When I was a freshman in Highschool, my science teacher had each of us pick a experiment to research, write a hypothesis about what we'd think would happen with our experiment, do the experiment, then write an essay about if we were wrong or not. I came up with "can a potato give charge to a cellphone". Long story short, yes. I did the experiment, made a PowerPoint about it, and turned it in. For some reason, my teacher thought I lied and that potatos can't give charge to a phone. I tried explaining and showing him that he was wrong but he didn't want to budge. A science teacher, didn't want to look at proof cause it would prove him wrong. Ironic right? He gave me a 0, and ofc I went to the principal to complain and get the grade redone. Principal said they'd look into it. Never got the chance to see the outcome cause I transferred to another school before anything came of it, but I'm still salty about it.
This reminds me of when I was in middle school at one of my science teachers had a question on a test that which of these materials can produce a magnetic field. If I remember correctly there was metal and ceramic on it. You can see what's about to happen right. So obviously I choose ceramic because of ceramic superconductor. Because I've always been that sort of person. I was technically correct but that didn't go over very well. It's been a very long time but I'm still a bit salty about it even if I don't remember everything very well anymore. Although to be fair I knew exactly what I was doing and I decided superconductors were the hill to start a giant fight on.
The science teacher at my arts focused middle school made MANY bizarre and wrong statements. My favorites being the following: -While doing a lab that involved inflating baloons, she advised, "Don't breathe any air back in from the balloon because carbon monoxide is poisonous" (I desperately wanted to respond by asking how CPR works). -At another point, she was explaining infrared light and stated, "Infrared light can also carry heat better than higher spectrum light, and it's commonly used for electronic remote controls. This is why a CD or DVD player gets warm if you've been using the controller a lot" I'm almost certain that she wasn't originally supposed to be a science teacher, but I guess that's where the only open position at our specific school was. She often taught directly from the teaching guide-book.
@@johannesviljoen9656 I mean, you only need 5v for most USB Chargers. So that is 5 potatoes right there Well, without taking into account Amperes required
I am totally gonna do this if I ever have a niece/nephew. these kits are way too overpriced and you can do many of these experiments for just a few bucks, most expensive part being the hardware to do them
My father had a similar opinion. Plus, he reasoned that we could do significantly more interesting/dangerous experiments with his supervision/input. Stuff like making smoke bombs and model rocket engines from sugar & salt peter (potassium nitrate), or playing with a cloud chamber and uranium ore. Basically, stuff that almost ANY 10-14yo boy would find extremely cool and fascinating, but no at-home kit or school class would ever dream of allowing.
My grandma brought one for me on my 10th birthday that was just a huge box to make crystals but had to throw it away due to controversy (this was Japan) and because we live as a clan we live in quite a big estate. It was forgotten about and left in a random warm cupboard were it wasn't touched again till I was 20 so 10 years during the process it had leaked from the top shelf all the way to the floor and surroundings so when a maid opened the cupboard for some reason it looked like she came across something straight out of a cave/crystal mine 😂 She ran to the head maid panicking that we had some weird mold or life form growing in it because it looked wild at first glance lmao my uncles got dressed up in cleaning suits and resperators expecting something bad but couldn't stop laughing when they saw the box. It was a nightmare to clean apparently but I always wondered what and extra 10 or 20 years would do!
@@hedgehog3180 what part of it feels like a manga? If I know I can kinda give an explanation if possible :0 Edit: English is my 3rd language so I apologise in advance for errors etc
@jackthemagiccat4571 they probably mean that the idea behind it (leaving an experiment in storage for years eventually resulting in strange growths leaking out) sounds like the idea behind a manga
@@JakkuTheMagicalCattu I think the manga thing is 1. you living in an estate in a clan 2. You have a head maid!? 3. What controversy surrounds a science box experiment with crystals? The crystals growing randomly themselves for 10 years is actually believable considering we've had stuff surface in our garden 10 years later 😂
@@theonlycatonice TD:LR huh yup I guess I can see how that kinda matches up, but tbh you could look at any of the rich Japanese families and say the same thing they live pretty wild life's I've been to some weird ass partys Also more explanation towards the 1. 2. 3. You put down don't mind my rambling it's a bad habit of a writer who has ADHD 🤣 1. Clans are still pretty common these days usually stubborn families stuck to tradition, big business family's like mine under one ruled matriarchal or patriarchal system mine being a matriarchal family and as for the estate thing that's just a general rich family thing, though I think they're going more out of style in modern times but traditional Japanese estates are a bliss to live in I could die happy looking out my window during the cherry blossom season 🤣 super freaking pretty I'm super lucky due to health issues I'm being looked after by my family head, oh right there's still military and crime clans(yakuza is slowly dying out to a more modernization of crime organisations unlike it used to be here)too probably the 2nd and 3rd most popular types. 2. It differs between people, family's and there Livin situation, wealthy families in an apartment complex will probably not have staff on hand in house but instead on site building and mainly cook and clean to a wide majority of family's under the apartment complex but in estates that are old like ours the house keeper team can be anywhere from 10 to 100 depending on building size and the required jobs, we have a generalized house keeper system with a head maid and butler who do admin as well, but my situation is difficult so I've been assigned my own staffing since my side of the building requires people knowledgeable in medical care and 1on1 waiting I'm prone to accidents and my medical issues can flare up fast im pretty independent but having people help in medical setup, pushing my wheelchair and so on takes alot of stress off my shoulders! So I obviously have a head maid in charge of this team, who she's under the main head maid but you'll find children from birth to like 13 tend to have there own maid and caring teams too I have loads of younger siblings and cousin's I feel great sympathy for those staff 🤣 3. Ah right I can't link things around here and my memory is awful so take with a grain of salt but it was similar to how iron on bead kits could be used to make date Grape drugs, the chemical's in the science kit included similar materials for a very similar kinda drug if I remember correctly so that's why it was put way out of site in a place frankly no one visits only in rare occasions lmao Frankly alot of old science kits and experiment diy toys end up being found in the weirdest of situations, we thought my building was haunted but it turned out to be a robo dino toy with battery's dying slowly since I was like 6-7 my head maid remembers the toy going missing at some point apparently somehow for god knows reason I or someone had hidden it behind a floor board 😅 so over the years you'd hear a distant roar and creek truly was creepy when heard at night. I hope that gives you some insight on things, frankly I'm bored and have no more manga so I'm just sitting hear rambling apologies also English is my 3rd language so might be some hiccups on explanations.
