Spectacular Purple Explosion!

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  • čas přidán 7. 09. 2019
  • Deane introduces an amazing chemical - Potassium Permanganate. It can be used to make bubbles of oxygen, or a miniature volcano.
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Komentáře • 77

  • @TheFar-FlungFarang
    @TheFar-FlungFarang Před 2 lety +55

    My absolute favorite tv show from my childhood. I clearly remember this particular segment, why you might ask? Because my mother had all these chemicals in the medicine cabinet. So, I took it upon myself to do some experiments, sneakily in the laundry. It was fun, they all worked, but while trying to hide the evidence and clean up the mess, I managed to get some of the potassium permanganate and peroxide on mum's good bath towels............ My mother cursed me and I cursed Deane🤣🤣🤣🤣 Thank you for bringing back some great memories.

  • @LightWaIker
    @LightWaIker Před 4 lety +79

    Darn , now I have to go move my permanganate and glycerin apart.

    • @MN-sc9qs
      @MN-sc9qs Před 4 lety +6

      Amazon recommends them together! :)

    • @illuminaughty933
      @illuminaughty933 Před 4 lety +3

      Marc Normandin Thank you Jeff Bezos! Very cool!

    • @allanrichardson1468
      @allanrichardson1468 Před 4 lety +5

      A Starfleet officer who wandered into the kitchen of an Italian restaurant spotted a similar storage error, and exclaimed, “You’re storing pasta next to antipasto! Are you out of your Vulcan mind?”

    • @klarag7059
      @klarag7059 Před rokem

      @@MN-sc9qs that’s funny!

    • @roachdoggjr1940
      @roachdoggjr1940 Před 11 měsíci

      Watching this show makes me think that having raw chemicals in your house used to be a lot more common than it is today.

  • @duradim1
    @duradim1 Před 2 lety +4

    I used to work for a company that sold sodium permanganate. It was a chemical that would wick through the cap of its containers we had pretty easily, no matter how tight you put the cap on. Not good for shipping overseas. We used cardboard pallets, as they didn't need to be treated for insects like wood ones did. By the time those pallets reached their destination they were nothing put ashes. The was the first and the last time we shipped them.

  • @dennisonseeto
    @dennisonseeto Před rokem +3

    40 years later and I still remember seeing these experiments. 🙂

  • @PumpkinStrikesBack
    @PumpkinStrikesBack Před 4 lety +20

    Bright Red jumper = safety is no 1 priority 🤣

  • @lundsweden
    @lundsweden Před 2 lety +2

    Fun fact: potassium permanganate is Prince's O+> fav chemical (oh yes, and Deane's).

  • @brownky3
    @brownky3 Před 2 lety +7

    Laughing at the thought of a whole generation setting their bathrooms on fire because of Dean's teachings

  • @dickJohnsonpeter
    @dickJohnsonpeter Před 4 lety +10

    I think this was described by James Herriot in All Creatures Great and Small (or one of those books). He said that it was unnecessary to add the glycerine for disinfecting but the farm folks were more impressed by the fireworks show 😆. For some reason I remembered that..

  • @mrdemoncrusher3927
    @mrdemoncrusher3927 Před 4 lety +9

    Who remembers being an 80's kid and searching the medicine cabinet for condy's crystals and glycerine just to make purple fire. Of course nowadays, the chemist will give the whole 50 questions as to why you (an adult) would need it. Although in the 80's they'd never heard of ebay.

    • @RolandElliottFirstG
      @RolandElliottFirstG Před 3 lety

      Exactly, been there done that.

    • @James-kv6kb
      @James-kv6kb Před rokem

      No we didn't have eBay but we could go down to the chemical store and buy whatever we like without any questions

  • @Thebonesoftrees
    @Thebonesoftrees Před 4 lety +26

    I love the safety jumper. No need for safety glasses , or gloves.

