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July 29, 2022 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
29:50
Nitric acid mystery SOLVED - It took 17 minutes!
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Okay, welcome folks back to the laboratory where we are going to settle a debate here today and hopefully generate a reaction, a chemical reaction, if not a public reaction, maybe both.
But as you may recall, I recently digested or used nitric acid to digest this clot sample That was extracted from the body of a dead person who had been vaccinated and embalmer Richard Hirschman had sent me this sample and as you may recall when we subjected it to nitric acid it almost instantly underwent a very rapid very violent reaction strongly exothermic it was popping it
was cracking it was putting off nitric acid cloud of vapor In fact, to my editor, go ahead and show that video clip while I'm talking here so people can see how quickly that reaction happened.
And since I put that video out, there were some questions raised from people.
And I always like to honor the questions to some extent if people know what they're talking about.
And some people were saying, well, gosh, the nitric acid must be reacting with the isopropyl alcohol, which is what this is preserved in.
And that explains the reaction, not the clot.
Well, I understand where that comes from, except I tested the nitric acid with that isopropyl alcohol in advance and it did nothing.
And I'm going to show you that here today.
Now, there are two things that I did wrong.
One thing is I didn't wait long enough because the reaction does eventually happen.
But it takes a long, long time.
Like you're going to see here today.
In fact, I brought a little orbital shaker here so you can see this video actually progressing because it's going to take so long that you will lose interest and walk away.
But this way you know we're not editing it.
You know, this is unedited.
There are no cuts in this video.
And again, we have two cameras here.
I'd like to show those side by side and we can see what's going to happen.
So that was the first mistake I made was I didn't wait long enough because, well, I mean, honestly, we saw the reaction within seconds.
So it couldn't have been the isopropyl alcohol.
It had to have been the clot because it happened almost instantly.
The second thing that I failed to communicate, and this is my fault, is that I wasn't using 100% pure isopropyl alcohol.
I was using over-the-counter 70% alcohol.
In other words, that alcohol was 30% water and 70% alcohol, and I failed to mention that, and that's my fault.
Also, that was not a certified alcohol.
It was more like this, which is a 91% from Mountain Falls.
You can buy it online.
And is it exactly 91%?
Well, maybe, maybe not.
We don't know for sure.
So what I brought today is this GFS chemicals, isopropyl alcohol, which is 100% alcohol or as close to 100% as you can get.
We opened this on April of 2021.
We're still using it.
We haven't gone through it all yet.
And then I've also brought in the GFS chemicals nitric acid, item number 53102.
We opened it on March 30th.
So what I'm going to do today is be using actual laboratory acids and alcohols in this case, instead of the over-the-counter stuff.
Now, since GFS Chemicals does not come in 70%, I had to make a 70% solution, which is still going to react.
It's just, as you're going to see, it's not very fast.
And you might wonder how I made the solution.
Well, I use a calibrated pipette.
Here it is, from Eppendorf.
And I want to show you, we have it set on 10 milliliters.
And then we have it calibrated by Gilson Services.
And the calibration date is June 25th.
Well, it's due on June 25th of 2023.
And we had a calibrated June 25th of 2022.
So you know that this is calibrated.
This is accurate.
You know that this is certified 100% alcohol.
You know that this is certified nitric acid.
And we're not using this because we don't know about that for sure.
And again, you know, I'm sorry that I used 70% alcohol and did not mention that it was 70%.
It's just an innocent oversight on my part.
If you assumed it was 100%, I understand that, but it was actually 70%.
But the point is, that's what I used in this lab with this clot Which means that the reaction we saw could not have happened just from the isopropyl alcohol, because it was only 70%, which is what we have here.
So, also, one of the things that matters in this is the order in which you combine things and so as you saw in the original clot video I first put the clot in the vial and then I added the nitric acid and so we're going to replicate that here to show you the result in real time to show you that eventually a reaction takes place but it takes a long Long
time.
So in order to do that, we're going to start with our sample.
So we'll take 10 mils of this solution.
We're going to take a full aliquot here, 10 milliliters.
Wait a minute, wait.
Just to avoid anybody wondering, let's swish it around.
Let's mix it up.
Let's fully mix it.
There it is.
70% alcohol, 30% deionized laboratory water.
All right, here we go.
10 mils.
And we're going to put the 10 mils in the vial.
Just like that, okay?
