I once kept hold of the metal part of the plug as i was sticking it into the wall,cuz it was pitch black in my room and i didn't wanna turn on a light. I found the plug,ended up shocking myself so bad i lost feeling in my hand for a couple of minutes,and screamed so hard i woke my mother up. Learned my lesson then and there.
misnas hummel i had an old cable in my room it was like 15-20 year old at least.. the plastic part broke when i tried to plug a charger in and i ended up with fortunately both wires in my hand. It definitely nummed my hamd And dismt hurt but not beeing able to move my fore arm at all to move my fingers away from the cable scared the shit ou of me
“Natural selection at this point” No. 138,730,122 I suppose since they get popular more appear and they flourish, I guess it’s natural selection at that point
I will say tho' the Glue gun they were using on the video has a larger nozzle... I've worked with those and the density of the final cold glue mess is actually pretty awesome (if put on the freezer for a bit)
In robotics class, my friend and I sharpened metal and attached it to the front of our robot. We created ankle slicers, but so did william. just, his are more effective.
William, a victim of a house fire: *makes a sponsored video about accidentally leaving the gas running on the stove and blowing up the house* Bless this man’s humor
I'm a former correctional officer. That cable with the razors is what my last institution likes to call, a "stinger". The inmates don't drink that boiling water. They use the boiling water like a sous vide cooker. They put bags of food in the boiling water to cook it, and then the boiled water is disposed of. The stingers are incredibly dangerous. I once watched an inmate get himself electrocuted while plugging one into a wall. He survived... Barely. He was left with brain damage after the incident, but he mostly recovered
@@ceruleanjaguar5298 I'm assuming your concern is about the usage of razors as improvised weapons, butbelieve it or not, razor blades aren't commonly used as weapons. They are, however, mostly getting phased out in favor of electric razors. As for WHY the inmates can buy razors on canteen/commissary, it's because there are strict regulations regarding personal care and grooming. Basically, facial hair is a no-go. Head hair has to be kept within certain guidelines as well, so a large number of inmates prefer to just shave their head and maintain it with electric razors, instead of having to go to the inmate barber and wait in line every few weeks. Now for how the razors pertain to the stingers: razor blades can be replaced with any piece of conductive metal and it will work exactly the same, so stingers are almost never constructed using razors. Inmate can get their hands on any piece of metal from a rusted bunk, or taken from the automotive park, or just a broken piece of chain link fence and the stinger will work exactly the same. I only mentioned razors in my comment because because it pertained to the video
Not to mention that by adding (relatively) big ammount of salt to the water you allow electrolysis of the salt, which produces hydrogen and chlorine gases as well as sodium hydroxide in the... "tea".
oh, yeah. attach several of those knifes to hang from wires from the bottom of the drones, and just send it into the battlebots arena. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG!
@@SylasTheGreat Also you're telling me I'm not supposed to copy a joke from the video when i quoted it because it's funny. Then you're telling me to grow up over the internet because I said dummy
The tea turned so dark because the iron from the corroded blades bound to the tannin molecules in the tea, which are what give it its colour. We use this to our advantage when making natural dyes and inks.
If you want beautiful sky blue eyes, you just squeeze some lemon juice (about 2x10 ml) and pour them on your eyes. Its important to do both eyes at the same time, because that way they will get the same color and the deepest blue you can achieve.
From my own experience with electrolysis, if the blades are stainless steel then the yellow tint is likely hexavalent chromium. Hexavalent chromium is a strong pollutant and a carcinogen, *VERY* stupid life hack. Edit: Whoops on that chemical name
@@RPBiohazard I'm sure it's not nearly enough to kill you with one cup, but I feel SO bad for anyone who regularly does this for whatever reason because that crap WILL build up and give you cancer if you keep drinking it.
@@carbolemons8810 since HCl is a strong acid it would immediately dissociate as soon as it formed if it were to form. Best case scenario there's excess Cl- ions in the water, worst case it puts off chlorine gas
It got really dark because iron reacts with the tannins in the tea and turns black. I use rusty water on oak (a high tannin wood) to turn it very dark in my shop.
Osman is stupid: Playing with a transformer Osman is smart: Going into a populated area to ensure his safety in the event he couldn't help himself. (Edit: Wtf why are you all liking this)
7:41, 9:40 electrolysis of salt water: [at the cathode] 2H+ + 2e- → H2; [at the anode] 2Cl- → Cl2 + e- (or 2Cl- - e- → Cl2). Producing hydrogen and chlorine gases and leaving Na²+ and OH- in solution. The brown is quite literally chlorine gas.
@@Plaraius simple NaCl (salt) in water + electricity is chlorine gas and Hydrogen. This is why it also looks yellowish (brown/red is probably rust) edit: I forgot he's probably also adding cupper to the water due to the wire
@Uranium_Isotope owww it still does react it just makes it pointless in practice. It's not very efficient and you can not separate your products but it will still generate some of the products and it will still rust part of the iron. I'm darn sure from the yellow colour chlorine gets formed. Electricity still flows even when it alternates, meaning enough energy and electrons are still provided to cause these reactions even if it's in smaller quantities (he also added a lot of salt, probably saturated). Otherwise please provide a good explanation/proof/reference, preferably based on physics and/or chemistry.
Ah, the Death Cable, I remember my first Death Cable. I would use it to separate oxygen and hydrogen for miscellaneous usage when I was 13. One night, I dropped both leads then accidentally stepped on each one with a different bare foot. My giblets have NEVER jumped like that again, and I also have never used a death cable again. BTW, I never successfully captured Hydrogen or Oxygen.
