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Greetings fellow nerds.
In this video we’re going to make a heart of iron wire appear to bleed when placed in solution.
First get 100 mL of water and add to it 1 gram of potassium thiocyanate.
Then add to it 1 mL of 12M concentrated hydrochloric acid and 1 mL of 30% hydrogen peroxide.
Shake up the solution until completely dissolved.
Pour out the solution into a dish and drop into it an iron wire that’s been shaped into a heart.
Instantly the iron will appear to bleed as the chemicals dissolve the iron and produce iron thiocyanate that has a blood red color.
A more dramatic approach is to hang the iron in the solution and view it from the side.
And there you go.
Yet another nerdy valentine’s day chemistry trick.
This is a variation of the bleeding iron trick i showed in a previous video.
Thanks for watching.
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