Busting Breaking Bad Myths! | MythBusters | Season 9 Episode 10 | Full Episode

[@enriquetorres-duque6802]

_Today on Mythbusters, we're going to see if it's actually possible to make 99.1% pure crystal meth in the back of an RV Truck. Stick around to watch Jamie _*_freak out_*_ in the middle of the desert while putting it to the test_

[@visceratrocar]

Scary thing is it's probably possible with the right equipment and ingredients.

[@RL_ManicFX]

@@visceratrocar no shit, it’s meth

[@visceratrocar]

@@RL_ManicFX I meant ridiculously pure 99.1% meth. It's harder to make and takes a lot of measuring and calibration equipment. But I don't doubt there's someone out there who can make it in an RV. A really big one.

[@wa2k360]

@@visceratrocar I doubt an end user would notice much difference between 90%-99% purity unless the impurities add side effects.

[@visceratrocar]

@@wa2k360 You think regular meth cooks can get it to 90%? What the hell planet are you living on?

[@themoonsevilsister1561]

it's funny how they can't say "meth" but they keep showing a dissolved body falling through the ceiling

[@Kroesprtobaggan]

Drug laws are full of sense

[@PartyhatRS]

@@skywalker3975 Just as dumb, though.

[@jamesconroy7030]

Because it's not a dissolved body. It's Hollywood special effects.

[@themoonsevilsister1561]

@@jamesconroy7030 hentai's technically just lines and colours but it's still 18+

[@obeseperson]

I love meth

[@r3stl3ss]

one of my favorite masterchef UK episodes.

[@craft_io]

Underrated lmao

[@redmist6630]

yum pork stew just like grandma use to make

[@catatafish100]

That pork dish looked delicious.

[@trueblade3636]

Lol

[@tomfrench5189]

Greg Wallace's beard and flat cap game was strong in this one.

[@SumoNinja92]

When you've been watching Chemistry KZbinrs for years and when Jaime says "We're not showing you how to dissolve a body" your first thought is "That's ok, NileRed already did"

[@PleakeCrions]

Same with the “mercury fulminate is so dangerous” and Explosions and Fire is just out there making all kinds of fulminates

[@janrace6466]

I remember wondering what the special sauce could have possibly been when I first watched the episode as a kid. I now have a degree in chemistry and as soon as I remembered the special sauce part I thought "Holy shit, they made a bathtub of piranha"

[@mortalgod1728]

@@janrace6466isn't that aqua regia

[@janrace6466]

@@mortalgod1728 Aqua regia is a 1:3 mixture of HNO3 and HCl which can dissolve gold by a specific series of chemical reactions. If you pay close attention while watching the episode you can hear them say that they're using sulfuric acid and another ingredient which is composed of only oxygen and hydrogen. None of these are used in aqua regia. Next, we can figure out what the "special sauce" they used is pretty easily. There are really only two chemicals that are composed of only hydrogen and oxygen: water and hydrogen peroxide. They mention that the special sauce is a 30% solution of the mystery ingredient. It wouldn't make much sense to talk about a 30% solution of water, but a 30% solution of hydrogen peroxide should be commonly available in the US and is often used in laboratories. Piranha is a 3:1 mixture of concentrated sulfuric acid and 30% peroxide, which is consistent with what they show in the episode. Lastly, piranha is infamous among chemists for dissolving organic substances incredibly quickly. It's used in laboratories to clean persistent organic gunk off glassware (although admittedly aqua regia is also sometimes used to clean glassware), but its second major use is for viral videos of hot dogs getting dissolved. Even the name "piranha solution" comes from just how quickly it can eat away at meat, just like a swarm of piranhas.

[@LionArt98]

@@mortalgod1728 Nah Aqua Regia is HCl+ HNO3, Mythbusters did make piranah

[@Mann_Person]

To be fair, Walter does say "Fulminated mercury *and* a little tweak of chemistry" which means he could've added a million different things to make it explode from a throw.

[@ERICKCASTROH]

Also he did not mean kill anyone, just get away

[@Simoong94]

To be fair, Walter does say "Fulminated mercury a little tweak of chemistry" which means he couldn't have added a million different things to make it explode from a throw.

[@----.__]

@@Simoong94 To be fair, Walter does say "Fulminated mercury and a little tweak of chemistry" which means he could've added a million different things to make it explode from a throw.

[@user-bz6sr6ju2r]

@@----.__ yeah we got it...

[@----.__]

@@user-bz6sr6ju2r woooooosh

[@katherinemitchell7289]

the dichotomy between Mythbusters using piranha solution and youtubers I've nicknamed "feral scientists" is so funny🤣 They won't even mention what the "special sauce" is, meanwhile NileRed is like "and here is how you purify sulfuric acid from drain cleaner" LOL.

