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The Backyard Scientist
Powerful Golf Ball cannon! [Black Powder in a 1.75" fiberglass tube]
This cannon was pretty extreme. It shot a golf ball at speeds approaching the speed of sound and has some SERIOUS power.
We typically used around 1 ounce of powder charge, enough to propel the ball clear through a bucket,...
We typically used around 1 ounce of powder charge, enough to propel the ball clear through a bucket,...
The Backyard Scientist
Purify chloroform by distillation
In this video I am distilling the chloroform.
TMW Media
Introduction to Chemistry
This program provides an introduction to chemistry. We begin by discussing how chemistry touches every part of everyday life and give several examples of basic chemical reactions that students come into contact with regularly. The entire...
FuseSchool
Green Chemistry - Principle 7
Learn the basics about the principles of green chemistry as part of the environmental chemistry topic.
Curated Video
Lab Safety: Chemical Spills and Splashes
In this live-action program viewers will learn how to handle chemicals safely in order to avoid chemical spills and splashes in the lab. Students will come to understand that all the relevant safety information regarding a particular...
Healthcare Triage
Sunscreen Needs Some Safety Evaulation
Skin cancer is a big problem. Sunscreen can help protect your skin. All this is very well known. It turns out, though, that the active ingredients in sunscreen can get into peoples' bloodstreams in pretty high concentrations. And the...
The Backyard Scientist
I made the Scorpion From GAME OF THRONES and its CRAZY
Scorpion From GAME OF THRONES
Curated Video
Chemiluminescence: The Science Behind Glowing Reactions
Chemiluminescence is a light emission phenomenon due to a chemical reaction. Let's learn how and why this type of chemical reaction occurs.<b<br/>r/>
Luminescence part 1/3
Luminescence part 1/3
TMW Media
Atomic Mass of an Element
This program covers the very important topic of atomic mass of an element. We begin by discussing the structure of the atom and how this can be used to arrive at a number that represents the relative mass of the atom. This quantity will...
Curated Video
Reactivity Series: Displacement Reactions and Oxidation-Reduction Reactions
The video discusses displacement reactions and their relation to the reactivity series. The presenter gives examples of experiments involving metals and non-metals and explains how the more reactive metal will displace the less reactive...
The Backyard Scientist
Chloroform tutorial-Synthesis from Bleach&Acetone!
Ghetto style. 2 gallons 10% sodium hypochlorate and 156ml acetone.<b<br/>r/>
Phosgene will not be a problem if you stabilize with a layer of water. Decomposes into CO2.
Phosgene will not be a problem if you stabilize with a layer of water. Decomposes into CO2.
Zach Star
Chemistry Careers - What You Can Do With Your Chem Degree
This video will focus on the many chemistry careers you can pursue as a chemistry major. Many students enter the chemistry major, but often don't know what they
can do with a chemistry...
The Backyard Scientist
LIQUID METAL BULLETS in Slow Motion!
In this video I shoot the worlds first liquid metal bullets made from sodium and potassium.
I melted the soft lead from .45 caliber hollow point bullets and replaced it with super soft sodium and potassium metal. When you...
I melted the soft lead from .45 caliber hollow point bullets and replaced it with super soft sodium and potassium metal. When you...
The Backyard Scientist
Melting and combining 19 elements! Does it make a Super-Alloy?!
Melting and combining 19 elements! Does it make a Super-Alloy?!
NASA
NASA | Ozone-Depleting Compound Persists
Earth's atmosphere contains an unexpectedly large amount of an ozone-depleting compound from an unknown source decades after the compound was banned worldwide.
The compound, carbon tetrachloride, was used in applications...
The compound, carbon tetrachloride, was used in applications...
The Backyard Scientist
DIY Rocket Powered Plane!
I've always wanted to attach rocket engines to a styrofoam plane, so I went to the hobby shop and bought all kinds of rocket engines! They come in sizes A, B, C, D, and E. Each step up is 2x as powerfull as the last. I also made my own F...
FuseSchool
Green Chemistry - Principle 5
Learn the basics about the principles of green chemistry as part of the environmental chemistry topic.
Science360
Environmental engineers study West Virginia chemical spill
Environmental engineers collect water samples near a chemical spill by Charleston, West Virginia for further analysis. The spill prompted officials to advise about 15 percent of the state's residents to not use the water. In the...
The Backyard Scientist
Can a Camera Stream its own Destruction?
I saw this video on reddit and was suspicious it was fake. I thought if you pew pew your phone it would instantly break, so I decided to try it to for myself!
The Backyard Scientist
Just a small teaser of my microwave cannon...
Lightbulb at 20'' 700w magnatron
Next Animation Studio
Ammonia points to the possibility of life in the clouds of Venus
Scientists say they found what looks like ammonia in the boiling acid clouds of Venus, which increases the odds that organisms might be living in the clouds.
Mediacorp
The Importance of Surface Hygiene: Unseen Dangers and Effective Solutions
The COVID-19 pandemic caused people to think more about how germs spread across surfaces and how we clean those surfaces. Let's investigate which areas carry the most germs and some creative methods of sanitizing.
Pandemic Changes...
Pandemic Changes...