The video discusses a process to extract red phosphorous from matchboxes and convert it into white phosphorous. The YouTuber demonstrates scraping off the red phosphorous from matchboxes, burning it on a ceramic plate to turn it into white phosphorous, and explains the potential dangers of handling white phosphorous. The YouTuber also mentions the possibility of making napalm in a future video.
Now, before I start, I should probably give a disclaimer and tell you shouldn't do it, but I don't really care because it's fun and you're going to do it anyways. So, all you're going to need is a box of matches, and once you get your box of matches, it's really simple. All you're going to need to do is start cutting off the ends of all the matches. I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I'm not one of those YouTubers. We're not going to need to be using any of those matches. All you're going to need is this outer red phosphorous layer right here. I'm just going to go ahead and cut it off for you guys. Frick that. I'm just going to have an outer red explain it. I found that the easiest way was to just dab the matchbox with a wet paper towel, and then scrape off the red phosphorous using a spatula. Timing with this method is important, because if we don't wait long enough, the red phosphorous won't come off, but if we wait too long, it will get the box soggy. If the box is soggy, the red phosphorous doesn't scrape off very well, and we'll also get a little bit of cardboard along with it. So that was surprisingly simple, but also really boring. So instead of that, I'm going to be showing you guys how to make white phosphorous. So go ahead and grab yourself a ceramic plate, and that piece of red phosphorous you cut off. Place it face down, and we're going to go ahead and burn it. Before that …
Now, before I start, I should probably give a disclaimer and tell you shouldn't do it, but I don't really care because it's fun and you're going to do it anyways. So, all you're going to need is a box of matches, and once you get your box of matches, it's really simple. All you're going to need to do is start cutting off the ends of all the matches. I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I'm not one of those YouTubers. We're not going to need to be using any of those matches. All you're going to need is this outer red phosphorous layer right here. I'm just going to go ahead and cut it off for you guys. Frick that. I'm just going to have an outer red explain it. I found that the easiest way was to just dab the matchbox with a wet paper towel, and then scrape off the red phosphorous using a spatula. Timing with this method is important, because if we don't wait long enough, the red phosphorous won't come off, but if we wait too long, it will get the box soggy. If the box is soggy, the red phosphorous doesn't scrape off very well, and we'll also get a little bit of cardboard along with it. So that was surprisingly simple, but also really boring. So instead of that, I'm going to be showing you guys how to make white phosphorous. So go ahead and grab yourself a ceramic plate, and that piece of red phosphorous you cut off. Place it face down, and we're going to go ahead and burn it. Before that though, in case you guys are worried I'm going to get a copyright strike for showing that red, I don't really care, because I only have 100 subscribers, and I'm very far away from ever being monetized. And you get three copyright strikes, so I'm good. So like I said, you're just going to put the piece of paper face down on the ceramic plate and burn it. This is going to turn the red phosphorous into white phosphorous. I really don't know how, but you also probably shouldn't breathe in the smoke, because I bet that's dangerous. My best guess is when it burns, it like evaporates, and then it gets condensed on the cool ceramic plate. What's left over right here is my white phosphorous. Now I just want you to rub the dangerous war chemical on your fingers. Because white phosphorous is so volatile, doing this causes it to react with oxygen in our air. This is kind of why it's so dangerous. It's also really sticky, so if it burns it's going to stick to you, kind of like napalm. Speaking of napalm, if you guys want me to, just write down in the comments and I'll go ahead and show you how to make it in my next video.