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Ever since I was a kid, I've been fascinated by things that glow in the dark. I had a few glow toys that I really liked, but I either lost them or gave them away. I could've just bought some new ones, but I thought it would be a lot more fun to make my own from scratch.
Note: In my equation for ZnS + O2, please ignore my explanation below it. It doesn't make sense.
References:
• Gyzmodium: • Zinc Sulfate - for ZnS...
• Hydrogen, Time: • Making ZnS:Cu, a green...
• myst32YT: • Make Glow in the Dark ...
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Nile talks about lab safety: • Chemistry is dangerous.
Music in credits (Walker by SORRYSINES): / walker
"My only issue was that the baby wasn't as creepy as I thought it would be." Quote of the year.
IstasPumaNevada "...and it looked like it had a beard"
666th like
699th like
Lmao
The only quote in youtube rewind:
"and sadly, it wasn't glowing" :O "But it's what I expected" :D
Aw mah gawd
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"Top 10 Anime Plot Twists"
That's what I'd expect, too. As Flip Wilson said, "Blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed". 😁
@@ChaplainDaveSparks Dewey: "I expect nothing, and I'm still let down." kzhead.info/sun/Y6qtlNlwsKSBgq8/bejne.html
Nile: "Hey mom, you seen my glow in the dark dinosaur?" His mom: "Think we gave those away honey." Nile: "And so I started crafting."
It would be very interesting to see Nile do the Strontium Aluminate. Just as a side by side, glowing baby next to an equally creepy, brighter glowing, baby.
"My mom threw away my glowing dinosaur, so I became a chemist and made my own" is a better villain origin story than 90% of the ones out there
Probably the only Marvel movie I'd watch.
😂🤣😂👍🏻
it all started long ago in the town of druselstein
@@chronon8782 doofenshmirtz became evil because of a toy train
The evil alternate version anyway
I like how he didn't even change his tone when talking about how sad he was when his mom threw his toys out.
you have the same icon as my steam and discord profile lol
@@ahmadayazamin3313 his voice sounds like the voice in my head when I read scientific papers
The sadness was added to a beaker, and washed with about 750 ml of carbonated 5% ethanol solution that was sourced by fermenting grains. The ethanol solution was added in stages, and at each step the sadness dissolved more, eventually becoming hardly detectable in the solution. This was not a permanent solution however, as the clean up process the next morning turned out not to be easy. A large part of the sadness seemed to have precipitated on the couch, and after several attempts at removing the solid components with various solvents, I had no choice but to discard the couch in my waste container and buying a new one from Amazon.
@@franksijbenga3724 U made my day with this comment. Thank you.
@@ahmadayazamin3313 my mom threw away all my star wars vehicle toys (jedi starfighter, slave 1, republic gunship) and sold my Nintendo 64 at a garage sale lol
NileRed: “I had to be very careful. This is because the toxicity of hydrogen sulfide gas… is comparable to cyanide.” NileRed, 4 or 5 videos later: “Does cyanide really smell like almonds?” [thumbnail of his nose very close to what is presumably a container full of cyanide] // Timestamp: 18:28
92 likes and no reply? lemme fix that
99 likes and only 1 reply? Let me fix that.
The chain is fucking stupid just admit you have nothing to add
@@epicblue00 Why are you so angry? Obviously someone didnt take their psych meds today..
@@tikiparrot3437 maybe it's the fact that this type of chain unlike most of the others does nothing with the main comment other chains at least have a remote connection to the original post but this one just states that they are adding a comment it has no substance if you wanted to comment make it something original or interesting for example your response at least it actually adds something
Nigel's mother: "I'm so proud of my son who's a chemist educating millions of people on the wonders of chemistry" Meanwhile Nigel: GLoWinG BAbiEs!
Hey, if she ever wants grandkids...he's just made one
This is the best channel on KZhead. I love how this entire video is just “my mom threw out my glow dinosaur so I did chemistry and made my own”
"And I recreated them in the form of creepy glowing babies"
@@carlyk210 "and the baby somehow has a beard"
@@iaml2348 That was a glow jogger.
