Canned Heat was the name of a Musical group in the 60s. They had a big hit song called Going Up Country.
I had a science teacher like this in high school. Man, was that ever a fun class! We made stuff that blows up!
That is just awesome. Less dramatic, more useful than the 'gasoline/styrofoam "kitchen napalm'.....
A thousand thanks for editing out the crushing of the chalk... just the first hit with the pestle was enough to active all my goose pimple receptors.
Yeah whoever edits these videos does such an amazing job, it’s really world class! Can’t give enough props to whoever that is!! 🫠
Does the sound of cotton in medicine bottles trigger it for you? I know someone that has this phobia.
This sure brings back many memories. B.S. Chemistry, 1975. My degree has served me so well in life in areas not even related to chemistry.
My wife and I homeschool our kids, and I'm always looking for videos to augment the materials we give them. This one has just made it into the rotation. Thank you.
Ma’am, thank you so much. You just gave me the secret formula to giving my car colored flames! There are businesses selling a small jar of this stuff for $50 mixed in with lithium chloride or strontium. I’m not sure for pink and copper or boric acid for green but either way I couldn’t figure out how to mix in the ions and get them to stick so I Took lithium chloride and made a salt solution and painted that on, but it didn’t work that well thank you so much. I love chemistry!!!!
You remind me of my fourth grade teacher Ms Gillis.. I immediately now remember why I loved chemistry
Really appreciate your teaching with patience and details. Thanks for it 😍
Thank you for sharing this video. Everyone stay safe, warm, happy and healthy. From Henrico County Virginia
Poor miss Campbell, my elementary school science teacher. She was doing the obligatory "volcano" thing with vinegar and baking soda when I challenged her about how Dow chemical was making napalm and that it was a better visual demonstration as far as a learning aid was concerned, that earned me a trip to the coatroom closet outside the classroom for the duration of her class period, however I still have a love of science that prevails to this day, some 65 years later.
p.s. it was fun being in the nearly closed closet making strange noises to people passing by and watching their reactions. ☺
Not sure if it has already been mentioned, but you can get "cleaning" vinegar that is 10% acetic acid (at least here in Canada) so less to add, and less water to evaporate.
And here Methanol is sold as a paint thinner/ cleaner in hardware stores for fairly cheap. It is also sold as a water remover fuel additive, though it's typically more expensive by volune in that format.
Yes, any vinegar with a higher concentration (greater percentage) of acetic acid would require less to be add which reduces the amount of time needed to evaporate any excess water.
And yes, there are much more cost effective sources of alcohol that will also work. I always try to use the ethanol because it does burn a little cleaner. Some rubbing alcohols are made with denatured methanol or ethanol and are much less expensive. I just couldn't find any at my local stores currently.
This is a great channel! I'm looking forward to introducing my daughter to chemistry with fun experiments like these. Thank you Mrs. Newman
Same for me, although my daughter is currently only 6 months old 😛(so she won't be doing any experiments like this with daddy for some years, of course)
You can also buy supplement poultry calcium in like 5 lb bags.
You are Top Shelf. That is with out a doubt one of the coolest things I've ever seen 😎 You are Awesome. I am a subscriber now. Keep up the Amazing videos .and keep on Smiling 😁
Great video. Such a pleasant voice.
You amazing!!! Thank you!! Keep making videos and I’ll keep watching!!!
Yo, Ms. White! This is the bomb!! This is art! You're an artist. Everyone's gonna wanna try this....and I know just the guy.
Thank you 😊
Hello Ms. Newman, thank you for this video. When I first saw the title I thought this was the topic: CZcams video: Canned Heat - Going Up The Country 1970
Wow, what a woman
How is it that YT served up two videos today on this very subject? Has the algorithm determined that I need to start prepping? Is there a zombie apocalypse on the horizon? If so, I hope it’s more the K-zombie than Walking Dead genre.
Pretty cool though that I’ve found a couple more chemistry channels to subscribe to. Love this stuff, perhaps the more so because I never had it in school. Also, I could definitely see the sixteen year old me having a crush on Mrs Newman. 😄
Thank you! Hopefully, for everyone's sake...it just stays as cool chemistry to know.
I wish I had had a science teacher like her instead of the boring ole battle ax that we were stuck with.
I love chemistry. Great video.
In HS I scored 97 percentile on my college admissions test in Science. Later, I owned (for 15 years), a regional chemical company. My favorite book was the Merck Index. You can real chemical education studying it. It made me a lot of money with products for the industrial/commercial market.
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After I sold out to a corporation, that I ran the sole source chemistry store, for VWR-Merck, at a large University.
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High School Chemistry.
Mr. Bennet was my chemistry teacher.
I once stunk up the entire school with butyric acid.
Back then, there was no such thing as the EPA.
We had every chemical known to man available, to experiment with.
