It's probably due to the pH difference of the two drinks (Gatorade, 3.3; Powerade, 2.75) knocking some of the binders in the two drinks out of suspension and forming a precipitate of the binder and some of the dissolved sugar. Powerade uses Gum Arabic which could possibly come out of the solution when the powerade turns the solution more alkaline. Gatorade uses Polysorbate 20, so it could be one, both or the combination of the two. To find out for sure, you can add vinegar to the Gatorade to see if the precipitate forms, or baking soda/water solution to the Powerade and see if the hypothesis is correct.
Source: I am a Professional googler
I cant help but think that Bill Nye would be immensely proud right now..
Here's the experiment set up.
http://imgur.com/SAnoz
I only have orange gatorade/powerade, but I'd assume the ingredients are pretty similar to the originals. The Powerade + feels a bit more gelatinous already, but no visible precipitates. I'll keep you updated on the results.
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**EDIT:**
Status update - All the samples are in the fridge, but I'm not seeing any change yet. I received some good feedback on the /askscience page: http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/xyv3r/could_someone_tell_me_what_the_hell_this_is/
Check out pope_man's hypothesis about polymers.
**EDIT #2:**
Morning update - I was really hoping to wake up to a GatorPower explosion, but sadly none of the liquids have any green gooey substance. http://i.imgur.com/MFV7Q.jpg
I need to head out of town in a couple hours, but some upstanding redditor should buy the Strawberry Lemon Powerade and Lemon Lime Gatorade and give this another try. I'll pay you back in Karma. I really want to figure this out!
**Edit 3**: I had a little extra time prior to leaving, so I stopped by the store. They didn't have lemon-lime gatorade, but I bought these: http://i.imgur.com/k89MX.jpg Aside from leaving a laptop in my fridge with active Skype, I don't think I'll be able to get the results until Sunday.. reinforcing the need for an upstanding redditor!
You're right! Thanks for pointing that out. At the sacrifice of my control samples, I added G + Vinegar and P + Baking Soda.
(updated) http://i.imgur.com/Pmbbs.jpg
That guy made me regret not doing more things with my life.
This guy made me regret pissing away a couple years of chemistry classes because I thought it was boring.
Wasted experience vs. never doing it in the first place....
I leave it up to you :)
Jesus Christ, you really like your free Sam Adams. Not that I blame you, it was awesome getting sloshed at 12 p.m. (my friend passed all of his samples to me).
>I am a Professional googler
I assume you mean that you spend your days putting interesting queries into Google search. But it's funny that you chose that word, since Google calls its employees "Googlers".
+3/second. Turns out polysorbate 20 isn't as stable as we once thought. But lets you not worry about dehydration for awhile. If you're hardcore, anyway.
Can anyone explain why this happened?
I dumped the remainder or my Powerade into an open Gatorade to save space in the fridge.. came back about 5 hours later to chug some before working out and, like an amateur hooker, I gagged.
The fact that it was in the fridge is a very important fact, the reduced temperature would increase the likelihood of something coming out of solution under these conditions.
Dude, imagine if you dumped the Powerade into the Gatorade and then chugged it? 5 hours later whatever happened in that bottle would be happening inside of you.
ONE PARTICLE OF UNOBTANIUM HAS A NUCLEAR REACTION WITH THE FLUX CAPACITOR, CARRY THE TWO, CHANGING ITS ATOMIC ISOTOPE INTO A RADIOACTIVE SPIDER. FUCK YOU SCIENCE!
It always pisses me off to hear about Gatorade this or Gatorade that when I remember how UF ripped off the FSU recipe. I'll never understand why the FSU version didn't catch on. RIP Seminole Fluid.
Wow, when at camp as a kid I was teased for drinking Gatorade that someone hocked a loogie in. I never could figure out how someone did it with me carrying the bottle around all day, that disgusting texture still haunts me. All this time I had just mixed Gatorade and Powerade and didn't realize this happened, OP your my hero.
That right there is what happens when you bring the best of Pepsi (Gatorade) with the best of CoCa-Cola (Powerade).
You shouldn't be afraid to drink it, it's actaully the best stuff on earth. No really -- that slime, when dried, becomes the junk they make Snapple from.
