hey guys I’m Nate welcome back to the
studio today we’ve got another fun
experiment suggested to us by user
maverick Miller he asks can you freeze
diesel fuel with liquid nitrogen
well maverick Miller I’m pretty sure I
know the answer to this one but we’re
gonna try it out anyway and then see if
we can come up with a twist on it to see
what results we get to start off I’ve
got this little bottle which I filled
with diesel fuel I do think this diesel
has some additives added into it that’s
what gives us this nice yellow color I
just poured this out of a diesel can
that Grant had in his shed diesel fuel
can start to gel and turn thick at about
30 degrees Fahrenheit so I’m pretty sure
that at negative 320 degrees Fahrenheit
it’s going to freeze solid well let’s
see what happens if we do and see if it
can still burn once it’s frozen you may
recall that we’ve tried this with
gasoline and had some fun results to
start off let’s pour some of the diesel
into a metal bowl and see what happens
if we try and light it without freezing
it also I should note this is not an
approved container for long-term diesel
storage I poured it in here for this
experiment and I’m going to be throwing
it away once I’m done I don’t know for
sure what the diesel would do to this
specific bottle eventually but I know
it’s not good for long-term storage for
some diesel out into the bowl and see if
this will light
hmm getting much of an effect here time
to upgrade our fire that little barbecue
lighter was a little wimpy so we’ve
upgraded to a propane torch
and we got it to light there we go
so barbecue lighter not so much propane
torch definitely will get diesel light
[Music]
as the hot air cooled down I think it’s
suctioned these two bowls together
they’re really stuck that’s amazing and
one of them is still very hot I can’t
get them apart oh there it goes wow wow
yeah I did not think that these bowls
had clean enough edges like it didn’t
even occur to me that that might happen
but now of course I have to see if I can
make it do it again alright let that go
for just a second get nice and toasty
see if we can fit this one nicely over
it I think that’s the sound we want
that’s this metal bottom of the bowl I
think getting pulled down that is now as
sealed and sounds cool something warms
back up then first time I couldn’t pry
them apart second time they just fall
apart oh that’s funny
alright well now we know what happens
with normal diesel we can light it on
fire using our propane torch let’s
freeze some of it and see how it does
all right now let’s take our liquid
nitrogen
pour some off into our Styrofoam cup and
then we’ll pour our diesel directly into
that cup here we go one styrofoam cup
full of liquid nitrogen I’m gonna start
by just adding like a little drop see
what happens
there’s one little bead of diesel
floating around the surface of our
nitrogen it sort of freezes and then
falls down to the bottom I wonder if it
doesn’t stay as one clump kind of breaks
it off up I’m not really finding much so
let’s just pour in a bigger amount
that’s bubbling up and weird it freezes
on the outside layer very quickly but
then the inside layer sort of expands
and pushes its way out and it was giving
us sort of like a hollow sheath made of
diesel I think I think it’s frozen
diesel and then of course it’s just
gonna warm right back up in our bowl
let’s put this all back in pour in
another little healthy dose of easily
I’m also going to splash just a tiny bit
of liquid nitrogen down into our bowl
just to cool the bowl down so it stays
frozen when it pour it in there I hope
all of this liquid nitrogen will
evaporate but leave us with a very cold
bowl yeah we’re getting a good chunk of
frozen diesel here think with our cool
bowl
we’ll be able to take that chunk put it
in take it outside and light it on fire
hmm doesn’t give us that energetic flash
that we get when we burn gasoline it
starts burning but it’s just slower to
burn oh and then the wind put it out
that’s convenient
well let’s try more of it that was hot
diesel in the liquid nitrogen oh that
smells terrible look at this the soot
that formed on it has discolored the
diesel so now we have this dark brownish
ugly color gross this time I’m not gonna
go halfway I’m just gonna pour like half
I guess I am gonna go halfway I’m gonna
pour like half of this bottle into our
liquid nitrogen see how it goes
certainly exciting
it’s a lot of diesel with just a little
bit of nitrogen still at the bottom it’s
crystallized into this powder almost so
it looks like it’s just diesel frozen
and then when you scoop down to the
bottom you can see there’s still a
little bit of liquid in there but mostly
it’s gone well let’s take our snow pour
it into our Bowl and see if this light’s
just take it outside in the styrofoam
cup at this point I think most of the
