Making the stinkiest chemical known to man
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Thioacetone is something that I've been wanting to make for a while, and now, I finally get to experience its horror. Will it be as horrendously stinky as it is claimed to be? Will it make me pass out and vomit?
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Nile talks about lab safety: • Chemistry is dangerous.
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Renting an island to test a bio weapon is but the first step into supervillainhood
I think on contrary - it's a humane thing to do ) True villains set up their most dangerous labs in "satellite countries" on different continent, and test stuff on unsuspecting public. Or start a war and test on enemy personnel.
@@andrewphi4958 Oh my god how boring can you be, it's a fucking joke
@@andrewphi4958 What about the animals that have to endure the smell lol
yeah up next - mixing coca leaves and ethanol lol
@@WitchMedusa what's the difference? like bio weapons are like bacteria or whatever while chemical weapons are gasses/liquids etc?
"At one point my Cameraman had dropped dead from the horrific chemical smell, but I barely smelled anything so clearly I hadn't made enough of it" -- NileRed, totally not a Mad Scientist
NileGreen
Nilegreen.
@@ArloMathis parallel universe Nile
when NileRed became NileGreen:
I have been summoned
"I rented an entire island" - MrBeast of chemistry, 2022
XD
I read this comment as soon as that part came up lol
OMFG I saw this comment and thought it was a joke, and then got to the 26-minute mark xD xD xD
Mr. Beast, but there's a soul behind his eyes
I feel like nile has just burnt off all of his receptors from using strong chemicals and now is immune to strong smells
you're probably right 😭
You likely aren't wrong.
Probably needs to stop sticking his nose so close to chemicals.
exactly what I was thinking. Bro has no sense of smell left.
Very likely that’s the case. lol
Nile is two things: 1. A real smart fella 2. A real fart smella
Smart fella, fella smart, it takes a smart fella to make a smell a fart.
@@KB-ke3fi What did you try to say, fella?
A real thioacetone smella
Underrated comment
One smart fellow. He felt smart. Two smart fellows. They felt smart. Three smart fellows ...
I like to imagine the conversation that transpired when renting the island. "What do you need an island for?" "Chemical weapon tests" "o.k."
Tsar Bomba reference
Nah, it's Canada, so it probably went like this: "What do you need an island for? You're not doing any illicit experiments or chemical weapons tests, eh? Don't worry, five hundred bucks." "Thanks"
I love this comment
"you'll see."
@@SweetPotatoNotFound2castle bravo you mean
trusting google translate while doing a dangerous experiment is absolutely brave af 💀
No joke!!😂
😁my thoughts exactly
I think the reason that Nile wasn’t as phased by the smell as the camera man is because he’s already really used to smelling foul odors. As he mentioned in the intro, he’s made a lot of incredibly stinky substances over the years, and just before smelling the thioacetone he had already caught a massive whiff of the trithioacetone that had gotten on his glove. Thus, he’d more or less had developed a tolerance, similar to how people who eat spicy foods develop a spice tolerance.
I concur. It is similiar to spicy foods - If you know you can take it, it becomes fare less dreadful.
Also how most nurses over 50 are completely noseblind
4/4 marks
no he's actually smell blind and it will put him into danger one day in this field. He should be very aware of it and consider his setback in science more to prevent accidents he can't smell in time.
The amount of times he goes “what’s that horrible smell?”, shrugs, and goes back to his experiment is kind of hilarious
He probably burned his olfactory receptors while on his chemistry adventures.
If smell weapons ever become a thing then nile is gonna be a supersoldier.
Watch this man gas his entire neighbourhood in only 45 minutes
@@jakobmax3299 they exist
im thinking mark is gunna wanna make or turn a vape pen into a dispenser for scambait glitterbomb
Things I learned from this video: 1. Nile's olfactory nerves are apparently degraded from years of inhaling various chemicals he shouldn't. 2. When something says "here's how to make 100g of the worst thing ever", 1/400th of that amount will be fine. 3. Nile can afford to rent AN ISLAND?!
Making bank on those shorts. Smart move, but I prefer these long form videos.
Apparently an island is ~850 bucks
@@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 me too
@@theunknown4834 there are thousands of islands in Quebec, they're really not very expensive.
