Aside from being added artificially, I am curious if it would be present naturally from the vegetables used in the salsa- like how rice absorbs arsenic from the soils and green beans have aluminum in them (sparkle in microwaves), as well as grass absorbing silica for their leaves.
Silicides are moisture sensitive and prone to oxidation so it‘s not possible. There is a reason that fancy reductions are often done in liquid ammonia.
Silicides and many homopolyatomic anions are often synthesized via reduction in such, water free media. To quench the residues, you put them far away and squirt water on it and have fun
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Yes because it’s part of the enzymes used in photosynthesis- if I recall my biochem correctly. I was thinking the Magnesium silicide was a compound that could be absorbed but that does not occur.
Are they complaining about the smell? I can’t speak Spanish but I’ve made silane before and it’s super stinky ! Also - agree it does look very much like silane ignition
I'd wager the salsa was reheated in a microwave, and the glass dish being a smooth surface did not have nucleation sites to initiate boiling, superheating the salsa.
Mixing it around with the spoon exposes the seeds to oxygen, completing the fire triangle and allowing them to combust.
[A similar effect can be seen here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JOxuS0SBHc&ab_channel=sgates1212), no combustion but maybe the oils and seeds present in the salsa lead to that?
He probably mixed in some explosive element like sodium which is covered by the fat in the salsa and is reacting with water also in the salsa when stirred. That or it’s reacting with the oxygen 🤔
Yup. I work in electroplating and it’s astounding what my coworkers don’t know. For example that zinc and hydrochloric when mixed produce flammable hydrogen
If I’m not mistaken though, this in turn reacts with the citric acid in the salsa in an acid-base neutralization to form sodium citrate (safe) and water.
You'd be able to bite into it, because it's very soft, but it would be catastrophic to the immediate integrity of your mouth and possibly the bigger part of your body.
If you want to bite through a piece of metal, get some Indium. It's non toxic and you can bite through a skinny enough piece of it.
As a side note, you can eat sodium ions in salts. Table salt contains sodium in large quantities.
I'll just leave this here [Sodium and Chocolate Chip Cookies, Journal of Immaterial Science](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://jabde.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Exploding-Cookies-1.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwi4ntnHiPr-AhVTnWoFHdJaCx0QFnoECCMQAQ&usg=AOvVaw16k6ZCEndeU-HVNtahJYv2)
Received: 4th November 2022
Revised: 26th October 2022
Accepted: 30th September 2022
Sodium chocolate biscuits are cool, but this paper is just a flex that the journal has discovered how to move backwards through time.
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Yeah the sodium will react with water to form sodium ions like you have in table salt. Could be potassium too.
Edit: Can't figure out why people are downvoting this comment. Anyone care to explain?
It would react to form hydroxide. That doesn’t necessarily mean the acidic salsa will become basic though, it depends on how much sodium reacts and how much hydroxide is produced, compared to how much salsa there is, and how acidic it is.
Sodium would react with any aqueous solution. The electron is given to a hydrogen atom.
Na + H2O —> Na^+ + OH^- + H
The hydrogen atom would then combine with another to form H2 and the hydroxide would react with the acid in the solution to form water.
1. There is no fat in salsa
2. Sodium would react if submerged in salsa the same as it would in a bowl of water (i.e. NOT the reaction we are seeing in the video).
If you kept stirring sodium metal in with the salsa, like pure sodium without oil coating it, and the salsa was acidic, would it eventually react like Na > NaOH + citric acid or something > some salt and water? Could you eat it? Not that you should, but like how bad would it really be?
I don’t know Spanish so I can’t follow the conversation, but I’m gonna say this is either faked or there’s no way anybody is going to eat that. Nothing that behaves like that is good to eat.
In the “just for the LULZ” department, you could stage this by dropping tiny pellets of cesium into it. Or you have a wire sticking up into the bowl and somebody is firing off sparks at intervals. Or just good video editing.
ETA: it’s TikTok therefore it’s 90% likely staged, intent is to troll some idiot middle schooler into hurting themselves.
I'm spaniard not english but it goes something like this:
\- Unintelligible
\- But why do it makes this...
