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In this video, I will be doing the classic Nylon 6,6 demonstration. I first convert adipic acid (which was made in a previous video) to adipoyl chloride. It is then reacted with hexamethylenediamine to form Nylon 6,6.
In the future, I will be making Nylon 6,6 the industrial way, by first going through the nylon salt.
Note: I write cyclohexanol in the video, but it is actually cyclohexane that I used. I also wrote in the comments it was cyclohexanol...so double mistake. oops
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Adipic Acid video: • Making a Nylon Precurs...
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Add red colorant: Nylon red
Underrated.
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Nilon Red™
You... genius...
@@thomasmax9795 verbatim what I thought
Didn’t know my messed up sleep cycle would force me to watch chemistry
SAMEBDBFNCMKC its 4am :')
Same
I watch this TO sleep
@@tomiroot3942 same
SAMR
Nile: "I get a ph of around 7" drink it
Drink the salt water
Lmao 😂😂... H2O
yum
loll
LOL
"I'll for sure make nylon the other way" - nilered, 3 years ago
@@linaria17 oh shit!
@Adele Peng I didn't notice either. Thanks man!
@ Adele Peng i also didn't know thx
ExoCruz, 2 years ago
This comment is 3 years old, why do I find that oddly cool
About halfway through I forgot what we were makings and instead of looking at the title I decided to let it be a surprise so that was fun I suppose
soyest boi lol same, but then I remembered, “Oh right, Nylon...”
The possum is the soyest boi.
Hahahah
Happens to me every time.. stoner problems lol
School practicals in a nutshell
Nile: says some chemistry stuff that goes way over my head Me: “Hmm, yes, I see. Well done.”
Hello!! Um I am conducting a survey for an internet debate, would you be interested in answering one question?
That's literally my entire experience watching his channel. I don't understand a single bit of it, but I just like watching cool stuff happen.
@@cherrymarriedindiscord1404 yeah sure
@@nikunj3012 Thanks! Soo Do you consider ear pulling to be abuse?
@@cherrymarriedindiscord1404 aslong as only your ears get pulled it isnt abuse
“The chemical weapons act” oh ya, I forgot people do that stuff, here I was thinking of drugs and explosives when it comes to reasons not to make or have something
RIGHT
Very valid reasons, actually.
"I found it was good in general to punch the table" -kyle red 2020
Science out of context is great.
Kyle. Yeah Kyle…
How did u edit this, yet still miss Kyle lol
@@mannequ_in r/whoosh
@@loganspargo9222 but… it wasn’t a joke, jokes are supposed to be funny
Me, binge watching NileRed: Oh yeah distilled water let's go!
finally something i understand
Facts
It do be like that
And an “oh yeah here comes the stir bar!”
From University Labs, I've become so used to using distilled water instead of normal water, that whenever any instructions say regular water, I have to ask to make sure it's not a mistake 🤦🏼♂️
nylon 6,6,6 is useful for cleaning sacrification
GayRainbow Unicorn I was gonna make a 666 joke
Robert Blair me too
"metal noises!" Screaming in the dark cold nordic forest during black night. Making nylon ropes.
And according to 0:25 it is useful for "making women's stalkings"
Cowboy K stockings 🙂
i may not understand what you’re actually doing but i do know all the words you’re saying which as someone with an auditory processing disorder is super rare and an accomplishment. that’s why i like your voice so much, i can actually understand the words you’re saying. not necessarily what they mean cause i’m a composer/actor/musician but what the individual words are. like i was able to tell my mom who works in water filtration and used to be a microbiologist the general idea of how you did the diamond soda thing and she was super blown away by it but i understood the general concept and it makes me really happy. it’s so rare for me that when i can understand someone when they talk and i realize that i just get really really happy so i had to say something
This is so hard to read, using more punctuation would definitely help.
you guys should get married that would be cute i think
@@gooby8953 lmfao i’m good i just like his voice
I also have apd and I 100% agree. I was wondering what was so different about his videos and why they are so much more memorable than some others i enjoy, and it's simply because I can understand him lol
@@fige0n i love his videos a lot because i study chemistry and i check what ive learned with them. i can understand him well. i also have apd
I remember doing this in chemistry. After we mixed it all, everyone had a challenge to get as long of a single string as possible outta the beaker. I was at a disadvantage because my lab partner dropped the course after 6 weeks, so I didn’t have anyone watching the bottom. I got second place with a 83cm length, and just lost to a group that got 85cm, and I had some of mine curl and stick to itself. Was really happy and disappointed at the same time lol.
I watched the whole video with not understanding 80% of it
enjoyed it tho
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Same
20%? I didn't realize we were in the presence of a genius.
