Chemist Breaks Down 22 Chemistry Scenes From Movies & TV | WIRED
Scientist and author Kate Biberdorf (perhaps better known as Kate The Chemist), takes a look at some famous chemistry scenes from movies and television and explains how accurate they really are. How true-to-life are Breaking Bad's chemistry scenes? Can you really make oven-less brownies like in Rick & Morty? Is the formula from Spider-Man's web fluid correct? Kate The Chemist has the answers!
Still haven’t subscribed to WIRED on KZhead? ►► wrd.cm/15fP7B7
Listen to the Get WIRED podcast ►► link.chtbl.com/wired-ytc-desc
Want more WIRED? Get the magazine ►► subscribe.wired.com/subscribe...
Follow WIRED:
Instagram ►► / wired
Twitter ►► / wired
Facebook ►► / wired
Get more incredible stories on science and tech with our daily newsletter: wrd.cm/DailyYT
Also, check out the free WIRED channel on Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Android TV.
ABOUT WIRED
WIRED is where tomorrow is realized. Through thought-provoking stories and videos, WIRED explores the future of business, innovation, and culture.
Chemist Breaks Down 22 Chemistry Scenes From Movies & TV | WIRED
Fun fact: Breaking Bad's cooking is extremely accurate because they actually had DEA agents teach Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul how to make meth. They made sure the steps were accurate, but made sure to edit the show in such a way that it couldn't serve as a how-to.
another fun fact: meth isnt naturally that blue colour like in the show they added colouring to the prop so it wouldnt look realistic but then because of the shows popularity some cooks in parts of the US started actually colouring it blue
another fun fact: you don't need the show to learn how to do it, there's many many recipes on the internet
@@rigbyzen2417 the recipes on the internet are very vague and you would need a chemistry degree or at least very extensive chemistry knowledge to know how to use said recipes, but then again if you knew that much chemistry you would just know how to make meth
@@squish4369 in the tv show they added another compound to make that blue colour first it was whit
@@noeljoe8872 might be blue but it's the bomb
She's done all these experiments and tests millions and millions of times and she gets so excited as if she's experiencing all this for the first time, that's real passion for what you love doing
yh i noticed that as well lmao
Hopefully not the first one😂
Do you want to talk/learn about God and Jesus? God and Jesus both love you and can help you with whatever you may be going through!
no way she cooked meth?
@@matebalogh8702 How do you think chemistry students pay for their tuition?
I like how she still gets all giddy over simple experiments she’s probably done in the lab with years of experience that’s true passion right there
Reminds me of Gale's talk with Walt in BB about whether the "magic" is still there in chemistry. It obviously is for her.
@@aliveandwellinisrael2507 RIP Gale
@@aliveandwellinisrael2507 I've been writing code for nearly 30 years, I still get excited when it works. It's always fun when you can see something you created doing what it's supposed to do (either the code works, or you're literally pulling nylon out of a dish HOW FRIGGING COOL IS THAT SERIOUSLY)
Like disolve a body?
@@_mnejingthat’s called passion , I’m glad you found what you enjoyed doing so early . I still haven’t figured out what interest to dive into yet 😂
I absolutely love her enthusiasm. She's the type of professor that makes a class memorable and fun.
We just started presenting one paper each week in organic chemistry literature; here is the link... kzhead.info/sun/hrSJopmdpYmmknA/bejne.html
hate to burst your bubble but she in fact does not. she spends so much time trying to have this "Kate the chemist" persona and less time making the material understandable. Her co-teachers are better
@@whack6102 was she your professor or something
@@sebastianznguyen7481 hes right, she was my professor, she works at UT Austin
@@johnmfding thank you for providing this info
She was my chemistry professor in undergrad! Love her so much!! She is so knowledgeable and enthusiastic about chemistry it rubs off on others.
My first thought was: I wish I had her as a chemistry teacher. Instead, I had this old guy who had clearly been teaching for too long, and who thought that his students were getting in the way of his teaching.
Lucky af
Wow, lucky you. I would love to have a chemistry teacher as cool as her.
My chem profesor didn’t even try to teach
Cap
She just really loves chemistry.
I would love if she gonna be my mom
The excitement when the nylon formed.
@@lunaslibrary9522 bro
I want her to be in an anime
@@lunaslibrary9522 you are into MILF stuff?
If I'd had her as one of my teachers, I almost certainly would have pursued chemistry. My favorite part was at around time 13:00. She must be an absolutely wonderful teacher.
