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In today's video,
we're taking a look at what happens when you combine
super glue with a warm borax solution.
The result will surprise you!
And I'm not saying that in the clickbait way.
I mean it surprised the heck out of me,
so it will probably surprise you, too.
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Here's the basic idea.
We'll dissolve some borax into some hot water,
and then we'll add super glue to it in increasingly large quantities.
We'll then watch what happens
when we introduce a large quantity of our super glue
into the borax solution very rapidly.
First, let's get a pot of hot water,
and add our borax.
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Warm borax solution,
and an eyedropper full of cyanoacrylate or super glue.
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The super glue catalyzes immediately on contact with the boric acid,
and it comes out in these really cool patterns
that just kind of look like pieces of plastic floating through water,
or maybe pieces of coral,
or something organic.
I don't know.
It's really bizarre.
At this point,
they're also completely catalyzed,
they're not sticky anymore.
There's no super glue leftover,
it's just catalyzed plastic.
Not terribly durable,
it feels kind of hard,
but you can usually just tear them apart
if you're determined.
We've seen that the super glue turns white
when it hits our borax solution,
and I think we can add a little bit of color
using some alcohol ink.
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You can see that it mixes in quite well with the super glue.
It doesn't cause it to catalyze or anything like that.
So, now let's see what happens
when we drip some of the orange super glue
down into our pot.
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We definitely have managed to dye the superglue,
and dye the plastic that forms,
and inject it down into the borax solution.
You may have also noticed that it was going a tiny bit slower this time,
and that's actually due to the heat.
It reacts a lot quicker in very warm water,
and now this has been out here
for just long enough to start cooling down.
To scale this up one step,
let's make a slightly larger batch of our borax solution,
and then fill this tray.
I want to see if we can draw cool designs
using the super glue right into the liquid.
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It's not the prettiest crown I've ever seen,
but it'll do.
The King of Random Crown,
a little bit different from how we're used to seeing it maybe.
That really just looks like crystal growth or coral or something.
We've got this big glass cookie jar,
and we're going to fill this up with hot borax solution.
We're then going to dye some of our cyanoacrylate glue,
and fill a small water balloon with it.
We'll suspend that water balloon underneath the borax solution,
and then pop the balloon instantly,
exposing all of that glue to the borax solution around it.
This should be fun.
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I'm trying to use about a half of the super glue in the one balloon.
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Perfect.
Okay, three, two, one.
No!
It didn't have enough pressure!
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Whoo!
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Orange and pink.
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All right! Well, it's going to have that much air in it.
Okay, so I'm going to put it under,
squeeze, and then stab it.
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Oh, that's amazing!
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Little pockets of the glue got trapped.
It was just activating as they pull,
and leak their way forward.
A piece of my glove got glued in place onto the balloon.
That, is the result of the super glue
catalyzing, catastrophically,
and immediately with the borax solution.
It's kind of weird.
It feels as if you took like thin plastic bags
and then melted it down into a blob,
so there's like really rigid parts but then the edges of it are like very
flimsy-thin plastic still.
I'm trying to just tear it in half.
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Ahhh!
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I dip it down into the borax solution,
because I don't know if there's gonna be bits of it
that haven't catalyzed,
and I don't want to get those all over my hands,
and glue my gloves together.
Expands a lot!
That is way bigger than the balloon I put down in there.
And this thicker portion is actually the line along which the balloon ruptured,
So, we have it,
it tore open right here,
and right here,
and then these pieces were a little slower to move out of the way,
as the whole thing expanded.
So yeah, you can sort of see that egg shape of the balloon,
and then all the pieces that erupted out of it.
That is a really cool reaction with a really cool result.
You know looking at it,
I'm not sure if I like the exploding balloon better,
or the leaking balloon better.
They gave us these like cool snake things.
Both of them, I thought turned out really well.
This first one with the orange plastic
didn't have the same result as the second one.
That's because something about the cyanoacrylate glue
makes the latex rubber of the balloon not be very stretchy.
So, even though it was full of liquid and underwater,
it didn't really have any pressure to pop apart.
So, when I stabbed it, it didn't rip open,
it just sort of started leaking out of that one hole.
That's why for the second one,
I was actually squeezing the balloon as I hit it with the needle.
And that made it tear open all at once.
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