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chemrox - 13-12-2015 at 16:11

A few days ago someone recommended a specific youtube author for chemistry. I UTFSE no joy. I'll start searching online. But there are so many and most of them irrelevant or wrong. If you recall please post.

Detonationology - 14-12-2015 at 12:00

Here's a few general science related ones I know of off the bat...

Doug's Lab
Nile Red
NurdRage
UC235
Chem Player
Thoisoi2
Cody's Lab
Applied Science
Bunsen Burns
clkindred
Extractions&Ire
Gooferking Science
kic009
myst32YT (inactive)
The Chemistry Shack

The Volatile Chemist - 14-12-2015 at 15:55

You listed Extractions and Ire w/o listing Explosions and Fire? Aww, that's the fun one...
Also MrHomeScientist. The SM user's active, his channel is not.
At one time I had a single video on youtube about making barium sulfate, done when I was 13. Somebody put my channel on the SM wiki. Deleted both a little while ago...

chemrox - 14-12-2015 at 23:05

Thank you both! I think was trying to recover "chem player.." he did a few good ones. A lot of the youtube authors go on and on about nothing related to the topic and rattle on about nothing while doing a half hour distillation. Chem Player has stayed on point and fast forwarded through slow additions in the ones I played by him. Thanks again. I will definitely check these out.

ave369 - 15-12-2015 at 01:37

If you speak Russian, check out Slava Voron's videos. Some of them are pretty good.

Detonationology - 15-12-2015 at 05:20

Quote: Originally posted by ave369

If you speak Russian, check out Slava Voron's videos. Some of them are pretty good.

I believe that Thoisoi's main channel is also in Russian.

reactofurnace - 15-12-2015 at 06:01

science vlog

JJay - 15-12-2015 at 06:17

Chem Player does do some neat stuff, but I thought his latest video on raspberries left much to be desired.

I'm thinking about putting together some demonstrations for YouTube. Looks like a fun way to make a few bucks....

Tdep - 15-12-2015 at 07:32

Hey i'm all for chemistry on youtube, the more the better, but if youre posting chemistry videos on youtube with the intention of making money you are going to have a bad time. Do it for the fun of course, but remember the easiest way to have money is just not to spend it on chemistry at all (but what good is money anyway).

Oh and Chemplayer is fantastic. I dont think ive ever sat through 10 minutes of all the cooking shows blasted at me on prime time TV but i damn well sat there and watched chemplayer bake a cake, I think that says something

ave369 - 15-12-2015 at 07:43

Quote: Originally posted by Detonationology

Quote: Originally posted by ave369

If you speak Russian, check out Slava Voron's videos. Some of them are pretty good.

I believe that Thoisoi's main channel is also in Russian.

Thoisoi, IIRC, is a Russo-Estonian.

chemrox - 15-12-2015 at 18:15

Estonia supplies hard to get chemicals too. Unfortunately they don't show up on alibaba or lookchem very often and China listed some 170 to now be illegal. But a lot of the Chicom suppliers ignore the laws anyway.

woelen - 15-12-2015 at 23:36

On eBay indeed interesting chemicals are offered by an estonian seller. The prices, however, are very high. Many of these chemicals can be obtained from other sellers at less than half of the price.

The Volatile Chemist - 16-12-2015 at 18:08

Isn't the purpose of chem-player toward the eventual production of those chemicals illicit and clandestine? For that purpose only I find it rather disturbing. Else-wise, it's a great channel (how he got citrazinic acid to work, though, I have no clue. I followed his directions...

JJay - 16-12-2015 at 22:48

I've watched quite a few Chem Player videos, and it looks like only about a third of them involve some kind of illegal intent. But then again, it depends on local laws wherever Chem Player is located, and it's conceivable that he's not actually breaking the law and is instead simply making controversial videos.

TDC, on the other hand, is clearly breaking the law.

[Edited on 17-12-2015 by JJay]

NeonPulse - 18-12-2015 at 16:19

That video by TDC showing how to make methamphetamine... he is really asking for his door to be kicked in and be locked away. Im sure he is australian and down there there is supposedly a serious problem with meth at the moment. I dont know what he is thinking.

JJay - 19-12-2015 at 02:59

Quote: Originally posted by NeonPulse

That video by TDC showing how to make methamphetamine... he is really asking for his door to be kicked in and be locked away. Im sure he is australian and down there there is supposedly a serious problem with meth at the moment. I dont know what he is thinking.

