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DBX Labs
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Cool exotic chemistry and other stuff.
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Email for inquiries and business: dbxlabs@gmail.com
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Discord: discord.gg/gUDsDKcSjM
Dual MOT Spark Gap Tesla Coil 2022
Based on this Captured Lightning design:
www.capturedlightning.org/hot-streamer/greg/motpic.htm
Capacitors I used in MMC tank:
US $2.35 | 10PCS 0.1uF 2000V 2KV CBB 104 100NF Polypropylene film capacitor pitch 27mm CBB81 CBB22
a.aliexpress.com/_mPl1gaa
www.capturedlightning.org/hot-streamer/greg/motpic.htm
Capacitors I used in MMC tank:
US $2.35 | 10PCS 0.1uF 2000V 2KV CBB 104 100NF Polypropylene film capacitor pitch 27mm CBB81 CBB22
a.aliexpress.com/_mPl1gaa
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Building a Better Marx Generator (200,000+ Volts)
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I build a bigger (better) Marx Generator. Do not try at home unless proper safety measures are taken. Thank you Patreon Supporters! Explosions&Fire 3160550 Josh William Harman Emma FitzGibbon John Libal Turner Lehmbecker Manuel Aparicio-Conde Special thanks to Dyan Rorman for his help on this video.
How to Make Powerful High Voltage Capacitors
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How to make hand-rolled High Voltage capacitors for voltage multipliers, Marx generators, (small) tesla coils, and other HV projects. A few things I didn't cover in the video: While Mylar is a FANTASTIC High Voltage DC dielectric, it rapidly degrades when used in radio frequency applications (i.e. Tesla Coil primary capacitor banks). While these capacitors can be used in smaller designs with le...
Testing High Voltage Capacitor Banks
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DO NOT TRY AT HOME. These capacitor banks are extremely dangerous and can cause serious injury or death. Sorry about the long break in videos. If you would like to know the full details, I can provide some through the discord. Discord: discord.gg/JKHdNatRHa Thank you Patreon Supporters! Explosions&Fire 3160550 William Harman Emma FitzGibbon John Libal Turner Lehmbecker Manuel Aparicio-Conde
Sealing Liquid Nitrogen Oxides (Nitrogen Dioxide and Dinitrogen Trioxide Ampoules)
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Resin-encased ampoules like those shown here and the "Ampouling Liquid Chlorine" video can be found for sale through BackyardScience2000 here: www.ebay.com/usr/backyard-science-2000 DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS SYNTHESIS WITHOUT PROPER PPE AND VENTILATION I'm currently working on a N2O5 video using ozone and pre-made N2O4. If you have any video ideas or suggestions, I am all ears. I've got the summer to...
EXOTHERMIC Reaction of Tin and Sulfur
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This is a short video. Longer videos will come soon. Patreon: patreon.com/DBX_Labs Thank you Patrons! Explosives Laboratory TickyTack Braveskin Samonie67 Erik Weiss William Harman Explosions&Fire 3160550 Emma FitzGibbon Visti Brandt-Sørensen Thomas John Libal Andomedo If you flip Tin Sulfide upside down, there's an Among Us reference. If I didn't say it, someone inevitably would.
Ampouling Liquid Chlorine
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DO NOT ATTEMPT Chlorine is dangerous and high-pressure ampoules are generally unsafe. Didn’t explain it much in the video but the chlorine remains a liquid as the ampoule returns to room temperature because the pressure inside the ampoule approaches 7 atmospheres. That’s why each ampoule is heat tested, to makes sure that the pressures necessary to keep chlorine liquid also don’t mean the vial ...
