I appreciate Medhi because he's always willing to take those daring moves that most of us succumb to our death for, but he actually lays down the truth to show us just at which point it becomes dangerous
@@joeljustin Sincerely I don't know but I suppose at high voltage, even if cathode and anode are always switching position, an amount of gases can be produced. Btw I was just kidding cuz he said that sentence lmao
@@joeljustin Then you have alternating electrolysis! It can be useful in some circumstances, like generating HHO. In this experiment the salt water turned dark from the electrolytic oxidation of the copper wiring. Basically, some combination of Cu + H2O -> CuO + H2 Cu + 2H2O -> Cu(OH)2+H2
@@gabrielemazzone2774 If he used graphite electrodes in water instead of copper wires then he would have made some chlorine gas and the room would smell like bleach. Essentially, via 2H(+) + 2Cl(-) → Cl2(g) + H2(g) With some of the chlorine gas re-dissolving back into the water and actually forming bleach, via Cl2(g) + OH(-) → HOCl + Cl(-)
Mike Zelik this is a question for my science fair project: Is there a way to perform electrolysis without getting the “dissolved metal effect” that is turning the water brown and if so, how can it be done? It would be very helpful if you answered this question. Thanks!
For a plastic or ceramic-coated bathtub, your glass container is probably an adequate comparison. I do wonder how metal pipes connected to the bathtub sink would impact the flow of electricity though. If you were close enough with your upper body to the live wires and touched the sink with your foot by accident, it might be dangerous as you are now grounded via the metal pipe and the current could flow through your body.
@@cynicalskeptic i dont remember the shocked in bathtub one but its about the news where a girl died from electrocution in bathtub, i believe from The Rectifier series. The other one is testing the shower of doom
4:24 By the way, this is electrolysing the saltwater, producing hydrogen gas (explosive) and chlorine gas (extremely toxic, used to kill people in WW2). This is far more of a risk than electrocution in this scenario
so does that mean that if i fill a tub with saltwater and electrolyze it then get in it i’ll die and kill whoever enters the bathroom in a short period of time without them having to get in the water also?
@ElectroBOOM, take note of this, you don't want chlorine gas... It's deadly. Also, you were producing hydrogen and oxygen gas, which when combined are quite explosive in the presence of a flame or spark.🤣
@samuelreddekopp It probably dissolved some into copper hypochlorites (or even chlorates) at that point. You'd generally quite well notice/observe the *"smell"* of real/pure chlorine gas *_*long before*_* it would become a problem, that is (unless Mehdi _omitted_ some things here (and _didn't_ tell us some observations lol)). Funny enough, chlorine gas still smells like a pungent pool, even if your average/regular pool odor actually comes from "chloramines" and/or other "chlorinated byproducts" instead...
Here in Lithuania we have a special trick called taking the electricity from the basement (if you're living in a condo) so every neighbour shares the payment, and that's that. Mine bitcoin or experiment as much as you want!
I think some of the danger with Sinks and Tubs is that the drain may be grounded (if not PVC) so that may impact it. Also, I'm curious as to the conductance of things like soaps, bubble baths, etc. that might be in standing water in a bathroom. I've also heard of people getting electrocuted from touching non-GFCI fixtures with a wet floor. It ended up that the wet floor had a grounded furnace vent in it. I guess the trick is to only use Pex/PVC in your bathrooms and always use GFCI. Love ElectroBOOM's channel. Always educational and he zaps himself so you don't have too. lol
David Podeszwa the voltage needed to the current flow and light the led is smaller than a voltage to give you a electric shock, so not in all the cases it will be to late.
@@keremdiren8590 True, the copper in this case is a "sacrificial" cathode and does disintegrate but the electricity flowing through the brine solution does in fact create hydrogen and Cl2, essentially turning the container of water into a very very mild bleach. VERY mild.
@@keremdiren8590 well thats in case if we take copper sulphate solution instead of salt water solution. Here it follows preferential electrolysis depending on reduction potential of element.
A friend of mine works at a mining operation as an electrician. He said that they run pure water through machines as coolant and it passes through 3 phase (Australia - 720v) without a problem, but they have to change the water out once a week as it picks up minerals via electrolysis and becomes conductive. They run a meter on the pumps and must change it before it gets to a certain amount of resistance. He said even using tap water meets their spec but must be changed a lot sooner. Pretty interesting.
When you pass the current through the salt water, the bubbles are formed by electrolysis of water, creating hydrogen gas (H2) and oxygen gas (O2). The yellow colour is caused by a buildup of chlorine (Cl2) in the solution from the electrolysis of the salt itself. The electrolysis of salt also creates sodium hydroxide (NaOH) in the solution, which then dissociates into sodium ions (Na+) and hydroxide (OH-), turning the solution alkaline. *Put simply, that water is poisonous as fuck now*.
my thoughts are that the wires are being corroded during the electrolysis, causing the brown sludge that was floating about. it's kinda like those fake "electro detox" things.
Lidiot Lee Not exactly. He was producing chlorine gas (CL2) through electrolysis, I think. Part of the reason the water was getting darker. Dangerous if done for a long time with no ventilation. Great electrician (which sounds kind of demeaning, because he's probably he knows electrcity like a scientist would), not a great chemist.
