Making superconductors
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A few years ago, I saw a video about superconductors and it looked like anti-gravity magic. So, I decided to try and make some superconductors myself and to see if I could re-create the effect myself. In particular, I'll be making a YBCO superconductor, which is one of the few practical high-temperature superconductors.
Procedures:
1) One with potential problem: bit.ly/3fjdX70
2) One I followed: bit.ly/2DaNEmb
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nile: [does something] i then realized that this was a terrible, terrible mistake and would ruin the whole project, except i got lucky and everything was actually fine
Omg this made me laugh so hard. Love it.
Elyse G.엘리스 지 yes that happen XD
me: hah you idiot
grape god lol what’s happening
happened quite often when I worked in r&d
"It was just so gross, that I honestly thought I had messed something up... Turned out I was just being impatient."
[SUMMONS DEMON]
It looks like a gate to hell.
14:32 is when the Dark Souls boss wakes up
Ah yes, my favourite compound, Ammonium Demonate
That looked soooo cool
Summons Bob Marley
summarizing the entire channel in one sentence
"i had no idea how much to use, so i used all of it"
"If in doubt, flat it out."
I forgot who said that.
"Then on top of it, I added a metal spacer thing..."
@@babycat7226 no? That literally isn’t true
@gamtax I always heard when riding a dirt bike when in doubt gas it ,and damm it actually worked 🤷♂️👍
@@gamtax i think it was colin mcrae who said that
i love that the random tube furnace company not only responded but actually helped you out and annotated your own picture of the damaged board
They normally do that if possible. You're still a potential customer for spare parts, consumables, ... Only stands to reason they'd like to help get it working.
cause of this video they probably got quite a few sales.
all the alibaba customer support ive gotten so far was always way better than any other like amazon etc
@@MyDude199 rly? Nile didn't even mention the name of the company
@@Leander_2000fr tho dude, i ordered borosilicate glass from china, and the when some of it arrived shattered, they not only sent me new ones, but they even payed for the shipping too
“I wasn’t sure how much to use, so I ended up just putting in all of it.” So, the standard NileRed procedure then.
As chemists say: A lot helps a lot (some direct translation from german: Viel hilft viel) 😉
Full send dude, full send
SEND IT
ok
27:08 ish
This man just summoned ugly little bonsai trees from hell.
True
I am Groot?
That’s a perfect representation of it
Ugly?
Out of all those demon trees, this one had the best texture EVER :D
Timestamp?
I actually almost got teary-eyed at the company actually being helpful and giving detailed support.
And just seeing two people far more brilliant than me in the realm of technology interacting was beautiful
I sharted myself
They are very helpful for customers in China, we had ordered some VR machines for games with VR headsets (like motorcycles and stuff) and they troubleshoot with us to this day on daily basis.
They better be helpful if I paid 2k for it
Rest in peace K. Alex Müller who discovered the first high-temperature superconductor together with Georg Bednorz back in 1986. He passed away last month.
Ben from applied science: *Literally does anything*
NileRed: " Its kinda ugly"
He’s negging the scientific method itself.
@@Wertsir "Is it actually good science if it isn't pretty when all's said and done?"
13:22 look like the portal of hell was
opening up
13:26 NileRed successfully summon unknown entity.
ben is the best thing to happen to science on youtube. nurdrage was def up there too until he basically stopped posting. but applied science is just amazing every time. until he starts coding on that one piece of hardware whose name completely slips my mind, but they can be pieced together to run all sorts of low power, things that don't need much computing power, like scoreboards or whatever. they can be used to do basically anything tho, and it's driving me crazy that i can't remember the name. but anyway, yeah, the coding stuff is all over my head, but everything else is amazing and i love his channel so much
13:21 - casually summons demon.
Didn't expect to see someone famous in this comment section 😳
Bleep bleep I'm a dipsh*t...
Hello
Oh hey
Lmao I had honestly thought it was editing at first cause that's literally what it looked like.
The most important lesson of this video is:
The author is not afraid attempting something he has initially no idea if he will succeed or not. This is the most important attribute of a true engineer.
