NileRed wasn't too pleased by the outcome, but I think he shortchanged himself. Some grapes do have a musty tone and probably because they have a certain excess of the characteristic odor/flavor, methyl anthranilate itself. He probably added twice as much as necessary.
One thing I love about chemistry TH-camrs is that while NileRed has a very clean and professional looking setup, everyone else like Cody'sLab and Explosions and Fire make their vids in what look like actual methlabs lmao. Doesn't take away from the vids of course, love them as always!
theirs such a difference between you and Nile Red. Nile Red: *uses lab grade equipment in an actual lab* Cody: *uses fire in his shed* I love it. ig goes to show that no matter your budget you can always find a way to do chemistry
I was good at high school chemistry so in the chem lab, my teacher allowed me to experiment with substances that were off limits to most of the other students. For me that meant elemental sodium, lithium and potassium. One day the teacher had a small jar of elemental sodium under some non-reactive oil and offered me a tiny piece to see how it would react. Since we didn't have a river to toss it into like Cody, I had to do it under the hood. I put a few drops of water on a tray and under the hood added the bit of sodium. It danced around like a grasshopper, breaking down the H20 and giving off hydrogen gas. Being highly flammable, (think of the Hindenburg) the heat of the reaction ignited the H2 gas. Note that H2O can be written HOH, which emphasizes the fact that water is a hydroxide of hydrogen: H+ -OH. 2Na + 2HOH → 2NaOH +H2 - [Sodium + water creates lye and hydrogen] In Cody's case, using potassium, the reaction would be: 2K + 2HOH → 2KOH +H2 The lesson was the activity of metals. Sodium and its cousins, including potassium, are highly active and are never found in their elemental state in nature.
@@animehair05silently88Yes and no. Turning it back into elemental sodium would be very difficult. Turning it into a sodium salt is as easy as adding an acid, though. For example, NaOH + HCl -> NaCl + H2O.
The fun thing about this is that the potassium he managed to extract is worth about 5 times 10kg of bananas (or at least this is what I found out searching on Google) . He could start a business out of this😂
hm he had to sacrifice lithium in the progress tho. Lithium should be more expensive than potassium. And I don't know if there is a way to convert the lithium chloride back to lithium without buying expensive chemicals aswell. If it would be that easy the industry would farm bananas as a metallic potassium source
you can extract that for like a couple of dollars if you get lithium batteries as they contain about 1 gram each (although its fairly dangerous and hard to automate)@@vairoxx4031
@@vairoxx4031it can be done by the electrolysis of the molten salt. It requires lots of heating and electricity though so I'm not sure how that would play into the cost
this is such good science. i am very appreciative of the attention to detail with reporting measurements. so many times you see stuff like this excluded because it's so cumbersome to report all of it in a video just made for fun, it means a lot that you went the extra mile.
Probably to do with the water ratio of the peel vs the fruit itself. The peel probably contains much less water overall compared to the fruit itself. So when dried, the mass of the peel becomes nearly the same to that of the fruit.
This is actually a very fair point. It also could be that the potassium salts in some way benefit the peel. Citrus fruits actually contain more of the aroma and flavor compounds in the peels than the flesh because they’re hydrophobic and therefore prevent the juice from escaping.
Great work. I enjoyed your explanations about converting to perchlorates, solubilty, getting rid of oxygen and finally getting metallic Potassium. Your touch of class about explosion was so great. I will use your presentation to encourage my students in doing this experiment as a final project for their final year of High school. Here in Paraguay we do not have resources but your approach will make them willing to adapt and think. Thank you for your time .
Yknow whats funny is the poor minimum wage cashier who rang up all these bananas didnt even have to do math because everything nowadays is automated, I still remember my teacher saying over and over "you wont have a calculator with you 24/7!!"......while on her laptop, which was sitting right next to her phone, in a room full of students, some of which were CHARGING THE CALCULATOR THEY LITERALLY KEEP WITH THEM 24/7, sorry for venting american education is just ass backwards
@David Davis I've never cashiered in a grocery store and I knew the 4011- I didn't know people didn't just notice random numbers and memorize their purpose. hrmm..
Nilered: * doesnt like how impure a solution is * * goes through a complex purification process to fix it * Cody: * doesnt like how impure a solution is * "meh" * continues *
Thanks for randomly popping up in my recommended videos. This just made my day in so many ways. I was pleasantly distracted from my current grief, learned some cool sciency stuff, and deepened my appreciation for the bad ass banana!
Yes! The peels do contain the most potassium. I tested the radioactivity of bananas earlier this year, and the peels were clearly the most radioactive part. Probably due to the higher potassium content. Maybe higher concentrations of other NORMs too.
@@DimiDzi that you have to thank youtube for. Because they demonitize all science and educational channels. and promote some dumb shit to make people loose braincells..
@@pika6238 well a lot of people don't understand science and think that putting mercury in your mouth is really dangerous thing although Cody didn't make mistakes when doing it
i think it's due to the peel being more dense than the fruit itself and that the fruit itself is what is distributing the potassium from the plant. due to pressures within and outside the fruit changing, one could imagine particle expansion taking place and over time the more the fruit grows the more potassium is pushed into the peel. potassium banana peel particle net.
That's how most of the original chemistry was done; some dude making his own labware out of whatever he can make it from. I kinda want a video from someone on how often chemists were actually fantastic glassblowers as well due to having to produce their own glassware whenever they devised a new experiment requiring specialised tools.
