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glossaria2
March 22, 2022 at 11:14 pm
Okay, she is AWESOME. Her enthusiasm for chemistry reminds me of my AP Chem teacher (who was the reason I very nearly majored in chem in college… until we got to the dreaded organic chem unit, that is…)
Otaku Bancho
March 22, 2022 at 11:16 pm
If my high school science teacher was this animated,I probably would have paid more attention!😆😆😆
Peter JF
March 22, 2022 at 11:40 pm
Re the sewer gas explosion, I was in a pub in Oxfordshire UK that had a framed newspaper clipping on the wall that was an obituary of a local man who had been killed in a cesspit explosion in the 1920s.
Bianca Santisteban
March 22, 2022 at 11:43 pm
She is literally a STEM queen and sooo cute when she gets to experiment. Please bring her back 🥺❤ women in STEM have to empower each other!
Susy Madrid
March 22, 2022 at 11:43 pm
Women in STEM!! I’m a Biochem major and this was so entertaining.
dondrap513
March 22, 2022 at 11:46 pm
It never made sense that a high school kid was able to make web fluid that if it existed would be one of the most profitable substances ever created. Only Toby creating it organically makes sense that way.
Sharon 🔥𝐆𝐨 𝐓𝐨 𝐌𝐲 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥 [𝐋!𝐯𝐞]🔞
March 22, 2022 at 11:49 pm
Bring her back she’s hella cool with the chemist things she explains.
Doom Guy
March 22, 2022 at 11:52 pm
I love how enthusiastic this woman is
Cheyne Simons
March 23, 2022 at 12:03 am
why not use piranha solution ???
Younes Ben
March 23, 2022 at 12:08 am
*I’VE GOT HOTDOGS*
I love it I hope we see you again soon
17:40
Chris Campbell
March 23, 2022 at 12:18 am
I wish I had her as my chemistry high school teacher.
Jenna Akers
March 23, 2022 at 12:24 am
I love how enthusiastic she is during the experiments!
“I’ve got hot dogs!” Made me crack up
AFLoneWolf
March 23, 2022 at 12:25 am
DO NOT LOOK UP PICTURES OF WHAT HAPPENED TO THE RADIUM GIRLS!!!!
It is some truly horrific stuff.
Christian D
March 23, 2022 at 12:26 am
I love her excitement and passion for chemistry
Patrick Meehan
March 23, 2022 at 12:27 am
What is the chemical in spider-man nylon?
Anne Marie
March 23, 2022 at 12:29 am
Sign this chick up to be the live action Miss Frizzle.
Jessica Perez
March 23, 2022 at 12:33 am
I love how passionate about chemistry. When she does an experiment she gets so hyped! And I love it!! She’s definitely the definition of beauty & brains. 🤗
Sabrina
March 23, 2022 at 12:33 am
As a young aspiring female scientist, seeing a female chemist/scientist here is everything. Representation matters, even on a ‘for fun’ YouTube video 🥺🥰
Keaden They-Them
March 23, 2022 at 12:43 am
23:50 me when anyone includes a disabled character
st. sponge
March 23, 2022 at 12:46 am
This lady is what you get when someone gets into a career that they enjoy doing. She loves it.
TheMoises1213
March 23, 2022 at 12:51 am
Love this sooo much!!
lugoyvonne
March 23, 2022 at 12:58 am
I ❤️ this!!!
Dineen Serpa
March 23, 2022 at 1:06 am
Nylon polymer boogers! SO joyful!!
Marizane Bogdan
March 23, 2022 at 1:19 am
I’m a Chemist and I’ve worked for a little while with fuel analysis and I had to wear a semi facial mask when dealing with Gasoline and Diesel even with the exhaustion hood on, so yeah, definitely don’t sniff or pour gasoline on your skin.
What a great video, she is very didatic and so excited with the experiments, just great all around.
grife3000
March 23, 2022 at 1:19 am
There are no other chemicals that change color when matched with another chemical other than lemon juice? Why do we think he was using lemon juice? Is that in the movie but not in the selected clip?
Is there any chance that the string of pearls was in liquid phase with just the containers tinted green?
Prajwal Meshram
March 23, 2022 at 4:19 pm
Kinda bummed she diint show how to cook meth
meatball
March 23, 2022 at 4:21 pm
11:51 the what now 😀
Logo Lee
March 23, 2022 at 4:47 pm
This is my favorite breakdown yet.
Magere Kwark
March 23, 2022 at 5:14 pm
I like how she gave us a better alternative for dissolving a body but didn’t when it’s about removing glue.
Virendra Singh
March 23, 2022 at 5:35 pm
This was one of the best.
Nikki Tenbrink
March 23, 2022 at 5:40 pm
More of her and more of her experiments please!! The most enthusiastic people on this show are always the best!
Matt Kaz
March 23, 2022 at 6:45 pm
I’ll never have a petrol fight again. I’ll miss it.
Ajay Singh Rathore
March 23, 2022 at 7:04 pm
When I was watching Breaking bad, even I was wondering why walt was not using HCl or HNO3.
kshitij tiwari
March 23, 2022 at 7:06 pm
I love how excited she gets while performing those experiments.
Tom Something
March 23, 2022 at 7:38 pm
In the Fight Club scene, Durden says it’s best to go find some acid to neutralize the base, as water would accelerate the reaction. That may be true… I get the idea, just don’t know if it’s true. But I’ve got to believe that pouring running water all over the wound to start washing the lye off _right_ _now_ is better than spending thirty seconds looking for and opening a bottle of vinegar.
Matthew Lilipaly
March 23, 2022 at 7:59 pm
Cool stuff wired cool stuff
Henrique Junior
March 23, 2022 at 8:07 pm
She is kind of annoying.
Stefano Ceravolo
March 23, 2022 at 8:29 pm
I’d love to be half as happy about my job as she’s with hers
Jaden
March 23, 2022 at 8:39 pm
That was my Gen chem II professor! 😎
Lucifer Fallenangel
March 23, 2022 at 8:49 pm
Why would I get results over 100% w/v when I do assays?
Considering the purest of the pure would only give upto 100%?
Seems I’ve been doing something wrong or it’s super saturated!?
Luis Almodovar
March 23, 2022 at 8:57 pm
3:30 thank you for your knowledge in how to make spidey webs
Hugo Stiglitz
March 23, 2022 at 9:57 pm
@5:49 cmon professor its a full face respirator…not a gas mask lmao
Allen
March 23, 2022 at 10:54 pm
This was a good one. I absolutely love her humor 🤣🤣🤣
Spellbinder
March 23, 2022 at 11:28 pm
That was one of more interesting things I’ve seen on YouTube in quite a while.
ATGG
March 24, 2022 at 12:31 am
She’s so annoying
Drum and Bass on Vinyl
March 24, 2022 at 12:33 am
She was so rad! Her excitement was infectious!
cece :]
March 24, 2022 at 12:43 am
ahhh her enthusiasm when doing the experiments was just so amazing!!! love her!
Matt Lucero
March 24, 2022 at 12:48 am
Hi Kate? Can you make a 100% pure meth like walter? If so, let me taste it
Alex G Reid
March 24, 2022 at 12:49 am
If you have her back on in a future video, please go back to Breaking Bad and have her review Gale’s set up and process for making coffee with a precise amount of quinic acid. I’d love to see what she thinks on how a chemist would go about brewing coffee.
I Gede Yogadita Widiana Darma
March 24, 2022 at 1:26 am
My favorite chemical is dihydrogen monoxide.
Luna M
March 24, 2022 at 5:17 am
OMG, I love her excitement and joy even with basic chemistry!!! We need more scientists like this!!! 😀
Lisa Mylynn
March 24, 2022 at 5:30 am
I wish my chemistry teacher was as fun as her! I wouldn’t have skipped class so much
Patrick James
March 24, 2022 at 5:52 am
Xenon doesn’t inhibit reactor power because it’s inert; it does so because it absorbs neutrons pretty effectively (meaning they can’t be absorbed by the uranium, “poisoning” the nuclear reaction)
toad_boio
March 24, 2022 at 6:08 am
0:45 thanks for the advice 🙂
CaptainFactoid386
March 24, 2022 at 8:47 am
Her oversimplification of the Chernobyl incident was fairly off. Should save that more for Nuclear Engineers
Daniel Karl
March 24, 2022 at 9:27 am
📝uh huh ok so anymore tips?
Jemima Lamb
March 24, 2022 at 10:59 am
I love how excited she gets when she does the experiments. 🙂
Dead Ringer
March 24, 2022 at 12:04 pm
watching these kinds of content makes me regret not studying well in highschool…..
because I spent most of my time playing video games. 🤭
dajhae wiltshire
March 24, 2022 at 12:43 pm
Chúc thầy lộc ngày càng thành công hơn và hạnh phúc bên gia đình 殺殺
Clay McCoy
March 24, 2022 at 1:16 pm
T-1000 is made of liquid metal, not human flesh.
WildWestWoodpeckers
March 24, 2022 at 2:02 pm
Should’ve reacted to Andrews web fluid
Naura Ghina
March 24, 2022 at 2:03 pm
Invite JODIE COMER PLEASE 😩
Ben Harber
March 24, 2022 at 3:05 pm
The nylon experiment was awesome … except that nylon isn’t NEAR strong enough to do what Spiderman needs to do.
AF
March 24, 2022 at 4:01 pm
Kate is too exothermic for me. Too much outward release of energy makes me tired. I don’t know how she does it. Lol
Dominique Williams
March 24, 2022 at 4:10 pm
She should co host a Bill Nye the Science Guy reboot. Love her enthusiasm
Hector Torres
March 24, 2022 at 4:41 pm
I thought she was going to explain how to make meth. 😂
GodILoveAlcohol
March 24, 2022 at 5:42 pm
Gasoline is a dense molecule that would get in your lungs when you breathe it in.
The cigarette would have to land right in the liquid, not vapour.
The lighter wouldn’t light gasoline.
The large amounts of gasoline vapour wouldn’t cause an explosion.
Xenon is unreactive so would slow down the reactions in the reactor.
