Chemist Breaks Down 22 Chemistry Scenes From Movies & TV
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Date: 2022-07-07
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Hmmm. So many things you missed professor. Examples: .Aqua Regia. which is like a -royal acid-. Um. It is the name it was given, as it dissolves precious metals such as gold. That not much of an explanation.
The sodium hydroxide in fight club was in powdered form, when poured on to the mans hand. As long as his hand is dry, which backs of hands normally are, nothing would have happened at all.
Hydrogen and oxygen are always very combustible. It does not need -enough- pressure or energy you can mix the 2 gases in a balloon and it will make a nice bang when lit.
Did you just refute your theory about the bullet not being able to destroy the Liquid metal terminator after having smashed that sausage?
You should also check how explosions kill people. Not through burns, normally the shock wave would rupture the lungs. Thats the part thats usually lethal.
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Hmmm. So many things you missed professor. Examples: .Aqua Regia. which is like a -royal acid-. Um. It is the name it was given, as it dissolves precious metals such as gold. That not much of an explanation.
The sodium hydroxide in fight club was in powdered form, when poured on to the mans hand. As long as his hand is dry, which backs of hands normally are, nothing would have happened at all.
Hydrogen and oxygen are always very combustible. It does not need -enough- pressure or energy you can mix the 2 gases in a balloon and it will make a nice bang when lit.
Did you just refute your theory about the bullet not being able to destroy the Liquid metal terminator after having smashed that sausage?
You should also check how explosions kill people. Not through burns, normally the shock wave would rupture the lungs. Thats the part thats usually lethal.
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Maker
She is incorrect about VX. The glass pearls are filled with the gel form of VX. The gel form was specifically designed to exist on surfaces and off-gas VX vapors over time at regular temperatures. She should know that every liquid has a vapor pressure, and considering the toxicity of VX, it is enough to discourage the use of an area (area denial was the designed purpose of the gel form. Also, she was wrong about the James bond scene. It wasn't sodium cyanide, but digitalis. It's a cardiac glycoside, that affects the rhythm of the heart (thus the AED scene later on, though shocking isn't typically recommended, but an injection of other 'antidotes' that will help regulate the heart rate. Realistically, he should have been vomiting and having an extreme headache instead of just sweating and falling over.
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She is incorrect about VX. The glass pearls are filled with the gel form of VX. The gel form was specifically designed to exist on surfaces and off-gas VX vapors over time at regular temperatures. She should know that every liquid has a vapor pressure, and considering the toxicity of VX, it is enough to discourage the use of an area (area denial was the designed purpose of the gel form. Also, she was wrong about the James bond scene. It wasn't sodium cyanide, but digitalis. It's a cardiac glycoside, that affects the rhythm of the heart (thus the AED scene later on, though shocking isn't typically recommended, but an injection of other 'antidotes' that will help regulate the heart rate. Realistically, he should have been vomiting and having an extreme headache instead of just sweating and falling over.
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Mihai
At 14: 50, when 135Xe is -burned away-, it doesn't mean that it boils off, but it is converted to 136Xe by neutron capture (something 135Xe is really good at. 136Xe doesn't significantly absorb neutrons further. This is why 135Xe is a problem: it sponges off so many neutrons that it temporarily stops the conversion of 235U to fissionable 236U in the reactor. When the control rods are removed to generate more neutrons, initially next to nothing happens; the existing 135Xe is efficiently absorbing pretty much all the produced neutrons. However, once the 135Xe is exhausted, there are too many neutrons around. An uncontrolled fission event happens that overwhelms the engineering controls. The explanation that follows at 15: 00 is partly faulty.
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At 14: 50, when 135Xe is -burned away-, it doesn't mean that it boils off, but it is converted to 136Xe by neutron capture (something 135Xe is really good at. 136Xe doesn't significantly absorb neutrons further. This is why 135Xe is a problem: it sponges off so many neutrons that it temporarily stops the conversion of 235U to fissionable 236U in the reactor. When the control rods are removed to generate more neutrons, initially next to nothing happens; the existing 135Xe is efficiently absorbing pretty much all the produced neutrons. However, once the 135Xe is exhausted, there are too many neutrons around. An uncontrolled fission event happens that overwhelms the engineering controls. The explanation that follows at 15: 00 is partly faulty.
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Darso4
I appreciate the chemistry knowledge but i want to mention a few logical points
1. It's always sunny in Philadelphia. Yes then could have used other stuff but i assume gasoline was the closest and easiest to obtain.