Making hydrogen gas is easy but you need to use sodium hydroxide and unreactive electrodes like graphite to make oxygen gas. Also, use DC power from a battery, not AC from the wall.
yeah i was just about to say - electrolysis basically does not happen at all with AC power. if you read into what actually happens during electrolysis, you should quickly get why AC can't really work. but since batteries drain super fast when doing that, get a power adapter instead, for example one of those 20V ones for notebooks; they usually also contain a FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER to change the AC to DC. when I was like 14 or something i also build an electrolysis chamber out of two plastic bottles (which i connected at the bottom, so i was able to separate the gas that came from each individual electrode), an old notebook adapter and two pencil leads (which are basically pure graphite). It seemed to work great; i definitely collected some hydrogen gas. I also was able to create some chlorine gas by just dumping loads of salt into the water filled chamber so the electrodes got covered by it because the water was oversaturated (in hindsight, im still wondering why that even worked) - which wasnt a great idea overall, my whole room reeked of chlorine for a while and my mom noticed.
That's assuming your worst enemy will just drink a beverage you randomly offer him. The real trap would be to pretend it was your tea and it was the only thing you still valued in prison life, so he'd steal it from you out of spite and poison himself.
Fun fact: When you stick a stick, twig, or piece of any wood in hot or boiling water, it turns the water to a yellowish color. Also, you should try mixing ammonia with chlorine, to make some mustard gas.
@@jaffacakejeff7604 There's NaOH in every salt water solution and the electrolysis barely makes more of it. That's probably the least concerning thing about the tea.
Also, please PLEASE do not consume stuff like this again in future videos. If you get terribly sick, the lifehack video makers win, and nobody wants that.
@BeeBomb I know that stainless steel may produce chomium which is carcinogen. I was assuming, that the sarcasm contained in my reply would be more obvious. In fact I was just curious about the brain damage thing, but I think watching those kind of "life hacks" is brain damage enough.
When I was 8, my dad left a "deathcable" on the kitchen table. I took it over to my friend's house and we shoved the exposed wires into a tomato and plugged it into an electrical socket outside. Needless to say we were in a lot of trouble when our parents found us standing over a burning fucking tomato.
I remember at age, like, 5 or 6 I found a death cable at my grandmas house. I was unsupervised, the cable had about an inch of exposed copper wiring, probably more, it was about as thick as a broom handle around. I found it, grabbed it by the copper wiring, saw it was a cable so I plugged it into the nearest wall outlet still by the copper mind you, and proceeded to understand why you dont touch funny plugged in wires. This is the first time I've shocked the hell outta myself with electricity, but the most prominent because fucking hell that thing hurt like a bitch.
I was so tempted to answer with something like "Oh my god, is that a safety nerd" hahaha but in your case I just laughed. Also did something like that when I was little
I had also tried that a long time ago and it was way more insane than this. I had added way more salt in and the whole room was vibrating at 50Hz and it as arcing like crazy and a few minutes later the room was vibrating even more and was splashing until power went so high that breaker tripped and the water at that point was completely brown and smelled like bleach.
@@the1exnay its has a wooden floor and because of the very high current and the violent chemical reactions it was producing a lot of vibration as well so much that it made the room to vibrate!!! It was obvious that crazy stuff would happen because it was dissipating about 3 to 4kW on a small glass
Why does everyone seem to think he made chlorine? This wouldn't happen. Look at standard reduction potentials for chlorine and sodium in comparison to oxygen and hydrogen. He built a hydrolyzer. It made hydrogen and oxygen. The color is probably from a reaction between the copper and the water.
@@Elwood559 Did you not read anything he just said? H2O has a much greater reduction potential, meaning they would reduce into H2(g) and O2(g) way before Cl- does
So the prison kettle water turned brown from rapid oxidization of the (primarily steel) razor blades. You ever notice the tank of gas on an arc welder? That's inert sheilding gas used to protect the weld from oxidizing. Under current, metals oxidize at EXTREMELY rapid rates. The current passing through the razor blades heated the water enough to cause the water in immediate contact to vaporize into hydrogen and oxygen, and the oxygen rapidly oxidized the metal blades, resulting in rust. Congrats, William *You made tetanus kettle* Edit: this isn't even to mention the various heavy metals used in the stainless steel and the chrome plating- all of which are more serious than iron oxide. So, congrats further, William *you made a cancer kettle*
This isnt even the bad part of it though... If what you were saying was the worst of it, he could just get a tetanus shot and be good. The chromium ions are he scary stuff along with the chlorine gas and hydrogen gas. I just did a lab on electrolysis in Chem 102, but that was with very diluted solutions and we still needed to be careful because of the Hydrogen and Chlorine gas. What he did is potentially deadly and carcinogenic.
To be fair, why the hell did his parents go "Merry Christmas little William! Here, go play with this high voltage microwave transformer while Grammy cooks the roast!"
Zibril 371 And the British term is stupid, here. Alfred Nobel didn’t sell medicine, he invented dynamite. Using “chemist” as a term for someone who actively works with chemical synthesis AND for a drug consultant is obtuse and honestly one of the worst homonyms in the entire English language.
The water boiling hack was basically to build an electrolytic cell. The gunk in the water was the outer layer of the razor blades being reduced/oxidized.
Not really - it's not actually doing much electrolysis since it's powerd by AC and not DC. There are actually electric kettles that use this very method and they don't turn the water yellow/green and/or produce hydrogen/chlorine or other electrolysis byproducts. Though personally I would still not drink water prepared in such a kettle.
@@Undy1 Electrolysis does occur under AC conditions, but you don't get separation of the reaction products at the electrodes. Kettles that use this principle are dodgy at best, and if it used SS electrodes I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.
0:30 omg I love that screwdriver. I used to have the same one(I think I still do). It fit every screw you used it on and when I was a kid I used to throw it at my wall like a throwing knife and stick it in the drywall. One of the most well built screwdrivers I’ve ever used.