I like the way that Cody does it send a clear message that you can do chemistry anywhere and you don't need expensive proprietary equipment! So ask yourself which one of the two would make a better Professor on Gilligan's Island.
@9:44 I dont like how contaminated my solution is ..... from the worlds dirtiest lab/garage set up. And how much cheap kitchen equipment gets broken or mistreated (saucepans/ovens etc.). But it adds to the charm, love it! (PS Remind me not to go over to Codys house for dinner)
@@lounirs "It's not that dirty"...you clearly have been nowhere near a lab. They're not kitchens. But he's not trying to be a lab either, so stop looking for insults that aren't there except in your triggered mind.
There isn't another channel like Cody's Lab. His lab contains garbage cans, homemade lab equipment, snow freezers, cooking pans, and a hand vacuum pump. Don't ever change a thing. Please.
I loved the last part too much ,it tells us that we carry nothing at the end of the day,all the effort to get potassium with the spirit to find out what and how much nature stored in little food we relish and finally effortlessly giving back to nature with cheer is really worth saluting !
Im impressed how Cody did chemistry without any expensive equipment like especially when messing with uranium, radium and other radioactive stuff. Cody's some sort of god bro Im saying it
Really? You can come and take a look in my toilet. I've got a couple banana's there which literally and figuratively have gone to shit. Or give me your address so I can mail you some. You know, so you can judge for yourself.
@@UmVtCg Such an unnecessary comment. Funny thing is that you wanted to be sarcastic but instead you sounded like an ass given the fact that the point of the comment was that we are able to see the thorough destruction of the bananas and with your dumb strategy we wouldn't be able to see that process and instead ass he would see is your shit which wouldn't be all from the bananas you ate. LMAO, just ridiculously stupid.
Some people are soooo smart. All I know about bananas is to eat them. How people figure out extraction processes and mixing elements is just amazing to me. And perplexing.
I've heard of the hotseat, but that's just bananas! What a wonderful way to edutain! Had no idea about bananas actually being radioactive from potassium, albeit in minute quantities. I could do with a few bananas. My potassium is a tad low. Thanks for the video. :)
@@talltroll7092 ooooh boy did it....I laughed at watshisnames comment and said it out loud and because I often watch survivor videos especially Les Stroud (Survivorman) my half attentive roomy was like "where is he at a fkn desert or something...(ctfu) ..wtf is bandana fresh assed water ?" Which made ME start ctfu to the point I slapped a thigh and doubled over and then THAT made me forget what I had in my hand and long story short....time to re-roll
Did I just watch a video of some guy extracting potassium from bananas, me not having any idea about chemistry? Yes, i did. AND LOVED IT!!! Great video!
it also makes more sense to eat the apple peel if you want more vitamins. the peels of fruit are the parts that humans didn't cultivate to taste like candy
my chemistry teacher in high school told a story once about how she was doing a lab with potassium one day, and she gave each table one slice of the potassium trapped in wax to use (as cody demonstrated, potassium is highly reactive to water). one kid just kinda pocketed the potassium, and since it was new orleans, the heat of their ass melted the wax, and the potassium reacted with their sweat, making it pop in their pocket
Lol, it seems like something I would see in an old cartoon. It would be like this: _Then their ass starts to catch fire, they sit on a water bucket and then it explodes_
A similar thing happened in my school but I think it was sodium that burned in their pocket and they took a large piece from the jar which was origiannly sumberged in oil. Then went on fire in thir pocket.
Potassium is used in the movement of water and nutrients in plant tissue. I reckon there’s probably more of that going on in the peel…feeding the fruit.
@@cz7797 "drying potassium perchlorate in an oven on a oxidizable metal: 1 community strike" TH-cam rules of service agreement, Section 34, subsection 14 ("Encouraging explosives manufacture"), paragraph 59, item 8, (a), (iii)...
I feel like some institutions just want us to fail. My chemistry teacher took a 5gal bucket and tossed in about as much as cody did. That was my grade 9. He also talked about how he used to get kids to pass out in class by letting them smell ammonia from a 5gal bucket. (He was testing them to see if they would waft it, or stick their head in the bucket and inhale without knowing what it was)
I worked with sodium in school for a year, researched the factors that make it explode. Got to the second round of a science contest with that project.
I used to collect bananas, every day when school served them me and my friends would get from 2-8 bananas each and I would take them home. The highest amount in one day was 30. We stopped counting at 100 total but at that point it was culture so we still continued collecting. Unfortunately I didn’t make potassium, only smoothies and bread
That's only for imagining, because pottasium exists only with other elements in compound form in the banana, as Cody explained. It has already reached it's octet state so it don't need to react with water anymore. So if you make a banana fall in water, it wouldn't explode.
You extracted potassium. From potash. Which you made, true to its etymology, from ash in a pot. You've done exactly what gave potassium its name. Beautiful.
Potassium! Man, potassium is highly conductive but I had no idea it was actually radioactive. I was going to make some capacitors for my devices to replace my lithium ion. Whelp, back to the drawing board...
@@tylerhutchinson1326 how would you kill off the planet if you sold potassium? also you should always kill a planet yourself, never depend on anyone else to kill a planet because they might get intimidated by the gravitational binding energy of the planet
Ah yes, the ol' Alaskan Freezer. We used to just keep all our food outside in the snow. It's so easy and consistent when you have really cold, snowy winters.
