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Sulphur Hexafluoride

This clip shows two experiments with this transparent, yet heavy, gas.

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Darkie : LVL 3: VP 1.2: said:

Darkie

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1051 days 5 hours ago...

The 2nd experiment has been posted before (http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/78015/Ship_Floats_On_AIR_Sulfur_Hexafl
uoride_Experiment.html) but the first part is original content I think.

fagbag : LVL 24: VP 3.3: said:

fagbag

51 votes NegativePositive

1051 days 5 hours ago...

thats amazing!!!!! where can i buy this stuff? i gotta make more trips to the science center

Kenny9123 : LVL 9: VP 1.8: said:

Kenny9123

80 votes NegativePositive

1051 days 3 hours ago...

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I want some.. when one of your buddies is smoking to much weed.. get everyone to inhale that and start talking to him.. HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA shit ya!

Chowdder : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

Chowdder

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1051 days 3 hours ago...

Sure repost, but still cool =)

reminds me of the magic carpet

Z3rG : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

Z3rG

81 votes NegativePositive

1051 days 3 hours ago...

I want to give some of this to my cat.

jdaggz : LVL 1: VP 1: said:

jdaggz

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1050 days 23 hours ago...

I think we found the secret to the cris angel levitation trick

liber8er : LVL 9: VP 1.8: said:

liber8er

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1050 days 23 hours ago...

i found some of this stuff on ebay. trust me friends if you are ever in need of a chemical substance 9 outta 10 times there's an evil genius somewhere in the world lookin to share some of his ingrediants. thas where i go to get my bomb making materials.

MANWHORE : LVL 29: VP 3.8: said:

MANWHORE

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1050 days 23 hours ago...

This is the stuff that comes out of the fat asses of fast food junkies.

WolfXI : LVL 20: VP 2.9: said:

WolfXI

18 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 23 hours ago...

That's fucking cool!

kenkira : LVL 29: VP 3.8: said:

kenkira

11 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 22 hours ago...

thats mad!

Enthasius : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

Enthasius

13 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 22 hours ago...

That is, indeed, ****ing awesome.

jagginess : LVL 30: VP 3.9: said:

jagginess

38 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 22 hours ago...

It would be cooler if the gas never came out of his lungs so he'd be crying in a low voice to get that gas out. :)

Kugh : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

Kugh

5 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 21 hours ago...

theres an urban legend that if you breathe it in and dont stand upside down, because the gas is heavier than air, it will stay in your lungs and kill you. my friend thinks its true, but i do not. any anyone bring justice to the matter please?

Dougie : LVL 40: VP 4.8: said:

Dougie

1 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 21 hours ago...

WHERE CAN I GET SOME OF THAT SHIT.

SittingCow : LVL 17: VP 2.6: said:

SittingCow

19 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 21 hours ago...

@kugh your lungs are like pumps and it pushes all the air out

JonGuzman : LVL 37: VP 4.5: said:

JonGuzman

16 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 21 hours ago...

I want to see a canoe float down some gas rapids

Neferati : LVL 25: VP 3.4: said:

Neferati

13 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 21 hours ago...

They should have thrown a mouse in there and watch what happens.

holls26 : LVL 3: VP 1.2: said:

holls26

8 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 20 hours ago...

THe guy sounded to be in slow motion.

BACKFIRED : LVL 15: VP 2.4: said:

BACKFIRED

-3 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 20 hours ago...

VLG


Very LeGit

5/5

ARDIA : LVL 5: VP 1.4: said:

ARDIA

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1050 days 20 hours ago...

That idiot inhaled something that had FLUORIDE in it?

Idiotic.

JonnyW247 : LVL 1: VP 1: said:

JonnyW247

0 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 20 hours ago...

Very cool!

r3dRoVeR247 : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

r3dRoVeR247

0 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 19 hours ago...

dude!! hahaha the first one was amazing

Dillinger : LVL 30: VP 3.9: said:

Dillinger

2 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 18 hours ago...

I watched a video like this in chemistry class back in high school. I looked it up to buy some online, but the lab I talked to refused to sell me any, telling me that it is toxic to inhale.

importrx7 : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

importrx7

9 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 18 hours ago...

