The 5 Most Dangerous Chemicals on Earth

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  • Опубликовано: 25 апр 2024
  • Can you imagine a substance so deadly that even a millionth of a gram could kill you? They explode when you touch them. They can even disable you with their horrifying smell. Join Hank Green for a new terrifying episode of SciShow that will introduce you to the most dangerous chemicals in the world.
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Комментарии • 12 тыс.

  • @swordsmancs
    @swordsmancs 4 года назад +2925

    Fluorine: “That’s a nice electron you’ve got there, it’d be a shame if somethin were to happen to it”

  • @grugg3108
    @grugg3108 4 года назад +2107

    Azidoazide Azide explodes when:
    *Touched
    *Not touched

    • @hariman7727
      @hariman7727 4 года назад +145

      Scientist 1: "So, we just discovered this chemical we're calling "Azidoazide azide", and it's startlingly reacti-"
      *BOOM.*
      Scientist 2: "What was that?"
      Scientist 1: "Er, I think our sample of Azidoazide azide in the safe room with no lights just exploded."
      Scientist 2: "...I thought you were kidding when you said it was startlingly reacti-"
      *BOOM!*
      Scientist 1: "OH NOW YOU'RE JUST TROLLING U-"
      *BOOM!*
      Scientist 1: "I was asking for that last one."

    • @trolllol7264
      @trolllol7264 4 года назад +70

      Explosions&Fire2: Hits it with a hammer
      C2N14: Nothing

    • @Punkledunk
      @Punkledunk 4 года назад +28

      So basically any activist group.

    • @nilaychhasatia6048
      @nilaychhasatia6048 4 года назад +8

      That's what Azathoth smokes

    • @MK-dr7dx
      @MK-dr7dx 3 года назад +9

      It's the liquid core of Happy Fun Ball, which, if exposed, should not be touched, inhaled, or looked at.

  • @Teatur_
    @Teatur_ 8 месяцев назад +84

    A scientist describing a scent as “disagreeable” is the most scientist thing I’ve ever heard

    • @lordneo256
      @lordneo256 2 месяца назад +6

      What keeps me up at night is that... how toxic it is when inhaled. So... "described as" is more like "uttered by a dying man".
      Now Im wondering how that being overcome by the elements would look like.

    • @PaulHynes-ze1bu
      @PaulHynes-ze1bu 2 месяца назад

      What keeps me up at night is that scientists tested all these toxic chemicals on animals. They test any toxic chemical they can find on them. I think about it all day everyday... I hate them with all my heart.. alternative is instead of testing the chemicals, including medicine, on animals, pour it down the drain.

    • @tbarry4990
      @tbarry4990 7 дней назад

      Watch an episode of "Big Bang Theory".

  • @Fatman311
    @Fatman311 Год назад +154

    'It has both acute and chronic effects which means that it will both kill you now, and later' is one of the best sentences I think I've ever heard.

  • @efoxe2890
    @efoxe2890 4 года назад +4118

    Fluorine: “your electron, hand it over.”

    • @harrisonlichtenberg3162
      @harrisonlichtenberg3162 4 года назад +304

      "I need your clothes, your boots, and your electron."

    • @thehammurabichode7994
      @thehammurabichode7994 4 года назад +96

      * click * "I'm sorry, substance, but you said the N-word"

    • @ashmarine6733
      @ashmarine6733 4 года назад +32

      *h a n d i t o v e r*

    • @ryanchuabowen2045
      @ryanchuabowen2045 4 года назад +38

      Francium:Nah mate, I give you every electron you want.

    • @imranshorkar8276
      @imranshorkar8276 4 года назад +46

      Fluoroantimonic Acid: okay take some proton
      Fluorine: i said electron.
      Okay but take some proton first
      I dont want proton.
      you have to take proton, i gonna kill u if u dont.

  • @bonetonelord
    @bonetonelord 8 лет назад +352

    A guy who worked on ClF3 rocket fuel said in a book that his recommended solution to spills of the chemical was "a good pair of running shoes."

    • @singletona082
      @singletona082 8 лет назад +34

      +Bone-Tone Lord THE CONCRETE IS ON FIRE!
      Oh and the byproducts of it being burned gives you CANCER. THIS IS JUST PLAIN PEACHY!

    • @Just_A_Dude
      @Just_A_Dude 8 лет назад +8

      +Bone-Tone Lord I know the book. I love the guy's wit.

    • @ghostbirdofprey
      @ghostbirdofprey 8 лет назад +15

      +Bone-Tone Lord It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water-with which it reacts explosively.

    • @samiraperi467
      @samiraperi467 8 лет назад +3

      +Just A Dude "Ignition!"?

    • @Just_A_Dude
      @Just_A_Dude 8 лет назад +1

      Samira Peri That's the one, yeah! Couldn't remember the name for the life of me.

  • @biblicallyaccuratecockroach
    @biblicallyaccuratecockroach Год назад +486

    This is one of the best, if not THE best, episode of SciShow. The science is fascinating, the banter rolls off naturally, and Hank's presentation is sublime with his trademark snark. A masterpiece of an episode.

    • @andriaduncan5032
      @andriaduncan5032 11 месяцев назад +8

      I agree! I do realize the video is 8 yrs old, but I'm really glad I happened on to it. Outstanding job, Hank!!

    • @ellengraham6561
      @ellengraham6561 8 месяцев назад +5

      I came here to say this and I'm glad I'm not the only one who saw this WAY late but thinks it's one of the best episodes I've ever seen! 😍

    • @theviniso
      @theviniso Месяц назад +1

      I keep coming back to this particular episode because it's so damn funny. I must have watched it about a dozen times over the years.

  • @noelb8284
    @noelb8284 2 года назад +1419

    As a German, I am both proud and terrified of the fact that our scientist made pretty much all of that.

    • @kylecofer2825
      @kylecofer2825 Год назад +45

      Just building blocks to reach zyklon B

    • @Crazytesseract
      @Crazytesseract Год назад +13

      You would be even more terrified if you were informed that they were right now suffering in some of the hells mentioned in Srimad Bhagavatam (very authentic Vedic scripture). Read canto 5, chapter 26. There is nothing to be proud of.

    • @RKBock
      @RKBock Год назад

      @@Crazytesseract please treat religion the same way as you treat your genitals: don't show them on the internet to everyone.

    • @ElysiumKeeper
      @ElysiumKeeper Год назад +174

      @@Crazytesseract Religion not invited to the party, thank you.

    • @arcanacapra9792
      @arcanacapra9792 Год назад +85

      @@Crazytesseract Literally no one cares about that

  • @HalfElfHalfling
    @HalfElfHalfling 5 лет назад +1914

    "It will kill you now, and later"
    Yep

    • @tomasstana5423
      @tomasstana5423 4 года назад +12

      So you're saying you have experience

    • @asoftraiden
      @asoftraiden 4 года назад +21

      It will kill you now and THEN it will kill you later.