I love how terrified William seems to be of the double edged razors. Shave with a safety razor for a few weeks (months/years if you only rarely shave like me) and you'll just be like "eh" about handling them. Also gotta appreciate how the coatings and industrial oils for the blades come off of them immediately.
This has Dave the barbarian vibes “Created a megaphone, using only a squirrel, a piece of string, and a megaphone” -cuts to a squirrel tied to a megaphone
so i'm only a little baby sophomore year biochemist, so maybe someone more experienced can correct me but... doesn't applying electricity to a salt solution produce chlorine gas... which is yellow? i think the yellow is probably just from the wood, but still gotta love poison gas
Let's go that through. - You played with electrolysis. - then it smelled bad. - then you left your family, went in your room... HA I found the mistake.
"I cut myself with a plastic knife handle. That's got to be a first" Reminds me of when I somehow managed to cut myself with a wisk. Wasn't even sharp or broken. No idea how I managed it.
When he said that he went into the room with his family just incase if he did die someone would be there with him. I totally relate to that from having anxiety and would also do that from drug abuse, when I was afraid I overdosed.
The reason your tea turned so dark is a reaction between dissolved iron ions and tannins in the tea. One form of olde fashioned ink is called "iron gall ink." It was a two part mixture made from soluble iron and oak tannins. Thanks Townsends!
@Alexander Steel imagine trying to start an argument with somebody's entire generation because they _like their eggs to be in the shape of a cat_ that is some true boomer energy right there.
The thing with the razor blades, we're done it 40 years ago. Worked fine, but instead of wood, we used a plastic cap from an empty toothpaste container.
Can't wait for william to discover that you can make beautiful crystals by mixing some common household cleaning agents and blowing bubbles into the mixture with a straw.
@@brycemw well, bleach and ammonia. i dunno if windex has a lot of ammonia in it, but it's just generally wise to avoid mixing any strong chemicals, especially cleaners, if you don't know what it will do and you're not in a properly ventilated space.
That touchy-wirey tale explains so much about William's life trajectory
he just sat there quietly in his family's presence, without telling anyone, so if he dies they save him, that's so cute omg.
more ironically, he wears "cat shooting lightning through his chest" T-shirt
I once kept hold of the metal part of the plug as i was sticking it into the wall,cuz it was pitch black in my room and i didn't wanna turn on a light. I found the plug,ended up shocking myself so bad i lost feeling in my hand for a couple of minutes,and screamed so hard i woke my mother up. Learned my lesson then and there.
misnas hummel i had an old cable in my room it was like 15-20 year old at least.. the plastic part broke when i tried to plug a charger in and i ended up with fortunately both wires in my hand.
It definitely nummed my hamd
And dismt hurt but not beeing able to move my fore arm at all to move my fingers away from the cable scared the shit ou of me
Yeah high power bull wire, big chest oof.
Thinking quickly, William creates a spoon using only hot glue and a spoon.
Wait...
How to make a spoon with a hot glue gun and a spoon:
Step 1: Ditch the hot glue gun
Step 2: Enjoy your spoon
How to get a spoon:
Step 1: Get a spoon
Eithed this is funnier, or the fact that there IS a step 2.
Yeah, but can he make a megaphone?
r/TQDC
If people actually try these life hacks unironically and something bad happens it's kinda just natural selection at that point
Perhaps that is the true goal of those videos
“Natural selection at this point” No. 138,730,122
I suppose since they get popular more appear and they flourish, I guess it’s natural selection at that point
Doing these is like being an anti-vax mom, you’re going to kill your kids
Over population is a real problem
It really do be that way sometimes.
that hot glue spoon is the life hack equivalent of needing scissors to open up a pack of scissors
Or needing a pack of eggs to make a fake egg
Serperate a human body part to make a fake human
Blunt scissors.
Kinda, except the scissors also have blades inside the handles
I will say tho' the Glue gun they were using on the video has a larger nozzle... I've worked with those and the density of the final cold glue mess is actually pretty awesome (if put on the freezer for a bit)
can we appreciate how he puts a timer thing at the bottom of his sponsored messages? My respect for this man has grown.
too bad he only did it this time & then almost never again 😔
@@valx5 I think in some of the super restrictive sponsorship contracts that you can't do that.
Progress bar
Nice pfp
The hacksmith does this
"Did we start with an electric knife life hack and end up with a battle bot?"
How you know the instructions were unclear.
Instructions Unclear, Accidentally Created Skynet.
Directions unclear accidentally established peace in the Middle East
@@Littlefieldpaints fisto
In robotics class, my friend and I sharpened metal and attached it to the front of our robot. We created ankle slicers, but so did william. just, his are more effective.
William, a victim of a house fire: *makes a sponsored video about accidentally leaving the gas running on the stove and blowing up the house*
Bless this man’s humor
I was the 68th like.
*I guide others to a treasure I cannot posses.*
@@deadaccount2212 the hardest choices require the hardest will
TurtleFace behind every great man, there’s 68 better men.
Great comment, but it wasn’t a house fire. That would technically mean the fire started in his house. It was consumed by the wildfires in CA.
Brian yeah but I can see where they’re coming from because William kept referring to it as my house burned down not wildfires burnt my house down
I'm a former correctional officer. That cable with the razors is what my last institution likes to call, a "stinger". The inmates don't drink that boiling water. They use the boiling water like a sous vide cooker. They put bags of food in the boiling water to cook it, and then the boiled water is disposed of. The stingers are incredibly dangerous. I once watched an inmate get himself electrocuted while plugging one into a wall. He survived... Barely. He was left with brain damage after the incident, but he mostly recovered
Question WHY DO THEY GIVE THEM RAZERS!?!?
