This is insane! If you ever reproduce the experiment, here are some safety measures that I'd highly recommend you take. Never forget to measure! The solution MUST be a 3-1 mixture of H2SO4 and H2O2 at most. Higher concentrations of H2O2 can and have resulted in explosions. Glad to see that you moved it outside because I got really nervous when you brought out the sugar. Sugar and H2SO4 results in highly toxic sulfur dioxide gas. Never work with piranha indoors unless you have a fume hood. Wear Venom brand or comparable chemical nitrile gloves. They're made three times thicker than examination gloves and are meant for harsh chemicals. They're a bit expensive, but so is reconstructive surgery, so it's worth the investment. Read the ingredients of any H2O2 you plan to use. My wife bought some salon grade peroxide a while back and I thought it could be used for my amateur chemistry as well. Very glad I read the label before testing that theory, because one of the ingredients in this particular brand was vinyl alcohol. Mixing liquid organics, such as any alcohols, with piranha will cause an explosion. Be cautious and keep up the good work! Great video!
ElementalMaker lol she was cool to let you make that shit in the yard to be fair! Love the channel, I am sure subs will increase dramatically So hopefully funding will be available for you to get all the things you require.
Rule #1 of dealing with sulphuric acid in lab-like or experimental settings: you never add water to the acid, you add acid to the water. When adding water to the acid, the solving process is extremely exothermic to the point that acid may be projected out of the container, hitting your face and everyting around the container.
Generally good advice but with piranha solution if the concentration of peroxide is too high it can explode which is why in this case you add the peroxide to the acid
@@bitTorrenter I wouldn't recommend it. At least not quickly. At a previous job where I was working in chemistry, one of my jobs was a digestion assay where we added 95% sulfuric acid and 50% hydrogen peroxide at 130 degrees C to the organic samples we were analyzing to break them down into their atomic forms to analyze protein content (Kjeldahl assay) We added the sulfuric acid first and then the peroxide. We had a special funnel that had a REALLY narrow tube to add the peroxide with so that it trickled in DROPWISE because the reaction was so exothermic that it needed to be carefully controlled. We also had a weight on the container holding the sample so that if it exploded it wouldn't fly into the air and had the whole thing set up in a blast proof fume hood. Probably the most dangerous thing I've ever dealt with in my life.
@@SightUnseen555was particular reason why the procedure you are using had you add the acid first? Couldn't you have started with the peroxide and add the acid?
... and by liquid A and B, remember: "do as you 'orter', add acid to water" very dangerous to add water (73% of your peroxide) to acid. in particular, the concentrated sulphuric acid tries to dehydrate the peroxide and creates heat in the process. heat enough to boil the mix. by adding acid slowly, it builds up strength in the peroxide /water and is less likely to boil and splash over you. this is basic chemistry.
@@95rav Basic chemistry, perhaps, but extremely dangerous in the case of mixing piranha solution. The hydrogen peroxide is always added to sulphuric acid, not the reverse. Otherwise, it's likely to explode in your face.
important to remember general knowledge is only general and special circumstances can require you to do things contradictory to the norm. If he had done as you suggest he would be slightly less likely to have a drops splash up (watch codyslab s vids on adding water to acid, on small scale quantities it's risk has been overblown) but would instead have ran the risk of the reaction vessel deciding to cosplay as a grenade.
The part of the glove was interesting for me because in chemistry class (4° of highschool) we were told to not use em because the chemicals could dissolve the gloves and make it stick to our hands and now I'm constantly saying that whenever I see someone with them on doing anything related to chemicals. Of course there are some "resistant" gloves but even those aren't fully secure(I guess) and I seriously doubt anyone on places like TH-cam uses them (ehem, I'm looking at ya, TKOR) Edit: Could you try to stretch a glove (or several types of gloves[latex, nitrile, those chemically resistant ones]) over a beaker and put a few drops of that thing to see how long would it take to go through?
well it depends on what you are workin with ofcourse. I am no chemist in the least but I do know that most stuff that can burn your skin doesn't react that much with latex or rubber. This however does and probably quite a few more agents would destroy it. Thats where knowledge and getting information beforehand is neccesary when working with stuff like this.