After the diamond water schtick are we really surprised? 😂
the scientists originally did it with 100g... that was 0.25g, and it covered the entire island and then some more. imagine someone doing 100g in middle of manhattan. i wonder if that would trigger a state of emergency.
Next time I'm in New York, I'll watch this video and follow along.
@@andrewpinedo1883xD
100g is insane honestly
The ultimate fart bomb prank 💀
Oh god please no, no, NOOOO@@andrewpinedo1883
This is what depression is like - just trying to feel something, but nothing ever being enough.
💯💯
Real.
lol
Woah
Nile: *directly smells glass* "it's just not that bad" Nile's friend like 20 feet away: *_dying_*
no comments h o w
lmao
@@sambecomessleepdeprived my question is how my random comment got 600 likes in less then 2 hours
@@upsidedown-pug1974 because its a popular KZhead channel????
Luck and funny
Nile: *deep sniff* yeah i mean, it smells not so bad cameraman: *literally dies*
Nigel's olfactory sensors just got blasted into oblivion with all of these stinky chemicals lmao
The day Nile think's the chemical he made smells bad we all die
his nose internals has been burned off from the experiments.
His nostrils have declined from the frequent inhalation of noxious gasses. I bet he barely knows when someone farts!
and it's not the first time he's made something and had this same reaction
I literally just discovered Nigel but his “totally not” mad scientist ways have me enthralled. Also he’s totally on a list.
*on many lists
Have worked in Occupational medicine, and not surprised that people had different reactions, or that a sudden strong smell could cause vomiting or a panic. Some people are very sensitive to chemical smells, and we would get reports along the lines that 5 people went to the ER (and were fine) in a workplace if the cleaners used a different cleaning solution with a new smell, even though harmless. Not surprisingly, when some people smell strong chemicals that are irritating, they believe they may be poisoned, which causes them to panic, which causes them to have more symptoms, then they panic more, etc. Then add in seeing another person feeling affected too, and it happens.
Humans seem to have evolved the ability to become sick by just observing someone else who is sick. It's why watching someone throw up makes you want to throw up, there's a chance that the whole community could have been poisoned. Of course, that kind of sympathetic reaction is a double-edged sword, but it must have worked for us to be alive to experience it!
It might not be panic. Just a very strong sense of smell. I'm always first to notice, if something in the fridge has gone bad. I can't stand spicy foods or anything rancid. What to most people smells slightly off and tastes fine, to me is several magnitudes worse. I have, after tasting a duck, that was shot out of season, and might have smelled a bit muddy to the rest of the family, actually washed my mouth out with a bar of soap. I've never even liked balloons, because they smell awful.
Nile really read multiple credible sources about the horrors of thioacetone and thought "nah these guys were just weak, I'm built different"
And he was right lol
Yea he is.
I'll admit, when I hear a story about something that smells so bad it cleared out an entire town, part of me wants to know what it smells like.
Dude got built-in gas masks.
To be fair, azidoazide azide turned to be overblown, for example.
i feel like he could breathe 100% conncentration mustard gas and be like: "its not that bad i dont get all the stories about it"
Oh his nose is definitely broken. I bet it's not that uncommon among experimental chemists. He reminds me of a chemistry teacher sub we had at school, who'd destroyed most of his sense of smell. It was worryingly easy to egg him on to use *way* too much ingredients. He also gave us (7th graders) any chemical we wanted to take home, he didn't gaf. Just wanted to do his weird expetiments. He once painted the whole classroom and some of the slower students purple with iodine gas and got a talking to from the principal. The following week we heard a muffled boom from the direction of the class. No one was allowed in to that wing of the building and chemistry classes were canceled for a month. We didn't see him after that.
@@VikingTeddy they can't just leave the entrance entire school curious for life about what exactly happened 💀
@@VikingTeddy either a failed experiment or a suicide
@@raloniusmaximus Lol, Why woukd your mind go there? Last thing we heard he was back at the uni the school found him from, doing God knows what. He'll end up working for anyone who gives him free reign, be it a company researching a cure for cancer or a terrorist group. If he doesn't blow himself up.
