Children's Science Kits Are An Absolute Nightmare - This Is Why

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[@hyralt]

My take-away from this is that I should buy an electronics kit and lemons if I really want to have fun.

[@joyhoward6105]

How was this commented 4h ago but the video only says it’s been up for 6 minutes

[@ultraman388]

​@@joyhoward6105 that is... weird. Its says 5 hours now. Its only been 30mins

[@bugsbugsbugsbugsbugsbugsbugs]

thats an excellent takeaway i wish i had your world view

[@H4L0GUY117]

@@ultraman388early access? it was probably private

[@ingni123456]

​@@ultraman388early release for patreons

[@WinterHillTV]

“How is this already on fire” is genuinely something my secondary school Chemistry teacher once said when doing a demonstration

[@redmadness265]

xD

[@jkl5901]

What happened?

[@gffvieira]

@@jkl5901things caught fire unexpectedly

[@Delta-07999]

I wish that i experienced that

[@jordanpowell2242]

Same in my case she had already light the darn thing while talking and when she went to light it again….lets just say it was an awkward moment

[@ThunderEwokB]

Life never actually gave us lemons. It's a genetic mix of a citron and bitter orange. We took lemons from life. Or something.

[@Rajclaw]

We made the lemons, US, WE ARE LIFE

[@Hopefighter]

Life never gave us Lemons, we did that all by our selves!

[@goingblargh]

Emperor of Man: *_Manliest hip thrusts in the history of Mankind_*

[@DJ1573]

​@@goingblargh I See, a man of culture aswell

[@nacicomi]

Quite fitting considering that 95% of problems today are man made.

[@jackthemagiccat4571]

My grandma brought one for me on my 10th birthday that was just a huge box to make crystals but had to throw it away due to controversy (this was Japan) and because we live as a clan we live in quite a big estate. It was forgotten about and left in a random warm cupboard were it wasn't touched again till I was 20 so 10 years during the process it had leaked from the top shelf all the way to the floor and surroundings so when a maid opened the cupboard for some reason it looked like she came across something straight out of a cave/crystal mine 😂 She ran to the head maid panicking that we had some weird mold or life form growing in it because it looked wild at first glance lmao my uncles got dressed up in cleaning suits and resperators expecting something bad but couldn't stop laughing when they saw the box. It was a nightmare to clean apparently but I always wondered what and extra 10 or 20 years would do!

[@hedgehog3180]

This sounds straight out of a manga are you for real?

[@jackthemagiccat4571]

@@hedgehog3180 what part of it feels like a manga? If I know I can kinda give an explanation if possible :0 Edit: English is my 3rd language so I apologise in advance for errors etc

[@deathburn4329]

​@jackthemagiccat4571 they probably mean that the idea behind it (leaving an experiment in storage for years eventually resulting in strange growths leaking out) sounds like the idea behind a manga

[@theonlycatonice]

​@@jackthemagiccat4571 I think the manga thing is 1. you living in an estate in a clan 2. You have a head maid!? 3. What controversy surrounds a science box experiment with crystals? The crystals growing randomly themselves for 10 years is actually believable considering we've had stuff surface in our garden 10 years later 😂

[@jackthemagiccat4571]

