Cody'sLab - 2020-12-21
I extract pure potassium metal from ordinary fruit. Help me make videos by donating here: https://www.patreon.com/CodysLab SubReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/codyslab/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/CodysLab
"If you ate 40,000 bananas in ten minutes, you'd die from radiation poisoning"
"Ah yes, the radiation would kill you!"
Banana Pills, by Dado.
@Racist Femboy Fox SCP-3521
I don’t ont know why but this is hilarious to think about
Great quote from a great man
If say, you could eat that many, almost every thing else in a banana would kill you first, even the water in them.
Amazing how your body just extract potassium from your food and puts it where it needs to be without many steps to extract it
Well its actually also through a lot of complicated step.. But still its amazing our body can do such task automatically without our interference
@FeelingShred We still need that outside source of fuel for good and continued function, it's just that we typically have enough in reserves to continue body function for an extended period of time even without said fuel, be it ATP processed from food we recently had, to fat, muscle, and pretty much every other cell in our body. Muscle cells are going to keep doing their jobs and develop stronger muscles even when there's no food intake, they'll just use whatever is available to do what they're programmed to do, and when maintaining life is more important than maintaining muscles, they get broken down and scavenged by other cells that are programmed to keep the individual alive.
"Chlorides, Bromides and Iodides are always soluble, except for those of Silver, Lead and Mercury..."
Man, back when I was at university, I used to know all the solubility rules (and just about everything else about analytical chemistry), for all the common compounds in polar and non-polar solvents. It's really heart-warming to see someone use the practical applications of such knowledge. Makes me nostalgic for my undergrad days some 25 years ago now...
@L Awliet
Amen!
@Dm So The important thing to know is that some salts are highly soluble in a solvent and some dont and you can use this to separate some elements from each other. Then you can easily search solubility values, even if you dont remember solubility rules. Normally, perchlorates solubility isnt included in the " solubility rules to remember" in many textbooks.
@L Awliet nah organic chemistry is life... literally
@HAKATAPAWA yeah man that's where the money is at but theres just to much to cram, too many reaction names, concepts without any logic , you just have to cram it all up that's what sucks about it
@L Awliet i totally understand why you would dislike it. I personally hated it until I decided to pick it all up from the start.
Alchemists, for about a thousand years: I shall extract gold from lead
Cody, in 2020: I shall extract potassium from a banana.
Alchemists: ... progress?
Cody: Nope
Yes! The peels do contain the most potassium. I tested the radioactivity of bananas earlier this year, and the peels were clearly the most radioactive part. Probably due to the higher potassium content. Maybe higher concentrations of other NORMs too.
@Benjamin Bakker that literally is the worst hypothesis I’ve ever read. The fact the fruit isn’t connected to the peel except for two spots apparently means nothing to you, lmao
@Sam Sam boil them, in distilled water in a tea pot. Make a tea
@Dean Evangelista dehydrate them and blend them to use in garden if you want it it work faster for grow time.
The amount of potassium in bananas does not change durring the ripening process. BUT in raw bananas, most of the potassium is in the peel, and in almost rotten bananas, potassium has passed from the skin to the flesh during ripening.
@Pika I mean
The algorithm has weird ideas
But we dont control it
You probably had yield losses on the extraction step. The solids would need to be milled down to maximize contact for extraction. They have the same problem in mining. If the ore isn't ground down to a small-enough size, the flotation step won't work and the metal will be lost in those larger pieces of ore.
You're tellin me many years ago as a young pyro-addict I could have just made potassium perchlorate out of bananas? Was so hard to obtain even 15 years ago
Kris, get the BANANA!
Potasium
Potasium
I am thoroughly satisfied from this video. Everytime you said something was left over and wasn't completely potassium you did what everyone wanted to see to the end. Thank you very much for your time.
So if you want potassium you gotta eat bananas with the shell on, okay
"armor"
"Shell"
If you let the banana ripe, much of the peel will get on the banana. Although, it would be quite soft.
No more boneless bananas 😩
"Kris, get the bananas"
This is what the Queen does when kris gets the banana
The algorithm knows something..
That's really impressive!! I have a question the last reaction, how do we know that the end product is potassium and not lithium since the conversion is not complete and lithium is in excess?
The K vapors come out of the tube and condense into the mineral oil kept below. The Li has a higher boiling point. Cody has another video for this.
I think your accurate to claim that there is more potassium in the peals than in fruit bananas.
I read the same thing when I was searching for how to protect my self from radioactive fallout in case it happened, and it was said that bananas are the most loaded natural source of potassium that is consumable and safe, and it was also mentioned that there is more potassium in the peals but they are not really eatable, so it would be hard to load oneself with potassium by consuming the peals.
Love watching this process - interesting & educational.
Also, as someone from the Northern part of the Midwest, I loved your "freezer". 😂😂❄️❄️
Next Episode : "Extracting Pure Mercury From Tuna" LOL
This would be cool
That's a good idea 💡
Beatmetoit
(Cody stuffing 12,000 lbs of king tuna into a furnace)
Conclusion: eyes and brain will be enough
One of the most entertaining science videos I've ever seen. Many thanks!
Great efforts and lovely show - somuch of chemistry explained and whole exercise done so nicely - Gives great learnings ! 👌👌🌹
I actually found this video incredible 👏 amazing that energy is hiding in bananas lol. I eat 1 to 2 bananas a day so I found this all the more interesting. Especially having twice the background radiation. I heard bananas was radioactive, but to see it before my eyes is insane. I should be glowing green after the over 30 years of eating bananas 🍌😉😂.
