Making the stinkiest chemical known to man

This video has been sponsored by shiny.org. Since I started this channel, I've been

making

stinky

chemical

s, and some of my favorites have been things like putrescine and cadaverine, which are supposed to smell like a rotting body. I've also made fun ones like butyric acid, which smells like vomit, and I've even recreated a horrible mixture that the US government developed. All of this, however, is apparently nothing compared to something called thioacetone, which is supposed to be the smelliest

chemical

ever created. Everything I've read about it sounds absolutely horrible and, according to Wikipedia, it is actually considered a dangerous chemical due to its extremely unpleasant smell and its ability to render people unconscious and induce vomiting.

What is also worrying is that the smell itself has been described as simply terrifying and apparently has the ability to spread over large areas. Unfortunately, this was experienced firsthand in 1889, when some scientists accidentally released a small amount. The horrible smell quickly spread over a large area of ​​the city, causing people to faint and vomit, prompting a panic evacuation. There are even some claims that diluting the smell makes it worse and that it is possible to smell a drop downwind in seconds, even from a quarter mile away. Based on all this, it really does sound like the worst smelling chemical ever, but I honestly don't believe it.

Although all of these claims come from credible articles and reports, it just doesn't seem possible that something could be so horrible. However, all of this made me very curious and I felt like I had to know what it smelled like and experience the horror for myself. Unfortunately, I couldn't find anywhere to buy it and it doesn't look like anyone has made it in the last 60 years. If I wanted to see if it was actually as bad as it was cracked up to be, unfortunately it seemed like I only had one real option and I was going to have to do it myself.

But anyway, to start, the first thing I had to do was figure out how to do it. I went online, did a little research, and it seemed relatively simple. From what I found, the typical method was to start with just regular acetone, convert it to something called trithioacetone, and then split it to release the supposedly scary thioacetone. The only problem was that I couldn't find any real details on how to do this exactly, and I guess that makes sense because I don't think anyone does it. However, I then noticed on Wikipedia that it mentioned the people who first discovered thioacetone.

Actually, these were the same scientists who caused that disaster in 1889, and I figured if anyone knew how to do it, it would probably be them. I went back to Google, searched for 1889 and their names, and apparently your original article was the first result. Honestly, I was surprised at how easy it was to find, except it took me way too long to realize it was all in German. However, with Google Translate I was hoping this wouldn't be a big deal and I just copied and pasted the part I felt was important. The result I got was surprisingly good and I felt like it was more than enough to work with.

Now, with a decent idea of ​​what to do, it was time to make the trithioacetone. According to the procedure, it seemed relatively simple, and pretty much all you had to do was get some regular acetone and bubble some hydrogen sulfide gas through it. Normally this alone wouldn't have been so bad, but apparently I had to do it for 10-12 hours, which bothered me. This is because hydrogen sulfide is almost as toxic as cyanide, and 10 to 12 hours meant that he would have to produce a large amount. The only good thing is that

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it is relatively easy and all you needed to get started was a bunch of powdered iron and some sulfur.

What I needed to do next was simply mix them together, so I poured a bunch of sulfur into a container along with some powdered iron. Then I quickly sealed it by screwing on the lid and started shaking it. I had to do this until it looked like a uniform color and after a few minutes I felt like it looked pretty good. I went to get the lid of a paint can and carefully poured out a bunch of it. Then I did my best to spread it out a bit and clean it up. Now it's time for the fun part.

To get it all working, all I had to do was blow up a glass rod with a blowtorch and then carefully tap the mixture. Normally, this would trigger a reaction almost immediately, except for some reason it didn't do anything. This made me a little worried that my base E, sulfur, and iron were bad or something, but fortunately that wasn't the case. Eventually they began to react with each other and combine to form something called iron sulfide, and it also released a lot of heat. I've done this reaction many times over the years and it's always been one of my favorites.

The last time I did it on a large scale like this was when I made my own glow toys a few years ago, and I don't think I'll ever get tired of it. It's just fascinating and I really like the sound it makes. However, after a while, the reaction finally ended, but it was still very hot and I had to wait for it to cool down. When I saw him again about 30 minutes later, he looked pretty good. Now, all I had to do was separate this crunchy thing from the lid, and it was surprisingly easy. Then I started crushing it and breaking it into smaller pieces, and that was it.