    • @stuffsmithonviva2316
      @stuffsmithonviva2316 4 года назад +5

      @@asoftraiden double killshot?

    • @HyonkTea
      @HyonkTea 4 года назад +5

      Now And Laters™

    • @del5981
      @del5981 4 года назад

      You have 696 I won't ruin that

  • @Artofficial1986
    @Artofficial1986 4 года назад +1652

    Why can't you be normal?
    Azidoazide: [Screams]

  • @rxotmfrxotmf8208
    @rxotmfrxotmf8208 Год назад +271

    Hank, you seem to be rather delightfully happy to present this ghoulish list of extremely dangerous substances. I enjoyed your presentation!

    • @aimee-lynndonovan6077
      @aimee-lynndonovan6077 Год назад +1

      Ghoulish is right!😱I wonder how do they explore and test these chemicals since they’re so volatile? And what is the purpose of them?

    • @diakounknown1225
      @diakounknown1225 Год назад +1

      @@aimee-lynndonovan6077 sometimes, you don't need a purpose. Also, he does in fact mention the purposes of a few of the chemicals on this list.

    • @thetrueoneandonlyladyprinc8038
      @thetrueoneandonlyladyprinc8038 Год назад

      ...nada ‘delightful’ about that and not even true!
      True chemical smeIIs are nowhere near as harrible as the most harrible smeIIs ever, such as the ones
      by wom’n and other hum’ns...

    • @thetrueoneandonlyladyprinc8038
      @thetrueoneandonlyladyprinc8038 Год назад

      And, the smeII of hum’n _ces and 💨 is one of the most harrible ever, both in smeII and in lingering and traveling power - this _ once jhat in one of the bathrooms at one of the flats where I used to live and it s_nk up the whole flat and I literally had to run out while screaming at them to open the windows, and I was stuck on the balcony for over half an hour until that _nk was over!

    • @thetrueoneandonlyladyprinc8038
      @thetrueoneandonlyladyprinc8038 Год назад

      I am scarred for life because I was shbjected to such harrible smeIIs that I know contain particles from the _ or _ of hum’ns (humticles) that actually get inside the nose in order to be able to smeII it, so I can’t even stand that thought - and I’d rather smeII any of those chemicaIs instead (since chemicaIs are pure) than to have humticles ferced on my nose...

  • @nanocodethespectator2646
    @nanocodethespectator2646 Год назад +119

    We require a sequel to this, after all this time.
    A similar episode related to chemical compounds would be good too.

    • @Kawer
      @Kawer 5 месяцев назад

      I second that, come on Hank!

  • @techno-dg8oh
    @techno-dg8oh 4 года назад +3047

    I want a sequel to this, 5 more dangerous chemicals

  • @faith9196
    @faith9196 4 года назад +1676

    “You can’t put it under a fume hood... it’ll eat the fume hood.”
    Why was that SO hilarious?

    • @leptoon
      @leptoon 4 года назад +6

      Faith Because you're 13 years old maybe?

    • @nataliew.1206
      @nataliew.1206 4 года назад +114

      Andrew Dahl i’m definitely older than 13 and i also found it funny

    • @leptoon
      @leptoon 4 года назад +3

      Natalie W. I found it funny. I did not find it "SO hilarious".

    • @nataliew.1206
      @nataliew.1206 4 года назад +96

      Andrew Dahl no need to be upset my friend! if she found it “SO hilarious”, who are you to judge? you’re unnecessarily angry. let people enjoy things.

    • @hoshimaruhajime7933
      @hoshimaruhajime7933 4 года назад +8

      Same

  • @jacobcomongore4180
    @jacobcomongore4180 Год назад +70

    When I was in high school this was my favorite sci show vid. Now I have a degree in chemistry and can indeed say that “More dangerous than Florine gas” is not a sentence that you get to say almost ever.

    • @jacobcomongore4180
      @jacobcomongore4180 Месяц назад +1

      For anyone wondering the pKa (pH where an acid loses its hydrogen) of Fluroantimonic acid is -25 😂😂😂

  • @XhanAnimations
    @XhanAnimations 4 месяца назад +24

    Every now and then I like to come back and rewatch this episode. It has one of the funniest presentations of a really cool subject 💚

  • @stephenparallox
    @stephenparallox 7 лет назад +1363

    9:42 Cave Johnson: We haven't entirely nailed down what element it is yet, but I'll tell you this, it's a lively one, and it does not like the human skeleton.

    • @NamelesssSpinda
      @NamelesssSpinda 7 лет назад +62

      you get the best placed quote of the day award.

    • @someone4650
      @someone4650 7 лет назад +23

      You, sir, win everything!

    • @stephenparallox
      @stephenparallox 7 лет назад

      GIRGHGH Aka Girg Flourine?

    • @stephenparallox
      @stephenparallox 7 лет назад +15

      GIRGHGH Aka Girg I see. You do realize this was not my quote, but a quote from a fictional character you are disputing right? Additionally, to put it in context, he was speaking about a fictional experimental compound known as repulsion gel, and was saying, that his scientists weren't sure what element that was in it, but it was very very bad.

    • @benthomason3307
      @benthomason3307 7 лет назад +6

      maybe he was uing the word element in it's more general sense, like in the term "elements of power"

  • @bugjams
    @bugjams 5 лет назад +2397

    Azidoazide Azide, a chemical so dangerous, they had to say its name three times.

  • @davemiller6055
    @davemiller6055 Год назад +58

    I barely passed high school chemistry, but this is fascinating.

    • @persimonsen8792
      @persimonsen8792 Год назад +5

      It is. And quite scary, if some people with ill intentions got hold of it.

  • @ncrnmcn
    @ncrnmcn Год назад +286

    "How sensitive is C2N14?"
    Scientists: Yes.

    • @aynoP4101
      @aynoP4101 Год назад +2

      😂

    • @Vuldyn
      @Vuldyn Год назад +19

      "It will explode at even the slightest provocation. Even verbal."

    • @Graeme_Lastname
      @Graeme_Lastname Год назад +9

      @@Vuldyn Perhaps they should rename it Putin? 🙂

    • @lilygail5569
      @lilygail5569 Год назад +8

      Except you can hit it with a hammer and it doesn't actually explode. It's not that it was super sensitive. It's that they didn't have the equipment required to test sensitivity.

    • @danielpetrus9552
      @danielpetrus9552 Год назад +16

      about as sensitive as the average twitter user

  • @Technocolor00
    @Technocolor00 8 лет назад +1551

    Azidoazide Azide is very relatable
    Just wants to be left alone, dosnt work well with others, becomes violent when messed with

  • @jaybrown7336
    @jaybrown7336 9 лет назад +235

    THE CONCRETE WAS ON FIRE
    THE CONCRETE WAS ON FIRE
    THE CONCRETE WAS ON FIRE

    • @MySerpentine
      @MySerpentine 9 лет назад +6

      Scary shit, yeah?