Casting Copper with a ToAuto 1400W Electrical Furnace
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DO NOT ATTEMPT Melting pennies IS legal, as long as I'm not selling the copper as scrap. Next video will be out shortly (hopefully) Patreon: patreon.com/DBX_Labs Thank you Patrons! Explosives Laboratory TickyTack Braveskin Samonie67 Erik Weiss William Harman Explosions&Fire 3160550 Emma FitzGibbon Visti Brandt-Sørensen Thomas
Holding my Breath With 100% Oxygen and Using a DIY Rebreather
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I hold my breath with pure oxygen and make a rebreather similar to the ones that scuba divers use. DO NOT ATTEMPT. BREATHING PURE OXYGEN FOR EXTENDED PERIODS OF TIME IS TOXIC AND CAN RESULT IN HOSPITALIZATION. Patreon: patreon.com/DBX_Labs Thank you Patrons! Explosives Laboratory TickyTack Braveskin Samonie67 Erik Weiss William Harman Explosions&Fire 3160550 Emma FitzGibbon Visti Brandt-Sørensen
My Aminoguanidine Project
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The end of a 4 month project... Ubaid's Lab: czcams.com/channels/p3x2otkxlJK8FSI5CMwKZg.htmlvideos US Patent 1990511A: patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/e5/e9/44/2fdfe824f5c33d/US1990511.pdf AllChemystery's video: czcams.com/video/_kzydhtQuL0/video.html Thank you, Patrons! TickyTack Braveskin Samonie67 Erik Weiss William Harman Explosions&Fire 3160550 Emma FitzGibbon Visti Brandt-Sørensen Pat...
The Most Powerful Secondary I Can Test: 1-Amino-3-nitroguanidinium Nitrate
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EVERYTHING SEEN IN THIS VIDEO IS DONE ONLY FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES. DO NOT ATTEMPT. I make an experimental secondary with a VoD of over 9500 meters/second. Here is the paper that I worked off of for most of the video: www.znaturforsch.com/s67b/s67b0573.pdf AllChemystery's video on GN to NQ czcams.com/video/g_iCw_zIeLg/video.html Thank you, Patrons! TickyTack Braveskin Samonie67 Explosions&Fire...
Melting Steel with Caramel - Thermic Lance
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Melting Steel with Caramel - Thermic Lance
Making BNCP and a Bridge-wire Detonator
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Making BNCP and a Bridge-wire Detonator
How to Make Electric Matches for Thermite/Fireworks/Rockets (ft. Carbon Coil)
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How to Make Electric Matches for Thermite/Fireworks/Rockets (ft. Carbon Coil)
Making Nitric Acid From Air (DIY Birkeland-Eyde Reactor)
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Making Nitric Acid From Air (DIY Birkeland-Eyde Reactor)
How to Make a High Voltage Wand (100,000+ Volts)
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How to Make a High Voltage Wand (100,000 Volts)
Making Concentrated Ammonia From Urine
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Making Concentrated Ammonia From Urine
Azidoazide Azide: Synthesis and Properties. Part Four of Making Isocyanogen Tetraazide.
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Azidoazide Azide: Synthesis and Properties. Part Four of Making Isocyanogen Tetraazide.
Making Isocyanogen Tetrabromide: Part Three in Making Isocyanogen Tetraazide
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Making Isocyanogen Tetrabromide: Part Three in Making Isocyanogen Tetraazide
Making Sodium 5,5' Azotetrazolate: Part Two in Making Isocyanogen Tetraazide
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Making Sodium 5,5' Azotetrazolate: Part Two in Making Isocyanogen Tetraazide
Making Bromine from Pool Chemicals: Part One in Making Isocyanogen Tetraazide
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Making Bromine from Pool Chemicals: Part One in Making Isocyanogen Tetraazide
The Guide to Raising Praying Mantises: Part One
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The Guide to Raising Praying Mantises: Part One
Making a Better Arm-Mounted Cannon. Don't Try at Home!
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Making a Better Arm-Mounted Cannon. Don't Try at Home!
I Make an Arm-Mounted Nitrocellulose Cannon/Fireball Launcher. Don't Try at Home!
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I Make an Arm-Mounted Nitrocellulose Cannon/Fireball Launcher. Don't Try at Home!
Nitrating Dog Hair/ How to Make Nitrocellulose/Guncotton
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Nitrating Dog Hair/ How to Make Nitrocellulose/Guncotton
sodium is everyqhere im not ready to buy potassium hydrozide to mqke this
I wouldn't be too discouraged by the low yield and the cost not being better than commercial ones. There are a ton of inefficiencies in your setup that I think would be easy to sort out. For one think I think you can get it to self siphon through the apparatus by positioning the ports such that it allows for thermal convection currents to form. Also if done in sunlight, the inlet could be fed through a long, coiled black pipe (like those DIY water heaters) to heat incoming air and require less voltage to make the plasma. For electrochemistry current determines the rate of the reactions, a transformer exchanges current for voltage so that may be in fact slowing you down. Personally I wouldn't push the voltage higher than the breakdown voltage and then just invest any extra watts into more current.