If you fail, try something else, repeat until you succeed.
The most important lesson of this video for me: Subscribe to NileRed. Second place lesson: No I can't just make a bunch of superconductoring magnets on the cheap.
3rd lesson : me dum dum, so I just like watching his videos and going "damn that's easy" but never actually doing it myself because I KNOW I'll mess it up
4th lesson: if it fails, it was probably the oxidation
engineer gaming
Instructions unclear. I am now destitute and turning tricks to fund my potato battery project.
The explanation for superconductors in this video finally made me realise why the "Unobtanium" from Avatar was so sought after: it's described as a "high temperature superconductor" meaning it can do what superconductors do, except it does it always, even at ambient temperature.
that's also why the islands on Pandora float: they are magnetic
@@maxwellwellmanyes... I know... it was very clearly explained.
What I didn't get is why a "high temperature superconductor" was something important. And now instead I do. That's all.
Even at high temperature
"turns out I was just being impatient."
*gate to hell opens*
Doom Guy requests your location
Yes, that was the moment I got genuinely scared
LMAOO ybco wants to know your location
It looks like sumn out of resident evil 7
It's like a snake firework
he buys chemicals on ebay like hes buying groceries
😂😂
This kid has got to be on some watchlists by now.
@@theinteldude yes i think hes on the us watchlist already lolol not really
@@JaWs_BH 😊😊
@@levimillerfandom thx
I just love the roller coaster between "I found a detailed instruction" and "I had no idea what I was doing"; also, "I have to make it right" and "I just decided to roll with what I had" 😅😅 he's that rare kind of people who can easily educate and entertain ❤
That seller on Alibaba was exceptionally helpful. They already had your money and none of what happened was their fault so they could have ignored you but they really walked you through how to fix it. I am impressed.
In a way...I suspect he's not the first person to make that mistake.
@@elhurricane1706 honestly I don't think so, it's a fairly specific mistake to make (most countries have either 110V or 230V mains and you'd never even think about speccing it wrong, Canada must be kinda unique in this and I doubt they get many orders from there). Just seems like it's a very custom product and so they're fine to invest in customer support.
Nile after making the aerogel video: I want to stick to lower scale projects
Nile like 3 videos later: anyway so here's this 45 minute video of me making an antigravity floating witch device
oh my f**king god
u still watching??
lol
HyperGamingMinecraft no words have better summed up my thoughts.
This presentation and documentation of the process reignites my passion for superconductors and their chemistry.
Excellent use of your time Nile. Thank you!
@@Svetty00 It looked like a demonic morel fungus entering our reality through a portal from Hell, rather than the standard Pharaoh's serpent.
Pat The Plant lol
"So I procrastinated for a year and a half"
Nice.
Relatable
Well
Procrastinating
Cant do that
I can beat that. Easily.
in other news, the first annual procrastination olympics have been delayed indefinitely.
@@icodestuff6241 Wdym?
41:23 that cube spin was simply *chefs kiss
i loved the part where the capacitor said "its capacitin time" and then it capatited all over the board above it
i aint gonna lie the guy on the phone sounds like somebody who just dropped a big crate on the ground
maybe, but you never know. i have a singular friend who works in the national postal service (so, this is completely anecdotal) and most of the destroyed shit actually come like that. you never actually find out who broke it because it just passes hands and EVERYONE acts like that. from the shipyard handler, truck driver to the mortal postalman.
Poor guy, he must have been shitting bricks
@@tanszism Does this imply that shipyard handlers and truck drivers are _immortal?_
"somehow" it came apart
didn't he though...👍
“Turns out I was just being impatient”
*opens a portal to hell*
This is the comment i was looking for
yea looks like a worm from THE UNDERWORLD coming out to eat this guy's soul
13:14
"So while I had access to hell, I thought it would be a great opportunity to stock up on sulfur for future experiments..."
IKR
This is a video I keep coming back to. It's comforting.
Nigel, your channel in general has allowed me to keep holding on when I was at a low point in my life, and I didn't feel like I was worthy or smart or determined enough to pursue the education and career in science that I wanted.