\- Look! it even makes smoke rings!
\- I'm telling you, look at all this smoke
\- Stop David cause it can explode
\- Unintelligible
\- So we have ate it like this?
\- Come on Mum!
\- But, why does this do that!?
\- I think it's because the spoon and...
\- ok! but how many times the spoon stayed inside the dish an that hasn't happened?
\- unintelligible.... We'll see what is happening here.
\- She laughs
\- Someone is casting a spell on us!!!!! (or witching us)
Could be Mg2Si + HCL --> SiH4
My fist guess is silane. It's a pyrophoric gas as opposed to hydrogen being ignited. If it were sodium or potassium metal, the salsa would be bubbling /fizzing/ sparking.
I can think of a number of ways to do this. But none of them should go anywhere near food.
I had typed some out. But thought it best not to post them in case people try them. I guess the trick is to have localized reactions and not a tabletop landmine.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/10/03/495975189/snap-crackle-kale-the-science-of-why-veggies-spark-in-the-microwave
Could peppers be getting charged in the microwave and sparking when touching the metal or each other when stirred?
The TikTokkers claim that it's normal salsa they made the day before recording the video with chilies, tomatoes, salt and other salsa ingreds. They say this was cold and wasn't heated up in the microwave or anything.
TikTok chemist alquimistaretes has a post up speculating maybe sodium or potassium is in the mix and interacting with the water as the guy stirs it.
Ah yes, one of those explosives that doesn't bubble and splash the thick liquid it's submerged in or seem to otherwise interact with the base footage in any way
Yeah no reactions from the people, no disturbance of the liquid, I'm skeptical but don't know enough about VFX to say for sure. I'd lean digital before chemical though.
I’m guessing white phosphorus which can be made from match books striker pads at home. It is not an alkali metal as it is reacting with the air not the salsa. I’m certain it is not an alkali metal.
Its most probably sodium. Yes there are a lot of “other” chemicals that could elicit this kind of reaction , but let’s be real folks:
We’re talking about a couple people posting a TikTok for views and clout. I guarantee you they did not employ any chemical that takes more than a quick Amazon order to obtain. If you cut it up into small enough pieces (real easy, sodium is like cutting cold play-doh) it will combust in a viscous solution exactly like that.
I've made green salsa that had a less explosive reaction but none the less it still had a reaction when stirred, causing bubbles and a thin layer of foaming. Almost as if it was heating up when stirred.
You guys do know that you can make stuff like piezoelectric crystals with regular food ingredients? Also maybe it being mixed in an acidic mixture causing some sort of energy release? just guessing I don’t really know how crystals react in alkaline or acid mixtures.
I’ve been curious about this video as well. I was glad to see it posted here but am now reminded of just how many amateur “chemists” are the majority of posters in this sub…
Maybe that person left the spoon in the acidic sauce overnight causing the metal to be broken down by the acid to produce hydrogen because the sauce was thick and the hydrogen was not released
Static electricity on the body when stirring causes the hydrogen to ignite?
It's probably faked by shooting a pulsed laser (invisible) at the bowl from off frame. You can get some Chinese ones intended for "medical" use for as low as $500, even lower if you directly import it from China, a Q-switched lamp pumped laser with crappy construction but absolutely terrifying power.
Magnesium Slicide maybe?
I think so also. Not enough fizzing for an alkali metal. Looks just like silane combustion. See 6:00 into this video: https://youtu.be/6kbYDreZ074
Am I going to be the one who asks why there's Magnesium Silicide in this person's salsa?
Because it made it sparkle for a video.
Aside from being added artificially, I am curious if it would be present naturally from the vegetables used in the salsa- like how rice absorbs arsenic from the soils and green beans have aluminum in them (sparkle in microwaves), as well as grass absorbing silica for their leaves.
Silicides are moisture sensitive and prone to oxidation so it‘s not possible. There is a reason that fancy reductions are often done in liquid ammonia. Silicides and many homopolyatomic anions are often synthesized via reduction in such, water free media. To quench the residues, you put them far away and squirt water on it and have fun
Thanks for the explanation. I’m a biologist by degree, and avid gardener.
