Growing NITRATE Crystals For Gunpowder! TKOR Dives Into How To Make Gunpowder With Nitrite and More!

Absolutely gorgeous look at that. Hey guys welcome back today. We have a fun little experiment with kitchen chemistry we're taking bottles of stump remover and converting them into Crystals of potassium nitrate and if you look up the mSDS these things claim to be 100% Potassium nitrate so this stuff should work really well Now you might be wondering what the purpose of doing an experiment like this is and it's because a crystal is one of the most Pure forms of a substance that you can get and the whole idea is to leach Nitrates from the soil and produce very pure potassium nitrate crystals through very natural and very organic process you'll see that in a future video Now to get started let's talk about solubility of things in water We know a lot of things dissolve in water but the question is how much of it will dissolve and what are some of the factors that affect that well first of all the Temperature of the water itself can make an extreme difference in the case of potassium nitrate It's actually not super soluble in cold water, but once the water approaches boiling. It can suck up a whole bunch of this stuff I'll show you what I'm talking about in just a minute We just filled up this little bowl with three cups of ice water. It's very cold You can actually see some condensation forming on the edges here. So now that it's cold enough Let's go ahead and use some measuring cups to measure potassium nitrate into the bowl stir it up and see how much of it We can get to dissolve Let's start off with the tablespoon. See if it will take it one Tablespoon Look at that one tablespoon in quite a difficult time So potassium nitrate doesn't really dissolve that well in cold water, but let's see what happens when we turn up the heat All right, so I've just got everything transferred into the pot here I've added 1/2 a cup of potassium nitrate, and I'm slowly bringing the water up to a boil when the water hits a boil I'm going to keep it at that temperature and slowly keep adding potassium nitrate until it stops dissolving and the whole time I'll be taking notes on the measurements we use All right, I'm gonna go with another 1/2 cup All right, that's for one full cup of potassium nitrate Look at the Splatters underneath when this solidifies to a metal surface It immediately crystallizes back into that white powder all right we've reached boiling hot and spill it over the edges a little bit as well whoops Here's something else that's interesting watch the spoon as I take it out of the solution it hits the air You can see it crystallizes over as the air hits it That's a good sign that means our solution is becoming supersaturated Those are crystals of potassium nitrate you might be wondering if potassium nitrate is poisonous And the answer is no at least not in small concentrations It just gives it a really interesting taste. It's not very desirable, but it's not Gonna kill you what an interesting phenomenon It's actually freezing and melting at the surface where it meets the air currents It's mesmerizing So here's the update guys we've had our pot simmering on high heat boiling in fact for the last 15 minutes And we have added a total of 3 and 3/4 cups of potassium nitrate now granted some of that has spilled out around the edges So I'm gonna call it three and a half cups of potassium nitrate in the water That's in there now while that doesn't factor off for any other water that's boiled off in the meantime I think we're good going along with that so the next step to making our potassium nitrate crystals is to take a clean glass Bowl like this and Transfer that solution into it now this bowl is very cold now to expect those crystals to form very quickly Maybe a little bit too quickly now when making a crystal we want the solution to cool down as slowly as possible So before I make the transfer I'm gonna stick some water in this bowl put it in the microwave so that it's brought up the temperature before we transfer the solution All right our steaming bowl of water is ready so we can go ahead and dump that out set on the table then take our Pot from the stove and pour our clear solution in then let it sit for about an hour its steam hot Whoo that feels that pretty tight, and we're just gonna let that cool for about an hour Look at the way that top looks really interesting Look at the mess. I made over here on the stove. That's all the stuff that sprayed out while we're cooking This could all be recovered and used again Good thing a little warm water will clean that up in a jiffy isn't it because that looks like a royal mess Alright guys I want to give you a quick update on some things that I've been observing As we've been doing these reactions number one for the first batch that we mix in we actually put in so much Potassium nitrate it was absolutely insane when we transferred it to the dish Immediately we started seeing potassium nitrate settling out of solution on the bottom I'm not sure whether or not they're making crystals yet But I've put that in the fridge to help it cool down a little bit quicker now while that was cooling just for fun I put together another batch where we did another 3 cups of water But this time only two cups of potassium nitrate and that is this batch. We're looking at right here I preheated the dish the same way so it could cool down slower But the thing that was really interesting to me was something that I noticed in the pot the pot Cooled down quicker than the dish did and now if we look down inside You can see long sharp strands of potassium nitrate crystals, and that is what we're going for This dish over here has a little bit more thermal, Mass You can see crystals starting to form on the top and eventually they will form on the inside as well So we're putting that to the test and seeing what kind of results it produces? Quick update