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  • All of you all are wrong! This is just the cup taking the initiative and suggesting you turn it into a margarita!

  • Uhhh why was this recommended for me?

  • i now understand everything there is to know about the universe...thank you

  • Saltwater - water = Salt

  • HOW DO YOU SERIOUSLY NOT UNDERSTAND EVAPORATION!?!?

  • you filmed a cup of salt water for a month just to show this? wat the hell man how did i get here

  • How long did that take!! thats awesome

  • u made a time-lapse video

  • i think it was frost

  • What's going on here? You made a time lapse video.

  • ok all u nerds that put an entire paragraph as a fukking comment u couldve just said "oh thats cool" or something

  • IT'S ALIVE!!!!

  • it's the same way rock candy is formed... except without a stick, you have just the cup. =/ it's a basic science experiment...

  • @1crazyfocker. the salt can't dry out and be higher than the water. Maybe the first layer of salt is deposited up to but not past the meniscus of the water. At night the temperature drops. When the temperature starts to rise the next morning the plastic cup and air inside is cooler than the surrounding air and water condenses onto the plastic surface above and touching the salt line, allowing the salt to move up the side before drying out during the day and the cycle repeating at night?

  • its not a salt is a ice shit

  • Lmao @ Plastic glass:)

  • mold?

  • check out a video called "salt crystal garden" exactly the same effect with cardboard instead of glass

  • the water climbs the salt crystals like a ladder and a tiny bit above to stick to the glass. Repeat this cycle and you will get the results you see here. You can see how water climbs a roll of paper towels if you put the roll in a puddle of water and leave it. I bet water alone would climb all the way up if glass were a bit more porous

  • I think I know why this happens. First off pour a glass of water. The surface is not flat, the water will actually climb the glass a tiny bit. This is due to the surface tension properties of the water. Now add salt. Water is continously evaporating from the surface. A tiny bead of salt residue will form along the outer edge where the water meets the glass, as the level of water drops. Now due to surface tension, the water will always climb to the highest point of the residue.

  • "For basic of science", why would you guys even consider that to be an intelligent post and upvote it? (see uploader comments)

  • One minute he's a know-it-all, next he's pissed cuz someone else actually does! XD

  • @takethepicturenow, you need a fukkin chill pill, dude....

  • This is a basic example about crystallization. Salt solution is evaporating, so salt crystallizes on the corners of the glass. there. problem solved. long live the queen.

  • umm whats a plastic glass

  • it's the salt crystal growing, it's like the two strings between two cups of salt water, in that case, it grows up the string, then hangs down in the middle, in this case, the leftover salt on the side of the cup is growing up to the top of the cup

  • a plastic glass? it cant be a glass if its plastic

  • @theMISTERclean

    plastic glass does exist.

  • That's so cool!

  • Salt. How does it work?

  • the reason its "climbing" is because as the water evaporates it leaves a layer of salt.(duh i know) the new salt layer is higher then the water layer and still touching the water. and through capillary effect and wicking effect the salt pulls the water up and more salt, makeing a new layer a little higher then the last layer. the same way water climbs up a wick thats whats happening here, only its makeing its own wick of salt as it goes. now what do i win for getting it right, or am i to late?

  • @1crazyfocker Just like meth!

  • @1crazyfocker congratulations, you get a cookie.

  • @zombiepancakes21 YAY....I get a cookie, I get a cookie,,,I get a cookie......

  • @1crazyfocker that and evaporation lead to really high concentration of salt, not so much as the salt being left behind. This lead to crystalization

  • @EyesFat semantics!

  • @1crazyfocker not rly cuz if its low salt concentration it wouldnt crystalize. its to do with salt concentration of the main fluid in the cup, no rly the concentration of the stuff that gets left behind, although it does help in the process by seeding the solution

  • @EyesFat yes, and no matter how much salt is in the water, evaporation will "leave behind" the salt and thus raise the concentration to the point where the it will start to crystalize, plus you only have so many characters in a comment to try and get your point across, and thus it is semantics! I am not disagreeing with what you said, you just went more indepth with it, but it is still the same thing.