You never let me let go of learning more about the world around me, so thank you. I'm getting my degree in physics now!
Your sense of humor and sheer enjoyment of chemistry keeps me coming back to watch you do these experiments over and over again.
just put this video on to go to sleep after watching it atleast 20 times already because its just so comforting :)
@@sophiemitchell4554 seriously this one alone I can't even count how many times I've slept to it, probably 50+
This is an extraordinary video! Not only do you show what problems you ran into, but you explain your solutions, and show that they work. This is HIGHLY valuable for any DIYer.
As a hobbyist, thanks, so much, for your helpful contribution!
13:21 this looks like a demonic ritual wtf
It looks really cool tho
Dang you got a checkmark but I didn't 😔
true
I never expected you to like chemistry
The Horizon Gang still rises
Nile: They used a number that was blatantly just wrong
Also Nile: Not to blast them or anything
Also Nile again: *Shoves report off table*
😂🤣🤣
Sheauwn that part was hillrioua
He yeeted the paper enough
DID THE MATH!
Nile: They used a number that was blatantly just wrong
Also Nile: I dont know how much oxygen i need, so im just gonna use a blatantly wrong ammount
Coming back to this after the discovery of room temperature superconductors
Waiting for NileRed to make LK-99
This guy definitely knows how to get away with murder too
and then make the body float
Just Some Guy without a Mustache I see you everywhere
So you are now searching for Sci-Fi Anime Plots?
Just Some Guy without a Mustache step one: kidnapp murder step two: run away with murder in the boot of a car step three:.... success
ah i see you are a fellow weeb of science as well
"So i kinda procrastinated for the next year and a half"
We all felt that
What does procrastination mean
Rude not to answer
Lol
@@johnnydept8975 dude i was literally asleep when you commented
@@johnnydept8975 it means to basically just be lazy and not do something you need to do for a while
13:17 "turned out I was just being impatient" *opens the gate to hell*
15:25 the grip reaper summoned
As a chemist I found 100’s of journal articles with dumb calculations that led no where and the methodology seemed so illogical this is so relatable
As a dumb person i have no idea whats going on
@@blendyboi5023 your not dumb lol just chose a different career path I’m probably incapable at whatever you do
Just a curious random im just watching for interesting facts and brain cells.
I wonder why that is. Typically, a journal which publishes rubbish calculations pays a serious price in lost reputation.
@@amir_hamzah oh ok ty
"Turns out I was just a little impatient"
*portal to hell opens and releases an eldritch horror without any warning or acknowledgement*
Exactly my thoughts
it scares me
those were really grosss
Do you mean a furry? (This is a joke on the _other_ furries.)
Hell tree
Time for part 2. Room Temp boogaloo.
Nilered, now you gotta peer review LK 99 manufacturing
“But it turned out that I was just being impatient.”
*Portal to hell opens and demonic mass emerges*
That's John, he's a bit deranged but he's got the spirit.
It looks cool
Portal to hell or ignited origin point? Jw details, ya know 😏
...
@@braideasegoat8284 the 2nd
I really enjoyed watching this video!! It's my second time completing it. As a material engineering undergrad who has been fascinated by superconductors for over a year now, this video is a gem and a motivation. Thank you
I love the commitment to the procrastination - “So I kinda procrastinated for the next year and a half” that’s high quality, pure procrastination kinda like his ultra pure cookie. That’s my kinda of procrastination.
"Everything on that site was wrong, the calculations were useless and the ratios were incorrect. This isn't to blast them or anything..."
@Evi1M4chine He does exactly the same, except he doesn't say he's not blasting anybody.
@@packediceisthebestminecraf9007 sort of like the old... "[Highly offensive comment], no offense."
“I was just being impatient” *gate to hell opens up*
*"WARNING. DEMONIC INVASION IN PROGRESS"*
HAHAHAHA! Demonic snake comes out...
looooooool
Nile: "Why do I hear BFG Division?"
Nile is one of those people who will make a saw trap one day and make cute plastic glove soda the next day.