What he had now was a pile of iron sulfide powder, which is a stored form of the terrifying hydrogen sulfide gas. However, to convert this to gas, I would have to build a small gas generator, so I poured it all into a flask. After that, I removed the funnel, cleaned the seams with a paper towel, and began putting the rest of the setup together. To do this, I added a stopper, an addition funnel, and an outlet for the hydrogen sulfide to exit the flask. At this point the fear generator was more or less ready and it was time to put together the rest of the setup.

I went to get another small flask and added some acetone to it. However, I had no idea how much I was supposed to use and just decided on 15 milliliters at random. Then, on top of this, I added the only ingredient I needed, which was an equal amount of concentrated hydrochloric acid. Now, with the flask fully loaded, I got rid of the funnel and slid in a glass tube that was connected to the hydrogen sulfide generator. Then I sealed the middle one with a plug and on the right one I added another gas outlet. This would lead to something called an inverted funnel trap, which would hopefully destroy any hydrogen sulfide passing through the system.

The fume hood I was doing this in should have been more than enough to keep me safe, but I just wanted to be very careful. So I filled this glass with concentrated sodium hydroxide, and at that point, things were looking pretty good. Then I went back to the reaction flask, added a container underneath, and filled it with water and ice. However, it would take a few minutes for me to cool down, so while I waited, I returned to the gas generator. The last thing I had to do was fill the addition funnel on top and just pour in a bunch of dilute hydrochloric acid.

I then sealed it with a plug, but for safety reasons I did not close it. This way, if the pressure were to increase in any way, this plug would simply pop out instead of the entire setup exploding. But anyway, at this point, everything was pretty good and I was technically ready to go. Honestly, I was a little nervous, but when I finally felt like I was ready for a potential disaster, I carefully opened the sum funnel. The moment the acid touched the iron sulfide, it began to react and release hydrogen sulfide gas. Then all this scary gas was pushed out of the flask, through the tube and into the reaction flask.

Then it was bubbling through the acetone and hydrochloric acid and honestly it didn't seem like anything was happening. In theory, however, it was supposed to react with acetone and convert it to trithioacetone. This form still apparently stunk a lot, but it was supposed to be much tamer and easier to handle. The only thing that made me a little paranoid was that technically, thioacetone was being produced in this reaction. However, it was only an intermediate and was supposed to combine almost immediately and become trithioacetone, but still, this meant that if you bubbled the hydrogen sulfide too quickly, it was possible that some thioacetone could leak out of the flask. .

This could potentially escape my setup and get swept up my extractor hood, and if it was as bad as the stories claim, it could be a big problem. The amount of hydrogen sulfide it was producing had to be controlled very carefully. Other than that, though, things looked pretty good, and I basically had to keep at it until it was finished, which was apparently 10 to 12 hours. The only sad thing was that I couldn't leave him unattended and I had to watch him very closely the entire time. However, for the next hour it seemed like nothing was happening and I started to think that maybe I had been wasting my time.

However, it suddenly became cloudy when I wasn't looking, and I was very happy to see this. Then I kept at it and I definitely felt like it was getting murkier and murkier. However, it was only when it hit the four hour mark that I really started to get excited. It wasn't very obvious, but it looked like a little oil was forming on the surface. This was a very good sign because trithioacetone is supposed to be an oily liquid. However, around the same time, I also noticed that the generator was running out of iron sulfide and was becoming overfilled.

To continue, I was going to have to change the flask for a new one that was filled with new iron sulfide. I was also going to have to do this every few hours, and it was far from ideal, to say the least. However, with the fresh sulfur I was able to continue functioning. About an hour later, when I slowed down my shaking speed, I saw something even more exciting. At first, it was hard to see, but there were actually some small droplets of oil floating around. Then after a couple more hours, there were many more. I was really trying not to get my hopes up, but at this point, things were looking pretty good.

It was, of course, just at that moment that my brother came in and told me that he smelled something. Hey, it smells bad outside. This made me panic. I quickly ran outside to investigate and it smelled but I couldn't figure out where it was coming from and assumed it was just sewage or garbage or something. But anyway, I then went back to looking at the flask and adjusting the bubbling speed, which was honestly getting painful at this point. However, the newspaper said that it took between 10 and 12 hours or until it stopped being absorbed. When I started this reaction, I was really hoping that it would magically stop much sooner, but I never saw any real difference.

