Turning Vegetable Oil into Nitroglycerin
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- čas přidán 30. 05. 2024
- In this video I make some vegetarian nitroglycerin and biodiesel from vegetable oil while explaining the reactions and making a lot of forbidden foods for some reason.
DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME !!!
This video is for educational purposes only, I made it just to showcase the synthesis and I am NOT accepting the responsibility if someone decides to recreate it and harms themselves.
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0:00 Intro
0:30 Disclaimer
1:12 Introduction to Nitroglycerin
2:20 How I am Going to make it + Fats 101
4:16 Making Glycerin form Vegetable Oil using Transesterification
8:13 Experiments with Biodiesel
8:58 Puryfing the Glycerin
12:20 Making Nitroglycerin
17:10 Experiments with Nitroglycerin
19:08 Outro
#chemistry
#experiment
#science
#interesting
#demonstration
#fire
#beautiful
Warning: Nitroglycerin is extreme, blah blah blah try this at home.
😂😂😂😂
Imma have a sip
Edit: the experience was mind-blowing
@@FleshWizard69420Oh, no.
@@FleshWizard69420 it's going to feel mind blowing too lol.
Exactly what I heard
"nitric and sulfuric acid are corrosive"
"methanol is toxic"
"dont try this at home"
Well there goes my plans for the evening
Just have a night out... and try it at someone elses home.
LOL
@@youghurt2k Or in the Garage...
And absolutely don't try it if you are a klutz because it if you even shake it that may be enough to send you to Jesus!!
@@spectrumofrealitynah bro you assuming I got garage money 😂😢
I went to high school in the 80s and we nitrided quite a few things in chemistry class. We made celluloid, the stuff AC/DC wrote a song about and , of course, the heart medicine. It was fun. And the tests we did afterwards in the yard nearly knocked the windows out of the school building. Fun times. Too bad all the generations after 1970 missed out on absolutely all the fun in education.
Love your videos, btw.
Way underrated channel!!!
Nitrated.
We're too pussified today. And the government surely doesn't want people to know this chemistry.
We had archery in gym class. Imagine that today 🤔
If education is fun like that more kids would have learnt a lot more I grew up in the 2000's so hit high school 2010 and the best we got was the old potassium in water
How did you get toluene???
I ran a biodiesel rig down in Peru for about three months. We heated the (filtered) used cooking oil in a recycled (~40 gallon) water heater. With enough time in that stage you can boil off any water that's in the oil. I then added both a measured amount of methanol and lye and let that heat some more. The water heater assembly had a clear tube connection below it which allowed the glycerine to be dropped out of the mixture. Using a complicated system of pumps, the biodiesel then goes to the first of three bubble tanks. Each cleaning stage was in an approximately 65-gallon tank with a typical aquarium air bubbler at the bottom. Once it's made the rounds it's then ready to be stored in a 55-gallon drum. We ran the volunteer truck on 100% biodiesel and it ran just fine. The glycerine then is stored and turned into soap in a different process.
Just show's it's matter of time before we can use something once thought to be waste and turn it into something useful again. I like that story you told, would you say money was saved on Diesel?
how much energy did you need to do all the heating in the various stages? More than the amount of energy stored in the final biodiesel product?
I don't think glycerin can be turned into soap. Its usually a byproduct of soap making, and sometimes they leave a little bit of glycerin in the soap. But turning glycerin into soap, i can't see that happening
@@ShannonDove-sy7ye
Glycerin is used as an ADDITIVE in some soap formulations. Unless extra steps are done to separate glycerin from natural soaps, there is a bit of glycerin left in the finished soap already, adding more makes the soap less "drying". Someplace around 10% glycerin by weight is common for hand/face soaps.
@@metamud8686
Making biodiesel is not a net energy loss, especially if you use waste heat from some other process (like the hot water or hot exhaust from a diesel powered generator).
The headache you get from inhaling the fume of nitroglycerin is freaking strong, multiple times stronger than not having coffee for a day (As a coffee addict).
Another tip for testing any energetic compound is to tape the confined aluminium foil on the hammer instead, so you don't have to aim.
It’s generally not great for the body to inhale toxic fumes
That's a good idea, never thought of that.
