Lead Chromate, to be precise, is why it was called "National School Bus Glossy Chrome" and now, the non-toxic version is "National School Bus Glossy Yellow".
Notice no mention of the MERCURY the new paints are made with. Mercury is 30 times more toxic than lead and is what is in paints today in place of the lead they used to put in paint, but the thing the media ignores is why there was lead in the paint in the first place. The lead was there to keep mold from growing on the paint. When the government banned lead from paint, DuPont and the paint makers needed something to do the job the lead was doing, making the paint last longer by keeping mold from growing on it, so they replaced it with MERCURY! Now the paint is 300 times more toxic. WONDERFUL! *_"I'm from the government and I'm here to help."_* - what Ronald Reagan said was the most terrifying thing you can hear.
@@ladamyre1 They used lead chromate because it's bright yellow. Mold doesn't grow on inorganic materials like steel busses and lead paint. Lead also isn't fully banned from being used in paint, and lead chromate specifically is still widely used for stuff like road paint. They stopped using it for busses cause kids are dumb and eat stuff like paint chips. I also can't find anything that mentions mercury in modern school bus yellow.
Lead was used in many things, including pesticides. I bought a very old house and on a shelf in the basement was an open box of a powder labeled, "Arsenic of Lead," known today as Lead Arsenate. It was used mainly as a spray for fruit trees. I called the chemical company that was the sucessor to the now defunct division that made it, and under the chemical industry's voluntary cradle to grave responsibility they sent a hazmat team to my house and sent it to a hazmat waste incinerator.
I think I might need to know the company name because we only hear of irresponsible companies and not enough about the responsible ones. Also, I can imagine it was a highly effective pesticide.
Lots of older children’s toys are painted with lead and arsenic paints as well. Toys from as recent as the 70s have been shown to be toxic to children (mostly from high lead content).
I mean I knew this objectively but the school bus thing really put the whole "lead paint stare" becoming so pervasive in just, a horrifying kind of perspective
@ yup! Back then, it was pretty common practice to add Borax to spoiled milk for orphaned or poor babies as well. It was things like this that inspired food regulations.
The cool thing about lead paint? It’s near indestructible. Also, tastes like sweet tarts. Which is why it was banned from use on window ledges Initially, then in 1978, outlawed for private use altogether.
Almost everything was painted with lead based paints back then, especially wood and metal surfaces. In fact, one of the ways collectors check to see if something from that era is original is checking to see if the paint has lead in it. No lead=modern repaint.
Lead chromate is less reactive with water and also less responsible for deaths than elemental lead. As a lab student I can definitely say you don't want to inhale any form of lead chromate I stay inhaling them halogens bromine 8) 2 bromo cyclohexanal
Lead paint was used for hundreds of years tho its not unique to school busses. Hell in the 60s they used lead as body filler and to fill in seams from the factory and let's not forget that from about the 1910s until 90s they used leaded gasoline. Actually they still use leaded gasoline as avgas for piston planes. Now that being said you can actually touch lead without it hurting you but the problem is swallowing it or inhaling the dust.
It varies per application whether it's dangerous or not. Lead as body filler is pretty solid material and won't leech off. Lead as paint will slowly leech off because the binder degrades in sunlight and heat. Also, sanding an entire bus for repainting is just a horrifying idea. There's also some good news w.r.t. avgas - a new, fully lead free fuel has been approved for general aviation piston engines! Personally, i still work a lot with lead containing solder for electronics, because i work on a lot of old devices and using lead free solder on parts that contain trace amounts of lead solder doesn't work. But as you say, touching it is safe and not a whole lot evaporates when you solder. The smoke is rosin flux (which in itself is harmful to the lungs, always ventilate well)
"People were trying to make school buses safer for children" ... Hello my name is lemony Snicket Edit: I didn't think anybody would actually get the joke thank all of you
Lead was everywhere when we grew up. There was a darwin joke about paint chip eaters when I was a kid. Gasoline was full of lead. Drinking cups were made of pewter that was full of lead. Water pipes were made of lead. It wasn't just the paint. We also played with mercury in our hands at school. Glad lead is gone but most of us survived.
36 here. Survived a lead based town growing up. Mercury in my bare hands. We used to bite the lead sinkers while fishing because pliers just weren't as handy.
