Hello Fresh used to be better. Last 4 or 5 boxes either had broken, open packages of meat, or rotting, inedible vegetables. Soft, green carrots, fuzzy greens, and the whole box coated in chicken juice? Very tasty. They also don't have a way on their app to delete your account. You have to figure it out on the website, on a full computer. Be warned of Hello Fresh.
I used to work in a factory that used highly concentrated hydrofluoric acid on a regular basis. The chemist in charge of storing, handling and mixing the acid told me that if I ever saw him running out of the plant I should follow him.
As a Belgian this brings back very bad memories. We had Andras pandi. he used sodium hydroxide to dissolve hes children and wife one by one after abusing them for years. Because the barrels where put into the sewer. The belgian government had a problem as they had to proof that what he used was able to dissolve it. For the first time ever in the world,Belgium closed a deal with the Fbi in America. And a one time only law was written. A real dead person that was given to science was agreed to use to test how fast the body would completely dissolve into the same mix... Fbi experts came to Belgium to help with the test. Just like with pandi the body was cut up in the same way like he confessed and where placed in the same exact type barrel and Within 24 hours only bones where left. And within 48 hours everything was gone. Till now it's still the first and only time a real dead body was used to perform this test to use as proof in court.
@@holly541 The story is even allot more dark then what i wrote here. IF you read how he did and why and so on... It's a shocking story of a real real real monster that was able to go on for a few years. If you then know that it was hes daughter that confessed and told this whole story while she was just eating a club sandwich at the police station like it was nothing.. I can tell you it's something where you think your just reading a serial killer fiction novel.
I say this not as a criticism, your English is excellent and as a Belgian it is fair to assume that English is not your first language, but because in your position, I would want someone to let me know. The correct term is "dead body" not "death body", death is a noun, the adjective form is dead. I am sorry your country had to experience the aftermath of the actions of that horrible person, but maybe the information obtained can be used to help convict others like him in the future.
That's amazing! I had never heard of that! Altho you should know we use bodies on a regular basis. There is a corpse farm at Vanderbilt University In Tennessee where we leave human corpses in various staged situations to see how human bodies decompose under those circumstances
Short version: 1) Can hydrofluoric acid reduce a body to mush like in Breaking Bad? No, it’s considered a weak acid and won’t break down bodies or the tubs they’re in. However, it is poisonous and the fluorine can be absorbed into a living body and cause serious injuries. 2) Sulfuric acid is far more effective at breaking down bodies, and has been frequently used by murderers to do exactly that. It takes about two days to break down the body to be liquid enough to dispose of down a drain. Note that it will not always break down extremely tough materials in bodies like gallstones or dentures, and bones will often still require additional manual destruction. 3) Lye solution heated to boiling can dissolve a body in a few hours. It’s also much easier to buy, as it is not as regulated as strong acids. 4) Hydrogen peroxide mixed with sulfuric acid, aka “Piranha solution”, will very expeditiously eliminate a body entirely. Logical conclusion: lye solution is safest bet with lowest risk, yet piranha solution is by far the fastest if you have access to untraceable sulfuric acid. You’re welcome, and good luck.
I recently bought sulfuric acid at Walmart. I could have paid cash. The really hard part is the hydrogen peroxide. Its not easy to increase the concentration of the stuff you can easily buy. The concentration that Simon mentioned, used for rockets, is much higher than I think is needed for piranha solution.
I get 93% sulfuric acid at Walmart all the time for clearing large sewage drain lines, sometimes several gallons at a time. Never got a weird look. Just sayin' 😉 Edit: didn't see the above post obviously but Walmart also sells a gallon of 35% H2O2 for $40 bucks. A little pricy, but if you _really_ need the stuff I'm sure it's worth every penny
Two chemists walk into a bar. The first one says "I'll have a glass of H2O". The second guy says "I'll have a glass of H2O as well". The first guy curses, and says "Damned, foiled AGAIN!".
In high school, my dad and I made homemade soap, and when it came to the lye, my dad explained how effective it is at destroying bodies. Needless to say, it's a hard fact to forget
I spilled 75% lye down my rubber boot at a facility where I cleaned grill grates for a restaurant. It left a nasty scar and 10 years later it still gets inflamed and the skin flakes off.
it's also in several dozen movies... but really kinda slow and bad for that. in general alkalines feel slippery because they turn the oils and fats on your skin... and eventually the skin... into soap. so if it feels slippery and isn't soap, rinse it off... also acids feel tacky because of a similar thing where they're degrading your skin.
I used to make soap as well with my wife she was goofing around while I was finishing up when she accidentally knocked her phone into a 5 gallon bucket of lye. She instantly stuck her hand in the bucket before I had a chance to yell no. Her hand instantly turned red but I remembered hearing that if you ever got lyr on your skin to lather your skin in olive oil or coconut oil because it would stop the lye from doing any more harm. I'm assuming it worked cuz all she got was a little red and itchy skin her phone on the other hand was completely destroyed. It was water proof but the lye are through the seals just in the time that I helped her clean her skin and made the phone so that it would no longer turn on and after a few hours the phone started to melt....
I love Simon's final comment: "If you ever find yourself looking for the best way to dispose of a body, take a moment to reflect on how you got to this place because chances are you've got much bigger problems to deal with." :)
The standard body-dissolving chemical is lye aka sodium hydroxide. The main source is drain clog remover because most drain clogs are formed by hair and other bio-gunk that accumulates naturally when humans shower, exfoliate etc. It works, even though the body's overall chemistry is slightly to the basic side of neutral (about 7.35-7.4) because the hydroxide anion is a strong proton acceptor. That means that it strips hydrogen atoms off of organic molecules to form water (alkaline hydrolysis, aka saponification), and as a result, those organic molecules are turned into simpler molecules with lower melting points (triglycerides are turned into fatty acids, saturated fats are dehydrogenated to form unsaturated fats, alkanes become alcohols, etc). Sodium hydroxide is also a ready source of the sodium ion; sodium salts are always water-soluble (at least I can't think of a single one that isn't). The resulting compounds are thus either liquids or water-soluble alcohols and salts, which flush down the drain. What's left is the brittle, insoluble calcium "shell" of the skeleton; if hydrolyzed by sodium hydroxide, the resulting calcium hydroxide ("slaked lime") won't dissolve completely but is relatively easy to clean up.
My grandfather worked at an acid plant and after unloading a barge of hydrofluoric acid the pan used to contain the drips from the inlet failed while he was standing under it, he immediately jumped off the dock into the water and when he climbed out of the water his clothes were almost eaten through by the acid. He went on to live for many years after this.
@@josephharrison5639 why? simon is just a script reader, the writers are the ones doing research. you'll notice this in early episodes where he doesn't pronounce nearly anything correctly.
Simon, you need to do a casual criminalist on Snowtown: Bodies in Barrels, where several bodies were found in barrels of hydrochloric acid, hidden in an old bank vault.
I saw an unfortunate man die from sulphuric acid burns in the waiting room at Penn Station in NYC, many years ago. He had been drinking at a bar there (I could see him from my table across the concourse) for at least an hour, with a giant glass bottle on the bar in front of him, filled with a clear liquid. (In hindsight I assume he worked for a jeweler, since they use H2SO4.) Finally he staggered away, juggling the big, water-cooler size bottle until he fell down, smashing the bottle and releasing waves of rotten-egg smell. He didn't scream -- I last saw him sitting on the hard floor there, his clothes melted away except for the tattered remains of his underwear, looking sad and confused, like "Oh man, I've really done it this time." This being New York, I don't think the story even made the newspapers. The stain was still on the station floor when I moved away from NY years later.
