1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,720 Do not try what you're about to see at home. We're what you call experts 2 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:34,680 Did you bring it? Yeah, we brought it 3 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:50,080 It's beautiful 4 00:00:50,160 --> 00:00:55,320 That's right folks. We are smack at the beginning of a myth busters breaking bad special 5 00:00:55,560 --> 00:01:00,020 It's gonna be unstable 6 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:14,320 As we break out with breaking back Walter white with 50 grams of mercury-phalming 7 00:01:14,320 --> 00:01:23,760 Who are the myth busters Adam Savage 8 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:32,760 And Jamie Heineman, I feel like I just got spanked between them for 30 years of special effects experience 9 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:37,640 Together with Brad in a horror somebody ordering explosion carry buyer 10 00:01:44,320 --> 00:01:48,760 They don't just tell the myths they put them to the test 11 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:08,280 Shall we get our viewers up to speed okay ladies and gentlemen 12 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:15,200 This is Vince Gilligan creator of the amazing show breaking bad and this is Aaron Paul who plays one of the main characters on the show 13 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:18,880 Jesse Pinkman now a few months ago Vince was asked in an interview 14 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:23,520 What show he would most like to do a crossover with breaking bad and his answer was 15 00:02:23,920 --> 00:02:26,280 Myth busters so guys what do you have for us? 16 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:29,400 well breaking bad is is usually about 17 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:32,680 Walt and Jesse get themselves into a whole lot of trouble and 18 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:37,360 Typically, it's science that bails them out, but you know, we've been getting a lot of grief 19 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:45,200 Whether or not that that science is actually scientifically accurate and we're here hoping you can separate breaking bad fact from fiction 20 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:47,080 Like what first off? 21 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:52,840 Can you indeed use mercury fulminate as an impact explosive and decimate an entire room? 22 00:02:54,640 --> 00:03:02,800 Nice and to can you dissolve through a bath the floor and ceiling just by filling up the tub with hydrofluoric acid 23 00:03:03,640 --> 00:03:10,840 Explosives and acid let's party totally yes 24 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:20,320 The hit show breaking bad sees chemistry teacher Walt at his dropout student take on the crazy world of cartels 25 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:23,760 Prime and crystal there is gold in the streets 26 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:28,920 But while science is always on their side is that chemistry correct? 27 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:32,760 Well first up it's rubber dub dub 28 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:39,240 Acid eats through a top can hydrofluoric acid really chew through a crime scene 29 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:47,000 And for this acid test, what's the plan? 30 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:52,380 Clearly we should start in small scale with I think small samples of each of the 31 00:03:52,700 --> 00:03:57,100 Substances the acid's supposed to have eaten through like ceramic for the bath steel for the gun 32 00:03:57,540 --> 00:04:00,020 pig bone and pig flesh for the body and 33 00:04:00,220 --> 00:04:06,140 Wood for the floor and see if the acid actually reacts with it and if it can then you'll ramp up to full scale 34 00:04:06,180 --> 00:04:09,180 We're gonna rip it up to full scale no matter what but yes exactly 35 00:04:09,300 --> 00:04:16,060 Well, there's one thing you guys need to remember HF is really really dangerous. Yeah, that's an understatement 36 00:04:16,380 --> 00:04:20,860 We're gonna really have to lock down our safety procedures. Good luck. Yeah, good luck 37 00:04:23,060 --> 00:04:29,340 And since hydrofluoric acid is so toxic that even a tiny amount on your skin could be deadly 38 00:04:29,820 --> 00:04:36,660 Stylish it's off to Berkeley where their crack team of chemists have a supply of this concentrated corrosive 39 00:04:36,940 --> 00:04:44,220 The in the actual program Walt describes hydrofluoric acid as being capable of dissolving metal rock glass and ceramic all 40 00:04:44,420 --> 00:04:51,020 Materials commonly findable in an average bathroom. We've added a couple of others plus our favorite human analog pig 41 00:04:51,380 --> 00:04:55,060 We're gonna introduce them to some hydrofluoric acid see what happens 42 00:04:55,220 --> 00:05:00,140 All right, so I'm gonna go ahead and load these with 100 mils of hydrofluoric acid 43 00:05:00,660 --> 00:05:03,160 Eric the chemist carefully pours the acid 44 00:05:04,220 --> 00:05:09,760 No, there's the meat. It's not bubbling up right away though. Is it? No smoking 45 00:05:10,660 --> 00:05:14,500 Making sure that all the samples receive exactly 100 mils 46 00:05:15,740 --> 00:05:19,740 Well now the most crucial aspect of any experiment waiting. Yep 47 00:05:20,420 --> 00:05:27,300 And after an eight hour soak in their acid bath according to breaking bad there should be nothing left, right? 