I don't know if this makes Braking Bad older than I thought or the Mythbusters younger than I thought, but in my head, these shows are like 8years apart
@@dlfrestoration if you think breaking bad was last good show since 08 you need to stop waiting to be spoonfed content. There are SO MANY fantastic series and movies. Breaking bad was without a doubt one of the best series ever made, but its not the first, last or best imho, it just reminded people what a good story CAN be.
I once (ONCE!) used varnish and paint remover on wood in a bathroom. The bath was made from Fiberglass and the paint stripper got on to the bath. The result was Ooopsie! I nearly put a hole in my bath!
36:28 The most common material for bathtubs and shower tubs in *Not America* is enamel-coated steel. For toilet bowls and bathroom sinks, that would be porcelain. I'm honestly not sure why I was surprised by fiber glass apparently being more common in America, seeing how the people there have seemingly never heard of concrete walls and double-paned windows, which are standards in Europe.
They did that in an episode of the kids version of mythbusters. It's on RUclips. I think it had "can magnets wipe data" or something to that effect in the title.
"Pirania" solution should be used AFTER SLOWLY mixing ingredients, becose added in that way thay notwhole mixed one ingredient has bigger density that second so only little of mixture on that movie is really mixed... when pirania is maked good after disolving material liquid is clean and transparent, that what we see is effect of separate work of ingredient, "pirania" in use is hot but NEVER should boil... and one more thing "pirania" work weaker and weaker in time so you would not disolve whole body, there always stay some bones
Also, being a Breaking Bad special, how about watching someone use ice for the first time? Having heard so much about it, fortunately from the relative safe distance of across the pond, I've always wondered why all that use it rave about it so much. I mean, to turn a God fearing, church going sinless, purer than the driven snow, into someone who can suck a golf ball through a garden hose within days, has to be quite a substance. I pray it never reaches these shores. I have enough on my plate as it is!?!
I think they did it wrong with the explosives do to the impact of the powder together instead of a crystal impacting. The colliding of the crystal may make the explosion work without the shock rocks. But I don't think the crystal should explode with as much power do to the same thing that happens with gun powder (fine = fast bang) (course = slow bang)
The mercury didn’t explode on the throw because they didn’t use crystals, which so unstable that in big crystals it can explode spontaneously because it’s own weight
@@spran369 methamphetamin? Pharmaceutical companies do make methamphetamin as medicition As example for ADHD and narcolepsy, even for children The last years it‘s used more often again legally
No no you missed something 🫢 The actual myth is if blue meth is an indicator of pureness! spoiler: it’s not … meth is natural white so you would make it blue by adding impurities 🫨 Myth : BUSTED💥
The "secret acid" is Piranha Solution btw - It's made with 3 parts of concentrated sulfuric acid and 1 part of 30% hydrogen peroxide solution, same ratio used in this episode. It's so dangerous that just mixing it too quickly can cause it to boil and even explode
That's what I figured out as well from "lots of Hydrogen and Oxygen". Deduced rather. Not really that many ways these 2 can bond in order to satisfy "the Ultimate Theatrical Effect" requirement the duo has consistently made their trademark...
For those of you who want to know what the secret sauce was, it's Hydrogen Peroxide and with sulfuric acid it forms "Piranha solution". At 18:27 on the left jug they didn't censor the "Hydrogen Peroxide" written on there.
HF is actually a weak acid by definition and not as corrosive as strong acids such as Hydrochloric (HCl), however, corrosivity is the least hazardous aspect of HF. The toxicity of HF is the main concern. HF is absorbed through the skin quickly and is a severe systemic toxin.
Many years ago I worked in a lab that used HF in their research and it was kept in plastic because it corroded glass and its toxic properties were what made us respect the horrid stuff.
It would definitely be more likely to explode. 50g of it would not blow up a building though, and it would not leave people inside alive if it did. The crystals would also look nothing like they did in the show - you just can't make crystals of mercury fulminate that size (you'd get a few millimetres at best) and it's the wrong colour (closer to that powder's colour).
I am sure Tuco had his office professionally cleaned after the blast to remove the fine mercury dust. Would not want any long-term brain damage leading to unpredictable behavior during drug deals. Everyone should stay relaxed and focused during those.
funfact : old Chemist in germany tried out to reproduze the cristal meth out of breaking bad , was successful, but got noticed by the police. he got released after it was confirmed that he had no intention of selling it
Wooden walls take more in of the shockwave, then brick, so it lowers the chances to blow out the windows. Also asking the specialist how the difference between the powder and crystal form could matter, next to it beign extremely hard to crystalize, would sound like an insteresting follow up on this vis.
yeah if its that fragile during creation, then maybe it should've gone of when tuco's goons pressed it down while putting it on the desk.... but hey, maybe they will follow up :)
I thought it is Breaking Bath. They are wasting a hell of a lot of time on some faulty bath and a ceiling. In reality that piece of bath would simply get stuck in the metal grid of such a ceiling. It is all as fake as you can get it. Why did people stay home for this? For real?
I've never recovered from Breaking Bad. It ruined tv for me because there was nothing else to watch, besides Vikings...and that turned to shit after Ragnar died imo. GOT was traumatic as well as the last few seasons sucked monkey balls too lol
What if???: 1) They could do mercury fulminate something more rigid, when they throw against the wall or floor the deformation of that solid MF will cause a better reaction, it was just a powder, and you have to remember that Tuco's place was made of concrete. 2) Considering that Jesse's house was not a new house, i could bet if that bathtub could be scratched or broken, that scratch could be enough to the special sauce and acid penetrates very good and dissolve it. and as an old house maybe the wet environment under the bathtub could be the best place to drain all that dissolved matter. Note: obviously Vince Gilligan didn’t put exact proportions not to promote people to do it in real life, like the meth they didn't show the exact formula.
