Make a Color Changing Glow Stick

[Pilot2011able]

Might want to copyright this method, otherwise some ass fuck might sue u ಠ_ಠ

[GamerMaster2041]

Hey NurdRage i read something about a chemical that when gets in contact with other chemical it changes color.

That would not be so exciting if i didn't read it can do infinite loop where it changes from like red to yellow and back to red and then again to yellow and this continues to infinity.

[SoCoMzXeLiTe]

I remember in one of my experiments during class, me and some of my classmates were exposed to one of the chemicals our teacher warned us about, within a few minutes our hand/fingers began to turn white which was the area where it was exposed on, do you know what chemical it was and why it happens? I forgot it seemed really interesting to me lol

[iMakeItRayn]

where the fuck can i get this shit??

[LtBartram]

This will sound stupid in most ways but, is there a way to use urine to make glowsticks?It shows up glowing under an Ultra Violet light, so why not try and make it glow?

[brigiey22]

so... where am i suppossed to get this stuff? target? walmart?

[jessealien12]

@brigiey22 kmart

[mrblahblah951]

lol i just realized that his name is n. butyl lithium

[lipman19]

so when it turns green is it just going to be dim like that or can you shake it to brighten it up for an extended amount of time?

[hollowichigo345]

When you make the these glowsticks do you have to put them under a vent?

[MrmarioRBLX]

in this video you said sodium acetate will raise the PH

in another video you said sodium acetate is a catalyst.

Which is it?

[NurdRage]

@MrmarioRBLX Both

[billeethesciencegeek]

@MrmarioRBLX a catalyst is merely an ingredient added to speed a reaction, so its probably safe to say that anything that raises the PH and does not inhibit the other chemical's reactions it will cause the reaction to be more vigorous.

[supersonicdark1196]

can u make ayellow colur glow stick



[PanycEnt]

Sorry for the typo's

[PanycEnt]

We are looking for a source to purchase the pre combined products, less the hydrogen peroxide. The reason is that we have a teen club and the kids break open the glow sticks, then we have glass issues. We ahve some up with a way to make reusable glow sticks and a dispensing system that will eliminate the use of glass tubes, provided we can obtain the pre mixed materials. We are wanting about a gallon of each color to start with. IS this something you can help with or point us in right dir.

[Shawonman]

nice

[SunilPraC]

Whats up with the voice changeR?

[batmanh142]

Could you actually make a red/blue glow stick?

[mattgar1000]

tcpo i thought it was threecpo

[maxsil89]

Nice to see you are making videos again

[Tl82T]

blah blah blah, i am too stupid

[KyuubiSam]

Also... Is there a way to prolong the colour change?

[KyuubiSam]

How bright is the mixture on the final colour change?

[Dark0Lord7]

@KyuubiSam As bright as a normal green glowstick.

[ivankozar]

what are those cool bottles u use? what is it called and where do you get them??

[JohneeTheKiller]

so AWSOME @_@

[MrMariofan7II]

rate and comment?

the rate thing is no more for very long now -_-

[XxHanix]

i think that was a orange glowstick at first o,o

[Jeroenz0r]

woot!

[Almontmarine]

how bout rubrene? u never mentioned.

[i4sci]

how many different colors could you make the solution change?

[Dark0Lord7]

@i4sci Technically, 2. From a reddish color to whatever color you want in the hue range of yellow to blue(just mix the dyes).

But you can make a fake 3-color glowstick - a red-white-turquiose glowstick - by using red, green and blue dyes - It starts as red, goes to white and then turquiose.

[TheZimmerer]

your the reason why im going to study chem in college

[wojtuniakfrog]

You should make a video where you don't alter your voice!

[steveosquared]

I Fucking love this guy's video's..

XD

Nerds rule man!

[TheLonelyImmortal]

If only glow-in-the-dark (light-reactive) materials did this :)

[silenceisgod]

See the dislike bar? I don't either.

[Xova]

i just love your videos

[monmonby]

wow, that's so cool!

[josyula547]

WooaaoaoW !!

It looks like the new Mountain Dew Neon Glow....!!

