Why Water Dissolves (Almost) Everything
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- Water can dissolve more substances than anything else on earth...so why doesn't it dissolve everything away?
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solvent: a substance that dissolves a solute
solubility: the relative ability of a solute to dissolve into a solvent
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Reminds me of the "why do all giraffes have a 25 pound heart" line.
Stuff that doesn't dissolve in water is there because if it did, it would've dissolved away.
Also a few glasses do dissolve in water and need special treatment and/or additives to stay waterproof.
And most houses do degrade in water, just over decades, which is in part why constant maintenance is needed.
Hangon on... The stick figure at around 1:10, that's Tatsu from Gokushufudo isn't it! That's scraggly hair, the sunglasses and the apron...
you have kids? x_x
I loved the art in this. I was laughing at the angry water, all mad because it can't disolve pavement
WHY CAN’T I DISSOLVE THIS STUPID ROADDD
Yet
@@grantflippin7808 same watching the water face cracked me up!
COME ON STUPID WINDOW JUST LET ME DISSOLVE YOUU
1:17 the water tryna dissolve his pants huh???
Imagine if aliens with a completely different biology found earth and were freaked out at how casually we treat such a powerful solvent
To be fair given that Hydrogen and Oxygen are the first and third most abundant elements in the universe both being significantly more prevalent than the 2nd and 4th most abundant elements Helium and Carbon respectively it is kind of hard to find an environment where water isn't present short of worlds where water was literally baked out of the rock into space. It isn't impossible for water to be largely absent but it requires special conditions to occur. ;)
We would be very lucky if aliens couldn’t handle water.
@@NoName-ms8jb “SIR PREPARE THE NUKES”
No need get me those water balloons
And then we are confused on aliens keeping Uranium and Mercury on their bodies like it’s lotion
They be lasering us but we got the water balloons and the coronavirus and the phosphene gas and the nukes to deal with them
“Teardrop noooo! that was the Mona Lisa!”
Teardrop is plotting to make her own
*was*
Hey guys for a prank get teardrop to dissolve the Mona lisa.
@@Riahh_VR*this program, was brought to you, by blocky’s funny doings, international*
YES BFDI COMMENTS
TEARDROP WHAT DID YOU DO
WAIT IM NOT THE ONLY ONE THAT TEARDROP?
@@alhello_game_of_everything NOPE
Me too
why do i keep on seeing beefy die references i want to eat acid
*the osc always comes back*
It can also not dissolve stuff because they are kind of *too* polar to dissolve, like CaSO4 or other insoluble salts. Or just too long/branched of a polymer, like cotton, which is made of a bunch of sugars linked together and is very polar. It's full of hydroxyls. Honestly asphalt was close as an example but the others were off.
Thanks for the feedback - we debated on how much complexity to discuss here, which is always a delicate balance when you're trying to explain something complicated!
@@MinuteEarth I think reducing it to 'polar stuff dissolves' is setting people up for misinformation.
@@MinuteEarth I know it a delicate balance when presenting science topics to a broad audience.
I probably would have elaborated just a bit more. Stating that only polar substances can dissolve in water is a necessary simplification, but I would've added that water should be able to break to attractive forces between molecules to dissolve them. If the forces are too strong (e.g. insoluble salts, or even plain metals like iron or gold) then water cannot break apart the bonds and the substance won't dissolve.
By presenting it with this nuance you could've drawn it as a spectrum ranging from very non-polar to very polar (or strong intermolecular forces to weak intermolecular forces) and let a raincloud dissolve part of the spectrum or something.
Nevertheless, this video is a very good introduction to the concept of solubility
"Too polar" like what, salts ?
Some salts can dissolve in water and some can't. It has to do with water able to break apart the crystal structure of the salt atom by atom. If the crystal structure is strongly packed, water can't dissolve it. Calcium salts like chloride and nitrate *can* dissolve in water. Similarly sulphate salts like Sodium, potassium, aluminium-sulphate *can* also dissolve in water.
It's just that Calcium Sulphate makes a highly stable crystal structure that water is unable to pull it apart, despite of water's ability to dissolve sulphate and calcium individually.
(Note that insoluble salts are not 100% insoluble, water *is* able to dissolve very little bit of it tho)
@@MrMctastics Better than glass not dissolving because it's not polar. It wouldn't take long to note some substances are made of big molecules that can't be pulled apart. This has been too oversimplified in trying to reduce solubility to one overarching mechanic.
0:39 Teardrop has gained a new water laser ability!