Luke..... I am your father...

comment_boy : LVL 20: VP 2.9: said:

comment_boy

1 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 17 hours ago...

^ lol

shackle : LVL 25: VP 3.4: said:

shackle

8 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 17 hours ago...

Sulphur - Toxic
Fluoride - Toxic

I have no idea how chemical names come about but just those 2 words in the name would make me not breath it into my lungs until i read something on it on wiki :P

shackle : LVL 25: VP 3.4: said:

shackle

3 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 17 hours ago...

Indoor swimming pool and Tons of this.
Strap on a pair of floaties and go at it.

Count_Noobula : LVL 11: VP 2: said:

Count_Noobula

6 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 16 hours ago...

reverse helium!

theandaid : LVL 17: VP 2.6: said:

theandaid

2 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 16 hours ago...

lol wicked, i seriously wonder if you would float in this stuff

like all in a giant tank, grab your diving equipment and swim around in it
i bet it would be like flying !

(about the giant tank - as you know, the pressure on the bottom of something is higher then at the top, which is why mountain air is thin, for example, or why you can't dive past a certain depth. so if you put a lot of this gas on top of itself, the pressure on the bottom may be sufficient to support a human being with an oxygen tank and flippers... man i would definitely do that if i could)

the lord humungous : LVL 3: VP 1.2: said:

the lord humungous

5 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 15 hours ago...

i think scientists and such are the ones we should look up to instead of brittany and michael jorden

QuietYou : LVL 18: VP 2.7: said:

QuietYou

8 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 14 hours ago...

"That idiot inhaled something that had FLUORIDE in it?

Idiotic."

You have no knowledge of the basic principles of CHEMISTRY?

Idiotic.

Violetninja420 : LVL 30: VP 3.9: said:

Violetninja420

0 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 14 hours ago...

This gas, allthough non-toxic, is one of the most potent greenhouse gases on record. About 20,000x worse than carbon dioxide, but not as abundant or prevalent in our atmosphere.

That is, if you believe all that scientificly based fact bullshit. ;p

d3m0n1z3d : LVL 21: VP 3: said:

d3m0n1z3d

3 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 13 hours ago...

"That idiot inhaled something that had FLUORIDE in it?

Idiotic."

Most americans drink water with FLOURIDE in it?

Idiotic.

gruvin : LVL 20: VP 2.9: said:

gruvin

1 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 13 hours ago...

WOW.. that is really neat.

worzel : LVL 3: VP 1.2: said:

worzel

14 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 11 hours ago...

You've got it all wrong.. It's not the supher or the floride that makes this toxic, it's the Hex they put on it!! It's not chemistry, it's WitchCraft.. Burn them, burn them they made something float in mid air!

RGAF_skyhawk : LVL 18: VP 2.7: said:

RGAF_skyhawk

2 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 10 hours ago...

^LoL^

even though i know better then that it still sounds logical XD

ricemonkey : LVL 23: VP 3.2: said:

ricemonkey

0 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 10 hours ago...

opposite of helium neh?

RockyHero : LVL 24: VP 3.3: said:

RockyHero

1 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 9 hours ago...

wow he sounds like darth vader!

betabox : LVL 2: VP 1.1: said:

betabox

0 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 9 hours ago...

to all those people who think oh sulphur + flouride = toxic!

think of other things. Sodium (explodes in contact with water) + Chlorine (turns water into acid) add these together and you get salt.

Mr6Sozac : LVL 20: VP 2.9: said:

Mr6Sozac

3 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 9 hours ago...

wow i love science X_X

Assassinator666 : LVL 11: VP 2: said:

Assassinator666

1 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 8 hours ago...

Wouldn't the SF6 (Sulfur Hexafluoride) mix with your blood, as does oxygen, and technically make you heavier?

theandaid : LVL 17: VP 2.6: said:

theandaid

1 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 7 hours ago...

^ i don't think the respiration cells in your lungs will allow SF/6 to pass through in your blood system. but when you hold it in your lungs, it will ofcourse make you heavier.

Dirt Digger : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

Dirt Digger

3 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 5 hours ago...