48 00:05:27,820 --> 00:05:31,140 See what we got some residue on the bottom there 49 00:05:32,260 --> 00:05:39,860 But it seems completely unaffected by the acid. Yeah, the steel is still intact and so is the linoleum and the wood 50 00:05:39,900 --> 00:05:45,140 It seems like it's pretty much unaffected, but the drywall is a different matter. Oh 51 00:05:45,980 --> 00:05:49,020 Oh, the drywall is just a soggy soupy mush 52 00:05:49,740 --> 00:05:55,420 Looks like the plaster is pretty much gone and the acid has also affected the cast iron top 53 00:05:55,460 --> 00:06:01,460 Yeah, it's clearly eaten through the ceramic glaze. Look at that underneath. It feels quite solid 54 00:06:02,060 --> 00:06:04,420 Now for the meat the main course 55 00:06:05,660 --> 00:06:11,300 Yeah, it's definitely affected the meat, but you know, I still see a bunch of fatty tissue there 56 00:06:11,780 --> 00:06:16,780 Despite some minor changes the acid failed to chew through every single material 57 00:06:16,780 --> 00:06:21,700 So it's clear the hydrofluoric doesn't have the same bite as breaking bad 58 00:06:22,940 --> 00:06:28,420 So at this point it's looking pretty clear that hydrofluoric acid is not living up to the breaking bad series of events 59 00:06:28,420 --> 00:06:32,540 So there's no doubt that this is a very dangerous and potentially lethal asset 60 00:06:32,540 --> 00:06:37,420 But when it comes to turning a body into mulch in a few minutes, it's not the acid of choice 61 00:06:37,900 --> 00:06:44,120 But that begs a real question. What is the acid of choice? Well, don't go anywhere because when we come back 62 00:06:44,580 --> 00:06:46,580 We're gonna find out 63 00:06:46,780 --> 00:06:59,180 Next Carrie Torian Grant are throwing down the gauntlet 64 00:07:02,900 --> 00:07:08,540 All right, Carrie, what's with the hazmat suit? We have a classic from season one of breaking bad 65 00:07:08,940 --> 00:07:12,220 Okay, so Walt needs to teach the bad guy lesson. He needs to get away 66 00:07:12,220 --> 00:07:16,300 He grabs what looks to be a crystalline structure, which is actually 67 00:07:16,780 --> 00:07:21,660 Mercury fulminate when the bad guys don't expect anything. He throws it down on the ground and explodes 68 00:07:21,980 --> 00:07:25,820 Blasting out the windows knocking the bad guys out and allowing him to escape wait 69 00:07:25,820 --> 00:07:31,740 So this mercury fulminate is some sort of explosive that you can detonate by throwing it on the ground time for some extremely 70 00:07:32,420 --> 00:07:33,580 dangerous 71 00:07:33,580 --> 00:07:35,580 chemistry 72 00:07:36,140 --> 00:07:37,660 This 73 00:07:37,900 --> 00:07:41,820 Is not a mess armed with his crazy handful of something 74 00:07:43,420 --> 00:07:45,740 Walt lines the bad guys with science 75 00:07:46,460 --> 00:07:52,140 But when his fistful of crystal really decimated a room or is this counterfeit chemistry? 76 00:07:55,260 --> 00:07:59,100 All right, so mercury fulminate is not exactly easy to get so what is that? Are we done? 77 00:07:59,420 --> 00:08:04,940 No, luckily we found a guy who is licensed to make this stuff and oddly enough his name is jesse 78 00:08:05,180 --> 00:08:08,860 Now he has agreed to make us some however we have to do it in a remote location 79 00:08:09,180 --> 00:08:13,420 Why because it's so nasty that if you're making it you want to be out in the middle of nowhere 80 00:08:13,820 --> 00:08:16,140 Yeah, and given that we know so little about this explosive 81 00:08:16,300 --> 00:08:20,220 I say we go out to the remote location and do some explosives tests just to see what it does 82 00:08:20,700 --> 00:08:23,260 I like it a little mercury fulminate 101 83 00:08:27,260 --> 00:08:30,380 So it's off to the quarry to get to know waltz weapon of choice 84 00:08:30,700 --> 00:08:34,300 What are we gonna blow up today? 85 00:08:35,500 --> 00:08:40,780 On breaking bad, Walter white takes some fulminate of mercury throws at the ground and creates an explosion 86 00:08:41,100 --> 00:08:43,980 The question is is it going to explode the way it does in the tv show? 87 00:08:44,300 --> 00:08:49,740 So we've come out here to carcin hill rock quarry where we've done lots of explosions to find out a little bit more about 88 00:08:49,820 --> 00:08:57,660 What it does and how it's made and the person with that classified know-how is the aptly named explosives expert jesse 89 00:08:57,980 --> 00:09:03,980 Mercury fulminate is extremely dangerous and that's why we have jesse taylor 90 00:09:04,140 --> 00:09:08,860 He is our expert now. He is a consultant for the military is homemade explosives 91 00:09:09,260 --> 00:09:15,900 And we're taking all of the precautions here. He's away in a special tent remotely from all of us and only get small batches 92 00:09:17,340 --> 00:09:24,300 So jesse how dangerous is mercury fulminate mercury fulminate is a primary explosive and so it is very sensitive to 93 00:09:24,780 --> 00:09:27,980 Shock and impact friction heat as well as spark 94 00:09:28,700 --> 00:09:32,460 So the good news is this mercurial stuff is very volatile 95 00:09:32,940 --> 00:09:35,900 The bad news is it's a lot less photogenic 96 00:09:36,300 --> 00:09:40,940 The finished product doesn't look like it does on tv right mercury fulminate is normally a powder 97 00:09:41,260 --> 00:09:45,980 In the silver or gray color and in the show it's crystallized and to form those crystals 98 00:09:46,060 --> 00:09:50,140 It's fairly complex probably beyond the scope of an improvised setting like we're in today 99 00:09:50,300 --> 00:09:53,900 I'm gonna let you get back to work because this looks like dangerous stuff. Absolutely 100 00:09:54,540 --> 00:09:56,700 It may look nothing like its tv twin 101 00:09:56,940 --> 00:10:02,060 But now the question is how much bang do you get for your fulminated mercury buck? 102 00:10:02,380 --> 00:10:06,540 Now there are two important differences between what they did on the show and what we're going to do here 103 00:10:07,260 --> 00:10:11,820 The first one is that walt used 50 grams of fulminated mercury 104 00:10:12,060 --> 00:10:15,980 We're only going to use five since this is the first time we're using it on the show 105 00:10:16,300 --> 00:10:21,020 And the second thing is that in order to activate it. He actually threw it on the floor 106 00:10:21,420 --> 00:10:26,380 For this we're going to use something a bit more controlled. This is a squib and oh, yeah one more thing 107 00:10:26,940 --> 00:10:33,180 We're going to put it inside of a pumpkin. Why a pumpkin? Well to find out if this explosive bears fruit 108 00:10:35,180 --> 00:10:40,380 All right, here we go. This is five grams of mercury fulminate. All right, let the pumpkin fly 109 00:10:41,020 --> 00:10:44,140 In three two one fire 110 00:10:44,700 --> 00:10:46,700 Woo! 111 00:10:48,300 --> 00:10:53,580 The pumpkin is gone! That blows up real good. So I guess we go back to the shop 112 00:10:53,660 --> 00:10:58,300 It's time to really find out if you can throw it and make an explosion. Oh man. This is going to be so much fun 113 00:10:59,660 --> 00:11:01,660 Now what we need to do is test this myth 114 00:11:01,740 --> 00:11:05,980 So we're going to have to figure out a way to throw that mercury fulminate safely onto the ground 115 00:11:06,300 --> 00:11:12,780 And we're going to have to recreate a building just like the one in the tv show so we can see how explosive this stuff really is 116 00:11:14,540 --> 00:11:16,540 So 117 00:11:20,700 --> 00:11:22,700 Coming up on the breaking bad special 118 00:11:23,340 --> 00:11:25,740 Careful about splashing the acid rains 119 00:11:26,060 --> 00:11:29,500 But can it take a bite out of a bathtub like it's on fire? 120 00:11:30,060 --> 00:11:34,700 And the team cooks up some crazy crystal chaos. All right, let's flip this hideout 121 00:11:44,860 --> 00:11:48,380 Yo, i'm jesse pinkman and it's time to science this bia-chuff 122 00:11:49,180 --> 00:11:54,380 The mythbusters are breaking bad scrutinizing their science and checking their chemistry 123 00:11:55,980 --> 00:11:59,900 So could hydrofluoric acid really burn a hole through your bathroom? 