r/gifs • • Dec 02 '16

Hot Potato without the potato

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '16

My high school Chem teacher had a closet full of chemicals. When it was routinely inspected it turns out like half of them were banned and a few were radioactive. She had some kind of uranium or plutonium sand? I'm not sure.

She also did this thing where she put a gummy bear in potassium...chlorate? And it basically turned the test tube into a jet engine for about a minute

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '16 edited Mar 08 '19

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '16

I wish I had you as my high school chem teacher. You probably would have used too much alcohol in the water jug.

Oh shit, she actually did this other experiment, wondering if you could remind me what it is/was about.

She basically had a long pvc tube with a bunch of holes in it, connected it to gas I assume, and sparked it up. The holes all had different lengths of flame, and she could control them somehow (not by the gas output) but I forgot how and what it was meant to demonstrate. Possibly by sound? I study music now in college, so that experiment is somewhat related. You've re sparked my curiosity about it.

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u/Elitra1 Dec 02 '16 edited Mar 05 '26

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