I don't recommend people do this. Could you die from it? No...but if you took a couple hits you could start to feel signs of hypoxia because of the displacement of oxygen. The gas is actually very stable, and doesn't diffuse very well into the blood stream...it just "takes up space" in the lungs.

The "thickness" of the gas impacts the speed of sound travelling through it, hence the different vocal pattern. I've done dry dives in a hyperbaric chamber to 180 feet and had similar effects with the higher atmospheric pressure.

tj : LVL 23: VP 3.2: said:

tj

1 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 5 hours ago...

Awesome! 5/5

Jaapy : LVL 5: VP 1.4: said:

Jaapy

1 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 5 hours ago...

Would u get the same effect if u use helium and stand upsidedown?
Gonna try that someday :)

Chowdder : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

Chowdder

12 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 4 hours ago...

You people on spikedhumor are so fucking retarded.......

"Ohhh this guy said repost, must vote that bitch down......"
what a bunch of pricks...........go hump a cow

Vote me down you bitches, vote me down til your hearts content..........assholes

Mutombo : LVL 3: VP 1.2: said:

Mutombo

0 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 4 hours ago...

LOL Very kool have to go trip my stoner buddies out wif theis shit

QuietYou : LVL 18: VP 2.7: said:

QuietYou

4 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 4 hours ago...

I would pay a fiver to see him say "I'm the juggernaut bitch"

slayzer : LVL 16: VP 2.5: said:

slayzer

0 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 2 hours ago...

OMG, INSTANT SATAN!

Ultimate : LVL 37: VP 4.5: said:

Ultimate

0 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 2 hours ago...

haha thats awesome i need to try that someday

Acer_Vartan : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

Acer_Vartan

1 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 1 hour ago...

Actually your lung can push most air out but there is always a residual reserve that doesnt leave (we cant completely collapse them). But after a few minutes of normal breathing you would dilute any gas that remained until it was negligible. I would agree though that inhaling this stuff is not recommended as a habit.

delt_osvp : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

delt_osvp

0 votes NegativePositive

1050 days 1 hour ago...

just get those air cleaners and do it its the same

poisomike87 : LVL 1: VP 1: said:

poisomike87

0 votes NegativePositive

1050 days ago...

That is freakin sweet!

Contusion : LVL 17: VP 2.6: said:

Contusion

-2 votes NegativePositive

1050 days ago...

sulfur hexaflouride?

Sufi : LVL 15: VP 2.4: said:

Sufi

0 votes NegativePositive

1050 days ago...

awsome

ieatedjessicalba : LVL 22: VP 3.1: said:

ieatedjessicalba

-1 votes NegativePositive

1050 days ago...

that shits TIGHT! it makes you sound like the most common interpretation of what Satan would sound like!

Whateley : LVL 12: VP 2.1: said:

Whateley

1 votes NegativePositive

1049 days 23 hours ago...

So, in theory, if you had this stuff in one lung and helium in the other, would you sound normal?

Zeroenna : LVL 1: VP 1: said:

Zeroenna

0 votes NegativePositive

1049 days 22 hours ago...

^ makes u think doesn't it lol

sulfur hexaflouride is a very inert gas though so it won't react much with everything

Diabolicle : LVL 1: VP 1: said:

Diabolicle

0 votes NegativePositive

1049 days 21 hours ago...

Wow that's awesome.

delt_osvp : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

delt_osvp

1 votes NegativePositive

1049 days 9 hours ago...

just get that pc aerosol air cleaner and inhale it and it does the same thing.

Shredder18 : LVL 5: VP 1.4: said:

Shredder18

0 votes NegativePositive

1049 days 9 hours ago...

so sweet

blackdogs377 : LVL 1: VP 1: said:

blackdogs377

3 votes NegativePositive

1049 days 8 hours ago...

you guys, a person could not float in this because people have a higher density this gas.

Tada : LVL 24: VP 3.3: said:

Tada

5 votes NegativePositive

1049 days 6 hours ago...

Lol at stupid people with the urbans legend thing. Heavyier than air and stays in the lungs...
If that was true then the carbondioxide would've killed you before you even opened you eyes!

But the thing that makes the voice different is that the pressure on the vocal cords is greater leading to the deeper voice. Helium is lighter which makes lower pressure on the vocal cords makes the voice lighter.

