Making lead crystals that taste sweet

Oddly enough, many lead compounds have a sweet taste. One of the most famous ones is probably lead acetate. It is highly water soluble and it looks and tastes like sugar.

I'll be making it in two ways:

1) Lead oxide + acetic acid
2) Lead metal + acetic acid + hydrogen peroxide

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[theCodyReeder]

The remaining grey powder was probably silver, tin, or other metals that wher alloyed with the lead.

[williamkennison]

lead acetate is the reason kids like the taste of lead paint chips on old homes and other buildings.

[aloysiuskurnia]

*sees title*
Ah sweet we're making sugar
*Plays video*
"Lead is a toxic element..."

[Jeffrey]

Sugar of Lead, or Lead Acetate was created as a byproduct of Romans cooking sweetening herbs for their wine in pots made of Lead. This may explain what drove Caligula mad. He loved his wine sweetened with this 'defruiter' as I believed it was called.

[ptczote]

“It’s inevitable that some of the crystals will break, but I want to keep this to a minimum.”

*Also, violently shakes bowl.*

[MrEbenezer]

A tip from one amateur chemist to a real chemist. If you get some kind of very smooth, almost "fatty" tupperwave (usually the cheapest stuff, cause it's got more fatty plastic), you will be able to evaporate the crystals and later on just lift them up, because the plastic trays work like teflon, it doesn't stick. It's done miracles for me, and I would never use anything but cheap fake-tupperware stuff now for my crystallizations, at least if I want to be able to pick my crystals up easily after the water has evaporated.

[chaumas]

"Glacial acetic acid", for those wondering, is just undiluted acetic acid. It's called that because its melting point is about 17℃, so it starts solidifying into crystals at close to room temperature.

[programexe]

fun fact, if you play this at 1.25x speed, it sounds like him nowadays

[MrGoatflakes]

"tear apart a car battery and roast the lead dioxide found inside" sounds like good advice xD

[jamesverhoff]

The term for those crystals growing through each other is twinning. It happens a lot in crystals in geology; I'm not sure why.

[elferson]

Title: "Making lead crystals that taste sweet"
First 1 second: "lead is a toxic element"

[Sturdy_Penguin]

So...what you're saying is, that if I have sore nipples, I need to chug some vinegar and eat parts of car batteries?

[notlunalust]

I've been binging these videos whenever I'm stuck in the bathroom with stomach pains, since the videos are so soothing, and nothing makes me happier in these moments than hearing distilled water being used

[melvin_milton]

Thx for the recipe I stroked the big crystals on my nipples and it really helped

[punishedexistence]

I remember once in my chem class in college I made a solution of lead nitrate and stuck the beaker in the lab drawar. We went away on summer break and I came back to my same drawar which still had the beaker in it fully evaporated and had about 3 huge almost purely clear lead nitrate crystals along with many smaller ones. It was so beautiful I had to put them in a test tube with a cork and took it home. Sadly I think someone stole them where I had them displayed, maybe thinking it was quartz. Well, let's hope they didn't open it and play with the crystals...

[LilacDownDeep]

14:58 Holy tamales on a biscuit LOOK at that twinning! That is BEAUTIFUL. I'd buy that in a *heartbeat* just to show to my geologist friends.

[lucegibbs]

I almost failed high school chem and I remember almost none of it yet I’ve decided to subscribe to a ton of them

[jkobain]

Making sugar? I don't see the «Edible Chem» suffix in the title…

[WritingMyOwnElegy]

lead and iron oxide makes thermite
sugar and KNO3 makes rocket fuel,

*_a weapon to surpass metal gear?_*

[steernaught]

3:07 Ferb, i know what we’re gonna do today