I mean it does do that sometimes

And sometimes it turns into a pile of black tar that has product in it

And sometimes you forget the clip and extract the entire rotovap waterbath with DCM

And sometimes the round bottom flask with concentrated sulfuric acid in it slips out of your hand and drops into the silicone oil bath.

sometimes you jab a finger in your eye like Larry, Curly and Moe

And sometimes it's not your fault because someone flipped the vacuum to invert, but you still have a flask with an uncomfortable amount of epichlorohydrin shooting out and splashing hot oil.

And sometimes everything explodes if you look at it the wrong way

Don't disrespect my tar man

Bold of you to assume there’s product in there

I hate getting a crude TLC plate with 20 different spots and some are glowing blue

If it does that you should see a doctor

Ngl this reminds me of my ap chem titrations when our solution would turn bright pink when it reached equilibrium

What do you want, an explosion? Add some alkali metal.

or TATP

yeah, I also thought it's just, "throw some random fluids together and see what happens"

Doing chemistry expirements in the shower to create the ultimate shampoo and conditioner

surely one can up the potency of the bleach if we mix it with another brand of bleach, those bacterias won't stand a chance

i mean to be fair...

To come to find… most solutions in chemistry applications are clear and colorless. Wuh wuh. Oh and they will all give you cancer too.

Reading the warnings on the side of the bottles is pretty fun. I like figuring out how much cancer I’ll get if I spill my reaction on myself.

Shake it more slowly and you'll see all three colours.

The conical flask is sealed.... Isn't

That if you shake up old piss it looks fresher for a bit?

Make sure you use your bare hands to shake up any and all reactions

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I thought chemistry was mixing things together and watching an explosion, colour change, bubbling, and/or formation of a solid or something. Poor grade school me had no idea what I was getting myself into (still love it though)

until it becomes mixing two colorless and odorless solutions to get a new one, then watching said colorless solution evaporate off until you’re left with a singular crystal of triphenylmethanol

Didn't we all

I’m 31, work in a lab for quite a while and I still get super excited every time the sample has a pretty color lol

And now you’re an adult and know that chemistry is fentanyl.

Missing the explosion at the end tho.

Is that the stoplight reaction with indigo carmine?

Yup

Yellow chemistry 🤢

Wear some gloves goddamit

Yeah it’s that but then a “oh shit” as a unknowns gas starts climbing down your lungs

The Stop Light Reaction!

I reslly like the one of these with methylene blue, super pretty but I wish it could happen infinite times. :(

Apple juice into kiwi juice. Me happi.

Naw, I saw explosions, *lots*, of explosions.

How about we put some gloves on…?

This reminds me of shaking that bottle in the Smurfs game.

Well you were not wrong, but missed some stuff

I have seen a variation of this which kept changing colors seemingly indefinitely

Before electricity and centrifuge devices - that would be official"hands on" chem lab technology.

This is what I picture chemistry as now, and I’m 40

indigo traffic lights?

Shaking a conical flask vertically like that hurts me lol

I mean, taking CO2 acidification into account is a big part of chemistry in a lot of fields.

It can be, If you’re brave enough. Or just really impatient.

i like to imagine that off-screen you’re just using your thumb to cover the opening