@@Timsturbs Now, we were in a suburb when we were doing this, so I can't imagine there was much threat of bears getting into our food (Although we did have a moose give birth in our back yard every year). Clearly I wouldn't know, but I know at least some species of bears hibernate for the winter - Though it would not surprise me to learn that Alaska's long winters encourage at least some level of activity throughout the year, as opposed to shorter winters that are easier to just skip entirely.
@@FireWyvern870 (a bad one if it is) I personally would rather have someone talk about a moose giving birth in their backyard then someone making a bad joke that goes nowhere
In your other life.... "Halloween was coming up and they don't allow firework sales in my state so I bought a bunch of bananas and applied all I learned about chemistry. After quite a bit of chemistry work, which I love to do, we all had a blast tossing bits of potassium metal into the stream nearby during our Halloween night party." Thank you for the awesome video!
Looking at words 'banana' and 'potassium' together always reminded me of 9th Doctor from Doctor Who, haha. "I like bananas. Bananas are good." "Don't drop the banana. It's a good source of potassium." Ah, miss that guy. Anyway, great video!
In South India, we have recipes that use the peel of raw plantains in curries. My granny used to always say that the peels were more nutritious, turns out she was right
I can see where Hollywood FX(special),,, could get their "exploding scenes" from... Very interesting video Cody,... I've learned many things from you today,,, thank you for sharing your wisdom and knowledge ,, and stay humble brother...
@Cody@ I was feeling very sorry for myself today. Nothing was working for me in my world - especially as I live at the other end of the world in Australia (the land of Oz:-} ) THEN i stumbled across this site and the FANTASTIC effort you put in to this project of yours. ( Reminded me of how people make/compound natural medicines by concentrating their energy by incredible DILUTION.) It exhausted me just reading of all the work you went to in your strange "laboratory" of odd equipment and utensils! I was so tired I had to go take a nap, but was so embarrassed by all your amazing effort for such a simple demonstration, I couldn't sleep and had to get back to work. Great job, Cody, but wasted on most of the world's 60 seconds of attention/concentration ability. But thank you, we need a lot more of you to save the planet today.
Next Episode : "Extracting Pure Mercury From Tuna"
So now I actually want to see this.
You say that sarcastically. . .
But actually
This would be awesome
Great idea! lol
I love the contrast where NileRed takes something inedible and makes it edible and Cody takes edible stuff and turns it inedible.
NileRed wasn't too pleased by the outcome, but I think he shortchanged himself. Some grapes do have a musty tone and probably because they have a certain excess of the characteristic odor/flavor, methyl anthranilate itself. He probably added twice as much as necessary.
what an observation, I totally missed that.
Never thought about it that way, but that's an excellent point
or just eats it anyway
@@-danR Yup unfortunately it went wrong with the temp. sensitive part :/ I was expecting it to have a very saturated grape flavour.
One thing I love about chemistry TH-camrs is that while NileRed has a very clean and professional looking setup, everyone else like Cody'sLab and Explosions and Fire make their vids in what look like actual methlabs lmao.
Doesn't take away from the vids of course, love them as always!
who says it isnt a methlab
@@penguinscanfly5796 bro 👀
Nile Red is a potato.
the hand pumped vacuum filter slays me
@@Wiseman501he will make a potato out of his liver
10kgs of banana just turned with a lot of hardwork into 9gm potassium just to throw it in water
Respect x 100
The good things in life are the simple things
@@LuisSierra42 you can get the potasium back
Well he got allmost 5 Million views from it so..
@@runningforJesus353 you'd have to distill the entire pond it was thrown in in the process, no?
@@alejandropetit6573 neutralise it would be the better word
Imagine finding a jar full of ash labeled "flesh" out of context.....
Next video: extracting potassium from human body’s
you literally have 99 likes as of posting this.
Well, he did say he wanted to extract phosphorus from bones someday.
Ok, it's decided, I'm donating my body to Cody's Lab upon my demise.
Where did grandma go? Are you sure you grabbed the right jar?
"Honey where did all of the bananas for Banana Bread go?" " *Gone, Reduced to Atoms* "
Him: Over there there there there there there there there annnnnd there!
Her: Again?! Sigh.
@@tylerhutchinson1326 Again!? Using them to make metal in a complicated process?!? Sigh...
Good One 😂😂
Lol
K
theirs such a difference between you and Nile Red. Nile Red: *uses lab grade equipment in an actual lab* Cody: *uses fire in his shed* I love it. ig goes to show that no matter your budget you can always find a way to do chemistry
NileRed is a potato.
Mildred uses much more dangerous chemicals but I understand your point. With not too dangerous chemicals like these you don’t need expensive equipment
@@Wiseman501 You are a banana.
@@ScienceDiscoverer I am honored. While not as versatile as a potato, a banana is still an impressive piece of produce.
Potatoes are yummy
I was good at high school chemistry so in the chem lab, my teacher allowed me to experiment with substances that were off limits to most of the other students. For me that meant elemental sodium, lithium and potassium. One day the teacher had a small jar of elemental sodium under some non-reactive oil and offered me a tiny piece to see how it would react. Since we didn't have a river to toss it into like Cody, I had to do it under the hood. I put a few drops of water on a tray and under the hood added the bit of sodium. It danced around like a grasshopper, breaking down the H20 and giving off hydrogen gas. Being highly flammable, (think of the Hindenburg) the heat of the reaction ignited the H2 gas. Note that H2O can be written HOH, which emphasizes the fact that water is a hydroxide of hydrogen: H+ -OH.
