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Capturing the natural beauty of chemistry

I find that chemistry is often taught poorly or without a purpose. Because of this, people tend to lose interest and sometimes even start to hate it. In each video that I make, I try to balance theory with purpose. My goal is to capture the natural beauty of chemistry in fun and interesting ways.

In terms of education, I have a BSc in Biochemistry, with a minor in pharmacology. However, I've always been a lot more drawn to applied chemistry. So after finishing my degree, I worked as a lab tech in an organic lab, and then as a chemistry grad student. However, I ended up leaving my graduate studies early to focus on this channel. Now, making chemistry videos has become my full-time job!

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Other inquiries: admin@nilered.ca

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The evolution of NileRed + NEW LAB TOUR

2018-03-29

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Making an old pain and fever medication

2017-05-20

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Making a Nylon Precursor using Green Chemistry

2017-02-22

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Aspirin to Acetaminophen - Part 6 of 6: Acetaminophen from p-aminophenol

2017-01-29

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Aspirin to Acetaminophen - Part 5 of 6: Reducing p-nitrophenol to p-aminophenol

2017-01-19

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Storing mercury without water

2017-01-08

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Christmas Special: Making a ChemisTree

2016-12-25

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Aspirin to Acetaminophen - Part 3 of 6: Phenol from Salicylic Acid

2016-11-18

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Aspirin to Acetaminophen - Part 2 of 6: Conversion of ASA to Salicylic Acid

2016-11-12

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Aspirin to Acetaminophen - Part 1 of 6: Extracting Aspirin from Pills

2016-11-03

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Making Ammonium Metavanadate

2016-10-27

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Cleaning Dirty Phenol

2016-10-19

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Making Benzaldehyde from Bitter Almond Oil

2016-09-29

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Making Hexanoic Acid

2016-09-22

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The Blue Bottle Experiment

2016-09-17

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Making Lithium Peroxide

2016-08-11

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Making aluminum isopropoxide

2016-08-03

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Extracting the red phosphorus from matchboxes

2016-07-31

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Making a Bromoalkane (1-bromopentane)

2016-07-30

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Melting Zinc Battery Casings into an Ingot

2016-06-26

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Making Methyl Iodide

2016-06-19

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Making the Pharaoh's Serpent (4K)

2016-06-13

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Making oxalic acid from cane sugar

2016-06-08

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Dissolving Cotton and Paper in Water (using Schweizer's Reagent)

2016-05-30

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Making Alcohol Jelly (from Calcium Acetate)

2016-05-19

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Let me Cook You a Meal (for reaching 50K Subs).

2016-05-12

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Making Stinky Pyridine from Vitamin B3

2016-05-11

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Making a fluorescent dye - Eosin Y

2016-05-04

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Dissolving a Hotdog in Hot Piranha

2016-05-04

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Extracting vitamin B3 (niacin) from pills

2016-05-01

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Making copper hydroxide

2016-04-28

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Making Anhydrous Oxalic Acid (using a Dean-Stark Apparatus)

2016-04-23

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Making calcium acetate from Tums

2016-04-20

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Dissolving pork in hot piranha solution

2016-04-15

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Making basic copper carbonate

2016-03-28

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Making Benzoic Acid (from sodium benzoate)

2016-03-01

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Making Hydrazine Sulfate from Urea and Bleach

2016-02-18

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Making Benzyl Chloride

2016-02-18

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Making Ammonium Formate

2016-02-18

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Making iodine

2016-02-04

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Technique Series: Recrystallization (urea as an example)

2016-01-31

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Making 3-nitrophthalic Acid (Luminol Precursor)

2016-01-21

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Brominating an Alcohol using Phosphorus Tribromide (1-pentanol)

2016-01-13

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Making Chromyl Chloride

2016-01-09

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The Birch reduction

2016-01-06

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Making liquid ammonia to dissolve sodium and lithium metal

2016-01-01

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Making and Playing with Phosphorus Tribromide

2015-12-18

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Making Benzocaine (Revisiting!)

2015-12-12

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How to Freebase (Phenylhydrazine HCl as an example)

2015-11-25

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How to extract chemicals from over the counter products

2015-11-17

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Preparing a Drying Agent (Magnesium sulfate)

2015-11-11

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Making Fluorescein

2015-11-01

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Making Silicon Tetrachloride

2015-10-01

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How to grow Tin Crystals!

2015-09-29

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Making Phenylhydrazine (Skatole precursor)

2015-09-27

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How to make a Stannous Chloride Solution (Tin (II) Chloride)

2015-09-15

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How to make Propanal (propionaldehyde)

2015-09-07

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How to make Aniline

2015-09-04

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How to make Nitrobenzene

2015-09-01

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Reacting Bromine and Aluminum

2015-08-04

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How to Extract Bismuth Metal from Pepto-Bismol Tablets

2015-07-29

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How to make an Acid and Base Bath

2015-07-28

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How to make Glycerine (Glycerol)

2015-06-22

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How to make Sodium Carbonate (from Sodium Bicarbonate)

2015-05-28

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How to extract Limonene from Orange Peels

2015-03-12

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Making Chloroform

2015-01-05

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Making Phenol

2014-12-16

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How to make a Hot or Cold Water Recirculator

2014-12-12

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Making Diethyl Ether

2014-11-27

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How to build a Pressure Cooker Pot Still

2014-11-20

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The Pharaoh's Serpent demonstration

2014-11-04

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Extracting pure silver from a coin

2014-11-03

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How to make Hydrobromic Acid

2014-10-28

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Making a Hydrogen Sulfide Generator

2014-10-27

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How to make Calcium Hydroxide (Ca(OH)2)

2014-10-27

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How to extract Capsaicinoids from Peppers at Home

2014-07-18

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How to make Glacial Acetic Acid

2014-07-08

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How to make Butyric Acid (Smell of Vomit) - Oxidation Method

2014-06-25

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Synthesis of a Bromoalkane (n-Bromopropane)

2014-06-09

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How to make the Cinnamaldehyde Clock

2014-05-22

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The Briggs-Rausher Oscillating Reaction (Tutorial and Explanation)

2014-05-15

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The Briggs-Rausher Oscillating Reaction (Demonstration)

2014-05-10

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