Mercury from Cinnabar

Nile Red

Ill fix the link. I had to change the video last minute.

Catherine

"This video is private", what happened?

Yes, their length I am only in honors chem in my sophomore year of high school so I am not to familiar with organic chemistry, but what I meant was just some connection between their colors and the molecules structure.

Silviu T

Here's where you can start reading about the "everything else" and how it got started. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Perkin" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Perkin</a>

Nile Red

duly noted!

Paul Grodt

As a result of this comment (that I totally support) I found a surprisingly good, almost completely unknown youtube chem channel. They deserve more than 82 subscribers after 7 months of uploads at least. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3aIpsMPiCs1x5P-AsKEf6w/videos?shelf_id=0&amp;sort=dd&amp;view=0" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3aIpsMPiCs1x5P-AsKEf6w/videos?shelf_id=0&amp;sort=dd&amp;view=0</a> But yeah, I'm very interested in pigment chemistry. I heard the story of Prussian-Blue, but since I hear about this from a "history of science and technology" standpoint, the narrative is "iron-oxides, lapis-lazuli, lead-white, indigo from woad, Royal Purple from the sea-snail Bolinus brandaris, finally, Prussian-blue followed by....EVERYTHING ELSE!!" So I'm like, "wait, tell me more about the 'Everything else!'" And the answer is, "OK! Here you go: Germans did it...they used coal tar! The end!"

jason black

Speaking of synthetic pigments, I would LOVE a series on synthesizing a bunch of different pretty colors.

Nile Red

nope, but it is interesting stuff

Paul Grodt

Did you ever see the vid from cody'slab (@Cody Don Reader (man, I wish Patreon supported tagging patreon-users) where he found his family's old cinnabar mercury still? Pretty fascinating stuff: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pMAfEPEHbI" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pMAfEPEHbI</a>

The Gayest Person on Patreon

Really enjoyed this! Time for part 2...

Nile Red

Glad you liked it! The cleanup is an often forgotten part. However, I get a weird sense of satisfaction from cleaning things up

Nile Red

Do you mean their length? I am honestly not sure. I imagine there might be some sort of correlation though.

Xekri

Thanks for these videos. The cleanup is just as interesting as the main reaction. I hope you'll do more of these!

Could you determine the nature of the polysulfides by their color?