It wouldn't actually be that difficult to make a combustible material out of lemons, the easiest option would be to just make alcohol out of them but you could maybe also make blackpowder.
the education system is so bad that a teacher with a masters in chemistry has to resort to making fallout videos online to support his family and not starve to death. God bless UK
These kits take me back to two positive science times in my life. The first: my dad sabotaging a flashlight, setting it in front of my sister and I at the kitchen table, and making us write down and test every hypothesis until we figured out why it wasn't working. (IIRC he put a tiny piece of plastic on one of the battery ends to block it.) The second: buying one of those glow-on-the-dark fossils buried in dusty brick from a museum gift shop after I dropped out of college, and spending the rest of the afternoon digging into it with my best friend at the smoothie shop across the street. Good times. Good video.
The whole thing with methanol reminded me of crisis we had about 10 years back, where someone started selling a lot of homemade alcohol with methanol instead of ethanol. Lot of people went blind, few died. But they also teached us a cure: drink legitimate alcohol. A dose of ethanol with force the methanol to be harmlessly peed out
I’m pretty sure jacked up murder booze was literally part of the Prohibition problem in America back in the 1920s, did that guy work for Al Capone by any chance?
That was... a rather decent explaination of how a polymer is made, seriously I understood that pretty well and its been almost a decade since I got out of highschool, neat.
I have a degree in process technology and chemistry and he managed to explain polymers better than in the whole term and have a better understanding of it than 95% of the employees at the chemical plant, also somehow was able to explain better my husband's inability to break down acetyl aldehyde than many doctors that have seen him but have no idea what's wrong and use the cop-out of that he's just tired for whatver reason but now he can actually learn how to work with it and avoid those that cause symptoms he always suffers from. Thank you, would love to see more chemistry/physics videos and even a channel that's solely science you're really good at explaining and the visuals make it very smooth to learn, great teacher, reminded me of the joys and excitements of learning and understanding chemistry and science in general.
Hey I just wanted to say that in 3 days I will be starting my first year in uni as a Civil Chemical Engineer, and dead ass your science themed “Absolute nightmares” were amongst the content that picked my interest and pushed me to pursue science and choose the chem/physics field a couple years ago lol, your videos really shine amongst the pool that UA-cam has become, it’s great stuff. Cheers bro, never stop doing what you’re doing!
Youre a scientist that accidentally added sugar instead of salt to your pickles. I am so very afraid. I edited a spelling error and it removed the heart. I am devastated. My parasocial relationship NOOOOOOOOO
The same happened to me long ago 😢... I won't let it happen again! Here is my like! Go and fly back up comment, be noticed again and receive back what was rightfully yours to begin with.
Yeah, if you edit the comment, it removes your creator's like mark. This is a problem for proof-reader types like myself. I guess it's so a poster can't edit the comment afterward to make the content-creator look bad. I've had this exact thing happen at least 5 times myself (usually on smaller channels, though). I've felt your pain OP, and I empathize with you. It sucks. Don't be like me, learn from this mistake.
Electrodes in a bowl of water, capture the gas in an upturned container and scare the hell out of your mum when you light and make an explosion in the kitchen.
9:05 i remember ouir biology/science teacher put a bucket of dead rats in those chemicals onto the desk of one of our worst students, and when he moved seats she followed him with the bucket until he left and told the administration that his teacher was chasing him around with a bucket full of dead rats. she quit soon after to avoid being fired for many other students' accusations of her doing other heinous shit
Temu is advertising Christmas sales on this video and I can only assume they either don't know what month Christmas is in or UA-cam picked up on that 30-second clip and assumed this is a Christmas video
As a geologist, I feel like I should be angrier that you referred to the gemstone experiment as 'gardening', but it's original at least so I guess I'll let it pass.
I remember a science kit I had when I was a kid back in the 80's. This would have been before there was any of this "Health and Safety" nonsense for kids toys! There were about 40 glass test tubes with rubber stoppers containing different raw ingredients, about 20 empty test tubes, several glass straw-like tubes, a small wick burner like in 7:29, a bottle of methylated spirits, spare wick for the burner and a massive instruction book on what to mix together to create fun and interesting experiments. It also gave instructions on how to use the burner to heat up the glass straws and shape them for use in other condensation experiments. My favourite was the burning of the magnesium ribbon strip. Fun times.
Methanol makes you go blind, among numerous other bad things, including death. What is interesting is that it seems to be countered by ethanol. There was a curious case in either the Soviet Union, or in post-Soviet Russia, some French company came in for a joint project or whatnot, and brought in its machinery for the job. The French would use methanol to polish the machinery parts, and after the project was done, they left and took their machinery with them, but left a canister of methanol. Well, since its an alcohol, the factory workers where the project was held decided to drink it, and they did, and they all ended up dead. All, save for one guy, who was an actual alcoholic. When the doctors investigated him, it turned out that the methanol was countered by the ethanol that was already in his body, so he survived. I don't know if he was blind or had other complications after the ordeal, but it's still curious. That is to say, I wouldn't advise anyone to try this at home.
