He DRANK Acetone

[@That_Chemist]

People were asking what the orange story is - this is the video about the orange story kzbin.info/www/bejne/ameaZWCDgt6rkJY

[@most_sane_piano_enthusiast]

most sane lab professional (based acetone enjoyer)

[@crimsnblade8555]

Just like me frfr

[@aretard7995]

me fr

[@loginavoidence12]

t. acetone butt chugger

[@lofasz_joska]

looking at the state the world is in right now, they are indeed the most sane

[@HaroldMC63]

Only the pros have an open bottle of acetone on their desk next to their bed 💪💪💪

[@panqueque445]

"I think I'm getting a confusion" I know that was most likely a typo, but seeing someone say nonsense after drinking acetone is scary as hell.

[@aniquinstark4347]

​@@yeetyeet7070llama

[@mimimoomoo2902]

Like they sound like they are about to pass out or something

[@Drag0nmaster]

YOOO SAME PFP

[@Drag0nmaster]

WAIT I THINK I HAVE SEEN U BEFORE

[@panqueque445]

@@Drag0nmaster YOOOO

[@scottydawg1234567]

My man Spiker, I'm pretty sure becoming the subject of a Chubbyemu video is *not* a goal one should actually aspire to reach.

[@deltab9768]

A man had his brain shut down. This is what happened to his acetone.

[@Casino354]

@@deltab9768 post-acetone clarity

[@boyznthewoodz770]

Idk what it is but that dude just pisses me off. Sensationalizing drug scare stories and dumb teenagers drinking cleaning supplies for monetization doesn’t sit right with me

[@FlameDarkfire]

@@boyznthewoodz770 I dare say his videos are more public safety than PSAs are. There's literally a video where a man sees the "do not eat" warning on a packet of silica dessicant and went, "the government can't tell me what to do!" and ate it. He ended up fine but I think showing the actual effects stuff has on the the body is a better lesson than simply saying "don't do that, it'll hurt you."

[@mimisezlol]

​@@boyznthewoodz770I mean, he has an entire channel dedicated to the Biochem behind some cases, and he's made videos about other people's medical conditions with those people, so like, it's not all sensationalising kids consuming cleaning chemicals and drug scares. Hell, the video he made on nyquil chicken was a hypothetical he made based on the available literature for nyquil overdose.

[@afeathereddinosaur]

2:38 "I think I'm getting a confusion" sounds like what someone confused would say

[@That_Chemist]

😂

[@samiraperi467]

It's also something I would do to language because f grammar.

[@afeathereddinosaur]

@@samiraperi467 what do you mean "'f' grammar"?! Grammar is - even if very hard to master - not "f-able"... Is your significant other - male, female; in-between or not - named Grammar perchance?

[@elvingearmasterirma7241]

​@@afeathereddinosaur ... bruv calm yer tits

[@joshuagoodsell9330]

I got a concerned when I heard that

[@monarchofrymden]

i can't believe drinking acetone isn't the fucking yikes award

[@mykodemgrzybodem]

Is that a purple partyhat?

[@miufke_]

Is this a party purplehat?

[@mykodemgrzybodem]

A hat purple for party is this?

[@joshc5613]

tbf, getting industrial cleaner on your dick is a pretty big yikes

[@Sheerspeechcraft]

Are those 3 purple partyhats?

[@joeylawn36111]

There _is_ such a thing as Food Grade Hydrochloric Acid. To be "edible", HCl has to be 1)Very Pure - it will dissolve many metals that are very harmful if ingested, so you don't want those in the same solution; and 2) the pH cannot be too low as to be corrosive. Your Stomach has plenty of HCl, so it's one of those chemicals that is some cases is deadly (as a Gas for example), or harmless (your stomach acid). Food Grade HCl is used for a acidity regulator. (Comment made before video finished - that one where they make "HCl Lemonade" from a bottle of Conc. HCl is a bad idea - that HCl may have a tiny, but still harmful amount of dissolved heave metals in it. Food Grade HCl won't have this.)

[@MikeU128]

There's food grade sulfuric acid too.

[@contomo5710]

i mean how much more pure does it get then anal grade?

[@Bellezzasolo]

I got a bottle of food grade isopropyl alcohol for making hand sanitizer. I mean, it metabolises to acetone, but I think that's much less bad than drinking straight acetone. But I'm reliably informed that it really doesn't taste that great, so you'd have to be a little desperate.

[@joeylawn36111]

@@MikeU128 Didn't know that! 😎

[@penteractgaming]

it surprised me how obvious the impurities in lab grade HCl were. like... you can smell them.

[@singerofsongs468]

Re: ethanol containing benzene, my high school chemistry teacher actually warned us about this - she told us that high purity ethanol used in the lab is usually purified with a process involving benzene. It’s a really good example of why you should _never_ drink lab chemicals, even the ones that are nominally safe for consumption outside the lab.

[@bromisovalum8417]

Then again, the exhaust gases of cars contains traces of benzene as well. So if you live next to a busy street...

[@Haskellerz]

Nilered: My diet only consists of lab chemicals

[@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648]

@@Haskellerz Isn't that Nile Blue? The one who recently made a laboratory pure cookie, but probably with stale/nonpreservative ingredients?

[@shotgun3217]

@@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648 Same person.

[@monke3552]

@@shotgun3217 haha thats the joke

[@PandamaticBreakcore]

You don't judge what's ok to take from the LD50! You want the TD50, and also a definition for the toxic effect they used as the benchmark. If you've never heard of these things I recommend not drinking poison lol, your body can be both surprisingly robust and surprisingly fragile depending on what you introduce into your system.