Nitrile is usually preferred in labs because less chemicals go through it, and it doesn't cause the allergies that prolonged contact with latex can cause. There are charts that you can look up which tell you what glove material to use in what application.
This assumes that you leave the gloves on once spilling something on your hands. The Nitrile glove will still protect your hand to a point. But you should pull them off immediately once you notice spillage. It beats spilling directly onto your skin.
What the hell kind of teacher did you have? That’s a terrible reason! Sure, some chemicals could cause it to melt to you, but there are tons more of chemicals that are extremely toxic or harmful to the body but unreactive to the gloves. A rare, niche case of gloves causing harm is no reason not to use them. This is worse than Anti-Vaxxers!
When I was working in a research lab I used this stuff to clean organic material out of fritted glass filters. It terrified me then for the same reasons that it terrifies you, and I had a full fume hood with glass barrier pulled down as far as I could get it and full protective equipment.
Great Video, my Piranhasolution always gets blood red when i dissolve meat. I mean really dark red, pretty disgusting. I'm still not sure where the colour comes from. Fries don't give the same red so i think it's something in the meat. Your Acid seems to stay mostly clear.
What acid source are you using? Some drain openers have buffers and that could perhaps be it. I used to get a very dark red color when doing nitrations with liquid lightning years ago. I then found Rooto which seems to be a much more pure source of H2SO4
The nitrile glove reminded me of a section in Ignition! where somebody's test for new potential employees was to drop the finger of a glove into I think a beaker of RFNA just before they came in and see how they reacted when it popped ;)
Well, anything organic would be oxidized to carbon dioxide but bones are high in anorganic salts which would either stay intact or maybe dissolve into solution.
Would be neat to see what a ml or 2 on a piece of meat would do. Like how far would it spread from the "splash" site? Similar to if you had splashed some on your arm.
@@ElementalMaker If you could get a small slab of pork belly, it would be a great comparison to human skin. Might scare you away from playing with this stuff. Lol
I absolutely loved the your video not just for the content but the Piranha Solution & Tom Cruise, becoming a “ Clear “, caught me totally off guard!!! I did a 10 page report on Scientology, Dianetics , L .Ron Hubbard and his celebrity Clientele, for an English class in college , when I was a kid !!! I learned so much about it that I never want to hear about it again unless it’s done in context with someone that’s got a sense of humor, 😂 Thank you for the entertaining video and for some good ol college memories!!!
ElementalMaker Thank you for sharing the piranha solution with the rest of us. I would like to ask you Sir, if you would know if this solution would attack and harm the PVC black pipe that is used in a sewer pipe system or not and/or attack anything made out of cement? Thank you, Very Respectfully, dd.
Yes this will attack anything other than glass or teflon. PVC or ABS from the sounds of what you are describing would be rapidly destroyed. Do you own research, but from my reading there are only a couple ways to safely dispose of this stuff. 1) Let stand for at least 24 hours for the H2O2 to decompose, then dilute and drain. 2) massive 20:1 dilution, followed by steady base addition until neutral, followed by additional dilution down the drain.
Damn now I'm confused. I stocked up on sodium hydroxide in case I ever need it but thinking maybe I should've got sulfuric acid and peroxide instead :-P
@@PotatoesAssistant NaOH with peroxide? From what I've read it makes for a most unpleasant end to your life if you're the one mixing them together (or a bystander). Sudden violent very hot exothermic mist.
I get that he’s just being sarcastic but I still can’t help thinking ‘Who you trying to convince?’ with the “being a man I consider this cooked” bit...just cracked me up; he’s very good at acting like he has zero self awareness (again, I assume he’s being sarcastic). My 70 year old mother eats just about anything raw, i think that puts her higher up his ‘being-a-man’ scale than him! On a serious note though, his healthy respect for that piranha solution is bang on!
Dang. Wonder how hot it gets. Would be cool to have a temp gun.. What's that DI water for? we have DI water at work, but it's for cooling these mandrels on this machine we run constantly. Same thing?