@@thenoddistsdisciple Nope, gen X is just more violent as a result. However, it makes us the last violent generation.....at least in the U.S. The blandness of our current cookware is proof of this. Beware the brightly colored dishes! Leaded or radioactive.
There are two problem with that paint: - Lead: heavy metal, neuro toxic - Chromate (and their dimer Dichromate), also known as Hexavalent chromium or CrVI: carcinogenic. The problem is that if lead have been quite successfully removed from many paint formulations, the same can't be said for chromates. They are still heavily used, under very strict conditions, as there is no equivalent.
@@pavlikm85 Lead is not a metal that it's required in the human diet at all... In fact it have accumulative effects and in the long run , will end end up poisoning. Chrome is esencial in the Human diet, but it's not the same as chromate and bichromate, those are dangerous to the human body.
Technically it depends on the lead and how it is absorbed. Handling lead metal for example, won't cause you to get lead poisoning. Otherwise, anyone working in nuclear reactors, with huge amounts of lead nearby, would die from lead exposure. Or anyone shot with lead bullets. So, if they had put a layer of primer over the yellow lead paint, in theory, as long as the primer held, it wouldn't be dangerous at all.
I think she means that lead and lead chromate killed many people. I don't know how many of them would be associated with a school bus itself. Seems a bit misleading, or else it needs to be more clarified.
Zink chromate also is a sacrificial pigment. It prevents rust. It continued to be used in metal primers (don't confuse primer with surfacer). Today's e-coat dip takes the place of it on the OEM level. Refinish uses non chromate acid etch or less common epoxy or epoxy urethane hybrid. Most automotive refinish systems have gotten rid of the lead, nickel and cadnim toners but not all of them. The low or no lead yellows do not cover anywhere near as fast. Requiring tinted undercoats or several more coats than their lead counterparts they replaced Source. Now auto notice painter who spent over 17 years selling and training people on auto paint.
It’s sad that children had to die in a snowstorm and because the bus wasn’t visible no one found them. I believe this is one of the reasons why they wanted something that wouldn’t fit into the environment
Aside from the fact that you have excellent ability to narrate and you have a wonderful channel you're just a cutie pie I really enjoyed watching you not only are you adorable but actually very knowledgeable and you narrate very well and you can educate people extremely well
You know, I appreciate your work for reasons possibly not evident. I am a rapidly retiring painter. Third generation in fact. My grandfather told stories about the good old days when painters would not be offered insurance because everyone knew the wouldn't last long. Lead paint is bad for anyone exposed to it, but spare a thought for the folks that died young spraying that poison.
So long as the pigments were suspended in plant based oil. It's the hydrocarbons that will get you. turpentine and mineral spirits. You have to keep a lid on that or it gas off and make you sick.
In a closed environment, you use a tuna can with a sheet of glass over it. Only lift the glass off to dip the brush. Then put the sheet of glass back over the tuna can.
Spraying lead paints is almost like suicide unless there's a 20 mph wind blowing it away from a person. But then it contaminates the environment. The safest way to use chrome yellow is suspended in plant based oil. With a Kolinsky brush, preferably a Yarka from Russia or a Rafrael brush from France.
I mena even the Romans and Greeks knew that lead was dangerous and should not be sued, how did we just forget lead was dangerous during the industrial revolution and only in recent years remember it was dangerous?
The elements in the middle of the periodic table have electron shells that can be excited into pretty colors. Problem is that so many of them (Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Arsenic, etc.) are toxic!
It definitely wasn't just school buses, until titanium white became widespread most paint contained lead white since most consumer grade paints are made from a white base.
My favorite part of this is new knowledge is that now I understand why all of the little kids bus toys were always "the wrong color". They model the color after this version of school bus yellow, where the modern version has gotten toned down significantly. It always bothered me as a kid, so thank you for this.
i don't think people talk about how much you're risking your life for content. even though you suit up, if ONE thing goes wrong it could be incredibly bad. Thanks for the straightforward and factual content.
The Toronto police cars were also painted yellow, also for visibility. However, they too realized that the lead was a problem, and switched to white. You can still occasionally see a few old yellow ones when they get dragged out for community events like parades and open houses.
@@inconnue7589 The paint was really only ‘dangerous’ to the people whose job it was to repeatedly fix damaged police cars and repaint them. It wasn’t a problem for the general public. And the old ‘parade’ cars were probably repainted at some point anyway with yellow paint that doesn’t contain any lead.