[@tsume_akuma8321]

I pray to Yieldjesus for more Chempilation Stories. There must be so many stories that we're missing out on ;-;

[@That_Chemist]

I will try to release them over the next couple months ;)

[@abb1366]

@@That_Chemist 😮🎉

[@prapanthebachelorette6803]

@@That_Chemist thanks for sharing 😊

[@craigpater6278]

​​@@That_Chemist I had a very serious chemical accident that was caused by mixing incompatible chemicals that I would like to share with you. I thought that it would be good idea to mix calcium hypochlorite granules with hydrochloric acid in a two litre empty plastic coke bottle when I was a teenager. Of course mixing those two chemicals is very dangerous because doing it releases large amounts of chlorine gas. Once I had those two chemicals in the empty plastic coke bottle I blew a deep breath into the empty plastic coke bottle which resulted in me inhaling a reasonably deep breath of chlorine gas. After that happened and I accidentally inhaled the chlorine I literally could not stop coughing for at least 15 to 20 minutes. Forty after that happened apart from the constant coughing I was fine and recovered from it well.

[@NithinJune]

if you lie on your lab reports your yield can be whatever you want it to be

[@galliumgames3962]

Geez, just smell it like us normal people. Acetone’s aroma is a pleasure reserved for the nose not the mouth.

[@torinnbalasar6774]

That first story is a textbook case of chemists believing that you can get high off anything if you're brave enough.☠️

[@Cobalt985]

I promise you chemists are highly aware of what things they can and cannot get high off of. Did you know that isopropanol/rubbing alcohol has psychoactive effects similar to ethanol? Don't drink it though.

[@nelyyisoppy6509]

8:50 you've got to appreciate the concentrated HCl right besides the coolermaster keyboard and a bunch of school "gear" , which is all likely on his room's desk . Chemists are true daredevils

[@albummutation2278]

I'm so glad you actually noted that 'krokodil', aka desomorphine, isn't toxic. it's the impurity and byproducts of synthesis that cause it to be toxic and necrotic. Desomorphine is just another morphine derivative and the only reasons it's not used medically are just the short duration of action and the significant increase in respiratory depression even compared to diacetylmorphine (heroin).

[@sakesaurus]

that's the problem with Synthetic stuff though isn't it? The reactives and pollution

[@TheExplosiveGuy]

I accidentally took a swig of acetone at work once, I had a cup of water and a cup of acetone on my workspace and they were both in the same type of cup, so I somehow made a switcheroo when I went to grab a drink. The instant it poured in my mouth I began violently spitting it out, and thankfully I had the cup of water to rinse my mouth out, which was fortunate because I've never had a drier mouth in my life, that acetone sucked _every_ trace of moisture from my mouth and was immensely unpleasant lol. I rinsed my mouth for a good 5 minutes in the sink afterward too, the taste of that stuff lingers far longer than you want it too. I was fortunate enough to spit and rinse it out fast enough to not cause any health effects thankfully, but I make damn sure to never make a rookie mistake like that again.

[@contomo5710]

the same with ethanol, do a 5ml shot of pure ethanol :P gets fricking hot and sucks aways all your moisture (is sweet tho)

[@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648]

Oooooooh! Never ever ever make it possible to confuse what you're going to consume with what you're going to use in a lab. Even better keep all food and drink completely out of a lab area unless you're experimenting on it.

[@cmonbruh518]

That's why you never put food in a lab, always scared because almost every toxic organic solvent looks just like water! That's why I never bring my water bottle and just go outside and drink from the fountains.

[@lechking941]

@@contomo5710 eh i have already had to suffer ethanol burns from medical grade stuff. i know im gonna lose a fuck ton of taste buds the day i try.

[@iankrasnow5383]

You're lucky that was just acetone and not something acutely toxic.

[@liamwanless8467]

I actually went through ketoacidosis once. it was because of excessive fat burning(I was undiagnosed diabetic, can't use sugars into cells, so dat is used for energy,fat burning causes ketone buildup in the blood.idk that's what they told me) it was not fun, I almost died.

[@That_Chemist]

I hope you are well now :)

[@penteractgaming]

I also have diabetes. my blood sugar routinely went over 350 before it was controlled. lab tests indicated mild ketoacidosis but this was treated with metaformin and sulfa drugs. no bicarb infusion as it wasnt far enough along to require hospitalization

[@penteractgaming]

​@@That_Chemistmost type 2 diabetics find out they have it because insulin resustance is bad enough that we end up in ketoacidosis to varying degrees. so most of us are at one point or another, near death before we find out what the problem is.

[@paulblichmann2791]

Yet another reason to not date fat chicks.

[@emusunlimited]

Yep I just experienced this a couple of months ago (undiagnosed diabetic as well), I couldn't even keep water down.

