Flushing 240lbs of Mercury 

What would/could you have done if he had?

I was concerned about the same thing.

i think it was purposefully titled that in a clickbaity way. Still was an awesome video though so i dont mind in this case.

that is NOT a police matter

Small amounts of mercury in a municipal water system can cause irreversible neurological damage in children who live in the area.

Duh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuuuuh

Back that Mercussy up for me

no hes fingering it in the ass

Oh, he's going to be shaking all right.

One should always have the goddamn common courtesy to give the toxic heavy metals a reach around.

Youre obviously new here 😏

I thought the same Jordan

The most impressive thing is casually has a spare toilet

*then casually decides to submerge his hand in said mercury*

thank you, I thought the same thing xD (yes, first video i'm seeing in this channel)

I will change that

​@@mborevi7772dont you dare.

safe to say

You clearly weren't at my buddy Eric's party back in 07'

Hey, just visiting from 2074. Our primary food source is actually a mercury/gold alloy manufactured by the UCU (United Citizens United) it serves as both food and currency.

Yep.......yep u did

Un fucking believable

Got me too sadly

Yes my friend, yes you did.

yes

Last ditch effort to hide evidence

Lol 😂

hence the term "Shitting bullets'"

ok but yoooo brotha

😂

Did you just use more mercury?

See, you made a mistake by having 200 lbs of mercury, instead of 240.

Me too!

You too? Man I was searching the internet to find a way to get this goddamn merkery out of my terlet!

This is ripe for an Ignobel Prize.

cody is the next ignobel trillionaire

What was difficult to predict about this experiment?

dovregubben78 Whether it would flush or not. And the result was interesting because it did flush, then it didn't flush, then it did again under different circumstances.

I did not find that difficult to predict, Firstname Lastname. Mercury is 13 times denser than water.

what language in you speaking?

You don't get it?

It's a play on words, most people on videos where people waste water or food someone leaves a comment that says 'Kids in Africa could have eaten and/or drunk that *insert edible substance here*' and then you have people like me who rephrase it.

Who? Me.

*Kids in Africa could have drunk that Mercury :(. FTFY

haha

Or the Silver surfer drinking too much tea

LMAO! :D

XD I'm dying!

Not funny

At least now you know hahahah

1 am here

5 am here bruh

That was the moment you became chemistry teacher

For me, 2 AM + a lot of cheap vodka.

You...don't?!

i di

Wait......not everyone excrete mercury?

Not with that attitude

@@clyde5450 hahaha

no just no go away

I am a light sleeper, I slept a light year.

This is as stupid as saying, i slept a mile. light year is a measurement of distance, not time.

That's the joke.

If the joke was to misuse words in a non-comical way, then I guess he achieved what he set after.

Call it 'Fountain Prime'

@@Aecor I love you and jesus loves you more ❤🙏

@@Aecor mkay

@@Aecor NO. (I’m not gonna say it) YOU

tina larmond 💀💀

Seems about right

*_oof_*

Oh that...

He dranks too much xD

Ooooooooooooooof 1 they died 2 that must have been disgusting!

yooooooo, same

I think he has a mercury mine

You can buy it.

Because he uses it to make videos like this xD

he is a mad scientist and his evil plan to kill the world is to coat it with mercury

BrianAwesomenes to get it into his blood

I'm pretty sure they've seen worse

@@netajithevar296 idk man 240lbs of Mercury is quite a bit

Netaji Thevar yeah they've seen alot of crazy "SHIT" down there get it get it🤣

Death penalty0 bruh 🤣🤣

I tried to send them some sodium but all it did was leave me without a toilet.

The Sarcastic Shu Omg same Like I came on this video ready to rant if he actually put it down the sewer But he didn't so that's all good

Scrolled down the comments before the 30 second mark just to find the complaint/relief. Thanks for allaying my fears!

I hate politics bc being concerned about someone flushing a deadly metal into the sewer is "pussies bitching"

It is safe to say this theory works had to test it out ..wasnt able to disconnect toilet.. Went ahead with test

That's the fumes causing the spinning. See a doctor.

@@wyattthealchemist Too late, I’m running their account now.

Trespassing on the ranch

innomi natum And for flush the mercury you need liquid tungsten and then you need...

I've been shitting rock balls lately....That about breaks my toilet every time.. I went to a VERY nice Thai restaurant in Indianapolis 2 weeks ago and I managed to destroy their toilet ..Clogged immediately...Right as we were leaving which make the humiliation a bit less...OF COURSE there was a guy coming in to the single person bathroom as I was leaving...He walked right into my crime scene..Damn that was EMBARRASSING...

