Hydrogen Peroxide: going all the way

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You need to be like me and quit grad school to make internet videos!!!

You know you're an amazing chemist when you get 102% purified solutions.

As an Australian the part that most resonated with me was having to stop your work in order to remove the snake that has found its way into your living room.

The baseball analogy double entendre had me cackling 'you need a license for second base in europe' 'most chemists I know who aren't rocket scientists never get to fourth base'

"Get the snake out of the house." Aye. Easily the most important step in Peroxide concentration.

So all I need is Phosphorus pentoxide, hail and a snake in my house, got it!

I remember on Mythbusters when they were testing the "Disolving a body in acid" myth, they used Sulfuric acid and one other chemical they wouldn't disclose, Jamie said "let's just say it has a lot of hydrogen and oxygen" and I instantly knew it must be Hydrogen Peroxide. And yep, they were making Piranha Solution! And yep, it turned the pig carcasses into soup!

It's kind of fun how you can see that, as the concentration goes up, it doesn't just become a better oxidizer, it becomes a cleaner oxidizer too.

When I was in my undergrad, I worked at a hotel to pay the bills. They had an Ozone generator they used to get the smell of smoke out of rooms if someone smoked when they shouldn't. Somehow it was given to a guest who thought they could stay in the room while it ran. It caused the guy to rupture a few blood vessels and spurt blood around the room. Was pretty nuts. Be safe :)

"most chemists wont ever make it to fourth base" Wise words

Dude, I was watching a documentary some times back where they said "Slowly decomposing dead cockroaches release SO2 which in turn react to water on surface of sewer walls to form sulfuric acid, which slowly eats the cement and causes collapse of sewer line". Could you check sulfur content of 100gms of cockroaches periplaneta americana or ur local species

I was so impressed about the 95% purity, which not even rockets use as 70% is good enough for an oxidizer + pressure source, that when he was like "Let's make H2O3" I was in disbelief

My husband is a chemist and could relate to the burn of high percentage hydrogen peroxide. He has never, however, achieved a 102% solution.

E&F: "We're gonna find a safer route" Also E&F: Bubbles ozone through pure peroxide indoors with a literal hell machine (Also congrats on funding your PhD 🙂)

I have watched pretty much every video now including Extractions&Ire. They have reminded me why I ever studied chemistry: explosions, poisons and drugs. Yeah doesn't sound too healthy now thinking back... But hell, went on to become a Biotech engineer and there are som pretty radical things going on there too, gene editing and stuff. Maybe more revolutionary at the moment but it's not really in your face in the same way as a good ol' explosion. Well here i am, as a project manager doing fuck all with any of that, but getting payed well. So just became your 666th Patreon, why the hell not.

We had an incident at work with some 3rd base H2O2, I think it was like 45%. Container leaked on a girl who wasn't paying a lick of attention to it. Literally right after being briefed on the dangers of hazmat spills. Started melting skin within 5 minutes and started oxidizing the concrete it fell on almost immediately. I legit feel like some of your channel could be real useful in industrial settings.

"Get the snake out of the house" The most Australian thing I've heard in a chemistry video

"Spherical oxygen in a vacuum" Thanks for making the applied maths person feel included.

4:53 Fun language fact: East Asian languages also got a suffix for element names, and it is used like '-ium' in many English element names. In Korean/Japanese Oxygen (with its etymology related to 'acid producer') becomes 'san(acid)-so' - with its 'acid' part being a homonym with the word 'mountain'. Meanwhile, in Korean the suffix 'so' also has a homonym; it is '*cow*'. Ergo, 'spherical oxygen in a vacuum' written in Korean pays better respect to its reference than the original English phrase; it's a homonym to 'a spherical mountain cow in a vacuum'. also carbon is a homonym to 'burnt cow', hydrogen to 'bull(male cow)', and nitrogen to '*vagina* cow'. Ammonia is a foursome.