The paint didn't cause the death of millions. Also, the specific formula for school buses was formulated in 1939, not lead chromate itself. It was used in paintngs long before that.
For once lead was the least bad thing in this paint. IT CONTAINS CHROMATES - that’s Cr in its +6 oxidation state… way more toxic and way more carcinogenic.
Oh yes, lead poisoning. I almost became part of that statistic. When I was like five moved into a new house lead paint everywhere on the outside me being stupid and five I eight so much lead that the doctors were concerned on how I'm not dead fun story
i live in a house with led paint and haven't gotten sick or died from it yet also because i haven't licked the walls or tried to eat the paint chips but the probable real cause was the prouder based mix getting into peoples mouths and noses when trying to prepare the paint outdoors
To be fair, they didn't knew about lead poisoning too much at the time, lead was even added to gasoline for increase performance! Oh, let's not forget about the lead pipes.
Actually,for anyone who's wondering why buses and taxis are painted yellow, This has a lot to do with VIBGYOR(AKA Violet,Indigo,Blue,Green,Yellow,Orange and Red). Lemme explain. So,When these paints are mixed in equal proportions,they turn white but that's not what I'm talking about here. The paints at the last (Yellow,Orange,Red), are higher in frequency which makes us notice them more.
You are one of the most absolutely gorgeous women ive ever seen... i started watching your content because your eyes just completely disarm me... ive now learned so many awesome thing's about paint... and why blue eyes and dark hair seem to be able teach me absolutely ANYTHING....😂❤
Fun fact to add to my long post. There are hundreds of "school bus yellows". Delfleet has a color chip deck they call the school bus deck that has chips of many of them. Each manufacturer has their own. And it changed over time. It also varies from bus to bus. There is actual codes for most manufacturers but that only gets you close. Uaualy comparing it to chips of standards or computer spectrometer use. They are really an orange yellow now. It covers better than the more yellow variants
I recently bought a yellow truck with all these safety issues in mind. I’ve had more near accidents in this truck than any vehicle I ever ever owned. People are unbelievably blung while driving.
And part of the reason it's so high still is because lead is found in Galena, One of the most plentiful silver ores... And also the mean time to symptoms of lead poisoning is like 15 to 30 years depending on how often and how large of a dose...
Trinitrotoluene, TNT for the more common term, was used as a yellow clothing dye for 30 years before people discovered it would explode under the right conditions. Yellow has been a pretty deadly colors for us over the centuries.
Can I just say: I want to play with your pain kit so much. Sure, I cannot draw, but you have an amazing storage of fun things... even if it means I may die.
Fun thing about lead, is that it's a really common material for fishing sinkers because it's heavy, malleable and cheap. Growing up my dad refused to let me pinch them with my teeth and made me rinse my hands after touching the sinkers- of course he'd pinch them with his teeth, claiming it was too late for him.
WOW I am super impressed. I sold school buses for a Bluebird Dealership in NY State for over 15 years. Not many people know the official name was National School Bus Chrome Yellow. "School Bus Yellow" was the slang name. and there were variations in tint on NSBC too. Crown had their tint, Carpenter had theirs, Bluebird of course and Thomas and AmTran.
If you don’t mind me asking, I have autism. How come you keep all that toxic stuff? Don’t you worry that it’s gonna kill you one day sorry for asking. I just like to ask to be curious that’s all but it’s pretty fascinating to learn. X And how do you keep safe? How do you not get any health conditions?
Videos like this make me think about what things are we currently using now that are just as toxic that we don’t know about but in 100 years, they’ll be talking about us like this…
You still have to be careful when buying kid's toys today. Toxic paints and plastics are supposed to be illegal in the US but sometimes nasty things slip through via cheap imports and its often years before people start to realize it. The crazy thing is that when I was a kid, we used to play in old junkyards and abandoned buildings. This was in the late 90s so most of that junk was pre-1970s sometimes older. Had no idea what toxic crap we were crawling through.
They also used it in WWII, particularly in aeronautics. Handrails on lots of Navy ships were painted with lead chromate. Every so often it would be scraped off and repainted by the crew. So many things that they were exposed to during the war were carcinogenic.
Fun fact: All US school buses are made with an official color called School Bus Yellow. Only school buses are manufactured and painted with this particular color yellow.