@Viking Teddy sorry the booms made me think the worst, glad he isn't dead and hopefully he can put his knowledge to good use lol
The fact that nile can smell it even with 0.25 grams even though its not that bad for him is just insane because this is only a fraction of what actually got released on 1889
What if a particularly nefarious and silly person would make a kilogramme of it
Spilling this chemical in a supermarket would have been a tiny bit of tomfoolery
Mad respect for Nigel's friend/camera guy. Suffering so the rest of us may know the power of this chemical
our boy reggie
Lmao
And the power of Nigel himself.
I was afraid when he left the camera, he lost his cameraman invincibility.
Yes
Mark my words, one day Nigel is going to make the area within 500 miles of his lab completely uninhabitable.
My sides are gone. Just imagine it.
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NileZoneRouge
"Today I decided to make a hydrogen bomb, because I really just don't believe it's as bad as it's claimed"
"Today, I'm making Sarin."
Watching your videos always brings to mind a jingle my father taught me that he learned in school in the 1950s. "Ol' Wally (NileRed) was a chemist. A chemist he is no more, for what he thought was H2o was H2S04."
Two man walk into a bar and are asked what they want to drink. The first man says: "I'll have H2O, please." The second man says: "I'll have H2O, too." Then the second man died.
@@Mis7erSeven Hydrogen peroxide huh, I wonder how was that available in a bar
@@nerd__698 I genuinely can't tell if you just got whooshed. That was such a deadpan delivery.
I once worked in a chemical plant that made acrylic acid and downstream products of ethyl acrylate and butyl acrylate. The odor was so strong that we had to enclose the entire process pump system in a vacuum enclosure. We burned all of the air and water from the unit at 1500 F. The chemicals desensitized the operators in the unit. They tended to absorb into leather and we carried it out in our belts and wallets. I could empty a checkout lane in the grocery. Married people had to change clothes in the garage and bathe before entering their homes.
What exactly did it smell like? Or how would you describe it? Other than bad breath, farts, and dead animals, I can’t think of anything that smells fouler
Two guys doing chemistry in a forest, on a island. Not sus at all.
Breaking Red
breaking good 👍
@@spookysomeone fixing good
waltuh
@@spookysomeone more like breaking wind based on the video subject
When he said "I rented an entire island" I had to look if this was actually a NileGreen video.
Frr 😭
theres no differance. its just nilegreen is more hyper.
Just Mr.Beast from the universe with no morals "TODAY WE RANTED THIS WHOLE ISLAND TO GAS PEOPLE"
Subscribe js bcuz lol goal 1K
@@virulentea4556 mr hitler
Every step of this was like a cosmic horror story. Thank you. I loved it.
Imagine this news headline. "Chemist causes a mass panic after accidentally releasing slinkiest chemical known into the air."
Nile- I had to keep my eye on it very closely ALSO Nile - SO WHEN I WASNT LOOKING....
That what I was about to say😂
no nicotinamide in my drinks, thanks
*S O I R A N O U T S I D E*
@@Kolateak_ I was like WDYM you went outside
@@asmasaleh2432das ist ein englisches Video
I love how nile is constantly trying to create bad smells while it has been proven multiple times that he has almost zero sense of smell whatsoever 😂
My guess is that during one experiment or another some chemicals got into his nose and burnt his sense of smell
He wants to smell something
It's because he has almost zero sense of smell that each consecutive stinky chemical gets worse lol. His olfactory senses are only an obstacle he's yet to overcome.
Maybe he really wants to experience whatever other people are talking about
Basically me. XD Always great to be told to look for the source of a smell when you can't smell jack all.
Rule n°1 in chemistry : smell every wierd unknown chemicals you make
Dingo bell
Dude, this is exactly how I imagine d chemistry experiments in all their glory as a kid. Thank you for making my childhood dreams come true, at least vicariously.
I wonder how many people vomiting it will take until Nile realizes that he broke his sense of smell lol
Bear faints from the smell. Nile - "Come on, it is no THAT bad."
Not surprising seeing with how he handles chemicals all day and seems to not be worried too much sticking his nose up to some unknown chemical.
