I had to break all my beakers.

a few months ago I was standing next to the speaker and it somehow to spontaneously broke this piece of glass just spit itself off and there was then a hole in the beaker at the time the beaker was empty and not doing anything though so it didn't really matter and I honestly didn't think too much about it it was definitely weird and I didn't really understand why or how it happened but I ended up just forgetting about it and moving on with whatever I was doing a few weeks later though when I was filming for a video it happened again but this time the beaker was full of acid thankfully it was just all dilute acid so it wasn't really a huge disaster but it did end up spilling everywhere when it happened the first time I thought that it was just some weird freak accident or something but now that it happened again I started to worry about what was happening the break that happened was very weird and was also exactly the same where this small piece of glass was ejected from the beaker I try thinking about what would cause it to break so weirdly like this and it only took me a couple minutes to figure it out back in August I posted a video about making plasma in the microwave and to do this I ran it in beakers every time the plasma was extremely hot though and in several runs I let it go for a really long time and it probably got close to melting the glass this wasn't very good though because after that as the glass cooled it probably introduced a bunch of new internal stresses to avoid this I would have had to anneal it which meant that I'd have to cool it at a very slow rate and then hold it at a certain temperature so that all these internal forces could slowly even out I of course didn't do that though and the moment it was done in the microwave I just popped it out and let it cool back down to room temperature also in that plasma video I found that as the plasma formed it would pull sodium ions from the glass and this could also potentially destabilize it so in the cases that I just let the plasma sit there it might have been messing it up in two ways after this the glass was potentially under some extreme stress but I didn't know that time so I mixed everything back with all my normal unused beakers however now I had no idea which ones were the good ones or the ones that might just potentially explode they all visually looked the same and the only way that I thought that I could maybe see the difference was by looking at the glass through polarized light this is often used to see the different stress patterns in glass and it probably could have worked but I just didn't really think it was worth all the effort also I'm really not an expert when it comes to glass stress patterns and I really didn't want a risk even just missing one faulty one the idea of just having even one beaker that could potentially break on its own was really scary to me not only for safety reasons but also it could potentially ruin an entire project so I decided that my only option was to just sacrifice all of them thankfully though because they were my own branded beakers I was able to buy them in bulk for a lot cheaper and this isn't a huge financial loss I felt like it was a total waste if I just threw them out though so instead I decided to have some fun with it [Music]

Channel: NileBlue

Views: 19,241,996

Keywords: nile, red, science, chemistry, break, glassware, beakers, smash, plasma, microwave, blue, nileblue

Id: tGqVMbAQhBs

Length: 5min 5sec (305 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 31 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/COMPUTER-MAN]

What could go wrong if I spend all day creating plasma in my glassware then stick it back in the cupboard with the other stuff.

[u/ExplosionsAndFire]

Nile always has huge Chad energy. I'm going to use the smashing healer clip in a video in the future, I can feel it

[u/diamondpolish]

How to basic - illegal drugs. or How to basic - How to clean glassware.

[u/shutaro]

I half expected him to auction/sell the box of broken glass.