    • @teresagomez5133
      @teresagomez5133 9 лет назад

      MySerpentine xon

    • @MySerpentine
      @MySerpentine 9 лет назад +1

      It was too dangerous to kill people with, didn't you hear?

    • @jaybrown7336
      @jaybrown7336 9 лет назад +10

      Blackswordsman6 because it would melt the flame thrower and explode

    • @acehardy3629
      @acehardy3629 9 лет назад +27

      Jay Brown The flamethrower, the guy holding the flamethrower and the immediate area around what used to be the guy holding the flamethrower.

  • @taproot0619
    @taproot0619 Год назад +10

    It is 2023. I have been coming back to this video time and again for nearly a decade and it's still one of the best videos on the entire internet.
    Also, LOVE to see scishow make an update video or maybe "5 more absolutely redoculous chemicals that can kill you in increasingly interesting ways" Because Hank making videos where he Jovially describes absolutely insanely dangerous chemicals is just the kind of vibes more people need in their lives.

  • @futhark3
    @futhark3 8 месяцев назад +10

    People used to be a bit careful about click chemistry (the azide-alkyne cycloaddition type) because of what was called azidophobia. No-one wanted to mess with explosive nitrogen compounds 😂
    I've worked with them a lot, the general rule is to have a lot more carbons than nitrogens and then they tend to play nice 😊

    • @itsme5625
      @itsme5625 6 месяцев назад +1

      Is one of the way to determine is it safe to isolate/store is to take the ratio of nitrogen/carbon
      If its below 1 it will blow up if isolated or concentrated, 1-3 is alright but shount be stored for long, and above 3 is safe to do anything with it.
      I’ve personally never worked with azide but I’ve heard bunch of story reported in angewante chemie

  • @pointlessviewer
    @pointlessviewer 5 лет назад +579

    "Disagreeable" is the best smell description I have ever heard

    • @Darkman-ug2he
      @Darkman-ug2he 4 года назад +4

      Not the best. But it also got the real best: Characteristict ;)

    • @julianaylor4351
      @julianaylor4351 4 года назад +1

      Anthony Ege KOPRİ Parp!

  • @kaiomanuel1883
    @kaiomanuel1883 5 лет назад +518

    5 years later, watching this vid for the 8th time I can say that this is my favorite video ever in all of RUclips. Thank you SciShow

    • @jacobcottom265
      @jacobcottom265 4 года назад +22

      I come back to this video at least twice a year cause Hank talking about dangerous stuff is just the absolute best. I think this is the 16th viewing for me

    • @joeuser2360
      @joeuser2360 4 года назад +11

      Same here. It's on my short list of videos when I want to watch something so insane it's funny.

    • @asoftraiden
      @asoftraiden 4 года назад +2

      Me too

    • @fredgotpub871
      @fredgotpub871 4 года назад +3

      @@joeuser2360 good idea, I'm going to create a playlist for that at once !

    • @jacoboleary9076
      @jacoboleary9076 4 года назад +3

      @@joeuser2360 Y'all should read the blog he got all this info from. blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/ (category: Things I Won't Work With)

  • @AnneAndersonFoxiepaws
    @AnneAndersonFoxiepaws Год назад +12

    My goodness Hank Green, your excitement at all things scientific is contagious and brings me back to when I was a kid discovering stuff for the first time. That's no mean feat because that was around 5 and a half decades ago!

  • @ethanreddekopp7256
    @ethanreddekopp7256 Год назад +3

    Nilered made thioacetone in a recent video, and he said that up close, it didn't smell terrible, but the farther from the source that you got, the more potent the odor became

  • @DanielVerberne
    @DanielVerberne 3 года назад +980

    Hank’s description of the sensitivity of Azidoazide Azide was amusing and seems like he was having fun with just how extreme the anecdotes are

    • @alnabulsi313
      @alnabulsi313 Год назад +16

      I love how excited he got about it 😆 such a good video

    • @refluxcatalyst7190
      @refluxcatalyst7190 Год назад +16

      It's also wrong. It's not as sensitive as he says.

    • @ashsteele7361
      @ashsteele7361 Год назад +8

      Too bad this didn't age well. Oh well! Peer reviewed material best material. Given you do a small amount of research yourself.

    • @YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago
      @YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago Год назад +3

      @@refluxcatalyst7190 well that's good but I'm sure it's still pretty emo

    • @ragmamale4783
      @ragmamale4783 Год назад +1

      @@ashsteele7361 ???

  • @singletona082
    @singletona082 8 лет назад +263

    Acid so strong it eats through glass.
    That itself scares me since usually glass is the ultimate container for crap.
    And then once it eats through you... it sets your bones on fire.
    LOVELY!

    • @Lukas-qk6ll
      @Lukas-qk6ll 8 лет назад +4

      yeah thats just weird.HF also goes thru Glas But pp or pe is Safe.

    • @MartitaBlackCat99
      @MartitaBlackCat99 8 лет назад +5

      +Frigley der geni there are some substances that are stored in plastic containers so they don't react with the silicates from glass. in our labs we first dilute them and put them in those containers. but i don't know how they work with those acids, maybe they do the same but use Teflon vases and jars

    • @Estarile
      @Estarile 8 лет назад +4

      +Darrell Jared very carefully

    • @Estarile
      @Estarile 8 лет назад

      ***** Unfortunately I'm not a chemist. But maybe introduce something that renders it inert?

    • @FROST-cg7qt
      @FROST-cg7qt 8 лет назад +2

      I read the original comment and instantly thought of the blue gel in portal 2.

  • @Pokephosgene
    @Pokephosgene 2 года назад +27

    I subscribed to SciShow after seeing this episode, many years ago. Hank makes deadly poisons fun!

  • @cosmicpsyops4529
    @cosmicpsyops4529 Год назад +8

    Your inflection, timing, prosody, and non-verbal cuing are superb.

  • @inventor121
    @inventor121 8 лет назад +3881

    New chemistry insult: You're more sensitive than azidoazide azide

    • @UndarZ
      @UndarZ 8 лет назад +80

      nice

    • @MaoRatto
      @MaoRatto 8 лет назад +16

      XD

    • @dygameplay9731
      @dygameplay9731 8 лет назад +58

      *Ba doom tish*

    • @SasukeUchiha-tc9xx
      @SasukeUchiha-tc9xx 8 лет назад +191

      How about: you stink more than thioacetone

    • @inventor121
      @inventor121 8 лет назад +184

      That burn was worse than dropping chloring trifluoride
      Your habits are more toxic than dimethyl cadmium
      You eat through a buffet like fluoroantimonic acid eats through a human body (and everything else)

  • @YTBerserk
    @YTBerserk 9 лет назад +3521

    this honestly looks like the most fun you've ever had talking about something on scishow, this was just hilarious watching you talk about how crazy these chemicals are! best episode to date imo :D

    • @Democlis
      @Democlis 9 лет назад +21

      CPLCraft
      I just find it funny because it IS some crazy sh**, it's preaty much the reason why so many ppl like to experiment with Termite even when they are not pyromaniacs os psychopaths , crazy chemical/physical reactions are awesome to see, even at a distance.