Still i know the perfect evil plan for this gas! Lets switch all the helium tanks in every carnival, shop, amusement park in the world! So then a small child is handed his/her ballon, it drop the floor!
MOHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHHA!


*Btw floride is in you fucking tooth paste...

ss32 : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

ss32

0 votes NegativePositive

1049 days ago...

*sulfur

geno8r : LVL 1: VP 1: said:

geno8r

0 votes NegativePositive

1048 days 18 hours ago...

That's awesome

sajuuk : LVL 15: VP 2.4: said:

sajuuk

1 votes NegativePositive

1048 days 16 hours ago...

sulphur hexafluoride is a non-toxic, inert, insulating and cooling gas of high dielectric strength and thermal stability.

HadesRealm : LVL 18: VP 2.7: said:

HadesRealm

2 votes NegativePositive

1048 days 16 hours ago...

"Sulphur - Toxic
Fluoride - Toxic

I have no idea how chemical names come about but just those 2 words in the name would make me not breath it into my lungs until i read something on it on wiki :P"


hope ya know that oxygen is also toxic when it binds with itself in the right way (aka O3, or Ozone) so its all about the binding of the molecules that allows u to inhale it without dying

Pincus : LVL 14: VP 2.3: said:

Pincus

0 votes NegativePositive

1048 days 15 hours ago...

Does anybody know where I can find their pod cast? Or where this video originated from? The BulletinBoardForum.com isn't it.

bighooters : LVL 4: VP 1.3: said:

bighooters

-2 votes NegativePositive

1048 days 13 hours ago...

It would be cooler if the gas never came out of his lungs so he'd be crying in a low voice to get that gas out. :)

he could stand on his head

xbiox : LVL 1: VP 1: said:

xbiox

0 votes NegativePositive

1048 days 1 hour ago...

when you inhale duster and talk you sound like that, but everything you see stops and looks like checkers hahaha... horrible stuff to inhale, dont try it kids.

nana2222 : LVL 13: VP 2.2: said:

nana2222

0 votes NegativePositive

1047 days 22 hours ago...

wow cool stuff.
5/5.

Li'l b : LVL 30: VP 3.9: said:

Li'l b

0 votes NegativePositive

1047 days 20 hours ago...

That was radical! 5/5

Stoner : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

Stoner

0 votes NegativePositive

1047 days 18 hours ago...

this stuff is non-toxic... fair enuf the elements on their own are toxic but taken table salt for instance.. u wudnt wna eat any sodium or breath in any chlorine gas... but as a compound their safe to ingest

Gardenghoul : LVL 14: VP 2.3: said:

Gardenghoul

0 votes NegativePositive

1047 days 10 hours ago...

Both this and helium can cause asphyxiation if you're not careful. You can literally pass out while you're still standing, with few warning signs (you may feel light headed). This can cause brain damage, and in rare cases, death. So don't do it for extended periods of time.

Shimonu : LVL 9: VP 1.8: said:

Shimonu

0 votes NegativePositive

1047 days 5 hours ago...

gardenghoul, there were actually 2 kids that stuck their head in a helium balloon and stood there for too long and eventually died from it. So yeah, you shouldn't inhale larger amounts of this, once or twice as a joke is fine.
We mixed hydrochloric acid(HCl) and Sodium hydroxide(NaOH) in school, hydrochloric acid as you can guess from the name is dangerous but after the mix, all we got was salty water, H2O and NaCl. So two elements alone can be dangerous but as a mix sometimes neutralize each other.

NoReMaC : LVL 12: VP 2.1: said:

NoReMaC

0 votes NegativePositive

1047 days 1 hour ago...

Dats teh awsome XD

Kakorat : LVL 1: VP 1: said:

Kakorat

1 votes NegativePositive

1046 days 23 hours ago...

another thing to give you lung cancer...just like everything else once its cool u start doing it, next thing u know, but its cool for seeing 1 time, now i know what barry white was using

paintbb84 : LVL 21: VP 3: said:

paintbb84

-1 votes NegativePositive

1046 days 22 hours ago...