All you have to do is listen
15:43 Watching this polymer being pulled from the interface between two non-mixing liquids, it's one of those moments where I sit and ask myself "Who the hell first thought to do this? What was the chain of experimentation that lead up to it?"
I always ask myself that when I see science(anything chemistry) or math(calculus) or fashion (people who let cloaks fall out of common fashion) or cooking (flambeying stuff) or basically anything that could have very bad or very confusing consequences of doing the thing.
@@alexisflory6496 cloaks?
@@majikss they're amazing and have fallen out of mainstream fashion and I am salty.
@@alexisflory6496 there's so much more interesting math beyond calc. I hate that calc is considered by so many to be the end-all-be-all of math. If only you had taken a group theory course...
@@kruksog first I'm in highschool so that isn't an option. I will note it for college though. And second, I find the concept of infinitity itself fascinating. That is the only reason I am interested in calc.
salts, acids, and bases of all sorts come together to create the bristles of my toothbrush. This is absolutely, amazingly awesome stuff!
I’m always so grateful when you go over the chemical reaction Infographs and explain them so well! It’s so interesting!
Pro-tip - don't snort the hexamethylenediamine.
Too late
Make me
just you try to stop me
this made ma day
Do you speak from experience?
NileRed, Currently in OChem Lab and this video saved my life. PLEASE keep up the good work. I really appreciate the in depth explanations for my own curiosity, and for my lab reports. Love your work. Thank you!
OCHEM?
Steve Thea organic chem maybe?
@@TurboZarya it's organic chemistry lab, a college course
Nylon 6,6,6
Steve Thea how about use google next time, instead of other peoples time.
I believe I was supposed to do this experiment in my organic chemistry lab but because of the pandemic my professor has posted this video for us to watch and see how this reaction works. All I gotta say is that this was awesome and i wish i could've done it in person!
21:40 He says like we’re all doing this at home.
Lmao
don't you?
Chem lab: be sure to be no further off than .2 ml! Nilered: adding about 6 ml, then a bit extra just to be sure...
Hello!! Um I am conducting a survey for an internet debate, would you be interested in answering one question?
@@cherrymarriedindiscord1404 you know, this comment is kinda old XD
@@daniellima4391 I- I noticed... Quite frankly didn't mind... I am just desperate to get votes at this point...
ayo i’ll do ur survey
@@cherrymarriedindiscord1404 sure
This channel is SO interesting! I barely remember Chemistry back when I was in high school but I got a B in it. Our teacher had one line I always remembered: in the very first day of class he said "If you don't know your valences, we cannot communicate." Memorizing valences was the first thing everybody did, and he quizzed us on it relentlessly. RIP Mr. Burns! Great guy and I'm sure he was way underemployed. He had an MS in chemistry and I was told he had something to do with Fermi's experimental reactor in Chicago.
i agree
Fermi didnt have much to do with chemistry, he was a particle physicist.
@@Pigborg I didn't say ANYTHING about Fermi being a chemist! Mr. Burns could have been involved with early research, not that FOR SURE he was there when the atomic pile was built. He was the only Black chemist with a graduate degree I ever knew of back then. I didn't think that was possible in the 60's.
@@meridien52681 ok. Good for him being a black guy with an MS!
@@Pigborg Absolutely! He was close to being elderly in the mid-Sixties, so hw would have been in college and grad school in the 50's. He must have gone through hell to get a fair education way back then. He would have been denied a lot of opportunities as a Black man in the 50's. The students always respected him!
Hey Nigel, I really do love your content. You may not explain every little thing super in detail but I like how you give the viewer enough bits of knowledge that it makes it easy to go out and do further research on the chemistry and mechanisms therein. Hope you have a good day!
No one: No one: Still no one: NileRed: "So I added 500ml of concentrated hydrochloric acid...."
Not sulfuric acid
This guy makes a highly informative video and goes to great lengths to explain and describe everything and you guys making 666 jokes
Lightningbug yes
Yup
cause its funny
Yes, how dare they! Such ignorance is clearly the devil's doing!
And you have 69 likes. That is waaaay better. Btw I am not going to like it. Because of the 69.
nobody: flakes in the Hexamethylenediamine: *_n y o o m_*
I CHOKED-
how long did it take you to make sure you typed that correctly?
@@radiat3810 like 5 minutes
@@videosofmydog3717 lol
Wait where did he make fucking HMTD in this vid?
When you forget that you had a piece of paper in your pocket and then you wash it: 20:00
Wow, your reaction schemas are so clear to read. I could understand most of the process, even though I only have had one year of chemistry at a university level, as part of my Biology curriculum. thank you so much for sharing.
