SLOW MOTION CHEMISTRY! Potassium Permanganate and Hydrogen Peroxide 

Oh wow those blobs of brown foam wiggling in the air while coughing puffs of steam are absolutely stunning

Ok. That potassium superoxide reaction looked like something straight out of Harry Potter . Or an actual close up view of a nebula from deep space .

"As a self respecting RU-vid Chemist" You actually made my day after a looong day in the lab. Keep going my friend.

best chemistry chanel on yt. no annoying voice commenting no nonsenses, only pure chemistry. thank you

Elephent toothpaste. Such a simple reaction that is so classic and yet, looks absolutely fantastic & beautiful when we slow things down & really look into it. Bravo CF, amazed me as always.

Beautiful! The first reaction looks like creation on earth, the second galactic

Cool video! We did this reaction as a demonstration experiment for our undergrad chemistry students at the university. This reaction used to drive the fuel pumps in V2 rockets. Nice to see it in slow motion, really mesmerising.

Awesome footage 😀

Absolutely incredible! How the small spheres of liquid puff out gas as they shoot out of the top of the flask is a really cool effect! Love it as always! 😊

Holy crap, amazing shots! I loved seeing the little flying globs burping out gas

Omg this is so amazing! U can see steam coming out of the flying blobs. Can u do slower? Would be incredible! 🤯 Also those spinning particles at 5:04 is so cool!

Please do something like pyrophoric nickel or iron in slow-mo!!!!!! (pyrolysis of iron or nickel oxalate) Edit: Your cam quality has become so much better

This is the reaction that drove the turbopumps in Werner von Braun's V2 rocket. The first vehicle to cross the Karman line into space. Except they used highly concentrated HTP, High Test Peroxide & a warm, saturated solution of Sodium permanganate. Can you imagine how violent that reaction must be! They used the steam produced to drive a 2 stage steam turbine directly coupled to the pumps that forced the fuel & oxidiser into the combustion chamber. I loved seeing the Potassium permanganate crystals bounce back out of the Hydrogen peroxide dry & untouched. A catalyst in action! I've read about catalysts, how they remained unchanged & that they just supply a place, a surface, where the reaction can occur. But I think this was the best demonstration of that I've seen.

Hello, This is not a catalyzed reaction (in a reaction with a catalyst, the catalyst is not altered at the end of the reaction. In other words it appears in the reactants and products. And so we note it above the reaction arrow) It is a redox reaction. Where the permanganate oxidizes the hydrogen peroxide. In an acidic medium we obtain Mn2+ (commercial solutions of H2O2 are slightly acidified for stabilization.) Without acidification we obtain MnO2 Looking forward to seeing more of your videos.

This is so amazing, please keep up your beautiful work

Potassium permanganate. When you want all objects in your lab to be permanent purple.

The blobs of stuff shooting up while boiling, and shooting jets of steam was cool.

Феерично! Замечательно. Каждое следующее видео еще лучше. Молодец!

I'm totally in the wrong place to say this but, watching this stoned is mesmerizing lol

Spectacular... I would love to see a full series of these. Violent reactions in slow mo.

Wow, I've never seen a crystal being sort of rejected by a fluid :D Very cool video with the chemical reaction and all the surface tension effects visible in slow motion. Please make more such videos!

Excellent footage!

Oh wow the 2nd reaction is absolutely amazing!!!😳🤯

i love when innocuous looking powders react violently together

Beautiful. Just beautiful. And yes thank you for not being cliche. Thumbs up indeed.

3:20the purple fumes and the bubbling droplets flying out makes this reaction look soooooo satisfying!

A true oldie but a goodie. The KMnO4 and H2O2 close up looked like Krakatoa going off! 👌

Legendary!!!!!

That was a beautiful explosion at the end...very colorful.

He's back! I was worried that maybe the fume hood stopped working at a really exciting moment... 👀 I can never get enough of your slow-mo reactions!

From a fellow scientist, this extremely beautiful aspect of nature needs more recognition. Please, keep up the aesthetic appeal of chemistry.

Это выглядит потрясающе!!!

potassium superoxide + decaborane reaction was awesome!!!

Absolutely Brilliant . Thank you

Another terrific video. So captivating.

That second reaction really blew me away! So spectacular!

That’s awesome thanks for sharing I really liked the green flame 🔥

Your camera work is just fantastic!

Fun and exciting watching the interplay between multiphase reaction effects and the recombining power of surface tension of the solution!

Great video!

Got this in my recommended

I just discovered your channel and I'm fascinated

Yeah, I need more of this.

You're so cool! I enjoy watching all of your videos. 💗

5:04it's strangely comforting to see the debris swirling down with a flame tinged green with boron

One of these brillant green flame / explosion of LiBH4 with some Peroxides... Also IN3 decomposition should be nice

Please make some nitrogen triiodide aka ammonia and iodine. Btw love what this channel has become.

It smokes! Even the tiniest drops.

Like, guys! Chemical Force forever.