Madlad
Best comment I've read all week
3 year old Nile: “wow look at all that stored light energy”
Allison Oaks I wasn’t the only one to think about that, I see 😂
Lmao
Lynn Emily not really lmap
Bruh i know you
I'm still like that xD
I watched this entire video from start to finish just because I know how much time you put in. The amount of times I hear you say “I let it sit overnight” just tells you how much time one step in the process takes. This stuff is fascinating and I love your work.
totally! his patience is so commendable
The fact that he showed his failures while trying to make something glow just shows how humble he is.
"But it didn't fix the major problem: that this method sucked." Nile has a penchant for quoting the obvious in the most funny ways.
Hi
Penchant is such a good word
Michael Persico "almost monochromatic tone" = monotone
idk why this line is funny but god damn did it make me giggle
The brutal honesty made me lol!
"Making something that glows seemed almost impossible" ok mr homemade glowsticks and uranium glass
lol
And Mr auro gel
@Lopiop Sanchez yeah but he also made aurogel in a previous video and I thought robo 1290 was talking about his inventions
Lol
Literally 😂
if i had a dollar for every time nilered said "to do this" i would be a millionaire
also "I was very happy to see that..."
"this is because" also up there
"I was very happy with what I saw..."
"I felt that it was good enough"
Nile's Brain: Hey Mr. Nile, How much chemistry knowledge do you need? Nile: Yes
"poisonous gas comparable to cyanide" a small price to pay for glow in the dark dinosaur
Ok
Ok
Ok
Ok
Ok
"Didn't fix the big problem, that this method sucked" Ah yes, spoken like a true chemist
Lmao I found that so funny, I don't even know why.
@@jeremoralorel ikr it absolutely cracked me up just hearing him say "this method sucked"
@@saamyohalder ya same idek why
Story of my life
These are the kinds of videos that make me shiver every time I ask myself, "What does the industrialized process look like?" I could not fathom making this shit in a factory setting.
little did he know, he made that phosphorescent infant-like toy sentient and was yet to become the one that will make the revolutionary step for at-home amateur chemistry.
"Demented chemist spends weeks in his basement creating glowing babies"
xD
*bearded babies. Lmao 😂
They glow in the dark
Your comment wins
I’d be more worried about how he made a baby in just a few weeks, honestly
"It turns out, it can be surprisingly simple" *40 minute video*
Lol
What did you expect? Did you think it'd be a 5 minute video?
Simple chemically he literally said it right after
*takes him an entire month*
39 minutes, get it right
14:43 I have no idea why, but the fork coming in was absolutely hilarious to me.
Nile: Well, glass didn't work. Neither did metal, so the only resolve is a BLOWTORCH!
Evolution of NileRed: -Separating gold from tech scraps -making transparent wood -G L O W I N G B A B Y
Oh hey Andrew Foy didn't expect you to be here!
What a weird place to find a new KZhead music channel to subscribe to. Thanks Andrew.
Glowing baby rat
Can't wait for Nile to make a powder that makes you day "Fuck J Cole"
Hey, science is fun, my dude XD
*Everything fails and everyone dies* Nile: As expected
Genocide is all part of the plan
"Its all part of the plan we can fix it 🤓"
*Wips out 20 cm roosters and gets mate* I wanna see what monster of comments I create
"Form when I tried to make transparent wood years ago" so I've been here for years...
if no one died it'd be pretty jam-packed up in here
17:00 Forbidden milk
FORBIDDEN MILK
This channel is the best because it's sponsors is just told like "this video is sponsored by brilliant " its a simple sentence
"It turns out that at least chemically, it can be surprisingly simple." *proceeds to make a 39 minute video on the topic*
A 39-minute video that's so interesting that it seems more like 5!
It's like one of my comments ... they always start small and simple... and then the length explodes
Ceave?