I forgot to filter the biomorthemic dioxide through the hydrochloridic acid Me: *sitting on the couch licking cheese dust off of my fingers* a rookie mistake Thanks for 100 likes you are all cool gamers 🤟
Static this is hilarious and also accurate i had to lick the cheese dust off to type this
Cheese *dust*?
BenjaminGoose you know, the dust thats leftover on your fingers after eating cheese items such as cheese curls or cheetos
2^8 likes!
@@juliaalexander8703 "cheese"
This reaction is beautiful! I work at a Polyamide factory, I know how to make, we have a polymerization pilot for nylon tryouts. One very interesting kind of nylon is the Nylon 6-T (HMD and Tereftalic Acid), by doing this one we can reach a higher melt point for the plastic.
What is the difference in melt point you can achieve by this method?
do you mean teraphthalic acid ?
@@johnstorrie3635 that seems like an excessive use of the letter h
Glass reinforced nylon is actually very strong. It's used for the housings of power tools and industrial machines where metal would be too heavy.
I love you, Nigel. You’ve opened up a world to me that I never, ever thought would be attainable. Thank you so much. 🙏
I remember doing this experiment in Organic 2 lab, we had a contest of who could make the longest rope of nylon and the winner got extra credit lol
I'm a bit confused by the concept of extra credit. How is it any different from normal credit? How do people avoid unfairly grading students?
Ohhhhhhhhhhh
did u win tho
@@festerdam4548 instead of failing to do the assignment resulting in a poor grade (thus lowering your overall average grade for the class) with extra credit, if you give the extra effort, you get extra points to your grade. raising your average. if you don’t do the extra credit there is no “punishment” because it’s is only additive rather than subtractive. only reward without punishment. in some cases (as with this person’s example) it’s a competition to encourage engagement and interest in the student. in other cases they reward based on how well you did, or in others if you did anything at all you get the points. The main difference between that and normal credit is that it’s not required. by nature of being “extra” credit, it’s not unfair to any students because if you don’t wanna do it you don’t have to, you just don’t reap the benefits; however, if you do the work you get rewarded for your efforts.
Nilered: here’s how nylon is made! Isn’t this neat! Everyone with at least 2 brain cells to get distracted: hehe nylon 666
I was looking for this
Hehe stuff that makes my one brain cell go numb
NileRed: the most common forms of nylon are nylon *6* and nylon *6,6* . Me with 2 brain cells: hold up
@@follower4317 hehe saten go brrrrrrrrr
The nylon that is used in hell is nylon 6,6,6 0:31
4:29 typical chemist. Makes some table salt but calls it sodium chloride
Nice work man.
NurdRage both of you have been pumping out the videos lately having to sit on the shitter at work longer than expected haha.
You should do a collab with him :P
NurdRage is DONT see your videos in my feed or get any notifications
youtube turned off notifications for my channel for most of my subscribers. You might be able to turn them back on by clicking the notification icon beside the subscribe button. Not much that can be done beyond that since youtube decided to suppress me.
Why did they suppress you ? Love your videos by the way.
What was the worst accident that happened in one of your experiments? (Nice video!)
Making the lithium carbonate... lithium exploded, lit part of my area on fire and cracked my glass table into 3 pieces.
NileRed is there a video of it?
nice job nile just kidding, we all make mistakes
@@nonchalantree6604 it's how we learn! Life would be boring otherwise.
NileRed rip
I love how you go over the mechanism knowing full well that non-Chemistry-majors/those who have not taken organic chemistry will have no idea what they're looking at. I am currently finishing my second semester of organic chemistry and it is literally all mechanisms like these and synthesis problems. I love your videos because they are basically just video lab reports and remind me of my Organic Chemistry Lab course.
These videos have always interested me. Keep making these, I will always come by to watch and support you!
made nylon 6,10 in my organic chem lab last week and it was the coolest reaction ive ever seen. nearly everything in solution converted to nylon
I love your videos a lot, I love this clearness, this silence, no music...
helps me sleep :)
Thanks, that was entertaining and nostalgic. This was one of my favorite labs in Org chem besides making Isopentyl Acetate then using the NMR to confirm. I remember having a better yield than my classmates because they were very impatient with the rolling and melting :P . (Also, whoever matched closest to their theoretical yields always got a bonus point!)
decades ago in school a classmate (his father worked for 3M) made nylon in our classroom. We were about 11 years old but had all the safety equipment and successfully made nylon. cheers!
