New NileBlue video!

Have you considered reviewing/breaking down other's chemistry videos? I was watching a video and I was thinking that this really needs a detailed breakdown by someone that understands chemistry. Rice bran oil -> Pd/Pt/Rh catalyzed reaction between rice bran oil and diethyl ether under a hydrogen atmosphere(?) -> Wax? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh0IaUn4z9k

Jeremy Jorgensen

Interestng, scientists and mystics are saying the same thing. https://youtu.be/e1a0GTUgDkw

Victoria Li

You are a real tough guy, good luck finding a worthy opponent!

Marta

I have always found it interesting that some "gross" smelling chemicals are often used in pleasant fragrances. That's really interesting that thiols can make thing smell more "fresh" or "real"

Nile Red

I think my smell works properly! I have just never been as sensitive as others. There are some smells that really get to me though that don't bother other people that much.

Nile Red

I thought for a second that you were going to also crack trithioacetone. :( Do you think that would be a 10/10? The Israelis have a crowd/riot control malodorant called "skunk" which is completely non-toxic and made from yeast and baking soda. Would love to know how that one works with the yeast/baking soda recipe.

Lindy

So you basically made stinky perfume oil. I’m a fragrance compounder and this is what I do for work, but on a much larger scale. Dipropylene Glycol (DPG) is our most commonly used diluent. Any time we add solids or very viscous liquids to the diluent we need to heat and stir the final product so it dissolves properly. Interestingly enough, some of these chemicals are added in very small proportions to fragrances that smell quite pleasant in the end. Thiols can be added to fruit scents to add a “fresh” smell that changes the final product from smelling like artificial fruit to real fruit. It’s pretty cool.

You should try and make thioacetone

Yes I came here to suggest this. I'm guessing we've all probably read Derek Lowe's blog post about it, but here's a quote: "During early experiments, a stopper jumped from a bottle of residues, and, although replaced at once, resulted in an immediate complaint of nausea and sickness from colleagues working in a building two hundred yards away." Apparently it has the interesting property of not being "intolerable" at high concentrations, but actually being worse at low concentrations. I wonder if it's kind of like hydrogen sulfide in that way, where the smell is actually less bad at higher concentrations. If it's as bad as claimed though, working on it might actually get him in trouble with the neighborhood.

Chas Evans

Are you able to do an updated lab tour showing off some of the cool shit you have. That pipette looks pretty cool.

I came here to suggest this as well, but I'm not sure it could be done unless his lab is in the middle of nowhere. In Freiburg people were sick within half a mile of the lab. The Wikipedia article for it is downright scary, with a researcher describing the smell as "fearful" and an experiment with one single drop outside being smelled downwind 400m away within seconds.

Desmond Hawkins

Your sense of smell doesn't seem to be working properly. Don't you think the surgery you underwent could have had an impact on it? Beethoven composed amazing symphonies even though he was deaf, perhaps your broken sense of smell will be the key to your genius at creating The Ultimate Stink. Great video, made me laugh. I wanna smell that.

Marta

Please do make the 10/10 world ending scent!

Nicholas Fletcher

I wonder if you've burnt out your olfactory receptors through too much bromine production or maybe you've just had covid and now can't smell too great?

Mike Hanley

This is hilarious! I also love how much more sensitive everyone is but you! Although, apparently women tend to have a better sense of smell, so I wonder if a female team member would be even more repulsed?? I love this video and It is definitely worth the wait! I am loving Safety Third, and watching every video you have already made, and I’m excited for whatever else you do :)

TerryEnby

Be careful, if you make a 10/10 you may create a no-mans land.

Jeremy Jorgensen

No wokka's Nigel, I've been getting my Nigel fix on the safety third podcast so no stress!

Max

Hmm the parodies on you are lol. Have you seen all of them? My fav making stinky stuff but I will not repeat this.

Daniel Blake Shoemaker

Or he maybe had Covid recently

Aurélien Ziller

Some sources state that a single drop of thioacetone were dropped in 1967 in England and people could smell it half a kilometer away, not to mention the Freiburg incident of 1889. It might be a bit too potent lmao

Can’t wait till you come up with your own recipe! 🤢🤞

André Forcier

Thioacetone anyone?

Mark Warburton

How about Thioacetone.. the stories of it are things of legend.. but how true are they? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thioacetone

are you sure you didn't destroy your sense of smell some time ago with some chemicals? ;)

SkaveRat

Cadaverine, Phenylhydrazine, Skatol, Pyridine, Urine “Idoles are known to not smell very good, and this is exactly why I wanna make them.” I don't know man, there were a few to deserve that label...

Florian Linscheid

Interesting, I totally forgot about that

Nile Red

I think the reason people think you like making stinky things is because you literally said, in one of your videos: "I like making stinky things". Quote from the video on making pyridine, Which is, like we all know, stinky.