Lead paint is still leagal but only in industrial setting such as machines exposed to heavy weathering[lead pain must not be on constantly handled parts] 1 ex. is a oil pump jack, keeps it from rusting👍
Not gonna lie I was not very interested in pigment videos but after watching a few that I actually knew somehow like cochineal beetles or lapis lazuli I absolutely am addicted to this now. The world of color is amazing.
She’s so pretty and I love that’s she’s teach this I’m in to color not an artist but I love colors and it’s cool learning about them so ya keep makeing more
Reminds me of my childhood, my mom liked to paint. Cadmium Red and Cobalt Blue, she was like "Never ever touch these" so we didn't. Because she calmly explained they were toxic, instead of just saying "Don't do it because I said so" like so many other parents. Thanks for the not-poisoning, ma!
Why on earth do these toxic paints look utterly gorgeous every single time😭
reminds me of those frog species that have bright but very toxic skin coloring
Rule of nature..
@@pastriuu poison dart frog
@_GhOsTfReAk_ right!! thank you!! love them
@@pastriuu ofc and me 2!!
Lead in the paint
Lead in the gas
Lead in the hose water
Lead to the current state of congress
You misspelled CONgress.
Lead in the hippies lead the hippies to congress and the hippies did what they always said they would do and burned the system down.
@@ljprep6250 ?
Im guessing con like a scam, @SynixityIsHere
Not needed only the toxic people need some lead.
Lead Chromate, to be precise, is why it was called "National School Bus Glossy Chrome" and now, the non-toxic version is "National School Bus Glossy Yellow".
I love this kind of information.
Ours seemed a bit more orange tbh...
what a name
Notice no mention of the MERCURY the new paints are made with.
Mercury is 30 times more toxic than lead and is what is in paints today in place of the lead they used to put in paint, but the thing the media ignores is why there was lead in the paint in the first place.
The lead was there to keep mold from growing on the paint. When the government banned lead from paint, DuPont and the paint makers needed something to do the job the lead was doing, making the paint last longer by keeping mold from growing on it, so they replaced it with MERCURY! Now the paint is 300 times more toxic. WONDERFUL!
*_"I'm from the government and I'm here to help."_* - what Ronald Reagan said was the most terrifying thing you can hear.
@@ladamyre1 They used lead chromate because it's bright yellow. Mold doesn't grow on inorganic materials like steel busses and lead paint. Lead also isn't fully banned from being used in paint, and lead chromate specifically is still widely used for stuff like road paint. They stopped using it for busses cause kids are dumb and eat stuff like paint chips. I also can't find anything that mentions mercury in modern school bus yellow.
Lead was used in many things, including pesticides. I bought a very old house and on a shelf in the basement was an open box of a powder labeled, "Arsenic of Lead," known today as Lead Arsenate. It was used mainly as a spray for fruit trees. I called the chemical company that was the sucessor to the now defunct division that made it, and under the chemical industry's voluntary cradle to grave responsibility they sent a hazmat team to my house and sent it to a hazmat waste incinerator.
I absolutely did not know this. That's remarkable that they do that.
I think I might need to know the company name because we only hear of irresponsible companies and not enough about the responsible ones.
Also, I can imagine it was a highly effective pesticide.
It's not just the lead (which is bad enough). Chromate (aka hexavalent chromium) is a carcinogen.
Took us until 2014 to make a non toxic yellow paint
@@russlehman2070the comment is also talking about arsenic xD
Lots of older children’s toys are painted with lead and arsenic paints as well. Toys from as recent as the 70s have been shown to be toxic to children (mostly from high lead content).
2024 Temu and Wish say hi!
I mean I knew this objectively but the school bus thing really put the whole "lead paint stare" becoming so pervasive in just, a horrifying kind of perspective
I remember a few toys from the early 2000s that had to be recalled because of lead
Weren't the character cups from McDonald's as late as 2004 found to have lead too?
This explains why a lot of people are the way they are.
Fun fact! Before this paint was used to paint school busses, it was used as a food dye for cake frosting!
yum
Oh please no!
@ yup! Back then, it was pretty common practice to add Borax to spoiled milk for orphaned or poor babies as well. It was things like this that inspired food regulations.
@@alysgottafigureitout2482 Botox or borax ??
@@raisinbrancerealofficialit was small amounts of borax
The cool thing about lead paint? It’s near indestructible. Also, tastes like sweet tarts. Which is why it was banned from use on window ledges Initially, then in 1978, outlawed for private use altogether.