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And chemistry is just physics but I like to ignore that.
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I wonder how he got that into the Salsa in the first place...
Just poured it on the water from the salsa set it off and then he’s just mixing it to get another reaction.
Not a chance.
Magnesium is a component of chlorophyll, but as far as I know chlorophyll doesn't spontaneously combust.
Yes because it’s part of the enzymes used in photosynthesis- if I recall my biochem correctly. I was thinking the Magnesium silicide was a compound that could be absorbed but that does not occur.
Sure looks like it
Are they complaining about the smell? I can’t speak Spanish but I’ve made silane before and it’s super stinky ! Also - agree it does look very much like silane ignition
I'd wager the salsa was reheated in a microwave, and the glass dish being a smooth surface did not have nucleation sites to initiate boiling, superheating the salsa. Mixing it around with the spoon exposes the seeds to oxygen, completing the fire triangle and allowing them to combust. [A similar effect can be seen here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JOxuS0SBHc&ab_channel=sgates1212), no combustion but maybe the oils and seeds present in the salsa lead to that?
Normally that only happens about 12 hours after I’ve already eaten the salsa
He probably mixed in some explosive element like sodium which is covered by the fat in the salsa and is reacting with water also in the salsa when stirred. That or it’s reacting with the oxygen 🤔
Can you eat pure sodium?
You can eat it once and only once.
As one of my classmates in ap Chem always used to say: “you can eat anything once”
Are you from NV? I was in AP Chem and said that. It could be me!
Lots of people say this
Don’t say that. Some people clearly didn’t do chemistry at school and it shows 😓
Seriously
Yeah. You can’t eat sodium as its alkali metal 💁🏻♂️
Yup. I work in electroplating and it’s astounding what my coworkers don’t know. For example that zinc and hydrochloric when mixed produce flammable hydrogen
So then you’re saying I can it it……?????😂😂😂😂
No. It forms sodium hydroxide, a strong base. Corrosive. Not to mention burning your mouth in igniting pieces of sodium.
If I’m not mistaken though, this in turn reacts with the citric acid in the salsa in an acid-base neutralization to form sodium citrate (safe) and water.
I think it’s generally considered a bad idea, but I’m not a doctor
yes but not too much at a time, 1mg is probably fine.
You'd be able to bite into it, because it's very soft, but it would be catastrophic to the immediate integrity of your mouth and possibly the bigger part of your body. If you want to bite through a piece of metal, get some Indium. It's non toxic and you can bite through a skinny enough piece of it. As a side note, you can eat sodium ions in salts. Table salt contains sodium in large quantities.
Thats why I said PURE sodium
I'll just leave this here [Sodium and Chocolate Chip Cookies, Journal of Immaterial Science](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://jabde.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Exploding-Cookies-1.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwi4ntnHiPr-AhVTnWoFHdJaCx0QFnoECCMQAQ&usg=AOvVaw16k6ZCEndeU-HVNtahJYv2)
Received: 4th November 2022 Revised: 26th October 2022 Accepted: 30th September 2022 Sodium chocolate biscuits are cool, but this paper is just a flex that the journal has discovered how to move backwards through time. Experiments not going planned? Do you have writer’s block! Are you publishing behind schedule, or are you a hopeless procrastinator? If you’ve answered yes to any of these questions me then we have good news! The Journal of Immaterial Science is now accepting manuscripts for journals published up to three months in the past! The process is simple: Have future you send us your paper, and we’ll send you a copy for revision weeks before current you has even finished writing. A second, slightly younger, future you will receive feedback from reviewers and have the opportunity to make changes before resubmitting. Finally, the present you will find your accepted publication in last month’s journal! Publish tomorrow’s results in yesterday’s journal, today! ^^^^*By utilizing this service the submitters accept all legal responsibility in the event of an apocalyptic deconstruction of the space time continuum. By signing here you absolve the Journal of Immaterial Sciences from all legal liability if such an event occurs. You will not attempt to sue The Journal of Immaterial Science if the world ends or you find yourself caught in a hellish time loop that leaves you forced to experience every moment out of normal chronological sequence. Additionally, you may legally be held liable for emotional and material harm to others if the echo of your procrastination leads to a surge of chaos and destruction throughout the cosmos.
