Potassium Metal From Bananas!

[@chickenpilot2309]

I love the contrast where NileRed takes something inedible and makes it edible and Cody takes edible stuff and turns it inedible.

[@-danR]

NileRed wasn't too pleased by the outcome, but I think he shortchanged himself. Some grapes do have a musty tone and probably because they have a certain excess of the characteristic odor/flavor, methyl anthranilate itself. He probably added twice as much as necessary.

[@Metal_Master_YT]

what an observation, I totally missed that.

[@TobiNightcore]

Never thought about it that way, but that's an excellent point

[@dootslayer1402]

or just eats it anyway

[@TheDeadMeme27]

@@-danR Yup unfortunately it went wrong with the temp. sensitive part :/ I was expecting it to have a very saturated grape flavour.

[@thatguygonzo6937]

"Honey where did all of the bananas for Banana Bread go?" " *Gone, Reduced to Atoms* "

[@tylerhutchinson1326]

Him: Over there there there there there there there there annnnnd there! Her: Again?! Sigh.

[@thatguygonzo6937]

@@tylerhutchinson1326 Again!? Using them to make metal in a complicated process?!? Sigh...

[@reticent-]

Good One 😂😂

[@syedyusufalieram1873]

Lol

[@komicalkramer6188]

K

[@ScrimmyBingus42]

One thing I love about chemistry KZbinrs is that while NileRed has a very clean and professional looking setup, everyone else like Cody'sLab and Explosions and Fire make their vids in what look like actual methlabs lmao. Doesn't take away from the vids of course, love them as always!

[@penguinscanfly5796]

who says it isnt a methlab

[@snookyzun6158]

​@@penguinscanfly5796 bro 👀

[@Wiseman501]

Nile Red is a potato.

[@tais1355]

the hand pumped vacuum filter slays me

[@Icetastesgood]

@@Wiseman501he will make a potato out of his liver

[@Tremelier]

10kgs of banana just turned with a lot of hardwork into 9gm potassium just to throw it in water Respect x 100

[@LuisSierra42]

The good things in life are the simple things

[@thatoneshellcuber]

@@LuisSierra42 you can get the potasium back

[@myself3209]

Well he got allmost 5 Million views from it so..

[@alejandropetit6573]

​@@thatoneshellcuber you'd have to distill the entire pond it was thrown in in the process, no?

[@lucascheng6674]

@@alejandropetit6573 neutralise it would be the better word

[@solchapeau6343]

While doing research for a nutrition class, I found out that papayas and red potatoes have more potassium than bananas. You should compare those.

[@anotherblock7742]

sweet potatoes mushrooms and coconuts aswell i think

[@jmbkpo]

Also avocados, but everything is more expensive than bananas

[@TheDeadMeme27]

@@jmbkpo Cody did alot of weird stuff with gold. I doubt avocadoes or some mushrooms will be out of his budget

[@pastivityy]

@@TheDeadMeme27 ay man those avocados do be pricey tho

[@zacharypoole3716]

Move to Idaho and become a potassium farmer.

[@Zeph_]

NileRed : nice laboratory with nice glassware Cody : rusty cans and pipes and still managing to do awesome chemistry

[@JKYLEM1000]

Right! Chemistry doesnt care what equipment you got, it still works.

[@BruceNJeffAreMyFlies]

@@JKYLEM1000 Eh it kinda does.. Better quality equipment means a better end result, and glass is very unreactive so its more versatile than steel.

[@BruceNJeffAreMyFlies]

That's how most of the original chemistry was done; some dude making his own labware out of whatever he can make it from. I kinda want a video from someone on how often chemists were actually fantastic glassblowers as well due to having to produce their own glassware whenever they devised a new experiment requiring specialised tools.

[@BlackSakura33]

It will always affect the yield and purity.

[@m1y4nothing]

I like the way that Cody does it send a clear message that you can do chemistry anywhere and you don't need expensive proprietary equipment! So ask yourself which one of the two would make a better Professor on Gilligan's Island.

[@abdulrahmanalsufyani6472]

Next Episode : "Extracting Pure Mercury From Tuna"

[@garyv2498]

So now I actually want to see this.

[@blue_leader_5756]

You say that sarcastically. . .

[@badgerbar3623]

But actually

[@bosscom6910]

This would be awesome

[@Lostamundo]

Great idea! lol

[@MrUsoutlaw]

theirs such a difference between you and Nile Red. Nile Red: *uses lab grade equipment in an actual lab* Cody: *uses fire in his shed* I love it. ig goes to show that no matter your budget you can always find a way to do chemistry

[@Wiseman501]

NileRed is a potato.

[@hugoc6486]

Mildred uses much more dangerous chemicals but I understand your point. With not too dangerous chemicals like these you don’t need expensive equipment

[@ScienceDiscoverer]

@@Wiseman501 You are a banana.

[@Wiseman501]

@@ScienceDiscoverer I am honored. While not as versatile as a potato, a banana is still an impressive piece of produce.

[@maizjsj]

Potatoes are yummy

[@centrifugedestroyer2579]

Imagine finding a jar full of ash labeled "flesh" out of context.....

[@whopineapple8677]

Next video: extracting potassium from human body’s

[@Metal_Master_YT]

you literally have 99 likes as of posting this.

[@trulyinfamous]

Well, he did say he wanted to extract phosphorus from bones someday.

[@PandemoniumMeltDown]

Ok, it's decided, I'm donating my body to Cody's Lab upon my demise.

[@dolfandringa]

Where did grandma go? Are you sure you grabbed the right jar?

[@FrietjeOorlog]

"Banana Flesh Ash Water" Yes, a perfectly normal series of words.

[@xjunkxyrdxdog89]

A brand new sentence is what it is.