"Canadian sorcerer summons black snake from a hell portal, beats it until it turns to dust and makes shit levitate with said demon snake ashes"
AS ABOVE SO BELOW
Classic Canada Man.
well........ time to acuse someone of satanism
Imagine going back to the middle ages and explaining this process that way.
@@wilsoncalhoun yes
13:13 "I actually started thinking that I would have to start over but it turned out that I successfully summoned my desired demon"
haha true, i also thought he opened a gate to hell! 😄
I thought the same exact thing. "pleasant surprise" and "cool" lol
I guess I'm a minority though, because I immediately guessed he was doing the nitrate-citrate synthesis.
I was actually a bit worried when he did it in an open beaker, as I have personally seen the synthesis done in a chimney apparatus, as some materials when made this way kind of impersonates a rocket in reverse...
(Our labs are no longer allowed to do it that way as it creates way too much nano-particles which are kind of bad for yo if you inhale them, and even doing it in a fume hood is not enough in some cases....)
So yes, that synthesis can be described as 'opening the gates to hell' The hell just only shows up 20 years later in the form of lung cancer :-(
Søren Koch bro it was a just a fun little joke
@@srenkoch6127 truez my grandfather may he rest in peace was in charge of the electronic section in the chemistry department at a Uni and he also got cancer, presumably from soldering for so long, plus who knows what was in the devices he fixed. Always need to wear protective equipment when dealing with carriable particles/fume and alike.
who is here because of the Room Temperature Superconductor LK-99?
Still waiting for him to say or show us something about the room temperature superconductor
I come back to this video after the LK-99 thing and hoping that maybe our youtube chemist here would replicate, or at least see a comment talking about it
There arent many youtubers that can make me sit and watch a 45 min video without getting bored especially when i know nothing about chemistry.
AND WATCH ALL HELL BREAK LOOSE
exactly! i literally just finished watching the video and holy fuck it's 4am 💀 this was such a good project
Wow, the moment I read your comment I realized this video was 45 minutes long, felt more like 15 or so
Chemistry is the kicker here. I'll watch plenty of 45 minute vids on my favorite channels but I doubt any other channel could keep my attention on chemistry like he does. Well, there's 1 other guy. I forget his name but he made the holograms.
Edit: the Thought Emporium, I think. And I guess he isn't exactly chemistry but more biology and stuff. It's still super science-y and he makes it easy to watch and understand.
True
When he talks, he sounds like he’s giving an explanation that leads to a question but the question never comes.
Bro why does this make sense?
Holy shit i never noticed
Inverse vsauce
To me it always sounds like after every pause he’s going to say something bad happened
@@derekbigpowers1993 same actually. I wait for the dreaded "but, unfortunately..."
hope he does another video about these after the LK99 discovery
Nile should try to make LK-99.
“What I had at this point should’ve been the final YBCO”
*15 minutes left*
Me: oh no
Hahaha best comment here
What gets me is that his inflection is so consistent describing both success and failure that if you aren't looking at the video time remaining you don't know if he's about to describe what went wrong or if the next line is going to be, "...and it was."
NileRed's intonation makes me expect a "But it failed miserably..." after every sentence
My thoughts exactly.
Literally bro, I get all nervous
@@joshuaosei5628 That's how good the narration was. Because same.
Exactly. Most of all is at 36:17 where he says "When it was done, they all looked good, and I was pretty excited that I now had 5 nice superconductors."
Edit: it's because he does say something along those lines LOL
Yeah, I need him to narate my life
Please make LK-99!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As my electronics professor would say: you let the magic smoke escape.
Quote of the day - “I kind of procrastinated for the next year and a half.”
Edit: thanks for the meaningless internet points :)
Quote of the century, cause who wants to compare quotes each day.
Procrastinators leaders of tomorrow
Quotes of the second: hi
That's me in one sentence
Quote of my life
“It’s actually damaged, like severely damaged, they shipped it in a crate and the crate has completely come apart” -fedex guy 2020
“Huh”
See what had happened was i was messing around and it fell and now im going to lie
Yeah I work at fedex and I can tell you why. Crates are what what we call incompletables so the building can't sort them so they are manually sorted. This means it is dragged out of the truck by one person, dragged to a conveyor belt by another, pulled off that belt by another, and finally loaded into a truck by a last person. This happens in every building it goes through. Unless the crate is well made it is going to break open. I see at least one or two broken crates in QA every night.
