hey what’s up guys I am back in the
kitchen today wearing my lab jacket and
you know what that means
we are about to do something extremely
dangerous now I have over here some very
very concentrated bottles of sulfuric
and nitric acids these things are
extremely extremely dangerous substances
I also have some baking soda some cotton
balls and some tampons you’ll see what
those are for later now for this
experiment today I thought it might be
fun to try making nitro cotton or gun
cotton flash cotton whatever you want to
call it goes by a lot of different names
now whatever you want to call this stuff
the process of making it isn’t very
difficult at all very very dangerous but
not difficult let me show it oh man
now to make this experiment a little
more scientific we are going to be
measuring our results I have a little
scientific beaker here so we can measure
out equal portions of sulfuric and
nitric acid then we’re going to dip them
one by one letting them each soak in the
solution for about five minutes take
them out rinse them let them dry and
measure the results now the sulfuric
acid I’m using is 93% sulfuric acid I
got this stuff from a chemical supply
store and I’m using it just for
convenience we could use the sulfuric
acid i extracted from my car battery in
a previous video but for this experiment
here I want the results to be as pure as
we can get them we’re also using 70
percent nitric acid which we could make
ourselves however the time and effort
that would need to go into producing it
is beyond the scope of our experiment
today now my beaker measures up to 120
milliliters and I want to do a 50/50
ratio of sulfuric and nitric acid so
let’s start off filling our beaker with
60 milliliters of nitric acid first then
followed up with 60 milliliters of
sulfuric acid to top it off now because
we’re dealing with some pretty dangerous
chemicals here I have a bag of ice and
some baking soda the idea being that we
can fill up a bowl with ice water so if
we have a thermal runaway we have a
place to dump it and mix with baking
soda so we have a solution that will
help neutralize any acid if we have any
accidental spills
okay so our nitric and sulfuric acids
have been mixed and it’s very important
to know that when these two liquids mix
together they heat up very fast using an
infrared thermometer we can see this
liquid goes from about 68 degrees
Fahrenheit up to 120 degrees Fahrenheit
in just a few seconds that’s the
difference of around 20 degrees Celsius
to 50 degrees Celsius for international
viewers and that is one of the reasons
we have our bath of ice standing by oh
and by the way the fumes are toxic now
this is actually still quite warm and we
need it to cool back down to room
temperature so while we’re waiting let’s
weigh out our cotton balls now I’m not
exactly sure how much cotton our 120
milliliters solution of acid can handle
so I’m going to weigh out and track
eight different cotton balls so we can
measure their success after they’ve been
nitrated so we can find the point where
the nitration starts dropping off here
goes cotton ball number one and it looks
like we are at 0.55 grams cotton ball
number two every day zero point six zero
number five
now the beginning of this video I told
you we might be doing something with
tampons as well and here’s what I’m
thinking if we open up one of these
applicator packages and take a look
inside you can see that tampon is mostly
just made of cotton so if we stripped
away the outer membrane and dip just the
cotton tampon into our solution do you
think are we possible to get a tampon to
work as well
flash Tampax that doesn’t really serve
any useful purpose it’s just for fun to
point or
so our solution is cooled down to about
85 degrees Fahrenheit that’s good enough
for me so let’s go ahead and take cotton
ball number one and use a glass stir
stick to hold it in solution so it can
nitrate for about five minutes now the
cotton is nitrating theoretically the
temperature should be rising again as
well you can see we’re already up to 88
Fahrenheit now while our cotton ball is
soaking here let me tell you a little
bit about what’s taking place the fibers
of the cotton ball themselves are
reacting with the nitric acid to nitrate
the cotton which also releases moisture
into the solution now moisture isn’t
really good for this reaction so the
sulfuric acid which is a dehydrating
agent absorbs that moisture and keeps
the reaction relatively clean depending
on how much cotton we have in the
solution the reaction can get very very
hot which is why we’re measuring the
temperature and we have a bath of ice
water we can dump it to if we need to
all right good news it’s been five
minutes so our time is up with cotton
ball number one so we’re just going to
fish that off and we’re going to squeeze
it to leave as much of the liquid as we
can in the container we’re going to
transfer it to a glass of fresh water
and let it soak you can see that as we
dab the cotton ball into the water at
least it’s quite a bit of the acid that
has stored and we need to do this four
to seven times to thoroughly rinse out
as much acid as we can possibly get
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see if there’s any feeling