Yeah, it's just piranha solution. Sulphuric acid and H2O2. I've made a much more concentrated version of it before, since they seemingly used diluted acid and H2O2.
This is complete and utter bollocks..you put the fulminated mercury in a bag on purpose. Walt threw the raw material not in a bag that exploded with the rest in the bag on Tucos desk. You didn't bother testing that though did you
They disappointed me. When I saw the episode, I knew the reaction. These guys failed to reproduce the actual conditions. They set a tub on a wooden floor. They didn't make a point of it, but they had to seal the drain with something, The drain fitting is typically chrome plated brass. In either HF of "Super Sauce" the brass would have gone quickly. The acid+ would have leaked out of tub in the space formerly occupied by the drain fixture. The cellulose fibre in the wood would have resisted a bit. The floor would have busted through and the fully intact tub with mostlly intact body would have dropped.The Mercury Fulminate needed to be recrystallized, using a solvent mixture and a dark place to sit undisturbed.takes time to grow large crystals. They must have a good production budget. They don't skimp on things.
HF also corrodes fiberglass better than the solution they used. im guessing due to the toxicity of HF it wouldve been extremely difficult for the production crew to obtain many gallons of it and thats why they switched to piranha solution
Also he threw the F Mercury away from him, not at his toes so even if it had gone off for M.B it would have done way more damage to fake walt than it would have done to show walt
Its a programme do u realy expect everything to be legit ... an also if so do u think that they would make it clear to the public how to do it.... haha come on its tv
Aw, they didn't check if you can kickstart van engine with 6 homemade batteries... Edit: the description has mistake: it says hydrochloric acid, but in movie (as well as in Mythbusters) they used hydrofluoric acid.
'Fun' Fact: in Afghanistan ISIS mostly closed down all opium production and switched to growing ephedra. Ephedra is a plant that is used to make crystal meth which is mostly sold ion eastern Europe. The EMCDDA has a great report about this.
ISIS? You mean the Taliban? Much to the dismay of big pharmaceutical corporations, for whom opium is a highly valuable resource and Afghanistan is the producer of 80% of the world's opium. And that also at a time when the opioid crisis was starting to form in the US. I've heard of soldiers having to guard poppy seed fields after the invasion... makes you wonder.
Das Quecksilberfulminat wäre beim werfen explodiert, wenn es große Kristalle gewesen wären anstatt Pulver! es wird als Pulver hergestellt, weil große Kristalle viel zu empfindlich auf Schlag oder Reibung reagieren!
Key to the fulminated mercury and other similar substances being too impact reactive is "screwing up" the process to create crystals (just don't, ever), not fine powder. They made it too perfectly.
Having been a mineral and metallurgical assayer in my past life, I worked with various chemicals, however the one that needed total attention whilst handling is Hydrofluoric Acid used digest quartz, silicates and silicon metal (metalloid) and heated in special high temperature resistant teflon beakers. HF is the one acid that can be very fatal if handled without strict training and the use of proper PPE. As for the special sauce used with the Sulphuric (Sulfuric) H2SO4 acid bath, and if I heard correctly towards the end of the video the sauce is made up of H202 Hydrogen Peroxide which definitely got the violent super heated reaction going.
is it me or did they add a little something something with the mercury fulminate at 40:39 you can clearly see the bags of MF on the right and a cylinder on the left not just a squib
At 17:15 into the video, the liquid in those bottles did not look like pure sulfuric acid. Concentrated sulfuric acid is very viscous. The thick (oil like) consistency is what gave sulfuric acid its other name, "oil of vitriol." Look it up. If they used pure sulfuric acid, the pig flesh would almost instantly turn into black carbon, because the acid rips out water from the compounds in the flesh, thus leaving mainly carbon. You would also need a whole lot more acid to dissolve that much pork.
@@bobthe7778 18 mol/L is concentraded not super saturated. It is the same as 96% You can get 99.9% but it offgasses a lot. It is also less corrosive as the water helps the reactions take place.
They also didn't bother adding an entire ounce bag of the stuff on the desk either. If it was crystallized and not powdered and not in a bag and instead the raw crystals being thrown onto the ground it would be a totally different scenario
To increase the reactivity or strength of sulfuric acid, some possible answers include: Concentration: Increasing the concentration of sulfuric acid can enhance its reactivity. Temperature: Raising the temperature of sulfuric acid can increase its reactivity. Catalysts: Adding catalysts like vanadium pentoxide (V2O5) or platinum can enhance sulfuric acid's reactivity. Oxidizers: Adding oxidizers like hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) or potassium permanganate (KMnO4) can increase sulfuric acid's reactivity. Remember to handle sulfuric acid with caution, as it's a highly corrosive and hazardous substance. Always follow proper safety protocols and guidelines when working with it!
34:33 i noticed a funny detail. Aaron had to wear his shirt inside out, i guess there is some sort of copyrighted material there or something. it looks like there is Darth Vader on the shirt lol
The process of enhancing sulfuric acid’s reactivity by adding an oxidizing agent is commonly known as “supercharging.” In this Mythbusters episode, they used a “special sauce” of hydrogen peroxide; which is a strong oxidizer, also referred to as “Piranha Solution”.
i love how at 5:30 Jamie is putting the dishes with the material onto a tray one by one. Why not put all the dishes onto the tray and load the tray with all of it on it in one go? O wait, yeah, time filler, hollywood.
of course they knew how to make it real, do you think Vince and production would air the formula on tv to all these criminals-to-be whose minds are twisted?
So going back in history . The Redbull and the other utube on the history of marijuana. That's called on utube, 50 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT MARIJUANA. SO HERE THEY'D ALSO A KING NAMED CHARLES. BECAUSE OF SUGAR INDUSTRY INITIALLY. I SUNNY DON'T KNOW WHO'S SIDE HE'S ON AND IF I COULD I SEND THIS TO HIS SON HARRY.