Back in my uni, there was this idiot lab assistant in one of the research groups who had to work on some optical materials for an experiment. He had to use some HF, which he poured out of the container... Into a glass beaker... And left inside a fume hood.. Uncovered... And unlabeled. Both of which are required as standard practice for highly dangerous chemicals. Then he left the lab for some reason. So it was left there for someone to come by and encounter. Needless to say another research assistant did come by and find it, report it and got that guy formally written up. They also had to get the fume hood and extraction system inspected for possible damage from any acid fumes that may have been drawn up into it. That idiot did some other dangerous stuff and eventually got fired. Total loose cannon
I used to do child labor for fun at my family friend's egg farm when I was a kid. They made fertilizer with the chicken waste, and they had 2 story high piles of it. You could put a chicken bone in there and mark it with a flag and go back a week later and try to find it and it would be dissolved and nowhere to be found.
The man who got dissolved in Yellowstone attempting to "hot pot" could be worth its own episode.. a very morbid mash up of this and the "zone of death" episodes
3:19 Simon misspoke slightly here - HF attacks glass (silicon-dioxide) but *not* silicon. This is precisely what we use it to do in microelectronics fabrication. Other than that, marvelous treatment of HF. We teach our students to treat it with the utmost care and respect. Also, piranha etch is precisely as scary as he describes it, if not more so, and looks like some straight up Bond villain sh*t in real life. Source: getting my PhD in electrical engineering.
My first job I had, we used both sulphuric acid and hydrogen peroxide. Not mixed together though, they were used separately in the process. Nasty stuff.
By coincidence had a conversation related to this yesterday, I work in science related area and was saying how , probably due to movies etc, the public have a “ fear of acid” 🙂, yet strong (& dangerous) alkaline solutions are probably more common in everyday life - so much so I hear warnings of alkaline decribed as “like acid”. I just find it an interesting case of different chemical PR profile🤔
A couple of weeks ago, I read in the news about a foot that had been found in a pool in Yellowstone National Park. The news post claimed that the water in the pool was strongly acidic. Whereas in fact it was slightly alkaline. The reason is probably because the journalist ASSUMED that the only thing that can do something like this, is a strong acid.
in one of the labs I worked at, there was group that focused on fluorine chemistry and NMR, they had syringe prefilled with specail Ca solution/salts and wide bored needles that would be injected in near the exposure site. not a nie chemical to deal with but great for cleaning glass after dealing with Pd or Pt. one thing to keep in mind with H2SO4, it generates a lot of heat when diluted and can burn things... personal experience. :-)
I work in a fluorine chem lab, thankfully we don't have any of those nightmare syringes, but we do have several tubes of cream for initial treatment of dermal HF exposure and a bottle of liquid for washing out the eyes in case you splash HF in them 😬.
Did you miss the part where Lye produces something that can be flushed down the toilet? Seriously. Once dissolved on an excess of sodium hydroxide, add a bit of sodium bicarb and flush once it stops foaming. At that point the base will have been neutralized so the solution is not environmentally dangetous
Hydroflouric acid breaks biological material down at the molecular level. There will be no forensic evidence left. The resulting slurry can further just be dumped into a large body of water, or down a drain.
The creators purposefully left some information out and changed other parts of information on purpose, as to not accidentally teach people how to cook meth throughout the show. I'm sure this was one of those subtle changes.
The Casual Criminalist Crime Rule #69420: If you want to dissolve a body with chemicals, use lye instead of strong acids. Minus points if you use piranha solution despite how fast it can dissolve things.
Honestly, a wonderful thing for someone who writes I can now write with scientific accuracies and to not give people the actual recipe, I can just not call it by name. Am I now going to research how to make sulfuric acid without leaving a paper trail? (at least not one that is suspicious) Yeah, but whatever
@@pokeydot1975 There's a lake in Nevada that's drying up now and there's apparently a lot of bodies in cement filled barrels turning up. There a lot of old mobsters regretting that method now!
I vaguely remember instead of acid someone in the Midwest came up with the idea to use driveway salt to first desiccate the body so once completely dried it could be broken up and more discretely dispersed. And while Arizona might not have a huge demand for road salt, water softener salt crystals might also work.
Interesting. According to Google's answer, hydrofluoric acid will, in fact, dissolve a body. It merely adds the caveat that you would probably have to continue adding more acid to the mixture as the acid "becomes weak and stops dissolving over time." In Google's defense, they seem to be sourcing their answer from a submission on the chemistry section of StackExchange. Certainly wouldn't be the first time they sourced misleading information without properly vetting it first.
the funny part about your comment is that Google's answer is right the limited volume of the container means that body fluids will seep out and lower the pH significantly . . . it won't "stop" dissolving, just slow down
What hospital ever dissolved human flesh in lye? Parts removed through amputation, or things like tumours, organs, etc, are destroyed in hospital incinerators. Bodies donated to science are given back to the family after a period of a year or two. Usually they will choose to take part in a funeral, paid for by the scientific institution. Institutions often have memorial days, where the families of their donors can come together with the scientists in remembrance and thanks for those donors.
Reacting before watching, but in Belgium we had a serial killer who did exactly that: during the '80's Andras Pandy dissolved the bodies of his victims (including his family members) using the product Cleanest and his bath tub 😳😱
I doubt the concentrations that are easy to get would do too much to a body but i know even a 10% strength phosphoric acid will take this skin off your face pretty happily, we use one for cleaning public toilets at work and I copped a face full due to a bottle malfunction, immediately dumped over 300 litres of water over my head and flew to hospital, saved my eyes but all the skin on the inside of my nose is still gone a year later. Was very weird to sneeze up a heap of yellow gunk only to realise it was partially melted skin sloughing off
Distilling hydrogen peroxide is very difficult and extremely hazardous due to runaway ethoxthermic thermal decomposition. It is absolutely not something you could realistically or safely attempt without a lot of forethought and specially constructed vacuum distillation equipment. Luckily 30% peroxide and conc. sulphuric acid produces very effective piranha solution. What most people don't realise is how violent the process of making and using piranha solution is and how hot it gets. I've used it on a roughly 500 mL scale to clean glass filter frits and stirrer bars etc many times, but it is always a bit frisky. Not something I would allow my research students to do. An inexperienced person mixing it on a large enough scale to dispose of a corpse would very likely be seriously injured or killed in the attempt.
Before watching I'm gonna say: Yes, yes you kinda can. Cartels here in Mexico have been doing it for years. For exemple "El pozolero" (alias deriving from a Mexican dish called pozole, it's a soup of corn, chilli and pork) dissolved around 300 bodies using sodium hydroxide. I know NaOH it's a base but still.
Lye is actually pretty easy to make yourself, too. Just run distilled water or baking soda water through hardwood ash. The paper trail on that, if there is one, is a lot more innocuous - hardwood can be purchased easily from hardware stores, or you can get scrap hardwood from some demolition sites - I assume, if you're doing this, you're okay with simply stealing the scrap, or buying it from a corrupt member of the demolition team itself. Distilled water can be purchased from any Walmart, or just mix a few boxes of baking soda with tap water. Filter the water through the ash, and there's your lye. Handy for making soap, unclogging drains, or dissolving bodies! I do wonder, though. If you take the liquid left over after dissolving a body in lye, neutralize its ph with some vinegar, then evaporate the water, you'd be left with a bunch of brown goop that's full of organic chemicals. Heat that in an anoxic environment, and the proteins, fats, and such will denature. Mix that result with some silt and peat moss, and it would make an effective compost, wouldn't it? Especially when the bone dust from the remaining fragments is added, giving mineral nutrients to it. Or am I missing something? If anyone knows about this, please reply - I'm very curious to know. I've always liked the idea of having my body turned into compost when I die.
If you want your body "composted" when you die it's a SHITLOAD easier than all that crap....just include a clause in your will that you want your body buried directly in the ground without a coffin. Will you technically be "composted"? No, but basically the same principle....
