Scientist and author Kate Biberdorf (perhaps better known as Kate The Chemist), takes a look at some famous chemistry scenes from movies and television and explains how accurate they really are. How true-to-life are Breaking Bad’s chemistry scenes? Can you really make oven-less brownies like in Rick & Morty? Is the formula from Spider-Man’s web fluid correct? Kate The Chemist has the answers!
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Chemist Breaks Down 22 Chemistry Scenes From Movies & TV | WIRED
Your enthusiasm is infectious 😊
My high school teacher made nylon with that same enthousiasme.
Walking around the classroom all excited pulling out threads, explaining that they made it pretty much like that in factories only way more controlled.
He’s probably not among us anymore or very, very old.
Thank you for the spark mister van der Kamp (or Kamp, I’m about his age now way over three decades later).
OK sure if you were spiderman you’d make nylon, but the bigger problem is that nylon is not actually a spiderman sticky substance and spiderman made one, so it’s not nylon… just point that out hey… not flexing or anything.
“Gasoline would be at the bottom of my list” She’s an expert.
“Honestly, not a good high” She’s a scholar.
17:45 close your eyes
Although something like aqua regia or piranha solution would be better super concentrated HF can associate with itself making FHF- which is a super acid just like the other two. Idk if that’s what walt was going for there.
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Oh my god I have read about how you can make nylon and pull it out like that, but I’ve never seen it. It is EXACTLY as cool as I imagined. Thanks for showing that!!!
Mr. Bean Lab Setup is once more a confirmation for how truly genius this comedy show was.
Nylon man: “My panties are see through”.
why is there no demonstration of methemfethamine
Did she just teach us how to dissolve a body?
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I wouldn’t eat those Rick and Morty Brownies but I takeo n a diet that 100% requires chemicals in my food. I think it is the most nutritious way to eat.
to be fair… in my opinion, it’s better if they don’t use accurate chemistry so no one stupid might come to the idea to replicate it… otherwise.. really inaccurate chemistry might be even worse?
The “VZ” one was actually in the liquid phase, you can see gas bubbles wobbling around in places. They just got the colour wrong.
I wish I could love my job as much as this lady does, wow. And oh ya, she can completely get rid of a body LOL
pls be my teacher next semester pls be my teacher next semester pls be my teacher next semester
I looked up potential meanings of “chlorified tartrates” to see if there were double salts, and chloride salts and tartrate salts will not form double salts due to tartrate being way bigger than chloride, so it messes with the crystal lattice. There is apparently a monochlorotartaric acid, but I can’t find a single resource on it, or if it forms stable chlorotartrate salts.
The vocal fry and valley girl’isms are strong with this one.
im watching this instead of studying for my chem2 final lolol