I loved it that she was so purely gleeful about the foam, like a little kid would be
If it depends on the other person whether you pursue a certain subject or not, it simply means you are not truly passionate about it. My high school chemistry teacher was a dismal, not much better on my studies either. Nevertheless, once I discovered this subject and how wondrous it is, I swore I would never abandon it and my passion for chemistry is still very much alive.
@@sergethegrim I was passionate about a number of subjects, including chemistry.
Im not a chemistry major, but she was my professor at UT for general chemistry during the peak of Covid. She was a great teacher, though the course was hard, still one of my favorite courses at UT.
Maybe a good teacher but I get the impression she's a perfectionist, and that may make her a hard grader. So, I'd def pass
For those of you who don't know, at 0:43 when she says aqua regia. Aqua Regia is an acid formed by mixing 3 parts hydrochloric acid and 1 part nitric acid and this mixture can dissolve metals like gold and platinum
Oh thanks, now i can get rid of this body.
ohh thanks I was confused I knew the Turkish name for it (kral suyu) but not the English
@@ahmedsaliherel Don't forget to NOT use your bathtub
Faltu ka gyan chhod raha hai
@@ojusdharmaik5494 nai bhai mujhe bhi mera ex ka body dissolve krna tha
I can't believe National Treasure was wrong about chemistry. The history and archaeology were so accurate.
Even tho I have done that exact same thing they do in that movie oh about a hundred times
@@Dallas867 and you can say that how?!?!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Can't win em all
@@beschutzer42 You have the Declaration of Independence and you keep performing that test on it?!? Stop it!!
Love the way she gets excited over the experiments. Good one Wired. Get her back soon!
Yes you can tell how genuine her excitement was it made me smile
I want her as my science teacher & I’m 30 years old lol
She sure loved the elephants toothpaste haha!
What a nut, haha
Ya I hope she makes meth next time
These make me happiest when the person shows as much joy/interest in the topic as she does
Can she have her own TV show or something? Her knowledge and enthusiasm is refreshing.
She's attractive too... let's be real, high school students would pay WAY more attention with her teaching for that ALONE.
When a chemist uses the term "extraordinarily flammable", it sends a shiver down my spine. Because I know they don't use that term lightly.
when they're playing around with rocket fuel or something you KNOW it's going to go boom
Especially when "flammable" is not a word. A chemist should know that things that can catch fire are "inflammable" and things that do not catch fire are "non-inflammable". One minus point for the pro.
@@paullambert8701 flammable is absolutely a word. Literally a 2 second google search my man. Minus one point on the effort
@@paullambert8701 I love when so called grammar warriors try to appear like they know everything lmao.
@@its_dey_mate reminds me of that other comment on another video of someone correcting HCl to "HCL". People have this strange need to validate themselves over professionals.
13:00 Her excitement, the pure joy of doing what she loves, is what everyone should strive for in their careers.
Agreed
she's channeling her McKenna Grace
@Europio You’re right, it’s what they do for fun everyday
I thought that's what we were supposed to do
Reminds her of her wedding night.
As a chemistry graduate, I can say these experiments she performed are so fun, especially the nylon one, it's so cool to see it come out of "nowhere" also as soon as I heard split the water in the Chernobyl scene I actually gasped, that's a crazy amount of energy.
Crazy that it gets hot enough to split the water then ignite it, then split it again etc. Infinite energy source.
@PonzooonTheGreat It only got that hot because it was in the middle of a catastrophic failure. We don't have the capability to harness that kind of power. It's a LOT to split water.
What chemicals were used to make the nylon?
@@Nooneiscomingforme Disclaimer: Not a chemist I can read 1,6 Hexaned(ioic acid - probably) for the first part and something ending in "sebacoyl chloride" for the second part The first part is - for sure - a "monomer", I think the chloride might essentially be like a developer but maybe it's a different monomer This is an example of a polymerisation reaction, the end part of the monomer is broken off or changed by the second reactant and "stuck on" to more of itself or another monomer to create a much longer molecule (poly-mer, made of many monomer parts) Someone else could it explain better, but there are multiple different options for chemicals that make nylons and I'm not entirely clear on which these are or how *exactly* they're reacting
@@Nooneiscomingforme 1,6-diaminohexane first, then a solution of decanodioyl in cyclohexane floated on top. Yes I just looked that up, I have done this experiment before but couldn't remember the reagents :P
I LOVE listening to people talk about things they are passionate about. So watching Kate be so excited about chemistry is just an amazing thing.
