Capturing the natural beauty of chemistry
I find that chemistry is often taught poorly or without a purpose. Because of this, people tend to lose interest and sometimes even start to hate it. In each video that I make, I try to balance theory with purpose. My goal is to capture the natural beauty of chemistry in fun and interesting ways.
In terms of education, I have a BSc in Biochemistry, with a minor in pharmacology. However, I’ve always been a lot more drawn to applied chemistry. So after finishing my degree, I worked as a lab tech in an organic lab, and then as a chemistry grad student. However, I ended up leaving my graduate studies early to focus on this channel. Now, making chemistry videos has become my full-time job!
From NileRed. For a while now, I’ve wanted to try mixing gallium and indium metal together by shoving them into each other, where something interesting should happen. More specifically, they form an alloy that’s liquid at room temperature, and when mixed with tin, they form something called Galinstan. Galinstan is a lot like mercury, and…
From NileRed. For this one, I want to try and extract the soul from a regular cup of coffee, and to do this, I need to use a freeze drier. #shorts
From NileRed. For a while now, I’ve wanted to test the power of hydrofluoric acid, and see if it can really dissolve glass. #shorts
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From NileRed. In this video, I’ll be showing how it’s possible to turn regular sand into spontaneously combustible gas. #shorts
From NileRed. For this one, I’m going to try to synthesize a bouncy ball. Basically I’m making something called Thiokol rubber, and hopefully as a ball, it’ll be bouncy. #shorts
From NileRed. I have this little tube, that been been sitting on my desk for over a month. What’s inside is potassium metal, that looks gross and dirty because it’s so reactive, and it’s soft like weird butter. #shorts
From NileRed. A while ago I made some perfectly clear ice using a cooler, and I thought it was pretty cool. There were a lot of comments though, that said I could have saved a lot of time and effort, by just boiling the water, so I’ve decided to test that out. #shorts
From NileRed. This is just a bunch of regular nails and I really want to try and liquefy them. Normally this would be pretty difficult, but I bought this little induction heater on eBay, which should be able to do it. #shorts
From NileRed. For this one, I’m gonna be doing something weird with an egg. All I need is just a regular egg, some vinegar, and a beaker. #shorts
From NileRed. For a while now, I’ve been wanting to make an explosive liquid metal, and all I need is some sodium and some potassium. And after mixing them together, I eventually had a perfect liquid metal ball. Finally, I pulled some of it out with a syringe, because there’s just one thing I have…
From NileRed. This is just a bottle of regular coke, and I’m gonna try and turn it clear. #shorts
From NileRed. Gallium looks a lot like mercury, except unlike mercury, it really likes sticking to glass. It also has a very different and unique reaction, when it’s added to aluminum. I’ve actually never tried this myself, and I think I’ll test it out on this aluminum bat. #shorts
From NileRed. Today, I’m going to be making a green fireball. To do this, I need methanol, boric acid and potassium polyacrylate. #shorts
From NileRed. A while ago I was able to turn some generic hardware store wood into extremely dense wood, where only 3 layers of it was able to stop a 9mm bullet. Since then though I started thinking that I could make it even better, by using thinner pieces of wood and Kevlar. #shorts