Jesus christ I didnt noticed it was 39 minutes until just now
It feels like only a year ago that I subscribed to his channel. So nice to see his dedication pay off with sponsorship and support from his fans. He really deserves all the success that got him to this point. That 39 min flew by and I was kinda sad when it was over.
“It only turns brown when it’s being degraded”. I’ve been slinging every insult I know at my potassium permanganate for an hour now and it’s still purple.
this shouldn't be so funny to me, and yet 😂
@@m3talhe4d72 it’s the simple things in life sometimes 😆
This is such a subtle joke yet it's still funny
Calling my potassium permanganate a slut because it needs to be degraded
But don't they first have to be brown for the degrading process to start properly?
“It’s a lot more difficult, than mixing some things together, and setting them on fire!” Who knew?
mom the baby is glowing again
“This is actually pretty simple” *casually brings out an entire Minecraft potion brewing system*
*not again*
😂 😂
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Normal kids: "wow look stick glowing!! wow!!!" Nile when he was a kid: "It blew my mind that simple plastic toys and stickers could collect and store light energy."
he describes it in a way to fit the minimum words for his essay
This may not have turned out like you first wanted, but hey! Glow-in-the-dark anything is just plain cool. And to make it yourself adds a whole new level of wonder and coolness to it.
I Like how he never changes his tone wether his lab catches on fire or he did something good
“Today students, we will make something amazing” “What, professor” “ *Glowing babies* “
I don’t think the fact that the babies being made in science class were glowing was the problem
*glowing babies* O boi
@@thefakeslimshady8881 Yea...but noooo
So don't bring condoms on the feild trip to Chernobyl?
do we need to use protection or...
I think future Nile would be like -"Now I could buy the zinc powder but I wanted to make my zinc from scratch...so I went on an expedition to dig rocks first.."
Lmao .. all the comments are just crushing him! I wonder how he must be feeling while reading all these comments
@@amyfarrel4374 he has a sense of humor, so I'm pretty sure he's finding them funny and laughing and smiling at them
@@mastershooter64 i think so too! He laughs so less in his videos I would be more than happy to see his reaction to the comments haha😂 I mean yes there is no reason to laugh in his videos ..
@@amyfarrel4374 have you ever seen nileblue?
@@Robospy1 i may have seen one or two vds but I don't remember .. I guess I thought I saw those vdos on nilered itself
Years ago, I bought some ZnS powder, doped it with a bit of cupric chloride, heated it to a red glow. Result: no phosphorescence. In this video, it was nice to see it actually work!
This video deserves a lot more views because of all the hard work and dedication put in it
Bag of zinc sulfate: “handle with care” NileRed: *slams on desk*
Squish that -cat- bag
Good joke, but in actuality, they must have written that on there because it's a bit corrosive and murders your eyes. Not like it's a shock-sensitive explosive.
Next time: "But to me that was almost the same thing as just buying the pre-made zinc powder." -- "So I went to a mine and mined my own zinc."
*sO WE BACK IN THE MINE--*
No thats Cody's Lab
Mine reveal????
Time after next "But to me that was almost the same thing as just buying the pre-made zinc powder." So I purchased a mine and dug out iron by hand which I then smelted to make an pickax which should let me get more zinc faster
Minecraft live
Thank you nilered for introducing me to important chemistry equipment such as coffee filter, fork, and small blender
I work in a tshirt print shop and we use Zinc Formaldehyde Sulfoxylate for discharge printing with water-based screen print ink. We mix it into a clear ink that when printed on a shirt is invisible. When dried down our dryer or with a lighter flame it bleaches out the dyed color of the shirt so we can print light colors on dark shirts.. But also once its dried we can use a uv blacklight to see where that layer is to know if we need to align it more.
I love the professional, matter of fact tone he used when saying how sad he is that his mom threw out his toys. King.
My favorite is the way he said "it didn't fix the primary issue: this method sucked"
Idk why..but i am laughing I am sorry
And also saying that he didn’t think the baby was creepy enough in that tone
Such an easy channel to listen to right? "Mother destroyed my glowy toys..... Moving on to mixing chemicals now."