[Hiperforteca]

Whoa :O Black magic

[cokenotpepsi22]

I understand what he's talking about cause of school !:D

[NurdRage]

@cokenotpepsi22 Yay! a school that teaches you something! for awhile there i lost hope :)

[HellsAngels0012]

@NurdRage best comment ever :D

[pielover8888]

@cokenotpepsi22 congrats, the only time i learn something doing school is when i watch these vids, :D im only 11, but i understand most of the things in the vid..

[TheMinecrapht]

Sounds like gaben

[2012TheAndromeda]

How the heck you guys find this stuff out~! >:U

(I know by experimenting, but how do they find all those ingredients to~?)

[iwillavengeyou]

im a sophmore ighschool student, and when stuff decays in chemistry, doesnt it mean like radioactive decay?

and if it does woudlnt that release radiation that can be harmful, like cancerous.

[hongyi8]

@iwillavengeyou no, its mere chemical decomposition

[iwillavengeyou]

@hongyi8 so whats the difference between a "mere chemical decomposition" and radioactive decomposition

[hongyi8]

@iwillavengeyou

Chemical = compound separating into simpler bits

Radioactive = nucleus of unstable elements losing bits of itself.

[iwillavengeyou]

@hongyi8 oh ok makes much more sense thanks!!!!

[atreyurockmysocks]

This doesnt seem as bright as the other ones :(

[nickoolay]

What happens in this experiment(i mean reaction (formula))

[Johnhardman011]

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[Hazel0283]

is this really your real voice? it is so deep!

[Hazel0283]

Can you make a glow stick that keep on changing colour?

[triclops20]

@Hazel0283 I would assume you would have to find a non-interacting repeating clock reaction,

[thejerrymobile]

Science! I am so glad I chose to be an observer and not a practitioner of it! 

[superbird99999]

why do you have a voice changer? ;o

[Valendros]

@superbird99999

I like it. It adds something, gives him a hook.

[capnquack]

@superbird99999 That's his real voice.

[superbird99999]

@capnquack no its not >>

[bartreardon]

Nice.

Would there be any practical way to delay the reaction for the secondary colour so that by the time the Rhodamine B breaks down you haven't burned through 10 minutes of "glow time"?

[NurdRage]

@bartreardon add more TCPO?

[balisticsrooster]

@grandbacha No i got the same felling, thatI have seen this before, LOL

[softwhere07]

cool

[DieselCrawler86]

Very cool, I would like to see you melt more stuff with gallium! kinda like that "will it blend" but "will it melt" :P

[grandbacha]

/watch?v=2__CQ29BHKY&feature=e­mail&email=comment_reply_recei­ved

[vlogscience]

@grandbacha that *IS* this video, there is no duplicate.

[NurdRage]

@grandbacha That's not another video. you're just linking this one again. Where is this other video i posted again?

[numsefiskennemo]

AWESOME!!!!

[Thilde90]

awesome

[grandbacha]

this is the secand time you pout this video

[NurdRage]

@grandbacha no according to my youtube video list this is the only time this video is up.

If you are getting multiple instances in your subscription box its because there is a bug in youtube, i have nothing to do with it and I did NOT post this video a second time.

[grandbacha]

maybe but you put a video just like it

[NurdRage]

@grandbacha No, where is it?

[grandbacha]

@NurdRage watch?v=tItOOpyJP5k&feature=re­lated

[vlogscience]

@grandbacha thats not the same video, watch it through and watch this one. They are completely different

[grandbacha]

@vlogscience

you right sory for that

[TheHomeGamer1]

@NurdRage he is talking about the 1 called "Make Glow Sticks-The Scinece"

[NurdRage]

@TheHomeGamer1 What about it? thats a different video, this video is not a duplicate.

[TheHomeGamer1]

@NurdRage iknow.but he might be thinking of it becuse you show diferent culors (spelling fail) changing in this video.and the other video shows diferent culors.this is just a pure guess.

[DieselCrawler86]

@grandbacha Please go back to what ever simple place you came from.

[Zanragnar]

@nurdrage

You should do a video where you use the trispyradine copper iodide from your fluorescence thermochromism video as the dye for a glow stick. That would be pretty cool. I imagine it would work, as long as there aren't any bad side-reactions, or anything causing it to decay or solve. What is your opinion on this?

