today’s video is sponsored by audible
the link in the description for a free
audiobook when you start your 30-day
trial hey guys I’m Nate welcome back to
the workshop we’ve got a couple of
chemicals that we’ve used at the past
and today we’re going to combine them
and see how they work out we’ve got
liquid nitrogen which we’ve done a lot
of cool experiments with and here we’ve
got a tank of sulfur hexafluoride in
case you don’t remember
we hope you fuse the episode effect of
helium on your face if you breathe it in
pretty cool and of course you want to
make sure you don’t keep the sulfur
hexafluoride in your lungs for too long
because it’s much heavier than air and
will actually displace any air in your
lungs which could make you lightheaded
dizzy or even pass out so today we’re
gonna see what happens if we fill a
balloon with sulfur hexafluoride and
then put that into some liquid nitrogen
cooling it down to over 300 degrees
Fahrenheit below zero
clearly a standard balloon when blown up
will not fit into the mouth of this
container but I think we can squeeze it
enough that it starts to fit in and I’m
counting on the liquid nitrogen
shrinking the volume of the gas think
the whole thing will collapse down to
the point where it can all fit inside
this container let’s give it a try
[Music]
there we go
all balloons a whole balloon full of
sulfur hexafluoride now I am going to
try and do this without tying a knot in
it because I might want to open the
balloon after depending on what it looks
like has happened inside my tap
overestimated how well I could deform
this balloon to fit it in the container
since I can’t really fit the balloon in
I’m just gonna try and scoop some liquid
nitrogen out and pour it over the
balloon see what we get now the balloon
is definitely shrinking that’s working
well there we go and the neck of this is
still very much twisted off nothing is
escaping out of the balloon it’s just
that the volume of the gas is getting
much much smaller and I believe it’s
turning solid let’s take a quick break
to learn about our sponsor audible.com
audible is offering listeners a free
audio book with a 30 day trial
membership they’ve got a huge selection
of audiobooks comedy news and more
personally I’m a big fan of sci-fi and
fantasy and recently I’ve been listening
to opera by Brandon Sanderson it’s the
3rd book in a Stormlight archive series
one of my favorite things about using
audible is that it lets you keep track
of your place in the book even if you
switch from one device to another go to
audible.com slash king of random and
browse their unmatched selection
download a free title and start
listening now let’s go back to our
experiments that is a balloon full of
solid sulfur hexafluoride a very very
cold balloon full of solid sulfur
hexafluoride let’s let this warm back up
and see if it’s still full of sulfur
hexafluoride gas way we’d expect it to
be there you go that’s a chunk of sulfur
hexafluoride right there
shaking around in the balloon the
balloon itself is wearing back up but
the sulfur hexafluoride inside has not
our balloon is still very cold so it’s
getting frost on the outside I’m trying
to just keep wiping that off so we can
see inside and see the balloon is
filling back up just gonna try and use
the heat of my hand to melt the sulfur
hexafluoride I guess it’s not gonna melt
it’s gonna sublime it’s just making my
hand really cold oh yeah it’s definitely
making my hand really cold anywhere
those little specks it for just a second
really cools down the balloon a lot
leaves marks on you can see maybe a
little bit of vapor condensing on the
bottom where it’s sitting it’s getting
pretty close I don’t want to try
breathing any of this gas in while
they’re still frozen particles in here
because then it’s possible they could
get blown out with the moving gas and
have frozen particles of sulfur
hexafluoride in my lungs that sounds
like a very bad experience to me oh I
forget how heavy this stuff is this
balloon is just like pulling down so
hard it feels like gravity is increased
like you just as way more dropped to it
than a normal balloon think we are we
gasps off’ i’d all of our sulfur
hexafluoride in this balloon that looks
like about the size that it was before
we started so I think this is worked out
pretty well I’m gonna try breathing some
of it in see if it still has the same
effect look at you think I think it says
like it still has the exact same effect
even have to be frozen and fan and that
really settles in your lungs it’s still
a little bit of air there’s one more
experiment I want to see if we can do I
want to take another balloon shrink it
all down so all the sulfur hexafluoride