Oxalyl chloride: "IM FOCKIN FUMIN"
Just realised that he has "NileRed" on his glassware!😂⚗
And his glassware is made out of Nylon Red
We shall never know!😂😂
Darren Gardner I see what you did there XD
Theboss24611 😂😂
i put the wrong name... i meant to put the person who made a pun XD
I actually did this in school recently, it makes me so happy to see stuff I already know on this channel :)
I just recently found Nile red and this is one of the coolest things I've ever seen
That stir bar amazed me more than anything up to that point in the video. Wtf was that, I've never seen that before!? XD
Ah, it works with magnetism. I didn't see anything moving it so I thought it somehow did something with water that made it move on it's own.
Yeah, looks miraculous, but as far as I can tell it's just a magnet in a protective layer. You then use something underneath that creates a rotating magnetic field, and the stir bar rotates along with it. XD I guess 'miraculous' is all relative anyway. As Arthur Clarke said 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic' Funnily enough, Chemistry is one of the few 'magical arts' to have survived into the modern era. Alchemy sounds all fantastical and Alchemists frequently had very strange goals in mind, but they did establish most of the groundwork for what later became chemistry, and any occult and arcane fluff aside, it was not that far removed from modern chemistry in practical processes...
The study of electromagnetism is pretty damn magical as well, far as I'm concerned ha!
The stir bar 😂
Saw a guy that made a home-made one with a computer fan with magnets on the blades and a metal (bolt?) Covered in some kind of plastic(my guess is that rubber stuff you dip tool handles in to get a better grip). Worked,just rig up a plastic or aluminum stand for your beaker.
Maybe you can make artificial spider silk next! (or at least try to)
Extracting silk from spiders.... first... we're going to powderize 600 living spiders. Step 1. Blanch spiders in hot distilled water. Step 2. Vacuum filter spiders. Step 3. Dehydrate the spiders on low for 12 hours. Step 4. Grind spiders in pestle and mortar. Step 5. Add spider powder to distilled water with hydrochloric acid.... 😂
the thought emporium?
@@fullup91 ok... That's not how it's working...
That it a trillion dollar invention
@@_BangDroid_ Not really, once the availability of synthetic silk increases then the price of silk products decreases.
nile red throwing chemistry words at me a 16 year old: Gibberish, Gibberish, Gibberish, DCM, Gibberish Me: DCM, wait I know that one! I'm an expert.
A random chemical fact English-speaking chemists may find entertaining: hydrochloric acid in Russian is often called something that could be translated as "salty acid", probably due to its salt with sodium basically. And a huge thank you Nile for making such quality content I've been binging for the last month instead of my Chem olimpiad preparation or school 😅. You're really inspiring and your videos are one of the reasons that stop me from quitting chemistry olimpiad. Lots of love from Belarus ❤️
This was one of THE funnest chemical experiments we got to do in my high-school chem class.
18:49 The forbidden Dew
00:20 I'm currently watching this as I'm brushing my teeth, gotta say it makes the whole thing brushing part way more entertaining
I love your content. I would like to see you repeat this experiment on a larger scale and use a power drill to spool up your nylon. You have one of the best channels on KZhead. Keep them videos coming!!
The late video bombardment is highly welcome, Nile. Please proceed with youthful enthusiasm!
"The late video bombardment" Was the pun intentional?
wot comment 19 hours before the video? is this a patreon thing?
:P
Fan of New York Steve?
XD
Is the cloth from hell made of nylon 666?
EPIK TOMATO of course. 😈
Well, it's a perfect form of torture in hot conditions, so... Probably. ;p
Yes, it's also very tasty.
I don't think it's from hell. Because it's called _nylon 6,6_ 😉
@@chaosminecraft3399 r/woooosh
It looks so cool how the Nylon forms on the contact between the two liquids
one thing i love about this and these videos in general, is that they are highly informative, really intelligent, yet there are times when nile seems to have the attention span of a kitten. "Look how the flakes zoom around!" *stares for half a minute*
I'm a sophomore in highschool and I have ABSOLUTELY no idea what anything you say means but i'm still really interested by it. What you do looks like pure sorcery and i'm not fully convinced that chemists aren't just skilled wizards. thanks for your vids!
NurdRage and NileRed started to be supported by audible the same day. Coincidence ? I dont think so...
Team NR
My friend showed me this channel. At first I was like "meh its education" But after watching ONE VIDEO you made an instant fan out of me. I love chemistry so much now. Thank you.
Would you consider leaving on a red cloth regular table lamp in the bedroom and a tubular vintage oval bulb desk lamp in the office, and seeing which type of bulb burns out first after a while, "doing an experiment" ? -;.
I love your videos! I am a biochem undergrad and your explanations of rxn mechanisms was awesome.