@@kyledrywallpuncherpro135 what did I just read

@@nachosrios8882 😂😂😂😂

@@kyledrywallpuncherpro135 damn tell me more 🥺🥺🥺

Ha! ha! You for the win!

Well thats what toilets are for

I'll be back(ed up).

lmao

The T-1000 been shitting blood again....

Flushing mercury down the toilet can be bad for the environment

Everyone like the comment that is two comments above from mine.

Ashin Kusher thanks captain

This idiot (Matt G) didn't seem to notice that not all of the material was recovered, nor did this idiot (Matt G, still) consider that the lack of warnings about the substance, proper demonstration of safety equipment (e.g. gloves, or a contained lab), the lack of proper explanations (like why the EPA would be 'on his ass' for contamination), and the lack of discouragement from repeating this in a real toilet is reckless and irresponsible. Personally, I don't understand how this is allowed on RU-vid being that it is essentially a simulation of an act of terrorism being that in a 'real setup' that innocent lives would be at stake due to how sewers function and what happens to waste in the process. This person has demonstrated that he clearly does not deserve the right to possess mercury and I hope this video leads to a restriction of his access to it and chemicals like it.

was reading through the comments looking for someone to complain about the environmental hazard before watching it, and was also expecting someone to mention something about the s-bend

Didn't even put on plastic gloves what a madlad.

Thank goodness he rinsed off his hands.

@@BAGELMENSK You don't need to wear gloves if you don't have cuts on ur hand

It's elemental. You could drink it, just dont get any in your blood Dont do that, obviously.

@@TheCompleteMental How old are you? Please tell me your under 18, if not mercury is highly toxic. You fucking moron!

He likely bought before the price increase. Also, the $4000 price tag is per flask (76 pounds), not $4000 each pound. But, if purchased in 2016, he likely paid (4000/76) * 240 = ~$12,600

J Ingram yes I thought the same

@@ilovelemonisland2 ah! my mistake! I just looked it up and your totally right! that's still a lot to pay but it makes a lot more sense! thank you!

You do notice that he used a solid bar of tungsten as a weight and threw in a bar of gold to sink through the mercury right? He must be loaded, considering each of those materials is costly.

@@theraven5850 even a toz of gold was "only" 1.4 k at the time this video was published, and elemental tungsten is only about $20 a pound.

Philip Nessi so? No one cares

Philip Nessi nvm I did read it right

He made the mercury himself? :S Guessing no one of you guys follow him, safety is also not his main priority.

Hs grandpa actually acquired it years ago - its in another one of his videos - 'where did i get all my mercury' or something like that

lol he literally states at 10:55 the difference between metallic mercury and mercury nitrate. Because of that reason, there is no harm that can be caused (other than with open wounds, obviously) by touching metallic mercury with your bare hands

thechosendude where did you hear that?

thechosendude They wouldn't even have a mercury thermostat in the first place?

I remember 30 Years ago some kids were playing with mercury from the pumps at an abandoned gas station and yeah they closed the streets for several blocks. This was before people really knew what hazmat meant, lol.

If you get busted for 'flushing dangerous material in Denmark you could go to Jail.

When I was young we used to play with mercury. In the early 1950s it was interesting not a poison that it is known to be now.

How bout who HAS? It seems stupid if you don't know that your toilet PROBABLY can't flush one, but some probably could flush one tbh

Lava Lyrics wow you haven’t done it before? Missing out man

Pretty much try this daily, except Tuesday because I work late

@@MelodicTurtleMetal no excuses, flush them at work

You could just chuck into recycling

PancakeBoi 😏😏

*report abuse button intensifies*

Mr Oofs I had to go back 5 seconds cuz I sneezed

13 minutes and 55 seconds*

13:55 To be exact

but what's the purpose of this experiment?

the exact reason I watched it too.

Not "cool" - necessary, or he would go to jail for a really long time

Saw this video while I was listening to an audio book as homework, immediately left the audiobook and watched this for the same reason..

Nothing at the moment. Most sciencitifc achievements are completely useless until the day someone realises they are not. That's why we fund space research and physics.

or shit mercury

or you'll have to pee mercury if you shit gold

or don't eat thermometers.