  • `in soviet russia, the salt climbs into your vodka

  • even weirder thing happend in my cabinet.

    I was keeping saltcrystals (that i bought in Wieliczka saltmine as a kid) together with the rosary (that i received as a present the same time) in a plastic bag. After a few years i discovered the rosary was all covered in salt and the metal parts would change their colour dramatically.

  • In soviet Russia, gravity is non-existent.

  • there is such a thing as a plastic glass?!

  • @daenumen plexiglass

  • @yeye060 plexiglass is a thermoplastic refered to as an acrylic alternative to glass, though chemically disimilar.

  • @huddledmarmot This does not explain anything, because it explains nothing about why the salt climbs out of the glass, where there was no solution before.

  • @FizzyWodawg That doesnt make any sense.

  • Wow, @themangodess @TakeThePictureNow, lol ur argument is pretty amusing, but I agree u shuld not fight, make up and possibly be friends

  • how can it climb out of a PLASTIC GLASS thumbs up if you agree.

  • @FizzyWodawg The salt is sticking to the side of the cup as the water evaporates then gives the water something to travel up and climb due to the adhesive/cohesive properties of water. As the water evaporates more and more crystals are formed. Sea salt was gathered in the same way by placing sticks inside tide pools then blocking off the ocean water (or making their own pool) and allowing the saltwater to evaporate over time leaving crystal formations on the sticks. MIRACULOUS!

  • A "plastic glass" now does that make any sense?

  • @Dezzerack - The word glass is supposed to be 'cup'... But since glass can sometimes mean cup, it must have been accidentally replaced... LOL

  • wow =D

  • Oh yea! I remember doing this in my Honors Earth Science class! :O

    We used two cups and a string to see if we could grow crystal-like thingies on them, like in caves or something. Lol

  • Okay, i dont get it, how did the water not grow mold????

  • "plastic glass" thats funny

  • What the crap? How on earth does that work?

  • We did an experiment involving a pencil, a thread, a paperclip and a cup of very salt water. We attached the thread to the pencil, and the paperclip to the thread, the paperclip hanging down in the water. We let it sit in the window for 7 days. On the seventh day the salt had climbed up the thread and the cup before eventually reaching the window edge.

  • I have a dog.

  • @bugpwr Thank you for telling how to do it

  • crystals do many weird things... and this is one weird ass thing...

  • For basic of science, salt only appear at the bottom and salt doesn't climb, if evaporation occurs, salt will leave behind at the bottom of the cup, if you can give me the direction of how to do this, you may change my mind about science and take my words back

  • @sam9072000 Sam, this is clearly not what happens here. This was a plastic cup, and very saturated salt solution. I cheat you not. Try it yourself. I did in quite humid mediterranean climate, it took about a month. You could see salt climbing on the outer side and even on the floor.

  • @bugpwr It happened to me too. I had a small tupperwear container filled with a salt solution because I was too cheap to buy the salt stuff for my piercing, and made my own. I closed the container and when I no longer needed it, forgot about it. I found it a couple of months later, cover still FULLY on, but the salt was coming out of the edges where it closed and down the sides. SO cool.

  • @bugpwr The explanation comes from the fact that the solution began as saturated. If you remove any water from that point (in this case, via evaporation) the system actually becomes unstable, and is driven to phase split. This is observed as the pure, solid salt being left behind on the walls of the cup as the water level decreases.

  • @sam9072000 Salt actually attracts water, so when a small rim of salt is formed at the surface of the water it will keep pulling water in, which then evaporates and deposits even more salt, etc. I've done this experiment where I added more salt water after the first batch completely evaporated and I grew it out of the glass all the way down to the plate the glass was sitting on. I'll repeat the experiment some day and put it on youtube.

  • @sam9072000 yea ive actually done this a long time ago, it got really messy when the crystals climbed out of the cup

  • #WTF

  • margaritas anyone?

  • very interesting.... how long did this take ?

  • cool it looks like it's freezing over

  • thats because when the water evaporates it leaves the salt behind

    

  • Can I get some of that for my Corona?

  • at first i thought it was evaporating salt water, but the salt wouldnt climb...

    aghh confused.com

  • plastic glass uh?

