World's Saltiest Water - Periodic Table of Videos

A recently created lake/pond in Ethiopia contains the world's most saline water body. More links and info in full description ↓↓↓

This video features Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff.

PAPER: Chemical Analysis of Gaet’ale, a Hypersaline Pond in Danakil Depression (Ethiopia): New Record for the Most Saline Water Body on Earth.
Eduardo Pérez and Yonas Chebude

With thanks to the Garfield Weston Foundation

[ciccisalsicci]

"Unless its taste is logarithmic". Priceless.

[pIacehoIders]

worlds wettest salt

Edit:  lol i recieved a notifcation of a comment i made 3 years ago to find it has a lot of likes and realise how wrong my comment was, but then i recalled it was written when "Is water wet?" was a fresh meme, that's why this comment was considered satire

[RedRainBlackFlame]

That lake is probably where all the tears from rejected grant proposals end up.

[BroooMC]

"The water in Ethiopia is hotter than the water in Antarctica."
No kidding XD

[joeym]

Are we all going to forget the man who found this spring was sampling random water in the middle of the desert on vacation?

[miah]

went to the comments to see saltiness comments, was satisfied.

[JoeriSmit]

still not as salty as the average csgo player

[RoroTheDeer]

Is that where League of Legends players are born?

[AskAScientistShow]

If you hit someone with the plastic water bottle with water from that lake, would that be assault?

[Fusako]

Thanks for another fascinating video.
I recently returned from a trip to Israel, where I visited the southern Dead Sea. The water there is so salty that it is precipitating out large clusters of salts. The water outside the hotel I was staying at was literally carpeted with 4cm of these salt-spheres. Footgear was pretty much required.

[banisan]

That's the LoL. The Lake of Legends.

[CarlosHoe]

Some say that league of legends players are baptised here

[JakeTheBear]

It's nice to see you again professor! 😄 and we're almost a Million!

[ErikJohnsonFMA]

"GOOD CHEMISTS CAN DO ANYTHING"

[kikoerops]

Very interesting video!
You said that when you freeze the water you get no salt at all. Could you make a video of the water being frozen?
It would be really interesting to see the ice forming and pushing the salts to the top (especially since the ice would be transparent and the pure salts yellow!).
That would be amazing to see!

[orthodium]

It is always a lot of fun watching your videos prof. Poliakoff. Спасибо!

[TunnelDragon]

I clicked on this video in part to see all the salt jokes in the comments.

[rohandelemontex]

I met the professor today and got to hold on of the dog toys that he uses in the videos and ask him some questions, I was going to a chemistry lecture so I was already excited but then I saw the professor and almost cried in excitement. I didn't even know that the professor was in Australia but this was one of the best days of my life!

[stoulmar]

This guy is so nice
I am just happy for him because listening to him clearly shows how happy he is about everything he's doing

He's enjoying it so much

[Descanlin]

[Insert joke about certain video game communities here]