Anyone know what the "Special Sauce" they mixed with the sulfuric acid was?

Posted by thelehmanlip@reddit | mythbusters | View on Reddit | 13 comments

They mentioned at the end: "let's just say it's a lot of hydrogen and oxygen". Is that a hint that it's just water? It'd be a pretty funny if that's the case, and they went through all those "precautions" to make it seem real.

EDIT: Okay now I feel really dumb. I saw this post, then watched the mythbusters episode, then realized the post told me what I was looking for all along. http://www.reddit.com/r/chemicalreactiongifs/comments/1j0co5/sulfuric_acid_hydrogen_peroxide_pig/

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Grepus@reddit

2 hydrogen atoms + 2 oxygen atoms = dihydrogen dioxide, more commonly known to you and me as hydrogen peroxide. The combination with sulfuric acid is known as piranha solution

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drphildobaggins@reddit

I'm wondering if Breaking Bad said it was Hydroflouric because they weren't allowed to give out a real formula to do it.

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BrickToptheOrrible@reddit

Probably right , I know they used to do that with 80’s tv show Macgyver , I think they’d leave out an ingredient , so no one would try to do it at home. I mean Kinder surprises are illegal now in USA and Happy Meal toys are already put together unlike the ones we put together ourselves as children,there are signs for people not to use a hair dryer in the shower we’re not a species made to last . Also stops the potential Jeffrey Dahmers out there from not getting caught.

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Significant-Sail-109@reddit

We’re talking about substances that can melt brain matter, bones, skin and manage to desolve the bath and floor beneath. Wtf are you chatting about Kinder surprises? Mate you actually need to give your head a wobble, maybe go see a therapist cos you’ve got some shit you need to let out

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Username7615@reddit

I'm guessing you have never assembled a kinder surprise. Which makes sense seeing as how this went right over you

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TheHYPO@reddit

This looks to have already been generally resolved, but I just thought I'd point out that while they usually go to great lengths to "blur" things like this, in the final shot of Adam loading the metal canister with lots of "special sauce", the jugs are unblurred. The third jug he pours in has a clearly visible label that merely has had the product name sharpied out (poorly).

It looks like a solution of [something] peroxide, and 30% something else.

Presumably (not that I'm a chemist) 70% Hydrogen Peroxide as mentioned here, and 30% this other item (clea.... something)?

http://i.imgur.com/TXGclvp.jpg

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TheHYPO@reddit

Self-reply to correct myself. From another shot of the sulfuric acid in similar jugs, The label is even more clearly shown and they say "Sulfuric Acid 96% [crossed out] MB

The crossed out word appears to be the same one that followed Peroxide on the other jugs (I think the word is Cleanroom followed by a (R) registered trademark symbol), so the "Secret sauce" probably was simply Hydrogen Peroxide (30% concentration).

https://media.vwr.com/stibo/hi_res/10669622.pdf

Here's the product list for the company they used. Looks like they used Sulfuric Acid 96% Cleanroom® MB and Hydrogen Peroxide 30% Cleanroom® LP

No idea what the Cleanroom trademark or "MB"/"LP" notations indicate.

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