I suppose it's good to keep a strong stimulant on hand when working with it. Cocaine is probably best because it's fast acting when snorted, but it wears off quickly so you can go to sleep later that night. Does anyone know if cocaine constricts blood vessels as well as amphetamines? It should.
Good trick
This dudes voice and inflection gave me a brutal headache.
Yay, another video to cement my place on one or more watchlists.
Stumbled onto this after searching how to make a black powder pistol... With the Anarchist Cookbook search history and all, I am already on at least a dozen for sure.
I dont understand, that someone with such interesting videos only has 16,5k subs. You deserve so much more than that. The videos are interseting, and entertaining.
Not many people are interested in studying chem.
The problem is, even if the video and idea us very good, it's too deep into the theory.
If you compare it to nile red.
Also thumbnails.
I hate uptalk
His accent is making this damn near unwatchable. It sounds like the worst possible combination of french, Finnish, and a mysterious third thing. I'm watching this shit on mute fr.
Because he prattles on endlessly, I was very intrigued by the title, but 3 minutes in I can’t stand watching any longer. Make the video 9 minutes, maybe. Or improve the engagement.
Biodiesel was one of the first chemical experiments i showed my seven year old nephew. Forgot to mention you could use the glucerin to make stuff go boom (:
"this brand new, never before used bottle of oil"😂
Straight from nilered's video on lidocaine
kujawski XDXD
Ah. Miss the explosive days of Cody'sLab. Blew a lock right open with nitroglycerin. And don't flick it with a knife. That was a mistake
Glycerin is quite sweet! It's one of the two main components of eliquid (or "vape juice", if you will) which is a big reason why almost all flavors are sweet. Also, fog machines 😝
Nice video. Sidenote: I don't think it matters for the hemistry, but I think this is canola oil and not sunflower oil (you can see Kujawski branding on the cap and to the best of my knowledge they only make canola oil).
Thanks! I missed that, it probably has no effect on the reactions but it's good that you pointed it out
Almost a million tons of glycerin are produced in Europe yearly. It's available at any pharmacy, and even beauty supplies.
@@willthecat3861 yeah, but where is the fun in that? if we just wanted something that went pop when its hit, go get some capgun caps n hit them, a lame 30s vid. the explanations and process is what we're here for.
i'm not too sure but the gel that formed could be some kind of soap. I've made biodiesel in the past and it usually formed when some water was present in the mixture, it can happen because there is some moisture left in the vegetable oil or because the hydroxide absorbed it from air, especially if it has been conserved for a long time (maybe in a not completely air-tight container). To avoid that, I usually pre heat the oil to about 120°C in order to remove all the water and "bake" the hydroxide to over 150°C to dry it completely. By the way if it doesn't interfere too much with the next reactions you can remove the solid junk and proceede anyway
I believe there are stabilizers used to protect diesel in long term storage, I wonder if there's another chemical that could be added to remove the water
Lanolin. I think it's chemically the same but can not be called that because of the source thing.
This was a fun video to watch. But all of your videos are really fun to watch. I'm really glad that I found your channel!
You deserve a way bigger audience! Your videos are so well researched and edited!
Speaking facts!
If you really feel that way just comment with words like "finance" "best" "tutorial" "weave nation"
If you think about it, if he has bigger audience CZcams will be more suspicious about him and maybe delete his videos
@@FloridaMengdude, what does it have in common with chemistry?
@@kociszczebuzz words for the algorithm to push the channel.
You cannot sub if you don't know he exists, and unless people are looking, you need the algorithm to tell them. Don't get hung up on not being related to chemistry. People in general click most things put in front of them.
I made a very small amount of Armstrong mix once. Packed it into a little bit of duck tape and whacked it with my shoe. Now, that was something that really REALLY didn’t want to exist. It exploded so violently that it chipped the concrete and echoed throughout the city of Akita for several seconds.
I so love your style of honest comedy. "Because I am lazy".... relatable.
I can’t wait to replicate this at home as soon as my mom leaves for work.
Nice video!
To remove water from the glycerin a vacuum distillation works perfect.
Low heat and the water comes over first. When no more water comes over youre done.
I use a short path distillation aparatus because it's less work with the setup and less glasswork to clean afterwards.