124 00:12:02,700 --> 00:12:08,860 Well the body of evidence says no there's been some activity here, but it's not soup 125 00:12:09,420 --> 00:12:11,660 Why? Well, here's adam on acid 126 00:12:12,300 --> 00:12:17,100 All right kids time for a little lesson in acid chemistry editors. Please give me a periodic table right there 127 00:12:17,740 --> 00:12:23,580 Awesome now. Let's highlight the halogens fluorine chlorine bromine iodine and astuteam 128 00:12:23,900 --> 00:12:30,620 What's interesting to us about these five elements is their reactivity the lower their atomic number the more reactive they are 129 00:12:30,780 --> 00:12:34,940 That means bromine is more reactive than iodine chlorine more reactive than bromine 130 00:12:35,340 --> 00:12:40,140 And fluorine reacts with nearly every known substance now onto acids 131 00:12:40,700 --> 00:12:41,740 Thank you 132 00:12:41,740 --> 00:12:48,700 Hydrogen creates an acid with each of the halogens and you would be very reasonable to expect that the reactivity of the halogen would correspond 133 00:12:48,860 --> 00:12:50,220 directly to how 134 00:12:50,220 --> 00:12:55,100 Caustic the acid that it makes with hydrogen would be but you'd be wrong in the case of 135 00:12:55,660 --> 00:13:02,300 hydrofluoric acid and it's because of the central bond in hydrofluoric acid that bond between hydrogen and fluorine 136 00:13:02,620 --> 00:13:09,420 See these acids work by releasing hydrogen atoms in the reaction and because that bond between hydrogen and fluorine is so 137 00:13:09,500 --> 00:13:15,180 Strong it doesn't ever want to let go hydrofluoric acid is a less powerful acid than its brethren 138 00:13:15,740 --> 00:13:17,260 lesson out 139 00:13:17,260 --> 00:13:22,220 Hydrofluoric acid may not have the right bite, but jayme has found something that does 140 00:13:22,860 --> 00:13:27,740 According to our experts at berkeley labs that would be almost pure 141 00:13:28,380 --> 00:13:31,900 sulfuric acid along with one other ingredient which 142 00:13:32,700 --> 00:13:35,900 we will refer to as our special sauce because 143 00:13:36,460 --> 00:13:40,380 We're not actually in the business of showing people how to dispose of bodies 144 00:13:41,020 --> 00:13:43,900 Let's just say it turbo charges sulfuric acid 145 00:13:44,620 --> 00:13:50,060 The hydrofluoric acid didn't dissolve the organic matter the bath the floor or the ceiling 146 00:13:51,180 --> 00:13:58,780 But jayme's so confident that this special sauce solution can they're going full scale for this chemical catastrophe 147 00:13:59,020 --> 00:14:02,940 In order to work with acid you need a location that's in the middle of nowhere 148 00:14:02,940 --> 00:14:09,260 And that's where we've come one of our favorite locations the waste management alfamont landfill in livermore, california 149 00:14:09,420 --> 00:14:12,540 Down there in that bowl where jayme's standing. That's ground zero 150 00:14:14,700 --> 00:14:16,700 In this rectangle there's going to be a hole 151 00:14:17,500 --> 00:14:24,300 In that hole there's going to be a tank and that tank is where all the nastiness is going to fall if it burns through the tub and the floor 152 00:14:25,420 --> 00:14:27,420 I would have gotten there eventually 153 00:14:27,820 --> 00:14:29,820 That way it'll be safely contained 154 00:14:30,460 --> 00:14:33,580 Safely contained and unable to fall through the cracks 155 00:14:34,940 --> 00:14:41,020 And it's fully in place the bath that goes under our bath made of crosslink high density polyethylene 156 00:14:42,060 --> 00:14:46,540 And above that goes their elevated bathroom built of course to code 157 00:14:50,060 --> 00:14:52,060 One tub of that 158 00:14:52,700 --> 00:14:58,060 So this is our mocked up bathroom and we've got a floor built to spec. We have a cast iron bathtub 159 00:14:58,460 --> 00:15:00,700 We even have a faux tile wall behind it 160 00:15:01,260 --> 00:15:04,940 But since this special sauce mix we're going to be pouring in the tub is 161 00:15:05,420 --> 00:15:08,940 About the nastiest stuff known to man if you're talking acids 162 00:15:09,500 --> 00:15:12,460 We're going to have to take some special precautions to do it safely 163 00:15:13,020 --> 00:15:15,900 To that end we've employed the help of delta tech services 164 00:15:16,060 --> 00:15:22,220 These guys are hazardous materials cleanup company and they've brought every toy in their arsenal to help us out 165 00:15:23,740 --> 00:15:26,060 Now that's the worst case scenario taken care of 166 00:15:27,020 --> 00:15:29,420 And now to break out the bath 167 00:15:29,580 --> 00:15:35,340 It's time to meet the dangerous stuff in these two bottles nearly pure solution of sulfuric acid 168 00:15:36,380 --> 00:15:42,140 But we make it even stronger by adding this a 30 solution of our special sauce the two of these together 169 00:15:42,540 --> 00:15:44,540 Hopefully we'll get ugly 170 00:15:45,100 --> 00:15:51,340 And here is 35 pounds of dirty drug dealer swine and he's about to take it back 171 00:15:52,060 --> 00:15:54,060 Time to suit up. Let's do it 172 00:15:56,300 --> 00:16:02,540 With the guys has matted up. It's time for the pig to take a bath. Oh, hello, old guy 173 00:16:06,540 --> 00:16:08,300 Oh man 174 00:16:08,300 --> 00:16:14,540 Let's uh, let's get the acid but for our drug dealer swine the toxic trouble just got deeper 175 00:16:15,180 --> 00:16:20,860 In the clip we only ever see jesse pouring two gallons of acid onto the body in the bathtub 176 00:16:20,860 --> 00:16:25,900 But to make triply short that we're totally covered in this experiment. We're using three times