It used to be used on children's toys too 😬
@@bratatouille and walls
Almost everything was painted with lead based paints back then, especially wood and metal surfaces. In fact, one of the ways collectors check to see if something from that era is original is checking to see if the paint has lead in it. No lead=modern repaint.
Simple: Don't eat the paint. If you need to sand it, use a respirator. Don't breath the dust. Don't chew on your toys.
Who ate lead paint? 💀💀💀 Why do you know it tastes like sweet tarts? 💀💀💀
Lead chromate is less reactive with water and also less responsible for deaths than elemental lead. As a lab student I can definitely say you don't want to inhale any form of lead chromate I stay inhaling them halogens bromine 8) 2 bromo cyclohexanal
Imagine breaking into her house and she pulls a bunch of powder off shelves
Robber: breaks in, Beka: holding 15 bottles of pure poision with a murderous look in her eyes.
Making sure they're not a repeat offender
Lead paint was used for hundreds of years tho its not unique to school busses. Hell in the 60s they used lead as body filler and to fill in seams from the factory and let's not forget that from about the 1910s until 90s they used leaded gasoline. Actually they still use leaded gasoline as avgas for piston planes. Now that being said you can actually touch lead without it hurting you but the problem is swallowing it or inhaling the dust.
It varies per application whether it's dangerous or not. Lead as body filler is pretty solid material and won't leech off. Lead as paint will slowly leech off because the binder degrades in sunlight and heat. Also, sanding an entire bus for repainting is just a horrifying idea.
There's also some good news w.r.t. avgas - a new, fully lead free fuel has been approved for general aviation piston engines!
Personally, i still work a lot with lead containing solder for electronics, because i work on a lot of old devices and using lead free solder on parts that contain trace amounts of lead solder doesn't work. But as you say, touching it is safe and not a whole lot evaporates when you solder. The smoke is rosin flux (which in itself is harmful to the lungs, always ventilate well)
"People were trying to make school buses safer for children" ... Hello my name is lemony Snicket
Edit: I didn't think anybody would actually get the joke thank all of you
This wins 😂☠️✨
Omg hahaha
😂😂 what an icon
A series of unfortunate events-
Holy shit that is clever 😂
Lead was everywhere when we grew up. There was a darwin joke about paint chip eaters when I was a kid. Gasoline was full of lead. Drinking cups were made of pewter that was full of lead. Water pipes were made of lead. It wasn't just the paint.
We also played with mercury in our hands at school. Glad lead is gone but most of us survived.
36 here. Survived a lead based town growing up. Mercury in my bare hands. We used to bite the lead sinkers while fishing because pliers just weren't as handy.
Considering how many people who were exposed to so much lead in the day behave now, I don't think they are quite unscathed.
Survived? Yeah
But many times the exposure amounts a lot of people subject to still leave lasting health issues.
@@thenoddistsdisciple Nope, gen X is just more violent as a result. However, it makes us the last violent generation.....at least in the U.S. The blandness of our current cookware is proof of this. Beware the brightly colored dishes! Leaded or radioactive.
Considering the fact people from back then got Trump into office, yeah i dont think anyone got out unscathed
There are two problem with that paint:
- Lead: heavy metal, neuro toxic
- Chromate (and their dimer Dichromate), also known as Hexavalent chromium or CrVI: carcinogenic.
The problem is that if lead have been quite successfully removed from many paint formulations, the same can't be said for chromates. They are still heavily used, under very strict conditions, as there is no equivalent.
It isn't neurotoxic, it's essential for the brain.
@@pavlikm85Those lead supplements are really working for you.
@@pavlikm85 Lead is not a metal that it's required in the human diet at all... In fact it have accumulative effects and in the long run , will end end up poisoning. Chrome is esencial in the Human diet, but it's not the same as chromate and bichromate, those are dangerous to the human body.
@@pavlikm85 You've just been eating too much of it
@@pavlikm85 Water is essential for the brain. Doesn't mean that your brain will be okay if you drink 6 litres of water in an hour.
Technically it depends on the lead and how it is absorbed. Handling lead metal for example, won't cause you to get lead poisoning. Otherwise, anyone working in nuclear reactors, with huge amounts of lead nearby, would die from lead exposure. Or anyone shot with lead bullets.
