What did they send me?
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- čas přidán 22. 04. 2024
- A while ago I ordered some chemicals, and I'm confused about what they sent me.
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Life supply of kitty litter
My cat will use it once and then refuse it because it stinks too much
@@Matt..SWould you use a toilet with shit in it already?
@@illustriouschin Is he a cat?
Obviously never had a cat before.. that's like a week or two
No.
Save the Vermiculite. It is beneficial for insulation at high temperatures. It is also useful in amending soil for house plants.
It's also getting VERY expensive. I couldn't believe the last time I bought a bag and it was $8!!!
Fun fact about Vermiculite not many people know, if you drop it from a 3 story building onto pedestrians they'll instantly get mad at you.
@@JWC249Can't get mad at you if you get a direct hit with the whole bag.
@@rainbowfranklinYeah, but then something worse happens: lawyers.
@@mehere8299 Get more bags. Better yet. Get a piano.
You can reuse that vermiculite, keep it in an open box with a scoop in case of spills.
It's like having a fire extinguisher but for chemicals.
Truth
0:50 The fact they put peanuts in the box is the funniest part.
You don't want to bruise your vermiculite.
cant be shattering the vermiculite
@@timelessperspective im pretty sure they were adding to the joke of how useless it was
@dishria indeed that was the case. Sarcasm is hard in text.
@@timelessperspective lol i get you
"Is this stuff really that dangerous?" something you do not want to hear from the chemist who ordered the chemicals.
Meanwhile my DMF just came in a 5L plastic jerrycan, no box. Though some companies will ship the most mundane things with excessive packaging, and I also hate vermiculite. My favorite was 1L SOCl2 that came in a screwed shut tiny wooden box.
I loved SOCl2 back in the day. Best Navy SEALs game on the PS2.
hey it's Chemoleus
Hi
dude, I am subscribed to you!
what is DMF ? Dimethyl-something ?
Average overseas chemicals ordering experience.
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Nile's next video: "I turned Vermiculite into fruit by the foot"
“Is this THAT dangerous?”
I don’t know, you tell us…
No, probably not *that* dangerous. As far as most chemicals go, DMF is relatively benign. You still wouldn't want a spill of many liters of it somewhere in a distribution center. This is not just because of the known risks and the required decontamination procedures, but also because in case of a spill it can be hard to trace the origin. So, you'd always have to assume the worst when bringing in the hazmat team.
Much better if the product is packaged securely and doesn't leak in the first place
@@gutschke Issue is its a very good solvent for plastics & adhesives. My guess the company shipped it the past without an asorbent and causes a lot of damage destroying any plastics, plain & leaving a stick goo from the the plastic\paint residue.
Free advice: leave the bag in the box while extracting the contents.
Doesn’t look as interesting for the video ;)
Faux ineptitude for the views.
free advice: if you're making a youtube video ALWAYS MAKE THE BIGGEST MESS POSSIBLE.... if he broke one of the bottles on purpose he would've gotten 10 times more views, but apparently he needs the content so, that was not an option
that's why you order 3 bottle: 1 to break on video that will pay out for the other 2 bottle that you gonna use for the project!
you sure you know how youtube works?
@adrianhenle : "Free advice: leave the bag in the box while extracting the contents."
LOL! You should have charged him!
I’m guessing Nigel would have had that thought as well, but still took the bag out for curiosity
Next time when you open an empty box, try to test which noble gas it is.
Hope it's not hydrogen
@@ivanjermakov hydrogen isnt a noble gas though
@@awesomestuff9715 that's why you hope it isn't hydrogen, your noble gas tests won't work
can you test for those? since they don't react with anything, I'd imagine that's hard without some sort of expensive scanner
Oh my god no. I gave myself a good whiff of air from a packaged UPS (by mistake, it was a big box, and I leaned into it to pick the heavy thing out) and it made me nauseated for a full five minutes.
Meanwhile I buy several hundred dollars of RAM from amazon and they ship it to me in one of those flimsy, single layer of bubble wrap lined envelopes. 😐
I got a 16TB hard drive in a flimsy plastic bag....
I odered a Asus rog psu 850w from amazon the thing was not packed in any cardboard. It was just the psu packaging with the shiping label taped to it.
@@asicdathens :-(
@@asicdathens You mean an Anti-Static Hard drive bag, the correct way they are meant to be shipped.
@@saladin7467 I mean ideally the antistatic bag is also inside some sort of carrier so that it doesn't get damaged (as much) when the shipping partner throws it over the fence.