@@ceruleanjaguar5298 I'm assuming your concern is about the usage of razors as improvised weapons, butbelieve it or not, razor blades aren't commonly used as weapons. They are, however, mostly getting phased out in favor of electric razors. As for WHY the inmates can buy razors on canteen/commissary, it's because there are strict regulations regarding personal care and grooming. Basically, facial hair is a no-go. Head hair has to be kept within certain guidelines as well, so a large number of inmates prefer to just shave their head and maintain it with electric razors, instead of having to go to the inmate barber and wait in line every few weeks.
Now for how the razors pertain to the stingers: razor blades can be replaced with any piece of conductive metal and it will work exactly the same, so stingers are almost never constructed using razors. Inmate can get their hands on any piece of metal from a rusted bunk, or taken from the automotive park, or just a broken piece of chain link fence and the stinger will work exactly the same. I only mentioned razors in my comment because because it pertained to the video
this was really interesting! thanks for taking the time to share
it's sous vide
@@TheRaven7 you're right, my bad
When stainless steel is used in electrolysis the chromium turns into chromium oxide and similar other things that are very poisonous and carcenogenic
They also make terrible tea
Not to mention that by adding (relatively) big ammount of salt to the water you allow electrolysis of the salt, which produces hydrogen and chlorine gases as well as sodium hydroxide in the... "tea".
If you add salt aren't you also making chlorine? That would explain why it was yellow at first
Chromium oxide is not toxic or carcinogenic, but you might create small amounts of some (di)chromates, which are carcinogenic.
well, william's dead
That neon sign transformer story is definitely what caused Williams brain to function how it does.
That automatic knife would go great with michael's drone swarm
A weapon to surpass metal gear
Now all we need is ankle recognition
@@heheheiamasuperstarwarrior9281 yes
HEHEHE I AM A SUPASTAR WARRIOR I was a man like you until I took a drone swarm knife to the knee
oh, yeah. attach several of those knifes to hang from wires from the bottom of the drones, and just send it into the battlebots arena. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG!
I died when Michael showed up during the “we are part of the problem”
god he really just.. cuts his finger then immediately shoves his entire fist into a trashcan
this boy can not be controlled
So you're just gonna completely ignore the part where he drank fucking CANCER TEA?
The guy's a beast
And then cuts wood with a hacksaw >_
afoolaloof this absolute fucking madlad.
"Woah! Botched toe! I need some trash to plug up the cut"
That's why he has a caretaker
"Are you trying to kill me"
Cameraman John: *Tilts camera slightly*
You're suppose to make up jokes not just copy a joke from the video...
@@SylasTheGreat thats why it's in quotes dummy
@@saydey3804 Lol now you're calling names because I proved that you don't know how the format works? Grow up kid
@@SylasTheGreat you're bullying me ;((((
@@SylasTheGreat Also you're telling me I'm not supposed to copy a joke from the video when i quoted it because it's funny. Then you're telling me to grow up over the internet because I said dummy
**Drinks tea**
**Walks into living room with family**
I literally fucking squealed
Jesus fuck
omfg dude i love u
It really was dangerous
It probably contained hexavalent chromium in small quantities (maybe) which is carcinogenic
The tea turned so dark because the iron from the corroded blades bound to the tannin molecules in the tea, which are what give it its colour. We use this to our advantage when making natural dyes and inks.
It also undergoes electrolysis probably which probably produces poisonous chemicals
Life hack:
1) Cover your car in hot glue.
2) Peel it off.
3) Second car!
This is where I'm going to get my new tires
im losing my mind over this
If you want beautiful sky blue eyes, you just squeeze some lemon juice (about 2x10 ml) and pour them on your eyes. Its important to do both eyes at the same time, because that way they will get the same color and the deepest blue you can achieve.
@@mirakovacs6981 eldobom az agyam
@@robertmilak5425 My eyes watered just reading that
Ahh the spoon duplication glitch still hasn’t been patched I guess.
Rdawgs good joke but, *hasn't
Over 500 likes and only 2 comments on it...that's rare
Over 564 likes and only 3 comments on it...that’s rare
Over 576 likes and only 4 comments on it...that's rare
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i like how he tells a story on how he almost died due to electricity, whilst wearing a lightning shirt
And a minute before producing chlorine
He’s showing off his defeated enemy or something I don’t know
the image of william osman screaming “IT’S JUST A SPOON???!!” at his computer lives in my head rent free
**Tries to blame company**
**ends up blaming self**
*It hurt itself in it confusion!*
william used confusion.
It was very effective.
That's great!🤣🤣🤣
Original life hack video: *Monetized*
William's follow up of that video saying the safty hazards:
*Demonitized*
TH-cam wants us dead chief......
They want us ALIVE with how dangerous these hacks are.
And this video is demonitized too... The theory becomes the truth!!
It is a sponsored video so...
Safty👏hazards👏
It’s kinda funny to imagine a kid waking into a room waiting, and then falling over because his heart stopped 20 seconds prior.
He wouldn’t get that far
@@RedshirtAfficionado that’s why it’s funny
Why didn't people get mad about THIS battlebot?
From my own experience with electrolysis, if the blades are stainless steel then the yellow tint is likely hexavalent chromium. Hexavalent chromium is a strong pollutant and a carcinogen, *VERY* stupid life hack.
Edit: Whoops on that chemical name
aaaaaaaaaaaand he drank it
@@RPBiohazard
I'm sure it's not nearly enough to kill you with one cup, but I feel SO bad for anyone who regularly does this for whatever reason because that crap WILL build up and give you cancer if you keep drinking it.
shouldnt there also be hydrocloric acid, where does the chlorine go from the salt if the sodium is taken for dichromate
@@carbolemons8810 since HCl is a strong acid it would immediately dissociate as soon as it formed if it were to form. Best case scenario there's excess Cl- ions in the water, worst case it puts off chlorine gas
Yeah, so he just drank strong acid :) you don't even need to add lemon to it
@@coolestto
Imagine if someone in prison found a razor blade but instead of using it to break out or make some sort of shank, they just use it to boil water...