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Nilered: "I'm trying if it does the thing" *doesn't do the thing* Also Nilered: "As I expected, it doesn't do the thing"
Should have gotten a Zhu Li
I love how he comments on his (almost recursive) thought-processes. I sorta felt that it didn't turn out as interesting as I thought it would be, but I decided that I kinda wanted to keep it because I thought it could...
It shows you how a person with a science background approaches problems. It's intriguing to see his thought process and also something to learn from. It's includes creative and out of the box thinking like the how he decided to try out the doping on a small amount since he wasn't sure if the copper sulphate was 100% pure. Also includes some trial and error and if you fail you gotta have ways to fix the problem. Another great thing was how he treated time as a resource and went for the quicker and arguably better methods than the long winded ones.
A true scientist
@@manan-543 divide and conquer
There used to be a small local toy store in my area that had a little glow in the dark room in the back. It was a little stockroom that the owner used to display all the glow in the dark and UV stuff. Of course, it was kept dark with only UV lights to see by. And they sold a lot of cool stuff in there. I used to love going in there when I was a kid. I wish that store was still in business. It was called Cracker Jacks and it was in the Montgomery Shopping Center in Princeton NJ.
Props to you for making all these dangerous experiments everytime.. i hope nothing bad happens someday i love your videos!!
Nile : “I couldn’t find any nuclear bombs online” Also Nile : “However , i found a website which was selling them for really cheap”
Lmao
Hæhæ
I couldn't find any yellow cake uranium online any cheap suggestions?
@@billnyethespy3641 thanks 🙂
@@MidnighttArtz I only got ore cause its safer but I have seen the powder
You could buy a cake You could make a cake This guy makes a whole farm to produce the ingredients he needs and makes the cake
Next video idea
It gives one more satisfaction
Nah that’s the cooking channel, Binging with Babish
Nono no… he makes the cellular structure of the animals to make it
Buddy, you're talking about Minecraft
16:29 Sounds like a dinner at a family reunion with some of my extended family...
I think your the coolest most interesting, and fun guy I've ever seen. I also was so curious about that as a wee lady and I think this is so cool. Your mind and the way you push through and just do it yourself, doing the math, doing the mixing and just playing around with science simply because it's cool is so admirable and awesome. I love your channel and content and really love the chemical mix, the explaining and metal using videos the most 👌
Asking parents how babies are made: when a man and a woman love each other very much... Asking NileRed how babies are made:
"The sperm must come into contact with the egg. To do this..."
you see when a man loves a woman he takes his zinc sulfide...
@@yurigouveawagner9432 i love your comment so much
The problem with what parents say is that most of the time babies don’t come from mommies and daddies
Perfection
This dude playin on creative mode irl
The Original Ace same with men
Achievement unlocked: Create Glowing Baby
Holy ravioli Its the ambassador
Never thought I'd find you here
Yoo, why tf is Austin here lmao
I don't think I can sit through most 40 minute videos without skipping but Nile red is different. I don't notice time when I watch nike red videos
I think it's really cool that when the zinc / sulfur mixture the initial ignition almost has the exact same color as green glow in the dark powder.
"Paint me like one of your French glow-in-the-dark babies."
Why did I like this comment???
Make me hot like your paint can forge! Oooh!
Why’d he make that baby so fuckin sexy man tf
@@Locke3OOO woah why are you sexualizing a baby. Sounds pretty noncey
buying glow toys for a dollar:😕 spending probably 50 dollars to make your own:😌
Way over 50
probably a couple hundred dollars, i would say upwards of 500, also the many many hours he put into this
Learning something from MIT CHEM LAB COST YOU WAY MORE
glow in the dark toys are inferior to glow in the dark baby
Paying for da experience
So many glow-in-the-dark things I really love them and I’ve always took my friends into the cupboard with my glow-in-the-dark toys, and they will get freaks out
This glowing zinc sulfide is also really useful for making TLC plates stationary phase. Mix 1% of this into powdered sillica gel. You can visualize spots with this.