there’s a little bit of acid on there
the baking soda helps neutralize any of
the leftover acid in the cotton now we
simply repeat that process over and over
again until all eight cotton balls are
finished
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update guys all eight of our cotton
balls are finished they have been fully
nitrated they’ve been washed rinsed
cleansed and put on this plate to sit
overnight to dry unfortunately while
they’re still wet we don’t have any way
to test them but in tomorrow’s video
we’re going to light them up and see how
they perform and what’s going to happen
with this thing could it be that we’ve
just invented the world’s first
pyrotechnic tampon and very curious to
find out so in the meantime let’s take
just a second to briefly recap what we
did here today and what we’re trying to
accomplish we start off our experiment
with sulfuric and nitric acid and the
intent to mix them together in a 50/50
ratio but going back and looking at it I
think I messed up things being from this
angle and added 80 milliliters of nitric
acid and 60 milliliters of sulfuric acid
but I think it’s still going to work out
next we weighed and documented each of
our cotton balls and then soaked them
one by one in the solution for five
minutes
after soaking for five minutes we
squeezed all the acid out of them rinse
them four different times and then put
them in a solution of baking soda to
neutralize any leftover acid after that
they were rinsed one more time and then
all the water was squeezed out then they
were placed on this plate where they
could sit overnight to dry so here’s the
question I want to figure out tomorrow
how much cotton does it take to use up
all the nitric acid in our solution
tomorrow we’re going to play with these
cotton balls to see if they go off with
a flash and we’re going to burn through
each of them to see where the nitration
point started to drop off how many of
these cotton balls do you think we’re
successfully transferred in the flash
cotton leave your thoughts in the
comments below well that’s it for today
all we can do now is wait thanks for
joining it for this video I’ll be
looking for you the next one talk to you
then whoa that’s cool sweet that was a
little more vigorous than I was
expecting
hey guys thanks for watching and
remember I’m giving away prizes now on
every new video all you have to do to
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you like what I’m doing show your
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kitchen today wearing my lab jacket and
you know what that means
we are about to do something extremely
dangerous now I have over here some very
very concentrated bottles of sulfuric
and nitric acids these things are
extremely extremely dangerous substances
I also have some baking soda some cotton
balls and some tampons you’ll see what
those are for later now for this
experiment today I thought it might be
fun to try making nitro cotton or gun
cotton flash cotton whatever you want to
call it goes by a lot of different names
now whatever you want to call this stuff
the process of making it isn’t very
difficult at all very very dangerous but
not difficult let me show it oh man
now to make this experiment a little
more scientific we are going to be
measuring our results I have a little
scientific beaker here so we can measure
out equal portions of sulfuric and
nitric acid then we’re going to dip them
one by one letting them each soak in the
solution for about five minutes take
them out rinse them let them dry and
measure the results now the sulfuric
acid I’m using is 93% sulfuric acid I
got this stuff from a chemical supply
store and I’m using it just for
convenience we could use the sulfuric
acid i extracted from my car battery in
a previous video but for this experiment
here I want the results to be as pure as
we can get them we’re also using 70
percent nitric acid which we could make
ourselves however the time and effort
that would need to go into producing it
is beyond the scope of our experiment
today now my beaker measures up to 120
milliliters and I want to do a 50/50
ratio of sulfuric and nitric acid so
let’s start off filling our beaker with
60 milliliters of nitric acid first then
followed up with 60 milliliters of
sulfuric acid to top it off now because
we’re dealing with some pretty dangerous
chemicals here I have a bag of ice and
some baking soda the idea being that we
can fill up a bowl with ice water so if
we have a thermal runaway we have a
place to dump it and mix with baking
soda so we have a solution that will
help neutralize any acid if we have any
accidental spills
okay so our nitric and sulfuric acids
have been mixed and it’s very important
to know that when these two liquids mix
together they heat up very fast using an
infrared thermometer we can see this
liquid goes from about 68 degrees
Fahrenheit up to 120 degrees Fahrenheit
in just a few seconds that’s the
difference of around 20 degrees Celsius
to 50 degrees Celsius for international
viewers and that is one of the reasons
we have our bath of ice standing by oh
and by the way the fumes are toxic now
this is actually still quite warm and we
need it to cool back down to room