nitrogen is gone here in the last of the
nitrogen dissipating that seems good and
frozen though see if it’ll light
huh part of it lights and then it goes
out I wonder if there’s still just extra
nitrogen in the bowl that’s putting out
the flames
[Music]
puddles of diesel do not seem to stay
lit very well it’s really the fumes of
diesel that are burning ideally and I
think a puddle of it might have a hard
time getting hot enough to really put
off enough fumes once it gets going like
this you see all that black smoke I
think that means it’s working pretty
well we go it burns up all the air
inside
suctions the two halves together it’s
tough to get apart well it looks like
frozen diesel is nowhere near as
exciting as frozen gasoline when it
comes to lighting it off
you can get it to burn but it takes kind
of a lot of concentrated directed heat
and a little bit of time unlike the
gasoline which kind of just goes up
immediately one more thing I do want to
try this is an anti gelling agent it’s
designed to help keep your diesel from
freezing in low temperatures if you have
a truck that runs on diesel and it gets
really cold the fuel can actually start
to gel up inside your car’s fuel lines
and tank this is supposed to help keep
that from happening
so let’s add a little bit of this to our
diesel and see if that does anything to
prevent it from freezing in liquid
nitrogen
normally the ratio is such that this one
bottle could treat up to 40 gallons the
instructions recommend that if you’re
going to be using it in temperatures
below zero degrees Fahrenheit you use
this much in 20 gallons here I have a
little bit less than 1 cup of diesel
which by my math means we should be
using about 1/4 teaspoon of our anti
gelling agent liquid nitrogen is a lot
colder than zero degrees Fahrenheit so
I’m gonna go as far as to add one whole
teaspoon of our anti gelling agent and
see if it does anything
all right that’s our anti gelling agent
and what should be total overkill all
right liquid nitrogen in our Styrofoam
cup we’ve got our diesel fuel with our
anti gelling agent in it let’s see if it
does anything
[Music]
diesel hmm it looks like it’s doing
about the same thing as before freezing
well that’s frozen it does seem like
maybe it broke up into smaller pieces
this time so maybe it does do something
doesn’t stop it from freezing but I
think it might make it so it freezes
into smaller particles it’s not gonna
help much of it’s in your engine the
anti gelling agent did not seem to slow
down the freezing process of our liquid
nitrogen now just as an experiment let’s
see if we can freeze our anti-freezing
agent
got an interesting structure here
[Music]
as I lowered the spoon full of our
anti-freezing agent into the liquid
nitrogen it started freezing around on
the sides and then more toward the
middle and that made it so that all the
unfrozen liquid underneath had only one
place to go to escape and that was
pushing up from the center so now we’ve
got sort of stalagmite of our
anti-freezing agent this this is maybe
sort of like when we tested if you can
freeze antifreeze and the answer is yes
you can and similarly you can freeze the
anti gelling agent for diesel liquid
nitrogen is just too darn cold so to
recap we tried freezing diesel fuel in
liquid nitrogen and it froze it froze
very much the same way that gasoline did
the frozen diesel fuel did not light on
fire very easily it had a really hard
time getting started and we really had
to hit it with the blowtorch until it
was hot enough to start letting off
fumes at which point it was mostly
melted so when you freeze gasoline it
will light on fire even while it’s still
frozen the diesel doesn’t seem to have
that same effect we also tested whether
or not you can use an anti gelling agent
to keep the diesel from freezing in the
liquid nitrogen that didn’t seem to do
really anything for how fast it froze
although it might have changed the
texture of the frozen diesel a little
bit it seemed a little bit more crumbly
to me as a final experiment we also
tested if you can just freeze the anti
gelling agent itself and it turns out
you can liquid nitrogen is so cold it
freezes just about everything well there
you have it maverick Miller we can
freeze diesel using liquid nitrogen
thank you for the idea check your
youtube inbox we’re sending you 25 bucks
remember if you have an idea you want to
see us try out let us know down in the
comments if we use your idea will send
you $25 thanks for joining us for this
video and remember to come gear yourself
up with products and merch at the king
of random calm see you there well our
anti gelling agent says on the container
that it’s flammable too so
hmm there it is burning mmm smells like
a truck stop man it’s delightful diesel
like I know it wasn’t funny you don’t
have to tell me in the comments I get it
[Music]
you