Wat.
vaguevoices
March 24, 2022 at 7:13 pm
13:35 ” He essentially is doing a really fun chemical reaction inside of his body”
Looks like a ton of fun, alright!
Boy1der
March 24, 2022 at 7:15 pm
Now this is a person who loves what they do 😂😂😂
Brendan Clarkson
March 24, 2022 at 8:20 pm
She’s my new favorite for this series.
freya
March 24, 2022 at 9:59 pm
didn’t know drew barrymore was a chemist danggg
I don't have a name
March 24, 2022 at 11:38 pm
I really wish they would have done a demonstration of the breaking bad clip and just made meth
Aydee Soto
March 24, 2022 at 11:42 pm
Min 4:45 I would acted the same way ! Jajaj all excited
Zimbabwe The Official
March 24, 2022 at 11:46 pm
I can’t wait to learn how to cook meth , thanks. Weird!!!!!
Volcanoman
March 25, 2022 at 12:55 am
14:21 I thought water could *_increase_* reactivity as well, by slowing down neutrons to make them thermal neutrons, thereby allowing them to more efficaciously perpetuate a chain reaction. If neutrons are moving too fast, they have a hard time interacting with fissionable materials. Well, that was my understanding anyway.
FunkoEditor
March 25, 2022 at 3:04 am
I love it when experts are enthusiastic. It makes me happy and I enjoy listening to them
Joik2ww
March 25, 2022 at 4:22 am
Hazmat suit gloves goes under sleeves. Some of those has also tight undersleeve. General not bad for kitchen chemist makin meth.
Roberto MBriceñ
March 25, 2022 at 4:40 am
I love how excited she gets with every experiment. She should have her own YouTube channel.
Rarefarera
March 25, 2022 at 4:53 am
Does she have a YouTube channel?
hwhy2
March 25, 2022 at 5:08 am
If there ever was a Bill Nye reboot I would love for Kate to be a part of it
Sonic Shroom
March 25, 2022 at 6:03 am
Couldn’t the green balls be at a low pressure keeping the nerve gas in the gas phase?
ChesterTester
March 25, 2022 at 7:39 am
20:58 – I love how the dude creating your timestamps thought “Amyl Nitrite” was a movie
Miles Smith
March 25, 2022 at 7:50 am
I think my favorite part of this video is pure giddy joy she expressed when she’s doing experiments.
Hynek Svoboda
March 25, 2022 at 10:30 am
So first she created something really sticky and then she pulls out a hotdog and says it’s rock hard. I’m absolutely not suggesting anything here
madyokool
March 25, 2022 at 3:07 pm
Great video! However, the only issue I had was the Casino Royale critique. In the film, they specifically identify the toxin as digitalis. Otherwise, a very fun and informative video!
Geeko
March 25, 2022 at 6:02 pm
Jesus , I need to watch Chernobyl again
Richard Alexander
March 25, 2022 at 6:05 pm
I know almost nothing about chemistry, but the way that she has the urge to touch her glasses after handling chemicals which call for the use of gloves bothers me.
mturker100
March 25, 2022 at 6:52 pm
She was absolutely delightful to listen to. Please have her back again! 🙏
So So
March 25, 2022 at 7:19 pm
If it was me dissolving a body I would not go with something like Aqua Regia because its used in gold refining and quite expensive, I would go for something like Aqua Fortis or Piranha Solution. Ah the good old days.
David Gilliland
March 25, 2022 at 9:51 pm
I love the nerd exploding out of her when she does experiments.
Siderite Zackwehdex
March 25, 2022 at 9:58 pm
Oh, at 18:00 there are so many possible jokes about a rock hard hot dog that she smashes with a hammer, but I will take the higher road and not make any of them!
Kyle Bockwoldt
March 26, 2022 at 1:32 am
it really looked like what spiderman made in his drawer (color disregarding) closely resembled the nylon she made right?
Nick Papageorgio
March 26, 2022 at 2:47 am
This lady is both dangerous and sweet at the same time. We must protect her
Dkmsu
March 26, 2022 at 5:03 am
I loooove her enthusiasm!!!
David Dominguez
March 26, 2022 at 6:17 am
Interesting double bond you got there Peter Parker 😂
jorgeeporgee
March 26, 2022 at 8:21 am
bring her back ASAP, but make her inhale the green gas as an experiment (just kidding)
Invox
March 26, 2022 at 12:52 pm
13:35 That actually exist. They’re called Steroids. 😅
Morgan Sierra
March 26, 2022 at 1:10 pm
❤️ Hermosa eleccion 4.FO/Elizeid de mejor
1 (elecciones ) 9.9/10 2 ( culturales ) 9.7/10
Son unos de los mejores conciertos
, no-puede-ir-pero-de-tan-solo verlos
desde pantalla,, se que estuvo
Sorprendente .
꧁༺ 『Ꭷ꒻』 ༻꧂
March 26, 2022 at 6:03 pm
you can see how sshe really is passionate about what she does. the attentiveness in what she is watching, her breakdowns of the scenes and her getting excited over experimentents that she probably has done hundreds of times.
Youtuber27
March 26, 2022 at 6:13 pm
Does anyone else find it weird how her body freezes?
Andrea Witter
March 26, 2022 at 6:35 pm
This is my favorite breakdown episode yet! She is awesome and I love her enthusiasm for chemistry. Bring her back please!!!
Megatherium
March 26, 2022 at 7:52 pm
Wouldn’t you use amyl nitrite and then 4-DMAP nowadays as an cynanide antidote?
Dominic Reid4 gg.
March 26, 2022 at 9:24 pm
Back in school someone asked my chemistry teacher if she knew how to make crystal meth. She replied ‘yes and if you were paying attention you would know as well’. Lol
Sunny The Great
March 26, 2022 at 9:59 pm
11:34 I like how Sheldon to a certain extent is a polymath in the scientific community. My dream is to be a complete polymath, basically knowing all of science and other things as well that I’m passionate about like music and art. Before you call me naive, I know and I understand but I just wish
Lataban Jc
March 26, 2022 at 11:58 pm
13:02 I love her energy 😄
Mark Schock
March 27, 2022 at 1:37 am
Would love to have her as a guest speaker for my class! Her energy and enthusiasm is infectious!
Mike Bothwell
March 27, 2022 at 4:30 am
We need more of that dude that talks about dead people Hahha he’s a gem
MrAlfable
March 27, 2022 at 5:11 am
Walter White standing in front of a dissolved human body: “That scene makes me cringe…he’s not wearing safety goggles!”
Jake Spiegler
March 27, 2022 at 4:10 pm
Bring her back for another ep!!
Arve Eriksson
March 27, 2022 at 6:18 pm
@4:45 – 😆
JRawlings14
March 27, 2022 at 6:20 pm
love that there was some practical experiments. so cool!
Abel Tesfaye
March 27, 2022 at 7:17 pm
I love her!! It’s great to see such an intellectual, female chemist on YouTube like this 🙂 love the BB breakdowns most!
Logan Schurman
March 27, 2022 at 7:55 pm
Love how much she loves her job 🙂 Thats the dream isn’t it
Julius Kovaljeff
March 27, 2022 at 8:13 pm
Never seen a person enjoy what they do so honestly and purely 😀 Even my sour face couldn’t help but smile when she did her experiments. She’s a role model! Can’t wait to have her on again!
TOTO
March 27, 2022 at 9:02 pm
Thanks for the tips! Gonna use it next time.
Στελιος Πεππας
March 27, 2022 at 9:22 pm
In the Martian (the book) it was even more scientifically accurate since it mentioned all that.
miller charlie
March 27, 2022 at 9:22 pm
Adhesive (“glue”) is usually a polymer, like the nylon she made but slightly different. Removing adhesive can be done by reversing this polymerization reaction, instead of dissolving in a solvent.
Justin Carreras
March 27, 2022 at 9:23 pm
It would make a sticky solution. She has no idea what she’s talking about.
Sometimes you gotta be bad to be good
March 27, 2022 at 9:27 pm
That was cool
Belnick6666
March 27, 2022 at 9:41 pm
can nylon suspend a 300lbs robber 2 meter in the air on a 2mm thin line?
James Oldfield
March 27, 2022 at 10:16 pm
Aqua regia, boiling hot piranha solution, magic acid, fluorosulphuric acid, magic acid, hexafluoroantimonic acid, trfiluoromethanoic acid, or perchloric acid.
The Angledsaxon
March 27, 2022 at 10:23 pm
Chlorified tartrate could be like tartar hydrochloride… which would be dumb bc that doesn’t make sense but that’s all I got
tagradh
March 27, 2022 at 11:52 pm
That’s not nylon.
Ken P
March 27, 2022 at 11:53 pm
this was a fun video. However, the poison in Casino Royale was digitalis, not cyanide.
Lamorra fierro
March 28, 2022 at 12:47 am
You know listening to her talk about chemistry versus taking a class in high school/college just aren’t the same.
luckygirl1able
March 28, 2022 at 12:47 am
This is exactly how she was in lecture, too! Dr.Biberdorf is awesome, hook ‘em 🤘🏼
Hyper Non Verbal
March 28, 2022 at 1:17 am
She’s awesome.
Paul Kent
March 28, 2022 at 2:43 am
About Chernobyl, Thermal spectrum reactors use moderators, like Carbon or water to slow neutrons in order for them to be more likely to split atoms. Control rods are made of Boron, which completely absorbs neutrons, so it stops nuclear reactions. The control rods in the Chernobyl reactor had an attachment on the bottom which was made of Carbon. This meant that the fuel would react most at the portion deepest in the reactor, and only stop when the rod was pushed all the way through. The idiot in charge had the rods pulled all the way out. When the reactor started to overheat, the introduction of the moderator, before the Boron, was like dumping gasoline on a fire.
VX was originally created as a pesticide, but it turned out to be more toxic to people. What is funny about this is that most pesticides were originally developed to kill people.