that much 177 00:16:26,220 --> 00:16:28,940 Yep, and once the pig is sleeping in the sulfuric 178 00:16:29,420 --> 00:16:31,420 Enter the special sauce 179 00:16:31,660 --> 00:16:34,940 You ready? Yeah, here we go special sauce going in 180 00:16:35,900 --> 00:16:37,900 careful about splashing 181 00:16:37,900 --> 00:16:39,900 smoking coming up 182 00:16:40,140 --> 00:16:42,140 Okay, okay 183 00:16:42,780 --> 00:16:46,220 Shall we retreat to our uh video cave? Yep. Okay 184 00:16:47,180 --> 00:16:48,940 I'm with us 185 00:16:48,940 --> 00:16:56,780 500 feet away the tent is set for their sulfuric surveillance. So now begins the weirdest weight in mythbusters history 186 00:16:59,980 --> 00:17:01,980 This is the worst movie ever 187 00:17:02,860 --> 00:17:07,980 Six gallons of the special sauce solution slowly starts to react with the bath. Oh 188 00:17:09,100 --> 00:17:13,420 Bubbles are starting to form. We've got white foam and its contents 189 00:17:13,980 --> 00:17:18,540 It's getting much darker and gooey over here. There's all this cloudy crap coming into the liquid 190 00:17:18,700 --> 00:17:24,620 But after 40 minutes of gradual changes. Oh, there it is suddenly the chemical reaction heats up 191 00:17:25,420 --> 00:17:28,700 There's a ton of smoke coming off this dude. It's happening. Oh 192 00:17:29,260 --> 00:17:31,260 Oh 193 00:17:31,500 --> 00:17:34,860 Oh pig is dissolving. Look at that. Wow 194 00:17:36,780 --> 00:17:42,460 Oh, look at the thermal camera. It's like hell in a bathtub. It's like it's on fire 195 00:17:43,820 --> 00:17:48,620 As the exothermic reaction gets even more aggressive. The bath is cloaked in smoke 196 00:17:49,260 --> 00:17:54,940 Oh, look at that. Oh my gosh. That's going crazy. That is going we should better clear out of here. Yeah 197 00:17:55,660 --> 00:18:00,460 That acrid cloud of gas makes monitoring the bathtub not just difficult but dangerous 198 00:18:00,940 --> 00:18:04,220 I totally did not expect this to be so energetic 199 00:18:04,940 --> 00:18:11,660 But eventually when the smoke dies down, it seems the acid has done its dirty work. Well on the pig at least 200 00:18:12,380 --> 00:18:15,420 So it looks like a large portion of it is dissolved 201 00:18:15,740 --> 00:18:22,220 But there's a little bit left and I have to say it looks about like what fell through the floor in breaking bad 202 00:18:22,460 --> 00:18:27,260 Yeah, except that the acid's not doing anything to the bathtub. Yeah, not a thing 203 00:18:27,420 --> 00:18:32,460 It's not making its way through the tub. That's what it looks like safe in video village 204 00:18:32,780 --> 00:18:36,780 But now that the reaction has run its course the guys go in for a closer look 205 00:18:37,740 --> 00:18:42,380 Ah, that's just wrong. It smells terrible. Oh 206 00:18:43,820 --> 00:18:50,140 That's one of the ugliest things I've ever seen. It really is one of the ugliest things he's ever seen. Think about that for a second 207 00:18:50,940 --> 00:18:56,620 It's clear the acid ate through most of the pig. But what about the bathtub and the bathroom floor? 208 00:18:57,340 --> 00:19:01,420 Well, the floor is totally intact. No tubs coming through there. Yep 209 00:19:01,820 --> 00:19:07,580 So as the plug is pulled and the experts drain the remains it seems this myth is sunk 210 00:19:08,700 --> 00:19:11,740 What do you think three times the amount of acid we saw in breaking bad? 211 00:19:12,220 --> 00:19:16,380 Still didn't burn through the tub. Well, you know, there's a lot more room in that tub 212 00:19:17,100 --> 00:19:19,100 I think we should talk to vince about it 213 00:19:19,980 --> 00:19:21,980 All right, it's still pretty cool 214 00:19:26,460 --> 00:19:29,740 Carri torian grad are testing this fulminate fling 215 00:19:31,820 --> 00:19:35,340 Ha ha could waltz throw down mercury fulminate 216 00:19:36,380 --> 00:19:39,420 Blow up a room and get out unharmed 217 00:19:41,260 --> 00:19:45,500 Well, the show's creator and star have their own initial analysis 218 00:19:46,140 --> 00:19:51,020 So Carri torian grant managed to find a real life chemist named jesse 219 00:19:51,260 --> 00:19:57,180 Yeah, who works in a trailer and is a genius at making the best illegal chemicals 220 00:19:57,980 --> 00:20:04,700 Wouldn't you say that's uh life imitating heart? Yeah a little bit, you know, they got the big boom, right? But uh, their 221 00:20:05,260 --> 00:20:10,380 Jesse said it's really difficult to make mercury fulminate into a crystal like 222 00:20:10,940 --> 00:20:16,460 Chunk, I know that stuff look like like like dirty play dough or something. Yeah, it doesn't look as cool as hours 223 00:20:17,020 --> 00:20:23,660 So maybe does that mean that their jesse isn't as badass as our jesse? Yes, that's exactly what it means 224 00:20:27,180 --> 00:20:32,780 Badass or not it's time to get this throw on the road. So the myth busters have cooked up a plan 225 00:20:33,580 --> 00:20:37,100 Now that we know what the mercury fulminate can do a couple of builds need to happen 226 00:20:37,100 --> 00:20:43,100 So we can test the myth first of all grant needs to build a throwing robot because this stuff is way too dangerous to throw ourselves 227 00:20:43,580 --> 00:20:46,860 Secondly, we need to set the scene so tori and I we're going to build a room 228 00:20:48,460 --> 00:20:53,420 First things first it needs to withstand a large blast. So that's going to mean a steel 229 00:20:54,060 --> 00:20:59,180 Power is going to be provided by an air cylinder that's going to that pulls down on a roller chain 230 00:20:59,740 --> 00:21:05,020 That rotates the arm the mercury fulminate. Hopefully hit the ground and then explode 231 00:21:06,940 --> 00:21:09,900 First up is the explosion proof heavy metal frame 232 00:21:12,380 --> 00:21:17,580 And with the axle in place the robot gets its all important throwing arm. This is the best part 233 00:21:18,060 --> 00:21:24,780 So once the arm goes on this hunk of metal starts to look like something it's like I'm giving it life 234 00:21:35,900 --> 00:21:40,140 So my throwing robot which I call throw box for short is done now 235 00:21:40,140 --> 00:21:44,860 It's time to test it for the first time right now in three two one 236 00:21:45,100 --> 00:21:47,100 Yes 237 00:21:50,380 --> 00:21:52,300 It's pretty good 238 00:21:52,300 --> 00:21:55,500 So now it's back to the quarry for the breaking bad house 239 00:21:56,300 --> 00:21:58,300 That's great the myth busters built 240 00:22:00,860 --> 