[NurdRage]

@Zanragnar That dye is organometallic and would quench the chemiluminescent reaction as well as catalyze the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide.

What we need are organic dyes with high quantum yields and no functional groups to get oxidized.

[Zanragnar]

@NurdRage I see. I figured it would be something like that. Where would be a good resource to learn more about the mechanism of action of these chemiluminescent reactions? It's an interesting subject I'd like to learn more about.

[nickbhalo]

Wow, your videos are becoming very popular. 7000 views in a few hours...

[tuva600]

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[TheWildbunch7]

Okay.... Im a computer nerd so i understood none of that...

but im subscribed all the same <3

[rjc34]

@TheWildbunch7 Science FTW!

[aaronleger]

how do you change your voice in the videos

[esperoni05]

@aaronleger That is his real voice ;)

[mattx12345678]

awesome i want one!

[tristanchapman]

or i could just buy two different glowsticks...

[frostedlambs]

@tristanchapman ye ye

[Amaraxis]

@tristanchapman shhhhhhh - that is not the point....

[MegaMonkey61636]

@tristanchapman now where's the fun in that?

[sciencoking]

I like the glowing blob of hydrogen peroxide. It looks even cooler than the glowing liquid :-)

[clayrocks3]

Chemistry makes for great internet videos

[bemanos12345]

nice

[TheDalmomendonca]

I want to do this with my Little! I'm a Biochemistry senior, but I have no idea where to buy all this stuff. Help, anyone?

[AmadeusMaxwell]

@TheDalmomendonca If you go to the other glowstick video he mentions at the beginning, there are links to 2-3 websites in the video's description where you can buy the materials, Link to that video here: /watch?v=tItOOpyJP5k

Be warned that making this stuff is expensive. I looked into making a 750ml glowstick (I have a glass skull bottle I wanted to fill) and it's immensly cheaper to just buy the glowsticks.

[TheSwitijs]

how long does it glow?

[Dri0m]

awesome :D

[SatanicDoomElf]

Have you done a video on how to grow crystals yet?

[Tridecalogism]

 Mr. NurdRage, on your next video, can you impersonate Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Get Back to da Choppa!"??

[radonas]

i never have the stuff myself so i cant make it D: but in the bright side i can watch it over and over again on youtube YAY!

[noahniessen]

wow nice

[MRrandom0804]

nice

[johnello]

the future = this can make smoke glow in the dark , without harming you.

[jezzam96hotmailcom]

hey nerd rage just wondering if u know any way i can blow a wooden box up that is fun and also cost efficient (sorry if i spelt something wrong)

[Masterful6O]

Would it be possible that you did a Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction some time? if it isn't too hard to reproduce. a friend showed a video to me on youtube and I was fascinated, but there doesn't appear to be any video on youtube that explains what's going on in a detailed way.

[Berowra290997]

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[jameswhatsit]

lol its like a glowing alcohol + ..dichromate reaction :D

not really :( :( but COOLNESS

[StephenYamato]

tcpo? c3po?!



[ScalesandGills]

Video.

[mark347347]

I want this. Sold at the nearest convi store

[larry89]

awesome... u should start your own glow-stick company ahaha

[Sabdacrab]

Make a video on perchlorate production without electrolysis!!

[nerdyl0l0l]

@Sabdacrab what kind of perchlorate you after.

[Sabdacrab]

@nerdyl0l0l NH4 or K, but any perc salt would do :D

[nerdyl0l0l]

@Sabdacrab lol, I wonder what you need that for. Not. Don't fuck around with trying to make it yourself, buy it online.

[nerdyl0l0l]

@Sabdacrab By the way, I live in Aus too, and what you're doing is illegal. Don't get caught and don't do anything stupid. My only advice to you.

[Sabdacrab]

@nerdyl0l0l I understand the legal implications, and i am not stupid enough to do anything that could possibly take my life, without taking necessary precautions, but thanks anyway.

[OhNoNotMyPenis]

would it be possible to make one that changes colours more than once?

[dan110024]

Is there any way to slow down this process over a couple of hours?

[1zacster]

Can you make a glossy ck that changes with tempature using that stuff you out on that one copper disk?