If I remember correctly, the reason this works is that methanol and ethanol get broken down through the same metabolic pathway. Methanol _itself_ isn't that bad, but as Matt said, it gets broken down into formaldehyde, which really is that bad. Your body can also metabolize formaldehyde but not very quickly; less rapidly than it can process methanol. So normally the level of formaldehyde just keeps rising, with increasingly nasty effects. But if ethanol is also present, then it'll be competing with the methanol for the available enzymes. This slows down the rate that methanol is metabolized, which slows the rate that formaldehyde gets produced. Effectively the body has more time to clean up the toxic waste/repair the damage it caused.
The fact that they let 10 years old handle stuff like methanol and ammonia is frankly insane to me... That almost sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen
In my first semester of grade 12 I failed chem 11 I liked the class and I was smart enough to do it but I have various problems that made it impossible to see the board and hear the teacher, like I’d fully disassociate from reality really often and as a result I knew I was gonna fail, so on my exam for the first half I tried to do chemistry, then I started turning the diagrams into pictures, at the end I drew a dragon sleeping in a hammock, I failed chem (I was already too far down the hole anyway I think) but the dragon looked pretty cool
That “when life gives you lemons” quote is from portal 2 when you hear cave Johnson’s recordings in the aperture institution for whoever thought that’s line felt familiar
I long for the days when we sliced and diced boxes what did they ever do except hold everything I ever loved then destroy that with multiple tools 7:39
What a riot! We need more people who can flavour education with some humour! 3:27 I had a biology teacher who also used analogy but to explain cellular processes and the like, and it stuck! Thanks to him, I will always think of ribosomes as little workshops with amino acid jars on the shelf, and now, thanks to this video, I will think of chemical bonding as Calcium stealing Sodium's job and expanding the business.
This is great! Next time could you demonstrate the Harber-Bosch process that deals with the creation of ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen at high temperatures and pressures?
Honestly I really love when you do science lessons with your channel, I'd love to see more of that. You're like the cool secondary school teacher I never had
I'm doing chemical engeneering at collage currently and the copper sulfate experiment just helped me understand inorganic chemistry a bit better thanks man
I had a lab mate in college who didn't make aldehyde dehydrogenase and came into lab complaining about her reaction to alcohol, probably from drinking over the weekend. That was an interesting way to learn about it.
Oh, god... when I was a child in the 80s we had, in Spain, a chemistry set that everyone knew, QuimiCefa, from CeFa (Celulosa Fabril), a company from Zaragoza, Spain, and it was epic...
While drinking my morning coffee I clicked on this. For some reason (caffeine dependency), I read the title of this video as “Christian Science Kits Are an Absolute Nightmare.” Very disappointed you couldn’t find a single Christian Science Kit.
My brother knows I love older stuff and antiques so for my birthday he somehow found and got me an old school science kit with a microscope, test tubes, and I had a bunch of other chemicals and stuff were I think at least a third of which I don't even think you can legally buy without licensing and or supervision nowadays for display. It has a catalog to order more components and chemicals in which literally has a section for me to order uranium and what it would cost me. The old school science kits were a different Beast.
genuinely wish you wouldn't say that this stuff is boring even as a joke. this is really interesting and i learned more by the time you got to copper burning blue than my entire highschool and college chemistry classes, and i'm stoned as shit watching this.
@@Uesurii_San I’m allergic to avocado so can never try it, so I’m going to comfort myself with the idea that it tastes like cat litter anyway… ah well…
This is absolutely off topic but I NEED to know where you got your shirt! River otters are my favorite animal and I need to express this to others lol.
I remember doing the copper sulfate experiment in highschool, surprised that made it into a kit like this. From what I remember, you explained what was happening really well!
18:08 Except your circuit uses an LED instead of an incandescent light bulb, so that's not what's happening. An LED works very similarly to the copper sulfate from the first experiment but in reverse. The electrons jump down in energy level as they flow across the diode, causing them to emit a photon
7:52 I have several gallons of it under my kitchen table. Model engine fuel uses it as the primary fuel source, with varying amounts of lube oil and nitromethane mixed in as well as trace elements of anti-foaming additives for good measure. And I do a LOT of RC with such engines in them.
Well, I just had a flash back to GCSE chemistry and making eathers. When the solution overheated reched its ignition point and yeeted itself out of the testube and onto my mates notebook, setting it on fire. All while my chemistry teacher stood there laughing like the proverbail mad scientist.
The Mad Science instruction manual looks identical to my old high school chemistry textbook. I hope we continue to get chemistry videos like these, they're really good!
I'm kind of impressed just 13 seconds in that he managed (probably with his chemical-fu) to start a fire without a clear cause other than some liquid on the box. Yeah, there's probably some flammable chemicals that react very exothermically with each other that are decently well-known, but it's still cool. Also, damn, he really just blew that whole flame out. I bow to his superior knowledge of physics, for I am in awe.
I graduated a master's in applied biology a few years ago and was like "oh, oh no, *oh no*". At least he remembered to point the top of the heated tube away from himself (and hopefully anyone else in the room).
I clicked on a video called Chemistry Is an Absolute Nightmare, but by the time it loaded the title reads "Children's Science Kits Are An Absolute Nightmare" How did I open a video in the exact moment that it changed titles?