100g bro and that was like 0.25g bro no wonder
@@Rafathegam231 Like imagine it 400 times as bad INSIDE of a back then bigger city
@@Rafathegam231 pfp = scary
"Hey kids, let's make a chemical weapon with easily available chemicals"
Let's make a crayon out of uranium so it will glow in the dark! 👉👉
"Let's turn Mustard gas into Mustard sauce and make a sandwich"
@@Skylancer727 This one's worse. He actually just demonstrated how to use acetone, sulphur, iron and hydrochloric acid into a weapon of mass disruption.
kids in 21000 will pull pranks on a whole nother level
I know what I’m doing this summer vacation ferb
I just love how exited you seem when making these experiments, it's nice seeing a content creator actually having fun.
Do you ever think about releasing papers of more in-depth explanations of exactly how you do things? I've seen a lot on your channel you try many procedures that can sometimes be very obscure to see which works best, and I think it could be helpful to the world of chemistry to get both a video and the written explanation. Love your videos so much, I've been bingeing them recently!
Imagine some innocent fox just living it's best life on that island and then in comes Nigel to unleash the smell of a warcrime Edit: holy shit I'd like to thank the academy
Don't worry about foxes. they love stinkey shit even more that Nile.
You know the trope where, when a gunshot goes off, there's a few seconds of birds flying away? I'm imagining that.
yeah poor animals in the area. Some have an even better sense of smell than we do. :/
@@nyancat8436 just because they have a better sense of smell doesnt mean they get as disgusted as we do, take as example dogs who have amazing noses and can smell fresh poop directly without bating an eye, even curiously
Nah they eat rotted carrion, they'd be like "oooh, DINNER!" lol
Nile: The potential hazard makes me panic. Also Nile: So anyway I started blasting
I think he's was more worried about the hazard of the police getting involved.
I can so easily imagine those words in his voice and it's terrifying
Crappy old meme is crappy and old.
"panick"
Quote from 29:00, “I very nervously started blasting it” Meme seems perfectly fitting to me!
the detail of aligning the v/o and the video to say upwind at the same time is so good, I see you
Respect to cameraman for putting up with nile's antics, a true friend right there
“In my mind, there was only one logical thing to do……. I rented an entire island”
Mr beast moment
He booked a ticket to Japan... Wait, wrong channel.
@@Nevir202I understood that reference
Before it gets popular and 344 like
@@Nevir202 released it in a neckbeard's room and the smell improved
Nile is now literally a mad scientist running experiments on a deserted island because they cant be done in populated areas. His super villain arch is complete.
For real I thought for sure he was going to make the island forever unbearable and is that spooky island that no one goes to in 20-30 years.
He still needs a volcano!
@@Boostocalypse "this city used to have a popualtion of 50,000, now its a ghost town"
I have been watching you for almost a year now and I love your videos. I hope you never stop!
To distinguish the grapefruit flavor is amazing.
It's hilarious how resistant you are to this stuff. Birds could've been falling from the trees and you'd still be going "it's actually not thaat baad" :D
Imagine had he not just made .1% of the original amount
It’s not that he’s resistant, it’s that he’s probably had lots of close calls with taking random whiffs of acid fumes, and they’ve burned his nostrils, personally I have the same issue, when I was growing up I found a unlabeled jug sitting outside and my childlike curiosity got the better of me, and come to find out it was muriatic acid, I can barely smell unless it’s potent in the air, or it’s a sulfur compound like sulfer dioxide, my sniffer still works good for that in warning me of my inevitable death to get away
The trees start to droop. The birds fall from the sky. Arboreal animals drop. Bugs fall, and terrestrial bugs writhe on the ground. Worms emerge, writhing. Mammals vomit. Turtles drown themselves avoiding the stench. The fish are fine tho. Nile: It’s not so bad.
Lol ya.. Im the same way as him .. really resistant to bad smells
The trees could be the one falling and he'd be like "not that bad"
you know it's bad when you gotta *rent an entire island* that's gotta be high up on the list of things supervillains do, right?
Yes, but for the best result, the island needs at least one volcano.