Avery Slice they also found an outlet, exposed wire w/ cord, and chopsticks
And a tea bag
@@galliumg8483 Must be a British prison
@@mattwood1977 the food rations are tea and crumpets
from what i know you can buy cheap bic style razors in prison
they break the blades out to do that because they cant have a kettle lol
william: uses electrolysis to produce *chlorine gas*
also william: it smells wierd
how the fuck do you make chlorine outta Cu, H, and O?
probably some Fe and C
@@professormohawk1 From the NaCl he added to ionize the water
Ah ok
I forgot about that
Pure water does not conduct electricity so he had to add salt (probably most convenient)
It got really dark because iron reacts with the tannins in the tea and turns black.
I use rusty water on oak (a high tannin wood) to turn it very dark in my shop.
Osman is stupid: Playing with a transformer
Osman is smart: Going into a populated area to ensure his safety in the event he couldn't help himself.
(Edit: Wtf why are you all liking this)
Asher Pfanku no he went into the living room so he couldn’t die
"Populated" means people were there (i.e. his family in the living room)
Neil Kurowski just like he said
the duality of man
there are 666 likes and im keeping it that way, thank me later
7:41, 9:40 electrolysis of salt water: [at the cathode] 2H+ + 2e- → H2; [at the anode] 2Cl- → Cl2 + e- (or 2Cl- - e- → Cl2).
Producing hydrogen and chlorine gases and leaving Na²+ and OH- in solution. The brown is quite literally chlorine gas.
No, the Problem is that the chlorine reacted With the iron in the Blade to Form Fe(II)Cl2. This is even worst than NaOH
The FeCl2 is yellow By the way, thats where the colour comes from.
Yeah, I realised after a bit that the blades would've likely been involved in the electrolysis depending on their material.
smart bois
@@destinharrison9263 truthfully, it's because we're doing it in chemistry currently so the equations are burned into my mind for the time being.
William: I know what I'm doing
Also William: Makes chlorine gas in his home
Wait how
@@Plaraius simple NaCl (salt) in water + electricity is chlorine gas and Hydrogen.
This is why it also looks yellowish (brown/red is probably rust)
edit: I forgot he's probably also adding cupper to the water due to the wire
Wow
@Uranium_Isotope owww it still does react it just makes it pointless in practice.
It's not very efficient and you can not separate your products but it will still generate some of the products and it will still rust part of the iron.
I'm darn sure from the yellow colour chlorine gets formed.
Electricity still flows even when it alternates, meaning enough energy and electrons are still provided to cause these reactions even if it's in smaller quantities (he also added a lot of salt, probably saturated).
Otherwise please provide a good explanation/proof/reference, preferably based on physics and/or chemistry.
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cameraman john's comedy in this video kills me. when he holds his hand up immediately after william says the word hands, so funny
Ah, the Death Cable, I remember my first Death Cable. I would use it to separate oxygen and hydrogen for miscellaneous usage when I was 13. One night, I dropped both leads then accidentally stepped on each one with a different bare foot. My giblets have NEVER jumped like that again, and I also have never used a death cable again. BTW, I never successfully captured Hydrogen or Oxygen.
Making hydrogen gas is easy but you need to use sodium hydroxide and unreactive electrodes like graphite to make oxygen gas. Also, use DC power from a battery, not AC from the wall.
yeah i was just about to say - electrolysis basically does not happen at all with AC power. if you read into what actually happens during electrolysis, you should quickly get why AC can't really work. but since batteries drain super fast when doing that, get a power adapter instead, for example one of those 20V ones for notebooks; they usually also contain a FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER to change the AC to DC.
when I was like 14 or something i also build an electrolysis chamber out of two plastic bottles (which i connected at the bottom, so i was able to separate the gas that came from each individual electrode), an old notebook adapter and two pencil leads (which are basically pure graphite). It seemed to work great; i definitely collected some hydrogen gas. I also was able to create some chlorine gas by just dumping loads of salt into the water filled chamber so the electrodes got covered by it because the water was oversaturated (in hindsight, im still wondering why that even worked) - which wasnt a great idea overall, my whole room reeked of chlorine for a while and my mom noticed.
I used my first Death Cable to try to cook a bratwurst. It was very scary.
@@covodex516 Nice ElectroBOOM reference
Sounds like you should break out the death cable again next time you do it with your girlfriend.
>In prison.
>Has razors.
>Has access to wall outlet.
>Makes tea with death kettle.
>Gives tea to worst enemy.
>Worst enemy gets cancer and dies.
>Win.
Charles Catt he won’t get cancer he would die a more quicker death from the sodium hydroxide solution aka Lye
generally they use the light fixture in prisons, not a wall outlet.
sounds like a mafia city ad
That's assuming your worst enemy will just drink a beverage you randomly offer him.
The real trap would be to pretend it was your tea and it was the only thing you still valued in prison life, so he'd steal it from you out of spite and poison himself.
I feel like the sponsor should be life insurance 😂
you mean fire insurance?
who even says "fire" anymore?
Average son
No it is house insurance
No life insurance would sponsor a hazard like William
5:03 the way Michael is just staring into the room with murderous intent is hilarious
Razor blades are made of stainless steel so you could be making hexavalent chromium which is a genotoxic carcinogen
Benjijart a what now
@@thomasp7282 it makes you grow cancer
And they added salt so straight up chlorine gas
@@mitchellstrobbe7779 no you would need a graphite electrode for that
@@Bizarre-Daniel no.
