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.
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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.
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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.
️: DoktorKlawonn | CC BY 3.0Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screaming_jelly_babies
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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.
️: DoktorKlawonn | CC BY 3.0Looks like you could go to the moon with that.
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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.
️: DoktorKlawonn | CC BY 3.0@wonderofscience what did that poor potassium chlorate ever do to deserve that treatment
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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.
️: DoktorKlawonn | CC BY 3.0@wonderofscience It really does seem like it's screaming!

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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.
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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.
️: DoktorKlawonn | CC BY 3.0@wonderofscience Bonus fact: this is the exact principle of a rocket engine.
I wonder what the thrust here would be. Probably not much but also probably measurable?
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@golemwire @wonderofscience and do interesting stuff with scraping off match heads?
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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.
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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.
️: DoktorKlawonn | CC BY 3.0I always enjoyed those long, heart-to-heart talks with the fire marshal.
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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.
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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.
️: DoktorKlawonn | CC BY 3.0By Jove, you've invented the fuel we need to get to Mars!

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@starraven @wonderofscience chemistry teacher here. I love this one and do it several times per year. The test tube ist normally busted afterwards because of the temperatures. I personally try to use ones that are quite beat up anyways.
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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.
️: DoktorKlawonn | CC BY 3.0@wonderofscience How utterly cool! Science is wonderful.
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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.
️: DoktorKlawonn | CC BY 3.0@wonderofscience
Okay, you could have just told me you don't like gummy bears. -
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.
️: DoktorKlawonn | CC BY 3.0About a month back I was searching for a visual image to compliment my description of what would happen if you fell into a phosphoric acid reactor/dehydrator. The sort you'd see at a phosphorous mine.
My search has ended.
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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.
️: DoktorKlawonn | CC BY 3.0@wonderofscience AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH-RIBO!
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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.
️: DoktorKlawonn | CC BY 3.0@wonderofscience So I guess that that's one mix to not self-titrate...
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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.
️: DoktorKlawonn | CC BY 3.0@wonderofscience
Artemis III -
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.
️: DoktorKlawonn | CC BY 3.0