[@reero]

"feral scientists" is the greatest and most fitting name for them ever. incredible

[@wagyourtai1]

they do also just give away that it's hydrogen peroxide they're putting in at the end of the show.

[@jfbeam]

They had to deal with TV sensors, network execs, lawyers, and insurance underwriters. It's a minor miracle they ever got anything done. YTer's basically have no one telling them what they can't do. (from time to time an algorithm will catch a keyword, and then you don't say those words.)

[@ImNotTheRealCornelius]

Also they used hydrofluoric acid in the show not sulfuric so idk what they where really testing for here

[@boltondowney1949]

@@ImNotTheRealCornelius They tested hydrofluoric it just didn't do anything so they switched to the piranha solution just for shits and giggles

[@thomasbruinsma]

13:36 "Here's Adam, on acid!" I never recognized the jokes the narrator did as a kid

[@phillipdoran3961]

I came here for this comment 👍

[@phenax1144]

also 40:15 "Yep inside that box is more than a fist full of Crystal"

[@illmakeyouuncomfortable7745]

Ah.. good old acid. 🤓

[@Fuckyoupayme777]

@@phillipdoran3961i came to this comment

[@redmist6630]

I LOVE METH AND NEW MEXICO!

[@Avliv_Satan]

I love how much Aaron is still Jesse somewhat in this episode, like he didn't let go of the role completely

[@Brutarii]

To be fair this was aired about a month before breaking bad ended

[@RockinEnabled]

My thought was, Aaron just is himself there. And Jesse inherits some mannerisms from the actor. But I might be mistaken - I haven't seen the actor anywhere else yet.

[@lanzhimself]

The secret sauce is Peroxide btw.

[@Bungstly]

^ This. Piranha solution

[@blake.phillips]

Hahaha just came here to comment that

[@balghair1]

I was going to say that too.. H2O2

[@kaptein1247]

Was kinda obvious when they said its basically hydrogen and oxide

[@roserichardson9480]

They don't even do a particularly good job of sharpie-ing out the label lol

[@matthewbernard4152]

30:38 it’s so infuriating that they’re surprised that it didn’t explode. Smash a quartz crystal on the ground and watch it violently shatter into shards and dust…. They threw a baggie full of dust at the ground. There’s zero compression or tension being transferred or kept in the dust particles because they’re too fine. They needed to add a binder that would have make it hard yet still brittle. Something like super glue or Elmer glue would give too much elasticity and could still end up bouncing. But you need to violently send that energy through the actual material

[@liamdonnelly438]

Agreed!! The fact it is in a taped bag is also protecting it from impact, it’s cushioning itself

[@funk3nst3in]

yea exactly... their consultant said it was "complex" to crystalize the mercury fulminate but not impossible... definitely within the realm of a genius chemist and his dutiful assistant. myth plausible, what if crystalized merc fulm is 250x concentrated, they ignored the entire gist of the myth

[@7n7o]

@@funk3nst3in I would assume the concentration is pretty similar, however having it crystalline would definitely increase it's volatility and possibly explosive power; this definitely needs to be tested with crystalline material

[@7777jimbob]

nerd

[@Tractor5015]

Ok walter

[@NateyC214]

Binge watching all of these episodes has me really appreciating my favourite member of the Mythbusting team: The Narrator. Glorious wordplay for hours. Thank you so much Robert Lee, the "Canadian from Australia who narates American Television" - Adam Savage

[@budman8926]

@@sys-administrator Well brits are generally better at tv hosting. and we didnt adam was still on the show in the uk as the narrator

[@ryswe]

The narrator is reading quips a writer wrote, thank the writers instead 🤣

[@papajesus_]

Dam didn't know Robert e Lee was still alive

[@aitorleal4676]

From the creators of "Watching Paint Dry" and "Watching Grass Grow", in a colaboration with Tim Burton: "Watching Pigs Dissolve"

[@FatherMcKenzie66]

Hahahaha!

[@キラキラくりくり頭]

Ahahaha, I mean, I can't argue with that.

[@cudomoney]

This makes no sense 😂

[@hiddenbutdeadly]

"on this episode of Methbusters!..."