Tylor Schinzel
March 28, 2022 at 3:01 am
Oh she is PERFECT! lol. She’s the best kind of scientist. So happy to do stuff in the lab.
filmdetective
March 28, 2022 at 3:58 am
NEEEEEEEEEEEERD (ok no she’s cool)
S. T.
March 28, 2022 at 4:29 am
As an organic chemist , I don’t really like her explanations
DrakeMiller
March 28, 2022 at 5:42 am
Aqua regia
Got it
Jaja
Mos Baked
March 28, 2022 at 7:01 am
We need her back, often
In The Hole
March 28, 2022 at 7:49 am
3:20 Just ripping into Spider-Man
billy bob jimson
March 28, 2022 at 8:19 am
If only she watched some mythbusters she’d understand gasoline a little better
castaway2113
March 28, 2022 at 8:58 am
Hmmm – Chernobyl is about nuclear physics. Not chemistry. That’s probably why she got her wires crossed on Xenon – not quite right.
SirChocho
March 28, 2022 at 12:39 pm
They should’ve brought in NileRed.
Roberto Vidal Garcia
March 28, 2022 at 1:18 pm
She’s adorable!
thardran
March 28, 2022 at 3:57 pm
I wanted to know if the bomb stones that walter white makes in season 1 (i think) are real or not. (The one where he throws a small rock and it explodes.
MinecraftAedda
March 28, 2022 at 4:46 pm
The VX Nerve Agent at 21:22 was actually shown as a thick liquid gel not a gas which began to react with air causing it to evaporate through what I assume is an exothermic reaction via a chemical also in the gel reacting with the air.
Just passing by
March 28, 2022 at 5:30 pm
Interesting
Sean Stenberg
March 28, 2022 at 5:44 pm
“there is no such thing as vibranium on the periodic table”.
really? what? are you serious????? thats such a shock!!!!!!!!!!! its just as if they said its a theoretical thing fom outer space what!!!!!!!!! wow thats insane
Mritunjay Pathak
March 28, 2022 at 6:53 pm
They did go with aqua resia
Logan Franklin
March 28, 2022 at 6:56 pm
Oh my god she’s the best. More of her
Amber Trinity
March 28, 2022 at 7:31 pm
❤️ Hermosa eleccion 4.FO/Elizeid de mejor
1 (elecciones ) 9.9/10 2 ( culturales ) 9.7/10
Son unos de los mejores conciertos
, no-puede-ir-pero-de-tan-solo verlos
desde pantalla,, se que estuvo
Sorprendente .
daveburgan
March 28, 2022 at 7:38 pm
I always assumed they substituted hydrofluoric acid for hydrochloric intentionally
eitughtueir
March 28, 2022 at 8:03 pm
In The Rock, the vx was still in liquid form in the globules (you see it when he smashes it at one point), but they def got the colour wrong.
Kalvain
March 28, 2022 at 8:45 pm
Best guest ever! Bring her back on a regular basis!
Matteo Alexander
March 28, 2022 at 11:36 pm
FINALLY
Shifty
March 28, 2022 at 11:53 pm
2nd degree burns hurt more than 3rd…. 3rd degree burns fry the nerves and you feel almost nothing
Orenji Neko
March 29, 2022 at 12:53 am
God, her windshield laugh is so adorable.
Dustin Brady
March 29, 2022 at 6:52 am
This woman is awesome
Aerin Alese
March 29, 2022 at 7:03 am
*****Correction***** You would not die because your heart failed to continue to pump if exposed to VX nerve gas . VX nerve agents which are Acetycholine esterase inhibitors , kill you via asphyxiation as your diaphram would fail to contract due to paralysis brought on by the overstimulation cholinergic synapses in the CNS and PNS.
sorashi
March 29, 2022 at 8:21 am
0:18 😊dissolving a body, Breaking Bad😊
quakingphear
March 29, 2022 at 8:26 am
Weird proportion of Nick Cage movies in this, she just needed to include the acid scenes in Mandy to get one more.
J
March 29, 2022 at 1:23 pm
Uh huh.. “Aqua Regia”,writes down *
Sintique Conceição
March 29, 2022 at 3:21 pm
It’s always very nice to see someone excited about something they like
Kunal Roy
March 29, 2022 at 3:31 pm
Mr Bean is an 5th Dimensional Being …🤓
Gamal Kevin
March 29, 2022 at 5:02 pm
Such a charming expert with superb enthusiasm to match
Kanye Twitty
March 29, 2022 at 6:10 pm
Add this scientist to any chemical experiment is likely to cause an exo-joyous experience.
César Augusto Ojeda
March 29, 2022 at 6:27 pm
Best thing is her excitement when doing them experiments🤓
klefdnb
March 29, 2022 at 8:10 pm
WOW…. this was a job for NileRed not HER!
klefdnb
March 29, 2022 at 8:25 pm
Chernobyl: nuclear reactor does two things. Reactivity goes up or goes down
Chemist: wow, his explanation of a reactor is beautiful!!!
And that kids…is why we have nuclear scientists NOT chemists
Dinesh Sadhwani
March 29, 2022 at 10:03 pm
Hits hard sausage with a hammer. I almost screamed internally. Ouch!
Dark Qwartzsytal
March 29, 2022 at 10:09 pm
The experiment segment was so epic
WTBWrites
March 29, 2022 at 10:17 pm
Now I need to watch Chernobyl for the 100th time
John Schaefer
March 29, 2022 at 10:32 pm
Ok this might be the best one yet.
EchoAngel
March 29, 2022 at 10:44 pm
She’s fabulous
Robin Lace
March 30, 2022 at 12:31 am
This is the moment Kate Biberdorf became Kate the Chemist.
Nothingman
March 30, 2022 at 12:33 am
This is the type of nerd that I’d love to have as a friend and / or wife
Nathanael Ribar
March 30, 2022 at 12:34 am
my professor 🤘🤘
XxXFlyingArmBarXxX
March 30, 2022 at 12:43 am
she’s awesome !!
MidnightSt
March 30, 2022 at 12:57 am
Burning cigarette tips actually go out when they drop into/are doused in gasoline.
I have actually tried it.
MidnightSt
March 30, 2022 at 1:02 am
Elephant’s toothpaste.
Elephant’s? Sure. Toothpaste? I don’t think so…
Márcio Buxexa
March 30, 2022 at 2:31 am
What a “Beakman’s World” vibe I’ve just watched.. I loved it.
Isaiah Belter
March 30, 2022 at 3:28 am
Been awhile since I saw BB. But If I remember they picked HF because it is the easiest to obtain. I think. But in all honesty, the showrunner probably heard about certain plastics not being affect by certain acids and wanted it in the show. Probably a good way to add content into the show as well.
Isaiah Belter
March 30, 2022 at 3:31 am
If you ever have her back on. Will you do the clip of Breaking Bad where Walt and Jesse are tied down after Jesse killed the other lab assistant? His little speech about the process would be interesting to get insight on how it works.
Fang the Dergon
March 30, 2022 at 3:39 am
Best guest on wired ever X3
Degenerate Chimp
March 30, 2022 at 4:59 am
Im 5 scenes into the video and all I can say is yes…
these are the scenes ive always wondered about.
Sodium Bromide
March 30, 2022 at 5:17 am
HF is far more dangerous to living creatures than it is to dead creatures.
HF is the 2nd smallest molecule in existence (beat only by H2). And much like H2 can leak through a rubber balloon, HF can seep through skin very rapidly. It actually bypasses your nerves and thus the most horrifying aspect is that you don’t really know that you’ve been burned until much later. It also has a particular affinity for calcium, which is an issue for your bones.
Would HF be okay at dissolving a human body? Sure, any sufficiently concentrated acid will do a decent job of it. It’ll just take a while. But there are many many many better options if you’re looking for speed or efficiency. The most obvious example would be something that is probably in almost everyone’s medicine cabinets right now. Although the concentration in the household version is only 3%. Get that to any sufficiently concentrated value and it will eat through anything organic that it touches.
M
March 30, 2022 at 5:21 am
The H’s are implied in Peter Parker’s drawing and this is a common practice. Might not be used in high school, but definitely used by chemists.
Josh Caratao
March 30, 2022 at 5:31 am
Yoo that was my chemistry professor last semester
Mukkavilli Subrahmanyam
March 30, 2022 at 5:36 am
She is BEAUTIFUL
Glitch Yeen
March 30, 2022 at 6:05 am
You’re mostly right about the Xenon! What’s important to mention though is that the ‘burning off’ of Xe-135 isn’t a chemical process, but a nuclear one. Xe-135 is part of U-235’s decay chain, so it naturally tends to build up a bit as the reaction goes on. It’s also very, very good at absorbing neutrons, and fewer neutrons flying around equals a slower reaction. Iirc, it has a half-life of about 9 hours, so after a shutdown, you need to wait a couple hours for it to decay away into less troublesome isotopes. The workers at Chernobyl were under a lot of pressure to perform a specific test, and they ended up trying to ‘overpower’ the Xenon.
David Borromeo
March 30, 2022 at 6:08 am
Not happy. She demonstrated making nylon. She should have demonstrated making meth too. LOL.
Liz Brown
March 30, 2022 at 7:22 am
As soon as I saw the crystallization dish I was like “aw yeah she’s gonna do the nylon rope trick!” I love doing that with a glass stirring rod that you slowly use to wrap the nylon up like you’re winding thread on a spindle.
Perdu cuelhu
March 30, 2022 at 9:13 am
I think the radium didn’t make the paint glow, it just made the glow last longer
Shantorey Wilkins
March 30, 2022 at 11:17 am
#658th
👩🔬🧑🔬👨🔬👩🔬👩🔬👩🔬🧑🔬👨🔬
20000plus Rpm
March 30, 2022 at 4:46 pm
If you feel like that doing your job, you did something very, very right.
MarsDelver
March 30, 2022 at 6:21 pm
Find someone who loves you as much as this lady loves chemistry
Mohammed Shaik
March 30, 2022 at 6:53 pm
Her enthusiasm is so contagious
R69NiX
March 30, 2022 at 8:25 pm
7:11″It would smell terrible!” I love the smell of petrol!
The Ders
March 30, 2022 at 10:09 pm
I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone so excited about chemistry. Kuddos
Iris Urton
March 30, 2022 at 10:35 pm
Such a cool video
Michael Holopainen
March 30, 2022 at 10:41 pm
Come on, does she really not get the joke ? “Tart” – chemical.
