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Making Prussian Blue

2018-05-28 Science & Technology
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Today I'll be making Prussian Blue, which was the first modern synthetic pigment. For this video, I'll be isolating it and using it to make paint, but in the future, I''ll be diving into the whole process of cyanotyping. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Merch - https://nilered.tv/store ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Join the community: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/nilered Discord - https://discord.com/invite/3BT6UHf NileRed Newsletter - https://nile.red/home#newsletter You can also find me here: Facebook - https://m.facebook.com/NileRed2 Instagram - https://m.instagram.com/nile.red Twitter - https://mobile.twitter.com/NileRed2 Nile talks about lab safety: https://youtu.be/ftACSEJ6DZA Music in credits (Walker by SORRYSINES): https://soundcloud.com/sorrysines/walker

Top Comments (10)

@vertigatari 2019-08-09

it’s fascinating to see him have all the patience and time to make prussian blue and little to no patience to paint with it 😂✌🏻

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@sjrose5438 2019-08-16

finally an actual "reaction video"

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@Thee_Sinner 2018-05-28

A Bob Ross classic color.

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@HattmannenNilsson 2018-05-28

And maybe we'll add a happy little molecule right … here. Let's give him a little friend over here – everyone needs a friend. Remember, this is your world. You can do anything you like.

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@midnight_blue_moon 2019-12-07

7:55 that blue dust is like one of the most beautiful shades of blue I've ever seen

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@thegreatgathby 2019-08-08

My great-grandfather was the first to synthesize Prussian blue in America. He was a German chemist who emigrated. He did it in his San Francisco apartment kitchen in the early 1920s.

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@realastropulse 2019-06-02

Makes paint. Draws chemical structures.

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@NileRed 2018-05-28

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@LunarRabbitBnuuy 2020-05-06

"The reaction seemed to be quite well-behaved." (pat pat) Good reaction, have a cookie.

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@chernoboogaloo 2022-02-23

7:05 "until it turned to a greenish-blue" ... also known as cyan! Cyanide gets its name from this exact color because it's in Prussian blue, and I find that very interesting. Most people would think the color and the compound are unrelated, but instead they are entwined

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