I’ve pulled a ton of awesome stuff out of trash cans over the years, but my favorite find is definitely this chemical formulary book. From 1933 I mean there’s just so. Many brilliant recipes inside from things like soaps and, cosmetics to explosives and medications, this thing would have been a gold mine to a nerd living in, the 30s. Now, if you’ve seen any of my previous videos on this book, you’ll know there’s some just absolutely insane recipes in here too Soof course. Those will be the ones I’ll be testing today now I know what you’re thinking why on EarthCam, I am making a part three of this series. When was nearly banned for the first two video swell after chatting with YouTube a bit.
Its semester didn’t like my use of cannons, which I guess makes sense, so no more cannons. Something I should have mentioned last time is that I’m literally chemist. I have the degree I’ve worked in a lab I’ve, even taught it and yes, the experiments you’re about to see are extremely dangerous. However, Iam more than qualified to do them in a safe andcontrolled manner, and no you should not attemptthem, because you’d probably get killed. I meanthere’s a lot of reasons why I do this stuff Imean yeah it’s fun, but I think that there’s a lotto learn from the historic aspects of chemistryand. I also want students out there to see.
Thatscience is a lot cooler than just filling outworksheets. Anyway, let’s see how much furtherI can get through this book without violatingthe Geneva Convention, oh yeah I’ll be testingrecipes from a bunch of volumes. This time, not justthe. First one have you ever thought that crayons just aren’t bright enough? Well, it turns out making fluorescent crayon is actually pretty easy.
Aliou need are some uranium salts, okay, but seriously uranium in a crayon. What were they thinking? Thesis one of the worst ideas. I’ve ever heard. Ofi can’t wait to try it out in this recipe. I’ll be using uranyl nitrate as the uranium salt Heh uranyl now uranium salts are radioactive, but what really makes them scary is their chemical. Toxicity uranium is a heavy metal after all, on the flipside, many uranium salts are absolutely gorgeous strongly fluorescent in some of the most beautiful chemical compounds out there. It’s quite unfair how something that looks so yummy is actually so toxicas for the crayon. I ground up the calcium carbonate with the plaster dissolve the uranyl nitrate in water and then mixed them together.
The resultant mix isn’t as fluorescent as it results in a uranyl carbonate precipitate, but without the calcium carbonate. The crayons would be too hard to draw with I put the paste in a syringe to act, asa mold and let it harder for a few days here. Is the finished uranium crayon, it’s really more Ofa chalk, which means it’s prone to making toxic dust as you use it.
It does glow nicely underrun light, though yeah, it’s actually pretty hardtop draw with, and it is pretty crumbly as well toxicity aside. It does look pretty neat underrun still, though, the coolness to Danger ratio isn’t quite worth it. In my opinion, the recipe said that anthracene could be used. Instead of the uranium, so I made some crayons based on anthracenes. Well, these actually glowed brighter and withal blue glow.
Instead of green, these anthracene crayons are significantly less toxic than the uranium ones as well, which is an added benefit, this one’s just intime for the never-endingcoof season. It’s a sore throat remedy now the ingredients in here, look pretty sketchy so. I guess I’m just go on an have to make some and see what it does. I’M not sure, what the function of any of these ingredients is honestly and in fact the recipe is quite toxic. Now you’d think that mixing a strong Lewis acid, with a potent oxidizer in an organic solvent. Oh, I uh don’t think that was supposed to happen maybe those beautiful flames are supposed to distract you from your sore throats either that or made a bad assumption when the recipe called fora tincture.
I figured it meant making a tincture offal that stuff, but in hindsight it probably meant using a ferric chloride, tincture as one of the ingredients. That would make more sense. Because tinctures of ferric chloride were used in medicine long time ago, and it would also keep the iron dosages below lethal levels. Now. This auto ignition reaction is actually quite interesting. The sheer act of dissolving the anhydrous ferric chloride in ethanol does release a substantial amount of heat and it boils nearly as soon as it’s mixed even. So, I don’t think that’s the only factor for flames here, ferric chloride is a strong Lewis acid and. It wouldn’t surprise me if it’s generating chloric acid, on solvation with the chlorate this compound, reacts violently with organic compounds and. All the little explosions going on in there make me think that chloric acid is playing a role I’ve mixed up.
A new batch of this stuff by first diluting the ferric chloride in water and, then adding the other chemicals now if the. First reaction wasn’t enough to dissuade using it as medicine. I better stick in some aluminum foil in there to see what it does wow. Not only is this stuff toxic and a fire hazard, it’s also highly corrosive neat if you’re, an American with asthma.
You probably have to pay a lot for inhalers, so instead consider this homeopathic, alternative asthma relief cigarette. I bet your lungs feel amazing. After one of these I’m kidding. This is a horrible idea, thesis a recipe for a magnetizable fluid. Now, honestly don’t see this working that well I’ll, take any excuse to play with Mercury, mm Mercury, yet again it’s, unfair, that something so beautiful has to beso toxic now, to be honest, the liquid metal itself is actually quite inert, but it does evaporate enough to be a problem. If there’s a spill, now the only thing more toxic than the mercury in this formula is the volumetric measurements of solid powders gross, the powders don’t seem to dissolve at all, but that’s probably intentional check. Out what happens when I bring a magnet near it there seems to be a distance and corresponding field strength, where the effect is most dramatic.