If you buy the company and changed the recipe like Bond and xxxx , AUSSIES, HOY HOY HOY USA cup sailing race.. if YOU CHANGE THE RECIPE OF AVEENO OIL FOR THOSE YOU DON'T LIKE AND KEEP THE GOOD OIL FOR YOURSELF, IN THE CEILING OF THE HALL ACROSS TREE STREET OR IN THE NO ACCESS RING ROAD ... THAT'S A JOKE... YOU CAN KEEP ALL YOUR TRUCK DRIVERS AND SOLDIERS MUCH MORE HEALTHY THAN THEIR ENEMIES. THERE, DO WITH THAT WHAT YOU DO.
Bundaberg is QUEENSLAND, not Victoria and Nsw. If you've just heard Kelly Beaucannon on radio ABC local..Bundaberg., oh.. no, that was Landline. This radio news is meant to make me feel as if somebody decent gives a dam. But that's OK with me. Me and my invisible man. ❤
Easy: Walter was lying about the mercury fulminate; he used silver azide instead. No stupid poisonous mercury in the air. He probably thought that "mercury" sounds more exotic than "silver" to the crime boss. And the large amount in the large bag was just a dummy. He wouldn't risk that the shockwave of the first explosions would cause a secondary explosion. And silver azide forms colorless crystals. In some regions of Germany, it's still legal to produce (although only 1 gram max!) of silver azide in chemistry lessons in school. Of course, back in the days, we had that chemistry teacher who didn't give a fuck about regulations. Met her again long after I had left school. Turned out that she not remembered me, but that she had also lectured all her classes, for decades, about how "heroic" I was (referring to one of my, uh, "unofficial" experiments, which went a bit...too good). Everyone else would have lectured about how dumb I was. Me included.
They were using tap water to break down those bathroom substances compared to the proper daddy of all known acids, fluoroantimonic acid. It is so toxic and reactive, especially with H²O that it has to be stored within sulphuric acid! That's how bad ass it is. Now, a programme showing the effects of fluoroantimonic acid, now that would be a show worth watching. Any chances guys?
Special SAUS is that 2 hydrogen atoms + 2 oxygen atoms = dihydrogen dioxide, more commonly known as hydrogen peroxide. The combination with sulfuric acid is known as piranha solution is that that?
Dry wall is called dry wall for a reason 🤣 when it gets wet or liquid is present around it, it soaks it up like a sponge and falls apart which is why your house has to be stripped out and re furbished after a flood or water has gone through the walls.
FM powder and chrystals must react different. Powder must soften its own impact. Like a matress. Or spunge. Now compare that to a crystal, the impact will be so much harder. Like throwing a piece of metal compared to the spunge. Imagine throwing both on the ground.
as a big fan of mythbusters but who also wouldnt wanna sit through lots of boring parts in breaking bad, i have barely seen a single episode of one while i've seen tons of the other and as very often, the experiments in mythbusters do not match what i call "the cleanliness factor". remember when they experimented with pyramids and sawed through an apple and it seemed to show results just based on that alone? well, same here except the other way around: the breaking bad scene with the bathtub plays in some decrepit house. seeing as it still has a bathtub instead of a much cheaper shower, it must be especially old and not just built shoddily, but actually decently after which it became what we can see. the fact that all of this happened instead of it being kept up well should also pretty much guarantee the weakest and cheapest bathtub available being used, as otherwise the owners wouldve most likely paid more attention to it, so in that aspect they had it correctly in the end with glass fiber. one thing that was definitely not correct is that the bathtub was practically in pristine condition. as anyone would be able to attest to who has used an old, weak bathtub, this is never the case. if you rent, this is almost guaranteed. so the bathtubs wouldve been damaged in some ways. this could be thin, superficial tears in the material, but also some slightly deeper holes and maybe a sagging middle part where someone especially heavy may have just tripped and landed on that one time when there was a little too much soap in there and they didnt pay attention. again, i've seen this so many times before at so many people's places (as everyone around here rents), that i'm genuinely surprised how they didnt add this edge to the acid working its magic. a larger surface wouldve helped the reaction by default, but also the damage to the surface wouldve gotten rid of the most difficult part and made the material thinner. i think a good place for them to start wouldve been to get a used bathtub in rough shape and then banged it up some more. it was a drug lord's hideout, afterall, from what i can tell. then the floor. same idea, way too good condition. such a floor wouldve had various small holes and countless little cuts and grooves which wouldve really helped the acid work. also, maybe use more rotten wood? those have some air gaps often and are weaker, too, so a bathtub that was filled to the brim with enough acid dissolve 70kg of pork couldve weighed down more upon it to break through. ps: in the series it seems that the wrong kind of acid was used, as a massive chunk of flesh fell down, whereas the other materials were much more damaged, i'm not a chemist, but is it possible that there's an acid or base that would achieve sth much more close to that? i get that piranha solution makes for an awesome effect, but maybe it was sth else entirely. aqua regia is well known to dissolve gold and is made of nitric acid and hydrochloric acid, though quite different, it's pretty easy for a chemistry teacher like walter white to produce in copious amounts, i think. and while i know very little of the topic, judging by the fact that the myth busters team arent using it on the pork but piranha solution, i will assume that it works pretty badly with organic stuff like meat and MAYBE better with other things? but again, i'm talking out of my hinie right now. or maybe there's an acid that excels at eating through wood that would be a realistic option?