Wow, that was very interesting content. I love the experiment with the LED light. Now I know how to tell how conductive water is when it comes into contact with electricity whether is it plain water or has minerals in it. Nice!
Here’s what happened when he put the two wires in the salt water: Electrolysis occurred, the wire closest to him was the anode (positive electrode) and the wire furthest from him was the cathode (negative electrode). Both wires were bubbling a lot, this is because the anode was giving off chlorine gas from the salt, and the cathode was giving off hydrogen gas from the water, and inside the solution there was sodium hydroxide forming (probably should have washed your fingers after sticking it in there) The reason why the anode wire was completely destroyed was because the copper in it dissolved into the solution during electrolysis and reformed on the cathode where it was reduced, which could of been the reason (or one of them) for the brown-red colour in the solution
Seems like he didn't do a good job of explaining how electricity works since you missed the whole point of the video if you still thought the metal spoon in the water was dangerous. Electricity will always take the path of least resistance to ground so in this case the path of least resistance is the water between the two wires. The path to ground through the spoon and his body has much higher resistance than the water between the wires.
Absolutely love watching your videos. I bet you're one of the best electricians out there for the simple reason you try things and learn that others wouldn't even dare too. Be careful
I started following your work a couple weeks ago, and I know this is an old video, but I thought I'd still offer my perspective as someone with a degree in chemistry, even though I was probably bottom of my class. My initial concern was that you might be electrolytically making chlorine by oxidizing the chloride ions in the table salt, but upon a closer look, it seems like only the copper wire was getting oxidized into insoluble copper salts (copper oxide, probably). In general, you definitely don't want metals entering your bloodstream through a cut, even though it was a minor cut and probably just tiny amounts of copper here. The sparks you saw were probably from hydrogen being ripped from water molecules, reduced into gas, and then spontaneously reacting with oxygen being simultaneously generated. I think I speak for most chemists when I say we don't do electrolysis on AC, because it would make both reactions happen at both electrodes, and if you were in fact generating oxygen and hydrogen at both electrodes, that would explain why you saw those orange sparks, signature of hydrogen combustion. I'm not sure what would cause one wire to be consumed faster than the other, but it probably has something to do with whether the wire was neutral, experiencing less swing in voltage, or live, experiencing whatever 120 AC gives it.
2:58 "The resistance is getting higher for some reason" --> multi-meters apply a DC voltage and measure the current (through the voltage measure of a shunt resistor) and calculate the resistance through ohms law. The problem with solutions is that, with DC voltage, the ions go to the terminals that apply the voltage (positive ions go to negative terminal and vice-versa) and thus decrease the conductivity - phenomenon known as "polarization" :) (With AC voltage the ions go back and forth with the oscillations of the voltage and thus the polarization doesn't occur)
Basically, the positive/negative ions gather on the negative/positive probes, effectively causing a higher voltage drop, making it seem like the water has an increasing resistance?
@@nwsteg2610 since tje ions gather at the probes, you have less free charges to conduct the current (conductivity drop) thus the resistance increases (resistance = 1/conductivity)
a successful teacher is a person who cuts his finger to teach people about electricity. see y'all in 4 years when this pops up in our recommended again
Yup can't pop up any sooner or YouTub will be making more overnight millionaires than the government will allow Because each YouTub sensation is one less mindless slave the goverent can work
I know its 7 years later but for anyone wondering passing electricity through water splits it into Hydrogen and oxygen, this also severely corrodes the wires which is the discoloring of the water, its copper oxide.
The rising resistance at 3:08 is because a zone of polarised water molecules form around the probes. This creates a watery, leaky capacitor that changes the local resistance, and hence the DMM reading. The Helmholtz layer. For a fun evening's reading look up Non-linear Dielectric Spectroscopy.
David Zed well, technically you should still get products, if you use AC power for electrolysis of water, instead of getting H and O, you get H2 O, also known as hydroxy gas as an example of why one would use AC.
Well, depends on what type of products you want, if the product you want is a solid then it will just get split into the reactants as the polarity changed.
David Zed* *well* * yea of course is depends on what you want, you obviously couldn't electroplate with AC for instance, or if you were trying to get a solid out, you might have a problem with that. Its also nice to have a conversation without a massive shitstorm, so that's cool too.
@@יואביאייל dude I actually did electrolysis of some water samples just to compare TDS, and without knowing what the brown water representing I tasted some of it. Now after 2 weeks after researching that water was alkaline my stomach is burning just by thinking of it LOL Whats wrong with my comment its layout is out of order. Maybe because of your name in it. BTW which language is that?
@@zenvir1680 in Hebrew, they type right to left, so the computer people came up with an invisible Unicode character that turns everything right to left, but in this case TH-cam forgot the left to right character at the end
nicholas lang Maybe, we only see a small section of the room so we'll have to see. I've heard a lot of stories of chlorine filling large spaces in short amounts of time, maybe its just a smaller concentration.
When the salt makes the water more conductive, the electric current passing through the water will cause some of the oxygen and hydrogen to separate out by electrolysis. If you used DC instead of AC, you could have collected those gases for use in other experiments.