2Na + 2HOH → 2NaOH +H2 - [Sodium + water creates lye and hydrogen] In Cody's case, using potassium, the reaction would be:
2K + 2HOH → 2KOH +H2
The lesson was the activity of metals. Sodium and its cousins, including potassium, are highly active and are never found in their elemental state in nature.
চোলে এলো বানচোদ
does that mean that if you had a source of hydrogen you could turn lye into sodium?
@@animehair05silently88Yes and no. Turning it back into elemental sodium would be very difficult. Turning it into a sodium salt is as easy as adding an acid, though. For example, NaOH + HCl -> NaCl + H2O.
"Banana Flesh Ash Water"
Yes, a perfectly normal series of words.
A brand new sentence is what it is.
Limp Bizkit album title
In German, we could do it altogether in one word: Bananenfleischaschenwasser!
@@pocoloco8075 Genuine LOL here
@@pocoloco8075 that's why I love German, your keyboards don't need spaces XD
Ahh yes, a mason jar full of black liquid labeled “flesh” in messy handwriting
could not have described that any better lolol
Cody's Lab experiment or crime-scene discovery? Could be either.
I think the jar labeled "banana flesh ash water" takes the cake for best label overall though hehe
After enough Hannibal Lecter, neat handwriting would be worse.
The fun thing about this is that the potassium he managed to extract is worth about 5 times 10kg of bananas (or at least this is what I found out searching on Google) . He could start a business out of this😂
hm he had to sacrifice lithium in the progress tho. Lithium should be more expensive than potassium. And I don't know if there is a way to convert the lithium chloride back to lithium without buying expensive chemicals aswell. If it would be that easy the industry would farm bananas as a metallic potassium source
@@vairoxx4031 touchè
you can extract that for like a couple of dollars if you get lithium batteries as they contain about 1 gram each (although its fairly dangerous and hard to automate)@@vairoxx4031
@@vairoxx4031it can be done by the electrolysis of the molten salt. It requires lots of heating and electricity though so I'm not sure how that would play into the cost
10 kg banana cost 16-17 usd in my country. Its food. You cant eat potassium so it is a waste. :)
"Kris, get the banana"
...
"Potassium!"
While doing research for a nutrition class, I found out that papayas and red potatoes have more potassium than bananas. You should compare those.
sweet potatoes mushrooms and coconuts aswell i think
Also avocados, but everything is more expensive than bananas
@@jmbkpo Cody did alot of weird stuff with gold. I doubt avocadoes or some mushrooms will be out of his budget
@@TheDeadMeme27 ay man those avocados do be pricey tho
Move to Idaho and become a potassium farmer.
"So no monetization?"
*slams banana on the ground*
HA I GOT THAT ONE
Right. We can suggest he name his place Demonitization Ranch.
@@Digital-Dan HAHA XD
**Slips on it later into the video**
"Perchlorate" caused the demonetization
/facepalm.
it's amazing how the human body just does this on it's own, converting the banana meat to useful metabolites
Which are actually not exploding in our body or anythind xd
By design. Alhamdulillah
@@angrycustomersinshallah brother 🙏🙏🙏
And then uses it in our neurons to make the most hacky electrical wire ever.
God does it...... God creates nature
this is such good science. i am very appreciative of the attention to detail with reporting measurements. so many times you see stuff like this excluded because it's so cumbersome to report all of it in a video just made for fun, it means a lot that you went the extra mile.
"Let's go put this in the freezer"
*walks outside*
"Mom! There's a bear in the freezer! He's eating papa's burnt bananas!"
*Boom*
@@obunbasic5697 😂😂😂😂
Like a boss
I actually look for this comment haha
helo idaho/utah in winter:
he literally did ALL of that just to throw the result into a lake so it could explode............ GENIUS
Some of us skip all the sciency stuff and go for buying kilos of Potassium and Sodium metal. It's more fun.
@@TechGorilla1987 ok
@@tallic967 Are you wondering where it's available like that? I could probably provide a link to a friend.
he did all that so we could learn and get 700k views in 8 days
@@TechGorilla1987 yes pls
Probably to do with the water ratio of the peel vs the fruit itself. The peel probably contains much less water overall compared to the fruit itself. So when dried, the mass of the peel becomes nearly the same to that of the fruit.
This is actually a very fair point. It also could be that the potassium salts in some way benefit the peel. Citrus fruits actually contain more of the aroma and flavor compounds in the peels than the flesh because they’re hydrophobic and therefore prevent the juice from escaping.
i love your channel, shows chemistry does not take fancy equipment, only knowledge.
Bananas: *completely fucking obliterated*
Cody: eh there is still a bit of carbon in there
"You dont understand mom, the bananas STILL HAVE CARBON IN THEM!!!!!"
Imagine coming into this guy's room and there is a jar with a sign " Flesh ash water"
[fans self] mercy! I do believe I'm getting the vapors! Or is that chlorine gas?
"...You wanna drink it?"
@@lifediesyoung I WANNA DRINK IT
BUT IT'S VENOMOUS POISOON!!! (AAAAAGH) POISON RUNNING TROUGH MY VEINS!
😂
"Flesh ass water"
7:30 lol imagine you're a friend or police officer and you come into cody's house to see a jar of ash labelled "flesh"
Great work. I enjoyed your explanations about converting to perchlorates, solubilty, getting rid of oxygen and finally getting metallic Potassium. Your touch of class about explosion was so great.
I will use your presentation to encourage my students in doing this experiment as a final project for their final year of High school. Here in Paraguay we do not have resources but your approach will make them willing to adapt and think. Thank you for your time .