    • @dickJohnsonpeter
      @dickJohnsonpeter Před 3 lety

      I'm American so I don't know what a jumper is but I've heard the term often and have wondered why it's called that.

    • @jamesdaniels8007
      @jamesdaniels8007 Před 2 lety

      It's cause Australians deal with far worse things.. like a burning continent for instance.

    • @Thebonesoftrees
      @Thebonesoftrees Před 2 lety +1

      @@jamesdaniels8007 Weird when aborigines set fires its cultural. When fires happen naturally its "muh climate change". Millennial NPC nonsense...

    • @lundsweden
      @lundsweden Před 2 lety

      @@Thebonesoftrees Controlled backburning is very different to an uncontrolled fire, you doof!

  • @BellefontePerson
    @BellefontePerson Před 2 lety +3

    Hey kids, take this stuff that's quite poisonous and add it to this other stuff and watch your house burn down with purple flames! Spectacular, wasn't it?
    I'm kidding, but imagine the outcry if this was on TV today. lol

  • @samratn4777
    @samratn4777 Před rokem +1

    I like this show very much.

  • @AchtungBaby77
    @AchtungBaby77 Před 3 lety +5

    Damn I love that Spectacular Science music! Really gets you pumped that you're about to learn something awesome... great demonstration Deane!

  • @Yiseia
    @Yiseia Před 2 lety +1

    he looks like the lead singer of the spider murphy gang

  • @MohammadFarhan-mo6mo
    @MohammadFarhan-mo6mo Před 2 lety

    Gorgeous! 💜

  • @sladflob
    @sladflob Před 4 lety +2

    Yay, Spectacular Science!

  • @Galaxyofbrian
    @Galaxyofbrian Před 4 lety +3

    Loved this one 👍

  • @meef6261
    @meef6261 Před 4 lety

    Thanks CZcams recommendations

  • @andie_pants
    @andie_pants Před 4 lety

    Love it!

  • @DDMco123
    @DDMco123 Před 4 lety +10

    Deane that is so interesting. How much KMnO4 and hydrogen peroxide do you think one would need to breathe or even survive off of?

    • @seededsoul
      @seededsoul Před 4 lety +3

      Good question, I imagine it would be similar to the mass of wet food we eat. So maybe 8 pounds a day.
      Keep in mind, expelling CO2 is also a necessary part of respiration.

    • @johnnydabs4855
      @johnnydabs4855 Před 4 lety +4

      Breathing in pure oxygen will just get you high
      Atmosphere is only about 25% oxygen

    • @NicholasA231
      @NicholasA231 Před 4 lety +2

      Just did a quick calculation - according to Google a person uses ~20l of O2 per day, which theoretically can be released from under 3 liters of OTC 3% hydrogen peroxide. You'd have to capture all of that oxygen, and scrub CO2 and remove H2O from the breathing air, but in a MacGyver scenario you could probably put something together to keep you alive for a while.

    • @shaneeslick
      @shaneeslick Před 2 lety

      @@NicholasA231 RDA could do that easy with his Swiss Army Knife 😂

    • @tek4
      @tek4 Před 2 lety +1

      There are better compounds we use that absorb co2 and release the o2

  • @fitrianhidayat
    @fitrianhidayat Před 2 lety +1

    "the K stands for potassium..."
    hmm, makes sense

  • @89horizon
    @89horizon Před 4 lety +2

    Purple fire powder would sound cooler (and be easier to say) but whatever works right? :P

  • @dominantwolf4593
    @dominantwolf4593 Před 2 lety

    Reading the title I thought he was gonna make nitrogen triiodine, a great little contact explosive

  • @TheKnobCalledTone.
    @TheKnobCalledTone. Před 2 lety

    Wasn't Spectacular Purple Explosion the name of a short-lived psych rock band that Rob was a member of back in the late '60s?

  • @GregoryTheGr8ster
    @GregoryTheGr8ster Před 2 lety

    Holy combustion, Batman! How does the glycerin react with the KMnO4 without a spark or flame? Does that make the two *hypergolic* ?

