Amazing footage showed Youtubers, Nick Uhas, David Dobrik, former NASA engineer Mark Rober and some other members of the latter’s Vlog Squad, pulling off the world’s largest “elephant’s toothpaste” experiment, in the back yard of one of their homes.
The ‘elephant’s toothpaste’ experiment has gone viral on YouTube and viewed over 1.1 million times. Now, people want to know how it was done.
In the footage, Uhas explained the science behind his experiment, with 200 cubic meters of foam spilling over in the backyard of his home in California.
In the experiment, they used hydrogen peroxide, add soap and food coloring dye, and then ‘catalyzing a rapid decomposition of the hydrogen peroxide with the potassium iodide,’ according to Nerdist.
The mixture transformed into oxygen gas which becomes larger and gets stuck in soapy water which created the bubbles. This finally turned into a foam explosion.
In a video, Uhas explains: ‘We start with 35 percent hydrogen peroxide and we add soap and food coloring dye, we then add a catalyst potassium iodine in our case.
‘When these two chemicals mix it strips one of the oxygen of the hydrogen peroxide which creates oxygen gas.
‘This gas then gets caught in the soap mixture and creates a tonne of foam very fast if you use the right catalyst.’
The result was 200 cubic meters of foam spilled over into their backyard. Footage showed a lava-like mixture of blue foam spreads all over there. People who are standing there, run immediately.
The mixture is eco-friendly and there is no fear of damage to any surfaces or foliage that it spilled out on to.
Earlier, the first attempt was captured in the viral TikTok. They used red foam and still spanned an impressive amount of Dobrik’s backyard. It’s crazy.
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