At this rate there won’t be a Part 3.
Looks like u were right😢
Fr
Fun fact: saltwater electrolysis produces chlorine gas.
I was going to say what about the hydrogen but yeah you have a way more dangerous thing there
Not that fast it won’t be dangerous I would be worried about the copper from the wire more
@@Thegamingpenguin what's wrong with the copper?
Nicholas Loehrke I think copper can react with chlorine-ions
@@nicholasloehrke482 copper is toxic
They don't call it a death cable in the the trades, they call it a widow maker because... well... yeah its a death cable.
😂
5:02 sometimes Michael looks like a strange nerd and sometimes he looks like Captain America, I Just can’t explain
The person you’re talking about is Peter Parker.
@@ThatChester or superman
Sometimes he looks fourteen, sometimes he looks forty.
Michael has a very disproving look on his face.
i thought he looked like bruce banner
you're gonna get poisoned by the glue lmao.. edit: nvm he just drank prison chlorine yellow water
Bet Alpha I was thinking the same thing. 😂
yum hydrochloric acid
wouldnt it be sodium oxide? Edit: no wait, i just rememembered the Cl in NaCl, my bad. take away my damn chemistry degree.
I think this mixture at this point is one hell of a mix between hydrochloric acid, sodium hydroxide and elemental Chlorine...
With some tea
ITS JUST A SPOON
Fun fact: When you stick a stick, twig, or piece of any wood in hot or boiling water, it turns the water to a yellowish color.
Also, you should try mixing ammonia with chlorine, to make some mustard gas.
@@su-hoonc3073 to kill many and leave a lot of em with swollen eyes or maybe blind.
So basically pissing in a pool makes mustard gas?
Don’t give him ideas
hydrogen chloride is somewhat dangerous but not nearly as dangerous as mustard gas - bis(2-chloroethyl) sulfide
You need liquid apple seeds as well
I love the quote "if you don't know why its called a death cable then you shouldn't use one"
"Is that mold or blueberry?"- Said everyone since the creation of blueberry bagels
Good job William, you just drank cancer tea.
@@jaffacakejeff7604 There's NaOH in every salt water solution and the electrolysis barely makes more of it. That's probably the least concerning thing about the tea.
@@jaffacakejeff7604 He also made Cl2 which means death
Mind over matter bro!
@@jaffacakejeff7604 he produced salt water
lmao the chromium is a bigger concern than the sodium salts, like Chase says, legit cancer tea.
Also, please PLEASE do not consume stuff like this again in future videos. If you get terribly sick, the lifehack video makers win, and nobody wants that.
Mind over matter mate!
Ur gay
no risk, no fun.
what doesn't kill you makes you stronger
@Wigglez what do you mean?
@BeeBomb I know that stainless steel may produce chomium which is carcinogen. I was assuming, that the sarcasm contained in my reply would be more obvious.
In fact I was just curious about the brain damage thing, but I think watching those kind of "life hacks" is brain damage enough.
me on christmas with all the family: "oh hi everyone, just sitting here because i might have a heart attack any minute soon so don't mind me please"
i love how he brings in Michael's hot glue "gun" at the start
edit: sadly he didn't use it :(
He should laser bake clay into ceramic like make a laser clay cat plate
Edit: it would take a un focused beam probably so it can evenly bake the clay
When I was 8, my dad left a "deathcable" on the kitchen table. I took it over to my friend's house and we shoved the exposed wires into a tomato and plugged it into an electrical socket outside. Needless to say we were in a lot of trouble when our parents found us standing over a burning fucking tomato.
I would have explained the safety hazards but praised you for your ingenuity at 8 years old! Wow
That's awesome
I remember at age, like, 5 or 6 I found a death cable at my grandmas house. I was unsupervised, the cable had about an inch of exposed copper wiring, probably more, it was about as thick as a broom handle around. I found it, grabbed it by the copper wiring, saw it was a cable so I plugged it into the nearest wall outlet still by the copper mind you, and proceeded to understand why you dont touch funny plugged in wires. This is the first time I've shocked the hell outta myself with electricity, but the most prominent because fucking hell that thing hurt like a bitch.
Expected the story to end ALOT more darkly
I was so tempted to answer with something like "Oh my god, is that a safety nerd" hahaha but in your case I just laughed. Also did something like that when I was little
9:26 because you just produced chlorine gas
Also nice job on drinking poison tea from a death kettle
I had also tried that a long time ago and it was way more insane than this. I had added way more salt in and the whole room was vibrating at 50Hz and it as arcing like crazy and a few minutes later the room was vibrating even more and was splashing until power went so high that breaker tripped and the water at that point was completely brown and smelled like bleach.
DaUHardcoreCraft
Wait- the whole room was vibrating?
@@the1exnay its has a wooden floor and because of the very high current and the violent chemical reactions it was producing a lot of vibration as well so much that it made the room to vibrate!!! It was obvious that crazy stuff would happen because it was dissipating about 3 to 4kW on a small glass
plus tannins in the tea reacting with the iron make extra brown. I've made my own wood stains using tea and various metal oxides.
So if anyone were to do this like in the video and let it sit, they would have a lethal amount of chlorine gas?
I love rewatching this and hearing him say he made a battle bot. Now he has a real battle bot
William: *makes literal poison water*
William: “mmmm I don’t like it”
“...or if you’re a kid, just do it.”
*_WILLIAM OSMAN’S LAWYER HAS LEFT THE CHAT.”_*
It's a battlebot!
a combat battle robot.