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Nice! Хороший! Always wanted to know how to make the gelled type, experience using the wax and cardboard, or wax and sawdust gets messy and you have to wait quite a while for them to cool. Excellent project, and I enjoyed seeing the solution gel.
Cool - Now I can turn some of that fondue fuel I bought into gelled fondue fuel, which my fondue set needs. ;-)
Cool
That was great thanks Darling. About how long would that burn for
Cute to the max
great idea i will try that sounds good❤
Hi yes I did try it and it worked just great thank you for the tip god bless
This would be great for camping.
@@ChemCampwithMrsNewmanwould I be able to dissolves a salt throughout the gel so the flame is always coloured or would that change the chemical reaction?
You should be able to mix it in once the gel forms. You probably can even just sprinkle in over the top before igniting the gel too.
Oh, you are so from Philly (South Jersey). Or at least close by. Cause I'm from Wildwood, which is surrounded by "wooder" and you have Everclear (legal in NJ, not in PA). I don't know why this makes me so happy, maybe the chemistry, maybe hearing someone talk like me, either way, Liked and Subbed.
I have an extra chalk laying around I use for weightlifting but it’s magnesium carbonate. I’m guessing that wouldn’t yield the same product??
I like the first half better when she said "wooter" rather then the second half she switched to water. 😂
Just giving you a hard time. Lpve the channel, not sure how you got in my algorithm but video liked and subscribed. Hope to dp some of these with my daughter's. Ive always loved chemistry. ❤
I think Mrs. Info would be a fun idea. 🐴
"an excellent" 👍🏻
Wow this video blew up. I think it's your picture in the thumbnail that did it.
Great video! Whats the lifespan/storage life of that? could you put some of that on cotton and store it for a camp fire starter?
Thank you!
I'm not certain about lifespan/storage life. Usually I would make these with students in lab and we would use them to make s'mores to learn about limiting reactants. So we would use them right away. If you are going to store it for a period of time I would be sure to use an air tight container to prevent any evaporation of the alcohol.
Does Mrs. Newman get to take the rest of the bottle home after class? 😂
Interesting. We have backyard chickens, im going to try this with the shells.
Awesome! I hope you enjoy trying it out. Also, you will need a filter of some type (even just a paper coffee filter) if you are using eggshells. Only the calcium carbonate will dissolve so you will need to remove the other stuff prior to heating to drive off the excess water.
You sent me web searching for your dialect - never heard that pronunciation of 'water' before. Internet says you are from somewhere in the neighborhood of Philadelphia :). Oh, and thanks for the video.
I never heard her accent before either. It does not sound very "Philly" to me.
Maybe I am confusing "Philly Ghetto" for Philly metro accents.
But sure is a unique accent.
Being a Central Midwestern, I have no accent. We are the only English speaking culture on earth that actually pronounces words phonetically correctly.
Thanks ATF lady
None of my teachers growing up were this attractive.
What’s the burn time on what was just made ? Thanks
So....before i risk blowing up my own kitchen 😊, i have a few questions.
1) Using the amount shown in this video, how long will the flame last?
2) Guessing the diameter of the container is not proportional to the ratecof burn, correct?
3) Once ignited, is the need for ventilation about the same as a homes natural gas and propane, or does it require more or less ventilation?
Would this also work with kerosene? I'd like to do this for an old diesel engine pre heater
Hottest chemistry teacher ever.
this seems really good for getting a campfire/burn barrel going.
why is sterno safe to cook with but not to touch? is it that burning the substance causes it to become nontoxic?
Because it dries your skin out really bad. But I didn't know it was unsafe to touch, more like, "Overly-CYA legal warning on a not-really-dangerous" substance.
Of course, if it's burning at the time, the gel will stick to you and continue burning, and while it's a neat party trick to put alcohol on your hand and light it up, burning alcohol gel gets really hot.
I would like to learn how to take magnesium and other minerals and put them into ionic form in a pH neutral aqueous solution.
maybe it's just me but a yield amount would have been nice. how many ounces in the end?
Gurl, did you just rediscover Greek Fire?
Here's a question, what nontoxic powder can be disolved in water that is both odorless and tasteless?
Great presentation and very informative, my only issue is the audio, reposition your mic so it's not in direct contact with fabric or hair that could brush it.
Thanks for the advice! I wasn't wearing a mic so we will have to figure out the issue.
Love that mortar and pestle!! where is it from!?
Thank you! Unfortunately, I’m not certain. It was a gift from my mom.
By the way calcium chloride or would you have to convert it to carbonate
This is my kind of video because I love burning stuff. Also if all my teachers were as pretty as you I would’ve gotten better grades in school. Or my grades could’ve been worse who knows
Part of the fuel value of calcium acetate/ethanol gel comes from the calcium acetate. When it's heated by the flames, it decomposes and releases acetone.
