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9:42 metal shards in shower head. They are solder from copper plumbing. If you overheat the pipes while soldering, long strands like this can form on the inside. Definitely a sign of improper soldering, if that’s what they are.

0:52 Nilered viewers immediately knew it was bromine

Fun fact, Ambergris is used to make VERY expensive perfumes.

Ambergise is NOT whale poop. It's whale vomit and it's used to make perfumes and colognes.

I had my uncle help me install a cat door to my bedroom. Both me and my cat have high anxiety. She wants an easy escape at any time, but i need the door closed to feel safe. Its an excellent compromise.

2:45, that's there in case a wizard shrinks you down, you don't have to climb all the way up the door to jerryrig a contraption to twist the doorknob and open the door. It's big enough to even fit one of their patented mini mobiles.

2:20 What I think thats for is for a mouse, the tooth mouse (the (at least spanish) different version of the tooth fairy), there exist many of those in Spain to put next to/in your door for the mouse to enter and exit the room to steal your teeth.

5:15 I think its a cool idea. Robin is being strangely annoyed at this. Its most likely for putting down large bowls and letting the water fill without having to hold it. Chill, Robin.

No answer for that shower head? Was it that gross or something?

'Liking' because it's Emkay, and why the hell not? But *loving* because Robin used the word "cattywampus". We should all use the word 'cattywampus' more, but Robin especially so xx

I hope that door doesn't lead to a different world with a spider woman that has buttons for eyes

This THING is called:

12:03 Looks like the table that was also a gun.

Thanks to Futurama, I now know that Ambergris is actually whale barf!

4:45 he called this house ugly. Like what?

ambergris is used in perfume etc mainly because it helps the perfume actually last and not fade right away. fun fact many emperors//kings and such fancy people in the past would eat ambergris, just in case in being in nice smell stuff wasn't weird enough haha.

10:10 that thing is expensive, they hit the gold with finding.

0:50 is one of a pair used to demonstrate diffusion, one holds bromine and air, the other just bromine. You cool them down to condense the bromine, the one with just bromine refills with vapour uniformly, the one with bromine + air forms a gradient.

You absolutely could run a train set or RC cars through those tiny doors, although it would become a problem if you were also opening the full-size door they're attached to. The door would need to be higher up to open with train tracks on the floor, and you'd either need cameras built-in to the cars, or to follow them into the room.

The tube of bromine is used for mass spectroscopy. You use the wavelengths of light given off by a substance to identify it. It's basically how we know what distant stars are made of. Also, "did you cook the bread?" "Yes." "Well, cook it again!"

Jerry finally got some security on his house ... about time !

15:30 I agree with it being an ice bucket of sorts, I didn't notice the water jets the first time he showed it. The tub armrests at that end also mean your wine/beer/etc. would be within easy reach.

My dad bought fake chicken eggs to trick snakes into eating them. I think he cut open a snake one time to retrieve one of the fake eggs.

10:48 That chunk of ambergris was the first thing I recognized. The reason it smells good and it's so expensive is because it's commonly used to make perfume and cologne.

3:11 i think these door are intentionally small to not allow the dog through.

10:58 THOSE ARE MEXICAN CANDY'S IT'S LIKE A SPICY PASTE AND THEY TASTE AMAZING IT'S NOT DRUGS LMAOOOO😭

8:31 whoa someone woke up at the wrong side of the pillow

10:59 I've seen those little plastic spoons before, they look exactly like mexican candies that are sold, as plastic spoons, with the candy wrapped up on the spoon, exactly with that wrap and rubber band too. But the fact they were found in a public trash can makes me think otherwise. If I remember correctly the candy is actually a thick grainy spicy (almost cinnamon like) cream that comes in little tubes too (like airport toothpaste sized tubes). The stuff on the spoons look exactly like what I remember too, but take this with a grain of salt though cause it was a long time ago Edit: I guess I paused to make a comment too soon

1:53 You're thinking of a gibbet. This I can say right off the bat, is not a gibbet.

Its Coraline all over again

9:42, seems like you forgot the explanation for the metal shards in shower head. They are solder from copper plumbing. If you overheat the pipes while soldering, long strands like this can form on the inside. Definitely a sign of improper soldering, if that’s what they are. (I copied this from another comment that I just saw when I was writing this, but he wrote it better)

Whale poo is used for perfumes and stuff, its expensive because its rare for it to get like that

0:38 The gas is bromine. I can tell because most times bromine is put into a glass tube which then has to be melted so it cant escape.

The value of the ambergris is due to it being used for expensive perfumes.