2. Rick's brownies is easy, he was finishing it. We don't know what he did before these scene. Also sci-fi = future elements
3. Spider man, Nilon looks cool and fits but it's supposed to be sticky. Also he was looking for something and working on it so what we see is supposed to be failure. We don't see the whole note book so we don't know what he makes in that scene.
4. Mr Bean and no safety, that's the whole idea. We all are suppose to not like it so you actually approve
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I appreciate the chemistry knowledge but i want to mention a few logical points
1. It's always sunny in Philadelphia. Yes then could have used other stuff but i assume gasoline was the closest and easiest to obtain.
2. Rick's brownies is easy, he was finishing it. We don't know what he did before these scene. Also sci-fi = future elements
3. Spider man, Nilon looks cool and fits but it's supposed to be sticky. Also he was looking for something and working on it so what we see is supposed to be failure. We don't see the whole note book so we don't know what he makes in that scene.
4. Mr Bean and no safety, that's the whole idea. We all are suppose to not like it so you actually approve
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Richard
I got my BS degree in biochemistry, and this video brings back some memories. One of my favorite memories was doing a distillation once, and it seemed like nothing was coming out of the cooling apparatus, so I bent down to sniff the end of the tube. and spent the next five minutes coughing my head off. This is how NOT to do chemistry, right. But hey: It didn't kill me!
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I got my BS degree in biochemistry, and this video brings back some memories. One of my favorite memories was doing a distillation once, and it seemed like nothing was coming out of the cooling apparatus, so I bent down to sniff the end of the tube. and spent the next five minutes coughing my head off. This is how NOT to do chemistry, right. But hey: It didn't kill me!
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Tubluer
Ho boy book larnin. As someone who has lit many a scrap pile with a bucket of diesel, I swear to you that it will do exactly what the film portrays if it is a hot day. I did it once with gasoline and I will never ever do that again. The result was a fireball 20 feet across that rose 50 or 100 feet in the air. Thanks to a ten foot pole, I got away with singed eyebrows.
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Ho boy book larnin. As someone who has lit many a scrap pile with a bucket of diesel, I swear to you that it will do exactly what the film portrays if it is a hot day. I did it once with gasoline and I will never ever do that again. The result was a fireball 20 feet across that rose 50 or 100 feet in the air. Thanks to a ten foot pole, I got away with singed eyebrows.
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FinnJi
btw about breaking bad the actors were taught by DEA agents how to make meth to make it more realistic in the show (the show itself does not actually have meth in it it's a form of rock candy but the processes are slightly altered so people don't use the show as a tutorial because if they did it the way they were taught it would function as such)
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btw about breaking bad the actors were taught by DEA agents how to make meth to make it more realistic in the show (the show itself does not actually have meth in it it's a form of rock candy but the processes are slightly altered so people don't use the show as a tutorial because if they did it the way they were taught it would function as such)
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Noneofyour
Dissolving bodies? Chromic acid or piranha solution. But dissolving an entire human body is just way too much of a hassle. You need too much acid and you get massive gas-evolution. Its just not practical. Better to butcher the body and feed the meat to animals. The bones you can dissolve that shouldnt be too much of a challenge.
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Dissolving bodies? Chromic acid or piranha solution. But dissolving an entire human body is just way too much of a hassle. You need too much acid and you get massive gas-evolution. Its just not practical. Better to butcher the body and feed the meat to animals. The bones you can dissolve that shouldnt be too much of a challenge.
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Joshua
I had her as a chem professor in UT Austin a few years ago and she is god awful at teaching. She lets her fame get to her head and has a lot of mistakes on her practice books. She lets others teach for her and she always travels so it ends up hurting your grade. She may seem awesome on the media, but she's horrible at teaching.
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I had her as a chem professor in UT Austin a few years ago and she is god awful at teaching. She lets her fame get to her head and has a lot of mistakes on her practice books. She lets others teach for her and she always travels so it ends up hurting your grade. She may seem awesome on the media, but she's horrible at teaching.
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Everyone
I tried huffing gasoline when I was a teenager, and I achieved nausea and a headache. Fun times
So to make nylon, all I need is chloride and a 'colorless liquid'. Awesome, I'm going to go make some!
-edit- you were lucky it didn't splash up to your face when you threw the hotdog back into the liquid nitro!
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I tried huffing gasoline when I was a teenager, and I achieved nausea and a headache. Fun times
So to make nylon, all I need is chloride and a 'colorless liquid'. Awesome, I'm going to go make some!
-edit- you were lucky it didn't splash up to your face when you threw the hotdog back into the liquid nitro!
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