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In before every researcher on twitter watches this as a cook book for how to bake LK-99
Props to this guy so much, He spends thousands of dollars and weeks just to make a small magnetic pellet to make metal float and spin
he*
@@RaiderOfTheLost No one cares.
@@RaiderOfTheLost you you are ziy/zoy
Doubting your assertion about thousands of weeks..
Tube furnaces are incredibly useful -- you can have a reaction up to 960°C in the presence of any gas which is awesome
Nile: “I decided to make a super conductor”
Me: “oh cool I’ve always wanted to try that too!”
Nile: “so I bought a $2,000 tube furnace”
Me: “... :-( “
the comedy of errors around the broken furnace had me giggling to myself the entire time. very damaged in shipping, and he just plugs it in and turns it on! and then the magic smoke comes out the back! so of course he does what anyone reasonable would do with a high temperature lab device and tears off a capacitor from the inside and then just puts it back together and uses it! 😂😂😂
A tube furnace had many other uses, like making semiconductors.
Nile: Also im gonna summon a demon
is 2000 that much? superconductors are the gateway to clarktech
@@whyareyoulookinghere9135 Well, in case you didn't know, for most people buying a 300 dollar laptop is astronomical.
Nile thought $5000 was too expensive, now buys $6500 candy machine
Anyone else watching in 2023 chomping at the bit for him to replicate LK99?
YES!!
"It turns out that I was just being impatient, and I simply needed to wait longer for our Dark Lord to emerge from the portal I had created in my beaker."
@Baylor Loney me crawling out of my bed:
Yeah principally because you have to be starved to do it
He be summoning demons
@@kushokyu7204 that do be true doh
@Hawk Moon r/wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh
NileRed’s videos are getting closer and closer to movies 😂
Man’s production quality is gonna pass Disney
if NileRed was in theatres, i'd be a huge cinephile
Most viewed video:
"How to make cocain"
Lol the next few will be shorter. These longer ones have taken my soul to make
@@NileRed its all chill. We love your videos
Now do LK-99
You need to make a part 2 for this with lk99
Nile has gone from neat flashy science videos to how chemistry is the precursor to summoning horrors from another dimension.
Yeah fr
my mouth was just hanging open! lol "I was a little worried about the alien life form growing in my beaker"
So creepy!!
He's stepping on some toes here for sure.
999 likes? um, no thanks
“So I kinda procrastinated for the next year and a half” this guy just became 10x more relatable
Yeah, but while "procrastinating" he made his own aerogel, ferrofluid, and uranium glass, just to name a few...
BROTHER
@@r0ug374 what's the point of being an asshole
@@r0ug374 I did now shut up.
@@panickedhispanic5933 I think mainly to scapegoat. To place your own faults on others so you don't have to feel so less bad about them.
Today, just may be the day.
It’s so crazy to see some I really look up to doing an experiment I did I one of my undergrad chemistry class. And that he ran into some of the same problems we did! Of course he got an amazingly better result but they only gave us two afternoons.
The fact that there was no reviews yet the company was there to help him with any issues is great....he should give them 10 stars
He wasted days trying to troubleshoot the issue and they badly packaged it. 1 star
@@Joe-Mama978 The issue was operator error, so it's not their fault. The bad packaging is though.
@@austinhoang1814 true so at least 3-3.5 stars
@@drhades4240 Honestly I’d give an honest 4
That is an odd thing with folks that make the *good* knockoff products. They have great support. Sometimes.
Two years from now: “how to build a nuclear fusion reactor in your garage”
hahaha. He always wants to improve upon the other guy. His video will probably be called" How to obtain an exothermic fission reaction without radioactive decay".
