8 Dangerous Chemical Combinations You Shouldn't Try At Home!

Today David talks about 8 of the most dangerous chemical combinations made from chemicals you might have laying around your home and should not combine under any circumstances!

[pshacker]

When I was in basic combat training, a platoon of privates managed to combine a chemical cocktail in their latrine whilst cleaning their toilets. The resulting chemical cloud was strong enough to not only send them to the hospital, it turned their army issue t-shirts pink. Army issue t-shirts are specially made to do that when they are exposed to a chemical warfare attack so you can tell if they are contaminated when you encounter the bodies. The Army would not say what chemicals they combined.

[grantrichardet]

chlorine and muriatic acid don't make mustard gas they make chlorine gas

[masternoob]

Dude, you practically saved a good percent of lives with those med and drink combos 👍👍 Respect

[amydkaminsky]

U looked at a wall smiling doing nothing?
Man sounds like u had a relaxing fun time

[yoongummy]

The more he said “you shouldn’t try this”, it made me want to try it even more😀

[californianconservative]

The symbol that you used in the thumbnail is the biohazard sign not the chemical danger

[lonniefisher]

I wouldn't worry too much about the government. I took chem 1 chem 2 biochem and organic chemistry and have only been bothered once in 30 years.

[deantinney]

It's hard to address the general public, yet be chemically specific about all details. Your point about making sure we are not combining household chemicals is valid and reasonable.

[Scottishstorm]

Hi, David. I started watching this channel after backing your Tesseract kickstarter, and I feel very impressed by the quality of your work here. I'm confident you're subscribers and views will only rise in time. Keep up the good work!

[kirkbolas]

Kudos to you for making a decent PSA warning people to not combine certain chemical agents or mix drugs with alcohol or certain dietary items. Some have criticized your content for being erroneous and technically there are a couple of details that need some work. Just the same, the “Do not mix these items” message is correct as it has to be in advising to not mix A & B.

For purposes of adding to your knowledge and not to criticize in a nit picking way, here’s a couple of things to add to your knowledge base.

1) The Mustard Gas used in WWI is the first in member of a class of agents known as Sulfur Mustards with the name of Chlorine gas is just Cl2, aka diatomic elemental Chlorine. Both substances essentially cause harm in very similar manners.

2) Grapefruit Juice (as well as eating grapefruit) has a few pharmacodynamic considerations that make its consumption hazardous with a wide range of drugs. Interfering with drug absorption, either increasing or decreasing the amount of drug crossing from the lumen of the gut and into circulation is one concern. The more common and important adverse effect is grapefruit acting as an enzyme inhibitor. Grapefruit and its juice irreversibly inhibit a drug metabolizing enzyme known as CYP3A4, a member of the Cytochrome P450 enzyme family (aka CP450). CYPA34 is involved in the metabolism of around half of all drug substances. The result is that an effected drug does not clear the body as rapidly and toxic levels can accumulate. Because this enzymatic inhibition is irreversible, this effect can persist for up to three days post grapefruit consumption as it takes the body that long to replenish the enzyme to normal levels. Additionally, some medications are called prodrugs; they are not active until metabolized by a member of the CP450 into an active drug. Grapefruit’s inhibition here results in reduced therapeutic levels of drug which can be just as serious as toxic levels.

Again, these clarifications are for your edification. Your heart is in the right place and the more you know, the more effective your sharing of knowledge will be going forward.

For the individuals who were so quick to point out that our channel host was wrong or misleading, consider that his primary goal was well served, details not withstanding. If our host had not given any details, the result would still be a good set of advisories. Rather than try to just denigrate another with pointless criticism and not offer any sort of constructive criticism or useful information, your bare criticism is a useless, unfounded accusation. If that’s all you can offer our host, better that you say nothing.

[aeonflux]

Definitely going to try this. Seems like the quickest way

[Jinjadude]

How do you only have 586 subscribers, your such a good youtuber!

[ObscuriaDragunAed]

My first job was dairy/shelves/restock/carts and bathroom janitorial for a small grocery store that had a male and female restroom, the male restroom having a urinal. We were allowed to mark off a bottle of toilet bowl cleaning gel to clean them...

That is, until the owner's wife forbade that citing we were using too much and required us to use bleach instead...

A few things about that. It's not that big a deal if you're using it on a toilet, as long as there's no urine left behind in the water.... but then we come to the urinals. LIke, the type that doesn't properly flush down all the urine... the same old bat that restricted the use of the safer cleaning gel was adamant that we use bleach to clean the urinal's specifically because "she didn't like the smell of them"... like... okay... TF you going into the men's restroom any way? Her daughters did because they were the managers and needed to make sure that everything was done... she, on the other hand, had no business doing that.

Yeah... no, I refused to do that, I just bought some toilet bowl cleaner for us to use out of my own pocket. Others who would clean the restrooms while I was busy closing up elsewhere would use the bleach, so I gotta make a pit stop in there and just about passed the hell out because the noxious gas was so strong... Finally, I had enough of it and bitched to my manager who was an Air Force vet because I figured she'd have a bit more knowledge about dangerous chemicals. She did, she also wasn't aware that her mom had put that restriction down and told us to start charging the gel again... I think she ended up telling the owner who, IIRC was a vet of either 'Nam or WW2? If he wasn't he had family that was, either way, that issue got fixed with the quickness thankfully. I think what hit the alarm bells the hardest for my manager is when I mentioned that that mixture was what the Nazi's would mix before abandoning a post to the Allies. Which, if you didn't know, they'd start pissing in buckets till they were full and keep them handy until the order was given to retreat, then they'd dump bleach into the buckets and GTFO so the Allies would run straight into the gas... messed up, but, I think it says a lot about the irony of the situation with that old busy body...

[EddieTheH]

Grapefruit doesn't change the rate of absorption of drugs, it simply limits the bodies ability to break down those drugs.

[thorlo]

Acetaminophen is e is long which gives it the e sound. Thanks for the video, some of those I knew and some were an eye opener for me. The worst of it is that I should have known this since I had an RN degree and I minored in Chemistry!

[brentmiller]

I love how informative this channel is but, at the same time, this information can also be misused for evil purposes. Next on the ban list, household chemicals !

[dmasterv.]

Why does it feel like the FBI is going to come in my home

[fusionorb]

Yes, chlorine gas is very toxic but I have found it that u must breathe the chlorine gas for extended periods of time. If you are making a lot of chlorine gas at once then yes be very cautious and ware a respirator. But if it is for example, for the electrolysis of brine (NaCl solution) u can smell the chlorine at least ten feet away so just don't sit near the source of the chlorine and u should be fine.

[olicek]

Thank you for giving me so many good ideas :D

[Home-rocu]

1:40 No I think it was sulfuric cyanide or something like that