hey guys I’m Nate welcome back to the
workshop in the past we’ve done a couple
experiments with acetone and dry ice to
make a supercooled liquid that you could
freeze things in the acetone has a
freezing point below the temperature of
dry ice and so it stays liquid but today
we’re gonna see what happens to put
acetone in something much colder liquid
nitrogen we’ll see if our acetone will
freeze solid in liquid nitrogen and if
it does freeze we’ll see if it will
still ignite when we hit it with a flame
to make this a little bit easier let’s
pour some of our acetone from our big
can into this squeeze bottle that’ll
make it easier to get the acetone where
we want it to go and perhaps drip it
directly into our liquid nitrogen
there’s our thermos full of liquid
nitrogen so as a first test what I want
to do is fill one of these balloons just
a little bit just so the main pouch of
the balloon is nice and full of liquid
and then I’ll dip that down into the
liquid nitrogen we’ll see how that goes
yes I’m also not 100% sure what the
acetone is going to do to the latex of
the balloon so that’s another experiment
right now all right
balloon full of acetone lowering into
liquid nitrogen
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the liquid nitrogen is getting really
excited and splashing up a lot and I
don’t really want it to be splashing on
my fingers the whole time or else start
getting frostbite just holding it it’s
getting really cold cool
just from the vapors fingers were too
cold it’s already rigid still got liquid
at the top so I don’t think we’re
finished freezing we’ve already made
some good progress and you can still see
at the very top a little bit of liquid I
think we’re seeing liquid assets home
inside the solid acetone hard to tell
hard to know if the acetone is frozen or
just the balloon is frozen while that’s
freezing a lower and empty balloon down
into the liquid nitrogen as much as I
can and we’ll see what happens when the
latex freezes – all right so this is a
balloon I just managed to crack it there
we go now I shattered it so that’s why
I’m not sure we have frozen acetone or
just the frozen balloon around liquid
acetone now it’s back to just being
rubber stretchy as always
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I think I still here liquid shaking
around in there but I do think that we
have some solid acetone as well so I
think we’ve got a shell of solid acetone
surrounding some liquid acetone at this
point I just got to get it to the point
where it’s solid all the way through
that’s the goal all right our acetone
inna balloon has been in the liquid
nitrogen for several minutes now so I
want to take it out and try and break
the balloon off of it now the balloon
itself is going to be very brittle right
now I’m gonna try and cut it we’ll see
what works generally we just want to get
the balloon off of the acetone however
we can mmm that shattered well we can
see inside the balloon that we
definitely have solid acetone and
balloon has begun to crack yeah maybe I
can peel it off
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there we go
whoo chunk of solid a stone let’s see if
this would night pour out the extra the
acetone around it will ignite I don’t
know if our little lump of frozen
acetone has actually lit I’m just gonna
pour this out ooh we can also see that
our chunk was not solid all the way
through they had a little hollow spot in
the middle where it was still liquid I
think well that was interesting it
looked like the frozen acetone itself
didn’t like to stay ignited it melted
fairly quickly and all of the melted
acetone seemed like it would burn fairly
easily but the ball of frozen acetone
itself really didn’t seem to do too much
let’s try again
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I’m just dripping acetone everywhere
that’s not a good seal at all all right
a balloon is attached let’s see if it
can hold pressure yes can hold pressure
so now I should be able to fill with
acetone without it leaking everywhere in
case this over the pot
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I think that’s pretty good
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rubberband is actually holding that
pretty well now this time we’re using a
larger quantity of acetone and I really
want to make sure that it freezes as
much as possible so to help me hold it
into the acetone bath I’m gonna tie this
string around the neck and then we’ll
have this string coming up out of the
nozzle in our thermos just like that
alright let’s slowly lower wow that
starts doing exciting things right away
let’s slowly lower the balloon into the
liquid nitrogen we go now our balloons
attached on a string although it might
just be floating I’m not sure about the
difference in density of liquid nitrogen
and acetone there’s very cold vapor on
my hands alright let’s set that aside
for maybe five or ten minutes and really
let that acetone freeze
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while our balloon full of acetone is
cooling down in the liquid nitrogen I
have another experiment I want to try I
have some of our acetone still left in
this squeeze bottle and I’m going to see
what happens if we add food coloring to
it I don’t know if these two will mix or
if will just sort of stay separate let’s
find out
it looks like it’s mixing a little bit
it’s not like what happens if you put
food coloring into oil that’s I think
that’s made some green acetone it does
look like there are little tiny flecks
floating around in it now and I’m not
sure if that’s something that happened
with the separation of the dye or if
there are some other contaminants inside
this bottle and those picked up even
more of it but for the most part this
looks like green acetone to me so here
we now have a Styrofoam plate covered in
liquid nitrogen let’s see what happens
if we drip some of our bright green
colored acetone down onto it it went
right down through the liquid nitrogen
onto the plate it might be cooling down
so fast that it stops eating through
let’s try and get a smaller amount out
one drink that’s all
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our balloon filled with acetone has now
