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The Action Lab is a channel dedicated to performing exciting experiments and answering questions you never thought to ask! Please enjoy as I answer the "what would happen if..." questions you have. Feel free to comment with any questions you have about anything. I have made my career as a PhD in Chemical Engineer and now I want to share how awesome science and experimentation can be!

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This Is What It Looks Like When Atoms Collide

2025-04-05

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New World Record For Tallest Straw

2023-01-09

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Ferrofluid Could Be The Future of Space Propulsion

2022-12-30

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Do Superconductors Give Off Radiation?

2022-10-07

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Is Every Reaction Actually Reversible?

2022-07-12

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Making Cold Light (Cryogenically Induced Phosphorescence)

2021-11-17

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How Does a SMOT Work? (Simple Magnetic Overunity Toy)

2021-10-16

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Capturing a Magnetic Field With a Superconductor

2021-06-17

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Why Does A Spinning Top Lift Itself Up?

2021-05-30

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Trying To Fly At The Surface Pressure of Mars In a Vacuum Chamber

2021-05-23

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Feeding a Venus Flytrap Human Blood

2021-05-12

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Cocoa Powder That Can't Get Wet In Milk

2021-03-15

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Artificially Intelligent Animals Powered By The Wind

2020-12-20

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What If You Feed a Venus Flytrap Candy Instead of Flies?

2020-09-26

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Sodium Metal in Water...But it Doesn't Explode

2020-09-16

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The Weird Physics of Freezing Lasers and LEDs

2020-06-21

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Don't Put Water on Chalk—Quicklime

2020-06-03

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The Odd Physics of Pouring Soda in Ice

2020-05-19

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This Mysterious Material Moves Around on Your Hand

2020-03-12

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Tesla's Egg of Columbus—The Gelatinous Solid

2020-03-02

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Is it Possible to Glue Underwater?

2020-02-11

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What Do Artificial Atoms Look Like?

2020-02-05

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The Invisible Air Umbrella

2020-01-21

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Self-Repelling Hydrophobic Water Drops!

2020-01-03

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When You Shine Deadly Radiation on Glass (and food)

2019-11-16

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Hacking into an Amazon Echo Using Laser Light to "Speak" to Alexa

2019-11-13

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Can You Use Umbrellas Instead of a Parachute?

2019-09-03

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Does a Van de Graaf Machine Still Work in a Vacuum Chamber?

2019-08-13

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Giant Neodymium Monster Magnet vs Blood! It's Attracted!

2019-07-26

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Making Fire That Actually Freezes Things Instead of Burns Them—Cold Fire Part 2

2019-05-21

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Spectralon-The World's Whitest Material vs Giant Solar Scorcher—Will it Heat Up?

2019-05-12

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I Built a Time Machine—The Real Life Twin Paradox

2019-04-12

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The World's Smallest "Pewdiepie"—The Microscopic Writing Experiment

2019-03-31

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Have You Ever Seen an Atom? Brownian Motion Captured in Real Life With Lycopodium Powder

2019-03-10

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What Happens When You Put Sodium Metal on Orbeez? Will It Explode?

2019-03-07

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What Happens When You Put Salt on Orbeez? High Speed Water Absorption Experiment

2019-03-01

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How to Make a White Hole and an Einstein–Rosen Bridge in Real Life

2019-02-08

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What Happens When You Shine a 5W Burning Laser on Black Ice?

2019-02-05

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What Actually Happens When You Drop Something into a Real Black Hole?

2019-02-02

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Spectralon—The World's Whitest White Reflects Over 99% of Visible Light vs Black 3.0!

2019-01-17

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Can Flex Tape Hold a Sawed in Half Vacuum Chamber Together?

2019-01-11

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-321°F Japanese Mirror-Polished Ice Ball— Exothermic Ice Formation

2018-12-09

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How Molecules Can React Slow, But Actually Really Fast—Chemical Reaction Speeds Explained

2018-11-15

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What Color are the Stars? How To Measure the Temperature of the Stars With Only a Camera

2018-08-12

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Touching Searing Hot Things Without Getting Burned—Can You Solve The Melting Riddle?

2018-07-27

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Trying to Feed Myself With a Homemade Robot

2018-06-21

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Is Scotch Tape Radioactive? Making X-rays From Tape—Triboluminescence in a Vacuum Chamber

2018-06-03

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Is There More Mass in Empty Space Than Non-Empty Space? Vacuum Chamber vs Space Experiment

2018-05-13

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The Real Reason Your Hands Get Wrinkly in Water. The Human Sponge Experiment

2018-05-10

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Can You Make Oobleck From Chocolate? Edible Oobleck Experiment!

2018-05-04

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Elephant Toothpaste Experiment In a Vacuum Chamber!

2018-03-29

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How Much Weight Can the World's Strongest Insect Pull? I Roped a Beetle!

2018-03-26

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Cooking Eggs Using Only Super-Fast Mixing—Will it Work?