Interesting, thanks! Roughly how many % of the total heating energy does the calcium acetate account for?
What if I managed to get hold of 100% acetic acid? How much is needed ?
Please do not roast marshmallows on this acetate product after doing the alcohol recovery and and retrieve the gel. Because as it burns it gives off acetone as a byproduct. If you eat the marshmallow you'll get an acetone filled treat which is toxic. Use these outside in a well ventilated area. I've seen too many videos on people doing this
can i use nail polish remover as the alchohol? or what household items can i use for the alchohol as i am on a limited budget.
Nail Polish remover is acetone which is also flammable but is a different type of molecule (a ketone) than an alcohol molecule. You need an alcohol to create the colloidal gel. So you can use rubbing alcohol, which is usually denatured isopropyl alcohol, instead of the grain alcohol. Some rubbing alcohols are also made of denatured methanol or ethanol.
I prefer to work with ethanol (it burns the cleanest) and wasn't able to find any denatured ethanol locally which is why I used the grain alcohol. Hope this helps!
Put some hand sanitizer in a Sterno can bam you got Sterno.
This seems like a good idea for survival scenarios as it would make for an easy way to start a fire, but when you talk about roasting a marshmallow, how clean does this burn? Like with lighter fluid you have to let it burn off or it messes with taste. Does it give a weird flavor if you cook directly off the flame? Also can you touch the gel or is it harmful to your skin?
If you are going to cook directly over the flame, I would be sure to use ethanol because it burns the cleanest and shouldn't have any affect on the taste. If you are heating the food in pan over the flame then methanol is safe to use (even some of the Sterno products list methanol as an ingredient).
If you have real sensitive skin, touching the gel might cause a slight irritation. But with all chemicals it is best to try to limit exposure and be sure to wash your hands thoroughly after use.
If you use high alcohol content, like 99% rubbing alcohol, it will burn very clean.
Great video. Just curious here… you’re from Philly, right?
@ChemCampwithMrsNewman Wooder instead of Water. I still say it that way after moving to the Harrisburg area 12 years ago.
Side note: The Philly pronunciation of water gave the FBI profiler the procedural idea to investigate and catch the Unibomber. That's why we should embrace it.
Pyrex isn't uniformly borosilicate glass anymore, fair warning.
i raise chickens, so im defiantly gonna have to try making some of this, would be good to have for camping, or other various things.
but i have a question...... is denatured alcohol, or other, non drinkable alcohols, safe to cook food directly on the open flame?
Yes. Denatured ethanol would be the safest. I was not able to find any locally which is why I used the grain alcohol.
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Instructions not clear, eyebrows gone
Big feature not mentioned, no smoke and won't immediately evaporate away.
Q: Reagent grade 100% isopropyl alcohol is inexpensive (and a great solvent for cleaning bike parts). Any problems using that instead of expensive Everclear?
Using isopropyl alcohol will also work. Ethanol just burns the cleanest and safest which is why I prefer to work with it. Denatured ethanol is also inexpensive, I just wasn't able to find any locally.
Great video. Is the point of this to provide a safe long lasting heat, or are you actually gaining heat energy beyond the burning of the alcohol alone?
It is rather long burning. used a lot for camping and the aforementioned event food.
The gel form is much safer to use. Alcohols are not very viscous and will spread very quickly when spilt. And I believe since the alcohol is mixed within the gel it burn longer than just the vapors of a can of the alcohol solution.
You stand before the courts accused of being from Boston! Seeing you can't enunciate the word Water declaring Wooder LoL i laughed like heck every time you said it hahaha 😂
haha...very glad you got a good laugh.
I'm a little south of Boston though. NJ.
You can purchase 25% acetic acid, as a cleaning supply. I buy it at Ace Hardware, which also carries denatured alcohol as “Stove Fuel”. And now I wonder if I could use chalk line chalk to color the flame.
Hello's!
If the solution of cleaning acid and chalk sticks does react like in the video, but stays white/blurry, what's wrong?
I tried adding more acid, but no difference.
Still some bubbles, but no visable changes, even after 10 min.
In the hope somebody can help, ciao!
"And now, i am going to show you how to make Plutonium from common household chemicals" -- Weird Al Yancovic
Hello! I have to ask, where are you from? I love accents and the way you pronounce "water" is very unique!
Hi! I am from New Jersey. I didn't even realize I pronounced it differently until this video.
This will be good to know if you’re going “up country “ …
I wish I had a chemistry teacher like her. She makes it fun while explaining the process.
Thank you!!
She's too cute to be a chemistry teacher. I'd be too distracted to pay attention to chemistry.
And I love her pronunciation of water, not meant in a disrespect hurtful manner but a "I legitimately enjoyed hearing it" manner. I'm from Michigan and would not dream of making fun of anyone's accent as ours is ridiculous. I mean we call soda "pop" and think euchre is a "fun" card game.