    • @coolmoviewatcher
      @coolmoviewatcher 9 лет назад +10

      Democlis Don't you mean thermite?

    • @Darticus42
      @Darticus42 9 лет назад

      I agree

    • @Darticus42
      @Darticus42 9 лет назад +1

      Democlis
      Unless it kills you.... unless you're a sadist

    • @xxxdroidmonkeyxxx
      @xxxdroidmonkeyxxx 9 лет назад +3

      He had what some would call a nerdgasm! LMAO!

  • @WillSiddall
    @WillSiddall 2 года назад +4

    I can't believe it's been 7 years and I still come back to watch this

  • @korisucks7363
    @korisucks7363 8 месяцев назад +2

    5:39 "it will kill you now, AND later" is the funniest thing ive ever heard in my life

  • @johnyoung4441
    @johnyoung4441 4 года назад +1946

    Nobody:
    Azidoazide Azide: *_"I have decided that I want to explode."_*

    • @nathandanielsen7131
      @nathandanielsen7131 4 года назад +16

      everyone else: uh o-

    • @mauricehietkampmh
      @mauricehietkampmh 4 года назад +37

      its actually not too bad. The youtube channel Explosions&Fire2 made it in his shed. He has some videos about it.

    • @samiraperi467
      @samiraperi467 4 года назад +21

      "What is your one purpose in life?"
      "To explode, of course."

    • @Lizardo451
      @Lizardo451 4 года назад +1

      Bomb #20

    • @Blue-bx9pb
      @Blue-bx9pb 4 года назад +12

      I feel like it’d be the kind of person that, when someone actually wants it to go boom, it stays perfectly still

  • @Zulatek666
    @Zulatek666 7 лет назад +599

    This is my FAVORITE SciShow episode ever. I like the part when he is describing Azidoazide Azide. "I think somebody said something mean about it somewhere, and it was like !&%*@!"

    • @jkacvbhijfn
      @jkacvbhijfn 7 лет назад +17

      I can't get over "The concrete was on fire!!!!!" :DDDD

    • @hanslee475
      @hanslee475 7 лет назад +24

      *blinking insecurely* The concrete... was on fireeeee

    • @jessicacarroll9167
      @jessicacarroll9167 7 лет назад +4

      Zulatek666 i think someone said something mean about it and it was like fuckyouimgonnablowup

    • @thestargazingnurse8605
      @thestargazingnurse8605 7 лет назад +1

      Moritz Gaßan I agree.. that part had me rollin on the floor

    • @TheRealGameTime007
      @TheRealGameTime007 7 лет назад +11

      It'll burn things that some people might think are not flammable, like BRICKs or ASBESTOS or stuff that has already been burned!

  • @kevinalm6686
    @kevinalm6686 2 года назад +9

    There is an excellent book, "Ignition", written by a researcher who was heavily involved in the development of rocket fuels. It talks about chlorine trifluoride and fluorine fires. To quote from the book, "When asked for the best way to deal with a fluorine fire, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes." LOL 😀

  • @machinegunsally1874
    @machinegunsally1874 2 года назад +3

    Azide: *Sits in a protective container*
    Me: *Looks at the chemical funny*
    Azide: *Violently Explodes*

  • @TheCatAteMyShoe
    @TheCatAteMyShoe 7 лет назад +2942

    "It will both kill you now... and later." I love that. LOL
    This is my favorite episode ever.

    • @sorenlily2280
      @sorenlily2280 7 лет назад +143

      For some reason hearing "its also a better oxidizer than oxygen" really cracked me up as well.

    • @robinjones9225
      @robinjones9225 6 лет назад

      I second that!

    • @ZombieKiller4347
      @ZombieKiller4347 6 лет назад +8

      Yeah if you can live without organs well uh also cancer

    • @WingmanSR
      @WingmanSR 6 лет назад +36

      Yeah, oxidation is a strange relic of a name. Chemists used to believe oxygen was THE oxidizer, until they realized _why_ oxygen works the way it does(it loves to steal electrons), and so they learned there were other compounds that could be used to 'steal' electrons as well, but they still kept calling it "Oxidation". I propose we start calling it "Electrokleption", literally "electron stealing".

    • @robinjones9225
      @robinjones9225 6 лет назад +4

      SBwingman I second that, it sounds so cool

  • @urbannanni5864
    @urbannanni5864 2 года назад +537

    Every time I watch this, I'm struck by the absolute glee that Hank displays as he describes how stuff will kill you.

    • @HayTatsuko
      @HayTatsuko Год назад +19

      This was the first SciShow video I ever saw. Hank's almost-manic delivery and playful humor made this episode an instant classic for me. It's the episode I love sharing with folks new to SciShow to help get them hooked on the it way I was when I watched this so many years ago.

    • @antoniograncino3506
      @antoniograncino3506 9 месяцев назад +2

      9:40 I expect the Mafiosi in the audience are taking notes about the efficacy of fluoroantimonic acid.

    • @annoy4nce648
      @annoy4nce648 8 месяцев назад +1

      The fluorine will burn through your bones!

  • @opesach
    @opesach 6 месяцев назад +2

    This is the single best video on RUclips ever

  • @brucerogermorgan2388
    @brucerogermorgan2388 2 года назад +11

    Wonderful. I enjoyed this just as much as Hank seemed to! I worked as a truck driver for a chemical company once, and one time I had to deliver a load of Hydrofluoric Acid. I was given a Rubber Apron, Rubber Boots, Rubber Gloves and a mask, and still they warned me to be absolutely sure not to spill any. Scared the crap out of me!

  • @ToastAndJellyfish
    @ToastAndJellyfish 7 лет назад +582

    Hank is the best SciShow host, and this is the best SciShow episode.

    • @thetrashman5381
      @thetrashman5381 7 лет назад +21

      The azidoazide azide part was priceless

    • @ct92404
      @ct92404 7 лет назад +20

      JerseyNick This is my favorite episode. I learned a lot from it, but Hank's sense of humor is great too. This was so hilarious that I often come back to re-watch it.

    • @MultiCheeseLouise
      @MultiCheeseLouise 7 лет назад +3

      He has a weird meter and flow to his sentences, and likes to say words short and quickly with a longer pause between them, which makes him slightly more difficult to listen to. He doesn't do it as much these days so I guess he's tried to change it recently.

    • @goldwolf0606
      @goldwolf0606 6 лет назад

      MultiCheeseLouise lol... it does make it harder to listen to him doesn't it? I thought I was the only one to notice that...