00:22:02,860 We're building a house 241 00:22:03,660 --> 00:22:05,660 The walls and floors go up 242 00:22:06,860 --> 00:22:08,860 Grant positions the throw button 243 00:22:09,180 --> 00:22:11,660 Careful of the paneling don't scratch the paneling 244 00:22:12,620 --> 00:22:14,620 The roof is raised 245 00:22:16,860 --> 00:22:20,540 The room is glazed. All right these windows are a little dirty, but we don't care 246 00:22:22,860 --> 00:22:26,620 And then the final touch is to add the breaking bad guys 247 00:22:29,420 --> 00:22:34,140 This is gonna be Walter can't just be a robot. He's a little humanity 248 00:22:36,060 --> 00:22:41,260 For this experiment we're testing two things both lethality and injury now for that we have oscico burst discs 249 00:22:41,340 --> 00:22:46,300 We're gonna put both injury at 13 psi and death at 75 psi at 250 00:22:47,020 --> 00:22:47,980 Tuko 251 00:22:47,980 --> 00:22:51,180 Walter white and his henchmen. We'll see who lives who dies 252 00:22:52,700 --> 00:22:57,180 And with that the breaking bad tableau is ready to uh break 253 00:22:59,820 --> 00:23:04,540 Next suddenly i'm very uneasy can a fistful of crystal make a room 254 00:23:11,260 --> 00:23:13,260 In the 255 00:23:41,420 --> 00:23:43,420 Uh 256 00:23:43,740 --> 00:23:45,740 Put your pants back on we got work to do 257 00:23:48,140 --> 00:23:51,900 All right, welcome to the bad guy hideout now. This is how we're gonna test this myth 258 00:23:51,980 --> 00:23:57,180 We're gonna take 50 grams of mercury fulminate stick it in waltz hand aka 259 00:23:57,340 --> 00:24:00,940 Grant's throwing machine throw it on the ground and see if it explodes now 260 00:24:00,940 --> 00:24:07,180 We've recreated the office just like in the tv show. It's built to code complete with windows now tuko's over here 261 00:24:07,180 --> 00:24:12,220 He's sitting at his desk. He's counting his money now his henchmen. They have waltz surrounded 262 00:24:12,460 --> 00:24:17,180 So what we're gonna do is load up the throwing machine throw the mercury fulminate on the ground now if it explodes 263 00:24:17,260 --> 00:24:21,820 We have burst discs around the room to see if these guys would survive the blast 264 00:24:21,900 --> 00:24:25,660 And we're gonna be able to see if the windows blow out just like in a tv show 265 00:24:26,220 --> 00:24:28,220 Hello gentlemen 266 00:24:28,780 --> 00:24:30,780 So is that the real stuff? 267 00:24:34,300 --> 00:24:37,020 All right, suddenly i'm very uneasy 268 00:24:37,340 --> 00:24:45,180 With the unpredictable payload in place grant very carefully charges the throwbot. Okay, system's charged. I'm pulling the pin 269 00:24:48,860 --> 00:24:57,820 Okay, we're hot and remember to confirm the myth the throw must trigger a blast which flows out the windows and leaves waltz unharmed 270 00:24:58,780 --> 00:25:01,420 So now it's the countdown to the throwdown 271 00:25:02,380 --> 00:25:10,540 This is walter white with 50 grams of mercury fulminate in three two one 272 00:25:14,300 --> 00:25:19,980 Nothing happened. There was a second where I was hoping it was gonna work, but it obviously didn't it's not that sensitive 273 00:25:20,780 --> 00:25:25,820 It seems mercury fulminate may be volatile, but waltz powerful pitch couldn't detonate it 274 00:25:26,060 --> 00:25:28,060 Oh 275 00:25:28,300 --> 00:25:32,380 Which means somebody has some explaining to do so, uh 276 00:25:33,420 --> 00:25:35,820 I know I know you're my boss and everything, but 277 00:25:36,620 --> 00:25:38,620 It looks like you were 278 00:25:39,340 --> 00:25:41,020 You were kind of 279 00:25:41,020 --> 00:25:42,220 wrong 280 00:25:42,220 --> 00:25:44,220 with this one, huh 281 00:25:44,940 --> 00:25:46,940 Yeah, but uh 282 00:25:47,180 --> 00:25:51,100 What carry tory and grant don't know is that 283 00:25:51,900 --> 00:25:55,740 Up here in my mind's eye, you know in that scene what I think happened is that uh, 284 00:25:56,140 --> 00:26:00,780 Walt mixed in with his mercury fulminate a little silver fulminate. Oh 285 00:26:02,140 --> 00:26:04,780 What's that? It's uh stuff they put in these things 286 00:26:07,180 --> 00:26:13,820 Wow, um, I love that you just have that with you, uh, but that wasn't in the show so, uh 287 00:26:14,940 --> 00:26:17,900 Well, you know sometimes you get rid of in the lights 288 00:26:18,620 --> 00:26:23,100 What is it? Okay, so if we read between those lines fulminated mercury 289 00:26:25,180 --> 00:26:31,420 A little tweak of chemistry what vince is saying is that waltz crystal of chaos would definitely detonate 290 00:26:31,660 --> 00:26:36,460 So back at base camp the guys are priming their payload courtesy of a blasting cap 291 00:26:36,860 --> 00:26:39,820 Now everything else about our experiment is exactly the same 292 00:26:40,140 --> 00:26:43,660 The bad guys are in the same places the burst discs are in the same positions 293 00:26:43,900 --> 00:26:47,740 And the mercury fulminate is being set off from where it would have hit on the floor 294 00:26:48,220 --> 00:26:52,060 We're gonna fire this off at the blasting cap and see if we blow out any windows 295 00:26:52,300 --> 00:26:56,460 And how everybody in the room fares this time they'll certainly get a kaboom 296 00:26:56,700 --> 00:27:02,220 But will 50 grams of fulminate still blow out the windows and leave waltz unharmed 297 00:27:02,940 --> 00:27:09,500 Okay, this is 50 grams of mercury fulminate and a blasting cap just to see what it does in three two one 298 00:27:13,900 --> 00:27:16,940 That was a good blast, but it definitely didn't blow out the windows 299 00:27:18,540 --> 00:27:20,220 Yeah, you know what it's busted 300 00:27:20,220 --> 00:27:25,100 We couldn't throw it down and set off the mercury fulminate and with the same amount as in the show 301 00:27:25,580 --> 00:27:28,220 It didn't blow out any windows. It didn't blow at anything 302 00:27:29,100 --> 00:27:32,620 It's no to the throw and no to blowing out the windows 303 00:27:33,900 --> 00:27:36,380 But did waltz and the bad guys survive? 304 00:27:37,580 --> 00:27:41,420 Okay, now that the room's been properly ventilated there's no danger or fumes 305 00:27:41,500 --> 00:27:46,460 But everything's covered in a fine mercury dust, so i'm not going to touch anything as I investigate the room 306 00:27:46,940 --> 00:27:50,220 I can see right here at first henchmen the injury disc is burst 307 00:27:51,180 --> 00:27:56,940 Also injury disc is burst right here at walter. That means that everybody in the room is injured 308 00:27:57,420 --> 00:27:58,220 probably 309 00:27:58,220 --> 00:28:05,580 Exphyxiating from mercury fumes because the windows did not break. It may be busted, but the throw's not over yet 310 00:28:06,380 --> 00:28:11,900 The next chemistry question is what will it take to recreate the small screen scene? 