Jelly Babies - Periodic Table of Videos

[NormacHC]

FAIL

[altosax1st]

The soot looks like a bitch to clean off the glassware

[grande1899]

This happens all the time in our bodies.

[diegonikki]

it was too big thats why it failed

[WeaselordsLair]

Not one, not two, but FOUR jelly babies.

[mrninjap00p]

Looks like poop

[Skandalos]

I wouldnt want to be the guy who has to clean all those test tubes.

[saveroftheday]

At 2:25 when he picked it up I thought he was gong to eat it.

[akashashen]

Isn't that last reaction, you know...life on Earth?

[akashashen]

How to recognise a proper entertainment chemist: The best reactions are ones we can scale up!

[akashashen]

I'm a gummy bear. Yes, I'm a gummy bear.  Oh I’m a yummy tummy funny lucky gummy bear.

[TheArengorn]

WE WANT AN EPISODE MADE BY NEIL!

[jbeer82]

Bugger the blast screen.

[daggerheart03]

We wouldn't be allowed to do anything like that in school -_- Kind of annoying how all of the health and safety rules get in the way of experiments.

[BanBangDS]

@daggerheart03 We did it in school in Year 9 (Age 12-13) Well... The teacher did it.

[philipanthonyorr]

Would the colour of the burning not be a product of the metal salt doping and the potassium chlorate? Would the potassium of the potassium chlorate not give a kind of purple colour?

I do hope you gave the jelly babies names before you dispatched them .

[DannyFox06]

Let's hand over to neil -click- OOH FIRE :3

[ReddmanDGZ]

looked like the large reaction threw a LOT of UV.

[otakucode]

I always thought they just called jelly beans jelly babies in England, I had no idea they had jelly candies that were actually SHAPED like babies! Some cultural knowledge to go with the chemistry... very good, chaps!

[insignia9989]

@otakucode Are you saying you've never eaten a jelly baby, cuz they're proper scrumptious.

[mikeymikemikey1]

3 people were jelly babies

[mikeytheaznking]

This is what happens in my stomache :)

[JosephGubbels]

Just goes to show you the amount of potential energy stored in sugars.

[8runomar5]

Poor jelly baby! :(

[danamdkny]

I love that she has her proper pearls and hair piece on for this ....

[jq747]

@danamdkny Looks like she's going to the opera right after the experiment, lol.

[kevinhykuo1]

They didn't say "Don't do this at home"...

I'M GOING TO DO THIS AT HOME!!!

[JSniegowski100]

Welcome to research!

[djehuty13]

"Lets hand over to Neil"

Neil: *BLOWTORCH*

:D

[supermegabeast9000]

well, in america a jelly baby is what gay men shit out after gay butt sex. its now referred to as "santorum" after a republican who was running for president.

[warrmr]

@alex a jelly baby is the uk equivalent to a gummy bear. Except jelly baby's are softer and coated in a light sugar similar to icing sugar.

[quickknowledge]

Maybe there was a certain substance/residue enveloping the surface of the ref jelly baby, or it was just an old piece of candy.

[annyakov]

jez looks like poop

[liquidefeline]

The rxns at the end made this my new favorite video! :)

[MightyJustas]

dingo ate your baybay

[denisfilming]

"Jelly baby corpse"

Lovely

[07BabeMagnet]

When the jelly babies were being reacted, I swear I can hear them screaming "noooo noooooo"

[scorpserpent]

gummy bear homicide...

[MrPOSITIVELIFE]

Great!Please,can you do the synthesis of PbCl4,I know that is hard?

[Direkin]

2:29 The test tube gods are displeased with your sacrifice!

[thecosgrove]

i like that the collective noun for jelly baby is a "chorus" of jelly babies

[JusticeSportsman]

Maybe do it in annotation form? (the chemical reactions)

[JusticeSportsman]

Thanks for the chemical reaction at the end! Love it!

[atourdeforce]

this equation is wrong, heating kclo3 does not turn it into kcl, the whole point of this reaction is when the molten kclo4 comes onto contact with the sugar source it then liberates the oxygen in the kclo4 to rapidly burn(oxidise) the sugar. when you heat kclo3 or kclo4 you dont change them in to kcl(which is very unreactive) if that were the case kcl would work if you heated it and it most definately does not. decomp of kclo3 does turn into kcl but this is not decomp its gentle heating.

[fuzzybudgie]

@atourdeforce I disagree; the decomp. temperature of KClO3 is 400 C, and that flame is almost certainly hotter than that. However, the effect is the same; even if it is the gummy bear that initiates the liberation of oxygen, the equation is still correct. It shouldn't be called "fusion", though.