He didn't distill the freebase or even wash it, so his yields were lousy and the product probably contains detectable amounts of mercury.

ave369 - 19-12-2015 at 07:18

Slava Voron, whom I already mentioned, once did a practical joke. "Vint" is russian for "bad meth", meth of low quality that was cooked in makeshift labs by the druggies themselves. In Soviet times, vint was the only type of meth available: the government destroyed any lab larger than a kitchen. However, literally vint means screw. He made a video that was called "How to cook vint." And in it, he boiled a steel screw (a bolt, actually) in water.

[Edited on 19-12-2015 by ave369]

cyanureeves - 19-12-2015 at 07:22

yeah i saw that and was really shocked by the whole thing only because people inject this stuff.it wont stop an addict from using meth just like it didnt stop one heroin user injecting his own shit after ingesting his stash.

[Edited on 12-19-2015 by cyanureeves]

cyanureeves - 19-12-2015 at 07:38

so when meth users extract ephedrine from cold pills when cooking some type of meth, which process is in the video is curtailed?i picked up a chlorine generator bottle i found on the side of the road once. i took the bottle home and left it in my tool box because i didnt know what it was and ruined all my tools.because there are so many country roads here and more scattered population ,cooks dry their meth in their car's engine compartment while driving.ammonia smell is their biggest give away and roads are littered with red stained filter paper and also empty ultra bright tooth paste tubes too.ultra bright toothpaste??i was doing county highway mowing years ago by the way.

[Edited on 12-19-2015 by cyanureeves]

JJay - 19-12-2015 at 18:07

Quote: Originally posted by ave369

Slava Voron, whom I already mentioned, once did a practical joke. "Vint" is russian for "bad meth", meth of low quality that was cooked in makeshift labs by the druggies themselves. In Soviet times, vint was the only type of meth available: the government destroyed any lab larger than a kitchen. However, literally vint means screw. He made a video that was called "How to cook vint." And in it, he boiled a steel screw (a bolt, actually) in water.

[Edited on 19-12-2015 by ave369]

Oh, in the U.S. it is called crank

JJay - 19-12-2015 at 18:19

Quote: Originally posted by cyanureeves

so when meth users extract ephedrine from cold pills when cooking some type of meth, which process is in the video is curtailed?i picked up a chlorine generator bottle i found on the side of the road once. i took the bottle home and left it in my tool box because i didnt know what it was and ruined all my tools.because there are so many country roads here and more scattered population ,cooks dry their meth in their car's engine compartment while driving.ammonia smell is their biggest give away and roads are littered with red stained filter paper and also empty ultra bright tooth paste tubes too.ultra bright toothpaste??i was doing county highway mowing years ago by the way.

[Edited on 12-19-2015 by cyanureeves]

I dunno - I have heard a lot of bad things about it, but I don't know any meth users or anyone who has lost family members to it. But it annoys me that as a law-abiding citizen, I can't have iodine or red phosphorus.

Praxichys - 21-12-2015 at 05:43

Quote: Originally posted by JJay

But it annoys me that as a law-abiding citizen, I can't have iodine or red phosphorus.

If you live in the USA, you can legally purchase and own both. You just can't sell them without keeping strict records if the transaction is greater than 400g for iodine or in any amount for phosphorus.

If the cops are crazy or you start acting like a shady idiot around them, you could be charged with "intent to manufacture" if you had 3 or more of the required chemicals in one spot, but as long as you keep good lab notes, nobody can prove intent in court.

http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/fed_regs/rules/2000/fr0802...
http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/fed_regs/rules/2003/fr0624...

There are "listed chemicals" and "scheduled drugs". People get them confused. Pretty much all scheduled drugs are illegal to posses without a prescription. All of the listed chemicals are legal to own, but are subject to transaction recordkeeping to varying degrees based on quantity.

Schedule 1 ≠ List 1

JJay - 21-12-2015 at 06:00

Quote: Originally posted by Praxichys

Quote: Originally posted by JJay

But it annoys me that as a law-abiding citizen, I can't have iodine or red phosphorus.

Those rules have been updated; iodine and red phosphorus are as illegal to own as ergotamine tartrate.

Praxichys - 21-12-2015 at 12:14

It would be great if you could give a source for that info, considering I have lots of both.

EDIT: I2 and P, that is. Not the ergotamine.

[Edited on 21-12-2015 by Praxichys]

User123 - 21-12-2015 at 12:27

Those are some useful videos. Thanks for the recommendations, and to the people who made them. I've downloaded a fair few of them and shall be copying some preparations to increase my reagent arsenal! I didn't expect to see a ketene lamp on there. Nice work, Sir!
I bought a ketene lamp earlier in the year but have yet to set it up. I intend to use it pretty regularly once I do to prepare acid anhydrides, according to an OrgSyn paper I have. I kind of wish I'd have made one now, though -- I paid a lot for it! I'll tell myself that it was an investment.