SO I saw this in my feed and immediately assumed it was a Nile Red video. It's cool to see someone else doing some crazy stuff like this.
Yeah but he shouldn't be copying the thumbnail and setup
He's trying to mimic the Nile Red phrasing and cadence also.
Visually appealing to watch, informative, easy to follow all with subtle good humor sprinkled in there? Sign me up. First video watched and already subscribed.
In Germany you write a small scientific paper in 10th grade. Ive made my about Biodiesel. I look forward to your video about it :)
Thank you for a very good and educational video. I have no intention of making nitro, but you video has removed several doubts and concerns.
My dad did something very much like this with me as a kid.
Memories back to 1978...
Thanks!
When I think of Nitroglycerin, I am reminded of the old western movies. Where it is transported in small glass bottles on a wooden wagon. It always seems to end badly!
haha same!
Me too, and everybody dripping sweat, trying to move it.
Another one was a Roy Schieder movie from the 1970's about these guys driving trucks through the jungle to put out a oil rig blow out.
It's here on YT, Sorcerer, Lazarus, something like that.
For the yield on average triglycerides have a molar mass of around 885 g/mol and TNG mmass is 92.09 g/mol. This makes glycerine 10.41% of vegetable oils mass stoichiometrically.
If you started with 425ml vegetable oil (i know you said 400 but the markings on the beaker say otherwise) that would be 391 grams adjusted for density.
If you had a perfect yield the total amount of glycerine from oil would be 40.73 grams. So, finally, your approximate yeild would be 13.01% (5.3/40.73).
This is just my calculation based on web sources and, like stated in the video, getting a precisce triglyceride molar mass is difficult. Hope this was interesting.
You are a serious but still funny chemist. Keep up the good work!
love your humour :) i often can't add up the science of chemistry, it's all spaghetti wrapped up in string encased in knotted jewelry to me, but i do enjoy watching. Thanks :)
Bardzo ciekawy pomysł z syntezą nitrogliceryny z oleju :D Oby ci przybyło jak najwięcej subskrybujących, twoje filmy zdecydowanie na to zasługują!
what in the polish
@@deathedell215 author is Polish, that's why
@@deathedell215 the oil he used is a polish brand, and his accent is characteristic
@@deathedell215 it says "A very interesting idea with the synthesis of nitroglycerin from oil :D I hope those who come subscribe as often as possible, your videos definitely listen to it!"
Olej kujawski
Sweden really liked your video, keep it up man!
Very interesting instructive and entertaining thank you for shearing your knowledge.
A very informative and enjoyable video!
A bit too bright for my taste but still very good!
I really like the brightness with the dark background.
Amazing job well do congrats on 16k
Im excited for this one
It’s one of your early subscribers here i’ve been waiting for this fire video since you said you were going to make it on the 15k subscriber post
I know that, your comment was one of the reasons why I decided to make this video :)
@@Amateur.Chemistry the video was very entertaining and thanks
@@Amateur.ChemistryAnd I am thinking about becoming one your $3.00 a month patreons.
@@Amateur.Chemistry I’m one of your $5.00 patreons now
Legit love your voice, it's hysterical
Great video! Thank you for the inspiration!
Dude thanks! Ive been looking for a way to make nitroglycerin since i saw it in an episode of graceland and watched it jump out pot and go boom. Crazy.
Always remember to check the purity of your bases with the unholy oil indicator.
Yellow chem.
this is a amazing video, your very underated
Safety is paramount ! I do all my experiments in my brother's room, so that my stuff won't be affected in case something goes sideways... 😉
I watched all of it and i almost lost time that was so fantastic
The cloudiness in the alkali hydroxide solution in methanol is caused by carbonates btw. Those form very fast by air and the carbon dioxide in it reacting with the alkali hydroxide. They are extremely sensitive to CO2 besides being extremely hygroskopic.
The reactions shown really are cool and interesting, because they are so easy and only need a few very common chemicals. But the synthesis of nitroglycerine is very dangerous, especially when done correctly to get as much of a yield as possible. This needs to be done with very specific amounts of educts and at specific temperatures, producing lots of fully nitrated nitroglycerine, which is pretty sensitive. Doing the easier synthesis keeping the temperature rather low yields a mixture of nitroglycerine and partly nitrated glycerine, which is much safer.