So that's our sample.
And now we're going to add nitric acid.
Also 10 mils.
But we're going to turn this on as soon as we do that.
And we're going to shut the safety hood You know, in case there's a giant explosion or something, which won't be happening.
And then we're going to turn this on, and then we're just going to watch with the cameras.
I don't know how long this is going to take, but it's going to be a while.
So, let's just try it and see.
See what happens.
You ready?
Now remember, according to the people online who were kind of criticizing that video, this should cause an immediate explosion.
Like a big explosion, the popping, the cracking, the vapor clouds, everything should happen within two or three seconds.
Or maybe five seconds.
Maybe I should call the ATF, you know, just in case the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
Just in case there's a bomb being created here, which there isn't.
So let's actually do it.
Here we go.
Let's take a look.
All right.
10 mils of nitric acid.
We're going to set it.
We're going to close this.
We're going to turn this on.
Oops.
Get the camera in there.
In the fume hood.
And we're going to watch for reactions.
Okay.
I guess I'll have to talk during this.
It's kind of a little bit mesmerizing to just watch this orbital shaker.
But long before now, we should have seen the popping and the cracking and the explosion.
Right?
Long before now.
We should have seen the vapor cloud, the nitric acid clouds and everything.
Long before now.
You know what?
I should have timed this.
What are we, about 30 seconds into this?
Let's say.
Yeah.
Okay.
So, what do you want to talk about?
What do you want to talk about?
Who do you think is going to win in the upcoming election midterms?
Do you think the Republicans will take the Senate?
Or, an even better question, if the Republicans take the Senate, will any of them actually be Republicans?
Or are we going to get more RINO senators?
Yeah, there's a question for you.
Have you noticed?
Oh, you know what?
I could talk to you about...
I have a source that was informing me about the shortage of automobiles for retail because of the train delivery problems in America.
Apparently, so if you're talking brands like Dodge, the Dodge diesel trucks are manufactured in Mexico.
And a lot of these are commercial, but not all commercial.
So they're manufactured in Mexico, and then they're brought up to the United States by rail.
And what's happening with the rail, Union Pacific and the railways, they have a shortage of employees.
So they have a really bad labor shortage, and they're not able to move things by rail.
And so I was told, what, there were 20 21,000 trucks manufactured by Dodge that were sitting in a parking lot in Mexico outside the Dodge factory there.
Like 21,000 trucks.
And that the parking lot only holds 24,000 trucks.
So they were trying to clear them out of the parking lot to move them on up by train to the United States just to make room so they could make more trucks, you know?
But the trains weren't running.
I mean, not at full capacity.
And as a result, the trucks weren't getting delivered.
I was told they did manage, over four weeks, they managed to move 4,000 trucks.
So they got it down to like 17,000 trucks at this parking lot in Mexico.
Oh, jeez, hold on.
It stopped.
I'm going to turn the timer.
I'm going to set this timer on 15 minutes here.
We'll see how long this takes.
Because I want to show you the reaction so you know, okay, yeah, there is a reaction that happens.
But in the meantime, this could be the most boring video ever.
It's like, come on!
Come on, chemistry!
Come on!
Come on, nitric acid!
Go!
Go!
For God's sake!
Maybe...
Hold on a second.
Let me turn this off.
Maybe if we knock it.
Come on now.
Come on.
Do the...
Do the splosion thing.
Hmm?
Oh, please.
Come on now.
If you don't react, people are going to accuse me of just using all water or something.
Which is not the case.
It's 30% water and 70%...
Isopropyl alcohol.
Come on now.
Come on.
Man.
What are we into this?
Four minutes?
Something?
All right.
Well, I'm very, very disappointed.
As you can see, this is not going to involve the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
Sadly.
I'm sure they would be rather amused.
This is going to be the longest liquid binary explosive ever invented.
Oh, come on.
Well, I have faith that it's going to happen at some point.
Right.
It's just a matter of when.
It's kind of like wondering when the dollar is going to collapse, you know?
You're looking at it every day.
Like, when is this thing going to collapse?
And it just doesn't.
And then all of a sudden it will.
But until that day comes, you're like, when's it going to collapse?
Come on now.
Do something.
Maybe it needs to settle.
I'm joking.
I mean, it doesn't need to settle.
It's just...
Come on.
Woo!
The most boring explosive ever.
Would you...
Would you do something now for the cameras?