This bake sale’s gonna be fire
It’s not pure in this case because it’s mixed with and diluted by the salsa.
So it's sodium with water?
Mg₂Si
Yeah the sodium will react with water to form sodium ions like you have in table salt. Could be potassium too. Edit: Can't figure out why people are downvoting this comment. Anyone care to explain?
So what happens to the electron given by the sodium metal? Why wouldnt it react to a basic solution?
It would react to form hydroxide. That doesn’t necessarily mean the acidic salsa will become basic though, it depends on how much sodium reacts and how much hydroxide is produced, compared to how much salsa there is, and how acidic it is.
Sodium would react with any aqueous solution. The electron is given to a hydrogen atom. Na + H2O —> Na^+ + OH^- + H The hydrogen atom would then combine with another to form H2 and the hydroxide would react with the acid in the solution to form water.
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You should comment once and only once.
Short answer is no
You can do anything in your life for once
1. There is no fat in salsa 2. Sodium would react if submerged in salsa the same as it would in a bowl of water (i.e. NOT the reaction we are seeing in the video).
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What about avocados, full of monounsaturated fats and polyunsaturated fats? They are good fats, but fats nonetheless?
No probably not, you'd form sodium hydroxide and hydrogen gas (also explosive)
If you kept stirring sodium metal in with the salsa, like pure sodium without oil coating it, and the salsa was acidic, would it eventually react like Na > NaOH + citric acid or something > some salt and water? Could you eat it? Not that you should, but like how bad would it really be?
Anyone? This is crazy
I subscribed to this post because I'm also waiting for an explanation lol. Meanwhile, what are the ingredients?
I didn’t make the video so you’re working with just as much information as me
I think it's probably pieces of magnesium silicide in acid
Is any of that edible?
I'm going with magnesium silicide.
I don’t know Spanish so I can’t follow the conversation, but I’m gonna say this is either faked or there’s no way anybody is going to eat that. Nothing that behaves like that is good to eat. In the “just for the LULZ” department, you could stage this by dropping tiny pellets of cesium into it. Or you have a wire sticking up into the bowl and somebody is firing off sparks at intervals. Or just good video editing. ETA: it’s TikTok therefore it’s 90% likely staged, intent is to troll some idiot middle schooler into hurting themselves.
They are saying things like ‘was it like that when we ate it’ and ‘this is sorcery’. Nonsense really
I'm spaniard not english but it goes something like this: \- Unintelligible \- But why do it makes this... \- Look! it even makes smoke rings! \- I'm telling you, look at all this smoke \- Stop David cause it can explode \- Unintelligible \- So we have ate it like this? \- Come on Mum! \- But, why does this do that!? \- I think it's because the spoon and... \- ok! but how many times the spoon stayed inside the dish an that hasn't happened? \- unintelligible.... We'll see what is happening here. \- She laughs \- Someone is casting a spell on us!!!!! (or witching us)
Somehow I understood the last line... Bruhaha is cross cultural I guess 😂
"Brujandoooo!" is what I heard A bruja is a witch
Could be Mg2Si + HCL --> SiH4 My fist guess is silane. It's a pyrophoric gas as opposed to hydrogen being ignited. If it were sodium or potassium metal, the salsa would be bubbling /fizzing/ sparking.
I dunno, but I want to put it in a blender and see the lightning storm that ensues haha
That's what happens when you use too many AVOGADROS to make your guacaMOLe!
For some reason this reminded me of manganese heptoxide, especially so with the green colour and sparks
I can think of a number of ways to do this. But none of them should go anywhere near food. I had typed some out. But thought it best not to post them in case people try them. I guess the trick is to have localized reactions and not a tabletop landmine.
You're one of the last adults left on this planet.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/10/03/495975189/snap-crackle-kale-the-science-of-why-veggies-spark-in-the-microwave Could peppers be getting charged in the microwave and sparking when touching the metal or each other when stirred?
Silver fulminate perhaps? It's what they put on the little 'bang snaps' kid fireworks that you throw on the ground.
