Chlorine is an angry gas!

[jdubs]

He may have died, but can YOU tell me what cadmium tastes like?

[smeefer]

"Likely explains why he died at an early age" 💀

[crimsondragon]

The halogens are an entire angry rainbow.

[robinbrowne]

It's weird and cool. NaCl contains two of the most dangerous and reactive elements yet we can safely eat it 👍

[michaelf]

Scheele also discovered oxygen, but Priestley published first. In addition, Scheele discovered many other things, including cyanide.

[justinlehtinen]

my man holding pH strips up like hes in a makeup unboxing tutorial, a true professional

[ekstatc]

Old school scientist: discovers new chemical
Also old school scientist: "I wonder what this tastes like?"

[Chemteacherphil]

The reactions that you see me perform in this video show a few things. First, that an atmosphere of chlorine gas can support combustion, in this case methane, which produces various chloromethane compounds as well as hydrochloric acid gas, which you can positively identify by testing the vapors with moistened pH paper. The bleaching properties of chlorine gas is shown next by bubbling chlorine through water with universal indicator. Notice how quickly the color is eliminated from solution! Finally, I show the violent reactivity of chlorine gas by generating acetylene using calcium carbide. As soon as bubbles of the two gases collide, they explode (even underwater!)

[jep]

Absolute madman drinking his chemicals 😂

[TypeAPositive]

I used to weld plastic, and often I had to weld PVC. That involved heating it up to over 350 degrees Celsius with a specialized torch and melting it to another piece of PVC. Well…. Polyvinyl chloride puts off vinyl chloride gas when you melt it…. It gets in your eyes and your lungs and it’s HORRIBLE to smell.

To this day I still can remember exactly how that crap smelled.

[Mikemk_]

I was taught the reason old chemists always tasted everything, is because it's an easy way to tell if it's acidic (sour) or basic (often bitter, but unreliable) before pH strips.

[sortaspicey]

That guy probably tasted colors that we can't even see

[SomeRandomKydd]

This has answered the salt question that has plagued me since high school. Thank you!!

[kinnelyuwu]

"How cool is that?" *cut off violent reaction*

[quinnzykir]

PEGGY. THATS THE RECIPE FOR MUSTARD GAS

[jameswallace]

Literally poisned myself yesterday when i used hcl to clean toilet ring (hard water problem) and forgot bc of ahdh and poured bleach in to the bowl. Then a plume of gas hit me and had me running. Lungs burned all night and a little this morning.

[ofilssizb]

When I was 11 yrs old I mixed bleach and isoprophyl alcohol inside of a 1.5L coke bottle, I did it out of curiosity, just a curiosity of a kid. First, I put a small amount of bleach and then the iso alcohol same amount as the bleach. I mixed it, spun it around the bottle and like a second later I feel the bottle is getting warm and I was like 😮. I opened the bottle and tried to smell it and all of a sudden... I was gasping for air for like 15 to 20 min. It felt like my throat is being sqeezed that I couldn't breathe I even thought I'm going to die that day. And after that incident everytime I smell bleach I feel nauseous for like 6 months.

[bottomsupbass]

It’s been a reoccurring item in my last 30 yrs. I worked as an electrician in many industrial areas. Chloride and chlorine . I lived through DuPont disaster x 2 and probably more than I was aware of. They even tried to argue with me about the half million gallons of wood alcohol that spilled into the river was harmless. As was the phosgen that took a friends life. What I’m saying is: I’m tired and rambling but safety first MF’s

[zacherwin]

"You can tell its chlorine by the way it is."

[SuiLagadema]

A good chunk of our atomic modeling are dangerous elements. Cl, Na, O, P, S, and some other trace elements as well. Na will go poof, Na+ will help in cellular activities. P outside can go poof with enough friction, in the body, it's part of the molecular that provides us with the energy to live, ATP.
So yeah, in a weird way, we're a balanced walking chemical weapon.