I ended up going for the full 12 hours. However, when I finally finished it, I felt it looked pretty good and the first thing I had to do was get rid of the gas line. I was a little nervous about opening the flask and unleashing some horror, but it turned out to be totally fine. I was able to just take it out and replace it with a plug, and I didn't smell a thing. However, I wasn't sure if this was simply because my extractor hood was working very well or because it hadn't actually produced trithioacetone. But either way, the next step, according to the article, was to add a bunch of water.

I took out the middle cap and started pouring in about 30 milliliters of cold water. This was supposed to remove a lot of the oil, and it definitely seemed like it was getting cloudier. However, I thought this would take some time, so I closed the flask again and let it stir for a while. While it was there, it seemed to be working and I was very happy to see some oil beads forming. However, I was also a little worried because the document gave the impression that there would be a lot more. He claimed that there should be both oil and acetone that I started with, but that was definitely not the case.

There seemed to be a decent amount, but it was nowhere near 15 milliliters. Anyway, I then removed the stirring plate and bowl, and also got rid of the gas outlet and trap. What I was left with was a crude reaction mixture and now, assuming I had actually made trithioacetone, I had to figure out how to get it out. According to the newspaper, all I had to do was steam distill it, but this was something that worried me. This is because steam distillation of this reaction mixture is exactly how they caused that disaster in 1889. Although I was skeptical about the stories, this still made me a little hesitant to try it myself.

I didn't really have any other good options, so I decided to give it a try. However, by this time it was already around 2:00 a.m., so I had to leave it overnight. The next day, I woke up feeling pretty confident, but that was destroyed almost immediately the moment I walked into the room. I was hit by a smell ofvery strong sulfur and I panicked because some disaster had occurred. However, when I checked the flask and fume hood, everything seemed totally fine. It was nothing catastrophic, but the question now was: where was this mysterious smell coming from?

Well, apparently, when I touched the flask the day before, a tiny, almost invisible speck of liquid had gotten into my glove. Then I threw that glove in the trash, and just that speck was enough to make the entire room stink. This really scared me and I started to worry that all the stories might be true and that I should absolutely avoid distilling it. However, there was also only one way to find out. So I started preparing it for a distillation and unfortunately this meant I was going to have to touch the flask again. I wasn't too excited to do this, but I thought it would probably be okay if I left my glove in the range hood.

But anyway, with the main part of the setup already in place, I added a heating blanket and stirring plate, a thermometer, and an extra funnel filled with water. I also added the cooling water to the condenser and prepared a vial to collect the overflow material. At this point, everything was pretty good, but I still didn't feel very confident. I guess I'm ready to start distilling. However, there was nothing I could do about it, so I just turned on the heater and waited nervously for it to warm up. In fact, it ended up going a lot faster than I thought, and within a few minutes it was boiling and I started scooping some into the vial.

However, when I looked at the thermometer, it only read around 56 degrees Celsius, and this told me that it was simply unreacted acetone. This made sense because I didn't expect him to react 100% and I assumed he would recover at least some of it. However, as I continued collecting it, I started to get a little worried. It just didn't seem to stop and was slowly moving towards the amount it had started with. The reaction clearly didn't go as well as I had thought, but I still had hope. Fortunately, it finally started to subside and the temperature started to rise.

It then gradually rose to 100 degrees Celsius, and this was the start of the potentially scary part. That's when the trithioacetone was supposed to start vaporizing and I quickly changed the vial. I then waited for something to start appearing and was finally greeted with a nice drop of cloudy liquid. In reality, it was mostly water, but it was cloudy because the water vapor had carried over something oily. In theory, this should be trithioacetone, and this process of distilling it in boiling water is called steam distillation. It basically allows me to distill it at a much lower temperature, which reduces the risk of the trithioacetone falling apart and ruining my life.