    • @BigyetiTechnologies
      @BigyetiTechnologies 6 лет назад

      He reminds me of Professor Frink from The Simpsons

  • @ryandupuis5860
    @ryandupuis5860 7 лет назад +541

    I keep watching this over and over but it doesn't get old

    • @ranatabsh3009
      @ranatabsh3009 7 лет назад +2

      Andromeda Gaming same lol

    • @thederpening1951
      @thederpening1951 7 лет назад

      Andromeda Gaming I swear I've seen that profile picture in CS:GO

    • @madLphnt
      @madLphnt 7 лет назад +2

      right, ive watched this for two years on and off like 15 times a month, that and deadly substances, deadly plants

    • @jonholverstott
      @jonholverstott 7 лет назад

      Stephen Guyse its used as an andriod theme background

    • @GodlikeIridium
      @GodlikeIridium 6 лет назад

      Andromeda Gaming me too mate^^

  • @miriammcfarlane6972
    @miriammcfarlane6972 Год назад +4

    Such an entertaining video. Well-made science-nerd entertainment. The humour is spot-on, including choice of words, facial expressions, etc.

  • @judythompson8227
    @judythompson8227 2 года назад +5

    this is hysterical and scary at the same time--I love this guy

  • @shonarts5583
    @shonarts5583 7 лет назад +177

    4:07 "It's too sensitive to measure how sensitive it is"
    Just like me

    • @16976212
      @16976212 7 лет назад +7

      PKSlowpoke Penis head?

    • @shonarts5583
      @shonarts5583 7 лет назад +1

      Natsu_The Badass Nah, emotions

    • @TheCookieGamer523
      @TheCookieGamer523 7 лет назад +2

      PKSlowpoke Uncle touched you?

    • @shonarts5583
      @shonarts5583 7 лет назад +2

      Depends on what kind of paper tbh

    • @16976212
      @16976212 7 лет назад

      PKSlowpoke The Paper

  • @baliboxy663
    @baliboxy663 4 года назад +1549

    Legend has it, if you say azide 3 times in the mirror of a dark bathroom, it just *exploded*

    • @sabertag6992
      @sabertag6992 4 года назад +37

      I heard that if you cross two pencils and say "Azide Azide are you there?" and you don't blow up, then the answer is no.

    • @BigSwede7403
      @BigSwede7403 4 года назад +38

      What explodes? Azide, the mirror, the bathroom or you?
      "Yes."

    • @physics_hacker
      @physics_hacker 4 года назад +16

      Somewhere, deep within the Earth's crust, there is a chunk of this stuff. And if us humans mention it's name too many times...Well, let's just say all life on Earth is gonna have a really, really bad day.

    • @FabFunty
      @FabFunty 4 года назад +4

      Then please don't think about playing this : ruclips.net/video/FEdiOBz4zeM/видео.html 🎫😵
      or you'll bomb us all back to stone age.🤣

    • @nathanlin6798
      @nathanlin6798 4 года назад +2

      Fab Funty wtf was that

  • @kitrana
    @kitrana 3 месяца назад +1

    that delivery of "the flourine will burn through your bones." is just absolutly perfect.

  • @alkh3myst
    @alkh3myst 2 года назад +12

    You're an excellent presenter, very entertaining. With my Interest in chemistry, I would have still watched if you were as dull as dishwater, but you really brought this stuff alive.

  • @HayTatsuko
    @HayTatsuko 3 года назад +804

    It is 2021, and this remains one of the best SciShow videos of all.

    • @kingjames4886
      @kingjames4886 2 года назад +2

      I mean.... there have been a handful of good ones over the last decade... cmon...

    • @emberandfriendsanimations2454
      @emberandfriendsanimations2454 2 года назад +6

      2022 now

    • @HayTatsuko
      @HayTatsuko Год назад +21

      @@kingjames4886 What I mean is that this old, 2014 SciShow presentation has stood the test of time. It's one of my favorites to share with folks who aren't familiar with the channel's mission of communicating science in a way that laypersons can understand easily. It's also heck-a funny; Hank is at top manic in this one and I love it to pieces.

    • @mesiroy1234
      @mesiroy1234 Год назад +1

      It's got demziomed be used he said bazis

    • @pheasant1361
      @pheasant1361 Год назад +1

      Same for 2022

  • @UKVampy
    @UKVampy 2 года назад +3

    I love to come back to this episode every now and then it's just so much fun.

  • @chegeny
    @chegeny Год назад +3

    My all-time favourite episode. I can't help but smile watching this one.

  • @itsonlyafleshwound9024
    @itsonlyafleshwound9024 7 лет назад +202

    German chemist in WW1: Hey, our army wants some poisonous chemicals ... lets go WAY too far!
    German chemists in WW2: Hey, our army wants something to put in their flamethrowers ... lets go WAY too far!
    German chemists today: Hey, the US Army wants some new explosives ... lets go WAY too far!

    • @noahowens4162
      @noahowens4162 7 лет назад +4

      Moritz Gaßan too*

    • @itsonlyafleshwound9024
      @itsonlyafleshwound9024 7 лет назад +1

      Noah Owens Oh yeah. Sry, i wrote this comment at 2 in the morning.

    • @theolddeus9672
      @theolddeus9672 7 лет назад +17

      Moritz Gaßan Germans now are pretty much Mister Torgue. "EXPLOOOOOOOOOOSIONNNNSSSS!?"

    • @neosildrake
      @neosildrake 6 лет назад +16

      We germans like our traditions and we like to do thinks in a certain manner. We might be seen as humorless, pedantic and boring by many, but that is actually us holding back for the sake of the rest of the world. When we do get excited about something and decide to pursue it, we do it to the best of our abilities and then some.

    • @XtreeM_FaiL
      @XtreeM_FaiL 5 лет назад +2

      Moritz Gaßan And now. Let the few immigrants come... lets go WAY too far.

  • @MattisProbably
    @MattisProbably 9 лет назад +835

    I don't know why but everything you said in this episode just put a huge smile on my face!
    Maybe I'm just evil? :D

    • @peterlovgren2885
      @peterlovgren2885 9 лет назад +9

      omg, the laughs

    • @Th3Gumbo
      @Th3Gumbo 9 лет назад +96

      Hank's delivery was hilarious

    • @MattisProbably
      @MattisProbably 9 лет назад +10

      The Lonely Tourist
      Looks like it took him quite a lot of effort not to laugh when he said that AA blew up under such heavily controlled conditions anyway XD

    • @rastacoon5962
      @rastacoon5962 9 лет назад +16

      I think it's, at the very least, the azidoazide azide, saying a very big "f*** you" to all the scientist working on it, that made me laugh

    • @then33k4
      @then33k4 9 лет назад +2

      yes you are ! because i was grinning like the cheeshire cat the entire video too ! :D

  • @andyw3720
    @andyw3720 Год назад +6

    The missile I worked with in the U.S. Army used UDMH for a propellant and IRFNA as an oxidizer. These two experienced a hypergolic reaction (explosion) when a drop of one touched a drop of the other.

    • @mohergenrader2113
      @mohergenrader2113 Год назад +1

      Is it possible they now use these in missiles as a replacement for nuclear bombs?