[atourdeforce]

@fuzzybudgie I was once upon a time an explosives expert, b4 I finally choose to do medicine, and any1 with chemistry should know this reaction cannot take place without the oxygen in the kclo3 being liberated in the reaction with the sugar to oxidise it to carbon and water, etc. while the decomp temp is correct, and that type of flame they use gets as hot as 600c the molten chlorate is nowhere near as hot as that, you can melt chlorate on a hot plate at 300-350c, ergo its still intact. try it.

[atourdeforce]

@atourdeforce another way to prove im right is to melt some chlorate in a test tube to melting point, let it cool break out the soild lump, now according to every1 you now should have kcl, grind this up and add powered sugar in a 50/50 ratio and ignite with a match on a meter stick to be safe(this stuff makes a big flame) NOW IF IT WAS KCL IT WOULD NOT REACT WITH THE SUGAR, PROVING IT IS STILL KCLO3. if i have time in the next week or 2 i may do a vid to prove this.

[atourdeforce]

@atourdeforce chances are she was being lazy and got that equation straight from the internet, as the first equation i seen is this one which i promise you is wrong.

[AlexSh789]

@fuzzybudgie Fusion is just the scientific name for "melting". It doesn't always mean putting stuff together.

[tybo09]

We did a similar experiment in high school with nitric acid... Only without the heating.

It was a disturbing reaction.

[98JMA]

Is the large porcelain dish Neil's way of avoiding having to clean up?

[rageagainstthebath]

I am totally for chemical formulas on each and every periodicvideos video.

[bobojia]

it is gummy bear (soft jelly candies in form of bears or animals)

[rageagainstthebath]

Converting sugar into carbon dioxide. Now that's a waste. ;)

[danagol1985]

I think of this reaction as the opposite to photosynthesis:

In photosynthesis, light, H20, and CO2 are taken in and as a result you get O2 and Sugar.

In this experiment you put in Sugar and O2. As a result you get H20, CO2, and Light.

Probably just my strange method of thinking about things :)

[Jcd1994]

@danagol1985 sugar + O2 giving h2o co2 + energy is essentially cellular respiration but with a different sugar

[danagol1985]

@Jcd1994 Ah, I see. Thank you for your reply. :)

[bobbytookalook]

"A jelly baby corpse -- is what it is." lol

[Z6U6Z6U]

@bobbytookalook that's not what she said: "THAT'S what it it is"

[SuperAdamMan64]

Quick, someone think up some dead jelly baby jokes!

[stephanied2604]

Screeming jelly babies hooked me in year 7 at school i never gave up science after that moment

[ijunkie]

"The best reactions are the ones that you can scale up..."

[mvszao]

Supported by Aldrich. Nice!

[ihuuhme100]

Haha six eyes

[mokopa]

Since it appears that envelopes are being pushed around...it would be fantastic if each video could end with a summary (in standard format) not only with the reactions, but also brief citations of where in nature its equivalent would be found, and why it's important to us. What prompted me to ask was that I was just thinking that very thing when she mentioned it in the video!

[Jamster9000]

NEIL IS IN THE THUMBNAIL. INSTACLICK.

[smeggerss]

@Jamster9000 Gayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!

[chemicalbombgang]

nice smoke genrater :P



[birddog2017]

Bravo on the chemical summation. Top Shelf!

[SuperLaugh20]

what sorcery is this?

[DudokX]

I love that sound at beginning. It sounds like some choral from epic soundtrack.

[Bryan6446]

Can you please try this with powdered sugar. I assume it will produce a more vigorous reaction.

[UltraDrago2000]

What about pure sugar?

[UltraDrago2000]

Anyone thinking next "fusion" rocket... *troll face/troll science*

[djtorne]

She has nice lips



[catsfromhell1]

i like that you added the chemical equation at the end, for us nerds :)

[ScrinMan]

Would you like some fried retinas with those incinerated jelly babies?

[tommynights]

Watch (shade) your eyes?, pretty bright - possible UV or retina burn like from welding...

[Agaettis]

Somewhere....the Doctor is crying

[shalafi4]

Random question... were they using sour Jelly Babies?

[Raddan2010]

fastest way to ruin test tubes :)

[Ciweman]

Great video Brady.

I'm so glad that they expalin the reaction on a piece of paper.

I always use Aldrich Chemistry to do my lab notes.