Could you do something?
Nope.
Well, folks, I don't know how long this is going to take, but I am committed to this process.
So, look, I'll tell you what.
I'm going to turn this on.
I've got to go grab a little bit of smoothie.
I'm going to walk away, but I'm going to keep it on for you.
I'll be back in like a minute, and we'll see what's happening.
All right?
I'll be right back.
Come on now.
Go chemistry Go chemistry
Thank you.
Thank you.
I got some smoothie.
We have a rule.
We can't have smoothies in the lab area here, so I have to go somewhere else to drink my smoothie.
I'm very disappointed in this.
Is there a competition for the world's most boring explosion?
Anything like that out there?
We're at like eight minutes now.
Let me ask you, do you think this is going to go?
Or do you think it's just going to sit there?
You know, I feel like we may need to nudge this thing along somehow.
Gosh, maybe we...
I mean, I want to have patience with this process.
Let chemistry do its thing.
I'm going to turn this off because that's making me dizzy.
Alright, that's just...
I'll put my hands in the shot here so you can see.
There we go.
I will quickly pull them when the action begins.
That's what you're going to see.
And I'll put them up here.
And then when we get the reaction...
Save the pinkies.
Okay.
All right.
Come on now.
Do something.
Waiting on molecules.
Waiting on molecules.
Still waiting on the molecules.
Maybe I should stop messing with it.
Maybe I should use, like, Sheldon's mental beam powers.
Just like, go, you know?
Maybe it needs a little dose of telepathy.
Come on.
maybe if you point at it yeah this is real science folks Sometimes you just have to wait.
Because I know if I touch it, everybody's going to freak out.
Oh, you touched it!
You touched it, you did something.
You must have done something.
You must have changed something.
No.
Come on.
Come on.
that.
Nope.
That didn't work either.
It's just like...
Well, I warned you this was going to be boring.
I actually did say that up front.
And here we are.
So what do you think, folks?
Should I... Should I augment this?
I mean, I do have some allegedly 91% alcohol right here.
Allegedly.
Is that in the shot?
Yeah, okay.
You see the 91%?
What if I put the 91%?
What if I did a little bit of that in there to raise the level of the isopropyl alcohol concentration?
Would that then allow?
But I don't want to mess with it because then I know the trolls are going to say, well, now you put it in.
No.
I'm not going to mess with it.
But I'm losing faith in the chemical reaction, frankly.
Are you losing faith in it?
I'm losing faith.
You know what we could do?
I got an idea.
Why don't we take another vial?
Like, not mess with that one.
Let's take another vial and put it over here.
And then let's use just the 91% alcohol.
So that would be plus 20%.
And then we'll put the nitric acid in that and see if we could get a more rapid reaction, which I would think, like, logically, we should get a more rapid reaction.
Are you okay if I do that?
I'm not gonna mess with this one.
That's protected.
And it may still go off, so I gotta be careful.
But I'm gonna put a new one here And then I'm going to take this, you know, off-the-shelf 91%, put that, and then we'll put the nitric acid and see if we can get something going within, I don't know, a minute?
Or is that possible?
I'm going to do that.
Let me grab a vial, because this could take forever.
forever hold on all right In the name of science...
All right, here we go.
All right, so...
I'm going to do this all on camera.
There's no sleight of hand.
It's not like...
It's like, where's the vial?
Magically, oh, and it's gone.
No, there's nothing like that.
Let's see.
Let's put it right here.
Okay, you cool with that?
Okay, this is 91%.
Oh, somebody's going to say it's already opened.
Yeah.
Okay, I'm sorry.
It's already opened, but I'm going to raise the explosion hood long enough to put this in here.
Let's take 10 mils.
Here we go.
Okay, you cool with that?
Everybody cool?
Alright.
Put the lid on it.
91% off-the-shelf alcohol.
Okay, now, here comes the dangerous part.
Now, this is getting very dangerous.
Alright, let's see.
This could blow up faster.
Are you ready for that?
I mean, this could be bad, actually.
Let's position it underneath like that.
I don't even have to touch it, just in case.
Okay, you ready?
Are you ready?
Let's see how fast this one goes.
Okay.
There we go.
Okay.
Is it booming?
Is it booming?
I mean, not all the acid got in there.
There was a slight bit that went over the edge.
But I... Oh, let's mix it up.
Here we go.