[@okayyish]

not as extreme as drinking acetone, but i once stupidly decided to work with 99% acetone (using it to degrease an animal skull) in a small bathroom with terrible ventilation (it had one window that doesn't even open fully), without any kind of ventilator and i felt like i was dying for two days after, my lungs hurt and i had horrible stomach cramps and a migraine, it felt like i was rotting from the inside out. Luckily my stupidity doesn't seem to have had any long term effects, and i never made that mistake again. It was years ago and i still feel like im going to vomit whenever i smell nail polish remover

[@ChristineNighting]

I did the same thing but was doing my nails. It gave me a HORRIBLE bloody nose, blood everywhere. It's a mistake you only make once

[@nenben8759]

I want to point out that ld50 for mice and rats can very quite wildly from the ld50 for humans I think styro pyro made some hcl lemonade

[@mgkleym]

yeah his ancient chem recipes book has that same recipe for it

[@chemistryofquestionablequa6252]

My dad worked for whichever Canadian entity covers forestry when he was in university. The lab guys would siphon off some straight ethanol when it arrived for later consumption, then add glycerin to the rest of the drum for fixing insect specimens. Some guys stole a bunch of the glycerin spiked ethanol without realizing it was in there and took it back to their cabin where they proceeded to get paralytically drunk. The diarrhea kicked in while they were passed out and they never did it again.

[@kaboom4679]

That's not the way to keep the party going .

[@jnelson4765]

Truly shitty experience.

[@penteractgaming]

most lab alcohol is denatured with something like phenolphthalein which while harmless healthwise, causes gut distress

[@raisofahri5797]

​@@penteractgaminguh many alcohol also laced with methanol highly toxic substances

[@hx5525]

Doesnt lab ethanol have benzene in em? Why risk increased rates of cancer for bad tasting alcohol?

[@ZackFreedman]

Thanks for making these public! I just subscribed to your Patreon.

[@That_Chemist]

Thank you sir :)

[@sicstar]

Noice, another of my favorite crazy scientists :D

[@thehobo00]

In my senior HS biotech class, I can think of two things that stood out. Once, we were making petri dish art with glow-in-the-dark E.coli which we'd made ourselves (I made Van Gogh's Starry Night!), but one of the idiots in our class was put in charge of making sure everyone put their plates in one of the two incubators we had after spreading their bacteria. He miraculously remembered that e.coli prefers normal human body temperature to survive, right? But he sadly did NOT remember that pretty much anything made for a laboratory these days is measured in metric units; he thought that the incubator's temperature was 37 degrees FAHRENHEIT, not CELSIUS. Therefore he took it upon himself to crank up the heat to NINETY EIGHT C, as again he thought it was in fahrenheit. Needless to say the bacteria in that incubator all died, along with days of everyone's work. Thankfully my plate was not in that incubator, but the one next to it, which was at the correct temperature! Second, another guy I knew in the same class snorted some ampicillin we were working with (I forget what for). He said it gave him bad gas that night but nothing else

[@thehobo00]

@@ChemEDan Another story I have from that class is the same guy burning himself on a metal bacterial swab by putting it in the bac-cinerator and trying to lick it. If I remember correctly our teacher called him a dipshit lmao

[@superslimanoniem4712]

It'd honestly have been understandable if it were the other way around (display was fahrenheit), but this is just idiotic.

[@QuakeGamerROTMG]

We continue to be shown why using imperial units should have been changed decades ago along with the rest of the world

[@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648]

​@@QuakeGamerROTMG The display still should have been marked deg C. After all it could be Kelvins and still metric. For less precise uses (e.g. climate control and kitchen cooking) the Fahrenheit degree is a little over half a Celsius degree, allowing for finer adjustment without involving a decimal point. I'll probably cook in deg F till I die and let the next generations worry about it. (I never, ever used deg F in a lab.)

[@QuakeGamerROTMG]

@@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648 Well Kelvin isn't even measured in degrees to begin with lol I'd also like to see a single recipe that needs to be accurate to less than a single degree and even if it did using a single decimal point just isn't a negative at all like how is that an argument. Odds are your oven isn't even accurate to a single degree to begin with

[@JGHFunRun]

Oh hey I remember hearing about this one shortly after it happened Truly a yikes

[@contomo5710]

3:17 missed oppertunity for futurama joke "but this was just 50% of the lethal amount of salt"

[@stevea2909]

As a Corian Countertop manufacturer, the amount of acetone I was exposed to over the years was mind-boggling, constant physical contact for hours, as a liquid and aerosol every day for 25 years. I'm currently disabled as a result of a stroke at the age of 52. Now that I'm 65, I can smell and taste it every now and then. Coincedence? I made my conclusions.

[@atmaweapon2803]

I don't know...there's acetone in small amounts everywhere, including in our bodies. The guy in the video makes a few good points (I know, given his life choices, hard to believe) but it is true that it is more toxic than alcohol, but not especially bad for you, relatively speaking. It's not anything like more dangerous hydrocarbons. Again, the fact that it is a normal part of human metabolism makes it a whole lot safer than most other chemicals. I wouldn't be afraid to handle it any more than I would be afraid to handle ethanol.

[@canonicaltom]

Probably a coincidence, yes.

[@CAMSLAYER13]

The stroke was probably a coincidence. The main worry with acetone exposure is nerve damage so the acetone might have exacerbated the negative effects of your stroke.

[@hx5525]

Not a coincidence. Most chemicals in excess cause harm, our bodies didn’t evolve to effectively deal with them, unlike water which is plenty a part of our natural environment.

[@chemdelic]

I think I will drink some chloroform and report back. We need to test more solvents. Wish me luck guys! (My lawyer advised me to mention this is a joke)

[@hydrogenbond7303]

omfg I though It was somehow an accident, not that they just decided to drink acetone "because why not"

[@atmaweapon2803]

Acetone is a normal part of human metabolism, and it is true that it is more toxic than ethanol, but relatively speaking, it's kind of in the same ballpark compared to more toxic hydrocarbons. Mind you, it's not supposed to be ingested, but then again, neither is ethanol. I have run into a lot of these alternate booze psychonauts on the internet before, many of whom are getting weirdly creative about their inebriatory choices. For the sake of harm reduction: even if you've mapped out all the metabolites, and think you've found yourself a novel new beverage, just remember that our biological machine bodies are extremely complex, and the metabolite path doesn't tell the whole story. Our bodies aren't just magical Calvin & Hobbes transmogrification boxes for chemicals. (Interesting side note: isopropanol, a.k.a. rubbing alcohol, metabolizes in your body to acetone, eventually, which is one of the reasons it is more toxic than ethanol.)

