[Captioned by Judy V. at Y Translator] In today's video, we'll be revisiting an experiment
where we combine super glue with hot borax solution.
We'll try a few different methods of combining the two,
and see how it reacts.
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Not too long ago, I had an experiment
where I took a balloon full of super glue,
submerged it underneath some hot borax solution,
and then I popped the balloon, and that looked really cool.
It sort of exploded and solidified all at once,
kind of reminding me of a giant kernel of popcorn.
Today, what we're going to do is revisit that with some better lighting,
a square walled tank, so you can see everything better,
and we're going to try some of the different ways to mix the two
that were suggested in the comments of the previous video.
Here's the basic idea.
We've got a 10 gallon fish tank full of hot borax solution,
and we're going to try combining it with super glue
in pretty much every way we can come up with.
Before we start pouring large quantities of super glue into this tank,
I do want to try a few experiments with other methods of combining these two.
So we'll try making some super glue into some plain borax with no water.
We'll try mixing it into a cold borax solution.
We'll add some super glue to hot water with no borax in it.
We'll see if adding the alcohol ink seems to change the reaction time
at all in the hot borax solution.
We'll try loading some of our super glue into a squirt gun,
and a large plastic syringe, and we'll see you how they react.
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Super glue coming in contact with the borax.
I would say it solidified pretty much instantly.
Let's try just another little squirt right here.
See if does the same thing.
I'm gonna try and poke it with my finger just a little bit faster this time.
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Yep, that is cured.
Now, we have evidence that borax will solidify super glue just right on contact,
which helps explain why the hot borax solution solidifies superglue so quickly.
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Adding in some borax to our cool water,
now with the borax dissolved into the water,
water does cause super glue to harden all on its own,
and borax makes it harden very quickly.
So, I expect that this will still cause our super glue to harden quite quickly,
although not as fast as the hot solution.
That was pretty neat.
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So that definitely does go quickly.
Also makes kind of a neat noise.
As a comparison, now, here is our hot borax solution.
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So it works pretty well in cool borax solution,
but hot borax solution is even faster and more reactive.
That's why we like to keep it nice and warm.
It is possible that this has more to do with my squirting technique
than the temperature.
But I also think that the hot borax solution
makes for a fluffier plastic than the cool borax solution.
A popular request was to see what would happen if we squirted,
instead of the super glue into the solution,
the solution into the super glue.
So I'm now filling this cup partway with super glue.
We'll use a syringe and squirt our hot borax solution into the glue.
First couple drips.
That was more dripping in than I wanted.
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All right.
Now, I'm just going to squirt quite a bit in all at once.
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We've got a tank full of hot water.
Let's add in some borax.
We tried loading some super glue into a squirt gun,
but the squirt gun wouldn't squirt.
I think some of the superglue must have gummed up the work so quickly
that it wasn't really pumping it out to the nozzle.
In the last video, there were some comments saying that the alcohol
that I used in the ink to dye the super glue
might actually affect the reaction time.
I'm gonna do a little bit of a side-by-side test of
super glue without ink, and super glue with ink
to see if it seems that it's going any faster or slower.
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There's some super glue with no dye.
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That is plenty of dye right there.
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Got a good red color super glue going on.
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If there is a difference in the reaction speed, it's quite minimal.
That is polymerizing very quickly.
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It's cool how organic this ends up looking.
Like this looks like a creature or coral, or something like that.
It doesn't look like something that was just manufactured.
It kind of looks more like something that grew.
We did discover by accident that if you add too much alcohol ink,
it actually causes a reaction with the super glue.
It heats up, bubbles, and polymerizes,
solidifying quickly, and kind of dangerously, actually.
We've seen what plane super glue going down into the borax solution does,
but what happens if the super glue is coated on something else?
Putting on a black glove over another pair of gloves,
because well, two reasons.
One, I don't want the super glue to accidentally get on my skin,
and these other gloves are longer,
and two, the borax solution is warm enough
that it's uncomfortable down inside,
and I think that the super glue reacting will get even warmer.
So this is a heat barrier around my hand.
Here it goes.
Three. Two. One.
It was quick, but it wasn't very extreme.
It was such a thin coating of super glue that for the most part,
it just polymerized into a thin film.
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It's glued shut.
One.
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That might be about the quickest and strangest way
to go through 16 fluid ounces of super glue,
but it does look really cool.
It's a fun reaction to try.
It's a fun reaction to watch,
and uh, the result is really entertaining.
If there's any other experiments you would like to see us try
along these same lines,
or just with Superglue in general,
let us know down in the comments.
Try and be a little bit more creative than put it in a vacuum chamber,
put in the furnace, put it in liquid nitrogen,
put glow sticks fluid in it.
That's not the kind of ideas we're looking.
I came up with those all on my own as soon as I thought of trying
to use super glue for stuff.
I want to see something new.
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