I have a few questions: 1) how does this react to metal, or does it? 2) what does it smell like when it burns through carbon? (For lack of better term)
I love this stuff lol. I also like mixing hydrochloric acid and 35% hydrogen peroxide. The hydrochloric acid mix seems more violent but doesn't react near as long although I've only mixed small amounts at a time just for fun. I've also mixed all 3 but I'm not sure that was much of an improvement
I believe the bubbling is purely from the H2O2 undergoing thermal decomposition, and I know the H2SO4 takes on that crappy colour if it's old. We have 98% pure H2SO4 from proper chemical suppliers and it ends up taking on that colour eventually.
What’s the highest concentration of peroxide you could use? I saw some 45% MEKP come In contact with some concentrated sulfuric acid drain cleaner once. It bubbled for a second and then immediately burst into flames.
Very good question. Glass is incredibly chemically inert. To dissolve glass would take hydrofluoric acid or hot sodium hydroxide among some other exotic chemicals. Piranha solution will hydroxylate the surface of the glass it contacts, but otherwise damage isn't done
@bailey walters damn hope you are okay! Chemicals are crazy when you experience them! I accidentally got 3 test tubes of hydrochloric acid and magnesium while activated poured over my hand in my last science class which didn’t end well-
@bailey walters good to know you’re okay! My hand is fine and had a bit of a rash and nothing more, freaked out though and my entire chemistry class was flipping out, I was the first one this year to make a mistake, it was actually my friend who tipped it over my hand on accident because she didn’t see my hand 🥲
For sulfuric acid you generally want to add acid to water. This is because if you dribble a bit of water in, it can cause it to heat rapidly, creating steam and bubbles and blowing acid (or in this case pirahna) all over you. Adding it to water means it will dilute the acid enough that it won't instantly create steam. Interesting aside, I believe mixing the two creates peroxymonosulfuric acid, though it might be more complex than that
I should also say that for most other acids, the water won't heat so rapidly, though I'm sure someone who knows more can chime in with what other acids you have to watch out for as well
Yeah of course 35% can be used. This stuff is insanely dangerous though, and even chemist's with many years lab experience are scared of this mixture. So don't even think about making this if you don't do your research. It'll eat right through your flesh and blind you in an instant. Not to mention the explosion hazard.
... When I die, I want all the science TH-cams to get together and do a Livestream of dissolving my body in piranha fluid, because I know we all want to see it
Nope. He meant what he said. In this case Five mil nitrile gloves refers to mils(thousandths) rather than mm(millimeters) 5 mil (thou) gloves are 0.127 millimeters (mm), or 127 micrometers (um) thick. Hope this clears things up a bit :).
This is a good way to clean your sulfuric acid as well. IF... You are brave enough and have the right space to do it in, adequate glassware, equipment and PPE. You make the peroxide as strong as you can by slowly evaporating it down and checking the density as you go about every 20 minutes at 150°f. Do NOT let it go past that temperature! You would want to take it slow. Then once you hit a density that correlates to around 40%, you then let if cool and SLOWLY add the the acid to the peroxide until you have and acid/peroxide ratio of 10/1. This works for store bought drain cleaner between 90%-95% purity sulfuric acid. In a fume hood and in a GOOD distillation setup with all safety protocols, equipment, PPE, etc on and in place, heat the acid to around the boiling point of water and distill off and discard that fraction. Then very slowly keep increasing the temperature and collecting fractions every 50°f or so until you hit the boiling point of the acid. At this point you are distilling over 98% sulfuric acid. As good as it gets. But you need the best equipment and a heating surfaces that can hit 700°f (371°c) consistently as it's boiling point is 638°f, so you'll want something that can go a bit past that. Like I said, do not do this unless you have the correct facilities, equipment, PPE, safety equipment, etc. Hot sulfuric acid is evil, boiling sulfuric acid is evil incarnate. It will melt you. Literally. What ever it touches turns to a carbon mush nearly instantly. But this is how you do it. Either this, or spend the money to buy the pure stuff.
Jeez that looks like it might hurt to get in your eye.
It hurts just imagining that!
How did I comment a year ago is it was unloaded 11 months
@@mindystorts9746 magic time machine called Patreon
mr. random idk but did you come here from a TikTok
I don’t think you’ll have an eye after tht omg
Teacher: where is your homework??
Me who was experimenting with this: "gone, reduced to atoms"
wreck-it ralph 😭😭
psychra-_- what????????
