Stunningly Beautiful Chemical Reactions Captured On HD Video

Chemistry is beautiful.

You don't have to just take my word for it a pair of scientists recently captured the spellbinding magic that takes place when two substances combine on high-definition video.

For their new media project, aptly named Beautiful Chemistry, the researchers transformed the tedious world of laboratories and white coats into a captivating wonderland of bubbling oranges, blues and purples, sparkling silvers and mesmerizing yellows.

Here are a few clips from some of their videos.

This is what happened when the researchers put a bit of iron chloride, a compound lab researchers often use to jumpstart other reactions, in a solution of corrosive sodium metasilicate.

It's not just falling snow that shapes compounds into beautiful, delicate crystals. When the researchers dropped zinc a brittle, abundant metal found in Earth's crust into a solution of corrosive silver nitrate, delicate flakes of zinc nitrate began to take shape.

The next time you boil an egg, think of this video. It's the surface of an egg surrounded by tiny bubbles of carbon dioxide. Instead of boiling water, the scientists popped an egg in some hydrochloric acid, a substance used frequently in the lab to adjust the pH of a solution. The acid is shown here reacting with the calcium carbonate in the egg shell.

Congrats, team Beautiful Chemistry you've hooked this one.

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