Where I worked they had a huge container of hydrochloric acid ... I'll tell you .. I just unscrewed the lid and sniffed just the lid... Omg ... you think smelling ammonia was bad ... that is strong shit lol ... and I didn't giggle the container to get any of that on the lid lol ... but isn't MythBusters just bending over backwards .. to try to make it plausible ... like how many people have fiberglass bath tubes... except hot tubs 😂 lol going way way way way way way overboard on trying to make this myth plausible ... yeah buds I stopped watching at 39 minutes .. when you start manipulating
Of couse, the "special sauce" is concentrated hydrogen peroxide, mixed with sulfuric acid gives a "piranha solution". Nasty stuff, good for cleaning organic...residue.
Sulphuric acid and hydrogen peroxide is what you are supposed to use. The fact that Walter White didnt know that makes no sense. It leaves no carbon based matter, you need to add more hydrogen peroxide when the reaction dies. It first goes black but eventually turns clear... also username relevant.
If it's an exothermal reaction, out-door circumstances lower the maximum pressure and temperature and so metal won't melt anymore. Secondly, not all bathtubs are made of metal. For something collapsing, the residual strength after these chemical reactions is more important than how much has been dissolved or how it looks. Just some better control and purity of your reaction (like the crystal meth) is needed to get crystals instead of powder. 😉Plasticity of a bag and powder are the best way to limit local peaks of impact energy, it's the most extreme difference with crystals hitting tiles. So all local peaks to initiate the explosion are avoided in this show. Walt just directly knows what can be used as heat decent shield and the maximum G-forces our human bodies can handle without any hand-calculations or need for other specialists. Walt is just a lot smarter than these Mythbusters!😜
Sooo... your SPECIAL " acid '' done that, did it? I'm thinkin' I shall not get into this kind of chemistry, for fear of gettin' badly burned! Good on ya fer yer safety measures, buys!
Pan was only guilty of going ahead without permit based on advice l think. His Mrs was such a truelove and nice nice and pretty young woman. She disliked bikers that visited and put a dead cat in the easement property owners letter box , which was next to my letter box. But l don't want to say anymore even though there is more 200 year and 100 and 20 and 4 and 3 , you get the drift .
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I don't know if this makes Braking Bad older than I thought or the Mythbusters younger than I thought, but in my head, these shows are like 8years apart
I think breaking bad aired in 2008
Was the last really good show
@@dlfrestorationyou could try the expanse i love this one
@@dlfrestoration if you think breaking bad was last good show since 08 you need to stop waiting to be spoonfed content. There are SO MANY fantastic series and movies. Breaking bad was without a doubt one of the best series ever made, but its not the first, last or best imho, it just reminded people what a good story CAN be.
@@Kub-Kob everything since has been woke rubbish sadly
I once (ONCE!) used varnish and paint remover on wood in a bathroom. The bath was made from Fiberglass and the paint stripper got on to the bath. The result was Ooopsie! I nearly put a hole in my bath!
9:27 i thought he gona say " luckily we found a guy who knows a guy who know another guy" 😂
15:10 it is probably hydrogen peroxide and they create pyranha solution
36:28
The most common material for bathtubs and shower tubs in *Not America* is enamel-coated steel. For toilet bowls and bathroom sinks, that would be porcelain.
I'm honestly not sure why I was surprised by fiber glass apparently being more common in America, seeing how the people there have seemingly never heard of concrete walls and double-paned windows, which are standards in Europe.
Did Adam use galvanized square steel and eco friendly wood veneers when creating the bathroom?
They shouldve tested the electro magnet in the truck
They did that in an episode of the kids version of mythbusters. It's on RUclips. I think it had "can magnets wipe data" or something to that effect in the title.
Special sauce is 30% h2O2 and the solution called as piranha solution. MAybe heating it up makes any difference
The acid mystery solution was totally peroxide lol
"Pirania" solution should be used AFTER SLOWLY mixing ingredients, becose added in that way thay notwhole mixed one ingredient has bigger density that second so only little of mixture on that movie is really mixed... when pirania is maked good after disolving material liquid is clean and transparent, that what we see is effect of separate work of ingredient, "pirania" in use is hot but NEVER should boil... and one more thing "pirania" work weaker and weaker in time so you would not disolve whole body, there always stay some bones
Also, being a Breaking Bad special, how about watching someone use ice for the first time? Having heard so much about it, fortunately from the relative safe distance of across the pond, I've always wondered why all that use it rave about it so much. I mean, to turn a God fearing, church going sinless, purer than the driven snow, into someone who can suck a golf ball through a garden hose within days, has to be quite a substance. I pray it never reaches these shores. I have enough on my plate as it is!?!
I think they did it wrong with the explosives do to the impact of the powder together instead of a crystal impacting. The colliding of the crystal may make the explosion work without the shock rocks. But I don't think the crystal should explode with as much power do to the same thing that happens with gun powder (fine = fast bang) (course = slow bang)
but in the show they didn't wrap the crystals in the plastic bag. maybe plastic bag prevent enough friction and heat from reaching the substance.
@28:04 that dummy looks exactly like Tobias from arrested development lol
jesse said in the show i got perfect plastic tub did the creator forgot that
I think the acid you're looking for is fluoroantimonic acid!
"as someone who's made crystal meth..."
A crystal would impact the floor a lot harder than a bag of dust
You didnt test whether hydrofluric eats through LDPE
should have went the extra mile and turned it into crystal cause the hard surface on hard surface thing
They should of made crystalized mercury fulmanite
The mercury didn’t explode on the throw because they didn’t use crystals, which so unstable that in big crystals it can explode spontaneously because it’s own weight
The Formula is Sulfuric acid(pure) mixed with hydrogen peroxide. Thank me later!
Formula for piranha solution?
@@glaglelolba6279 Yip.
Sulfuric Acid and Hydrogen Peroxide
vince seems like a cool guy.
What’s the concentration of HF acid
Damn i missed mythbusters
Special sauce is muriatic acid.