Are you saying this is a cleaner way to make nitric acid rather than going the nitrate salt and sulphuric acid distillation way?
These videos are cool for understanding how things work. I really appreciate the work that you do, and hope that you can be safe. Hopefully no one out there thinks a good idea to replicate the manufacturing of these substances without proper understanding in their dangerous properties, protection and especially understanding the decomposition over time. (Some substances just don't like shelf life)
6:10 hopefully to optimize the growth of large crystals 6:25 large crystals and energetics generally do not go well together. lol
i've been struggling with capacitors for my sgtc so I'm so glad that you added a link for capacitors in the description. thanks!
Yeah guess who’ll be making their own smelling salts! 😂
Your issue with low yeild of aminonitroguanidine is strange. I saw exactly the same method in another article where they optimized aminonitriguanidine yeilds and they get around 60% consistently. I repeated this procedure 2 times and get yeilds 50 and 59%. Also i treated the filtrate with additional hydrazine to get triaminoguanidine nitrate and get 30% yeild of it. So i got total yeild of useful products around 90%
HI DBX Labs, Nice video and comparative demo of those sensitive compounds that can form unwished into labs while synthesizing stuffs. The fulminate anion is quite exceptional in nature if you deeply look at it; it was initially observed from mercury (Hg(II)) fulminate and afterwards with Ag(I) fulminate. The anion is C=N=O(-) and can be assimilated with a cyanide-N oxyde C#N->O (cyanate is totally unenergetic and stable but isomeric and with the oxygen onto the C what is already oxydized and thus not energetic ((-)-O-C#N) (isocyanate is (-)-N=C=O and related to urea). The trully interesting chemistry part comes from the fact it only forms into the cascade reaction from ethanol (CH3-CH2-OH) (a 2-C compound) (and probably from ethanal CH3-CH=O) but nothing happens from methanol (CH3-OH) what is still wel a C-1 compound, just like the fulminate or cyanate (or isocyanate). The fact it is related to N-oxyde is confirmed into many synthesis of furoxan or furazans that originates from dimerization reactions. Finally the chemistry behind is also quite estonishing, because there is a relation between nitromethane, its metal salts and fulminates; CH3-NO2 + NaOH --> CH2=N(O)-ONa + H2O It has been proven that mercury nitromethanate (Hg(-ON(=O)=CH2)2) turns spontaneously upon time (into Hg(fulminate)2). Hg(O-N(O)=CH2)2 --> Hg(O-N#C)2 + 2 H2O It is supposed that ethanol can pass to a 1-C compound via many "obscure" reactions involving simple reactions known to organic chemists (like me). From my understanding and readings and complilation of it; It passes via reactions from: a) oxydation of ethanol to ethanal by HNO3 b) reaction of NO2(+) or NO(+) with ethanal (alfa H of the carbonyl) is quite reactive to those as witnessed by the total uncompatibility of propanone with HNO3 (will runnaway fast into boiling flamable fluid with a lot of NxOy); NO usually forms HO-N=CH-CO-CH3 with aceton (propanon) what shows the lability of H atoms next to a carbonyl atom into an aldehyde or keton). This usually allows acces to gem-carbonyls glyoxal related (O=CH-CH=O). With HNO3 you get unstable oils with oxydations products, hydrolysis products, interreaction products, resonance of the double bonds, condensation reaction... HO-N=O <--> N=O(+) + OH(-) CH3-CO-CH3 + N=O(+) --> CH3-CO-CH2-N=O + H(+) H(+) + OH(-) <--> H2O CH3-CO-CH2-N=O <--> CH3-CO-CH=N-OH (methylglyoxal hemi-hydroxylamine) c) NO(+) is also reactive towards nitro-C compounds with an alfa-H by taking a H(+) from it to make nitroso-nitronate (a process that reminds a bit the one from propanon or aldehyds with an alfa-H) CH3-NO2 + HO-N=O --> O=N-CH2-NO2 + H2O O=N-CH2-NO2 <--> HO=N=CH-NO2 CH3-NO2 is often made via chloroacetic acid and nitrite thus making a nitroacetic acid (O2N-CH2-CO2H) or hydroxy-acetic acid (glycolic acid) nitrite (O=N-O-CH2-CO2H); and the EWG (electron withdrawing effect) of the NO2 group is so strong that nitroacetic acid fast decarboxylate into CH3-NO2 O2N-CH2-CO2H --> CH3-NO2 + CO2(g) The cascade of simple reactions is in total quite complex but somehow into the ethanol mix there must be some ethanal nitroso, nitro or nitroso-nitro compound to allow for in fine fulminic acid formation (H-C=N=O or HO-N=C) Keep on the good job. PHZ (PHILOU Zrealone from the Science Madness forum)
21NaNO2 + 2(NH2)2CO → 7Na3N + 2CO2 + 18NO2 + 4H2O
small tip: you can either lift the mantis egg and put your phone flashlight (dark room) under it keep in mind if the egg is (just laid) you wont see any orange colors. the color will apear in 3-10 days if it turns slight orange it means its all good and the egg is healthy. this is how i raised my mantises sadly mantises arent around my erea! so i dont know that much more :)
2:52 > it was widely used commercially Saddest thing: it wasn't. Birkeland-Eyde process was around for relatively short time, patented around 1900 and then Fritz Habor invented his own process and the only one plant with Birkeland-Eyde process that was built was shut down before the start of WW2. Nevertheless, I think it's a really cool process, maybe it was inefficient because the electricity back then wasn't cheap enough.