She was my college chem professor at UT Austin. Always been this passionate about chemistry! She always said she wanted to be the woman equivalent of Bill Nye
Bill nye has not a scientist though, his degree is in engineering.
@@rams_r_champs That doesn’t carry over to academia
@@rams_r_champs isn't UT a really good school though?
It isn't that hard because she is an actual scientist while Bill just got an engineering degree
She's better. Nye is garbage.
She was my general chemistry professor at UT when I was a freshman! A very charismatic educator who managed to make her lectures entertaining and insightful.
she looks like one of those teachers the students would have a crush on
no way bro She was in my moms class room too. its crazy. huh
Do you two know each other? kzhead.info/sun/lNd6lJF9bJF-g6c/bejne.html&lc=UgymODXJIvClbexOzKp4AaABAg
I bet, just watching her joyfulness when doing these experiments, I wish I would have taken more chemistry in school
yeah your lying
I love how excited she is about chemistry/science. We need more people like her in life!
This woman's knowledge is insane and her energy towards the subject is absolutely amazing! Everyone should be that excited all the time
A lot of the time, maybe. Or I'm to old to be like that all of the time. Exhausting.
If everyone was this excited about stuff all the time I'd kill myself.
why are you hating, just be happy whats your problem seeing people happy ? just be happy it doesnt hurt@@flapdrol
The Big Bang Theory hired proper scientists for most of the science scenes so it isn't a surprise that they got those scenes write. Now if only they hired proper comedians to write the jokes it would be watchable.
I mean, that was something I saw in school when I was like 10 years old so don't give them too much credit lol.
LMAO dude you hit the nail on the head, not a funny show
Bazinga
almost liked this comment until I saw the second sentence dayum chill man
That's pretty cool.
Being a chemist myself, I would like to contribute: The more colours you see, the more likely that it is fake. Most chemicals are colourless or white, coloured chemicals are in the minority and when you find them in household chemicals it is most likely dyed.
Isn't there a joke that goes something like - if you want chemistry that smells do organic chemistry, but if you want color do inorganic chemistry?
@@Rime_in_Retrograde for molecules to be colored, it must be a coordination compound or a molecule that has a wavelength maximum that is in the visible spectrum ex: beta-carotene.
@@Thaumius ...It was just a dumb joke I heard in my inorganic chemistry class, because it seemed like you were more likely to find colorful inorganic compounds (eg. cobalt, copper sulfate, etc. - and tests like the infamous 'flame test'). And half the experiments we ran in our organic chemistry lab stunk. lol
@@Rime_in_Retrograde it's not that far off. Most organic compounds are going to be clear (for liquids), white (for solids), or yellow (for both). There are some colored compounds, but they're not nearly as common as in inorganic, where you've got d orbital splittings of transition metals that can make some really neat colors.
I'd also add yellow to the list of colours.
i love how excited she still gets about chemistry it really is an exciting field i hope she never looses that enthusiasm
Absolutely love her reaction to the experiments. Shows that she truly love what she does.
Bring her back she’s hella cool with the chemist things she explains.
The fact she ripped through everything was awesome too..This one had way more scenes than usual I feel like but answered everything effortlessly
In the Mr. Bean chemistry scene, I think someone KNEW it was a backwards set-up, mainly as a chemist’s inside joke. I can definitely imagine that happening on set.
And Mr. Bean being Mr. Bean, handling chemicals in a sensitive way would be total out of character, too!
@@Zeguyfromgermany Yeah, I think someone needed to explain Mr Bean to her. He does everything the wrong way, and generally causes mayhem and destruction, that is the point of the character. If his chemistry setup was wrong and he was using poor safety practice then that was absolutely what they were going for. Faulting it is like criticising Airplane by saying the automatic pilot wouldn't actually be an inflatable doll in real life.
I can imagine the Mr. Bean team to do it in a way that irks only the chemists but not the usual audience :D
@@mattc3581they’re talking about the realism of it. It’s not realistic. That’s all that the video was about.