Not my cheese cake non my cheese caaaaake
@@SKIBIDITOILETISHAMAK*tpot intro*
teardrop, what are you doing in a minute earth video
Bfdi reference
YOOOOO THEY SHOWED TEARDROP FRO, BFDI-
Glass is arguably more "charged" than sugar so that's a quite inaccurate example. We use glass because the Si-O bonds and glass-structure is just so super duper strong/stabile that it just doesn't pay being dissolved
Dont think they mentioned that
Soda lime glass is slightly soluble unless you add Calcium carbonate.
It's also a dense, amorphous material which makes it quite a bit harder to dissolve as you don't need those ordered crystal structures for parts to stick together.
Mostly anything with a strong bonds forming nets and meshes wont dissolve
im pretty sure you forgot geometry my man, SiO² disposition is tetrahedric, with Oxygen around the Silicon making the final eletronegative charge of the molecule zero
Molecules can dissolve things without reacting, those are catallists, and glass/quartz are absolutely not catallists
We literally learned about this today in AP Chem (not specifically water but dissolving and polarity - and water was brought up because it is the universal solvent)
i literally just learned i pee out a universal solvent.
And gasoline is an effective nonpolar solvent, just be careful with using fuel for a cleaning product, especially for anything more than a couple paintbrushes with some other nonpolar compound on them. (Like clear coat)
Finally a comment that does not say they learned more on a video than school but rather correlates both.
That black hair dude is a murderer. 1:14
Bro just summoned the whole OSC
thumbnail summoned a whole fandom
Yup
terdrop
@@elchuchooofin3807deartrop
BFDI
@@SKIBIDITOILETISHAMAKoh my god oh hell naw man wtf man
0:25 teardrop from bfdi looks different
Yes
@@gdenjoyer2749 BAHA
@@gdenjoyer2749Teardrop jr. Exists
Td is Mad cus He alone
Fr
I love how Teardrop from BFDI is in the thumbnail lol
it’s not but it looks similar
Who let Teardrop dissolve the Mona Lisa 💀
the mona lisa insulted her comic book, so she took revenge 💀
I ACNR SITP LAUGJING AT THIS HRLEP
BFDI
bro was mad she could speak
@@user-ej8zd7ye9yLOL😂😂
0:17 Teardrop from the hit show bfdi
FR
I know right? 😂
Fr
wait….. HOW DID TEARDROP GET HERE?
Fr
1:20 TEARDROP FAMILY REUINION
Exactly
Ye
Wait a Minute(Earth)!
At 1:13 with the orange juice and blood...
Is that Tatsu from Way of the Househusband?
And later on at 2:06 was that Bubbles from PowerPuff Girls?
I love these references!
I was wondering the same!!
I am SO HAPPY that you recognized Tatsu! I was actually wondering if anyone would even catch it! Thank you so much for mentioning that, you made my day :) - Lizah (the illustrator of the video)
@@lizahvdaart the hair, the glasses, the apron and the blood, it couldn't be anyone else but the best househusband!
@@lizahvdaart got it too :)
YES IT IS!!
I can’t believe Teardrop dissolved the Mona Lisa
how could she
Just why?
honestly that sounds like Something she would do
And now for today's challenge... You must annhilate the Mona Lisa!
tbh td would actually do that
Teardrop murders everything
TD FORM BFB
Beat me to it.
@@OmerKing916 no?
@@KrisnaWilly-es8nrWhy?
Yes she does.
1:55 "I ❤ Minute Earth" Love that you wrote that for yourselves
Self-love is important nowadays. As Maya Angelou once said, "If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be"
Then when it got washed away, I was like "nooooo!"
But what if they neither loved or hated them selfs?
Is that... Teardrop? AND WHY ARE THEY TAKING OVER A WHOLE VIDEO? 0:17 is my explanation.
Teardrop from BFDI real??
what is she doing here
Nope. he doesnt have a circle in their hands
So that’s why teardrop’s so powerful
I legit didn't knew BFDI Teardrop was that powerful, she must've consumed a lot of spinach.
I was pretty sure the whole reason most (if not all) life needs water to survive is _because_ it is the universal solvent.
I always wondered how we got lucky with needing water, that is available plenty. Then it clicked me that water was not made for us, WE were made around using water.
@@Yadobler it’s the same with visible light. It’s not a coincidence that the sun primarily produces the narrow spectrum of ‘visible’ light. We evolved to be able to see and tolerate the narrow spectrum of light that the sun emits. What is visible is just the spectrum that the sun of an evolving planet emits.
We actually didn't evolve to see all sunlight, and I don't think any animal did. The sun actually emits radio waves and X-rays, and everything in between.