311 00:28:16,380 --> 00:28:21,340 Please don't try what you're about to see at home the substance that we are working with is extremely dangerous 312 00:28:21,500 --> 00:28:23,500 And we have experts to keep us safe 313 00:28:28,220 --> 00:28:32,060 So far in the breaking bat special we've seen a pig disappear 314 00:28:32,460 --> 00:28:37,100 But we haven't seen a bathtub go bye-bye. That's one of the ugliest things i've ever seen 315 00:28:37,660 --> 00:28:39,900 And it's time to break some bad news 316 00:28:41,420 --> 00:28:46,140 Hey, hi, can you see boys? Um, well while we've been out uh shooting. Oh, you know what? 317 00:28:46,220 --> 00:28:50,140 We actually just shot this crazy scene where uh walt finally realizes that 318 00:28:51,900 --> 00:28:55,980 Hey, hey, it's me. Oh, right. Anyway, so what have you guys found out? 319 00:28:56,620 --> 00:28:59,500 Well, I hate to break it to you, but the myth is busted 320 00:29:00,220 --> 00:29:00,860 No 321 00:29:00,860 --> 00:29:04,700 Yeah, it's totally busted and we make two changes to make sure this could work 322 00:29:05,020 --> 00:29:06,700 One we used a special sauce acid 323 00:29:06,700 --> 00:29:12,780 That's a lot more powerful than the hf and second we use more than double the amount that jesse uses in the clip 324 00:29:12,940 --> 00:29:17,580 What do you mean more than double? Well in the clip you only see jesse pour two one gallon jugs of acid into the tub 325 00:29:17,660 --> 00:29:22,460 We used almost six and it still didn't work. Well, maybe you saw him pour two gallons 326 00:29:22,460 --> 00:29:24,460 But in my mind's eye 327 00:29:24,540 --> 00:29:29,740 We always use more we i'm thinking, you know, we covered that body at least, you know 328 00:29:29,900 --> 00:29:35,340 I don't know 30 gallons something like that. Yeah in the trade we've referred to this as artistic license 329 00:29:35,420 --> 00:29:39,900 Yeah, yeah, well, you know, I don't even think 30 gallons would make it all the way through a cast iron tub 330 00:29:40,220 --> 00:29:42,220 Oh, who said it was cast iron? 331 00:29:42,540 --> 00:29:46,060 Maybe it was made of some other kind of material say like a kind of a 332 00:29:47,580 --> 00:29:49,100 mild cheese 333 00:29:49,100 --> 00:29:53,100 That's it. That's your artistic license. I get it. Okay. Here's how we should do this 334 00:29:53,100 --> 00:29:58,620 We should go back out to the site with 30 gallons of our special sauce acid and a bathtub made of something 335 00:29:58,780 --> 00:30:05,340 Maybe not a cheese but of something that can be acted upon by our acid based on what we find out back at the lab 336 00:30:05,660 --> 00:30:09,260 Exactly sounds sounds like a plan. We'll keep you posted 337 00:30:10,780 --> 00:30:14,380 So we got caught making some assumptions. We assumed it was a cast iron tub 338 00:30:14,620 --> 00:30:19,420 Everyone knows what happens when you make an assumption you make an asset of you and umpchun 339 00:30:20,060 --> 00:30:24,940 Anyway, we've done some research and we have settled upon three of the most common bath materials 340 00:30:25,260 --> 00:30:31,500 Cast iron was ceramic coating steel with enamel coating and perhaps the most common of all bathtub materials 341 00:30:31,900 --> 00:30:38,140 Simple fiberglass now it's time to subject each of these materials to our sulfuric acid with its special sauce 342 00:30:38,540 --> 00:30:40,860 And see which one becomes our bathtub of choice 343 00:30:41,740 --> 00:30:47,820 Yep, and back at the lab for their acid quest. It's time to turn the tables on the tub samples 344 00:30:48,460 --> 00:30:52,460 So, what do we have first cast iron bathtub? All right 345 00:30:55,580 --> 00:30:59,980 Well, there goes the cast iron into the sulfuric acid now we go for the special sauce 346 00:31:03,820 --> 00:31:10,380 Wow, that is really vigorous six gallons of acid couldn't burn through the cast iron tub at ultimatum 347 00:31:10,860 --> 00:31:12,860 It's not making its way through the tub 348 00:31:13,100 --> 00:31:16,700 But more acid per inch of surface area could get a more 349 00:31:17,260 --> 00:31:22,780 Caustic result now this is exactly what I was expecting to see with acid and our materials 350 00:31:23,100 --> 00:31:28,700 However, after a 40 minute soak that stubborn cast iron ain't given up its islands 351 00:31:29,260 --> 00:31:31,740 So next up is enamel coated steel 352 00:31:36,380 --> 00:31:38,380 Wow, that's bubbling up right away too 353 00:31:39,020 --> 00:31:41,580 Bubbling away, but there's a pattern repeating 354 00:31:41,900 --> 00:31:44,940 Well, the enamel coated steel went into the sulfuric acid and again 355 00:31:45,420 --> 00:31:49,420 Not much was going on until the special sauce was poured in and it started to bubble 356 00:31:49,820 --> 00:31:55,020 But we're told that that's just a reaction between the special sauce and the sulfuric acid because now a couple minutes later 357 00:31:55,180 --> 00:32:00,140 He's no bubbling which means it's time for the final contender the fiberglass 358 00:32:02,300 --> 00:32:04,300 Oh man, that's so cool 359 00:32:04,300 --> 00:32:10,220 Fiberglass has been the most reactive substance thus far tested of anything 360 00:32:10,460 --> 00:32:14,700 We put it in here and once the special sauce went in the bubbling was 361 00:32:15,340 --> 00:32:22,860 Incredibly powerful and now it's like four minutes later and it looks like there's a brown stain floating on top of the sulfuric acid 362 00:32:22,940 --> 00:32:25,500 Special sauce. I'm very encouraged about this 363 00:32:27,340 --> 00:32:31,900 Are we done? I think that's it. You know what that means. Have a go full scale. Yeah 364 00:32:34,620 --> 00:32:36,620 Fire 365 00:32:38,140 --> 00:32:41,580 So far we have not seen anything even remotely close to the tv show 366 00:32:41,900 --> 00:32:45,820 No throwing down the mercury fulminate no explosion no glass going everywhere 367 00:32:45,900 --> 00:32:50,940 But now it's my favorite part of the show where we replicate the results. So it's out with the throwbot 368 00:32:53,340 --> 00:32:55,340 And into the rv 369 00:32:55,420 --> 00:32:59,740 Where jesse has been carefully formulating