1337fraggzb00N
March 30, 2022 at 10:51 pm
20:19 the poison in Casino Royale was not cyanide, it was digitalis.
Robert Tagao
March 30, 2022 at 11:36 pm
The T-100 17:40 was not made of flesh like a hot dog. It was made of liquid metal, which when frozen with liquid nitrogen would probably shatter in pieces if shot with a bullet.
YouOnlyLiveTwice
March 31, 2022 at 12:02 am
I always thought the VX you see in those balls in ‘The Rock’ was a liquid. In some shots you can see the air bubbles moving around as if there was a liquid inside.
Rain Ortega
March 31, 2022 at 1:18 am
Can confirm, making nylon was my favorite experiment in o-chem!
ALL THINGS TO ALL MEN
March 31, 2022 at 9:55 am
Lmao, she’s such a dork… I wanna marry her😂
Cadaver
March 31, 2022 at 10:17 am
Not sure why anyone wouldn’t choose piranna solution to dissolve a body. H2SO4 and H2O2 will turn most things into CO2
Ol’ Caruso
March 31, 2022 at 12:22 pm
Coulda swore she said “Beaver dorf”
kehtux
March 31, 2022 at 1:15 pm
Some of these aren’t so much about chemistry as they are about physics and biology. She tried to comment on them but not really her area of expertise. The Black Panther and Terminator ones would be more for a material physicist, Chernobyl and Radium Girls ones for a nuclear physicist/medical physicist/radiation safety experts, and Casino Royale and The Rock are for a toxicologist .
Tyler Hayes
March 31, 2022 at 1:24 pm
She was my college chem professor at UT Austin. Always been this passionate about chemistry! She always said she wanted to be the woman equivalent of Bill Nye
Sam Sewall
March 31, 2022 at 1:24 pm
Also should mention HF is very dangerous to handle, so best to avoid even for well trained scientists
tom arnold
March 31, 2022 at 1:28 pm
Things she said makes me not wanting a girlfriend that’s a chemist.
edwin delfin
March 31, 2022 at 2:22 pm
I havent seen a full grown woman got this excited over bubbles
Hookset Hijinx
March 31, 2022 at 3:14 pm
Basic chemistry gets this girl giddy. Easily pleased. She’s a keeper
Putt KH
March 31, 2022 at 5:34 pm
When chemicals reacted she looks happier than my mom when I told her I’ve got straight A lmao
RhoGaming
March 31, 2022 at 6:22 pm
Me as Chemistry Lover agree almost all this Chemist told.
Zarah Andrahilde
March 31, 2022 at 6:33 pm
POV My first time: 12:59
Rory Leahy
March 31, 2022 at 6:38 pm
Yes ma that bottle of Amyl nitrite on my bedside table is in case I get poisoned at night
NetAndyCz
March 31, 2022 at 6:39 pm
Well, for some glues gasoline works quite well and it is something people had around in the past. I would not recommend inhaling it or dousing with it, it is not healthy.
And the elephant toothpaste reminded me of high school chemistry when my prof run out of 3% peroxide (that was the rest of the class using) and my experiment went wrong because I was using 30% one. It is fun stuff but produces way too much oxygen.
Tomkmb
March 31, 2022 at 7:03 pm
Man, how excited she was during the experiment was one of the nicest things I’ve seen in a long time. I wish I could enjoy anything that much!
Vini T
March 31, 2022 at 7:56 pm
She is just everybody’s dream chemistry teacher <3
Dogstar
March 31, 2022 at 7:57 pm
I would like to think that the responsibility of safety outweigh the facts. There are a lot of idiots out there. It’s wrong for a reason; I hope.
Gabriel Nguyen
March 31, 2022 at 8:07 pm
lol assuming i still dont put paint brushes in my mouth
eric moeller
March 31, 2022 at 8:09 pm
i don’t think i would want to make her upset she immediately knew what acid to pick to dissolve a body
Ritokazoriv
March 31, 2022 at 8:52 pm
Being a chemist myself, I would like to contribute:
The more colours you see, the more likely that it is fake. Most chemicals are colourless or white, coloured chemicals are in the minority and when you find them in household chemicals it is most likely dyed.
Rime in Retrograde
April 1, 2022 at 9:10 am
Isn’t there a joke that goes something like – if you want chemistry that smells do organic chemistry, but if you want color do inorganic chemistry?
Collins Grimm
March 31, 2022 at 8:57 pm
The thing I got out of this, was that I could get high with chloroform, and then pass out…works for me I guess
Garlarg
March 31, 2022 at 9:04 pm
If you want a proper and accurate melting point measurement scene in a movie then watch _The French Connection_ when they test H purity. Awesome movie, awesome scene.
Alexander Grate
March 31, 2022 at 10:27 pm
One thing I wish she explored with the first Breaking Bad scene is how obtainable these chemicals are. Maybe HF is more common and cheaper and used in large industrial plants, so it wouldn’t be suspicious? Good video overall though, and her reaction to her own experiments are so wholesome lol
Charles Horning
March 31, 2022 at 10:30 pm
When she says gas isn’t a good way to get high. I feel like she’s hinting at the fact that she gets blazed on the regular
Trent Lomelino
April 1, 2022 at 12:55 am
I’ll take no slander of National Treasure!
Charles P.
April 1, 2022 at 1:56 am
This chick would make a great teacher, she’s like a giddy kid in a candy store. Such excitement is contagious to students.
Wilson
April 1, 2022 at 4:20 am
certainly can’t deny Kate’s enthusiasm.. Well done WIRED for finding her.
Wilson
April 1, 2022 at 4:37 am
sorry Kate, but in Casino Royale, Bond was poisoned with Digoxin (causing his heart to stop), not Sodium Cyanide.. Also the VX nerve agent is in a liquid form within those glass containers.
Piyush Rawat
April 1, 2022 at 5:52 am
(0:42) She was giving too much info. They cut her… XD
Sunny
April 1, 2022 at 6:25 am
That’s not The Rock, that’s Nicholas Cage
Jax_Unfiltered
April 1, 2022 at 6:28 am
You may know me as KATE IM HOT AF!
suturofmuspell
April 1, 2022 at 8:02 am
This is the most annoying, vacuous woman I’ve ever heard. Her voice and sass were like nails into my ear canals, I hope I never have to listen to her again.
MrFrosty 🌨☃️
April 1, 2022 at 11:08 am
I think she’s fond of chemistry. 🧪
N. E.G
April 1, 2022 at 11:42 am
if you can smell hydrazine, you are already dead.
Dred Alorie
April 1, 2022 at 5:50 pm
8 minutes. it’s 8 minutes and that’s if you choke em first so they gasp for air after.
CookieScaley
April 1, 2022 at 6:31 pm
Aqua Regia acid…interesting ✍✍
wildfireXzero
April 1, 2022 at 6:58 pm
“It’s not a good high” 😂
Dania Turner
April 1, 2022 at 7:22 pm
That’s my Chem 302 professor Dr. B! she’s so amazing!
Steven Dessers
April 1, 2022 at 8:52 pm
Did not see the rock. Its actually liquid, in one of the scenes he puts one into a mouth of one of these dudes…
Noelle G.
April 1, 2022 at 9:09 pm
I want to love anything in life as much as she loves science.
Uialion
April 1, 2022 at 10:51 pm
Just one minor point on burns comment at the end – third degree only hurts where the nerve endings aren’t cooked.
dragos2u
April 1, 2022 at 11:44 pm
Mr.Bean scene – “this thing would never happen”… ahem… have you ever seen poorly supervised teenagers in a school chem lab class?… Think the only reason I am still alive is budget – reactives were soooo diluted that there was no risk… we did had to.move to another bench occasionally (not my merit! Other colleagues muxh more creative :)) and one time had to evacuate the chem lab…
Rob Larssen
April 2, 2022 at 4:01 am
0:43 aqua regia is good for dissolving gold wouldn’t be very good for dissolving a body, if you need to do that use piranha solution
wazza33racer
April 2, 2022 at 5:08 am
Hydroflouric acid is also extremely dangerous and toxic……. OMG………..Xenon in solid nuclear fuel rods like Chernobyl does not BURN OFF chemically…….it DECAYS as per its predictable half life. Its problem in nuclear fuel is its ability to consume the neutrons needed to sustain fission, and so allowance in the core and control rods is introduced to overcome the build up and presence of Xenon, which is itself a fission product. This was discovered at the “B” reactor at the Hartford facility in Washington state during WW2, when the Manhattan project was breeding plutonium.
ketzbook
April 2, 2022 at 1:44 pm
Strange that you would get the first one wrong. Just because it’s a “weak” acid (and btw, HF is not exactly a weak acid, there is literature that explains how it fully dissociates and then forms close ion pairs of H3O+ and F-) doesn’t make it worse at dissolving a person. You can test it on raw meat…HF works better than your average strong acid because of how the fluoride interacts with the flesh and bones. If you want to dissolve gold or other metals, go ahead and use aqua regia, but if you want to dissolve glass, bones, or meat, use HF. Then, your comment about glue being non-polar…hmm…which glue? Many, though not all glues are actually polar.
Kwang Oh
April 2, 2022 at 4:06 pm
What? No Classic MacGyver? You totally can seal a sulfuric acid leak with candy bars!
impact0r
April 2, 2022 at 4:25 pm
Hey, editor. If you think those 1-second long “comments” you play in response to what the expert just said are funny or add anything positive to the material – they don’t, to say the least.
Anna Castro
April 2, 2022 at 6:07 pm
I didn’t think it was actually possible to create a sticky, web-like substance at all, nevermind them just getting the chemicals wrong lol
Vincent Rapier
April 2, 2022 at 7:28 pm
Yeah, I know I’m not the first to say it but I really like her excitement and giddiness when doing the experiments. It’s really nice to see someone doing something they love and enjoying it.
WiFi Cable
April 2, 2022 at 7:41 pm
23:29 2nd degree burns are painful indeed. But I always learned that 3rd degree burns don’t hurt since your nerve ends are burned aswell, hence you can’t feel it. But please correct me if I’m wrong.