Most of that copper sulphate probably would have dissolved. The crystals are large and it can take some time to fully dissolve. I use it to make copper chloride by dissolving it in hydrochloric acid, and even then it takes a good while to dissolve the crystals.
chemist here: the stuff you see here is (as far as I'm concerned anyway) the easy stuff, and I don't mean that as a joke! Most of general chemistry can all be learned descriptively, but someone had to discover it to begin with. You can't really point a microphone at a molecule or an atom and ask it what it is, or (in organic chemistry) which one of the infinite white powders it is. Colours fail when there's no absorbances, solubilities are not specific, and melting points fail for isomers. How can you tell apart para-xylene from meta-xylene? Actually finding out what you've created when you mix A and B is the part that made me want to die, you study chemistry but for this part it's about 50% being bamboozled into studying '''advanced''' physics so you can understand the principles behind spectroscopy, spectrometry (the main boys) and other characterisation methods. Putting the hypothetical microphone to your product and getting info out of it to find its precise structure, that's a pain. I miss science kits like these where you didn't have to bother xD But the pretty changing colours are too pretty, I couldn't resist... Also, side note, for the first one, the reason Calcium is able to force the sodium to skedaddle is mostly because the "CO2" bit is large, rather large, with the neg charge spread over "2"ish atoms, and to be stable, it prefers larger "counterparts". Sodium is smaller than calcium so it's less stable, which translates to a bigger tendency to dissociate (separate) allowing the calcium to come and replace it, which itself has much less chances of leaving to begin with :)
“How is this already on fire” is genuinely something my secondary school Chemistry teacher once said when doing a demonstration
xD
What happened?
@@jkl5901things caught fire unexpectedly
I wish that i experienced that
Same in my case she had already light the darn thing while talking and when she went to light it again….lets just say it was an awkward moment
Life never actually gave us lemons. It's a genetic mix of a citron and bitter orange. We took lemons from life. Or something.
We made the lemons, US, WE ARE LIFE
Life never gave us Lemons, we did that all by our selves!
Emperor of Man: *_Manliest hip thrusts in the history of Mankind_*
@@goingblargh I See, a man of culture aswell
Quite fitting considering that 95% of problems today are man made.
My take-away from this is that I should buy an electronics kit and lemons if I really want to have fun.
How was this commented 4h ago but the video only says it’s been up for 6 minutes
@@joyhoward6105 that is... weird. Its says 5 hours now. Its only been 30mins
thats an excellent takeaway i wish i had your world view
@@ultraman388early access? it was probably private
@@ultraman388early release for patreons
When I was a freshman in Highschool, my science teacher had each of us pick a experiment to research, write a hypothesis about what we'd think would happen with our experiment, do the experiment, then write an essay about if we were wrong or not. I came up with "can a potato give charge to a cellphone". Long story short, yes. I did the experiment, made a PowerPoint about it, and turned it in. For some reason, my teacher thought I lied and that potatos can't give charge to a phone. I tried explaining and showing him that he was wrong but he didn't want to budge. A science teacher, didn't want to look at proof cause it would prove him wrong. Ironic right? He gave me a 0, and ofc I went to the principal to complain and get the grade redone. Principal said they'd look into it. Never got the chance to see the outcome cause I transferred to another school before anything came of it, but I'm still salty about it.
This reminds me of when I was in middle school at one of my science teachers had a question on a test that which of these materials can produce a magnetic field. If I remember correctly there was metal and ceramic on it. You can see what's about to happen right. So obviously I choose ceramic because of ceramic superconductor. Because I've always been that sort of person. I was technically correct but that didn't go over very well. It's been a very long time but I'm still a bit salty about it even if I don't remember everything very well anymore.
Although to be fair I knew exactly what I was doing and I decided superconductors were the hill to start a giant fight on.
The science teacher at my arts focused middle school made MANY bizarre and wrong statements. My favorites being the following:
-While doing a lab that involved inflating baloons, she advised, "Don't breathe any air back in from the balloon because carbon monoxide is poisonous" (I desperately wanted to respond by asking how CPR works).
-At another point, she was explaining infrared light and stated, "Infrared light can also carry heat better than higher spectrum light, and it's commonly used for electronic remote controls. This is why a CD or DVD player gets warm if you've been using the controller a lot"
I'm almost certain that she wasn't originally supposed to be a science teacher, but I guess that's where the only open position at our specific school was. She often taught directly from the teaching guide-book.
I guess the issue was the practical feasibility of it, or maybe your teacher for some reason thought that phones need AC to charge?
thats not lying, 1.1v isnt enough energy for lying.
@@johannesviljoen9656 I mean, you only need 5v for most USB Chargers. So that is 5 potatoes right there
Well, without taking into account Amperes required
this is why i stoped giving my neices/nephews science kits for bday presents
i just research experiments and swing bye for a day
This was actually just amazing.
I am totally gonna do this if I ever have a niece/nephew. these kits are way too overpriced and you can do many of these experiments for just a few bucks, most expensive part being the hardware to do them
My father had a similar opinion. Plus, he reasoned that we could do significantly more interesting/dangerous experiments with his supervision/input. Stuff like making smoke bombs and model rocket engines from sugar & salt peter (potassium nitrate), or playing with a cloud chamber and uranium ore. Basically, stuff that almost ANY 10-14yo boy would find extremely cool and fascinating, but no at-home kit or school class would ever dream of allowing.
