GlitchyShadow in the name of science and our entertainment. Shockingly this was one of the most dangerous of his experiments because of how this could go so wrong N
He isnt really killing himself tho... He is just avoiding safety precautions. Is like pointing an unloaded gun at your face, they tell you not to, but nothing bad will happen. I dont know how this comparaison came to my mind if im not american Mmm
peekayboo I was gonna get all pissed saying that he is only taking time of his life with this stuff in the case he died because of lead poisoning or something lile that... Then I noticed that 2016-2011=5 Shit
I can hear it now... 'See... it will form a protective oxidation layer in the lining of my mouth, so as long as I don't let it get into my lungs, I'll be fine.'
Oxygen is an element too, and it's the origin of the term "oxidizer". Whether a substance is an oxidizer or not is not determined if it's and element or a molecule, but by its ability to rip off electrons from other atoms or molecules (or more exactly, from the atoms of a molecule). Propably one of the best oxidizers known to humanity is chlorine trifluoride, under most circumstances it's a way stronger oxidizer that oxygen itself; it's so strong that it can even make concrete (and nearly every other material besides of fluorine salts) burst into flames and become absolutely inextinguishable.
Have I ever mentioned you are like the Steve Irwin of chemistry dude "check this out, oi'm gonna take a bite out of this sodium roight here and it's gonna really piss him off, Terri 'ave ya got the camera ready?"
Literally will never be able to see him any other way from now on lol. "Roight so I've got this magnet roight here. Now I've coated in in a gold plating because otherwise it would be right pissed off. Now I'm just gonna carefully insert 'em in to my ring finga..."
I dunno but I'm just gonna say I know the human body can't get rid of heavy metals and that's how tattoos work so if he has been exposed to enough it may be affecting him
I gotta say, i've followed you for years, you're one of the most genuine people i've seen on youtube.. entertaining and just such a dork who enjoys doing your stuff, you've made me feel like going back to school... so keep doing it, it's really entertaining.
I've been watching your videos for over a year now and its stuff like this that keeps me coming back. You don't treat your audience like children and you try the kinds of things no one else would. Knowledge is power, but the education you provide your viewers is a gift
4:21 I love the little explosion just off screen, as you remain completely stone-faced and reiterate "yeah, I'd rather it not do _that_ in my mouth". :D
What he is doing is possibly deadly, and he should likely stop but it is his choice, and if it harms him, his fault. I would sort of miss him and his awesome videos.. but his choice, not ours. I have no problem with you pointing out that he should take a little more time before doing things like these, or that they are stupid stunts but the fact you feel as if it is an order.. Also please, don't use caps lock.
What would happen if you took a piece of sodium about the size of a quarter and dripped one small drop of water on to it? Would it just fizz, or melt the sodium?
★ TazerYT ★ Not toxic so much as corrosive, in this case. In contact with water it steals a hydroxide group (outgassing hydrogen) and forms lye. This reacts with proteins and fats, which is why Cody mentions the tip of his tongue turning to soap.
Many metals are the opposite of toxic and are actually minerals the body needs and will use to form salts and other compounds that the cells need. sodium, iron, magnesium, potassium, calcium are all examples of minerals the body uses. some metals and the heavy metals are toxic to humans, mostly because they can replace other minerals and form different versions of the salts and compounds in the cells that actually inhibit the cells function and can make them die. Mercury, Lead, Aluminium are some examples of toxic metals that do this in your body.
when you drank cyanide i was like "hmm he knows what he is doing, he will be fine" but this, i just got the notification and when i saw the title i was like "WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH YOU MAN"
It is because of the electrons on the outer layer of the metals atoms. When light reflects off the electrons, it emits a light wave that we recognise as the silver colour. (I learnt that in my chemistry class mid last year)
Most metals reflect all visible light equally and will appear as mirrors if polished. Rough metal surfaces lose some of the light and appear greyish. Some metals like copper also absorb visible wavelengths and are colored.
Kenneth Clark Well, 'learnt' and 'learned' are both acceptable in my previous comment above.. but depending on where you are from, one is more acceptable than the other.
