Testing CRAZY Recipes from a 1933 Chemical Formulary Book
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Published 2017-10-31
PART TWO IS HERE! • Crazy 1933 chemical recipes PART 2! s...
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This book would be called "chemistry life hacks" if it were written today. That being said, the flagrant use of neurotoxins, unstable explosive compounds, and heavy metals means it probably wouldn't make it on the bookstore shelves.
There are actually a lot of good recipes in here, other than the scary toxins of course. This book would have been extremely useful to someone who knew a little chemistry in the 30s and wanted to save money and make stuff at home. I just picked out some of the more ridiculous formulas and tested them in this video.
All Comments (21)
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“I was digging through some trash cans at school” As you do
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The semi-optimistic sarcasm is what i adore about this entire video
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This guy sounds like Bart Simpson mixed with the kid from Home Alone... And just as dangerous.
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"All you need is a gallon of water..." "And enough Cyanide to kill 2000 people :)"
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I was digging through some trashcans at school
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Breaking News Local Man Found Dead Trying To Clean Pennies
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“Honey, it’s time for your cold medication” “but mommy i dont want the medicine” “Now now sweetie, you need it to get healthy” knocks child unconscious
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Making sure to watch all of these again to remind YouTube that this is quality content that we all deserve
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Throws flaming solids across his yard Him: Hey, that was actually fun!
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You can get cancer by smelling this. After 2 seconds *Actually smells it*.
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I didnt even know this existed until I saw part 3. True art
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“Hmm, what smells like almonds?”
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"Now that's a coin worth risking your life over" I think it's one of the best quotes I've ever heard.
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"It's been a while since I got a good flash blinding" Ok
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The "oriental barometer", my grandmother had pottery ornaments with crystals on them, that would change from pink to blue with humidity. They were pretty common back in the '80s, though maybe they were a remnant from the '70s or '60s. I was fascinated by them. They were known to be weather-forecasting things, though I dunno how accurate.
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"oh cool, solidified alcohol" Russia would like to know your location
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Welcome to the CIA, FBI, and homeland security watch list.
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“Unfortunately I only have a few grams of cyanide”
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"Man I have a lot of redneck artillery." i love this man
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Awesome book. I tried to make some black power like you, but I only had the encylopedia as my guide. It burned so slowly, I couldn't even make rocker fuel out of it. Also I didn't use brown turkey oil. I was impressed with the book's example, much better than mine. I used equal quantity of potassium nitrate with sulfur. Your second example is scary. You could make bomb out of that. My brother had this old chemistry text book from the 1960s he found when we were kids, but we don't have it now. I read in it potassium nitrate with burn when mixed with any organic compound so we tried flour, but it didn't burn very well. Powered sugar works well, but my brother used equal quantity of granulated sugar, and potassium nitrate. He mixed it all together and He put it in a frying pan and melted it. He mixed into it some cobalt chloride from his chemistry set stirred it up in the trying pan, don't turn up the burner too high. Then when it melts into a gooey mass he scooped into a plastic tall glass one quarter full. Then he lit cool off for a little while and took it outside and put it on the ground and he threw a match in and out came a red mushroom cloud of flame. The book said sodium nitrate will burn like potassium nitrate when mixed with organic material. The gunpowder we use today uses sodium nitrate i read somewhere.