Nope H2O2
Jesse actually behaves like that in real life
Hydrogen Peroxide, for anyone wondering what the "special sauce" is
Can we please admire how simultaneously the myth was busted, that windmills contribute in any meaningful way to energy production... 🤣
Methbusters
All these years and that pun never occured to me 😐
Yes. Quite.
More like Methbursters!
Thank you
r/Angryupvote worthy comment
I’m disappointed they didn’t test the production of crystal meth, and the actual quality of the result 😁🤷🏼♂️
I‘m sure they did before the actual myths that made it in the episode
Well, because it's a federal offense mainly 😂 Pretty sure it's one of those things that even pharmaceutical companies aren't even allowed to make
@@spran369 methamphetamin?
Pharmaceutical companies do make methamphetamin as medicition
As example for ADHD and narcolepsy, even for children
The last years it‘s used more often again legally
No no you missed something 🫢 The actual myth is if blue meth is an indicator of pureness! spoiler: it’s not … meth is natural white so you would make it blue by adding impurities 🫨 Myth : BUSTED💥
@@spran369pharmaceutical companies are allowed to produce it and they do
It‘s a used medication for ADHD as example, even for kids
48:31 Just realised that the names in the end credits all got the Periodic Table treatment. Nice little detail for the Breaking Bad Special.
at 9:53 they also did the "sped-up landscape" shot, just like in breaking bad
They should have scratched the bottom of tub (like a old used bathtube) , so the acid could corrode it .amazing reaction anyway
yeah. vitreous ceramic that hasn't had any wear is going to resist almost anything
yep beaten up tub, maybe partially rotten floor, also it should have had plumbing (old rusted iron pipes)
The "secret acid" is Piranha Solution btw -
It's made with 3 parts of concentrated sulfuric acid and 1 part of 30% hydrogen peroxide solution, same ratio used in this episode.
It's so dangerous that just mixing it too quickly can cause it to boil and even explode
Yup, peroxymonosulfuric acid
yeah, when they said "the solution is a lot of hydrogen and oxygen" i figure it out it's hydrogen peroxide.
thanks , now i can dispose corpse .
there was an episode of csi vegas where the killer died because they mixed piranha solution to fast
That's what I figured out as well from "lots of Hydrogen and Oxygen". Deduced rather. Not really that many ways these 2 can bond in order to satisfy "the Ultimate Theatrical Effect" requirement the duo has consistently made their trademark...
Vince retconning the show on another show is highly amusing.
For those of you who want to know what the secret sauce was, it's Hydrogen Peroxide and with sulfuric acid it forms "Piranha solution". At 18:27 on the left jug they didn't censor the "Hydrogen Peroxide" written on there.
I saw that too
Jamie literally revealed it to the smart at 46:50 🤣
@@IanSelvaraj Lots of hydrogen and oxygen could also be just water and nonetheless it was just a little thing I noticed and thought was a tad funny.
Piranha solution is a well known dissolving agent anyway
They almost said it at the end "consists of lots of hydrogen and oxygen " . Though I believe bleach instead of perox. would have done the job
"why? well here's Adam on acid" cought me so off guard💀💀13:39
HF is actually a weak acid by definition and not as corrosive as strong acids such as Hydrochloric (HCl), however, corrosivity is the least hazardous aspect of HF. The toxicity of HF is the main concern. HF is absorbed through the skin quickly and is a severe systemic toxin.
Many years ago I worked in a lab that used HF in their research and it was kept in plastic because it corroded glass and its toxic properties were what made us respect the horrid stuff.
Yeah, as demonstrated by the drywall's plaster, HF is a BIG calcium fan, and that includes the calcium in your bones.
@@nerd_nato564bone hurting juice
@@danielbrakenhoff2825 Pretty much. That's probably the best description for HF.
Large crystals would be much more impact sensitive...
said its almost impossibe to make it to clear crystals
It would definitely be more likely to explode. 50g of it would not blow up a building though, and it would not leave people inside alive if it did. The crystals would also look nothing like they did in the show - you just can't make crystals of mercury fulminate that size (you'd get a few millimetres at best) and it's the wrong colour (closer to that powder's colour).
And purer too
@@slyfoxcoffee9642 I do think its impossible to make in crytallized form.
@@iiiuuj lmao no he didnt, he said its fairly complex
Lmao the part with the 3 others always end up the same :
"So the myth didnt work, so instead we're using C4"
Rest In Peace Grant ❤
It's been how long now? Fock, get over it
It's been how long now? Fock, get over it
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It's been how long now? Fock, get over it
It's been how long now? Fock, get over it
I am sure Tuco had his office professionally cleaned after the blast to remove the fine mercury dust. Would not want any long-term brain damage leading to unpredictable behavior during drug deals. Everyone should stay relaxed and focused during those.
😅😅😅👍
I knew BB was bad
That "maybe they should build us a writing robot" quote does not seem to be aging that well
Wdym ?
AI?
Ai can write better then 90% of humans
@@zedchillman2685 oh, a self-proven point
@@gianclgar that AI is a more effective tool to create media. Yes. Thank you.
funfact : old Chemist in germany tried out to reproduze the cristal meth out of breaking bad , was successful, but got noticed by the police.
he got released after it was confirmed that he had no intention of selling it
One of my favorites Mythbusters episode, so glad you guys uploaded it
Wooden walls take more in of the shockwave, then brick, so it lowers the chances to blow out the windows. Also asking the specialist how the difference between the powder and crystal form could matter, next to it beign extremely hard to crystalize, would sound like an insteresting follow up on this vis.
I seem to recall someone said ( or I read) that a crystal of it at that size would spontaniously explode. Probbably long before it go to that size.
yeah if its that fragile during creation, then maybe it should've gone of when tuco's goons pressed it down while putting it on the desk.... but hey, maybe they will follow up :)
@@deadbydayinblackYeah I get why they didn't make the crystal. It probably would've been very risky.