Cody's the guy your math textbook warned you about.
YEAH XD
Yknow whats funny is the poor minimum wage cashier who rang up all these bananas didnt even have to do math because everything nowadays is automated, I still remember my teacher saying over and over "you wont have a calculator with you 24/7!!"......while on her laptop, which was sitting right next to her phone, in a room full of students, some of which were CHARGING THE CALCULATOR THEY LITERALLY KEEP WITH THEM 24/7, sorry for venting american education is just ass backwards
It kinda looks like Cody lives in Wyoming
@David Davis I've never cashiered in a grocery store and I knew the 4011- I didn't know people didn't just notice random numbers and memorize their purpose. hrmm..
If you think he's bad check out styropyro
Imagine finding a strange jar labeled "flesh" filled with black ash🤣
😂
I noticed that, too. A cremation urn for a moonshiner? 😆
🤣🤣🤣
Is this sulphur?
This is the type of Organic Chemistry I can actually watch without falling asleep.
isn't this more inorganic though? he kinda just burnt all the organic molecules away.
I really recommend watching NileRed and NileBlue too!
A home shed experiment is just as fascinating as a production lab. Love the content and chemistry.
Imagine finding a jar called "flesh" with black liquid in it
I'd chug it down in a heartbeat
@@pbjracing14yearsago49 "just fuck my shit up, fam"
@Toxic Male Well... i certainly have on of those! :D
That was a very very black man then. Lmaooo
@@TheLiasas Racist
You know you're in Cody's house when you find a mason jar filled with unidentifiable black grime labeled "flesh."
😂
10:58 Kitty clearly impressed by it's hooman making white cloud in solution
So the Banana Grenade from Worms is actually real
So if you want potassium you gotta eat bananas with the shell on, okay
Lol
Knowing is half the battle
Pro Tip: Eat eggs with the shell on for extra calcium
"Shell"
Lol, I'm calling the peel a shell from now on
Nilered: * doesnt like how impure a solution is * * goes through a complex purification process to fix it *
Cody: * doesnt like how impure a solution is * "meh" * continues *
Omg yes, I was thinking this exactly. Nile would spend like 1/2 a day refining it but this guy clearly did the whole thing in 1/2 a day
@@nuttyengines4464 Same reason I watch both This Old Tony and AvE. There's the right way, and then there's the "Eh, screw it, it's good enough" way.
I watch them all. 🙂
You should also watch Elemental Maker. He reminds me a lot of AvE.
not to mention nile uses actual lab equipment instead of a kitchen oven, a campfire and tin can.
the only lab equipment Cody had was a vacuum filter.
Thanks for randomly popping up in my recommended videos. This just made my day in so many ways. I was pleasantly distracted from my current grief, learned some cool sciency stuff, and deepened my appreciation for the bad ass banana!
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Mene bhi dekha tha yae Wala video or Mr indian hacker dono ka 😂
Cody: "Cat is making a mess." Cat: "Says the guy who just dumped dozens of bananas on the table."
👍😄🤗🙂 exactly
A dozen?
@@AirNeat dozenS
You're telling me big banana has been lying to us about potassium content?
They must be injecting the bananas with chemicals to harm us by halving our potassium intake!
*bananacy
Not only big banana, but big nutrition has been fooling us all for years. Potassium is a KEY factor in your sodium intake as well.
big oil big pharma big banana
"Big banana" lol
Great video. I love the step by step of how you did it. Really satisfying to see the actual metal.
I don’t usually watch these kind of videos but for some reason found this fascinating. Good work!
The cashier seeing Cody arriving with 10Kg of banana in a cart : "Seems like math guy again is having a problem again..."
Walmart cashiers are used to it... especially around fair/festival season
Matt Parker and Sally Le Page?
LOL
"If you ate 40,000 bananas in ten minutes, you'd die from radiation poisoning"
"Ah yes, the *radiation* would kill you!"
Good one I think people haven't got you
Most of people missed the joke
So, to eat a whole Banana, 67 times per second...
Or your stomach explodes
so.... how do we know the source of radiation was the potassium? Perhaps it came from the chlorine in the perchlorate that was added.
I could also argue a lot of your loss came from the fluids during the dehydration step(s). Fantastic video!!
4:10 at this stage, i recommend adding salt
Yes! The peels do contain the most potassium. I tested the radioactivity of bananas earlier this year, and the peels were clearly the most radioactive part. Probably due to the higher potassium content. Maybe higher concentrations of other NORMs too.
wow the world really is a small place seeing that all science TH-camrs watch eachother
@@DimiDzi that you have to thank youtube for. Because they demonitize all science and educational channels.
and promote some dumb shit to make people loose braincells..
@@pika6238 well a lot of people don't understand science and think that putting mercury in your mouth is really dangerous thing although Cody didn't make mistakes when doing it
i think it's due to the peel being more dense than the fruit itself and that the fruit itself is what is distributing the potassium from the plant.
due to pressures within and outside the fruit changing, one could imagine particle expansion taking place and over time the more the fruit grows the more potassium is pushed into the peel.
potassium banana peel particle net.
I remembered that from your video, and I was thinking about it the whole time
NileRed : nice laboratory with nice glassware
Cody : rusty cans and pipes and still managing to do awesome chemistry
Right! Chemistry doesnt care what equipment you got, it still works.
@@JKYLEM1000 Eh it kinda does.. Better quality equipment means a better end result, and glass is very unreactive so its more versatile than steel.
