It actually looks like a small flower vase. Hey, guys? how are you? Welcome back, in this video from today …
we’re going to turn sand into glass. I jumped down in the comments, and I found this one of JC112 …
which was already pleading that we would make glass from sand
Today we will try to make it happen for you. Now for this to happen today …
I had to bring my friend Cody Cody’s lab. You know him. Alright everyone.
We also have Andy on a channel called How to Make …
Everything you know him as the man who took six months to make a chicken sandwich.
He did everything from scratch, including the cultivation of grain and spawn the chicken. On my channel I explore …
What if you could not go to a store and buy things needed to make the natural resources?
Sweet so I’m looking for this. It’s a bit like I do not know what you call that, like Power Rangers? *laughter*
We just like to join all forces together to see that we accomplished a great …
task. Because it is not very easy to turn …
sand in the glass. Is the? Certainly not clear glass. This is actually my fourth attempt at. I tried different things …
Use a different flux potash of hardwood axis. This is my first attempt with sodium carbonate and …
hopefully we have some better results. So for this video we all put to the test …
we go to commodities that use Andy came. We go the materials used sophisticated cody.
We’re going to put them all together and see if we today can actually make clear glass with our backyard trash …
foundry. Let’s dive right in. Okay, so I got ingredients from four different states actually I have I collected sand in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Subsequently, collected in Wyoming I sodium carbonate and sodium sulphate from a lake there. Arizona…
I collected plaster of an old mine. In Utah Cody helped me find some calcite. So my role …
here is actually the chemistry man. I helped Andy purify sodium carbonate I …
helped him clean the sand a bit and also from the …
nitric we converted by conversion into a calcium nitrate with …
more calcite. Oh, and if we do not have enough, we might have to cheat a little. *laughter*
So the time has come guys we’re going to take all these ingredients …
and we all go through it together and here’s how we do it.
We’re going to take this sand which had been mainly iron’s crop …
we’re going to mix it with some of these sodium …
carbonate and add a little calcium nitrate and a little plaster.
We’re going to crush it all into a very fine powder.
Combine the mixture together throw into the melting pot and let the whole thing nuke for about 6 to 12 hours in our waste …
can foundry. This is the type of glass that nature makes this obsidian that comes from a volcano …
And you can see that this is not totally transparent. Clear glass is a very cool thing and we’re going to replicate it here today.
So I think I’m mixing the other materials.
Here the sand I guess we’ll just have to mix them together.
Child guess the proportions. I’m going to try to shoot for about 30 percent of the weight …
sodium carbonate.
What I will crush to a fine powder here.
Hulk battle! Hulk battle!
Who needs a mortar and pestle?
It’s actually crush pretty good. I mean, my knuckles start to hurt and bleed a little but …
I think it’s worth it. *laughter*
This is the industrial revolution baby, two fists twice as fast synergy.
Okay, so I mixed together the ingredients now.
Since the sand is still a bit wet, the weight will not be correct. So it really does not want to weigh it.
I’m just kind of mixing an equal volume of sand and sodium carbonate. Like a one-to-one ratio? Good…
This is much less dense than this, and we have only about twenty to thirty percent sodium carbonate, so …
I could use all of this
The more of this we use the lower the melting temperature. So the easier ..
it will be to melt it. See this is the kind of cooking I enjoy when we’re cooking with recipes from Cody’s Lab.
Okay, so a bit of plaster will release some gases towards the end and that will …
Help positive ..
with the other gases that are released. So just to make it clear that is what we have crushed the crystal earlier.
Exactly. So a solid, powder form.
It’s a great difference. Yes. This is the last ingredient, but a little bit of calcium nitrate.
This is a…
oxidizer that will help burn off impurities and hopefully the sand will turn a sort of beige color …
in pure white and then it will melt to clear. Let’s just sprinkle a little of that.
Does not really matter if I add too much, because it will burn.
let’s mix together
Oh! Actually, there is another ingredient that we miss the lime.
So here is the lime.
This is actually hydrated lime or calcium hydroxide this is what happens when you add calcium oxide to water and this will be our …
lime part of the soda.
Now we’re probably not going to add much, because it will increase the melting point, so it will increase the …
chemical resistance of the glass.
Making it insoluble in water
So yes, we add just a few percent.
It will not be the best …
drinking glass, but it will probably work for …
It will look so, pretty good for a window or whatever.
Alright that’s it.
Still a little wet, but I think that will work.
We have our powdered ready to go, our melting pot is still quite warm, we dismissed it earlier …
it’s ready to go. So let the foundry mix all together fire and get ready to rock. Yes!
That sand now seems much more white you mix everything. Yes.