[@m4xw3ll75]

My favourite episode of methtesters

[@theREALTRUTHagn]

I proved the government wrong recently by taking meth for 2 years and giving it up one day, and haven't taken it since, like all the other DRUGS (taken every drug over 35years, LSD, ecstasy, speed/meth, smoked heroin, weed ECT...), proving meth (and OTHER DRUGS) AREN'T ADDICTIVE, it just that, people are brainless brainwashed by government morons with WEAK WEAK BRAINS, TRUTH and FACTS😉

[@walidhmd]

It's a Masterchef UK episode, they lied

[@Nicky_Savage]

You're goddamn right

[@tildessmoo]

If only the narrator were from Chicago.

[@mrtree1368]

On this episode were gonna test the affects of chili powder in meth and we got our favorite hobo off the street to try it

[@gmanhero]

@22:08 I'm pretty certain that "very difficult'' doesn't mean impossible. Also the crystalized form is highly susceptible to being thrown against a wall unlike the powdered form... the myth isn't throwing the powered variant wrapped in a bag on the ground, it's throwing the unstable crystalized form at a wall after being warmed up in a hand.

[@stasi0238]

Yep crystals would have exploded for sure. Its same as with silver fulminatr

[@Born_Stellar]

and where did they get 50g? Walts holding a damn kilo!

[@liamodynsky4871]

The problem then becomes how the hell Walt could survive it.

[@DaVoxxii]

@@Born_Stellar the chunk he threw at the floor was 50g, not the bag he was holding afterwards

[@kfc2180]

oxygen helps too

[@psow4062]

I like how they make it a secret what the second ingredient is for the whole episode and then near the end Jamie straight up says that it's just a lot of hydrogen and oxygen, pretty much revealing that it's hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and the whole thing is the piranha solution. Have fun dissolving your dead bodies, I guess xD

[@sizskie]

The hydrogen peroxide label on the container is also clearly visible when they add it to the tub lol

[@kibbs325]

To buy either of those in high concentration in such large bottles would be incredibly suspicious to the FBI unless you've got a ton of licenses

[@BenjiBoiiboii]

​@@kibbs325 just buy one each week from diffrent stores lol

[@pentiumvsamd]

@@kibbs325 who said you have to buy them all at once, from the same place, on the same day, under the same name?

[@DrFoggyPants]

This is when Adam became Savageberg

[@ketalegaming2572]

Say my name.

[@Foundations01]

The one who busts.

[@benedektoth2646]

And Jamie became Walrus White.

[@devinmcguinness4713]

RIP Grant. This was a fun episode.

[@igallagher4]

Which one is grant?

[@obsidiansiriusblackheart]

​@@igallagher4I could be wrong, but pretty sure the Asian guy committed s**cide

[@devinmcguinness4713]

@@igallagher4 the Asian fella. Passed away recently from an aneurysm

[@igallagher4]

​@devinmcguinness4713 Oh. Sorry to hear that

[@JaredLetoSelfSuck]

You mean Jamie

[@ChrisK96y]

For the bathtub experiment, I would also use old damp boards as flooring material. It's safe to assume that the house was old, and the materials from which it was built are already years old, especially if there was a bathtub on it.

[@user-uj5sh8pz1d]

I'd say give the bathtub coating a nick to the metal(might happen when it's old) and then acid would have most likely eaten right through the tub in a few hours if it's reacting that vigorous

[@haroldcruz8550]

Were you not paying attention? They already made a small scale test where the metal or fiber glass were exposed and they didn't get result close to that of the movie.

[@eeeeee8762]

@@haroldcruz8550 1. It's not a movie, 2. The small scale of the test made it incomparable to the real deal. Acid loses its potency as it reacts with something, if they had a bathtub full, the results would definitely have been very different

[@user-uj5sh8pz1d]

@@haroldcruz8550 it makes a difference whether you let the reaction run for 30 minutes like they did or 8h like the series said for the premise. As does the amount of surface area where the reaction takes place. And I am not talking about dissolving the whole bathtub. But it's very much possible that over 8h the acid would eat a HOLE through the bathtub and start draining itself on the floor if you give the coating a good, deep scratch

[@Datensaku]

Hydrofluoric acid , sulfuric acid and piranha solution don't eat through ceramic. their whole point is to convert the materials that are close to carbon into carbon and then make them evaporate into CO2

[@erikcarrillo7378]

This show was my childhood. We are blessed to have this free on KZbin. Please never take it down, I'll watch the series on repeat.

[@UnWorthyDaisy42]

I think the biggest let down was jesse wasn't going to crystallize the fulminate. i swear it was the crystal walter said was unstable

[@justinduran1]

First test with the hydrochloric acid should've been labeled plausible. The tub wouldn't need to completely disintegrate in that scenario, it would just need to be structurally compromised. Given that they also admitted to not knowing how long the body was in the bath, they should've not only done an 8 hour submersion but a 16-hour sample as well.

