Cody's Alkali Metal Converter
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I design, build, and test a device for converting one alkali metal to another.
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Distilling Caesium. Yup, hes back to his good old self.
Here's to good mental health lol
@@MrRedeyedJedi metal health
I was hoping that chicken hole would turn into a cool mining series maybe he’s waiting on equipment.
This is clearly an old video that he posted now, I must say, like this kind of video better...
He also sounds much better again
I don't know enough social media-ing to know if you'll ever see this (or to find any other way to contact you), but what size (OD x Height) does the outer can need to be in order to fit inside the furnace? I'm a TIG welder in a stainless steel pipe shop, I may be able to dig up some scraps and knock together a stainless version for you, I don't know how well a 300-series (all I regularly have access to at work) will handle that kind of heat though.
Come on people, upvote this so Cody notices it!
I hope Cody sees this
Cody, look here^
Cody answer qyestuon
sent him a message on twitter just wait and see if he gets it
This is Cody at his best. The top home science / chemistry youtuber imho. No sponsors, no gimmicks. Good enough quality production without fancy editing.
Exactly. And not taking it too serious with security measures, still producing excellent outcomes. For me he is the real "MacGyver".
Big thanks to the people on patreon who support Cody and his channel. I think they are the main reason Cody doesn't need to take on sponsors, the community is the sponsor.
I wouldnt mind any sponsors, as long as hes making good money off them
Sponsors shouldn't be a issue for any channel you like. You don't HAVE to watch the ad. It helps them pay the Bill's. Luckly cody has patreon so he doesnt need to take any. So be sure to go support him with a few bucks.
Right!!! I love it!
Cody hits you with a 20 minutes long awesome video and ends it by saying: "thats pretty much all i got for now". What a guy.
I just watched the whole video not even realizing it was 20 minutes lol
@@RapMusicSucks1000 holy shit me too!
@@RapMusicSucks1000 I take it rap music is not your thing
@@RapMusicSucks1000 omfg ikr... i thought it was like... 7 minutes, i was riveted
That ... that's about it.
when the slowmo kicked in i was expecting an explosion followed by a "shoot..."
That'd be quite on brand
Would have liked to see a cesium flame.
Same lol, Slowmo on Cody's channel does tend to be followed by rapid unscheduled disassembly events.
[shrapnel explosion and metal fire] "Well gosh darnit."
Classic Cody, wears an astronaught uniform to go shopping, doesn't wear a mask when dealing with noxious vapors.
And gloves for math.
@@johnladuke6475 well math is very dangerous
@@zachdurden1821 indeed it is!
Astronaught? Did you mean astronaut?
@@xploration1437 Perhaps that was a play on words since cody stayed on earth XD
Protip: molten alkali metals are one of the few things that can chemically attack teflon.
magnesium is able to reduce teflon, but that requires a flame to initiate
Yeah... RIP my stir bar, from producing sodium in the NurdRage reaction.
Yes, Teflon stir-bars and sodium-potassium alloy can be hypergolic.
@@robertlapointe4093 NaK and Teflon is hypergolic? Geez, I knew NaK is nasty stuff, but not that much!
@@DrakkarCalethiel I think it is due to the fluid NaK having a clean surface for reactivity. It reacts more like molten sodium. Plus, the lattice energy of NaF (~ 900 kJ/mol) is no joke - plenty of driving force there.
The young fella seems to be back in action. A typical old Cody vid so HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
Implying he wasn't in action previously?
@@Beardwhip you could tell from his content that he was a little burnt out and not his normal self, especially after his break up with Kanyon.
@@Beardwhip Yes actually Beardwhip. It is just my keyboard warrior opinion so not worth a lot , but Cody seems to have been different for the last many months to a year. The vids have had a different spin and he has not had the jump in his step that used to be the case. I wasn't trying to be nasty .
My nose looks like that after wearing a filter mask for a while...
@Squiggummer Figgammus If you mean at the start of the video, it's from the safety glasses he's wearing, look at the imprint on his nose.
Still waiting for you to make a Cobalt-Dysprosium alloy - a CoDy slab
He should make a play button made of CoDy for 2M subs
I wonder how much Dysprosium costs right now, it used to be pretty expensive.