That's amazing!!!! Hard to believe we are actually eating "real" potassium when eating a banana... albiet a very small amount. Still... Amazing!
How have I never heard of this channel before? This is the most amazing science experiment I've ever seen!
Great chemistry lesson! Wish they were like that more at school when I was a Child!
So upset I only recently found you. Awesome content and amazing quality and style!
A Normal Person: I should go eat some bananas.
Cody: I think I can make a bomb out of these bananas
There isn't another channel like Cody's Lab. His lab contains garbage cans, homemade lab equipment, snow freezers, cooking pans, and a hand vacuum pump. Don't ever change a thing. Please.
🤣 seems like i have to Sub
Amen brother
everyone who ever made a real foundational discovery, did it with equipment they kluged together, and indefatigable curiosity.
You've clearly never seen explosions and fire lmao
There actually is, Cody just uploads more frequently
@cody'slab since sunflowers pull heavy metals from the soil it would be interesting to do something like this with those!
Thanks, I found it interesting all the way through. Always wondered how to extract!
This made me reconsider my affinity to chemistry as a subject.
Man, there's just so much money, work, materials, and equipment needed to perform this experiment.
Is it really worth it?
He made a cool video with it, so that's value right there!
What, he got to throw pottasium into a stream. How was it not worth?
In all seriousness, I'm assuming Cody's day job makes up for the expense of video making. I'd suggest ad revenue pays for the expenses, but I'm not sure Cody is monetized.
3.3 million views as of today... I'd say it was worth it yeah
In the name of Science.
This is the most thorough destruction of a banana I've ever seen.
Literally dismantled a bunch of bananas right before our eyes lol
Very well said.
Not since the great pickle war has there been this level of banana carnage
Nos even HowToBasic can compete with this
This video perfectly sums up why chemistry is awesome! Great video
Thanks!!! Besides excellent class on practical chemistry now I know how to properly make banana chips! Thanks again!)))
I'd like to see the reaction if the potassium was placed in/on snow. Probably not as exciting but I'm curious
Thank you for sharing - it was a clear process to watch every step, now I am off to buy me some banana chips lol
NileRed : nice laboratory with nice glassware
Cody : rusty cans and pipes and still managing to do awesome chemistry
Cody’s Methlab
@BruceNJeffAreMyFlies we both know this is a meme but lets not compare these two. Both are great people.
@BruceNJeffAreMyFlies One name springs to mind: Thunderf00t
@Tony Easley Next time on Codys Lab. Making a signal flare out of coconuts!
The cleaner the purer
Thanks, this was most interesting and you are very good chemist..you know your stuff!! Cheers, Jim
There is more potassium in the peels due to the way plants use potassium. Considering the fruit is meant to be food for it's seed to consume after germinating. It wouldn't need alot of potassium to help it grow.
It’s just incredible to me how all the metals that we need for a healthy body are found in natural foods yet as a metal, ones like potassium cannot exists in they’re natural metallic form in nature. They are just to easily oxidized into salts.
Again a perfect reason to believe that we are made from star dust. An explosion so powerful to make these metals out of energy and gasses before they deteriorated into oxidized compounds and solid matter.
You sir take chemistry out of the lab and make it fun and amazing similar to a mechanic building a 1000 hp supercharged engine out of a Vauxhall engine. ...opps...I think I just gave away my age heh heh heh.
Amazing to know that, this whole works happening in our stomach when we eat banana
While doing research for a nutrition class, I found out that papayas and red potatoes have more potassium than bananas. You should compare those.
@PASTIVITY Not in this country.
@Tim Kemper Ditto in Aus.
@Lin Mal when you got 4 50ft tall avo trees the rats eat more than I can xD
@Lin Mal what country you live in Avocadonia?
potassium experiments at school were always well recieved by the students.. just based on the fact that it went boom at the end. great vid man. keep it up
Cody I know this video is several months old but still I hope this message reaches you. You are so awesome. Plz never go away.
It is really impressive to what lengths this youtuber goes to achieve the chemical outcome. But i feel like it was very educational for me as a non-chemist.. 😃👌🏼 How amazing is nature and chemistry !
Love how he said "lets pop this in the freezer" and he just goes outside and puts the beaker in the floor
Cody's the guy your math textbook warned you about.
@Churros McGee
Maybe she was being facetious
@Churros McGee my daughter is a cashier while in school and makes $16 an hour
If Cody has 100 banana skins...
This was a very exiting journey being a chemistry major.
Wow..that was a great length you went to extract the potassium from the banana 🍌 well done 👏 and great video. 👍
Cody I don’t think having a jar labeled “Flesh” is an amazing idea
Well done and much excitement generated. This what needs to be done in the High school Chemistry classrooms to increase the interest
Imagine finding a jar full of ash labeled "flesh" out of context.....
Like, out in the garage.
Imagine finding it next to a jar labeled peels
@Nekomimi The III or calling them skins for the added humor!
Interestingly, there has been a breakdown of the elements by weight of a human body (average amount, I would assume). It's somewhere online, but I don't know where. Edit: "Composition of the human body - Wikipedia".
or "skin"
ChickenPilot - 2020-12-21
I love the contrast where NileRed takes something inedible and makes it edible and Cody takes edible stuff and turns it inedible.
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