Well damn, guess i should just stop using the bathroom altogether

Gregory Smith lololol

dude it's not 2016 it's 2017 get time on track

Cabbage Lover look at the date the vid came out....

Cabbage Lover Published September 27, 2016

These's always make me laugh at night when I'm super high.

Aaah, can't you think of own comments? Everyone is just copy pasting those cheap comment patterns 😑

Hell's bells! MY toilet supports about 40 lb more than that each time I sit on it!

Ceramic is really good at holding a lot of weight but it is very bad at resisting shock. For example is can hold 300 lbs but if you dropped 300 lbs on it it would break

Oh i still cant belive they are still together after all of that shit

lmao!!!

its a poop joke

That joke was the shit

Scott Golembiewski lol

LOOOL

Seriously though, it's 12:54 what am I doing?

It's 12:23 pm. And here I am watching a video of someone flushing mercury down the toilet, and people like farming by re-using past comments.

Yep. It's 2 am now and I have shool at 8. I'm supposed to wake up at 6 because I have to leave at 7. And here I am. I feel you

Rocket Bear Its now 4.17 am and i gotta wake up at 6 o clock

Rocket Bear I go to school by bus :(

elemental mercury is not dangerous... but the mercury you find in thermometers etc is not elemental and therefore can be absorbed into the skin readily. peace you noobs :)

www.cdc.gov/niosh/ershdb/emergencyresponsecard_29750021.html According to the CDC, "Elemental mercury is toxic primarily through inhalation of mercury vapors. It is only slowly absorbed through the skin, although it may cause skin and eye irritation. Elemental mercury droplets may be absorbed through eye contact. Ingestion is not an important route of acute exposure as almost no elemental mercury is absorbed through the gastrointestinal tract." So yeah, any kind of mercury, elemental or otherwise, is still absolutely dangerous.

Yeah, dude. There is no way I'd fuck with mercury anywhere near my actual skin. Nope, nope, and more nope.

tr00 metal confirmed \m/

I head banged throughout this whole video. Got whiplash.

Why?

@@ferrumignis No doubt because Cody has the resources to make 1,000,0000 thermometers - and he's always been afraid of thermometers...

@@buckhorncortez Thermometerphobia is a crippling condition, we shouldn't laugh. Much.

@@ferrumignis y tho

*Yo*U cAN P*urcHase* muRcuRY *WItHouT a b*AcKGroUNd cHeC*K tHRoUgh tHE sCiENcE cONv*EntiOn loO*pHoLE*

I would just sell my sh*t and get stinky rich :) but yeah, mercury-flushing toilet is also the way to go!

I thought it was more for when he uses gold foil for toilet paper.

USWaterRockets OH I thought he used lead plate for that.

Shame nobody told that to Tywin Lannister....

x3

Mercury will start evaporating at room temperature and especially with the amounts hes handling and the constant movement there will be mercury in the air, its outside which helps but safe is still a word i wouldnt use.

“Safe” is definitely an oversimplification, but that is the gist. Cody knows chemistry, knows the risks, and takes precautions to help protect himself. Like he alluded to when flushing the full tank of mercury, elemental mercury is still really dangerous if it comes into contact with an open wound, a sore, or a mucous membrane like the mouth or nose. Like another commenter pointed out, mercury will evaporate at room temperature, and *breathing* mercury is definitely way worse than just touching it. There’s also the possibility of the mercury reacting with something unexpectedly to produce a much more dangerous material - you don’t know all the chemical properties of the toilet bowl material or the plungers, for example. Different compounds could be far more dangerous, and in a setting like this there’s not much control you can implement to monitor or prevent unintended reactions. Basically, don’t do chemistry at home, don’t do chemistry without a lab partner, don’t do chemistry without a chemistry education. Stay safe, folks.

If i remember correctly cody put some mercury in his mouth in a Video but i think he deleted it

No you're not. Trust me, we're out here.

Man would it not just churn it up

I had not actually thought about it until I saw this comment, I feel disappointed in myself. Regardless, I would imagine it would probably float ontop of it. Turds don't always float in water, but if they can it means they're (sometimes) lighter than water, which means that under normal circumstances definitely lighter than mercury. Of course that's assuming no chemical interaction. However, I want to imagine the mercury might actually manage to surprise me and pulverize it under its weight somehow.

Whether shit floats depends on the fecal matter's fat content.

and......floating shit...is not a good sign.....too much fat content....might watch one's diet.....

Chris Hansen 12:20 now lol

12:54 now.