@@theonlycatonice TD:LR huh yup I guess I can see how that kinda matches up, but tbh you could look at any of the rich Japanese families and say the same thing they live pretty wild life's I've been to some weird ass partys Also more explanation towards the 1. 2. 3. You put down don't mind my rambling it's a bad habit of a writer who has ADHD 🤣 1. Clans are still pretty common these days usually stubborn families stuck to tradition, big business family's like mine under one ruled matriarchal or patriarchal system mine being a matriarchal family and as for the estate thing that's just a general rich family thing, though I think they're going more out of style in modern times but traditional Japanese estates are a bliss to live in I could die happy looking out my window during the cherry blossom season 🤣 super freaking pretty I'm super lucky due to health issues I'm being looked after by my family head, oh right there's still military and crime clans(yakuza is slowly dying out to a more modernization of crime organisations unlike it used to be here)too probably the 2nd and 3rd most popular types. 2. It differs between people, family's and there Livin situation, wealthy families in an apartment complex will probably not have staff on hand in house but instead on site building and mainly cook and clean to a wide majority of family's under the apartment complex but in estates that are old like ours the house keeper team can be anywhere from 10 to 100 depending on building size and the required jobs, we have a generalized house keeper system with a head maid and butler who do admin as well, but my situation is difficult so I've been assigned my own staffing since my side of the building requires people knowledgeable in medical care and 1on1 waiting I'm prone to accidents and my medical issues can flare up fast im pretty independent but having people help in medical setup, pushing my wheelchair and so on takes alot of stress off my shoulders! So I obviously have a head maid in charge of this team, who she's under the main head maid but you'll find children from birth to like 13 tend to have there own maid and caring teams too I have loads of younger siblings and cousin's I feel great sympathy for those staff 🤣 3. Ah right I can't link things around here and my memory is awful so take with a grain of salt but it was similar to how iron on bead kits could be used to make date Grape drugs, the chemical's in the science kit included similar materials for a very similar kinda drug if I remember correctly so that's why it was put way out of site in a place frankly no one visits only in rare occasions lmao Frankly alot of old science kits and experiment diy toys end up being found in the weirdest of situations, we thought my building was haunted but it turned out to be a robo dino toy with battery's dying slowly since I was like 6-7 my head maid remembers the toy going missing at some point apparently somehow for god knows reason I or someone had hidden it behind a floor board 😅 so over the years you'd hear a distant roar and creek truly was creepy when heard at night. I hope that gives you some insight on things, frankly I'm bored and have no more manga so I'm just sitting hear rambling apologies also English is my 3rd language so might be some hiccups on explanations.

[@SAMURIADI]

this is why i stoped giving my neices/nephews science kits for bday presents i just research experiments and swing bye for a day

[@NOAHPCPRO]

This was actually just amazing.

[@synka5922]

I am totally gonna do this if I ever have a niece/nephew. these kits are way too overpriced and you can do many of these experiments for just a few bucks, most expensive part being the hardware to do them

[@dark2023-1lovesoni]

My father had a similar opinion. Plus, he reasoned that we could do significantly more interesting/dangerous experiments with his supervision/input. Stuff like making smoke bombs and model rocket engines from sugar & salt peter (potassium nitrate), or playing with a cloud chamber and uranium ore. Basically, stuff that almost ANY 10-14yo boy would find extremely cool and fascinating, but no at-home kit or school class would ever dream of allowing.

[@rifffamily5591]

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[@crypticmedicine]

@@synka5922 You GOTTA explain how the uranium ore thing worked. It's mandatory. *Dalek noises* EXPLAIN-- EXPLAIN--

[@StargazerSkyscraper]

These kits take me back to two positive science times in my life. The first: my dad sabotaging a flashlight, setting it in front of my sister and I at the kitchen table, and making us write down and test every hypothesis until we figured out why it wasn't working. (IIRC he put a tiny piece of plastic on one of the battery ends to block it.) The second: buying one of those glow-on-the-dark fossils buried in dusty brick from a museum gift shop after I dropped out of college, and spending the rest of the afternoon digging into it with my best friend at the smoothie shop across the street. Good times. Good video.

[@pumello]

Youre a scientist that accidentally added sugar instead of salt to your pickles. I am so very afraid. I edited a spelling error and it removed the heart. I am devastated. My parasocial relationship NOOOOOOOOO

[@TailcoatGames]

You must now go on a quest to Return the heart

[@PrincessSunbutt]

@@TailcoatGames It's too late, It's already buried

[@Inckman452]

The same happened to me long ago 😢... I won't let it happen again! Here is my like! Go and fly back up comment, be noticed again and receive back what was rightfully yours to begin with.

[@dark2023-1lovesoni]

Yeah, if you edit the comment, it removes your creator's like mark. This is a problem for proof-reader types like myself. I guess it's so a poster can't edit the comment afterward to make the content-creator look bad. I've had this exact thing happen at least 5 times myself (usually on smaller channels, though). I've felt your pain OP, and I empathize with you. It sucks. Don't be like me, learn from this mistake.