    • @andyw3720
      @andyw3720 Год назад

      @@mohergenrader2113 I don’t think so.

    • @mohergenrader2113
      @mohergenrader2113 Год назад +3

      @andyw3720 i know someone who was building something that would blow up the entire town of it touched the 2 together like total disintegration for miles.

  • @Smashachu
    @Smashachu 2 года назад +1

    Thank you hank, your the only channel that i grew up watching and still watch every episode to this day. I remember watching this is middle school and i'm in my 20s now so good job and keep up the great content.

  • @Gothic7876
    @Gothic7876 5 лет назад +433

    I love the fact they did absolutely nothing to AA, and it still went;
    “BOOOORED” *boom*

    • @aspielm759
      @aspielm759 5 лет назад +1

      Voidlord xD

    • @natedog2014
      @natedog2014 5 лет назад +8

      @test 101 smh imagine you're life being so boring everything has to become arbitrarily political.

    • @m-yday
      @m-yday 5 лет назад +3

      test 101 so you go onto a video from ages ago, which had nothing to do with politics, and blame _something_ on liberals?
      Nobody even knows what you’re trying to blame them for. Nobody even cares. We’re just tired of people doing this kind of thing

    • @thevideoistheking8834
      @thevideoistheking8834 5 лет назад +1

      test 101 DEM DAMN LIBERALS! RUINING EVERYTHING! I HAVE NO FLAWS WHATSOEVER!

  • @siler7
    @siler7 4 года назад +867

    Azidoazide Azide was my favorite Game of Thrones character.

  • @jamierichardson9981
    @jamierichardson9981 Год назад +2

    Spot on with your explanations. I now run a daycare (Which has its own toxins), but I used to be a chemist and I worked with variations on just about everything you talked about. The first company I worked for made antimony products including catalysts and other much more tame products. The second company I worked for made fluoridated polymers and the gases that go into them. The statement about how aggressive fluorine is in attacking your body is absolutely true. And let's just say that any metal can get excited under the right conditions. Not for the faint of heart, or the careless.

  • @janezemurray8108
    @janezemurray8108 2 года назад +6

    This was fun to watch, I wanna see a part two. So exciting!

  • @RealRainbowRapidash
    @RealRainbowRapidash 9 лет назад +1137

    I could make a joke about C2N14 and how it reminds me of internet feminists (the kind everyone hates) and how it blows up over, literally, absolutely nothing...
    But I'm above that sort of thing.

    • @jamez6398
      @jamez6398 9 лет назад +56

      Good girl.

    • @650kfit5
      @650kfit5 9 лет назад +6

      Stop mething around.
      Why do I know the chemical formula for drugs off by heart...

    • @geniusmp2001
      @geniusmp2001 9 лет назад +45

      I'm glad you're above that, otherwise I would have had to reply by equating misogyny with thioacetone.

    • @izy409
      @izy409 9 лет назад +49

      Yeah there's a difference between feminist an internet feminists but not much of a difference between internet feminists and C2N14 lol

    • @BerylLx
      @BerylLx 9 лет назад +33

      They're called Feminazis. Hehe, Germany reference.

  • @olbradley
    @olbradley 3 года назад +285

    Storing Azidoazide Azide is the chemical definition of the saying "Damned if you do, damned if you don't."

    • @doctordoesitbest7780
      @doctordoesitbest7780 Год назад +4

      Just like marriage???

    • @Senctia
      @Senctia Год назад +1

      Also proven wrong by Explosions and Fire, its less sensitive than Touch Powder.

    • @norothegamer1006
      @norothegamer1006 Год назад

      yes

    • @lilygail5569
      @lilygail5569 Год назад +8

      Except you can hit it with a hammer and it doesn't actually explode. It's not that it was super sensitive. It's that they didn't have the equipment required to test sensitivity.

    • @MrCubFan415
      @MrCubFan415 10 месяцев назад +1

      More like BOOM if you do, BOOM if you don't

  • @ebonnknight
    @ebonnknight Год назад +1

    This is probably my favorite SciShow video of all time. I do love how he seems strangely excited about how fluorine will burn through your bones, it's cute

  • @thomasboys7216
    @thomasboys7216 7 лет назад +79

    Fluroantimonic acid - "SHUT UP AND TAKE MY PROTON!"

    • @proton8689
      @proton8689 6 лет назад +3

      why thank you

    • @bunnirabid410
      @bunnirabid410 6 лет назад +1

      You win the internet, and I love you for this. XD

  • @ofranzen
    @ofranzen 4 года назад +589

    I think I saw this episode about when it came out and it's still to this day one of the best thing on the Internet. Packed with information mixed with genius level comedy.

    • @mork6668
      @mork6668 3 года назад +2

      Yet exaggerated

    • @DTSephiroth
      @DTSephiroth 2 года назад +6

      I still come back to it occasionally.

    • @Mygg_Jeager
      @Mygg_Jeager 2 года назад +4

      Same lol

    • @Mygg_Jeager
      @Mygg_Jeager 2 года назад +7

      @@mork6668 Not really. Do some research on all these chemicals using sources outside this video lol. It's pretty on point.

    • @Sleepy_Joe
      @Sleepy_Joe 2 года назад +1

      I'm watching this video like the 5th time

  • @shlomster6256
    @shlomster6256 Год назад +2

    This is by far the best SciShow episode ever (and I saw this when it was new).

  • @wills711
    @wills711 2 года назад +2

    “The concrete was on fire” killed me

  • @minhtrungle9117
    @minhtrungle9117 4 года назад +165

    Guy smelling dimethylcadmium: it's disagreeable
    Dimethylcadmium in his blood: *Let's agree to disagree.*

    • @messiha666
      @messiha666 2 года назад +5

      The insides of people do smell disagreeable.

  • @octaviorueda818
    @octaviorueda818 5 лет назад +341

    This is probably the best SciShow video I've seen. Its like he's rapping out knowledge

    • @aabhassharma4277
      @aabhassharma4277 4 года назад +15

      I come back to this video whenever I need a good laugh!

    • @Steamrick
      @Steamrick 4 года назад +1

      If you really want to see Hank get poetic, I think his alltime best was a vlogbrothers video: Yellowstone: The Terror of Change

    • @MrJesterblack
      @MrJesterblack 4 года назад +4

      If you think this is funny, you should read the articles he got most of the lines from blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2013/05/08/things_i_wont_work_with_dimethylcadmium

    • @johndrozdz1371
      @johndrozdz1371 4 года назад +1

      @@MrJesterblack I love scishow, but I feel like this entire video was paraphrased from Derek Lowe's 'things I won't work with' blog. I definitely feel I've read some of the exact phrases from this video in his articles.

  • @libertadmatos5780
    @libertadmatos5780 2 года назад +1

    Burst into high pitched spontaneous laughter I didn't recognize as my own on the Thiols part. The rest is as entertaining, educational and shocking. One cannot help but to love the delivery.