[Edited on 21-12-2015 by User123]

JJay - 22-12-2015 at 09:40

Quote: Originally posted by Praxichys

It would be great if you could give a source for that info, considering I have lots of both.

EDIT: I2 and P, that is. Not the ergotamine.

[Edited on 21-12-2015 by Praxichys]

It does depend on when you obtained them... a high school that has stocks of red phosphorus and iodine from the 1970s obviously doesn't have to worry about the DEA sending in a SWAT team to incapacitate the teacher and arrest the entire chemistry class. So not all red phosophorus and iodine is illegal (for that matter, not all ergotamine tartrate is illegal either, but very few people have old stocks of it). There are lots of crazy, notorious chemists on YouTube working with both, though, and the DEA doesn't really care - it also doesn't really care about the people who are selling it within the U.S. out in plain sight on the Internet (because the bans on red phosphorus and iodine are stupid), but it can arrest those people at any time.

Praxichys - 22-12-2015 at 09:57

Quote: Originally posted by User123

Those are some useful videos. [...] I didn't expect to see a ketene lamp on there. Nice work, Sir!

Thank you!

Quote: Originally posted by JJay

There are lots of crazy, notorious chemists on YouTube

The Volatile Chemist - 30-12-2015 at 14:46

Indeed, Praxichys and Explosions&Fire are some of the best channels on youtube. MrHomeScientist used to be, but doesn't use it much any more.

Texium

Texium - 18-7-2016 at 11:28

I give you my new YouTube channel, Texium! I uploaded my first public video demonstrating the synthesis of phosphorus tribromide just a few minutes ago. I know it leaves a lot to be desired in the editing and voiceover departments, but I think it turned out alright.

j_sum1 - 18-7-2016 at 14:44

Quote: Originally posted by zts16

I give you my new YouTube channel, Texium! I uploaded my first public video demonstrating the synthesis of phosphorus tribromide just a few minutes ago. I know it leaves a lot to be desired in the editing and voiceover departments, but I think it turned out alright.

Subscribed.
I'll watch the video later.
Congratulations on what I hope is the first of many great vids.

chemplayer... - 19-7-2016 at 06:53

Congratulations. Any comments we will post into the video comments, but it's a great job!

MrHomeScientist - 19-7-2016 at 09:50

Quote: Originally posted by The Volatile Chemist

Also MrHomeScientist. The SM user's active, his channel is not.

Quote: Originally posted by The Volatile Chemist

Indeed, Praxichys and Explosions&Fire are some of the best channels on youtube. MrHomeScientist used to be, but doesn't use it much any more.

Hey now, calm down over there. Just because I don't post videos every other day doesn't mean I'm inactive. I just posted one on July 4th, and another 2 days ago!
I post things when I can, and greatly prefer quality over quantity. I have no plans whatsoever to stop making videos.

Edit: Just noticed TVC's comments were posted 7 months ago... Whoops

Well I'm still around!

[Edited on 7-19-2016 by MrHomeScientist]

Texium - 20-7-2016 at 07:08

My second video is out now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOo1XMesdS0
I begin to work on purifying some impure lanthanum oxide. I don't get very far, but it will be continued in another video one day.

j_sum1 - 20-7-2016 at 14:40

Fantastic. Another one to watch.
Lanthanum was the tipping point for me signing up here. I still have a bottle of OTC LaCl3 solution that I have not crystallised yet. That might have to get bumped up the list of priorities.

chemplayer... - 20-7-2016 at 17:15

Great work again.

One technical cinematographic comment - in a couple of places you bring something closer to the camera in order to show it in more detail (the funnel, the lanthanide carbonate at the end). What happens though is that the object gets out of focus. It would be really nice to see that final dry powder clearly!

Borrowing a bit of photographic technique, you've got two filming options here that you could try out:

1. Move the camera down so it's not looking 'down' so much, and the lens pointing more horizontally towards the dish. Then when you lift the spatula out of the dish with the powder, relatively speaking it will be about the same distance from the lens - and still in focus.
2. Use a higher f/ number aperture setting on the camera which will result in a larger depth of field and hence objects over a range of distances from the lens all being in focus. You'll need strong lighting to do this though.

Very happy that more channels are popping up!

The Volatile Chemist - 22-7-2016 at 12:16

Nice video zts16!

Yes, nice to see you active again, The Home Scientist. I'm not much of an element collector, so I guess I'm not as interested in your more specific content nowadays, but that's just my personal opinion, and the videos you make are most certainly quality.

