Colorful chemistry magic

[Fleta_Maughner]

This is what we expected chemistry classes to look like as kids.

[wholefoods]

I know exactly what’s happening here it’s quite simple actually

You’re a witch (get em boys)

[frakis]

Yes, I can explain it all, since I am very good at chemistry, with multiple PhDs. See, what's happening here is that the color is changing.

[MildTimes]

bro complimented the yellow fluid so much it blushed and turned red.

[giansieger]

The erlenmeyer flask contains a water-ethanol mixture with a dissolved indicator (bromothymol blue I think). There was a little bit of acid at the bottom of the test tube, turning the indicator red. The added pellets are NaOH, turning the indictor blue and after a little bit of shaking and after everything dissolved, it causes the phase separation, as concentrated lye and ethanol do not mix. The indicator is mich more soluble in Ethanol than water (esoecially when it’s got a lot of NaOH in it), leaving the color in the top phase.

[francish]

it’s a combination of pH indicators, equilibrium reactions and density differentials which cause the events in this video

[Xonar_]

Time to give my school bully some “water”

[boredflower]

“Tell me what you think is going on”

My uneducated dumbass: Uhh the liquids became two.

[omitempest]

"Any sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic"

... so Magic.

[memingsyco]

I know chemistry so I am saying, it's definitely a chemical reaction 😂😂

[Kynk]

"I totally know what is going on, I just want to see if you know what is going on first."

[gordon.sarratt]

Gonna be honest I’m a life science person I have absolutely no clue what’s going on.

[bebeasty]

First in test tube there is universal indicator
First you add HNO3 so it's turn to red.
Then you some costic soda so it's nutrilise it. And for some times it's become basic then it's become blue.
Then you shake it so left hno3 which was separated by density and NaOH which was in water mixes

[fajar]

My thoughts: Dumbledore broke into the place and magically infused everything for trolls

[nnavya]

Me: a chemistry undergraduate trying to figure out the experiment 😭

[elwafikerzazi]

It's called solid-liquid extraction, it happens when you have an A+B solution you add a solvent called S to to join with either A Or B then you'll have an organic phase at the bottom and an aqueous phase on top because it's less dense

[otherhouse]

I think there is a Ph indicator. At first its yellow so it is neutral Ph (7) so it could be something like water. Then there probably was added some acid so Ph indicator turns to red (about 1 Ph). White powder could be baking powder or other alkaline powder. Their sum would be alkaline and about 10 Ph as you can see it turns blue. Colours are different for each Ph indicator so I aint sure how acidic or alkaline they are based on colors. Separation at the end I only could explain as there wouldve been 2 liquids, dense and less dense. Less dense, which rises over dense liquid is probably water, as water tends to dissolute lots of different powders and elements. I aint sure what the more dense liquid could be.

Edit: I think dense liquid could be ethanol, because
1. It is more dense than water.
2. It dissolutes to water so that would explain why we didnt see it at start, but we saw it after he shaked the tube.

[cfg]

When a mommy fluid and a daddy fluid love each other there's chemistry. Anyways long story short happy fathers day.

[SuperBrainStorms]

I love it how you turned this video into a homework 😭

[RubixCubed]

As a not pro in chemistry, I can only deduce that chemicals are reacting with one another. It’s awesome and interesting regardless.