Can a lemon charge a phone? (2 Truths & Trash)

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  • čas přidán 7. 08. 2022
  • Let me know in the comments how you did. Did you like the addition of non-experiment videos?
    Here's a list of questions answered in today's video:
    1. Does copper wire spin around a battery that is resting on a magnet?
    2. Can you stack 3 dice on top of each other when the middle one is placed diagonally?
    3. Can you create enough static charge with a pen can to attract the pen cap back onto the pen?
    4. Can a paper clip float of the surface of a cup of water even though it is more dense that water?
    5. Can you use a sharpie/pen to open a soda can by rubbing it back and forth on the lip?
    6. What is the origin of the I/O switch on electronic devices?
    7. Can you use a lemon to charge a phone?
    8. Does the Eiffel Tower expand significantly based on the temperature?
    9. Can copper wire with weights cut through an ice cube?
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Komentáře • 290

  • @johannaverplank4858
    @johannaverplank4858 Před rokem +714

    I think these videos are great for helping people learn to be more skeptical when watching videos on the internet. Great work!

    • @hi-wf9ql
      @hi-wf9ql Před rokem +3

      are have the top commnet i both the episodes

    • @geochonker9052
      @geochonker9052 Před rokem +7

      @@hi-wf9ql if English is your first language please work on it, otherwise I understand

    • @johannaverplank4858
      @johannaverplank4858 Před rokem +4

      @@hi-wf9ql I'm sorry, I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. : )

    • @hi-wf9ql
      @hi-wf9ql Před rokem +2

      @@geochonker9052 omfg i so fucking stupid- how did i write that? if you read my other comments you can see that i am not that stupid, and no, english is my second language

    • @hi-wf9ql
      @hi-wf9ql Před rokem +3

      @@johannaverplank4858 i meant, you have the top comment on both of the episodes of this 2 episode series

  • @vansh-20
    @vansh-20 Před rokem +224

    Wow this 2 true 1 fake series is damn good, love it and keeps me waiting for your new uploads! Keep it up! (Got 2/3 correct tho 😄)

  • @TheCompleteMental
    @TheCompleteMental Před rokem +62

    This series not only hones skepticism in what can be done but also how things can be faked. That's half of what makes it so great.

  • @shanechurilla
    @shanechurilla Před rokem +88

    3 for 3 this time! Imagine if lemons just suddenly gave off alternating current!

    • @specialopsdave
      @specialopsdave Před rokem +1

      Simple AC to DC converters can take in DC just fine and will still work normally

    • @DrakeOola
      @DrakeOola Před 11 měsíci +1

      @@specialopsdave Wrong way around bud

    • @specialopsdave
      @specialopsdave Před 11 měsíci +1

      @@DrakeOola Right way around. Just draw a full bridge rectifier and think about it for a second.

    • @DerivativeOfLog7
      @DerivativeOfLog7 Před 11 měsíci +1

      @@DrakeOola Full bridge rectifiers will pass through DC or invert it's polarity if fed with DC

    • @JohnsonBlu
      @JohnsonBlu Před 9 měsíci

      bro that 1 video where he revealed that oranges can emit electric current :/

  • @wolfdragon4176
    @wolfdragon4176 Před rokem +75

    I’m a physics student on break and was dying of anxiety hoping I had each one right. My life would’ve been a lie if I had them wrong

  • @zex992001
    @zex992001 Před rokem +47

    I loved these. I like to show these to my students and see their face as they're getting suprised.

  • @tim10019_
    @tim10019_ Před rokem +8

    The fakt that ingenuo actually means gullible makes this funny in a way.

  • @milesparris4045
    @milesparris4045 Před rokem +23

    The pressure caused by the weight of the bananas didn't melt the ice. The copper wire did by absorbing the heat in the room and transferring the warmth through the wire.

    • @sandstorm9991
      @sandstorm9991 Před rokem +3

      Right? When I saw the lemon one I knew it was fake but then when I saw the ice melting one I was really confused.

    • @bradeggebraaten2141
      @bradeggebraaten2141 Před 11 měsíci +1

      Absolutely true

    • @57thorns
      @57thorns Před 4 měsíci

      This could be easily tested in a freezing environment. I believe the effect is there, but compared to transferring heat more effectively than the air, it is much weaker.
      And because the ice will refreeze, you will at one point have the wire going through the ice block.

  • @eloizeaubin8724
    @eloizeaubin8724 Před 10 měsíci +1

    the paper clip trick was one of my favorite to do as a child. i was really good at it too! it's easier to get if you bend a second clip and use it to lower the first unto the water. also, it's a really neat way to show how dish soap destroys surface tension; a few drops in a bucket of water and all of the paper clips will sink in one go!