Her excitement in that first experiment with the web fluid/nylon was so much fun I would’ve much appreciated having her for chemistry❣️
That isn't how the Xenon poisoning works (did a great job on the non nuclear-stuff, though). The Xe isotopes are constantly produced by the reactor and then either absorb a neutron and decays quickly or they decay away in a few hours or days. This always exists in reactor at equilibrium. When you shut down the reactor, the Xe keeps growing in for a while, as other elements are still decaying to it and the reactor isn't removing it's portion. So, the Xe will build up for a while before decaying away and when this happens there is too much excess negative reactivity in the system and the reactor can't sustain a chain reaction.
Also just completely lied about Hydrofluoric acid at the beginning
about what? HF *is* a weak acid
@@st0rmbreaK "weak" literally just refers to the dissociation constant (pKa), it literally has nothing to do with corrosiveness. HF is widely known to be EXTREMELY corrosive to almost everything including **glass** and will do much much more damage to human flesh than sulfuric or hydrochloric "strong acids" Antimony pentafluoride, one of the strongest "superacids" is highly dangerous. Why? The main hazard is "Releases hydrofluoric acid upon contact with water or biological tissues"
@@WallBush It's highly corrosive but it's regarded as a weak acid. You might be mixing HF up with HCl (hydrochloric acid.)
Yeah, she talked about xenon being "burned" like literally, because of high temperatures. The "burning" of xenon is figurative, by being bombarded by neutrons. What causes xenon buildup is the lower flux of neutrons when the reactor is at lower power. To be fair, that's physics, not chemistry.
As a chemist it makes me so happy to see someone as happy as you about an experiment. Chemistry is awesome.
Im here to initiate a Bio boys takeover over this comment.
@@nazeerahmad8169 Well I am a biochemist, which is a chemist. I'm also a molecular biologist so I don't think much of a takeover is going to happen here. :P
@@michaelmay5453 I love the energy in your comment 😂😂😂😂
@@nazeerahmad8169 I thought you would. ;)
As a high schooler this makes me wanna become a chemist one day. 🤣 Absolutely love this kind of stuff
GOD, the absolute JOY she exhibits with her experiments is just top tier, I absolutely loved this! I would love to see Biberdorf come back for more, she really got my hyped about chemistry!
i could sit and listen to her talk about movie chemistry all day long! i"ve never liked chemistry in school but she's so invested and smart and charming and she still think's even the smallest experiment seems super fun!
Her excitement when she does the experiments is what makes this video sooo freaking amazing!! Love seeing ppl do what they love!
Bro she *loves* chemical reactions lol. Her laughter and joy is contagious.
If we had chemistry teachers like here we'd definitely learn more she loves this stuff and it definitely rubs off on you
The problem is we don't have good educational capacitation. Many love their professions, and even excel at them, but people usally believe that's enough to be a good teacher. It isn't, being a teacher is a profession in itself, you need to learn it, it takes years since it's literally another career or at least an specialization, and very few have any interest in learning how to teach, they just think is about repeating what you know to others, that's why it gets dull and boring for everyone. Schools should offer and demand at least an specialization in education to become a teacher.
1. There are plenty of teachers like that out there. 2. There would be more if teachers were paid according to their value to society.
@@DrZaius3141 Yep, spot on.
Yes, KNOWING is one thing but TEACHING is another skillset, @@TheGodThatNeverFail2.
Second degree burns are the most painful. Third degree burns cause nerve damage, and when the nerves are dead or, in this case, burnt away, you will stop being able to feel pain. Instead of pain, you will feel a numbness where the 3rd degree burn is. There will be some pain around the 3rd degree burns, because the other nerves nearby would still be sending signals to the brain. But that is nowhere near the pain of a second degree burn. I've had a second degree burn on my back, quite a large one. It was the most painful thing I ever experienced. The doctor said I'm lucky I didn't get 3rd degree burns in the area, because while that would not be as painful, I would lose sensation because of the dead nerves. Damaged nerves and completely dead nerves can cause issues with mobility. For example, if you get nerve damage in your hand, you may have trouble opening and closing it, or moving the fingers, or the wrist. Nerve damage can result in phantom pain, and it can be chronic. Phantom pain is just as real as when nerves are sending signals to your brain, so it's not "fake" pain. Nerve damage can be quite devastating to a person's quality of life. So, while I may have been in a tremendous amount of pain when I got the 2nd degree burn, it's possible I could've gotten chronic phantom pain if I got a 3rd degree burn that burnt away the nerves.
That's why steam burns are the worse. steam doesn't kill the nerves like fire does.