Nuclear weapons use a fiber optic that delivers a q switched laser to this stuff. The laser is small and similar to the type used for rangefinders and tatoo removal machines. If you have a SSY-1 yag laser, that is very similar to the laser used. Also if you have super fine wire than nowhere near the high capacity is needed, 2 photoflash csps in series with a 3 terminal surge quench tube is enough to easily EBW a small lightbulb filament like a Christmas tree bulb
Any update on saltpeter ?
That structure of penthaerithrytol tetranitrate definitely looks a bit sus 1:21
You can get 100pcs packs of tiny light bulbs dirt cheap. Gently remove the tip with a mini grinder and pour in your favorite mix. The filament takes tiny current to heat
“in the next step we are going to question our life choices. what led us here? why did we boil pee?” *philosophers stone* *ammonia + hydrogen peroxide goes boom boom 💯*
Hello. This is an interesting substance. This interested me. But why is there so much smoke? Perhaps you did something wrong? If the oxygen balance is zero, then it should be practically smoke-free. I did a series of tests with a mixture of HMX 75% + ETH 25% and it gave very good blast with little smoke. I made very good holes in 2mm steel plates with additional shrapnel holes in the plates at some distance which was proof of high speed. But I used a press to compress the charge.
the birkeland eyde reactor can be made 10x more efficient by spinning the arc either with spinning magnets or an air vortex
If you put it on paper and then put that paper in a sealed box on one of the walls, then poke a hole on the other end you have a working camera, you would just need to wash the paper so it stops being reactive
Why not use the nether portal in real life czcams.com/video/Grl1e4gIP78/video.htmlsi=wscMZzWtYK3FrzcL
My mantis hatched about 2 weeks ago in my garden. I’m still seeing about 5 to 12 a day. ❤
I love nature. Some people are just too screwed to get it. The practice of “raising and breeding” wild creatures only make the species spiritually, physically and mentally weak.
I have a young mantis and I noticed many very small, wire thin black worms attached to leaves on a living plant in its enclosure. The “worms” are attached to the leaves at one end of their body and hang off the leaf with the rest of their body, occasionally swaying or moving, but never moving from where there are secured to the leaf. Could these be parasites that the Mantis pooped out? The “worms” if they’re worms, are about 1/4 inch long, as thin as a hair, black, with a little round head.
Sweet channel!
If you take a portable medical oxygen concentrator open it up and tap into where it vents the nitrogen you can get a better ratio in your arc chamber also making multi sealed chambers for the water gives greater time and surface area to extract the acid IE a tube too the bottom then a tube at the top of the first that then goes to the bottom of the second and so on.
Why doesn't the bottle explode due to the gas pressure?
The internal gas pressure is limited by the vapor pressure of the gas (in this case chlorine). The vapor pressure is the pressure at which a gas will condense to a liquid of exceeded. Rising temperatures will increase this vapor pressure, allowing higher pressures to exist in the ampoule, but once enough liquid has evaporated to create an internal pressure equal to the vapor pressure, the system reaches a pressure equilibrium. The reason why the ampoule doesn’t explode at the room temperature vapor pressure of chlorine (about 7 atmospheres) is because the glass does a decent job handling this pressure without shattering.
