Dissolving a Chicken's Foot in Concentrated Sodium Hydroxide

[TheCupCakeIcing]

Is anyone else a little petrafied by the chicken foot?? O.e .......

[fuelban]

Very interesting video guys, I use KOH in my HHo Cells, so it is good to SEE just how doggy it is. thanks.

Thom in Scotland.

[FanOfHoneydew]

It looks like a witches finger, love the vid bro. Crazy cool experiment, now put a strip of magnesium over a bunson, JUST DON'T LOOK DIRECTLY AT IT

[THCIFilms]

SKIP TO 1:45

[CaitlinsComicsAlt]

So that's how KFC makes their fried chicken...

[dandylion1216]

Interesting video. I have been working with lye for years making soap. I noticed that you poured water onto the lye, instead of dissolving the lye little-by-little into the water. Pouring water onto lye can explode.

[DivisibleByWaffle]

And this, my friends, is why you always wear your goggles while working in the lab!

[frank1990007]

Eka's Portal, will be proud of this.

[LiveTheLimit]

Is that how you cook it? lol

[chiefer1018]

what a waste of good food.. lol

[dualdoomsdays]

This video fully demonstrates the corrosive effect of strong alkalis on living tissues.That chicken foot shows a similar phenomenon to the one submerged in concentrated sulphuric acid (muscles decomposed).

Yes,people here usually use chicken feet to show the corrosive property of alkalis on muscles.

Besides, sulphuric acid is also extremely caustic.Not only does it cause chemical burn,but also additional thermal burn due to its dehydration property.Nitric acid is very corrosive too.

[Viktir666]

I hope you made a peg-leg for that chicken.

[mikeytheaznking]

starts at 1:48

Yeah, put this here because stirring was making me angry

[thekanpar2]

i don't know much about chemistry but shouldnt that tray be glass not plastic

[liam232232]

@thekanpar2 Negative soldier, the sodium hydroxide does not react with the polymer.

[djk22033]

uhh just curious how exactly did you...get a chicken foot..

[TheScienceSociety]

@djk22033 The experiment was done in Hong Kong - a place where people eat chicken's feet. We got it at the local supermarket!

[djk22033]

@TheScienceSociety oh thats actually pretty cool thanks for telling

[dualdoomsdays]

@TheScienceSociety

Yes !

Chicken feet are prevalent...

[fuelban]

@djk22033 LOL,

[animebryan]

KFC, we do chicken right!

[Si3z3]

now pta whoel alive chicken in it

[jscrimger]

What concentration of caustic was used?

Also, I hope he didn't lick the chopsticks at the end!! ha ha

[shussey100]

If you just done a murder. And you want to cleanse the scene. You mix this solution with bleach topically and scrub the place all over. Of course you would be wrapped head to toe in a body suit so you don't leave any trace of yourself.

Then use luminol under UV light to see if you left any strains.

Motse in Botswana, Africa.

[Lundt93]

thats nasty..