When I was a young man, somewhere around 11 or 12, I got a really bad burn on my right hand. My uncle was torch welding the railing to my grandma's porch, the kind of railing that has the little grooves on top for grip or something. He finished and walked away, shortly after I come along and grab the rail without thinking. My hand cooked to the surface of that metal like he literally had to rip it off and flesh was left behind. Hospital said it was a bad second but not quite third degree. Took forever to heal and to this day more than 20 years later I have the ridges in my palm and almost no feeling in the area.
The amount of joy she gets working within her expertise oa honestly the most adorable and amazing thing ever
How are you?
For an ordinary guy who doesn't know much bout chemistry, this is a very insightful n thoughtful explanation for me to understand! Good job!
dont be a patetic Incel and read a chemistry book you faggyyy
The sheer joy and excitement. That is... just... too rare among adults in the world. I wish more people would be like her. I wish I could be.
Fun fact: Aqua Regia (her preferred acid) is actually used in methamphetamine manufacture to dissolve platinum to create chloroplatinic acid in the process of creating ammonium chloroplatinate, which is in turn used to create Platinum Dioxide, also known as Adam's Catalyst. This is the catalyst used in reductive amination of Phenylacetone (P2P) with methylamine to create Methamphetamine, and this is how they do it in the show.
DEA! Get on the ground!
I loved that she did experiments to show the point she was making and not only talking about the clips. I would watch more of these for sure! Had no idea you could make nylon with some liquids, that was perfect for Spiderman. So cool!
I can not get over the fact that you theoretically could actually make Web Fluid. The Nylon example she showed was so cool. I wonder what other chemicals it would take to have IRL web fluid that functions as it does in the movies (where it could support the weight of a high schooler swinging around at high velocity)... Like is it theoretically possible to make fully functioning web fluid and we just haven't because there's no practical non-Spider Man related need for it?
Our current issues with spider silk fabrication is that we are unable to reliably recreate the exact molecular structure of spider silk. Even with genetic modification of silk worms the silk they end up producing is no where near as strong as the real thing. Alpha Fold is an AI that can predict the folding of protein with i believe it's 90% accuracy(it's only going to get better). Keep in mind with chemistry is that structure determines function. Alpha Fold gives us the potential to fully reverse engineer an organism that can make the necessary proteins that can eventually produce spider silk that is 90% close to the real thing. This is still a ways off, but large scale production of synthetic spider silk could be a thing in the next ~20 years. The functions of this would be insane, first of all kevlar ie bullet proof vests, and honestly could be bullet proof normal cloths like John Wick. Anything that is currently made with nylon would be replaced with it. I'm sure an Engineer could come up with other applications other Spider-Man, and what I've listed. Edit: i looked up Alpha folds accuracy. Also it turns out that Alphafold was used to help better understand SARS-CoV-2. There is a deep mind article all about it.
it’s called rope
Well, as far as using nylon specifically as a web fluid (and not synthetic spider silk, or something else, as mentioned in the other comments), it theoretically could be strong enough as a material to hold a person’s weight (it’s what parachute cord is made of, for example). However, paracord is as strong as it is because it is a woven rope containing an outer sheath and multiple inner cords, all woven out of many individual nylon filaments. So one single filament (as you would get if you shot out a single stream of liquid nylon) would not be anywhere Near strong enough to hold a human up. The second problem with using this method to make a working web fluid is that nylon isn’t sticky. So you’d need another chemical compound on the end of the strand, strong enough to anchor the web to something, or you’d have to come up with some other way for the nylon strand to somehow tie itself onto something, so it was secure. Some other problems that come up: - The nylon actually only forms at the interface of the two chemicals used in the reaction, so you’d have to create some sort of special mixing device that would keep the liquids separate, but allow them to mix together perfectly to make the nylon filament. - You would need to come up with some sort of means of propelling the nylon out of the mixing device, so it would shoot out at a distance like in the movies/comics. You’ll notice that she has to physically pull the strand out here, to form the filament. - The chemicals used in this reaction are fairly toxic, so you wouldn’t actually want to touch the rope with your hands. Typically the nylon needs to be rinsed, before you can handle it with your bare hands. - The volume of chemicals needed to make the webs as you see Spider-Man use in the movies would be Way larger than the teeny little vials of fluid that he is shown using. - Let’s play with this as a hypothetical though! Say you can overcome all of the above problems - perhaps by creating a device that