[@caphunterx2322]

Yep, i know couple people that drink 1-propanol and 2M2B which are both found in alcoholic beverages. 1 propanol is actually accountable for around 20% of the intoxication of Jamaican rum. And 2M2B is 20x more potent by weight than etOH and is found in relatively high quantities in beer.

[@atmaweapon2803]

@@caphunterx2322 I actually didn't know that about 1-propanol. That's amazing! 2M2B is interesting. I think it was actually used as a sedative in the early 20th century. A lot of people say it tastes somewhat minty, but I think a friend of mine who ordered it once said that wasn't necessarily true, that the bitterness of the alcohol vastly outweighed any mintiness, if there was any. If I wasn't in recovery and sober (4 years and counting) I would have possibly been interested in trying an alternate alcohol with less hangover and general negative effects.

[@verykittypretty]

isopropanol also lasts very long from the acetone and u can taste it on your breath

[@bcubed72]

_"I have run into a lot of these alternate booze psychonauts on the internet before, many of whom are getting weirdly creative about their inebriatory choices. "_ Alternate booze psychonaut here. At least, on 3 occasions, I've consumed 2-methyl 2-butanol. The effects are similar to, but less enjoyable, than ethanol. The TASTE, though! 2M2B has 3 main components to its flavor: a "typical alcohol" flavor, a camphor flavor...and an earthy flavor...kind of like funky gym socks that have been sitting in the sun for a week. Imagine making a "Pine-Sol and rubbing alcohol" cocktail, then straining it through the entire football team's used jock straps. I was prepared for the "chemical" taste; I was NOT prepared for the earthy funk. It is the single worst thing I have ever imbibed, and I've drunk poppy tea. The third time I did it, I drank enough to get hungover, and I knew I could never taste 2M2B again without retching. I used it as a solvent, though even the smell of it was off-putting afterwards. It's a psychoactive I can highly not recommend on taste alone! (On the plus side, useless as a date-rope drug, as nobody could drink this without knowing something was horribly horribly wrong.)

[@qyline8008]

When I was in highschool chem we were doing a normal synthesis and purification of aspirin. Me and my lab partner measured out our salicylic acid as best we could (getting closest to the value we were aiming for out of anyone in the class) and added it to an small excess of ethanoic anhydride in a conical flask and mixed constantly as instructed. We did this for almost fifteen minutes with no crystals forming so we were quite confused as other people in the class were getting crystals. After a bit longer we formed this cloudy oil that sat at the bottom of the flask which confused us and our Prof. greatly. Our Prof. thought it was due to the contamination of the ethanoic anhydride we used (each group was given their own to use so it was possible only ours was contaminated) with water. So he told me to smell our ethanoic anhydride and compare it to a ethanoic acid vial he handed me. What he didn't tell me until after was that the vial he handed me was very high concentration, enough to burn all of my nose hairs, give me a bad cough for an hour and leave a vinegar taste in my mouth all day. This was also the same time that after the purification of a successful sample of another group around four of us ate a fair amount, that being my first experience trying to swallow tiny crystals

[@penteractgaming]

yeah... people dont realize how acrid acetic acid and its anhydride are. wafting technique everyone. anyway this reminds me of a chemistry teacher i had that told us about how they decided to sniff a beaker of concentrated H2SO4 which promptly knocked them out cold.

[@tOGGLEwAFFLES]

Want to learn good chemical hygiene? Eat hot chips and don't wash your hands before touching your eyes and learn that lesson the hard, but not potentially deadly, way.

[@bearcatben4762]

Wow, I can't believe this got turned unto a KZbin video, I thought it'd be a patreon exclusive forever

[@bluestonecreeper720]

Oh speeking of the gas story, once someone in my teachers class (however not my class) thought it would be funny to turn on the gas, this was not noticed untill the teacher across the room smelt it. Everyone had to be evacuated from the room and the room had to be aired out to make shure no gas was left

[@julian4868]

I like the uncensored nature of this video, lol. also you sound extremely pissed off, or maybe just serious. either way this video has an intensity to it

[@superslimanoniem4712]

HS chem teacher was doing electrolysis demos, used lead nitrate. Was pretty cool, but she didnt wash her hands and started working on her computer. I imagine all the tests she graded that day were contaminated...

[@scrungles7853]

I'm a big fan of this reckless scientist activity. This man is based tbh I wouldn't do it, but I'm glad some people are insane enough to do crazy shit like this. I also tend to be interested in the tastes on inedible things, so I enjoy the descriptions. Cheers to the madlads that do stupid stuff for the sake of it

[@GMCLabs]

StyroPyro make hydrochloric acid lemonade in one of his recent videos. He actually shows himself drinking it!

[@That_Chemist]

yeah he does! it is important to remember that hydrochloric acid is in stomach acid, but concentration is key

[@sicstar]

Everytime that guy uploads a vid, im glad he's still alive. But i feel like he's trying really hard sometimes not to upload anymore :|

[@Flesh_Wizard]

​@@That_Chemistis that why it tastes like lemon vomit?