[@zachwolf5122]

Limp Bizkit album title

[@pocoloco8075]

In German, we could do it altogether in one word: Bananenfleischaschenwasser!

[@fourutubez7294]

@@pocoloco8075 Genuine LOL here

[@prakharmishra3000]

@@pocoloco8075 that's why I love German, your keyboards don't need spaces XD

[@catsoncoke]

Ahh yes, a mason jar full of black liquid labeled “flesh” in messy handwriting

[@woodyTM]

could not have described that any better lolol

[@MiqelDotCom]

Cody's Lab experiment or crime-scene discovery? Could be either.

[@Mekillpoo]

I think the jar labeled "banana flesh ash water" takes the cake for best label overall though hehe

[@Zraknul]

After enough Hannibal Lecter, neat handwriting would be worse.

[@LVmobster27]

In the 4 chem classes I took I can’t recal anyone ever mentioning that you can precipitate a solute by adding a more soluble one. So cool!!

[@heberhall6532]

It's done often in organic chemistry... Often a solution can be saturated with salt(regular NaCl) and will cause other less soluble solutes to precipitate

[@nitsujy]

he literally did ALL of that just to throw the result into a lake so it could explode............ GENIUS

[@TechGorilla1987]

Some of us skip all the sciency stuff and go for buying kilos of Potassium and Sodium metal. It's more fun.

[@tallic967]

@@TechGorilla1987 ok

[@TechGorilla1987]

@@tallic967 Are you wondering where it's available like that? I could probably provide a link to a friend.

[@twig4661]

he did all that so we could learn and get 700k views in 8 days

[@tallic967]

@@TechGorilla1987 yes pls

[@brainiac75]

Yes! The peels do contain the most potassium. I tested the radioactivity of bananas earlier this year, and the peels were clearly the most radioactive part. Probably due to the higher potassium content. Maybe higher concentrations of other NORMs too.

[@DimiDzi]

wow the world really is a small place seeing that all science KZbinrs watch eachother

[@pika6238]

@@DimiDzi that you have to thank youtube for. Because they demonitize all science and educational channels. and promote some dumb shit to make people loose braincells..

[@DimiDzi]

@@pika6238 well a lot of people don't understand science and think that putting mercury in your mouth is really dangerous thing although Cody didn't make mistakes when doing it

[@A_piece_of_broccoli]

i think it's due to the peel being more dense than the fruit itself and that the fruit itself is what is distributing the potassium from the plant. due to pressures within and outside the fruit changing, one could imagine particle expansion taking place and over time the more the fruit grows the more potassium is pushed into the peel. potassium banana peel particle net.

[@MyHandleIsGood]

I remembered that from your video, and I was thinking about it the whole time

[@BucketOfGrass]

Nilered: * doesnt like how impure a solution is * * goes through a complex purification process to fix it * Cody: * doesnt like how impure a solution is * "meh" * continues *

[@nuttyengines4464]

Omg yes, I was thinking this exactly. Nile would spend like 1/2 a day refining it but this guy clearly did the whole thing in 1/2 a day

[@DeliveryMcGee]

@@nuttyengines4464 Same reason I watch both This Old Tony and AvE. There's the right way, and then there's the "Eh, screw it, it's good enough" way.

[@meet559]

I watch them all. 🙂

[@BackYardScience2000]

You should also watch Elemental Maker. He reminds me a lot of AvE.

[@KaityKat117]

not to mention nile uses actual lab equipment instead of a kitchen oven, a campfire and tin can. the only lab equipment Cody had was a vacuum filter.

[@SaidThoughts]

Probably to do with the water ratio of the peel vs the fruit itself. The peel probably contains much less water overall compared to the fruit itself. So when dried, the mass of the peel becomes nearly the same to that of the fruit.

[@GogiRegion]

This is actually a very fair point. It also could be that the potassium salts in some way benefit the peel. Citrus fruits actually contain more of the aroma and flavor compounds in the peels than the flesh because they’re hydrophobic and therefore prevent the juice from escaping.

[@bard1250]

I've seen monkeys eat the peel.

[@SomeRandomPiggo]

Bananas: *completely fucking obliterated* Cody: eh there is still a bit of carbon in there

[@Amy-si8gq]

"You dont understand mom, the bananas STILL HAVE CARBON IN THEM!!!!!"

[@EEEEEEEE]

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[@psychocuda]

Cody: "Cat is making a mess." Cat: "Says the guy who just dumped dozens of bananas on the table."

[@sailaab]

👍😄🤗🙂 exactly

[@AirNeat]

A dozen?

[@no_idea8012]

@@AirNeat dozenS

[@watsisname]

"Banana flesh ash water" is a sequence of words I never expected to see.

[@talltroll7092]

But it is *vital* to include "banana", lest its' lack causes... misunderstandings

[@sagebiddi]

@@talltroll7092 ooooh boy did it....I laughed at watshisnames comment and said it out loud and because I often watch survivor videos especially Les Stroud (Survivorman) my half attentive roomy was like "where is he at a fkn desert or something...(ctfu) ..wtf is bandana fresh assed water ?" Which made ME start ctfu to the point I slapped a thigh and doubled over and then THAT made me forget what I had in my hand and long story short....time to re-roll

[@DrMario-]

@@sagebiddi you ok bud?