SilentDecode
April 2, 2022 at 9:03 pm
I really like her for totally geeking out over the experiments! I’m watching this with a big smile on my face 😀
bmkbbk123
April 2, 2022 at 9:12 pm
I was so excited for the cooking meth experiment!
Blar Froer
April 2, 2022 at 10:03 pm
“His cute pronunciation of Xenon” and then she pronounces Xenon as Zeenon.
Kenneth Akin
April 2, 2022 at 10:03 pm
Lye works better.
Laís
April 2, 2022 at 10:19 pm
As a chemist, this is so much fun too watch
Juhbulis
April 2, 2022 at 10:30 pm
We love you Kate
David Carryer
April 3, 2022 at 12:07 am
Her unbridled glee while doing the experiments is so awesome!
Nov. Chas. 8 Echo Delta
April 3, 2022 at 12:13 am
Yes cigarettes do not ignite gasoline; Except: Long time ago city inspector was visiting a run down garage. Inspector told the cantankerous old mechanic it was illegal to clean parts in an open container using gasoline due to a fire hazard. The gentleman cocked his head looked at him and said “baloney” Took a long draw on his cigarette and then flicked into the pail expecting the gas to extinguish the butt like it did a thousand time before…
Max Clift
April 3, 2022 at 12:22 am
Didn’t like Mr. Bean, bad opinion. Unsubscribed!
Max Clift
April 3, 2022 at 12:28 am
Just got to the bit where she didn’t like National Treasure. EVEN WORSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GOOD SCIENCE
Galvs
April 3, 2022 at 1:03 am
I believe breaking bad do it on purpose so people don’t do it irl
Ryan Johnstone
April 3, 2022 at 1:06 am
Fun fact due to the Leidenfrost effect you can dunk your hand in liquid N2 to grab something without getting burned as long as you do it quickly enough. I did it in my undergrad research lab all the time since we worked with liquid N2 and it wasn’t always worth taking the time to find a spoon or tongs or whatever to fish the test tubes out.
well, shit
April 3, 2022 at 1:09 am
19:00 I’m honestly just surprised anyone thought it was a good idea to have people lick paint off of paintbrushes ever.
Monkey D. Luffy
April 3, 2022 at 1:20 am
She should talk about the science in JoJo Bizarre Adventure
Secret Secret
April 3, 2022 at 3:18 am
7:11 wrong
Kai Duque
April 3, 2022 at 3:25 am
Imagine if she suddenly demonstrated how to dissolve a body
PhokenKuul
April 3, 2022 at 3:31 am
My issue here is that she refers to respirators as “gas masks”
Tenacious D Lee
April 3, 2022 at 5:43 am
Could you please elaborate? I think my question is is this a terminology issue or a moral issue about the gas mask thing? I’m just curious. Overcurious? Probably maybe.
Rob Maxwell
April 3, 2022 at 3:35 am
loved this
Alex Kristían
April 3, 2022 at 4:51 am
We need more teachers like her
Mikey P
April 3, 2022 at 5:41 am
11:56 I didn’t know you had to go through so much trouble to clean their teeth. Couldn’t you just buy a really big tube of Crest?
Samuel Belay
April 3, 2022 at 5:59 am
Was waiting for the “how to make meth” part, disappointing 😑
DewDude19
April 3, 2022 at 6:41 am
She makes me want to learn chemistry now
Francesco Sbacchis
April 3, 2022 at 7:29 am
Would be nice if you have some MacGyver clips
rolf leikarnes
April 3, 2022 at 7:46 am
So fun fact everything in breaking bad is 1000% possible everything was consulted with dea and real scientists /Walter white the real guy
Mehdi Nisrullah
April 3, 2022 at 9:21 am
She is just a actress hired by Wired, no self respecting chemist would geek out over reactions like she dose.
nYx
April 3, 2022 at 10:16 am
Would love to see her back for some more break downs, she is awesome!!!
TiGER
April 3, 2022 at 1:10 pm
Not sure what exactly it is about her but she’s really likeable
Folkinghippie
April 3, 2022 at 4:58 pm
Writers and serial killers watching this: 😀✍🏼
Feline Scott
April 3, 2022 at 6:00 pm
What she said about HF isn’t necessarily correct, aqueous HF is actually fairly strong because it forms dimers in solution. Pure H-F I would agree with her.
Juned Mohamed
April 3, 2022 at 6:01 pm
thats why she isnt spiderman/women
IbraNNB7
April 3, 2022 at 6:16 pm
And that how mad scientist start……………..
Eric G
April 3, 2022 at 6:30 pm
Two notes on why this is awesome. #1 – She is a FANTASTIC presenter! She is clear, concise, and gets EXCITED about it! I love it so much, I need to see more of her doing chemistry! #2 – I SUPER LOVE that she is actually DOING some of the things, I know this isn’t viable with most of this series, but it makes this so much more engaging. 11/10 would recommend this video! You go, Dr. Biberdorf!
Edit: Dr. Biberdorf
Vasilis S.
April 3, 2022 at 7:25 pm
Wasn’t James bond poisoned by digitalis and not HCN?
Janos Varga
April 3, 2022 at 8:36 pm
Martian ruined. Again. That’s a sad thing. Movie is so top on the plot. I love that five years olds joy when experiments made.
nnsilp
April 3, 2022 at 11:02 pm
Hnmmm Chemistry really be starting to feel like physics a lot lately
Metal Master
April 3, 2022 at 11:18 pm
aqua Regia is great, but you could also use fluoroantimonic acid, the strongest acid I know of.
you could also use a mixture of hydrogen peroxide and sulfuric acid solution (piranha solution)
Incog Nito
April 3, 2022 at 11:24 pm
she‘s so cool. very good video.
TFViper
April 4, 2022 at 12:54 am
she knows alot about making meth… hmmm
Ligma Deeznuts
April 4, 2022 at 2:12 am
She got the liquid nitrogen wrong. The terminator is liquid metal, not human.
H H
April 4, 2022 at 3:39 am
I can agree 3rd degree burns do hurt
Leonidas Spearhead
April 4, 2022 at 4:07 am
I love how she gets so excited!!! 😁
Joosy
April 4, 2022 at 4:34 am
A chemist talking about nuclear reactions is like a biologist talking about chemistry. It is a very common misconception that nuclear reactions are chemistry, but they’re not! Anyone with a BSc usually has basic knowledge in all hard sciences, but we’re experts in whatever field our degree is in. I’m glad she’s familiar with nuclear physics, but it would have been better to ask for a physicist’s review of it! (Please note that I am a chemist & an engineer, and I think most of these apply well to our discipline, just not that specific clip!)
Date Masamune
April 4, 2022 at 8:32 am
Not sure if she really knows what she’s talking about.
Andréa Natsumi Nadeau
April 4, 2022 at 8:52 am
They used hydrofluoric acid in BB because they already got it for their cooking (the first time they use it Walt is only concerned about finding the plastic container wich imply they already had the acid)…except there are 2 types of acids in meth and none of them are HF (thank you google) so I guess they used it to clean equipment or is just Vince Gilligan (the creator of the show) purposely misleading the audience cuz he always said he did’nt want the show to be a tutorial on how to cook meth.
prizm
April 4, 2022 at 12:37 pm
20:20, she poisoned him with digitalis, not cyanide. The digitalis is an antiarrhythmic drug with an extremely narrow therapeutic window, which essentially means that a slight more than prescribed can kill you. Also explains why they administered digibind antitoxin in the aston martin following this scene.
uğur kartal
April 4, 2022 at 1:52 pm
nahh
yungjosh
April 4, 2022 at 1:56 pm
im disappointed she didn’t make meth
L0K0M0T1V
April 4, 2022 at 3:56 pm
YO you can the wire of the actor that lifts up him. LOL 8:21
Jacob Diller
April 4, 2022 at 4:33 pm
“…it looks like a high schooler would draw this…”
Spider guy is in high school, lady.
nlabanok
April 4, 2022 at 5:04 pm
Uh re: the “Sunny” critique — gotta give Mac some credit considering what he’s working with intellectually. That he even picked a substance that didn’t make the situation worse by multiples is impressive — again, considering what he’s working with upstairs….which ain’t much.
FriskoDisko _
April 4, 2022 at 6:06 pm
I love her! So much excitement in her voice, and we get experiments! Have her back if possible!
Tom Padfoot
April 4, 2022 at 6:42 pm
The Radium Girls one makes me so sad and also so angry at the companies that covered it all up
Tom Padfoot
April 4, 2022 at 6:48 pm
Hydrazine poisoning/contamination is a big plot point in Europa Report. They have to leave an astronaut to die outside the ship after an accident leaves his suit coated in hydrazine, which would poison the rest of the crew if they let him back inside
Jon Jon
April 4, 2022 at 7:28 pm
If the one doing experiments is her twin. I would totally believe
Christopher Wang
April 4, 2022 at 8:42 pm
Science Entertainer hmmm
Mikeg1 .1
April 4, 2022 at 9:00 pm
1:53
DCM
KingJohnLeung
April 4, 2022 at 9:24 pm
I am here to see how a chemist explain the most probable way to reenact or what really goes wrong in the movie
Not her claiming the film is doing it wrong without in-depth explanation
Love her passion towards chemistry
Hope she will elaborate next time
Bearsan Hatestrike
April 4, 2022 at 10:32 pm
I wonder what she would think of Polonium-204 used in Kate. Like was it accurate etc.
SageOf6Paths
April 5, 2022 at 12:18 am
Her energy is refreshing
Marc Mauhay
April 5, 2022 at 12:26 am
This video can turn a bad day 180 degrees
Jules Esquire
April 5, 2022 at 2:06 am
These technique critique videos got me through lockdown back in 2020. I appreciate this series!
Kirill Azarov
April 5, 2022 at 5:34 am
I don’t like her her exitement. It’s cringy and feels fake.
Episode ruined.
sagacious03
April 5, 2022 at 5:39 am
I love analysis videos like this where it explores fiction! ….Although, chemistry is terrifying & stressful. So how many horrifying ways to be killed that are nigh-impossible to stop.
Anyway, thanks for uploading!