@@kd5ive what lol
@@kamri6567 it's a phrase from that movie
@@cjfleming8005 it's a phrase from that movie😂 called "wreck it ralph"
2:30 when you take your first sip of McDonald’s sprite.
So much meme potential in one video
Lmao
What the hell? Gahahahahah
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"no piranhas were harmed in the making of this video"
It’s great to see some you tubers prepared to go out on a limb with the good old fashioned style science like we want to see.
Glad you enjoyed!
I see what you did there 😉👌🏽
This is insane! If you ever reproduce the experiment, here are some safety measures that I'd highly recommend you take.
Never forget to measure! The solution MUST be a 3-1 mixture of H2SO4 and H2O2 at most. Higher concentrations of H2O2 can and have resulted in explosions.
Glad to see that you moved it outside because I got really nervous when you brought out the sugar. Sugar and H2SO4 results in highly toxic sulfur dioxide gas. Never work with piranha indoors unless you have a fume hood.
Wear Venom brand or comparable chemical nitrile gloves. They're made three times thicker than examination gloves and are meant for harsh chemicals. They're a bit expensive, but so is reconstructive surgery, so it's worth the investment.
Read the ingredients of any H2O2 you plan to use. My wife bought some salon grade peroxide a while back and I thought it could be used for my amateur chemistry as well. Very glad I read the label before testing that theory, because one of the ingredients in this particular brand was vinyl alcohol.
Mixing liquid organics, such as any alcohols, with piranha will cause an explosion.
Be cautious and keep up the good work! Great video!
Also, highly recommend an ice bath while mixing.
Finally, never neutralize hot piranha. Always allow it time to get to at least room temperature.
Rationality is code for “The Wife” 😂
You nailed that one on the head! Need to build myself a fume hood ASAP
ElementalMaker lol she was cool to let you make that shit in the yard to be fair!
Love the channel, I am sure subs will increase dramatically So hopefully funding will be available for you to get all the things you require.
@keith moore working on it!
Definitely don't dip your wick in that
Ecliptix what is a wick
@@kamri6567 dick
@@kamri6567 john wick
6:07
@@kamri6567
The white string in the candle that you set fire to.
Rule #1 of dealing with sulphuric acid in lab-like or experimental settings: you never add water to the acid, you add acid to the water. When adding water to the acid, the solving process is extremely exothermic to the point that acid may be projected out of the container, hitting your face and everyting around the container.
Generally good advice but with piranha solution if the concentration of peroxide is too high it can explode which is why in this case you add the peroxide to the acid
*Do what you outta, add acid to 'watta'
@@jeffreyfriend3727 What about using 35% H₂O₂? Is it a big enough difference in percentage to make the solution unsafe?
@@bitTorrenter I wouldn't recommend it. At least not quickly.
At a previous job where I was working in chemistry, one of my jobs was a digestion assay where we added 95% sulfuric acid and 50% hydrogen peroxide at 130 degrees C to the organic samples we were analyzing to break them down into their atomic forms to analyze protein content (Kjeldahl assay) We added the sulfuric acid first and then the peroxide. We had a special funnel that had a REALLY narrow tube to add the peroxide with so that it trickled in DROPWISE because the reaction was so exothermic that it needed to be carefully controlled. We also had a weight on the container holding the sample so that if it exploded it wouldn't fly into the air and had the whole thing set up in a blast proof fume hood.
Probably the most dangerous thing I've ever dealt with in my life.
@@SightUnseen555was particular reason why the procedure you are using had you add the acid first? Couldn't you have started with the peroxide and add the acid?
Q: How do you like your steak, rare, medium or done?
A: Still kicking!
"Should go clear, just like Tom Cruise" that took a second to click... Lol
Use the glass rod on top of the beaker (laid over the spout) to slowly add liquid B to liquid A in a far more controlled and safe manner.
... and by liquid A and B, remember: "do as you 'orter', add acid to water"
very dangerous to add water (73% of your peroxide) to acid. in particular, the concentrated sulphuric acid tries to dehydrate the peroxide and creates heat in the process. heat enough to boil the mix.
by adding acid slowly, it builds up strength in the peroxide /water and is less likely to boil and splash over you.
this is basic chemistry.
