The "Screaming Gummy Bear" chemistry demonstration involves dropping a gummy bear into a test tube of molten potassium chlorate (KClO₃), where the sugar reacts violently with the released oxygen producing bursts of flame and gas.

[jigmedatse@social.openpsychology.net]

@wonderofscience@mastodon.social What's that spectra? It's very pretty.

[sandorspruit@mastodon.nl]

@EllenB @wonderofscience I feel sorry for the gummy bear

[ellenb@mastodon.social]

@sandorspruit That would always have a short lifespan, tho. @wonderofscience

[josgeluk@mastodon.nl]

@EllenB @sandorspruit dit wil ik op mijn feest. En dan twintig tegelijk

[trashpandaqc@mastodon.online]

@wonderofscience I’ve seen this in pod racing, they gotta open the side vents and pump the ignition a couple more times

[mistonas@mastodon.social]

@wonderofscience Who needs oil, we got gummy bears!

[lxskllr@mastodon.world]

@wonderofscience

When I was a kid, I melted a glass ashtray doing something similar with potassium nitrate and sugar.

[androcat@toot.cat]

@wonderofscience Final proof that gummy bears are Evil

[earsmeardius@mastodon.social]

@wonderofscience Once, our chemistry class stank out the English class with sulphur dioxide and we had to go and apologise.

[vpsuuronen@eliitin-some.fi]

@wonderofscience I'm thinking.. gummy bear fueled rockets.

[f4grx@chaos.social]

@renardboy @wonderofscience depends on the pressure build up you allow.

[user47@vmst.io]

@wonderofscience my heart goes out to the poor soul who’s tasked with cleaning your glassware

[ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us]

@starraven @wonderofscience
Former chem lab check out person here.
That's nothing a little time in the base bath won't take care of.

As long as the test tube wasn't destroyed, that is

[vickforcella@mastodon.derg.nz]

@wonderofscience I think there is some redox going on there.