Cristóbal Cárdenas
April 5, 2022 at 6:39 am
Gasoline definitely dissolves glue! I have done it 😅
Ack
April 5, 2022 at 7:03 am
She loves her job, and she’s beautiful, good for her.
Micah Church
April 5, 2022 at 8:26 am
the way she reacts to the chemical experiments is so cute
PiousMinion
April 5, 2022 at 1:40 pm
Aqua Regia for a body? no. Concentrated hydrogen peroxide + concentrated sulfuric acid would do a far better job.
TheAnusIsntTheOnlyHoleIProbe
April 5, 2022 at 2:29 pm
“It’s not a good high… Honestly.”
Well professor have you been doing research and what would you recommend?
Ishtar Cephei
April 5, 2022 at 4:56 pm
Oh my goodness the way she gets excited gets me cracking. What a spontaneous, amazing person!
Neville Longbottom
April 5, 2022 at 7:09 pm
Not a real chemist. For something simple as Nylon you don’t (really) need safty googles and gloves.^^
Not3xactly
April 5, 2022 at 10:23 pm
HF was chosen because it has a special property that will allow it to dissolve tissue and bone but not plastic. That’s why in season 1 when Jesse doesn’t use HF there are problems.
snes88🙏
April 6, 2022 at 12:00 am
thats really cool but could you like by any chance tell me the formula or how to make methanphetamine
Andy Moss
April 6, 2022 at 10:40 am
“The cute way he says xenon”…
The guy says xenon normally
Americans🤦♂️
NotNull
April 6, 2022 at 1:18 pm
One correction. The rods were boron, not graphite, they did have graphite tips though, which accelerated the reaction for a short time, that however was long enough to drive up the negative void coefficient and cause the explosion
BluJustin
April 6, 2022 at 1:55 pm
Great video though her comment on Xenon pronunciation in the Chernobyl clip being unusual? That’s how we would/do actually pronounce it in the UK.
Totally agree about her obvious love of her subject being infectious and great to see.
Misterkami
April 6, 2022 at 2:10 pm
Correct me in I’m wrong, but aren’t third degree burns less painful than 2nd degree burns? They’re more devastating and dangerous, but they damage the nerve endings, right?
MATHHEW TOMPKINS
April 6, 2022 at 3:02 pm
Well, now I know how to dissolve a body…I just remembered something. My older brother was in science class working with the old Bunson Beakers. The teacher told everyone to turn off the heat source. Well..he turned it UP instead of OFF and burned a ceiling tile because the flame went so high! A few years later, I was in that same class as we went to the dame high school. the teacher saw my last name, walked over to me, and goes, ” Is your brother named Anthony?” I said yes. He points up to a newer-looking ceiling tile above my head and says, ” Remember the Bunson beaker incident? I’m watching you, Tompkins!” Lol
Jellziibub
April 6, 2022 at 3:33 pm
She’s rl Honey Lemon!
Barakki
April 6, 2022 at 3:58 pm
The absolute glee with which she says “I’ve got hotdogs!”
Gold.
SinisterMD
April 6, 2022 at 4:12 pm
Overall I think she did pretty good. But she got the poison completely wrong in James Bond, Casino Royale. I’m not sure why she assumed the poison was sodium cyanide. He was poisoned with digitalis. The reason we know it’s digitalis is because they literally said that the poison was digitalis. That’s why he used the antidote for digitalis known as Digibind or Digifab.
Emanuel Ray Villaflores
April 6, 2022 at 4:28 pm
I kinda wish she taught us how to cook meth
Did you expect a name?
April 6, 2022 at 4:39 pm
I’m confused. Isn’t Hydrofloric Acid like incredibly Reactive and Strong?
laoban wang
April 6, 2022 at 6:05 pm
I don’t see how the acidity of HF correlates withits ability to corrose a body. In my chemistry undergrad lectures we did talk about it and I’m pretty sure HF can cause significant damage to bones and tissues.
EL PORONGOLO
April 6, 2022 at 6:07 pm
Why does she get excited with the experiments if she does already knows what is going to happen lol 😂
Godfather
April 6, 2022 at 6:09 pm
When she started making nylon I saw 12yr old version of her
Geek
April 6, 2022 at 6:59 pm
She’s the female version of Dr. Octavius.
Khoderant
April 6, 2022 at 7:03 pm
gasoline actually dissolves glue, used it multiple times
Urban Gardner
April 6, 2022 at 8:16 pm
I love her. She needs her own science show
Ross Fenneken
April 6, 2022 at 8:22 pm
I just spent a 8 hour shift cleaning up polymer at a waste water plant. It’s not awesome.
Emily Mellen
April 6, 2022 at 8:41 pm
That’s my chem professor !! Hook em !!
Laurent Meiling
April 6, 2022 at 9:17 pm
she should become a teacher i love her energie
Theo Hoekstra
April 6, 2022 at 9:30 pm
Deadpool, with oxygen being flammable, and reacting as if it were hydrogen, would have been a good one for her to review.
3Umphbywill
April 6, 2022 at 9:40 pm
What oxygen and potassium say when asked how their date went?…
OK
HuskyWriter
April 6, 2022 at 9:51 pm
7:09 “that’s typically frowned upon”
Arweed Savi
April 6, 2022 at 10:58 pm
We need more of her!
Jerry Moad jr
April 7, 2022 at 1:19 am
please get her back
obiwanda
April 7, 2022 at 1:21 am
I always assumed the nerve gas balls had liquid in them, I don’t think they were meant to have contained gas in the movie.
Lyeotar Turao
April 7, 2022 at 3:01 am
Her and Thermite would have a good time talking😂😂😂
Gnug215
April 7, 2022 at 5:01 am
Amazing. You managed to find someone that made chemistry really fun and interesting.
MrVirus9898
April 7, 2022 at 5:06 am
As someone who has been hit with several kinds of Hydroxides, I respectfully disagree with 10:28. No it wont burn like in the movie, but I assure you it is rather painful. Also, as someone who has been on the bad side of Cyanide, I can assure you that one would need more then a drop if Bond was only going to take a sip. Though there are other poisons that would be that lethal.
Chawklet Studios
April 7, 2022 at 5:57 am
17:59 completely off screen lmao
Neil Samuel
April 7, 2022 at 9:11 am
All of the people saying that they “Love the way she gets excited over the experiments” seems to me like she’s faking it way too much…
Idk, I could be wrong and she might actually be that excited…
Rayne
April 7, 2022 at 9:34 am
you can really tell how passionate she is about chemistry 🙂
John Gitimu
April 7, 2022 at 10:15 am
Mahn gotta love the expert…………………………………………………and the edits in between
Joe Benz
April 7, 2022 at 12:05 pm
Would’ve been cool to have a review of the scene in Breaking Bad where Walt destroys Tuco’s “office?” with that white crystal.
Juan David Galofre
April 7, 2022 at 12:21 pm
Just adding something to the Fight Club explanation. Burning your hand with something like KOH or NaOH hurts, a lot. But it develops slowly. As she said, first you feel soapy, then you feel little tickles, those tickles then go to a burning sensation. I don’t know what happens next, 100% of the time you got your hand under running water by the time you feel your hand soapy.
Brian Tieken
April 7, 2022 at 1:33 pm
A note on gasoline my dad used to put his cigarettes out in the gasoline he was cleaning car parts with. Gasoline is a lot like flour as long as it’s concentrated it’s the vapor that’s flammable.
random dude
April 7, 2022 at 1:34 pm
Omg she is cute and smart 😍
Daniel Tavares
April 7, 2022 at 2:34 pm
In Terminator movie, the villain is made by liquid metal, not human flesh.
Mike Hupka
April 7, 2022 at 3:21 pm
You just know she is the center of attention at parties.
ThouShaltNotComment
April 7, 2022 at 3:33 pm
No fulminated mercury. With a little tweak of chemistry
John Cochran
April 7, 2022 at 4:31 pm
If you’re gonna dissolve a body, don’t use HF, or aqua regia. Both are relatively slow and incomplete. Use piranha solution instead.
crielio criel
April 7, 2022 at 5:18 pm
they can use piranha solution for dissolving a body..
Vivek Kulshrestha
April 7, 2022 at 6:47 pm
she’s way more exited about chemisrty than ive ever been about anything in my lyfff
John Papiewski
April 7, 2022 at 7:49 pm
The “funniest” part of the HF scene in Breaking Bad was, Walter White had big jugs of the stuff in his HS chemistry store room. No, no, no, no, no. Super dangerous, no way.
Lylantares
April 7, 2022 at 8:29 pm
What also drove me nuts in the HF as a dissolvent scene was the fact that they had it stored in plastic bottles in a High School. No sane High School would have HF and WW would be a madman to handle it like that. Should have simply switched it with HCl and the scene could have worked a lot better.
Zachary Robbins
April 8, 2022 at 6:59 pm
It’s always puzzled me. I think the reason they used HF was solely for the bathtub scene. Because it makes no sense Walter would suggest using HF over HCl or H2SO4, both of which are much more common in labs.
White Noise
April 7, 2022 at 9:19 pm
Imagine the emails this professer received saying “I need help with chemistry, PS not for drugs.. Best Regards, Pablo Escobar”
Rob Feldkamp
April 7, 2022 at 9:27 pm
She should make a baby with Mark Rober. Imagine his/her enthousiasm…. (and looks;)…
GuildOfCalamity
April 7, 2022 at 9:35 pm
I’ve put cigarettes out in gasoline, so thanks to the good doctor for dispelling that myth.
Nick Karn
April 7, 2022 at 9:48 pm
Imagine she actually made meth after the breaking bad one
Brandiepop
April 7, 2022 at 11:59 pm
i half expected her to say ok so now im gonna make meth after watching the breaking bad meth one
Zack Longhway
April 8, 2022 at 1:49 am
That’s my Chem teacher!
Gwen Patton
April 8, 2022 at 2:07 am
They don’t show the real chemistry on TV because they don’t want people to know how these things are done
It’s like in Terminator, ammonia and mothballs do not make an explosive. I’m not going to say what actually is used for the same reason.