Guys don't try this at home. If you do what this comment said you will also get chlorine gas as a byproduct. You could kill you entire family if your house is not well-ventilated.
Hello, after rethinking your video, I believe it is dangerous, because there are two points you forgot to discuss : 1/ the impact of the soap and other substance you might find in a bath on the conductivity of water. 2/ the fact that the real danger probably comes with iron cast bathtubs and defects in their inner coating, enameling or glazing which could make a far electrode. Or even worst : from touching something metallic from inside your bath. And by the way, you might have gone in more details on the fact that human body inner fluids are more conductive that the bath water itself.
Love it! Also, if the surface area of the live conductors is larger, like 2 plates across the "electrolyte", then there is much less resistance through the water. Concentrated salt water between two plates close together is almost a short circuit. For the same reason, the more flesh you put in, the more you're in the circuit. Finger pad skin is thick and dry, I think skin would be more and more conductive if left wet, and also, the epidermis on the rest of the body is thinner and likely more conductive also.
I remember learning something similar to this in Chemistry, it was called electrolysis, so the electricity was breaking down the salt into Sodium and chlorine, very very dangerous
@@HalvardSkurve it's not hydrogen and oxiden, since the sodium of the salt reacts with the hydrogen and oxygen in the water it's sodium hydroxide and chloride booth shouldn't be inhaled to much and I know my answer is really fast 😂 Well a bit hydrogen is produced, but not this much
@@kuhlsen2526 According to what I just red, you are partially right: "Hydrogen gas will be seen to bubble up at the cathode, and chlorine gas will bubble at the anode." I have made flammable gas this way, and its the probe that produces the most gas that produces the flammable hydrogen/oxygen mix. The other probe produces next to no gas. This seems to indicate that the most of the gas is hydrogen/oxygen, and only a tiny bit is chlorine gas. You should not breathe to much of it either way.
@@HalvardSkurve saying it's only a bit hydrogen gas, wasn't correct about 50% of the water should become gas since sodium hydroxide requires just one hydrogen molecule but there shouldn't be any oxygen due to the higher reactivity of the sodium
You're a riot as usual, keep it up. Can you test the energized water to a seperate neutral/ground ? To get a better measurement, mimicking someone grabbing the normally grounded water spout?
You teach so well. Keep it up!
Eyy! Its jerry!
Hehe
hey jerry how did you get here ? i never thought you would even watch this guy
Oh my god it's Jerry.
+JerryRigEverything I didn't know that you watch his videos!
After watching your videos, I watch horror movies just to relax.
Lol, this man really scared me... 🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I am also afraid to watch
🤣🤣🤣
A very unoriginal comment that has nothing to do with his content
Medhi: let's find a finger without any cuts
_searches for a while_
"this one's not bad"
Mehdi*
@@AlphaRW xD
I'm surprised he found one
someone else's hand appears...
I appreciate Medhi because he's always willing to take those daring moves that most of us succumb to our death for, but he actually lays down the truth to show us just at which point it becomes dangerous
... because who needs a multimeter when you have fingers, right?
+Alex C lol
+Alex C LEL
cool
...until you have fingers, right?)
...idk
As his finger gets closer to the wire, my anxiety worsens
Ok
*SANTIAGO*
Huh... I met you again...😏
I like the fact that, you're into Anime too...
As I keep seeing you everywhere, I get more and more paranoid
@@igxniisan6996 he's into everything known to man
*literally sitting in an electric chair*
Executioner: *turns on the electricity*
Electroboom: ooooooow it stings just a little bit
noriaki kakyoin Rero?
@@skeptaro rero?
he would be like : f**k
Here for you 🍩
lol master *Rero intensifies*
Excellent demonstration!!!!!
"Let's find another finger"
Checks pocket
قناتك رائعه 💖 رائعه جدا
@@gergopiroska1943 الله اكبر 😇
عرب؟
@@nazigermany3554لا يابانيين 😂
اكيد عرب😅
Lol
4:26 "the electricity is doing something in the water" has definitely become my favourite way to explain electrolysis.
@@joeljustin Sincerely I don't know but I suppose at high voltage, even if cathode and anode are always switching position, an amount of gases can be produced. Btw I was just kidding cuz he said that sentence lmao
@@joeljustin Then you have alternating electrolysis! It can be useful in some circumstances, like generating HHO. In this experiment the salt water turned dark from the electrolytic oxidation of the copper wiring. Basically, some combination of
Cu + H2O -> CuO + H2
Cu + 2H2O -> Cu(OH)2+H2
"this is getting violent"
@@gabrielemazzone2774 If he used graphite electrodes in water instead of copper wires then he would have made some chlorine gas and the room would smell like bleach.
Essentially, via
2H(+) + 2Cl(-) → Cl2(g) + H2(g)
With some of the chlorine gas re-dissolving back into the water and actually forming bleach, via
Cl2(g) + OH(-) → HOCl + Cl(-)
Mike Zelik this is a question for my science fair project:
Is there a way to perform electrolysis without getting the “dissolved metal effect” that is turning the water brown and if so, how can it be done?
It would be very helpful if you answered this question. Thanks!
