now making hydrogen with nails and drain cleaner would be a very jolly jape indeed don't you
yes i think so let's try it yeah and to prove that it's hydrogen i'm going to have to set fire to it
and then that's the step i did on my own hand so first of all i'm going to have a little
little basin of water i'm going to put here to dip my hand and just wet it so i don't burn myself
too badly and then i have my really exci oh hello made a mistake sorry man in my ear furious with me
do this properly or you will die do you understand
start again for [ __ ] sake he was much gentler than that he was very sweet so
anyway i've been told to tell you not to try this at home try it in someone else's horse so
what i've got here is i've got some ordinary green colored washing up liquid um we're not
allowed to mention it's fairy it's name um i've got a little chemical lab little i don't know
what you call this little glass flask i think is the worst oh this is this is like going on a
picnic with heston bloomers it's got some nails in it gonna add a few more a little bit of zinc
um and i've got here this is the hydrochloric acid basically
when are you going to put on the safety goggles i'm going to put on the safety goggles now
because i'm about to open the bottle of acid what the [ __ ] safety goggles are
but i've also got i've also got i've also got a mask here we go sorry can i can i just test it
you're putting on seriously you're putting out a mask you're fine you're expendable
i may have the mask upside down um it does tell you to put the mask on your children
before putting it on yourself as on an airplane get the [ __ ] mask upside down
right okay i've got the goggles right i've got this now what i'm going to do
all right is they're going to pour this acid jesus onto some nails into the nails that's right
and it does the zinc and the hydrochloric acid will really you've been drinking
oh yeah we go and that's that's going to produce quite a lot
i now have to put this i have to put this cork in it if i put the cork in it tight enough it will
come out of here and i put this in here and it will bubble up right that's important um
the bubbles are made of hydrogen this is my contention and the only way to
prove it is to grasp the bubbles i'm going to wet my hand now to be safer and grasp
these bubbles what the hell is that oh i'm going to take the bottom like a sex clothes
oh god
oh come on oh wow oh the lights have stopped working
again one more time again
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