Here you can see the field lines actually quite well but when the magnet gets too close. It just bunches up the iron powder there. This is actually a neat effect really because a strong magnet makes the liquid act like a switch between dull and shiny don’t. You hate how easy it is to get severe burns when playing with fire. Well lucky for you. Here’s Anice recipe for cold fire. Now, according to the book, this stuff can be applied to the skin and hair without causing injury.
Now, there’s a lot to unravel with this one cold fire how’s that even possible. Also, carbon tetrachloride isn’t that the stuff that got banned from nearly everything because it.
It causes cancer. It destroys the ozone layer and it’s extremely toxic to the liverish. Yes, yes, it is so it does seem a bit sketchy. To you know rub this stuff, all of your body and light it on fire, but even so, I think it’s worth trying out. Let’s see how inflammable this stuff really is gosh inflammable such a stupid word well, that’s cool, looking flame! Is it actually cold thoughtlet’s? Try letting some paper on fire with it okay, so it’s not that cold, but it does take a while for it to catch on fire. So that is pretty nifty now check this out. If I dip the paper in the burning liquid, the part that comes in contact with the liquid, doesn’t actually burn.
That’s because only! Half of this mix combusts in the flame and that’s, the carbon disulfide, the tetrachloride actually poisons the fuel and absorbs a substantial amount of heat, as it evaporates this protects. Whatever surface the mix is burning, onion fact. This is why carbon tetrachloride was used in fire extinguishers before they figured out it was cancer juice, ignoring the huge health risks of the chemicals, this stuff, probably could be, put on skin and lit on fire without causing burns as tempting as it is, though, even I’m notrump enough to try it Like seriously every single part about this is stupidly, toxic there’s, actually another cold fire recipe.
Just below it in this book and although not quite as dramatic, it’s one popular among chemistry, teachers and has the added benefit of not inducing cancer in the audience. I like to add a pinch of baking soda to the mix to make the flame bright, yellow if you’re, like most people and stare at screens all day, there’s a good chance. You’ve dealt with dry and irritated eyes at some point, so what’s the solution, Mercury, salts and opium applied directly to your eyeballs. If that doesn’t make your eyes feel better, I don’t know what will’ve always been looking for a method, of hardening, copper and check it out.
Most of what I need is just pee. This is another one-off, those formulas where I’m not quite certain what. The function of the ingredients is Ibet. The hardening here is just due to the quenching and the chemicals, probably just clean and passivate the surface. All right here we go mmmm that smells amazing. Okay, so is thecopper actually harder. Now let me givethese a good scraping here: okay, yeah Ithink, the uh. I think the treated one isa little bit harder. It doesn’t scratch as deep. At least I’m curious how the structure changed.
So, I’m bending an untreated one as, a control now for the treated one huh. It feels stiffer but it’s actually easier to fold. Interesting no parade is complete without purple flames and Mercury fumes and this torch has them both. Look at that 10 percent. Calomel, so calomel is mostly just Mercury, so burning this in a parade is just going to fumigate the entire audience. However, it probably does make a gorgeous purple flame, so I’m kind of tempted totty it out anyway. I couldn’t justify spraying hot Mercury fumes everywhere, so I swapped out the calomel, with chlorinated rubber, the fumes are still going to be awful. At least it’s not Mercury. I guess well, here goes nothing foreign, that’s the most purple thing.
I’ve ever seen in my life amazing. It looks like the Mercury wasn’t needed, after all, just a source of chlorine to deepen the flame colors. This book is very generous with its use of cyanide whether you need to clean some coins or. Just keep your engine running smoothly. The always find a way to throw some cyanide in the mix. How lucky for us, they also include this convenient procedure for dealing with your inevitable cyanide poisoning the first steps aren’t anything crazy but check out step four.
That is one of the best sentences. I’ve ever read if patient survives, give an emetic and after vomiting, supportive of strong coffee with, brandy or whiskey.
Let’s party, you survived don’t, you hate it. How easy it is to ruin furniture by spilling acid on it. Well, thankfully, this cane a thing of the past. With this acid proofing concoction, I love how making acid-proof wood involves pouring boiling acid on it. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger right? The coats of the first solution didn’t do anything crazy. But things got interesting with the second one, the wood started, changing color and dipping the paintbrush back into the solution caused Itto change color as well after the wood, dried it became, much darker and the second coating made it turn black. The chemistry here is a polymerization reaction that produces a polyaniline. Compound these compounds are both acid resistant, and potent dyes.