@@95rav Basic chemistry, perhaps, but extremely dangerous in the case of mixing piranha solution. The hydrogen peroxide is always added to sulphuric acid, not the reverse. Otherwise, it's likely to explode in your face.
important to remember general knowledge is only general and special circumstances can require you to do things contradictory to the norm. If he had done as you suggest he would be slightly less likely to have a drops splash up (watch codyslab s vids on adding water to acid, on small scale quantities it's risk has been overblown) but would instead have ran the risk of the reaction vessel deciding to cosplay as a grenade.
The part of the glove was interesting for me because in chemistry class (4° of highschool) we were told to not use em because the chemicals could dissolve the gloves and make it stick to our hands and now I'm constantly saying that whenever I see someone with them on doing anything related to chemicals. Of course there are some "resistant" gloves but even those aren't fully secure(I guess) and I seriously doubt anyone on places like TH-cam uses them (ehem, I'm looking at ya, TKOR)
Edit:
Could you try to stretch a glove (or several types of gloves[latex, nitrile, those chemically resistant ones]) over a beaker and put a few drops of that thing to see how long would it take to go through?
well it depends on what you are workin with ofcourse. I am no chemist in the least but I do know that most stuff that can burn your skin doesn't react that much with latex or rubber. This however does and probably quite a few more agents would destroy it. Thats where knowledge and getting information beforehand is neccesary when working with stuff like this.
Nitrile is usually preferred in labs because less chemicals go through it, and it doesn't cause the allergies that prolonged contact with latex can cause. There are charts that you can look up which tell you what glove material to use in what application.
Nitrile isnt recommended for piranha acid
This assumes that you leave the gloves on once spilling something on your hands.
The Nitrile glove will still protect your hand to a point. But you should pull them off immediately once you notice spillage.
It beats spilling directly onto your skin.
What the hell kind of teacher did you have? That’s a terrible reason! Sure, some chemicals could cause it to melt to you, but there are tons more of chemicals that are extremely toxic or harmful to the body but unreactive to the gloves. A rare, niche case of gloves causing harm is no reason not to use them. This is worse than Anti-Vaxxers!
When I was working in a research lab I used this stuff to clean organic material out of fritted glass filters. It terrified me then for the same reasons that it terrifies you, and I had a full fume hood with glass barrier pulled down as far as I could get it and full protective equipment.
Man I wish I could get Rationality to ring me up just before I do something stupid, the bastard always calls me right after!
"should go clear, just like Tom cruise"
Well that was unexpected but extremely well placed, very nice!
Great Video, my Piranhasolution always gets blood red when i dissolve meat. I mean really dark red, pretty disgusting. I'm still not sure where the colour comes from. Fries don't give the same red so i think it's something in the meat. Your Acid seems to stay mostly clear.
What acid source are you using? Some drain openers have buffers and that could perhaps be it. I used to get a very dark red color when doing nitrations with liquid lightning years ago. I then found Rooto which seems to be a much more pure source of H2SO4
Did you shove piranhas in a beaker?
Could you do a second one and test the greater trochanter of a femur bone? For educational purposes of course.
The nitrile glove reminded me of a section in Ignition! where somebody's test for new potential employees was to drop the finger of a glove into I think a beaker of RFNA just before they came in and see how they reacted when it popped ;)
I wonder what this stuff would do to bones. So far, it's absolutely terrifying.
Well, anything organic would be oxidized to carbon dioxide but bones are high in anorganic salts which would either stay intact or maybe dissolve into solution.
They would at the very least turn to dust so yes this will work for what he is thinking
Found this after Watching Nile Red devolve an entire chicken wing in it, bone included
It destroys it all
Back in the 80's gag shops would sell piranha solution in eye drop bottles as a funny prank to use on your best buds
OW
OH NOO
Is concerned about how fast it eats the glove.
No one :
Him: continues to work with same gloves and puts stuff in with the fingers 😂
Chuck Norris's eye drops.
Would be neat to see what a ml or 2 on a piece of meat would do. Like how far would it spread from the "splash" site? Similar to if you had splashed some on your arm.
Very cool idea!
@@ElementalMaker If you could get a small slab of pork belly, it would be a great comparison to human skin. Might scare you away from playing with this stuff. Lol
This is exactly what I needed after getting choked up watching Mr Rogers good bye.
And I can still explore my childhood curiosity.
