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Since you've taken a chemistry class, you know that chemical stuff is a lot of figuring out what will not kill you. That's chemical synthesis in a nutshell. Doing some math and figures to try to get the product you want without dying. This is true every time. Even if you're desired product is something that can kill you. Like bromine. Don't synthesize bromine. It will give your lungs and external body chemical burns and has a good chance of exploding if it touches random metals. Overall you would just have a bad time.
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Recently, a youtube channel showed up in my recommended feed. The guys name is NileRed, and he does these really crazy experiment things. The scary part about it is I don't know if he's actually a chemist? He knows stuff about chemistry and everything, but he never does anything in a lab, and he gets a lot of his chemicals from e-bay. There's a good chance that this guy will just randomly catch on fire someday and I won't know if it was a chemical thing that went wrong or a chemical thing that went right.
He also does kind of questionable things safety wise sometimes. He has a video of pouring various acids of varying strengths on his hands and ??????????????????????? Do you have a death wish? Are you some sort of masochist? I have no doubt that he would do dubious things if given the chance.
On an actual science note, he does some really crazy reactions. There was one video where he showed the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction and it was very odd. That looks like this:
Science is wild. Here's a link to his actual video of it, but there's no guarantee you'll be able to view it, because apparently, the video is not viewable from this specific area. Watch it at home if that's what you're into. I don't know. Live your life.
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