That's how most of the original chemistry was done; some dude making his own labware out of whatever he can make it from.
I kinda want a video from someone on how often chemists were actually fantastic glassblowers as well due to having to produce their own glassware whenever they devised a new experiment requiring specialised tools.
It will always affect the yield and purity.
I like the way that Cody does it send a clear message that you can do chemistry anywhere and you don't need expensive proprietary equipment! So ask yourself which one of the two would make a better Professor on Gilligan's Island.
@9:44 I dont like how contaminated my solution is ..... from the worlds dirtiest lab/garage set up. And how much cheap kitchen equipment gets broken or mistreated (saucepans/ovens etc.). But it adds to the charm, love it! (PS Remind me not to go over to Codys house for dinner)
It's not that dirty. And I understand what you're trying to say but it's just coming across as really rude. It's giving passive aggressive
Get of from yt dude you're yapping nothing
@@lounirs "It's not that dirty"...you clearly have been nowhere near a lab. They're not kitchens. But he's not trying to be a lab either, so stop looking for insults that aren't there except in your triggered mind.
I'm an artist painter, so I'm into paint chemistry. I admire your set ups. I miss chemistry since undergrad school. New Subscriber. Nice skills.
Damn Cody what an absolutely awesome project!
So now you're gonna make a radio active, banana powered rocket, right?
daaamn nice to see you here.
Hell yeah you should make a straight potassium rocket
yeah brilliant, personally i prefer this to all that gardening and eco stuff but hey that's me
You're an awesome project EM!.. When are we going to see you do something like this?
There isn't another channel like Cody's Lab. His lab contains garbage cans, homemade lab equipment, snow freezers, cooking pans, and a hand vacuum pump. Don't ever change a thing. Please.
yep, that makes the video more relateable to us non lab people, and it pretty chill too
Ratio
There's also Explosions and Fire operating out of his shed in Australia.
remind me to senku from dr.stone anime
And a cat
Great video man. This looked like a fun process. And yes, I was hoping you would explode the metal at the end. You didn't disappoint.
I loved the last part too much ,it tells us that we carry nothing at the end of the day,all the effort to get potassium with the spirit to find out what and how much nature stored in little food we relish and finally effortlessly giving back to nature with cheer is really worth saluting !
Back to your roots, I see! Thanks for this video. Great!
Even with the old haircut too, I love it
All we need now is some more mining or (fingers crossed) return of the yellow cake!
@@starshot5172 Maybe its just a old video, Cody is known for uploading year old videos (or atleast part of the videos which are quite old) :D
@@foty8679 the majority of the video was filmed on or after 12/16/2020
This video is one I didn’t know I needed to watch. Instant classic. Love it
Next: Extracting Banana from Potassium Metal.
Watch the whole video. He actually makes a banana from pure potassium.
@@katieandkevinsears7724 yeah but it's not an _actual_ banana
@@katieandkevinsears7724 Good luck eating that...
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I wanna see that 😂😂😂😂😂
Im impressed how Cody did chemistry without any expensive equipment like especially when messing with uranium, radium and other radioactive stuff. Cody's some sort of god bro Im saying it
When I was just starting the video I was thinking about how cool it would be to get the Geiger counter reading on it, you never disappoint!
This is the most thorough destruction of a banana I've ever seen.
Really? You can come and take a look in my toilet. I've got a couple banana's there which literally and figuratively have gone to shit. Or give me your address so I can mail you some. You know, so you can judge for yourself.
@@UmVtCg love you
@@UmVtCg but you don't actually see the destruction tho
@@UmVtCg Such an unnecessary comment. Funny thing is that you wanted to be sarcastic but instead you sounded like an ass given the fact that the point of the comment was that we are able to see the thorough destruction of the bananas and with your dumb strategy we wouldn't be able to see that process and instead ass he would see is your shit which wouldn't be all from the bananas you ate. LMAO, just ridiculously stupid.
@@raegonzalez7692 are you sure he is the one that sounds like an ass?
This is the weirdest cooking show I’ve ever seen.
JESSE
Lol
I wonder what Gordon Ramsey would rate?
Check out How To Basic
@@gentlejake605 "this is absolutely incredible. So reactive. You've done a wonderful job, cody"
Some people are soooo smart.
All I know about bananas is to eat them.
How people figure out extraction processes and mixing elements is just amazing to me.
And perplexing.
I've heard of the hotseat, but that's just bananas! What a wonderful way to edutain! Had no idea about bananas actually being radioactive from potassium, albeit in minute quantities. I could do with a few bananas. My potassium is a tad low. Thanks for the video. :)
Cody: "Now for the part of the video you've all been waiting for"
Me: "This isn't Cody eating banana char"
I was waiting for that too, damn!
Cody biting pure potassium
"Banana flesh ash water" is a sequence of words I never expected to see.
But it is *vital* to include "banana", lest its' lack causes... misunderstandings
@@talltroll7092 ooooh boy did it....I laughed at watshisnames comment and said it out loud and because I often watch survivor videos especially Les Stroud (Survivorman) my half attentive roomy was like "where is he at a fkn desert or something...(ctfu) ..wtf is bandana fresh assed water ?" Which made ME start ctfu to the point I slapped a thigh and doubled over and then THAT made me forget what I had in my hand and long story short....time to re-roll
@@sagebiddi you ok bud?
@@DrMario- not even remotely but I won't bother anyone else I promise
Could be a great password, like that XKCD comic about "correct horse battery staple"
Did I just watch a video of some guy extracting potassium from bananas, me not having any idea about chemistry? Yes, i did. AND LOVED IT!!! Great video!