studio today we’ve got another fun
experiment suggested to us by user
maverick Miller he asks can you freeze
diesel fuel with liquid nitrogen
well maverick Miller I’m pretty sure I
know the answer to this one but we’re
gonna try it out anyway and then see if
we can come up with a twist on it to see
what results we get to start off I’ve
got this little bottle which I filled
with diesel fuel I do think this diesel
has some additives added into it that’s
what gives us this nice yellow color I
just poured this out of a diesel can
that Grant had in his shed diesel fuel
can start to gel and turn thick at about
30 degrees Fahrenheit so I’m pretty sure
that at negative 320 degrees Fahrenheit
it’s going to freeze solid well let’s
see what happens if we do and see if it
can still burn once it’s frozen you may
recall that we’ve tried this with
gasoline and had some fun results to
start off let’s pour some of the diesel
into a metal bowl and see what happens
if we try and light it without freezing
it also I should note this is not an
approved container for long-term diesel
storage I poured it in here for this
experiment and I’m going to be throwing
it away once I’m done I don’t know for
sure what the diesel would do to this
specific bottle eventually but I know
it’s not good for long-term storage for
some diesel out into the bowl and see if
this will light
hmm getting much of an effect here time
to upgrade our fire that little barbecue
lighter was a little wimpy so we’ve
upgraded to a propane torch
and we got it to light there we go
so barbecue lighter not so much propane
torch definitely will get diesel light
[Music]
as the hot air cooled down I think it’s
suctioned these two bowls together
they’re really stuck that’s amazing and
one of them is still very hot I can’t
get them apart oh there it goes wow wow
yeah I did not think that these bowls
had clean enough edges like it didn’t
even occur to me that that might happen
but now of course I have to see if I can
make it do it again alright let that go
for just a second get nice and toasty
see if we can fit this one nicely over
it I think that’s the sound we want
that’s this metal bottom of the bowl I
think getting pulled down that is now as
sealed and sounds cool something warms
back up then first time I couldn’t pry
them apart second time they just fall
apart oh that’s funny
alright well now we know what happens
with normal diesel we can light it on
fire using our propane torch let’s
freeze some of it and see how it does
all right now let’s take our liquid
nitrogen
pour some off into our Styrofoam cup and
then we’ll pour our diesel directly into
that cup here we go one styrofoam cup
full of liquid nitrogen I’m gonna start
by just adding like a little drop see
what happens
there’s one little bead of diesel
floating around the surface of our
nitrogen it sort of freezes and then
falls down to the bottom I wonder if it
doesn’t stay as one clump kind of breaks
it off up I’m not really finding much so
let’s just pour in a bigger amount
that’s bubbling up and weird it freezes
on the outside layer very quickly but
then the inside layer sort of expands
and pushes its way out and it was giving
us sort of like a hollow sheath made of
diesel I think I think it’s frozen
diesel and then of course it’s just
gonna warm right back up in our bowl
let’s put this all back in pour in
another little healthy dose of easily
I’m also going to splash just a tiny bit
of liquid nitrogen down into our bowl
just to cool the bowl down so it stays
frozen when it pour it in there I hope
all of this liquid nitrogen will
evaporate but leave us with a very cold
bowl yeah we’re getting a good chunk of
frozen diesel here think with our cool
bowl
we’ll be able to take that chunk put it
in take it outside and light it on fire
hmm doesn’t give us that energetic flash
that we get when we burn gasoline it
starts burning but it’s just slower to
burn oh and then the wind put it out
that’s convenient
well let’s try more of it that was hot
diesel in the liquid nitrogen oh that
smells terrible look at this the soot
that formed on it has discolored the
diesel so now we have this dark brownish
ugly color gross this time I’m not gonna
go halfway I’m just gonna pour like half
I guess I am gonna go halfway I’m gonna
pour like half of this bottle into our
liquid nitrogen see how it goes
certainly exciting
it’s a lot of diesel with just a little
bit of nitrogen still at the bottom it’s
crystallized into this powder almost so
it looks like it’s just diesel frozen
and then when you scoop down to the
bottom you can see there’s still a
little bit of liquid in there but mostly
it’s gone well let’s take our snow pour
it into our Bowl and see if this light’s
just take it outside in the styrofoam
cup at this point I think most of the
nitrogen is gone here in the last of the
nitrogen dissipating that seems good and