[@Succcccccccccccc]

They probably don't want to give anyone any ideas

[@dbwatchet7292]

Hydrofluoric* not chloric

[@trentenidk8431]

I agree, not to mention in the show there are still remnants of not only the body, bit also other materials.

[@IronInsightFirearms]

They should have done a 72 hour sample too

[@karxpoland5958]

Seeing Grant legit made me cry

[@ragusauce6573]

RIP Grant.

[@carsonhunt4642]

How and when did he pass?? He was always my favorite 😢

[@bronmill33]

@@carsonhunt4642he had an aneurysm

[@BoneStack117]

In 2020

[@utubeutube4152]

What year did they record this? I freaked out when I saw Grant

[@gben82]

For those wondering: Episode 206 - "Breaking Bad Special" Original US air date: August 12, 2013

[@ProjectAudrey]

Thank you! God, I wish they'd put this in the title, or thumbnail, or description, or a pinned comment. So many options!

[@oreocookiedough]

I'm addicted to crystal myths

[@nathanhartono91]

Watching these old episodes and looking at the KZbin science landscape today, clearly nobody took “don’t try this at home” seriously 😂😂😂 Respect to these OGs

[@koolerpure]

42:44 the details hes talking about is how in the show walter threw a crystal which myth busters straight up said they couldnt produce in their setup, in MythBusters they tried powder and that isnt gonna be as reactive with a toss

[@mr.c8101]

Also it was in a bag. That would absorb some of the force and negate friction.

[@robertgernon169]

​@@mr.c8101You're right, hitting it with a hammer will ignite it. If it was crystalized it would also be much less stable

[@ryderfletcher8670]

And in season 3 when Walt meets Gale he says he could talk for hours about some sorta crystallization chemistry so he’s definitely capable of making it.

[@CatSixty6]

Also depending on the shot Walt throws it on the ground next to him but in the other shot he throws it at the wall, which is much more plausible if you ask me. The explosion would happen much closer to the windows and therefore blow them out. It always looked weird to me how Walt seems to throw it on the ground but the other angle shows him flinging it towards the wall

[@nomoreslavthegreatest]

Ahh yes, MethBusters, my favorite channel

[@austins.2495]

Super original! There aren’t a BUNCH of other comments making that same joke. Good job 👍

[@Kroesprtobaggan]

That’s the problem: they aren’t

[@ml.2770]

44:09 The special sauce label says Hydrogen Peroxide 30%

[@aaronwalkot1201]

Wich makes the combo of chemicals piranha solution

[@joenathan8594]

Thought it was... Funny enough it was a Eric Andre sketch that Got me thinking it was H202... the sequel to water.

[@wa2k360]

Jamie mentions the special sauce is "a lot of hydrogen and oxygen" so that was my first logical conclusion as a catalyst for the sulfiric acid lol

[@shmosel_]

shhh

[@recon_laksh742]

could have used hydrogen peroxide 50%

[@DrLazerbeam]

I'm having like a weird anachronistic mind wobble because for me MythBusters ended in an era of TV completely different and way before the television revival era that Breaking Bad was in.

[@Maxmaxmaxmaxmaxmaxmaxmaxxx]

I was just thinking to myself that this is peak Millenium tv, It was the turning point into streaming and a totally different media ecosystem.

[@Robospy1]

That may be because Mythbusters ran for a pretty long time.

[@xkinsey3831]

Well Breaking Bad aired in 2008. It's older than a lot of people realise. I was born in the early 2000s and I watched MythBusters growing up, so it was definitely around in the late 2000s / early 2010s

[@RADZIO895]

I gotta bring up the legendary sentence: "They look like if Walter White unfused"

[@MrBodies07]

RIP Grant. Cool seeing you having fun with the crew

[@ontariel]

Jesse, we have to bust some myths

[@Kroesprtobaggan]

Methboofers 👌

[@AJ...99]

15:03 hydrogen peroxide for those wondering

[@ammaarkhanlodhi5002]

Ah I thought it was hydrochloric acid because mixing them makes aqua regia

[@67shelbycobra99]

​@@ammaarkhanlodhi5002 aqua regia is nitric acid and hydrochloric acid.