perfectly mixes the two web fluid chemicals to create multiple nylon strands, which it then weaves together into a secure rope, rinsing the toxic chemicals away in the process. It could then apply an extremely strong, fast curing adhesive to the end of the web before it is shot out, and use some sort of mechanism, perhaps with compressed air, to propel the web rope out of the shooter. Let’s say you create a large backpack that holds all the chemicals for the nylon, adhesive for sticking, water for rinsing, compressed air for shooting, and a power source for operating everything, and attach it via wires/hoses to your wrist mounted device that handles the actual making and shooting of the rope/web. IF you could figure out the myriad technical, mechanical, and chemical problems that would come up in the creation and testing of that apparatus, then yes, theoretically you could create a nylon-based web fluid, using the chemical process shown here, and successfully recreate the web slinging (somewhat) as shown in the movies! :) Realistically however, for any actual Spider-Man related (or Spider-Man similar) uses, it’s much simpler to just have a pre-made, strength tested rope, stored in some sort of spool, with a hook or other attachment device attached to the end, and a device that projects the rope and hook out to your intended attachment point - hence the grappling gun ;)
@@voldemortified you did not need to write an essay
@@voldemortified I love this so much, thank you
The fact that she works with this all the time yet is still always fun excited about it shows she’s in the right profession
I prepped chemistry during college, and we don't actually get to do the showy experiments very often. Lots of putting solids in liquids, titrating, waiting 30 minutes for a hotplate to get to EXACTLY the right temp so we don't burn off our desired reagent, and....lots and lots and lots of notes/math. It's mentally invigorating and can be very rewarding, but doing something like elephant toothpaste would make nearly any chemist jump for joy. I especially enjoy using methane bubbles to set myself on fire. Kids love to see it!!
@@RochelleHasTooManyHobbiesim not a kid, but i would love to see it too!
I love how excited she gets it draws other people in to want to learn and you can tell she absolutely loves her job. Also about the radium mentioned around 19:00 they used to prescribe this as a general medicine and this one guy started abusing it. Eventually his bones basically fell apart. His jaw just fell open and had to be removed. It’s horrible what insane things people can do when they don’t know enough
She is so excited to make nylon. It’s the purest joy.
Legit freaking LOVE how passionate she is about chemistry, please make a part 2 with her and her awesome chemistry demonstrations!
I love the "It's not a good high" .....no scientific explanation, just moves on to other aspects lol.....almost sounds like she tried it lol.
I've noticed that alot of chemists were experimental with drugs
And she knows a good high when she has one 😂
That was definitely one of the best videos like this I've ever watched. Super informative and she's just so fun to watch
I love that all chemists just go so super hyped when it comes to reactions and everything in films it’s awesome and shows they have huge passion
The joy she has as she shows samples just shows how much she loved Chemistry.
rest in peace
It’s so cool how she gets so excited over the simplest chemistry (experiments), probably being a long-time professor already. Good to see she still kept all her enthusiasm for what she does. There aren’t many who could say the same about their profession.
I absolutely love her enthusiasm. She's the type of professor that makes a class memorable and fun. that really make me to laugh thank you for the react on those series
I think Kate was very disapproving that the Terminator didn't put on his safety goggles before shooting the T-1000.
She mentioned Aqua Regia. The character of Burt mentioned it in Return of the Living Dead (1985) to get rid of one of the reanimated bodies. Kate is hilarious. She full on geeked out when she made nylon. She definitely loves Chem
i read about aqua regia in my 10th year's chemistry class hehe something about piranhas too? correct me if im wrong
Piranha solution?
@@strgrlszn I think it's also called Piranha Solution
@@thorniel yes, that !
In italy we have acquaragia, a strong and very volatile organic solvant which, while it needs to be handled with care, is obviously nowhere as dangerous as that mix of acids. I hope that no one ever bought and used the worng one
As a safety pro, who tests respirators, in the breaking bad section, having those hoods under the respirator (not gas masks) make them useless because it's not sealing properly. Same reason why beards are a no no. Should be the other way around
What's the difference between a respirator and a gas mask? I suppose a gas mask is more specific towards a air purifying respirators as oppose to respirator which can mean either an APR or an ASR or even an SCBA.
@@shankhan547 respirators channels air through a canned filter and then you breath it in the other side. A gas mask you carry the air in a pressurized tank.
Beards are a no no unless you tuck it in and make a seal around the base of your skull. I wear gas masks when painting and it seals just fine with my beard. Just gotta tie it up and tuck it into itself that way I can seal the mask around my neck.