[@sagebiddi]

@@DrMario- not even remotely but I won't bother anyone else I promise

[@MozartJunior22]

Could be a great password, like that XKCD comic about "correct horse battery staple"

[@succathog5906]

7:30 lol imagine you're a friend or police officer and you come into cody's house to see a jar of ash labelled "flesh"

[@EEEEEEEE]

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[@Ari-13-Ana]

Imagine finding a jar called "flesh" with black liquid in it

[@pbjracing14yearsago49]

I'd chug it down in a heartbeat

[@oz_jones]

@@pbjracing14yearsago49 "just fuck my shit up, fam"

[@IxeslegendProbably]

@Toxic Male Well... i certainly have on of those! :D

[@TheLiasas]

That was a very very black man then. Lmaooo

[@naxzed_it]

@@TheLiasas Racist

[@Colm24e]

Cody: "Now for the part of the video you've all been waiting for" Me: "This isn't Cody eating banana char"

[@Aphelia.]

I was waiting for that too, damn!

[@mralabbad7]

Cody biting pure potassium

[@adamgreenhaus4691]

You know you're in Cody's house when you find a mason jar filled with unidentifiable black grime labeled "flesh."

[@chaplainmattsanders4884]

😂

[@NigelStratton]

A home shed experiment is just as fascinating as a production lab. Love the content and chemistry.

[@ccaagg]

You extracted potassium. From potash. Which you made, true to its etymology, from ash in a pot. You've done exactly what gave potassium its name. Beautiful.

[@tylerhutchinson1326]

Dare we begin calling it Potashium

[@ActuatedGear]

@@tylerhutchinson1326 LISTEN HERE YOU LITTLE SH-

[@bravomike4734]

Holy shit. Now it makese sense. I always thought the name po-tash was weird. It was pot-ash all along!

[@birdbeakbeardneck3617]

patashi wa potassium.

[@ActuatedGear]

@@birdbeakbeardneck3617 OMAE WA MOU SHINDEIRU!!!

[@averyz3320]

my chemistry teacher in high school told a story once about how she was doing a lab with potassium one day, and she gave each table one slice of the potassium trapped in wax to use (as cody demonstrated, potassium is highly reactive to water). one kid just kinda pocketed the potassium, and since it was new orleans, the heat of their ass melted the wax, and the potassium reacted with their sweat, making it pop in their pocket

[@renderproductions1032]

|-O-|

[@Ricardo__Milos]

Lmao

[@wictorgabriel9656]

Lol, it seems like something I would see in an old cartoon. It would be like this: _Then their ass starts to catch fire, they sit on a water bucket and then it explodes_

[@stephaniehowell1109]

Omg, did he lose a buttock? Went from Gludeous Maximus to Gludeous Gone? 😂

[@barryjenkinson9152]

A similar thing happened in my school but I think it was sodium that burned in their pocket and they took a large piece from the jar which was origiannly sumberged in oil. Then went on fire in thir pocket.

[@razz4200]

Cody : Painstakingly filters out pure potassium after a gazillion steps, peeling, baking bananas, charring, filtering stuff, filtering stuff again in vacuum chambers, and so on for maybe 3 days. Also Cody : Nonchalantly throws the potassium into a passing stream for a brief 3 seconds of pyrotech shi_t. This guy is insane with all the dedication he puts into doing this stuff single handed-ly and with so much of patience and none of the fancy high-end equipment. Hats Off !.

[@zach3096]

Cody: also benefits with millions of dollars making videos. I don’t understand people like you?

[@GMPranav]

10:58 Kitty clearly impressed by it's hooman making white cloud in solution

[@vikramkrishnan6414]

In South India, we have recipes that use the peel of raw plantains in curries. My granny used to always say that the peels were more nutritious, turns out she was right

[@fatdad64able]

Try coconut shells! It's good for you. ; >

[@SweetHotei]

Your nana is a wise lady

[@i_dont_even_know_at_this_p4920]

@@fatdad64able coconut is one of the main ingredients of South Indian dishes

[@marijuana_smoker]

try durian

[@ChocolateHeart]

@@marijuana_smoker Why?

[@glennkrieger]

There isn't another channel like Cody's Lab. His lab contains garbage cans, homemade lab equipment, snow freezers, cooking pans, and a hand vacuum pump. Don't ever change a thing. Please.

[@nopal9855]

yep, that makes the video more relateable to us non lab people, and it pretty chill too

[@stevenclark2188]

There's also Explosions and Fire operating out of his shed in Australia.

[@sugarcookies5891]

remind me to senku from dr.stone anime

[@liamgeiger7549]

And a cat

[@sallesvianagomesdemagalhae6181]

To summarize: macgyver

[@MARKE911]

That was an extremely large amount of work. I want to say “THANK YOU” that was amazing and very educational and enjoyable to watch.

[@AlexCsm01]

The fun thing about this is that the potassium he managed to extract is worth about 5 times 10kg of bananas (or at least this is what I found out searching on Google) . He could start a business out of this😂

[@vairoxx4031]

hm he had to sacrifice lithium in the progress tho. Lithium should be more expensive than potassium. And I don't know if there is a way to convert the lithium chloride back to lithium without buying expensive chemicals aswell. If it would be that easy the industry would farm bananas as a metallic potassium source

[@AlexCsm01]

@@vairoxx4031 touchè

[@mrlemflem]

you can extract that for like a couple of dollars if you get lithium batteries as they contain about 1 gram each (although its fairly dangerous and hard to automate)@@vairoxx4031

[@tomoyaokazaki6021]

​@@vairoxx4031it can be done by the electrolysis of the molten salt. It requires lots of heating and electricity though so I'm not sure how that would play into the cost

[@retekfekete7807]

10 kg banana cost 16-17 usd in my country. Its food. You cant eat potassium so it is a waste. :)

[@Nighthawkinlight]

You're telling me big banana has been lying to us about potassium content?

[@Porkey_Minch]

They must be injecting the bananas with chemicals to harm us by halving our potassium intake!

