Finding Chemicals And Labware | Home Lab Setup
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- čas přidán 8. 07. 2024
- Surprisingly, a lot of useful chemicals can be found at your everyday supermarket! And in this video, I'll be showing you a few of the most useful ones you can find.
I know this video is a bit different, but I figured it would still be worth posting, since a recent poll I did showed a lot of people wanted me to make a video on this topic. More videos to come soon, and of much better quality!
Where I get my glassware:
www.homesciencetools.com/
My hotplate/stirrer:
www.amazon.com/ANZESER-Magnet...
A few good distillation kits (bottom one is the one I own):
www.amazon.com/VEVOR-Distilla...
www.homesciencetools.com/prod...
Some "honorable mention" chemicals that didn't make it into my video:
Magnesium - firestarters
Phosphorus - match striker pads (some workup may be required)
Nitrous oxide - empty whipped cream cans
Cyanuric acid - pool chlorine stabilizer
Sodium hydroxide - 100% lye crystal drain opener
Potassium chloride - non-sodium salt
Calcium chloride - "pickle crisp" granules
Sodium bicarbonate - baking soda
Acetylsalicylic acid - aspirin tablets (workup required)
Vanillin - vanilla extract (workup required)
Crude benzaldehyde - almond/cherry extract (workup required)
Sodium bisulfate - pool/pond pH increaser
Copper sulfate - root killer/fungicide (available at Home Depot and Lowes...maybe Walmart too) - Věda a technologie
I should note that in the 60s There were plenty of chemical supply companies and even kids could buy any quantity of it: buying a small or large spice sized container of Thorium compounds, Mercury, etc.
I know this cuz I have a 'antique' collection from a guy that would also get his supplies from the same place and said he was always in line with kids. Being 60yrs old I was going to create a YT series showcasing the supplies and performing tests on them to see what ones have held up, which have degraded, etc.
Make the series!
Fucking Thorium????? That's crazy 💀
Anything you might be willing to sell?
EU lawmakers figured sulfuric acid can be useful for making explosives so they decided to ban the sale of 10%< concentration to private customers. Battery acid is banned for normals here. There are workarounds but im sure someone ill intentioned will find it easy to just steal an old car battery. Adding that its somehow fairly trivial to concentrate and purify its just a pain to do regularly.. funny the price stayed the same for 1L bottle but it was 98% compared to 10% now..
Yeah, paranoid politicians tend to ruin a lot of good things. Here in the USA, you can't get DCM in paint strippers any more, because they thought it was horribly poisonous. If I could tell them anything it would be this: people who want explosives can make them from almost anything (even air, as I've shown on this channel). Taking away sulfuric acid won't do squat in the long run. Who knows? Maybe they'll come around someday!
Look out, mate. Apparently CZcams is on another vendetta against chemtubers, so stay safe and keep things as inert as possible for the sake of your channel.
I am. I feel pretty sure CZcams won't be messing with me, as long as I stay away from energetic materials (besides maybe thermite or something) and chemical weapons...on that note, I'd love to try the synthesis of mustard gas (simply because it seems interesting and uses sulfur chlorides), but I obviously have no use for it and CZcams would probably remove my channel instantly, lol. Plus, I don't want cancer...
I hear you, @@LabCoatz_Science. I think people on E&F were suggesting that it was all bot/algo targeting, so the content didn't really matter, just that you ticked a few of the right boxes. I really hate this platform sometimes...
Magnesium firestarters in the camping section have a block of solid magnesium and a rod of ferocerium metal as a source for rare earth metals.
In the cooking section there is alum, sodium chloride(probably want non iodised), potassium chloride (sodium free salt alternative) and potassium bitartrate (cream of tartar). Polyethylene glycol can be found in the pharmaceutical section. Sodium tetraborate can be found in the laundry section as Borax and makes a nice green color in the flame test(best result is with boric acid from roach killer and methanol from HEET, gives a perfectly green flame without the sodium ions). At the hardware store copper sulfate can be found as a root killer(fairly pure blue crystals that work great for electroplating) and potassium permangenate can be found in the water treatment section(fairly expensive here, about $15-30 a bottle).
