Sharing Chemistry

[NotHardUp1]

No, not that chemistry.

My chemistry teachers were not great, and I even left Pre-Pharmacy as a college major because I just never developed a love for chemistry. As I shared before, my high-school chemistry teacher was unintelligible to most of us, and later killed himself after causing a fatal car wreck on ice.

But, I do enjoy hearing about chemistry, even if not studying it in depth.

This video is by a young guy who dazzles with it as entertainment, and this one is indeed 10 mins. of fascinating facts. The hoodie getup is a bit much, but I'm not exactly his target demographic.

It should come as no suprise to you that most of these were developed or discovered by our good friends, the Germans.

In case these chemicals mean anything to you, the five bad boys are Chlorine Triflouride, Aziodazide Azide, Dimethyl Cadmium, Thioacetone, & Flouroantimonic Acid. You won't be seeing them on any episode of Cold Case Files or anything like that. Even Putin's boys would likely not be able to manage travelling with these.

"Enjoy."

 

[NotHardUp1]

Oh noes!

I misspelled chemistry in the title!

I wish I could claim I spilt a drop of flouroantimonic acid on it, but I didn't. I just typed too fast.

(slumps off to play with an eyedropper of AA)

 

[Alistair]

I like his hoodie but his voice is rather annoying

 

[NotHardUp1]

I would wear the hoodie, but I find it gimmicky as a device for a guy selling gee-whiz science to kids.

A bit Blue's Clues, older set.

 

[unloadonme]

Do you think he's always that hyper?

 

[Peloso]

The bright orange on his t-shirt clashes terribly with the deathbed maroon on the hoodie. Can this be adjusted somehow?

Also I was hoping he'd tell us how to make MDMA with ordinary household products.

I enjoyed the video, though.

 

[Vannie]

Debilitatingly horrifying smell? Is it stuffed cabbage night?

 

[rareboy]

I wish that I had the time and space in my course calendar to study Chemistry in High school.

Years later it is a source of fascination for me and I think that every secondary school student should be required to take a basic course, because the principles are so fucking integral to about 99% of everything we are or do.

Certainly, to understand and improve baking and cooking, I studied chemistry over the last 40 years.

 

[NotHardUp1]

Do you think he's always that hyper?

I began watching a portion of his earlier videos a few months ago, but his delivery style is a bit too much "OMG!" to me, along with too few graphics or footage. It's mostly a talking head.

The bright orange on his t-shirt clashes terribly with the deathbed maroon on the hoodie. Can this be adjusted somehow?

Also I was hoping he'd tell us how to make MDMA with ordinary household products.

I enjoyed the video, though.

I think to make MDMA you have to start off with two pounds of saffron, three pounds of castor beans, and a cup of bleach. Boil that until you're unconscious, and you're almost there.

Debilitatingly horrifying smell? Is it stuffed cabbage night?

It does boggle the mind. I think I have to search for videos now of people smelling it. "Cuz reasons.

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

I think to make MDMA you have to start off with two pounds of saffron, three pounds of castor beans, and a cup of bleach. Boil that until you're unconscious, and you're almost there.

[shudder]


All that saffron that could be used to make Persian food going to waste like that ... Tsk ...

 

[NotHardUp1]

I had to list an ingredient too expensive for the younguns listening to acquire.

 

[Thad1527]

Saffron not required here. (Pounds of it?!)

 

[rareboy]

Btw. Do not mix chlorine bleach and vinegar.

Or chlorine bleach with alcohol.

 

[NotHardUp1]

Or anything. If you're not a chemist, mixing anything with chlorine, aside from table salt, is a big, potentially fatal, no-no.

 

[NotHardUp1]

Saffron not required here. (Pounds of it?!)

It was tongue-in-cheek. The list was to include an unattainable thing.

 

[me203]

I wish that I had the time and space in my course calendar to study Chemistry in High school.

Years later it is a source of fascination for me and I think that every secondary school student should be required to take a basic course, because the principles are so fucking integral to about 99% of everything we are or do.

Certainly, to understand and improve baking and cooking, I studied chemistry over the last 40 years.

I took chemistry, but I can't say it's been terribly useful. But then that could be said for a lot of high school...

My class wasn't bad--and the teacher was well respected. But the class was probably more useful to give a foundation for those who would take chemistry in college than provide information I can use now when reading something that talks about science.. There was another more general class--but my mother would not have approved of me taking something with less academic vigor. But it seems possible it might have done more to connect chemistry to day to day life.

 

[me203]

Or anything. If you're not a chemist, mixing anything with chlorine, aside from table salt, is a big, potentially fatal, no-no.

Or mixing anything with anything is a no-no. Well, admittedly it's not that bad. But I sure remember the warnings about "don't mix chemicals except as instructed" with chemistry sets. And I imagine we heard similar warnings in school science classes.