[@jerry3790]

The closest I’ve come to drinking acetone would be using it as a solvent for the creation of hash oil

[@cade8986]

I was using acetone for a project once. I put it in a clear water bottle. My dad came in and drink it on accident, thinking it was water. Edit: the “project” was “melting” styrofoam cups to light the remains on fire

[@That_Chemist]

This is exactly why chemicals *must be labeled*

[@cade8986]

@@That_Chemist I was 12 😞

[@noname-wo9yy]

​​​​@@That_Chemistdoes it not smell like paint stripper. Don't most garages have a few transparent bottles of mystery clear liquid. My house previous owners left about a liter of battery acid in a unlabeled bottle

[@sicstar]

@@cade8986 i bet you learned that with 12 then ? way before most other people! :D

[@Kualinar]

Story #2 from Jacob... Had he worn a lab coat during the first incident, he may have avoided that gash. In our stomach, it's about Ph 1 during digestion and Ph 5 to Ph 5.5 otherwise. Peoples complaining about «hyperacidity» usually suffer of hypoacidity instead with a Ph around 2.5 and 3.8 while digesting. This lead to MUCH longer digestive process leading to the erosion of the mucous layer of the stomach and it's acidification causing damage to the stomach wall. Also, much less time for those damage to repair themselves.

[@davidli6931]

Just because some solvent has a low toxicity on its own doesn't mean it cannot dissolve something very toxic even in a minute amount. Not just acetone, but also water, ethanol, methyl cyanide, DMSO, and so on. And LD50 is the dose that kill you in one go, you can have severe, long-lasting repercussions with one-fifth or less of a lethal dose.

[@Nick-ds6oc]

Nearly a decade ago, I used to be the worst alcoholic I'd ever known. I ran out of booze on a Sunday and couldn't buy any until Monday. Not acceptable! I found some IPA and did a quick Google search about drinking IPA. I found a single thread on Bluelight about some guy who tried drinking it once and survived. I guess that was enough evidence for me and I drank maybe 100ml. Truly an awful idea! After I drank it I was curious about IPA metabolism in humans and turns out IPA is metabolized into acetone in the body. Pretty cool, I thought, until my breath began reeking of a nail salon. I still get shivers when I catch a whiff of acetone or IPA.

[@fellenXD]

The ld50 of IPA should only be like half of that of ethanol. The hangover however, yikes! Can't imagine that's very pleasant.

[@JosephOfTheJungle]

Hey that's pretty neat your patrons were so generous. Thanks to them and you. I'm not a chemist, however, i do realize the importance of your careers and all you do for the world. Large or small your accomplishments are appreciated. Bless you all.

[@1-eye-willy]

ive used non industrial strength acetone for... clandestine chemical extractions. then i proceeded to smoke my yeild and the impurities made me ill. always always always use industrial strength acetone, never fingerrnail polish remover

[@harryw.174]

💀💀💀💀💀

[@clintparsons3989]

I had terrible allergies as a kid, always sniffed my nose. Mother was constantly telling me to stop sniffing and blow my nose. One day I saw a commercial saying sniffing kills brain cells. I was four. Tears ensued.

[@satelliteexile2089]

I'll own up to doing this on accident, I was doing my nails by the light of my computer screen cause my roommate was asleep. Went for a swig of delicious, delicious beer, grabbed the wrong bottle, and received a mouthful of pain. I spat it out, it went all over the wall (rip my housing deposit that year) it felt like it was tearing off layers of my gums, burningly cold. Since this was just 100% acetone nail polish remover, it had bitrex too. That's all I could smell or taste, I dry heaved on my short dash down to the dorm kitchen where I spent the better part of an hour with my head under the faucet rinsing it out. Very much 0/10, would not do again.

[@bazooka93]

As for drinking neat 96 volt ethanol, I quite like it. It's not unheard of in Central and Eastern Europe. We can buy it, benzene-free, food-grade in a regular shop, although it's twice the price of vodka due to taxes. Usually it's used for making fruit or herbal tinctures at home. It's sweeter than vodka and there's a special technique of drinking it neat, you take a deep breath, take a shot quickly and exhale to remove the vapour from your mouth. But if you don't have Slavic or Finnish genes I'd recommend sticking to vodka since it's quite easy to overdo on it. As for Japanese Pharmacopoeia HCl lemonade, bear in mind pharmacopoeias tend to list their ingredients with direct link to another monograph. So a term "diluted hydrochloric acid" means there's a recipe how to make that in the first place. Just over a week ago I was making British Pharmacopoeia "nitric acid" which was super diluted, single digit percentage. So yeah, that lemonade's HCl concentration is probably similar or lower than that of orthophosphoric acid found in conk or bepis.

[@sakesaurus]

Yeah. I get it. When i tried food grade ethanol, it burned mouth really hard. Exhaling is a way to avoid this.

[@sakesaurus]

also yes, I am slavic

[@harryw.174]

You can find 95% ethanol in most US states too, usually called grain alcohol or everclear, and generally the same price as vodka and tastes identically when you dilute it down.

[@Lessinath]

It's funny you mention TATp because I accidentally might have made a tiny amount in my high school level chemistry class because I wasn't paying attention to waste products that I was combining for disposal, one contained acetone in a mildly acidic solution and one contained (fortunately, quite dilute) hydrogen peroxide. No one realized what I had done until later. Did it ever explode? No. Did anything noticeable crystalize out? Also, no. Do I even know if the reaction to produce TATp took place at any meaningful level? I also don't know that, for sure. I never faced any kind of consequence for my carelessness because a small rural high school just didn't care. I also accidentally made H2S once, but fortunately I was doing that experiment in the one fume hood that actually worked, so I'm still here to tell you about it.