is solid and I want to cut it out and
then based on what I just did here I
want to see if I can compress it down in
sort of all one pellet and then take
that pellet can fit it inside a new
balloon
and tie that off and let it expand and
see if I can successfully transfer
sulfur hexafluoride in solid state from
one balloon into another why I don’t
know it just seems like it’d be neat
[Applause]
heavy balloon there you go
solid sulfur hexafluoride right there
very very cold stuff and it’s a lot like
solid carbon dioxide usually known as
dry ice it doesn’t pass through a liquid
phase at peace temperatures and
pressures it goes straight from a solid
into a gas you can see what’s coming off
of there is probably sulfur hexafluoride
turning into gas it also might have a
little bit of condensed water vapor in
with it all right and I think that’s
most of our sulfur hexafluoride of
course we’ve lost a little bit of it as
it warmed up I’m now trying to compress
it down and that seems to be working all
right I think I’ve got kind of a good
pellet of sulfur hexafluoride here I’m
just gonna take the chance and lick it
well I can easily hold on to it doesn’t
really seem to do much kind of like
licking an ice cube no flavor whatsoever
all right now let’s see if I can manage
to force this chunk of sulfur
hexafluoride down into this balloon
without it just completely freezing
there we go
that is a chunk of sulfur hexafluoride
in the balloon I squeezed the air out as
much as I could
once the sulfur hexafluoride is in there
so now we can just watch you can see
it’s already starting to expand a little
bit and everything in there should just
be sulfur hexafluoride that’s in there I
wonder if I can break that chunk back up
it’s somewhat broken up and I kind of
shake it and keep my hands on it to add
some warmth try and blow that back up as
much as it’s gonna go here we have a
demonstration of how fast our liquid
nitrogen is expanding inside of our
thermos kind of a lot currently the neck
of the balloon is covering the only exit
from this container of liquid nitrogen
and so we can see about how much liquid
nitrogen is turning into a gas at any
given time when you can see this balloon
is growing at a decent rate alright our
sulfur hexafluoride has now completely
sublimated back into a gas we have our
heavy balloon you may notice this
balloon is definitely smaller than the
one we originally filled with sulfur
hexafluoride for this particular
experiment and I’m sure that’s just
because we lost some of the sulfur
hexafluoride as we were transferring it
from one balloon to the other yeah go in
there now let’s cut the neck off I’ll
breathe this in and see if it gives us
the same effect we’re used to a sulfur
hexafluoride
[Music]
what do you think sounds to me like it’s
still looking just the same even after
being transferred from one balloon into
another and then you gotta breathe it
out so you don’t pass out that might be
on here tight enough and it doesn’t want
to pop itself off this might just not
have enough pressure so we might just
have our balloon explode and I want to
just step back for help minutes and let
that do its thing it’s getting kind of
narrower down at the neck which might be
pulling it differently whoa that was a
ringer Wow well there you go a nice
little mini experiment right now a
balloon covering the nozzle of this tank
it definitely warms up enough to put out
some vapors of liquid nitrogen enough
pressure to burst a balloon and that
only took maybe 10-15 minutes total to
blow up that whole balloon and then pop
it pretty fun stuff there we go now we
know what happens if we put sulfur
hexafluoride into a balloon and freeze
it in liquid nitrogen it doesn’t
actually go into a liquid phase at least
in this pressure in the air it goes
straight from the gas into a solid then
it warms back up it turns back into a
gas I thought it was especially fun we
were able to take some of the solid
hexafluoride out of the balloon smoosh
it down into sort of a pellet and fit it
into another balloon where it then
warmed back up and inflated that balloon
it’s an interesting way to transfer
sulfur hexafluoride probably not very
practical for most means but I thought
it was cool that it works thanks for
joining us for this video and remember
to come yourself with barbecue look at
the king of random dot-com see you there
the answer that sounded went if you play
the video it ups the movie now completed
double speed and sounds morning and of
course oh man
again thank you to audible for
sponsoring this video go to audible.com
slash king of random or text king of
random to five zero zero five zero zero
for a free audiobook when you sign up
for a trial 30-day membership