So now Andy because this is your fourth attempt. Why do not you tell us what is going to happen here today?
I’m still pretty skeptical it has kind of changed our ‘White Whale’ of actually making clear glass.
I think we are pretty close.
I’m pretty sure it’s Cody ability to refine things actually.
But I expect that it is not perfect probably be a little few bubbles.
But I think we can get pretty close. That is of course assuming that the foundry is hot enough to actually do get work.
So we put it to the test.
We’re going to throw in everything, fire this thing put the cap on and …
basically just leave it on high heat for about 6 to 12 hours.
Alright. Put that in there. Just as a little bit of insurance …
I’m going to go to a second batch of glass, have a slightly different composition. You have another furnace here.
And if this does not work well, we’ll do something else …
I think that is a bit more likely to turn off those beautiful clear glass. Oh, so it is the competition of the equipment?
*laughter*
So, for the second part I have some sand that is probably gotten a little more pure …
and I’m going to mix it with, rather than a soda lime …
I’m going to use soda lid, so this is a mix here of lead oxide PbO and so …
sodium carbonate. This is actually very difficult, because this is more than half a cap here.
So I’m just going to mix it in with the sand.
And this would theoretically crystal glass
This should melt at a lower temperature, so I think we might have a bit more luck with it.
Here we go. Let’s make this the other furnace. Got the melting pot here …
heating in the oven.
Just to pull this off and add our material
Hopefully flux below make something that looks like clear glass. I only have this kind of wide.
When it is up to 2,000 degrees Celsius.
It should melt.
Okay.
OK. We are waiting. Hopefully we get something good.
Okay boys, our foundry is the moment of truth has been running for six and a half hours.
So this has been completely melted. We stopped there a few times …
released the lid and tap the crucible to a few times the bubbles rise to the top theoretical.
We’re not quite sure how clear the glass yet. But we have some tools …
we will use to pull it out and see if we can blow mold it and maybe …
a small makeshift window. Let’s see what we have.
WOOAAAH !!
My God, that’s hot, hot stuff.
Oh that’s cool. Just like that? It is drippy, wet drippy
Oh wow, is that metal?
Cody: Yes it is.
Oh that’s cool. Is it to stick to the steel? No?
Cody: I dunno.
Okay, so we made the transfer. We got the glass in a small bin. Let’s talk about what just happened.
We got two pieces of glass in our container at the moment. One is from the trash casting …
We had a little trouble with it because when I was in the heat touched the side of the crucible …
It was sticky and then it works around the fixed actually got little bits of wool on it.
So it was not very clear and we tried mashing it down, it was very hard and started cracking, all sorts of problems.
But we think we saved. Got it through a pair of sides, and put it into a container where it can cool down without …
cracks. also got another bit of glass with stained glass.
I ended up pouring opening to the plate with a lot of lead, because it had reacted with the cup and threw metallic …
lead. We just cast on a steel plate, mashed it down and then transfer to the container as well.
So only time will tell now. We are going to give about half an hour to cool down …
and then take a look at what we got. So while the glass is cooling …
We stabbing it in a bucket filled with vermiculite. Which will help to cool it a bit slower pace …
it is going to help the Heat stay as long as possible to prevent the glass from cracking. Now…
Ideally would like to actually glow …
this glass so it does not crack in the future. If you use this as a window would crack it eventually …
Due to the weather the natural temperature stuff. So however it should be tempered for this video …
we just want to show proof of concept and I think we did.
Check it out Guys. We have successfully transformed sand into glass.
We’re most of the way there.
We have a bit of a green tinge to it which means that there is still a bit of iron in it.
But for the most part this stuff looks good, and it certainly is glass. Look at this piece of Cody here …
It acts much like a lens. This is Bachelet Cody was stained glass. It has a really cool blue tint to it …
it is very interesting. There are some bubbles in there …
but clearly, it’s pretty obvious. So maybe if we cook it longer, we could not have been more transparent.
Small pieces of glass stuck in there.
Gives you a whole new appreciation for, such as windows and glass bottles and things everywhere. Certainly.
So we have tried to blow some of the stained glass and put it on the end of the rod …
and we blew a bubble inside of it. It actually looks like a small flower vase.
Where you can grow your small apple seeds!
This actually turned out pretty well. That is cool. I like the blue tint too. And we also have a bit of marble, a small purple marble.
I do not know where the colors come from? You know my guess is probable cause ‘had lead to the pan.
Incomprehensible * * But that’s cool, how cool is that we made our own marbles.
So marbles, tiny flower pots, broken glass all part of an epic adventure.
So let’s summarize a second and equally brief. How are we to this point today.