[@jskratnyarlathotep8411]

*bananacy

[@TechGorilla1987]

Not only big banana, but big nutrition has been fooling us all for years. Potassium is a KEY factor in your sodium intake as well.

[@joshdoeseverything4575]

big oil big pharma big banana

[@MagisterMalleus]

"Big banana" lol

[@KiithnarasAshaa]

Cody: "I'll hang these banana peels up on a drying rack." Cody's Cat: "And I shall be knocking over said rack, as is tradition!"

[@RKroese]

A like for eloquence.

[@stamasd8500]

looks like the banana peels were contaminated with some potassium from the cat's tail, might explain the yield difference. :)

[@kajojo2399]

@@stamasd8500 "Explosive Radioactive Metal From Cat's Fur"

[@sofia.eris.bauhaus]

"meow eveyone! welcome back to Cody's cat." :3

[@RangerOfTheOrder]

"If you ate 40,000 bananas in ten minutes, you'd die from radiation poisoning" "Ah yes, the *radiation* would kill you!"

[@anshswaroop6849]

Good one I think people haven't got you

[@AtharvaAgarwal]

Most of people missed the joke

[@dream.machine]

So, to eat a whole Banana, 67 times per second...

[@paulrichards2365]

Or your stomach explodes

[@wagitar]

so.... how do we know the source of radiation was the potassium? Perhaps it came from the chlorine in the perchlorate that was added.

[@anon_y_mousse]

It's amazing how clean of an end product you get while having a manky looking setup, while NileRed has a clean and professional looking setup and often gets a dirtier end result.

[@ExplosionsAndFire]

So if you want potassium you gotta eat bananas with the shell on, okay

[@RaechelleJ]

Lol

[@StarrSilvia]

Knowing is half the battle

[@centrifugedestroyer2579]

Pro Tip: Eat eggs with the shell on for extra calcium

[@guifrakss]

"Shell"

[@ArmyGrunt1986]

Lol, I'm calling the peel a shell from now on

[@otodusobliquus3836]

Adult: "What's your favorite element little timmy?" Little Timmy: "I quite like radioactive metals" A: "Oh, really? Which one?" LT: "Banana"

[@tylerhutchinson1326]

Potassium! Man, potassium is highly conductive but I had no idea it was actually radioactive. I was going to make some capacitors for my devices to replace my lithium ion. Whelp, back to the drawing board...

[@tylerhutchinson1326]

Or.. maybe I can sell them and kill off the planet. Decisions decisions

[@nell711]

@@tylerhutchinson1326 Pretty sure you'd get put on a list just for commenting this

[@mastershooter64]

all the elements are radioactive, they all have certain isotopes that are radioactive

[@mastershooter64]

@@tylerhutchinson1326 how would you kill off the planet if you sold potassium? also you should always kill a planet yourself, never depend on anyone else to kill a planet because they might get intimidated by the gravitational binding energy of the planet

[@StatedClearly]

Back to your roots, I see! Thanks for this video. Great!

[@starshot5172]

Even with the old haircut too, I love it

[@jasonlast7091]

All we need now is some more mining or (fingers crossed) return of the yellow cake!

[@foty8679]

@@starshot5172 Maybe its just a old video, Cody is known for uploading year old videos (or atleast part of the videos which are quite old) :D

[@16vSciroccoboi]

@@foty8679 the majority of the video was filmed on or after 12/16/2020

[@BrainHurts5446]

This video is one I didn’t know I needed to watch. Instant classic. Love it

[@TheAwast2]

So the Banana Grenade from Worms is actually real

[@ElementalMaker]

Damn Cody what an absolutely awesome project!

[@TheVexCortex]

So now you're gonna make a radio active, banana powered rocket, right?

[@Draakdarkmaster6]

daaamn nice to see you here.

[@DatBoiOrly]

Hell yeah you should make a straight potassium rocket

[@Dec38105]

yeah brilliant, personally i prefer this to all that gardening and eco stuff but hey that's me

[@mystamo]

You're an awesome project EM!.. When are we going to see you do something like this?

[@Ac3Mustang]

"Let's go put this in the freezer" *walks outside*

[@obunbasic5697]

"Mom! There's a bear in the freezer! He's eating papa's burnt bananas!" *Boom*

[@johnhon6436]

@@obunbasic5697 😂😂😂😂

[@caiolucasnovais3676]

Like a boss

[@hagos_music]

I actually look for this comment haha

[@aunabreslingaming3279]

helo idaho/utah in winter:

[@09paradox]

NileRed with: "Turning platic gloves into grape soda" and now this. What a crazy week!

[@dantethunderstone2118]

@@Justin_Leahy and they said infinity war is the most ambitious crossover

[@artratengo]

@@Justin_Leahy i approve fission should be doable with them working

[@jeffreybraunjr3962]

I know how fortunate :) f***ing metal from a fruit, and grape flavor from latex gloves! I love chemistry!

[@slappkake2953]

I just thinking this

[@steampunkastronaut7081]

@@Justin_Leahy nuclear fission lmao

[@BullCricket75]

Thanks for randomly popping up in my recommended videos. This just made my day in so many ways. I was pleasantly distracted from my current grief, learned some cool sciency stuff, and deepened my appreciation for the bad ass banana!

[@raphaeldapzol4385]

The cashier seeing Cody arriving with 10Kg of banana in a cart : "Seems like math guy again is having a problem again..."

[@peterg.8245]

Walmart cashiers are used to it... especially around fair/festival season

[@sergei_gruntovsky]

Matt Parker and Sally Le Page?

[@prakharmishra3000]

LOL

[@154Kilroy]

This is the most thorough destruction of a banana I've ever seen.

[@UmVtCg]

Really? You can come and take a look in my toilet. I've got a couple banana's there which literally and figuratively have gone to shit. Or give me your address so I can mail you some. You know, so you can judge for yourself.