It doesn’t protect the solvent, it protects the surroundings. When it breaks the litter soaks it up and the chemicals don’t damage other parcels. Or the specialized machines in the sorting warehouse. They’d get sued for a lot of money.
Might be that for every X liters of liquid, there has to be X amount of vermiculite in the box per law in the country the company ships from. Or even if both containers fail, the vermiculite layer on the part that is currently the bottom has to absorb the full amount. Some countries do not fuck around with "dangerous" chemical shipments.
Obviously, but if it's wedged in the corner that also increases the risk that any leaks bleed through instead of being absorbed, because the vermiculite is only on one side
@@bosstowndynamics5488 might have moved in the transport plus it’s in a plastic bag so leakage wouldn’t be that fast
@@ile_klikow What I'm getting at here is that Nigel's original complaint, that the vermiculite wasn't providing the protection it was supposed to, was entirely valid
@@ile_klikowi don't think bottle can move through sand-like material due to transportation vibrations. Most likely it was moved while they fill the bag with this litter.
Also, this is plastic solvent, so bag provides zero protection from leaks here)
Vermiculite used to be used for insulation too, until a bunch of it was found to be contaminated with asbestos. Imagine cutting into a wall and having a waterfall of Vermiculite come rushing out. Fun times 🤦
Until the 1990s, 80% of the world vermiculite was estimated you have come from the same asbestos-contaminated mine. That's what gave it a bit of a reputation. Vermiculite by itself is harmless, and the mine has since been closed. So, you don't need to worry about modern uses. If you have an older house, this could very well be a problem though. Vermiculite has lots of applications and could be in different parts of your house
@gutschke oh the house is a 1700 something barn which was converted into the house, insulated somewhere in the 1940s to 1960s... it definitely was installed before that mine was closed. The stuff is nasty though whether or not it is contaminated, it is so dusty!
Been there. That and blown in cellulose. Good fun when doing electrical 😅
"Why the stuff they shipped is in the corners?"
Because physics. It was probably centered in the vermiculite and moved around during shipping.
If someone's going to send me not only the chemicals I ordered but also enough material to clean up my mess I'm going to shop with them regularly.
Safety 10/10? I thought safety was third?
Only when Osmann is around.
I've seen way too many of Kevin's (Backyardscienstist) videos, and it all averages out.
@@michaelmoorrees3585 You mean the Backdoor Scientist?
*guitar riff* Shake hands with danger!
thats why he rated it 1/10 (the safety had no relevance to the unpacking experience).
"90% of the weight is just trash" - i feel personally attacked😂
They're trying to ship it with enough sorbents to neutralize any spills... shipping solvents in glass is no joke!
There are, however, rated intermodal plastic containers that don't involve this nonsense. The packaging is because you got a glass bottle.
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Nile: "Anyways ...... Should I taste it?"
I think they were afraid of the shipping company more than the chemicals, you know the ones where the cracked glass and the up arrow pictograms translate to "Fragile! Throw underhand!"
Yup. Looks right for class 3 DG (dangerous goods) packaging.
Vermiculite is a pain, but so useful.
Hopefully you give the vermiculite to a gardener and don't send it to the dump.
This... I am drooling over the free soil additive....
Also useful for high temperature insulation as well!
isn't there any risk of introducing foreign pathogens or species of anything that would be bad?(edit) asking because i've never seem vermiculite ever before.
Don't breathe the dust
@@katarn109 you can use 50% vermiculite and 50% perlite as a growing medium for hydroponics. I fed 2 rabbits for 2 years on the produce I grew in a cabinet with LED lighting. Not a shred of "soil" anywhere.
@@TechGorilla1987and you call that "food"? That's the bunny equivilant of feeding them mcdonalds.
Next video: "Turning vermiculite into suppositories for the elderly"
we have one or two specific supplliers at work that insist on sending every flammable liquid in a bag of this stuff and its one heck of a mess every time.
few years back we did a large screening with loads of different organosilanes that came with so much of this stuff i'm convinced I'd still be finding remnants of it if we hadn't moved labs since.
Gotta say, seeing as how they were so carefully packaged, it made me quite nervous that he was handling those bottles with just one hand over a concrete floor.
Looking DMF up it sounds like it isn't especially dangerous or corrosive. You wouldn't want to drink a bottle of it, but it's pretty low on the hazard scale compared to some of the stuff he's handled.