[@ArchDeusAirsoftNC]

Piranha Solution

[@ammaarkhanlodhi5002]

@@67shelbycobra99 ah thanks man my bad I made a mistake

[@marksmithwas12]

I had a feeling they'd try Piranha Solution after the other acid failed 😆

[@CraniX]

Fuming Sulfuric Acid (Oleum): By dissolving additional sulfur trioxide (SO₃) in concentrated sulfuric acid, you create oleum. Oleum is much more reactive than regular sulfuric acid and is used industrially for even more aggressive chemical reactions. Fluorosulfuric Acid (HSO₃F): Combining sulfuric acid with sulfur trioxide and hydrogen fluoride creates fluorosulfuric acid, which is much stronger and more reactive than pure sulfuric acid. Chlorosulfuric Acid (HSO₃Cl): This is another highly reactive sulfuric acid derivative used in specialized chemical processes. Nitric Acid (HNO₃): Mixing sulfuric acid with nitric acid produces a mixture called aqua regia (when in a 1:3 ratio with hydrochloric acid). This creates a highly reactive oxidizing environment, capable of dissolving noble metals like gold and platinum.

[@tultrapfighter]

they made piranha solution, they mixed the sulfuric acid with hydrogen peroxide.

[@fraaggl]

a pig in a farm talking to his friends : - "Hey did you know that I'm going to be on TV ?" - "46:33"

[@varunramakrishnan7676]

Some pig

[@zaiohellgren9266]

more like a pig in soviet union

[@zaiohellgren9266]

46:37

[@arronalt]

"brother, may I have some oats?"

[@varunramakrishnan7676]

@@arronalt Wtf, I just watched this video

[@TheCrystalGlow]

As a chemistry nerd, I do have to interject about the concentrated hydrofluoric acid. Many acids have this property where the more concentrated it is, the thicker the oxide layer will form on certain materials. thereby actually protecting it from further corrosion. Only by adding water to the acid, will it actually kickstart the reaction. Also, the “special sauce” (and I know exactly what the stuff is called) works by removing carbon from the mixture and turning into gas. If an item in the mixture has little to no carbon, it simply will not react.

[@OnceUponReddit]

Peroxide

[@tildessmoo]

Yeah, that's why it worked so well on fiberglass in the lab but did nothing to the tub: fiberglass is technically fiberglass bound in resin, and the resin is a hydrocarbon polymer, so the sample dissolved, but the tub has a protective coating, because no one wants to step on fiberglass when they're trying to get clean. Could easily have been a very different result if they'd made a scratch through the coating to represent wear and tear on an old tub.

[@AbraKadabraCzaryMaryHokusPokus]

​@@tildessmooI love this answer

[@ikrambinsafiee8594]

H2O2?

[@tildessmoo]

@@ikrambinsafiee8594 Hydrogen peroxide? Yeah, the super corrosive stuff is a mix of peroxide and sulfuric acid, called piranha solution. Basically (well, acidically 😆), the sulfuric acid dehydrates (aka, removes hydrogen and oxygen from) most hydrocarbons, then the peroxide oxidizes the remaining carbon to CO2, with the result that, with enough piranha solution or little enough organic matter, it vaporises most organic matter to the point it looks like it never existed. Very efficient for small amounts of organic matter, to the point it's commonly used to thoroughly clean glassware used for organic chemistry, but as the guys showed, not all that great for larger samples. There are some fun demonstrations of people tossing stuff in piranha solution and it just disappears over the course of a few seconds; the best ones are usually bits of paper, but NileRed did a fortune cookie once.

[@SBS24654]

They should have scratched the bathtub imitating heavy use over the years. This would give a lot more surface area for the acid to work and remove some of the enamel that is acid-proof

[@adamwhalen9225]

and they used a cast iron bath tub, arnt they commonly fibreglass or am I mistaken

[@TuBachle1]

@@adamwhalen9225someone didn’t watch the full video

[@GinjaLeviathan]

Never trust an explosives expert with all his fingers

[@austins.2495]

Wouldn’t that mean they were successful and worthy of your trust, if they had all of their fingers? Yes, that’s a rhetorical question. Stay in school, kid…

[@_dimitri_1242]

​@@austins.2495or that he or she has little experience

[@Sercil00]

Ae ye callin me a ba emoman??? I I WAS A BA EMOMAN, I WOULN' BE SIIN HEE, ISCUSSIN WIH YOU, NOW WOUL I? (the joke is that I'm typing without using my left index finger. Please laugh)

[@peterk9971]

If the acid mixture stays black or brown you should add more of the "special sauce". It will "reactivate" the reaction and the rest of the organic matirial will disolve

[@donovanschoor1473]

Why did they not mention or do this? i thought they had experts advising them?

[@RasEli03]

Maybe their sauce ran out

[@donovanschoor1473]

@@RasEli03 Maybe they are making TV and we took them a little too serious as kids.

[@mirkokujansuu183]

Yeah i was thinking how compared to for example nilereds video on piranha solution their reaction seemed super tame and slow.