[@rajinderkapoor7553]

@@UmVtCg love you

[@OP-lk4tw]

@@UmVtCg but you don't actually see the destruction tho

[@raegonzalez7692]

@@UmVtCg Such an unnecessary comment. Funny thing is that you wanted to be sarcastic but instead you sounded like an ass given the fact that the point of the comment was that we are able to see the thorough destruction of the bananas and with your dumb strategy we wouldn't be able to see that process and instead ass he would see is your shit which wouldn't be all from the bananas you ate. LMAO, just ridiculously stupid.

[@farpasmasterfarpador9092]

@@raegonzalez7692 are you sure he is the one that sounds like an ass?

[@gregiep]

The well known scientific measurement of distilled water: “About yay much.”

[@pablozurita2996]

About yay much is half of the container you're filling

[@Undead_Logic]

That you for that, got a solid laugh out of that.

[@jhamp81]

I don’t usually watch these kind of videos but for some reason found this fascinating. Good work!

[@liamgriffin218]

Cody:“Let’s go put this in the freezer” The “freezer”: *S N O W*

[@Woodledude]

Ah yes, the ol' Alaskan Freezer. We used to just keep all our food outside in the snow. It's so easy and consistent when you have really cold, snowy winters.

[@Timsturbs]

@@Woodledude the only downside is that it attracts bears

[@Woodledude]

@@Timsturbs Now, we were in a suburb when we were doing this, so I can't imagine there was much threat of bears getting into our food (Although we did have a moose give birth in our back yard every year). Clearly I wouldn't know, but I know at least some species of bears hibernate for the winter - Though it would not surprise me to learn that Alaska's long winters encourage at least some level of activity throughout the year, as opposed to shorter winters that are easier to just skip entirely.

[@FireWyvern870]

@@Woodledude it's a joke

[@user-yt5zw7kw1j]

@@FireWyvern870 (a bad one if it is) I personally would rather have someone talk about a moose giving birth in their backyard then someone making a bad joke that goes nowhere

[@fop6033]

"So no monetization?" *slams banana on the ground*

[@directhacker7776]

HA I GOT THAT ONE

[@Digital-Dan]

Right. We can suggest he name his place Demonitization Ranch.

[@Metal_Master_YT]

@@Digital-Dan HAHA XD

[@TheDeadMeme27]

**Slips on it later into the video**

[@jamess1787]

"Perchlorate" caused the demonetization /facepalm.

[@sairajpawar1901]

Can we all just appreciate the amount of sincere efforts this guy has taken just to show us, how much Potassium is there in the Bananas. I have a lot of respect for that 👍🙇🏻‍♂️.

[@OrdinaryLatvian]

Why do, you write like, this?

[@mineduck3050]

Dude just avoid using commas whenever you can for awhile. You have a problem.

[@sairajpawar1901]

@@mineduck3050 I'm sorry 😔. I will remember that next time

[@sairajpawar1901]

@@OrdinaryLatvian Sorry I will edit it.

[@venky193]

Totally respect that brother.... i felt the same too!!!

[@bluesheepredanimationskind7690]

i love that the whole human race just does this kinda stuff for fun because we have nothing better to do

[@jamestiedye9890]

Cody's the guy your math textbook warned you about.

[@Metal_Master_YT]

YEAH XD

[@churrosmcgee624]

Yknow whats funny is the poor minimum wage cashier who rang up all these bananas didnt even have to do math because everything nowadays is automated, I still remember my teacher saying over and over "you wont have a calculator with you 24/7!!"......while on her laptop, which was sitting right next to her phone, in a room full of students, some of which were CHARGING THE CALCULATOR THEY LITERALLY KEEP WITH THEM 24/7, sorry for venting american education is just ass backwards

[@I-like-tank]

It kinda looks like Cody lives in Wyoming

[@lesliejohnson2982]

@David Davis I've never cashiered in a grocery store and I knew the 4011- I didn't know people didn't just notice random numbers and memorize their purpose. hrmm..

[@edisonhargrove]

If you think he's bad check out styropyro

[@HornetKingOfficial]

Excellent video, Cody! Always enjoy your chemistry segments!

[@SahilP2648]

Bruh, you probably have one of the weirdest channels on YT.

[@novathereaper9510]

I enjoy when he enjoys making the videos

[@HornetKingOfficial]

@@SahilP2648 Thank you??

[@SahilP2648]

@@HornetKingOfficial I hate all insects lol (maybe not spiders as long as they don't bite cause they kill insects). Btw what's your opinion on those murder hornets invading US?

[@spacejaga]

Hugh is everywhere!

[@ryliei3201]

all that effort for that brief moment of mini explosions I'd say it's worth it

[@Bongbongo]

Bro…

[@travisyayes6343]

Absolutely

[@appropriate_name1]

Not brief but bruh

[@richardhampton4915]

Yeah you spend a lot of time and effort chasing a woman just for a brief moment of explosion .similar to

[@globe2555]

@@richardhampton4915 What comes after?

[@wagnerw8364]

Chemistry is really nice when you understand the things that are ocurring!

[@charliehorse1967]

"Bananas don't burn very well." Quite possibly one of the rarest combination of words I've ever heard.

[@connerbeaudry5624]

" don't worry I have a face, it's just invisible. Now put the money in the bag" -Direct quote from a man who robbed a bank

[@pascalbaryamo4568]

“Dolphins won’t stop at red lights” (from one of my professors in my bachelor

[@theories665]

"Since sheep's wool is 100% cotton, it is able to contain the electricity." - I'm pretty sure it was a rip-off science dude that our school hired for a science demonstration who only had some cool gadgets and dry ice.