There's a reason he was emphasizing how over-the-top the careful packaging was
The excessive packaging is probably more because of how badly shipping companies handle their packages and only to a lesser degree because of the objective risks from exposure to DMF
now you can make the best plant prep for years with that vermiculite
Nile ordering his box full of cat litter for his cat boy persona
Nooo nileneko
why would you make me read this
@@dutmala Nileneko should become a thing.
tf does that mean
FelixRad
It looks like someone complained about the state that their DMF arrived in so the packager went alittle overboard with the next order.
‘It’s up to the consumer to be environmentally friendly’
Vermiculite itself is environmentally friendly, as in every gardener from Sherbrooke to Gatineau is salivating at the chance of getting their hands on it.
@@mehere8299 thank you for explaining!
@@mehere8299 the extra fuel used to ship all that weight isnt though.
@@mrrooter601 vermiculite is very light as well, not that much heavier than the packing peanuts
shipping companies have standards for shipping hazmats, and greatly appreciate when they dont have to clean up DMF in the back of a truck.
Mystery box video my fav
For anyone interested... it was packed this way because it was shipped by Passanger Plane, AITA/UN rule dictate how you have to pack it
This video should have been called "What's in the box?!"
Clearly wasn't thinking a head there
I read the title as "WHY did they send me" ... was looking forward to finally finding out
You could always use it as a substrate to grow the biggest batch of magic mushrooms the world has ever seen !
Nigel you should have;
1) cut the box open to not need to lift it out
2) taken the two inner bags away from the first one (and disposed of the first one)
3) cut open the other two bags using a fresh pair of gloves
4) removed the dirty outer bags and then cut open the inner bag in a cleaner location
That way you'd both have a cleaner outcome and not have held those two bottles so precariously over the floor like that.
Shipping regs for liquids have recently changed. I sent some bottles of potable liquid by mail and each bottle had to be bagged in 3 bags with each bag containing enough absorbent material to absorb the liquid entirely.
Looking forward to seeing when you turn the vermiculite into
New project: Lab litter tray for the bros
They use the same shit in our company to ship our samples to our customers. If we want a sample from another plant and we order it, they handle it like a regular shipment and also fill in this glitter/litter shit.
When we get these packages and open them - no matter how precautious you are - the glitter/litter is everywhere on your Labcoat and your arms
As a guy who works in a warehouse, I see excessive packaging more often than I'd like. I can most certainly relate.
1:18 my parents describing me to their friends
It's actually interesting. I feel like it would be safe for shipping. But, ironically, having to unpack this much, would probably make it more likely that you'd drop the bottle and shatter it while unwrapping all of this.
Possibly making it less safe in the end :)
The packing popcorn was so helpful in this shipping. 😂
I love this guy 😂❤
That was a great upper body workout just getting it out of the box!
It's against federal law to ship solvents on planes. If there was the slightest chance of that going in the air is why it's packed like that.
They were trying to cover their asses even though it doesn't matter how it's packed.
Its not against the law. Private aircraft can legally transport solvents.
Time to grow some mushrooms
Mix it with some organics and some slow release fertilisers and you got yourself a nice batch of potting mix.
yet another video from my favorite unboxing channel
Keep the vermiculite, it works great for all kinds off stuff. That much would be rather expensive too. DMF is an awsome solvent for reactions too.
Gilbert grape's Mamas remains 💀😭
Deconstruct the box Nigel!
DMF is used in the production of squishy toys. Is Nile making giant squishy toys with this massive amount of DMF? A squishy Nile head? Or just NMR spectroscopy? The possibilities are varied.
DMF is used for a very wide range of reactions and extractions so I dunno if it would be a squishy toy-thing haha. But it surely would be funny
DMF is also used to absorb Acetylene from Ethylene. I used to work with DMF in a chemical plant. The stuff is so dangerous that, without proper protection, It can make men infertile.
Not only soaking up the liquid if bottles break, also insulating and unburnable (it's a mineral) in case of fire.
Vermiculite is a great medium for growing..uhh..fungi. Among other things.
I suppose this was sent with airfreight. In that case, they have very stringent rules for how to transport liquids and chemicals. They DO NOT want any accidents to happen from some solvent damaging insulation on wires or whatnot inside the plane.
I got my mug! thanks NileRed!
we use that stuff when making potting mix holds water in the soil
To choose safety over comfort is the logical thing to do, captain.