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@@synka5922 You GOTTA explain how the uranium ore thing worked. It's mandatory. *Dalek noises* EXPLAIN-- EXPLAIN--
My grandma brought one for me on my 10th birthday that was just a huge box to make crystals but had to throw it away due to controversy (this was Japan) and because we live as a clan we live in quite a big estate.
It was forgotten about and left in a random warm cupboard were it wasn't touched again till I was 20 so 10 years during the process it had leaked from the top shelf all the way to the floor and surroundings so when a maid opened the cupboard for some reason it looked like she came across something straight out of a cave/crystal mine 😂
She ran to the head maid panicking that we had some weird mold or life form growing in it because it looked wild at first glance lmao my uncles got dressed up in cleaning suits and resperators expecting something bad but couldn't stop laughing when they saw the box.
It was a nightmare to clean apparently but I always wondered what and extra 10 or 20 years would do!
This sounds straight out of a manga are you for real?
@@hedgehog3180 what part of it feels like a manga? If I know I can kinda give an explanation if possible :0
Edit: English is my 3rd language so I apologise in advance for errors etc
@jackthemagiccat4571 they probably mean that the idea behind it (leaving an experiment in storage for years eventually resulting in strange growths leaking out) sounds like the idea behind a manga
@@JakkuTheMagicalCattu I think the manga thing is 1. you living in an estate in a clan 2. You have a head maid!? 3. What controversy surrounds a science box experiment with crystals?
The crystals growing randomly themselves for 10 years is actually believable considering we've had stuff surface in our garden 10 years later 😂
@@theonlycatonice TD:LR huh yup I guess I can see how that kinda matches up, but tbh you could look at any of the rich Japanese families and say the same thing they live pretty wild life's I've been to some weird ass partys
Also more explanation towards the 1. 2. 3. You put down don't mind my rambling it's a bad habit of a writer who has ADHD 🤣
1. Clans are still pretty common these days usually stubborn families stuck to tradition, big business family's like mine under one ruled matriarchal or patriarchal system mine being a matriarchal family and as for the estate thing that's just a general rich family thing, though I think they're going more out of style in modern times but traditional Japanese estates are a bliss to live in I could die happy looking out my window during the cherry blossom season 🤣 super freaking pretty I'm super lucky due to health issues I'm being looked after by my family head, oh right there's still military and crime clans(yakuza is slowly dying out to a more modernization of crime organisations unlike it used to be here)too probably the 2nd and 3rd most popular types.
2. It differs between people, family's and there Livin situation, wealthy families in an apartment complex will probably not have staff on hand in house but instead on site building and mainly cook and clean to a wide majority of family's under the apartment complex but in estates that are old like ours the house keeper team can be anywhere from 10 to 100 depending on building size and the required jobs, we have a generalized house keeper system with a head maid and butler who do admin as well, but my situation is difficult so I've been assigned my own staffing since my side of the building requires people knowledgeable in medical care and 1on1 waiting I'm prone to accidents and my medical issues can flare up fast im pretty independent but having people help in medical setup, pushing my wheelchair and so on takes alot of stress off my shoulders! So I obviously have a head maid in charge of this team, who she's under the main head maid but you'll find children from birth to like 13 tend to have there own maid and caring teams too I have loads of younger siblings and cousin's I feel great sympathy for those staff 🤣
3. Ah right I can't link things around here and my memory is awful so take with a grain of salt but it was similar to how iron on bead kits could be used to make date Grape drugs, the chemical's in the science kit included similar materials for a very similar kinda drug if I remember correctly so that's why it was put way out of site in a place frankly no one visits only in rare occasions lmao
Frankly alot of old science kits and experiment diy toys end up being found in the weirdest of situations, we thought my building was haunted but it turned out to be a robo dino toy with battery's dying slowly since I was like 6-7 my head maid remembers the toy going missing at some point apparently somehow for god knows reason I or someone had hidden it behind a floor board 😅 so over the years you'd hear a distant roar and creek truly was creepy when heard at night.
I hope that gives you some insight on things, frankly I'm bored and have no more manga so I'm just sitting hear rambling apologies also English is my 3rd language so might be some hiccups on explanations.
Absolutely loved the Cave Johnson rant at @16:50 though disappointed you didn't, in fact, make combustible lemons.
It wouldn't actually be that difficult to make a combustible material out of lemons, the easiest option would be to just make alcohol out of them but you could maybe also make blackpowder.
the education system is so bad that a teacher with a masters in chemistry has to resort to making fallout videos online to support his family and not starve to death. God bless UK
My aunt was a teacher. She went to work for a bookstore because they paid better.
Could be worse. Could be New Mexico.
@@SharkyMcSnarkface the education system is shit here as a result
These kits take me back to two positive science times in my life.
The first: my dad sabotaging a flashlight, setting it in front of my sister and I at the kitchen table, and making us write down and test every hypothesis until we figured out why it wasn't working. (IIRC he put a tiny piece of plastic on one of the battery ends to block it.)
The second: buying one of those glow-on-the-dark fossils buried in dusty brick from a museum gift shop after I dropped out of college, and spending the rest of the afternoon digging into it with my best friend at the smoothie shop across the street.
Good times. Good video.
Theres a whole lot of portal references in this episode
Don't forget the half-life ones too lol
The science gets done and you make a neat gun- errrr UA-cam video
as there rightfully should be
The whole thing with methanol reminded me of crisis we had about 10 years back, where someone started selling a lot of homemade alcohol with methanol instead of ethanol. Lot of people went blind, few died. But they also teached us a cure: drink legitimate alcohol. A dose of ethanol with force the methanol to be harmlessly peed out
I’m pretty sure jacked up murder booze was literally part of the Prohibition problem in America back in the 1920s, did that guy work for Al Capone by any chance?