[@peterkim359]

They should've gone over the clean up process for the acid and peroxide. Knowing that you always need to properly deal with chemical waste is a great lesson

[@eeeeee8762]

7:55 What they forgot to consider is that the acid loses its concentration and therefore potency as it eats away at the materials. In BB they had a bathtub full, the effects will not be the same and could be greater than what MB had set up. There also wasn't a whole lot of acid spilling down, and when you look at what came down with the floor, you'll see it's definitely plausible

[@freextrg]

Also, acid does not really need to go all the way through all the materials, just enough for the weight to do the rest, idk how much is that but it is something that is harder to take into consideration

[@Arcidi225]

Also house was old, and let's say old wood under a bath tub is not always in best condition.

[@phiphedude7684]

Also the chemist said HCl not HF

[@pt_cruiser5131]

gets proven completely wrong* "Well, you see... in my mind's eye..."

[@calumsanderson6741]

he's a shifty one

[@Azzameen99AZ]

One might even say, "I reject your reality, and substitute my own."

[@uaxpavlo]

Should've use the cheese

[@arronalt]

should've used a more badass jesse

[@TheoHiggins]

​@@Azzameen99AZ "Niiiice, Dungeon Master!"

[@killzer990]

best show daytime tv has ever seen. RIP Grant

[@desktopaccount8738]

Is Aaron wearing an inside-out Darth Vader shirt so it doesnt shows Disney (or Lucasfilm at the time) stuff on the show?

[@baxtersonline]

Great spot, yeah probably is

[@zakbrown9256]

Yeah we had to put gaffa tape over the logos on our shirts in studio sometimes.

[@Chocwish]

You talking 34:30?

[@Pxnda999]

Couldn’t even give the guy a heads up or a white shirt to wear lol

[@baxtersonline]

@@Pxnda999 video editor here- this happens literally all the time with talent on set. You don’t give a “heads up” directly to Aaron Paul, you tell their agent. And a lot of the time, the agent doesn’t tell them. They turn up wearing something branded, you only have them for 2 hours or so, and the only solution is just gaffer tape, turn the shirt inside out or blur it after. It’s very common.

[@TheoHiggins]

As a kid this is what convinced me that I needed to watch Breaking Bad someday. It only took me another 12 years lol

[@colezy1998]

We've got the exact same story 😂

[@FiXato]

"get these guys to write us a writing robot" executives responsible for the writers to strike: "quick, write that down!"

[@xfreeza4978]

Bro Mythbusters has been around before I was 10 I'm 23 now, much respect to these men for making a good show keep up the hard work brothers 👍🏼

[@Patrick-mg3jp]

Alot of misconseptions of how long it takes for acid to dissolve. It doesnt just start instantly , it takes a very long time .

[@YeeyeeToni]

Mythbusters was the training wheels for my compassion for Game Theory and the other theories channels.

[@smallmushroom9984]

10:30 I never realised this before but this "explosive expert" is using glassware to prepare the fulminate, either super sketchy or a bit of a faked scene

[@Staymare]

I think he doesn't want to put strong nitric acid in polyethylene containers.

[@BabyMakR]

@@Staymare Nitric acid doesn't attack glass, true, but Hydrofluoric acid most definitely will eat through glass. PTFE is how you store and react HF.

[@bradleybaker976]

thanks for putting this up for free

[@antisoda]

24:23 Miss ya, Grant.

[@wincenty_w]

I didn't know that there were full episodes on YT. I can watch this all day long and not get bored. Fantastic show!

[@darkone666]

Mecury fulminate with a tweak of chemistry

[@Chillin-fpv]

I miss this show so much! I'm so happy it's now on KZbin ❤ LETS GO! I grew up watching you guys. I just wanna say thank you

[@MicroMidas]

40:57 *Noooo!* You said it _wrong!_ 😓

[@WAZZZAAA92]

LMAO, ”say like a kind of… mild cheese?” Really got me 😂😂

[@wingstar4691]

I had always assumed that the tub was fiberglass. All the tubs/showers I've ever been in except for one have been fiberglass. Very commonplace, and now i deliver freight for a hardware store that sells tubs and showers, and not once have i offloaded a tub that was anything except for fiberglass

[@selo5124]

For anybody who's wondering, the other ingredient for the "special sauce", is more than likely hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), which is an extremely potent oxidizing agent. The mixture is called piranha solution. Fyi, a somewhat concentrated solution of sodium hydroxide would be way better for dissolving a body (also way more likely to go under the radar).