[@ab935]

They bake banana bread by you?

[@theories665]

@@ab935 Now that has to be one of the weirdest word combinations.

[@babarasul680]

Imagine you're just chilling one day walking along a river while eating a banana and then it falls from your hand into the river and fucking explodes.

[@drawingtime2589]

that's funny as hell!

[@Uranium-dx7nn]

That's only for imagining, because pottasium exists only with other elements in compound form in the banana, as Cody explained. It has already reached it's octet state so it don't need to react with water anymore. So if you make a banana fall in water, it wouldn't explode.

[@babarasul680]

@@Uranium-dx7nn Okay, Mr. White. Whatever you say. You must be fun to talk to at a party.

[@Uranium-dx7nn]

@@babarasul680 ok, but why would be i'm Fun to talk at a party? Btw I'm not Mr White.

[@kingdaddy2011]

Jim Ross as the banana explodes: "Good God almighty"

[@juanmartincamussi9465]

Not even a minute in and i already know this will be a future classic

[@cz7797]

Hopefully KZbin doesn't pull down the video

[@deephorizon1365]

Yeah, haha

[@catcher3]

Facts

[@-danR]

@@cz7797 "drying potassium perchlorate in an oven on a oxidizable metal: 1 community strike" KZbin rules of service agreement, Section 34, subsection 14 ("Encouraging explosives manufacture"), paragraph 59, item 8, (a), (iii)...

[@kaisersose5549]

Downloading for my personal archive right now.

[@willsmith8586]

Loved this video 3 years ago, came back recommended today. Loved it again.

[@mikebarnacle1469]

Everyone else's conclusion: You can extract potassium from the waste peels and not have to burn the delicious meat. Cody's conclusion: Eat the peels

[@egotist-ical]

Next: Extracting Banana from Potassium Metal.

[@katieandkevinsears7724]

Watch the whole video. He actually makes a banana from pure potassium.

[@chromacat248]

@@katieandkevinsears7724 yeah but it's not an _actual_ banana

[@getsideways7257]

@@katieandkevinsears7724 Good luck eating that...

[@Digalog]

By SpaceX

[@osamabinladen824]

I wanna see that 😂😂😂😂😂

[@Ryuunohanami]

Imagine finding a strange jar labeled "flesh" filled with black ash🤣

[@donethos]

😂

[@5roundsrapid263]

I noticed that, too. A cremation urn for a moonshiner? 😆

[@thetransformatorium7980]

🤣🤣🤣

[@Dailymailnewz]

Is this sulphur?

[@gatosentado01235]

I know it sounds like a stupid question, but I'm a layman on the subject... if you throw the crushed or powdered substance, wouldn't it have a greater or faster reaction due to the contact area?

[@twu.4.25]

Faster reaction for sure because of the greater surface area contact, although (this is speculation) while it would release more energy in the same amount of time (thus “greater” it’d probably be less explosive and visually impressive since the reaction is spread out instead of contained in a small area

[@gatosentado01235]

@@twu.4.25 interesting, I had this in my head for a while... thanks for the answer and for the time my friend

[@Xynic48]

I agree with the first reply. Maybe it's like how the powder in firecrackers work. If you light it in a spread out form, it just fizzles, but if you compact the powder and light it, it explodes. Though, I dont think it's easy to make potassium powder in the first place considering how unstable it is when pure. It's also a really soft metal.

[@samueladler8233]

Alot more of the potassium will oxidize if you increase the surface area, and oxidized potassium does not explode.

[@desertranger82]

Powder was KCL not only K

[@peterpaulyap7970]

This is a wholesome version of Breaking Bad.

[@garretaustin9338]

fixing good

[@gjoejoe8046]

Lol i was gonna say it looks like he cookin up some coke

[@maddie-b5z]

I read that as "baking Brad"

[@aloysiuskurnia7643]

This is as destructive as breaking bad, only in other way

[@revolvency]

Breaking Bad, in reality when Walter got a healthcare

[@ZdrytchX]

"cooling it down by popping it in the freezer" *goes outside and puts it in snow*

[@ExplizitDuester]

I don't bother with bringing in all soda cans after grocery shopping, the car is just as cold as the freezer and also has a lock ;)

[@user-hh2is9kg9j]

@@ExplizitDuester Smart! and the family can't find them there.

[@DyslexicEvo]

@@ExplizitDuester until you go to the car one day and all the soda cans exploded from freezing

[@TheAttacker732]

@@DyslexicEvo And they go with some force. Give one the right angle, and it's got a decent shot at breaking a window.

[@filip9564]

You shuold put this video in the "metal refining and recovery" playlist

[@zackarysan7841]

I've, no doubt, learned more from you during my weekends of binging your videos, than i did in all of my years of school. Thank you!

[@MyBoomStick1]

I absolutely love how he goes through all that effort and then throws it in a creek. Cody really is the best

[@straggler64]

So many of your videos are the ‘what if’ scenarios we all wondered about as children but never had the knowledge or skill to pull off. You do us a great service.

[@alanhyt79]

"Right. Now we're going to demonstrate how to defend yourself from an attacker wielding a banana." "But what about an explosive, radioactive banana?"

[@marcuskane9925]

You won't think this is so funny when some maniac is stuffing a pineapple down your gullet...

[@Tehrasha]

*releases the tiger*

[@clankplusm]

@@marcuskane9925 stuff the potassium banana down a man's gullet recipe for a not good time

[@fairweathertrains3029]

"Now, I eat the banana - thus, disarmin' 'im!"

[@Killerkraft975]

The number of bananas made me think of those people in math questions.