To become an Eagle Scout"
Iran would be the first like
That's actually a fairly common DIY project. My lab partner in college had built one in high school. Look up "fusors" I'm sure there are some builds on youtube
i dont have any materials but i will make this something like this at some point
Nile please upload more I love all your content and watched all the videos a couple times
I love how he gives us directions like I can make this
Your profile rickrolled me
Lol
I mean, no we can’t... due to budget and skill... but in theory! I wish I could lmao
He's rickrolling us.
I made it 124 like😳
“I was just impatient”
Literal Satan emerging from hell
It's like a snake firework
When it started burning and doing the snake firework thing, I thought, oh... I guess it's supposed to do that.... because I would have thought at the moment something was messed up.
I expected a goo like substance (not seeing anyone else make this material).
I wonder what the original experimenters thought...
hmm looks like we made the snake firework or C NA and sugar or aluminum and mercury reaction...
Hey, let's take that fluffy stuff and cook it in an O2 saturation and see what magnetic properties it has!
Doesn't seem like anything special.
Now pour some liquid nitrogen on it!
Wow!
@@jmitterii2 They probably predicted the properties using computer simulations, the only thing that would've suprised them is the thing doing the fluffy snake thing
Seeing the ferrofluid on the edges move at the end was crazy! Really helps to visualize what was going on in the magnetic fields
LK-99 is super chemically simple!
"... and it didn't immediately light on fire... which was a good sign."
That's pretty much what I'm having on my tombstone.
lol me too
if you died it means that it did light on fire
Ok so if u want the formula for ybco (this is just the chemicals) yitrum hydroxide you should know how to make it a hydroxide
Barium hydroxide
Copper hydroxide
Oxygen cus u can not convert oxygen in to a hydroxide
So this is the formula for the chemicals buy it from Amazon and u should get ybco
Ok so I say that the actual formula is harder to find if it is not detailed sorry
Ammonia is something that for me stops reaction/neutrilizes to btw u could drink the citric acid when it was 6.5 - 7 that is the ph level for pure and fresh water
that honestly sounds like something you'd hear from John Mulaney
@@thunderb00m delayed reaction
Sometimes when watching I’ll notice that things seem too good around the 12 minute mark when it’s a 45 minute video and just start waiting for “that’s when I realized I messed up”
Hey now this isn't Gourmet Makes!
I try not to look at the video length to keep my suspension =p
edit. I also do that with Gourmet Makes 😅
Your videos are so well made and very appealing and informative. The esthetics are a big part of what makes your videos riveting. Well done!
I've never watched your channel before, but this was an awesome video and I learnt a lot. Bravo!
*call company*
"Sooooo your heating machine is getting very hot, but in a bad way"
*oh no*
Are you the real Steve job?
@@haydenv9611 do you want an iPhone?
"It was kind of fun, like running YBCO factory" = "a demon summoning factory"
They look like H.R.Giger drawings
It's always the nerdy kid that ends up summoning demons.
The level of problem-solving Nile does with chemistry is like magic.
I wish there was a NileDad channel that talks about how to fix broken electronics, like the furnace
“I honestly thought I would have to start over”
he says as when suddenly the gates of hell open inside of the beaker
O o f
That’s exactly what I thought when I saw it.
Yes exactly i was like..
Summoning demons are we
Right? It looked like a portal to hell opened up and a demon was shitting out of it from the other side.
when?
"The $5000 furnaces were just way too expensive"
> buys a $2000 furnace from alibaba with no guarantee that it'll even work
> runs it on higher voltage than it's designed for
> leaves it overnight without supervision
> it still works
the more expensive ones are just the same with some certificates :)
@@sliced4736 and instruction manuals
alibaba is where a lot of real functional products are that just dont have the big name or certs.. some companies actually just get the fabed things from ali and call it theirs with a hefty mark up. its a bit different from aliexpress if thats what your thinking about.
power of alibaba and nice china people
SCP 173 yup it’s also what happens when they are a developing country that is a manufacturer for the world and prices for labor is very poor. It just cheaper to give alibaba the specs of what you want and the money they want for x units and they make it and boom now mark up 100000% from the cost of $1 or $10 to $49.99 or $99.99 and profit. stonks
So when is the LK99 video coming Nigel? 👀
at 13:35 demogorgons entering hawkins belike:
This is truly awe inspiring chemistry. I was completely invested the 45 minutes. Thank you
The chemical reaction that occurs at 13:21 seriously looks like some kind of hellish alien devil plant sprouting. Legit the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.