  • its evaporating and ur putting salt on it -.-

  • crysalization

  • lmfao video name fail, "plastic glass" well thats very logical isn't it...

  • I once left half a tin of epoxy resin in the cupboard for about twelve months and that started to climb out of the tin.Bit of useless information i know but i had to tell someone.

  • its because the water is evaporating and the salt isnt evaporating with it

  • y did u put plastic glass

  • it evaporation

  • i laike the end

  • im not really concerned about the salt or the table here. what i want to know is how one aqquires a cup both plastic AND glass

  • I'm not really concerned about the all this salt talk here.. Where on earth did you get your 70's table at? Geesh. I have a table I can give you.

  • @TakeThePictureNow This is not a table, it's on the floor. Rishon le-Zion, Israel. Not many trees in our country...

  • @bugpwr My comment was just a joke. I hope no offense was taken.

  • @bugpwr can you please explain to me how to do this? it seems like something that can help me in chemistry?

  • @TakeThePictureNow

    "70's"

    That is such a stretch to say this is from the 70s. It's a typical tile floor. Fuck off to the home shopping network

  • @themangodess My initial comment was a joke. I stand corrected, as bugpwr informed me that is was a floor. I took a look at your profile, and it seems you enjoy trolling around and picking fights on YouTube. Sounds like you have a fun life. You are a waste of life. Fuck You.

  • @TakeThePictureNow

    You mean the 1-2+ year old comments that were posted between many months?

    One negative comment on a video gets me many offended replies and it's not my fault they can't respect my opinion, or that they care to be so offended by it

    Your joke was in poor taste and you're still a retard for thinking I spend most of my life responding to YouTube comments.

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  • @themangodess HA! You just replied. AGAIN. The only reason that I knew you responded to me was because my email account informed me that you did. I apologized to bugpwr. Get. The. Fuck. Over. It. bugpwr isn't crying about my comment since I apologized, but for some reason you wish to continue this asinine banter back and forth. Why? Because as I mentioned earlier, this seems to be your hobby. There is a whole 'real' world out there with amazing things to see and do. Go try it out sometime.

  • @TakeThePictureNow

    I can respond to your comment if I so wanted to. It looks like you didn't even read my response, you're still going on about how much I spend my time online. Stop being such a pussy. You have no right to tell someone to get over it, seeing how you get this upset

  • @themangodess GET OVER IT. I most definitely can tell you to get over it. I just did, in fact... again. I absolutely read your response. Did I not just tell you I did? Me? Pussy? I don't hide my frail being behind a YouTube persona to act tough. Fuck You. What is wrong with you? "how much I spend my time online" What is that? Was that a proper use of words? Nope. So, again, I don't care to argue with you any longer. Get Over It.

  • @TakeThePictureNow

    "I don't hide my frail being behind a YouTube persona to act tough"

    Oh, and I suppose it's more convenient for me to talk to you face to face right?

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  • @TakeThePictureNow this is one of the lamest things ive ever heard

  • @TakeThePictureNow yea, youre a retard if you think thats a table. ive never in my 21 years have seen a table like that.

  • @Val0n The word "retard" gets used far too often on YouTube.

  • @Val0n Wow! 21 years on earth?? I am pretty sure you have seen EVERYTHING! And I can tell by your Parkway Drive shirt that you listen to generic BULLSHIT. Calling ME a retard makes YOU look like more of an idiot. Sorry about your first 21 years. I hope the next 21 years help your brain a little bit more than the first 21 years has.

  • @TakeThePictureNow I bet you feel like a dick.

  • @XdontUworryX Nope.

  • @Take The Picture Now thats not a table you fool, that is a terrazzo floor composed of colored cement and colored rock chips usually marble. floors like this will last a thousand years or more. ok your not a fool just a very sheltered person without any global experience

  • @datzfast Are you connoisseur of tables or WHAT?

  • its called evaporation, im in 8th grade and i know what this is.

  • @xshortxbutxoxwellx Dude, that wasn't the question lol, He wanted to know how the salt crystal form....

  • Lol. How is it possible to have a 'plastic glass'? Is it plastic, or glass? :D

  • did it die?