a huge batch of fulminate 370 00:33:00,140 --> 00:33:04,780 So this is the moment of truth for our myth and mercury fulminate 371 00:33:05,260 --> 00:33:09,340 We're making the biggest batch that we can safely in the amount of time that we have 372 00:33:09,820 --> 00:33:15,980 Our chemist jesse has been at this for a little over eight hours and the size of the batch is 250 grams 373 00:33:15,980 --> 00:33:20,620 That's five times what waltz used in the show now since at this point 374 00:33:20,700 --> 00:33:27,580 It's considered a shock sensitive high explosive. It's way too dangerous to simply walk this over and place it 375 00:33:27,900 --> 00:33:33,180 So they're putting it inside of an explosion proof box and carefully driving it over to the site 376 00:33:33,580 --> 00:33:38,140 We're going to set this off and see if this is enough to blow out the windows in our building 377 00:33:39,100 --> 00:33:48,060 Yep inside that box is more than a fist full of crystal and once our mild mattered chemist has painstakingly positioned waltz weapon of choice 378 00:33:49,900 --> 00:33:51,900 It's wired for detonation 379 00:33:51,900 --> 00:33:58,700 But can five times the amount of mercury fulminate finally get the breaking bad room boom 380 00:33:58,940 --> 00:34:05,420 All right, let's blow up this hideout 250 grams mercury fulminate. This is breaking bad boom in three 381 00:34:06,620 --> 00:34:08,220 two 382 00:34:08,220 --> 00:34:09,420 one 383 00:34:09,420 --> 00:34:11,420 go 384 00:34:12,220 --> 00:34:18,140 I think we got the windows. Oh my god. We completely destroyed the hideout 385 00:34:19,580 --> 00:34:21,580 Yeah science 386 00:34:21,980 --> 00:34:26,780 250 grams of mercury fulminate certainly broke that room bad 387 00:34:27,340 --> 00:34:33,420 Wow. Oh my gosh the entire structure is gone. That was awesome 388 00:34:34,380 --> 00:34:37,340 Shall we go see if anybody survives? Why not? 389 00:34:44,460 --> 00:34:50,620 And at the scene of the blast carries instincts were right so all the windows are busted out and 390 00:34:51,420 --> 00:34:53,420 Everyone's dead 391 00:34:53,820 --> 00:34:59,580 That'll be fair a reinforced concrete building like the one in the show might have fared better than our wooden house 392 00:34:59,900 --> 00:35:03,340 But you know what that doesn't change the fact that this is still busted 393 00:35:05,180 --> 00:35:09,980 It's busted for the mythbusters, but for those of you reading between the lines 394 00:35:10,380 --> 00:35:13,020 All right, so um, they're calling it busted, but 395 00:35:14,060 --> 00:35:15,500 What about you? 396 00:35:15,500 --> 00:35:17,260 I say confirmed 397 00:35:17,260 --> 00:35:23,020 Confirmed. Hmm explain. How so well wall use that bag of mercury fulminate to threaten everybody in the room 398 00:35:23,020 --> 00:35:26,380 And and he was right that bag would have caused total devastation 399 00:35:26,380 --> 00:35:31,660 In fact if we use that much it'd be the the jesse pinkman show now, right? Yes. Yes. It would have been 400 00:35:32,460 --> 00:35:33,740 Damn it 401 00:35:33,740 --> 00:35:38,700 Damn it. Okay. So but what about it not going off when it was thrown or how you 402 00:35:39,100 --> 00:35:42,060 Need a a lot of it to make a you know big a big boom 403 00:35:42,700 --> 00:35:47,020 Those are just details my friend details details details and 404 00:35:47,820 --> 00:35:49,820 You sound more like wall every day 405 00:35:50,540 --> 00:35:52,380 I'm glad you're noticing 406 00:35:52,380 --> 00:35:57,020 After the break, uh-oh, there's no more half measures going over the side 407 00:35:57,900 --> 00:36:01,980 As the guys go the whole hog for a chemistry catastrophe 408 00:36:11,580 --> 00:36:15,660 Vince I I wanted to tell you I'm a huge fan of the show and I've been wanting to ask this question 409 00:36:15,820 --> 00:36:19,100 See I think of walt is a a flawed genius 410 00:36:19,580 --> 00:36:25,420 Clearly brilliant, but also with serious anger management issues. Yeah, you know and not just anger management 411 00:36:25,420 --> 00:36:30,620 I mean this guy he's intolerant. He's bad tempered, but he's also really really cunning and um 412 00:36:31,180 --> 00:36:34,860 Kind of super methodical right exactly. So my question is 413 00:36:35,740 --> 00:36:39,260 Where did you find inspiration for the character of walt? 414 00:36:42,220 --> 00:36:45,340 Honestly couldn't really tell you it's a mystery 415 00:36:46,620 --> 00:36:48,620 I 416 00:36:49,020 --> 00:36:51,500 Yo, it's breaking bad in the house 417 00:36:52,940 --> 00:36:57,740 According to breaking bad acid plus bathtub plus organic matter 418 00:36:59,900 --> 00:37:01,900 Is our recipe for disaster 419 00:37:02,460 --> 00:37:04,060 But so far 420 00:37:04,060 --> 00:37:05,420 Not so good 421 00:37:05,420 --> 00:37:07,420 God that's nasty 422 00:37:07,580 --> 00:37:10,460 The floor is totally intact. That tub is coming through there 423 00:37:10,540 --> 00:37:15,100 However for the final science of the hams our last help required this to move it 424 00:37:16,380 --> 00:37:20,380 So, we're moving this one. I've decided to reveal to the world my super strength 425 00:37:23,660 --> 00:37:27,100 They're switching tubs and up in the acid anti 426 00:37:27,340 --> 00:37:31,740 This is where we try to show what it would actually take to replicate what we saw in breaking bad 427 00:37:32,540 --> 00:37:36,860 and that involves pouring 24 gallons of almost pure sulfuric acid 428 00:37:37,260 --> 00:37:39,660 over a pig in this fiberglass tub 429 00:37:40,460 --> 00:37:45,340 To that I will add 12 gallons of our special sauce which will come out of this container right here 430 00:37:45,660 --> 00:37:49,900 which I'll deliver with the grater up and over our barrier. 431 00:37:49,900 --> 00:37:52,500 And I'll open the valve and we'll see what happens 432 00:37:52,500 --> 00:37:55,300 when our special sauce gets to work on that pig. 433 00:37:55,300 --> 00:37:59,220 It's a souped up protocol because with six times the acid, 434 00:37:59,220 --> 00:38:01,220 there's six times the risk. 435 00:38:01,220 --> 00:38:04,380 It's not only fully protective, but I look good in it. 436 00:38:04,380 --> 00:38:05,220 Damn good. 437 00:38:06,580 --> 00:38:09,140 So while Adam loads the special sauce, 438 00:38:11,580 --> 00:38:12,620 I've done my part. 439 00:38:13,620 --> 00:38:16,620 Jamie gives the pig its sulfuric soaking. 440 00:38:24,620 --> 00:38:26,620 Okay, Adam, that's the last two. 441 00:38:26,620 --> 00:38:28,620 I'm ready for the special sauce. 