Which Chemical is the Most Risky?

11:58 Excuse you but, the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell ☝

Id love a 4,4,4 NFPA teir list. Were its just a teir list of 4,4,4 chemicals and how deserving of that 4,4,4 rating it is. S teir would be anything that you think transcends the 4 4 4 rating lol. Basically a list of things you'd hope to never even see irl.

I literally have 0 chemistry knowledge but for some reason I find these tier lists absolutely fascinating. Love the content

would be cool to see a video on substances classified as safe that you really doubt are actually safe

Today I learned they should have just filmed 1000 ways to die at a semiconductor facility as a bottle movie.

Picral is a (formerly) popular etchant used in metallography containing Picric Acid. I work at a site that has been established since the 1940s and while moving one of the old labs, someone found a jar of crystallized Picric Acid. The guy who was called to safely move it only had one arm.

I just interrupted my chemist girlfriend playing The Sims In bed at 12am to ask how bad peroxides with COOH linkers were. She’s not happy with me but said peroxides are quite explosive on their own and I need to shut up ☹️

'US Stock exchange of the cell' - That's a new one EDIT: Seeing Picric acid reminded me of something I was told recently by one of my teachers. This happened at my secondary school, before I was there but I heard this my from chemistry teacher. One of the chemistry teachers and a technician made a batch of Picric acid, not sure why they did, but they did. They must not have known either, as a few years later the bottle was discovered and understandably, no one wanted to touch it. The school ended up having to get a specialist in to detonate it safely.

I'd love to see a tier list on theorized chemicals. ie, chemicals that have only been theorized to exist but have never been synthesized. An example would be Octaazacubane.

As a non-chemist, if this channel has taught me anything it's this: As dangerous as chemistry looks, it's even more dangerous than that, and taking a risk is really not an option. I work as a custodian and after I stated watching your channel I've been getting more and more careful about chemicals I work with. At this point, unless I know exactly what a chemical is and does, and even after that in many cases, I treat it like it's radioactive superdeath explodium. Same goes for chemistry knowledge. I may know more than the average citizen, but I'm better off erring on assuming I know jack. Because misinformation is extra dangerous in chemistry. But with all that said, of course thing go boom is fun. It's just that it's even more fun when you live long enough to enjoy it twice. Did I pass?

COOH, as in Carboxylic Acid: Mr Incredible is content COOH, as in Organic Hydroperoxide: Mr Incredible becomes uncanny

A few years back i worked for a waste disposal company that dealt with hazardous waste. My job was to categorize and prepare chemicals for safe transport. The mention of picric acid brought back countless memories of forgotten, crystallized and crusty containers that had to be carefully "watered". Also the amount of time bombs i encountered in universities and schools smh.... Chem teachers, professors and pharmaceutical lab assistants are sometimes pretty sloppy in the maintenance of such stuff. Also had to deal with many containers with other lethal/dangerous stuff. Work was intense and interesting (and lowkey life threatening). Pay was way too low tho (about 1600€ net per month ) Dunno why i worked for whole two years there.

I nominate chlorine trifluoride for an honorary mention. Sure it's technically on 4-0-4 but oh what wonderfully vigorous reactions it has with, well, nearly everything that hasn't already been fluorinated. Oh and hydrolysis produces HF :)

Fun and slightly terrifying fact, back in the 1960s, some enterprising drag racing teams experimented with mixing hydrazine and nitromethane for their racing fuel. It went about as well as you would expect.

9:20 I know this isn't what they mean by fulminating (quick-progressing in this context) but if someone told me I had EXPLOSIVE PNEUMONIA I think my heart would give up right then and there

Fun fact about silane: it etches your glovebox and makes it completely opaque!

"I like the smell of this." "its also a known carcinogen"

Fun triethylaluminum fact: TEA is used in making thickened pyrophoric agent, which is just napalm but worse.

I think "explodes on contact with drywall" is now my favourite weird effect of a chemical ^^

Back in the early 80s my buddy was the deputy chief of security for a well know explosives company. He was trying to recruit me because I was both a firefighter and EMT. When he gave me a tour of the facility we came to a building where there was as NFPA 4 4 4 sign with the bottom block showing the symbols meaning no water and no foam .He obviously forgot I could read the sign. That and the fact that the lab bunkers had roofs with Jack's so that they could jack them back down after an accident convinced me to decline his offer.. The chemical was pure lead azide