Electroboom on an electric chair: "ohh it's starting to hurt now, let's increase the voltage a bit"
Big sqaq ota asnee 🤙😤
@@sawind2058 stroke?
@@official-obama he's rapping the lyrics to man's not hot
@@sawind2058 wtf you tryna say
lmao
For a plastic or ceramic-coated bathtub, your glass container is probably an adequate comparison. I do wonder how metal pipes connected to the bathtub sink would impact the flow of electricity though. If you were close enough with your upper body to the live wires and touched the sink with your foot by accident, it might be dangerous as you are now grounded via the metal pipe and the current could flow through your body.
in one of the more recent videos, regarding the shocked in bathtub, and also the shower of doom, Mehdi addresses this fact
Cloclo, get out of this body !
@@nostalgeek2872 hahaha
@@aoyuki1409do you remember the name of the video by any chance?
@@cynicalskeptic i dont remember the shocked in bathtub one but its about the news where a girl died from electrocution in bathtub, i believe from The Rectifier series. The other one is testing the shower of doom
5:04 OUCH, it is hurting!!!
Let's try the other finger...
And he fells nothing with other finger🤣 who is this guy
@@littlesadcat69
Mehedi Sadagar aka ElectroBOOM💥 aka The Rectifier...
@@birdwatchingwithdrrajasaur4410 i mean who the fuck is this guy is he even a human 😅
THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE That’s because he has a cut on the first finger like he said...
Other finger didn't have a cut , but ya it still hurts
4:24 By the way, this is electrolysing the saltwater, producing hydrogen gas (explosive) and chlorine gas (extremely toxic, used to kill people in WW2). This is far more of a risk than electrocution in this scenario
so does that mean that if i fill a tub with saltwater and electrolyze it then get in it i’ll die and kill whoever enters the bathroom in a short period of time without them having to get in the water also?
@@xsvengali as far as im concerned, that is possible *yes*
@@xsvengali thinking ?? to kill someone ??
aryaaa 19197 alright thank you
Al Shahrior Hasan Sagor maybe
Your video is actually more practical and understandable than most materials taught in university. This guy needs to be a professor.
bill Nye the Indian guy
u SAY he's not indian, and THINK he's from Iran
now what?
He IS from Iran, how did it cross your mind that he's Indian? i've never met an Indian with that accent.
i didnt, say it, Someone else, dont reply on me
Ilias Elkor he is teaching the hazards of electricity, not how to blow up the white house
Casually makes poisonous chlorine gas- "Idk what is happening" 🤣
Lmao I was about to say the same thing
@ElectroBOOM, take note of this, you don't want chlorine gas... It's deadly. Also, you were producing hydrogen and oxygen gas, which when combined are quite explosive in the presence of a flame or spark.🤣
@samuelreddekopp It probably dissolved some into copper hypochlorites (or even chlorates) at that point. You'd generally quite well notice/observe the *"smell"* of real/pure chlorine gas *_*long before*_* it would become a problem, that is (unless Mehdi _omitted_ some things here (and _didn't_ tell us some observations lol)). Funny enough, chlorine gas still smells like a pungent pool, even if your average/regular pool odor actually comes from "chloramines" and/or other "chlorinated byproducts" instead...
Can’t imagine what his wife says opening up the electric bill every month.
Lol
youtube got it covered, i think
He siphons his neighbours electricity
Here in Lithuania we have a special trick called taking the electricity from the basement (if you're living in a condo) so every neighbour shares the payment, and that's that. Mine bitcoin or experiment as much as you want!
@@aba22125 duse that's really cool
Mehdi is literally the kid that asked his grandpa 100 times if the stove really is hot until his grandpa made him touch the red hot stove top haha
That's oddly specific 👀
Wtf? Child abuse?
@@christianriddler5063 it's not child abuse if the child touches it on its own will
@@sinanyegen8907 I know two rottweilers that would love to play with you. If I ever see you around a child, I will make sure you meet them.
Not like boris is much better
Elecroboom: Wanted to die from electrical shock, ended up dying from chlorine poisoning.
Dhruv Gramopadhye nowhere near enough to poison
yes
Just fuck off idiot!!
@@StealthKiller360 ?
Dhruv Gramopadhye as you do
This is probably the most useful DIY channel for me on TH-cam. Reason being, it tells me what NOT to do while I am learning.
Which is the most important bit of learning!
I will not mention this to any of my students 😂 ever
You are the funniest guy on the internet hands down. I bow to you!
LMAO
Ahh the beauty of electrolysis.
***** Because I like watching videos as much as you do :D
Oh my god I haven't seen you watch anyone who watches the same videos as me and are subbed to
Am*
"this is nothing lets go closer" famous last word
😂😂😂😂
I wondere why this comment is so underrated, i laughed a lot at this
"I was expecting it to zap me to death"
Perfect moment, I was watching and I saw this comment😂
Same
Dre Dre, not alone
Such a fucking mood
How TF same
I think some of the danger with Sinks and Tubs is that the drain may be grounded (if not PVC) so that may impact it. Also, I'm curious as to the conductance of things like soaps, bubble baths, etc. that might be in standing water in a bathroom.