Jesse turning up in a t-shirt with a brand or logo so he has to wear it inside out.
This show's narrator doesn't get enough credit, very nostalgic.
The world was a better place when Breaking Bad was still running (probably not but atleast i had shit to distract myself)
I thought it is Breaking Bath. They are wasting a hell of a lot of time on some faulty bath and a ceiling. In reality that piece of bath would simply get stuck in the metal grid of such a ceiling. It is all as fake as you can get it. Why did people stay home for this? For real?
I've never recovered from Breaking Bad. It ruined tv for me because there was nothing else to watch, besides Vikings...and that turned to shit after Ragnar died imo. GOT was traumatic as well as the last few seasons sucked monkey balls too lol
What if???:
1) They could do mercury fulminate something more rigid, when they throw against the wall or floor the deformation of that solid MF will cause a better reaction, it was just a powder, and you have to remember that Tuco's place was made of concrete.
2) Considering that Jesse's house was not a new house, i could bet if that bathtub could be scratched or broken, that scratch could be enough to the special sauce and acid penetrates very good and dissolve it. and as an old house maybe the wet environment under the bathtub could be the best place to drain all that dissolved matter.
Note: obviously Vince Gilligan didn’t put exact proportions not to promote people to do it in real life, like the meth they didn't show the exact formula.
RIP Grant, this show was a huge part of my childhood. It was an awesome way to learn cool thing's growing up.
Dam didn’t know he died
@@djdeemz7651 That was the main reason show was stopped
@@Hyleyswas it related to the show?
@@ooltimu not at all
@@Hyleys it wasn't.
Anyone know what that special sauce used to ‘turbo charge’ the sulphuric acid? Asking for a friend that works for Boeing
H2O2
Leave Boeing alone
@@SinfullyHerau mean the enterprise that killed an employee that was about to expose the company? Sure.
@@luismagarinos3012 Yes, leave them alone, for your own safety.
Yeah, it's just piranha solution. Sulphuric acid and H2O2. I've made a much more concentrated version of it before, since they seemingly used diluted acid and H2O2.
The scripting and over the top bad acting will never get old XD
This is complete and utter bollocks..you put the fulminated mercury in a bag on purpose. Walt threw the raw material not in a bag that exploded with the rest in the bag on Tucos desk. You didn't bother testing that though did you
They disappointed me. When I saw the episode, I knew the reaction. These guys failed to reproduce the actual conditions. They set a tub on a wooden floor. They didn't make a point of it, but they had to seal the drain with something, The drain fitting is typically chrome plated brass. In either HF of "Super Sauce" the brass would have gone quickly. The acid+ would have leaked out of tub in the space formerly occupied by the drain fixture. The cellulose fibre in the wood would have resisted a bit.
The floor would have busted through and the fully intact tub with mostlly intact body would have dropped.The Mercury Fulminate needed to be recrystallized, using a solvent mixture and a dark place to sit undisturbed.takes time to grow large crystals.
They must have a good production budget. They don't skimp on things.
HF also corrodes fiberglass better than the solution they used. im guessing due to the toxicity of HF it wouldve been extremely difficult for the production crew to obtain many gallons of it and thats why they switched to piranha solution
Also he threw the F Mercury away from him, not at his toes so even if it had gone off for M.B it would have done way more damage to fake walt than it would have done to show walt
Its a programme do u realy expect everything to be legit ... an also if so do u think that they would make it clear to the public how to do it.... haha come on its tv
Yeah, yeah, you call him Breaking Bad guy but we all know he's the cowboy from Pile o' Bullets!
Aw, they didn't check if you can kickstart van engine with 6 homemade batteries...
Edit: the description has mistake: it says hydrochloric acid, but in movie (as well as in Mythbusters) they used hydrofluoric acid.
25:47 "The Throwbot is ready to throw..." Yeah... Not with the axle bent hell out of shape! That's a 5 degree bend right there! 😄
'Fun' Fact: in Afghanistan ISIS mostly closed down all opium production and switched to growing ephedra. Ephedra is a plant that is used to make crystal meth which is mostly sold ion eastern Europe. The EMCDDA has a great report about this.
ISIS? You mean the Taliban? Much to the dismay of big pharmaceutical corporations, for whom opium is a highly valuable resource and Afghanistan is the producer of 80% of the world's opium. And that also at a time when the opioid crisis was starting to form in the US. I've heard of soldiers having to guard poppy seed fields after the invasion... makes you wonder.
Das Quecksilberfulminat wäre beim werfen explodiert, wenn es große Kristalle gewesen wären anstatt Pulver!
es wird als Pulver hergestellt, weil große Kristalle viel zu empfindlich auf Schlag oder Reibung reagieren!
Key to the fulminated mercury and other similar substances being too impact reactive is "screwing up" the process to create crystals (just don't, ever), not fine powder. They made it too perfectly.
Having been a mineral and metallurgical assayer in my past life, I worked with various chemicals, however the one that needed total attention whilst handling is Hydrofluoric Acid used digest quartz, silicates and silicon metal (metalloid) and heated in special high temperature resistant teflon beakers. HF is the one acid that can be very fatal if handled without strict training and the use of proper PPE.
As for the special sauce used with the Sulphuric (Sulfuric) H2SO4 acid bath, and if I heard correctly towards the end of the video the sauce is made up of H202 Hydrogen Peroxide which definitely got the violent super heated reaction going.
is it me or did they add a little something something with the mercury fulminate at 40:39 you can clearly see the bags of MF on the right and a cylinder on the left not just a squib
might be a canister of flammable gas to make the explosion look better for tv
I love how Walt's head looks more like Tobias from Arrested development XD
At 17:15 into the video, the liquid in those bottles did not look like pure sulfuric acid. Concentrated sulfuric acid is very viscous. The thick (oil like) consistency is what gave sulfuric acid its other name, "oil of vitriol." Look it up.
