Making Quantum Dots out of My Pee

To try everything Brilliant has to offer—free—for a full 30 days, visit https://brilliant.org/AmateurChemistry . The first 200 of you will get 20% off Brilliant’s annual premium subscription. In this video I make some beautiful quantum dots from my pee and lemons using a lot of stinky chemistry and a microwave while having my sense of smell destroyed by inhaling too much pee fumes. If you enjoyed the video you can consider liking it, and subscribing to my channel :) If you want to support my work here's my Patreon -   / amateurchemistry   Also, excuse me for my poor speaking, in case you don't understand something there are always subtitles made by me. Instagram -   / amateur_chemistry   TikTok -   / amateurchemistry   Twitter (X) - https://x.com/AmateurChemist_ 0:00 Intro 0:33 What are quantum dots? 2:28 The plan 3:06 Extracting urea from my pee 13:11 The discovery of a random beaker in the fridge which just so happened to contain exactly what I needed 14:22 Making quantum dots 17:31 How do they work? 18:20 Trying to make more colors but failing miserably 19:13 Experiments with quantum dots 22:55 Outro #chemistry #experiment #beautiful #demonstration #science #colors #nobelprize #interesting #cool #reaction #pee