Absolutely crazy!! How you got pottassium from bananas and even showed the reactivity with water.
This is a wholesome version of Breaking Bad.
fixing good
Lol i was gonna say it looks like he cookin up some coke
I read that as "baking Brad"
This is as destructive as breaking bad, only in other way
Breaking Bad, in reality when Walter got a healthcare
"cooling it down by popping it in the freezer" *goes outside and puts it in snow*
I don't bother with bringing in all soda cans after grocery shopping, the car is just as cold as the freezer and also has a lock ;)
@@ExplizitDuester Smart! and the family can't find them there.
@@ExplizitDuester until you go to the car one day and all the soda cans exploded from freezing
@@DyslexicEvo And they go with some force. Give one the right angle, and it's got a decent shot at breaking a window.
it also makes more sense to eat the apple peel if you want more vitamins. the peels of fruit are the parts that humans didn't cultivate to taste like candy
Putting it all together.
Nice work!
The well known scientific measurement of distilled water: “About yay much.”
About yay much is half of the container you're filling
That you for that, got a solid laugh out of that.
my chemistry teacher in high school told a story once about how she was doing a lab with potassium one day, and she gave each table one slice of the potassium trapped in wax to use (as cody demonstrated, potassium is highly reactive to water). one kid just kinda pocketed the potassium, and since it was new orleans, the heat of their ass melted the wax, and the potassium reacted with their sweat, making it pop in their pocket
|-O-|
Lmao
Lol, it seems like something I would see in an old cartoon. It would be like this: _Then their ass starts to catch fire, they sit on a water bucket and then it explodes_
Omg, did he lose a buttock? Went from Gludeous Maximus to Gludeous Gone? 😂
A similar thing happened in my school but I think it was sodium that burned in their pocket and they took a large piece from the jar which was origiannly sumberged in oil. Then went on fire in thir pocket.
Potassium is used in the movement of water and nutrients in plant tissue. I reckon there’s probably more of that going on in the peel…feeding the fruit.
I have to say, you know how to make science very interesting! I enjoyed this video a lot!
Not even a minute in and i already know this will be a future classic
Hopefully TH-cam doesn't pull down the video
Yeah, haha
Facts
@@cz7797
"drying potassium perchlorate in an oven on a oxidizable metal: 1 community strike"
TH-cam rules of service agreement, Section 34, subsection 14 ("Encouraging explosives manufacture"), paragraph 59, item 8, (a), (iii)...
Downloading for my personal archive right now.
I remember having a conversation about this in grade 9, and I was called to the principle for talking about making bombs in class...
I feel like some institutions just want us to fail. My chemistry teacher took a 5gal bucket and tossed in about as much as cody did. That was my grade 9.
He also talked about how he used to get kids to pass out in class by letting them smell ammonia from a 5gal bucket. (He was testing them to see if they would waft it, or stick their head in the bucket and inhale without knowing what it was)
@@skyricq wtf
@@skyricq
Cool teacher,
@@guiorgy He obviously wasn't allowed to keep letting kids smell ammonia! Bet it stopped pretty quickly Lol
It was a funny story. He was a cool guy.
I worked with sodium in school for a year, researched the factors that make it explode. Got to the second round of a science contest with that project.
Thank you so much, content i didn't know i needed to watch.
I used to collect bananas, every day when school served them me and my friends would get from 2-8 bananas each and I would take them home. The highest amount in one day was 30. We stopped counting at 100 total but at that point it was culture so we still continued collecting.
Unfortunately I didn’t make potassium, only smoothies and bread
Imagine you're just chilling one day walking along a river while eating a banana and then it falls from your hand into the river and fucking explodes.
that's funny as hell!
That's only for imagining, because pottasium exists only with other elements in compound form in the banana, as Cody explained. It has already reached it's octet state so it don't need to react with water anymore. So if you make a banana fall in water, it wouldn't explode.
@@Uranium-dx7nn Okay, Mr. White. Whatever you say.
You must be fun to talk to at a party.
@@babarasul680 ok, but why would be i'm Fun to talk at a party? Btw I'm not Mr White.
Jim Ross as the banana explodes: "Good God almighty"
That Japanese guy be like: "Sharpest potassium knife from bananas"
Yes
kaboom
just stab someone and because people are around 70% water thw knife would explode in them
eait wrong material this isnt the one the booms in water is it?
@@elizabetharellano7976 no potassium does explode in water if there enough
Ok. I was great at chemistry at school. But this has blown my mind. It’s fantastic knowledge
This is what my science teacher exceptes me to do everytime there’s a project
Cody: "I'll hang these banana peels up on a drying rack."
Cody's Cat: "And I shall be knocking over said rack, as is tradition!"
A like for eloquence.
looks like the banana peels were contaminated with some potassium from the cat's tail, might explain the yield difference. :)
@@stamasd8500 "Explosive Radioactive Metal From Cat's Fur"
"meow eveyone! welcome back to Cody's cat." :3
You extracted potassium. From potash. Which you made, true to its etymology, from ash in a pot.
You've done exactly what gave potassium its name. Beautiful.
Dare we begin calling it Potashium
@@tylerhutchinson1326 LISTEN HERE YOU LITTLE SH-
Holy shit. Now it makese sense. I always thought the name po-tash was weird. It was pot-ash all along!
patashi wa potassium.