  • @chemistry4life
    @chemistry4life Před rokem +6

    great series... keep it coming. the lemon battery actually needs the copper and zinc plates to work!

    • @josephritchhart998
      @josephritchhart998 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Wouldn't it also not produce enough voltage?

    • @chemistry4life
      @chemistry4life Před 4 měsíci

      @@josephritchhart998 yes so one would have to connect the copper and zinc plates/nails in series to up the voltage

  • @Botmini17
    @Botmini17 Před rokem +12

    Oh my god you grew after the last time I saw you you were at like 6k . I’m so proud of you well done and keep up the grind .

  • @ethawalli
    @ethawalli Před rokem +3

    Yay I got all three right! I really enjoy these videos! This is the first time I've gotten any right, the previous ones have all been more difficult

  • @aboudi0507
    @aboudi0507 Před rokem +1

    This is a really awesome series

  • @flamingmonkays
    @flamingmonkays Před 8 dny

    I was 99% sure it was a 1 and 0, but your explanation was too convincing. 😂

  • @francy_pw3369
    @francy_pw3369 Před rokem +2

    Btw, for those wandering ingenuo means naive in italian and ozioso means something close to lazy

  • @jacobdecker9952
    @jacobdecker9952 Před rokem

    Aw I thought it would be new ones
    Great series regardless

  • @goldberg91
    @goldberg91 Před 8 měsíci

    0:12 you can also do this with aluminum foil. just put a magnet to the bottom of the battery, and roll up aluminum foil

  • @damiencouturee6240
    @damiencouturee6240 Před rokem +3

    I just found your channel yesterday and I'm loving it lol. And I gotta say, the way you fake the false videos is almost more interesting than the facts themselves lol, you're one crafty dude

  • @xilstus1776
    @xilstus1776 Před 4 měsíci

    The phenomenon where ice melts under pressure is called regelation, but I don't think this is the primary reason why the ice was melting in that example. Copper is a great conductor of heat, and that wire is very thick. I believe that most of the melting action is due to the copper transferring heat from the room into the ice.
    Usually regelation is shown with a this thread or wire, so that less heat is transferred into the ice and the pressure the ice experiences is distributed through a smaller surface area, thus the ice experiences more pressure in the contact area.

    • @ConstantChaos1
      @ConstantChaos1 Před 3 měsíci

      Yeah also you need more weight for it than is given here, wirh that gage you'd be talking elephants of pressure is my guess it needs to be pretty heavy, this was just the conductor at work

  • @josiahstubblefield5806

    Very refreshing!

  • @dataquester
    @dataquester Před rokem +1

    I got all 3 correct!
    Damn I broke my arm pattin myself on the back....lol
    Cool vid, thx 4 posting!

    • @ConstantChaos1
      @ConstantChaos1 Před 3 měsíci

      Well round 3 was a throw out as what he showed was the thermal conductive nature of copper and not actual pressure melting

  • @DoctorTex
    @DoctorTex Před rokem

    You acutally used Inspect Element! You crafty bastard, i was actually convinced!

  • @athos401
    @athos401 Před 6 měsíci +1

    I got the round two right only because I'm italian and "ingenuo" doesn't mean anything close to "active".

  • @Mikeological
    @Mikeological Před rokem

    cool thing about the ice cutting one is if you use a thin enough wire (and you might need a bigger ice cube), the ice refreezes together above the wire, so once it makes it through to the bottom and falls out, you're still left with one solid ice cube

    • @ConstantChaos1
      @ConstantChaos1 Před 3 měsíci

      Well that didn't happen for why he said it did so that's kinda a problem, it wad the conductive nature of the copper, pressure can melt ice but you are talking weights measured in elephants and not bananas, instead we saw the metal work as a conductor and dissipate heat into a concentrated area on the ice cube.

  • @ToxicSnake48
    @ToxicSnake48 Před rokem

    I love this series

  • @DanielLCarrier
    @DanielLCarrier Před 5 měsíci

    You need upwards of a kilogram per square millimeter to have enough pressure to melt ice with that, and that's still just barely changing the melting temperature. I'd bet heat conduction played a bigger role there. Maybe when you first put it on there you could have that kind of pressure, but once the ice cube melts a little and matches the shape of that wire, that's a lot of square millimeters.

