hey what’s up guys grant here popping in
with another subscriber giveaway I went
down and picked up a Nintendo switch
with Mario Kart 8 I’d like to give it to
one of you so I got a link down in the
description for some subscriber
appreciation we’ll see you there
hey guys I’m Nate and today we’ve got a
fun experiment we’re going to try and
see if we can make our very own magnetic
putty
[Music]
[Applause]
there’s a couple different methods we’re
gonna try and both of them involve using
this synthetic iron oxide also called
magnetite this whole one-pound bag is
available in Amazon for less than ten
bucks and it goes a long way as the
first experiment I have a little blob of
silly putty and we’re just gonna see
what happens if we mix some of our
magnetite powder into the silly putty
now this bag is full of magnetic powder
and you can see that a magnet does stick
to it quite well
I don’t want to get any of the magnetic
powder directly on the magnet because
it’s a very fine grain powder it would
be nearly impossible to get it all off
but I’ll try pouring some onto a plate
and then playing with the powder a
little bit with our magnet under the
plate and see it’s a very fine powder it
does have some clumps and those break up
into just dust really you can see how
dark this stuff is and that does
transfer onto your skin if you touch
this stuff with your bare skin like it’s
just like charcoal dust it it gets it
gets on you it just kind of likes to
stay on alright so there is our black
magnetic powder let’s see what happens
if we bring our magnet underneath it on
the plate cool little shards spike
things forming pretty similar to what
happened when we made our ferrofluid
except in this case it’s not a fluid
it’s just a powder we’ve got our
magnetic powder and we’ve got a little
bit of silly putty if you’re not
familiar with silly putty it’s a rubbery
gooey substance that is like an
extremely extremely thick liquid so this
is already a pretty neat putty I want to
see what happens if we mix a bunch of
our magnetite powder into this and see
okay at this point our putty is
completely black there’s no trace of
orange coloring left to it so the
magnetite powder has really overpowered
all the orange color that was in it
let’s see how well this is attracted to
a magnet oh I would say definitely
definitely more attracted and now it’s
sort of just jumps up to it one of the
things I’ve seen done with commercial
magnetic putty is you can put some of it
near a magnet and it sort of just
swallows the magnet whole this is a
pretty powerful magnet so let’s see if
despite leaving our homemade magnetic
putty next to a magnet for a while it
didn’t ever really envelop the magnet it
started grabbing on to one end of it and
then just kind of stopped
I think the silly putty itself is just a
little bit too rigid and durable and
then when you add in the magnetite it
gets even more rigid by just a little
bit and in the end it’s so hard that it
doesn’t really like to move very much
another cool little thing you can do
with magnetic putty often is pull a
little strand away from the main blob
using the magnet and again it’s
attracted to it but it doesn’t really
pull it hard enough that it can stretch
out very well while having black silly
putty that’s pretty much normal but it’s
attracted to a magnet might be cool it’s
not really what we’re going for so let’s
see if we can use a different recipe and
make a slightly softer putty one recipe
I’ve seen says you can use two parts
multi-purpose white glue and one part
laundry starch and we’re gonna add one
part of our magnetite powder to that as
well let’s see what we can get using
that this won’t make a very large batch
but it might be about the same as the
size of our silly putty glob so it’ll be
this is not a very smooth texture at
this point but I’m going to keep working
it and see if it gets any better and it
is already getting a little bit stiffer
so I think that’s a good sign it’s still
very sticky though it might just because
it likes to stick to the rubber on my
gloves I’m gonna try this without gloves
mmm sticky on my hands as well not just
the gloves assuming the sticky is from
the glue maybe adding a little bit more
starch will stop it from being is sticky
maybe this recipe is just really really
that seems to be helping and it’s still
we GUI but it’s not sticking to my hands
nearly as much so I think it’s just
getting just the right balance of starch
and glue because now this is turning
into a putty that I can actually handle
a little bit so now we know if we’re
mixing our glue and our starch and it’s
too sticky we just need to add a tiny
bit more starch not even a lot I just
dipped it down in on one spot a little
bit and now I can handle this and it
like there’s really not sticking it to
my hands anymore if you want to make
homemade silly putty I’d say this is a
pretty good recipe it is a little bit
thinner but it’s pretty similar I wonder
if I can bounce the ball of this stuff
hmm not on this material just stuck
right to it a little it bounces off the
workbench not as high of a bounce of
silly putty but a bounce all right let’s
try adding our magnetite powder to this
and I’m going to try and add about one
I think we have a good puddy the
question is whether we have a good
