r/maybemaybemaybe • u/beatrix_serendipity • 4d ago

maybe maybe maybe

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u/frisbeethecat 4d ago

Yeah. That's not Mentos and Coca-Cola. That's sodium hypochlorite and that's going to be very caustic. That's hot bleach exploded into her face.

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u/Danitoba94 3d ago

Bro you just made this so much worse for me...
I thought it was just dry ice or something...

Sodium hypochlorite?!?!

That's actually fucking insane.

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u/frisbeethecat 3d ago

Yeah, hot caustic liquid. Look how the reaction's heat and outgassing distends the plastic bottle.

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u/TwitchTent 3d ago

This guy is like the opposite of the girl. He understood the experiment at a base level.

Dude in the OPs video really should have explained what they were doing better if he was gonna have her do it.

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u/YouAreAGDB 3d ago

Nah lol. He didn't use any safety equipment and just chucked rocks at it from behind a lawn chair, he's still dumb af

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u/FladnagTheOffWhite 3d ago

He knew it was a bad idea. Surely that's worth a couple brain cells?

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u/GetHaggard 3d ago

And pretended like the bottle flew into the tree.