@@Moon_Metty volcano AND an underwater lair
@@kaelang12 Obviously a lair, that goes without saying. He's renting the island this time. We should worry when he actually owns the island
@@kaelang12Or a lair inside the volcano surrounded by lava
It's so funny to me as I just played Arkham Knight in which Scarecrow produces tons of psychotic gas to intoxicate Gotham, this is his origin story 😂😂😂
This guy rented an entire island just so he could help his friend endure the bad smell. That’s how you know Nile is a good friend
Yello nile like your videos and the child like curiosity in the experiments! Would love to see you make and explore the scent absorbant compounds (with a base of talcum powder ) and also making of Triclosan
Honestly? After years of harsh lab chemicals, it's entirely possible that Nile's sense of smell is basically shot at this point.
@@operationcrossroads3584 Probably easier for someone who's got a Bachelor's in Biochemistry than a regular joe.
Exactly
Also, Long Covid is a bitch, speaking from experience. I can no longer smell smoke, detect the acridness of alcohol, or (god help me) my cat's litter box. I can no longer trust my nose to tell me if there's something burning, if that glass on the counter is vodka or water, or if the litter is starting to stink. That last one just means being MORE clean, but the other two are really friggin disturbing. If Nile's suffering from LC, it might drastically change how he's gotta do things in the lab. He might not be able to trust his nose for scents that provide basic, practical input for every day work there.
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I'm you 1k like 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
I love that you were alerted to a smell, at night with no one around, that your brother had never smelled before, and assumed it had nothing to do with you making one of the stinkiest things ever concocted.
Right??? I got such second hand anxiety when he just went right back to the experiment lol
Your videos are done so well man.
NileRed: Likes the way Red Bull tastes Huffs cyanide Doesn't think literal US military weaponized poop fumes smells that bad
Nile is truly on a journey of "I just want to smell something"
His nose is broken!
Hahaha, exactly what I was thinking. This is the olfactory version of cutting yourself just to feel something 😄
Honestly? He could totally have a condition that worsens his sense of smell, and just never realized because people can't really explain to you how strong something smells lol
one nose man?
In my native language, the "smell" and "feel" translates to the same expression. So if I translate it back to english, you can say "Nigel just want to feel something". Kinda funny.
I love this series of a slightly anosmic chemist's perilous quest to find a smell that moves him
why did i laugh so hard
slightly
"Perfume: The Story of a Murderer", but it's a modern comedy instead of a horror story.
Poetically and hilariously phrased. Love it!
"slightly anosmic", lul... the dude wouldn't smell a doom fart point blank into his nostrils
Great work! Super interesting history, and your technique is impeccable!
I watch all of your videos and still not understand a thing your doing, but you make it so entertaining ❤
Every history teacher: "We learn about history so we know not to repeat it." *Nile out here learning about history for the sole reason of repeating it*
@@Epical_TV Hitler
Well science is repeatability of reactions from other people's history papers on their own experiments
@@drippylad3973 in order to make another Hitler one has to replicate the shit childhood he had and make the kid blame the jews for it otherwise not even clones of Hitler will turn out to be like Hitler because they did not have his life experience. And if someone like Hitler was alive in this day and age obviously they are going to be quiet about it and manipulate the news on what they say until they are completely ready to carry out their plan as you learn from the failures of others. Good tacticians read about tacticians who failed and why they failed that way they don't make the same mistakes. A insane person is not a problem a smart insane person who even knows how the laws work thus can navigate through them in their favor like Hitler is a problem. But society will never get better so people like Hitler will never be born as in kids with shit childhoods won't happen if society actually invested time into preventing the next Hitler as again a smart person with nothing to lose is dangerous
But.. but.. it's science, not history, so it has to be repeated 😄😂
@@AntonioNoack science experiment to make Nigel have a actual sense of smell?
Nile really leaves an ultra dramatic pause in the middle of 99% of sentences
Great way to help with ease of editing too, doncha know.
he’s worse than obama
It always feels like he's about to say that something went wrong
As I was watching this video...I noticed the same thing. Honestly it gets kind of annoying...to hear sentence after sentence delivered in the same cadence. Even though I find it irritating...the content is still interesting enough that I don't want to stop watching.
He´s a true drama queen.