@@chucklebutt4470 $260 USD a kilo it looks like market price but about ~$125 for 10g if you buy as an ingot from a chemical supply house (Sigma for example). Or $10 for 5g off Ebay :)
Yeah, Cody is lucky that his name in chemical elements is affordable. If his name was Osir, producing the play button could get more expensive!
You look much happier and positive in this video than in other recent ones. I hope your mental health is on the upswing ❤️
There's room for a lithium joke here. =)
@@anne-droid7739 I see what you did there! 🤣😂
I think it’s cuz he shaved his face so you can actually see that he is smiling instead of it being hid behind the facial hair
These types of comments are so annoying
@@AggroSamurai I'm sorry you don't want someone to be congratulated for being happy. Take your grinch ass somewhere else
awesome work!
whats goooooooooood
learn rage you're alive what's going on with your channel buddy
@@highlander723 he uploads once or twice a month.
Somebody needs to teach you how to tig weld already. The motions are similar to oxy-fuel so I think you’d do ok.
@@XxAILASxX good tig machines can be 10's of thousands and the shielding gasses are more expensive than say nitrogen for mig or oxygen and acetylene. On top of cost there's the issue of power delivery, they run three phase and would require dedicated breakers.
That title reads like Cody has become the full metal alchemist!
Hopefully he didn't have to lose an arm and seal his brother in a suit of armor.
I don't know if you've been getting more sleep recently or what, but I feel like you look healthy, somehow refreshed, glowing almost, and that is great to see. Wishing you the best always!
I can't help feeling like there's probably a gadget at a kitchen supply store made out of stainless that has exactly the shape you need. Probably intended for something else entirely but just begging to be repurposed.
Something coffee-related maybe...
Cheese
Beehive smoker?
There sure wasn't when I was looking for a crucible to melt aluminium. And apparently fire extinguishers are made from mild steel, because the one I used oxidized through in 15minutes lol.
Ah, I bet a set of stainless Bain Marie pots would be perfect!
Great video as usual!
0:53 what my hot pockets see after the microwave stop spinning
I appreciate you so much Cody, I know things have been really hard for you over the years but you're still here inspiring me with every video. And you haven't changed in all the ways that matter. You're a true scientist and I look up to that a lot.
Eyelet on top so that a hooked piece of metal can pick it up.
This feels like a cody's lab from 5 years ago. I love it.
For those who were wondering if *other stuff* gets collected, boiling point of: Lithium 1330°C Cesium Chloride 1297°C Tin 2600°C And Caesium 670°C The molten tin spacer was a good idea.
That is really close, explains the relatively low yield. Thanks for the info.
@@OscarSommerbo wait no it’s not? They’re 600°C apart! I mean...that sounds not close to me anyway...
@@arjunyg4655 the low yield comes from the rudimental sistems cody is famous to come up with
And he used 1400 °F= 760°C for the furnace. So the Caesium would evaporate and escape easily at its boiling point of 690 °C leaving a gap for cross-contamination of at least 570 centigrades.
@@ZoonCrypticon that's the point, easy method for really pure cesium. You can use lithium from batteries, but the CsCl is more expensive.
Cody: successfully distills cesium. Me: makes a small hydrogen explosion trying to distill the much gentler sodium. I think I'll stick to electrolysis to get the lighter alkali metals for now :P
would that include potassium? or do you mean lighter atomically?
I am the cool kid from Germany making videos for the USA and the rest of the world. I will make your day so don't say nay to my videos today, dear dan
Isn't Cesium radioactive? Looks like Cody might be getting another visit from the FBI lol
@@tuscan9617 only some Cesium isotopes are radioactive (probably thinking of Cs-137)
@@tuscan9617 No, only some isotopes of cesium are radioactive. Cody's cesium is mostly, if not entirely, the stable isotope(s).
I was like "That's weird, don't think I've seen this one yet" and then it hit me that it was brand new!
Cody is that friend from school that you havent seen in 20 years but think about almost every day. just a great dude. Cheers.
This Old Tony collaboration!
Yes, this. How!?
Nice work. Good science meets good engineering to produce a valuable result.
How did you comment on a vid that wasn't uploaded??
@@nikkiofthevalley what do you mean?
@@nikkiofthevalley he didn't he just had a link to it while it was still unlisted, Patreon perk.