[@olivergottkehaskamp3369]

💖💖

[@dinocz3301]

The whole thing with methanol reminded me of crisis we had about 10 years back, where someone started selling a lot of homemade alcohol with methanol instead of ethanol. Lot of people went blind, few died. But they also teached us a cure: drink legitimate alcohol. A dose of ethanol with force the methanol to be harmlessly peed out

[@zyriantel9601]

I’m pretty sure jacked up murder booze was literally part of the Prohibition problem in America back in the 1920s, did that guy work for Al Capone by any chance?

[@dinocz3301]

@@zyriantel9601 no this was in 2010's and not in america

[@zyriantel9601]

@@dinocz3301 Oh thank goodness

[@theonlycatonice]

I saw this on Chubbyemu!

[@SemicolonExpected]

so is the trick for cheap booze to drink a bunch of methanol and chase it down with a shot of ethanol?

[@dud3655]

That was... a rather decent explaination of how a polymer is made, seriously I understood that pretty well and its been almost a decade since I got out of highschool, neat.

[@Deiollymous]

Will there ever be part 3 of "The universe is an absolute nnightmare" or not?

[@MGlBlaze]

I'm assuming "not"

[@jasonhosler9990]

That would be a nightmare

[@cleverlyblonde]

The wait for it IS the nightmare 😂

[@HyperDust11]

9:05 i remember ouir biology/science teacher put a bucket of dead rats in those chemicals onto the desk of one of our worst students, and when he moved seats she followed him with the bucket until he left and told the administration that his teacher was chasing him around with a bucket full of dead rats. she quit soon after to avoid being fired for many other students' accusations of her doing other heinous shit

[@flytrapYTP]

What a comment

[@sickcat-nu4ci]

She should be banned from working with children😭 wtf

[@Raygeing]

Electrodes in a bowl of water, capture the gas in an upturned container and scare the hell out of your mum when you light and make an explosion in the kitchen.

[@dannypipewrench533]

Ah, yes, do-it-yourself rocket propulsion/pipe bomb.

[@majormoron605]

The fact that they let 10 years old handle stuff like methanol and ammonia is frankly insane to me... That almost sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen

[@StargazerSkyscraper]

Could be worse. Kits like those used to contain actual lead and uranium.

[@DrawciaGleam02]

I think a CSI play kit got banned because a dangerous chemical was in it....

[@ManglingMinis]

As much as I also enjoy your gaming stuff, I absolutely adored this. Hope we see more!

[@chlochlo_the_T_BAG]

you should check out the other scientific stuff, oh and the rest of the “is(n’t) a nightmare” series

[@ManglingMinis]

@@chlochlo_the_T_BAG wat ahead of you 😎

[@chlochlo_the_T_BAG]

@@ManglingMinis fuck yeah B)

[@shirleyibarra]

I have a degree in process technology and chemistry and he managed to explain polymers better than in the whole term and have a better understanding of it than 95% of the employees at the chemical plant, also somehow was able to explain better my husband's inability to break down acetyl aldehyde than many doctors that have seen him but have no idea what's wrong and use the cop-out of that he's just tired for whatver reason but now he can actually learn how to work with it and avoid those that cause symptoms he always suffers from. Thank you, would love to see more chemistry/physics videos and even a channel that's solely science you're really good at explaining and the visuals make it very smooth to learn, great teacher, reminded me of the joys and excitements of learning and understanding chemistry and science in general.

[@pelayiou]

Hey I just wanted to say that in 3 days I will be starting my first year in uni as a Civil Chemical Engineer, and dead ass your science themed “Absolute nightmares” were amongst the content that picked my interest and pushed me to pursue science and choose the chem/physics field a couple years ago lol, your videos really shine amongst the pool that KZbin has become, it’s great stuff. Cheers bro, never stop doing what you’re doing!