In this episode, William kills everyone in the house with chlorine.
and gives himself cancer with chromium tea
Why does everyone seem to think he made chlorine? This wouldn't happen. Look at standard reduction potentials for chlorine and sodium in comparison to oxygen and hydrogen. He built a hydrolyzer. It made hydrogen and oxygen. The color is probably from a reaction between the copper and the water.
@@andersledell8643 Because there is salt in it (NaCl). Trough electrolysis the chlorine (Cl) turns into a gas.
@@Elwood559 Did you not read anything he just said? H2O has a much greater reduction potential, meaning they would reduce into H2(g) and O2(g) way before Cl- does
I've been randomly watching your videos, in no particular order, and this is the one that got me to subscribe.
So you probably have every type of cancer at once after that tea.
Tyler Tenebrae I cant like the comment it has 69 likes
@@LunaBonnell what about it
Kapitán Lampion it’s the funny number
@@LunaBonnell NICE
don't forget the chlorine gas created through electrolysis
So the prison kettle water turned brown from rapid oxidization of the (primarily steel) razor blades.
You ever notice the tank of gas on an arc welder? That's inert sheilding gas used to protect the weld from oxidizing. Under current, metals oxidize at EXTREMELY rapid rates.
The current passing through the razor blades heated the water enough to cause the water in immediate contact to vaporize into hydrogen and oxygen, and the oxygen rapidly oxidized the metal blades, resulting in rust.
Congrats, William
*You made tetanus kettle*
Edit: this isn't even to mention the various heavy metals used in the stainless steel and the chrome plating- all of which are more serious than iron oxide.
So, congrats further, William
*you made a cancer kettle*
Tetanus is caused by a bacteria, it wont just... pop into existence on any oxidised metal.
@@Magmafrost13 it doenst even need metal as long as there is no oxygen around they are happy
The byproducts of electrolysis with the materials he used are much worse
You mean... tetanus tea!
This isnt even the bad part of it though... If what you were saying was the worst of it, he could just get a tetanus shot and be good. The chromium ions are he scary stuff along with the chlorine gas and hydrogen gas. I just did a lab on electrolysis in Chem 102, but that was with very diluted solutions and we still needed to be careful because of the Hydrogen and Chlorine gas. What he did is potentially deadly and carcinogenic.
Imagine sitting around with your family at Christmas when your kid walks in and sits then up and dies of a heart attack. Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas your son is dead ‹3 happy holidays
To be fair, why the hell did his parents go "Merry Christmas little William! Here, go play with this high voltage microwave transformer while Grammy cooks the roast!"
@@Sammie1053 that's a normal Christmas, the kids go play with dangerous things while the adults cook, perfectly normal
*Christmas Time
*"It's a Christmas Miracle!!!"*
"Kids, whatever you do, do not do this. Unless you're in prison."
Logical train of thought right there
William for a man that is "experienced" in the field of physics its shockimg to see you not noticing electrolysis
Demondji to be fair, he’s an engineer, not a chemist
nosepassnation that’s not what a chemist does, a chemist works behind the counter and sells you drugs 🥴
Jaden bourne That’s a a pharmacist.
@@tonyhakston536 he's a brit
Zibril 371 And the British term is stupid, here.
Alfred Nobel didn’t sell medicine, he invented dynamite. Using “chemist” as a term for someone who actively works with chemical synthesis AND for a drug consultant is obtuse and honestly one of the worst homonyms in the entire English language.
The water boiling hack was basically to build an electrolytic cell. The gunk in the water was the outer layer of the razor blades being reduced/oxidized.
Not really - it's not actually doing much electrolysis since it's powerd by AC and not DC. There are actually electric kettles that use this very method and they don't turn the water yellow/green and/or produce hydrogen/chlorine or other electrolysis byproducts.
Though personally I would still not drink water prepared in such a kettle.
@@Undy1 Electrolysis does occur under AC conditions, but you don't get separation of the reaction products at the electrodes. Kettles that use this principle are dodgy at best, and if it used SS electrodes I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.
I doubt anyone else could accidentally make a battlebot while trying to make anything else.
This is the same man who cut himself with a knife _handle_
Well, I guess this is how the battlebot buy idea started.
I love how you can make a battle bot with no problem but you struggled to make a working spoon
RIP William Osman, died at 15. Luckily he survived.
btw, Cameraman John driving at 5:43 you're welcome
I love how William is pointing out the uselessness of the spoon hack by asking Cameraman John to get more spoon
That was one of the best sponsor segments I’ve ever seen
Life Hacks 3: William gets lock jaw.
Life hacks 4: easy grave ideas
What's he gonna get lock jaw from
@@guerillarice1129, the razor water?
@@theyappingvoyager how though, just cause its nasty doesnt mean he's gonna get lock jaw
@@guerillarice1129 tetanus
Family: "Alright, Chloe, what are we doing for tonight's wholesome family activity?"
Me: "we're gonna make BATTLE BOTS"
3:40 oh heck, something about that lisp is so precious
0:30 omg I love that screwdriver. I used to have the same one(I think I still do). It fit every screw you used it on and when I was a kid I used to throw it at my wall like a throwing knife and stick it in the drywall. One of the most well built screwdrivers I’ve ever used.
I always come back to this video, partly just for "IT'S JUST A SPOOON?"
It’s iconic 😂
My first time seeing it it's now
Spooon
3:40
Video Idea: Use as many life hacks as possible to create a combat-"ready" battle bot
Hot glue gun spoon robot would win.
>william talking: no audible speach impedement
>william screaming: pronounced lisp
Poor lad.
Boy Genius: A Jimmy Neutron Movie official
Sorry to be that "guy"
*speech
*impediment
But I agree with your post
@@ayekantspeylgud Damn I really didn't check my spelling lmao.