Mabus - 31-7-2016 at 04:50

While not amateur chemistry, the Primitive technology channel has some pretty cool stuff on it.
I particularly like the way he made charcoal and a forge blower with practically nothing but stuff you find in the forest.
He even made some slag from clay in the latter.

Fidelmios - 22-11-2016 at 23:01

Hey all,

I come and go from here all the time, but am currently starting up my own chemistry channel. I've only been doing this around 6 months, and am still working on the fundamentals. Regardless, this is my channel's video list https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPAOgLEIfE7xqBhiwkr85bA/vid...

I'de love any feedback, or if you just wanna tell me I'm an idiot I love to hear back from people!

aga - 23-11-2016 at 13:45

Watched the one about re-gassing flat fizzy drinks earlier today.

The starting sequence was mildly amusing despite being unrelated to anything at all, and legally belonging to it's producers.

Most people would have stopped watching much earlier.

After that there was some gibber-jabber about the 'producers' not allowing something, at which point i wondered why i was wasting my time, so stopped.

Plus points: your voice sounds good and the video quality is ok.

I'll watch another random selection and let you know.

Edit :

Just watched the "Make Beautiful Purple Crystals at Home!" video and kind of the same story: too much time spent in self-indulgent, over-long scenes.

To Improve the videos (i only watched two) you need to focus more on what the Watcher wants to See rather than what you want to Show.

Utoob videos are basically a Show.

Either you deliver what people want to See or the video is completely ignored.

Attention spans are Very short these days, so you simply must keep it brief and to the point, or the audience quickly gets bored and navigates away.

The Bottom Line is that utoob videos are only about You if you make them appealing to Them (i.e. the audience)

[Edited on 23-11-2016 by aga]

Fidelmios - 23-11-2016 at 16:33

Thanks aga,

I am still trying to get a feel for how I want to shape my channel, and what direction I want to take it. I bought a tripod, and have been reshooting experiments just to give it a more professional feel. However, that is neither here, nor there, the feedback you've given is invaluable, and I thank you for it. It is my hope that later on down the road I will be able to make something that is educational, and entertaining.

EDIT:
Aga, if I could press you to viewthis one video that I feel embodies my channel the best. Like most of my other content it is very easy to grasp in terms of the science behind it, but this is where I think I would like to take my channel, in terms of content/structure.

[Edited on 24-11-2016 by Fidelmios]

aga - 24-11-2016 at 00:50

OK. Watched it. Certainly an improvement.

Audio/Video quality is good and clear.

It appears to just need a bit of planning & preparation to push it up quite a few notches.

Great Videos are fundamentally interesting stories told well.

Start by writing down what you're presenting, and then
sketch out the scenes you will film to get the 'flow' into some kind of order. Chances are that you'll switch things around in this process.

Introduction -> Action -> Finale is the way of all good stories.

As it is Chemistry, reaction formulae would be good in your intro !

Write yourself a script for each scene to help focus on relevant information/humour and also control the Time each scene will occupy.

A cluttered 'stage' draws the eye away from the 'main characters' so having some kind of clear stage would help.

E.g. Nile Red tends to have a black cloth background which also helps stamp his 'brand' on his videos.

Having pontificated all that, please be aware that i am in no way a professional film maker, cameraman, actor, set designer, script writer nor utoob genius !

Congratulations on making so many videos already !

Clearly it has been a lot of time and effort to get them made/posted.

Fidelmios - 24-11-2016 at 09:07

Thank you aga,

To be honest I was a tad worried posting here because I feel that my videos are low quality and the content is lacking in more of a difficulty scale. I felt that I would be shot down for having a juvenile content, however I do feel like this video is the general format for how I want to do the future ones. Thanks again for the help, and I hope you will be able to see an improvement of quality in my work.

aga - 24-11-2016 at 09:51

Your videos are not Bad per-se, just that i feel that there are some improvements you could easily make that would to raise the overall quality.

On this forum, people who put in the Effort (as you have done) tend not to get shot down in flames for their Work, no matter the outcome.

Please post a link here to the next video when you're ready, also some details about how you prepared the 'movie' behind the scenes.

Critique-mode can be turned off simply saying 'I've had enough ! Please stop critqueing now.'

Fidelmios - 24-11-2016 at 14:02

Aga, and others who want to see this, I always enjoy critique and am open to all comments. Thanks again guys!

aga - 24-11-2016 at 14:40

aga is the username/sig : lower case.

it's an exception to the rule if you have to start a sentence with it.

always just aga, never Aga, AGA, aGa, AgA etc.

Fidelmios - 24-11-2016 at 14:43

Gotcha aAgAa