[@Zorro9129]

I admire people who sip chemicals and synthesize TATP just because. They're heroes of chemistry.

[@i_fuze_hostages6]

He he he I definitely didn’t knock over an acetylene tank in high school or anything 😂

[@MaggieDanger]

The hydrochloric acid thing reminded me of a chemistry teacher I had in high school. He always did a bit in his 7th grade class where after the first lab experiment, which resulted in something with an extremely low concentration, he'd as a joke just down the bottle to "demonstrate it's actually safe", retch and pretend he "miscalculated" and act out dying in front of class. I'm pretty sure he meant that as joke / teaching moment about not doing that exact thing, but... well, let's say chemistry was the least popular natural science at that high school, he did have a drinking problem and most of his students were a bit upset and disturbed at that performance. Every time. At least my arts and music teachers just had weed and LSD habits... and ddin't make it our problem.

[@Koyu_Ruh]

The worst chemical reaction I had experienced was being forced to clear the shelves at retail - and after a bit I felt really damn dizzy and eventually passed out. That was over 5 years ago, never saw a doc or anything, but I'm fine. I am certain that my coworkers mixed several cleaners to make sure those stains go away. Well the stains were gone, but so was my consciousness for a bit. I'm not sure how long I was out, but could not have been for too long. If that happened to me again nowadays, I would see a doctor right away, but back then I was still rather new and didn't want to lose the job. TL;DR: Don't mix cleaners together. Chance are that the fumes screw with you.

[@BushyHairedStranger]

Inner cleansing

[@afeathereddinosaur]

I've heard of TATP, but this Spiker guy wanted to do TATPee! Very dangerous.

[@kaboom4679]

Losing mere fingers is for dweebs .

[@phizc]

Another name for it is Mother of Satan.

[@catfishtv411]

You could say the acetone "solved" all of his problems

[@wendyz8365]

I like TC's pissed off voice when people gamble with their health like that

[@Basement_crusader]

I’m stunned at how many degenerates manage to get themselves into a laboratory position

[@michaelc.4321]

I have personal experience with the acetone headaches. Relatively recently, I had a cut on my arm and I had a bottle isopropanol at my disposal to disinfect and I unscrewed the cap so I could better soak it onto a cotton ball but I dropped it and fumbled with it and in the process got a large amount of rubbing alcohol on my shirt and pants which quickly soaked through to my skin. For some reason, I waited quite a bit before taking off any of my clothing which was enough time for it to be absorbed by my skin in some amount. In the body, isopropanol can be converted into acetone in high amounts and the ensuing 6 hours I suffered a splitting headache behind my eyes.

[@stalwartteakettlepotato9879]

When your intrusive thoughts win in a lab.

[@LDT2001]

I'm scared to drink some types of alcohol and you got people out here drinking random chemicals

[@jercos]

I live in a temperate rainforest... sal ammoniac and other deliquescents will make a nice rusty puddle anywhere a grain falls.

[@HolowatyVlogs]

*”A man drank 50ml of Acetone, here’s what happened to his Kidneys and Liver.”*

[@cyborgninjamonkey]

Note about the mention of "krokodil" (desomorphine): it's a common misconception that contaminants from synthesis are the primary cause of necrosis in IV users of the drug. The flesh-eating effect is actually mostly autoimmune-desomorphine causes mast cell histamine flooding when injected, much like codeine does, which is why codeine is never given intravenously in medicine. I'd expect in most cases of krokodil necrosis, the foremost cause of injury is immune response from desomorphine, the second is immune response from unreacted codeine, and corrosion from unreacted reagents only pulls in third. P.S. drinking azeotropic ethanol is harsh but I've drank liters of it over the course of my life and never once thought "this is worse than acetone," though I technically can't be certain because I've never been dumb enough to drink acetone

[@bromisovalum8417]

In Scandinavia, drunks drink denatured alcohol, it's usually denatured with bitrex and methyl ethyl ketone (2-butanone). There have also been cases of drunks drinking isopropanol hand sanitizer, which is metabolized into acetone in the body.

[@That_Chemist]

💀

[@ortholux2343]

I seem to remember the white out we used in the 80s contained 1,1,1-trichloroethane. You would buy thinner that contained the pure solvent as it always seemed to dry out before it was empty. I could use diethyl ether instead, something that's was/is easy to get at any pharmacy in Europe which worked just as good. The only draw back was that the whole classroom smelled of ether whenever I'd used my bottle. In hindsight worst smell but much less toxic.

[@Gecko479]

In grade 8 or so at school a guy I knew crushed up dried liquid white out and snorted it. He did it every day for about a month, seems like he’s fine now but still wouldn’t call him a model students. Currently 4 years later. Another time in a chem lab we made bath bombs as an ester lab. We were told not to use them in the actual bath or on ourselves since we don’t know if all of the butanoic acid was reacted with (we used butanoic acid and ethanol I believe it was to get a pineapple scented ester). Anyway when we were letting them fizz in the sinks of the chem room someone didn’t think far enough ahead to how they’d drain the water, and stuck their arm in half way up to the elbow. It turned bright red. During that same lab some people ate pure citric acid crystals that we were using to make the bath bomb actually fizz, and I also had some thrown at me. The same guy who ate the citric acid and threw the crystals at me also saw a piece of cobalt glass on our table from a previous classes lab and just kinda slid it right off the table in front of me. I couldn’t catch it in time and it shattered on the floor. The chem teacher wasn’t really impressed

[@PhilieBlunt666]

Now i wanna know wtf the orange story is...