[Music]
the link in the description for a free
audiobook when you start your 30-day
trial hey guys I’m Nate welcome back to
the workshop we’ve got a couple of
chemicals that we’ve used at the past
and today we’re going to combine them
and see how they work out we’ve got
liquid nitrogen which we’ve done a lot
of cool experiments with and here we’ve
got a tank of sulfur hexafluoride in
case you don’t remember
we hope you fuse the episode effect of
helium on your face if you breathe it in
pretty cool and of course you want to
make sure you don’t keep the sulfur
hexafluoride in your lungs for too long
because it’s much heavier than air and
will actually displace any air in your
lungs which could make you lightheaded
dizzy or even pass out so today we’re
gonna see what happens if we fill a
balloon with sulfur hexafluoride and
then put that into some liquid nitrogen
cooling it down to over 300 degrees
Fahrenheit below zero
clearly a standard balloon when blown up
will not fit into the mouth of this
container but I think we can squeeze it
enough that it starts to fit in and I’m
counting on the liquid nitrogen
shrinking the volume of the gas think
the whole thing will collapse down to
the point where it can all fit inside
this container let’s give it a try
[Music]
there we go
all balloons a whole balloon full of
sulfur hexafluoride now I am going to
try and do this without tying a knot in
it because I might want to open the
balloon after depending on what it looks
like has happened inside my tap
overestimated how well I could deform
this balloon to fit it in the container
since I can’t really fit the balloon in
I’m just gonna try and scoop some liquid
nitrogen out and pour it over the
balloon see what we get now the balloon
is definitely shrinking that’s working
well there we go and the neck of this is
still very much twisted off nothing is
escaping out of the balloon it’s just
that the volume of the gas is getting
much much smaller and I believe it’s
turning solid let’s take a quick break
to learn about our sponsor audible.com
audible is offering listeners a free
audio book with a 30 day trial
membership they’ve got a huge selection
of audiobooks comedy news and more
personally I’m a big fan of sci-fi and
fantasy and recently I’ve been listening
to opera by Brandon Sanderson it’s the
3rd book in a Stormlight archive series
one of my favorite things about using
audible is that it lets you keep track
of your place in the book even if you
switch from one device to another go to
audible.com slash king of random and
browse their unmatched selection
download a free title and start
listening now let’s go back to our
experiments that is a balloon full of
solid sulfur hexafluoride a very very
cold balloon full of solid sulfur
hexafluoride let’s let this warm back up
and see if it’s still full of sulfur
hexafluoride gas way we’d expect it to
be there you go that’s a chunk of sulfur
hexafluoride right there
shaking around in the balloon the
balloon itself is wearing back up but
the sulfur hexafluoride inside has not
our balloon is still very cold so it’s
getting frost on the outside I’m trying
to just keep wiping that off so we can
see inside and see the balloon is
filling back up just gonna try and use
the heat of my hand to melt the sulfur
hexafluoride I guess it’s not gonna melt
it’s gonna sublime it’s just making my
hand really cold oh yeah it’s definitely
making my hand really cold anywhere
those little specks it for just a second
really cools down the balloon a lot
leaves marks on you can see maybe a
little bit of vapor condensing on the
bottom where it’s sitting it’s getting
pretty close I don’t want to try
breathing any of this gas in while
they’re still frozen particles in here
because then it’s possible they could
get blown out with the moving gas and
have frozen particles of sulfur
hexafluoride in my lungs that sounds
like a very bad experience to me oh I
forget how heavy this stuff is this
balloon is just like pulling down so
hard it feels like gravity is increased
like you just as way more dropped to it
than a normal balloon think we are we
gasps off’ i’d all of our sulfur
hexafluoride in this balloon that looks
like about the size that it was before
we started so I think this is worked out
pretty well I’m gonna try breathing some
of it in see if it still has the same
effect look at you think I think it says
like it still has the exact same effect
even have to be frozen and fan and that
really settles in your lungs it’s still
a little bit of air there’s one more
experiment I want to see if we can do I
want to take another balloon shrink it
all down so all the sulfur hexafluoride
is solid and I want to cut it out and