[imaball]

is that your real voice ? or did you change the pitch?

[MINIMI95020]

is it that dull or is the camera not picking the color up correctly?

[narfnak]

how do you pronounce bis(phenylethynl)anthracene so gracefully?

[pickachu32]

nice

[NigelGriff]

Make PETN

[Firesoar13]

ah 9,10-bis (phenyletynyl)anthracene.

Music to my ears.

[toothpick93]

Tho is there a possible way to make the green brighter? also, is it possible to make a multi colour one or is that too far fetched?

[armiks22]

Fulminated mercury please.

[Brntrogdor]

@armiks22 He doesn't do Mercury.

[godulous]

@Brntrogdor Has he stated that before somewhere? Any particular reason given?

[Brntrogdor]

@godulous Someone asks for that on almost every one of his videos, he always says, "It is far to toxic to deal with. Its not worth it." and, "Never."

[sugarspiceandallthat]

This is sooo awesome. So many chemicals tho

[hydrosav2007]

Isn't chemistry fun! Although I feel that the theory behind wave/particle form of electrons will change eventually. The is that simply knowing anything about the position of the electron voids all knowledge of the wave form seems silly, if anything, its not the act of knowing, but the technology we use to find out....

[Libertarianist]

@hydrosav2007 You're conflating the Observer Effect and the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal. The reason they have different names is because they are well understood by scientists to be different phenomena. The double slit experiment proves wave particle dualism. The sensor could not receive point data if electrons weren't particles, and the interference pattern would not emerge if they didn't travel as waves and it couldn't interact with itself without having an inherently uncertain position.

[omnomnomcowftw]

Is that your real voice?

[Peter4101]

@omnomnomcowftw Some people have deeper voices than others.

[Kkammiee]

@omnomnomcowftw i doubt it.

[Firesoar13]

@omnomnomcowftw No, he has to mask his voice to be allowed to make these videos.

[MrD3STR03R]

@omnomnomcowftw Umm, i think hes wearing a gas mask.

[kicsiqki]

@MrD3STR03R

Or he inhaled a bit of hydrogen-bromide.

[OrangeMonkeyProD]

@omnomnomcowftw Its whats happens when you drink as many glowsticks as he has.

[discy12345]

@omnomnomcowftw or he doesn't want to be recognized, or he has a girly voice.

[rovku]

@omnomnomcowftw I think Nurdrage is at least two guys working together. They may lower the pitch of their voice to sound like one guy. If you check out the clips watch?v=Fh9vAKYaJFU and watch?v=FrnJ11HXr9s you can clearly hear there's two completely different voices.

[dominic14061995]

@rovku Well both videos may be actually the same person, just that the guys who unmasked them put his voice at a different pitch on audacity...

Anyway, I'd think that Nurdrage is a crew of scientific guys working together, and not JUST the guy who narrates it.

[superdau]

@rovku

Of course you can hear it's "two completely different voices", since both videos are just guesswork about the real pitch. You can't take them as example for "the real voice". I could make you another 5 "real" nurdrage voices. If you ignore the pitch difference, pronunciation is quite the same.

[rovku]

@superdau I'm not just referring to the pitch, but also the way he speaks.

[pghg022]

@omnomnomcowftw puberty hits him hard bro

[Demoman42]

@omnomnomcowftw You'll never know

[MelleB90]

@omnomnomcowftw obviously, his real name is Dr. N. Butyl Lithium as well.

[nattsurfaren]

@omnomnomcowftw

No it is a sulfur hexafluoride leak in his lab.

[Citan1981]

@nattsurfaren Brilliant!

[HasteTheDays]

@omnomnomcowftw I doubt that.

[WeatbixZ]

You voice ...

[top2percent]

Science, it works!

[Jemmy350]

Also is it possible to make it heat up when the reaction starts or by adding some extra to these?

[wallaguest1]

can you make something like this in the most easy way? with easy to get chemicals

[Jemmy350]

Can you go from red to white?

[PyroDesu]

Now, can this be combined (somehow) with Thermochromism?

[dominic14061995]

I think you said rhodium B instead of rhodamine B at the start of the video...

[8898rp]

@dominic14061995 no he didn't

[HONO]

@8898rp yes he did