[@rex4304]

Always a huge fan of how he mixes his bloopers into the videos, so freaking funny

[@OroMorado47]

I long for the days when we sliced and diced boxes what did they ever do except hold everything I ever loved then destroy that with multiple tools 7:39

[@ene6508]

not him trauma dumping and continuing as if it was nothing lmao

[@GameAlicornLuna]

This is the kind of content I love. Children's Science Teacher messing around with Children's Science Kits

[@dooplets._.5776]

16:50 thats a fun reference

[@ItsmehAlfa]

this is for kids guys

[@mrkrunch4340]

I remember a science kit I had when I was a kid back in the 80's. This would have been before there was any of this "Health and Safety" nonsense for kids toys! There were about 40 glass test tubes with rubber stoppers containing different raw ingredients, about 20 empty test tubes, several glass straw-like tubes, a small wick burner like in 7:29, a bottle of methylated spirits, spare wick for the burner and a massive instruction book on what to mix together to create fun and interesting experiments. It also gave instructions on how to use the burner to heat up the glass straws and shape them for use in other condensation experiments. My favourite was the burning of the magnesium ribbon strip. Fun times.

[@georgeoldsterd8994]

Methanol makes you go blind, among numerous other bad things, including death. What is interesting is that it seems to be countered by ethanol. There was a curious case in either the Soviet Union, or in post-Soviet Russia, some French company came in for a joint project or whatnot, and brought in its machinery for the job. The French would use methanol to polish the machinery parts, and after the project was done, they left and took their machinery with them, but left a canister of methanol. Well, since its an alcohol, the factory workers where the project was held decided to drink it, and they did, and they all ended up dead. All, save for one guy, who was an actual alcoholic. When the doctors investigated him, it turned out that the methanol was countered by the ethanol that was already in his body, so he survived. I don't know if he was blind or had other complications after the ordeal, but it's still curious. That is to say, I wouldn't advise anyone to try this at home.

[@StarlightSocialist]

If I remember correctly, the reason this works is that methanol and ethanol get broken down through the same metabolic pathway. Methanol _itself_ isn't that bad, but as Matt said, it gets broken down into formaldehyde, which really is that bad. Your body can also metabolize formaldehyde but not very quickly; less rapidly than it can process methanol. So normally the level of formaldehyde just keeps rising, with increasingly nasty effects. But if ethanol is also present, then it'll be competing with the methanol for the available enzymes. This slows down the rate that methanol is metabolized, which slows the rate that formaldehyde gets produced. Effectively the body has more time to clean up the toxic waste/repair the damage it caused.

[@hedgehog3180]

@@StarlightSocialist Methanol itself is toxic but only in such large ammounts that a human could never ingest it.

[@mirified4049]

In my first semester of grade 12 I failed chem 11 I liked the class and I was smart enough to do it but I have various problems that made it impossible to see the board and hear the teacher, like I’d fully disassociate from reality really often and as a result I knew I was gonna fail, so on my exam for the first half I tried to do chemistry, then I started turning the diagrams into pictures, at the end I drew a dragon sleeping in a hammock, I failed chem (I was already too far down the hole anyway I think) but the dragon looked pretty cool

[@MichaelUrocyon]

Temu is advertising Christmas sales on this video and I can only assume they either don't know what month Christmas is in or KZbin picked up on that 30-second clip and assumed this is a Christmas video

[@MungkaeX]

While drinking my morning coffee I clicked on this. For some reason (caffeine dependency), I read the title of this video as “Christian Science Kits Are an Absolute Nightmare.” Very disappointed you couldn’t find a single Christian Science Kit.

[@Rose225.]

The Christian Science kit includes a bible and a bonus rosary 🤣

[@philpike6177]

I'm so glad that you made the same reference when you heard the noise you made at 2:10

[@themannofsex5558]

"eeeeeeeeh"

[@ReverendTed]

This whole video is packed to the brim with fun little effects, but the the "AHH"s at 19:10 gave me the tingles.

[@QuackingKing]

Honestly, IMO this channel has the best editing on KZbin.

[@LinkiePup]

I love how the Cave Johnson Lemons speech keeps popping up ever 12 years later

[@brovid-19]

I'm pretty sure Polymerization is when you fuse a monster with another monster to create a whole new abomination.

[@DrawciaGleam02]

"a fellow Yugi-oh fan waves hello to you"

[@satann2176]

This is my second video that I watched today with a Cave Johnson Lemon Rant reference... Which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice

[@DrErikNefarious]

I always cheat at those "chizzle away at stuff" for the stuff inside by putting it under running water.

[@RandomGirlLTU]

9:16 one of the lecturer's in university I went to did that to all the women in his class and this just gave me a traumatic flashback.