  • It's called capillary action. The "dry" salt acts as a medium for water to wick upwards and then evaporate.

  • If you want more information the process is called salt migration.

  • easy. thats how the stuff grows.

  • This is not just a video about evaporation! Most toys are assisted by the wick effect, the string one, those cardboard ones, plastic doesn't wick water. The salt crystals must be wicking, and that's a bit unexpected if you consider the material the brine is travelling through is made of the same stuff dissloved in the brine. Why doesn't it just dissolve the walls and evaporate out the side? You can see it in other time lapse salt videos though, salt crystals don't all grow from their base.

  • ITS ALIVE!

  • u just took a bunch of pics

  • Maybe it's a capillary thing. Saturated water soaking the rough surface of the new crystalized salt and drying there. Like a candle wick. Could it be?

  • i have had a test like that with my dad.

    He wrapped a piece of fabric string on a pencil, and placed the pencil onto a glass of salty water over the edges. He loosed a bit of that string so it was sunk in water.

    On the next day I checked to the glass and noticed how the salt was on the string, but wasn't in the water.

    That's called evaporation.

  • Water evaporating

  • Who said gas doesn't lift anything?! That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard! Gas lifting particles is what is powering your computer as you read this. Our power plants use whatever material to heat water, which rises as steam and pushes a turbine. That would be water particles being carried on gases right there! The turbines get covered in build up of all the other particles being carried up in the water, just like your cup.

  • This happened because the water evaporated and the salt decrystalized. Learned it in 7th grade science.

  • @XoWhiteRainXo

    what do you mean by decrystalised?

    since salt we use everyday is in tiny crystals, which come from one big crystal (salt block)

    Not liquid, like sugar...

    ..or is it that i just dont get you, I havent even finished Y6, so, wth

  • salt crystals

  • Is it just me that noticed that looked like abounch of pictures playing over eachother?

  • It's a very timeconsuming prosess.

  • @vulture97

    you mean stopmotion?

    well really, this is a long video in ultra speed up, so it can more likely stand out any details.

  • oh wow its great to see a time lapse of this!

    I've witnessed this myself in my experiments XD

  • I will repeat: It does climb out, it climbs up the wall, and even out of the glass, and at the end (starting with half-full glass) you see salt on the floor.

  • it happens becouse when water goes to steam it lifts the salt in the cup

  • @deathofpreyor gas is not supposed to lift anything

  • helium lifts balloons.... thats a gas

  • @bugpwr not true. Gas can lift many small particles eg dust, water, etc.

  • @bugpwr evaporation

  • @deathofpreyor the salt is too heavy for steam to lift up...

  • Very cool. How long does it take and do you add rock salt or kosher salt or reg. salt? Do you know? I would like to do this with my little boy. HE would get a big kick out of this!

  • well, it should work using any kind of salt (NaCl)

  • Evaporating water leaving salt deposits by the looks of it.

    Just like the salt rich water springs when you have heaps of crusty salt at the waters edge.

  • cool

  • yeah thats how you make salt. its how the ancient romans did it. they dug holes in the ground and poured sea water in them, then waited for the water to evaporate, leaving salt.

  • @frechieguy leaving salt is half the problem. Salt getting out of the glass is another thing..

  • the salt crystals near the edge of the water sucks up the water from the pool. which gets sucked up by the salt above the salt closest to the water line, which is sucked up further. part capillary action and part salt's water absorbing properties. it's kind of like how large salt crystal formations in some deserts suck the moisture right out of the air, allowing some bacteria to live inside it. same thing happened here sort of, just the salt sucked the water up to form salt steadily upwards.

  • @bugpwr The heat causes the evaporated salt to rise and form over the top and is you look it doesn't go down the cup because heat rises and cold air sinks. :D

  • @frechieguy

    Egyptians did something similar

    they placed a collum of mirrors in a sunny, shadeless area with a bowl in the centre.

    They gathered salty water (from i dunno where they found it), poured into the bowl, and the water much quicker evaporated, leaving the salt to be scrubbed of.

  • @frechieguy Here we got our quantum physicist of the Month! Everyone applaud now!