If I could choose one person to live on for eternity, it would totally be Mr Rogers.
Forbidden McDonalds sprite
At the end, mixing with baking soda makes sodium sulfate?
Yessir 👍
I absolutely loved the your video not just for the content but the Piranha Solution & Tom Cruise, becoming a “ Clear “, caught me totally off guard!!!
I did a 10 page report on Scientology, Dianetics , L .Ron Hubbard and his celebrity Clientele, for an English class in college , when I was a kid !!!
I learned so much about it that I never want to hear about it again unless it’s done in context with someone that’s got a sense of humor, 😂
Thank you for the entertaining video and for some good ol college memories!!!
Curious to see what it does to bone.
Thanks a lot! The body in my basement was starting to smell, now I know how to get rid of it!
Now I know what to do to the bodies buried at my backyard !!!
Me too. Just make a few gallons of this stuff in your bath tub put the bodies in then remove the drain stopper. Done and done
@@lifeofapsychopath5970 it dissolves ceramic
ElementalMaker
Thank you for sharing the piranha solution with the rest of us. I would like to ask you Sir, if you would know if this solution would attack and harm the PVC black pipe that is used in a sewer pipe system or not and/or attack anything made out of cement?
Thank you, Very Respectfully, dd.
this shit will attack anything
*DO NOT DUMP IT DOWN YOUR DRAIN AND INTO THE SEWER*
Yes this will attack anything other than glass or teflon. PVC or ABS from the sounds of what you are describing would be rapidly destroyed. Do you own research, but from my reading there are only a couple ways to safely dispose of this stuff. 1) Let stand for at least 24 hours for the H2O2 to decompose, then dilute and drain. 2) massive 20:1 dilution, followed by steady base addition until neutral, followed by additional dilution down the drain.
@@ElementalMaker Thank you Sir for your reply. That's why I ask the question. dd
Damn now I'm confused. I stocked up on sodium hydroxide in case I ever need it but thinking maybe I should've got sulfuric acid and peroxide instead :-P
Mix the NaOH with peroxide and get the best of both worlds
@@SomeAustrianGuy yeah that's an extremely bad idea from what I've read
Kirk Claybrook what does it make
@@PotatoesAssistant NaOH with peroxide? From what I've read it makes for a most unpleasant end to your life if you're the one mixing them together (or a bystander). Sudden violent very hot exothermic mist.
@@PotatoesAssistant mustard gas
So glad to see more and more people feeding their Piranha Solutions. :]
So what would happen if you drink it?
Very cool. So what about bone?
“Being a man, I call that cooked.” /robot laugh
*states that literally everything in the video terrifies him*
I get that he’s just being sarcastic but I still can’t help thinking ‘Who you trying to convince?’ with the “being a man I consider this cooked” bit...just cracked me up; he’s very good at acting like he has zero self awareness (again, I assume he’s being sarcastic).
My 70 year old mother eats just about anything raw, i think that puts her higher up his ‘being-a-man’ scale than him!
On a serious note though, his healthy respect for that piranha solution is bang on!
Oh shove off
@@georgegathiani410 oooh, spicy 🤣
"Should go clear, just like Tom Cruise"
LOL
That strong solution had such a hard time trying to break apart that small piece of meat; imagine how hard the human stomach works to digest this.
Could you do a video explaining acid, basic and alkali?
Basic is alkaline, there's acidic, neutral and basic, hope that helps some
Dang. Wonder how hot it gets. Would be cool to have a temp gun.. What's that DI water for? we have DI water at work, but it's for cooling these mandrels on this machine we run constantly. Same thing?
2:50 Drain cleaners include some organic compounds to prevent corrosion of pipes. You possibly have lost significant amount of h2o2 at that moment.
How does the piranha solution do with bone?? Just askin🤔🤔
I'll have to test that!
Will this clean my stomach if I drink?
5:38 there saved you all 5 minutes
Did everyone miss the tom Cruise referenser, hilarious 😅
So, the leftover in the bucket has been neutralized ... but are there still some nasty chemicals in the liquid?
Nah nothing crazy, mostly sodium sulfate.
I have a few questions:
1) how does this react to metal, or does it?