And very cool detail that you mentioned that nitroglycerine isn't a typical nitrate but an ester!
Edit: Fun fact: The chemists working in dynamite factories (back then personal safety wasn't really a thing. Not comparable with today, where security is the most important thing. In the west at least, not really in china, india etc...) took up so much nitroglycerine by skin contact etc. that when they went on vacation, they had to take dilute (medical) nitroglycerin with them to inject from time to time, because they were so exposed to it and got such a tolerance that they suffered from extreme headaches without it!
Back then work in a lab meant lots of new discoveries, but I still prefer working in a modern lab with modern safety precautions^^
Next video: Making plutonium fuel rods (don't try this at home)
Here we go! To another watchlist.
ah the power of chemistry 😁 from a common vegetable oil to one of the most powerful explosives known..
Nice video!
Mmmm... Dynamite.
You are hearby awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
From other making bio diesel recommend using NaCl instead of NaOH for the esterification step, because, one, in solution the Na and Cl disassociate, allowing the same reaction but only more heat required, two, no accidental Soap produced from NaOH reacting directly with the newly formed fatty acids.
no worries, I know explosives and would never attempt to make nitro glycerine, I like my fingers, toes, eyes, hands etc., but the chemistry is cool to watch
Tolles Video!❤
Hey Amateur Chemist! Thank you for doing these videos. Your English is fantastic. Love your accent and your choice of words. May I give a suggestion? If you REALLY want to sound English, remember that the 'a' or 'an' preposition changes depending on the vowel of the subject: a CEMENT road, an ASPHALT road. I see even Americans getting it wrong. You tha man Chemist!
Glad this isn't censored. The processes involved in making bio diesel are nice, but i'd hope you approach it on a more industrious scale. The impurities in your nitro glycerine suggests that maybe the biodiesel video will produce it sub optimally or inefficiently, but i hope to be surprised. I view this as an important piece of 1800's technology and would hope that industrious folk retain this knowledge specifically because of it's parallels to soapmaking and biodiesel, which are themselves crucial technology for people to retain.
Thanks for sharing subscribed great video. I'm interested in chemistry and will be watching your videos to learn more.
Can't wait to watch the video on biodiesel!
It's great to see your channel grow!
I'd like to do the biodiesel synthesis
You know those people who breakdown video's for you to understand I hope someone makes one.😂kidding! 😊good video!
4:18 OG NileRed crossover 😂😂
They say biodiesel has lower energy density than diesel, but quite a good alternative especially to places where a lot of used cooking oil as well as small scale cooking oil processing facilities.
Also pretty easy to grow oilseed rape, making it a pretty decent way of collecting solar energy. Prob better than pumping oil out of the ground, as biodiesel doesn't /add/ carbon to the current state :D
"They" don't just say it... because they are repeating what other people say... the energy density of biodiesel is 38 Mj/kg, and for diesel its 45 Mj/kg ... that's about 15% less energy fo biodiesel.
woww nitroglycerin we needed a manual for that
O czesc. Tez robiłem nitroglicerynę, na chemii na uni zostawili nas po godzinach z mieszaniną nitrująca pod dygestorium ^^
lol loving the commentary
(You got my sub lol)
Great upload, very interesting, very informative, and very well done. What was that object thrown into the mix that started spinning and did the mixing for you? Back in the days when we did chemistry at school, we had no such thing which makes me wonder if it is something that has come around later or if it was available three decades ago🤔. If it was, I would like to call my old chemistry teacher and make him come over and stir my coffee...once a week for two years.😅😅
Glad I could experience this safely from my home.
My dad worked on a hydroelectric project in the '50s. He told how they used to use gelignite to make a camp-fire because it burns real good. Soldiers in Vietnam used C4 stuck to the bottom of a canteen cup to heat water for coffee, sometimes scooped out of claymore mines. Is there anything HE can't do?
Hi! Is this gasmask is protecting me from Nitrogen-dioxide , The red fume when we drop something into hn03 for example copper, and what kind of gasmask filter you use ? Coal? thx
I've made biodiesel before and yeah it's almost the same process (minus the nitration) but we'd normally throw away all that glycerine, never occured to me that I've thrown away litres of stuff that could go boom if you wanted to hah. cool video.