Dude you are probably one of the most underrated UA-camrs out their, I want you to know that you inspire me and that you can make anything you do interesting and enjoyable to watch!
Somebody told me you had a bite through sodium and I didn't believe them until I saw this video!😂😂 Cody you're an absolute mad lad! Keep up the great work❤
My science teacher's brother put a piece of sodium in his mouth when he was in high school and he burned the living hell out of his mouth but was fine. Von has told us the story at least six times.
Could we potentially build things out of the highly reactive metals that would work well in the vacuum of space? Like could they shield against radiation or be better conductors for circuits? I mean I wonder if there aren't a ton of elements and molecules and compositions that would be useful in a vacuum that we have totally over looked here on earth because they don't work well in our atmosphere.
Hey Cody, what if you dropped sodium/potassium metal into water in a vacuum? Since sodium reacts with water to produce sodium hydroxide and hydrogen gas. If there is no oxygen will it still burn/explode? Please try this! Thank you.
The little I understood from watching Thunderf00t's videos on the theme of alkaline metals reacting with water, it seems that the shape and "purity" of the part first touching the water can affect the explosion effect greatly. Since these are Coulomb explosions (although there are still some people denying that), there is a lot to learn about them yet and as Cody said, they are not fully understood. I recommend you to watch Thunderf00t's video series on the theme.
It would appear that the reaction actually heats the metal to it's melting point and possibly to a boiling point... once that happens, it's surface area to react with oxygen is greatly increased and hence the further explosions. But as pointed out, it's not a set science.
I'm glad you linked to Thunderfoot's video. I was thinking yesterday that I'd like to know your opinion about it and here's my answer. Not sure I need to see a person biting alkali metals but good video as usual. AvE mentioned on one of his videos about using a special charger to recover any form of rechargeable batteries but he didn't explain how. So details on the chemistry of batteries would be interesting.
What would happen if you took a piece of sodium about the size of a quarter and dripped one small drop of water on to it? Would it just fizz, or melt the sodium?
tye tygon It might be interesting, given how malleable potassium is he could make a pancake of it and drop water onto it, the exact opposite of the usual 'metal into water' videos.
Cody, watch Thunderf00t's videos on sodium. He has 10k-fps close-up high-speed videos of coulomb explosions. The worlds most detailed videos of coulomb explosions AFAIK
Why are these metals so reactive to water? It doesn't make sense like water is the most neutral thing on the earth but it causes metals to explode into flames!
As far as I know, the elements lithium, sodium and potassium are so reactive to water due to the fact that these elements have 1 valence electron. These electrons want to bind to other molecules very often and so when they're surrounded by something that will accept an electron, they react violently with it.
McSuperRoy it's from the hydrogen bonds in water I don't know much but water has hydrogen bonds and if anything happens with water it usually has something to do with hydrogen bonds
McSuperRoy it's pretty simple. As you know, water is H2O. Oxygen is one of the most electronegative atoms (next to flourine) because it has 6 electrons in its outer shell. When it can bond 2 electrons, its outer shell is full meaning a low energy state. In H2O, oxygen shares one electron with every Hydrogen, so all 3 atoms have noble gas configuration (meaning full outer shells) But hydrogen is more electronegative than sodium or other alkali metals. Akali metals only have one electron in their outer shell, so they really want to pass it away. So when you put sodium in h2o, the hydrogen molecules are replaced by sodium, so you get h2 and Na2O because this is a lower energy state then 2Na and H2O. The difference of energy levels is released into heat, this is why it explodes
Nitroschock Well said! Probably worth pointing out that it's this combination of released H2 (hydrogen gas) and heat that then ignites, just in case anyone missed that implied result.
Hey Cody, i love your videos, and like many others here i really have to say, please don't hurt yourself with your experiments, especially if it's not something of reasonable interest. I mean, ofc it's interesting if you can bite sodium without hurting your mouth (not only by ignition, but by resulting products like sodium hydroxide), but imho it wasn't worth the possible risk. Man i really got shaky by the thought you might do that with the potassium too as you hold it up. You did a lot other very dangerous stuff and ofc im not the first one to throw a stone when it comes to taking risks, but it would be a real tragedy if something seriously bad would happen to you. Cheers bud, keep it up - and save. :)
Well done! What would happen if you release sodium or potassium at several meters depth as oppossed to dropping it onto the surface of water? Would the reaction be more violent as each part of metal that chips/explodes off then cannot escape contact with water? Or would the atmospheric pressure surrounding it contain more of the reaction? It would be interesting to see how it moves when totally submerged. I recently found your channel and it's awesome! Keep up the great work!
