Making the stinkiest chemical known to man

Renting an island to test a bio weapon is but the first step into supervillainhood

"At one point my Cameraman had dropped dead from the horrific chemical smell, but I barely smelled anything so clearly I hadn't made enough of it" -- NileRed, totally not a Mad Scientist

"I rented an entire island" - MrBeast of chemistry, 2022

I feel like nile has just burnt off all of his receptors from using strong chemicals and now is immune to strong smells

Nile is two things: 1. A real smart fella 2. A real fart smella

The amount of times he goes “what’s that horrible smell?”, shrugs, and goes back to his experiment is kind of hilarious

trusting google translate while doing a dangerous experiment is absolutely brave af 💀

the scientists originally did it with 100g... that was 0.25g, and it covered the entire island and then some more. imagine someone doing 100g in middle of manhattan. i wonder if that would trigger a state of emergency.

I like to imagine the conversation that transpired when renting the island. "What do you need an island for?" "Chemical weapon tests" "o.k."

Nile really read multiple credible sources about the horrors of thioacetone and thought "nah these guys were just weak, I'm built different"

I think the reason that Nile wasn’t as phased by the smell as the camera man is because he’s already really used to smelling foul odors. As he mentioned in the intro, he’s made a lot of incredibly stinky substances over the years, and just before smelling the thioacetone he had already caught a massive whiff of the trithioacetone that had gotten on his glove. Thus, he’d more or less had developed a tolerance, similar to how people who eat spicy foods develop a spice tolerance.

This is what depression is like - just trying to feel something, but nothing ever being enough.

Nile: directly smells glass "it's just not that bad" Nile's friend like 20 feet away: dying

Nile: deep sniff yeah i mean, it smells not so bad cameraman: literally dies

I literally just discovered Nigel but his “totally not” mad scientist ways have me enthralled. Also he’s totally on a list.

Have worked in Occupational medicine, and not surprised that people had different reactions, or that a sudden strong smell could cause vomiting or a panic. Some people are very sensitive to chemical smells, and we would get reports along the lines that 5 people went to the ER (and were fine) in a workplace if the cleaners used a different cleaning solution with a new smell, even though harmless. Not surprisingly, when some people smell strong chemicals that are irritating, they believe they may be poisoned, which causes them to panic, which causes them to have more symptoms, then they panic more, etc. Then add in seeing another person feeling affected too, and it happens.

Mad respect for Nigel's friend/camera guy. Suffering so the rest of us may know the power of this chemical

i feel like he could breathe 100% conncentration mustard gas and be like: "its not that bad i dont get all the stories about it"

I once worked in a chemical plant that made acrylic acid and downstream products of ethyl acrylate and butyl acrylate. The odor was so strong that we had to enclose the entire process pump system in a vacuum enclosure. We burned all of the air and water from the unit at 1500 F. The chemicals desensitized the operators in the unit. They tended to absorb into leather and we carried it out in our belts and wallets. I could empty a checkout lane in the grocery. Married people had to change clothes in the garage and bathe before entering their homes.

Spilling this chemical in a supermarket would have been a tiny bit of tomfoolery