Lithium batteries and electrolytic capacitors look like that. Anything that needs a large electrode surface area.
Pretty sure alkaline and zinc-carbon batteries are a lot simpler, though. And lead-acid batteries like in a vehicle are just thick lead plates separated by plastic grids/sheets, swimming in sulfuric acid.
I hate all those youtubers who skirt the line showing literally anyone with internet access how to acquire and make dangerous things. You have no idea how many psychos probably use those videos as a guide to terror
It's not the foil itself, but the fact that he folded it.
If you take a small flat square of lithium foil and place it in water it will fizzle like in the video but it's unlikely to explode.
What makes it explode is folding it in on itself.
The lithium reacts with water and releases hydrogen gas. Alkali metals like lithium and sodium get more reactive as you go down the periodic table. Lithium is the least reactive, which is saying something about the alkali metals, because it’s pretty reactive. I’m guessing what’s different here is the surface area of the foil allowing a much faster reaction and much more hydrogen being formed before it can drift away. Sodium and potassium can do the same thing with less surface area.
He states adding lithium to water is a known reaction (he’s a chemist), he was however surprised at the foil lithium reaction due to its increased potential. An experience very few have truly witnessed 1st hand.
Nonetheless please inform me which schools demonstrate unwrapping a battery and making a bomb… obviously I must have a skipped that day /s
NileRed's whole gimmick is that he speaks like everything that's ever happened in his lab was unexpected and a complication. It must drive engagement like crazy but I really wish there was a version without that dumbass cadence.
Original YouTube Short: [https://youtube.com/shorts/yGDkiUAwxRs?si=fdxJhNi25s-Xvvfj](https://youtube.com/shorts/yGDkiUAwxRs?si=fdxJhNi25s-Xvvfj)
NileRed's Channel for any one who is curious. He does some interesting things: [https://www.youtube.com/@NileRed](https://www.youtube.com/@NileRed)
What kind of idiot puts anything with the potential to explode in fucking glass of all things? Paper cups, hole in the ground, paper cup in a hole in the ground. So many easy ways to avoid eating shrapnel, but it probably wouldn't look as good on a dumb video.
Did you not hear the video? He said he expected it to just catch fire and didn’t expect it to explode.
Assuming it went down the way he predicted, glass container would make the most sense
He has his own lab and owns all his own equipment, so I have no doubt that he planned to contain the explosion.
He plays dumb a bit for the video, but I guarantee you what happened was not, in fact, a surprise.
I remember seeing a guy years ago sharing how you could make a pipe bomb out of materials you could buy at an airport, provided you're able to smuggle the tools to open up batteries.
Congrats you just made hydrochloric acid. SUPER dangerous. If it gets on your akin it depletes your bodies calcium that you need to contract your muscles.....like your heart.
For those who think this will be fun to try at home, take note at 35 seconds how small of an amount of Li was torn away and tossed into the water only to yield catastrophic results.
I'm actually amazed that's what the inside of a battery looks like.
Lithium batteries and electrolytic capacitors look like that. Anything that needs a large electrode surface area. Pretty sure alkaline and zinc-carbon batteries are a lot simpler, though. And lead-acid batteries like in a vehicle are just thick lead plates separated by plastic grids/sheets, swimming in sulfuric acid.
Reminds me of that video where he was using an axe to drain batteries but was getting it all over him
You have to admit he knows how to wield a machete.
Lithium is super soft iirc from hs. Flatening it to sheets wouldn't be difficult at all.
So was I, first time I dismantled one to make meth
Same
This is NileRed/NileBlue on Youtube.
sounds a lot like the lock picking lawyer
You got a point lol
Used get lumps of sodium from labs at uni and lob them into buckets of boiling hot water. Big booms.
I love this guy’s videos, but I can hardly stand his inflection.
Yea his voice is really annoying and he always talks like he's justifying everything, it's just weird science humor I stopped watching so long ago
Nilered hate is crazy
I hate all those youtubers who skirt the line showing literally anyone with internet access how to acquire and make dangerous things. You have no idea how many psychos probably use those videos as a guide to terror
This is naive, if people wanna make some dangerous stuff from the internet there is much bigger fish to fry
Not really
🤦♂️
Why else would there be a Department of Homeland Security
Why else would there be a Department of Homeland Security
My god 🤦♂️
Luckily at the rate he puts out videos I don't have enough time to get annoyed by it
that voice
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/polarexpress/images/9/90/K.jpg
It's the lock picking lawyer's little brother
Shake and bake… any self respecting redneck meth cook knows water and lithium don’t mix well
Dude apparently went to school and has the entire internet at his fingertips and is supposedly surprised what happens when he adds lithium to water.