@@MrDJAK777 oh, ok
@@noeljonsson3578 look at the date it was uploaded. Then the time this guy commented
Awesome work Cody! Can't wait to see what's planned for the Cesium 😁
Congrats on 100,000 subscribers! Also I found some papers about making perchlorates by electrolysis if you'd like me to send you links.
From what I've gathered, the purpose for this is mostly exploding toilets, mostly.
It's cesium, not Cesium. It's a name of material, not a dude.
@@lajoswinkler The IUPAC recommendation on the capitalization of names of the elements has recently been changed to recommend that they be capitalized the same as common nouns. They also changed the spelling of your example element. Caesium is its currently proper spelling, according to that same wiki article. Your arbitrary schoolmarming is undermined by grammatical inconsistency in your very statement, followed by a complete lack of research on the subject. The humor side of your tragic literacy fumble is that you jumped into a pondering of what to do with some uncommon chemical in pure comedy form. *shrug* At least it was good for a chuckle.
It is fantastic to have the old Cody back. I loved those first videos where you distilled murcury and made iron.
Cody'sLab is by far the most genuine channel on KZhead. You can't beat it. And Cody, I'm glad to see you seem to be doing better.
As soon as I master distilling cesium with plumbing materials he comes out with a new and better way. I used the cody way of using random materials for the retort, with the thunderfoot way of using a BBQ grill, only I upgraded to a gas powered blast furnace. It worked great! I recovered several dozen grams of cesium and had a lot of fun with it.
Show us!
And hopefully this design doesn't, according to your neighbors who called the cops back then, look like a pipe bomb.. Good news it doesn't! Bad news is that it looks like an anti-personnel mine now..
"Hello 911, [insert joker "me again" meme] it's not a pipe bomb this time. He built a fucking Bouncing Betty and you gotta come here right away!!! Hurry!" 🤣
Let's just assume that Cody already has his own personal team of inter-agency fans from the FBI, ATF, NEA and NRC who know the device that the neighbours are talking about even before they call the hotline.
wait, what's the story here?
What I’m curious about is why he needs large quantities of very unstable explosive metal that he doesn’t have a license to handle.
@@GamingAmbienceLive For science, of course.
One of my favourite things about these videos is just the curiosity, and then upon realising you could do it, actually following through
There are a few channels where I find everything they post interesting, I’ve been subscribed for almost 4 years now and the day cody’s uploads didn’t make my day are yet to come.
Who are the others?
@@selkywaters colin furze, i did a thing
Great vijayo Now show us the process of getting the cesium into those cute little ampules.
Beautiful and ingenious method! I'd compare this procedure to the metallic Sodium method without eletrolisys explained by Nurdrage. This video is marvelous, thank you Cody for the great content, keep doing this stuff!
You've FINALLY aged , but just barely. I've been subscribed for like 5 years or something. You're a young person. Keep making science for us. I love it. Thank you Cody.
At the time of writing this, more than 1 out of 10 viewers of this video clicked like. It's safe to say that we love your content, Cody.
Fun to see some sciencey stuff again. Seems like it’s been a while...
I started watching you because of your mining and metal series I'm so glad to see you back at it after a few years
I just realized that time lapse with music combo is like a drug for me. I haven't felt like this in awhile. Thank you.
Cody, you should be able to weld stainless with your set up by just using stainless TIG rods.
I can for sure stick the metal together but I haven’t been able to get a good seal. Maybe what I’m lacking is the skill.
@@theCodyReeder you got this!
@@theCodyReeder Practice makes perfect!🙂
Before I forget, you should get a second carbon monoxide detector for when you do your tank experiments. You're one of my favorite KZheadrs and I want you to be around forever.
To improve the yield, consider grinding up and stirring the Li in, instead of just throwing it in as chunks. Even if it becomes a liquid eventually, it's not going to mix good enough, the molten mixture is too thick for a good mix.
Am I the only one that had a chill going down the spine when he cooled the contraption in water?
Maybe you can get in to contact with This Old Tony to build you a stainless version.
Maybe ToT could work it up on the Maho for some first real production work on it post-CNC conversion. 😎
@@mannys9130 it would be a crazy expensive part to machine, better to just make it out of stainless pipe and tig weld end caps on rather than turning most of a big chunk of expensive stainless into chips
or AvE
@@markshort9098 Well yeah...but have you watched This Old Tony??? Did you see how he built the scissor lift and the computer stand attached to the Maho?! He thrives off of excessive stuff and overbuilt work. It gives him power and purpose. 👌
@@mannys9130 yeah i watch tot he's a funny bastard but it doesn't change the fact that it's a waste of a very expensive chunk of stainless to machine it out of a solid chunk for no advantage.. tot like me loves his tig welder and would just weld a end on some pipe
Love these. Keep doing what you do! Hope you're feeling better lately!