@@deathninja16 yeah I find a way to seal it with my beard just fine too
@@makatron This is not correct. A gas mask is a respirator. Gas masks have filters/cartridges too, they are typically considered as an air purifying respirator. That's what the filters do, they filter and purify the air you breathe into the mask. Bringing your own tank of air can be classified as atmosphere-supplied respirators or self contained breathing apparatus.
Her passion and enthusiasm in the elephant toothpaste reaction was awesome!!!
Kate's passion for Chemistry is contagious, you can really feel how she enjoys her experiments and to transmit her knowledge about a field she masters. I wish I had a Chemistry teacher with this positive energy about this science when I as a kid, I would definitely learn more about it, instead of snoozing during the entire class.
i had the biggest crush in my life on my chemistry teacher, but besides being a gorgeous woman, the think i loved the most was how passionate she was about chemistry. this was a nice way to remember her
this comment made me smile! so sweet 😊
Christ lol maybe u should marry a chemistry teacher lol
Bro we share the same fate
Same for a certain literature prof I know. Yeah, she was very pretty but what killed me was she was so passionate and such a deep yet accessible thinker. I was a goner.
I love how she geeks out when she did those experiences; she truly loves chemistry.
Or she gets paid to act like she does. I don't see how anyone can take organic chem and thermodynamics and come out still "loving chemistry."
@@cm9241 she's a chemist for a reason
@@cm9241 homie doesn’t have anything to live for and is convinced that people can’t have passions. lmao
@@OG_Orly_OG homie doesn't understand how content creation works
@@cm9241 this isn’t her personal KZhead channel. It’s Wired. She’s not a “content creator”.
She is so enthusiastic explaining chemistry. Really gives the vibe that she is having fun. 🥰
Love how excited she gets when she applies them, I think it brings her back to when she first fell in love with Chemistry.
Please bring Kate back as often as possible. The enthusiasm she has for her field is incredible.
You're mostly right about the Xenon! What's important to mention though is that the 'burning off' of Xe-135 isn't a chemical process, but a nuclear one. Xe-135 is part of U-235's decay chain, so it naturally tends to build up a bit as the reaction goes on. It's also very, very good at absorbing neutrons, and fewer neutrons flying around equals a slower reaction. Iirc, it has a half-life of about 9 hours, so after a shutdown, you need to wait a couple hours for it to decay away into less troublesome isotopes. The workers at Chernobyl were under a lot of pressure to perform a specific test, and they ended up trying to 'overpower' the Xenon.
It's thoroughly possible that 135Xe is the single most potent neutron poison known.
I came to the comments looking for this correction, thanks for writing it before me! Small clarification: Xe-135 is in the decay chain of some of U-235's fission products, not the decay of U-235 itself.
The reactors in Chernobyl were badly designed to begin with. No sane engineer or designer would design a positive void coefficient reactor where everything is launched into a positive feedback loop once the phase of the non-heavy water changes to superheated vapour. The Xenon burn-off (and also the stupid withdrawal and simultaneous slamming of the control rods) was the straw that broke the reactor's back
@@yoloswag4lyfe xD same here, what a relief
Badly designed or not, there are several RBMK reactors still operating. Doesn't that yield a nice warm & fuzzy feeling deep down inside?
I like the little expeiraments done to show you the stuffs possible. She sure is enthusiastic about chemistry lol
Wow she definitly loves her job and chemistry in general, that's just amazing and her enthusiasm rubs of I wish she had been my chemistry teacher, i would have had much more fun learning :)
I LOVE how excited she gets with the experiments!! Gosh I enjoyed this one so much! The best one so far! Lovely host and great explanations for the chemistry that we saw. I hope to see her again in second part :)
It’s Dr.B!!!!! I had her for 2 of my intro to chem classes and she’s one of the only lecturers who can keep students awake at 8am with her enthusiasm 🤘🤘🤘
She is a great inspiration to learn chemistry. Her enthusiasm is contagious.
I love that she also replicates some of these experiments instead of just explaining what they're doing :) I always loved science at school for the practicals ^_^
I love her energy, she gets so excited whenever she does these experiments. She must really love her job.