  • @peterpop2403
    @peterpop2403 Před rokem

    Amazing video as always

  • @user-wo7rl4nm7w
    @user-wo7rl4nm7w Před 26 dny

    Some phone chargers have capacitors, you can fake it by pre plugging in the brick, and it will show its charging briefly when plugging in the phone

  • @charginginprogresss
    @charginginprogresss Před 11 měsíci

    2:00 as an italian, seeing "gullible" (ingenuo) written was a dead giveaway

  • @acepoint1985
    @acepoint1985 Před 10 měsíci

    I got all of them correct😮 Great vid!

  • @squeeeps
    @squeeeps Před rokem +3

    I’m completely shocked that you said blue was the worst jolly rancher’s flavor, I was convinced that was the lie

  • @bobogus7559
    @bobogus7559 Před 2 měsíci

    I think there are two main reasons why the lemon charging the phone didn’t work. First is that there were no electrodes - for a lemon battery to work, generally you need two different metals (like copper and zinc) to serve as electrodes to get current flowing. Second, the current generated is very low.

  • @insertnamehere4775
    @insertnamehere4775 Před rokem +1

    Isn't the last one 3rd one not due to pressure but because the copper conducts the heat onto tbe ice making it melt faster?

    • @JaDroppingScience
      @JaDroppingScience  Před rokem +3

      Both, and having it be copper wire helps it melt faster than if I pushed down with some other line/wire.

  • @Scapestoat
    @Scapestoat Před 5 měsíci

    The neat thing about these is that usually there's at least one that inquisitive kids will have figured out at some point.
    The BIC pen cap launching trick just sort of happened when idly absorbing information in class, and your hands need something to do.
    It holds charge? Sure, maybe, depending on the plastic, but not that much. XD

  • @Owen_loves_Butters
    @Owen_loves_Butters Před rokem +3

    Round 1: First one I knew was true, second one seemed plausible, third one seemed like too strong of an effect to be caused by static. Wasn't 100% sure though.
    Round 2: First one I've seen, second seemed plausible, third I knew was fake only because I already knew why the I/O were there.
    Round 3: You need dissimilar metals in the lemon to create power, so immediate dead giveaway and the other two made sense.

    • @ConstantChaos1
      @ConstantChaos1 Před 3 měsíci

      Well for round 3 he had 2 lies actually, c was also a lie, while it is true that pressure can melt ice you need a lot more than that to do melting, instead we saw the conductive nature of copper melt its way through ice, still cool and the video is legit but it's not from the pressure ( you need multiple elephants worth of weight to do that not bananas worth)

    • @Owen_loves_Butters
      @Owen_loves_Butters Před 3 měsíci

      @@ConstantChaos1It actually can be done with a reasonable amount of weight, but a copper wire is too thick. An E string on a guitar actually works with a few pounds of weight attached.

    • @ConstantChaos1
      @ConstantChaos1 Před 3 měsíci

      @Owen_loves_Butters yeah but due to how weight distribution functions that weight requirement goes up quite quickly, in this case the thermal conductivity of the copper is a much more significant factor in any case.

  • @bolo2393
    @bolo2393 Před 3 měsíci

    the I O thing is from electrical schematics and it really isnt letters, it is supposed to represent a circle and a line. It is used to show what state a binary switch is in on an electrical diagram, the line represents a connection and the circle represents a gap.

  • @bradeggebraaten2141
    @bradeggebraaten2141 Před 11 měsíci

    I enjoy these videos and sometimes its pretty hard to guess the fake. I don't always get them right, but in this video the fakes are way to obvious. These are fun though and good for learning. Keep 'em coming!

  • @bokkenka
    @bokkenka Před 5 měsíci

    You can break open the charger, remove the guts, stick in a couple coin cells, connect them to the cable, and use the lemon to complete the circuit. That will actually charge your phone a little bit.

  • @garvgupta3567
    @garvgupta3567 Před 3 měsíci +1

    3/3, Got all 3 correct.

  • @VeeOasis
    @VeeOasis Před 11 měsíci

    2:01 what launcher is that? or did you just make that pattern?

  • @mcfixer9503
    @mcfixer9503 Před 5 měsíci

    1:42 I thought it was to indicate flowing circuit vs non-flowing circuit?

  • @Scapestoat
    @Scapestoat Před 5 měsíci

    Also; having a basic understanding of basic scientific principles / the laws of the universe seems to really help. As they apply universally, and the more of them you internalize, the more diverse things-you-never-encountered-before can be identified.
    But even then, sometimes there's a thing that feels right, and makes sense based on everything you know, but it ends up being clever trickery designed to exploit basic knowledge. The worst ones are combined with redirection! Oof!