What is the brand of resin you use for sealing the ampoules?
Back then I used whatever was the Amazon recommended epoxy resin which had a lot of problems with bubbles even after pulling partial vacuum. I highly recommend this Takimo stuff though, don’t even need to pull vacuum it’s that thin before setting:www.amazon.com/TAKIMO-Gallon-Crystal-Kit-Yellowing/dp/B0BYV7YX2K/ref=mp_s_a_1_1_sspa?crid=3VFICY4YFVR0B&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.m5OgY0bYLfAQWVLcAFCrxmQWwKV_EtPgWr8274WntU79HoHvnnqM9cQk3G_syf5X99sfqodNaIqysDnU8DRaRUo1pMh8ngJ-cE-l_qbS4GDjEVz5Njbw5CWPx15Oh0aYI5FB3DXoLIQv8fVHCpT0cShO-QKRORvsvq8O9-JOir4El_iZLPklcf6TFCrK39Te9uclCn_E4Quhnjw1VTwy1w.FZsGccEsFYTMdwbp-aPkaazBGX75quRzFJwE8ebmCiA&dib_tag=se&keywords=takimo+epoxy+resin&qid=1717711867&sprefix=takimo+epoxy+resin%2Caps%2C683&sr=8-1-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9waG9uZV9zZWFyY2hfYXRm&psc=1
I'm making a coil soon that will output 1,200joules just from 12v car battery no caps for a coilgun but it'll probably be more like a coil cannon at 10kg of wire 173 wires in parallel to equal 100amps input, theres no way a little coil can utilize 1,200 joules
Would putting that 1400joules into a big coil create a emp blast?
The precipitation is primarily phosphate.
You can put honey in water and give it to baby pray mantis
Who is here in 2024
Me
When I was younger (and stupider) I used to do foolish things like work wit AC power without an isolation transformer, I used to like to experiment with xenon strobe tubes too. But today I can't do some of those things because I have a difibulator
On another CZcams channel The Backyard Scientist one of his friends made a 20,000 volt hv capacitor bank that could be fired remotely by tripping a large switch, they blew up a pickle and a watermelon and did some bridge-wire explosions across a doll!
Another CZcams channel that might help you is hyperspace pirate
To protect the power SCR when using them in a coil gun circuit put a HV diode of the same voltage (or a 100 volts less) and amperage in reverse across the anode and cathode
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The best stuff for sealing which i use in electronics is a silicone glue used in crafts it doesn't use acetic acid to cure so is not corrosion.
Ionize, not pyrolyze, I believe is the word you want. Excellent video, thank-you.
I made one last year. I left the negative lead of the multiplier accessible so I can ground it and have wild sparks come out of anything, even the walls and floor. Also a copper 3/4 end cap worked really well for the wand end. I ended up using 2 18650s in parrallel so I can use it for a while without charging it. Instead of the lighter circuit I used one of those cheap chinese hv transformers and made a little circuit out of 2 mosfets and 2 resistors to drive it.
Why did I search for this. But i'm glad your video was here. I never have to wonder about this again, and can move on to other problems in my life. Thank you.
We had 2 oothecas hatch overnight. Id say there is 100+ in the big chameleon screen cage we have them in. How long before i should let most of them go? We just want to keep a few but want to raise them up to where they have a better shot at survival to help in our vegetable garden.
You should put the beaker of water where the gas dissolved into an icebath or may be fridge because gases dissolve well at lower temperature and high pressure.
Wow thank u so much for rhe tip about the fruit flies, i cant easily get to the pet store so im relieved i have another option by making normal ones slow
Why didn't you keep the start nitric acid and concentrated It by distillation?
Could you use one of those globes that you can put your hand on and the plasma will go to your hand...I forget what they are called
Yo maybe you’ll know, what’s the banned piece of glassware that’s just prefect for making lsd? Maybe other drugs but I heard there’s a piece of glassware banned because it’s basically perfect for the task. Seeing your three necked one reminds me of it, making me think “yeah it’s not banned”😂 In an unrelated note, safrole…
I’ve seen an artist who makes them in mini form as pendants. Rope runs through the obvious arms. Would be cool to react something inside of it, or fill it with bromine
The molecular structure itself looks like it really doesn't want to exist so it's not surprising that it wants to go big boom.
I suggest based upon the burn marks, you get a longer torch or lighter
Burns?