[@failurenotsorry6600]

what??? please explain

[@LordmonkeyTRM]

Magic Spoon tastes like used cat litter and cost the same per gram as gold

[@Uesurii_San]

It's not that bad. Although I agree, it's too expensive. There are definitely more tasty options that are less expensive.

[@SPQRKlio]

@@Uesurii_San I’m allergic to avocado so can never try it, so I’m going to comfort myself with the idea that it tastes like cat litter anyway… ah well…

[@oliverlee4033]

You don't have to sell it to me bro.

[@azazelaz999]

I have not heard a single good review of it, who's buying that junk ?

[@Uesurii_San]

@@SPQRKlio Good for you. As someone who's mildly allergic to most beans, so I can sympathize with the weird allergy community.

[@leon46295]

No point crying over spilt calcium lactate

[@argspirit42069]

No one: Magic spoon cereal: it's only $12 dollars a box

[@dagda1180]

It's laughable. The funniest thing is that most don't even taste good according to a yt who actually tried it out.

[@Ahayeahishere]

KZbinrs selling their soul to advertise such robbery to their own viewers lol

[@DrawciaGleam02]

I recently watched a youtuber review the cereal and he was RAGING over the price....

[@DrawciaGleam02]

@@dagda1180 Is that Shane, who recently started his channel?

[@AsterInDis]

I had a lab mate in college who didn't make aldehyde dehydrogenase and came into lab complaining about her reaction to alcohol, probably from drinking over the weekend. That was an interesting way to learn about it.

[@Finlandiaperkele]

Existence Is A Nightmare - Part 3 when?

[@ArchonKain]

Going from a NeilRed video to this was wild lmfao great fun though!

[@trustrossa8673]

As someone who did a whole project on other citrus fruits as batteries, I was very prepared for the science in that last one

[@verdatum]

This is great! Next time could you demonstrate the Harber-Bosch process that deals with the creation of ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen at high temperatures and pressures?

[@thefalcon5204]

14:42 "That isn't science, it's gardening!" Me:*cries in geologist*

[@RanmaSyaoranSaotome]

Editing on this video was a little over the top, made me feel as if I was going to get a headache :/

[@simonb4757]

Love that instead of "Circle of Life" the song was actually "Baba Yetu" the Civ4 theme! ❤ That song!

[@d.-_-b]

magic spoon cereal sounds like it might as well be made from the box it comes in

[@LazarLime]

it sure does taste of cardboard, that's for sure.

[@testingDEATH]

I really like this style of content man. good on you for making it based on what you went to school for, it's really cool

[@snellers]

10:00 did you have to make eye contact

[@alexandergarfield1561]

"Stir for 10 minutes." Oh god where is your cool spinny magnet thingy!

[@FeeAur]

i just did my chemisty gcse mock today, WHAT WONDERFUL TIMING edit: i am now doing a chemistry a level

[@amazinghorizon8270]

I clicked on a video called Chemistry Is an Absolute Nightmare, but by the time it loaded the title reads "Children's Science Kits Are An Absolute Nightmare" How did I open a video in the exact moment that it changed titles?

[@terik3312]

Well, I just had a flash back to GCSE chemistry and making eathers. When the solution overheated reched its ignition point and yeeted itself out of the testube and onto my mates notebook, setting it on fire. All while my chemistry teacher stood there laughing like the proverbail mad scientist.

[@grahamross889]

I'm doing chemical engeneering at collage currently and the copper sulfate experiment just helped me understand inorganic chemistry a bit better thanks man

[@faenethlorhalien]

Oh, god... when I was a child in the 80s we had, in Spain, a chemistry set that everyone knew, QuimiCefa, from CeFa (Celulosa Fabril), a company from Zaragoza, Spain, and it was epic...

[@TheFaraonM]

This should be whole science series. Math , physics, chemistry !!!

[@harrygreenwood7165]

Keep playing with fire like this and you'll be able to do a really good Joshua Graham cosplay 😂 5:15

[@verdatum]

BOILING CHIP, YOU NUMPTY (Serious, I love everything you do)

[@PrincessSunbutt]

Thank you for your edits where you just set stuff on fire randomly. It makes me feel like I'm not the only person who randomly sets stuff on fire somehow even though I know I'm the only one.