[ib9rt]

In your equations you didn't show the first step (melting/fusing), which presumably is KClO3(s) -> KCl03(l) ? Seems odd to describe fusing with only (s) and (g) and no (l) state... ;-)

[Foxclass]

I did this same demo for a group of kids once, and after ignition I closed the hood and realized I had forgotten a Winchester full of ether on the other end of the hood. Just about pooped myself after seeing it.

[petokyo]

I can't stand green jelly babies either. ＝＾・・＾＝

[AntiProtonBoy]

Neil gets to clean up as usual?

[sc0rpi0n0]

whoaaa 

[canadianentropy]

We called this reaction "The screaming gummy bear." It was always popular with children visiting our labs.

[RomanNumural9]

i think why it ejected was because the inside heated at a different rate then the outside (kinda like a marshmellow over a fire, how the outside comes off when you take it off the slick) and so the core stuck and the outside got propelled outwards.... i'm just a Gr. 9 middle school student though =)

[mokopa]

@RomanNumural9 You're right. The heat that the outside surface is exposed to carbonizes it quickly, which acts as a heat shield for the inside. You rightly identified the *rate* of increase in temperature as the important factor. I have to differ from you on the mechanics behind it: I suggest that it the ejection of the liquefied core due to pressure build-up as well as the drag caused by the rapidly escaping gasses, that propelled it forward, like a rocket in a tornado. IMHO.

[JumpingNoCrime]

We did this experiment about three times 2 weeks ago, as part of a excursion for primary schools (pupils of 4th grade visit our school to learn sth about science). I was told there is Cl-5 and K-3 or so and the teacher told us to not inhale too much of the "smoke" (dunno if its smoke or fog) created so i thought the potassium chloride itself reacts with the sugar. Now you tell me its just oxidation of sugar... I am confused, can anyone clear me up?

[sachamm]

Wow, thumbs up for chemical formulae!

[TerminalRhinoVirus]

What happened to the potassium and the chlorine?

Does the KClO3 just act as an oxidizing agent by giving off O as it fuses?

Surely there are some potassium oxides formed as well right?

[zaSpeaker]

jelly baybays

[Prelota]

All you needed was for Tom Baker to be there.

[sm0kingJay]

The hollowed out shell of a jelly baby... that is unbelievably poignant.

[culwin]

I had a shot of Jack every time someone said "Jelly Baby".

[MrGuitarZeppelin]

@culwin Really? I had a shot every time Neil didn't

[chipalike]

@culwin are you alive?

[un2mensch]

@culwin Mine ran out

[Ricalloo]

What's a Jelly Baby?

[Getsius]

@Ricalloo It appears to be a British candy similar to a gummy bear.

[boredomdisease]

@Ricalloo "Growling Gummy Bear." It's basically a gummy bear.

[Pianoguy32]

@Ricalloo a small baby shaped jelly confection with a firm outer crust

[Skalarski21]

@Ricalloo Gummi Bears in England

[grahamkeithtodd]

@Ricalloo it is a sugar based sweet(or candy) that is formed in the shape of a baby!

well loved and enjoyed very much by both British kids and time lords!

they come in a wide range of colours(british spelling)

and i can not find them anywhere here in Canada! :-(

[AlexSh789]

@grahamkeithtodd Can't find them in America either. I've never even heard of Jelly Babies before this video came along. Throughout the entire video I was saying, "What the @#$% is a Jelly Baby?!"

[HolyBmXfReAk2]

WAIT. Was Neil smiling before the credits rolled?!?

[DrWestofReanimation]

@HolyBmXfReAk2

lol, Yes he was! lol, Don't know about you, I miss seeing Neil on the periodic tables lol

[Cickarn]

camera on retort stand? AWWW YEAH!

[Nexus2Eden]

What I would suspect is that the Jelly Babies are coated with a wax as a preservative - which is probably what created the 'shell', don't you think? It was probably why you get a false start and the delayed fizzing start before it busts loose.

[Nexus2Eden]

I was saying... "Wait for it..wait for it...." Ha!

[pepsibookcat]

2:28 Call Ducky. Neil has created another victim.

[toobeetoobeetoo]

There is a problem with the video....it's missing a "love it" button.  Pressed Like twice, but I don't think it worked. :)

[Rebecca97Black]

i love chemistry and this....... but i`m not to understand whaat us said... can u please put subtitle please ..... because i`m learning chemistry not in english.

[JimPrower]

Does this reaction produce any appreciable thrust?

[endimion17]

@JimPrower Thrust has more to do with the shape of the vessel, the nozzle and the fluid dynamics.