Not particularly chemistry related but when you talked about the batteries it reminded me. Some batteries have a solid carbon rod in the center. I don't know exactly what they would be called but I know they are never the alkaline batteries. They tend to be the cheapest ones as well. Handy if you are doing any projects with arcs.
Oh yes, I know about the old zinc-carbon (lantern) battery trick! Comes in quite handy for lots of people, although I get most of my graphite rods from pencils (I actually used pencil lead to arc weld one time, albeit pretty poorly, haha).
I'm 50 yo and just started exploring chemistry. It has always been a desire but I just always was to busy to dive in. I was thinking about setting up a small lab and this video was perfect. Thank you and I'll be watching more of you.
I go to lows all the time for the potassium Nitrate, Sugar rockets are so fun
Hotplates are insanely expensive 400 to 900 dollars and I do need 1 more. I recommend getting good quality hotplates from a chemistry supplier.
Nice tips. The only thing I would add is to stock up when you can as some of these can suddenly become very hard to find or the prices skyrocket without warning. I've dealt with that too many times. The key though is to do it in such a way as to not arouse suspicion. Last year I cleaned out my local hardware store of H2SO4 drain opener after I found out they were no longer going to carry it once their stock ran out. Every few days I was in there and grabbed 4 or 5 bottles at a time along with a bunch of plumbing fittings. I'd go back and return the fittings, get more bottles and more fittings and repeat the process. 20 or so litres later I had all of their stock and now I have enough to last me pretty much for the rest of my life. I only need it for making HNO3 so the hard part now is the nitrate salts. Luckily I found a GREAT cheap source for Magnesium Nitrate dirt cheap.
Johnnies daddy was a chemist, but Johnny is no more. Because what he thought was H2O was H2SO4.
damn i wish i lived in the USA the number of chemicals you get in a freaking hypermarket is insane. I can't even get the most basic chemicals
Yeah same. It is hard to me to even get potassium chloride in my country. Like wtf?? And the only reason for that probably is that the goverment thinks people would make potassium chlorate with it or use it to kill people. It ain't even that poisonous even when injected.
Trust me, you don’t.
@@FalkenBrown lol
@@Paonporteuryeah and guns everywhere and no health system.
You can find brominating compounds in pool supply. A lot of hot tubs using bromine instead of chlorine for disinfection.
If you work for a company that has any kind of analytics lab, go through anything they throw away. I’ve found broken stuff in the garbage that cost a fraction of its new purchase price to restore to working operation. A fluke temperature probe that just had battery corrosion was in the trash. Fixed it for the cost of a few paper towels and some DI water. New price: $350. Fischer Scientific stirring hotplate in the garbage needed a new control board but the model was obsolete. Found another broken one on EBay for $100 and swapped the boards. New, that plate was almost $600. Never underestimate a company’s willingness to throw away what could be fixed.
Oxalic acid in (bartender friend or something similarly named) in the cleaning section.
Copper sulfate as root remover
Kmno4 as aquarium clear
Found 100% ISO at a plumbing supply store
Hexamine in camping section or Army surplus stores as Instant camping stoves/fuel
Oxone at Wallyworld as pool shock. (Currently on discount ad of since it’s not pool season
For the chemistry I recommend having a supplier I have a supplier prolab scientific. Ebay and Etsy workd well for me but Prolab is a good choice. Also pharmacy for alcohol is quite good choice.
Great to see you and i have been essentially buying the exact same products for the last 8yr... i miss the days of buying a gallon of dcm/methanol from the hardware store, but i can still find toluene every once in a while. That acid is good but my all time favorite at least here in Florida was Liquid Lightning - it was 93% and crystal clear sulfuric acid, but i have to order it on ebay now
Just to add to that, besides lithium metal from lithium batteries and MnO² from alkaline batteries, you can also get carbon rods for electrodes from carbon batteries.
thanks a lot mate
sadly stores here in NZ are not as full of the fun stuff, sulfuric acid is rare and expensive
IF you have a way to separate Phosphoric acid and Sulphuric Acid then you have a source of both.
