What Is Styrofoam (Mr. Wizard)

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  • Опубликовано: 1 фев 2025

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  • @danielmarcus420
    @danielmarcus420 2 года назад +6

    I'm so excited that this channel exists. I was trying to explain to my three children that a man in the late 80's named Mr Wizard, taught me science and gave me a thirst for knowledge at a young age. I was hoping to find a video on RUclips but I found all the videos on RUclips! Thank you!

    • @jeremiahbullfrog9288
      @jeremiahbullfrog9288 Год назад +2

      His 1950s-60s episodes were much more in-depth... and all kids get today is Sellout Nye. Society is definitely moving backwards 🤣

    • @bddrex
      @bddrex 19 дней назад

      He was in his 60's when I made this show. He was 89 when he passed in 2007.

  • @ThatOneSuperCircuitGuy
    @ThatOneSuperCircuitGuy 9 месяцев назад +1

    Fantastic!! I’m so glad I can rewatch these old episodes. Mr. Wizard was, and still is, the best TV science guy.

  • @scorinth
    @scorinth 5 лет назад +16

    I'm slightly disappointed he didn't say one word about how the beads they start with are made.
    (The plastic is mixed with gas like nitrogen while it's molten in a high-pressure atmosphere, then allowed to cool and turn solid before the pressure is released. Gently melting the plastic allows the tiny high pressure bubbles to become larger, low pressure bubbles.)

    • @SimmeringPotpourri
      @SimmeringPotpourri 3 года назад +1

      Mr. Wizard missed a perfect opertunity to have molten plastic with high pressure in a television studio where children are present. Mr. Wizard, you COWARD! :-D

    • @arunca190
      @arunca190 Год назад

      To your credit you are only slightly disappointed.

  • @danger2374
    @danger2374 4 года назад +19

    When microwaves still had dials instead of digital buttons

    • @GV213
      @GV213 2 года назад +3

      I'll bet those microwaves from that time still work today,while new ones last 5 years at most

  • @joselathario
    @joselathario 4 года назад +22

    Mr. Wizard always seemed like he could snap at any moment lol

    • @kokobunni5897
      @kokobunni5897 4 года назад +8

      Nah, he’s just an old man lol plus he’s intelligent. Sometimes smart people have little patience 😂💀

    • @paulholyfield
      @paulholyfield 4 года назад +9

      I remember thinking that when I was a kid, now that I'm watching these as an adult he seems a lot less scary haha.

    • @ashleyworden1887
      @ashleyworden1887 3 года назад +2

      You thought so too!

    • @BeeABaw
      @BeeABaw 2 года назад +1

      @@kokobunni5897 If you watch his earlier show in the 60's he seems much more patience. That being said the kids back then seemed more in the know, so he did not seem like he had to explain so much.

    • @silentrage8961
      @silentrage8961 Год назад +1

      @@BeeABaw Ha.. If he worked with the kids of today, he'd probably pop a cap in their heads.😆

  • @jeffstiles7850
    @jeffstiles7850 9 лет назад +14

    I remember this, I also remember misunderstanding this and tossing chunks of Styrofoam int.o our macaroni in an attempt to fill the pan with styrofoam

  • @SonnyBone
    @SonnyBone 2 года назад +8

    I want to know what Stacey grew up to be. She was always super sharp.

    • @gryptoh5456
      @gryptoh5456 2 года назад +7

      She’s a very successful lawyer in Alberta.

  • @vortexvideogames935
    @vortexvideogames935 5 лет назад +10

    When I saw this 30 years ago as a kid - I was happy and loved this show. Now I just hate myself.

  • @DavidLS1
    @DavidLS1 6 месяцев назад +1

    Professor Proton!

  • @tylermunden6642
    @tylermunden6642 3 года назад +3

    I literally made a bag of popcorn before watching this episode. By the end, my stomach asplodeded. XD

  • @JAHinHK
    @JAHinHK 9 лет назад +14

    Great episode. I too remember this one. I wonder if she's still got that fish.

    • @beaniiman
      @beaniiman 4 года назад

      she dead

    • @JAHinHK
      @JAHinHK 4 года назад

      @@beaniiman The fish or the kid?

    • @rchatell
      @rchatell 4 года назад +5

      She's a lawyer.

  • @cyberdelicxp9125
    @cyberdelicxp9125 Год назад +2

    Mr Wizard was Gen X Bill Nye...and he was friggin awesome!

    • @NemoNoone-p3p
      @NemoNoone-p3p 6 месяцев назад +1

      NO way....
      Mr. Wizard was an actual scientist and not a perverted pos.
      Nye is an actor...that has some very minor degree but because he spews their modern day drivel...they gave him an honorary degree.
      Mr Wizard WAS awesome.
      Nye never was.