I've also heard of people getting electrocuted from touching non-GFCI fixtures with a wet floor. It ended up that the wet floor had a grounded furnace vent in it. I guess the trick is to only use Pex/PVC in your bathrooms and always use GFCI.
Love ElectroBOOM's channel. Always educational and he zaps himself so you don't have too. lol
He actually said he was expecting to be zapped to death😂 my man.
like how would we ever see the video then, ahahah
2:36
Well, that's what professional dumpasses do
@@deepjain7765 2:34
I laughed so much at that.
I always keep an LED with me when I plan on going swimming.
I think it will be too late when the LED will turn bright :D
sure it will
David Podeszwa the voltage needed to the current flow and light the led is smaller than a voltage to give you a electric shock, so not in all the cases it will be to late.
Especially in salt water.
Rodrigo B.P v
“puts salt in water with a mEtaL spoon”
me: *_*chuckles_**
Steel
I know I was waiting for the jump scare shock when he inevitably touched the spoon to the wires but it didn't happen that time.
Brocolli Macarole At first , he didn't put spoon between the wires. Secondly, you can hear him turning off the power before adding salt and mixing...
im in danger
@@averell3138 damnit you stole my comment
4:27
Electrochemical reaction occur at cathode and anode.
In which H+ reduce to H2 gas at cathode and Cl- get oxidise to Cl2 at anode.
actually copper acts as a cathode thats why copper is gone in the end
@@keremdiren8590 True, the copper in this case is a "sacrificial" cathode and does disintegrate but the electricity flowing through the brine solution does in fact create hydrogen and Cl2, essentially turning the container of water into a very very mild bleach. VERY mild.
Does this mean that he breathed in some Chlorine gas?
@@pacolibre5411 yes ,
Some amoumt of Cl2 has is released at anode depending on quantity of current .
@@keremdiren8590 well thats in case if we take copper sulphate solution instead of salt water solution.
Here it follows preferential electrolysis depending on reduction potential of element.
A friend of mine works at a mining operation as an electrician. He said that they run pure water through machines as coolant and it passes through 3 phase (Australia - 720v) without a problem, but they have to change the water out once a week as it picks up minerals via electrolysis and becomes conductive. They run a meter on the pumps and must change it before it gets to a certain amount of resistance. He said even using tap water meets their spec but must be changed a lot sooner. Pretty interesting.
Gimme Motörhead Til I’m Dead nice name and profile image. Motörhead fucken rocks
When you pass the current through the salt water, the bubbles are formed by electrolysis of water, creating hydrogen gas (H2) and oxygen gas (O2). The yellow colour is caused by a buildup of chlorine (Cl2) in the solution from the electrolysis of the salt itself. The electrolysis of salt also creates sodium hydroxide (NaOH) in the solution, which then dissociates into sodium ions (Na+) and hydroxide (OH-), turning the solution alkaline. *Put simply, that water is poisonous as fuck now*.
only DC. I believe AC only makes it boil. I'm not a chemist
so what your saying is that you can make a hydrogen gas generator just by running a power source in salty water?
Ludwig VonBallencrusher It would be easier in clean water, but yes.
Interesting
my thoughts are that the wires are being corroded during the electrolysis, causing the brown sludge that was floating about. it's kinda like those fake "electro detox" things.
How did I miss this video? This is one of his best, I had no idea live wires would be almost harmless in water.
+Andrei Simionescu well maybe my video ended up being misleading. But if I feel electricity in my finger, a full body in water could die .
ElectroBOOM !
well don't forget you have to have the neutral end close to it.
if only the live wire was in water and you jump in , you are dead.
I tried this, it went well. I'll give you the details when I'm out of the hospital.
How is this guy still Alive? He is godlike.
he is hacking
he knows exactly what he is doing
Lidiot Lee Not exactly. He was producing chlorine gas (CL2) through electrolysis, I think. Part of the reason the water was getting darker. Dangerous if done for a long time with no ventilation. Great electrician (which sounds kind of demeaning, because he's probably he knows electrcity like a scientist would), not a great chemist.
George Mason He knows almost exactly what he is doing
He's a professional dumbass.
He deliberately cut his finger to teach the difference
A man of passionate demonstration
Such a wholesome TH-camr
kootin lmao the replys to these comments are gold
Now I'll carry a LED wherever I go, to a pool or the beach!
Safety is the number one priority after all
An********
RIP
Where is the current lmao 🤣
🤣🤣🤣
Wow, that was very interesting content. I love the experiment with the LED light. Now I know how to tell how conductive water is when it comes into contact with electricity whether is it plain water or has minerals in it. Nice!
I can feel the electricity aeouoyoae
2:20
BRO THAT MAKED ME LAUGH
Here’s what happened when he put the two wires in the salt water:
Electrolysis occurred, the wire closest to him was the anode (positive electrode) and the wire furthest from him was the cathode (negative electrode).