I made the explosive in question back in college, so I know it works. It’s horrible stuff, incredibly unstable. Tell kids how to make explosives, you wind up with kids missing fingers, eyes, hands… So the real formula is not ammonia and mothballs.
Andy Lunique
April 8, 2022 at 2:41 am
Why wasn’t she my chemistry teacher 🙁
Phannty
April 8, 2022 at 4:38 am
Fun fact the actors in breaking bad were actually taught how to cook real meth (with some changes) under supervision of the dea
tenou213
April 8, 2022 at 7:25 am
Excellent content and even a hands on demo!
serpentSVK
April 8, 2022 at 9:47 am
that excitement at making nylon got me, she’s really into it………..love her
Ashish Kumar
April 8, 2022 at 12:48 pm
I came here for actual Meth recipe. dissappointed 😒
Raven Gaming
April 8, 2022 at 2:01 pm
No mentioning of the fact that hydrofluoric acid is poisonous and even its vapor would penetrate and react with your bones. RIP their heads.
5pid3rman80
April 8, 2022 at 3:08 pm
I love this series, but technically third degree burns don’t hurt due to the destruction of nerve endings…
Felipe Gutierrez
April 8, 2022 at 3:18 pm
I love her passion, its like i want to study chemistry back again :’)
Bruce Lee
April 8, 2022 at 3:21 pm
She’s a little condescending but she sure knows her stuff and how they impact the human body!
Daniel Nugent
April 8, 2022 at 4:17 pm
She’s never heard of Shake and Bake.
Zev Mednick
April 8, 2022 at 5:37 pm
I’m pretty sure third-degree burns don’t hurt as much as second-degree because third marks the point when the burn is actually able to reach and damage your nerves
Szariq
April 8, 2022 at 7:04 pm
Now Kate needs to react to hits of Internet including chemistry, something like shooting carbide in Netherlands or Poland.
riccardo cacchioli
April 8, 2022 at 7:53 pm
I came for the title, I left for the channel
Lion HyenaFox
April 8, 2022 at 8:25 pm
She is sooo sweet 🥰
Nowa Nker
April 8, 2022 at 9:09 pm
That lady ‘got off’ on the. Spider-Man segment, nice!
lances4803
April 8, 2022 at 11:08 pm
I didn’t think I would like this one very much (just intended to watch the Breaking Bad) segments, but found this to be one of my favorite Break Downs. A lot of fun to watch!
coldheart5791
April 9, 2022 at 3:40 am
Her excitement is contagious I love her!!
purple g
April 9, 2022 at 4:44 am
Yo, I just love her. lmao
lola
April 9, 2022 at 5:01 am
if this woman was my science teacher, i’d actually enjoy the class
TheBoraxKid
April 9, 2022 at 5:07 am
They should of brought NileRed on
Arjen Koppen
April 9, 2022 at 5:39 am
She is not a toxicologist apparently.
Half Kimchi
April 9, 2022 at 6:26 am
Um, the T1000 was not a human and didn’t have flesh, so that experiment with the hotdog didn’t make sense.
Nicc Carr
April 9, 2022 at 12:20 pm
I feel like I’m in highschool again lol
İlkhan Büyüktürkoğlu
April 9, 2022 at 1:21 pm
Wow shes very cool
Johngottisentme
April 9, 2022 at 1:43 pm
Acid to Wadda, do what you oughtta
Gotcha📝
Dane Cobain
April 9, 2022 at 2:59 pm
I wish there was something that made me as excited as Kate got when she made nylon
Real World
April 9, 2022 at 5:03 pm
0:24 caught in 4K
Betty Lee
April 9, 2022 at 9:25 pm
Please don’t reach into liquid nitrogen with any gloves that will wick up liquid (like the cyrogenic gloves she used here), you will get very bad burns. The only reason it was ok here was because she was very quick (and experienced). The correct way is to use tongs or a sieve to fish out your samples (or hotdogs in this case), or if you don’t have any of those using your bare hands very very quickly would be better than using gloves that can take up and retain liquid.
RedThunderDan
April 9, 2022 at 9:50 pm
Her overreactions seem too forced
Squishy with a Y
April 10, 2022 at 12:41 am
Everyone here for Breaking Bad
Max Czapski
April 10, 2022 at 12:47 am
I think she’s wrong about the cigarette on gasoline: the vapors are what cause the fire, so if the cigarette tip landed directly on the liquid, I’m very sure it would just go out.
K.C. Christensen
April 10, 2022 at 12:59 am
I would have LOVED to have a teacher or instructor that gets excited about chemistry. She is awesome!!!
The best phrase.. “I Have HOTDOGS!!”
FierceChicaDee
April 10, 2022 at 2:19 am
She’s freaking adorable! I love how she genuinely loves what she does…if only everyone was that lucky. She’s brilliant!!
Some Dude On The Internet
April 10, 2022 at 2:45 am
I want to be as happy with life as this scientist is with her job.
GNM109
April 10, 2022 at 3:38 am
It’s only a TV show.
James Mackes
April 10, 2022 at 4:52 am
Would’ve been awesome if she just cooked meth as one of her experiments
Nighteyes Shadowwolf
April 10, 2022 at 8:54 am
Obviously she never saw The Rock. The VX is in liquid form in the glass ampules not gas
WloCkuz
April 10, 2022 at 10:24 am
Next: Chemist Breaks Down NileGreen vidoes.
galfisk
April 10, 2022 at 11:38 am
IIRC, the T-1000 melting and reassembling was partially filmed using liquid mercury.
Aryan Singh
April 10, 2022 at 12:38 pm
man i love her
Stoian Bogdan Andrei
April 10, 2022 at 12:53 pm
nice vid! i am sad that you guys didn’t show us how to make meth like in braking bad 🙁
thumbwarriordx
April 10, 2022 at 2:36 pm
I definitely get the feeling the editors cut out a good 5 minutes after the gas-huffing of her going through the more viable and interesting chemical inhalants.
Halldor Thormar Hermannsson
April 10, 2022 at 3:16 pm
She’s fun
Aidan Byrne
April 10, 2022 at 4:46 pm
please bring her back for another episode, I love her excitement and enthusiasm
Dr. Question Account
April 10, 2022 at 6:56 pm
1:30 “we would usually take a substance and then add acid to it” context matters xDDD
Cross Fire
April 10, 2022 at 8:08 pm
OMG This Chemist was fun!
Tim Horton
April 10, 2022 at 10:28 pm
I don’t know about gasoline, but kerosene is an EXCELLENT solvent for breaking down glue, carbon build up, and rust.
Liz Steeds
April 10, 2022 at 11:38 pm
I thought it was digitalis poisoning in James Bond … not cyanide ??
EvaKatz
April 10, 2022 at 11:46 pm
I’ll keep this in mind for my next body disposal.
Lord Pigeon
April 11, 2022 at 1:24 am
Mrs hisenberg
RedneckChemist
April 11, 2022 at 1:41 am
Acid isn’t great at dissolving organics. You want a base bath (KOH in isopropanol) for dissolving the non-boney bits and then acid for the bones.
OurFuzzyFriend
April 11, 2022 at 3:01 am
There’s one clarification that’s needed here regarding the Chernobyl episode. “Burning off” of xenon-135 is not directly related to temperature. It’s a nuclear reaction where xenon-135 absorbs a neutron and becomes xenon-136, which unlike xenon-135 doesn’t slow down the uranium chain reaction. Yes, the release of heat in the reactor is in direct correlation with the release of neutrons that “burn off” xenon-135, so what Kate says in the video is sort of correct. However the video may make you think that heat somehow burns xenon, which is not what’s happening there.
Maxi Coman
April 11, 2022 at 3:40 am
God she is annoying, lasted 30seg
Edward Tries To Science
April 11, 2022 at 4:45 am
Sodium hydroxide burns are actually very bad, especially since the powder is on wet skin and NaOH really gets hot with water, I’ve been burned by it and can definitely burn as bad as an acid
Mark Hammar
April 11, 2022 at 5:27 am
Her fingers are really red , was she burned?
AFFAQ KING
April 11, 2022 at 5:57 am
Don’t watch it
Benjamin Vincent
April 11, 2022 at 6:32 am
I can’t believe they did not do the Breaking Bad “this is not meth” scene!
Zilegil
April 11, 2022 at 6:39 am
Id love to see an episode specialising on breaking bad specifically
activate43 #LSD
April 11, 2022 at 7:51 am
did you do that chloroform scene?
feliperomeug
April 11, 2022 at 8:45 am
She’s happier with a single experiment that I’ll ever be in my whole life
Junky Man
April 11, 2022 at 1:44 pm
Aqua regia it is
Code with Joad
April 11, 2022 at 11:10 pm
Her excitement is so infectious I almost bought a chemistry set on Amazon
Amy Zheng
April 11, 2022 at 11:35 pm
The hissing debt contemporaneously match because bathroom elderly perform than a childlike dinner. keen, nine carrot
Smeado
April 11, 2022 at 11:58 pm
Having worked in labs for 15 years, I’ll just say that almost no chemist looks like this or acts like this. They’re also not this smart.
Sisyphus Johnson
April 12, 2022 at 12:10 am
Get her a spot/series.
I’m so invested in this and those experiments
Joseph Zheng
April 12, 2022 at 12:53 am
The ill-informed downtown adventitiously blush because gladiolus structurally earn versus a polite chive. swanky, plastic turkey
Samridh Tuladhar
April 12, 2022 at 1:30 am
you know she is a scientist/ teacher and not an engineer because she takes a lot of safety precautions 😂
love her energy when doing chem! 😁
Lanwarder
April 12, 2022 at 8:11 am
MY big issue in that same scene was the very realistic teacher joke about Bohr/boring lol
Stuart Common
April 12, 2022 at 8:46 am
Lives in a country where 12% hydrogen peroxide is the legal limit for the public 🥺
Mattia Cenacchi
April 12, 2022 at 8:48 am
yeah i need a pitcher for her voice tho
sunny side
April 12, 2022 at 12:31 pm
they should hire nile red
jamie sayers
April 12, 2022 at 12:52 pm
“not even a good high” Atta-girl!