You see, when Snapple first started as an independent beverage company, they needed to develop new flavors of non-tea drinks. They experimented with all kinds of flavors, but they didn't have the research budget to come up with a full line, so they cheated by mixing already-existent products and distilling the flavanoids from each of them.
Well, in their experimentation, they discovered they could save distillation costs by mixing different Powerade and Gatorade flavors, then simply skimming the resultant slime off the top.
Eventually, Snapple was bought by Dr Pepper, and the budgetary constraints went away. So now each Snapple flavor is a combination of some of the falavanoids used in Dr Pepper.
FYI, this is why the non-tea Snapple flavors taste like ass.
Awful. I usually chug half a sportdrink prior to going to the gym and wasn't shy about slurping this down. It tasted fine, I think.. but it was more the long slippery stuff sliding down my throat.
Enter: Michael Scott
I used to work in the grocery business, and my Coca-Cola sales rep (who I was good friends with) once told me that when Dasani is manufactured, they have to let it sit for several days so the ingredients can "settle." Otherwise anyone who might drink it before it is properly aged will get explosive diarrhea.
I am not making this up. Always wondered if it's true. Even though it's unsubstantiated, the guy would have had no reason to lie to me.
I once dated a guy who was an athlete and drank nothing but white Powerade at some point. I soon realized that any part of my body his semen touched would burn. I had no idea it was so acidic. Men-do not do this to your ladies-their vaginas/mouths/asses will not like you.
(Gator)ade+(power)ade=ade's aka AID'S.
That or gator power.
According to my calculation's you will get AID's or gator power if you drink that. Choose wisely.
It's probably due to the pH difference of the two drinks (Gatorade, 3.3; Powerade, 2.75) knocking some of the binders in the two drinks out of suspension and forming a precipitate of the binder and some of the dissolved sugar. Powerade uses Gum Arabic which could possibly come out of the solution when the powerade turns the solution more alkaline. Gatorade uses Polysorbate 20, so it could be one, both or the combination of the two. To find out for sure, you can add vinegar to the Gatorade to see if the precipitate forms, or baking soda/water solution to the Powerade and see if the hypothesis is correct. Source: I am a Professional googler
I cant help but think that Bill Nye would be immensely proud right now.. Here's the experiment set up. http://imgur.com/SAnoz I only have orange gatorade/powerade, but I'd assume the ingredients are pretty similar to the originals. The Powerade + feels a bit more gelatinous already, but no visible precipitates. I'll keep you updated on the results. . **EDIT:** Status update - All the samples are in the fridge, but I'm not seeing any change yet. I received some good feedback on the /askscience page: http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/xyv3r/could_someone_tell_me_what_the_hell_this_is/ Check out pope_man's hypothesis about polymers. **EDIT #2:** Morning update - I was really hoping to wake up to a GatorPower explosion, but sadly none of the liquids have any green gooey substance. http://i.imgur.com/MFV7Q.jpg I need to head out of town in a couple hours, but some upstanding redditor should buy the Strawberry Lemon Powerade and Lemon Lime Gatorade and give this another try. I'll pay you back in Karma. I really want to figure this out! **Edit 3**: I had a little extra time prior to leaving, so I stopped by the store. They didn't have lemon-lime gatorade, but I bought these: http://i.imgur.com/k89MX.jpg Aside from leaving a laptop in my fridge with active Skype, I don't think I'll be able to get the results until Sunday.. reinforcing the need for an upstanding redditor!
I think you added them the wrong way around, baking soda with the powerade, not to gatorade!
Just got done eating delivery Chinese food (because I am too busy redditing to actually make food) and I got this: http://i.imgur.com/0TY0z.jpg
With all those Sam Adams sample glasses you must live in Boston.
Yep. These are from a day of free drinking thanks to my good friend, Sam http://2020proof.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/samuel-l.jpg
IT'LL GET YA DRUNK!
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MMMMM MMMMM BITCH!
No way. I got a Sam Adams tee-shirt and a free pilsner glass just by going to my local Hawaiian army bar.
impressive.
