But what would you recommend for cleaning molecular sieves that have been exposed to THF. Thank you
I think it's worth pointing out - it's not that the radiation source nuked the circulating white blood cells from that brief exposure, its that the stems cells in his *bone marrow* got irradiated hard enough that it stopped working for long enough to not replace his white cells after 80% had already worked themselves out of circulation.
the garlic distillation made me laugh so hard lol
Reeeehehehehehehehehe timestamps 9:10 9:29 17:51
Fine..............but does this get you laid?
Acetone is not good for your brain, but if you’re drinking acetone your brain is probably already bad
You forgot LoL
Even explosive experts fear TATP. It’s crazy, my jaw dropped and I was genuinely shocked to see that much.
In Germany it’s required for any lab accident to be documented for insurance purposes. At my former workplace, there was still a booklet for this with the first aid materials (now it’s usually done differently for data protection purposes) and we once looked through it. Almost all of the incidents were related to broken glass.
8:36 I think the reaction is FeS + 2HCl → FeCl₂ + H₂S↑... Or maybe the HCl is substituted with a different acid? Idk.
I am simultaneously shocked and impressed you lot took denatonium. Props for that Your reaction is absolutely priceless and i show it to everyone for instant entertainment 😁
Lmfao!!! “Fagarine” definitely blows
I wish you didn't have to make us guess on some of these... (the "sneezing agent" is 4-(chloroacetyl)catechol)
There are more than a few papers out there on o-phenyl fluorothionoformate...even though the chloro analogue is more common...