@@zyriantel9601 no this was in 2010's and not in america
@@dinocz3301 Oh thank goodness
I saw this on Chubbyemu!
so is the trick for cheap booze to drink a bunch of methanol and chase it down with a shot of ethanol?
That was... a rather decent explaination of how a polymer is made, seriously I understood that pretty well and its been almost a decade since I got out of highschool, neat.
I have a degree in process technology and chemistry and he managed to explain polymers better than in the whole term and have a better understanding of it than 95% of the employees at the chemical plant, also somehow was able to explain better my husband's inability to break down acetyl aldehyde than many doctors that have seen him but have no idea what's wrong and use the cop-out of that he's just tired for whatver reason but now he can actually learn how to work with it and avoid those that cause symptoms he always suffers from. Thank you, would love to see more chemistry/physics videos and even a channel that's solely science you're really good at explaining and the visuals make it very smooth to learn, great teacher, reminded me of the joys and excitements of learning and understanding chemistry and science in general.
Hey I just wanted to say that in 3 days I will be starting my first year in uni as a Civil Chemical Engineer, and dead ass your science themed “Absolute nightmares” were amongst the content that picked my interest and pushed me to pursue science and choose the chem/physics field a couple years ago lol, your videos really shine amongst the pool that UA-cam has become, it’s great stuff. Cheers bro, never stop doing what you’re doing!
Will there ever be part 3 of "The universe is an absolute nnightmare" or not?
I'm assuming "not"
That would be a nightmare
The wait for it IS the nightmare 😂
As much as I also enjoy your gaming stuff, I absolutely adored this. Hope we see more!
you should check out the other scientific stuff, oh and the rest of the “is(n’t) a nightmare” series
@@chlochlo_the_T_BAG wat ahead of you 😎
@@ManglingMinis fuck yeah B)
Youre a scientist that accidentally added sugar instead of salt to your pickles. I am so very afraid.
I edited a spelling error and it removed the heart.
I am devastated.
My parasocial relationship NOOOOOOOOO
You must now go on a quest to Return the heart
@@TailcoatGames It's too late, It's already buried
The same happened to me long ago 😢... I won't let it happen again! Here is my like! Go and fly back up comment, be noticed again and receive back what was rightfully yours to begin with.
Yeah, if you edit the comment, it removes your creator's like mark. This is a problem for proof-reader types like myself. I guess it's so a poster can't edit the comment afterward to make the content-creator look bad.
I've had this exact thing happen at least 5 times myself (usually on smaller channels, though). I've felt your pain OP, and I empathize with you. It sucks. Don't be like me, learn from this mistake.
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Electrodes in a bowl of water, capture the gas in an upturned container and scare the hell out of your mum when you light and make an explosion in the kitchen.
Ah, yes, do-it-yourself rocket propulsion/pipe bomb.
9:05
i remember ouir biology/science teacher put a bucket of dead rats in those chemicals onto the desk of one of our worst students, and when he moved seats she followed him with the bucket until he left and told the administration that his teacher was chasing him around with a bucket full of dead rats.
she quit soon after to avoid being fired for many other students' accusations of her doing other heinous shit
What a comment
She should be banned from working with children😭 wtf
Temu is advertising Christmas sales on this video and I can only assume they either don't know what month Christmas is in or UA-cam picked up on that 30-second clip and assumed this is a Christmas video
Matt is demonstrating that he has an education in chemistry AND why he is a UA-camr all in one video!
Always a huge fan of how he mixes his bloopers into the videos, so freaking funny
As a geologist, I feel like I should be angrier that you referred to the gemstone experiment as 'gardening', but it's original at least so I guess I'll let it pass.
16:50 if anyone can make Cave Johnson's combustable lemons it's YOU
I remember a science kit I had when I was a kid back in the 80's. This would have been before there was any of this "Health and Safety" nonsense for kids toys!
There were about 40 glass test tubes with rubber stoppers containing different raw ingredients, about 20 empty test tubes, several glass straw-like tubes, a small wick burner like in 7:29, a bottle of methylated spirits, spare wick for the burner and a massive instruction book on what to mix together to create fun and interesting experiments. It also gave instructions on how to use the burner to heat up the glass straws and shape them for use in other condensation experiments.
My favourite was the burning of the magnesium ribbon strip. Fun times.
0:17 if its already on fire, you’re already a real chemist, congratulations
0:10
I always cheat at those "chizzle away at stuff" for the stuff inside by putting it under running water.
Methanol makes you go blind, among numerous other bad things, including death. What is interesting is that it seems to be countered by ethanol. There was a curious case in either the Soviet Union, or in post-Soviet Russia, some French company came in for a joint project or whatnot, and brought in its machinery for the job. The French would use methanol to polish the machinery parts, and after the project was done, they left and took their machinery with them, but left a canister of methanol. Well, since its an alcohol, the factory workers where the project was held decided to drink it, and they did, and they all ended up dead. All, save for one guy, who was an actual alcoholic. When the doctors investigated him, it turned out that the methanol was countered by the ethanol that was already in his body, so he survived. I don't know if he was blind or had other complications after the ordeal, but it's still curious.
That is to say, I wouldn't advise anyone to try this at home.
If I remember correctly, the reason this works is that methanol and ethanol get broken down through the same metabolic pathway. Methanol _itself_ isn't that bad, but as Matt said, it gets broken down into formaldehyde, which really is that bad. Your body can also metabolize formaldehyde but not very quickly; less rapidly than it can process methanol. So normally the level of formaldehyde just keeps rising, with increasingly nasty effects.