Ambergris is used to make the musk in perfumes & other scented products.

1:40 is not Bromine. Bromine is way too toxic for nearly any school to keep it in the labs (at least in my country). It is probably NO2/N2O4. When NO2 undergoes temperature changes it reacts with itself to form N2O2, this demonstrates the principle of equilibrium which is taught in most chemistry classes. You can see the gas inside change from brown (N2O4) to colourless (NO2) as the temperature changes, temperature effects the internal pressure which changes the dominant reaction.

ambergris is used in high end perfume... it's a rare waxy or oily things that form inside of a whale's stomach, obtaining it is kinda difficult so that is why it's so expensive.

EmKay, I took AP chem in highschool. Yes, they do teach kids how to use ampules (torching the glass tube open/shut). At least where I'm from

The bromine was absolutely opened and resealed in schools, at least 10 years ago. But by the techs in a completely different area before and after the demo.

In the early 1800s or 1900 they believed in tiny creatures that lived in your house called brownies

10:50 its because its used in a lot of perfumes and colognes to add background scent.

Things I recognised straight away! 0.42 ive seen Nile red and almost screamed at my screen PUT THAT DOWN!!! that bromine!!! 9:56 ambergris or whale puke. eww

The mail box one looks like their flag broke off and they put that there instead to tell the post man to take their outgoing mail.

Me, looking at those spoons, MEXICAN CANDY! my friends used to have stages of these at home. And my one friend always tossed a package into their pinata mix. Tangy, slightly softer than lollipops, and great with tajín.

I think the sink would be cooler if it was curved around the faucet so that when you turn the faucet it's always above the sink.

The tiny doors are most likely superstitious in origin, likely for any of the suggestions the comments have already made ("teeth mice", fae, brownies, ect). They would definitely work as a cat door though! You'd be surprised how small a gap cats can fit through. It's not entirely correct to say if their head can fit, then the rest of their body can fit, cause it's technically their whiskers. That's what whiskers are for; measuring spaces so the cat knows if they can fit or not. As long as they're a healthy weight anyways, it's why fat cats tend to get stuck places that big cat breeds wouldn't even attempt to enter. Looking at my cat door, a space about 5 inches tall/wide is plenty of space, even for bigger cats (my cat Oscar, who weighs maybe 15-20 pounds can use the cat door perfectly fine, he even runs through it sometimes.)

That small door could be for trains. My grandfather had his train set go through the wall and into the neighbor house

0:05 I’m not toooo sure but they could be for hoisting things like lumber over your shoulder for extra padding

I love this subreddit

I thought the model train/cat door was actually for running large cables and wires through.

3:50 One time one of our cats killed & put a rabbit in our bathtub :l

Humans will use any round receptical as a trash can. Source working in the customer service industry.

eons ago I saw a trough sink... they were for putting ice in for a party and put food on them. not practical for any food prep.

whale excrement is a wrong term as its barf not shit. its so expensive because its so rare and hard to find and used in highly expesive parfumes. that taco thing? before hearing the answer i guess its a napkin holder

Reddit man, you get the best of both worlds, you can go to one corner and find the most crazy incels ever than go to another corner and have the nicest most helpful people ever, we truly live in amazing times my friends lol!

2:28 I think those doors are for tubes to pump out flood water.

that little spoon things look like mexican candy tamarindo

0:38 THIS IS HIGHLY TOXIC! DONT INHALE!

The red and blue thing are magnifying glass holders for reading books they are absolutely not bookmarks

Ambergris is a highly sought after perfume additive, but it has led to some pretty shady people doing some pretty despicable things to acquire it. Pretty sure it's illegal to sell without a license.

01:48 Too silly. WAG: Put hay in it to feed horses?

10:40 I knew this. Thank you, Futurama!

0:50 im no chemist but as soon as i saw that i said "..is that bromine?" sooo im basically an expert now 😎

Plastic wrapped spoons Mexican/Hispanic candy! Tamarindo! Love it! Also love tamarindo soda!!

I’m pretty sure the thumbnail thing is the Boiled One crawling though the pipes

My ski jacket has that Recco reflector.

Blue and read leather book marks . Pretty cool

Day 3 of asking Robin to say “My name is Robin and what is poppin?”

We'd put bales or salt blocks into those cages on the farm. Its so animals dont knock their food evertwhere while they eat. You ever lose a 1 foot by 1 foot block of salt to a lake cause the cows licked it too hard and pushed in in the lake? Sucks man.