Both wires were bubbling a lot, this is because the anode was giving off chlorine gas from the salt, and the cathode was giving off hydrogen gas from the water, and inside the solution there was sodium hydroxide forming (probably should have washed your fingers after sticking it in there)
The reason why the anode wire was completely destroyed was because the copper in it dissolved into the solution during electrolysis and reformed on the cathode where it was reduced, which could of been the reason (or one of them) for the brown-red colour in the solution
Cathode? Anode? Wasn't he using ac?
n millet yes but I think the anode and cathode keeps switching between electrodes (or the wires) as it is AC rather than DC
I think he knows dude, he is just being sarcastic funny
Thomas Just really?
@@thomasjust2663 you are missing the point
2:20 I can feel electricity here *ALelELaElALelaLElOh*
Very little
HE'S SPEAKING LANGUAGE OF GODS
*HE'S THE GRUDGE*
Connor Wicker He said very little
I-E-A-I-A-I-O
Very nice video, im studying to become an electrical designer and this was very educational!
Aftet watching this guys videos, he's actually quite safe in all videos. He knows what he's doing.
3:59 using a metal spoon with live wires lol
I also thought wtf but then he plugged it in and I'm like oh ok
Seems like he didn't do a good job of explaining how electricity works since you missed the whole point of the video if you still thought the metal spoon in the water was dangerous. Electricity will always take the path of least resistance to ground so in this case the path of least resistance is the water between the two wires. The path to ground through the spoon and his body has much higher resistance than the water between the wires.
Yes
He is electro man
It was unplugged!!!!
5:45 HE BUMPS HIS HEAD AFTER HE SAID THAT LMFAOOOOO
MEEHH 243 GAHAHAHA!!!!
hahalol
Benicio The Producer avhaha
This is turning violent indeed.
Hahahahahah
Absolutely love watching your videos. I bet you're one of the best electricians out there for the simple reason you try things and learn that others wouldn't even dare too. Be careful
I started following your work a couple weeks ago, and I know this is an old video, but I thought I'd still offer my perspective as someone with a degree in chemistry, even though I was probably bottom of my class. My initial concern was that you might be electrolytically making chlorine by oxidizing the chloride ions in the table salt, but upon a closer look, it seems like only the copper wire was getting oxidized into insoluble copper salts (copper oxide, probably). In general, you definitely don't want metals entering your bloodstream through a cut, even though it was a minor cut and probably just tiny amounts of copper here.
The sparks you saw were probably from hydrogen being ripped from water molecules, reduced into gas, and then spontaneously reacting with oxygen being simultaneously generated. I think I speak for most chemists when I say we don't do electrolysis on AC, because it would make both reactions happen at both electrodes, and if you were in fact generating oxygen and hydrogen at both electrodes, that would explain why you saw those orange sparks, signature of hydrogen combustion. I'm not sure what would cause one wire to be consumed faster than the other, but it probably has something to do with whether the wire was neutral, experiencing less swing in voltage, or live, experiencing whatever 120 AC gives it.
this is so much better than the chemist roundtable comment with 1.7k likes that i only read 3 lines in below
Shouldn't that happen at both electrodes simultaneously then? Why did only one electrode dissolve?
-also a chemist who is bad at electrolysis haha
When you realize that the comments here was 3 years ago...
Oh yeh! Lol
Haha. True
Oh lol😿😿
Wait what
imthiyaaz fiaz yeah* yeh sounds like a Asian child playing gacha life
"i was expecting it to zap me to death" - logical.
2:28 was that a spark?
that was *coincidentally* a light from the top of the room.
2:58 "The resistance is getting higher for some reason" --> multi-meters apply a DC voltage and measure the current (through the voltage measure of a shunt resistor) and calculate the resistance through ohms law. The problem with solutions is that, with DC voltage, the ions go to the terminals that apply the voltage (positive ions go to negative terminal and vice-versa) and thus decrease the conductivity - phenomenon known as "polarization" :)
(With AC voltage the ions go back and forth with the oscillations of the voltage and thus the polarization doesn't occur)
Basically, the positive/negative ions gather on the negative/positive probes, effectively causing a higher voltage drop, making it seem like the water has an increasing resistance?
@@nwsteg2610 since tje ions gather at the probes, you have less free charges to conduct the current (conductivity drop) thus the resistance increases (resistance = 1/conductivity)
*drops LED in water*
"oops"
*puts hand in water*
"AHEEHAAAAH"
It is turning violent again
🤣
YaSs
he’s like Coyote Peterson, but for electricians.
yes
@sgfhk321 Made me laugh ahahahahahha
he is not an electrician, he is an engineer
5:42 what an exciting sound. We need a compilation of all this guys screams in all his videos put into a game or perhaps a song.
This is what a good teacher does. Making education fun and interesting. Forget Bill Nye, this is the real Science Guy.
Electroboom:"Do not do this at home, I'm what you call a professional"
*Proceeds to create toxic chlorine gas through electrolysis of brine*
Yeah xD
I was also wondering the same thing 💀
@@mofayaaz772 yup
Professional dumbass*
The German's wouldn't mind ............. .. .
Now I know why people from areas with 230V/16A networks are more smart, it is simple darwinism.
true
Also if you do get a jolt from 240VAC it really fucking hertz. (Sorry, crap Aussie humour).
