I'm definitely changing to piranha solution for all my body disposal needs.

@ToddJustman

2 жыл бұрын

Are you Heisenberg?

@genericusername8337

2 жыл бұрын

@@ToddJustman That was hydrogen fluoride

@1224chrisng

2 жыл бұрын

@@ToddJustman you sound *uncertain*

@kas90500

2 жыл бұрын

@@Paonporteur You are just a too big of p....nice human being.

@robingerrets1077

2 жыл бұрын

Such a shame that this video wasn’t posted a few days earlier. There was a nice Black Friday deal on hydrogen peroxide when bought by the barrel. Unaware of this video, I decided to invest in a commercial grade wood chipper instead.

The professor almost sounded disappointed that he didnt used the whole kilo.

@matthewisrail

2 жыл бұрын

Shoot I am too, would have liked to see a whole chicken drumstick submerged

@picolete

2 жыл бұрын

They got kinda hungry, that`s why they didnt use the whole kilo

@jasonosmond6896

2 жыл бұрын

@@matthewisrail Yeah, I don't get it. In the previous video, they noted that with enough solution it could dissolve the entire object, and then the peroxide would oxidize the carbon to CO2 and the solution would go clear. So they had the perfect opportunity to completely dissolve an entire chicken leg, and instead used so little solution that it barely got started before the solution was exhausted. Completely wasted.

@extrastuff9463

2 жыл бұрын

I suspect he might not have wanted to do that due to maybe getting another worse version of what the banana did? You'd need a pretty large container with spare volume to contain a reaction once it took off, also not sure if that was deemed acceptable in that cabinet. But a compromise could've been to cut a section of an unaffected chicken leg of and put that in sufficient pranha solution to get a similar effect.

@jasonosmond6896

2 жыл бұрын

@@extrastuff9463 Nile Red Shorts did it! Entire chicken leg, gone in seconds!

I hope the professor stays with us for a long time to come

@philh.9618

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like you think he is old and could die any moment?

@Bassotronics

2 жыл бұрын

5:23 Now the piranhas in the ocean are literally gonna be in acid. 😂

@lolzdatguy4987

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bassotronics acid is usually neutralised before being discarded of. Additionally the tap is on full blast, diluting whatever was in there to extremely low concentrations.

@Hysterr

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bassotronics piranha aren't in the ocean

@SpoilerAlert__

2 жыл бұрын

Everyone dies

The professor is a national treasure

@MOTOMINING

2 жыл бұрын

I like to think the professor transcends national boundaries.

@DoiInthanon1897

2 жыл бұрын

An international treasure

@deathguitarist12

2 жыл бұрын

Well he was knighted in 2015 so I suppose that is correct.

@Schrauberella

2 жыл бұрын

@@DoiInthanon1897 this. True nerd, original personality and absolurely adorable!

When are we gonna see the main event? *Piranha vs Piranha* - The battle in the beaker, the fracas in the flask! The Piranhas go bananas! It's Fish... versus..... Fluiiiiiid!

@MrofficialC

2 жыл бұрын

😂👍🏼

@jacobguerreso675

2 жыл бұрын

What about piranha acid v piranha

@ReesusSardonicus

2 жыл бұрын

Dude.... thank you so much for this

@jacobkudrowich

2 жыл бұрын

@@jacobguerreso675i think that's what he's talking about.

@jeffjefferson2676

2 жыл бұрын

That is cruel. Its like one of those videos where they put a goldfish in a blender. You just dont do that. Its wrong. Greetings, Jeff

Mythbusters- We can't tell you what the other mystery ingredient of piranha solution is. Periodic videos- it's a mix of sulphuric acid and hydrogen peroxide.

@user-ov7ci8tp8v

2 жыл бұрын

Back then I don’t think many common people knew the formula but thanks to the internet it’s just common knowledge now

@btardedbot2.2.62

2 жыл бұрын

Delete your comment plz. U r educating people in a way thats not necessary. This stuff is dangerous

@user-ov7ci8tp8v

2 жыл бұрын

@@btardedbot2.2.62 everyone knows already bro delete urs lol

@user-chemistpharmacist

2 жыл бұрын

I thought it was hydrochloride acid and hydrogen peroxide.