I assume that's similar to making a fish based fertilizer or something idk but the thought of scraping up the body resin after evaporation into a big pile of goo. Just turned my stomach lol
@@nicks1063 composting makes the nutrients bioavailable more quickly, and makes it less likely that they'll simply disappear. Direct burial has to be deep, to prevent the body, which is much less dense than the soil and rock, from rising back to the surface. Compost can be mixed directly with the topsoil. There's a reason composting guides tell you to never put meat in your home compost bin. Unless the bin gets extremely hot, the bacteria breaking down the meat will release toxins that are quite bad for plants. Now apply that to, say, the 100 kilos of meat & bone in my body. Another reason the burial has to be very deep. A "green" burial - without a coffin or embalming - is certainly more environmentally friendly than a traditional burial or cremation. But it doesn't get used by plants immediately, which is the point of composting.
If they're gonna put me in the ground it needs to be in a natural way. No box's or chemicals. Or to be burnt on a pure. So yes I don't particularly fancy the idea of embalming either. Id be happy to be put into the ocean as well. But yes you're method still sounds icky lol
With the backwardness of our economy, increment in the price of gas, alarming rates of unemployment. I must confess our country have taken a wrong turn. Vividly I don't know how else to carter for my expenses.
Am from Denver Colorado USA I connected with him and he has helped me a lot,he makes so much profit for me, he is a FINRA agent, the best I can invest with so far ever since I came across expert Mr Thompson Edward , my bad turned out being good and profitable. he made success earlier than we thought.
A lovely internet quote I just found: "A lye solution, heated to 300 Fahrenheit degrees (148 Celsius), can dissolve an entire body into an oily brown liquid in just three hours." I presume their use of "lye" refers to NaOH, but it seems likely that KOH would do the job as well.
Surprised you didn't mention the man who managed to off himself in a pool in Yellowstone. Not sure which chemical, but it was quick enough the rangers had to tell his sister they could not reclaim the body just hours after they arrived. Haven't googled it, may have messed up some of the details.
So what I’ve learned here is that you need to steal the components that make up "piranha solution," and you need to dump the remains from your rented workshop/storage facility almost immediately upon completion of the dissolution. Leave no paper trail and leave no traces. Lesson learned.
i remember reading some news headline about some guy in mexico who got arrested, after the police found he was dissolving bodies in barrels of acid, for the mexican drug cartel I assume, if it's even possible, that it would take a while
Simon really starting to help criminals. First a list of rules and helpful tips on the casual criminalist and now this video. Slight sarcasm and I mean nothing by it. I love all his channels
It's very nice that videos like these can just randomly pop up in my UA-cam feed, with no need to search for them. That makes it less likely that the FBI can find google searches such as "How to dispose of a dead body" or similar in my search history. On the other hand, maybe this video popped up in my UA-cam feed specifically BECAUSE I have made such google searches. It's hard to know for sure, since Google integrates all of their services.
While it sounds right to use something acidic, something basic has an easier and better chance of decomposing organic materials. if my chemistry serves me right
The most effective acid is the one that, after dissolving the body, leaves a substance that is not dangerous for the person who handles it and can be flushed down a common toilet without problems.
This is down to how much acid is used not which type, you'll always end up with neutral pH (water) once all acid has finished reacting. Try the old vinegar & bicarb trick, taste the left over liquid & you'll notice the tang has gone & pretty flavourless
There's an acidic geothermal lake in yellow stone park that's dissolved several people and just shoes and the like were found. I'd guess that's sulfuric acid.
In the US, you can buy nearly 95% sulfuric acid at nearly any hardware store or Walmart as a drain cleaner/clog remover. Just don't use a damn card and leave a paper trail and use cash. 🤦 It's the one in a tall bottle in a bag with warning labels all over it. You can even buy it by the gallon like that for around $25-$30/gallon. To make the piranha solution, you need at least 12% peroxide, but 25-30% works far better. But if you can slowly evaporate the water off of the peroxide you can concentrate it and make it much stronger. Just don't boil it as that destroys the peroxide. I find that about 150°f is the best temperature to concentrate the peroxide. Test it by weighing it and finding it's density. You can even do this with normal 3%, it just takes a lot longer to do. But I would rather use Sodium Hydroxide, aka Lye, as it's much, much better at dissolving everything, even teeth and bones and leaves behind only what they call "bone shadows" that can be crumbled and dumped wherever. It can also be bought at the same places in the same isles as another drain cleaner. You just want to be sure that it's the "crystal" version that is a powder/grainy material like sand. You can buy it by the 2lb bottle that is black with a red lid called "crystal drain cleaner"and some even sell it as a 1lb white bottle. This is also what makes soap and shampoo slippery. Just don't do that in an aluminum container as it will eat the aluminum quite quickly. As a chemist, I can tell you many, many ways to get rid of..... Unwanted "meat or organic matter".
Sodium hydroxide is harder to buy these days. I used to use it make hydrogen balloons. Its why you should not put uncoated aluminum in dishwashers because the dishwasher detergent is mostly not detergent, it has a lot of NaOH.
Oh go mail a bear you dork, why does everyone on the internet want to act like they're some sort of operative or something? Oh you have to add the meat a little chunk at a time huh, what a weirdo
FYI, if you haven’t seen Breaking Bad yet (first of all you’re kinda crazy), but to be honest, I wasn’t really into the first couple episodes, but this happens in like episode 3 or something, and when I saw this scene, I was instantly hooked and it became my favourite show haha 😂
Vary, vary interesting. But even more crazy is the fact that there are insects and animals that can dispose of a human carcass in the same or less time than chemicals. And as always, great job. 👍 Let's just say that your demeanor and delivery are what makes it.
HF won't dissolve a body. As a chemist, I would use a strong base solution like 20% sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide. If I were to use an acid, I'd use perchloric acid mixed with glacial acetic acid. The problem becomes the body is mostly water, so any acid or base used will be diluted as the body fluids come out of the body. Concentrated sulfuric acid would also work. Regardless, there will be a lot of toxic fumes and it will take a lot of time, a few days. If you use heat plus acid or base solution it will take several hours. Still a lot of toxic fumes. You're likely to poison yourself in the process using acids. When I die, I want to be either aquamated or I want a natural burial, directly into the ground and maybe plant a tree over me.
Wasn't this show filmed in Albuquerque New Mexico don't actually have disposable body there you can just leave it out in the open and the police there will never be able to figure it out
Then there was Roy DeMeo of the Gambino crime family of New York. He knew how to get rid of a body. Not many chemist friends did Roy have. He was dear friend of carpenters, plumbers, and especially butchers! He was old school, organic, and chemical free, he went back, way way back, Roy went medieval!
I was waiting for at least a brief mention of fluoroantimonic acid, and perhaps an honorary mention (just for the giggles) of azidoazide azide. That stuff is "fun"... So much fun that a particular group of highly immoral people deemed it too dangerous to experiment with... Great video! Thanks for the content!
There's a whole room at the Field Museum in Chicago that is dedicated to turning bodies into bones. Might be a good future topic if you haven't covered it yet.
This mostly reminds me that there is one episode left for Better Call Saul, ending over a dozen years of the Breaking Bad/BCS universe. This makes me a little bit melancholy.
Won't work you A) need extremely hungry pigs as there is alot of food so you need to control there food. So you need your own pigs B) you need alot of pigs as a pig will only eat around 2-3 pounds in a siting and it needs to be gone before your neighbor wakes up so you need like a hundred pigs. C) Farmers are extremely intuned to their animals behavior a hundred loud feeding pigs when they should be sleeping would warrant investigating. D) pigs have hard times with big bones so you need to prebreak them to make it disappear faster. Pigs only work for disposal if you own them.
