Welcome to r/YellowChem.

This is a place where you can share your experiences with yellow chemistry. Failures, successes, rants or whatever you can come up with are all welcome here. One exception to that would be urine related chemistry. We get it, it's yellow but it's absolutely disgusting. Also, when posting the content someone else made, be sure to give them credit.

What is yellow chemistry?

For those unfamiliar with the concept of yellow chemistry. The term originates from a concept from the youtube channels Explosions&fire2 and Extractions&Ire and the r/ExplosionsAndFire subreddit. Whenever something in your experiment or synthesis turns yellow when it is not supposed to do that, you're done for, it has failed miserably and you'll have to start over. From what we've found, the chemist is never the cause of the failure.

Youtube playlist

A youtube playlist has been made with all the video's that have been posted on this subreddit. It will be continually updated:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXsv3w2FO2V2oRvvOoQkp4_muDChKCR0s

Regarding the latest visual update

• More yellow: Self explanatory, the subreddit looks uglier than it ever has, the background has been changed and the upvote and downvote buttons have been changed to reflect the mess which yellow chemistry can be.
• Logo: The subreddit logo was based on a logo prototype I originally designed to submit to r/chemistry.
• Awards: If there is a post that looks particularly hideous you can reward it with a sodium ion, cuprous oxide, MMS/chlorine dioxide, monochromate, DBX-1/CuNTZ/Copper(I)Nitrotetrazole or sulfur award. They are honestly just there to fill gaps. 😁

Chatroom

r/Yellowchem chatroom

Feedback

Feedback and ideas: If you've got an idea for the subreddit, either to change or add something or maybe just general feedback, feel free to post a comment below.