@josephinedykstra3383

Жыл бұрын

@@user-chemistpharmacist if you do that you wind up with chlorine gas bubbling out- not recommended

I’ve been looking forward to this video! I love the attitude the Professor has when talking about dissolving bodies in acid.

I am so glad that Neil's banana is safe this time🍌

@jupiter_ios

2 жыл бұрын

1.

@RWBHere

2 жыл бұрын

It was a shame that Neil dissolve most of his banana, and that the skin from the tip of it fell off. 👈👀

Well, if there's still 800g + of chicken leg lying around, there's only one other chemistry experiment that I can think of: A BARBECUE! Mince well a whole onion, add some garlic, the juice of 3-5 lemons and salt. Put the chicken legs into that sauce. Make sure to poke the legs with your preferred pointy instrument so that the sauce can penetrate. Give them a few twists and let them rest from this leg work for about an hour. Then light the fire, put them on a grill not too close to the fire and turn them from time to time so they cook evenly. 30 to 45 min is probably enough depending on how much fiery is your fire. Enjoy!

@CptPatch

2 жыл бұрын

What PPE is required? Should this be done under a fume hood?

@user-hx2po3vq1i

2 жыл бұрын

Hmmm barbecue it using the bunsen burner

@Christopher-N

2 жыл бұрын

Barbecue it using iron oxide and aluminium powder. ;)

@jmowreader9555

2 жыл бұрын

@@CptPatch Recommended PPE include an apron, barbecue mitts and tongs. Apron should be imprinted "Kiss the Cook." The lid of the grill is an acceptable substitute for a fume hood.

@3ducs

2 жыл бұрын

@Bitterkind It's called food, people eat it, so do other animals.

wow! very effective method of body disposal! my cartel thanks you for your diligent research :)

@andrewthomson

2 жыл бұрын

Not really living up to your name are you?

Sir Professor Poliakoff is a national treasure.

I saw a documentary about disposing of bodies... Turns out a solution of biological washing powder and water is the best way to do the deed 👍

The professor change my attitudes towards chemistry.I. really love chemistry now.I almost watch your all videos.I think chemistry is a mystery. I am a 19 old student from Sri Lanka

This randomly showed up in my recommend, and I thought it was going to be an actual pirhana eating a chicken leg. Never have I been so happy to be wrong! I'm a big chem nerd and the professor is AMAZING! Thanks for the laughs and great video!

@beeble2003

2 жыл бұрын

There are hundreds of videos on this channel. You may be watching them for some time. Don't forget to take breaks. :D

I suppose a real chicken versus real piranhas would be on a biology channel...

@MephLeo

2 жыл бұрын

It would probably end up even worse for the chicken...

@macgeorge8229

Жыл бұрын

depends are the piranhas hungry because they are docie for the most part.

Safety First: don't dunk things in piranha solution. Make Neil do it.

@devendarinaidu739

2 жыл бұрын

😂

@vast634

Жыл бұрын

You cant do something wrong if you let others do it

I don't know..... We need Bryan Cranston's input on this. :-)

@LadyAnuB

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely the chemist they consulted for those scenes. 😀

Im so glad i found this chanel! The team aswell as the professor are truly amazing

@ericmcdonald9803

Жыл бұрын

if you like chemistry and comedy check out Explosions and Fire. Great channel. Also, Cody's Lab is awesome. Both are "garage" chemists who do some pretty cool stuff.

@zach5539

Жыл бұрын

@@ericmcdonald9803Ty! I've been subscribed for a while now to his channel. I grew up really close to where he lives actually. )

@ericmcdonald9803

Жыл бұрын

@@zach5539 oh very cool. he's hilarious, i love that channel. Are you Australian or did you just live there awhile?

Reminds me of your Chicken in Hydrochloric Acid video. I am glad to see PV (and Neil) still going strong!

The professor is amazing i love him hanging out with him has to be fun

Interesting explanation of the piranha solution!

That was fascinating. So we need to keep an eye on Hairdressers that run Garages . Thanks for the great videos Gentlepeeps.

4:30 thank you this a big question I had just because it was something I kept thinking throughout this video and others talking about piranha solution. Trying to research or ask about people using this solution for that would definitely get you on some sort of government watch list, and I don't need that I'm just curious boy

I am glad you did this, and it feels wrong to complain at all, but I was hoping you guys would use a large enough beaker and enough solution to fully dissolve the chicken and turn the Carbon into CO2, returning the solution to clear.

