From Reactions. What’s more fun than proving a 100 year old chemistry principle wrong? #bredtsrule #molecules #chemistry #doublenonds

From Reactions. Take PBS’ audience survey: https://to.pbs.org/2024SurveyReax Kidney stones are the worst so I made some at home and tested supposed prevention methods to hopefully keep them at bay. Citrate is what doctors recommend to prevent them but how is a little lemon in your water going to stop them from forming? And are all…

From Reactions. but whatever creams your twinkie, I guess. #silica #supplements #smoothie #chemistry

From Reactions. Check Out Weathered: Earth’s Extremes: https://to.pbs.org/WeatheredReax We finally got around to checking our email and found a surprisingly interesting question from a subscriber: are trees bad? #trees #isoprene #VOCs #VolatileOrganicCompounds #ozone #LD50 #urbanAirPollution #airPollution Executive Producer: Matthew Radcliff Producers: Andrew Sobey Elaine Seward Darren Weaver Writers: George Zaidan Hosts: George Zaidan Scientific Consultants:…

From Reactions. You’ve heard Yellow #5 can turn mice transparent, but how well does it work on people? We found the perfect, almost too willing, suspect to try this on. #transparentskin #mice #experiment #biomedicalresearch

From Reactions. That’s right, every other video you’ve seen about color has been wrong, or, at least, incomplete. Because they pretty much all say that when light hits an object, some is absorbed, whatever isn’t is reflected back, and that’s what we perceive as color. But absorption is not the whole story. This video is…

From Reactions. not sure why anyone would want to make everclear even stronger, but #distillation #alcohol #chemistry

From Reactions. This was testing the L-methamphetamine inhaler directly, not after metabolism, so maybe the test can distinguish between the metabolites but not the drugs themselves? If you have any other guesses, let us know. #organicchemistry #pharmacology #scienceshorts

From Reactions. In the process you wind up with aluminum corrosion all over your lasagna, so you may not want to eat the electrolyte after this experiment. #battery #cathode #anode #electrode

From Reactions. Companies around the world are fighting to buy a rare radioactive substance, despite its $30,000-per-gram price tag. This substance powers emergency exit signs that can stay bright for two decades without power, glow-in-the-dark keychains, and might one day unlock the holy grail of clean energy. What is this mystery substance? Join George as…

From Reactions. This decongestant contains methamphetamine and we proved it with a simple drug test. #chirality #methamphetamine #falsepositive

From Reactions. This motion proved that atoms exist. #brownianmotion #einstein #atoms

From Reactions. In 2022, news broke that a critical, groundbreaking Alzheimer’s research paper had allegedly been a fraud, and the media began to speculate how many billions of dollars and thousands of hours of scientists’ time had been wasted. But then the news articles stopped and research continued and now, there are two potentially helpful…

From Reactions. Similar to chemical oxygen generators that supply the emergency masks on commercial airliners, but these matches use KClO3 instead of NaClO3. We also made a video about those airplane emergency oxygen generators, if you’re curious: #survival #waterproof #chemistry

From Reactions. The TL;DR of their response is "thanks for contacting us, but we don’t know any more about product R&D than you do." Never hurts to ask, though. #chemistry #antidote #acetaminophen #paracetamol

From Reactions. A lot of people on the internet have been telling Alex to drink raw milk. This is a bad idea, a particularly bad one actually. So she wanted to make a video about why it’s such a bad idea to consume raw milk then she realized she’s been eating raw milk without even…

From Reactions. Chemically speaking, you should hate the taste of cilantro. So those of you who have the superior genes that makes cilantro tastes like soap, here are your bragging rights. #cilantro #aldehydes #stinkbug #shorts

From Reactions. If you’ve ever looked at the names of over the counter medicines, you might have noticed they all end in hydrochloric acid. Why?! #hydrochloricacid #pseudoephedrine #salt #ionicbond #shorts

From Reactions. How would you stick a slice of banana to a sheet of copper? Until a few months ago, you couldn’t. But a new discovery called “hard-soft electroadhesion” enables chemists to stick almost any hydrogel to almost any metal, using nothing but an electric current. Join George as he tries to replicate electroadhesion in…

From Reactions. gum + chocolate, not recommended. We still need Alex to test gum + butter, olive oil, avocado, pork lard, and everclear. #gum #foodscience #chemistry

From Reactions. Pennies may need to be replaced more often than tarnish strips, but they’re pennies, so… Also, we do not recommend storing your silver with scrambled eggs. #silver #tarnishfreejewelry #chemistry

From Reactions. Probably nothing to panic about, but it’s generally better to know what you’re putting in your body. #tattoo #ink #chemistry