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[@mak3myda3]

Did anyone else laugh hysterically at how messed up the star looked after it was done

[@itsjoefromwork]

Haha yea I know haha 😄😄😄

[@angelaleone3160]

You can do this with Borax too. You just mix boiling water and Borax in a jar (3 TBS Borax for every 1 cup of water), add the pipe cleaner shape, and 24-48 hours later you have a similar result (with smaller crystals). Also, using colored pipe cleaners instead of food coloring seems to turn out nicer.

[@SmplyUnprdctble]

You totally need to share the trick to making the candy cane!

[@spongebobby1540]

I think they just used two pipe cleaners, one red and one white twisting them and bending to form the candy cane shape. Then dunking it into the solution but with no food colouring whatsoever

[@spongebobby1540]

I may be completely wrong tho

[@SmplyUnprdctble]

Linda Qiu I think you're right -- it looks like that's what they did. I was going on the whole idea of colored crystals (like in the experiment) instead of clear on a twist. It looks pretty awesome!

[@Loafy23]

The pipe cleaner has a very large surface area. By soaking it first in the solution and letting dry some crystals nucleate and form on that large surface area. When the form is placed back in the solution those crystals then act as seed crystals allowing the sugar to dissipate from the solution and recrystallize on on those seeds.

[@jasperizak123]

I thin the crystals formed because the pipe cleaner served as crystallization nuclei (something that causes a supersaturated solution of sugar to crystallize

[@tylerbradshaw7957]

Umm...is there an edible alternative to the pipe cleaner? Not sure this is worth it if I can't eat it later.

[@mshanahan6810]

Very cool!

[@magicalleaf727]

The sugar crystals start to clump together on the pipe cleaner, making larger sugar crystals.

[@risco1974]

Sweet science

[@C_Bat]

The star one is a bit messy but very cool

[@corjaantje]

Are you guys sponsored by the 2 Sugar brands? Because the last 6 videos all involved the same sugar

[@Turtleviolinist]

Ikr

[@dreamxbunny2953]

I gonna try to make this

[@sowai1999]

Its just crystallization of sugar

[@tootyscelenberger4674]

0:00 - 1:00 more like how to make Coca Cola

[@BingusFodder]

How did you make the dual color ones

[@ceciliavis7556]

+Jon Lambert They probably didn't add food coloring to the mixture and just used red and white pipe cleaners, so the color of the pipe cleaners showed through the clear crystals

[@stevenscottoddballz]

How do you make the Candy Cane?

[@duongkhanhvan7048]

2 colored pipe cleaner twist together

[@user-he2lp3is8p]

I did!

[@7smrx]

Is it edible!?

[@Dizmznd]

I did

[@mrlindsay123456]

The music :(

[@emmalyn1691]

Easier to use borax

[@jacehirano325]

It does work because that what we used in my 8th grade science class to do this experiment

[@SZay-pg1rz]

is fantantic

[@standup2855]

Porque,因为，why don't you explain in your video's on why what happens ,even though in some of your video's we may know why the event occurred you should still explain , por favor,请,please

[@tnnyff]

I know another method doe

[@robertesparza7152]

is this edibile

[@ryanmccabe2401]

anything is edible

[@endiee139]

not

[@user-he2lp3is8p]

I know that already but good..ugh! Hairy arm!