  • @leonardhirtle3645
    @leonardhirtle3645 Год назад +1

    Fascinating video,great information,well presented. Thank you.

  • @chaoticneutral7573
    @chaoticneutral7573 4 года назад +301

    Germany: lets do some chemistry research
    Entire world: NOOOOO !!!!!

  • @kevinwu4928
    @kevinwu4928 8 лет назад +720

    I've learned more here in 5 minutes than in school for 45 minutes

    • @onlyonSiMPLE
      @onlyonSiMPLE 8 лет назад

      ikr...old people dont get it! DAMN..

    • @devanstockbauer536
      @devanstockbauer536 8 лет назад +1

      +RokviikPlays I totally agree I mean my friend doesn't know the months in fucking order. The school never taught him. That's not his fAult it's the dumbass school

    • @novideoscorp
      @novideoscorp 8 лет назад +4

      +RokviikPlays hmmm. you remind me of my dumbass classmates that whine about their bio teacher not teaching them. ofcourse when i listen to the teacher i learn alot, then we get some exercises that make us study, ofcourse others while the teacher talks about our topic, the others just mumble completely useless shit that they can discuss after school or on breaks.

    • @seanld444
      @seanld444 8 лет назад +1

      +RokviikPlays a recommendation for both you and the other dude, I would recommend not swearing when trying to say you are smart. It is completely counter-argumentative.

    • @novideoscorp
      @novideoscorp 8 лет назад +4

      if you talk in class with others that your teacher is stupid instead of learning, then you are dumb.if you are learning in class, then you most likely should be doing good at school. you should be doing homework too, dont blame the teachers for teaching you badly or something, blame yourself for not paying attention.

  • @DalokiMauvais
    @DalokiMauvais Год назад +17

    Following in the steps of Haystack last year, I am happy to report that it is the tail end of 2022, and this still remains one of the best SciShow videos of all. It's obvious you enjoyed making it as much as all of us did watching it. But I just gotta ask: Why do you pronounce "antimony" differently than does Tom Lehrer in his classic song, "The Elements"? It would be heresy to think Lehrer might have been WRONG - horror of horrors!!!!!

  • @autumnautopsy
    @autumnautopsy Год назад +3

    "disagreeable" is my favourite way of describing stinky chemicals

  • @PushyPawn
    @PushyPawn 4 года назад +2170

    This is such a classic SciShow episode I came back to watch it again.
    If you came back to watch it again, please sign the reply guestbook.

    • @zedantXiang
      @zedantXiang 4 года назад +36

      Me too.
      He just sound so happy

    • @Kylora2112
      @Kylora2112 3 года назад +66

      It's borderline hilarious listening to someone talk about an oxidizer that can incinerate asbestos.

    • @CloudyDays404
      @CloudyDays404 3 года назад +4

      Yeah. Hi.

    • @Eainai
      @Eainai 3 года назад +24

      I rewatch this video nearly every month, and it still cracks me up when I listen to it.

    • @jwbowen
      @jwbowen 3 года назад +9

      I've watched it several times.

  • @greedy9310
    @greedy9310 5 лет назад +408

    You can't put under a fume hood-It'll eat the fume hood. All you can really do is ,just like, look at it. Ideally from.. very far away.
    11/10

    • @scottmantooth8785
      @scottmantooth8785 5 лет назад +10

      i would suggest looking at it from a different time zone of from orbit...preferably while in orbit around a completely different planet

    • @richardhead9255
      @richardhead9255 5 лет назад

      Dren b

    • @randomuser5443
      @randomuser5443 5 лет назад +1

      Scott Mantooth no you dult. From a different star system

    • @scottmantooth8785
      @scottmantooth8785 5 лет назад

      that is probably safer...but not by much

    • @veronicagorosito187
      @veronicagorosito187 5 лет назад

      I'll try to see it timetraveling...10...100 years far ago in the future, but I dunno if I'll be safe anyway!

  • @That-Guy-79
    @That-Guy-79 Год назад +1

    "The concrete was on fire!" Best line ever. Nothing more needed to be said.

  • @ginger-ale7818
    @ginger-ale7818 Год назад

    This was one of the first scishow videos I ever watched! 8 years later and I’m still here thanks to this wild video!

  • @KamiZi0
    @KamiZi0 8 лет назад +533

    "The concrete is on fire!" That was funny.

    • @MaoRatto
      @MaoRatto 8 лет назад +2

      To me, honestly. That stuff clearly would instantly wipe out a country if got great enough transportation and manufacturing. Or just fail one like NORTH KOREA, the power of smelliest chemicals and that fire is already destructive.

    • @pyrotechniccommando1
      @pyrotechniccommando1 8 лет назад +4

      +Quinn The Quartz Crop dust North Korea with it.

    • @MaoRatto
      @MaoRatto 8 лет назад +2

      ***** North Korea is really a sad country though. There leader is a manipulative piece of shit. They are a hermit state. Technologically under powered how it seems. Capitalism is amazing, yet don't want freedom at all.
      They're canalbisming themselves, China is in a similar state. COMMUNISM SIMPLY DOESN'T WORK! Works for a century or more, but later on in resources get too short, sort of have to exchange with other countries.

    • @pyrotechniccommando1
      @pyrotechniccommando1 8 лет назад +1

      +Quinn The Quartz I know their status and stuff. But i agree, communism fails and leads to a dictatorship. The Russians surprise me the most. They watched heir country collapse, but still live like they did before?

    • @CodMikeify
      @CodMikeify 7 лет назад +3

      china is doing fairly well dealing with 1b people and all

  • @paladinsrage4646
    @paladinsrage4646 5 лет назад +2140

    _So, What does it smell like..?_
    *Disagreeable.*

    • @paladinsrage4646
      @paladinsrage4646 5 лет назад +12

      7:06

    • @carterwilliams7106
      @carterwilliams7106 5 лет назад +62

      I agree to disagree with the smell

    • @potstab2875
      @potstab2875 5 лет назад +6

      Blepppp!! Bleppppp!!!! cough cough Blepppp!!!

    • @cosmoniums5990
      @cosmoniums5990 5 лет назад +10

      Hey no sense of smell for the win I’m immune to 1 of the 5 chemicals, and the lightest of the bunch

    • @limeyliamgaming6885
      @limeyliamgaming6885 5 лет назад +7

      I agree to disagree that I agree that I disagree to this.

  • @Marcus_Sherman
    @Marcus_Sherman 2 года назад +1

    I just love this video, the script is perfect and it doesn’t take itself too seriously. Truly the apex of scieshow

  • @maureendrozda9960
    @maureendrozda9960 Год назад +7

    As Someone Who Was Never All That Jazzed About Chemistry - This Is Pretty Cool!👍

  • @MaxPare
    @MaxPare 7 лет назад +540

    so, if i scream out of my window very loud "FUCK YOU AZIDOAZIDE", will all the azidoazide in the world blow up?