I have more confidence that this should erupt.
Come on now.
91% alcohol.
Another one bites the dust.
Come on now.
Hey, another one bites the dust.
And...
Is it going now?
Wait, here, let's tap it.
Okay.
91%.
Man, something better do something.
You guys aren't even going to believe I'm using any alcohol.
Come on now.
Oh, for Pete's sake!
What am I going to have to do here?
Is the mixing interfering with it?
Let me stop the orbital shaker.
Come on.
Come on.
I've got to be ready to remove my hands, remember.
Just in case.
Okay.
Oh, I need to have the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives on speed dial.
Let me make sure I've got that.
Okay, I've got that ready.
Getting ready to call 911 here, too.
Come on now.
Come on.
Could you please, please erupt?
Oh, here we...
Oh, yes!
Oh, yeah.
Oh, it's happening!
Oh, amazing!
Woo-hoo!
Finally!
Finally!
Thank you, molecules!
The chemistry has worked!
Alright, so that's 91% alcohol.
And there it is.
It's fizzing and it's popping and it's doing the thing.
Yes!
Yes!
How long did that take?
I'm sorry I didn't time it, but you can watch the video.
You can see.
Let's turn on the orbital shaker again.
Alright, and another one's gone and another one's gone.
Another one bit the dust.
Hey, we're gonna get you too.
Another one bites the dust.
What about this one?
70% is still hanging out doing nothing.
Hey, 70%.
What is wrong with...
Is it going?
Oh, oh!
Oh, yes!
Oh, 70% is going!
Woohoo!
Yeah!
Alright, that was what, um, 17 minutes?
Yeah, finally?
Oh, I'm so thrilled.
I love when science works.
Awesome, awesome.
Good stuff.
And another one's gone, and another one's gone.
We got it.
We got it.
And, uh, I guess we can turn off the orbital shaker now.
Alright folks, so there you go.
17 minutes is the reaction.
Roughly 17.
We'll get an exact count since this is an unedited video.
We'll get an exact count.
There we go.
Roughly 17 minutes.
Something...
What was that?
Yeah.
Yeah, roughly 17.
And the 91% alcohol, what was that, like a minute or something?
More than a minute.
It finally worked.
Alright, so I'd love to have real-world science to answer the question.
So let's answer the question.
Question number one.
Did those reactions account for the reaction with the clot that happened within a couple of seconds?
No.
Absolutely not.
Not even the 91% alcohol would have accounted for that.
So that's clearly not the case.
But...
In the defense of those who were critical of that video, yes, they are correct that these two things do react eventually.
Eventually.
I just didn't wait that long.
So, I think our question is now answered.
I mean, we did it.
I mean, even this finally reacted.
It just took 17 minutes.
So, folks, look, as a disclaimer, I mean, I will say, number one, any lab could do the same thing.
You could reproduce this in any lab.
I would encourage you, do not reproduce this at home because this is a toxic acid.
The gases are toxic.
You notice I'm using a fume hood and explosion shield and everything.
And I have these sulfur-impregnated sheets, which, by the way, neutralize acid.
That's why they're yellow, in case you were curious.
And I have, you know, gloves.
And I've got safety goggles and all that stuff.
So I'm doing this in a safe manner.
I would not encourage you to do it.
Unless you are in an accredited laboratory, in which case, feel free to reproduce this.
So, now, again, the results may be different if you switch the order.
So I put the sample in first and then I added the acid because that's how we digest things.
I suppose if you added the acid first and then you put the sample in, you could have a different timing of the reaction just because of the fluid dynamics of how they're interacting in the vial.
So technically somebody could do this experiment in a different order.
And they could see some different timing, perhaps.
But the way I did it was exactly what I showed you here.
So, there you go, folks.
It takes 17 minutes for this to erupt.
Or roughly 17 minutes.
And yet, we saw it in like, what was it, like three seconds?
Or just a few seconds, okay?
So, mystery solved.
And thank you for putting up with my horrible rendition of Another One Bites the Dust.
Alright, that's it.
Mike Adams here from CWC Labs showing you real science in the real world, not just theory, not people looking at chemical equations on the internet, not people just saying stuff, but actually doing it.
And when you do it, this is what happens.
So there you go.
Thank you for watching, everybody.
Much appreciated.
Take care.
We're going to go look at this under the microscope next.
That's going to be fun.
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