But if ethanol is also present, then it'll be competing with the methanol for the available enzymes. This slows down the rate that methanol is metabolized, which slows the rate that formaldehyde gets produced. Effectively the body has more time to clean up the toxic waste/repair the damage it caused.
@@StarlightSocialist Methanol itself is toxic but only in such large ammounts that a human could never ingest it.
The fact that they let 10 years old handle stuff like methanol and ammonia is frankly insane to me... That almost sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen
Could be worse. Kits like those used to contain actual lead and uranium.
I think a CSI play kit got banned because a dangerous chemical was in it....
This is my second video that I watched today with a Cave Johnson Lemon Rant reference...
Which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice
I'm so glad that you made the same reference when you heard the noise you made at 2:10
"eeeeeeeeh"
In my first semester of grade 12 I failed chem 11 I liked the class and I was smart enough to do it but I have various problems that made it impossible to see the board and hear the teacher, like I’d fully disassociate from reality really often and as a result I knew I was gonna fail, so on my exam for the first half I tried to do chemistry, then I started turning the diagrams into pictures, at the end I drew a dragon sleeping in a hammock, I failed chem (I was already too far down the hole anyway I think) but the dragon looked pretty cool
16:50 thats a fun reference
That “when life gives you lemons” quote is from portal 2 when you hear cave Johnson’s recordings in the aperture institution for whoever thought that’s line felt familiar
not him trauma dumping and continuing as if it was nothing lmao
Honestly, IMO this channel has the best editing on UA-cam.
9:16 one of the lecturer's in university I went to did that to all the women in his class and this just gave me a traumatic flashback.
what??? please explain
I'm pretty sure Polymerization is when you fuse a monster with another monster to create a whole new abomination.
"a fellow Yugi-oh fan waves hello to you"
This whole video is packed to the brim with fun little effects, but the the "AHH"s at 19:10 gave me the tingles.
I really like this style of content man. good on you for making it based on what you went to school for, it's really cool
I long for the days when we sliced and diced boxes what did they ever do except hold everything I ever loved then destroy that with multiple tools 7:39
This is the kind of content I love. Children's Science Teacher messing around with Children's Science Kits
I love how the Cave Johnson Lemons speech keeps popping up ever 12 years later
What a riot!
We need more people who can flavour education with some humour!
3:27 I had a biology teacher who also used analogy but to explain cellular processes and the like, and it stuck! Thanks to him, I will always think of ribosomes as little workshops with amino acid jars on the shelf, and now, thanks to this video, I will think of chemical bonding as Calcium stealing Sodium's job and expanding the business.
This is great! Next time could you demonstrate the Harber-Bosch process that deals with the creation of ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen at high temperatures and pressures?
Loved the transition from the thumbnail to the actual video. First time I've seen it but 100th time I thought someone should do it
magic spoon cereal sounds like it might as well be made from the box it comes in
it sure does taste of cardboard, that's for sure.
Honestly I really love when you do science lessons with your channel, I'd love to see more of that. You're like the cool secondary school teacher I never had
Going from a NeilRed video to this was wild lmfao
great fun though!
Love that instead of "Circle of Life" the song was actually "Baba Yetu" the Civ4 theme! ❤ That song!
I'm doing chemical engeneering at collage currently and the copper sulfate experiment just helped me understand inorganic chemistry a bit better thanks man
9:18 That just uncovered a similar memory from my CSP teacher who became unnaturally upset that I tried to fix my monitor by changing the HDMI cord.
No one:
Magic spoon cereal: it's only $12 dollars a box
It's laughable. The funniest thing is that most don't even taste good according to a yt who actually tried it out.
UA-camrs selling their soul to advertise such robbery to their own viewers lol
I recently watched a youtuber review the cereal and he was RAGING over the price....
@@dagda1180
Is that Shane, who recently started his channel?
I had a lab mate in college who didn't make aldehyde dehydrogenase and came into lab complaining about her reaction to alcohol, probably from drinking over the weekend. That was an interesting way to learn about it.
10:00 did you have to make eye contact
Oh, god... when I was a child in the 80s we had, in Spain, a chemistry set that everyone knew, QuimiCefa, from CeFa (Celulosa Fabril), a company from Zaragoza, Spain, and it was epic...
While drinking my morning coffee I clicked on this. For some reason (caffeine dependency), I read the title of this video as “Christian Science Kits Are an Absolute Nightmare.” Very disappointed you couldn’t find a single Christian Science Kit.
The Christian Science kit includes a bible and a bonus rosary 🤣
Can you just do every single experiment? This was rather relaxing watching a madman with science kits
i just did my chemisty gcse mock today, WHAT WONDERFUL TIMING
edit: i am now doing a chemistry a level
My brother knows I love older stuff and antiques so for my birthday he somehow found and got me an old school science kit with a microscope, test tubes, and I had a bunch of other chemicals and stuff were I think at least a third of which I don't even think you can legally buy without licensing and or supervision nowadays for display. It has a catalog to order more components and chemicals in which literally has a section for me to order uranium and what it would cost me. The old school science kits were a different Beast.
this is for kids guys
"Stir for 10 minutes." Oh god where is your cool spinny magnet thingy!
Editing on this video was a little over the top, made me feel as if I was going to get a headache :/
genuinely wish you wouldn't say that this stuff is boring even as a joke. this is really interesting and i learned more by the time you got to copper burning blue than my entire highschool and college chemistry classes, and i'm stoned as shit watching this.
No point crying over spilt calcium lactate
I would love watch a chaos Matt doing Chemistry collab with Nigel from Nilered
Existence Is A Nightmare - Part 3 when?