Keep the vermiculite, recycle, use as spill kit. Same with box and packing foam, reuse.
lol the ad after this video was for cat litter
Vermiculite is super messy. I have to use it to ship helium tanks that dont have original box with regulation info. I will say it can be useful, its like spunge crumbles for chemicals
I used to use vermiculite to amend potting soil or to root cuttings. I don’t recall it being so dense.
He needs to start an asmr unboxxing channel 😭😭
I give a 9.5 out of 10 on safety, vermiculite can contain asbestos, depending on where it's sourced.
The chance of finding any type of asbestos in any type of Vermiculite product nowadays is extremely small. Most of the vermiculite that contained asbestos was mined in the Libby mine in the USA.
Yup I know that stuff - it's always a mess
You could make a full hydroponics setup with that vermiculite, use chemistry to make fertilizer and grow some lettuce.
Have fun cleaning up the packing peanuts
He's gotta have a shop vac, right?
All 12 of them.
Do you know when the video about making your own neodymium magnet will come out? Please take your time on it but I'd love to see an update!
Vermiculite has a history of having asbestos from what my old maintenance guy told me years ago.
Pretty sure that's the same stuff we use for oil spills in heavy equipment shops.
sounds like a proper packaging for an Amazon USB stick
nile now has to make candy out of the vermiculite
I didn't actually know what vermiculite was for, I thought it was fertilizer, I used it to grow magic mushrooms one time
Some of the chemicals my lab orders are shipped in vermiculite inside essentially paint cans. I HATE opening them, because the metal cans are just a hair too small to dig around in to find the chemicals without spilling vermiculite everywhere. It's just a giant mess!
I love the FeS2 video hope you make some more earth elemental/mineral videos aaaannddd loved the purple gold video too etc Big W thanks for the content ennit.
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Bolt has scared me for life I think
yeah, you might want to consider using a respirator when handling that vermiculite. . . sometimes it can have traces of asbestos
Hey look on the bright side, free vermiculite!
"This is chemicals?" He says as he pokes at it. LOL
Please. I used to have to order a 5g bottle of MVK. It had to ship on a truck with no consumer goods. It was packed inside a bag filled with vermiculite, in a 500mL can with the excess space packed with a PIG absorbent lining pad. Inside a bag. Tucked inside a 2L can packed with vermiculite, that you had to use pliers to pry off the protective plastic ring from. Inside another bag, in a box.
They probably calculated the amount of material that would be required if both bottles broke and the glass cut through the internal bags and all of the solvent spilled...sort of a worst case scenario, and their shipping contractor might require them to do that in order to accept their shipments of certain things....
Just as he picks up the jug, it slips from his hand and breaks, spilling the contents in the Vermiculite.
Wow, ya thats vermiculite ... I'd take that for the garden.
If you know someone who likes to garden, give it to them.
They would think it an odd gift ... but a very useful one.
Hey Nigel, I can use the vermiculite for my model train layouts!
I would love to have all that vermiculite! It's very useful in the garden.
I put it to you: Everything is chemicals. Even the plastic bag.
You can't be too carful when someone orders this Plutonium solvent..
He finally opens the product at 2:10
best 'last youtube video' ever
I know those bags. You have to open them in the cardboard, don't bother taking it out or it'll make a huge mess everywhere.
NileRed:
When safety is prioritized, the quality nosedives
Technically, everything in that box, even the box itself, is chemicals.
The amount of liquid determines the quantity of absorbent needed. For 6l of solvent, you need a box of absorbant.
Time to use this litter for some prohect 😂
i once ordered a 8" tablet and it came in a box big enough for a pc tower case.
Future NileRed video: "Today we are going to turn vermiculite into Guinness-record-strong concrete. There was that time I ordered DMF and got a large amount of vermiculite for a steal---free, in fact..."
The elephant in the room: They also sent you more free cinnamon heart candy---some assembly required---in the form of those Styrofoam packing peanuts.
You know what I see? A free bag of liquid spill absorbant
Greetings and Salutations from Temple, Texas, USA!
They probably wrap it that way because it is moisture absorbant, and wrapping it in plastic could result in moisture build up and penetration so they probably want to insure that the moisture content is kept as low as possible so the absorbant material doesn't degrade in potenecy. BUT maybe you can make something fun out of the packing materials like Napalm. EDIT: oh its DMF not absorbant material you got for spill cleanup... DMF: Special hazards arising from the substance or mixture
Carbon oxides
Nitrogen oxides (NOx)
Combustible.
Vapors are heavier than air and may spread along floors.
Forms explosive mixtures with air at elevated temperatures.
Development of hazardous combustion gases or vapours possible in the event of fir