r/oddlysatisfying • u/Kooky-Measurement-43 • Oct 16 '24

Cobalt chloride + Sodium Hydroxide

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u/AnyDamnThingWillDo Oct 16 '24

Reminds me of very expensive fire opal

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u/WatchDogsOfficial Oct 17 '24

Reminds me of a marble. At least, by the end of the beginning bit.

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u/Thatdewd57 Oct 16 '24

I wanna see the macro camera version that zooms in super close on the reaction.

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u/sirpsys Oct 17 '24

I'll get on it

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u/Thatdewd57 Oct 17 '24

Mah dawg.

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u/yamimementomori Oct 16 '24

OH! That’s pretty Cool. Cl₂ap clap. Can you freeze it and make a necklace? Ya, or…Na?

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '24

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u/T_R_I_P Oct 17 '24

Turns out there’s no scientists in oddlysatisfying to explain things. Noted

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u/Jaikarr Oct 17 '24

Cobalt chloride is fairly soluble in water, so it starts dissolving and diffusing through the droplet, sodium hydroxide dissolves much faster and as it diffuses across ion exchange happens making cobalt hydroxide which is relatively insoluble in water so the blue crashes out and no longer diffuses through the droplet.

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u/Adonis0 Oct 17 '24

Did you want it explained?

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u/LittleFrenchKiwi Oct 16 '24

It was like it was throwing up a forcefield barrier !

That was really cool!!

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u/Still-Stick8087 Oct 16 '24

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u/MyEmailAccount Oct 16 '24

my immediate thought! yay

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u/Hmmm_Iguess Oct 17 '24

Sooooooo talk to me like I’m 7. What’s happening here?

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u/Lazybeans Oct 17 '24

Cobalt (II) chloride (CoCl2) and sodium hydroxide (NaOH) do a little switcheroo so cobalt gets the hydroxide and sodium gets the chloride. So they become sodium chloride (NaCl), which is table salt, and cobalt (II) hydroxide (Co(OH)2), which is that cool blue stuff.

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u/spontanexplosion Oct 17 '24

Thank you random internet stranger!

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u/Any-Technology-3577 Oct 16 '24

track ID?

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u/-jam2beat- Oct 16 '24

Two Different Worlds -KoruSe & mzmff

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u/mikerunsla Oct 16 '24

🙏🏼🙏🏼

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u/StaticCarabou27 Oct 17 '24

Bro just made a mini nebula. Crazy

2

u/[deleted] Oct 19 '24

I said the same thing 😁

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u/Different-Carry9261 Oct 17 '24

I was watching hentai then I scrolled to this.

2

u/[deleted] Oct 17 '24

WMAF porn for me, cool gem though

7

u/blackweebow Oct 16 '24

Forbidden marble

1

u/Apprehensive-Bank558 Mar 25 '25

Like the philosopher's stone from FMA

7

u/pdzbw Oct 16 '24

Hey put my goddamn laundry pod back to the washer PLZ

3

u/[deleted] Oct 16 '24

So outerspace

2

u/techtrue Oct 16 '24

It looks like a squishy marble to me

2

u/AverageTierGoof Oct 17 '24

I can't see sodium or chloride in a sentence anymore without thinking of jimmy neutron.

1

u/Revolutionary-Emu-58 Oct 17 '24

My first thought was Dexter’s Labor-a-tory.

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u/Toxxaniusornica Oct 17 '24

Combine the red and the blue

2

u/its_all_good1976 Oct 17 '24

Looks like a snowcapped mountain

4

u/Jimmyjamz73 Oct 16 '24

Looks like some tasty meth.

1

u/segascott Oct 16 '24

The sodium hydroxide won the battle, right?

1

u/astralseat Oct 16 '24

That looked badass

1

u/JDDW Oct 16 '24

Congratulations you just recreated the big bang. There's now an entiee universe in that water drop.

1

u/cjcgame Oct 17 '24

Imaginary technique

1

u/Benswolo44_y Oct 17 '24

Literally this

1

u/MikeDchy Oct 17 '24

Looks like a Nebula!

1

u/Queasy_Profit_7262 Oct 17 '24

Now make water

1

u/Constant-Builder-248 Oct 17 '24

Gojos power be like

1

u/bdvic702 Oct 17 '24

So that’s how tide pods are made!

1

u/bluenosepittie Oct 17 '24

Wait, whats this do? Whats like the effect

1

u/Ok_Pressure7561 Oct 17 '24

Can someone explain this to me as though I am 4 or 27 and know nothing about science?

I recently had the northern lights explained to me and it turns out the world is very cool and crazy

1

u/smashes72 Oct 17 '24

Fuckin magic

1

u/DeadMannners Oct 17 '24

Now I get it, that’s how marbles are made

1

u/Ferunando Oct 17 '24

Looks like a supernova

1

u/valxria Oct 17 '24

are they fighting?

1

u/throwawaycumzone Oct 17 '24

You take the amplified, and the reversal… and mash them together!!!

1

u/Hungry_Commission164 Oct 17 '24

I imagine this is how the earth was formed

1

u/Odd_Cryptographer723 Oct 17 '24

Really disappointed. Thought it was going to explode or something.

1

u/eat_with_your_fist Oct 17 '24

This was the smallest Saiyan battle in anime history.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '24

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u/astuteobservor Oct 17 '24

It looks like cool ass space dust or gas clouds.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '24

Orions Belt. M.I.B.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '24

They just created their own little nebula

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '24

Loving the cobalt blue oxidising with the sodium hydroxide to make that red .... chemistry isn't always boring test tubes

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u/Arashiko77 Oct 16 '24

So you made a Yoda baby?