By some crazy coincidence, a chemist friend of mine stumbled upon this very recipe, Ina publication from 1925 on building a low-costchemistry teaching lab okay, so is it actually acidproof? Let’s dump some concentrated hydrochloric acid on there and find out huh it really didn’t do much to either of them interesting. Let’s try something much nastier this time. Sulfuric acid tends to chew up most organic stuff. It encounters because it’s a potent dehydrating agent yeah. It looks like it chewed up the untreated stuff at least.
Let’s drop the base and investigate the surface of the untreated stuff has been turned into a gummy mess the treated piece has-been affected too, though it’s not pitted nearly as badly, but some of the treatment does rub off I’m, not sure how much of it is the linseed oil versus the wooden Polyaniline either wait’s, not acid proof, but it is acid resistant and. It’s certainly an interesting formula this one’s from the alloy section. It’s an alloy, that’s apparently useful in making electrical fuses.
Now, I’m not exactly one to fuse, my electronics, but check out that melting point this stuff should be able to melt in hot water, which I think is pretty impressive: for such easy to find Metals I’ll, definitely betraying this one out. I started by melting, the lead and bismuth together then, once that was molten, I mixed in the tin shot unfortunately had a small incident which required me to melt it all back down again before casting it into cute little coin sized pieces, so it doesn’t melt in hot water. One way to find out mm any second, now: okay, the water is clearly boiling at this point and the metal is still solid what’s going on. It looks like the book lied to meet turns out that no mix of these three metals can have a melting point of 168 Fahrenheit well that’s disappointing, but maybe it still works as a fuse I’ll take that as a yes, this one look pretty simple it’s a remedy for sneezing.
I mean you can’t sneeze if you’re unconscious, right, okay, this one’s called toilet milk. What is toilet milk? I looked it up on Google and I couldn’t find any meaningful answers. I guess I’m just going to make some of this stuff and see what it does figured. This was supposed to be an emulsion of, some sort, so I started by dissolving the acetyl alcohol in the oil then added glycerin after thetas for the soap I threw in a little lard soap solution and also added a bit of freshly diced bar soap for a good measure. I added the water but.
The compounds really didn’t want to mix at this point, so I tossed the whole thing in the microwave for a few minutes and after shaking the mix was nice and uniform. Well, I still don’t know what. This stuff is oh yeah. I forgot the perfume okay. Now it makes sense. This is clearly some kind of highly moisturizing soap. Which means only one thing: it’s obviously for nourishing your toilet. I can’t think of a better mix for cleaning and lubricating those pipes drink up Nessie.
This one seems easy enough determining the polarity of batteries. This is about as simples. It gets for our recipe, so I felt it was worth trying out all right here we go oh yeah look at that it does indeed make a brown spot. The battery drives an electrolysis reaction.
That oxidizes I had died into iodine at the positive terminal and that’s what gives it that color Nifty there’s a lot of cool electroplating techniques in this book, but here’s a recipe that simply chemically plates silver onto glass and ignoring the potential explosion, hazard there of ammonia and silver. This actually seems like a cool way to make some DIY mirrors. I made my silver nitrate by, dissolving silver bars in nitric acid Andreah. That gas is as toxic as it looks now. This first solution here generates a silver ammonia complex called Tollen’s reagent. It’s used to detect aldehydes in the lab. This compound has tobe used fairly quickly because it’ll degrade into the extremely unstable silver nitride.
I taped off one side of these glass slides in order to restrict plating to one surface after mixing in, the sugar solution silver began to coat the inside of the beaker and after a few minutest was super shiny, oh wow, that turned out way better than I expected. That’s actually a really nice mirror. I can’t believe how well that worked this beaker is even more impressive, though look at, that incredible finish. It’s funny because the recipes in this old book feel like mixing potions and casting spells sometimes – and this is a perfect example of that I just made a dark murky.
Liquid that coats glass in a brilliant silver shine, thesis straight up witchcraft chemistry is just modern, alchemy. After all, and the best partis that the science doesn’t kill the magic now before, I end this video, I feel like I owe Itto the editors to clarify some stuff. It may seem like all the recipes in these old books are just insane, but I’m focusing on the craziest recipes here. In reality, these books were an incredible resource for their day and not just for chemists either. You’ll have all kinds of formulas for all different Industries all in a single place. If you look at the inventories for some old libraries, you’ll find that some of them still have like hundred copies on hand just because they were so popular back, then yeah, we’ve come a long, way in 90 years, but the same time it’s impressive to see.
What they’re able to accomplish back thenars?
Well, so it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything uh actually about a year and I’m sure you’re wondering why that is and uh. So, I actually moved, and I built a new lab uh and that’s taken up, like you know all my time. Uh, it’s been a crazy production, but I mean just moving all my heavy stuff and then you know all the construction so that’s uh, that’s been, you know. Quite an ordeal. Buti also made a new friend. Here I got. I got Ophelia here she’s uh she’s, a great helper for me.
Buth yeah uh, now that I have my operation running again, I’m goon an be posting a lot more videos, south stay tuned, hey good morning, you’re, a silly girl, you’re, a good girl.
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