I'm a chemist. THAT IS NOT COOL! DO NOT TRY THAT AT HOME. And if your home happend to have a tank of SF6 laying around, you'd most likely be doing worse things than breathing in a super heavy TOXIC gas. Its not like nerve gas or even carbon monoxide but it displaces oxygen which you NEED. It could also trigger any number of respritory attacks which would, again, be bad and possibly fatal. And I'm sure if you breathe it in, some will get into your blood and make you impotent. well maybe not impotent but if you're dumb enough to breathe it in you dam well deserve to be.

QuietYou : LVL 18: VP 2.7: said:

QuietYou

0 votes NegativePositive

1046 days 9 hours ago...

^It doesn't displace anything, it cant bind to haemoglobin either, it just fills your lungs until you cough it back out

vash21 : LVL 1: VP 1: said:

vash21

0 votes NegativePositive

1046 days 3 hours ago...

ty quietyou for finally mentioning hemoglobin god... after all that talk of "wont it get in my blood and kill me?" fucking idiots hemoglobin draws the oxygen out of ur lungs and into ur red blood cells and so does carbon monoxide thats why its so dangerous

Jr : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

Jr

0 votes NegativePositive

1045 days 8 hours ago...

Mythbusters wannabees... is it just me or am i the only person that is annoyed at Adam Savage's laugh at the end of every experiment result they get... Its like a repeat of everything, example: bang! Adam: hahahhaha
Poof, Adam: hahahaahhah
boing! Adam: hahahha

Ok I take that last one back, boing is pretty funny.

buu32 : LVL 9: VP 1.8: said:

buu32

-1 votes NegativePositive

1045 days 7 hours ago...

thats sik

Broodman : LVL 1: VP 1: said:

Broodman

0 votes NegativePositive

1044 days 23 hours ago...

Awesome

Literally the opposite of helium which is much lighter than air and makes your voice high

Another scientific triumph...

MT911 : LVL 1: VP 1: said:

MT911

0 votes NegativePositive

1043 days 21 hours ago...

HELLO YALL lmao

frogleg : LVL 20: VP 2.9: said:

frogleg

0 votes NegativePositive

1043 days 15 hours ago...

Well, if were gonna speak out of context... Oxygen is toxic. Pretty much anything is toxic in large amounts.

SkywalkerU : LVL 1: VP 1: said:

SkywalkerU

0 votes NegativePositive

1042 days 22 hours ago...

All I know is the video is cool. I'm not sure if it is toxic or not but those guys seemed to know a lot about it and they didn't seem worried about breathing it in. The aluminum foil boat floating and sinking was definetely the highlight of the clip.

L3b3rt : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

L3b3rt

0 votes NegativePositive

1041 days 3 hours ago...

man now i've found a sweet alternative to voice changing software when i leave my ransom messages on peoples answering machines.

Bnine75 : LVL 16: VP 2.5: said:

Bnine75

1 votes NegativePositive

1040 days 9 hours ago...

wow (5)

Majerie : LVL 1: VP 1: said:

Majerie

0 votes NegativePositive

1040 days 7 hours ago...

I need some of that!

ayastona : LVL 1: VP 1: said:

ayastona

-1 votes NegativePositive

1034 days 3 hours ago...

i wanna smoke it in a pipe

DingoDango (Admin) : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

DingoDango

0 votes NegativePositive

1026 days 3 hours ago...

I love the video. The comments make me sad. That's what happens when you mix christians and science.

poison_R34 : LVL 3: VP 1.2: said:

poison_R34

0 votes NegativePositive

1025 days 23 hours ago...

this is pretty fucking cool.

stompy84 : LVL 3: VP 1.2: said:

stompy84

0 votes NegativePositive

1012 days 19 hours ago...

Got me a bottle of that shit!

PHINKS : LVL 9: VP 1.8: said:

PHINKS

0 votes NegativePositive

1006 days 2 hours ago...

stoner unit and find some of that gas

bunta-fuji : LVL 7: VP 1.6: said:

bunta-fuji

0 votes NegativePositive

1003 days 17 hours ago...

HOLY SHIT THIS IS SO COOL!

06131985 : LVL 1: VP 1: said:

06131985

0 votes NegativePositive

991 days 8 hours ago...

Just breathe in some computer duster and you will sound like that.

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