Strange story of how phosphorus was discovered
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Uploaded by roberte207 on Dec 17, 2009
German alchemist tries to make gold from urine - and discovers phosphorus by mistake. From "Big Questions" television science series, presented by Adam Hart-Davis.
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this sounds like kno3 to me.
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I know a friend who tried obtaining white phosphorus from his urine by boiling it in his kitchen, his neighbours complained about the smell. He wasn't successful at making it though.
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I wrapped my fist around my penis and started tugging up and down
a few mintues later something very strange came to pass
3 months ago 2
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he probably made salt of the peter or saltpeter. he was stupid really, eveybody knows pussy is pure gold. If you cant turn pussy into gold you are just not trying.
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what sort of wriglling worms did he find?maggots i assume
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This has nothing to do with real experiment. The scene with the urine boiling is just few pieces of dry ice in a yellow liquid.
And sand doesn't cause fuming. Brandt used a furnace and dry distillation.
And phosphorus doesn't glow like that. We see it burning in the video, not glowing.
I don't know why do people make documentary films like this at all. If you're recreating a historic experiment, then do it properly. This is just stupid. Brandt's experiment was messy and dangerous.
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"And then, something very strange came to pass" lol, unintentional pun?
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@safenders LOL very funny
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how the hell is it cold fire if it was steam!?!?!!? 0.o
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so this is how the first light bulb was actually invented?
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Very good question. I suspect his sterile precautions were not what they might have been. But they didn't know much about that sort of thing then.
roberte207 2 years ago