So, if they had put a layer of primer over the yellow lead paint, in theory, as long as the primer held, it wouldn't be dangerous at all.
Were kids licking the bus? "Yum, yum, yum can't get enough bus".
Probably touching the side of the bus, or inhaling the lead
Lead tastes very sweet, which is why the ancient Romans put it in wine, and kids ate paint chips.
Yeah how is lead killing a million people every year?
I think she means that lead and lead chromate killed many people. I don't know how many of them would be associated with a school bus itself. Seems a bit misleading, or else it needs to be more clarified.
@@me0wmix884 it was pretty clear she was talking about Lead, not the color specifically.
Zink chromate also is a sacrificial pigment. It prevents rust. It continued to be used in metal primers (don't confuse primer with surfacer). Today's e-coat dip takes the place of it on the OEM level. Refinish uses non chromate acid etch or less common epoxy or epoxy urethane hybrid. Most automotive refinish systems have gotten rid of the lead, nickel and cadnim toners but not all of them. The low or no lead yellows do not cover anywhere near as fast. Requiring tinted undercoats or several more coats than their lead counterparts they replaced
Source. Now auto notice painter who spent over 17 years selling and training people on auto paint.
It’s sad that children had to die in a snowstorm and because the bus wasn’t visible no one found them. I believe this is one of the reasons why they wanted something that wouldn’t fit into the environment
She explained that. The purpose of the video was to talk about the dangers of that specific paint initially used.
Aside from the fact that you have excellent ability to narrate and you have a wonderful channel you're just a cutie pie I really enjoyed watching you not only are you adorable but actually very knowledgeable and you narrate very well and you can educate people extremely well
You know, I appreciate your work for reasons possibly not evident. I am a rapidly retiring painter. Third generation in fact. My grandfather told stories about the good old days when painters would not be offered insurance because everyone knew the wouldn't last long.
Lead paint is bad for anyone exposed to it, but spare a thought for the folks that died young spraying that poison.
So long as the pigments were suspended in plant based oil.
It's the hydrocarbons that will get you. turpentine and mineral spirits. You have to keep a lid on that or it gas off and make you sick.
In a closed environment, you use a tuna can with a sheet of glass over it. Only lift the glass off to dip the brush. Then put the sheet of glass back over the tuna can.
Using a hand pallet with open turps and mineral spirits even orderless spirits will make you sick. Unless maybe you are outside doing pleinair.
Spraying lead paints is almost like suicide unless there's a 20 mph wind blowing it away from a person. But then it contaminates the environment. The safest way to use chrome yellow is suspended in plant based oil. With a Kolinsky brush, preferably a Yarka from Russia or a Rafrael brush from France.
Lots of other deadly chemicals in paints and leaded gasoline was everywhere. Standing at the bus stop was bad....lol
I mena even the Romans and Greeks knew that lead was dangerous and should not be sued, how did we just forget lead was dangerous during the industrial revolution and only in recent years remember it was dangerous?
👩🏻🦰 Ms. Frizzle is the greatest 🥰 ty for the smile
Some of those episodes are such classics. They're all great. My kids like to watch even.
When she wasn’t Unintentionally huffing lead chromate
Lets be real, it wasn't just the school busses that had lead paint back in the 30's
The elements in the middle of the periodic table have electron shells that can be excited into pretty colors. Problem is that so many of them (Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Arsenic, etc.) are toxic!
Everything is toxic at the right concentration
It definitely wasn't just school buses, until titanium white became widespread most paint contained lead white since most consumer grade paints are made from a white base.
Gurl that dark haircolor on you is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
wait until she learns about "cadmium yellow"
Ms. Frizzle is a time lord, and her bus is definitely a tardis.
Lead in the paint, lead in the gas, spewing out the tailpipe... it's a wonder anyone survived.
Lead poison aesthetic 💘
Lead poisoning is very rare and only happens in the third world
To be fair, most paints at the time had lead in them.
My favorite part of this is new knowledge is that now I understand why all of the little kids bus toys were always "the wrong color". They model the color after this version of school bus yellow, where the modern version has gotten toned down significantly. It always bothered me as a kid, so thank you for this.
i don't think people talk about how much you're risking your life for content. even though you suit up, if ONE thing goes wrong it could be incredibly bad. Thanks for the straightforward and factual content.