    • @mingus444_gaming
      @mingus444_gaming 2 месяца назад

      @@NemoNoone-p3p that's probably why nye spits out the communist party line about transgenders

  • @matthewvanderhorst4862
    @matthewvanderhorst4862 5 лет назад +4

    That glass pot that he is using when I was a kid in the late 80s my mom was cooking spaghetti sauce and one of those glass pots and it exploded like a grenade throughout the kitchen glass went everywhere like shrapnel luckily nobody got hurt

    • @NemoNoone-p3p
      @NemoNoone-p3p 6 месяцев назад

      So through my scientifical deductive reasoning,
      I have come to the conclusion that....
      Your mom couldn't cook :))

  • @coreyform563
    @coreyform563 4 года назад +4

    That wasn't 3 minutes

  • @technodrone313
    @technodrone313 6 лет назад +5

    I blame this exact video for my thermo plastic addiction!!

  • @TrevorToonArt
    @TrevorToonArt 2 года назад +1

    I actually remember this one. That chick was in a ton of these episodes.

    • @DavidLS1
      @DavidLS1 6 месяцев назад

      She was his girlfriend.

  • @frankcabanski9409
    @frankcabanski9409 4 года назад +2

    "...we'll add some of the yellow." It's orange.

  • @kimmydsk3362
    @kimmydsk3362 3 года назад +1

    Anyone else notice at the very beginning he mistakenly called her Christian?

  • @Lg4242
    @Lg4242 8 лет назад +16

    She's a barrister in Canada now

    • @andrewdavis5386
      @andrewdavis5386 7 лет назад +2

      Lg4242 I was searching to see where she ended up and was wondering if that barrister was her!

    • @Hermetic_
      @Hermetic_ 5 лет назад +2

      Awesome!

    • @wdsftygt
      @wdsftygt 4 года назад +1

      God bless her she is sweet

    • @jaynichols6868
      @jaynichols6868 2 года назад +3

      She works at Starbucks?

    • @commander1982
      @commander1982 10 месяцев назад

      @@jaynichols6868😂

  • @Jordan_G.
    @Jordan_G. 7 лет назад +1

    I used to have those same glass pots!

    • @Kristinapedia
      @Kristinapedia 6 лет назад

      vision cookware. they were awesome.

  • @subaruthug
    @subaruthug Год назад

    Mr. Wizard: "Christian, you've seen little cases like this haven't you?"
    Stacey: my name's Stacey
    Mr. Wizard: "....and because it's a gold fish, we'll put in some of the yellow"
    Stacey: but it's orange
    Mr. Wizard to producer: I am NEVER working with that kid again.....all she does is argue...

  • @jeremiahbullfrog9288
    @jeremiahbullfrog9288 Год назад

    The styrofoam retains its shape; the golfish and the beakerful fell apart. Why? And where to get these magic beads?

  • @SuperstarDJSupreme
    @SuperstarDJSupreme 4 года назад

    What's her name?

  • @shannonmalayajones7649
    @shannonmalayajones7649 2 года назад

    Thank you.

  • @haroonrasheed-zz1xh
    @haroonrasheed-zz1xh 10 лет назад +2

    which chemical use in styrofoam.......tell me the name of chemicals

    • @dusterdude238
      @dusterdude238 8 лет назад +4

      Poly Styrene - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polystyrene

    • @keithhumphrey4095
      @keithhumphrey4095 2 года назад

      Think of making napalm?

  • @BreakTime10101
    @BreakTime10101 Год назад

    I wonder what all of these kids are up to nowadays.

  • @paulholyfield
    @paulholyfield 4 года назад

    Legenda.

  • @GT-43
    @GT-43 2 года назад

    That's not Styrofoam.

  • @anthonydiaz5123
    @anthonydiaz5123 5 лет назад

    Am I evil for kinda hoping she'd try to pull the fish outta the pot with her fingers?

  • @dylanfrazier1845
    @dylanfrazier1845 4 года назад +10

    I thought she was a boy

    • @SuperstarDJSupreme
      @SuperstarDJSupreme 4 года назад +4

      It's because of the haircut and outfit but she definitely sounds like a girl. I had to enlarge the video to confirm she's a girl by her earrings

    • @ShiningGalaxy01
      @ShiningGalaxy01 3 года назад

      @@SuperstarDJSupreme Isn't she like around 14, or 15? She looks allot like a teenage girl.

    • @smithchasea
      @smithchasea 3 года назад

      I thought so too.

  • @KrazeeClark
    @KrazeeClark 8 лет назад +2

    Mr. Wizard seems laid back here. I think he must have had a hangover.

    • @ashleyworden1887
      @ashleyworden1887 3 года назад +1

      No, maybe he was calm because he had a reefer before the show...j/k!

  • @dereksans1015
    @dereksans1015 4 года назад

    No I'm. Stupid