It's not something that's associated with chemistry per se.

[WildeByName1]

can you go more in depth with the chemistry and show the enthopy change and equilibriums in the reaction and also discuss in more detail what's going on on an atomic level ? thanks

[rjal1992]

Just eating one now!



[vpacolis]

I would love to see the "barking dog" scaled up version. Can it happen? =)

[iBO0M]

make a video on Neil!

[carlsoto1747]

We did this my Chem 20 Honours class in high school. Kinda fun

[johnclavis]

I'm not a chemistry student or anything like that, but I thought the chemical explanation at the end was very interesting and understandable! Thanks! :)

[mooooooooimacow]

wake up this morning, go onto youtube and get to watch this :)

made my day

[AGDCrompton]

Green is the superior colour, Thumbs up for Green!

[sooth15]

Wow, pretty awesome!

[HWGuyEG]

We need Neil to head a video with a reaction he likes, although I wonder if watching his video would put us on a watch list. lol

[HRHooChicken]

ahh ive done that in school :D makes a lot of smoke that floats on the ceiling

[alecjahn]

How can we be disappointed so early into the first attempt? We got fire, I think that's a win.

[slpk]

I wonder if all the three laws are properly working inside Neil's "brain". He looks potentialy dangerous in this.

Also, I think they forgot to install the voice module. He never says a word!

[wattcoffee]

@slpk from memory Neil says something in the potassium video?

[Phacias]

@wattcoffee He does in the video when they were smashing chocolate eggs. He says "thanks Pete...". ^^ And who's the real fan now?

[aten747]

that is a shell of it former self

[retsilla88]

:O We shall use jelly babies to power us to the stars

[0Banjo0]

wtf is jelly baby

[Marrithegreat1]

@0Banjo0 it's a British candy. Kinda like a gummy bear but not quite I believe. Never actually had one. shaped like a baby as you can see.

[mooooooooimacow]

@0Banjo0 google it

bit bigger than gummy bears, and are shaped like babies, taste just as good

[TheGzeus]

@0Banjo0 British gummy bear-like thing.

[ELijahKan10]

My chemistry teacher tried this and the test tube exploded lol

[Cellogamer]

lol "Let's hand it over to Neil" *ignition

[kanjitard]

But will it blend?

[mobabur94]

Neil is awesome.

[KamekoBruns]

Once again Brady proves he has the greatest job ever. Hot science chicks, exothermic reactions and Neil! So jealous.

[insanic1]

@KamekoBruns hot chick? where?

[KamekoBruns]

@insanic1 Dr. Tang of course!

[themorganator4]

what happens to the chlorine atom??

[Ezrick13]

Cool reaction and thanks for taking the time to go over the reaction. 

[EddyScbr]

Wasting innocent jelly babies, the Doctor disapproves...

... Though the experiment is awesome

[sugvcreeper]

Where can I find a small camera like the one you used in this video and the 3D glasses video?

[fidgejufter]

@sugvcreeper That's almost certainly an HD Hero of some model, available from lots of different places.

[moredread100]

I think Neil is a scary...

[CantBeSober]

Amazing, almost makes me wish i tried harder in school! But then i wouldn't be doing what i do now!!!

[RaineXHero]

I think it's in the interest of science to figure out how to replicate the first attempt at the experiment where the reaction left a hollowed out carbon corpse of the jelly baby.

[icyclough]

Was showed this in my chem lesson the other day :)

[theHiddenStone]

I think the question on everyone's lips is: what would happen if you used a Mento instead of a jelly baby?

[disorganizedorg]

Nice to see a video in which Neil plays a prominent role. He seems to be a man of few words, but I'd love to see an interview with him.

[TheReaverOfDarkness]

Your exothermic portion of the reaction (on the white sheet of paper) appears imbalanced. You list 5 sugar and 12 oxygen making 12 carbon-dioxide and 11 water, but it should be only 1 sugar.

[collegehumorrules]

I. Love. Molecular. Videos. They are the best. Seriously. Thanks so much for these! Some more human related ones, like the salbutamol and (to an extent) aspirin and morphine would be even more awesome!

[YY4Me133]

Who knew science could be so much fun? :D

[darkbrayan1]

* "Science rules" *

[QuantumDisciple7]

Do sour patch kids,those damn little rascals get on my nerves, but then they are so sweet after.

[taydigidy]

"Lets hand over to Neil', "flick pshhhhhhhhh" Neils the man!

[xsonicbladex]

must this be done in a fume hood as shown?

[pyropakman]

@xsonicbladex : Or outside.