But anyway, I then covered the flask to help the water come out and continued collecting it. I also opened the addition funnel and slowly added water at about the same rate as I was distilling it. Now, returning to the vial, I saw that everything I had collected so far was just a cloudy liquid. However, as I collected more, it became much clearer and I started to see some nice drops of oil. What I also really liked was that unlike many other oils that float on water, this one was on the bottom, which told me it was heavier.

This was a very good sign because trithioacetone is supposed to be slightly denser than water. In the end, it looked like it was basically distilling pure water, and I thought it was probably done. However, to be absolutely sure that I received everything, I removed this vial, sealed it immediately, and replaced it with a new one. Then I kept collecting the water, but it didn't seem like it had oil in it. At this point, I took it for granted and was honestly surprised at how well it had gone. It ended up being much tamer than I thought it would be, and at least as far as I knew, there hadn't been a major disaster.

Then I went and checked all the oil I had collected earlier and it had combined into a really nice dough. It wasn't anywhere near the 15 mills I was expecting, but if it was trithioacetone, it was still a lot more than I needed. It probably also stank quite a bit and I was very curious to know what it smelled like. However, I was also afraid to open it outside of the fume hood, so I tried smelling it through the vial. It actually doesn't smell bad at all. It just smells like grapes, fruit, caramel. Honestly, this surprised me a lot and I was also a little confused about how something so stinky had become good.

I looked up what it was supposed to smell like and was really surprised by what I saw. This is because at very low concentrations it can apparently smell tropical with a grapefruit undertone. But anyway, what I had to do next was separate this purified oil from all the water. I went to get a pipette and carefully tried to suck it all out. I tried my best to get just the oil, but I ended up getting some water as well. I then injected it into a much smaller vial and tried to get rid of the excess water.

It ended up being a little messy and I lost some oil doing it, but I was able to get rid of most of it. At this point things were looking great and the only problem was that the oil was slightly cloudy because there was still a small amount of water in it. To clarify it I added a little calcium chloride and let it sit for a while. About 10 minutes later, it looked much better, but just for good measure, I added a little more calcium chloride. Then after another 30 minutes of waiting, I carefully took everything out. What I had now was a nice, crystalline bunch of oil, and according to the article, if it was trithioacetone, it should freeze when it cools.

To test this, I put it in ice water and let it sit there for a while. Then when I saw it again about an hour later, I was very happy with what I saw. It had completely solidified and some really pretty crystals had formed. At the time I saw this, I was basically 99.5% sure that this was a nice, pure trithioacetone. However, to be absolutely sure, I was going to have to run some tests. I quickly ran it on my machine that can do something called FTIR and this is what it gave me. It was basically a fingerprint of the chemical I made, and all I had to do next was find a reference for trithioacetone.

Then I did the super complicated and scientific process of comparing their shapes and saw that they were more or less the same. Then, just in case, I also did an HNMR and again got exactly what I was looking for. He was now 100% sure that he had successfully made the trithioacetone. However, before I tried to turn this into the horrible thioacetone, I felt like I had to know what it smelled like in its pure form. It's only supposed to be a fraction of how terrible it is, but I had to have at least an idea of ​​what I was dealing with.

I can already smell it from here. It's like just sulfur. Reminds me a little of. It just has an unpleasant, sulfurous, rotten smell. It is not too bad. But now I'll open it and see if my opinion changes. It's still not that bad. The worst thing is that it comes out of the vial and leaves a strange sulfur smell in the area. That's actually worse than its pure form. But it's still not that bad. Yeah, it's not that bad. You're done? It is very bad. It is very bad. What are you... -Can you smell it from there? -God.

Friend, your nose. Can't you smell it? I smell it. It is not too bad. That's the most unpleasant thing I've ever smelled. I'm about to vomit. Not currently? Yes. I'm generally pretty resistant to odors, so it didn't bother me much. But having my friend react like that worried me a little. This is because thioacetone is supposed to be crazy compared to this. There was no way I was going to break trithioacetone into my range hood or anywhere near someone who might be attacked by it, and in my mind, there was only one logical thing to do.

I rented an entire island, so I would be away from potential victims. The only drawback was that if it was horrible, it would be much more difficult to escape. But I thought I'd deal with that later. When I finally got to the island, I did a quick little tour and tried to find what I felt would be the best place to do it. When I finally found | something I liked, I went back, got all my supplies and started putting my setup together. Luckily this was very easy and the biggest and most complicated thing I needed was just the table.