@@jamesrobinson9176 it's all factual information based on some Googleing of pig feeding requirements, a wiki on a Canadian serial killer who did this and growing up in a farming community.
I wonder how many channels does Simon host, given that I found one the other day that has not been referenced to date in any video I've watched and several of those I'm aware of are not linked by any of the other channels.
This was your most helpful video yet! Thanks! Saved me a BUNCH of trouble! I'm joking. But I've worked around HF, and this video is right. It's horrifying stuff in a very different way from how Breaking Bad portrayed it. It's completely deadly in even very small quantities.
I don’t know about dissolving a body, but the show was accurate in one way, HF would not eat the plastic totes the way it would est something like a tub.
I used HF trying to bust a clog and it did nothing to my metal tub that had glaze but it did etch the metal drain. Also I did have quite a few gallons of water dumped down the metal pipes before they stopped I guess I was damn lucky I didn't eat a hole in them
@@TA_Plus_Hemi It depends on which metal it is. I'm not sure about HF, but similar HCl will eat through aluminum violently, iron, steel, and zinc slowly, and won't eat through copper (nor lead I think) at all.
Considering that the ratio of acid to oxidizer, you could buy sulfuric acid drain cleaner (in 3L bottles) and purchase H2O2 in small bottles without creating any undo attention. You can mix the two in as high as 3:1 concentration and dissolve any carbon based "product" in minutes. The final result would appear as clear as what you started with, leaving no organic matter that can be identifiable. Since H2SO4 turns everything into C, and H2O2 oxidizes C into CO2, your back to a weekend mixture or straight acid in the end (depending on how much of the H2O2 has reacted during the process). Fun times!
Everybody knows you have to boil them in lye. 55 gallon drum, a burner from a turkey fryer, and some drain cleaner and you've got yourself a nice Sunday afternoon. So much easier and less cleanup than chainsaws and woodchippers.
My favorite thing in college as an Esthetician was explaining that No Hyaluronic Acid isn't the same acid and that it naturally occurs in the skin and is very important 🤭🤭
John George Haig did it in 1949. All that was found of the victim Olive Durand-Deacon was 28 pounds of fat, part of a foot, some gallstones and part of a denture which led to identification by her dentist.
For 16 free meals with HelloFresh across 7 boxes AND 3 free gifts, use code BRAINFOOD16 at bit.ly/32xu4Ny
Hello Fresh used to be better. Last 4 or 5 boxes either had broken, open packages of meat, or rotting, inedible vegetables. Soft, green carrots, fuzzy greens, and the whole box coated in chicken juice? Very tasty. They also don't have a way on their app to delete your account. You have to figure it out on the website, on a full computer.
Be warned of Hello Fresh.
When I think of dead bodies being dissolved in acid, I love thinking about hello fresh 😂
@@holly541 same quality end result.
Sorry, but I've lost my appetite.
Maybe you're more focused on Hitler skulls?
I used to work in a factory that used highly concentrated hydrofluoric acid on a regular basis. The chemist in charge of storing, handling and mixing the acid told me that if I ever saw him running out of the plant I should follow him.
😂
A similar quote I read: "If you ever see an explosive specialist running, follow him."
We use high concentration of Sodium Hydroxide heated with steam that definitely is melty.
“A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn’t know what’s going on.
An ordinance technician at a dead run outranks EVERYBODY.”
And try to keep up.
As a Belgian this brings back very bad memories. We had Andras pandi. he used sodium hydroxide to dissolve hes children and wife one by one after abusing them for years. Because the barrels where put into the sewer. The belgian government had a problem as they had to proof that what he used was able to dissolve it.
For the first time ever in the world,Belgium closed a deal with the Fbi in America. And a one time only law was written. A real dead person that was given to science was agreed to use to test how fast the body would completely dissolve into the same mix... Fbi experts came to Belgium to help with the test. Just like with pandi the body was cut up in the same way like he confessed and where placed in the same exact type barrel and Within 24 hours only bones where left. And within 48 hours everything was gone.
Till now it's still the first and only time a real dead body was used to perform this test to use as proof in court.
I had no idea about this, thank you for the information!
@@holly541 The story is even allot more dark then what i wrote here. IF you read how he did and why and so on... It's a shocking story of a real real real monster that was able to go on for a few years. If you then know that it was hes daughter that confessed and told this whole story while she was just eating a club sandwich at the police station like it was nothing.. I can tell you it's something where you think your just reading a serial killer fiction novel.
I say this not as a criticism, your English is excellent and as a Belgian it is fair to assume that English is not your first language, but because in your position, I would want someone to let me know.
The correct term is "dead body" not "death body", death is a noun, the adjective form is dead.
I am sorry your country had to experience the aftermath of the actions of that horrible person, but maybe the information obtained can be used to help convict others like him in the future.
We definitely had more experience. Organized crime used to use this as well.
That's amazing! I had never heard of that!
Altho you should know we use bodies on a regular basis. There is a corpse farm at Vanderbilt University In Tennessee where we leave human corpses in various staged situations to see how human bodies decompose under those circumstances
Video about dissolving people in acid - sponsored by Hello Fresh. If you want to try something that is fresh and adventurous ^_^
Thank you for pointing this out. XD
You make me laugh you get a thumb
Yeah because nothing puts you in the mood for something to eat like dissolving dead corpses of people you violently killed
Oh myyy 🤣
Glad I wasn't the only one thinking the video sponsor was funny considering the subject
Short version:
1) Can hydrofluoric acid reduce a body to mush like in Breaking Bad? No, it’s considered a weak acid and won’t break down bodies or the tubs they’re in. However, it is poisonous and the fluorine can be absorbed into a living body and cause serious injuries.
2) Sulfuric acid is far more effective at breaking down bodies, and has been frequently used by murderers to do exactly that. It takes about two days to break down the body to be liquid enough to dispose of down a drain. Note that it will not always break down extremely tough materials in bodies like gallstones or dentures, and bones will often still require additional manual destruction.
3) Lye solution heated to boiling can dissolve a body in a few hours. It’s also much easier to buy, as it is not as regulated as strong acids.
4) Hydrogen peroxide mixed with sulfuric acid, aka “Piranha solution”, will very expeditiously eliminate a body entirely.
Logical conclusion: lye solution is safest bet with lowest risk, yet piranha solution is by far the fastest if you have access to untraceable sulfuric acid.
You’re welcome, and good luck.
*FBI enters the chat*
@@bobbyh5724 lol
@@bobbyh5724 The FBI already knows this tho
I recently bought sulfuric acid at Walmart. I could have paid cash. The really hard part is the hydrogen peroxide. Its not easy to increase the concentration of the stuff you can easily buy. The concentration that Simon mentioned, used for rockets, is much higher than I think is needed for piranha solution.
I get 93% sulfuric acid at Walmart all the time for clearing large sewage drain lines, sometimes several gallons at a time. Never got a weird look. Just sayin' 😉
Edit: didn't see the above post obviously but Walmart also sells a gallon of 35% H2O2 for $40 bucks. A little pricy, but if you _really_ need the stuff I'm sure it's worth every penny
Two guys walk into a bar. The first says, "I'll have H2O". The second guys says, "I'll have H2O too". The second guy dies.
Two chemists walk into a bar. The first one says "I'll have a glass of H2O". The second guy says "I'll have a glass of H2O as well". The first guy curses, and says "Damned, foiled AGAIN!".
Oh yeah, great original joke I have literally never heard before!
@@adr.marius5636 Calm down kiddo
In high school, my dad and I made homemade soap, and when it came to the lye, my dad explained how effective it is at destroying bodies. Needless to say, it's a hard fact to forget
I spilled 75% lye down my rubber boot at a facility where I cleaned grill grates for a restaurant. It left a nasty scar and 10 years later it still gets inflamed and the skin flakes off.
it's also in several dozen movies... but really kinda slow and bad for that.
in general alkalines feel slippery because they turn the oils and fats on your skin... and eventually the skin... into soap.
so if it feels slippery and isn't soap, rinse it off... also acids feel tacky because of a similar thing where they're degrading your skin.
I used to make soap as well with my wife she was goofing around while I was finishing up when she accidentally knocked her phone into a 5 gallon bucket of lye. She instantly stuck her hand in the bucket before I had a chance to yell no. Her hand instantly turned red but I remembered hearing that if you ever got lyr on your skin to lather your skin in olive oil or coconut oil because it would stop the lye from doing any more harm. I'm assuming it worked cuz all she got was a little red and itchy skin her phone on the other hand was completely destroyed. It was water proof but the lye are through the seals just in the time that I helped her clean her skin and made the phone so that it would no longer turn on and after a few hours the phone started to melt....
@@froggygamer1716
Good lesson to NEVER E V E R leave containers of chemicals open.
I love Simon's final comment: "If you ever find yourself looking for the best way to dispose of a body, take a moment to reflect on how you got to this place because chances are you've got much bigger problems to deal with." :)
Not if I can successfully dissolve the body, my clothes, and the murder weapon.
The standard body-dissolving chemical is lye aka sodium hydroxide. The main source is drain clog remover because most drain clogs are formed by hair and other bio-gunk that accumulates naturally when humans shower, exfoliate etc. It works, even though the body's overall chemistry is slightly to the basic side of neutral (about 7.35-7.4) because the hydroxide anion is a strong proton acceptor. That means that it strips hydrogen atoms off of organic molecules to form water (alkaline hydrolysis, aka saponification), and as a result, those organic molecules are turned into simpler molecules with lower melting points (triglycerides are turned into fatty acids, saturated fats are dehydrogenated to form unsaturated fats, alkanes become alcohols, etc). Sodium hydroxide is also a ready source of the sodium ion; sodium salts are always water-soluble (at least I can't think of a single one that isn't). The resulting compounds are thus either liquids or water-soluble alcohols and salts, which flush down the drain. What's left is the brittle, insoluble calcium "shell" of the skeleton; if hydrolyzed by sodium hydroxide, the resulting calcium hydroxide ("slaked lime") won't dissolve completely but is relatively easy to clean up.
My grandfather worked at an acid plant and after unloading a barge of hydrofluoric acid the pan used to contain the drips from the inlet failed while he was standing under it, he immediately jumped off the dock into the water and when he climbed out of the water his clothes were almost eaten through by the acid. He went on to live for many years after this.
I can't tell you how helpful this video was. Talk about a coincidence!
Thanks!
You my friend should check out The Casual Criminalist.
Think the video was called the acid bath murderer
reported
@@JimmyMon666 sarcasm in short supply today?
Keep watching the Steven's place Andora is up to something.
@@brianmurphie7501 honestly, forget which episode. dude should just follow the rules lol
Johnny was a chemist's son, now Johnny is no more. What he thought was H2O was H2SO4.
Johnny was a film maker's son, now Johnny is no more. What he thought was H20 was "Halloween H20 Years Later." Michael Myers showed up!
I was going to make a sodium joke but then I was like, Na. Nobody will get it.
Lol
👍, and there must be a way to work "OH" into the joke
I understood.
Dad jokes in the house!
Baka... Bakara!!!
Simon should do a sit down with Adam Savage about their biggest busted myths.
Dude I’d watch an entire tv series of multiple seasons of just them talking to each other
LOL. Adam doesn't have time for the likes of Simon and unpaid chats. Offer him in the high 5 to 6 figures and sure he'll do it.
@@josephharrison5639 why? simon is just a script reader, the writers are the ones doing research. you'll notice this in early episodes where he doesn't pronounce nearly anything correctly.
Simon, you need to do a casual criminalist on Snowtown: Bodies in Barrels, where several bodies were found in barrels of hydrochloric acid, hidden in an old bank vault.
that sounds very interesting
What country was that in, Australia?
That movie messed me up.
Yeah, near Adelaide, in South Australia.
I was scouting the answers to see if someone had mentioned Snowtown. 1992.
I saw an unfortunate man die from sulphuric acid burns in the waiting room at Penn Station in NYC, many years ago. He had been drinking at a bar there (I could see him from my table across the concourse) for at least an hour, with a giant glass bottle on the bar in front of him, filled with a clear liquid. (In hindsight I assume he worked for a jeweler, since they use H2SO4.) Finally he staggered away, juggling the big, water-cooler size bottle until he fell down, smashing the bottle and releasing waves of rotten-egg smell. He didn't scream -- I last saw him sitting on the hard floor there, his clothes melted away except for the tattered remains of his underwear, looking sad and confused, like "Oh man, I've really done it this time." This being New York, I don't think the story even made the newspapers. The stain was still on the station floor when I moved away from NY years later.
Dang...
I was going to make a joke about what I look forward to doing with this information, but as Simon says... don't write down your crimes
Your FBI agent is putting your name on a list as we speak
Simon, well done on product placement for Hello Fresh while talking about dissolving bodies in a tub. Tip o' the hat to you, sir.
Back in my uni, there was this idiot lab assistant in one of the research groups who had to work on some optical materials for an experiment. He had to use some HF, which he poured out of the container... Into a glass beaker... And left inside a fume hood.. Uncovered... And unlabeled. Both of which are required as standard practice for highly dangerous chemicals.
Then he left the lab for some reason.
So it was left there for someone to come by and encounter.
Needless to say another research assistant did come by and find it, report it and got that guy formally written up. They also had to get the fume hood and extraction system inspected for possible damage from any acid fumes that may have been drawn up into it.
That idiot did some other dangerous stuff and eventually got fired. Total loose cannon
I used to do child labor for fun at my family friend's egg farm when I was a kid. They made fertilizer with the chicken waste, and they had 2 story high piles of it. You could put a chicken bone in there and mark it with a flag and go back a week later and try to find it and it would be dissolved and nowhere to be found.
The man who got dissolved in Yellowstone attempting to "hot pot" could be worth its own episode.. a very morbid mash up of this and the "zone of death" episodes
3:19 Simon misspoke slightly here - HF attacks glass (silicon-dioxide) but *not* silicon. This is precisely what we use it to do in microelectronics fabrication.
Other than that, marvelous treatment of HF. We teach our students to treat it with the utmost care and respect.
Also, piranha etch is precisely as scary as he describes it, if not more so, and looks like some straight up Bond villain sh*t in real life.
Source: getting my PhD in electrical engineering.
I'm impressed that any company would want to sponsor a video on this topic. Especially a company that sells prepared meals.
I love how most things in life can be used for good and bad at the same time, depending on the person's intention.
My first job I had, we used both sulphuric acid and hydrogen peroxide. Not mixed together though, they were used separately in the process. Nasty stuff.
By coincidence had a conversation related to this yesterday, I work in science related area and was saying how , probably due to movies etc, the public have a “ fear of acid” 🙂, yet strong (& dangerous) alkaline solutions are probably more common in everyday life - so much so I hear warnings of alkaline decribed as “like acid”. I just find it an interesting case of different chemical PR profile🤔
A couple of weeks ago, I read in the news about a foot that had been found in a pool in Yellowstone National Park.
The news post claimed that the water in the pool was strongly acidic. Whereas in fact it was slightly alkaline. The reason is probably because the journalist ASSUMED that the only thing that can do something like this, is a strong acid.
in one of the labs I worked at, there was group that focused on fluorine chemistry and NMR, they had syringe prefilled with specail Ca solution/salts and wide bored needles that would be injected in near the exposure site. not a nie chemical to deal with but great for cleaning glass after dealing with Pd or Pt. one thing to keep in mind with H2SO4, it generates a lot of heat when diluted and can burn things... personal experience. :-)
I work in a fluorine chem lab, thankfully we don't have any of those nightmare syringes, but we do have several tubes of cream for initial treatment of dermal HF exposure and a bottle of liquid for washing out the eyes in case you splash HF in them 😬.
They contain Calcium Gluconate, a highly skin soluble calcium salt that can intercept the F- ions on their way to nerves in your limbs.
Remember, you can dissolve it, but it just changes into something else not easily hidden.
Not if you have a desert nearby. Just ask the cartels how they make their stew.
Did you miss the part where Lye produces something that can be flushed down the toilet?
Seriously. Once dissolved on an excess of sodium hydroxide, add a bit of sodium bicarb and flush once it stops foaming. At that point the base will have been neutralized so the solution is not environmentally dangetous
@@cockatoo010 ah the green friendly murderer
Hydroflouric acid breaks biological material down at the molecular level. There will be no forensic evidence left. The resulting slurry can further just be dumped into a large body of water, or down a drain.
10 out of 10, helped me commit murder and not get away with it.
The creators purposefully left some information out and changed other parts of information on purpose, as to not accidentally teach people how to cook meth throughout the show. I'm sure this was one of those subtle changes.
"crime disolved"
It’s most likely possible.
Step 1: Add Sulfuric acid
Step 2: Add Hydrogen Peroxide
Step 3: Add ANYTHING made of carbon
That solution dissolves bones!
As a soap maker, I know there is a formula that will tell you how much water and lye to use to dissolve a body of a certain weight.
Serial killers watching this thread like🧐
@@jakestroll6518 "write that down WRITE THAT DOWN"
Do you know the formula by any chance?
@@g.o.a.t5652 a2+b2=c2
@@fernandocrespin7201 That wont help me getting rid of the bodies 😠
The Casual Criminalist Crime Rule #69420: If you want to dissolve a body with chemicals, use lye instead of strong acids. Minus points if you use piranha solution despite how fast it can dissolve things.
Breaking bad Director: let's not give people the actual recipes.
Simon: "heres what you actually need to dissolve a body"
😂😂💀
Honestly, a wonderful thing for someone who writes
I can now write with scientific accuracies and to not give people the actual recipe, I can just not call it by name. Am I now going to research how to make sulfuric acid without leaving a paper trail? (at least not one that is suspicious) Yeah, but whatever
Good thing the ad for Hello Fresh was BEFORE the actual video. Because after watching that, I'm not hungry any more.......
“Hey, Siri. Where can I hide a body?”
Siri: “What? Again?!”
This is why half-way through they switched to just shoving them in barrels and topping it off with acid for a long-term "solution".
I still think feeding to the pigs or a cement block and ocean dump or burning in a pyre would be all better than an acid bath
Careful in lakes. Especially lake mead
I'd have to go with the cement/ocean option. The other 2 have too big of a risk of trace evidence being left.
I thought he used hydroflorous acid
Pigs cannot digest all the bone and if your plan is to remove any evidence then it will still be in its waste.. albeit tiny pieces.
@@pokeydot1975 There's a lake in Nevada that's drying up now and there's apparently a lot of bodies in cement filled barrels turning up. There a lot of old mobsters regretting that method now!
I vaguely remember instead of acid someone in the Midwest came up with the idea to use driveway salt to first desiccate the body so once completely dried it could be broken up and more discretely dispersed. And while Arizona might not have a huge demand for road salt, water softener salt crystals might also work.
Delicious home made dude jerky.
That's actually genius.
Interesting. According to Google's answer, hydrofluoric acid will, in fact, dissolve a body. It merely adds the caveat that you would probably have to continue adding more acid to the mixture as the acid "becomes weak and stops dissolving over time." In Google's defense, they seem to be sourcing their answer from a submission on the chemistry section of StackExchange. Certainly wouldn't be the first time they sourced misleading information without properly vetting it first.
the funny part about your comment is that Google's answer is right
the limited volume of the container means that body fluids will seep out and lower the pH significantly . . . it won't "stop" dissolving, just slow down
What hospital ever dissolved human flesh in lye? Parts removed through amputation, or things like tumours, organs, etc, are destroyed in hospital incinerators. Bodies donated to science are given back to the family after a period of a year or two. Usually they will choose to take part in a funeral, paid for by the scientific institution. Institutions often have memorial days, where the families of their donors can come together with the scientists in remembrance and thanks for those donors.
Reacting before watching, but in Belgium we had a serial killer who did exactly that: during the '80's Andras Pandy dissolved the bodies of his victims (including his family members) using the product Cleanest and his bath tub 😳😱
Bad tub is the most appropriate typo here.
Now I have a new phobia, cheers. New bath in any house I buy is mandatory.
@@reccecs4 😅 In Belgium we just say bad for a bath. But that's probably why 😂
@@Houbbie it's perfect.
Son you know where bad children go?..Thats right the bad kids go in bad tubs.
@@Nytemarezxz the lack of a laugh emoji here is killing me
Very interesting video... I wonder how many watch-lists Simon is on after finishing the research for it. 🤔
His writers for sure.
None, he did the installment for MI6 and CIA to then enable them to check the profiles of everyone who comments LOL
Why would anyone be on a watch list? All of this is well known information.
You gotta love any food company that would advertise on a video guaranteed to kill your appetite. 😁
I doubt the concentrations that are easy to get would do too much to a body but i know even a 10% strength phosphoric acid will take this skin off your face pretty happily, we use one for cleaning public toilets at work and I copped a face full due to a bottle malfunction, immediately dumped over 300 litres of water over my head and flew to hospital, saved my eyes but all the skin on the inside of my nose is still gone a year later.
Was very weird to sneeze up a heap of yellow gunk only to realise it was partially melted skin sloughing off
I sincerely hope you were well compensated for that accident by your employer.
jesus
I've been singing the praises of piranha solution as a body disposal method for years. Obtaining HTP is hard. Distilling isn't.
Don’t sing too loud!🛁👀👍
That's all right, you'll end up in your own piranha tub lol
@@tinafoster8665 thankfully my ex wife isn't very good at chemistry.
Distilling hydrogen peroxide is very difficult and extremely hazardous due to runaway ethoxthermic thermal decomposition. It is absolutely not something you could realistically or safely attempt without a lot of forethought and specially constructed vacuum distillation equipment.
Luckily 30% peroxide and conc. sulphuric acid produces very effective piranha solution. What most people don't realise is how violent the process of making and using piranha solution is and how hot it gets. I've used it on a roughly 500 mL scale to clean glass filter frits and stirrer bars etc many times, but it is always a bit frisky. Not something I would allow my research students to do. An inexperienced person mixing it on a large enough scale to dispose of a corpse would very likely be seriously injured or killed in the attempt.
@@chemistrykrang8065 Whatever happened to that promising young research student, Howe Mi Gon?
Before watching I'm gonna say: Yes, yes you kinda can. Cartels here in Mexico have been doing it for years.
For exemple "El pozolero" (alias deriving from a Mexican dish called pozole, it's a soup of corn, chilli and pork) dissolved around 300 bodies using sodium hydroxide. I know NaOH it's a base but still.
and el Chapo
that alias conjures up some very grotesque images, a la titus andronicus
Lye is actually pretty easy to make yourself, too. Just run distilled water or baking soda water through hardwood ash. The paper trail on that, if there is one, is a lot more innocuous - hardwood can be purchased easily from hardware stores, or you can get scrap hardwood from some demolition sites - I assume, if you're doing this, you're okay with simply stealing the scrap, or buying it from a corrupt member of the demolition team itself. Distilled water can be purchased from any Walmart, or just mix a few boxes of baking soda with tap water. Filter the water through the ash, and there's your lye. Handy for making soap, unclogging drains, or dissolving bodies!
I do wonder, though. If you take the liquid left over after dissolving a body in lye, neutralize its ph with some vinegar, then evaporate the water, you'd be left with a bunch of brown goop that's full of organic chemicals. Heat that in an anoxic environment, and the proteins, fats, and such will denature. Mix that result with some silt and peat moss, and it would make an effective compost, wouldn't it? Especially when the bone dust from the remaining fragments is added, giving mineral nutrients to it. Or am I missing something? If anyone knows about this, please reply - I'm very curious to know. I've always liked the idea of having my body turned into compost when I die.
If you want your body "composted" when you die it's a SHITLOAD easier than all that crap....just include a clause in your will that you want your body buried directly in the ground without a coffin. Will you technically be "composted"? No, but basically the same principle....
I assume that's similar to making a fish based fertilizer or something idk but the thought of scraping up the body resin after evaporation into a big pile of goo. Just turned my stomach lol
@@dutchess406 and embalming a body doesn't?
@@nicks1063 composting makes the nutrients bioavailable more quickly, and makes it less likely that they'll simply disappear. Direct burial has to be deep, to prevent the body, which is much less dense than the soil and rock, from rising back to the surface. Compost can be mixed directly with the topsoil.
There's a reason composting guides tell you to never put meat in your home compost bin. Unless the bin gets extremely hot, the bacteria breaking down the meat will release toxins that are quite bad for plants. Now apply that to, say, the 100 kilos of meat & bone in my body. Another reason the burial has to be very deep.
A "green" burial - without a coffin or embalming - is certainly more environmentally friendly than a traditional burial or cremation. But it doesn't get used by plants immediately, which is the point of composting.
If they're gonna put me in the ground it needs to be in a natural way. No box's or chemicals. Or to be burnt on a pure. So yes I don't particularly fancy the idea of embalming either. Id be happy to be put into the ocean as well. But yes you're method still sounds icky lol
As a chemist, my first thought was to use piranha solution. Very interesting video tho!
With the backwardness of our economy, increment in the price of gas, alarming rates of unemployment. I must confess our country have taken a wrong turn. Vividly I don't know how else to carter for my expenses.
Yeah 😊 Mr Thompson, is a well known man in the crypto market I started working with him since 2017 and it has been a very good experience.
Same here, I earn $4000 a week. GOD bless Mr. EDWARD, he has been a blessing to my family.
Am from Denver Colorado USA I connected with him and he has helped me a lot,he makes so much profit for me, he is a FINRA agent, the best I can invest with so far ever since I came across expert Mr Thompson Edward , my bad turned out being good and profitable. he made success earlier than we thought.
@Erica Oakley The easiest way he can reply your messages is on whatsApp
ນີ້າທີ່ນີ້ລ ＋𝟭𝟯𝟭𝟰𝟴𝟳𝟲𝟮𝟴𝟲𝟴
A lovely internet quote I just found: "A lye solution, heated to 300 Fahrenheit degrees (148 Celsius), can dissolve an entire body into an oily brown liquid in just three hours." I presume their use of "lye" refers to NaOH, but it seems likely that KOH would do the job as well.
Surprised you didn't mention the man who managed to off himself in a pool in Yellowstone. Not sure which chemical, but it was quick enough the rangers had to tell his sister they could not reclaim the body just hours after they arrived. Haven't googled it, may have messed up some of the details.
So what I’ve learned here is that you need to steal the components that make up "piranha solution," and you need to dump the remains from your rented workshop/storage facility almost immediately upon completion of the dissolution. Leave no paper trail and leave no traces. Lesson learned.
This makes Hello Fresh meals just that bit more delicious.
Hello fresh should compare themselves to grocery shops not restaurant visits
i remember reading some news headline about some guy in mexico who got arrested, after the police found he was dissolving bodies in barrels of acid, for the mexican drug cartel
I assume, if it's even possible, that it would take a while
That was his job for the cartel.
Simon really starting to help criminals. First a list of rules and helpful tips on the casual criminalist and now this video. Slight sarcasm and I mean nothing by it. I love all his channels
Thank you Simon, this video was very helpful.
No body no crime!
It's very nice that videos like these can just randomly pop up in my UA-cam feed, with no need to search for them.
That makes it less likely that the FBI can find google searches such as "How to dispose of a dead body" or similar in my search history.
On the other hand, maybe this video popped up in my UA-cam feed specifically BECAUSE I have made such google searches. It's hard to know for sure, since Google integrates all of their services.
While it sounds right to use something acidic, something basic has an easier and better chance of decomposing organic materials. if my chemistry serves me right
That scene from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" has a lot to answer for!
Thought the piranha solution sounded like Dip...well that will start my weekend movie list!
The most effective acid is the one that, after dissolving the body, leaves a substance that is not dangerous for the person who handles it and can be flushed down a common toilet without problems.
This is down to how much acid is used not which type, you'll always end up with neutral pH (water) once all acid has finished reacting. Try the old vinegar & bicarb trick, taste the left over liquid & you'll notice the tang has gone & pretty flavourless
because otherwise your little enterprise will dissolve the wax ring on the loo and you're going to have another problem.
@@calzstevenson7017 yummy
I was waiting for aquamation and piranha solution to be mentioned and Simon did not disappoint.
I guess you need to add "don't leave a paper trail" to the list of rules for effective criminals?
LoL yeah, as well as avoiding social media. Or talking about it in general.
Add to the list??? It has Always been on the list.
There's an acidic geothermal lake in yellow stone park that's dissolved several people and just shoes and the like were found. I'd guess that's sulfuric acid.
In the US, you can buy nearly 95% sulfuric acid at nearly any hardware store or Walmart as a drain cleaner/clog remover. Just don't use a damn card and leave a paper trail and use cash. 🤦 It's the one in a tall bottle in a bag with warning labels all over it. You can even buy it by the gallon like that for around $25-$30/gallon. To make the piranha solution, you need at least 12% peroxide, but 25-30% works far better. But if you can slowly evaporate the water off of the peroxide you can concentrate it and make it much stronger. Just don't boil it as that destroys the peroxide. I find that about 150°f is the best temperature to concentrate the peroxide. Test it by weighing it and finding it's density. You can even do this with normal 3%, it just takes a lot longer to do. But I would rather use Sodium Hydroxide, aka Lye, as it's much, much better at dissolving everything, even teeth and bones and leaves behind only what they call "bone shadows" that can be crumbled and dumped wherever. It can also be bought at the same places in the same isles as another drain cleaner. You just want to be sure that it's the "crystal" version that is a powder/grainy material like sand. You can buy it by the 2lb bottle that is black with a red lid called "crystal drain cleaner"and some even sell it as a 1lb white bottle. This is also what makes soap and shampoo slippery. Just don't do that in an aluminum container as it will eat the aluminum quite quickly. As a chemist, I can tell you many, many ways to get rid of..... Unwanted "meat or organic matter".
FBI... open up haha
Nerd.
Sodium hydroxide is harder to buy these days. I used to use it make hydrogen balloons. Its why you should not put uncoated aluminum in dishwashers because the dishwasher detergent is mostly not detergent, it has a lot of NaOH.
Oh go mail a bear you dork, why does everyone on the internet want to act like they're some sort of operative or something? Oh you have to add the meat a little chunk at a time huh, what a weirdo
@@ethelredhardrede1838 Very true
*aspiring murders/serial killers*
"Thanks Simon!"
Can You Really Dissolve a Human Body? Sponsored by HelloFresh.
I'm getting some Soylent Green vibes here. What's in the pesto aioli, dude?
I just saw Solylent at the Walmart on Tuesday. In the close out aisle.
Saw Soylent at Walmart then asked myself if the creators never saw the movie...laughed when the container said vegan...
@3:46 I immediately recognized that as the scene from Alien (1979) when the face hugger has its "knuckle" cut and acid spurts out.
FYI, if you haven’t seen Breaking Bad yet (first of all you’re kinda crazy), but to be honest, I wasn’t really into the first couple episodes, but this happens in like episode 3 or something, and when I saw this scene, I was instantly hooked and it became my favourite show haha 😂
"Turned the pig into a brown soup". Sounds like they invented Pork Soda
Vary, vary interesting. But even more crazy is the fact that there are insects and animals that can dispose of a human carcass in the same or less time than chemicals. And as always, great job. 👍 Let's just say that your demeanor and delivery are what makes it.
"Vary, vary"??? I'm guessing talk to text! 🤣
@@mattconnor6779 No just a line from a movie that was before your time. And something that you obviously have to much of.
@@davidmeeks2405 - You have a movie manuscript that shows that spelling of the word "very"? Now THAT'S interesting!
"...insects and animals..."
Sorry insects, you're no longer animals. Go find a new kingdom.
Pigs
I fucking love the mythbusters
Wow. First time YT notified me of a video from you in over a year
Same here.
HF won't dissolve a body. As a chemist, I would use a strong base solution like 20% sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide. If I were to use an acid, I'd use perchloric acid mixed with glacial acetic acid. The problem becomes the body is mostly water, so any acid or base used will be diluted as the body fluids come out of the body. Concentrated sulfuric acid would also work. Regardless, there will be a lot of toxic fumes and it will take a lot of time, a few days. If you use heat plus acid or base solution it will take several hours. Still a lot of toxic fumes. You're likely to poison yourself in the process using acids. When I die, I want to be either aquamated or I want a natural burial, directly into the ground and maybe plant a tree over me.
Yep, us chemist we know how to get rid of a body!
Wasn't this show filmed in Albuquerque New Mexico don't actually have disposable body there you can just leave it out in the open and the police there will never be able to figure it out
New drinking game. Take a shot every time Simon says “dissolved their body in acid”
A friend of mine in Fresno Ca was arrested when they found his wife's body in a barrel of acid in his storage unit.
🤯
That's a strong friendship
Well, they do say that friends help you move, but real friends help you move bodies.
Ok ok a friend at the time.... haven't seen him in 20 years.... you know why.
@@Pestsoutwest I see what you did there..😄
Then there was Roy DeMeo of the Gambino crime family of New York. He knew how to get rid of a body. Not many chemist friends did Roy have. He was dear friend of carpenters, plumbers, and especially butchers! He was old school, organic, and chemical free, he went back, way way back, Roy went medieval!
I was waiting for at least a brief mention of fluoroantimonic acid, and perhaps an honorary mention (just for the giggles) of azidoazide azide. That stuff is "fun"... So much fun that a particular group of highly immoral people deemed it too dangerous to experiment with...
Great video! Thanks for the content!
Elaborate pls
See Hank for further details.
@@Corridor3000 ua-cam.com/video/cbN37yRV-ZY/v-deo.html
Periodic Videos, a great chemistry channel, has a very good video on trying to dissolve a hamburger. Well worth a watch!
Well shit, I’m definitely on some sort of list now after watching this.
No. You're not on a list for watching this.
But you are on a list for having commented on it.
There's a whole room at the Field Museum in Chicago that is dedicated to turning bodies into bones. Might be a good future topic if you haven't covered it yet.
This mostly reminds me that there is one episode left for Better Call Saul, ending over a dozen years of the Breaking Bad/BCS universe. This makes me a little bit melancholy.
That's why I recommend befriending a pig farmer, they leave nothing behind 😉🙂
Won't work you
A) need extremely hungry pigs as there is alot of food so you need to control there food. So you need your own pigs
B) you need alot of pigs as a pig will only eat around 2-3 pounds in a siting and it needs to be gone before your neighbor wakes up so you need like a hundred pigs.
C) Farmers are extremely intuned to their animals behavior a hundred loud feeding pigs when they should be sleeping would warrant investigating.
D) pigs have hard times with big bones so you need to prebreak them to make it disappear faster.
Pigs only work for disposal if you own them.
@@collinscody57 i can't tell if you're serious or joking. Well done!
@@jamesrobinson9176 it's all factual information based on some Googleing of pig feeding requirements, a wiki on a Canadian serial killer who did this and growing up in a farming community.
@@multirob137 lol Don't believe everything you read on the internet. Which you clearly did as you copied the article verbatim.
@@multirob137 so your version of a good time is to spread false information about body disposable methods to each there own I guess.
hydrofluoric acid can't do it very quickly but there are things that will dissolve your body in hours
I wonder how many channels does Simon host, given that I found one the other day that has not been referenced to date in any video I've watched and several of those I'm aware of are not linked by any of the other channels.
I think he can now do a top tenz list on all of his channels...
Simon Whistler - Now giving tips to criminals on at least 3 channels 😂
This was your most helpful video yet! Thanks! Saved me a BUNCH of trouble!
I'm joking. But I've worked around HF, and this video is right. It's horrifying stuff in a very different way from how Breaking Bad portrayed it. It's completely deadly in even very small quantities.
Cartels hired a guy who disposed of corpses with barrels of acid
I don’t know about dissolving a body, but the show was accurate in one way, HF would not eat the plastic totes the way it would est something like a tub.
I used HF trying to bust a clog and it did nothing to my metal tub that had glaze but it did etch the metal drain. Also I did have quite a few gallons of water dumped down the metal pipes before they stopped I guess I was damn lucky I didn't eat a hole in them
@@TA_Plus_Hemi It depends on which metal it is. I'm not sure about HF, but similar HCl will eat through aluminum violently, iron, steel, and zinc slowly, and won't eat through copper (nor lead I think) at all.
@@TA_Plus_Hemi it wouldn’t necessarily eat the tub, but it could permeate the coating.
HF will also etch and disolve glass...
@@davelaneve2446 I know, I work with it, but in an industrial setting. It’s used in refineries, specifically in alkylation units.
Considering that the ratio of acid to oxidizer, you could buy sulfuric acid drain cleaner (in 3L bottles) and purchase H2O2 in small bottles without creating any undo attention. You can mix the two in as high as 3:1 concentration and dissolve any carbon based "product" in minutes. The final result would appear as clear as what you started with, leaving no organic matter that can be identifiable. Since H2SO4 turns everything into C, and H2O2 oxidizes C into CO2, your back to a weekend mixture or straight acid in the end (depending on how much of the H2O2 has reacted during the process). Fun times!
Will the better solutions be included in the Casual Criminalist's Book of Advice? 😉
I love Hello Fresh sponsoring this video about dissolving bodies, would love if they sponsor another video about cannibals
Fun fact: hydrofluoric acid is how fluoride gets added to your drinking water
Nice try, but no.
UA-cam: You can't say Butt. It's a no-no word. No monetisation for you.
UA-cam recommendations: Want to know how to dissolve a body in acid?
Everybody knows you have to boil them in lye. 55 gallon drum, a burner from a turkey fryer, and some drain cleaner and you've got yourself a nice Sunday afternoon. So much easier and less cleanup than chainsaws and woodchippers.
No.
Mythbusters busted the myth.
My favorite thing in college as an Esthetician was explaining that No Hyaluronic Acid isn't the same acid and that it naturally occurs in the skin and is very important 🤭🤭
John George Haig did it in 1949. All that was found of the victim Olive Durand-Deacon was 28 pounds of fat, part of a foot, some gallstones and part of a denture which led to identification by her dentist.