@@birdbeakbeardneck3617 OMAE WA MOU SHINDEIRU!!!
I love how most of these steps are as simple as " burn it to ash, add some water and filter that" and the rest is justsome science stuff
ah, a tentative pourer. if something doesnt have a spout, you just go for it. the slower you try to go the more mess youll make.
Adult: "What's your favorite element little timmy?" Little Timmy: "I quite like radioactive metals" A: "Oh, really? Which one?" LT: "Banana"
Potassium! Man, potassium is highly conductive but I had no idea it was actually radioactive. I was going to make some capacitors for my devices to replace my lithium ion. Whelp, back to the drawing board...
Or.. maybe I can sell them and kill off the planet. Decisions decisions
@@tylerhutchinson1326 Pretty sure you'd get put on a list just for commenting this
all the elements are radioactive, they all have certain isotopes that are radioactive
@@tylerhutchinson1326 how would you kill off the planet if you sold potassium? also you should always kill a planet yourself, never depend on anyone else to kill a planet because they might get intimidated by the gravitational binding energy of the planet
Cody:“Let’s go put this in the freezer”
The “freezer”: *S N O W*
Ah yes, the ol' Alaskan Freezer. We used to just keep all our food outside in the snow. It's so easy and consistent when you have really cold, snowy winters.
@@Woodledude the only downside is that it attracts bears
@@Timsturbs Now, we were in a suburb when we were doing this, so I can't imagine there was much threat of bears getting into our food (Although we did have a moose give birth in our back yard every year). Clearly I wouldn't know, but I know at least some species of bears hibernate for the winter - Though it would not surprise me to learn that Alaska's long winters encourage at least some level of activity throughout the year, as opposed to shorter winters that are easier to just skip entirely.
@@Woodledude it's a joke
@@FireWyvern870 (a bad one if it is) I personally would rather have someone talk about a moose giving birth in their backyard then someone making a bad joke that goes nowhere
In your other life.... "Halloween was coming up and they don't allow firework sales in my state so I bought a bunch of bananas and applied all I learned about chemistry. After quite a bit of chemistry work, which I love to do, we all had a blast tossing bits of potassium metal into the stream nearby during our Halloween night party."
Thank you for the awesome video!
Looking at words 'banana' and 'potassium' together always reminded me of 9th Doctor from Doctor Who, haha.
"I like bananas. Bananas are good." "Don't drop the banana. It's a good source of potassium."
Ah, miss that guy.
Anyway, great video!
NileRed with: "Turning platic gloves into grape soda" and now this. What a crazy week!
@@Justin_Leahy and they said infinity war is the most ambitious crossover
@@Justin_Leahy i approve fission should be doable with them working
I know how fortunate :) f***ing metal from a fruit, and grape flavor from latex gloves! I love chemistry!
I just thinking this
@@Justin_Leahy nuclear fission lmao
big brain play: potassium from worthless banana husk
tasty chips from decadent banana flesh
seems it would also be the most recovery, as it somehow has more potassium lol
First time here, and I've just loved your content. Thank you!
I love the hand pump vacuum setup. My suction pumped died a few months ago & I just did not want to spend the money.
Video Explained Badly:
Man burns bananas 4 times to remove every single trace of water
Then adds water.
You forgot the part when he removes oxygen and chloride
Chemistry 101. It's the circle of life.
@@alessiomuccio2795 Luckily I have a good excuse. The first line of my original comment :D
It's called filtration and purification
@@larrybane3334 its called a joke
Next episode: "Extract baby oil from babies"
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lol.
Extracting babies from baby oil
Equation:
Baby oil --> Baby + Oil
But can you reverse it, and add some other things to baby oil and make a baby?
Haha, that's disgusting man.
Chemistry is really nice when you understand the things that are ocurring!
In South India, we have recipes that use the peel of raw plantains in curries. My granny used to always say that the peels were more nutritious, turns out she was right
Try coconut shells! It's good for you. ; >
Your nana is a wise lady
@@fatdad64able coconut is one of the main ingredients of South Indian dishes
try durian
@@marijuana_smoker Why?
"Right. Now we're going to demonstrate how to defend yourself from an attacker wielding a banana."
"But what about an explosive, radioactive banana?"
You won't think this is so funny when some maniac is stuffing a pineapple down your gullet...
*releases the tiger*
@@marcuskane9925 stuff the potassium banana down a man's gullet recipe for a not good time
"Now, I eat the banana - thus, disarmin' 'im!"
I can see where Hollywood FX(special),,, could get their "exploding scenes" from... Very interesting video Cody,... I've learned many things from you today,,, thank you for sharing your wisdom and knowledge ,, and stay humble brother...
@Cody@ I was feeling very sorry for myself today. Nothing was working for me in my world - especially as I live at the other end of the world in Australia (the land of Oz:-} ) THEN i stumbled across this site and the FANTASTIC effort you put in to this project of yours. ( Reminded me of how people make/compound natural medicines by concentrating their energy by incredible DILUTION.)
It exhausted me just reading of all the work you went to in your strange "laboratory" of odd equipment and utensils!
I was so tired I had to go take a nap, but was so embarrassed by all your amazing effort for such a simple demonstration, I couldn't sleep and had to get back to work.
Great job, Cody, but wasted on most of the world's 60 seconds of attention/concentration ability.
But thank you, we need a lot more of you to save the planet today.
"So here's the banana flesh ash water" is not a sentence I expected to hear... ever.
Not anymore.
I had trouble clicking the like button because my laughter was moving my hand. :D