+Justin Avery 4:29 ... am

3:36am for me ....lmao

4:50, i beat you

Someone smart enough to get 7.5m monetised views on RU-vid, I suspect. The fact that you had to ask that would indicate he may be a tad more clever than yourself.

Sure. I might THINK that.This guy follows through.

Scientist

Oh it’d be nice if I filled a toilet with mercury and flushed it

A very intelligent and curious scientist, who also loves to educate and entertain the average Joe and/or Josephine's in this world. I found it fascinating that the bullet would float while the gold and the tungsten sank. Gotta love science !

I know. I captured a screenshot of that and saved it to my hard drive. I never knew that about toilets before because it was never a priority of mine, but it is interesting, nevertheless.

same

i agree with you its so cool

Richard Feng I don’t know what’s with the slime videos..

Not only that I think he touched nitric acid with the tip of his naked thumb.

@@LouisEmery RIP hand

Mercury isn’t absorbed into the skin in liquid form. Vapors are another story though

@@TheWhitePhoenix2 no organic mercury is

TheKilledCreeper ... that's certain death.

Rich people don't die! xD

HAHAHAH

Steve lives on inside us

Mic drop

His blood had no significant increase in mercury levels.

Organic mercury or mercury nitrate can absorb through skin, that's why he was able to touch metallic mercury, but not mercury nitrate.

EWWWW WTF

No problem... he's got more mercury in his veins than blood. xD

@@BillAnt look at vapors comment, its metallic mercury, meaning he would have to drink it to have his organs absorb it. very tiny non-lethal amounts could get through skin if it did

The streams flushing down into the bowl reminded me of an alien facehugger. The rest of it was pure T-2000.

Funny thing is that, the effects for the T-1000 in the 1991 Terminator 2 movie were often made by blowing pools of mercury around a prepared surface. So you're not really far off with that.

I watched Terminator movies too .

Anomounus stfu weeb

Boii227 -Gaming and stuff- my stomach 😂😂😂😂

Also I have to walk a mile to get home and now I really have to take a crap

What does it look like when a sniper rifle takes a crap?

+Thalesll Considering it's a fully auto .50 I'd say it'd make one hell of a show.

There is literally nothing random about a science channel making a video in which someone plays around with a popular element.

which says a lot

unless u have open wounds you're fi e

*fine

Ignignokt Err Mercury won't absorb through skin. It will only go through a wound

I had the pathological shyness and tremor even before. Mercury is very safe UNLESS YOU HEAT IT AND BREATHE THE VAPORS FOR A FEW MONTHS DAILY. That is essentialy what hatters did during the manufacture of felt.. Mercuric nitrate was commonly used in the production of felt for hats. During a process called carroting, in which furs from small animals such as rabbits, hares or beavers were separated from their skins and matted together, an orange-colored solution containing mercuric nitrate was used as a smoothing agent. The resulting felt was then repeatedly shaped into large cones, shrunk in boiling water and dried. In treated felts, a slow reaction released volatile free mercury

but he messes with the stuff so often . . .

jimbo111589 this guy is anything but dumb. Lol I learned a ton

hahahaha "a ton" I see what you did there!!! ;) My oh my you are clever!!

jimbo111589 as long as he knows what he is doing to keep himself save then the experiments are no problems.

Bryony The Overthinking Pigeon K

He has bought suspicious amount of mercury.

Dude keep your brainless jokes to yourself.

🙄

I asked myself the same thing and I'm still watching

and talking about it to each other =)

BeatJumper 👽 Stop acting like he's normally flushing a toilet

Don't lie. It was beautiful to watch.

i was thinking the same thing

How the fuck you alive bro? Living LEGEND??

I don't believe you because if that were true, you'd be dead.

Info

Same thing happened to me, in small doses (and if you dont drink it every day) it causes no harm.

A lot of people eat mercury present in fish. At small doses its not lethal.

You guys should check out all of his videos. I can confidently say that he never fails to spike your interest.

old gregg Bump

Kerstin watch his vid. on how to make cyanide

happend to me too

Oh look it's Destin!. (I don't usually make these found-a-famous-youtuber-comments but I prefer these to cody's current top comments.)

*whispers* collaboration project

destin hey hehe

2013danrazor hey hehe xdd

Cody's kinda akward in collaborations lol did you see the one with Grant Thompson

Francisco Rivero lol you made my day

I thought it was the t1000 bleeding out

I'll be back. To clog the plumbing with nine millimeter bullets.