been sitting in our liquid nitrogen bath
for five to ten minutes and I’m hoping
that it’s solidified most of the way
through let’s take it out and see how
it’s looking well that’s something
definitely deformed a little bit it’s
not quite the same round shape that it
was before I want to try taking the
balloon off then same thing let’s see if
we can get our little ball of acetone to
light I also might take it and after
it’s got the balloon off and put it back
into the liquid nitrogen for a couple
minutes Oh something just cracked oh
that was the balloon I think it just
shattered off how neat I might still
have some liquid there we go here is our
frozen acetone balloon which is quickly
dripping off liquid and probably just
melting so I’m going to throw it back in
the liquid nitrogen thinking the time
that it took to move it from the pot
into the liquid nitrogen
I had melted the shape of the tongs into
the sides of it
stuff heats up quickly
now we want to pull our frozen acetone
ball out of the liquid nitrogen put it
in the pot and try and light it on fire
but so it doesn’t have time to warm up
as much let’s do all of that outside
with blowtorch sitting ready Oh
our acetone has split apart well now we
have several different pieces that we
can try this with nothing
stop coming right toward me all the time
put this out with some nature infuse yep
all right let’s see the piece we do here
at this time let’s see the metal of the
tongs is just melting right down through
it
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it’s just making my hand cold I have to
say I’m a little disappointed that we
can’t light this on fire well there you
have it the results of freezing acetone
in liquid nitrogen
it definitely freezes it turns into a
hard solid material I was a little
disappointed that we couldn’t get it to
light on fire while it was still in its
frozen State he did melt very quickly
and the melted acid home was very easy
to light on fire of course but frozen
acetone sadly does not seem to burn
acetone may not burn very well while
it’s in its frozen state but it’s still
pretty useful stuff including if you
want to make your own supercooled liquid
but don’t have access to liquid nitrogen
remember if you have a bath of acetone
with a lot of dry ice in it you can get
it down to over a hundred degrees
Fahrenheit below zero that’s cold enough
to freeze a lot of stuff thank you for
joining us for this video as part of our
never-ending quest to dunk every known
substance in the liquid nitrogen
remember to come gear yourself up with
products and merch at the king of random
calm
see you there now one more thing that I
am going to try even though it’s maybe
not the wisest acetone has a fairly low
burn point so I’ve got some insulated
gloves on and I’m just gonna see if I
can light my hands on fire with it just
a little bit there we go
that was fun smart maybe not fun no of
course not never try that it’s not fun
at all hey guys thanks so much for
caring about our content our channel so
much it really is amazing have great
people like you jumping in to watch
every new video that gets uploaded and
watching it to the end you really are
amazing we appreciate that
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workshop in the past we’ve done a couple
experiments with acetone and dry ice to
make a supercooled liquid that you could
freeze things in the acetone has a
freezing point below the temperature of
dry ice and so it stays liquid but today
we’re gonna see what happens to put
acetone in something much colder liquid
nitrogen we’ll see if our acetone will
freeze solid in liquid nitrogen and if
it does freeze we’ll see if it will
still ignite when we hit it with a flame
to make this a little bit easier let’s
pour some of our acetone from our big
can into this squeeze bottle that’ll
make it easier to get the acetone where
we want it to go and perhaps drip it
directly into our liquid nitrogen
there’s our thermos full of liquid
nitrogen so as a first test what I want
to do is fill one of these balloons just
a little bit just so the main pouch of
the balloon is nice and full of liquid
and then I’ll dip that down into the
liquid nitrogen we’ll see how that goes
yes I’m also not 100% sure what the
acetone is going to do to the latex of
the balloon so that’s another experiment
right now all right
balloon full of acetone lowering into
liquid nitrogen
[Music]
the liquid nitrogen is getting really
excited and splashing up a lot and I
don’t really want it to be splashing on
my fingers the whole time or else start
getting frostbite just holding it it’s
getting really cold cool
just from the vapors fingers were too
cold it’s already rigid still got liquid
at the top so I don’t think we’re
finished freezing we’ve already made
some good progress and you can still see
at the very top a little bit of liquid I
think we’re seeing liquid assets home
inside the solid acetone hard to tell
hard to know if the acetone is frozen or
just the balloon is frozen while that’s
freezing a lower and empty balloon down
into the liquid nitrogen as much as I
can and we’ll see what happens when the
latex freezes – all right so this is a
balloon I just managed to crack it there
we go now I shattered it so that’s why
I’m not sure we have frozen acetone or
just the frozen balloon around liquid
acetone now it’s back to just being
rubber stretchy as always
[Music]
I think I still here liquid shaking
around in there but I do think that we
have some solid acetone as well so I
think we’ve got a shell of solid acetone
surrounding some liquid acetone at this
point I just got to get it to the point
where it’s solid all the way through
that’s the goal all right our acetone
inna balloon has been in the liquid
nitrogen for several minutes now so I
want to take it out and try and break
the balloon off of it now the balloon
itself is going to be very brittle right
now I’m gonna try and cut it we’ll see
what works generally we just want to get
the balloon off of the acetone however
we can mmm that shattered well we can
see inside the balloon that we
definitely have solid acetone and