  • @Eduardo_Espinoza
    @Eduardo_Espinoza Před 2 lety

    Can I use the purple liquid in my printer if I run out of meh-jin-ta color? (can't spell)

  • @HeyThereSully
    @HeyThereSully Před 2 lety +3

    I love lean!

  • @earthisdoomed8811
    @earthisdoomed8811 Před 4 lety

    Vintage CZcams video

  • @TAROTAI
    @TAROTAI Před rokem

    Pow show!

  • @larscandland4072
    @larscandland4072 Před 2 lety +2

    Why he ourple?

  • @kaitoenjoyer4303
    @kaitoenjoyer4303 Před 4 lety +2

    This is going to blow up soon

  • @pierreuntel1970
    @pierreuntel1970 Před 4 lety

    I feels so '80 right now

  • @ruben-wb7bt
    @ruben-wb7bt Před 4 lety +10

    Real question : how did they get these cool informations before the Internet ?

    • @ndingo
      @ndingo Před 4 lety +5

      Ruben doing research probably

    • @fakename8749
      @fakename8749 Před 4 lety +9

      Ruben
      Encyclopedias, mostly.
      Every few years, multi-volume encyclopedias would come out on a variety of subjects (I'm talking around 15 thick volumes per encyclopedia, each of which you could probably knock out a man with).
      It's fascinating how encyclopdias are slowly becoming a thing of the past that only vintage collectors would bother with, rather than an essential source of knowledge, which each household was pretty much required to have access to.

    • @CuriosityShow
      @CuriosityShow  Před 4 lety +35

      Most public libraries and school libraries had several sets of encyclopedias. For example: World Book Encyclopedia; Encyclopedia Britannica; Funk & Wagnalls . . . In fact, World Book was a sponsor of Curiosity Show for several years. Deane.

    • @ndingo
      @ndingo Před 4 lety +3

      CuriosityShow yeap I thought so Researching I remember I had to do that in school before the World Wide Web was invented

    • @ruben-wb7bt
      @ruben-wb7bt Před 4 lety +3

      Oh ok must be a lot of research for such a short episode

  • @ElectricDiamond360
    @ElectricDiamond360 Před 2 lety +4

    lean

  • @TheObsessedGardener
    @TheObsessedGardener Před 4 lety

    A like for the watermelon jumper.

  • @StolenPw
    @StolenPw Před 3 lety

    Pretty sure I dont own potassium permanganate

  • @Linux-computers
    @Linux-computers Před 4 lety +4

    What losers would dislike this video. It's genius and very interesting to learn

    • @CuriosityShow
      @CuriosityShow  Před 4 lety +5

      Thanks for your kind remarks. there are many more science activities on our CZcams channel. Please subscribe and tell your friends. www.curiosityshow.com.au Deane.

  • @roucoupse
    @roucoupse Před 4 lety +3

    kmno4 + peroxide = coke

    • @III-zy5jf
      @III-zy5jf Před 4 lety

      roucoupse i don't get it. Coke has CO2.

  • @NotavelMundoOculto
    @NotavelMundoOculto Před 4 lety

    ma i the only one that want to know if it's safe to breath the "oxigen" that the peroxide+permandanate releases? like a way to hyperventilate a little

  • @ndingo
    @ndingo Před 4 lety +2

    KMnO4

  • @alch3myau
    @alch3myau Před 3 lety

    Is Potassium Permanganate on the store?

  • @Killbayne
    @Killbayne Před 4 lety +3

    KMnO⁴

  • @ObiWanBillKenobi
    @ObiWanBillKenobi Před 11 měsíci +1

    I’ve come back to this video to verify the ingredients because on a Scout campout last week, I learned this is one of the many methods you can use to start a campfire. 🏕

  • @gank4214
    @gank4214 Před 2 lety +1

    lean

  • @GoblinCorn69
    @GoblinCorn69 Před 2 lety

    lean