Honestly Thunderf00t is the man you need to talk to, but from what I've seen it doesnt really matter if its above or below the surface. There is some kind of electrical interaction that causes the explosion.
Gareth Dean Are they spitting the excess oil after eating hot peppers? given the fact that capsaicin is soluble in oils... Why would they do that if not for this reason?
Cry stics Capsaicin binds to human nerve endings because they're largely phospholipid, in the watery confines of the mouth they're the best surface to absorb onto. If however oil is present *this* becomes the medium the capsaicin prefers to dissolve in, lowering its concentrations on cell surfaces. This is why milk is a traditional remedy, the particles of fat it contains absorb the spice.
do you ever have trouble going through a metal detector with your balls of steel ?
...and magnets in fingers, and blood in his mercury...
blood in his mercury? oh yeah wait at this point it is more mercury than blood, carry on
FOX Mense; ROLMAO!!!! Best comment, EVER!!!!
Fox Mense it's offset by his brains of mush.
fischX Blood in his mercury*
At what point does your girlfriend say "You know what Cody? I think this might be a bad idea"?
With potassium metal apparently.
Mark Contini when he was as many prosthetics as junkrat lol
+SketchyChris with francium.
And then he tries it.
SketchyChris
Good point. Knowing Cody, he'd have done it if left unsupervised XD
Next video: If I drink mercury, will it flush better?
codyslab: slowly killing himself in the name of science since 2011
Well, personally, I'm not in a hurry...
GlitchyShadow in the name of science and our entertainment. Shockingly this was one of the most dangerous of his experiments because of how this could go so wrong N
He isnt really killing himself tho...
He is just avoiding safety precautions.
Is like pointing an unloaded gun at your face, they tell you not to, but nothing bad will happen.
I dont know how this comparaison came to my mind if im not american Mmm
Can confirm. I can travel through time, but only forward at a rate of 1 second per second.
peekayboo I was gonna get all pissed saying that he is only taking time of his life with this stuff in the case he died because of lead poisoning or something lile that... Then I noticed that 2016-2011=5
Shit
Always interesting to see you drawing a careful line between the very insane experiments and the completely insane experiments;)
"i usually dont bother saying dont try this at home because i am trying this at home". great comment
Next week we will huff fluorine.
I can hear it now... 'See... it will form a protective oxidation layer in the lining of my mouth, so as long as I don't let it get into my lungs, I'll be fine.'
Edit: This comment is 7 years old, and I was an idiot and mixed up fluorine with a mineral.
Oxidation layer? Fluorine is an element, not an oxidizer.
Oxygen is an element too, and it's the origin of the term "oxidizer". Whether a substance is an oxidizer or not is not determined if it's and element or a molecule, but by its ability to rip off electrons from other atoms or molecules (or more exactly, from the atoms of a molecule). Propably one of the best oxidizers known to humanity is chlorine trifluoride, under most circumstances it's a way stronger oxidizer that oxygen itself; it's so strong that it can even make concrete (and nearly every other material besides of fluorine salts) burst into flames and become absolutely inextinguishable.
cuf cuf dont do fluorine while eating uranium, byting a diamond and eating Potassium also dont do Yttervium Uranium and Oxigen at the same time
IM DYING
Cody you are one crazy dude. Nothing like fresh hot NaOH being formed between your teeth!
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@@mernok2001 not the nicest of things to try, isn't it? The difference is that you don't run the risk of exploding your head.
Now that exploding when just offscreen and ending up on the wall behind you was just perfect.
i thought the same, it made the video epic 4:15
Yes. Omg. This is visual art !