I would wager that the instruction manual does indeed say that the furnace needs to be upright
Real man never reads a manual, they are used to start a fire in a furnace.
Where you wearing your ppe while writing your comment Karen.
Eyyy! This is that classic Cody action! I can't wait to see what you do with the Cesium. It's always interesting watching you transform one material into another and what methods you use to do it.
Always fun watching your projects!
Is that type of retort named yet? The Reeder Retort has a nice ring to it.
What happened to the other 65% of the cesium? Did it escape as vapor?
Most of it is still in the chloride form. A better question is what happened to 65% of the lithium. To which the answer is: measurement error, the oil and oxide coating the metal has weight but doesn’t contribute to the reaction. Side reactions, from water in the salt and air in the chamber. And metal that did not react, you can see it burning when I opened the chamber.
Cody, can you use your xray tool to determine the composition?
No, at least not well, lithium is invisible to such techniques.
@@m3talgame20 all the elements should be too light for the gun to detect
@@theCodyReeder What is the more expensive reagent here, lithium metal or caesium chloride? So you could've added more lithium, but my first research shows, that their value is about the same, then it probably wouldn't help much. You only trade in more lithium to use up some more of the caesium chloride present. Maybe you would contaminate the caesium metal with lithium metal condensate at some point!? So you may want to test for the lithium content in your product to dial-in the stoichiometry!
Thanks for a great video Cody. Always fun to see what you are working on.
Fascinating stuff! I always love seeing new Cody videos in my feed! With everything that's been going on, this year really has been more fun and interesting thanks to your channel! I really appreciate your work! Thanks, Cody!
Lookin good Cody! Very happy into:)
For the out-of context file: "Got a little bit of leftover lithium" -- Cody, 2020
I'm in awe of how well this actually works! Really impressive work, Cody
Thanks for another fantastic video. You look so excited while doing the project!
This is really cool. Don't breathe the smoke too much though
This is the cody we want to see.
I always get super excited when you up load. So thank you!! More videos please!!!
What an excellent demo and video Cody!
I can't stop staring at Cody's brilliantly white teeth, idk why lol
Has he told us his formula for that yet? :D
@@realedna yes, a few years ago I think
I’m still waiting on the “Cody Brings You: Backyard Nuclear Reactors You Can Do At Home On A Budget” KZhead series. 😊
He was getting close, but the Feds shut that down.
Watch Thunderf00t, he planted carrot seeds in radioactive soil, then harvested the carrots and ate then on a radioactive plate! 😂
Best Cody video in many months. So glad to see your interest rekindled in pursuing dangerous yet fascinating endeavors. Cs recovered looked clean and beautifully golden.
Happy to see another of these sort of video Cody. You’re looking well, happy to see it!
"I'll have someone make a stainless version" Sounds like something up This Old Tony's street... Colab?!
OH MY GOSH PLEASE
That's what I'm sayin! Get him a proper machined vessel made on the lathe from round stock.
I was thinking the same thing. ToT could use another side project. Especially one that involves welding.
Someone start a petition to make this happen please
You could poke a rod up the distillation column and push the lid off.
Love all of your chemistry and metal purification videos, the solutions you come up with are elegantly simplistic. Your dedication to ingenuitive experimentation gives me inspiration to continue trying new things even when I only have simple tools and common materials at my disposal. If you put Cody on a deserted island he would have an autonomously irrigated farm, up to code housing, and motorized vehicles as fast as he can pull the materials out of the ground.
Love these style of videos. I’m glad you’re doing these again! Keep the awesome videos coming!
You and NileRed should see about doing a collab. That would be neato.
NurdRage and Thunderf00t should join too. Maybe even the backyard scientist and explosionsandfire.
@@instrumentenfreak The distance is the most problematic thing. TF is in Czechia, Nile (and NurdRage?) in canuckistan, Ex&F in upside down land and backyard scientist is from the US if I'm not mistaken. But hell yeah! That collab would be sick!
Please no Backyard Scientist. That guy is going to kill someone one day soon.