[@Fishofftheperc30]

The fact that this guy is trying to act smart as he drinks acetone is WILD

[@luigimaster111]

I have consumed isopropanol before. Not just as a random thing but rather I did enough research to figure out the toxicity, potential effects, and the likely metabolites, so I got curious and downed a diluted shot. Turns out, basically indistinguishable from ethanol in terms of the intoxicating effects, except it leaves your mouth tasting of acetone, which may be partly what it metablizes into upon consumption. From what data I could find it is likely around 2-4 times more toxic than ethanol, which is reflected by the intoxicating effects needing half the dose of ethanol. Do not consume isopropyl, this was a poor idea on my part driven by dangerous levels of human curiousity. Ethanol has been consumed by humans for thousands of years and the effects are well studied and documented, isopropyl does not have this.

[@dragonwithafez]

I work for a biotech company, not in the lab myself but still had to take lab safety training. Here's three stories. 1: Our training instructor had a slide of "things not to do in the lab," all of which he said he'd seen while working at this company. Most of them were pretty normal things: don't eat in the lab, don't walk around with uncapped needles, etc. Some of them were a bit more interesting though. For instance: - Don't use the lab microwaves to heat up your lunch - Don't make coffee in the lab - Don't brush your teeth in the lab sinks And, my favorite: - Don't use lab ice to chill your beer 2: Same guy as the first story told us about a previous job at another biotech firm. Said that one morning he showed up for work to find the whole building evacuated and ambulances on the scene. Asks one of his coworkers what happened, and the coworker said that another coworker (let's call him John) had declared he was "going to make a super-cleaner!" John then proceeded to grab a 5 gallon bucket, put it on the floor, then empty into it a gallon jug of bleach and a gallon jug of ammonia. Nearly immediately keels over unconscious due to the fact he'd just made chloramine. My instructor goes "gee, I really expected John to know better!" to which the coworker replies, "yeah, well he did the exact same thing five years ago." No word on if John is still at that company. 3: Again same instructor discussing procedures for cleaning up biological spills. For those unaware, you're meant to disinfect the spill with something like bleach before you try to clean it up. Instructor says one time a trainee was mixing a solution containing live E. coli and splashed some in his eye. Instructor then asks us to guess what the poor guy did next. Some people say they thought maybe he went to the eyewash station, others think maybe he didn't do anything and ended up with an infection. I was the only one to guess the right answer: he tried to disinfect his eye with bleach... thankfully he quickly realized his mistake and went for the eyewash. When asked why the fuck he would pour bleach into his eyes, he just said "well we were taught that we should always disinfect a spill before cleaning it up." /facepalm

[@sicstar]

1st set of rules is totally legit imo, good rules lol. And maybe "John" also should work at a MCdonals. He probably fried enough braincells on the first try so he totally forgot what he mixed up that kicked him out of conciousness... Which he totally proven after washing his eyes with bleach ... Yo im a freaking machinist and i'd do better in a lab then that guy...

[@dragonwithafez]

@@sicstar Ah, slight clarification: third guy is not same as John in the second story, it's the instructor who was the same as the second story

[@sicstar]

@@dragonwithafez Thanks! Man i imagined so much incompetence in one person... if that guy was around me in the same lab i'd have evacuated into another job :O shook me hard ngl :D

[@decyattysyachpchyol]

These people are too stupid for life let alone working in a lab. Most janitors with a high school diploma only or dropped out who I've known have far more sense.

[@LocalCryptidGhostdoll]

Oh I have ABSOLUTELY worked with people in the lab that would drink Acetone, very high INT low WIS type people haha

[@treelineresearch3387]

I heard that butanol (not sure which isomer or if it matters) has effects similar to ethanol but with lower effective dose and less hangover, but I've never been able to find more than a couple anecdotal trip reports. Supposedly tastes pretty foul.

[@atmaweapon2803]

It metabolizes in your body to butyric acid eventually, which is the smell of rancid butter. You'll basically emit that stench from your mouth for some time after ingesting butanol. Sounds miserable.

[@treelineresearch3387]

@@atmaweapon2803 This should have been used as a prank in an 80s or 90s nerd movie, spiking the punch at the enemy frat party and making them smell like stinky butter for hours.

[@kenhaze5230]

This is research-biology related only. Don't drink chemicals. Acetone dries out mucous membrane even worse than ethanol. It does, interestingly, have a similar neuropharmacological profile, and, perhaps (this is research-biology related) less toxic metabolites, and some is excreted unchanged. That said, you really might die from it, because impurities and denaturants are present in the chemicals you can go out and easily buy.

[@maxasaurus3008]

Yep the real name of krocodil is desomorphine, and yes the nerve damage and ulcers are a result of the filthy manufacturing process, starting to see it in the fentanyl and xylazene IV users 😢

[@CoolguyMcCool]

I have a buddy. His parents were addicted to crack or meth or heroin or something idk, but they were super rich. When he was 10, they bought him a college level chemistry set. He was fucking around with the chemicals in his shed, mixing them pretending to be a mad scientist. Now he's color blind and he told me he's going to lose his sight entirely pretty soon

[@That_Chemist]

I haven't heard of someone developing color blindness before

[@adamconnell5965]

TATP is the Voldemort of chemistry... it that shall not be named. There aren't too many substances that can magically transform you from is to was with the vigor, efficiency, and spontaneity of TATP.