Next week on CodysLab
Biting Cesium
I've tasted the salt but I'm not going to ever taste the metal, I'd rather keep my jaw.
When the comment and the reply has equal amount of likes
@@Holagrimola when the comment has more likes
LETS FIGHT THIS INEQUALITY!!!!
GamingGalaxy2 next week after this: biting francium
The explosion of the potassium off-screen creating water splashes on the wall was hilarious.
You crazy!
you're*
Grant: I believe Cody has thrown the glove down!I look forward to your response to this!
I am so early
Please start doing cool projects like your sugar rockets and arc welder again.
Your a mad scientist's son, ey!
I can't be the only one who screamed at their monitor, "Cody noooo!"
I was like: Nah dude I'll watch your videos anyway! ^_^
Damian Reloaded did someone call?
good way to bust up a set of pearly whites :X
Rusty Shackleford
yeah, that was dumb
Cody you don't have to risk your health for our entertainment :(
Henji96 :') it's not that bad
He has alot of knowlegde and does it in a controlled manner. I don't think we should worry too much!
Speak for the few of you, I think he is the chosen one!
You're right, for entertainment, no. But for SCIENCE, yes.
i think a big part of it was his own curiosity.
You ever notice that he eats all of his chemicals at some point?
that was a terrible idea… thanks for doing it
Have I ever mentioned you are like the Steve Irwin of chemistry dude
"check this out, oi'm gonna take a bite out of this sodium roight here and it's gonna really piss him off, Terri 'ave ya got the camera ready?"
Literally will never be able to see him any other way from now on lol. "Roight so I've got this magnet roight here. Now I've coated in in a gold plating because otherwise it would be right pissed off. Now I'm just gonna carefully insert 'em in to my ring finga..."
Is Cody going mad due to mercury/lead poisoning?
U Wot M8 He got his blood checked by a doctor and he's healthy. Watch the video he made about it.
I thot heavy metal testing through blood isn't precise because the metals can accumulate in tissues...
where did you hear that? from cody? it's in the video
I dunno but I'm just gonna say I know the human body can't get rid of heavy metals and that's how tattoos work so if he has been exposed to enough it may be affecting him
I gotta say, i've followed you for years, you're one of the most genuine people i've seen on youtube.. entertaining and just such a dork who enjoys doing your stuff, you've made me feel like going back to school... so keep doing it, it's really entertaining.
Next try taking a bite out of hydrogen and tell us how soft that is compared to this sodium
Yeah I like my own comment to get the party rolling
Jacob Cooper you can't bite a gas ! 😆
anthony warnecke don't tell him it's a gas it will be so funny to watch him try bite it
Haha yeah 😂
anthony warnecke he has no idea 😂😂😂
"Potassium tastes like bananas" Haha! So, bananas get their flavor from Potassium?
I meant the bitter taste in the peel... potassium salts have a bitter-salty taste.
@@theCodyReeder can I eat indium,
Digest it ?
Cody: I want to bite sodium metal.
Your friends: no.
your country: no.
That bird over there: no.
Cody: Imma do it!
Everyone: Sigh...
Why do elements always have "Um" at the end of it? PlutoniUM, UraniUM, PotassiUM, And so on.
I always assumed the "um" suffex meant that it was a metal.
it might come from the neuter ending of nouns in latin.
Cody'sLab what about heliUM?
i guess helium is a metal if you follow that line of tought
elements*
Excellent, I always wanted to know if licking sodium would taste a little salty. Seriously, I have asked before.
TheProCactus No, it wouldnt taste salty. It would taste like *pain*
Ilya Mosin
Watch the video again. Salty was mentioned.
Maybe mixed with citrus flavor?
It was a joke.
salty !
I've been watching your videos for over a year now and its stuff like this that keeps me coming back. You don't treat your audience like children and you try the kinds of things no one else would. Knowledge is power, but the education you provide your viewers is a gift
I love the part were he just stares directly at the camera, and an explosion goes off beside him and splashes water on the wall, balls.
4:21 I love the little explosion just off screen, as you remain completely stone-faced and reiterate "yeah, I'd rather it not do _that_ in my mouth". :D
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Unfortunately I will still be too young, 2028 maybe.