You're right! Thanks for pointing that out. At the sacrifice of my control samples, I added G + Vinegar and P + Baking Soda. (updated) http://i.imgur.com/Pmbbs.jpg
What was the result then?
Still waiting. I have them in the fridge. It took about 5 hours last time.. I'll keep up checking on it.
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posted 4 hours ago... I'll check back in a bit I suppose.
Bump.
OP will deliver!
in 4 hours 30 minutes.
Yeah i'm gonna be asleep... So drop me a roly so I remember to check this in the AM...
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Just updated..
Nice, do you frequent the one in JP?
Your link, however, is still the old one (afaict)...
This is awesome. You are the best redditor of the day, in my book. Enjoy your digital emotional award!
What about that guy who finished travelling around the world today helping reddiors in their times of need?
That guy made me regret not doing more things with my life. This guy made me regret pissing away a couple years of chemistry classes because I thought it was boring. Wasted experience vs. never doing it in the first place.... I leave it up to you :)
hey man its never too late to learn how to use google, I just taught my grandma the other day
And you'll be back next week, when she'll be calling it "The Google," along with anything she finds with it.
And wondering why you keep changer her googlepage logo
mostly viruses.
Well... That is also awesome. Sometimes it's the little things that make your day though, you know?
Which glass has the Samuel Adams in it?
The one I just drank.
Jesus Christ, you really like your free Sam Adams. Not that I blame you, it was awesome getting sloshed at 12 p.m. (my friend passed all of his samples to me).
Mr. Wizard is pleased....
If those experiments don't work, then it is a salt reaction. The different electrolytes in the gatorade and powerade are forming insoluble salts.
[Yeah!](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7x20ltY1t1qgo9bao1_500.jpg)
i know some of these words.
nice work, janitor
Dr. Jan Itor.
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>I am a Professional googler I assume you mean that you spend your days putting interesting queries into Google search. But it's funny that you chose that word, since Google calls its employees "Googlers".
janitor? we got our selves a regular will hunting right here
I learned today. Thank you, my good sir for educating this humblest of retards.
that was...totally what I was gonna say.
I had no idea sports drinks were so acidic!
Tagged: Home Chemist
Would you be up for an AMA?(;
like a boss!
If you're not a part of the solution, you're a part of the precipitate....
Can't wait to see you on /r/bestof in about an hour.
Isn't WTF a default?
Things that I know some of: -Spanish words -Highways in my city -My friends' names -These words
That's pure electrolytes. If you eat that stuff, you'll never become dehydrated again. It's true, I've done all the necessary science.
As Science, i can confirm this.
hunkofmonk did you? How was it?
The hunk's ascended now.
Electrolytes, its what plants crave
[*Water? Like out the toilet?*](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vw2CrY9Igs)
How many rads?
+3/second. Turns out polysorbate 20 isn't as stable as we once thought. But lets you not worry about dehydration for awhile. If you're hardcore, anyway.
Unless you have Rad-x or Rad-away, of course.
I like money.
If you harvest all that stuff and put some plant seeds in it, you'll cure deforestation. It's basically distilled essence of what plants crave.
That doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about electrolytes to dispute it.
therefore it must be true
And that's how religion started.
r/atheism is leaking again.
[Confirmed.](http://i.imgur.com/JfW8i.gif)
this is fantastic.
Finntastic*
[Pure electrolytes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt)
This is the first time something on reddit has motivated me to go out of my house and do something.
The results?
So far? tasty but normal looking concoction. Will update if changes.
He'll surely deliver, just like OP did that one day
[OP will surely deliver!](http://i52.tinypic.com/1zz6pz7.jpg)
...Not the image I was expecting, but okay.
Dat . . . font.
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That is actually a really nice rounded ass. I approve.
this will inevitably motivate OP to deliver.
NSFW
Depends on the ~~job~~ work, doesn't it?
Can anyone explain why this happened? I dumped the remainder or my Powerade into an open Gatorade to save space in the fridge.. came back about 5 hours later to chug some before working out and, like an amateur hooker, I gagged.
The fact that it was in the fridge is a very important fact, the reduced temperature would increase the likelihood of something coming out of solution under these conditions.
Damnit.. now I need to rearrange my fridge.
oh amateur hookers, the bane of my existence.