There are milking sanitizing/cleaning products (for cleaning milkhouse floors/equipment). Its sold by the gal and goes for like $10-20.
Lowes carries root killer for Copper Sulfate, pure hardwood charcoal (for elemental carbon), Soldering supplies.
Whereabout in NZ are you? I managed to find 2 brands of h2so4 drain cleaner in a mitre 10 store
so much thanks for where we can find all
Thanks very good information
I can only imagine how many alerts you set off with that purchase at Walmart. Without question, Walmart is watching your purchases now lol 😂
I don't know in USA, but in Italy (at least some years ago) it's possible to buy some copper salts, potassium bicarbonate, calcium hydroxide/oxide, urea, some nitrates, ammonium sulphate, ecc... in gardening shops, blue methylene and eosine in pharmacy like as boric and citric acid, in the brewing aisle you could find sodium metabisulfide and sodium percarbonate. In supermarkets there are: sodium bicarbonate, sodium carbonate, some tartrates, ammonium carbonate (bakery aisles), ecc...
You are so dope sir . Thank you for the information you provided for us im taken chemistry in college this help 😅so much . Thank you an may god bless you ❤.
Chemistry is just spicy Legos that can kill you if you try to put the wrong pieces together 😂
Don't forget welding supply shops! They have many fluxes and metals when needed!
Jesse, we need to watch LabCoatz
Electrical Engineering and Chemical Engineering have 1 thing in common: MAAAAAAGIIIIIIIC!
where did you get the storage bottles
for some reason, I love shopping for glassware.
Really? It sucks because of all the high prices. I sometimes have to spend hours to find properly priced glassware.
yes, that is true it can be pricey
Culinary arts is a form of chemistry. No one freaks about me making a stir fry or baking a cake
Might be worth pointing out that Home depot sells a "septic safe" drain cleaner that is ~30% hydrogen peroxide and in my last visit they were also selling 30% acetic acid.
I'll have to look into that, thanks for the tip!
When buying lithium batteries and chemicals try not being accused of synthesising meth
I'll do my best, so far I'm clean, lol
@@LabCoatz_Science if one’s interest in chemistry didn’t start with growing crystals in elementary school or watching NileRed it was probably some drug documentary where they showed a lab lmao
(I was the crystal (not meth) type lol)
But it’s funny joking about p2p etc when standing next to our profs in uni
yo you live in the same place as me in norman oklahoma my guy same walmart same lows same outwoods my guy!
Does anyone know of any good reactions to do at home? I was going to do the synthesis of geosmin but I'm not comfortable messing with bromine, so does anyone know of anything else I could do?
I was homeschooled so I never did get the learn chemistry.. but I played with electronic and built computer single I was 8 .. we need to trade skills lol
This guy is giving you a metanphetime recipe
Yum legos on the atomic levels... What would you create if you could modify any substance?
Would you create living sentient beings? lol fun times!
I am an up-and-coming watchmaker, and I’d like to find some benzene. Any ideas? Also, what about 100% pure isopropyl alcohol? Thank you :-)
100% isopropanol can be bought online from places like eBay, but benzene is almost impossible to find (unless you talk to a specialized seller or a chemical company). You can make it yourself, but you'd need a distillation setup. Honestly, if you're just looking for a solvent to clean watch parts with, toluene and xylene are very similar to benzene and can be bought much more easily.
@@LabCoatz_Science Thank you for your response! And thank you for the information.
I know someone who works in the state laboratory here in New Mexico, and she has said similar things. I’m afraid I am a sucker for recommendations, however. And a few watchmakers swear by benzene, which means I robotically swear by it also, I am afraid ^_^.