I get hit with 220v AC more often then i would like to admit, i am an Hvacr technician. Its usually not too bad
i got hit by 110 ac once. that shit makes you unable to let go xD
Milan Jovanovic 110 wasnt too bad, it just suprised me. i now know what 60htz feels like xD
The fact that he seemingly doesn't fake these makes it even more funny
ElctroBOOM:*drops LED*
Also ElctroBOOM: let me just forget everything that I learned
Hahahah rip.
Why do you spell his name Elctro? It’s electro
3:41 I love the art behind that says relax.
5:41 I almost pissed myself laughing 😂
Hitachi 42 inch TVs are power consuming monsters same lmfao
oops
Hitachi 42 inch TVs are power consuming monsters But it’s not that funny
@@Takeshi_XP Comedy is subjective
A non-talking gamer true
It's really a miracle how this guy is still alive
that monobrow,man...that thing wins the internet every freakin time.
a successful teacher is a person who cuts his finger to teach people about electricity.
see y'all in 4 years when this pops up in our recommended again
See you then.
See you guys.
Here am I, it was in my recommended today 😁
Yup can't pop up any sooner or YouTub will be making more overnight millionaires than the government will allow
Because each YouTub sensation is one less mindless slave the goverent can work
4 years later ..... Heyyy how's it going
I like how he kind of struggled to find a finger without a cut on it
I know its 7 years later but for anyone wondering passing electricity through water splits it into Hydrogen and oxygen, this also severely corrodes the wires which is the discoloring of the water, its copper oxide.
The salt also gets split up into sodium and chloride, both of which are deadly (mainly chloride)
girls: i wonder why we live longer than men
men:
lmao
lol
Lmao
lol
Look up the yt video of guy willingly being hit on stomach with a weed whacker- eight TIMES iirc lmao
5:00
He said it so casually, not even afraid
"Wow, I'm starting to feel electricity"
"Ouch, it hurts"
canadian
Seriously this guy
or did he feel the salt in the wound?
The rising resistance at 3:08 is because a zone of polarised water molecules form around the probes. This creates a watery, leaky capacitor that changes the local resistance, and hence the DMM reading. The Helmholtz layer. For a fun evening's reading look up Non-linear Dielectric Spectroscopy.
Thanks for knowledge bro
Good man !
Highly stressful and informative. 5 stars.
4:02 YEAHHH Mix it with a metal spoon... that’s smart
Stainless steel is a really poor conductor compared to most metals. (assuming it is made of that of course)
It’s not on. Notice how as soon as he turns it on it starts bubbling and it isn’t bubbling when he stirs it
Professional Dumbass.
the power isnt on lol.
I'm pretty sure it was unplugged, but fair point.
When he stuck his finger in I could feel the suspense 😂
that's what she said
sorry..
Seeing people getting shocked makes me cringe 😓😫
@@arlynnecumberbatch1056 Why
@@arlynnecumberbatch1056 yea seeing people being a normie by using emojis addicted is cringe
Hazmi Rasid I don’t watch this but why are you being so negative they weren’t being rude by saying this makes them cringe
5:38 I am dying from laughter. Bro why'd you do that?
I must say, this is so much better than the funny videos out there.😂😂
if the LED turns on, dont go into the water😂
you must go in the water to let the LED light up!😒
Ivar and meister Amy Gaming no you dont
Ivar and meister Amy Gaming you can throw the led inside the water!!!!😜😜
or you use the led as a ph-meter
Isn't that basically what electrolysis is?
Yes, that is exactly what that is
+MrPacman64 Well, if you want any products then you would use DC, not AC.
David Zed
well, technically you should still get products, if you use AC power for electrolysis of water, instead of getting H and O, you get H2 O, also known as hydroxy gas as an example of why one would use AC.
Well, depends on what type of products you want, if the product you want is a solid then it will just get split into the reactants as the polarity changed.
David Zed* *well* * yea of course is depends on what you want, you obviously couldn't electroplate with AC for instance, or if you were trying to get a solid out, you might have a problem with that.
Its also nice to have a conversation without a massive shitstorm, so that's cool too.
The water: do you want to kill this guy
The wire: *ALGAALGA*
Puts bloody salty finger in water.
There must be some mineral in the water.
Mehdī you're the best!
That's how prisoners heat up their ramen noodles lol
Why do prisoners have access to 120v outlets and stripped power cables?
If they want their ramen noodels to be alkaline
@@יואביאייל dude I actually did electrolysis of some water samples just to compare TDS, and without knowing what the brown water representing I tasted some of it. Now after 2 weeks after researching that water was alkaline my stomach is burning just by thinking of it LOL
Whats wrong with my comment its layout is out of order. Maybe because of your name in it. BTW which language is that?
@@zenvir1680 in Hebrew, they type right to left, so the computer people came up with an invisible Unicode character that turns everything right to left, but in this case TH-cam forgot the left to right character at the end
@@1224chrisng got it. Thanks for sharing knowledge ;)
His life insurance company watching this priceless
4:30 Isn't that just electrolysis of water? The bubbles are hydrogen gas and oxygen gas.
keep in mind electricity effects the salt too. probably should be wearing a gas mask
The chlorine remains in solution, if it were bubbling out, he'd be dead.
nicholas lang Maybe, we only see a small section of the room so we'll have to see. I've heard a lot of stories of chlorine filling large spaces in short amounts of time, maybe its just a smaller concentration.