We started with Andy sand collected from the Mississippi River. He brought help to herein and Cody purify some of the …
chemicals and we put it in the trash can foundry and leave almost 7 hours.
We noticed that the sand actually molten glass within about half an hour. We stirred up a bit …
and we watched it and gave it about 6 hours to melt down and hopefully allow some of those bubbles release.
Now just for fun, we come down in the crucible with a steel rod …
we got a bit of glass to go out and …
tried to roll into a ball and then flatten out the idea was maybe we can make some sort of an improvised piece …
window? I’m not really sure that’s what we got, but we certainly glass and if you look at it …
it is relatively transparent, a bit of a green tint, but all in all it’s really not that bad considering …
we this just in our backyard. It is definitely glass, and it certainly is transparent you can see through it, but …
has a number of bubbles, so it’s not quite as optically clear, not ideal for lenses, but … really close.
And I think a little more tweaking and bake them in the oven …
and we probably have it. Would even be able to crush this and melting it. For now this glass is ..
it will be much easier to work with now.
I think if we had maybe a little more skill to work with glass. We would have been able to do it.
Yes. So it’s not clear glass, but the glass is we can crush it up.
We could remelting we can use it again.
And this is really just a first attempt to operate any kind of glass at all.
I think as to improve our skills and we happened to run into the right people with the right kind of talent ….
maybe we can actually end up making crystal clear glass. This is the goal, that is the end of performance.
We are just starting on that journey. It’s been a lot of fun
Thanks Andy and Cody for joining us today for this experiment. As I mentioned …
I have links in the description that you will check put down on their channels.
They do make some incredible things on their channel and Andy spend six months to a chicken sandwich.
So you can enjoy what’s in it. Cody and doing all kinds of mind-blowing chemistry experiments a lot of things that you should not …
Home That’s why I like them. So I want these guys.
Of course, a big shout-out to our friend …
JC112 putting this request in the comments and received more than 1,100 likes good work man.
Go check your YouTube inbox for sending $ 25. Thanks for joining us today for this experiment.
We go in search of the next. Talk to you then.
You’re a wizard Harry!
Hey guys, there’s an event called Living CVX I will be on August 3rd through the 5th. Stage presentations to meet and greet …
There is even a special superfan experience where we can hang out one-on-one.
So click on the link in the description and I’ll be looking for you CVX Live.
we’re going to turn sand into glass. I jumped down in the comments, and I found this one of JC112 …
which was already pleading that we would make glass from sand
Today we will try to make it happen for you. Now for this to happen today …
I had to bring my friend Cody Cody’s lab. You know him. Alright everyone.
We also have Andy on a channel called How to Make …
Everything you know him as the man who took six months to make a chicken sandwich.
He did everything from scratch, including the cultivation of grain and spawn the chicken. On my channel I explore …
What if you could not go to a store and buy things needed to make the natural resources?
Sweet so I’m looking for this. It’s a bit like I do not know what you call that, like Power Rangers? *laughter*
We just like to join all forces together to see that we accomplished a great …
task. Because it is not very easy to turn …
sand in the glass. Is the? Certainly not clear glass. This is actually my fourth attempt at. I tried different things …
Use a different flux potash of hardwood axis. This is my first attempt with sodium carbonate and …
hopefully we have some better results. So for this video we all put to the test …
we go to commodities that use Andy came. We go the materials used sophisticated cody.
We’re going to put them all together and see if we today can actually make clear glass with our backyard trash …
foundry. Let’s dive right in. Okay, so I got ingredients from four different states actually I have I collected sand in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Subsequently, collected in Wyoming I sodium carbonate and sodium sulphate from a lake there. Arizona…
I collected plaster of an old mine. In Utah Cody helped me find some calcite. So my role …
here is actually the chemistry man. I helped Andy purify sodium carbonate I …
helped him clean the sand a bit and also from the …
nitric we converted by conversion into a calcium nitrate with …
more calcite. Oh, and if we do not have enough, we might have to cheat a little. *laughter*
So the time has come guys we’re going to take all these ingredients …
and we all go through it together and here’s how we do it.
We’re going to take this sand which had been mainly iron’s crop …
we’re going to mix it with some of these sodium …
carbonate and add a little calcium nitrate and a little plaster.
We’re going to crush it all into a very fine powder.
Combine the mixture together throw into the melting pot and let the whole thing nuke for about 6 to 12 hours in our waste …
can foundry. This is the type of glass that nature makes this obsidian that comes from a volcano …
And you can see that this is not totally transparent. Clear glass is a very cool thing and we’re going to replicate it here today.
