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Snapshot from 19 Oct 2026.
- Rank 1:
Extracting gold from computer parts (Part 1)
- Rank 2:
Extracting caffeine from caffeine pills
- Rank 3:
Distilling Mercury Metal
- Rank 4:
Extracting gold from computer parts (Part 2)
- Rank 5:
Purifying Sulfuric Acid Drain Cleaner
- Rank 6:
Making a liquid that attracts biting insects (1-octen-3-ol)
- Rank 7:
Cleaning old potassium metal
- Rank 8:
Making sunscreen from scratch
- Rank 9:
Making acrolein
- Rank 10:
Making a silver mirror
- Rank 11:
All about Bromine, one of my favorite elements | Element Series
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Extracting the red phosphorus from matchboxes
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Making iodine
- Rank 14:
Making anisole
- Rank 15:
Extracting the starch from potatoes
- Rank 16:
Making cadaverine
- Rank 17:
Making Luminol
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Making Concentrated (68%) Nitric Acid
- Rank 19:
The Birch reduction
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Making denatonium benzoate - the world's most bitter chemical
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Making Mercuric Chloride (a very toxic mercury salt)
- Rank 22:
Recreating the Iodine Clock Reaction at Home with Vitamin C
- Rank 23:
Getting Manganese Dioxide, Zinc and Carbon from Batteries
- Rank 24:
Cleaning liquid mercury metal
- Rank 25:
Christmas Special: Making a ChemisTree
- Rank 26:
Making copper hydroxide
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Making Hydrazine Sulfate from Urea and Bleach
- Rank 28:
Making Hexanoic Acid
- Rank 29:
Making lithium hydroxide
- Rank 30:
Making basic copper carbonate
- Rank 31:
Making the Pharaoh's Serpent (4K)
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Dissolving pure silver to make silver nitrate
- Rank 33:
Making Cinnamic Acid
- Rank 34:
Making liquid ammonia to dissolve sodium and lithium metal
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The Blue Bottle Experiment
- Rank 36:
Making aluminum isopropoxide
- Rank 37:
Making Calcium Acetate (from eggshells)
- Rank 38:
Making Acetone from Calcium Acetate
- Rank 39:
Making Mercury Thiocyanate (The Pharaoh's Serpent) - Revisited
- Rank 40:
Aspirin to Acetaminophen - Part 1 of 6: Extracting Aspirin from Pills
- Rank 41:
Dissolving Cotton and Paper in Water (using Schweizer's Reagent)
- Rank 42:
Dissolving a Hotdog in Hot Piranha
- Rank 43:
Making oxalic acid from cane sugar
- Rank 44:
Technique Series: Recrystallization (urea as an example)
- Rank 45:
Making Benzaldehyde From Cinnamon Oil
- Rank 46:
Making Alcohol Jelly (from Calcium Acetate)
- Rank 47:
Making Chromyl Chloride
- Rank 48:
Making Benzyl Chloride
- Rank 49:
Making Vanillin Oxime (Capsaicin precursor)
- Rank 50:
Making Lithium Peroxide