Do you think you could get me a source for benzene?
@@BlogofTheW3st You can ask Backyard Science 2000 on eBay. He sent me the benzene I used to make phenyl isocyanide. There is also SynthetikaChemicals on Etsy (and the corresponding .com website), and they were able to supply Chemdelic with any chemical he wanted.
@@BlogofTheW3st Just be aware: benzene is a horrible carcinogen, and it's more volatile than something safer like toluene. Make sure you wear proper safety equipment while using it, otherwise you risk getting cancer and an assortment of other health issues.
@@LabCoatz_Science Thank you again! I’ll explore those sources.
And I’ve asked my watchmaker guru (whom I robotically listen to ^_^) what he thinks of Toluene.
I feel like I would look SO sketchy 😂
In EU it's sometimes funny to get chemicals... You can get precursors without any hassle, but for specific chemical you need to have registered company with chemical specialization...
If you don't have a company you can't even get a small bottle of methanol or anything that contains methanol (like car window cleaner)... However you can get pure chloroform without any questions asked.
You can't get hypophosphorous acid (explosives precursor IIRC), but you can get sodium hypophosphite (metallurgy-specialized shops) and 32-35% HCl (automotive) and make it... EU is just a state of "find a way around stupid regulations".
Welcome to East EU, aka. capitalistic USSR
When you say EU it's actually Germany that is the silly strict one ..
Interesting choices during your Walmart shopping trip... Personally, I would not want purchase that all at once, considering how many of those chemicals are used to manufacture meth.
Seems like a great way to get a visit from the cops.
If I was making meth (or something worth hiding), I wouldn't have bought everything all at once from the same store! 😉
@@LabCoatz_Science
That's fair. Guess I'm just cautious. It seems amateur chemistry or chemistry in a home setting, isn't as popular as it once was, and unfortunately, particularly in my area, is frequently associated with criminal behavior. I find it best to avoid undue problems caused by accidentally raising red flags.
Kind of surprised they didn't call the law on you.. yeah everything you were doing i's perfectly legal and anyone should be able to do it but I know people that have got arrested for buying less
Guess people are just less nosy and paranoid around here!
So.....how many alarms do you think you set off every time you use your card for a chemicals run? 🤣🤣🤣
Dont forget Ph down, sodium bisulfate, in the pool section. Add some table salt and give it the spurs, you have a chlorine generator (bubble through a cold water column to achieve HCl if you cant find muriatic acid but do happen across an abandoned pool supply store in the zombie apocalypse. Can be used to dissolve the zinc core of pennies to recover the thin copper cladding, for.....reasons.....). Oh, and if you want H2O2 of higher concentration, swing by the beauty supply store. IIRC, they have 30% in up to gallon bottles. Though, I dont do anything that hardcore, so no advice on how clean it is....
1:38 I blew up my magic bullet with ammonia gas (by accident)
Yikes, that sounds pretty unpleasant!
CZcams is unforgiving to those who choose that path
Explosions and Fire :
Am i a joke to you
Bro on the FBI list because of the shopping items
Bro has been on the list for a long time then, and he doesn't intend to get off it now!
how to not get arrested while doing this?
They can't arrest you for buying chemicals at the store, since that's the whole point of having the chemicals in the store! It's what happens after the store that counts: as long as you don't do anything illegal or stupid with the chemicals, you'll be fine.
@@LabCoatz_Science well im swiss
ive been detained like 4 times
@@exshelf Interesting, guess things are pretty different here in America! In that case, I guess the best way to not get detained would be to buy everything on different days and possibly from different stores. Of course, that might be worse, because the officials might want a reason for why you're acting strangely, lol! So I'm not sure...my approach has always been "honesty is the best policy": if I'm honest about what I'm doing, and it's not harmful or illegal, they have no reason to keep me detained!
@@LabCoatz_Science i explained what i was doing and they said "just be safe, we thought you where making meth"