[@HungVu-ny1ig]

A man decided to drink acetone, here is how his brain got into a confusion state...

[@illya.ruslanovichshevchenk4106]

Story: When the COVID pandemic started, the lessons I attended switched to online. I had an amateur laboratory at home, so I was showing chemistry experiments to other students through the camera in Zoom. During one of the lessons, I spilled calcium hydroxide solution on my computer. Initially it was almost fine, but after a couple of hours or even days, it stopped working, because the solution was slowly destroying it.

[@seandelaney8639]

they eventually changed the solvent in marker pens and, I think, white-out, because of abuse

[@whazzup_teacup]

One of my teachers told a story in my first year of BSc that it's common to just steal some ethanol and make drinks out of it. So far I've not done so but I've started a home brewery just because it's a common hobby among chemists here and because I find it rewarding to make something drinkable after 3 weeks.

[@Adam-nv9zo]

I got a little methyl ethyl ketone in my mouth once. Needless to say it wasn't fun.

[@i_fuze_hostages6]

Yikes

[@sakesaurus]

that requires some context

[@danielschuett]

Sniffing glue... I guess that's the less nerdy version of building plastic models in a small unventilated room for hours, and priming them with spray paint, also with insufficient ventilation.

[@Pootycat8359]

3:38 Uh... It sounds like he wanted to BLOW UP THE LAB, with a fuel/air mixture!

[@mark8200]

Shout out to you and the patrons for making it so i get to see this goodness

[@sad_boi_hours5397]

Met someone in the hospital that drank nail polish remover and it basically made their esophageal lining shed off sooooo

[@That_Chemist]

💀

[@audrey7003]

presenting to the emergency room,

[@electrium3556]

I understand how people can think that just because you aren't exposed to a lethal amount of something, it is safe to do.

[@daemonburns-waight2421]

Just found the channel, got a subscription outta me! I like these kinda stories, and the 'yikes' chapter was just icing on the cake.. Keep it up!

[@DrewWalton]

Pro tip: if you can find or make it in a chemistry lab, you probably shouldn't ingest (or inject!) it.

[@superslimanoniem4712]

NaOH+HCl.

[@sakesaurus]

​@@superslimanoniem4712doesn't salt water cause you to vomit

[@lvl10cooking]

I can’t but help to take a big whiff of a sharpie every time I open one.

[@paulblichmann2791]

In my O Chem lab we had to use acetone constantly to rinse like everything....but the lab tech was pregnant and obsessively afraid of the acetone....so we were basically on our own.

[@That_Chemist]

I mean they probably should have hired someone else for the term - not exactly rocket science but sometimes university administrators make poor decisions

[@VinsCool]

Oh no, acetone smell is already nasty, can't even imagine the taste of it!

[@hailhydrazine4938]

"I am a paid professional" ... really? To do what exactly? And how did he drink that without others noticing

[@Jon6429]

I remember waking up after a New years party and chugging what I thought was a can of coke, turned out to be a can of McEwan's beer that had been used for an ashtray. Oh boy did that hit the spot, my projectile vomiting hit everywhere else.

[@chrisp6365]

I'm almost positive this person regretted it the second it went down his gullet.

[@randykitchleburger2780]

6:40 I like how you compare this to krokadil 🤣 When the scientist cant get his fix

[@MoonberryJam93]

I just remembered that I do have a safety horror story. A friend of mine in engineering school was working on an electronics project in the maker space, and was soldering a circuit board. He went to clip one of the leads after soldering a resistor, and leaned in to get a better view. The instant he clipped it, the wire flew up and stabbed directly into his left eye, all the way through the sclera and into the liquid part. He had to go to the hospital to get the wire removed, and the hole had to be glued shut to prevent eye juice from leaking out. He had to take prophylactic antibiotics, get a checkup every week, and couldn't see properly out of the eye for nearly a month. Fortunately it healed completely, and there was no permanent damage to his vision, but definitely still a 0/10 experience. Always wear eye protection.

[@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648]

Good idea to wear safety glasses in any lab or industrial work area. Yes those clipped wires can really fly.

[@ThatOneOddGuy]

I drank acetone, sanitizer, dettol, fructose and 1 more Edit yes everclear I had that as well and glycerine

[@Ayestosea]

I like your avatar, it's actually slightly too dark. I can see it on mobile.

[@Ayestosea]

I drank a bunch of everclear once. And was so drunk I was as sober I have ever been.

[@ThatOneOddGuy]

@@Ayestosea well thanks m8

[@ThatOneOddGuy]

@@Ayestosea Idk if I gor drunk I had it when I was 5

[@defenestrated23]

Wow. This is a Gold Star episode (in Last Podcast on the Left parlance).

[@MikeU128]

I once made a really vile batch of homemade hard cider. Not sure exactly what went wrong with it, but it smelled powerfully of acetone, and the fumes had literally started to break down the rubber stopper in the mouth of the carboy. Just one sniff and the entire batch got poured straight down the drain.

[@anem0nia]

My NMR tech told us that back in Russia they used to drink a mix of chloroform/ethanol/acetone xD

[@That_Chemist]

💀

[@stephanieann6622]

I remember sitting on the toilet while dripping some rubbing alcohol on a sore on my chest and IT DRIPPED DOWN landing straight on my clit. Ive never dove into a cold bath quicker. It was SO PAINFUL and burnt so bad. I thought wiping and having jalapeno oil on my hand was bad but it was nothing like the rubbing alcohol