Turning Bones into White Phosphorus

This is better titled "Turning victims into warcrimes" or "the military industrial complex embraces recycling"

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Did very similar for a high-school science project. Used carbon bone ash sand and a bit of steel wool. Electrodes were put in a big ceramic flower pot with another one clay sealed on top. The top had a pipe mounted to it. The works were buried in sand. An arc welder supplied the power and the phosphorus and carbon monoxide was made. Phosphorus condensed under water but the CO/P vapor in the bubbles would cause some of them to ignite. Made quite a bit of phosphorus. They would never let you do something like this nowadays...

An efficient method of extracting phosphorus has been holding amateur chemists back for decades now. You did a really great job working through such a difficult and convoluted procedure. Everything considered, you might be able to increase yields by cleaning the bones with an NaOH soak instead of incineration. I have a feeling that organic contamination pyrolysed and burned off a good chunk of phosphorus in the original sample. Starting with commercial MSP or phosphoric acid rust remover is an alternative source that's closer to the critical step. A shorter pipe and much larger receiving flask might prevent so much burning off too. You might not do a second run of these steps given how laborious it all is, but I'm really interested in how we can streamline the process. Making sodium at home used to be a pipe dream. Why can't phosphorus be like that too? Stellar work as always and hats off to you.

That was so much more interesting than the usual calcium extraction from bones. Well done sir! 👍 Don't worry about the Geneva Suggestion, nobody else does!!! 🤣

I knew it was possible after all. Thank you for demonstrating this process

So glad I stumbled across your channel. It satisfies that itch of "I know it's a dangerous dumb idea but what if..." so well! Please keep being awesome.

Bro casually made white phosphorus from bones 😭✊

Zajebisty projekt, ty jesteś jedno z moich ulubionych chemicznych kanałów. Nie mogę się doczekać do następnego projektu.

after all this time you still haven't gotten a new pestle. I respect that 😂

that nitrogen + furnace setup at the end was a real monster, nicely done

Polish youtuber with almost the same production scale and preparation as NileRed. Well done!

Very original as always - combined with your kind of humor it made your channel so successful within such a short period of time. It's qualitatively not much inferior to Nilered anymore but much more funny. Just one thing: never filter CaSO4 through sintered glass or it might block its pores forever.

Ive only just found your channel completely by accident, what a Fantastic exploration of chemistry, i was going to try & make some white P for my element collection using phosphoric acid which i have loads of, you have validated my idea for doing that. Keep up the good work.

i love your humour, both visual and commentary. if you were ever to enter teaching of the subject professionally, you will have a very sucessful career and a lot of very sucessful students :) keep up the good work. and thank you! :)

Wow, great job for a great effort! Thank you for your hard work

We need more people like you mate! The geto setup reminds me of my childhood making things that go boom and various battery experiments! This is a mindset that gets things done and pushes progress forward! Yes, it is unsafe, yes someone might get hurt imitating this, but that someone would get hurt because of his or hers stupidity and carelessness which is present in his or hers daily experiences. The existence of those people in a free world where they can not be assigned a proper place is what is causing this planet to go to shit.

I did not expect this long process. The idea is great. Thanks.

Great work, it was a pleasure to watch your video 👍

This is actually really great work. Good job.