magnetic putty let’s grab our magnet and
see how well it’s attracted to it I
would call that pretty attracted let’s
try the same test we do the silly putty
let’s just make a ball and see how
easily it moves to the magnet it jumps
right out of my hand nicely putting the
magnet near it it immediately starts
stretching out and grab onto it the
silly putty itself didn’t do much to
grab around the magnet let’s see what
happens if we just leave this putty near
that did a much better job than the
silly putty it reached all the way
around our magnet this magnet compared
to the weight of the putty is probably
too big for it to move with its own
magnetic draw but some of the putty
reached over the top of the magnet and
down in front and grabbed on to that
side too so really did a pretty good job
of enveloping the magnet this works
pretty well it’s a good magnetic putty I
think the natural step at this point is
we now have one big old blob of putty
this is a there’s a lot of do right here
you just let it sit for a second it just
slowly slowly stretching yourself out so
now we want to try and turn this into
this and we’re just gonna pour our
powder on top of it
all around it my hands are gonna end up
so black from this
see I’m black already we now have a
pretty giant blob of our putty let’s do
a test and see how magnetic it is that’s
it’s definitely sticking and of course
this blob weighs way more than our
magnet and so it doesn’t just get lifted
up into the air just sort of grabs at a
portion of it whatever’s closest to it
and stretches that out
let’s try watching our magnetic putty
swallow some of our powerful magnets
I would definitely call this
experimental success mixing the
magnetite powder with silly putty not so
much it is magnetic but it’s too stiff
to really react to the magnets but using
our homemade putty made from white glue
and liquid starch we were able to make a
perfect consistency of putty so that
when we mix the magnetite powder into it
it reacts really well with the magnet I
mean the magnet gets drawn onto it it
sticks to it it pulls the putty away
from the blob and of course if we put
the blob in the putty it just gets
swallowed and you can see this is in
real time I’m not speeding up this
footage like the magnet just gets drawn
down into this stuff really quickly of
course this is an extremely powerful
magnet but we have a lot of magnetic
putty so it seemed fitting to me guys
there’s still more for you to see that
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with another subscriber giveaway I went
down and picked up a Nintendo switch
with Mario Kart 8 I’d like to give it to
one of you so I got a link down in the
description for some subscriber
appreciation we’ll see you there
hey guys I’m Nate and today we’ve got a
fun experiment we’re going to try and
see if we can make our very own magnetic
putty
[Music]
[Applause]
there’s a couple different methods we’re
gonna try and both of them involve using
this synthetic iron oxide also called
magnetite this whole one-pound bag is
available in Amazon for less than ten
bucks and it goes a long way as the
first experiment I have a little blob of
silly putty and we’re just gonna see
what happens if we mix some of our
magnetite powder into the silly putty
now this bag is full of magnetic powder
and you can see that a magnet does stick
to it quite well
I don’t want to get any of the magnetic
powder directly on the magnet because
it’s a very fine grain powder it would
be nearly impossible to get it all off
but I’ll try pouring some onto a plate
and then playing with the powder a
little bit with our magnet under the
plate and see it’s a very fine powder it
does have some clumps and those break up
into just dust really you can see how
dark this stuff is and that does
transfer onto your skin if you touch
this stuff with your bare skin like it’s
just like charcoal dust it it gets it
gets on you it just kind of likes to
stay on alright so there is our black
magnetic powder let’s see what happens
if we bring our magnet underneath it on
the plate cool little shards spike
things forming pretty similar to what
happened when we made our ferrofluid
except in this case it’s not a fluid
it’s just a powder we’ve got our
magnetic powder and we’ve got a little
bit of silly putty if you’re not
familiar with silly putty it’s a rubbery
gooey substance that is like an
extremely extremely thick liquid so this
is already a pretty neat putty I want to
see what happens if we mix a bunch of
our magnetite powder into this and see
okay at this point our putty is
completely black there’s no trace of
orange coloring left to it so the
magnetite powder has really overpowered
all the orange color that was in it
let’s see how well this is attracted to
a magnet oh I would say definitely
definitely more attracted and now it’s
sort of just jumps up to it one of the
things I’ve seen done with commercial
magnetic putty is you can put some of it
near a magnet and it sort of just
swallows the magnet whole this is a
pretty powerful magnet so let’s see if
despite leaving our homemade magnetic
putty next to a magnet for a while it
didn’t ever really envelop the magnet it
started grabbing on to one end of it and
then just kind of stopped
I think the silly putty itself is just a
little bit too rigid and durable and