2) what does it smell like when it burns through carbon? (For lack of better term)
This is 1080p? Looks so fuzzy.
does putting the steak in finish the cooking process?
I didn't get the Tom Cruise one, but that Nick Offermans Beard joke got me good
It was a proper scientology joke. Glad you liked the Ron Swanson reference.
so how much of it would you need for a 170 lb steak?
Would this be good for cleaning a weed pipe?
Ok just hear me out....when Drain-O fails....can I use just a small amount of this to try and flush my drain?
I love this stuff lol. I also like mixing hydrochloric acid and 35% hydrogen peroxide. The hydrochloric acid mix seems more violent but doesn't react near as long although I've only mixed small amounts at a time just for fun. I've also mixed all 3 but I'm not sure that was much of an improvement
Why's the glass beaker not melting? 😕
Glass is about the only thing that can withstand piranha solution
So basicly human body can disappear using this piranha solution?
I believe the bubbling is purely from the H2O2 undergoing thermal decomposition, and I know the H2SO4 takes on that crappy colour if it's old.
We have 98% pure H2SO4 from proper chemical suppliers and it ends up taking on that colour eventually.
Very cool, are the fumes from the break down process flammable? Great video love the way hydrogen peroxide cleans it right up to clear
The fumes are actually mostly CO2 and some O2 from Hydrogen Peroxide decomposition, so nothing flammable.
@@ElementalMaker you still might want to test your luck though
What about a pirhana in pirhana solution?
Where do you get the high concentration peroxide? The highest I see commonly available is 9%.
Pool suppliers often stock 27%. Look for Baquacil 👍
@@ElementalMaker thanks. Peroxide is always useful.
Oh my god your voice is amazing! It sounds like how id imagine a mountain speaking!
So if i were to make a tank full of it and jump into it, it would take take around half a day to completely dissolve all of my flesh?
Is this ave second channel? Or your his american cousin
5:57 nice parks and rec reference
How do you dispose of this solution?
I show it at the end of the video, but dillute, neutralize with Sodium bicarbonate, and then it's fine to go down the drain.
@@ElementalMaker
Thanks!
What’s the highest concentration of peroxide you could use?
I saw some 45% MEKP come In contact with some concentrated sulfuric acid drain cleaner once. It bubbled for a second and then immediately burst into flames.
I don’t care if this has been over done this is still supper cool
How much of this would I need for a steak about 6.34 ft and 216lbs with the bones in it
Is this just some type of super acid
Now this is the kind of demonstration I would like to see in chemistry class!!
If your chemistry teacher says things like "sucrose is basically just carbon", run!
@@TruthNerds LOL
They probably have a barrel of this stuff in the storage closet too
is it healthy to breath vapors?
Hell no
What does it do to hair in a drain?
First it'll dissolve the hair... then the drain. LOL. Not joking though. For hair clogs, stick to straight sulfuric drain opener.
how do you get rid of that tho?
This is the perfect way to spend my time the evening before my final chemistry exam in the morning lool
Lmao! Best of luck on your final!
@@ElementalMaker aww thank you! I'm hoping to get a higher grade than I normally do for chemistry because I keep getting so close to it haha
How much do I need for a steak of 180lbs?
If its so corrosive then why doesn't it burn through the glass jug?
Very good question. Glass is incredibly chemically inert. To dissolve glass would take hydrofluoric acid or hot sodium hydroxide among some other exotic chemicals. Piranha solution will hydroxylate the surface of the glass it contacts, but otherwise damage isn't done
His laugh is so comforting
Interesting and educational as always! Thanks for sharing!
My chemistry teacher told me to look this up so here I am…didn’t realise this stuff we keep in my school is this dangerous-
@bailey walters damn hope you are okay! Chemicals are crazy when you experience them! I accidentally got 3 test tubes of hydrochloric acid and magnesium while activated poured over my hand in my last science class which didn’t end well-
@bailey walters good to know you’re okay! My hand is fine and had a bit of a rash and nothing more, freaked out though and my entire chemistry class was flipping out, I was the first one this year to make a mistake, it was actually my friend who tipped it over my hand on accident because she didn’t see my hand 🥲
@bailey walters haha kinda does the more I think ab it 🤣
does the old high school science lab adage "always add acid" apply given that the h2o2 is almost like water?
