The Most Dangerous Chemical I've Ever Made.

In this video I make and experiment with a deadly and mutagenic chemical called chromium trioxide, use some fork-derived Cheeto dust to make stunning crystals, and cope with all problems by putting stuff in jars.

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Disclaimer: Please DO NOT recreate anything you see me do in this video, even though through it I make many efforts to emphasize just how dangerous and deadly things I do are, I know that some people won't listen to reason and try to do this anyway, in which case I won't take any responsibility for their actions.

Also, excuse me for my poor speaking, English is not my native language so I have some trouble with pronunciation, in case you don't understand something there are always subtitles made by me.

0:00 Intro
3:25 What's the deal with chromium?
6:08 Making chromium trioxide from potassium dichromate
14:53 Experiments with chromium trioxide
16:31 Making chrome alum
24:51 Outro

#chemistry
#experiment
#beautiful
#demonstration
#science
#interesting
#cool
#reaction
#chromium
#colors
#crystals
#redox
#fascinating
#stunning
#toxic
#cancer
#dangerous
#fork

[Battlefieldsucks]

The "Potion of instant harming" comment really cracked me up haha

[rob-muntron]

One of the less popular religious relics: Fork of the covenant - holds the power to turn vodka into vinegar and performs the reverse miracle of un-curing cancer.

[monosodium-glutamate]

the phrase 'decided to whip up some nitric acid on the go' is the wildest thing I've ever heard yet knowing this channel, I am unphased

[spiderdude]

You know a substance isn’t messing around when the ONLY WAY to clean it on a fritted filter funnel is to wash it with concentrated nitric acid.

[daniellassander]

"Acid marinated forks" you have a way with words my good sir!

[derekturner]

That lid with the mixed acids will be gone in a week or two. The acid vapors will eat right throught it. You need to store it in an all glass container with teflon taped joints. Good luck!

[Hovzlozki]

It’s ironic that chemists think of Chromium as useless. As a gemologist Chromium is a much loved transition element being responsible for beautiful green emeralds, deep red rubies and even colour changing garnets.

Loved the video and can’t wait for the other experiments!

[filipop]

Im gonna watch this before it gets taken down by youtube

[KMa-sg]

He nails the description with something funny perfectly "potion of instant harming" is the perfect description.

[hovant]

There it is, the fabled compound, 'Nile Red'!

[xjehoofdx]

My country used chromium 6 as a paint on equipment for the military, a lot of people worked with it without the proper protection and now a lot of people are getting cancer. I never actually knew what it was until this video.

[markedis]

Back in the 70s I had a chemistry set with several chromium chemicals in it because they were nice colours and made it sell. There were some quite powerful oxidisers too. I had loads of fun

[bryantan]

14:04 Only thing worse than an abnormally low yield is an abnormally high one

[svenhoff]

I worked at a big chemical company that made green chrome oxide pigments (the green was much darker and more intens than here in the video). And they used Ammonium dichromate to make it. The only thing i can remember is, that it is bright orange and really nasty stuff.

[ScooterMcAwesomeness]

Paused at 16:36 with every intention of continuing:

My friend, Mr Chemist Deluxe... Holy crap! I mean this in the best possible way.

The way you have (so far) described everything has been exceptional. So much detail, but in such a solid presentation.

Your little humorous jabs here and there have had me laughing pretty good so far. Very well done.

Thank you for all you do.

I'm going to continue and finish watching your outstanding video.

[SciDOCMBC]

13:09 This mixture is not only good for cleaning. Since sulphuric acid is very valuable for hobby chemists, many collect it, purify it and distill it to get 98% H2SO4 again.

[IcarusSpeaks]

I used to work around several pools containing several thousand gallons each of that "Potion of Instant Harming", each of which had tens of thousands of amps flowing through it and was heated to about 145F. Industrial chrome plating.

I'm not sure how comfortable you are messing with that stuff, but if you set up a small scale electroplater with that stuff and tinker with the current and run time, you can actually plate things in colored chrome jacketing. Transition metal chemistry is cool as.

[StarUnite]

Tomorrow is my exam for a language that I don't speak and here I am watching Amateur Chemistry. Aw man it shucks to be ADHD

[BackYardScience]

I have a few 1kg jars of this chemical (CrO3). I keep it in several bags, in a box, in a another bag and locked inside a sealed plastic boxe inside a locked lab closet. I rarely mess with it, but when i do it's generally a whole ordeal. I usually only mess with it when someone needs some.

[spaceracoon]

Man, honestly how could I haven't known about this channel so far? Sub. Also in my lab tomorrow I'm planning on preparing some AlCl³ and honestly, watching the Al get absolutely recked by the concentrated HCl is just too satisfying