  • @magentamonster
    @magentamonster Před 4 měsíci

    1:25 If I and O standing for "ingenuo" and "ozioso" was true, Wikipedia would not have put that information in an image caption of all places.

  • @TheDude50447
    @TheDude50447 Před 6 měsíci

    The lemon juice thing had an oversight which made it way too easy. Samsung got 2 charging animations. The one you showed only shows when the phone gets fast charged. If youre using an older charger that cant supply as much wattage the animation is green not blueish.

  • @zoltowskikrzysztof1
    @zoltowskikrzysztof1 Před rokem

    Great video

  • @lllore9895
    @lllore9895 Před rokem

    I just want the lemon one to be real would be such a cool party trick lol

    • @paulybeefs8588
      @paulybeefs8588 Před rokem

      Until you stick your finger in a 120 volt alternating current lemon and get electrocuted because you forgot to hold a circuit breaker in your other hand.

  • @J0rdan069
    @J0rdan069 Před rokem

    Compared to the first one this was definitely easier to me, I got 3/3!

  • @Sherkynerdo
    @Sherkynerdo Před rokem

    it's ironic that you said the blue ones are the worst, because every teacher in my middle school used jolly ranchers as rewards, and everyone was obsessed with the blue ones and everyone would try and trade for them.

  • @lextatertotsfromhell7673

    I’m pretty sure the I and O are to represent closed and open circuts

  • @paulybeefs8588
    @paulybeefs8588 Před rokem +2

    On the last one, it depends on the type of lemons you use. We got big ones from the farmers market and they provide 120 V AC for about 20 minutes as long as you cut them while they are still pretty fresh. Gramma got electrocuted accidentally sticking her finger in one though, so be careful.

  • @anguslazy
    @anguslazy Před rokem

    bro put a history lesson in the middle of his science video

  • @TymFineWithMe
    @TymFineWithMe Před 4 měsíci

    I thought the "I" was a picture of a complete circuit, and the "O" was a broken circuit.

  • @fauxnoob4157
    @fauxnoob4157 Před rokem

    The battery one does work, but current flows from - to + not + to -. - has the electrons and + wants the electrons.

  • @Eduj5790
    @Eduj5790 Před 9 měsíci

    these videos a super cool, I got every round correct!

  • @mixgamer2908
    @mixgamer2908 Před 14 dny

    (Truths or Trash) After plugging out charger from the wall, you still have some time to connect it into phone and start charging, (it might not work for all chargers)

  • @ragewolf3728
    @ragewolf3728 Před 5 měsíci

    When life gives you lemons charge your phone

  • @milesfernandez4368
    @milesfernandez4368 Před rokem

    I love these

  • @HenrikMyrhaug
    @HenrikMyrhaug Před rokem +4

    Ice doesn't melt under pressure, it was just the copper wire transfering heat from the air to the ice cube, melting its way through. Since copper is more consuctive than air, it was able to slice through before the cube melted from the air.
    If you put the same setup in a freezer, the wire will not cut through the ice, because it was the temperature, not pressure that cut the ice.

  • @2dimensionalmango855
    @2dimensionalmango855 Před rokem

    I love these videos

  • @mickvaulsack
    @mickvaulsack Před rokem +1

    AYYY MY SCIENCE TEACHER LESSS GOOOOO

  • @hi-wf9ql
    @hi-wf9ql Před 9 měsíci

    round two, the one about I and O

  • @NuhDhulMitrain
    @NuhDhulMitrain Před rokem

    Lol the lemon was so ridiculous

  • @karlfranz3819
    @karlfranz3819 Před rokem +1

    For the second one i admit i did not even qualify, as i am from Italy. If you wish to know, ingenuo means naive, and ozioso, while more probable as it could have been used in that context in the 800, means lazy

  • @baalfgames5318
    @baalfgames5318 Před 3 měsíci

    Dang. The first one, I got all of them wrong, but this time I got all of them right. :)

  • @bjmax3045
    @bjmax3045 Před 7 měsíci

    I like how he always explains how he fakes it

  • @takagiichiro6430
    @takagiichiro6430 Před rokem

    these videos are cool, i love science

  • @Proud_Troll
    @Proud_Troll Před rokem

    I was absolutely sure that the sharpy didn't break the can.