SA Caine
April 12, 2022 at 1:20 pm
12:00 should’ve did that with breaking bad instead 😎
Noah
April 12, 2022 at 1:33 pm
What about the breaking bad “This is not Meth” scene? Can’t believe WIRED didn’t include that one
Mitchell Wood
April 12, 2022 at 2:48 pm
i was really hoping she was going to cover the breaking bad scene where they make coffee
Christopher Aaby
April 12, 2022 at 3:33 pm
I thought you guys had stopped doing it’s incredible what a gifted mind can accomplish the relentless, vapid crosscuts two point three five pounds, but I see I yeah, thanks for telling us was mistaken.
AvocadoToast
April 12, 2022 at 3:57 pm
13:00 There should be more teachers who get this pure excitement for the subject they teach
Trickster
April 12, 2022 at 4:26 pm
Lol she has literally mastered a subject that’s like a nightmare to me.
Steve Bermeo
April 12, 2022 at 4:35 pm
It makes sense about breaking bad. The cast has to learn almost exactly how to make meth. Or was it myth busters?
I’m glad BrBa got their chemistry right (sans the HF part)
Fullmetal Maine
April 12, 2022 at 5:57 pm
About GG: Oh so what he’s doing is making a *really fun chemical reaction* inside of his body!
Julian
April 12, 2022 at 6:42 pm
insta?
Jonas Ghafur
April 12, 2022 at 6:53 pm
that’s gonna put me on a list but here goes nothing: the mëth scene is actually even more accurate. That’s not only a reaction vessel that could be used to reduce pseudoephedrine to the drug, the stuff he’s pouring in also resembles the red phosphorus needed for the reaction.
Inspector Steve
April 12, 2022 at 7:12 pm
I don’t think you are right with the 3rd degree burns being painful. Your skin is burned deep enough to destroy the nerves so you wouldn’t feel it.
BrokenATM
April 12, 2022 at 7:31 pm
Imagine her teaching us as kids… wow I would become a chemist. She’s too cool and exciting
james walters
April 12, 2022 at 7:49 pm
Hydrogen peroxide at concentration of 30% or higher and sulfuric acid combined is best for organic matter its called Parana solution and u can find all the ingredients at ur local hydroponics and walmart
Soléy
April 12, 2022 at 7:53 pm
I would probably be a chemist if she was my teacher. The formulas are so matter of fact, and her energy is engaging.
Jonathan Ingram
April 12, 2022 at 8:49 pm
Watching a video to chill at night. Start by telling you how to dissolve a body. Okay, no more internet for me today.
Antonio G
April 12, 2022 at 8:59 pm
20:57 She says amyl nitrate, but they write amyl nitrite. I guess Wired doesn’t know the difference.
jdsim9173
April 12, 2022 at 9:43 pm
i’ve seen videos of people putting their hands in liquid nitrogen and nothing happens, due to the Leidenfrost Effect
Ubya
April 12, 2022 at 10:00 pm
bruh why is a chemist explaining a nuclear reaction? i’m a chemist too but her explanation is just wrong. she says that xenon is inert so it slows down the reaction, this isn’t a chemical reaction, this is a nuclear reaction, xenon-135 “poisons” the core because it has a high neutron absorption cross-section, it just means that most neutrons produced by the core in the low power state just get absorbed by the xenon, and not by the uranium, so you can’t increase the power in the core until all the xenon has “burned out” (not the chemical menaning of burning, it just means that by absorbing a neutron it gets converted to some other element that doesn’t absorb neutrons that much).
As a chemist and a nuclear enthusiast this kinda grinds my gears
WT
April 12, 2022 at 10:59 pm
YES, SCIENCE!!
Doge Ghost
April 13, 2022 at 12:31 am
She’s so cool!
Sammar Abbas
April 15, 2022 at 11:14 am
Now my bachelors in chemistry is worth it
Hiroikku Neko
April 15, 2022 at 2:25 pm
Her excitement! Omg! I love her
Michael & Erika Reynolds
April 15, 2022 at 10:46 pm
how are you supposed to get the noble acid HF is easily obtained
Gummy
April 15, 2022 at 11:06 pm
Finding what you’re passionate about is really something special.
Fábio Palma
April 16, 2022 at 12:13 am
Was hoping for her to do the experiment with meth as she did with nylon. “Look, I did meth! OMG I’m so excited, and it just keeps going”
xyz
April 16, 2022 at 12:21 am
18:16
Only if you held that human in the liquid nitrogen for long enough, which is way longer than the terminator movie shows.
Ghiakyo
April 16, 2022 at 3:33 am
solid mercury?
Nemo
April 16, 2022 at 3:37 am
I have done the sig in gasoline and it will not light at all gasoline generally needs open flame to ignite
Aubrey Delafield
April 16, 2022 at 8:00 am
she’s great! more of her please
actuatedg3rm
April 16, 2022 at 1:42 pm
They should get Nile red to do this
Mathew Sullivan
April 16, 2022 at 2:53 pm
I am in love with this beautiful womans energy and enthusiasm. SO CUTE!
David Cash
April 16, 2022 at 7:11 pm
Aqua Regia would be great. Concentrated HCl works just fine and is widely available at hardware stores, but your take on HF is somewhat misleading. Yes, it is a weak acid and yes the H3O species is the thing we measure for acidity. But what you want when dissolving something is corrosiveness, and Fluorine ions are pretty much the King when it comes to reactivity and therefore corrosive behavior. Therefore both the cation and anion get in on the fun.The thing they completely get wrong in the video you sampled is that HF is a gas at room temperature not a liquid. And also it wouldn’t take anything like multiple gallon jugs of it to dissolve a human body.
Making soap? Not on your hand: out of your hand. 😉
Elephant toothpaste: All those little bubbles are full of H and O gas. So a glowing wooden splint into the foam is great fun part II. And hey: easy on the catalyst, a little dab will do ya… its the whole point of doing that demo.
BTW, Totally agreed with the Chernobyl clip explanation. He did a brilliant job. My wife and I applauded during that scene when we watched the series (She’s a real chemist, I just teach the stuff).
With you on the Mr Bean thing 100%. When I watch shows that have chemists w/o goggles mishandling materials I want to cry. I may or may not have loudly and authoritatively said “Goggles!” during some videos when such things occur. In public.
The Rock: Couldn’t our little glass balls just be depressurized into gas phase? I know its a reach. But I loved the movie for multiple reasons, not the least of which is that a biochemist is the hero.
The Martian: saw it the theater, turned to my wife saying: that’s going to go boom when he walked away after constructing it, a couple scenes before happened. But overall was able to suspend my disbelief and enjoyed the movie.
Have to say though, not always happy when they include biochemistry. Particularly when the scientist creates an anecdote/cure in a few hours, even faster if a gun is held to their head while working. And all he needs is a few brightly colored liquids in glassware!
Gregh
April 16, 2022 at 10:00 pm
5 minutes? My chloroform takes seven! Or so ive heard…
Siraj Kabeer
April 17, 2022 at 2:15 am
Like she never made chlorified tartate.
Derell Augustine
April 17, 2022 at 2:59 am
She’s cool. Get part 2
Leonid Fro
April 17, 2022 at 11:11 am
Her commentary about Chernobyl is garbage. Maybe because nothing in that explanation is about chemistry.
Daniel Horák
April 17, 2022 at 12:27 pm
This cheerful chemist 👩🔬 is having a blast!
sidadm
April 17, 2022 at 1:57 pm
0:42
Cartel members: Write that down! WRITE THAT DOWN!
NomNum
April 17, 2022 at 2:15 pm
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Casual Cas
April 17, 2022 at 3:20 pm
That nylon part was golden
Amin Ansar
April 17, 2022 at 3:23 pm
Lmao she is exactly how I would imagine a female scientist 😀
Hayato Okumura
April 17, 2022 at 6:05 pm
She was my general chemistry professor at UT when I was a freshman! A very charismatic educator who managed to make her lectures entertaining and insightful.
DBZKING04
April 17, 2022 at 8:57 pm
Congrats to her for not admitting, on camera, that she knows how to make meth, which she 100% knows how to do.
ROJ THE GOAT
April 17, 2022 at 10:36 pm
She’s my favorite 🥺🥺🥺
Stephen Hoy
April 18, 2022 at 1:04 am
Big bang theory actually have a scientist on site the actor for amy is the only with with a actual serious qualafication on the show
DanieltheHuman
April 18, 2022 at 4:17 am
There is A LOT of information in this entertaining and innocent video that people could use to more effectively break the law.
Anuj pathak
April 18, 2022 at 5:48 am
jesse and Walt are coming in bcs
Abhranil Roy
April 18, 2022 at 12:31 pm
I would rather use fluroantimonic acid
lehninger
April 18, 2022 at 12:48 pm
mythbusters busted the liquid nitrogen myth with a pig’s head. does not shatter.
Gormond
April 18, 2022 at 1:56 pm
She was great, really enjoyed the video.
HZKIAFKY
April 18, 2022 at 3:04 pm
nuclear reaction? I thought we are talking about chemistry.
Noah.
April 18, 2022 at 3:32 pm
She’s obviously wrong because Breaking Bad has never done anything wrong 🙄
Chaka Hamilton
April 18, 2022 at 4:39 pm
“I would not douse myself in gasoline, that’s typically frowned.” Ummm yeah! 🤣
Bryan Rogers
April 19, 2022 at 1:19 pm
That un-fakable excited high pitch voice……had me smiling! Great episode.
Murat Karassayev
April 19, 2022 at 3:45 pm
I heard that many complex things in movies like drug making , crafted weapons, basically all smart processes and methods that could be used for illegal purposes are deliberately shown with a flaw that doesn’t allow anyone to execute it in real life
Whistling Whiskers
April 19, 2022 at 8:19 pm
It seemed as though she enjoyed banging that rock hard weiner… Giggity.
Pete Whitmore
April 19, 2022 at 11:02 pm
So if elephants toothpaste is an example of something that is exothermic. Would the opposite be endothermic
jimbobur
April 20, 2022 at 12:21 am
Her explanation of the Xenon and nuclear poisoning was completely off. Not sure why they asked a chemist about nuclear physics.