Lol right I told so hard

This is better than the video itself 😂🤣

I done this at my friend's house so I jumped out of the window and ran home

Ya. Normally the reason the toilet gets clogged, is if I use too much paper. On the rare occasion, however, it is because of me poring 240 kg of mercury in the toilet. That's just one of those things. Oh well

HAHAHA LOL

This other guy Likes some fandoms she dropped organic mercury into her hand. He’s using elemental mercury.

Organic mercury can get into your body easier than elemental tho

@@Thatonejapanesegoblin ethylmercury

Him: play with 240 lbs of Mercury and still be alive

She must of injected 2 drops of mercury in her chest if she died

Such a disgusting display on this man's part.

Tribal Shard Productions no u

Like flushing money down the drain.

and who would buy it?

***** That's just a myth invented by the lead industry. Mercury is actually very nutritious, even more than lead.

I see how it is jk lol

Ah you beat me to this but okay I commented before I saw your comment X"D

8:42 SILVER SURFER HAS DIARRHEA [SPY CAM 2]

More like The Silver Surfer ate at Taco Bell and got the Power Cosmic Squirts.

He snorts it under the freeway sometimes.

why not?

BigDH28 Deep Web

To flush it down a toilet

The real question is.. where did it come from?

Enjoy the smell.

Or the T-1000 got a swirlie?

LOL I was thinking the Same Thing .

Lol, I was about to post the same thought.

MOMMM, THE SILVER SURFER CLOGGED THE TOILET AGAIN

Yeah we call really old men the "silverballers"

yes, very reasonable

Steven Bee In that world if you went to the doctor and looked and his hand, you wouldnt know if that was a wedding ring or if he just ran out of gloves and didnt wash his hands after giving a prostate exam

That painted a pretty sick picture in my head. Lmfao

OOOOOOOWWWWW!!!!!!

Don't mind me, just flushing my lead bullets down the toilet.

Luis Carlos Rico Almada no mercury is wasted tho

Luis Carlos Rico Almada he recycled the Mercury why/how would he dispose of all that?

You're not setting a good example for your fellow Mexicans..

Lightning The Wolf he had to buy a toilet, I think that's way more expensive then needed for a video

esp the fact that he has all that expensive mercury and gold...yet cant wear a pair of safety gloves. Irresponsible !

hazyNC. Crap. I think hes maf

Mad*

The Fantom 'shitter strikes again' !

If he approached you looking for a fight, all you had to do was poke his abdomen. He would have pooped his pants.

😂😂shit happens

lol

Try it with mercury poop

What kind of sewer system do you have?

@@joshuamcculley711 *just take the fucking joke im too stupid to understand the sewers system*

@@joshuamcculley711 Canadian

sure so long as it dosnt have any aluminum or copper parts.

how does mercury react with those metals? another question, isn't it unlawful to own a certain amount unless you meet some sort of educational standard?

Cody'sLab Most commercial pumps use bronze impellers. Would that count as a copper component? What is the interaction with copper?

You should operate a hydraulic ram with mercury as the working fluid to show this.

Fairly sure bronze is brass and zinc.

BRO SAAAAME

Same.

Still i think i would have wore gloves

He should absolutely be wearing gloves at minimum since he clearly does this regularly.

Is it possible that the mercury can penetrate through his skin

Jason Romano yes! Scientists have died from mercury penetrating their freaking gloves-he’s taking a crazy large risk

@@broksjetheydontknow2400 he states in the video that metallic mercury will not absorb through the skin. Look at the 10:57 mark

MattDoesAnimation its not gonna kill u

it just itches your skin but only for some people just rinse it off and you're fine

MattDoesAnimation yeah I just went to google to search " can you put your hands in mercury " XD

It's fine IF it does't enter your body. It won't get absorbed into your skin, so it's safe if you don't have any cuts. Granted, he probably should have been wearing gloves in case he did have a cut that he didn't see.

Generical fishlandia I'm not sure if the skin takes in some amount, but if it does it's not enough to harm you if your hand is exposed for a small period of time

Kyle Caudill The end

Kyle Caudill I highly doubt that would ever happen.

Kyle Caudill ....doesnt the water goes to a sewer or so get recycled? So people will drink it

I'm thinking you probably didn't even watch through the first minute?

The Oregon trail is tuff game.

same

Did you find your pretzel

same i go to preschool not joking

Same

I stay up and watch RU-vid while I should be asleep.