[Captions by Y Translator] In today's video,
we're going to try freezing Lego to cryogenic temperatures,
and throwing it in a blender to see
if we can turn it into a powder.
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Hey guys, I'm Nate.
I'm Calli, and today we have a pile of Lego bricks,
some liquid nitrogen,
and a Blendtec and a Lego Bugatti,
because it's beautiful,
and we're going to see what we can do with all these things.
The goal here is to try and make powderized Lego.
We want to see if we can take these bricks,
and turn them into dust.
We thought a good powerful blender might do that,
but it would probably work better
if we can drop them down to cryogenically cold temperatures
before we throw them in.
Lego bricks are made from what's called ABS plastic,
and it starts to melt at around 200 degrees Fahrenheit,
but gets to a really runnier thinner consistency used
for injection molding at around 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
All right.
So here's the basic idea.
We are going to be taking
some Lego pieces, dipping them into liquid nitrogen,
and pulverizing them
in a Blendtec to see if we can powderize them.
If we can, we may try melting them down.
Guys, I just really like destroying things.
One Lego brick.
Ready?
Sure.
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Yes, this is very effective.
I'm gonna try--
It has a higher speed setting it gets to.
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I'm going to go ahead and say if you stepped on that,
it would be a lot less painful than normal.
Yeah, we've just made like Lego sand here, I think.
No, this is Lego gravel.
We're not to the sand point yet.
Wait, is it?
It's kind of a slight burning plastic smell.
Yeah. It's like...
Have you ever left like a cutting board
on your stove accidentally?
Kind of smells like that.
All right.
So here's what we've got left.
Let's just pour this out.
So this was a Lego brick,
and now, it's Lego gravel, as Calli has called it.
Looks like Fruity Pebbles.
Look at this.
We can try the Fruity Pebbles colors.
Yes. No. Yes.
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It's really hot.
I think the process of blending it has actually heated it up.
So the friction and the kinetic energy is really,
it's really playing a lot into that.
So we have tried pulverizing just regular Lego in the blendtec,
and as you saw, it didn't really work.
We kind of got a Fruity Pebbles.
It's blended, but I wouldn't call it powderized.
So to try and get this a little bit more powdery,
we're going to see
what happens if we freeze the Lego bricks first,
and for that, we've got some liquid nitrogen.
We're just going to take
these down to several hundred degrees below zero,
and see what happens when we throw them in the blender.
Calli is freezing a brick.
I will take a different brick.
This is normal unfrozen brick, pliers.
It's ruined, but that like...
It just got kind of crushed, little bit of smooshing.
Let's see what happens if we do it with a frozen brick.
>> All gone. >> Yup.
Let's try freezing a few bricks,
and throwing them in the blender.
Pour in our liquid nitrogen into this pot,
because we've got this cool little frying thing.
We're going to use that to dip the Lego pieces down in.
That looks like a good mix.
Yeah.
Go go go.
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I suspected this point, it is now warmed up.
So let's take a look at this.
That went much faster,
and we have no large pieces left.
I'm not sure if I would call this a powder,
but I think we are definitely to a sand state.
Did you inhale it?
I think some got in my mouth something.
As you can see,
the frozen Lego definitely breaks up
into much smaller bits.
We've got our little Lego figure of Grant here and...
He's not going to make it.
We want to see what happens if we blend up Lego Grant,
so we're going to blend up Lego Grant.
Sorry Grant.
No!
Ow.
I'm melting--
Nope.
Freezing. I'm freezing.
Sorry Grant.
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Goodbye, Grant.
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And he's gone.
Oh, he dead.
Well, we've got black element.
We've got blue element.
We have yellow element, and some orange element.
Also, the little hose to his blowtorch,
just like completely survived.
Wait, is that different material?
I don't know.
I think it was just so thin
that it warmed up really quickly.
But it does make me wonder though,
different types of materials.
Legos have cars.
Cars have tires.
Tires are rubber.
What does that do?
Let's find out.
Goodbye, Grant.
Lego tire, squishy rubber.
Fun fact: Lego is the biggest tire manufacturer in the world.
As long as you count that as a full size tire.
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Good and frozen, lets blend it.
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Mmm, yum.
Oh no, tire.
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I think we should try blending up a whole car.
Not that car.
That won't fit in our blender.
Pulverize Bugatti?
I don't want to do that.
How about this one?
Perfect.
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People like putting Lego pieces together.
So we just need to put this back together.
This would be a beginner level Lego assembly.
One to six months.
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That's a car.
There is a cup full of car.
I think that the larger pieces do a better job of blending up,
because there's more like weight holding it down near the blades.
So I do want to try like a larger batch of Lego.
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Wow!
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>> That looks really fine. >> It looks like sand.
Yeah, all the colors mixed together.
And as fine as it got with the larger volume.
Oh, looks less like sand.
It looks like sand mixed with--
Oh, but that.
That dust.
Nice.
Now, we still have some pretty darn large chunks in there,
but this is the finest we've gotten so far.
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Now, we're going to grab several different individual colors,
and blend those separately, so we get different colors of powder.
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We've got a couple of these glass trays,
and we're going to take our Lego powder, sand, dust
whatever you want to call it, and we're going to pour it in.
In one tray,
we're going to take our just mixed up
assorted rainbow colors.
We're just going to kind of put
that in along with the other cups we've blended,
except the car because that has rubber tires,
and we wouldn't want to do that.
The other one,
I've cut out this Lego man shaped stencil,
and we're going to try and pour in the different colors,
and get kind of a Lego man shape out of it.
Will it actually work?
We'll see, but it's...
Might be abstract art.
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Yeah, let's throw these in an oven at 400 degrees,
and see how they handle it.
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This has been in here for a while.
I really thought
that things were going to start puddling down,
but it looks like we're getting some burning and some smoke.
Clearly, that has burned.
That looks kind of like...
Well, now we've got dark Fruity Pebbles.
Okay, weird.
Do you see this?
It's really not conductive, is it?
No, the surface, I can touch.
Like it's very warm.
Yeah.
But if I'm only touching it lightly,
it doesn't [inaudible].
If I start to squish it, then it burns.
Don't do this at home kids.
But look at this.
This is like, you see how gooey.
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So it's...
It's definitely all congealed.
Oh, wait!
As soon as I took it out though, now it's--
Now, it's gone brittle.
Oh, not even brittle.
That's strong.
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Not conductive.
Super hot.
But as soon as that comes off the pan,
I'm touching that.
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Well, okay.
So here's...
Here's the real question.
We want this to come out in one piece.
But all it takes is me just sort of scraping this,
and you can see it's leaving this horrid residue.
So I don't know if that's going to come out once we cool it down.
Just curious how this is a...
That's cool.
What?
That's like the colors we wanted.
Although you can see there's
like little bits of the burned color coming through.
That side's hot.
Don't touch that side.
And then like, it's spilled.
These are now cool down and it's stuck.
It's very stuck to the bottom.
So that's in there forever.
If it was an abstract,
and you sort of cross your eyes a little bit...
Modern Art.
You could probably find
that in a museum in New York somewhere.
This is for sale for 1.9 million dollars.
Contact me.
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