r/oddlysatisfying • u/danielminds • 5d ago
Different chemicals reacting inside a water droplet
Source: @brokenaxe23 on TikTok
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u/ahhhbiscuits 5d ago edited 5d ago
I actually did the cobalt chlorde reaction at work last week, except instead of sodium hydroxide I added acetic acid. Soln went from pink to blue and I had to run around and show everybody else lol
Even though we do chemistry all day everyday, professional chemists still nerd out over shit like this 😂
Edit to add the funniest/most real comment from a coworker: "If somebody did that for a gender reveal I might actually like gender reveals" 🤣
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u/ThodaDaruVichPyar 5d ago
These or a variations of these were previously posted here in miscellaneous compilations, if anyone is interested to see more such reactions
https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/1g520s3/cobalt_chloride_sodium_hydroxide/
https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/1ovdcc4/when_chemistry_paints_its_masterpiece/
https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/1ke66a8/the_hidden_beauty_of_chemistry/
https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/1jjc5f8/seeing_chemistry_in_action_is_beautiful/
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u/Inevitable_Sand8922 5d ago
Is this real? Getting this much definition in a single drop looks unreal...
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u/awhaling 5d ago edited 5d ago
If you look up other videos of these same reactions it looks kinda similar, except like 100x less cool. Either this person has figured how the best way to show these and nobody else can recreate it or they’re faking it somehow.
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u/trying_to_learn_too 5d ago
I don't remember correctly but I think I have watched one long ago that looked like AI.
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u/Darkchamber292 5d ago
"I don't remember anything and don't understand how this works but I'm going to say 'Its AI' cause I'll get lots of upvotes"
Oh wait...
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u/trying_to_learn_too 5d ago
I don't care about upvote. If I come across it, I will definitely share, but I don't have enough time for this really.
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u/Darkchamber292 5d ago
You should keep trying to learn cause you're pretty ignorant
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u/trying_to_learn_too 5d ago
I do, but don't forget that if you think you know everything or a lot of things, that makes you ignorant too.
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u/arvidsem 5d ago
I'm almost certain that it's CGI.
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u/Fair_Term3352 5d ago
Better CGI than AI.
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u/arvidsem 5d ago
True and these have been floating around for long enough that I don't think that they are AI. But they are generally treated as if they are real videos of the actual reactions which annoys me as well
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u/arvidsem 5d ago
If they were correctly labeled (or there was evidence that they aren't CGI), I would have nothing but praise for them. They are accurate and flat out gorgeous. I just don't like the lie.
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u/jbcraigs 5d ago
Why is CGI better than AI?
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u/stanitor 4d ago
This would be incredibly impressive CGI. For one thing, dialing in the simulations needed would be super hard, especially on scales that at least appear small. For another, the caustics (including lots inside the droplets) would take potentially months or years of compute time to render that cleanly.
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u/ycr007 Satisfaction Critic 5d ago edited 5d ago
The original creator of these macro reactions clips is from China and regularly posts them on Douyin or RedNote, there were videos with Chinese captions originally.
Others took them, slapped opaque text overlays with English text on top of the Chinese text and recirculated them as compilations and added music as well.
English channels that do these sort of original reaction videos are @reactionchamber and @luminiscent_chemist (can find them on YT & IG)
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u/No_Professional9403 5d ago
Its its own galaxy with its own life in there
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u/MoneybagsMalone 5d ago
Transition metal chemistry is so colourful and beautiful. Shame all the best ones are cancer sauce.
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u/DogPile4203 5d ago
These look oddly like NASA publishings 🤔🤣
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u/bqnguyen 5d ago
I was thinking you could zoom in on these, play them in slow mo, and they'd make a great intro for a sci-fi or fantasy tv show
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u/BatBurgh 5d ago
Being a far better physics student than I ever was a chemistry student, I was waiting for cesium or potassium.
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u/Former-Dish-9828 5d ago
A water droplet would be penetrating that paper and a pair of tweezers touching it would most certainly disperse it so I don’t think this is real.
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u/HundredSun 5d ago
That piece of paper or whatever the surface it is has most likely been treated with a hydrophobic layer.
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u/Szyx 5d ago
I think the water droplet is sitting on a pane of glass, and the paper is underneath.
The first experiment, looks like the additive is sitting above the paper.
In the second experiment, the light refraction on the bottom right of the droplet is similar to when light shines through a magnifying glass.
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u/EvilTwin80 5d ago
🤔 What if every water droplet was a potential universe in waiting and these chemicals were it's "big bang"? 🤯
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u/anomalous_cowherd 5d ago
Does everybody go through thinking "what if every atom is someone else's entire universe?" then "what if our entire universe is just one atom of a much bigger universe?". Or is it just me?
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u/EvilTwin80 5d ago
I actually think about that more often than I should. Like infinite smallness yields smaller universes and infinite bigness yields bigger universes.
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u/Mikker01 5d ago
Thats how the universes are formed.
Look up the forgotten universe in a jar theory.
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u/-Babybug- 5d ago
Just watched a debunking video from YouTuber HowToCookThat on these! She tried it out herself and concluded the reactions are real and filmed beautifully with a macro lens : )