@jasonosmond6896

2 жыл бұрын

Nile Red Shorts did it, check his channel out.

Welcome to another episode of _Better Killing Through Chemistry_ !

Happy birthday Martyn for the 13th

The whole kilo minus one chicken legs are now in Neil's stomach 🤣

@stanislaskowalski7461

2 жыл бұрын

All dissolved by now.

@andreasu.3546

2 жыл бұрын

And minus the bones, hopefully.

this is really cool, I have a question, how much acid would I need to burn a 160 pound chicken leg and a 200 pound piranha?

How does the Piranha Solution react with a metal? And sodium or potassium

@SeanBZA

2 жыл бұрын

Will say, with great vigour with reactive metals, like aluminium, sodium and potassium, and with slightly less vigour with the less vigorous ones like iron and copper. Might not react with nickel as it forms a stable oxide layer on the surface.

@AlvaroGC_2001

2 жыл бұрын

Probably it will oxidize most of the metals (so they get diluted forming sulphate complexes) since the hyidrogen peroxide is very oxidant. Also the protons present will get reduced forming hydrogen gas. Metallic sodium and potassium will explode because of their fast oxidation.

@EliteGeeks

2 жыл бұрын

Sulfuric acid, water, and hydrogen peroxide, so yea, Metal over time can be effected

@AlvaroGC_2001

2 жыл бұрын

Actually I think that the reaction of a transition metal (Fe for example) with H2SO4 or H2O2 or even HCl is pretty much the same. Maybe the reaction is faster with piranha but nothing more interesting

@ShainAndrews

2 жыл бұрын

No theory needed. It is used to strip chrome plating.

I love you guys and all Chemistry!

Now I finally know what to do if someone attacks me with a banana!

@ImplodedAtom

Жыл бұрын

Or a pointed stick?

@MOTOMINING

Жыл бұрын

@@ImplodedAtom Shut up!😆

If I ever need to get rid of a body, now I know how not to do it...

@willysatrionugroho8086

2 жыл бұрын

still got the bones

Looks delicious. I want to eat chicken cooked in piranha solution. The residual acid could add an extra bitter flavor. YUM!

@m-w-y7325

2 жыл бұрын

you okay there man?

@liem11

2 жыл бұрын

Actually, acids produce a sour taste. Think of vinegar.

@ikbintom

2 жыл бұрын

You won't get salmonella from it, that's for sure

Thanks for sharing

Thats why i used to use ammonium persulphate dissolved in conc. sulphuric acid to clean my glassware when i did surface chemistry. You get a lovely, clean, organics free surface.

So basically the moral of the story here is that Piranha solution has a synergistic effect on soft tissue as well as bone.

What caused the color change?

I'm a bit disappointed with the quantity of piranha solution 🤔

Some say that the piranah solution is distilled from his sweat, and that his voice is so low that he can talk to whales in their own language. All we know is, he's called Neil.

@LadyAnuB

2 жыл бұрын

Jeremy Clarkson cameo when? 😀

with the professor we'll never have to ask where the bodies are buried, as there are no bodies...

What does combining piranha solution, aqua regia, and HF do? What could its container even be made of?

Prof. Poliakoff teaching us how to safely dispose of a body.

I'd be curious to see how much faster the reaction happens with hydrochloric acid with proteases added (such as trypsin), versus plain hydrochloric acid. I think it's something of a false assumption that it's purely stomach acid that dissolves and breaks down food. I think enzymes have an important role also.

@troypaton7087

2 жыл бұрын

I've been curious about this too.

@napoleontheclown

2 жыл бұрын

Stomach acid's job is more about killing microbes than about breaking down food. Acids in general are pretty bad at breaking down proteins, though a few are better at it. HCl is rather poor for protein degradation, for example. Enzymes are what make pretty much every step of digestion actually happen.

@Zelnyair

2 жыл бұрын

@@napoleontheclown If I remember it right, to get L-cysteine out of hair, you have to reflux hair in 6M hydrochloric acid for 24 hours or something lengthy like that. Hair being keratin, an amino acid polymer.