"I don't even know how it's possible, but it's somehow worse than before" 2020 in a nutshell
Dude that’s so true.
😂
@@eyes5226 DON'T JINX IT!!!!
i think it’s jinxed now
hhhhhhh😂
"When i tried making transparent wood years ago" anyone else was like: Wait, YEARS ago?
Why?
@@tubewoodycool I never realised I've been following NileRed for so long
looks like 4 months ago... damn!
I just recently started watching NileRed and saw that video maybe a month ago but I've certainly been around long enough to know that feeling.
About 1.75 years ago now. I could have sworn that was like a few months ago.
Bro pruned the iron sulfate 14:28 I know it’s three years later, but I could care less Loki reference LEEEEEZZZZZ GOOOOOOOOOO
i think something thats very underrated, is that in the beginning when he was reacting the zinc and sulfur he says "it can be ignited with a hot glass rod" and it does nothing, and then he says the same exact thing again for the iron and sulfur so it makes u think it wont work but it actually does
14:42 "I used this fork.." Nah fam thats a threek
Lol
Lmao
Stupid dessert forks 😠
Not to be that one guy but in theory it’d be a threk instead threek because in four to fork, one vowel is lost, so it would carry over Did i really just examine some made up word for why it would be incorrect? Yes. Yes i did.
nah that's a trident
NileRed : Making glow toys from scratch Me : *AH YES THE URANIUM TOY*
Me the first time I saw glowing baby
Ah yes.
lol. It's funny to think that they used to put Radium on watches to make the dials glow in the dark...
KuraIthys I mean... Strontium/aluminum compounds are used now, and strontium is a pretty big lad
Watching his long chemical vids are weirdly comfortable 😆and relaxing.some how it helps me to sleep too😆 I can watch his vids all day without getting bored.i remember yesterday i saw his videos for 4 hours straight 😆
I like your diffused downstem! using bong parts for chemistry!
My favorite genre of KZhead is “very smart people use their power to fuel their shower thoughts” your channel falls under this genre. I have no choice but to stan
is there a way for me to explore that list and maybe follow some of those channels?
is mark rober another?
Mei hand over the youtubers pls, I need more for science (literally)
Ok I got you sis 1) Mark Rober 2) Michael Reeves 3) John Fish Enjoy
@@ribs2050 I got you 😤😩😤👌
After watching for 2 min: OK I could do this myself. After 5 min: OK nevermind.
Welcome to all NileRed videos
I mean you could do the less complicated thing he mentioned at the start and just buy the zinc sulfide and some epoxy and throw it into weird molds. Less rewarding but it could still be a fun easy project
After wathcing for 30min, I felt I could make a time machine
Yeah you really don't want to be playing with Hydrogen Sulfide gas in your kitchen :)
Me sleep deprived watching this at 1 AM: I like your funny words, magic man.
all of these videos are way over my head. but its fascinating to watch and go along the journey with
"But I was still really happy to see this" 20 seconds later "But this was unacceptably bad"
Why did you even comment this
@@toast7150 I don't know why
Me when I get a D
I was actually smiling and when he said it was unacceptably bad I went like "oh"
I read this exactly when he said it 😂
"It was still fun to do, so I did it a few more times." scientist: haha kemicl go fizz
Nile describes all.
Tonatsi STOPHCGRSWAR
rosanna vb do you also say LMAOSODHSHSHHA
Does anyone else's sound not work properly on his videos. There is about a 1-2 second audio pause before he speaks each time during the voice overs. So I miss first 1 to 2 words he is saying each sentence. No other youtube channels do this to me but this one.
Michael Davis it does not happen for me but there may be something wrong with what your watching on,if you play games with sounds or voiceovers,does it affect it too?
14:56 ah yes the most scientific of all lab equipment. THE FORK
I see that you plan to make another version of this in the future, which might be "now". Have you seen the europium glow in the dark paint? That is supposed to be even stronger than anything else. I do plan on getting my hand on some to do some test batches.