  • ..cool! :))

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  • Images u retard

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  • @OsamaBinLooney insult fail

  • @nefets99

    and you life fail

    your ego is so low you have to get in on other people's arguements to make yourself feel better

    mcskinny was willing to let it go but you had to dig it up again so go suck you mom's sagging pussy instead of sticking your fat ass where it isn't wanted

  • @OsamaBinLooney funny how you remove your comments when i point out how awful that insult was

  • no i took them off to be mature unlike you so no one else in your loser's club would try to start fights

    jesus christ, you make one mistake and all of youtube jumps on you

    just cut me a break you retarded ass fuckers and go make your OWN videos instead of commenting on the COMMENTS of other's vids

  • funny how you act like your trying to deny how badly you screwed up an insult by attempting to make me look like an ass

  • how badly i screwed up?

    i made i tiny little mistake guessing how he filmed it and as for the making you look like an ass i dont even have to do it, you already are an ass

    so go suck your mom's sagging wet pussy you fucking litttle cunt and find something better to do

    but of course since you have no life you will just keep responding and the proof is you will keep going

  • @OsamaBinLooney

    dude, how hard is it for you to get over something simple?

  • yeah dude you do fail...

  • let me guess your name was already taken so u add the x so you can copy it?

    mind your own business dumb-ass

  • I had something like this happen when I used a combo of salt and vinegar to clean a penny. However, the crystals were tinted green because of the oxidized copper from the penny.

  • I think what happens is that the hydrated salt climbs up the wall by diffusion. The salt can do this because it is hydrated so it has liquid properties. Can't be sure exactly though

  • Although the true term should be plastic cup, some people call cups "glasses" regardless of what they're made so "glass" more describes the shape in this context, plastic describes what it's made of, so anyway it can be correct. utterly pointless lesson over Now shoot me.

  • its called evaporation, but anywayss cool vid

  • salt water and the water is dissolving and the salt is not so the salt is deposited on the sides of the cup

  • water is not dissolving it is evaporating ;)

  • I think maybe the fluid evaporates and leaves a salt residue on the side of the cup. This salt residue then soaks up some of the fluid, which climbs all the way up the residue like wax in a candle wick. The soaked up fluid then evaporates and deposits its salt, building up the salt residue and allowing it to creep up the sides of the cup. That's what I reckon.

  • It's plastic cup.

  • That is cool.

  • i did this in the forth grade all you do is mix up salt + water then let the water evaporate and the salt will go all over the glass lol it took the WHOLE SCHOOL YEAR just to get all the water out and if you poor the salt that was left on grass it kills it in a couple of hours or a day

  • the water is jest evaporating

  • jaja ;) tzal ;)

  • How many times are we going to repeat it? OMG PLASTIC GLASS LOLZ!

    Anyway, very strange..

  • Your folks seem all to be perseverating on this "cup vs. glass" issue. I want to know what salt this is, and how this is happening--It seems the opposite of distillation, some solid is actually vaporizing??? Certainly not TABLE salt?! Get back to me, cool "elapsed time bugpwr!" --&, how much time DID elapse? I did attendant svc for a guy who'd fill a glass, put it on his shelf and said "Buddha was drinking the water," as it disappeared over course of a week. No salt, though...

  • Thanks =x

    Well, yes, this is table salt. I did this experiment twice, and I will probably repeat it again, because the result is too amazing and shot too poorly.

  • what happpened to the colors of the photos at the end of the video?

  • The lamp used to light it all for a month during the experiment started to burn out. I was away so couldn't notice that.

  • salt: Table salt/ Sodium-chloride crystal shape: square. What happens; Water vapourices and is clear from salt, but on its way up, it comes in contact with the salt on the edges and it slightly picks it up a bit. The vapouriced water is able to contain salt again WHILE ITS LEAVING THE CUP. vapouricing water is an upwards motion. This process took 2-3 months with me, season: Spring. air moisture: 60%, no direct sunlight, good amount of daylight, though. how to do: Neglect / forget process.
  • the correct term is PLASTIC CUP

  • HAAAAAAAAAAAAXX

  • I broke my "Plastic Glass" xDDDDDD