The Toronto police cars were also painted yellow, also for visibility. However, they too realized that the lead was a problem, and switched to white. You can still occasionally see a few old yellow ones when they get dragged out for community events like parades and open houses.
The 'big yellow taxi' mentioned in the old Joni Mitchell song probably refers to a Toronto police car.
Wait but if it use the same paint, why are they in parades? Isn't it really dangerous?
@@inconnue7589 The paint was really only ‘dangerous’ to the people whose job it was to repeatedly fix damaged police cars and repaint them. It wasn’t a problem for the general public. And the old ‘parade’ cars were probably repainted at some point anyway with yellow paint that doesn’t contain any lead.
Literally in a school bus as I’m watching this 💀
"this is a toxic paint that was used on day to day basis or item-"
Boy if I had a nickel for every time I heard that...
The paint didn't cause the death of millions.
Also, the specific formula for school buses was formulated in 1939, not lead chromate itself. It was used in paintngs long before that.
lead causes the death of millions, that's what she said
Very interesting. I love your content.
For once lead was the least bad thing in this paint.
IT CONTAINS CHROMATES - that’s Cr in its +6 oxidation state… way more toxic and way more carcinogenic.
Lead was a mediocre poison in those days. Only makes you appear drunk and violent. lol.
I mean it can't have been any worse than the lead exhaust fumes coming out the back lol
Not me watching this on the school bus😂
Can you make a video on a deadly black? 🤔
Oh yes, lead poisoning. I almost became part of that statistic. When I was like five moved into a new house lead paint everywhere on the outside me being stupid and five I eight so much lead that the doctors were concerned on how I'm not dead fun story
I have the same respirator! Or at least very similar. I use mine when I go to the Goodwill by the Pound.
This woman is one of the few individuals where the voice just doesn't seem to fit the person, but I love her videos and can't get enough!!
Saying the paint caused the death of millions is pretty misleading. Lead caused the death of millions, the paint just has some leas in it.
i live in a house with led paint and haven't gotten sick or died from it yet also because i haven't licked the walls or tried to eat the paint chips but the probable real cause was the prouder based mix getting into peoples mouths and noses when trying to prepare the paint outdoors
"We're gonna make school buses safer by painting them with one of the most deadliest substances in the world"
Absolute geniusness
To be fair, they didn't knew about lead poisoning too much at the time, lead was even added to gasoline for increase performance!
Oh, let's not forget about the lead pipes.
As soon as I heard “lead” I knew: OH NO… I KNOW WHERE THIS IS GOING
Actually,for anyone who's wondering why buses and taxis are painted yellow,
This has a lot to do with VIBGYOR(AKA Violet,Indigo,Blue,Green,Yellow,Orange and Red).
Lemme explain.
So,When these paints are mixed in equal proportions,they turn white but that's not what I'm talking about here.
The paints at the last (Yellow,Orange,Red), are higher in frequency which makes us notice them more.
You are one of the most absolutely gorgeous women ive ever seen... i started watching your content because your eyes just completely disarm me... ive now learned so many awesome thing's about paint... and why blue eyes and dark hair seem to be able teach me absolutely ANYTHING....😂❤
Bro, why do all of the colors you use/make/talk about look so tasty
Fun fact to add to my long post. There are hundreds of "school bus yellows". Delfleet has a color chip deck they call the school bus deck that has chips of many of them. Each manufacturer has their own. And it changed over time. It also varies from bus to bus. There is actual codes for most manufacturers but that only gets you close. Uaualy comparing it to chips of standards or computer spectrometer use. They are really an orange yellow now. It covers better than the more yellow variants
We still use lead in gasoline for airplanes even though there is an alternative. Only some small aiprorts have banned it in the US
This just reminded me of Stanley cups
Loving the Mrs. Frizzle cameo❤❤
"SEATBELTS EVERYONE 😍" caught me off guard
I enjoy your videos.
Mickey Mouse explaining toxic chemicals💀💀💀💀
I could only wish our school bus was this vibrant of a yellow.
Forbidden mustard
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I recently bought a yellow truck with all these safety issues in mind. I’ve had more near accidents in this truck than any vehicle I ever ever owned. People are unbelievably blung while driving.
Question:
Did any kids get poisoned by the paint on the buses?
Hearing miss frizle at the start brought so much dopamine to my brain 🧠. God i loved magic school bus
One of these days I wanna see a breakdown of which colors make up her irises!