Cody'sLab yes
Cody'sLab first to like your comment
Cody'sLab if you are a finnalist for mars 1 wont you be on mars by then?
President of Mars 2028!
STOP. DOING SUPER DEADLY SHIT, DUDE. IF YOU DIE THATS ONE LESS BADASS SCIENTIST IN THE WORLD. WE CANT AFFORD TO LOSE THOSE.
Bitin in sodium is not deadly...
If you don't spit it out, it probably is.
well, if you accidentally (super probable, i know) swallow it, That sure won't be healty. Please do not ever use capslock again by the way.
What he is doing is possibly deadly, and he should likely stop but it is his choice, and if it harms him, his fault. I would sort of miss him and his awesome videos.. but his choice, not ours. I have no problem with you pointing out that he should take a little more time before doing things like these, or that they are stupid stunts but the fact you feel as if it is an order..
Also please, don't use caps lock.
yes
"I'd rather it not do that in my mouth" that's what she said
Lol
the only video when i hear don't try this at home and my response is fuck no in not trying that
the fact that you can't deform the indium as easily as the sodium means it is less malleable than the sodium. It doesn't mean that it is harder.
True, but I can scratch sodium with indium, come to think of it why didn't I do that?!
Cody'sLab sneak it into another video lol
What would happen if you took a piece of sodium about the size of a
quarter and dripped one small drop of water on to it? Would it just
fizz, or melt the sodium?
With metals the two properties tend to correlate (Along with melting point and density!)
4:16 that was so well done, and the timing on the splash so perfect it actually seemed like someone added that on After Effects.
The way the potassium blew the water up on the wall beside him as he was talking was so badass!
the way in which cody dies is sure to be fascinating as hell
5:44 One of the most beautiful slow-mo things I've ever seen
I thought Sodium by its self was toxic
★ TazerYT ★ Not toxic so much as corrosive, in this case. In contact with water it steals a hydroxide group (outgassing hydrogen) and forms lye. This reacts with proteins and fats, which is why Cody mentions the tip of his tongue turning to soap.
Many metals are the opposite of toxic and are actually minerals the body needs and will use to form salts and other compounds that the cells need. sodium, iron, magnesium, potassium, calcium are all examples of minerals the body uses. some metals and the heavy metals are toxic to humans, mostly because they can replace other minerals and form different versions of the salts and compounds in the cells that actually inhibit the cells function and can make them die. Mercury, Lead, Aluminium are some examples of toxic metals that do this in your body.
★ TazerYT ★ Sodium reacts with water making NaOH that's corrosive like caustic soda
ArcanHage
Exact NaOH has a pH of 14, not 1. It's Alkaline.
It's more like Caustic Soda or Lime than acid.
Mao Zedong I know it's alkaline, but it's corrosive like acid because have the same effect and danger.
when you drank cyanide i was like "hmm he knows what he is doing, he will be fine" but this, i just got the notification and when i saw the title i was like "WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH YOU MAN"
This toothpaste tastes a lot like potassium meta- *BOOM*
_The perfect assassination_
"See?" BOOM SPLAT "I'd rather it NOT do that in my mouth."
Haha best thing ever!
2:30 - 2:45 close your eyes and just listen
chickyS LOL
oh boy...
Lmao
Lmfaooo wtf
Its Upto 2:50
my name is Johnny Knoxville and welcome to Cody's lab.
Dude, I just watched that biting indium video. What a coincidence.
I bought Indium because of this. Because I thought I could trust him. But now seeing him bite sodium makes me skeptical
What if you had a bowling ball size of that potassium and dropped it in a pond?
Please don't.
prayformojo pls do*
please do
prayformojo Run
probably something like a cluster bomb, where the initial explosion would fracture the ball into smaller bits
I love this guy's videos, they all have science in them especially the mining ones...nice work man, keep it up.
I kinda want a gif og Cody calmly setting down a bowl of exploding water while not even looking at it.
Either way you will win:
Nobel Prize OR
Darwin Award
someday.