[@whatdamath]

Amazing! I'll be referring to this video for years to come. Although we all did expect you to eat the banana at the end

[@jskratnyarlathotep8411]

you mean normal banana, not the potassium one >_> I don't know why it is not obvious for me

[@Ultiminati]

He will probably eat the dried ones :D

[@user-hh2is9kg9j]

Hello wonderful Anton!

[@w0ttheh3ll]

Hello wonderful Anton!

[@SeveralGhost]

Anton on a cody video, nothing else like it

[@BariBro]

cousin: "what are u watching?" me: "oh some dude making radioactive** bananas combustible"

[@binga.2863]

CAVE JOHNSON NO

[@insch.9547]

Lol

[@ShiratoriIsOffline]

Radioactive banana bombs

[@BariBro]

@@ShiratoriIsOffline ah yes. thank you

[@ShiratoriIsOffline]

@@BariBro if it's radioactive, Is it classified as a nuke?

[@jerry3790]

I love how most of Cody’s equipment is put together himself in contrast to other channels like Nilered.

[@bubblynubs]

NileRed made his own supercritial extration chamber dont forget...

[@michaelsander2878]

I'd love to see NileRed work with Cody in some kind of super science youtube mashup. If I ever won the lotto I'd want to hire a ton of youtube scientists and build a facility (like Kyle Hill's but real instead of cg). I'd want to build public megaprojects where all of these scientists, enginerds, and other people with this mix of skills (video essay + applied sciences) could make amazing things and show their steps along the way to further increase the amount of knowledge and skill on the planet.

[@ExplizitDuester]

@@michaelsander2878 like some kind of university. Don't be silly such thing would never work

[@TheAttacker732]

@@ExplizitDuester Not really a university, more a research center. Unless you're talking having the minds teaching students. In that case, just don't let the US government stick their dick in. They'll bloat it to total dysfunction and quadruple the expenditures.

[@xGaLoSx]

He would get better yields with better equipment!

[@whendricso]

"It turns out that bananas are very hard to burn." - The wisdom we come here for.

[@casssaph2287]

big brain play: potassium from worthless banana husk tasty chips from decadent banana flesh

[@gtb81.]

seems it would also be the most recovery, as it somehow has more potassium lol

[@Bass_Fishing_101]

This did not disappoint. Should be in every chemistry class.

[@ShockingPikachu]

I agree. Every high school class should have one potassium experiment and hope to god some shit head doesn’t squirt water on it for the “meme”

[@tink6225]

they should do something with pure sodium

[@tiarareihmequiota6618]

@@ShockingPikachu if they do that they kinda deserve it

[@MCA_Lives]

@@ShockingPikachu I’m lucky my hs chemistry teacher showed us this experiment back in the day, had a huge explosion in the vent hood

[@ScubaShark--8964]

@@ShockingPikachu Shot On Iphone

[@YiamiYo]

"The Banana Bomb is a much more powerful version of the Cluster Bomb, and is one of the Worms series' trademark weapons." Careful there, Cody. It even has the same effect!

[@DavidKutzler]

I believe the technical term is the "bunch Bomb."

[@chrisbleurgh7425]

@@DavidKutzler The boingy bangy.

[@simontillson482]

Ooh ooh. You bastard! 🙃

[@wellMynameisJacob]

I was looking for the worms reference. I like how it broke up into multiple explosions like the real thing.

[@kahlzun]

What the?

[@hernanlazzaroni1041]

Did I just watch a video of some guy extracting potassium from bananas, me not having any idea about chemistry? Yes, i did. AND LOVED IT!!! Great video!

[@jubjub567]

This is the weirdest cooking show I’ve ever seen.

[@X8X8X6X4X]

JESSE

[@cjsotelo8695]

Lol

[@gentlejake605]

I wonder what Gordon Ramsey would rate?

[@prestigeworld-wide8292]

Check out How To Basic

[@hitopsful]

@@gentlejake605 "this is absolutely incredible. So reactive. You've done a wonderful job, cody"

[@TerribleShmeltingAccident]

"A metallic banana made from bananas..." Cody you are an absolute legend!

[@user-vp1sc7tt4m]

In your other life.... "Halloween was coming up and they don't allow firework sales in my state so I bought a bunch of bananas and applied all I learned about chemistry. After quite a bit of chemistry work, which I love to do, we all had a blast tossing bits of potassium metal into the stream nearby during our Halloween night party." Thank you for the awesome video!

[@armouredskeptic]

I remember having a conversation about this in grade 9, and I was called to the principle for talking about making bombs in class...

[@skyricq]

I feel like some institutions just want us to fail. My chemistry teacher took a 5gal bucket and tossed in about as much as cody did. That was my grade 9. He also talked about how he used to get kids to pass out in class by letting them smell ammonia from a 5gal bucket. (He was testing them to see if they would waft it, or stick their head in the bucket and inhale without knowing what it was)

[@guiorgy]

@@skyricq wtf

[@emperorhadrian6011]

@@skyricq Cool teacher,

[@skyricq]

@@guiorgy He obviously wasn't allowed to keep letting kids smell ammonia! Bet it stopped pretty quickly Lol It was a funny story. He was a cool guy.

[@hammerth1421]

I worked with sodium in school for a year, researched the factors that make it explode. Got to the second round of a science contest with that project.

[@SupaDanteX]

Video Explained Badly: Man burns bananas 4 times to remove every single trace of water Then adds water.

[@alessiomuccio2795]

You forgot the part when he removes oxygen and chloride

[@einarabelc5]

Chemistry 101. It's the circle of life.

[@SupaDanteX]

@@alessiomuccio2795 Luckily I have a good excuse. The first line of my original comment :D

[@larrybane3334]

It's called filtration and purification

[@davidfernelz]

@@larrybane3334 its called a joke

[@ghffrsfygdhfjkjiysdz]

21:00 next project: evaporate that pond to get the potassium back.