Besides this, the other main thing was simply the lab stand with a small flask attached. With all this I was able to start, and the first thing I had to do was put on a lab coat and some gloves. However, this wasn't so much for safety, but simply because I really didn't want to get stinky stuff on my hands or clothes. With all my protection on, I was able to remove the trithioacetone, which I thought transporting would be a horrible, stinky experience. However, by sealing it in a Neogene bottle and a larger vial, I was able to completely block out the smell and it was totally fine.

However, that was not the case now, because it was time to open the bottle and I was immediately blessed with its wonderful smell. Yes, it still smells terrible. I then took a glass pipette and carefully aspirated a small amount. I don't think we need to add much, just this. However, I ended up getting a little more than I expected, which scared me. I went back and took out most of it and left only a very small amount. Now, with everything loaded, I quickly re-sealed the trithioacetone and there was just one last thing left. It was a vacuum pump and all I had to do was connect it to the flask.

To do this, I simply twisted the adapter to make sure the grease sealed well, and that was it. Then I turned it on and started sucking in all the air. After about a minute, I felt like I had a good vacuum, so I carefully turned the valve to seal the flask. I then turned off the pump and removed the rubber hose, and at this point, I was pretty much ready to go. Finally it was time to convert it to thioacetone and, in theory, all I had to do was heat it. Honestly, I was a little scared that I was about to create a disaster.

Much trust. But again, there was only one way to find out. When I felt it was ready, very nervous I started to exploit it. The goal here was to simply heat it until it reached at least 500 or 600 C. It's boiling. This is because at that temperature, trithioacetone was supposed to crack and split into thioacetone. The vacuum was important because it helped keep everything sealed and also had to keep the trithioacetone from burning. But anyway, after exploiting it for a while, I finally felt like it had warmed up enough. It's definitely a 500 C. Okay. There's a nice steam there.

I feel scared. At this point, I felt like things were looking pretty good, but the flask was still very hot, so I had to wait for it to cool. When I returned to it about 10 minutes later, it was only slightly warm and I carefully removed it from the stand. Now, I guess this was the moment I was waiting for and I didn't really know what to expect. I guess all we have to do is twist it to let the air back in and open it. I really thought I was going to get mugged the moment they opened it, but even when I smelled the flask directly, I didn't notice anything crazy.

It smelled pretty much the same as the original trithioacetone and considering how much I'd been anticipating this moment, I smell something. I was disappointed. However, it was possible that he simply had a broken sense of smell or something, so I asked my poor friend behind the camera for his opinion. Yes, it sucks. But is it different than before? No, it smells like before. It smells the same. It just sucks. Nothing has changed. It didn't look like it had made thioacetone, and I assumed it was because I hadn't heated it enough. To separate it properly, I was going to have a little more courage and blow it up so that it would safely reach at least 500 degrees Celsius.

The good thing was that there still seemed to be a lot of trithioacetone in the flask, so I didn't have to reload it. All I had to do was put the vacuum pump back in and suck the air out. Then about 30 seconds later I turned off the pump and removed the tube. Now I was ready to blow it up, and this time I decided to use a real blowtorch, and I would continue until I was absolutely sure it was hot enough. Well, I think that was pretty hot and I'm starting to like it, Oh, that's good.

What I started to notice was that it was turning orange on top. From what I read online, this was actually a very good sign that thioacetone was forming. This is because thioacetone is not very stable above negative 20 C, so it tends to start polymerizing and turning orange. Now I was very sure that I had really achieved it and I was getting very excited. What I had to do now was wait for it to cool, but I was worried that all the thioacetone would polymerize. Instead, I just took everything off the stand and did a quick test to see if it smelled.

No. After that, I opened it very nervously and was mentally preparing myself for something horrible. Oh. Unlike last time, it actually smelled almost immediately andIt definitely wasn't pleasant. But it wasn't as bad as he expected. I don't know if it's worse. I then tried to smell the flask directly, but I didn't feel it was that bad. However, all this time I could hear my friend suffering behind the camera. -Do you smell it? -Yes, it stinks. Stinks. It smells so bad. I felt bad for him, but I was also very surprised because not only was he far away, but he was also a little upwind.