I think there should be an element in the periodic table called codium
cody you should try rubbing indium and gallium together to make a liquid alloy
you little piece of shit your profile pic scared me XD
Those high speed shots were beautiful! Thanks for making those, I could watch them for hours!
Chuck Norris entered a dare contest and Cody made him cry cancer curing tears.
It would take 10.000 bananas to make Cody explode.
Credit: Someone on the internet
Damian Reloaded or a black penis...
Besides the fact that the potassium in a banana is non reactive because of reasons.
Credit: Someone else on the internet
***** He would probably die from radioactive poisoning way before exploding anyway... XD
you'd need a lot more bannanas for that or rad poisoning.
credit: someone else on the internet
***** Quote the numbers you son of an internet browsing mother!
I wonder why most metals have a silver color
It is because of the electrons on the outer layer of the metals atoms. When light reflects off the electrons, it emits a light wave that we recognise as the silver colour. (I learnt that in my chemistry class mid last year)
Most metals reflect all visible light equally and will appear as mirrors if polished. Rough metal surfaces lose some of the light and appear greyish. Some metals like copper also absorb visible wavelengths and are colored.
learned*
Kenneth Clark
Well, 'learnt' and 'learned' are both acceptable in my previous comment above.. but depending on where you are from, one is more acceptable than the other.
+Kenneth Clark Do you even English, bro?
That offscreen explosion with the Potassium was comedic.
You make the best youtube home experiment videos, original , diverse, crazy and useful, thank you!
Dude you are probably one of the most underrated UA-camrs out their, I want you to know that you inspire me and that you can make anything you do interesting and enjoyable to watch!
"Hello, my name is Cody and this is Jackass!"
Lol, _Do it for the thumbnail!_
Funny thing is that it was not in focus so I had to redo it multiple times.
*****
Gotta get the perfect thumbnail!
Cody, what is the song playing during the slo-mo shots? shazam can't find it and it sounds really good.
Its on youtube under "so bueno"
Peterscraps wow didn't expect to see one of my favorite tf2 you tubers here I guess you really are everywhere
Peterscraps oh you are here too? I really did not excpet that, as you are one of my favourite youtubers x)
HOW DO YOU PEOPLE FIND ME
Somebody told me you had a bite through sodium and I didn't believe them until I saw this video!😂😂 Cody you're an absolute mad lad! Keep up the great work❤
Love the videos lately Cody!!!! You deserve the 1 million subs more than anyone!
You are crazy but also very entertaining!
My science teacher's brother put a piece of sodium in his mouth when he was in high school and he burned the living hell out of his mouth but was fine. Von has told us the story at least six times.
Send him this video with the comment 'See this is how you do that CORRECTLY.'
i think it would be pretty awesome to see a high speed of potassium being sprayed by a fine mist of water from a squirt bottle
I'm thinking NaK in a squirt gun.
that does indeed sound pretty cool too :D , btw love the videos , keep it up :D
1:12 " please don't try this at home even though I'm being hypocritical right now because I'm doing it at home" should be on every scientists wall😂
Glad you made so much progress!
I had hoped very hard for you man to keep it improving and coming!
Now I understand why everytime I eat bananas it seems I have fireworks in my mounth.
Is it me, or does he look like shaggy?
GreenEvilMilesSmilez _ Eh, Shaggy's a lot scruffier and scrawny looking
early squad
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Cody, the absolute madman!
+Erik Blackboar Mostly man
i didnt have any sodium, so i used potassium instead,
best popping candy ever
Could we potentially build things out of the highly reactive metals that would work well in the vacuum of space? Like could they shield against radiation or be better conductors for circuits? I mean I wonder if there aren't a ton of elements and molecules and compositions that would be useful in a vacuum that we have totally over looked here on earth because they don't work well in our atmosphere.
Hey Cody, what if you dropped sodium/potassium metal into water in a vacuum? Since sodium reacts with water to produce sodium hydroxide and hydrogen gas. If there is no oxygen will it still burn/explode? Please try this! Thank you.
Water can't exist stably in a vacuum, it boils away until it freezes, he's done videos on this.
He could replace the oxygen with a noble gas like helium, replacing the oxygen and nitrogen atmosphere that should stop any fire
LORD HUMUNGUS this has already been done. Thunderf00t has videos on it.