If they used pure sulfuric acid, the pig flesh would almost instantly turn into black carbon, because the acid rips out water from the compounds in the flesh, thus leaving mainly carbon. You would also need a whole lot more acid to dissolve that much pork.
sulfuric acid can also be super saturated to something like 18 mol ..
@@bobthe7778 18 mol/L is concentraded not super saturated. It is the same as 96%
You can get 99.9% but it offgasses a lot. It is also less corrosive as the water helps the reactions take place.
Yeah, it also looks much more yellow. It also seems their definitely not peroxide was kinda meh, it didn't dissolve the carbon goop fast enough.
Christalizing the mercury would make a difference to be honest.. A powder does work but it doesn't recreate the same reaction.
Yep, I too think, some big crystals would make a more rapid explosion than some powder. And would cause a bigger boom.
making crystals that size is impossible.
They also didn't bother adding an entire ounce bag of the stuff on the desk either. If it was crystallized and not powdered and not in a bag and instead the raw crystals being thrown onto the ground it would be a totally different scenario
To increase the reactivity or strength of sulfuric acid, some possible answers include:
Concentration: Increasing the concentration of sulfuric acid can enhance its reactivity.
Temperature: Raising the temperature of sulfuric acid can increase its reactivity.
Catalysts: Adding catalysts like vanadium pentoxide (V2O5) or platinum can enhance sulfuric acid's reactivity.
Oxidizers: Adding oxidizers like hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) or potassium permanganate (KMnO4) can increase sulfuric acid's reactivity.
Remember to handle sulfuric acid with caution, as it's a highly corrosive and hazardous substance. Always follow proper safety protocols and guidelines when working with it!
When you make an assumption, you make an ASS out of U and MPTION😂
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34:33 i noticed a funny detail.
Aaron had to wear his shirt inside out, i guess there is some sort of copyrighted material there or something.
it looks like there is Darth Vader on the shirt lol
Lol that's why u hate modern TV Shows
I waited patiently for 15 minutes and you're still not gonna tell me how to melt this body in acid?? Jamie you tease
The process of enhancing sulfuric acid’s reactivity by adding an oxidizing agent is commonly known as “supercharging.” In this Mythbusters episode, they used a “special sauce” of hydrogen peroxide; which is a strong oxidizer, also referred to as “Piranha Solution”.
i love how at 5:30 Jamie is putting the dishes with the material onto a tray one by one.
Why not put all the dishes onto the tray and load the tray with all of it on it in one go?
O wait, yeah, time filler, hollywood.
Without all the filler and repeating stuff they've already said, these episodes would only be 20 minutes long too xD
yeah, that i know. But be real: to fill it up with nonsense like that is a bit too much.
@@InevitableMayo
of course they knew how to make it real, do you think Vince and production would air the formula on tv to all these criminals-to-be whose minds are twisted?
So going back in history . The Redbull and the other utube on the history of marijuana. That's called on utube, 50 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT MARIJUANA. SO HERE THEY'D ALSO A KING NAMED CHARLES. BECAUSE OF SUGAR INDUSTRY INITIALLY. I SUNNY DON'T KNOW WHO'S SIDE HE'S ON AND IF I COULD I SEND THIS TO HIS SON HARRY.
If you buy the company and changed the recipe like Bond and xxxx , AUSSIES, HOY HOY HOY USA cup sailing race.. if YOU CHANGE THE RECIPE OF AVEENO OIL FOR THOSE YOU DON'T LIKE AND KEEP THE GOOD OIL FOR YOURSELF, IN THE CEILING OF THE HALL ACROSS TREE STREET OR IN THE NO ACCESS RING ROAD ... THAT'S A JOKE... YOU CAN KEEP ALL YOUR TRUCK DRIVERS AND SOLDIERS MUCH MORE HEALTHY THAN THEIR ENEMIES. THERE, DO WITH THAT WHAT YOU DO.
Guys, if you really wanted to keep it secret you'd get rid of that ID code on the bottle that hydrogen peroxide. Not too subtle, lol.
Bundaberg is QUEENSLAND, not Victoria and Nsw. If you've just heard Kelly Beaucannon on radio ABC local..Bundaberg., oh.. no, that was Landline. This radio news is meant to make me feel as if somebody decent gives a dam. But that's OK with me. Me and my invisible man. ❤
Easy: Walter was lying about the mercury fulminate; he used silver azide instead. No stupid poisonous mercury in the air. He probably thought that "mercury" sounds more exotic than "silver" to the crime boss.
And the large amount in the large bag was just a dummy. He wouldn't risk that the shockwave of the first explosions would cause a secondary explosion.
And silver azide forms colorless crystals.
In some regions of Germany, it's still legal to produce (although only 1 gram max!) of silver azide in chemistry lessons in school. Of course, back in the days, we had that chemistry teacher who didn't give a fuck about regulations. Met her again long after I had left school. Turned out that she not remembered me, but that she had also lectured all her classes, for decades, about how "heroic" I was (referring to one of my, uh, "unofficial" experiments, which went a bit...too good). Everyone else would have lectured about how dumb I was. Me included.
"The myth was busted"
"Actually in my minds eye the bathtub was made of cheese"
Kudos, Vince... Kudos...
They were using tap water to break down those bathroom substances compared to the proper daddy of all known acids, fluoroantimonic acid. It is so toxic and reactive, especially with H²O that it has to be stored within sulphuric acid! That's how bad ass it is. Now, a programme showing the effects of fluoroantimonic acid, now that would be a show worth watching. Any chances guys?
Special SAUS is that 2 hydrogen atoms + 2 oxygen atoms = dihydrogen dioxide, more commonly known as hydrogen peroxide. The combination with sulfuric acid is known as piranha solution is that that?
say my name..
