Turn water into marbles (FAKE?)

Turn water into marbles (FAKE?)

F for FAKE. This video has been labeled a "Faux-To". Commonly contested as bogus science, we believe this video to be a hoax. What's your opinion? Comment below.

This video shows you how to make a substance that when in contact with the air, looses your polar ability and sticks to itself -- transforming into solid water spheres. There are many ways to get this result but a key ingredient is sodium acetate.

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radhika 1 year ago
damn cool!!
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jaketheironman 8 months ago
its fake u cant do it like that u can get these beed thing that absorb water and there is no powder form of calcium bicarbonate got to this link and u can order them www.stevespanglerscience.com/product/clear-spheres-40-grams
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casey321b 1 year ago
what? omg is it like poarable then they turn into marbles or what?
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Janos 1 year ago
Dude. this kicks ass! Hmmm. considering that the "marbles" only appear when they are completely removed from the rest of the liquid it probably isn't pourable.
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Bryan Crow 1 year ago
Wow... This is one of the coolest useless science experiments I've ever seen!
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szshimshak 1 year ago
really want to try this experiment with my class. The part with the mixing of the salt and the calcium bicarbonate is confusing. Where do I get calcium bicarbonate and what are the measurements to be used?
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jaketheironman 8 months ago
its fake go to this link and order some www.stevespanglerscience.com/product/clear-spheres-40-grams
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angel2279 1 year ago
LOVED THIS !
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Dexter 84 1 year ago
Well... I'm very sceptic, because if you stop the video at the minute 2.23 you can see on the bottom of the plastic box the reflex of some balls, but it doesn't matter, I'm a scientist and if I don't try I can't believe.
Being more precise I think he used calcium carbonate, because calcium bicarbonate "exists" only in solution and that's why the reaction needs two steps to work:

1) CH3COOH + NaHCO3-->CH3COONa + H2O + CO2
2) CH3COONa + H2O + CO2 + CaCO3-->CH3COONa + Ca(HCO3)2
(I'm sorry but I can't put stoichiometries numbers as subscribe)

In the first step acetic acid (chemical substance in vinegar) reacts with sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) giving sodium acetate, water and carbon dioxide.
In the second step calcium carbonate in solution with water and carbon dioxide can form calcium bicarbonate.
So to be sure that the reaction works, tomorrow I'll do a solution containing pure sodium acetate, mineral water(H2O+CO2) and calcium carbonate.

Just some final considerations:
1)vinegar and not vinager
2)why the solution becomes pink?
3)polar ability? what this physical phenomenon should be?
4)Finally, why the glass ,in the first image, is completely shown just after the fell of four/five balls(0.06 min)? Maybe in the glass there was , already, some pink water?
Well, glass/plastic spheres result invisible in water...
We will see... for now congratulations to the illusionist!
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jaketheironman 8 months ago
order them from here www.stevespanglerscience.com/product/clear-spheres-40-grams
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Dexter 84 1 year ago
Experiment n°1 failed... I repeated the operations twice, but nothing has happened...
Tomorrow I'll try again twice. Maybe I missed proportions or something else... but it could also be....
Saluti a tutti!
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AlwaysRacing 1 year ago
Between 2:32 and 2:33 on the timer one of the balls falls out of the container and "BOUNCES" off the table. Sorry but this is FAKE! Just buy marbles with the same refractive index as the water and if you can't make that work just turn the water pink to help mask the marbles.
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gattma 1 year ago
what the hell is calcium bicarbonate
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kingoflight 12 months ago
It does not work because its a hoax.
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Rosebud123 11 months ago
i think this is the one of the coolest things ive ever seen!!!!
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NormanC 11 months ago
I`m flabberglassted!!
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qsdert 11 months ago
This is a hoax. They are actually a bunch of imbibition balls which have already swelled and are sitting in the container. See this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw0x79uilR8&feature=related

also note the same coloring of the bead with the ones shown in this video
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ApocalypticKid95 11 months ago
this is so cool!!
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momochus 10 months ago
well its true you can do this but it docent turn back in to liquid but its still cool :3
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Drpill420 9 months ago
some please tell me if this works
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woodstoc 8 months ago
pretty cool
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kjndfskdf 7 months ago
FAKE
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