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Big Hero 6 (2014), dir. Don Hall & Chris Williams

#hiro hamada #honey lemon #gogo tomago #wasabi no ginger #baymax #fredzilla #*

You’re gonna love this! A dash of perchloric acid, a smidgen of cobalt, a hint of hydrogen peroxide, SUPER HEATED TO FIVE HUNDRED KELVIN, and…TADAAA! It’s pretty great, huh?

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Okay so I know that there are probably a bunch of people who saw this scene and we’re just like “Oh so she turned a giant ball of metal pink and it exploded. Cool. And quirky.” But no. Let me explain you a thing. The phrase she says when wiping off her glasses is “chemical metal embrittlement” which is a fancy way of saying “I put chemicals on this thing and it became super weak.” Tungsten carbide is an EXTREMELY strong substance used a lot in industry for its strength and resistance to heat. It is so hard it has to be polished with goddamn diamond dust. Honey has effectively taken 400 pounds of that and, in a few short seconds, using chemistry knowledge, a few drops (literally) of a few choice chemicals, and an electrical current, changed it into something that falls apart like a dried-out sand castle at the touch of a finger.

Basically what I’m getting at is that Honey Lemon is fucking scary smart and amazing and that this isn’t just quirky and funny and pointless, this is INCREDIBLE. The applications for this, for breaking down a hard substance into a much softer or weaker one in just a few seconds, are endless. Especially if you can do it in a way that is, apparently, not toxic to people.

#honey lemon #discourse