442 00:38:28,620 --> 00:38:29,620 Copy that. 443 00:38:29,620 --> 00:38:32,620 Then Adam carefully lowers his corrosive catalyst. 444 00:38:34,140 --> 00:38:35,620 All right, here we go. 445 00:38:35,620 --> 00:38:38,620 And Jamie unleashes a torrent of trouble. 446 00:38:39,620 --> 00:38:41,620 It's really bubbling. 447 00:38:41,620 --> 00:38:44,620 The question now is, will this combo get them 448 00:38:44,620 --> 00:38:47,620 the breaking bad chemistry destiny? 449 00:38:47,620 --> 00:38:50,620 Oh, wow, I can see the smoke from here. 450 00:38:50,620 --> 00:38:53,620 Well, it's off to a very volatile start. 451 00:38:53,620 --> 00:38:54,620 Uh-oh. 452 00:38:54,620 --> 00:38:55,620 It's starting to go up. 453 00:38:55,620 --> 00:38:57,620 We better get out of here. 454 00:38:57,620 --> 00:39:00,620 In fact, the guys don't even make it up the hill 455 00:39:00,620 --> 00:39:03,620 before the entire corral goes up in smoke. 456 00:39:03,620 --> 00:39:04,620 Oh! 457 00:39:04,620 --> 00:39:05,620 Whoa! 458 00:39:05,620 --> 00:39:06,620 It's going over the side. 459 00:39:06,620 --> 00:39:07,620 Dude! 460 00:39:08,620 --> 00:39:10,620 I don't know if looking at remote cameras 461 00:39:10,620 --> 00:39:11,620 is going to help at this point. 462 00:39:11,620 --> 00:39:12,620 No. 463 00:39:12,620 --> 00:39:13,620 Adam's right. 464 00:39:13,620 --> 00:39:16,620 The reaction is so fast and so furious 465 00:39:16,620 --> 00:39:18,620 that even the cameras are in the dark. 466 00:39:18,620 --> 00:39:20,620 Well, I tell you one thing. 467 00:39:20,620 --> 00:39:23,620 I'm glad we decided to pour in the special sauce remotely. 468 00:39:23,620 --> 00:39:25,620 You and I both. 469 00:39:25,620 --> 00:39:26,620 Oh, my goodness. 470 00:39:26,620 --> 00:39:27,620 That is crazy. 471 00:39:27,620 --> 00:39:30,620 That happened so much faster than I thought it would. 472 00:39:30,620 --> 00:39:32,620 I'm glad the wind's blowing now. 473 00:39:32,620 --> 00:39:35,620 Yep, and once the smoke clears, 474 00:39:35,620 --> 00:39:40,620 they have a very grizzly angle on what remains to be seen. 475 00:39:43,620 --> 00:39:44,620 Wow. 476 00:39:44,620 --> 00:39:45,620 There's no pig. 477 00:39:45,620 --> 00:39:48,620 There's a couple of chunks that looks like floating around. 478 00:39:48,620 --> 00:39:49,620 I'm surprised. 479 00:39:49,620 --> 00:39:50,620 I thought the bathtub may have failed, 480 00:39:50,620 --> 00:39:52,620 but it just looks like everything boiled over 481 00:39:52,620 --> 00:39:53,620 and now it's about half full. 482 00:39:53,620 --> 00:39:54,620 Yeah. 483 00:39:54,620 --> 00:39:57,620 Half full of black, satanic sludge. 484 00:39:57,620 --> 00:39:59,620 In five minutes flat, 485 00:39:59,620 --> 00:40:02,620 the acid almost completely dissolved the pig. 486 00:40:02,620 --> 00:40:06,620 But did they finally get the bathroom blowout? 487 00:40:06,620 --> 00:40:08,620 Oh, man. 488 00:40:08,620 --> 00:40:10,620 How does the floor look? 489 00:40:10,620 --> 00:40:12,620 The plywood's been affected, 490 00:40:12,620 --> 00:40:14,620 but it's not been eaten through. 491 00:40:14,620 --> 00:40:16,620 It's just sort of like it's been charred. 492 00:40:16,620 --> 00:40:17,620 And the bathtub? 493 00:40:17,620 --> 00:40:20,620 The bathtub looks like it's been burned some, 494 00:40:20,620 --> 00:40:22,620 but it's completely intact, 495 00:40:22,620 --> 00:40:26,620 and it's holding 20, 25 gallons of stuff in there. 496 00:40:26,620 --> 00:40:27,620 That's amazing. 497 00:40:27,620 --> 00:40:29,620 I've never seen anything like that. 498 00:40:29,620 --> 00:40:32,620 The pig is just like it was never there. 499 00:40:32,620 --> 00:40:35,620 It's turned into some kind of black goop. 500 00:40:35,620 --> 00:40:37,620 What pig? 501 00:40:37,620 --> 00:40:39,620 I don't know anything about no pig. 502 00:40:39,620 --> 00:40:42,620 There's no pig because the chemical reaction 503 00:40:42,620 --> 00:40:45,620 literally broke it down into its elements. 504 00:40:45,620 --> 00:40:49,620 Inside the tub was sulfuric acid and our special sauce, 505 00:40:49,620 --> 00:40:52,620 which let's just say is lots of hydrogen and oxygen. 506 00:40:52,620 --> 00:40:54,620 And then of course there's the pig, 507 00:40:54,620 --> 00:40:56,620 which is made up of mostly hydrocarbons. 508 00:40:56,620 --> 00:41:00,620 And the chemical reaction produced when the acid was exposed to the pig 509 00:41:00,620 --> 00:41:04,620 was so energetic that it released massive amounts of hydrogen and oxygen, 510 00:41:04,620 --> 00:41:06,620 making that huge cloud of water vapor 511 00:41:06,620 --> 00:41:09,620 along with carbon dioxide and hydrogen gas. 512 00:41:09,620 --> 00:41:13,620 And then all that was left when the reaction had run its course 513 00:41:13,620 --> 00:41:15,620 was carbon and sulfur, 514 00:41:15,620 --> 00:41:18,620 leaving that black pool of sludge in the bottom of the tub. 515 00:41:18,620 --> 00:41:20,620 That was spectacular. 516 00:41:20,620 --> 00:41:22,620 The reaction happened much faster than we expected, 517 00:41:22,620 --> 00:41:25,620 but our protocol accommodated for that 518 00:41:25,620 --> 00:41:30,620 and at the peak, this entire 30 foot diameter corral 519 00:41:30,620 --> 00:41:34,620 was just shooting a plume of smoke to the sky. 520 00:41:34,620 --> 00:41:38,620 Any experiment that has a plume of smoke shooting to the sky 521 00:41:38,620 --> 00:41:41,620 is by definition awesome. 522 00:41:41,620 --> 00:41:43,620 By definition awesome. 523 00:41:43,620 --> 00:41:47,620 But this bathtub breach is all washed up. 524 00:41:47,620 --> 00:41:49,620 Well that was really cool. 525 00:41:49,620 --> 00:41:52,620 Very cool. Busted, but totally cool. 526 00:41:52,620 --> 00:41:54,620 Let's go tell the Incinera. 527 00:41:55,620 --> 00:41:57,620 Alright guys, the results are in. 528 00:41:57,620 --> 00:42:02,620 And I'm sorry to say, even though our special acid with the fiberglass tub 529 00:42:02,620 --> 00:42:06,620 was an improvement, it still failed to replicate what we see in the clip. 530 00:42:06,620 --> 00:42:12,620 And because it didn't work with HF, this myth is totally and doubly busted. 531 00:42:12,620 --> 00:42:14,620 Yep, it's busted. 532 00:42:14,620 --> 00:42:17,620 Wait, so Jesse won, Walt, nil. 533 00:42:17,620 --> 00:42:18,620 Sure. 534 00:42:18,620 --> 00:42:19,620 Yeah. 535 00:42:20,620 --> 00:42:22,620 Shoulda used the cheese. 536 00:42:24,620 --> 00:42:25,620 Yeah.