This Science Experiment Involves A Bloody Tendril Shooting Out Of A Mason Jar
On paper , this experiment is a simple case of mixing blood with magnesium fluoride. Supposedly, if you mix those two things in a container, this is what you get:
The only problem is I cannot verify that anything mixed with magnesium fluoride will yield this result, let alone blood. The commenters on this tweet are just as skeptical:
While there are videos online of blood and hydrogen peroxide doing some wild stuff, like this one from YouTuber CrazyRussianHacker:
… our best guess is that the original video we’re hung up on is *not* blood and magnesium fluoride, but rather the simple and familiar (but still very cool) elephant toothpaste experiment:
Just make hydrogen peroxide and dish soap look like blood with some dark red/brown food coloring, add some potassium iodide and violà, black magic.
Source: digg.com