As someone who did a whole project on other citrus fruits as batteries, I was very prepared for the science in that last one
Magic Spoon tastes like used cat litter and cost the same per gram as gold
It's not that bad. Although I agree, it's too expensive. There are definitely more tasty options that are less expensive.
@@Uesurii_San I’m allergic to avocado so can never try it, so I’m going to comfort myself with the idea that it tastes like cat litter anyway… ah well…
You don't have to sell it to me bro.
I have not heard a single good review of it, who's buying that junk ?
@@SPQRKlio Good for you. As someone who's mildly allergic to most beans, so I can sympathize with the weird allergy community.
This should be whole science series. Math , physics, chemistry !!!
This is absolutely off topic but I NEED to know where you got your shirt! River otters are my favorite animal and I need to express this to others lol.
You sound like british Dr. Doofenshmirtz and it makes every single word you say that much better.
Keep playing with fire like this and you'll be able to do a really good Joshua Graham cosplay 😂 5:15
I remember doing the copper sulfate experiment in highschool, surprised that made it into a kit like this. From what I remember, you explained what was happening really well!
18:08 Except your circuit uses an LED instead of an incandescent light bulb, so that's not what's happening. An LED works very similarly to the copper sulfate from the first experiment but in reverse. The electrons jump down in energy level as they flow across the diode, causing them to emit a photon
7:52 I have several gallons of it under my kitchen table. Model engine fuel uses it as the primary fuel source, with varying amounts of lube oil and nitromethane mixed in as well as trace elements of anti-foaming additives for good measure. And I do a LOT of RC with such engines in them.
Dubbing Baba Yehtu(sp?) over the circle of life clip sent me so hard lmao, possibly the funniest part of a great vid imho
I love your gaming videos but your passion for science and comedy made this the best video you've made
Honestly, I'd love to have you as a science teacher.
14:42 "That isn't science, it's gardening!" Me:*cries in geologist*
Well, I just had a flash back to GCSE chemistry and making eathers. When the solution overheated reched its ignition point and yeeted itself out of the testube and onto my mates notebook, setting it on fire. All while my chemistry teacher stood there laughing like the proverbail mad scientist.
The Mad Science instruction manual looks identical to my old high school chemistry textbook. I hope we continue to get chemistry videos like these, they're really good!
Your content really is all over the place and I love it! 🥰
I'm kind of impressed just 13 seconds in that he managed (probably with his chemical-fu) to start a fire without a clear cause other than some liquid on the box. Yeah, there's probably some flammable chemicals that react very exothermically with each other that are decently well-known, but it's still cool.
Also, damn, he really just blew that whole flame out. I bow to his superior knowledge of physics, for I am in awe.
18:53 That ain't the circle of life that's baba yetu (Good)
1:35 Holy Moly Disco Elysium OST - Whirling-In-Rags theme
BOILING CHIP, YOU NUMPTY (Serious, I love everything you do)
It’s always fun to see upisnotjump getting a new play thing to have fun with. He’s a good kid I hope he goes far.
UpIsNotJump
As someone who finished their Physical Chemistry after 7 years
I feel pain
I graduated a master's in applied biology a few years ago and was like "oh, oh no, *oh no*".
At least he remembered to point the top of the heated tube away from himself (and hopefully anyone else in the room).
"Today on this weird art project that is my job: I'm going to disassemble a bath bomb and see if we find anything"
Average chemist, "I'm not even gunna use the instructions, I'm just gunna fucking go for it"
10:29 Man with masters degree in analytical chemistry:
I prefer your chemistry lessons over high school chemistry because no equations only diagrams.
Thank you bro.
Uses LED then explains how resistance based light bulb works. Classic chemist
I clicked on a video called Chemistry Is an Absolute Nightmare, but by the time it loaded the title reads "Children's Science Kits Are An Absolute Nightmare"
How did I open a video in the exact moment that it changed titles?
PLZ MORE, this is genuinely interesting
Most of that copper sulphate probably would have dissolved. The crystals are large and it can take some time to fully dissolve. I use it to make copper chloride by dissolving it in hydrochloric acid, and even then it takes a good while to dissolve the crystals.
SOOOO glad you went back to your old style. Love your work man!
It's important to remember that this man has a masters in chemistry
chemist here: the stuff you see here is (as far as I'm concerned anyway) the easy stuff, and I don't mean that as a joke!
Most of general chemistry can all be learned descriptively, but someone had to discover it to begin with. You can't really point a microphone at a molecule or an atom and ask it what it is, or (in organic chemistry) which one of the infinite white powders it is. Colours fail when there's no absorbances, solubilities are not specific, and melting points fail for isomers. How can you tell apart para-xylene from meta-xylene?
Actually finding out what you've created when you mix A and B is the part that made me want to die, you study chemistry but for this part it's about 50% being bamboozled into studying '''advanced''' physics so you can understand the principles behind spectroscopy, spectrometry (the main boys) and other characterisation methods. Putting the hypothetical microphone to your product and getting info out of it to find its precise structure, that's a pain. I miss science kits like these where you didn't have to bother xD
But the pretty changing colours are too pretty, I couldn't resist...
Also, side note, for the first one, the reason Calcium is able to force the sodium to skedaddle is mostly because the "CO2" bit is large, rather large, with the neg charge spread over "2"ish atoms, and to be stable, it prefers larger "counterparts". Sodium is smaller than calcium so it's less stable, which translates to a bigger tendency to dissociate (separate) allowing the calcium to come and replace it, which itself has much less chances of leaving to begin with :)