How you synced “slightly upwind” at 33:55 is highly commendable!
this guy always manages to keep me on edge man… every time he says probably or supposed it makes me feel like its gonna go horribly wrong.
Every time you do not post for a longer while, I always expect that I'll find a headline along the lines of: "KZheadr chemist arrested for creating a chemical that stunk up the whole town, causing x amount of casualties"
Wait let me see if it's in the list on what's gonna happen
Or even worse "KZheadr chemist found dead after creating deadly chemical"
@@EternalTheMandarinGoddess Nile Red's spirit: after seeing my dead body, i kinda thought i should not do this anymore, but i decided to continue anyway
Nilegreen moment
Anybody else see the writing in the mix at 6:22 ?
I think we need to establish a baseline for Nigel’s sense of smell by having him smell surströmming.
Is there any way to bring this to his attention, i especially wanna have a side by side with his cameraman :D
I mean I feel this video has made it clear his nose is broken.
Yes please that stuff is so bad. My parents apparently ate that stuff inside and the smell stayed for a while.
That's a really good idea
Maybe he can extract something useful that developes through the fermantation. Maybe he can make grape soda out of it xD
This guy is incredible, he dares to create the stinkiest substance...just out of pure curiosity, by the way, the fact that the audio of the video automatically changes to perfect Spanish, according to the region where you watch it is a great detail.Gracias compadre 😁
Thanks for bring this experiment til the end. I thought you were going to give up but you didn’t until you got it 🙌👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Nigel *after years of burdening his nose with unholy chemicals* : idk if it smells that bad really 🤷♂️
yah all of his senses are gone from hydrochloric acid burning his nostrils...
Nigel is an SCP at this point... This much exposure shouldn't leave a [REDACTED]
0 relations at all 🗿
@@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890 fair point but it's youtube so who cares
I mean, it's all relative, right?
I absolutely love Nigels tone, he constantly sounds like he’s going to give you some slightly disappointing news but then pretty much never does.
"So, I guess you can call this a success. I made a portable nuclear reactor out of toilet paper, crushed uranium glass, and acetone, buuuuut the yield wasn't quite as expected and it's only about half as energy efficiency as a multi-billion dollar plutonium reactor. I'm, honestly, a bit disappointed, but at least it wasn't a total waste of time since at least I can power my house for a decade, but I'm a bit too lazy to monitor it that often. I'll just put this reactor in a sealed beaker in case I want to do something with it later." - Nigel, 2025
@@droughdough that reactor then proceeds to go nuclear after a month in the beaker, leveling Nigel's lab and anything within a fifty mile radius.
@@eify4593 chernobyl 2: Nile Style
@@droughdough and then he proceeds to use the reactor in a ship to go to Uranus to react all of the methane gas there
He sounds like the “movie phone” guy from the 90’s
I am a chemist, and I am so glad we have people as crazy as Nigel so I don't have to do any of this 😅 Bro rented an ISLAND for this. He's like, the Coyote of the chemistry world LOL
Any life in the area around the island he has exposed the chemicals to: Henry what the hell is that smell? Henry the bird: *Unconcious*
I love how he interchangeably goes from scared that its not gonna work to scared that it is gonna work
🤣🤣💯
Fr
....itz just stupid....really wanna do such thing, while the warning signs are alrdy alarming
And the end result was "kind of worked."
This is how scientists create disaster strictly from curiosity
Nigel stands in a room full of mustard gas he's created. Paint peels from walls as his cameraman wails in agony, even through his gas mask his eyes and throat burn. Nigel: come on, its not that bad.
He DID just accidentally make and inhale WWI era tear gas and burn his sinuses really badly when trying to make the cherry flavoring from paint thinner. So, pretty on the mark
"This is unpleasant but it really can't be more than a 6/10" *cameraman vomits and passes out*
the cameraman never dies
He holds a vial of neurotoxin vapor to his nose. Everyone in the surrounding province is dead. The cameraman is a smoldering husk on the lab floor. "It's not thaaat baad."
this is the only case someone is stronger than the guy behind the camera
I love that you recognized credit of LabCoatz. Thank you for being a humble scientist
ethylene glycol and elemental sulfur This method involves the reaction of ethylene glycol with elemental sulfur in the presence of an oxidizing agent, such as hydrogen peroxide or bleach. The reaction is carried out at high temperature and pressure, and the product thioacetone is separated from the reaction mixture by distillation. C2H6O3 + S → C2H5SH + 2 CO2
Nile torturing his cameraman with the smell of the chemical while he's desensitized to the smell is pure evil 😂
Isn't his cameraman also his friend? Wow, some friend Nigel is.