[@javierloco-s1t]

mercury fulminate is probably more reactive to impact in a crystal form since a bag of powder absorb the shock the crystal would shatter and release energy. the other Jesse said it was possible to make so the show may be more accurate that they make it seem to be

[@sizskie]

Absorbing the shock is actually what would set it off. When a crystal shatters it doesn't release energy, it absorbs energy. The kinetic energy of both samples is distributed between the samples themselves and the surface they impact, there is no release of energy in any case, just distribution

[@javierloco-s1t]

@@sizskie cleaver i didnt think of it that way. but it's still untested it may react an unexpected way (not that i am a chemist or anything)😂

[@BabyMakR]

@@sizskie Nah. The sudden stop is more triggering. I still say they should have used Acetone Peroxide. Far more sensitive than Mercury Fulminate. Acetone Peroxide would have decomposed (exploded) under it's own weight if you made a fraction of what was shown here. You could drop a few grains of powder like shown on the floor and 2 of them would detonate as they hit the floor and the rest would go pop under your shoe as you stood on them leaving little burn marks in the sole of your shoe.

[@lennartjuhh]

Mythbusters episodes are being reuploaded on KZbin in 1080p? This. Is. Amazing.

[@3choblast3r4]

This reminds me that a highschool friend of mine, years later suddenly contacted me asking me if I've ever seen breaking bad .. and that he's started chemistry at a uni and that it was "super easy to make what they make in breaking bad" ...

[@BabyMakR]

I was making Acetone Peroxide before High School for fun. Next door neighbours uncle showed us how. He worked on a mine out west, so I assume he was one of the guys who took the explosives down.

[@dominikmilien]

@@BabyMakR It wouldn't be so much fun if the primary explosive you were making tore your hand off. But like seriously man, how could you do it safely? Especially considering the drying of bigger batches

[@BabyMakR]

@@dominikmilien Yeh. No idea. We had no idea what we were making was so dangerous. I can only put it down to luck.

[@austins.2495]

I love Mythbusters 🙏 good memories, cool experiments, and you never know what you might learn

[@ramikais1334]

putting colored liquids in beakers plus dry ice = science

[@rajkanishu]

I mean, technically yeah

[@Logicrupted]

For anyone wondering what the special sauce is, it is 30% hydrogen peroxide. When you mix sulfuric acid with hydrogen peroxide you get what's called the piranha solution.

[@Asudragon]

In the test of the acid on each material, wouldnt the acid get "thinned" out as the material slowly desolves affecting "potency"

[@waidebraaf2690]

Little known fact, Vince Gilligan is also the inventor of a fun 'video' game called "Pile of bullets"

[@jocax188723]

Actual body disposal would use a base, not an acid. Use saponification to your advantage.

[@BabyMakR]

I said this exact thing to my wife when we first watched this back in the day and she was "You don't know what you're talking about" and "I'm sure they got experts on to tell them what chemicals to use". Showed her this video years later and she was all "what are you talking about"? So much for women's infallible memory.

[@mschimpanzee2023]

why does this have to be a sex issue kek sooo sorry your wife forgot an arguement after a decade

[@BabyMakR]

@@mschimpanzee2023 it's the only thing in 2 decades of marriage she has forgotten. She didn't forget. Women never forget.

[@bluewater82]

I worked in a semiconductor facility back in the day and we had lots of HF acid in use to etch the silicon wafers. That stuff is terrifying. It doesn’t kill by dissolving your body. It kills you by seeping into your tissues and binds with the calcium and magnesium in your blood. This causes calcium depletion within the body and disrupts cellular function, leading to seizures and cardiac arrest. Even a small splash on exposed skin can lead to organ failure within hours. Some people die on the way to the hospital. Others are unlucky and hang on for several hours enduring agonizing pain as their muscles and nervous systems start failing. Eventually the heart just stops working and you die.

[@DanyloBiletskyi]

Jamie: we are not in a business of showing how to dissolve bodies Also Jamie: 18:27 showing exact chemical they are using which is 30% cleanroom LP :D

[@khazareek]

Its 100% to make the show more dramatic, chemistry isn't really a secret. Buying ingredients is what makes you suspicious, not just knowing how to use them.

[@eidodk]

@@khazareek It's not. It's made for TV, and there's rules and regulations that prevents them from teaching people how to make volatile compounds. Also - "Cleanroom LP" Is a registered trademark. The liquid is 30% Hydroogen Peroxide. It's not a secret how to make the Piranha solution, it's just not safe for Primetime TV ... Just as they can't teach you how to make Methamphetamine on TV, even though the chemical composition is freely available, and the stuff you need to make it from, is somewhat easy to come by.