ME ENCANTOOOO!!! NO HAY UN SÓLO VIDEO TUYO QUE ME DESCEPCIONE! TE MONTASTE EL MEJOR CANAL SOBRE REACCIONES QUÍMICAS DE RU-vid 😍😍😍😍😍

I used to do this as a kid in the early eighties. I used the potassium permanganate and glycerine as an igniter for my homemade black powder bombs. When you reverse the proportions and use more crystals than glycerine it will combust after a short delay. Yes, I did almost blow my face off....

Now just imagine things like this not happening in a controlled environment but in the churning billions years cycle of reaction and change. And see the very smallest beginning of evolution in its purest form, chemistry.

Love the green cloud

Elephant toothpaste 4 lyfe!! :-P

Thank you, that was amazing.

You need more views man. Your channel is so interesting to watch, keep up the good work

Never thought it'd be so cool in slow mo . really incredible 👍

@2:25 My favorite part! That flying foam on the left puffs smoke a lot of times. :))

Impressive... that release of steam and heat. This reaction was used to drive the fuel pump of the Nazi's V2 Rocket's fuel pump during the last part of WW2. It only had to work for about 5 minutes or so. Read about this in my High School's Chemistry textbook. Later, I learned CBS' programming and interviews during the late 60s (some were hosted by Walter Cronkite, if memory is serving well enough) that the US used updated versions of the V2 Rocket's fuel pump to power the lower stages of its manned orbital and later Moon shots. Who knew? There has been much talk about a return trip from Mars recently, the chemistry of making O2 and H2 for the fuel for a lift-off of a manned return trip? I wonder if anybody has started to think about making potassium permanganate or H2O2?

Stunning!

Beautiful - thank you

As a Fellow (25+yrs) chemical engineer I could say, wow, I missed those days as a student in the university labs...

That decaborane reaction in slowmo is so cool! Reminded me of a supernova like the crab nebula.

Beautiful reactions!

Very cool! My favorite is a gummy bear dropped into melted potassium chlorate. I have students come back many years later asking if I still do the gummy bear reaction. I would like to see what it looks like in slow motion.

You are a master slow motion videographer

Literaly killer visualisiotn in his videos 💖

Amazing footage, thank you so much for posting this. Interestingly, the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide catalysed by sodium permanganate was used in the V2 rockets (made in Germany in WWII) as a gas generator to drive the turbopump.

You've improved a lot!(and it have been always a good channel)

Thank. You. For. This.

more of this stuff please

THX´s for this Video, very great!

This feels more like a music video than a chemical reaction footage So cool!

This fresh espresso coffee is very excited to get out of the jar ...

I think after first reaction you have a lot of Fresh Air in the Room :)

Nice

I imagine if a chemist can make a cool thingy that exotermally reacts something with something else in some sort of a can so that this thingy can propell some sort of a vehicle using the pressure exerted on the can's bottom... Oh, wait, that's jet engine!

yayyyy i'm delighted that you've gotten hold of a super slo-mo camera!

Ive always wanted to see some manganese heptoxide reactions in slow mo

Potassium permanganate is the only metallic oxide(metalate) that is used in medicine

That's the most epic boilover I have ever seen, especially out of small amount of the Potassium Permanganate.

You deserve 10 million subscribers

The steam generated was used in the V2 rocket engine to get the turbo pump going.

Interesting. Man, decaborane is intense stuff!

It is funny that even the high speed camera is not fast enough to capture the development of ignition process. The flame just appears during a single period between frames.

Beautiful.

Crazy, how it Looks like a computer animation

Do experiments with fluorine gas.

Videos like this made me wish I had youtube growing up. It would have surely influenced my careerchoice differently.

you really need to do a video with the slow mo guys, would love to see some of these reactions at 200,000 fps

Chemical poetry in motion.

Amazing! Micro firework! I'm sure you could Taylor some reactions like they make fireworks. How if you sprinkled some magnesium shavings on top of the pile? :)

Reaction of H2O2 with MnO2 is less violent but the effect of column of the steam is similar.

Oh yeah... The forbidden milkshake

Interesting. Believe it or not hydrogen peroxide is a reducing agent to very strong oxidizing agents such as potassium permanganate or sodium hypochlorite. It is oxidized to oxygen. If the solution is strongly acidic the permanganate will reduce all the way to Mn(II)++ ion. The resulting in a seemingly clear solution of [Mn(H2O)6]2+ ion is actually a very pale pink but that is seen mainly in crystals off its salts. This ion is hardly colored as it has five d electrons, a half shell. Your decaborane - potassium superoxide reaction was spectacular. The green from boron was clearly there.

decaborane looks like dying stars but million times faster than it

i learnt something that dry powders can have violent reactions wish i knew why

I wonder how it would look with manganese heptoxide instead of potassium permanganate. Probably BOOM.

Hydrogen peroxide powered the jet pack at the 84 Olympics and that Bond film as well as the German torpedoes, an airplane launched wire guided antiship missile, the rockets that launched the V1 missile off the ramps, the fuel pumps for the V2 rocket and the rocket powered airplane that preceded the jet powered airplane. The current lunar lander demonstrator model for the return to the moon that NASA is running is also fueled by hydrogen peroxide sprayed through a silver screen to catalyze its breakdown.

That was amazing...