It's amazing how many things are done in the name of safety which are, in fact, not safe at all
And part of the reason it's so high still is because lead is found in Galena, One of the most plentiful silver ores... And also the mean time to symptoms of lead poisoning is like 15 to 30 years depending on how often and how large of a dose...
This woman is sooooooo nice
Trinitrotoluene, TNT for the more common term, was used as a yellow clothing dye for 30 years before people discovered it would explode under the right conditions. Yellow has been a pretty deadly colors for us over the centuries.
Can I just say: I want to play with your pain kit so much. Sure, I cannot draw, but you have an amazing storage of fun things... even if it means I may die.
It's such a pretty color! I wish it weren't toxic!
I LOVE that yellow! 👀
"seat belts everyone!" had me laughing
Fun thing about lead, is that it's a really common material for fishing sinkers because it's heavy, malleable and cheap. Growing up my dad refused to let me pinch them with my teeth and made me rinse my hands after touching the sinkers- of course he'd pinch them with his teeth, claiming it was too late for him.
You are off as hell and it's awesome keep up the videos
WOW I am super impressed. I sold school buses for a Bluebird Dealership in NY State for over 15 years. Not many people know the official name was National School Bus Chrome Yellow. "School Bus Yellow" was the slang name. and there were variations in tint on NSBC too. Crown had their tint, Carpenter had theirs, Bluebird of course and Thomas and AmTran.
as a school bus mechanic this is scary! hahaha glad we have national glossy school bus yellow now! lol
Bro just casually brought back my entire childhood while telling me how people died.
If you don’t mind me asking, I have autism. How come you keep all that toxic stuff? Don’t you worry that it’s gonna kill you one day sorry for asking. I just like to ask to be curious that’s all but it’s pretty fascinating to learn. X And how do you keep safe? How do you not get any health conditions?
im a retard!
Videos like this make me think about what things are we currently using now that are just as toxic that we don’t know about but in 100 years, they’ll be talking about us like this…
This paint saved lives and took lives
Lead or “ safe” spent atomic fuel.
Real men radiate!
You still have to be careful when buying kid's toys today. Toxic paints and plastics are supposed to be illegal in the US but sometimes nasty things slip through via cheap imports and its often years before people start to realize it.
The crazy thing is that when I was a kid, we used to play in old junkyards and abandoned buildings. This was in the late 90s so most of that junk was pre-1970s sometimes older. Had no idea what toxic crap we were crawling through.
I think my favorite thing about these videos is your voice
They also used it in WWII, particularly in aeronautics. Handrails on lots of Navy ships were painted with lead chromate. Every so often it would be scraped off and repainted by the crew. So many things that they were exposed to during the war were carcinogenic.
THAT IS A REALLY PRETTY. Shade of yellow though
Fun fact: All US school buses are made with an official color called School Bus Yellow. Only school buses are manufactured and painted with this particular color yellow.
I'm lucky our school buss is a bright blue matching the colour of our whole school 😂
I love how you educated us. But I also worry about you. ❤
that's some HEAVY METAL🎸
Let’s not forget that an early pigment of yellow was actually made from tnt before it was discovered to be an explosive
Lead also used to be used as a sweetener. Mouthwash (more specifically listerine) was originally a toilet cleaner.
i love your hair so much
Oh dang! I saw an antique school bus for sale the other day in a field, i am super glad I didn't stop and ask about it now!!
Nice to know it’s not just us musicians who suffer for our art🤔
Lead paint is still leagal but only in industrial setting such as machines exposed to heavy weathering[lead pain must not be on constantly handled parts] 1 ex. is a oil pump jack, keeps it from rusting👍
Not gonna lie I was not very interested in pigment videos but after watching a few that I actually knew somehow like cochineal beetles or lapis lazuli I absolutely am addicted to this now. The world of color is amazing.
Fun fact: Indian tumeric suppliers sometimes add lead chromate to bulk up weight & volume tumeric powder 😮😮😮
She’s so pretty and I love that’s she’s teach this I’m in to color not an artist but I love colors and it’s cool learning about them so ya keep makeing more
Reminds me of my childhood, my mom liked to paint. Cadmium Red and Cobalt Blue, she was like "Never ever touch these" so we didn't. Because she calmly explained they were toxic, instead of just saying "Don't do it because I said so" like so many other parents. Thanks for the not-poisoning, ma!