[@yavor05]

I hope there weren't any animals in the pond. :/

[@ghffrsfygdhfjkjiysdz]

@@yavor05 Animal, very unlikely. Fish, probably so.

[@pemo2676]

@@ghffrsfygdhfjkjiysdz im sure cody dumps his waste into a pond with fish in it

[@Zeon01]

@@ghffrsfygdhfjkjiysdz Fish are animals.

[@enishi27]

that's stupid af

[@penguinscanfly5796]

4:10 at this stage, i recommend adding salt

[@todabsolute]

That Japanese guy be like: "Sharpest potassium knife from bananas"

[@user_rKChwLeBqKYyurEfiSLFmCBNC]

Yes

[@nanners8435]

kaboom

[@elizabetharellano7976]

just stab someone and because people are around 70% water thw knife would explode in them

[@elizabetharellano7976]

eait wrong material this isnt the one the booms in water is it?

[@theeguy9022]

@@elizabetharellano7976 no potassium does explode in water if there enough

[@LuigiBrotha]

"Sir we've heard that you possibly have a methlab here" "No officier. Just extracting radioactive potassium from bananas here"

[@neurhlp]

"Sir we've heard that your potassium have a methlab here..." wait what?

[@dalelc43]

Wow that suddenly got out of control, at what point did it become radioactive? Did a nuclear bomb detonate in the area, maybe a nearby nuclear power station melted down, he lives on a nuclear waste dump, how the f&^k did you decide it was radioactive?

[@haroldgreenhalgh9942]

@@dalelc43 isotopes look it up

[@leesass3602]

Now that is the old Cody I know and love. Life is hard sometimes, Glad to see you have persevered and came through better than ever!!!

[@MiqelDotCom]

Yeah, the emo-phase Cody when he was doing mopey acoustic guitar covers of smashing pumpkins songs in bleak industrial landscapes was worrying.

[@hoodedrage720]

Ive seen this video before but i just had to watch it again. I love your videos and i learn so much from them. Please dont stop being yourself

[@Bbaass_TMH]

"So here's the banana flesh ash water" is not a sentence I expected to hear... ever.

[@thesloppyscientist4428]

Not anymore.

[@DavidLindes]

I had trouble clicking the like button because my laughter was moving my hand. :D

[@the_db_gamer9970]

At this point I'm just watching Cody's lab to follow his never-ending quest to make the entire world nothing but charcoal.

[@Twistedcrescendo]

Some people just want to see the world carbonize.

[@hermenegildakociubinska6665]

"It's got a good mix of reactivity and energy density." Translation: "It goes boom."

[@AGMtagious]

if the surface area was greater, there would have been an even bigger explosion

[@gBaldaconi]

THE POWER OF BANANAS

[@thaddeusjames3524]

@@gBaldaconi the power of potassium.

[@tehsohong]

Im impressed how Cody did chemistry without any expensive equipment like especially when messing with uranium, radium and other radioactive stuff. Cody's some sort of god bro Im saying it

[@FunBoxGamingPOG]

Hours of work lead to the best word: *nice* That ladies and gentlemen is what I call time well spent.

[@Raz.C]

"Chlorides, Bromides and Iodides are always soluble, except for those of Silver, Lead and Mercury..." Man, back when I was at university, I used to know all the solubility rules (and just about everything else about analytical chemistry), for all the common compounds in polar and non-polar solvents. It's really heart-warming to see someone use the practical applications of such knowledge. Makes me nostalgic for my undergrad days some 25 years ago now...

[@Alexandria197]

Imagine building the Periodic Table to get all of the "like" elements grouped, was a long process

[@Raz.C]

@@Alexandria197 There are images of the periodic table, as it was during various years (ie: during the 1940s, the 1960s, etc...), which is amazingly interesting in relation to this very topic.

[@escapedcops08]

Funny how you comment like you know something about chemistry, then proceed to completely discredit yourself because you actually don't remember the knowledge.

[@Raz.C]

@@escapedcops08 I know that that's supposed to be an insult, presumably aimed to elicit an emotional outburst. Your only problem is... ... You're correct. As I say, it was 25 years ago since I was at university. There are VAST swathes of knowledge that I simply don't remember anymore. That was half the point of the comment; 'I remember that there are lists of solubility rules, but after almost 3 decades of having very little use for this knowledge, I no longer remember any more than the skeletal structure of said list. The meat from that skeleton has long since been lost to the winds of time and possibly dementia...'

[@lawliet2263]

@@Raz.C inorganic chemistry sucks

[@eQualizeri]

Worms' banana bombs started to make a whole lot more sense now.

[@Tazdingo01]

Great comment!

[@JohnSmith-ox3gy]

Genetically modified bananas to maximise potassium intake.

[@aymidin]

Exactly my thoughts :D

[@riseandshinemrfriman5925]

Oh god, that game. The nostalgic glory!

[@mattbrook203]

Nods to your skill and tenacity, young man. A true dance. Anyone whose banana hasn't exploded by the end of this video is clearly not following your recipe.

[@mustafakarakuscu8207]

A Normal Person: I should go eat some bananas. Cody: I think I can make a bomb out of these bananas

[@planet2]

all the bomb power is because of lithium. if Li can displace K, then K must has less power. maybe just use Li.

[@brianegendorf2023]

This is why Monty Python was so obsessed with "How to defend against a banana.."

[@mohammedabb985]

That's me and my friend in a science class.

[@al-imranadore1182]

Early gunpowder was made by charcoal, wild honey and potassium.

[@al-imranadore1182]

​@@planet2Li too expensive and can't be reused.