temperature so while we’re waiting let’s
weigh out our cotton balls now I’m not
exactly sure how much cotton our 120
milliliters solution of acid can handle
so I’m going to weigh out and track
eight different cotton balls so we can
measure their success after they’ve been
nitrated so we can find the point where
the nitration starts dropping off here
goes cotton ball number one and it looks
like we are at 0.55 grams cotton ball
number two every day zero point six zero
number five
now the beginning of this video I told
you we might be doing something with
tampons as well and here’s what I’m
thinking if we open up one of these
applicator packages and take a look
inside you can see that tampon is mostly
just made of cotton so if we stripped
away the outer membrane and dip just the
cotton tampon into our solution do you
think are we possible to get a tampon to
work as well
flash Tampax that doesn’t really serve
any useful purpose it’s just for fun to
point or
so our solution is cooled down to about
85 degrees Fahrenheit that’s good enough
for me so let’s go ahead and take cotton
ball number one and use a glass stir
stick to hold it in solution so it can
nitrate for about five minutes now the
cotton is nitrating theoretically the
temperature should be rising again as
well you can see we’re already up to 88
Fahrenheit now while our cotton ball is
soaking here let me tell you a little
bit about what’s taking place the fibers
of the cotton ball themselves are
reacting with the nitric acid to nitrate
the cotton which also releases moisture
into the solution now moisture isn’t
really good for this reaction so the
sulfuric acid which is a dehydrating
agent absorbs that moisture and keeps
the reaction relatively clean depending
on how much cotton we have in the
solution the reaction can get very very
hot which is why we’re measuring the
temperature and we have a bath of ice
water we can dump it to if we need to
all right good news it’s been five
minutes so our time is up with cotton
ball number one so we’re just going to
fish that off and we’re going to squeeze
it to leave as much of the liquid as we
can in the container we’re going to
transfer it to a glass of fresh water
and let it soak you can see that as we
dab the cotton ball into the water at
least it’s quite a bit of the acid that
has stored and we need to do this four
to seven times to thoroughly rinse out
as much acid as we can possibly get
[Music]
see if there’s any feeling
there’s a little bit of acid on there
the baking soda helps neutralize any of
the leftover acid in the cotton now we
simply repeat that process over and over
again until all eight cotton balls are
finished
[Music]
update guys all eight of our cotton
balls are finished they have been fully
nitrated they’ve been washed rinsed
cleansed and put on this plate to sit
overnight to dry unfortunately while
they’re still wet we don’t have any way
to test them but in tomorrow’s video
we’re going to light them up and see how
they perform and what’s going to happen
with this thing could it be that we’ve
just invented the world’s first
pyrotechnic tampon and very curious to
find out so in the meantime let’s take
just a second to briefly recap what we
did here today and what we’re trying to
accomplish we start off our experiment
with sulfuric and nitric acid and the
intent to mix them together in a 50/50
ratio but going back and looking at it I
think I messed up things being from this
angle and added 80 milliliters of nitric
acid and 60 milliliters of sulfuric acid
but I think it’s still going to work out
next we weighed and documented each of
our cotton balls and then soaked them
one by one in the solution for five
minutes
after soaking for five minutes we
squeezed all the acid out of them rinse
them four different times and then put
them in a solution of baking soda to
neutralize any leftover acid after that
they were rinsed one more time and then
all the water was squeezed out then they
were placed on this plate where they
could sit overnight to dry so here’s the
question I want to figure out tomorrow
how much cotton does it take to use up
all the nitric acid in our solution
tomorrow we’re going to play with these
cotton balls to see if they go off with
a flash and we’re going to burn through
each of them to see where the nitration
point started to drop off how many of
these cotton balls do you think we’re
successfully transferred in the flash
cotton leave your thoughts in the
comments below well that’s it for today
all we can do now is wait thanks for
joining it for this video I’ll be
looking for you the next one talk to you
then whoa that’s cool sweet that was a
little more vigorous than I was
expecting
hey guys thanks for watching and
remember I’m giving away prizes now on
every new video all you have to do to
qualify is subscribe to my channel ring
the bell and select to be notified when
my next videos get released the secret
link to my giveaways will be pinned in
the comments for the first 12 hours if
you like what I’m doing show your
support right now by giving this video a
big thumbs up and share with a friend I
love you back and I’ll see you next time
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