Capturing the natural beauty of chemistry I find that chemistry is often taught poorly or without a purpose. Because of this, people tend to lose interest and sometimes even start to hate it. In each video that I make, I try to balance theory with purpose. My goal is to capture the natural beauty of chemistry in fun and interesting ways. In terms of education, I have a BSc in Biochemistry, with a minor in pharmacology. However, I've always been a lot more drawn to applied chemistry. So after finishing my degree, I worked as a lab tech in an organic lab, and then as a chemistry grad student. Ho
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1:122.5M views · 27d ago · 1:12
This is one of the machines that I need to make neodymium magnets, and it's actually kind of scary. This is because it can use a ridiculous amount of power to generate a massive magnetic field that's similar in strength to an MRI machine.
3:002.8M views · 2mo ago · 3:00
What I have here is just a bunch of drain cleaner and I'm gonna use it to make some nasty soap. And by nasty, I mean that I'll be using things like celery, Oreos and skatole for the scents.
3:009.9M views · 3mo ago · 3:00
Today I have some nice and shiny mercury metal, and I'm gonna do something that I think is kind of magical. More specifically, I want to make color changing mercury, and to do that, I need to make mercury (II) iodide. What's special about mercury (II) iodide is that it exhibits something called thermochromism, meaning that it changes colors, at different temperatures.
1:30:1212.9M views · 3mo ago · 1:30:12
Streamline your business with Odoo by going to: and get 1 app for free for life, or try everything Odoo has to offer for free for 15 days, no credit card required. For years now, I have been dreaming of turning air into alcohol and after years of work, I am happy to say that I finally did it!
Topics: How it's even possible · Getting H2O/CO2 from air · Building the reactor system · Picking the catalyst · Making the Fe based catalyst · Wetness impregnation
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1:456.1M views · 7mo ago · 1:45
For a while now, I've wanted to try mixing gallium and indium metal together by shoving them into each other, where something interesting should happen. More specifically, they form an alloy that's liquid at room temperature, and when mixed with tin, they form something called Galinstan. Galinstan is a lot like mercury, and is often used as a less toxic replacement, in things like thermometers.
2:438.6M views · 8mo ago · 2:43
For this one, I want to try and extract the soul from a regular cup of coffee, and to do this, I need to use a freeze drier.
2:357.3M views · 9mo ago · 2:35
For a while now, I've wanted to test the power of hydrofluoric acid, and see if it can really dissolve glass.
55:3311.7M views · 1y ago · 55:33
For as long as I can remember, I've always been fascinated by liquid nitrogen and I've always wanted to be able to make it myself, but I never did because it just seemed too difficult. Recently though, for some unknown reason, I felt that I was ready to try doing it, despite having basically no experience with stuff like this, and I decided to just go for it.
Topics: Liquid air & my LN2 mission · Researching & my plan · Getting all of the pieces · Attaching the cryocooler · Does the cryocooler work? · Testing the Dewar
🎵 Mentioned music: Music in credits (Walker by SORRYSINES)
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2:3311.8M views · 1y ago · 2:33
In this video, I'll be showing how it's possible to turn regular sand into spontaneously combustible gas.
3:007.5M views · 1y ago · 3:00
For this one, I'm going to try to synthesize a bouncy ball. Basically I'm making something called Thiokol rubber, and hopefully as a ball, it'll be bouncy.
1:394.8M views · 1y ago · 1:39
I have this little tube, that been been sitting on my desk for over a month. What's inside is potassium metal, that looks gross and dirty because it's so reactive, and it's soft like weird butter.
1:206.7M views · 1y ago · 1:20
A while ago I made some perfectly clear ice using a cooler, and I thought it was pretty cool. There were a lot of comments though, that said I could have saved a lot of time and effort, by just boiling the water, so I've decided to test that out.
2:4215.7M views · 1y ago · 2:42
This is just a bunch of regular nails and I really want to try and liquefy them. Normally this would be pretty difficult, but I bought this little induction heater on eBay, which should be able to do it.
1:224.5M views · 1y ago · 1:22
For this one, I'm gonna be doing something weird with an egg. All I need is just a regular egg, some vinegar, and a beaker.
2:5838.9M views · 1y ago · 2:58
For a while now, I've been wanting to make an explosive liquid metal, and all I need is some sodium and some potassium. And after mixing them together, I eventually had a perfect liquid metal ball. Finally, I pulled some of it out with a syringe, because there's just one thing I have to try.
2:5632.6M views · 1y ago · 2:56
Gallium looks a lot like mercury, except unlike mercury, it really likes sticking to glass. It also has a very different and unique reaction, when it's added to aluminum. I've actually never tried this myself, and I think I'll test it out on this aluminum bat.
2:0611.9M views · 1y ago · 2:06
Today, I'm going to be making a green fireball. To do this, I need methanol, boric acid and potassium polyacrylate.
1:503.3M views · 1y ago · 1:50
Since then though I started thinking that I could make it even better, by using thinner pieces of wood and Kevlar.
2:5061.4M views · 1y ago · 2:50
I have a bunch of copper metal that I've had sitting around, and I want to try turning it into gold.
1:2514.6M views · 1y ago · 1:25
Cabbage juice is actually a pH indicator, and I'm going to use it to do some chemistry.
2:3010.8M views · 1y ago · 2:30
I've always wanted to try freezing liquid nitrogen solid. At first, this might seem like something that's really hard to do, but it's actually relatively simple. All I need is a vacuum chamber, and a small dish.
1:226.6M views · 1y ago · 1:22
For this one, I'm going to be turning a copper penny, into a light bulb. The magic happens when a red hot penny, is lowered into a beaker, over some acetone. NOTE: It's important that the penny needs to be pure copper. If it's made with zinc, it will melt.
1:326.8M views · 1y ago · 1:32
I always thought that popcorn was made from regular corn, but it turns out I was totally wrong. To make popcorn, the kernels need to have much stronger shells, and a completely different type of corn is used. To pop it, it's the same as regular popcorn, and all I have to do is put the whole cob in the microwave.
2:164.2M views · 1y ago · 2:16
For a while now, I've wanted to try making aluminum bars, by recycling metal cans. So I went ahead, and bought a large propane furnace.
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