then based on what I just did here I
want to see if I can compress it down in
sort of all one pellet and then take
that pellet can fit it inside a new
balloon
and tie that off and let it expand and
see if I can successfully transfer
sulfur hexafluoride in solid state from
one balloon into another why I don’t
know it just seems like it’d be neat
[Applause]
heavy balloon there you go
solid sulfur hexafluoride right there
very very cold stuff and it’s a lot like
solid carbon dioxide usually known as
dry ice it doesn’t pass through a liquid
phase at peace temperatures and
pressures it goes straight from a solid
into a gas you can see what’s coming off
of there is probably sulfur hexafluoride
turning into gas it also might have a
little bit of condensed water vapor in
with it all right and I think that’s
most of our sulfur hexafluoride of
course we’ve lost a little bit of it as
it warmed up I’m now trying to compress
it down and that seems to be working all
right I think I’ve got kind of a good
pellet of sulfur hexafluoride here I’m
just gonna take the chance and lick it
well I can easily hold on to it doesn’t
really seem to do much kind of like
licking an ice cube no flavor whatsoever
all right now let’s see if I can manage
to force this chunk of sulfur
hexafluoride down into this balloon
without it just completely freezing
there we go
that is a chunk of sulfur hexafluoride
in the balloon I squeezed the air out as
much as I could
once the sulfur hexafluoride is in there
so now we can just watch you can see
it’s already starting to expand a little
bit and everything in there should just
be sulfur hexafluoride that’s in there I
wonder if I can break that chunk back up
it’s somewhat broken up and I kind of
shake it and keep my hands on it to add
some warmth try and blow that back up as
much as it’s gonna go here we have a
demonstration of how fast our liquid
nitrogen is expanding inside of our
thermos kind of a lot currently the neck
of the balloon is covering the only exit
from this container of liquid nitrogen
and so we can see about how much liquid
nitrogen is turning into a gas at any
given time when you can see this balloon
is growing at a decent rate alright our
sulfur hexafluoride has now completely
sublimated back into a gas we have our
heavy balloon you may notice this
balloon is definitely smaller than the
one we originally filled with sulfur
hexafluoride for this particular
experiment and I’m sure that’s just
because we lost some of the sulfur
hexafluoride as we were transferring it
from one balloon to the other yeah go in
there now let’s cut the neck off I’ll
breathe this in and see if it gives us
the same effect we’re used to a sulfur
hexafluoride
[Music]
what do you think sounds to me like it’s
still looking just the same even after
being transferred from one balloon into
another and then you gotta breathe it
out so you don’t pass out that might be
on here tight enough and it doesn’t want
to pop itself off this might just not
have enough pressure so we might just
have our balloon explode and I want to
just step back for help minutes and let
that do its thing it’s getting kind of
narrower down at the neck which might be
pulling it differently whoa that was a
ringer Wow well there you go a nice
little mini experiment right now a
balloon covering the nozzle of this tank
it definitely warms up enough to put out
some vapors of liquid nitrogen enough
pressure to burst a balloon and that
only took maybe 10-15 minutes total to
blow up that whole balloon and then pop
it pretty fun stuff there we go now we
know what happens if we put sulfur
hexafluoride into a balloon and freeze
it in liquid nitrogen it doesn’t
actually go into a liquid phase at least
in this pressure in the air it goes
straight from the gas into a solid then
it warms back up it turns back into a
gas I thought it was especially fun we
were able to take some of the solid
hexafluoride out of the balloon smoosh
it down into sort of a pellet and fit it
into another balloon where it then
warmed back up and inflated that balloon
it’s an interesting way to transfer
sulfur hexafluoride probably not very
practical for most means but I thought
it was cool that it works thanks for
joining us for this video and remember
to come yourself with barbecue look at
the king of random dot-com see you there
the answer that sounded went if you play
the video it ups the movie now completed
double speed and sounds morning and of
course oh man
again thank you to audible for
sponsoring this video go to audible.com
slash king of random or text king of
random to five zero zero five zero zero
for a free audiobook when you sign up
for a trial 30-day membership
[Music]
Please follow and like us: