The Colorful Chemistry of Lobster Shells - Bytesize Science
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- Опубліковано 14 сер 2013
- August is Maine Lobster Month, signaling prime lobster season in the Northeast. To celebrate, we investigated the chemistry behind these crustaceans' many colored shells to find out why lobsters -- whether they are brown, blue or even two-toned -- turn bright red when you cook them.
In the video, we visit Boston's New England Aquarium, where we talked to Dr. Michael Tlusty, the Aquarium's Director of Research. His lab grows different colored lobsters in an effort to understand shell disease, which weakens lobsters' shells. Between 2010 and 2012, the prevalence of lobster shell disease increased fivefold. While Maine lobsters are still largely unaffected, researchers like Tlusty are working hard to get to the bottom of the disease before it spreads further.
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Video by Kirk Zamieroski and XiaoZhi Lim
Produced by the American Chemical Society - Наука та технологія
just saw this happen when i cooked up some crayfish. neat!
Can you imagine...your entire life you are just continuously picked up and handled by a creature you can't understand while you slowly start to suffocate as your gills dry out. Then, you are back where you can breath better ...there are more of your kind, but you can't get to each other, you can just see each other...some sort of invisible void exists between you and them. You look all around, it's the same thing. Unrbeachable barriers divide you from your kind.
^ what it feels like to be abducted by aliens.
THAT WAS GREAT!
those little lobsters are so cute!
So do the blue ones need Xanax or something? Also, is that pigment like a gaba analog? Or maybe a glutamate blocker?
Go back about 10 seconds: they eat them to cope with stress.
this is so yum
So what about binary colored lobsters?
Shadowkeeper88 I was wondering about that too. Here's a link I found that talks about it a little: theblaze.com/stories/2012/11/01/heres-a-lobster-youll-have-to-see-to-believe-it-only-occurs-once-in-every-50-million/