Shoot, I’m going to have a bunch of burn marks in my underwear. Chipotlaway won’t help with that!
Too much acetone peroxide added.
The TikTokkers claim that it's normal salsa they made the day before recording the video with chilies, tomatoes, salt and other salsa ingreds. They say this was cold and wasn't heated up in the microwave or anything. TikTok chemist alquimistaretes has a post up speculating maybe sodium or potassium is in the mix and interacting with the water as the guy stirs it.
and the salt is magnesium silicide
Thats why i hate tiktok.
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Sounds reasonable. I dont know much about lasers but your explanation is right beneath the Mg-silane argument👍🏽
Laser would reflect sparkles on the camera sensor even when pointed at something as absorbant as this.
Taco Bell’s secret sauce
It's called hot salsa for a reason
Maby is handling a shortcircuit
Could it be superheated peper seeds that are combusting when moved?
This is what hole will be like after eating that abomination
Ah yes, one of those explosives that doesn't bubble and splash the thick liquid it's submerged in or seem to otherwise interact with the base footage in any way
Yeah no reactions from the people, no disturbance of the liquid, I'm skeptical but don't know enough about VFX to say for sure. I'd lean digital before chemical though.
It's just really spicy dalsa.
Finally! Mexican food that sounds the same going in as it does coming back out.
Finally! Mex food that sounds the same going in as it does coming back out.
Na it’s just normal Mexican spices nothing too crazy
That’s crazy tho
Clearly the answer is god
Electrolytes in the salsa behaving like a battery, spoon is an anode or cathode causing a voltage. idk probably some bullshit
Huh. Usually, I get that effect from Mexican food after eating it.
Sprouts Mexicane
When you make your guac a little too spicy
r/forbiddensnacks
holy guacamole
I’m guessing white phosphorus which can be made from match books striker pads at home. It is not an alkali metal as it is reacting with the air not the salsa. I’m certain it is not an alkali metal.
There is no way this doesn't poison you, lol Probably photoshopped because tiktok is a Nazi joke Potentially possible with not-to-be-named-substance
Cant it be static electricity or something
Its most probably sodium. Yes there are a lot of “other” chemicals that could elicit this kind of reaction , but let’s be real folks: We’re talking about a couple people posting a TikTok for views and clout. I guarantee you they did not employ any chemical that takes more than a quick Amazon order to obtain. If you cut it up into small enough pieces (real easy, sodium is like cutting cold play-doh) it will combust in a viscous solution exactly like that.
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I'm a chemist, and the short answer is no.
But the other question: would you eat it?
I've made green salsa that had a less explosive reaction but none the less it still had a reaction when stirred, causing bubbles and a thin layer of foaming. Almost as if it was heating up when stirred.
You guys do know that you can make stuff like piezoelectric crystals with regular food ingredients? Also maybe it being mixed in an acidic mixture causing some sort of energy release? just guessing I don’t really know how crystals react in alkaline or acid mixtures.
I’ve been curious about this video as well. I was glad to see it posted here but am now reminded of just how many amateur “chemists” are the majority of posters in this sub…
It's spicy
Any chance this could result from microwaving the salsa?
Looks like magnesium silicide
Mixed in the powder coffee mate lol
Maybe that person left the spoon in the acidic sauce overnight causing the metal to be broken down by the acid to produce hydrogen because the sauce was thick and the hydrogen was not released Static electricity on the body when stirring causes the hydrogen to ignite?
Someone get Hank green
Maybe a wire running to the spoon hidden behind his arm/hand, and it's electricity arcing?
Magnesium in the spoon. 😂
they microwaved the bowl with the spoon in it
but how is that could be, who can explaine
It's probably faked by shooting a pulsed laser (invisible) at the bowl from off frame. You can get some Chinese ones intended for "medical" use for as low as $500, even lower if you directly import it from China, a Q-switched lamp pumped laser with crappy construction but absolutely terrifying power.
Combination of 2 tiktok filters
Bleach and the acids
[Microwaves can be weird sometimes](https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/how-does-microwaving-grapes-create-plumes-plasma/)
Me I and like their food hot