Not all of these are useful for animals. Ultraviolet and X-rays can blur vision, damage eyes and cause cancer. And radio waves hardly help animals see anything, since they mostly just go through things. And infrared vision may not be necessary when an animal can detect temperature instead. Also, an animal can use a different organ to detect infrared.
@@AogNubJoshh Well, that, and the atmosphere and some basic aspects of physics dictate the way you interact with certain frequencies.
For example, 5500-7500 nm won't go through the atmosphere at all because of water in the atmosphere absorbing it. Not much use to see a frequency range that never reaches the ground. Plus, blackbodies emit in this range at normal Earth temperatures. Which would likely mean water in the air would glow in this frequency range, further obstructing any benefit of infrared heat-based visibility and limiting you to a simplistic "is it bluer than the air or not?" approach that would only work well at short ranges anyway because everything is obfuscated by air.
Hard UV both won't go tharough the atmosphere and will irradiate and damage your retina, or anything else it touches, which is why your eyes are actually opaque to hard UV light below 350 nm. Even the much safer UV-A or even just violet visible light is very harmful to organisms without the luxury of an opaque barrier, which is why UV is used to sterilize things.
Near infrared light has energies that are less and less capable of triggering a pigment-based detection system and operate at lower and lower resolution the further out you go. I'm not entirely sure you'd want to see in this frequency range.
@@Yadobler well God created water before creating man
Holy shid is that teardrop?
Teardrop from BFB would never do this. Shaking and crying rn
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Looking at some of the wilder exoplanets with hydrocarbon rain, it makes you wonder if any aliens have seen Earth's surface drenched in this powerful solvent from afar and ruled out the possibility of life in this sort of environment.
"Dont be silly, life can not exist on a world covered by the universal solvent. "
"Tell that to the thing having a bath. "
"Lol planet made out of acid"
Alien from that one movie: “lets go to this planet that rains acid without clothes”
Would be like discovering a planet that rains hydrochloric acid and thinking life couldn’t exist there only to realize that life there found ways to survive, sort of like the lining of your stomach which would digest itself otherwise.
Angry teardrop
OMG, is teardrop
Evil BFDI teardrop
whoa teardrop but MinuteEarth style
TEARDROP NO
Teardrop out of bfdi
She went to the real world in tpot 5
A fellow object show fan
@@Mr._funny2006 lol
Teardrop but if she was evil
Teardrop: *gets sent to the real world*
MinuteEarth: “hey, could I use you for a video real quick?”
Teardrop: 👍
teardrop from tpot
TEARDROP FROM BFDI IS IN THE THUBMNIAL?? (the misspelling is intentional)
You have summoned the OSC
So that's why Teardrop is so agressive
A rare teardrop has appeared
0:16 *You Have Alerted Ðe BFDI Community*
bro summoned the bfdi community I LOVE TEARDROPP
0:37 teardrop
Fr
how td get’s her food
That looks like teardrop from BFDI.
I AGREE
And it also doesn't talk
EXACTLY
Yes
@@sweeterstuffEXACTLY, IT *IS* TEARDROP-
YOU FOOL! WITH YOUR THUMBNAIL YOU HAVE SUMMONED THE ENTIRE OSC!
true
it takes literally a single refrence to bfdi and everyone comes running
@@clovee-kun yez fr LOLZ!!!1! xD
I CLICK ED ON THE VID JUST BC I THOUGHT IT WAS TEARDROP 😭😭
yeah i know she was so surprised
Teardrop, what are you doing here?
(if you get the reference ilysm)
bfdi mentioned...
I was just about to say that 💀
Teardrop be like:
LOL
osc fans raiding this comment and video because it has a reference
Is that teardrop
That teardrop form bfdi
TEARDROP FROM BFDI‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
This is where teardrop went after being eliminated
I was literally just learning about this today in my chemistry class. What a coincidence!
She is your chemistry teacher bro
There are no coincidences.
I had an interesting hypothesis, what if fluorine was abundant in a planet instead of oxygen, then we would have a planet having rocks made out of fluorine, like silicon-fluoride rocks, iron-fluoride, and an entire ocean made of concentrated hydrofluoric acid!, hydrofluoric rain..., and if life evolves on the planet it would end up being resistant to hydrofluoric acid, it's blood and cells contain hydrofluoric acid, bones made of calcium-fluoride, the atmosphere contains free fluorine gas!, the life breathes out carbon-fluoride!, a shocking idea considering that that's how aliens who regard water and oxygen as a poison would see Earth!.