@@srs6128 r/wooosh
@@peanutbutter9778 no it's not
@@srs6128 you're not getting the joke.
It looks like a demon tree sprouting
@@srs6128 you removed the first comment. Shame!
I've a few tips for improvement for you:
1. The ideal heating curve should include 12 hours for sintering at 950 degrees celsius and around 6 hours at 400 degrees celsius for tempering. Between these phases the oven should cool down at a rate of 100 degrees per hour. This process should be repeated a couple times including re-grinding the material into a fine powder after each run.
2. You only have to add the oxygen at the tempering phase: During the sintering phase a modification of YBCO is formed which hasn't superconducting properties. The superconducting modification starts to form at temperature below circa 500 degrees (between 500 and around 300). During this phase oxygen is embedded into the crystal structure while carbon escapes (if you use Barium carbonate of course carbon is present). I think at the tempering phase it goes from a tetragonal to an orthorhombic crystal structure. So you only need the oxygen during the tempering phase. That also means that increasing the time the pellet stays at 950 C doesn't increase oxygenation. The "quality" of your superconductors only increased because you did the process multiple times. (EDIT: To form a general YBCO crystal structure in the first place you have to sinter it at 950C first before tempering/annealing)
3. You can speed up the whole process by starting (buying) with Yttrium oxide, Barium carbonate and Copper oxide directly (EDIT: with "starting directly" I mean the step of heat treating the material/powder mixture inside an oven). You just have to grind them into a really fine powder (for example inside of a ball mill) to make it work. That's also the reason why Applied Science failed this "direct" method, because he didn't ground his powder mixture.
Also good video as always and greetings from Europe!
Damn, is your job making superconductors? If so, cool
**visible confusion**
This dudes brain is way bigger and wrinkly than mine, I trust him
You seem to know a bit about superconductors, so I’ve got a question. Hypothetically, could this be used alongside a form of transportation? The only logistical problems I’m seeing are A) difficultly to make B) High amount of supplies/time needed for a low quantity C) keeping it cool enough for it to actually work as a superconductor, but I feel A and C could eventually be solved (if not already)
this dude knows shit
Next video LK-99
Anyone else kinda impressed by how subtle he is with his product placement.
nile "i was honestly really nervous" red
Nile "I was honestly really nervous (not really)" Red.
caspar valentine rename his channel nervous Nile.
Every time He Says "Hoped," I Get So Tense, Im Like "NOOOOO HE USED PAST TENSE IT DIDNT WORK!" And Then It Works...
But then I remember it’s this channel so who knows lol. Makes it more suspenseful.
@@lawnmowerdude Yeah, Watched A Couple Of His Videos, Including The Aerogel one. He has an awesome channel and amazing projects to watch.
props to you dude its probably becuz of you and a great chem teacher that im doing chem in uni. thanks so much
That capacitor fix is so lucky dude. My main experience with capacitor problems comes from 01 Xboxs and old monitors, basically anything from very late 90s/ early 00s (cap rot). It is a 50/50 pretty much that you test the equipment, capacitor is already exploded/ ready to pop, and then you got electrolytic juice helping the current flow jump the circuit and maybe pass a resistor, fry the board, etc. The fact that nothing was fried is gods grace lmao
Mom: why were you on the toilet for so long???
Me: ...
"its not what you think"
How do you shit superconductors?
What this video has to do with you going to toilet? Did you make superconductors? Or are you millenial who can't go anywhehre without your phone? I'd rather read a book or a comic while Im shitting.
40 minutes later...
@@kettujabamiesukkeliukko several people can watch videos while they shit. Boomer.
>tosses the powder all over the table
“How’d I lose 4 grams?”
drugb
10:51 me in breaking bad