then when you add in the magnetite it
gets even more rigid by just a little
bit and in the end it’s so hard that it
doesn’t really like to move very much
another cool little thing you can do
with magnetic putty often is pull a
little strand away from the main blob
using the magnet and again it’s
attracted to it but it doesn’t really
pull it hard enough that it can stretch
out very well while having black silly
putty that’s pretty much normal but it’s
attracted to a magnet might be cool it’s
not really what we’re going for so let’s
see if we can use a different recipe and
make a slightly softer putty one recipe
I’ve seen says you can use two parts
multi-purpose white glue and one part
laundry starch and we’re gonna add one
part of our magnetite powder to that as
well let’s see what we can get using
that this won’t make a very large batch
but it might be about the same as the
size of our silly putty glob so it’ll be
this is not a very smooth texture at
this point but I’m going to keep working
it and see if it gets any better and it
is already getting a little bit stiffer
so I think that’s a good sign it’s still
very sticky though it might just because
it likes to stick to the rubber on my
gloves I’m gonna try this without gloves
mmm sticky on my hands as well not just
the gloves assuming the sticky is from
the glue maybe adding a little bit more
starch will stop it from being is sticky
maybe this recipe is just really really
that seems to be helping and it’s still
we GUI but it’s not sticking to my hands
nearly as much so I think it’s just
getting just the right balance of starch
and glue because now this is turning
into a putty that I can actually handle
a little bit so now we know if we’re
mixing our glue and our starch and it’s
too sticky we just need to add a tiny
bit more starch not even a lot I just
dipped it down in on one spot a little
bit and now I can handle this and it
like there’s really not sticking it to
my hands anymore if you want to make
homemade silly putty I’d say this is a
pretty good recipe it is a little bit
thinner but it’s pretty similar I wonder
if I can bounce the ball of this stuff
hmm not on this material just stuck
right to it a little it bounces off the
workbench not as high of a bounce of
silly putty but a bounce all right let’s
try adding our magnetite powder to this
and I’m going to try and add about one
I think we have a good puddy the
question is whether we have a good
magnetic putty let’s grab our magnet and
see how well it’s attracted to it I
would call that pretty attracted let’s
try the same test we do the silly putty
let’s just make a ball and see how
easily it moves to the magnet it jumps
right out of my hand nicely putting the
magnet near it it immediately starts
stretching out and grab onto it the
silly putty itself didn’t do much to
grab around the magnet let’s see what
happens if we just leave this putty near
that did a much better job than the
silly putty it reached all the way
around our magnet this magnet compared
to the weight of the putty is probably
too big for it to move with its own
magnetic draw but some of the putty
reached over the top of the magnet and
down in front and grabbed on to that
side too so really did a pretty good job
of enveloping the magnet this works
pretty well it’s a good magnetic putty I
think the natural step at this point is
we now have one big old blob of putty
this is a there’s a lot of do right here
you just let it sit for a second it just
slowly slowly stretching yourself out so
now we want to try and turn this into
this and we’re just gonna pour our
powder on top of it
all around it my hands are gonna end up
so black from this
see I’m black already we now have a
pretty giant blob of our putty let’s do
a test and see how magnetic it is that’s
it’s definitely sticking and of course
this blob weighs way more than our
magnet and so it doesn’t just get lifted
up into the air just sort of grabs at a
portion of it whatever’s closest to it
and stretches that out
let’s try watching our magnetic putty
swallow some of our powerful magnets
I would definitely call this
experimental success mixing the
magnetite powder with silly putty not so
much it is magnetic but it’s too stiff
to really react to the magnets but using
our homemade putty made from white glue
and liquid starch we were able to make a
perfect consistency of putty so that
when we mix the magnetite powder into it
it reacts really well with the magnet I
mean the magnet gets drawn onto it it
sticks to it it pulls the putty away
from the blob and of course if we put
the blob in the putty it just gets
swallowed and you can see this is in
real time I’m not speeding up this
footage like the magnet just gets drawn
down into this stuff really quickly of
course this is an extremely powerful
magnet but we have a lot of magnetic
putty so it seemed fitting to me guys
there’s still more for you to see that
little box up the top will transport you
directly to our last video go check it
out that box at the bottom will show you
what YouTube thinks you should be
watching next and if you hit this bomb
in the center you’ll be subscribed to
the channel so you never miss another
video again don’t forget to ring that
Bell and we’ll see you in the next one
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