It's possible, but I don't think you'll ever find anything like that. A system based on anything other than water is unstable. If there is water the cells would substitute water for whatever it's using. And it's hard to see how any natural world would be so completely devoid of water.
Nerd
@@sadedx Juvenile insult of an uncurious mind.
I don’t think that’s is inconceivable, but oceans of hydrofluoric acid could dissolve the rocks. Another problem of this is that fluorine is known for being highly combustible and toxic, so much so that it sometimes is stored in a compound with xenon instead of being on its own. Humans would have to evolve to be fireproof lmao
@@smurfyday mate im 28
DREARTOP
Teardrop BFDI reference?
1:12 how did you get blood on you clothes 😳😳😳
Periods, Injuries, Tending to wounds, there are many non violent ways of getting blood on ur clothes tho got to admit that was my first thought to lol
@@dranimsay1963 slaughter houses
Accidents
Questions that remain unanswered.
BFDI Teardrop vibes
Lol
wait why is teardrop is here
OMG IT'S TEARDROP FROM BFB
Good video
Also looks like teardrop from bfdi got a new joob
Teardrop from bfdi
True lol
yup
the lil’ droplet in the thumbnail looks like teardrop from BFDI
I thought dis video was about Teardrop from BFB... Because of the thumbnail looked promising
me too
help me too
1:28 Acid rain: Hello
Does it happen often?
I thought this was gonna be a Bfdi fan episode but this was good
Teardrop has become op
I thought the thumbnail was teardrop..
*Looks like i watched too much bfb/di-*
I think this might be the first video you've made (at least in a long time) without any Pokemon hidden in it :O
The maniacal water droplet is my new favorite thing. Ever.
you mean teardrop from bfdi?
@@circly_01that’s what i’ve been thinking
TEARDROP BFDI!?!?!?!
As a BFDI Fan, I can confirm that the thumbnail made me watch this.
Same here
I can say the same,
Same here
Silly teardrop 💧
ME TOOOOOOOoooooo-.. *tpot intro starts*
Chaotic water is the best thing I’ve seen all day.
ngl really appreciate the The Way of the Househusband easter egg xD
look that is teardrop in the thumbnail
So glad content like this exist now. When i was back in elementary school asking questions like this, i only had the teacher to answer my question with the knowledge they had. Now i can quickly get multiple answer with explanations that allow me to dive deeper into the science on my own if i wish
i can't believe it!!! teardrop is in this video!!!
bro really had to put teardrop in this video.
Aaah yes, glass, a completely nonpolar compound with no ions in it whatsoever. And clothing like cotton, made of glucose subunits that totally lose their polarity when polymerized. Yes, this explanation isn't full of holes AT ALL.
Bro summoned the entire BFDI fandom 💀
Teardrop never needed the zappy.
I think Teardrop is actually a raindrop, because they said the rain on the window was her in the real world. But I don't think Teardrop will show up in massive amounts, so you don't have to worry about drinking Teardrop.
Are you a BEEFYDIE/BFDI fan
@@skylarortega5287 I will admit that I watch Jacket Jail Fries.
@@name6953Jubilant Joking Flies?
@@corgimations Jumbled Junk Fish?
this reply section is hilarious af
Is that TEARDROP!?
😱
@@nnoxie.a Teardrop is the best
The BFDI Teardrop cameo is what we all needed
Teardrop form BFDI ????
Uhh teardrop what are you doing here???
My Yoyle self thought that was Teardrop peeing on the Mona Lisa.
wtf teardrop bfdi doing here⁉⁉🤯🤯🤯
object show fans: *TEARDROP*
Bro summoned the whole OSC with a 1 video
teardrop.
Why is teardrop here from BFDI
Dang teardrop is gaining power as we speak, soon SHE will speak
Teardrop in MinuteEarth? Well BFDI is getting popular.
OMG ITS TEARDROP FROM BFDI
Ayo is that Teardrop 🤨
BRO THATS TEARDROP
IT CAN DISSOLVE BLOOD OFF YOUR CLOTHES
Good to know
imagine an alien civilization, made of sugar, and they shoot water guns at us, thinking we will melt.
😂😂😂😂
We just simply use umbrella and a water hose
yo TD was sponsered?
*“ITS TEARDROP FROM BFDI”* 💀💀
Me, a BFDI fan:
sthu
Now i know why the water in this vid didnt speak💀💀💀
@@CubixRube-su3suWAIT-
I love this video, great drawings, awesome information.
The is a part in minute 2:15 that you use an obsolete model for evolution, the branched one looks more complicated but is more accurate, i saw before some creationists make fun of this image :/