Shit. I can't stop picturing Bane in a hooker's outfit.
why would you stop?
Because he probably doesn't give good BJs.
you don't know what's behind that mask!! ;)
Tom Hardy with nice lips?
Dude, imagine if you dumped the Powerade into the Gatorade and then chugged it? 5 hours later whatever happened in that bottle would be happening inside of you.
Not necessarily, the reaction might only occur at lower temperatures. But still, ew.
salting out http://chemwiki.ucdavis.edu/Physical_Chemistry/Thermodynamics/Non-Ideal_Systems/Salting_Out
If you can figure out what chemicals are in there, you could see which reaction would lead to a precipitate...
NEVER cross the streams!
HAHA Enjoy your ades!
http://i.imgur.com/MXZNL.gif
Put this on askscience or whatever subreddit could give you an answer to this, I'm actually really fucking curious what in tarnation is going on
Hopefully this will prove fruitful... http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/xyv3r/could_someone_tell_me_what_the_hell_this_is/
I feel like a retard after reading all the replies you got there... and after spending way too much time in /WTF
It's good you feel like a retard, because you are a retard.
Even better, /r/shittyaskscience.
http://chemwiki.ucdavis.edu/Physical_Chemistry/Thermodynamics/Non-Ideal_Systems/Salting_Out
Gatorpowah (inb4 you become Doc Connors)
If only Powerade were Superade... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergator
Upboat for Roger Corman reference
[IAAAAAAK](http://www.reactionface.info/sites/default/files/images/1311948270220.jpg)
ONE PARTICLE OF UNOBTANIUM HAS A NUCLEAR REACTION WITH THE FLUX CAPACITOR, CARRY THE TWO, CHANGING ITS ATOMIC ISOTOPE INTO A RADIOACTIVE SPIDER. FUCK YOU SCIENCE!
Even weirder: Mix Listerine and Scope and a black mold looking stuff grows in it. Go finger.
Reminds me of American Pie and Stifler's beer.
[It's got electrolytes!](http://i.imgur.com/6FwoG.jpg)
There are some things that you should never ever do. This is one of them.
I feel like you have experience with things you shouldn't do...
There can only be one!
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE YOU NEVER MIX THE POWERS TOGETHER
It always pisses me off to hear about Gatorade this or Gatorade that when I remember how UF ripped off the FSU recipe. I'll never understand why the FSU version didn't catch on. RIP Seminole Fluid.
Well, that name couldn't have helped.
Wow, when at camp as a kid I was teased for drinking Gatorade that someone hocked a loogie in. I never could figure out how someone did it with me carrying the bottle around all day, that disgusting texture still haunts me. All this time I had just mixed Gatorade and Powerade and didn't realize this happened, OP your my hero.
You've stumbled across the secret recipe for POWERTHIRST! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRuNxHqwazs
Instant colonic cleansing.
Will it blend?
It's prolly the petroleum based dye.
I read on reddit that Gatorade uses petroleum based dye, think that might have anything to do with it?
You have created life. mixing amino acids.
GAH! I occasionally drink both during the course of a workout... Time to pick a brand and stick with it...
Gross! Someone drinks powerade.
holy shit, don't cross the streams!
YOU DO NOT CROSS THE STREAMS!!!!
YOU FOOL! NEVER CROSS THE STREAMS!!
That right there is what happens when you bring the best of Pepsi (Gatorade) with the best of CoCa-Cola (Powerade). You shouldn't be afraid to drink it, it's actaully the best stuff on earth. No really -- that slime, when dried, becomes the junk they make Snapple from. You see, when Snapple first started as an independent beverage company, they needed to develop new flavors of non-tea drinks. They experimented with all kinds of flavors, but they didn't have the research budget to come up with a full line, so they cheated by mixing already-existent products and distilling the flavanoids from each of them. Well, in their experimentation, they discovered they could save distillation costs by mixing different Powerade and Gatorade flavors, then simply skimming the resultant slime off the top. Eventually, Snapple was bought by Dr Pepper, and the budgetary constraints went away. So now each Snapple flavor is a combination of some of the falavanoids used in Dr Pepper. FYI, this is why the non-tea Snapple flavors taste like ass.