I would like to know what was the thing you put into it to make it spin to mix it while it heats up. I could use it for cooking some food .
If you were to add aluminum flash powder, would it set off a spontaneous combustion and if not would it accelerate the explosion?
If you use glycerol instead of methanol, can you make mono- and diglycerides?
Cool video. Chemistry is fascinating. If I could do it all over again I would have became a Chemist.
Definitely, I'm trying this at home
This guy is definitely trying hard not to make a nuke in his backyard
Is it possible to make medical Nito into the explosive kind? I'm assuming the medical type is greatly diluted, however not sure how you could re constitute it safely.
Always a pleasure to see your videos !! i have a question: how do you get concentrated sulfuric acid in europe ? Lastly it could be really cool to have your own discord server to chat with the community
Glad you enjoy them! I use professional drain cleaner as my source of concentrated sulfuric acid, and when it comes the the discord server I will definitely make one in the future :)
@@Amateur.Chemistry what kind of unsuitable videos can we access with a paid subscription to your patreon because i was thinking paying for a month (probably not longer i think because i have 11€ on my bank account)
@@devnitrate Currently on my patreon there's a video about making dynamite and making potassium chlorate from pool supplies, and in about a month I will record a video about HMTD
@@Amateur.Chemistry nice i just subscribed and i think i will for 2 months
Thank you very much :)
the bio disel part was very interesting, what would be the cost in larger scale?
Great video
Can't wait to make my first batch!
I wonder how well the biodiesel is lubricated vs regular #2 pump diesel. Would an additive be needed?
I found this video more of a comedy than a tutorial 😂 but as unstable as that stuff is it's insane to try that at home
cool 😮 i did not know that , i can’t wait to try it ...
Wait, wouldnt the hcl and sodium hydroxide react with the glycerin or produce free chlorine ions?
Imma definitely try this with the boys tonight
Amazing video, I would never try to make nitroglycerin myself as this stuff is very unstable and could go off 💥 on its own!
Aaaaand now we’re probably on a watchlist. Thanks dingus
How did you get polish Warchem reagents? :)
Would the making of glycerine with ethanol instead of methanol too?
This was highly entertaining.
Can ethanol alcohol be used instead?
What about just mixing burnt or slaked lime (from roasting oyster shells) with the oil, wouldn't calcium stearate precipitate out ? Calcium stearate being insoluble should just be filtered out. Would that make glycerin? Calcium stearate is supposedly what soap scum is that forms on a bath tub, comes from soap (sodium sterate ) reacting with calcium in the water.
“This is a terrible idea…” I’m intrigued “…very dangerous, but also can save lives…” I love the dual argument “…so, here’s how to make it…” I think we’re friends now.
"i hope you lerned something new and now don't want to make nitro glycerin"😂
This is cool!
An important note. Nitroglycerin is safe when stored below 11 Celsius.
Freezer time
Super! Fascination! Thank you very much! I am probe sodium amalgame into vegetable oil.
You took of the sticker but the print of our best polish cooking oil is still there in the cap ^^
Good video tho!
Nitroglycerin is also heart medicine. It's a vascular dilator. So if you knew dosage side and SHTF you could keep grand from having a heart attack or stroke.
Thank you for doing this safely. I like to see the chemistry, but I do not want to involve myself with chemicals such as these.
Got it! Thanks! 💥🤪
"I need a bottle of oil, I took the label off to not disclose the company name"
Me: That's Olej Kujawski If I'd ever seen one
(Also there's markings on the cap of the bottle, you may want to watch out for these in the future to not get into the legal trouble 'n all that ;D )
Hi I used to regularly run My Diesel Land Rover on used vegetable oil I got from the local restaurants. All You need to do is drip it through a filter to get the impurities out and add 5% of white spirit or paraffin/kerosene. It ran just fine but smelled of frying burgers! ; - )
Lazy, but it worked ! Nice video.
Good call to destroy it after synthesis - there really is no point 'storing' anything that you know how to make.
As a vasodilator, generally 5% in water sprayed under the tongue works.
Interestingly it still isn't fully understood why it works first on the veins before the arteries.
Maybe i got those switched around.