So I think I’m mixing the other materials.
Here the sand I guess we’ll just have to mix them together.
Child guess the proportions. I’m going to try to shoot for about 30 percent of the weight …
sodium carbonate.
What I will crush to a fine powder here.
Hulk battle! Hulk battle!
Who needs a mortar and pestle?
It’s actually crush pretty good. I mean, my knuckles start to hurt and bleed a little but …
I think it’s worth it. *laughter*
This is the industrial revolution baby, two fists twice as fast synergy.
Okay, so I mixed together the ingredients now.
Since the sand is still a bit wet, the weight will not be correct. So it really does not want to weigh it.
I’m just kind of mixing an equal volume of sand and sodium carbonate. Like a one-to-one ratio? Good…
This is much less dense than this, and we have only about twenty to thirty percent sodium carbonate, so …
I could use all of this
The more of this we use the lower the melting temperature. So the easier ..
it will be to melt it. See this is the kind of cooking I enjoy when we’re cooking with recipes from Cody’s Lab.
Okay, so a bit of plaster will release some gases towards the end and that will …
Help positive ..
with the other gases that are released. So just to make it clear that is what we have crushed the crystal earlier.
Exactly. So a solid, powder form.
It’s a great difference. Yes. This is the last ingredient, but a little bit of calcium nitrate.
This is a…
oxidizer that will help burn off impurities and hopefully the sand will turn a sort of beige color …
in pure white and then it will melt to clear. Let’s just sprinkle a little of that.
Does not really matter if I add too much, because it will burn.
let’s mix together
Oh! Actually, there is another ingredient that we miss the lime.
So here is the lime.
This is actually hydrated lime or calcium hydroxide this is what happens when you add calcium oxide to water and this will be our …
lime part of the soda.
Now we’re probably not going to add much, because it will increase the melting point, so it will increase the …
chemical resistance of the glass.
Making it insoluble in water
So yes, we add just a few percent.
It will not be the best …
drinking glass, but it will probably work for …
It will look so, pretty good for a window or whatever.
Alright that’s it.
Still a little wet, but I think that will work.
We have our powdered ready to go, our melting pot is still quite warm, we dismissed it earlier …
it’s ready to go. So let the foundry mix all together fire and get ready to rock. Yes!
That sand now seems much more white you mix everything. Yes.
So now Andy because this is your fourth attempt. Why do not you tell us what is going to happen here today?
I’m still pretty skeptical it has kind of changed our ‘White Whale’ of actually making clear glass.
I think we are pretty close.
I’m pretty sure it’s Cody ability to refine things actually.
But I expect that it is not perfect probably be a little few bubbles.
But I think we can get pretty close. That is of course assuming that the foundry is hot enough to actually do get work.
So we put it to the test.
We’re going to throw in everything, fire this thing put the cap on and …
basically just leave it on high heat for about 6 to 12 hours.
Alright. Put that in there. Just as a little bit of insurance …
I’m going to go to a second batch of glass, have a slightly different composition. You have another furnace here.
And if this does not work well, we’ll do something else …
I think that is a bit more likely to turn off those beautiful clear glass. Oh, so it is the competition of the equipment?
*laughter*
So, for the second part I have some sand that is probably gotten a little more pure …
and I’m going to mix it with, rather than a soda lime …
I’m going to use soda lid, so this is a mix here of lead oxide PbO and so …
sodium carbonate. This is actually very difficult, because this is more than half a cap here.
So I’m just going to mix it in with the sand.
And this would theoretically crystal glass
This should melt at a lower temperature, so I think we might have a bit more luck with it.
Here we go. Let’s make this the other furnace. Got the melting pot here …
heating in the oven.
Just to pull this off and add our material
Hopefully flux below make something that looks like clear glass. I only have this kind of wide.
When it is up to 2,000 degrees Celsius.
It should melt.
Okay.
OK. We are waiting. Hopefully we get something good.
Okay boys, our foundry is the moment of truth has been running for six and a half hours.
So this has been completely melted. We stopped there a few times …
released the lid and tap the crucible to a few times the bubbles rise to the top theoretical.
We’re not quite sure how clear the glass yet. But we have some tools …
we will use to pull it out and see if we can blow mold it and maybe …
a small makeshift window. Let’s see what we have.
WOOAAAH !!
My God, that’s hot, hot stuff.
Oh that’s cool. Just like that? It is drippy, wet drippy
Oh wow, is that metal?
Cody: Yes it is.
Oh that’s cool. Is it to stick to the steel? No?
Cody: I dunno.
Okay, so we made the transfer. We got the glass in a small bin. Let’s talk about what just happened.