@thomasa5619

2 жыл бұрын

@@napoleontheclown here in australia we had the “Snowtown murders”, bodies disposed of in 44 gallon drums full of HCl. If I remember the documentary from like 15 years ago well enough… When the barrels were discovered, it was as if the bodies had actually been preserved.

@DANGJOS

2 жыл бұрын

@@napoleontheclown But don't some of those enzymes need stomach acid in order to work?

Keep em coming!. -NB canada

“So,Neil tackled the chicken leg.”

Try a mixture of HF and H2O2.

This professor looks like the type of guy to warn us of impending doom and we don’t listen.

I recently started working as an assayer in a digestion lab. We use nitric and hcl plus tartaric acid to prepare our antimony samples for atomic absorption spectrometry. My question is, if aqua regia is is used for dissolving inert metals, what does tartaric acid bring to the reaction? Is it some sort of collector, or does it have something to do with the AA spectrometry process?

@JehuMcSpooran

2 жыл бұрын

Following for the answer

You basically just made xenomorph blood :O

Excellent

So now that the chicken is dissolved (a chicken solution), what happens if we add piranha? Piranha vs chicken solution when?

@jimsvideos7201

2 жыл бұрын

You could put habanero peppers in chicken noodle soup and serve it to brave hungry people, perhaps.

"Why haven't people dissolved bodies in piranha solution?" I mean... maybe they have... how would we know it ever happened... 👀

@fooferutter3001

2 жыл бұрын

Its might have happened but I doubt its done so with any frequency or we probably would have heard something from someone blowing themselves up, or a news story of a killer having been caught due to trying to buy large amounts of conc h2o2 and sulphuric acid, or even just losing control of the reaction an creating a massive fire/gas cloud leading to discovery.

@KM-rx7hz

2 жыл бұрын

El Pozolero dissolve hundreds of bodies in Mexico.

what if a strong acid that is better at reacting organic compounds is added to the Piranha solution? will it become better at dissolving the chicken leg or will it react with the Piranha solution?

"I bought him a whole kilo of chicken legs, but he just tried one." That's cuzz Niel died eating the 1st chicken leg. I know I know, I'm super funny.

How did you safely dispose of the chicken goo?

Nile Red did the same thing but "soaked his weiner" in the solution. After a time he ended up with a "sad little meat noodle" before it vanished into CO2 and probably a lot of soluble nitrates.

Which garden shrub is that behind him?

They had an episode of CSI recently where a guy used piranha solution to dissolve a body in a bathtub i knew what it was as soon as i saw the chemical containers.

The best stuff for washing the dishes 😀

So what do you get if you combine Sulfuric acid, Hydrochloric acid, AND Nitric acid?

5:22 Now the piranhas in the ocean are literally gonna be in acid. 😂

I think that the reason no murderes are known to have used piranha solution is, that the murderers also were dissolved when the stuff got all over the place..

been forever since a upload how is everyone over there at periodic videos

Now we need to mix Piranha Solution with Aqua Regia, and see what happens!

I woner, would the affecg be the same on human flesh and remains?

Can the Piranha Solution eat throw Diamond?

Would be cool if you could do this experiment with pancreatic enzymes, example buying creon and make a solution with it.

Isnt H2SO5 made?

Why are they not filling the beaker completly with the pirana solution and submerging the leg completly into it ?

Now i finally know how to get rid of these pesky bodies, thanks. Signed H.

So - if this solution were to be exposed to live tissue, what is the preferred method/substance to neutralize the acid in order to limit the damage/injury?

@fooferutter3001

2 жыл бұрын

If its a splash or just a drop flush flush flush but it'll probably all have reacted with the tissue before you could even dunk your arm in somwthing. If its a significant amount or submerged flush flush flush, amputate.

I'm expecting them to do actual alchemy soon and see if they can get Neil to create a real philosopher's stone.

@vincentpelletier57

2 жыл бұрын

Some kind of reverse aqua regia would work. Easy. Just dry it out to form a stone.

@DoiInthanon1897

2 жыл бұрын

I trust Neil is capable of such an undertaking

What was the exact formula for the Piranha solution you guys used and what concentrations were the H2O2 and H2SO4?