LORD HUMUNGUS I'm not saying Cody shouldn't try as also.
after you signed off, why was the first potassium explosion so much bigger than the other ones? and what caused the firework looking one?
Thees things are not fully understood.
how can I take that for an answer?
The little I understood from watching Thunderf00t's videos on the theme of alkaline metals reacting with water, it seems that the shape and "purity" of the part first touching the water can affect the explosion effect greatly. Since these are Coulomb explosions (although there are still some people denying that), there is a lot to learn about them yet and as Cody said, they are not fully understood. I recommend you to watch Thunderf00t's video series on the theme.
It would appear that the reaction actually heats the metal to it's melting point and possibly to a boiling point... once that happens, it's surface area to react with oxygen is greatly increased and hence the further explosions. But as pointed out, it's not a set science.
I think even just leaving more time for the oil to run off before throwing it in the water. he played with it a bit before hand
Cody, since you live in Utah, have you ever come across Dinosaur tracks?
yes I have
Can you do a vid on them? That would be really nice!
Cody'sLab boi you crazy
Deathwolf Cody'slab is not crazy he is genius and fantastic
Kevin Z he also crazy
I'm glad you linked to Thunderfoot's video. I was thinking yesterday that I'd like to know your opinion about it and here's my answer.
Not sure I need to see a person biting alkali metals but good video as usual.
AvE mentioned on one of his videos about using a special charger to recover any form of rechargeable batteries but he didn't explain how. So details on the chemistry of batteries would be interesting.
Dude! I remember when I subbed around 3k for you. Your channel is growing so fast. hope you reach a million by new years!
Next on Codyslab: Eating 37 Spongebob stickers in a McDonald's parking lot?!?!
that was the most unexpected UA-cam video ever
isn't lithium safer to bite than sodium?
It can be, if pure. Most of the battery stuff isn't and is prone to catching fire.
Sam's Minecraft funny enough beryllium is more toxic than lithium. Lithium compounds are used in medicines.
Big props to the camerawoman for some fantastic shots! One of your nicest-looking videos so far.
The high speed was really cool! Loved the way the music kinda lined up with it!
What would happen if you took a piece of sodium about the size of a quarter and dripped one small drop of water on to it? Would it just fizz, or melt the sodium?
It can be quite violent, it'll fix and splatter. Not an explosion, usually but still quite neat.
Gareth Dean
Cody should try that.
tye tygon
It might be interesting, given how malleable potassium is he could make a pancake of it and drop water onto it, the exact opposite of the usual 'metal into water' videos.
Usher make a mixture of all these different reactive metals... Melt them down n' mix them.
See what happens
Guys, I think he may be trying to kill himself
cody slab? XD... I think u got his profile name wrong!
Unless, you're joking, maybe.
Appius Tuditanus dude because Cody would be on a slab
He also drank cyanide
Cody, watch Thunderf00t's videos on sodium. He has 10k-fps close-up high-speed videos of coulomb explosions. The worlds most detailed videos of coulomb explosions AFAIK
check the description
Nice! If it was there, I missed it. If you ever have access to a superior high-speed camera, I beg you to reproduce this! :D
You are a truely crazy person. I love it, Cody!
One of the best slow-mo vids I've seen in a while too!
Why are these metals so reactive to water? It doesn't make sense like water is the most neutral thing on the earth but it causes metals to explode into flames!
As far as I know, the elements lithium, sodium and potassium are so reactive to water due to the fact that these elements have 1 valence electron. These electrons want to bind to other molecules very often and so when they're surrounded by something that will accept an electron, they react violently with it.
McSuperRoy it's from the hydrogen bonds in water I don't know much but water has hydrogen bonds and if anything happens with water it usually has something to do with hydrogen bonds
McSuperRoy it's pretty simple. As you know, water is H2O.