However, then I remembered that there were some claims that thioacetone actually smelled worse when it was less concentrated, so I decided to try holding the flask further away to see if it made a difference. When up close, it had a much more chemical smell and was a slightly rancid version of a natural gas leak. Further out, however, I felt like it was more like garbage mixed with sewage, and it was definitely much worse. However, I still didn't believe it was that bad and had a hard time believing that this was the chemical responsible for all the stories.

However, then I started to think that maybe I was working with too little. All the stories make it sound like an incredibly scary chemical, but at the end of the day, it's just stinky and really powerful. To get a great result, you would still need a decent amount and when I went back and read about that disaster in 1889, apparently they were working with 100 grams of trithioacetone, which is absolutely crazy. I didn't have anything even remotely close to that, but I put in most of what I had left, which was probably about 0.25 grams. I also felt that with much more, I didn't need to use a vacuum cleaner and just started blowing it up.

Just like before, as I heated it up, the trithioacetone started to smoke and eventually everything started to boil. However, unlike last time, all the vapor slowly began to turn orange and come out of the flask. At this point, however, I still didn't smell anything because the wind was blowing it away. However, considering how much I was earning, I was getting a little worried. But anyway, I finally felt like I had screwed it up enough and it was time to try it. But let's go down into the wind a little. Oh yeah. You can smell it right here.

It was definitely a lot stronger than the other time, but it was also the same, and I just didn't think it smelled that bad. However, one thing I hadn't tried yet was how far the smell could go. I'm going deeper into the forest. This was something that was a big part of all the stories, so I tried to go a little further. However, I quickly realized that I was probably the worst person to take this test because I clearly wasn't very sensitive to it. Yeah, I think I can still smell it, but it's not that bad.

I asked my friend behind the camera for one last sacrifice. Until now, the wind had been strong enough that he hadn't smelled anything, but unfortunately that changed for him when he approached the flask. Stinks. What about 10, what is it now? Like 10 against 10. Clearly he was much more sensitive than me. Ah, disgusting. And it seemed to get even worse for him as he walked away. Oh, where does it end? Oh no. I honestly thought this was funny, but then it seemed like he was actually getting worried. Dude, it still sucks. We have to stop this. Then it continued to get worse.

He gets stronger right here. He still wasn't really worried until he reached the water. He's going to travel across the... He's going to travel across the lake. Honestly, he had rented this island mainly because I thought it would be fun for the video and I didn't really think the smell would travel that far. However, we weren't exactly in the middle of nowhere. There were still plenty of houses, just a couple of hundred meters downwind, and I was starting to get really worried. A little worried that someone might call 911. However, in addition to his horrible ability to travel, he was also starting to realize one of the other big problems with thioacetone.

It doesn't smell like it's coming from anywhere. No, it's a 360 degree smell. There was no clear direction where it was coming from and I could see how this could be very overwhelming. Also, without knowing the source, I could see how someone could interpret it as a gas leak or something more dangerous. It also seemed to persist, and even after several minutes, it was still really unpleasant. Turn it off. Turn it off. He's angry too. However, over time, the smell seemed to disappear for the most part, and at that point, he was done making the thioacetone. However, he was still a little worried that someone would call the police and didn't really want to have to try to explain what he was doing.

So I quickly dismantled my small forestry chemistry kit and stored it all in my car. Then I hauled all those horrible, smelly things home and it was a rather unpleasant two-hour trip. But anyway, in the end I managed to successfully create the mythical thioacetone and I am very happy that I was able to personally experience the horror of it. It wasn't as overwhelmingly bad as I expected, but it made up for it by being almost incredibly powerful, and it really surprised me how far it could travel. I can totally see how a relatively small amount could terrorize an entire city.

On that scale, I wouldn't be surprised if at least some people vomited or passed out. For the most part, I think it's as bad as it's cracked up to be, and it's almost definitely one of the worst smelling chemicals ever created. In the future, I might try making other smelly chemicals, but for now, I think I'll take a break from those smelly things. Instead, I'll try to focus on some less offensive projects, like turning paint thinner into cherry soda. Before I go though, I want to quickly mention another YouTuber named Lab Coats, who technically made thioacetone before me.

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