He was surprised what lithium in *foil* form could do
It's not the foil itself, but the fact that he folded it. If you take a small flat square of lithium foil and place it in water it will fizzle like in the video but it's unlikely to explode. What makes it explode is folding it in on itself.
The lithium reacts with water and releases hydrogen gas. Alkali metals like lithium and sodium get more reactive as you go down the periodic table. Lithium is the least reactive, which is saying something about the alkali metals, because it’s pretty reactive. I’m guessing what’s different here is the surface area of the foil allowing a much faster reaction and much more hydrogen being formed before it can drift away. Sodium and potassium can do the same thing with less surface area.
i'm fairly certain its the increased surface area from the foil
He states adding lithium to water is a known reaction (he’s a chemist), he was however surprised at the foil lithium reaction due to its increased potential. An experience very few have truly witnessed 1st hand. Nonetheless please inform me which schools demonstrate unwrapping a battery and making a bomb… obviously I must have a skipped that day /s
That one school in Kandahar.
Man, if they taught that shit I woulda gone every day. :b
NileRed's whole gimmick is that he speaks like everything that's ever happened in his lab was unexpected and a complication. It must drive engagement like crazy but I really wish there was a version without that dumbass cadence.
Right? I remember from freshmen high school that the entire left edge of the periodic table is extremely reactive to water
I put the entire left edge of the periodic table in water and literally nothing happened. Should I print it out on better paper?
Print it onto a sheet of lithium
Or better yet Potassium.
With a dot matrix printer.
Based
some is, some is acidic
There's your mistake. You printed it out. Try it without printing and confirm results.
Amy Lee made a song about this very thing, but we didn’t listen
Huh?
*huh????* *HUHHH???* #Huh?!?! it was an evanescence joke. learn to use your words, ballbag
Huh?
Science lol
“*Honey!,… Have you seen my nice Pyrex brownie pan?, The clear one?…”* “***You What‽‽‽***” *** He ded now.
This is what is in the Tesla battery
This is how I realize Reddit doesn’t seem to like NileRed for some reason
Y’all never did this stuff in 9th and 10th grade chemistry classes?
Note to self, don’t try wash my batteries. Gotcha
Wait until he learns what's inside salt
Cesium and water is fun too .
How many do I need to blow u0 a house asking for a mate.
Why do I take my lithium with water?
Probably should stop swallowing batteries as a party trick
That'll take out a shark 10 foot away ..
Why firefighters can’t generally extinguish EV’s .
Pretty sure that’s a precursor now
Original YouTube Short: [https://youtube.com/shorts/yGDkiUAwxRs?si=fdxJhNi25s-Xvvfj](https://youtube.com/shorts/yGDkiUAwxRs?si=fdxJhNi25s-Xvvfj) NileRed's Channel for any one who is curious. He does some interesting things: [https://www.youtube.com/@NileRed](https://www.youtube.com/@NileRed)
Yeah, don’t fuck with the left column of the periodic table…
Bro did not graduate from getting to the fucking point school
What kind of idiot puts anything with the potential to explode in fucking glass of all things? Paper cups, hole in the ground, paper cup in a hole in the ground. So many easy ways to avoid eating shrapnel, but it probably wouldn't look as good on a dumb video.
Did you not hear the video? He said he expected it to just catch fire and didn’t expect it to explode. Assuming it went down the way he predicted, glass container would make the most sense
He has his own lab and owns all his own equipment, so I have no doubt that he planned to contain the explosion. He plays dumb a bit for the video, but I guarantee you what happened was not, in fact, a surprise.
I'd hope its an act. Otherwise your average shake'n'bake meth cooker knows more than he does.
Walter White vibes.
I remember seeing a guy years ago sharing how you could make a pipe bomb out of materials you could buy at an airport, provided you're able to smuggle the tools to open up batteries.
Well maybe don’t put batteries in water???
Congrats you just made hydrochloric acid. SUPER dangerous. If it gets on your akin it depletes your bodies calcium that you need to contract your muscles.....like your heart.
Tesla + water = 💥
Where is this guy's youtube channel
Nile Red
isn't this common knowledge?
How to make a bomb 101
I can't stand the way this guy speaks any more
Next time he's gotta up the ante: cesium.
Kinda surprised it didn't self ignite when he pulled it out of the battery casing.
K
What about Potassium?
It reacts further violently and doesn't care my guy
I'm honestly finna make this a wake up call for my cousin
For those who think this will be fun to try at home, take note at 35 seconds how small of an amount of Li was torn away and tossed into the water only to yield catastrophic results.
So what you're saying is that this will be a lot *more* fun to try at home than it looks?
I think he threw the folded up bit in the water. And I think the fact it was folded like that is why it exploded.