Oxygen is one of the most electronegative atoms (next to flourine) because it has 6 electrons in its outer shell. When it can bond 2 electrons, its outer shell is full meaning a low energy state. In H2O, oxygen shares one electron with every Hydrogen, so all 3 atoms have noble gas configuration (meaning full outer shells)
But hydrogen is more electronegative than sodium or other alkali metals. Akali metals only have one electron in their outer shell, so they really want to pass it away. So when you put sodium in h2o, the hydrogen molecules are replaced by sodium, so you get h2 and Na2O because this is a lower energy state then 2Na and H2O. The difference of energy levels is released into heat, this is why it explodes
Nitroschock Well said! Probably worth pointing out that it's this combination of released H2 (hydrogen gas) and heat that then ignites, just in case anyone missed that implied result.
Nitroschock erm no, it doesn't make Na2O, it makes NaOH + H2
Here's the reaction:
2Na + 2H2O --> 2NaOH + H2
That was metal as fuck.
How is this guy still alive..?!
on the road to 1,000,000! I can't wait. you deserve every sub.
Hey Cody, i love your videos, and like many others here i really have to say, please don't hurt yourself with your experiments, especially if it's not something of reasonable interest. I mean, ofc it's interesting if you can bite sodium without hurting your mouth (not only by ignition, but by resulting products like sodium hydroxide), but imho it wasn't worth the possible risk. Man i really got shaky by the thought you might do that with the potassium too as you hold it up.
You did a lot other very dangerous stuff and ofc im not the first one to throw a stone when it comes to taking risks, but it would be a real tragedy if something seriously bad would happen to you.
Cheers bud, keep it up - and save. :)
Well done!
What would happen if you release sodium or potassium at several meters depth as oppossed to dropping it onto the surface of water? Would the reaction be more violent as each part of metal that chips/explodes off then cannot escape contact with water? Or would the atmospheric pressure surrounding it contain more of the reaction? It would be interesting to see how it moves when totally submerged.
I recently found your channel and it's awesome! Keep up the great work!
Honestly Thunderf00t is the man you need to talk to, but from what I've seen it doesnt really matter if its above or below the surface. There is some kind of electrical interaction that causes the explosion.
***** Great, thanks!
can you try extracting potassium from bananas?
You look like shaggy from the Scooby Doo movie.
Cody, you are the very definition of a mad scientist.
That splat on the wall at 4:21 couldn't have been timed better. It's like in a movie where something comically explodes ;) .
You are probably the first person to ever try to eat sodium metal
he never ate it
Theman Oje Some went down his throat, even if it was a small amount
iisdan no? he spat it right out? haha
Theman Oje 99.99999% of it
iisdan Its not a liquid its a solid he spit out 100 procent of it
I want to see francium in water. That must be insane.
Joshua Middleton we all do however francium has a short half life and there is very little of it on the earth at any given time
Joshua Middleton yea theres 22 GRAMS of francium AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT ON EARTH!!!!
Can somebody please make some up in their lab and bite it whilst filming. I just need to know!!
Given it's so radioactive you can't solidify it (It literally glow white hot with radiation) just having some in air would be impressive.
Not possible, but heres a guy that wants to watch this world burn.
I would have probably rinsed my mouth with oil before doing that :P
that sounds more unpleasant than an explosion
While unpleasant, it's probably better than risking loss of teeth and burned soft tissues.
Assuming you use vegetable oil, not that bad, people do that to handle hot peppers.
Gareth Dean Are they spitting the excess oil after eating hot peppers? given the fact that capsaicin is soluble in oils... Why would they do that if not for this reason?
Cry stics
Capsaicin binds to human nerve endings because they're largely phospholipid, in the watery confines of the mouth they're the best surface to absorb onto. If however oil is present *this* becomes the medium the capsaicin prefers to dissolve in, lowering its concentrations on cell surfaces. This is why milk is a traditional remedy, the particles of fat it contains absorb the spice.
That explosion slow mow at the end was GREAT! I will leave it all to you, and I will stick to playing with knives.
1:45 to 2:00 had me LMAO!!!!! Cody, I'm glad you do these experiments, so neither my kids, nor I have to!!!!! Thank you!!!
How has this video NOT HIT 2,000,000 views????? It is awesome!!! All the viral traits: stupid as everything, funny, spontaneous! Pure AWESOMENESS!!!!