Amazing Water Absorbing Polymer Beads -Slo Mo

The Story behind this video:
I found these "Deco-Beads" at a local hardware store. I was looking for an additive I could put in the soil to eliminate dry patches in my lawn. These little beads are meant for decoration for wedding receptions or whatever. They come in a variety of colors so picked the red ones. I had no idea how long they took to swell up or how large they would get.
I intended to make a time-lapse video showing the beads swelling up, thinking they would only take about 15 minutes to reach full size. After an hour I stopped the camera and (duh) read the instructions and found out they take 6 hours to reach full size. My computer would choke on an HD file that large and would take a good 48 hours or more to render such a huge file. I left the beads to soak and they eventually ended up measuring 5/8" (17mm) after a few days. The beads started out at 2.5 mm and ended up 17mm. I thought they would get to be about 6mm at the most.




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Music by Zero Project
CC Licensed
"Distorted Reality"

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• polymer
• beads
• deco
• absorbtion
• adsorbtion
• antigravity
• water
• pearls
• wedding
• decor
• retention
• nasa
• iss
• test
• lab
• taofledermaus

[cellbuddies2000]

is anyone else here because of idigthemullet?

[taofledermaus]

@cellbuddies2000  What is idigthemullet? Always interesting how people find my videos!

[cellbuddies2000]

@taofledermaus well, its kind of a long story. theres this guy called thecomputernerd01 who does parodies and random videos. he has a second channel called joshrocksguitarhero where he does vlogs and bloopers from his main channel. and a few months ago he got a third channel called idigthemullet. in one of his videos, he bought a kiddie pool but before he put the water in he poured in a jar of deco beads. he didnt really show what they did, so i was curious and i came here.

[taofledermaus]

@cellbuddies2000 Ah gotcha. The package I bought was like a koolaid package. A whole jar would have probably filled that pool.

[OmgItsTotallyMe123]

Where can I get them?:

[taofledermaus]

@OmgItsTotallyMe123 Try a hardware store, gardening store, maybe a wedding supply store. 

[00FUNCRAFT00]

hello,

I'm from Germany I am looking for a long time (I thought that sounds better) for these pearls. It might be better even if you could tell me how the name of them (I can translate this text in the internet please do not be at fault not bad)

thank you

[DeadOnPromNite]

MIND FUCK!!!!

[jhoe213141]

how many came in a package?

[davidangelmorin]

where can i buy the from

[AlbanAC10]

they brake easy i have held them before

[Esoremada]

I want to eat them

[alaphonse331]

One question have you tried to see if the solid polymer separates salt form water?

[773steve]

how to make this?

[viila5]

Like bar: your penis. Dislike bar: justin biber's penis.

[lkabird]

not the best , but good slowmo, what camera?

uprez'd 480?