Zer0 hydrogen and oxygen gas (two molecules of hydrogen to one molecule of oxygen, or 1:4 ratio by weight)
Nope, unfortunately electrolysis only works with DC. Mains AC power will only create a very dangerous "yet efficient" water heater.
It is all about not being grounded unless the voltage is high enough to pass through the air.
2:00 "Lets find another finger tht doesn't have a cut on it"
takes like 4 sec to decide on last finger damn
Mehdis wife: where are u going with the toaster
Mehdi: I'm taking a bath with it to prove something on TH-cam
Not 100 likes L
@@CakewalkCODM haha no one cares about likes lol
I put my finger in the water.
I'm starting to feel electricity
Ouch, it's hurting
Let's put the other finger in the water xD brilliant humor
When the salt makes the water more conductive, the electric current passing through the water will cause some of the oxygen and hydrogen to separate out by electrolysis. If you used DC instead of AC, you could have collected those gases for use in other experiments.
Guys don't try this at home. If you do what this comment said you will also get chlorine gas as a byproduct. You could kill you entire family if your house is not well-ventilated.
5:38 electroBOOM: drops led in water
Water: I’m bout to ruin dudes hand
I can't believe it its the kid from Brewstew
Hello, after rethinking your video, I believe it is dangerous, because there are two points you forgot to discuss :
1/ the impact of the soap and other substance you might find in a bath on the conductivity of water.
2/ the fact that the real danger probably comes with iron cast bathtubs and defects in their inner coating, enameling or glazing which could make a far electrode. Or even worst : from touching something metallic from inside your bath.
And by the way, you might have gone in more details on the fact that human body inner fluids are more conductive that the bath water itself.
2:35 "I was expecting it to zap me to death" hahahaha. made me laugh so hard. hahahahaha.
😂This just got reccomended to me. So hi I guess lmao.
I love how he went from “still can’t feel anything” to “f**k” in less than a second
Love it! Also, if the surface area of the live conductors is larger, like 2 plates across the "electrolyte", then there is much less resistance through the water. Concentrated salt water between two plates close together is almost a short circuit. For the same reason, the more flesh you put in, the more you're in the circuit.
Finger pad skin is thick and dry, I think skin would be more and more conductive if left wet, and also, the epidermis on the rest of the body is thinner and likely more conductive also.
You looked that up no way
@@chronotos_gaming nah he just placed where sunlight dont shine into the water rofl.
5:40 "Drops led Unto the water"
5:41 " oops (Attempted to get it)
Later I definitely died about that high pitch sound (aHHHH')
Me too im still laughing about that "Ahh" he made
Then proceed to smack his head of something 😂
"This is gonna waste so much water."
*Leaves the water that he already ran*
He's gonna use it for his next bath.
I don’t know why I get so nervous every time I watch your videos I Genuinely get anxiety
I remember learning something similar to this in Chemistry, it was called electrolysis, so the electricity was breaking down the salt into Sodium and chlorine, very very dangerous
I don't believe the gas that's produced is that dangerous, since the "professional dumbass" didn't say so!
But electrolysis cannot occur using alternating current.
@@edwinsalisbury83 Never knew that, thanks for the info
It technically can. But you'll get an unexpected result
@@roelsvideosandstuffs1513 oh no, what happens if you try using AC?
02:18 definitely dont try this at home.
Me: where do you think you're doing it???
Could be anywhere you never know.
5:41 such a great Michael Jackson move
Now this is what i call underrated
Ok.. i had watched him for fun before.. but this is the first time I've learnt something really important..
"can I put my finger in the water?"
famous last words
4:20 ok am not A chemist but I am gonna say that is electrolysis
yea poor man is breathing chlorine gas
@@ΠαναγιωτησΜιχαλιερησ-ω5ε Its H2 and O2 (hydrogen and oxygen). Its really flammable, and will explode if put in a container and ignited.
@@HalvardSkurve it's not hydrogen and oxiden, since the sodium of the salt reacts with the hydrogen and oxygen in the water it's sodium hydroxide and chloride booth shouldn't be inhaled to much and I know my answer is really fast 😂
Well a bit hydrogen is produced, but not this much
@@kuhlsen2526 According to what I just red, you are partially right: "Hydrogen gas will be seen to bubble up at the cathode, and chlorine gas will bubble at the anode."
I have made flammable gas this way, and its the probe that produces the most gas that produces the flammable hydrogen/oxygen mix. The other probe produces next to no gas. This seems to indicate that the most of the gas is hydrogen/oxygen, and only a tiny bit is chlorine gas. You should not breathe to much of it either way.
@@HalvardSkurve saying it's only a bit hydrogen gas, wasn't correct about 50% of the water should become gas since sodium hydroxide requires just one hydrogen molecule but there shouldn't be any oxygen due to the higher reactivity of the sodium
0:35 Ahh! It wastes quite a lot of water.
Won my heart.
You're a riot as usual, keep it up. Can you test the energized water to a seperate neutral/ground ? To get a better measurement, mimicking someone grabbing the normally grounded water spout?