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Over the years I've done many projects where I turned completely inedible things into food, and what I've been really wanting to do for a while now, is to try turning children's glue into drinkable alcohol.

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Acetic acid reduction paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/jo00325a029

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Whatever is in here is extremely radioactive, and it's worse than when I tested nearly pure uranium. Inside it doesn't actually look very scary, and it's just some small pieces of metal. These are just watch dials, but that they've been covered in paint that contains radium. Radium is an extremely radioactive element, and pure radium is way more radioactive than uranium.

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Duration: 01:57

A few months ago I bought a dry ice maker, which was pretty much just a denim sock, strapped to a CO2 tank. I really wanted a nice block of it though, so I bought a different tool thing to make it. It looks a lot more complicated than a fancy sock, but it also doesn't seem too crazy. I quickly skimmed the instructions, and the only warning, was to keep the pressure really low, so I guess I'll just go ahead and try it out.

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Duration: 01:47

Ok, so today I'm going to try to turn some lead into gold. The first step is to get a few pieces of

lead, and to add some dilute nitric acid. What I have to do next is get a beaker, and add some boiling water, and a small amount of potassium iodide. This all dissolves really quickly, and on top of

this, I'll add a bit of vinegar, and that little lead solution from before. Now all I need to do

is turn off the stirring, and basically just wait.

Ingredients:

1) 0.5g lead metal + 50:50 nitric acid:water

2) 500mL water, 1g potassium iodide, 5% vinegar

3) Profit?

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Duration: 02:01

In my opinion, the iodine clock reaction kind of looks like magic. To make it, the first thing I need is a mixture of cornstarch (just a bit), and some boiling water.

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Duration: 01:21

A few years ago I got this little ampoule with this little piece of metal inside of it, and I was really excited because this little piece of metal is actually pure uranium.

Ever since then I've always wanted to free the uranium, and I've randomly decided that today is the day to crack it open, but I have to be careful. This is because once the uranium is exposed to air it reacts to form small particles of radioactive uranium oxide, which are really dangerous and not good to breathe in.

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Duration: 01:07

Cesium metal is very similar to sodium or potassium, but it's even more reactive. It's kept in this glass ampule to protect it from air, and having it break open, could be really dangerous.

WARNING: Cesium is extremely reactive and dangerous. The sample was exhibited in a controlled environment. Serious injury can occur if handled improperly.

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Duration: 01:44

In this video, I want to see what happens when I put my hand in a solution of hot ice (sodium acetate).

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Duration: 01:32

I've been wanting to try something for a while now, and to do it, I'm gonna need some high proof alcohol and some sodium polyacrylate. When mixed together in the right way with water, the polyacrylate is able to absorb all the alcohol, and become an extremely flammable powder. I have to throw the fireball quickly because it feels like it's going to burn me, but it's worth it because it makes me feel super cool.

WARNING: DON'T TRY THIS. This mixture is extremely flammable and dangerous. Serious injury can occur if handled improperly.

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Duration: 01:16

What I have here just looks like a generic yellow powder, but I think it's pretty cool. If I add it to some water it just floats on top, which isn't too interesting. If I put my fingers in it though, it has a really weird effect...

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Duration: 01:51

For a while now I've been wanting to make some dry ice cream, and I'm gonna sacrifice an ice cream sandwich. The first step is to remove its skin, and then I have to freeze dry it.

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Duration: 01:44

Procedure:

1) Wash penny with vinegar and salt

2) Drop it into 3M NaOH (12g NaOH in 100mL water) + zinc metal

3) Dry it, put it on a hot plate, and turn on the heat

4) Gold???

Unfortunately, even though it really looks like it, it isn't real gold. It's actually brass, and it formed because the heat caused the zinc coating, to combine with the copper in the penny.

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Duration: 01:48

So today, I've decided to do one of my favorite reactions. To get it started, it's actually really simple, and all I need is a mixture of iron and sulfur.

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Duration: 01:34

Something that I've always wanted to do, is turn bromine into a popsicle, and to do this, I need some liquid nitrogen.

WARNING: Bromine is very toxic and corrosive, and is extremely dangerous if handled improperly.

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Duration: 01:10

What I think is cool, is what happens when I burn nitromethane. I get a flame that has almost no color. There's a slight hint of yellow, but besides that it almost looks like it's in black and white. In my opinion it kind of looks fake, and I think this is better than anything with color.

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Duration: 02:20

Okay so today, I'm gonna be doing something, that I think is kind of gross. To do this, I need water, cyclohexane, adipoyl chloride, and a super stinky chemical, called hexamethylenediamine.

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Duration: 02:33

I bought some strawberries, but they tasted awful. So instead of eating them, I'm gonna pull out their slimy DNA.

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Duration: 01:38

A few weeks ago, I bought some titanium tetrachloride which, I heard is one of the most obnoxious chemicals. When exposed to air, almost immediately, a bunch of white smoke starts pouring out. This is a mixture of hydrochloric acid and titanium oxides, which form as the titanium tetrachloride reacts with the oxygen and moisture in the air. What I've always wanted to do, was try and soak a super ball in it.

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Duration: 01:15

Okay so today, I've decided to dissolve my wiener in acid. I'm not just going to be using any acid though, and I'm going to be using something special, called piranha solution. It's a hot and angry mixture of sulfuric acid and hydrogen peroxide, and I basically just have to drop it in.

WARNING: Piranha solution is EXTREMELY dangerous. It can even be explosive when mixed with the wrong things, and can shred just about anything organic. It was handled properly in a controlled environment. Please do not attempt this.

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