frozen though see if it’ll light
huh part of it lights and then it goes
out I wonder if there’s still just extra
nitrogen in the bowl that’s putting out
the flames
[Music]
puddles of diesel do not seem to stay
lit very well it’s really the fumes of
diesel that are burning ideally and I
think a puddle of it might have a hard
time getting hot enough to really put
off enough fumes once it gets going like
this you see all that black smoke I
think that means it’s working pretty
well we go it burns up all the air
inside
suctions the two halves together it’s
tough to get apart well it looks like
frozen diesel is nowhere near as
exciting as frozen gasoline when it
comes to lighting it off
you can get it to burn but it takes kind
of a lot of concentrated directed heat
and a little bit of time unlike the
gasoline which kind of just goes up
immediately one more thing I do want to
try this is an anti gelling agent it’s
designed to help keep your diesel from
freezing in low temperatures if you have
a truck that runs on diesel and it gets
really cold the fuel can actually start
to gel up inside your car’s fuel lines
and tank this is supposed to help keep
that from happening
so let’s add a little bit of this to our
diesel and see if that does anything to
prevent it from freezing in liquid
nitrogen
normally the ratio is such that this one
bottle could treat up to 40 gallons the
instructions recommend that if you’re
going to be using it in temperatures
below zero degrees Fahrenheit you use
this much in 20 gallons here I have a
little bit less than 1 cup of diesel
which by my math means we should be
using about 1/4 teaspoon of our anti
gelling agent liquid nitrogen is a lot
colder than zero degrees Fahrenheit so
I’m gonna go as far as to add one whole
teaspoon of our anti gelling agent and
see if it does anything
all right that’s our anti gelling agent
and what should be total overkill all
right liquid nitrogen in our Styrofoam
cup we’ve got our diesel fuel with our
anti gelling agent in it let’s see if it
does anything
[Music]
diesel hmm it looks like it’s doing
about the same thing as before freezing
well that’s frozen it does seem like
maybe it broke up into smaller pieces
this time so maybe it does do something
doesn’t stop it from freezing but I
think it might make it so it freezes
into smaller particles it’s not gonna
help much of it’s in your engine the
anti gelling agent did not seem to slow
down the freezing process of our liquid
nitrogen now just as an experiment let’s
see if we can freeze our anti-freezing
agent
got an interesting structure here
[Music]
as I lowered the spoon full of our
anti-freezing agent into the liquid
nitrogen it started freezing around on
the sides and then more toward the
middle and that made it so that all the
unfrozen liquid underneath had only one
place to go to escape and that was
pushing up from the center so now we’ve
got sort of stalagmite of our
anti-freezing agent this this is maybe
sort of like when we tested if you can
freeze antifreeze and the answer is yes
you can and similarly you can freeze the
anti gelling agent for diesel liquid
nitrogen is just too darn cold so to
recap we tried freezing diesel fuel in
liquid nitrogen and it froze it froze
very much the same way that gasoline did
the frozen diesel fuel did not light on
fire very easily it had a really hard
time getting started and we really had
to hit it with the blowtorch until it
was hot enough to start letting off
fumes at which point it was mostly
melted so when you freeze gasoline it
will light on fire even while it’s still
frozen the diesel doesn’t seem to have
that same effect we also tested whether
or not you can use an anti gelling agent
to keep the diesel from freezing in the
liquid nitrogen that didn’t seem to do
really anything for how fast it froze
although it might have changed the
texture of the frozen diesel a little
bit it seemed a little bit more crumbly
to me as a final experiment we also
tested if you can just freeze the anti
gelling agent itself and it turns out
you can liquid nitrogen is so cold it
freezes just about everything well there
you have it maverick Miller we can
freeze diesel using liquid nitrogen
thank you for the idea check your
youtube inbox we’re sending you 25 bucks
remember if you have an idea you want to
see us try out let us know down in the
comments if we use your idea will send
you $25 thanks for joining us for this
video and remember to come gear yourself
up with products and merch at the king
of random calm see you there well our
anti gelling agent says on the container
that it’s flammable too so
hmm there it is burning mmm smells like
a truck stop man it’s delightful diesel
like I know it wasn’t funny you don’t
have to tell me in the comments I get it
[Music]
you
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