[@crypticmedicine]

You're not the only one! ... I mean, I never set things on fire... But there's gotta be a lot more highly flammable people out there, right? Unless you all... caught on fire... oh.

[@DragonNexus]

This is why representation matters

[@NimhLabs]

THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE! It is time for the Quickening! **pulls out sword**

[@crypticmedicine]

@@DragonNexus *reconflagration

[@dawica]

18:08 Except your circuit uses an LED instead of an incandescent light bulb, so that's not what's happening. An LED works very similarly to the copper sulfate from the first experiment but in reverse. The electrons jump down in energy level as they flow across the diode, causing them to emit a photon

[@trinefanmel]

What a riot! We need more people who can flavour education with some humour! 3:27 I had a biology teacher who also used analogy but to explain cellular processes and the like, and it stuck! Thanks to him, I will always think of ribosomes as little workshops with amino acid jars on the shelf, and now, thanks to this video, I will think of chemical bonding as Calcium stealing Sodium's job and expanding the business.

[@KillerCornMuffin]

This is absolutely off topic but I NEED to know where you got your shirt! River otters are my favorite animal and I need to express this to others lol.

[@ILiveInAMushroom]

The sound you made the moment you realised how happy the sugar in cereal is to burn was golden

[@Hannah_Em]

Dubbing Baba Yehtu(sp?) over the circle of life clip sent me so hard lmao, possibly the funniest part of a great vid imho

[@dudesinashoe7812]

genuinely wish you wouldn't say that this stuff is boring even as a joke. this is really interesting and i learned more by the time you got to copper burning blue than my entire highschool and college chemistry classes, and i'm stoned as shit watching this.

[@a.cunningham4974]

UpIsNotJump As someone who finished their Physical Chemistry after 7 years I feel pain

[@sofija1996]

I graduated a master's in applied biology a few years ago and was like "oh, oh no, *oh no*". At least he remembered to point the top of the heated tube away from himself (and hopefully anyone else in the room).

[@MichaelRainey]

I had a junior chemistry kit as a kid. Chapter 1 of the textbook was safety warnings and lists of chemical combinations to never ever make under any circumstances. I needed to be restocked before proceeding to chapter 2.

[@TestECull]

7:52 I have several gallons of it under my kitchen table. Model engine fuel uses it as the primary fuel source, with varying amounts of lube oil and nitromethane mixed in as well as trace elements of anti-foaming additives for good measure. And I do a LOT of RC with such engines in them.

[@NirielWinx]

The biology kit that my father got as a child came with a real microscope with real glass blades, a dozen of various chemicals to preserve/color/dissolve stuff, two jars of formol containing a real frog and a real cicada, as well as an actual scalpel, pins, and a 50 page book teaching you dissection. I inherited it 20 years later and used it so much with whatever I could find in the woods or the swamp (plants or water animals, never cut mice or whatever). Kinda weird in retrospect, but so much better than whatever we can find now.

[@captaincargoshorts5392]

9:18 That just uncovered a similar memory from my CSP teacher who became unnaturally upset that I tried to fix my monitor by changing the HDMI cord.

[@Pyronaut_]

Funnily enough the lightbulb explanation is kind of outdated considering that the most common type of lightbulb is now LED.

[@berrie-nice-to-meet-you]

14:43 I always wonder what the neighbors think "honey, the odd person next door is outside again. He's not damning the sun this time but he is licking the dirt. Should we call someone?"

[@raynerhandrian1486]

I would love watch a chaos Matt doing Chemistry collab with Nigel from Nilered

[@Bailey_Dreamfoot]

You sound like british Dr. Doofenshmirtz and it makes every single word you say that much better.

[@ThePCguy17]

I'm kind of impressed just 13 seconds in that he managed (probably with his chemical-fu) to start a fire without a clear cause other than some liquid on the box. Yeah, there's probably some flammable chemicals that react very exothermically with each other that are decently well-known, but it's still cool. Also, damn, he really just blew that whole flame out. I bow to his superior knowledge of physics, for I am in awe.