[@khazareek]

@@eidodk You're right, having only watched stuff online for the last 10 years I forget TV is even a thing anymore, haha

[@lidluser55]

Well, they didn't. Using piranha solution, although cute on screen, is impractical and requires massive amount of reagents to achieve complete dissolution. The proper metod was not shown.

[@richardcrawford304]

This has been one of the best myth busters episode I've seen

[@VNHLSNG1]

An old building would have an old bath tub with cracks in the finish leading to acid leaching through to the metal, this should help in an 8 hour period. And I'm pretty sure the crystal form would react to impact more easily.

[@PBMS123]

AFAIR and in the picture, the tub looks plastic not metal.

[@freyastuchbery7130]

This is where television peaked. We don't need anymore after this. Perfection

[@corlyscrawlies]

They should have called themselves Methbusters for this one 😂

[@Wetknees]

Absolutely loving the chemistry lesson! I wish my experience with chemistry in school was more than just balancing equations. Which is basically just algebra with extra letters, that don’t mean anything.

[@roserichardson9480]

That is 100% not the intended meaning of that sticker at 16:55

[@princelysnail1998]

The only time you can get away with that at your place of work😂 is

[@youngspinach]

Great profile pic, toa Gali

[@alberthofmann420]

Seems familiar 😅

[@hdoglesby]

I had no idea this episode existed. This is like discovering old music for the first time after the band broke up

[@socie01]

Explosives and acid sounds like my kind of fun! 😂😂

[@viktorhhh1]

wow that breaking bad intro still gives me goosebumps. Maybe it's time to rewatch it again.

[@Initialxg2]

Tight….tight tight tight yaaaaa

[@ElrondMcBong.]

16:55 "I

[@waves42069]

explosion proof box is hilarious

[@elialrayess3395]

thank you for making this!

[@greasinplays]

sulfuric acid and hydrogen peroxide aka piranha solution one of my favorites

[@foggy7577]

Myth number 1: Its impossible to use your combined industry knowledge in electrical engineering and special effects to cook meth at home, fueling the drug industry in the US, whilst funneling the profit through an educational Discovery channel science show to clean the profit.

[@tiddlerfiddler-yh1vh]

Not many know this but vince especially created meth for breaking bad

[@DragongodZenos]

for those curious, I believe the "special sauce" mixed with the sulfuric acid is hydrogen peroxide. those 2 compounds mixed together are colloquially called piranha solution or piranha etch since it eats through basically anything organic

[@bogdank4490]

3:16 why is Jessy a dropout student? He finished the highschool

[@MicroSausage]

Yeah he graduated, dick.

[@ChanArtCreative]

15:11 H2S04 plus H2O2 piranha solution 🤫🤫

[@KernelGhost]

46:50 Gives it away too

[@JohnSluggice]

I love how they made a less volatile version of the fulminate and then act shocked when it isnt volatile enough to detonate on throwing

[@rgb.offset]

you guys are SO BACK with this episode!!!!!!!!

[@wadeokaysguitar]

Two of my favorite things: Breaking Bad, and Myth Busters. How have I never seen this??? Rip Grant.

[@ChemicalEuphoria]

they didn't even know the most basic rule about concentrated acids, NEVER ADD WATER TO THEM (or in this case the diluted peroxide), always the other way...

[@huskaroar6869]

At least Walt's machine gun contraption worked and they showed it in an older episode and that's a big W !

[@primary2630]

Man I miss this show lol. Rip to Grant

[@tallmonke72]

I love how they nonchalantly teach you what kind of acid to use to dissolve a body

[@tristindurocher-batley4780]

This episode is what taught me that acids are most effective on organic matter and doesn’t work too well on inorganic matter they should’ve taken the opportunity to bust the myth that acids can corrode metal since despite what certain tv shows and movies have shown acid doesn’t work on metallic objects

[@hantrio4327]

It's much more complex than that. You always have to look at the acid and the material it's supposed to dissolve. Most metals dissolve in acid. There are organic materials that are resistant to every acid

[@kaptein1247]

I can assure you theres a lot of acids that can corrode metals. It wont eat through it quickly, but eventually.

[@hantrio4327]

@@kaptein1247 All depends on the acid and metal. Aluminium will be corroded pretty quickly by hydrochloric acid

[@MansMan42069]

metal + acid → salt + hydrogen gas

[@user-uj5sh8pz1d]

Pretty much every acid will eat every metal ( except gold, silver and MB one or two other common metals) given the right amount of time

[@ANIF_CYMBOLIC]

my face absolutely lit up when I saw this on my recommended