guys I ran two different batches the first one We did with three and a half cups of nitrate and three cups of water And we ended up with something that looks like this. It almost look like a bowl full of cream of wheat or something I'm not sure if that's crust over on the top and if we break that away what we'll find on the inside But I also made another batch right here The same three cups of water, but this time two cups of potassium nitrate so almost half as much nitrate well You'll notice that the solution came through a lot more clear and as a cool-down it made these long strands Of potassium nitrate crystals which look very very cool, so let's take our first bowl here Let's break off that Top crust look down See we got inside and transfer off the liquids so we can see what kinds of crystals we get down the bottom what blows me away And this has been sitting in the fridge for half an hour, and it's still warm relatively speaking All right, let's see how thick this layer is Almost like a creme brulee. I'm just that top layer really and you want to be delicate because you don't know what's inside yet It's actually covered with so much water. Let's go ahead and dump this off and see what we got There we go waters off. Oh, wow oh Oh That's now better than expected on the inside there look at all those layers of crystals with Shards It's almost like Shards of broken glass, but a lot finer The walls here. It's like half an inch to an inch thick of nitrate but then you get all these crystals in the middle It's kind of like a Geode actually That's spectacular. Is there any more water to come off? that is pretty You can be relatively sure that that is pure potassium nitrate right there It blows me away is how thick these walls are Im going to dig into those later But those crystals are beautiful aren't they let's just take a second to appreciate that These are so sharp and pointy it looks kind of like the fortress that superman build in the old superman movies fantastic Lil bit Pointy Look at that little potassium nitrate Crystal So I'm curious to see our second bowl here this one was a very clear solution and as it cooled down you can see already There are nice beautiful shards at the bottom. Let's pour this liquid off next Oh already on the bottom you can see a really cool, crystalline structure look at that Latticing and the reveal OH ho ho ho hooo That is beautiful absolutely gorgeous Look at that. I think we nailed it I think we figured it out two cups of potassium nitrate - three cups of water look at that one That's just sticking straight out like a long spike You know what else is cool is the stuff we had leftover in our pot made crystals at the bottom as well So even our leftovers you can just leave them in the pot and some of these crystals look how long and beautiful those are theoretically we clean this up with ice-cold water and Clean up any impurities but crystals by nature are about as pure form of substances as you can get So guys the results are in and based on this set of experiments if you want beautiful long strong crystals I would suggest three cups of water to two cups of Potassium nitrate or any Variation of that recipe the walls on this dish are absolutely coated with nitrate So I'm just gonna take a fork and dig into it and see it looks like it's coming from the side here This is kind of got a weird texture It's kind of squishy but kind of hard to get through at the same time almost like wet salt Okay, so nothing really happening there. I mean, it's crystals on the inside, but it really is just this Potassium nitrate mush on the outside very nice stuff. We could dry that out It's very usable, but it's not nearly the crystalline effect We're going for it, but this here is my pride and joy look at the difference there that is absolutely perfect So Im Gonna Reach down in there. See if i can pull some of those out Look at that Those are cool looking crystals man And these are just our leftovers, and they're some of our nicest crystals and look at that So we have done it guys we have made crystals of potassium nitrate and here's how we made it happen we started off by filling up a dish with water and adding one tablespoon of potassium nitrate to Ice-cold water and found that it didn't really dissolve very well in fact We couldn't dissolve more than about one and a half tablespoons So he transferred the solution to a pot put it on the stove and let the whole thing come to a boil where we found The hot water accepts potassium nitrate a lot more readily than cold water because we were able to add over three and a half cups Of our potassium nitrate stump remover We poured that solution into a preheated bowl to help it cool down a little more slowly But it was so saturate with potassium nitrate that the crystals started coming out of solution Almost immediately so we whipped up the second batch the same way But rather than using three and a half cups we use two cups of potassium nitrate And got a really cool reaction that looks like this long thin strands of sharp potassium nitrate crystals that look absolutely gorgeous But in the mean time guys Thanks for joining me for this experiment today This is fairly safe It's something that you can try at home. Go grow yourself some potassium nitrate crystals and let me know in the comments How it worked out for you Thanks for joining You for this video I'll be looking for you the next one. Talk to you then like making snowballs Nitrate Crystal snowballs. hi everyone. My name is nate, and there's a good chance. I'll be joining the king of random team That's right guys I'm bringing nate on to help with some of the projects and the videos here on the king of random So he's probably gonna become a familiar face. I just wanted to pop in and introduce myself. See you around

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Length: 11min 34sec (694 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 30 2017