[@Newnski]

Average chemist, "I'm not even gunna use the instructions, I'm just gunna fucking go for it"

[@Rocketboy1313]

What is weird is the "boring" parts are what I like to do. It is meditative.

[@Gay4MapleSyrup]

I once got a “Triops science kit” that said it was supposed to have eggs that hatched the creatures. It didn’t. The eggs were either dead or not even in the packaging

[@Drengade]

Fun Methanol fact: in WW2 quite a few allied soldiers decided to cook their food over campfires rather than the travel stoves in their kit. This was so they could drink the alcohol provided as fuel for the stove. That alcohol was methanol. many of those soldiers went blind because of it.

[@CutestDemon]

Chemistry teachers when you so much as look at water: PUT GOGGLES ON, WHERE'S YOUR LAB COAT WHERES YOUR GLOVES Chemistry teachers by themselves:

[@magetsalive5162]

"This process is what we call POLYMERIZATION, WHICH ALLOWS ME TO FUSE MY MONSTERS TOGETHER AND DEFEAT YOU, KAIBA!"

[@catrinacoons390]

I remember doing the copper sulfate experiment in highschool, surprised that made it into a kit like this. From what I remember, you explained what was happening really well!

[@stevenapkins6460]

My grandfather told me in the 60s he worked at an ammonia factory and as a prank on new hires he and his coworkers would send them into an unventilated room full of ammonia and see how long they would stay in there

[@crazyman2099]

UpIsNotJump cosplaying as NileRed

[@idrea7506]

How do you safely light a cardboard box on fire? It doesn't look like an after effect and seeing you casually next to a very flammable thing inside your apartment really make me wonder what safeties you had in place. And where you get the confidence to even try something like that.

[@P0PE418]

7:43 Really pulled the "check if I can feed my dog this AFTER i've already given it to them" 😆

[@theFreddyFighter]

It’s always fun to see upisnotjump getting a new play thing to have fun with. He’s a good kid I hope he goes far.

[@Iymarra]

My high school science teacher was a real battleaxe. First class with her, 25 years ago, she gave us an instruction sheet, told us to start from the beginning and follow the instructions. Anyone who did got told off, as the last line of instructions said to just hand the instruction sheet back.

[@Mak10z]

UpIsNotCaveJohnson! Time to demand to see life's manager!

[@jacobrollins37]

I like the flaming lemon experiment. It is a satisfying experiment when life gives you lemons and you don't like lemonade.

[@mrcmoes]

The "Is that what I am suppsoe to say?" Durring the first chem explanation gave Elementary school teacher vibes.

[@jayfolk]

life didnt make lemons, humans cultivated citrus and specifically farmed lemons - WE made the lemons for us to work out ourselves.

[@xjood805]

If gravity counts as an expirament, everything should have a label like "science, today!"

[@proxy1473]

Friendly reminder that this man has a Master's in Analytical Chemistry. *Proceeds to not use gloves and just close the tube top with his finger* Like a pro chemist.

[@WorldHeroKoji]

This hilarious mix of chaos being topped with an undertale joke absolutely made my day! 😂😂

[@xliquidflames]

4:55 Folding a piece of paper was an experiment done by the Myth Busters. You can only fold it in half 10 or 12 times regardless of the size of the sheet. I can't remeber the exact number. Let's say 12. So they got an airplane hangar size sheet of paper and tried folding it. It's true. And I don't remeber the reason but let's say it's because of chemistry. When they tried to do a 13th fold, it was too bulky to fold in half again. Myth confirmed.

[@hedgehog3180]

It's really more math than chemistry.

[@Alby_Dee]

Reminds me of something A school near mine had an incident were someone left a bunch of iodine crystals in a beaker above a bunsen burner, probably a lot of them actually. Some short time after a couple kids going down the corridor saw their science teacher run out the room, telling them emphatically to fucking scarper as a purple cloud began billowing behind him...

[@TheAngryAstronomer]

A Half-Life AND a Portal reference? This is the best day EVER.

[@stickmaster400]

“A half life and a portal reference? WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THESE?!”

[@SpoggySpogson]

“How is this already on fire?” IDK mate you tell me

[@VannahSavage]

My partner is Cantonese and is one of those people missing the enzyme to break down alcohol. One sip of wine and she turns bright red.