...you're mythbusters
you're god damn right
Dry wall is called dry wall for a reason 🤣 when it gets wet or liquid is present around it, it soaks it up like a sponge and falls apart which is why your house has to be stripped out and re furbished after a flood or water has gone through the walls.
its close bud the sauce is KMG Electronic Chemicals 64022 Hydrogen Peroxide 30%, Cleanroom LP Grade, 1 Gallon
FM powder and chrystals must react different. Powder must soften its own impact. Like a matress. Or spunge. Now compare that to a crystal, the impact will be so much harder. Like throwing a piece of metal compared to the spunge. Imagine throwing both on the ground.
as a big fan of mythbusters but who also wouldnt wanna sit through lots of boring parts in breaking bad, i have barely seen a single episode of one while i've seen tons of the other and as very often, the experiments in mythbusters do not match what i call "the cleanliness factor". remember when they experimented with pyramids and sawed through an apple and it seemed to show results just based on that alone? well, same here except the other way around: the breaking bad scene with the bathtub plays in some decrepit house. seeing as it still has a bathtub instead of a much cheaper shower, it must be especially old and not just built shoddily, but actually decently after which it became what we can see. the fact that all of this happened instead of it being kept up well should also pretty much guarantee the weakest and cheapest bathtub available being used, as otherwise the owners wouldve most likely paid more attention to it, so in that aspect they had it correctly in the end with glass fiber. one thing that was definitely not correct is that the bathtub was practically in pristine condition. as anyone would be able to attest to who has used an old, weak bathtub, this is never the case. if you rent, this is almost guaranteed. so the bathtubs wouldve been damaged in some ways. this could be thin, superficial tears in the material, but also some slightly deeper holes and maybe a sagging middle part where someone especially heavy may have just tripped and landed on that one time when there was a little too much soap in there and they didnt pay attention. again, i've seen this so many times before at so many people's places (as everyone around here rents), that i'm genuinely surprised how they didnt add this edge to the acid working its magic. a larger surface wouldve helped the reaction by default, but also the damage to the surface wouldve gotten rid of the most difficult part and made the material thinner. i think a good place for them to start wouldve been to get a used bathtub in rough shape and then banged it up some more. it was a drug lord's hideout, afterall, from what i can tell. then the floor. same idea, way too good condition. such a floor wouldve had various small holes and countless little cuts and grooves which wouldve really helped the acid work. also, maybe use more rotten wood? those have some air gaps often and are weaker, too, so a bathtub that was filled to the brim with enough acid dissolve 70kg of pork couldve weighed down more upon it to break through.
ps: in the series it seems that the wrong kind of acid was used, as a massive chunk of flesh fell down, whereas the other materials were much more damaged, i'm not a chemist, but is it possible that there's an acid or base that would achieve sth much more close to that? i get that piranha solution makes for an awesome effect, but maybe it was sth else entirely. aqua regia is well known to dissolve gold and is made of nitric acid and hydrochloric acid, though quite different, it's pretty easy for a chemistry teacher like walter white to produce in copious amounts, i think. and while i know very little of the topic, judging by the fact that the myth busters team arent using it on the pork but piranha solution, i will assume that it works pretty badly with organic stuff like meat and MAYBE better with other things? but again, i'm talking out of my hinie right now. or maybe there's an acid that excels at eating through wood that would be a realistic option?
That is what they used
Where I worked they had a huge container of hydrochloric acid ... I'll tell you .. I just unscrewed the lid and sniffed just the lid... Omg ... you think smelling ammonia was bad ... that is strong shit lol ... and I didn't giggle the container to get any of that on the lid lol ... but isn't MythBusters just bending over backwards .. to try to make it plausible ... like how many people have fiberglass bath tubes... except hot tubs 😂 lol going way way way way way way overboard on trying to make this myth plausible ... yeah buds I stopped watching at 39 minutes .. when you start manipulating
Of couse, the "special sauce" is concentrated hydrogen peroxide, mixed with sulfuric acid gives a "piranha solution". Nasty stuff, good for cleaning organic...residue.
TV used to be this good, real shame the 'reality' garbage destroyed it.
Sulphuric acid and hydrogen peroxide is what you are supposed to use. The fact that Walter White didnt know that makes no sense. It leaves no carbon based matter, you need to add more hydrogen peroxide when the reaction dies. It first goes black but eventually turns clear... also username relevant.
I love Mythbusters❤
If it's an exothermal reaction, out-door circumstances lower the maximum pressure and temperature and so metal won't melt anymore. Secondly, not all bathtubs are made of metal. For something collapsing, the residual strength after these chemical reactions is more important than how much has been dissolved or how it looks.
Just some better control and purity of your reaction (like the crystal meth) is needed to get crystals instead of powder. 😉Plasticity of a bag and powder are the best way to limit local peaks of impact energy, it's the most extreme difference with crystals hitting tiles. So all local peaks to initiate the explosion are avoided in this show.
Walt just directly knows what can be used as heat decent shield and the maximum G-forces our human bodies can handle without any hand-calculations or need for other specialists. Walt is just a lot smarter than these Mythbusters!😜
Sooo... your SPECIAL " acid '' done that, did it? I'm thinkin' I shall not get into this kind of chemistry, for fear of gettin' badly burned! Good on ya fer yer safety measures, buys!
Pan was only guilty of going ahead without permit based on advice l think. His Mrs was such a truelove and nice nice and pretty young woman. She disliked bikers that visited and put a dead cat in the easement property owners letter box , which was next to my letter box. But l don't want to say anymore even though there is more 200 year and 100 and 20 and 4 and 3 , you get the drift .
To eat a bathtub as it was in the show you need not a sauce but a whole soup. :D
That A/C is missed! Experiment doesn't count!
Is this made for toddlers? Legit can't cope with all the unnecessary cringy "jokes".