When he's just like, zooming in, probably thinking, "this'll make for great content"... he really is an evil scientist hahahha
To be fair, I'd occasionally eat eggs and lettuce before going to a friend's place when I was a teenager
Imagine being friends with Nile, and you get a text saying "I've just rented a private island, wanna shoot a video about something smelly?"
I'm gonna arrive suited up as if I am going to the heart of the Chernobyl disaster.
"The only weapon for self defense I brought is this splash potion from the pits of the catacombs"
@@TheAnnoyingBoss DnD character. Chemist with dead sense of smell. They call him Nile The Red
Don’t tell MrBeast 💀
@@nightglide_ Last to pass out wins $100,000 lmao
"So i rented out an entire island"
Nilered: looks like no one has made it in 60 years 🤔 Also nilered: lets just cook some up real quick 😃
"This actually kind of scared me, and I worried the stories might be true and I shouldn't distill it, but there was only one way to find out" A true scientist. Thank you Nile
It’s the scientific method: fuck around and find out.
No. That's not true scientist. He's just a utuber doing this just for views.
true mad scientist
At this point, I would like video evidence that NileRed is capable of smelling anything nasty at all.
He has no olfactory nerve. He sniffed to many chemicals and crystallized them 😂
@@Olsenator pics or it didn’t happen 😂
He gagged at putrescine I think
@tekodoraudor pregnant women?
@tekodoraudor Anyone can claim that. it's proving it as a fact that requires evidence. A claim is literally just that. So I guess in your mind, all married people with children just went to the sperm donor, huh?
Id be curious to smell this, being in the death industry, owning a crematory and running a removal business with a coroner’s office, I have smelled hundreds of decomposed bodies. But I would honestly like to know if anything actually smells worse than the things I’ve been around
Nile: 11:03 I thought that it was just a waste of my time The liquid: how dare you… fine I’ll give u the reaction u wanted 🙄
Imagine Mark Rober using this for his glitter bomb
I was wondering if this is even as bad as that fart spray. That fart spray induced a more visible disgust on the victim, but it seemed to be a lot more and didn't seem to travel much
@@nicjansen230 Possible, though the spray was in much larger quantities, and Nile seems to be desensitized to it, from the cameraman's reaction to a pretty small amount of it, I'd say it's definitely worse than the spray. The main issue would be keeping it completely air tight so that none of the smell leaked out during transport or when sitting there.
@@DreadKyller Also releasing it in the middle of a residential area full of non robbbers is not a good idea
Toward the end, I was wondering what Kim Jong-un would think. They are generally considered to have the worst collection of chemical weapons in the world, and I could imagine him dispensing 100's of metric tonnes of the stuff on the DMZ when there's a strong downwind to Seoul.
It will not just bomb the thief, it will bomb the entire thief's neighbor.
Nile definitely has like maybe 7 functional nerve endings left in his nose. Honestly armed with such devastatingly smelly substances, it's kind of a super power.
or a handicap, imagine there's an actual chemical gas leak of some kind and he can't figure it out.
Cyanide leaks and his life goes skoini noi ni noi ni noi ni noi ni oi ni noi ni noi
@@royalexodus2666 not all bad stuff smells bad
@@Gozieaaa i mean he has a friend for a reason-
Stinkman
Still nothing compared to a middle school bus
Dude, I am like this as well. People will say something is absolutely horrendous smelly but to me its just a new smell. In fact some "bad" smell i actually consider quite plesant like fresh hot asphalt or even skunks. They smell so weird i kinda like smelling them
He made the smelliest chemical Known to Man, and only smelt 'Something'. This means things.
Pure acetic acid probably
I was thinking the same. Maybe he smelled too much hydrogen sulfide ?