@@DrakkarCalethiel do you mean vancouver?
Explosionsandfire would be such a cool collab. He has almost the exact backyard chemist style as cody. That would be so fucking awesome.
Alkali Metal Converter . Hey that is the name of my Synthwave/Doommetal crossover band! ;-)
that sounds awesome to me, honestly lol
the ambient noise during the welding and also the acceptable volume during the saw blades really made that soothing and a good transition from your predictable good mic quality beforehand; great video!
Cody its so good to see you making vids! I always enjoy your work.
17:15 sketchy af. Wouldn't want to be between the wall and the molten salt with lithium
Hopefully nobody sends a caesium and desist for converting metals... :P
That was a good one. 😸
What, get outa town.
delete this.
Looking good Cody! Takes me back to the videos from 2017
Love Cody’s chemistry vids One of a few that do things in a way most people can figure them out No fancy devices or chemicals we can never obtain Cody is one of the best
Imma make a rival channel called CodySlab where I just walk around and talk about concrete all day.
So, basically Practical Engineering?
Why would anyone like my comment, nonetheless respond to it?
This feels like watching Tony Stark building the Mark 1 suit with whatever he had laying around.
Always good to see a video from Cody.
We love watching the process. The science is a bonus win. Great work as always.
I REALLY thought he was writing on toast under water for the intro. It would have fit the channel too.
Can you try do make a sort of DIY li-ion cell? It would be very interesting to try at home!
And burn it too.
A homemade li-oin battery, aka a homemade fire starter?
Looking good man. Glad to see these last few videos!
now THIS is what I expect from Cody's Lab!!! SCIENCE AND CHEMISTRY!!!! I LOVE IT!!
Cody: "... this reaction like all reactions is reversible." Next week's video: "How to get clay from ceramic pots."
You look much younger and healthier without the facefuzz.
I think this video is old.
@@foty8679 its from yesterday on the date at 20:10
He doesn't always release his videos in chronological order.
Hey! You're looking better. Happier. I'm glad to see it. Keep the videos coming !
This channel shows me so many things I wouldn't have thought possible otherwise, thanks for stretching my mind!
Me before watching: “Converting one element into another? What alchemy is this? Wait... don’t tell me it’s a nuclear reactor or a particle accelerator.”
Nah he's just doing straight up alchemy. I say that sarcastically but this IS cody we're talking about
He might have a nuclear reactor or a particle accelerator, but fat chance he'll put it on video after the gummint took a bunch of his glow-in-the-dark toys.
Nah, the Department of Homeland Security shut down that project like a bunch of giant A holes.
Buy the sections of stainless that you need, have them shipped to my house and I'll weld it together for you sir.
Now THIS is the Cody's Lab stuff i fell in love with! Great work!
Looking really well Cody, keep making videos, we all love them 😀
Ned: *writes the furnace user manual* Cody: "Nobody ever said the furnace had to be upright" Ned's boss "Dammit Ned, now everyone is going to sue us" Ned: "Had a meeting with the engineers, they say this is actually OK" Furnace engineers "Not this not okay, this is actually AWESOME!"
Hiya Cody. A few quick points. As a CSO I am begging you not to use an angle grinder without a guard. As a First Aider I dread the day I attend someone with half a cutoff disk in their head. Secondly I notice you have a slight tremor in your hand which is unusual in a young man such as yourself. Have you had your blood checked for metal levels lately? When I worked in gold assay we were monitored for lead. My blood/lead levels were detectable and safe. It really is invaluable to have such information. Thanx for the vids!!
That's rad, would be cool to see how much better it gets with some more design tweaking. I always love seeing a Cody's lab notification. Thanks for all your hard work Cody.
Yes! Classic Cody’s Lab. Everything I love about your work man. Thanks!
Silly me. Based on his introduction, I was expecting this apparatus to be less janky than previous ones.
7:53 - Actually 3.5g of lithium metal weighs closer to 3.5g, not almost nothing =)
@Jon G .. I'm going out on a limb here and saying It doesn't way closer to 3.5g but it ways EXACTLY 3.5g (+- measuring errors)
Cody...If your goal was to educate...You did it..Learned some fascinating chemistry from this video... Job well done! Keep 'em coming!
Hey Cody, you’re looking and sounding good! I hope you’re in a better space lately 🙏