We got two pieces of glass in our container at the moment. One is from the trash casting …
We had a little trouble with it because when I was in the heat touched the side of the crucible …
It was sticky and then it works around the fixed actually got little bits of wool on it.
So it was not very clear and we tried mashing it down, it was very hard and started cracking, all sorts of problems.
But we think we saved. Got it through a pair of sides, and put it into a container where it can cool down without …
cracks. also got another bit of glass with stained glass.
I ended up pouring opening to the plate with a lot of lead, because it had reacted with the cup and threw metallic …
lead. We just cast on a steel plate, mashed it down and then transfer to the container as well.
So only time will tell now. We are going to give about half an hour to cool down …
and then take a look at what we got. So while the glass is cooling …
We stabbing it in a bucket filled with vermiculite. Which will help to cool it a bit slower pace …
it is going to help the Heat stay as long as possible to prevent the glass from cracking. Now…
Ideally would like to actually glow …
this glass so it does not crack in the future. If you use this as a window would crack it eventually …
Due to the weather the natural temperature stuff. So however it should be tempered for this video …
we just want to show proof of concept and I think we did.
Check it out Guys. We have successfully transformed sand into glass.
We’re most of the way there.
We have a bit of a green tinge to it which means that there is still a bit of iron in it.
But for the most part this stuff looks good, and it certainly is glass. Look at this piece of Cody here …
It acts much like a lens. This is Bachelet Cody was stained glass. It has a really cool blue tint to it …
it is very interesting. There are some bubbles in there …
but clearly, it’s pretty obvious. So maybe if we cook it longer, we could not have been more transparent.
Small pieces of glass stuck in there.
Gives you a whole new appreciation for, such as windows and glass bottles and things everywhere. Certainly.
So we have tried to blow some of the stained glass and put it on the end of the rod …
and we blew a bubble inside of it. It actually looks like a small flower vase.
Where you can grow your small apple seeds!
This actually turned out pretty well. That is cool. I like the blue tint too. And we also have a bit of marble, a small purple marble.
I do not know where the colors come from? You know my guess is probable cause ‘had lead to the pan.
Incomprehensible * * But that’s cool, how cool is that we made our own marbles.
So marbles, tiny flower pots, broken glass all part of an epic adventure.
So let’s summarize a second and equally brief. How are we to this point today.
We started with Andy sand collected from the Mississippi River. He brought help to herein and Cody purify some of the …
chemicals and we put it in the trash can foundry and leave almost 7 hours.
We noticed that the sand actually molten glass within about half an hour. We stirred up a bit …
and we watched it and gave it about 6 hours to melt down and hopefully allow some of those bubbles release.
Now just for fun, we come down in the crucible with a steel rod …
we got a bit of glass to go out and …
tried to roll into a ball and then flatten out the idea was maybe we can make some sort of an improvised piece …
window? I’m not really sure that’s what we got, but we certainly glass and if you look at it …
it is relatively transparent, a bit of a green tint, but all in all it’s really not that bad considering …
we this just in our backyard. It is definitely glass, and it certainly is transparent you can see through it, but …
has a number of bubbles, so it’s not quite as optically clear, not ideal for lenses, but … really close.
And I think a little more tweaking and bake them in the oven …
and we probably have it. Would even be able to crush this and melting it. For now this glass is ..
it will be much easier to work with now.
I think if we had maybe a little more skill to work with glass. We would have been able to do it.
Yes. So it’s not clear glass, but the glass is we can crush it up.
We could remelting we can use it again.
And this is really just a first attempt to operate any kind of glass at all.
I think as to improve our skills and we happened to run into the right people with the right kind of talent ….
maybe we can actually end up making crystal clear glass. This is the goal, that is the end of performance.
We are just starting on that journey. It’s been a lot of fun
Thanks Andy and Cody for joining us today for this experiment. As I mentioned …
I have links in the description that you will check put down on their channels.
They do make some incredible things on their channel and Andy spend six months to a chicken sandwich.
So you can enjoy what’s in it. Cody and doing all kinds of mind-blowing chemistry experiments a lot of things that you should not …
Home That’s why I like them. So I want these guys.
Of course, a big shout-out to our friend …
JC112 putting this request in the comments and received more than 1,100 likes good work man.
Go check your YouTube inbox for sending $ 25. Thanks for joining us today for this experiment.
We go in search of the next. Talk to you then.
You’re a wizard Harry!
Hey guys, there’s an event called Living CVX I will be on August 3rd through the 5th. Stage presentations to meet and greet …
There is even a special superfan experience where we can hang out one-on-one.
So click on the link in the description and I’ll be looking for you CVX Live.
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