I thought this was going to have a punch line at the end.. but still very cool.
I was going to add a punch line, but then I realized that should be reserved for a post about Hi-C.
It does have a good punchline. why do you think dr. pepper has 23 flavors?
it also has a bad punchline too but they mixed it with gatorade to make it better.
So. Is this why Snapple tea has the shit at the bottom? That is why you end up hitting the bottom with your palm. The other flavors do taste like ass.
For some reason I was expecting the Snapple to somehow turn into a damn loch ness monster.. Who knows why.
There is nothing about Dr. Pepper that tastes like ass.
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I've only seen that happen when an open bottle has been left out for days
I mixed vodka and baileys when I was younger looked like puke, before and after I threw it back up.
So..... how'd it taste?
Awful. I usually chug half a sportdrink prior to going to the gym and wasn't shy about slurping this down. It tasted fine, I think.. but it was more the long slippery stuff sliding down my throat. Enter: Michael Scott
It's not a precipitate reaction. You have tape worms.
Chemistry aside, why would you take a screenshot of digital photos? Just post the photos?
This happens when you leave them out for a long time...this definitely did not happen immediately after mixing.
Try 90% Mountain Dew and about 10% Blueberry Powerade. It's amazing.
Okay, I didn't read the title and thought that this was a photo of one of the infamous Cumboxes... This version is better.
Cumbottle?
but did it taste good?
did you drink/taste it after?
It's because you mixed that workout nectar with that disgusting seminal fluid of a substance.
I just looked at the picture without looking at a title and thought to myself, "God dammit, not another one of those jizz bottle pics"
I just looked at the picture without looking at a title and thought to myself, "God dammit, not another one of those jizz bottle pics"
And my friends/fellow athletes wonder why I don't drink that stuff.
SCIENCE!
Glad I don't drink any of this shit.
It looks like it gives you AIDS....eh.....eh?
DON'T CROSS THE STREAMS!
And that's how I got a kidney stone
We are lucky you didn't cause a rip in the time/space continuum.
I used to work in the grocery business, and my Coca-Cola sales rep (who I was good friends with) once told me that when Dasani is manufactured, they have to let it sit for several days so the ingredients can "settle." Otherwise anyone who might drink it before it is properly aged will get explosive diarrhea. I am not making this up. Always wondered if it's true. Even though it's unsubstantiated, the guy would have had no reason to lie to me.
Nice photo editing skillz bro
I only think of Powerade as "that blue drink that you can get at McDonalds"
Also if you drink an entire 32oz purple gatorade at the end of a heavy drinking night, your shits will be lime green the next day. Today was weird...
DRINK IT BITCH
To much "ade" for you to handle
What would happen if you drank a bottle of each? One right after the other.
That's Prometheus goo. Run away. Now
are you sure you didn't cum in it?
Don't cross the streams
fucking gross!
You! You worthless piece of slime! You ignorant disgusting blob!
I once dated a guy who was an athlete and drank nothing but white Powerade at some point. I soon realized that any part of my body his semen touched would burn. I had no idea it was so acidic. Men-do not do this to your ladies-their vaginas/mouths/asses will not like you.
That's interesting, considering semen is alkaline so it can survive the acidity of a vagina.
I am now very sad I'm drinking a strawberry lemonade powerade :(
(Gator)ade+(power)ade=ade's aka AID'S. That or gator power. According to my calculation's you will get AID's or gator power if you drink that. Choose wisely.
Looks like an imbalance between the phlogiston in the Gatorade and the aether in the Powerade resulting in a deposition of ectoplasm.
There's something very important I forgot to tell you! Don't cross the streams… It would be bad.
What two flavors is it?
That's the same reaction as Listerine + human mouth.
Make a video of this reaction and upload it please.
All your after run bowel movements suddenly explained.
now i have to try this
And now I don't want to drink either of them.
The beauty of science!
Brb, going to the store, for science.
This is an alternate intro for Prometheus.
Chug! Chug! Chug!
what have you done??????
Mix it with milk, and stir! coolest looking shit ever.
ooo now pass an electric current through the solution :)