Getting the Chemistry Right on Breaking Bad - Bytesize Science

[@zakur0hako]

Would be funny if they shot a whole episode dedicated to nothing but 100% real detailed process of synthesizing meth

[@walterwhite8891]

i always pledge to make a chemically pure and stable product

[@krissy7342]

Biiiiiitch!

[@user-uo7kr2qm2t]

Yo

[@marhgaming6306]

Walt! You need to admit that your in danger!

[@WeirdSmellyMan]

@@marhgaming6306 who are you talking too? Who is it you think you see?

[@Spherify]

Yo mr. white

[@VaterOrlaag]

Thank god they made sure people won't learn how to make drugs from their tv series. Surely, there's no other way to obtain that information.

[@nithin1729s]

@Daniel Karinen hey ya

[@DrugExperts]

@@nithin1729s Uncle Fester and Mr.Alexander Shulgin

[@ddbsiblings7265]

nope, you get that online too.

[@sawcewhere4949]

@@Daniel-ip9ss you sure about that?

[@chrisprilloisebola]

lmao right, bc it would def be ok if they showed how to do it on a major tv network with millions watching xdd

[@El_Couch_Potato]

Plot twist: Vince Gilligan made the show to learn how to make Meth and he has an underground lab making fat stacks yo

[@rosscampbell1173]

Church.

[@ComanchePrideGirl]

Dr. Nelson is my organic chemistry professor! She's pretty awesome :)

[@homefront1999]

Something I'm left wondeirng. Do most chemists just know how to make meth. Like the formula? Or is it something you really have to try and learn.

[@luisarmenta2619]

We can learn through reading synthesis literature it but actually making it is difficult since most of the precursors are controlled by the government

[@katetalamantez2715]

Ik for sure ur a fake if u dont (at least organic chemists)

[@NoobOfShame]

It’s not something they are specifically taught, but therea a lot of resources for finding out how to actually synthesize it. If you have a background in chemistry you might not know, but you could certainly find out. As the other commenter stated the main difficulty is getting the precursors, it’s not that it’s just difficult to make, it’s more so that it’s difficult to get the chemicals needed to synthesize a highly pure drug. That’s why methods like shake n bake (using lithium from batteries) exist, it is very crude and won’t result in a pure product, but is much easier to synthesize since it doesn’t require controlled precursors.

[@hououinkyouma5539]

Respect the chemistry

[@Sharischampis]

Always

[@ugoleftillgorite]

They should have consulted Donna on the things that Mythbusters busted.

[@melissadawnmitchell4905]

Best show on television

[@rickyhurtado]

You ever see “The Wire”?

[@fabianatrindade56]

@@rickyhurtado Nah. Breaking Bad is still better

[@Gunbudder]

they never actually show creating the mercury/aluminum amalgam on screen though. they only show the actors dumping buckets of aluminum shavings into the reaction vessel. that always bothered me lol

[@Apocalymon]

they hired her after season 1. All those busts were within season 1

[@ugoleftillgorite]

Touche, good sir.

[@MidnightBlueRed]

4:05 Imagine if a guy said "I'm on Walter's side because he's a man", lmao.

[@DrummerLordProdigy]

This reporter sounds robotic

[@alexsircus368]

Dude shut up and just enjoy the video

[@LordofBays]

This is so fucking cool.

[@XxCopKilla187xX]

Chemistry is the study of........Transformation!!!-Heisenberg

[@andrearias6566]

Chemical symbol D? for Deuterium -_-

[@ThemfMoose]

I'm pretty sure Bryan and Aaron know how to make meth

[@shannonmayer18]

Yes, lol, they don't want to be teaching people how to make it! But I agree that this show does not glorify the lifestyle at all. Even some of the people who played Jess's customers look real messed up, like very realistic.

[@PurityVendetta]

I found the series to be probably the most scathing critique of the inadequacy of the privatised US healthcare system. I have read articles were diabetics carry notes to ask good Samaritans not to call an ambulance if they have a hypo and relatively wealthy people bankrupted by cancer and other long term treatments. While the NHS here in the UK is struggling due to ideological austerity and the damage caused by the conservative party's chronic underfunding it's way better than the US system we see in Breaking Bad. Also the corrosive nature of completely unchecked neo liberal, laissez-faire free market capitalism. Jessie Pinkman is the only character I have much real sympathy and empathy with. The sisters are nearly as monstrous as Walter becomes. It's a classic tale of the corruption of souls. Sadly I don't really get the chemistry as I was as bad as Jessie at school and crystal meth looks as much fun as tooth ache!

[@Imagon100]

1:44 you call this acurate? wtf even is that ring on the balckboard

[@joshuamitchell5530]

FulminatedHg Looks like a pretty unstable ring to me!

[@theinfernocrew6883]

Wtf even is a “balckboard” ?

[@higherimagez4203]

Interesting video. A+

[@Shicklebob-b3l]

Myth busters would like to disagree

[@higherimagez4203]

Should smoke it to test it, lol.

[@arttheclown1163]

Cool lady

[@superoxidedismutor]

Lol @ enantioselective synthesis with P2P method using Al-Hg as a reducing agent :p Oh and by the way, they make this whole fuss about methylamine, while it is EASY AS FUCK (and I'm not exagerating by using capslock) to synthesize with common chemicals (well one common and two less common but definitely not suspect to buy)

[@RynaxAlien]

Alcohol is most dangerous drug

[@Saturn-uz6jc]

Hahah yeah sure.

[@flawlessstrategy9972]

My votes goes to carbohydrates.

[@flawlessstrategy9972]

l

[@rickstark8803]

Nicotine

[@chrisprilloisebola]

lmaoo and bread is the unhealthiest possible thing one can eat.

[@docthebiker]

I thoroughly enjoyed the poor science choices in BB. How a scientist would try and trickle charge a car battery with a broken genny down long thick (high resistance) jump leads was impossible and downright dumb. A genny doesn't produce lower amperage and voltage by turning it slow. Until you get it up to speed it produces nothing. They might have been able to get the RV's alternator to spin fast enough to charge the battery some as it could have been taken out, or salvaged for parts to make a working hand genny. While they could produce 12v from a series of homemade 2v cells their little cells were not going to produce the amperage to turn over an engine. So they end up doing the impossible. Actually all they needed was to charge the phone which had gone flat (3.8V and 300maH). Rest a recently flattened car battery and the residual chemical reaction would give enough to charge/run a phone, or make a simple 2 cell battery ( half a dozen lemons and 12 zinc nails would do), use that to run the phone or fully charge the lipo in about 4-6 hours.

[@michaelcross6269]

lmfao at people who arnt chemistry majors watching this video. Also lmfao with chemistry graduate students who are watching this

[@krissy7342]

Why lmfao

[@abegarfield7030]

"Unless you've been living under a rock...." How can anyone be so arrogant? You mean it was very popular and you're familiar with it. Not everyone watches TV. Not everyone is you.

[@Jadinass]

The scene with the hydrofluoric acid in the bathtub was grossly exaggerated, the scene with the fulminating mercury was grossly exaggerated, after that i stoped watching. That's all i have to say.

[@katiem8025]

You missed out on a lot then. Breaking bad was a great show. Obviously things aren't going to be 100% true to life, after all it is a FICTIONAL T.V. show.

[@chrisprilloisebola]

lmao mald

[@Ch21by9]

Donna looks like umbridge... ugh