balloon has begun to crack yeah maybe I
can peel it off
[Music]
there we go
whoo chunk of solid a stone let’s see if
this would night pour out the extra the
acetone around it will ignite I don’t
know if our little lump of frozen
acetone has actually lit I’m just gonna
pour this out ooh we can also see that
our chunk was not solid all the way
through they had a little hollow spot in
the middle where it was still liquid I
think well that was interesting it
looked like the frozen acetone itself
didn’t like to stay ignited it melted
fairly quickly and all of the melted
acetone seemed like it would burn fairly
easily but the ball of frozen acetone
itself really didn’t seem to do too much
let’s try again
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I’m just dripping acetone everywhere
that’s not a good seal at all all right
a balloon is attached let’s see if it
can hold pressure yes can hold pressure
so now I should be able to fill with
acetone without it leaking everywhere in
case this over the pot
[Music]
I think that’s pretty good
[Music]
rubberband is actually holding that
pretty well now this time we’re using a
larger quantity of acetone and I really
want to make sure that it freezes as
much as possible so to help me hold it
into the acetone bath I’m gonna tie this
string around the neck and then we’ll
have this string coming up out of the
nozzle in our thermos just like that
alright let’s slowly lower wow that
starts doing exciting things right away
let’s slowly lower the balloon into the
liquid nitrogen we go now our balloons
attached on a string although it might
just be floating I’m not sure about the
difference in density of liquid nitrogen
and acetone there’s very cold vapor on
my hands alright let’s set that aside
for maybe five or ten minutes and really
let that acetone freeze
[Music]
while our balloon full of acetone is
cooling down in the liquid nitrogen I
have another experiment I want to try I
have some of our acetone still left in
this squeeze bottle and I’m going to see
what happens if we add food coloring to
it I don’t know if these two will mix or
if will just sort of stay separate let’s
find out
it looks like it’s mixing a little bit
it’s not like what happens if you put
food coloring into oil that’s I think
that’s made some green acetone it does
look like there are little tiny flecks
floating around in it now and I’m not
sure if that’s something that happened
with the separation of the dye or if
there are some other contaminants inside
this bottle and those picked up even
more of it but for the most part this
looks like green acetone to me so here
we now have a Styrofoam plate covered in
liquid nitrogen let’s see what happens
if we drip some of our bright green
colored acetone down onto it it went
right down through the liquid nitrogen
onto the plate it might be cooling down
so fast that it stops eating through
let’s try and get a smaller amount out
one drink that’s all
[Music]
our balloon filled with acetone has now
been sitting in our liquid nitrogen bath
for five to ten minutes and I’m hoping
that it’s solidified most of the way
through let’s take it out and see how
it’s looking well that’s something
definitely deformed a little bit it’s
not quite the same round shape that it
was before I want to try taking the
balloon off then same thing let’s see if
we can get our little ball of acetone to
light I also might take it and after
it’s got the balloon off and put it back
into the liquid nitrogen for a couple
minutes Oh something just cracked oh
that was the balloon I think it just
shattered off how neat I might still
have some liquid there we go here is our
frozen acetone balloon which is quickly
dripping off liquid and probably just
melting so I’m going to throw it back in
the liquid nitrogen thinking the time
that it took to move it from the pot
into the liquid nitrogen
I had melted the shape of the tongs into
the sides of it
stuff heats up quickly
now we want to pull our frozen acetone
ball out of the liquid nitrogen put it
in the pot and try and light it on fire
but so it doesn’t have time to warm up
as much let’s do all of that outside
with blowtorch sitting ready Oh
our acetone has split apart well now we
have several different pieces that we
can try this with nothing
stop coming right toward me all the time
put this out with some nature infuse yep
all right let’s see the piece we do here
at this time let’s see the metal of the
tongs is just melting right down through
it
[Music]
it’s just making my hand cold I have to
say I’m a little disappointed that we
can’t light this on fire well there you
have it the results of freezing acetone
in liquid nitrogen
it definitely freezes it turns into a
hard solid material I was a little
disappointed that we couldn’t get it to
light on fire while it was still in its
frozen State he did melt very quickly
and the melted acid home was very easy
to light on fire of course but frozen
acetone sadly does not seem to burn
acetone may not burn very well while
it’s in its frozen state but it’s still
pretty useful stuff including if you
want to make your own supercooled liquid
but don’t have access to liquid nitrogen
remember if you have a bath of acetone
with a lot of dry ice in it you can get
it down to over a hundred degrees
Fahrenheit below zero that’s cold enough
to freeze a lot of stuff thank you for
joining us for this video as part of our
never-ending quest to dunk every known
substance in the liquid nitrogen
remember to come gear yourself up with
products and merch at the king of random
calm
see you there now one more thing that I
am going to try even though it’s maybe
not the wisest acetone has a fairly low
burn point so I’ve got some insulated
gloves on and I’m just gonna see if I
can light my hands on fire with it just
a little bit there we go
that was fun smart maybe not fun no of
course not never try that it’s not fun
at all hey guys thanks so much for
caring about our content our channel so
much it really is amazing have great
people like you jumping in to watch
every new video that gets uploaded and
watching it to the end you really are
amazing we appreciate that
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