Actually the opposite in this situation! Although that old adage is pretty much BS anyways.
For sulfuric acid you generally want to add acid to water. This is because if you dribble a bit of water in, it can cause it to heat rapidly, creating steam and bubbles and blowing acid (or in this case pirahna) all over you.
Adding it to water means it will dilute the acid enough that it won't instantly create steam.
Interesting aside, I believe mixing the two creates peroxymonosulfuric acid, though it might be more complex than that
I should also say that for most other acids, the water won't heat so rapidly, though I'm sure someone who knows more can chime in with what other acids you have to watch out for as well
like i get HnS right but what on gods earth are vynil gloves gonna do in this situation
Did I just come across the AvE of chemistry?
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Julian Jimenez yea howd you know
Julian Jimenez that guy who put a paper towel in it
Does it matter what strength peroxide is used? Can 35% food grade peroxide be used? If so, what would the measurements be? Thanks for any info.
Yeah of course 35% can be used. This stuff is insanely dangerous though, and even chemist's with many years lab experience are scared of this mixture. So don't even think about making this if you don't do your research. It'll eat right through your flesh and blind you in an instant. Not to mention the explosion hazard.
@@ElementalMaker Thanks for the info.
How much of this solution is good for dissolving a human body? If in pieces?🤨
You could probably ask your local police department, I'm sure they would know 😁
@@ElementalMaker thanks! I asked them and they said they are taking me to a special place to answer me in detail😁
... When I die, I want all the science TH-cams to get together and do a Livestream of dissolving my body in piranha fluid, because I know we all want to see it
Back when I worked in biomed I got to sawzall the spine out of a cadaver, that's pretty close right? 🤣
Where did you get that hydrogen peroxide?
Pool suppliers often carry it. Look for Baquacil 👍
@@ElementalMaker Thanks I have been having a lot of trouble finding it
Someone burnt that steak...
Now this is what I envisioned acid to be like when I started chemistry
Will this solution eat through bone and teeth? Asking for a friend.
pretty sure you kept saying 5mm glove, but you meant .5mm glove?..
Nope. He meant what he said. In this case Five mil nitrile gloves refers to mils(thousandths) rather than mm(millimeters)
5 mil (thou) gloves are 0.127 millimeters (mm), or 127 micrometers (um) thick.
Hope this clears things up a bit :).
I need to clean carbon off my ceramic coated aluminum cook ware. Would this work?
As long as you also want to dissolve your cook ware, go for it.
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WHAT DOES IT SMELL LIKE
I like making caramel with piranha solution! It is so tasty and effective.
So it’s basically acid?
More like a super acid.
@@ElementalMaker oh
This is a good way to clean your sulfuric acid as well. IF... You are brave enough and have the right space to do it in, adequate glassware, equipment and PPE. You make the peroxide as strong as you can by slowly evaporating it down and checking the density as you go about every 20 minutes at 150°f. Do NOT let it go past that temperature! You would want to take it slow. Then once you hit a density that correlates to around 40%, you then let if cool and SLOWLY add the the acid to the peroxide until you have and acid/peroxide ratio of 10/1. This works for store bought drain cleaner between 90%-95% purity sulfuric acid. In a fume hood and in a GOOD distillation setup with all safety protocols, equipment, PPE, etc on and in place, heat the acid to around the boiling point of water and distill off and discard that fraction. Then very slowly keep increasing the temperature and collecting fractions every 50°f or so until you hit the boiling point of the acid. At this point you are distilling over 98% sulfuric acid. As good as it gets. But you need the best equipment and a heating surfaces that can hit 700°f (371°c) consistently as it's boiling point is 638°f, so you'll want something that can go a bit past that. Like I said, do not do this unless you have the correct facilities, equipment, PPE, safety equipment, etc. Hot sulfuric acid is evil, boiling sulfuric acid is evil incarnate. It will melt you. Literally. What ever it touches turns to a carbon mush nearly instantly. But this is how you do it. Either this, or spend the money to buy the pure stuff.
Orrr just buy Rooto at ace hardware. Damn near 97% usually, and quite pure. Can't beat it
What about bone?
Looks like you could clear clogged pipes real quick
Who needs clogged pipes when you could just dissolve the pipe! 😁