Can a lemon charge a phone? (2 Truths & Trash)
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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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I think these videos are great for helping people learn to be more skeptical when watching videos on the internet. Great work!
@hi-wf9ql
Жыл бұрын
are have the top commnet i both the episodes
@geochonker9052
Жыл бұрын
@@hi-wf9ql if English is your first language please work on it, otherwise I understand
@johannaverplank4858
Жыл бұрын
@@hi-wf9ql I'm sorry, I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. : )
@hi-wf9ql
Жыл бұрын
@@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
Жыл бұрын
@@johannaverplank4858 i meant, you have the top comment on both of the episodes of this 2 episode series
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 😄)
@Ur_Girl_JessicaJ
4 ай бұрын
Same
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.
3 for 3 this time! Imagine if lemons just suddenly gave off alternating current!
@specialopsdave
Жыл бұрын
Simple AC to DC converters can take in DC just fine and will still work normally
@DrakeOola
Жыл бұрын
@@specialopsdave Wrong way around bud
@specialopsdave
Жыл бұрын
@@DrakeOola Right way around. Just draw a full bridge rectifier and think about it for a second.
@DerivativeOfLog7
Жыл бұрын
@@DrakeOola Full bridge rectifiers will pass through DC or invert it's polarity if fed with DC
@JohnsonBlu
11 ай бұрын
bro that 1 video where he revealed that oranges can emit electric current :/
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
I loved these. I like to show these to my students and see their face as they're getting suprised.
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
Жыл бұрын
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
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely true
@57thorns
6 ай бұрын
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.
The fakt that ingenuo actually means gullible makes this funny in a way.
@the_undead
27 күн бұрын
But also a little disrespectful
@bahamutdragons
17 күн бұрын
@@the_undead Only to people who are gullible.
@the_undead
17 күн бұрын
@@bahamutdragons You would be surprised how many people who don't learn other languages would hear something like this and just believe it regardless of how gullible they are or are not. Especially when someone who tries to sell themselves as a source of reliable information like this guy is himself saying it, I don't care what the purpose is if you try to sell yourself as a source of reliable information. You don't do stuff like this cuz that completely destroys your credibility because what else are you not telling me?
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!
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
great series... keep it coming. the lemon battery actually needs the copper and zinc plates to work!
@josephritchhart998
6 ай бұрын
Wouldn't it also not produce enough voltage?
@chemistry4life
6 ай бұрын
@@josephritchhart998 yes so one would have to connect the copper and zinc plates/nails in series to up the voltage
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 .
@JaDroppingScience
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@Botmini17
Жыл бұрын
@@JaDroppingScience yeah no problem you deserve it
This is a really awesome series
When life gives you lemons charge your phone
I got all 3 correct! Damn I broke my arm pattin myself on the back....lol Cool vid, thx 4 posting!
@ConstantChaos1
4 ай бұрын
Well round 3 was a throw out as what he showed was the thermal conductive nature of copper and not actual pressure melting
I got all of them correct😮 Great vid!
3/3, Got all 3 correct.
I love this series
I was 99% sure it was a 1 and 0, but your explanation was too convincing. 😂
these videos a super cool, I got every round correct!
Aw I thought it would be new ones Great series regardless
Amazing video as always
I got the round two right only because I'm italian and "ingenuo" doesn't mean anything close to "active".
Very refreshing!
Btw, for those wandering ingenuo means naive in italian and ozioso means something close to lazy
You acutally used Inspect Element! You crafty bastard, i was actually convinced!
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
Great video
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!
I love these
2:00 as an italian, seeing "gullible" (ingenuo) written was a dead giveaway
I love these videos
Compared to the first one this was definitely easier to me, I got 3/3!
Dang. The first one, I got all of them wrong, but this time I got all of them right. :)
these videos are cool, i love science
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
4 ай бұрын
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.
Lol the lemon was so ridiculous
congrats on 1mil. subs
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
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
Got them all right! It was a little difficult for 2taal 2 though
AYYY MY SCIENCE TEACHER LESSS GOOOOO
I’m completely shocked that you said blue was the worst jolly rancher’s flavor, I was convinced that was the lie
@hyperblueeonbeta
Жыл бұрын
Finally someone agrees.
@baalfgames5318
4 ай бұрын
Wrong episode.
I just want the lemon one to be real would be such a cool party trick lol
@paulybeefs8588
Жыл бұрын
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.
round two, the one about I and O
I got them all right!
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.
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
4 ай бұрын
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
Hey there: in the 2nd half there are actually 2 trashs. Yes Ice melts under pressure, but this is not happening here. Ice at -4°C can withstand about 500 atmospheres of pressure, or 500x 10m of water ontop of you, or 1kg per cm2. So you would actually have to muster up 500kg per cm2 for the ice to melt, which is (for most but not all humans) not possible because you yourself weigh less than 500kg. The ice here actually melts because the wire is just a good conductor of heat. The pressure of the bananas makes no measurable difference.
Yes my lemon is now useful 🤣
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.
I’m pretty sure the I and O are to represent closed and open circuts
I nailed 2/3 rounds!
bro put a history lesson in the middle of his science video
I was absolutely sure that the sharpy didn't break the can.
My predictions: 1. pen
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
Жыл бұрын
Both, and having it be copper wire helps it melt faster than if I pushed down with some other line/wire.
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.
The second got me...
thermal expansion is why the towers collapsed
I thought the "I" was a picture of a complete circuit, and the "O" was a broken circuit.
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
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.
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
4 ай бұрын
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
4 ай бұрын
@@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
4 ай бұрын
@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.
3rd one/pen cap 3rd one/Kettle 1st one/ lemon I knew it!!
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.
Get hooked by the shorts here 😆😆😆😆😆
I experimented the lemon one in school
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.
1:48 me being Italian and knowing the real meaning of "ingenuo" and "ozioso"
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 :)
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.
Ingenuo means innocent or gulliable, knew the answer instantly
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!
Round 1 : I would say 3.
For the pen one, I thought you reversed the clip 😂
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.
1:42 I thought it was to indicate flowing circuit vs non-flowing circuit?
I knew you used inspect element right when I saw the wikipedia page
4-0 baby missed every single one!
As soon as I saw the cat fly back onto the pan I already knew it was 🧢
The Thread one
100%!!!
round one, number three
(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)
My brain… it is massive.
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.
0:10 the KZreadr, Dave Hax done the battery one
The lemon trick isnt fake tho
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
2:10 learned this in science
The battery one does work, but current flows from - to + not + to -. - has the electrons and + wants the electrons.
I got round 1 and 3 correct
The first one is how electric motors work.
2:01 what launcher is that? or did you just make that pattern?
im callin it now, round three question two: complete bullcrap
round three, lemon charger
I got all of ‘em right
3 and 2
Having the "i" be for "ingenuo" (=gullible) was a bit on the nose lmao