@jhonbus

2 жыл бұрын

Usually conc sulfuric acid and 40% peroxide, mixed 50:50.

@Ruth-rr4up

2 жыл бұрын

I was taught to make it with 30% H2O2 and conc. H2SO4 in a 1:3 ratio, always adding the H2O2 to the H2SO4 slowly with stirring. But other ratios are also used.

Piranha solution looks a little too violent to be trying to do some Breaking Bad stuff

The channel Nilered has a few videos with piranha. One of which he quickly dissolves a hotdog.

How do you dispose of the solution??

What about nitric acid?

Why did i read that title as “chicken alive in piranha solution”

i really need to start actually reading the title of these videos, i thought there was going to be a fish eating a chicken leg.

_(announcer)_ Hi there Jane. Hi there, Billy. I see you two don't care for broccoli much. I bet you wish your broccoli would just disappear. Well, the Professor has a solution for that...

I wonder how this would work if you had sulfuric acid and dinitrogen tetroxide...

say i had 2 chickens that weighed about 400lbs how much of this would i need

Welcome to the list, guys. Lol

Note to self: Do not annoy the Professor!

Why did the piranha solution disolve the bone? Isn't bone just calcium?

Top 20. Been a while since the last video.

it's incredible that the glass remains unaffected

@tomaustin8866

2 жыл бұрын

Need Hydrofluric acid HF to eat through glass

@MortRotu

2 жыл бұрын

What makes you think it's unaffected? The surface has changed and is now all Si-OH with no Si-O-Si structures remaining. Glass that's been washed in acidic Piranha feels very sticky and doesn't slide well because of this.

Could you use this as an alternative way of cooking? edit: maybe dilute it a bit .... but then it might be a great tenderizer

@fensoxx

2 жыл бұрын

This is the next thing in Michelin starred restaurants I can see it now…”Acid tenderized Kobe beef…”

@fukpoeslaw3613

2 жыл бұрын

@@fensoxx no need for clumsy chopsticks nor knive and fork, just use a straw

This video took more than one dark turn

Its so odd it is not just producing water since there is H+ and H2O2, so you could hypothesize that the H2O2 would lose an oxygen atom, and be water, and 2 H+ and 1 O-- would produce water too. But it does not. I will get to the answer of that once ive done all the homework in the book "Chemistry" by McMurry et al. Any way, thank you for uploading. Greetings, Jeff

Nile reds video shows one almost vaporising. This is very slow. What’s the difference ?

I like your vids

Lovely!

I constantly hear how when a reaction heats up, it reacts faster. Is there a point at which being cold, or extremely cold, could stop a reaction?

@AlbertSirup

2 жыл бұрын

sure, if there's no more molecular movement (which is kindof the definition of the lowest possible temperature) then there's also no reaction of any sorts.

@ivoivanov7407

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, for each reaction there are two conditions - thermodynamic, (dH-TdS) 0 the reaction is not possible. For kinetic it is more of a practical perspective - if the reaction is too slow, it may be considered "impossible" at given conditions.

@daviddet

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that's how you put out a fire. A fire is just a self-sustaining oxidation of a combustible material, and when you throw water on it, the reason it goes out is that the temperature of whatever was being oxidized dropped too low for the reaction to be able to fuel itself.

@Eagle8599

2 жыл бұрын

@@daviddet 😦 I never thought about it that way. 🤔

@thomasa5619

2 жыл бұрын

I once heard that the storage of superacids is done at below freezing point specifically for this reason

Did they extract the piranha solution from Neil? Is this his version of xenomorph blood?

I thought H2O2 is stabilized with phosphoric acid But now you're telling me higher concentrations of H+ make it a stronger oxidizer What's the deal with that?

"The last thing you want is them bubbling all over the room" Voice of experience?

Might be a silly question but I wonder how strong Piranha solution would be if the sulphuric Acid was replaced with other acids like Nitric, Hydrochloric or even Citric.

@tomaustin8866

2 жыл бұрын

Citric is a weak acid so it wouldn't work as well or as fast

@MortRotu

2 жыл бұрын

Nitric and peroxide kicks out ALOT of brown gas, suggesting it reacts very quickly

So essentially, dispose of the body using real piranhas, and the bones with piranha solution. Check.

What wins? A piranha or piranha solution.