When i first took her class for chemistry in college, i never thought i would see her on here lol. Her enthusiasm in the subject did help me enjoy the class more tho
This my second video seeing her in.. I love her energy and excitement, when she does the test.. wish she had her on KZhead channel
I loved her enthusiasm and her way to explain everything she's so lovely
I didn’t do incredibly well in chem in undergrad, but I loved lab so much. I once synthesized aspirin in organic chemistry lab. So awesome. One of my dreams is to have my own lab to do my own experiments.
Organic chemistry was my favorite science class. Every equation had ONE answer... and I loved it, the processes were so clean. And if you couldn't get the basics, well, then you hated organic chemistry.
Aspirin synthesis is so fun, the mechanism is interesting too. Started with methyl salicylate which smells lovely :)
@@dianeridley9804 That’s only true if you completely ignore stereochemistry and the fact that a molecule can have multiple active centers of reactivity. Mechanisms can only be supported, not proved. it’s not uncommon for a reaction to take multiple paths creating multiple products.
@@dianeridley9804 As a specific example, electrophilic aromatic substitution on a mono substituted benzene will yield two major products if the substituent is an ortho-para director.
@@dianeridley9804 Most reactions in organic chemistry definitely have more than one answer. Probably only in paper, you can see what the major product would be. Even something as simple as nucleophilic substitution reaction, for example, you can have side products of elimination.
As someone studying chemistry this was a cool video. I do want to correct one thing: 3rd degree burns aren't all that painful... They damage so deep the nerves are just gone so you can't feel them
It hurts thinking about it.
That's so cold
I think she is referr8ng to the 2nd degree burns that would be on the periphery. But yes, the third degree burn itself isnt painfull at all
Can nerves be fully recovered after 3rd degree burns, are are they permanently damaged?
@@dzagoproductions3450 the latter
I have absolutely no interest in chemistry whatsoever, but her excitement and genuine happiness doing her experiments is so unbelievably infectious omfg😩 What an absolute gem of a human, I bet she would be the most amazing teacher
WOW! Really enjoying this video series. It would be great to see one that focuses on people who engineer and design top-secret laboratory spaces. I've met some before, by do they have some stories. haha
I loved how she went all excited when the big fluff appeared In her experiment, shows how much she loves her craft ☺️
As a chemist, finally!!! I've been waiting for one of us to be on Wired. Now give me the 5 levels explained with the chemist
She is so passionate about her examples this is so awesome
Nylon: while string like it can easily break, horrible for holding structures without being processed, great for clothes,and finally, cant hold our friendly neighborhood spiderman while he uses it to swing on. Web Liquid: Is great at swinging on, holding large structures together, very sticky, and finally, isnt real.
3:55 WIRED really upped the game by actually showing the reactions in real life too
13:05 reignited my love for chemistry, thank you
Seeing her excitement is priceless. Loved it
Bring her back!!!! This was so fun to watch!! Loved it 💕💕😆
These expert explainer videos are absolutely my favorite wired videos. I love how passionate she is about chemistry… makes it fun to learn! Great video :-D
God, I love how excited she is by chemistry. Like, in all the bits where she's doing simple chemistry experiments, she's just bubbling with joy
Am in chem undergrad and always feel like I don't know anything. The fact that I knew everything that she said was nice. Also, I really liked the enthusiasm. Never had a teacher with this much enthusiasm, but I would probably thing it is cringe back at highschool. Now, it's awesome to see enthusiasm
13:12 We once did this during a school science fair. R.I.P. Chemistry class ceiling It now has a giant yellow stain
I absolutely love the incorporation of actual experiments into the video. Makes it feel much more interactive.
(0:42) She was giving too much info. They cut her... XD
Her enthusiasm for simple chemistry has motivated me to keep going at my course, even though it's tough. I'm a chemistry student.
I love her enthusiasm it makes me wanna actually pay attention in my chem modules😭😭
Omg the level of excitement she has for the demos is incredible. I hope there are more chemistry scenes in movies so we see her again.
I love how enthusiastic she is during the experiments! "I've got hot dogs!" Made me crack up
She gets so excited and enthusiastic about science and experiments. True her passion will make you laugh and learn
Thank you, Dr. Biberdorf. I always enjoy your presentations!
Her love for chemistry is amazing, I wish I had that feeling for something. It's seriously awesome to see, even if I may never experience it myself. Absolutely love her.
17:51 She's right about that🤣
Wow! Knowledge of the professor and editing of the video are just top-tier. Thank you Wired.
She is *SO*/excited about chemistry and I love her for it tbh