@@psirvent8 uh oh
Wouldnt that fk up his taste too? Damn
@@psirvent8 That's temporary
this dude can literally be a villain making chemical weapons but he chooses to not
Heating up this buttplug on a private island to get his mad scientist splash potion to finally work 😂
80 likes but no likes??? *_HOW_*
wut
thats every chemist lol
@@dEnguesito7506 i am sorry i meant to type*NO REPLIES*
everything you just described about the foul smell is honestly much better compared to when you walk in the bathroom after my mom just finished up her duty.
Here's a man who loves what he does, and he's good at it. That's always good to see.
I just watch this channel to reaffirm our boy hasn't died from something horrible.
check out safety third, it's a podcast he does with other sciencetubers
This guy😂😂😂😂😂 doesn’t have any nostrils 😂😂😂
@@eliudelliud2810 men hate nostrils. So I’ve heard.
@@Le_dank_memez Bold of you to assume I don't already lol
honestly now i understand why people think that a youtuber died when they havent uploaded for a while
I like how Nile's first reaction to reading that this chemical is hellish and has the worst smell in the world is to try and make it
And then act like it’s nothing much when he first made it.
@@CausingChaos. I was scared he was gonna try to drink it
100% will be responsible for the future zombie outbreak
This isn't true. His first reaction was to buy it.
@@adamkares7549 and you can smell if a horde is within 500km
Any bad smell can make people pass out and/or vomit, it is a psychosomatic response. I have responded to literally dozens of chemical spills where people were sick, only to find out it was a broken sensor or a sensor triggered by something like vehicle exhaust and there was no chemical spill.
"There was no way i was going to be breaking it apart in my fume hood"..."So i rented an entire island."
i just admire his determination to smell thioacetone. "I rented an entire island" took me out
it would be way more dedicated if he said 'Oh I just bought small Eastern Europe country to explode it'))))
The serious nature of the accident in Germany 130+ yrs ago happened. I am convinced it was just as bad as they claimed it was. No exaggerations on their part. Nigel and his friend were feeling it seriously on an entire island with just 0.25 grams of the stuff. The incident mentioned in the 1800's had over 100 grams. That must have been brutal!
@@craigwheeler4760 I'm kinda sad the dosage was so small and Nile didn't try more...
This seems like a great weapon for the Military, don't know why it isn't being used. (Don't say war crime because it is non-lethal)
"Welcome back to Total Drama Island! For today's challenge, you have to be the last one to vomit in our Thioacetone Challenge!"
the fact that he rented an island makes it feel like a crazy holiday special episode of nilered
anime beach episode
Maybe it was Halloween belated special!
Made an island unfit for birds, you mean!!!
Its the nilered beach episode lmao
He went all out on the budget.
This experiment was like a suspense thriller movie...
So I think my mommy or daddy might be scientists because i found a whole bunch of thingys under their bed in a shoebox shaped just like the flask thing at 27:47. I sure hope I can do science stuff like them when I grow up!
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I can't understand how I've managed to be entertained by this channel for YEARS without understanding anything he's talking about.
Same, but i think its the educational part. Knowing what some chemicals csn and cant do.
I won't become a chemist through this channel but he HAS helped me understand how some things can simply not be degradable unless chemically processed. And has helped me understand the flow of how to break down the long chemical names which aren't even that bad now that I've heard them firsthand
I find that Nile is very personable in a little bit of an awkward way. He is also very good at explaining and gives a good amount of background knowledge without overexplaining.
Also his ideas are like chemistry class on crack, very entertaining
You know what smells are right? Then you do understand...
I was ready for Nile to just casually say 'so I decided to resurrect Baumann and Fromm to ask them about thioacetone'
Same XD
same lol
ah, yes. what every smart scientist should do when they have a question to ask
...but it turns out they only speak German so I need to use Google translate 😂😂😂
same omgg 💀💀
Brasileiro aqui, muito obrigado por ter traduzido seus vídeos! Seu canal é demais
Agradecemos!
Agradecemos!
Well, considering a symptom of exposure to h2s is loss of smell it makes sense why you’re not affected by it.