  • @ConstantChaos1
    @ConstantChaos1 Před 3 měsíci

    The ice in the last one was cut by the copper melting the ice thermally not by the miniscule amount it is melted by pressure, to get that level of pressure you'd need multiple elephants worth of weight

  • @PacificGrub
    @PacificGrub Před rokem

    Yes my lemon is now useful 🤣

  • @gefitrop3496
    @gefitrop3496 Před rokem

    I knew you used inspect element right when I saw the wikipedia page

  • @Westerstaad
    @Westerstaad Před 5 měsíci

    thermal expansion is why the towers collapsed

  • @rausanrau9881
    @rausanrau9881 Před rokem

    Got right the first and thrid one but got wrong the second one, I though you were using a clip of a diferent material, the traduction of active and inactive did sounded weird since I am spanish and those two languages have a lot of common or similar words

  • @nicolo7051
    @nicolo7051 Před rokem

    1:48 me being Italian and knowing the real meaning of "ingenuo" and "ozioso"

  • @xxsansxx4634
    @xxsansxx4634 Před rokem

    Got them all right! It was a little difficult for 2taal 2 though

  • @PonyWRC
    @PonyWRC Před rokem

    3rd one/pen cap
    3rd one/Kettle
    1st one/ lemon
    I knew it!!

  • @howdoipickaname9815
    @howdoipickaname9815 Před rokem

    1:10 i thought the sharpie/soda can one was fake, but when i learned it was real, i went to go test it and it worked! science is incredible :)

  • @visteobman4085
    @visteobman4085 Před rokem

    100%!!!

  • @mudkipzforever9512
    @mudkipzforever9512 Před rokem

    0:10 the CZcamsr, Dave Hax done the battery one

  • @syvulpie
    @syvulpie Před 3 měsíci

    For the pen one, I thought you reversed the clip 😂

  • @nordseealbatros5302
    @nordseealbatros5302 Před 5 měsíci

    You forgot to turn off super fast charging on the samsung which can only be achieved by using a brick with the super fast charging chipset. You could tell it's on due to the blue charging animation with the two lightnings.

  • @JetJeb5648
    @JetJeb5648 Před 11 měsíci +1

    congrats on 1mil. subs

  • @Bizness124
    @Bizness124 Před rokem

    As soon as I saw the cat fly back onto the pan I already knew it was 🧢

  • @57thorns
    @57thorns Před 4 měsíci

    The lemon would not give enough voltage to begin with.

  • @KuletXCore
    @KuletXCore Před rokem

    I nailed 2/3 rounds!

  • @EdKolis
    @EdKolis Před 9 měsíci

    I got them all right!

  • @melvinwarmpf1264
    @melvinwarmpf1264 Před rokem

    You know how I knew the first one of the second round was fake without having to see the other ones?
    The screen record icon is flashing in the status bar.

  • @Krgps
    @Krgps Před rokem

    The second got me...

  • @bebedor_de_cafe3272
    @bebedor_de_cafe3272 Před rokem

    Ingenuo means innocent or gulliable, knew the answer instantly

  • @PufferBunny
    @PufferBunny Před 3 měsíci

    But I tried the lemon one and it actually worked , my phone lit up , but then I couldn't do it again

  • @EchoPrograms
    @EchoPrograms Před rokem

    This video is great, except for the part when you called chrome dev tools inspect element. That is a pet pev of mine, and I don't know why.

  • @isodoublet
    @isodoublet Před 5 měsíci

    Having the "i" be for "ingenuo" (=gullible) was a bit on the nose lmao

  • @rikDutchMilafan9205
    @rikDutchMilafan9205 Před měsícem

    I experimented the lemon one in school

  • @jonathanli31
    @jonathanli31 Před rokem +1

    The lemon trick isnt fake tho

  • @existing_human7237
    @existing_human7237 Před rokem

    4-0 baby missed every single one!

  • @fishinggang9299
    @fishinggang9299 Před rokem

    The Thread one

  • @kyleeames8229
    @kyleeames8229 Před 5 měsíci

    0:50 the third one was fake, I think. The first one is a phenomenon of which I’m aware and the second one at least seems plausible.
    1:40 the third one would be the easiest for you to fake. Combine that with the fact that I’m aware of the phenomenon demonstrated in the first clip and the second just appears to be an instance of good ol’ metal fatigue and that leaves #3.
    2:40 The first clip is the fake. I have a hard time imagining anyone finding that one convincing.

  • @marchesilvet8096
    @marchesilvet8096 Před rokem

    Get hooked by the shorts here 😆😆😆😆😆

  • @Me-ls7dh
    @Me-ls7dh Před rokem

    Yeah for round two i knew that if he was showing a wikipedia aryicle he was confirming it true which was too easy so i got that one easy

  • @Huang2hang
    @Huang2hang Před rokem

    Round 1 : I would say 3.

  • @applejtoh2106
    @applejtoh2106 Před rokem

    2:10 learned this in science