Making superconductors

this was so much fun to watch!

David Annett

Love it!

Eileen Zhao

Amazing! Who'da thunk that ash from combustion would...? Amazing! Thank you!

Hi! That was great! You're so fluent in chemistry it's inspiring to watch.

God of Ramblers

great video i always thought making those were way more complicated than they actually were

Since there’s still more to the video and you’re about to work with the rest of the oxide powder, converting the oxide “solid” singular form where it is like a snake firework, that’s where I’m wondering if it would help with both time and consistency to blend it with the magic bullet that I’ve seen you use before. Edit: that’s why you wait to the end because you do it and even explain problems. Damn it. I do want to note with the magic bullet that construction quality of them could have easily lead to product loss especially with such a fine powder. In illicit drug production powderizing with blenders always tends to have an inbuilt knowledge that you’re going to lower yield but they work with huge batches most of the time so I the loss doesn’t hurt, I think just most blenders either make things too fine to the point where it escapes as a fume upon opening due to basically a small enough granule size or that just small leaks in the construction of blenders leads to powder escaping through wherever, so they’ll (clandestine chemists) work with big ones. All theory/ideas from reading clandestine chemistry and mostly off very old writings.

Darvell

So this is going to be a stupid question since this is not my area/field but the YCBO in solid form after the reaction when removing the water, would there be a good reason not to throw the crumbly solid forms in to basically a blender to help ensure granule size and allow mass processing or would the high friction of doing so be damaging to to the product pre-furnace? You mortar/pestle post furnace it after so is what’s coming out of the furnace process making it less uh, reactive? Sorry I don’t have the right terms but basically to try and rephrase, blenders for powderization in the process, is it unsafe? Or is it the manual control with mortar/pestle just much faster/safer and leads to less potential product loss?

Darvell

I couldn't upvote this video more than once so I became a patron. Loved the long format and wow I learned a lot!! The furnace drama was my favorite part.

Hmm making liquid helium would be fun. Also, as far as I know, there isn't a single video where someone made a neodymium magnet from scratch

Nile Red

There are plenty of videos of neodymium magnets. It's boring. If you want something truly unique, try videos of liquid helium. To double the fun, liquid superfluid helium.

Aleksei Besogonov

In case you need new projects, I've just been reading about Aerographite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerographite https://www.aanda.org/component/article?access=doi&doi=10.1051/0004-6361/202038687

Just outstanding work

Gary Gary Gary Gary

The video kept me glued to my screen for over 45 minutes. Well done!

Mark Bryant

Awesome work!! Love to watch your work.

BRAVO! this was an amazing video!!

kendall

awesome

kokito

So cool!!

Very cool (heh) project, congratulations and I'm happy that my contributions go to a good use. One idea though: why only neodymium magnets for the next project? Samarium-cobalt magnets are very interesting too, and in many cases more useful than the neodymium ones.

Silviu T

Barium nitrate is used in fireworks - a quick search found this: https://fireworkscookbook.com/product/barium-nitrate/ $5/lb not bad. Also it shouldn't be complicated to make from barium chloride (much easier to find) and silver nitrate.

Silviu T

Don't kick yourself about the voltage thing; they should not have supplied a 120V unit with a 220/240V plug.

Kevin Martin

My god Nile you have the best special effects on earth! Great experiment, just as expected of you, it was so interesting that I burned the water for my tea. Hats off you're the best.

Marta

43 min NileRed video? Hell yeah.

Intrepid

Mr. Red, I just want to show my appreciation to you for making some of the best content I have ever seen on YouTube. I have learned so much about chemistry from you and I sincerely hope you keep doing this type of work for as long as you possibly can.

+1! Capacitor goo is really, really good at destroying PCBs. Thankfully it's not hard to clean up, but you definitely want to do it as quickly after exposure as you can.

Zach Bean

That plug is not a Chinese plug its a plug used in Australia, they sent you a unit for use in Australia. I hope you neutralised the capacitor fluid as it is highly corrosive. Otherwise it will attack the board, and destroy it.

Paul Fisher

What is the liquid that’s visibly pooling on top of the superconductor under the magnet? Is there a magnetic effect on the LN2 itself, or is some atmospheric oxygen condensing on the surface and being trapped in place?

vince

Ridiculously awesome man, just simply spectacular. You goddamn people and your gigantic brains make me feel like a complete moron! Actually, that's not very hard for most science people to do :). Awesome work man. So very enjoyable and just super cool.

Chris WIRVIN

Realy awesome! Did you use google scholar for your research? Maybe you didnt know about it but it is google for scientific information eg. patents and papers. It could be realy helpful in future projects.

Really cool!

Greg Harbican

Damn, I'm impressed. The anxiety you must have gone through with that expensive furnace, not once, but twice! You have some sick toys at your disposal. Fantastic job! But, hey... they're superconducting, right? Why no resistance experiment?

Yes!!! New month new Nile genius stuff

Alexander Kirk

Fantastic! I hope to try this someday and your excellent work definitely improves my chances of success!

Michael Aichlmayr

Great job, and excellent troubleshooting!

Sooo amazing I would never have the patience to wait soo long for it but if I did then it would definitely be worth it.

The flux pinning is really cool. I'd seen that before and I have a piece of pyrolytic graphite that will float above magnets at room temperature but it sadly doesn't exhibit the flux pinning. Thanks for doing this.

Wow, Nile Red that very impressive. I really liked the inorganic chemistry and the project must have been really difficult. Not disappointed.

Daniel Blake Shoemaker

Really awesome!

naturally.herb

I thought it was a wonderful experiment, and learned a lot about super conductors, how they work, and how they are designed. I really like that you showed you mistakes, and how to fix them.

Did you notice the capillary action of the liquid nitrogen under the magnet? This is a really clear to understand process.

Amazing. I've always thought that watching magnets float above super conductors is the closest thing to magic I've ever seen. Great work!

Kris Pockell