"It's actually surprisingly easy" -> Proceeds to spend a month working on it
Thanks senpai
@@whalewithgingerale uhh...
@@yipp-7841 don't worry, there's a reason
it took a year for me so he was pretty fast
"The impossible we do immediately, the way things take just a little longer!!"
"my mom threw away my toys so i synthesized a better mom"
They had us in the first part not gonna lie
That'd be the thought emporium with some gene-editing.
this unearthed a memory of a glow t rex i had as a kid and now i too really want it back 😔 this was such a cool video, thank you!
8:03 forbidden tea
“....For making that plastic wood stuff a few years ago.” _A few years ago_ I remember watching it when it came out.
OMG SAME i feel super old now
I know right...
(+Young_ Zombling_) Oh god. It’s been a few years? Damn. Time flies.
Same. Time do fly by fast
It was actually 1 year ago :-/
Me: That baby is creepy Nilered: "It's not creepy enough" Me: ....
I READ THIS AS NILERD. I CANT BREATHE 😭😭😭😭
The baby was like: Hey come here and pet my but.
Its a bit dodgy init
He said he coulda made it red too.
this was super cool, swear you are an actual genius lol one of the few people who can make this stuff interesting
My favorite parts are when you introduce the new chemical you purchased then smack it down on the desk 😂 NileRed: I bought this Copper Sulfate on Amazon. **BAM!**
"so I had to go back to burning things" You say that as if burning things isn't your absolute favourite chemistry thing
*favorent
@@chillrendbeats7592 spelling 100
Me: Can't even watch 30 minutes of a class Also me: Watching a 39 minutes of a guy making a glow in the dark baby...
Girls can do it in 9 months with a nearby nuclear power plant
TEL_02 kinda sus g
@@palooza6064 LMAO
also also me: watching a 45 min video of a superconductor
@@demenobody1099 this got me dead
That metal reaction is incredible😍
1:31 - "To make glow powder from scratch, you must first invent the universe." - Carl Sagan (?)
Me when I was 3 : *eats sand Nile when he was 3 : "Ah, the beauty in the stored light energy emitting back."
More like “Haha glowy Dino go brrrrrrrrr”
*It did absolutely nothing* Oh no! *But that’s about what I expected* Stop playing with my feelings science man.
lmao science man
why did i read this in mulaney's voice
2:56 He came to make glow toys, and in turn made solid gold 😂
Wow this process is much easier than I thought! When I become a genius in my next life, I will be sure to make some glow in the dark toys
“It was breaking down again the moment it was formed” a metaphor of my life
same but are u good ?
bro are u okay?
That part of the video played at the same time I read this comment r/whataretheodds
guys 🥺 thank you for the kind responses >< I’m okay and I hope you all are too!
祈り / ino really nice to hear man. Remember if you ever feel like you need to talk to someone, your friends and family are always there for you. And the KZhead comment community too.
Nile: "So I've found this way, but then I though it was too easy, then I look for some hardcore stuff."
ah yes, my favorite way of doing things. making it as hard as physically possible.
Tyrant Gaming chemically in this case ;)
@@tyrantgaming7492 😏
@@tyrantgaming7492 same here
I have to constantly drink coffee in order to not fall asleep. Your voice is just so soothing
You are brilliant, great material.
The whole experiment fails Nobody: Nile: “but that’s pretty much what I expected”
r/uselessnobody
@@cbspydoge r/iusereddit
Literally EVERY TIME!
@@haaaah7 r/iusereddit
@@haaaah7 r/madlads
New Video Series: NileRed spends hours just purifying chemicals he gets off the internet.
Yes
He already dose that tho
🤣🤣
Came to see glowing baby stayed to learn the entire periodic table
I hated chemistry when I was in middle/high school and only by watching your videos have I realized how cool it can be. Question about 36:00 though and please pardon my laymen understanding of chemistry and physics, but isn't strontium radio active? Legitimately curious how it can be used in glow in the dark products (reminds me of Radium watch hands)?
Strontium is not radioactive itself; instead it is a product of radioactive decay.