    • @altosaxisawesome2507
      @altosaxisawesome2507 7 лет назад +15

      Maybe you should try it

    • @simoncarlile5190
      @simoncarlile5190 7 лет назад +54

      Oh, it'll blow up, but it'll have nothing to do with you.

    • @of3natlas507
      @of3natlas507 7 лет назад +1

      let's try

    • @nope24115
      @nope24115 7 лет назад +12

      No, because it's azidoazide azide. You forgot an azide.

    • @arooobine
      @arooobine 7 лет назад +26

      Nikola Tesla claimed he knew how to split the earth in two. Now we know what his secret method was.

  • @toastbusters7797
    @toastbusters7797 7 лет назад +944

    Let's mix ALL OF THESE TOGETHER!!!

    • @sovietcanadian6978
      @sovietcanadian6978 7 лет назад +147

      melts/explodes through the earth, right to the core

    • @jowsonjgong8303
      @jowsonjgong8303 7 лет назад +106

      +CanadianPhoenix 2B2T and can be smelt throughout the world

    • @altosaxisawesome2507
      @altosaxisawesome2507 7 лет назад +25

      That would be cool

    • @TheTyrori
      @TheTyrori 7 лет назад +67

      just fuck my shit up, fam.

    • @baranxlr
      @baranxlr 7 лет назад +15

      +Ryan Arland that's lit af

  • @myriaddsystems
    @myriaddsystems Год назад +2

    This is my favourite Sci Show episode, by far

  • @bennyellis3512
    @bennyellis3512 6 месяцев назад +1

    When I need a video to cheer me up, this is the video I turn to. Hank is a delight. I don't think anyone has ever made a video that tops this one!🥰

  • @teresaellis7062
    @teresaellis7062 5 лет назад +165

    I think Hank Green enjoyed making this video. He is almost luminous.

    • @thehammurabichode7994
      @thehammurabichode7994 4 года назад

      You seem cute < :

    • @squippites7356
      @squippites7356 4 года назад

      The Hammurabi Chode wow you must be desperate

    • @Akbar_and_Shaa
      @Akbar_and_Shaa 4 года назад

      If he's luminous it's because he filmed this video after top 5 glowiest chemicals

  • @adam346
    @adam346 5 лет назад +141

    the AA molecule is just hilarious... I don't know why but the idea that nothing could happen and it just explodes, just because. It's the ultimate example of Moore's law.. everything you do can and will get you killed... including nothing.

    • @TimothyReeves
      @TimothyReeves 5 лет назад +18

      adam Moore's law? The one that says that the number of transistors on a computer chip will double every roughly two years? I think you meant Murphy's law, which your comment may be an example of. ;)

    • @biggocelot123
      @biggocelot123 5 лет назад +1

      I N C L U D N I N G N O T H I N G

    • @droid16beta97
      @droid16beta97 5 лет назад

      Moore's law?

    • @Nick-tm2sw
      @Nick-tm2sw 5 лет назад +1

      Although from a physics perspective it wasn't nothing that caused it to explode. It gets into statistical thermodynamics to explain further but there was something happening that caused the explosion. Just not any type of external force. The energy that caused the explosion would have already been in the system. They could have likely prevented the explosion by storing it at a cooler temperature.

    • @pfadiva
      @pfadiva 4 года назад

      @@TimothyReeves Gordon Moore

  • @davidjohn7510
    @davidjohn7510 5 месяцев назад +1

    If you had been my Chemistry teacher at school....I would not have dropped it at A Level!! Impressive and funny presentation. Thank you.

  • @LightBlueVans
    @LightBlueVans Год назад +2

    Absolutely lost it at "it'll kill you now AND later"

    • @PaulHynes-ze1bu
      @PaulHynes-ze1bu 2 месяца назад

      You said you love scientists in another comment. Well you shouldn't they're all psychopaths who give animals disease and toxic chemicals. You shouldn't be crying tears of joy for them you shouldn't be crying tears of sorrow at their atrocities on the weak and defenceless. Medicine isn't worth torturing animals, pour the medicine down the drain instead of testing it on animals. I find scientists online and hate message them all day everyday for years. They're not hard to find if you look. I met thousands of them no exaggeration. All psychopaths. Most didn't personally torture animals true but they all supported it. That's what science is about.

  • @theangledsaxon6765
    @theangledsaxon6765 8 лет назад +272

    You get a proton, and you get a proton, you all get protons!!!

    • @huntermckee831
      @huntermckee831 8 лет назад +1

      XD

    • @avi8aviate
      @avi8aviate 8 лет назад +3

      +forsakenAndroid
      Well, we're also made out of QUARKS!

    • @ab1017
      @ab1017 8 лет назад

      QUACKS? WHAT QUACKS?

    • @kevinb2
      @kevinb2 7 лет назад +1

      +Matt07734 QUARKS! SMALLER THAN AN ATOM, SMALLER THAN A PROTON! THE SMALLEST THING!

    • @ab1017
      @ab1017 7 лет назад

      kevin themoderator
      YOU FORGOT WHAT MAKES A QUACK! A SOUND WAVE!!

  • @daniellee3831
    @daniellee3831 4 года назад +316

    "We need to evacuate the city before the volcano goes off. Get the thioacetone"

    • @ericrawlins6849
      @ericrawlins6849 3 года назад +10

      Probably the only youtube comment I've actually laughed at.

    • @revolioclockbergjr8482
      @revolioclockbergjr8482 3 года назад +11

      Lol. It might actually work

    • @Broockle
      @Broockle 3 года назад +18

      I wonder if you can create a chemical equally as potent but that actually smells like Strawberries or something
      ...... and then gene edit skunks to produce that instead of what they normally produce xD

    • @MaddTheSane
      @MaddTheSane 3 года назад +1

      @@Broockle Hey, I read that webcomic!

    • @Broockle
      @Broockle 3 года назад

      @@MaddTheSane
      o wat? ;D
      My ideas are always too slow xD
      Which comic is that?

  • @Kitsudote
    @Kitsudote 2 года назад +1

    Universe: "This is already burnt, it can't burn again."
    Chlorine Trifluoride: "Hold my chemical bounds."

  • @alder8286
    @alder8286 Год назад +2

    I can quote this entire episode. Word for word

  • @WeyardWiz
    @WeyardWiz 2 года назад +152

    6:24 ”dont get your hopes up, itll inflict you with cancer JUST TO SPITE YOU!” sounds hella evil 😂😂😂

    • @PrincessLorelei
      @PrincessLorelei 2 года назад +3

      It's also a crazy bad neurotoxin in the same way dimethylmercury is. So...
      1.) Eats your insides
      2.) Eats your brain
      3.) Causes cancer
      4.) Just for good measure, explodes.

  • @mantha6912
    @mantha6912 4 года назад +67

    I don't know why but I laugh so hard every time at the way he says "They quickly realized this idea was...bad..."