I have dummy eggs for my conure. Their weighted so it feels like a real egg

Wait! What's with the shower head then???

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This thing is special and different from everyone else’s

9:42 those might be ice shards, some water droplets froze during the winter (or idk im just a dumb guy on the internet)

its not whale sh*t its whale barf XD

The gas looks like bromine

9:58 WAIT, WHAT WAS THE REASON IN THE PREVIOUS POST!?!?!?

Paint cups that look like coffee mugs are a bad idea, especially when you use turps.

0:56 BROMINE

This is a certified emkay moment

2:08 I was gonna say hobbit jail

Question: I have a windbreaker jacket that has an odd zippered pocket in the middle of the back with a buckle strap that can’t be adjusted inside of it. No one has a clue what it’s for. Anybody know for sure what it’s use is?

We had some bromine at my school. It is used in some reactions. They used it to show a light-induced radical substitution between bromine and hydrocarbons for example. You can also just store it in a glass bottle, but it might leak some vapor, so you'd wanna keep it in a fume hood. So if it is regularly used, it is usually kept in a bottle. In an ampule you can keep it indefinitely.

I’m a Canadian. The little doors are for house hippos!

The little doors are cat doors, but specifically, they are to allow cats access through your house for the purposes of pest control without having to keep your doors open. Handy since anyone who has ever had a cat knows they are never on the right side of a door.

Robin really is the type to buy a worn down, dysfunctional piece of defunct technology but leave a 5000 dollar piece of ambergris on the shore smh

those eggs are vital for backyard chickens. it keeps the chickens from getting in the habit of eating their own eggs. it only takes one egg accidentally breaking once in a nesting area and the chicken eating it for it to be like 'oh yes! this is great!' then it learns that it can eat what comes out of it. keeping one of those fake eggs in their nesting areas helps because when they go to peck at the eggs, they'll peck the fake one and go 'ow, f@&#!' and it breaks their habit (they're usually ceramic, so super hard material).

I don't think the brown gas was bromine. Bromine is usually stored as a liquid. I think it's dinitrogen tetroxide which can be used to demonstrate the effects of heat and pressure on the chemical equalibrium of a reaction. In this case there are two states it can be in. Dinitrogen tetroxide (dark brown, similar colour to bromine) and nitrogen dioxide (yellowish colour). So yeah. Not nearly as bad as bromine but still horrible. Oh btw it's pronounced Bro-Mean, not Bro-Mein

10:50 Ambergris is whale vomit, it is used to make perfume.

I feel like Robin's brain is getting wrinklier

The tiny doors could also be due to superstition Specifically, the Brownie (or Broonie) which is a type of household spirit that enters at night and does housework in exchange for a bowl of milk or cream. And they will abandon places if they feel at all insulted or taken advantage of, so some houses implemented tiny doors to let them come and go easier to keep them happier Specifically the one leading from outside to the kitchen is what makes me think this. Since they would primarily be thought to do kitchen work. The basement could be to get to storage, for things like kitchen supplies and such (also, the baked item "Brownies" is likely named after the fairies, since they'd often leave "baked chocolate squares" for the homeowners)

The metal shards are drips of excess solder that leaked to the inside of the pipe, most likely on a vertical section. That's why you always run the water for a while, without the shower head, after sweating a pipe.

0:41 i immdiately went "NONONONONO PUT THAT BACK DOWN DUDE THAT'S BROMINE!"

In some places (such as the US), it's illegal to buy and sell ambergris. And since whales are endangered species, it can only be collected naturally from the ocean. It also needs to age for about a decade after excretion, as it initially smells bad. All those things combine to make supply highly limited, and since perfume is so expensive, makes it a highly profitable material.

10:42 Ambergris is technically not whale shit. It comes from a secretion in a whale's bile duct. It can come out either end, but it's not exactly vomit or shit. It's It's own unique thing. As for what it's used for, usually perfumes and incense. It's also used as an herbal remedy in some countries, and used to be used in food and drinks a long time ago.

11:42 They're just a candy, not my favorite but they taste pretty good, would recommend it if you haven't tried it.

Tiny doors were for heating-oil deliveries! Long snurggly hose from pumper-truck to basement: tiny doors let it through without having to keep the big doors open.

2:20 That's just the door to the button-eye world from Coraline. Would not recommend going through it, unless you want fake versions of your family trying to sew buttons in your eyes.

11:44 With a mexican father these things hit home. Those fuckers are so damn good and it's making me crave some.

The little door is clearly a passage to a mirrored version of our world wear you have a separate set of parents with button eyes and everything is perfect