Why Do Acids Burn?

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  • čas přidán 2. 07. 2024
  • You can feel the tingle of lemon in your mouth as the acid reacts with the surrounding tissue and receptors. You've probably seen how soda can dissolve a piece of meat after a couple days. But what's so special about these substances that it can seemingly eat away material on their own?
    Edit: @1:06 it says "Energy" a better word should have been "strength".
    Sources:
    Ch 2: Acids and Bases, Ch 22: The Organic Chemistry of Amino
    Acids, Peptides, and Proteins (7th ed.) Bruice, Paula Y. Organic Chemistry
    Ch 16: Acids and Bases (4th ed.) Tro, Nivaldo J. Chemistry: A molecular approach
    Ch 13.3: Protein Structure - University of Kentucky Chemistry for Allied health

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  • @angelalmaguer311
    @angelalmaguer311 Před 2 lety +1126

    As a chemist myself, this video was great and funny as hell. “He’s your problem now. Byeeee” I felt that one lol

    • @TheBluePhoenix008
      @TheBluePhoenix008 Před 2 lety +16

      I saw a comment where dude said people aren't good representations of atoms for metaphors. Weirdo he was.

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    • @Buschkopf111
      @Buschkopf111 Před 2 lety +14

      Biochemist here, i fully agree. this video is nuts and accurate as well

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      @ba-it3xz Před rokem +1

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  • @Kandecid
    @Kandecid Před 4 lety +1751

    "Why am I hanging out with this loser? Give me an excuse, any excuse to ditch this guy so I can hang out with those Chad protons over there" /cuts to breakdancing protons.
    This is hilarious and informative. Great video and animations man.

  • @robson6285
    @robson6285 Před 4 lety +543

    Wow, this is for the first time someone explains acidity in a way i can séé it. I finally have got some intuitive understanding instead of only the abstract hydrogen/proton-giving/taking(-kinda-force?) explaination.
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    • @bravosix5974
      @bravosix5974 Před 2 lety +10

      Ikr, i always write "acids are proton donors" in my past papers without understanding it... I just write it there.

    • @apolloandwarrior_3229
      @apolloandwarrior_3229 Před 2 lety +4

      Until I saw this I had trouble understanding hydrolysis in my anatomy class and he explained it in an off hand comment.

    • @onyxbackstrom3379
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      Totally man same here.

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    Who knew electrons were so adorable?

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    • @Ziggerath
      @Ziggerath Před 2 lety +7

      i like how he actually explains it down to the atom and the rules they operate on. most people will just stop at molecules or even just leave it abstract.

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    As a computational Chemist working with all-atom molecular dynamics simulations of biomolecules, I totally felt you when I read the "this took forever to render" bit lol

  • @NoahSpurrier
    @NoahSpurrier Před 2 lety +64

    4:17 “… can force almost anyone to take their hydrogens.” When I got to this part I nearly spit out my beer.

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    @Irreverent_Radiation Před 2 lety +138

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    "So if you had to dispose of a body..."
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    @clover7359 Před 2 lety +123

    3:25 I couldn't stop laughing for a minute there, that was too funny.

    • @3dpyromaniac560
      @3dpyromaniac560 Před 2 lety +21

      3:53 is what got me

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      @rottenapple_ Před 2 lety

      Was it? I didn't think it was that funny

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    Love the clarity and the way it was explained! Wish I had seen this video when I was in chemistry class back in high school!

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    @webx135 Před 2 lety +63

    5:20 That animation for resonance is amazing.
    I've asked professors if this was more or less what was going on and they were usually all stiff and like "no why would you say stupid things. It's just resonance. Resonance is this. There's no vibration or this or that."
    Like I get that it's more complicated than this with stuff like superposition, but I later discovered I had more or less the right idea and that the professors just didn't have great intuition for the subject material, but more of rote memorization knowledge about it. It was the same with electron orbital shapes simply being spherical harmonics: Basically standing waves you can make on a sphere-shaped drum.
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    I swear we need more professors who actually USE what they teach and not just parrot textbooks.

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      Right? Same problem here! I need concepts not memorization!

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    • @cgtrademark
      @cgtrademark Před 2 lety

      @Matteo Tironi I don’t think so. What you’re speaking is purely theoretical so you shouldn’t state as fact but rather a hypothesis. The same as this concept is also theoretical.

    • @cgtrademark
      @cgtrademark Před 2 lety

      @Matteo Tironi the theory of hybridization and and valence bonds are literally theories. You’re being really extra here man.

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