Your vids make me feel like I didn’t absolutely flunk science through high school xD
I like how the word 'adipic acid' sounds :D
Like a drug that increases your sexual drive to the point of freudial horrors
@@heavystalin2419 what
@@seanjohnisee Oedipus
I actually made this in class and its by far one of the most interesting lab experiments ive ever done its so satisfying when pulling it out
Thanks man for such an elaborate video, I was a hater of organic chemistry always thought these reactions were just electrons dancing around never made sense to understand them and the intricacies of it. But this practice approach is much more reviling where actually those reactions and products solve something. You have made me fall in love with organic chemistry, this was not just memorising but troubleshooting as in other benches of science. Come to India we need people like you teaching. Thanks man truly appreciate your work.
Your videos are always so interesting and entertaining.
Thanks!
could you do a video about liquid and solid oxygen
@@michaelrichard1678 Ayo I think he’s done one now
The melted nylon at the end looks exactly like the stock from a Remington Nylon 66 rifle. Because it is the same material. So it looks like you did it right!
R. L. Royall, Jr. for firearms they add up to 30% Fiberglas fibers
Its always facinating how he can easily say those words for chemicals that look impossible to say like 1:32 on the Down left its impossible to say but not for him
17:12 to remove the water, I dip it into a bowl of water
Watching your videos before and after taking ochem is like night and day. Thank you so much!
Hey Nile. Just so you know, at 12:45, you say cyclohexane, but the caption says cyclohexanol. Again, at 14:10.
Alexander C It wouldn't be a legit Nile Red video without wrong captions.
damn...it is actually cyclohexanol. What i am saying is wrong...
NileRed Ok then, thanks! Excellent video as always.
Its been a while since I used an acyl chloride or studied organic chemistry, but shouldn't the cyclohexanol react to form dicyclohexyl adipate? IIRC forming esters from acyl chlorides takes little to no encouragement.
I found a wild Sergal in a chemistry synthesis video, of all the videos out there. Howdy!
It's amazing how nylon glows in the dark! This upload makes me imaginable that candescent stockings may be in the markets!
idk why but i’ve watched all of his videos just to listen to his voice when i’m doing something else, his voice is just somewhat relaxing to listen to
This is something I learned as just a reaction in high school and seeing it act out is really interesting!!
You know, I really enjoy listening to your videos while doing art.
This dude makes learning hella fun.
Did he just call a screwdriver a metal spatula? Lmfao
I find your making polymer synthesis videos quite exciting, not solely because they are complex and unique reactions, but also because i always wonder how these substances are made and molded to perform their function. Since you do a lot of organic chemistry, have you ever considered including in videos substance typification to further know what the real product and/or its impurities are present? Great video btw
Hey, I haven't watched in a while and just want to say that I've noticed your video quality, experiment quality, and narration quality have all improved since I last watched. I like your videos even more now!! You're making great stuff. :)
Lol compare it to now
In school I hated chemistry class And now I'm non stop watching your videos lol
I remember doing this in high school in France back in the days. Great experiment!
This was great to see as someone who has done the other way a few times. Thanks.
Hey, I remember seeing almost this same exact reaction being done in Theodore Gray's Mad Science book! He showed how to pull long strings of nylon out of a wine glass, and I always thought it was fake or something. This is amazing, though, super awesome video!
You make great videos. Keep up the good work!
Cool video. I'd like to see you do something with the nylon you made
you make chemistry so interesting that I want to have it again in school. I was always the D-F student in chemistry, however :(
The way it acts as your winding it up is mind boggling. Looks so weird. Love it
Thank you for this idea i will make homemade nylon soon! With this easy project.
That florescent nylon was freaking awesome.
14:52 you can actually use "started to zoom around erratically" in papers reports, fun
Damn I remember making this in highschool 2-3 years ago! So many memories, thanks for the awesome video
I know just enough chemistry to be very interested by this video and incredibly impressed that people figured these things out.
Can you make Nylon 6,9?
Eric Kelly dear god not 69
nice
yes its the nylon used in condoms
and dildos
Yeeeeaaaahhh ;)
Whoa, a 25 minute long video? Excellent!
i always enjoy this guys content.
Thank you! Such an important polymer that I know have a much broader understanding of.
yay the video I requested is finally here!!!! Nylon 6,6 is also known as "Zytel" the Dupont trade name for it :) I wanted it because of the Remington Nylon 66 rifle I own, and so awesome to see you got sponsored by Audible on this one :D Thanks so much Nile, hope you enjoyed making it as much as I enjoyed watching :)
Romo Sapien is there anything about nylon 6,6 specifically that makes it good for shoulder stocks or am I just thinking about it too much?