I love how terrified William seems to be of the double edged razors. Shave with a safety razor for a few weeks (months/years if you only rarely shave like me) and you'll just be like "eh" about handling them.
Also gotta appreciate how the coatings and industrial oils for the blades come off of them immediately.
When I saw Michael Reeves for that second I just felt the demonetization brewing...
I bet he was doing one of his usual death machines
It’s just peering round the corner of the door waiting to pounce
13:40 why the U.S Navy sponsored him. They're trying to get him to develop weapons for them.
William: (Adds NaCl to electrolysis kettle)
Chemists: REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Obviously the smartest choice is adding sodium chloride to pure water also creating chlorine gas, and finally drinking it.
Uh no dude, that's salt.
@@awest182 yeah, sodium chloride.
*That's what I said*
@@codenamechick5614 i bet you didn't punch the button with the food on it
@@castingdefects nah, I instead memorized the prices and did the tax and change in my head.
This has Dave the barbarian vibes
“Created a megaphone, using only a squirrel, a piece of string, and a megaphone”
-cuts to a squirrel tied to a megaphone
so i'm only a little baby sophomore year biochemist, so maybe someone more experienced can correct me but... doesn't applying electricity to a salt solution produce chlorine gas... which is yellow? i think the yellow is probably just from the wood, but still
gotta love poison gas
what about drinking it?
@@byronisbell Probably less dangerous than smelling it while it was releasing free chlorine gas.
@@danielnewby2255 wrong
@@danielnewby2255 "Probably less dangerous"
That is a big probably
the yellow is from iron ions and rust in the water, which also turns dark when exposed to tannins from the tea
let us just ignore the insanity of eating hot food with a wad of solid glue.
"how to make a spoon"
Materials:
A spoon
This is the only channel I actually watch the sponsors
1/10 instructions unclear, family dead from chlorine poisoning
Oh...
You didn’t like them anyways
Ok... I'm talking to my self
wait that wasn't the point?
Let's go that through.
- You played with electrolysis.
- then it smelled bad.
- then you left your family, went in your room... HA I found the mistake.
The next life hack should be combining bleach and Amonia to make the worlds most powerful cleaning agent
Oh god oh fuck I did it and now my bathroom smell like bad help oh god oh frick
I love the feeling of my lungs being vaporized. Correct me if I'm wrong on what mustard gas does to lungs.
They already produced chlor gas with the "water cooker"
Or make the "homegrown 4chan crystals"
Yummy chlorine gas yim yum 😋
"I cut myself with a plastic knife handle. That's got to be a first"
Reminds me of when I somehow managed to cut myself with a wisk. Wasn't even sharp or broken. No idea how I managed it.
I cut the tip off 2 of my fingers with an umbrella.
Go figure
a friend sliced his hand open with a carrot, just a carrot, no sharp edges.
I sliced my hand with a couch. Nothing wrong with the couch
I cut my hand with a cupboard while sleeping
probably pinched your skin between the wire things
When he said that he went into the room with his family just incase if he did die someone would be there with him. I totally relate to that from having anxiety and would also do that from drug abuse, when I was afraid I overdosed.
micheal standing in the doorway like some gremlin is the biggest mood of 2019
6:05
If you look in the drawer he has one of those things that make your eggs look like a cat.
Pretty sure you took a sip of sodium hydroxide...
Also hexavalent chromium (carcinogenic) and ferric chloride (toxic) according to a comment below
get your murder victims to sip sodium hydroxide before you murder them to dispose of the body quicker!
William: 3:20 “don’t play with electricity”
Also William: *has a t-shirt of a cat playing with electricity*
Amnesiac lol
William's spoon reaction had a huge amount of "THERE'S MEAT IN THE BOOT?!?!" energy.
"ITH JUSTHT A STHPOON!"
- William Osman
joe mamma I was gonna comment that
*its a floppy spoon*
It is a spoon
@@ryber2264 oh shit, is that THE spoon?!?!
The reason your tea turned so dark is a reaction between dissolved iron ions and tannins in the tea. One form of olde fashioned ink is called "iron gall ink." It was a two part mixture made from soluble iron and oak tannins. Thanks Townsends!
6:05
If you look in the drawer he has one of those things that make your eggs look like a cat.
Ok *millenial*
It makes my eggs... what?
That is a brand new sentence.
@Alexander Steel imagine trying to start an argument with somebody's entire generation because they _like their eggs to be in the shape of a cat_
that is some true boomer energy right there.
i thought i didn't know what you were talking about but then i went to the time stamp. why in God's name do i know exactly what you're talking about
The thing with the razor blades, we're done it 40 years ago. Worked fine, but instead of wood, we used a plastic cap from an empty toothpaste container.
"how do you even make a knife for $2?"
*Chinese manufacturing and labour has entered the chat*
economies of scale
Poundland: Allow us to introduce ourselves
Lots of children and coal.
@Aierek yo copper is kind of expensive, the knife is just small
the tang is literally negative tang.
the knife is worse than using a sharp rock
Can't wait for william to discover that you can make beautiful crystals by mixing some common household cleaning agents and blowing bubbles into the mixture with a straw.
Seiden Labs bleach and windex right? Those are the things I am told to never mix so I assume that
Yeah and make sure to do it in a room with no windows or ventilation for *maximum effect*
@@brycemw well, bleach and ammonia. i dunno if windex has a lot of ammonia in it, but it's just generally wise to avoid mixing any strong chemicals, especially cleaners, if you don't know what it will do and you're not in a properly ventilated space.
God that was a funny video. Sent it to my friends.
@@opsoc777 its not actually a video, its a post.
William: “Are you trying to kill me?”
Cameraman John: *Dutch Tilt Intensifies*
who would've thought the video's sponsor, LastPass, would also be a dangerous life hack?