2018-03-23

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Can a Dead Fish Make Paper "Fly"? Weird Experiment That Actually Works!

2018-03-14

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Warning: Never Eat an Orange By a Balloon! The Orange Oil Experiment

2018-02-24

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Can a Venus Flytrap Still Bite In a Vacuum Chamber? Will it Survive?

2018-02-12

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Are Black Holes Really Black...or Invisible? Real Black Holes on Earth!

2018-01-25

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How Much Spit Can You Produce in a Day? (Gross Experiment)

2018-01-13

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You Will Get This Wrong Every Time—Balloons With a Memory (Elastic Hysteresis)!

2017-12-29

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What Happens to Ivory Soap In the World's First Vacuum Chamber-Microwave?

2017-12-26

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4 Ways to Try To Escape The Predator's Heat Vision!

2017-12-17

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Is it Possible To Un-Mix a Liquid? The Entropy Reversal Challenge

2017-12-11

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200 mph Toilet Papering Machine—Epic 5,000 Feet of Toilet Paper in 5 Minutes.

2017-12-08

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How To Get Regular Things Around Your House to Float in Air?

2017-12-02

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Which Way do Bubbles Float in Space? Zero Gravity Bubbles in Water Drop Experiment!

2017-11-26

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MENTOS in a CLOSED SODA BOTTLE—What Happens?

2017-10-30

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Drinking Liquid Nitrogen Through a Straw—Do NOT Try This at Home!

2017-10-27

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Stretch Armstrong in a Vacuum Chamber and a Microwave—An Explosive End!

2017-10-18

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Drawing on Water Sequel: Remote Controlled Drawings—You Won't Believe Your Eyes!

2017-10-12

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Vinegar Plus Baking Soda Volcano Eruption in a Vacuum Chamber

2017-10-09

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Bart Simpson Shaking Soda In a Paint Shaker Challenge

2017-09-18

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They're Alive! Awesome Effect Turns Coins Into Butterflies on Dry Ice

2017-09-15

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How Practical is a Real $3,000 Iron Man Suit?

2017-08-28

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Birds Didn't know What Time It Was During the Total Eclipse. Total Eclipse 2017 With The Action Lab

2017-08-22

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What If You Drop Sodium In Gasoline? Will It Explode?

2017-08-21

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Trying to Catch a Rubber Chicken Dropped by a DJI Phantom Drone

2017-08-15

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Can Food Go Bad in a Vacuum Chamber?

2017-08-12

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Can Tannerite Explode From the Pressure of a Hydraulic Press 50,000 psi

2017-07-08

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How to Not Die When You Eat a Prince Rupert's Drop

2017-06-30

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Crushing the "Rare" Gallium Liquid Metal Fidget Spinner In a Hydraulic Press

2017-06-15

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Making Instant Crystal Clear Slime in a Vacuum Chamber

2017-06-12

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Can a Human Replace a Vacuum Pump in a Vacuum Chamber? How Low of a Pressure Can a Human Make?

2017-06-07

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Using Buoyancy as Gravity in Upside Down Sports Challenge With Helium Balls

2017-06-01

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Can You Escape a Drone That is Locked on to You? 5 Attempts to Lose the Mavic Pro With Active Track

2017-05-14

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Is Everything Waterproof in Pure De-ionized Water? Charging Phone in Pure Water Test

2017-04-27

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Why Are Ping Pong Balls So Flammable? Lighting 100 Ping Pong Balls On Fire

2017-04-17

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What Happens When You Put Water Balloons In a Vacuum Chamber? Will They Boil or Expand?

2017-04-05

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Shooting Oobleck With a 500 mph (800 kmh) Ping Pong Ball From a Vacuum Cannon

2017-04-03

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What Would a Pendulum Look Like Swinging From Space?

2017-03-16

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Do Vacuum Chambers Really Suck? Doing The Cup Trick In a Vacuum Chamber

2017-03-14

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What Happens When You Put 20 Candy Bars In a Huge Vacuum Chamber?

2017-03-08

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Crushing Liquid Nitrogen Frozen Flowers With A Hydraulic Press

2017-03-02

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What Happens When You Turn On A Broken Light Bulb In A Vacuum Chamber? Will It Burn Out?

2017-02-24

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Can You Really Chew An Indium Stick Of Gum? Metal You Can Bite!

2017-02-18

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2,000°F Solar Power! Melting Metal With A Giant Magnifying Glass

2017-02-14

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Can I Make Ferrofluid Out Of Cheerios With A SuperMagnet?

2017-02-10

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What Happens When You Put A Drone In a Vacuum? Can It Still Fly?

2017-01-17

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What Happens To Milk In A Huge Vacuum Chamber?

2017-01-13

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Extracting Cyanide From Apple Seeds With Hydraulic Press

2016-12-21

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Is This Rock Radioactive? Glowing Rock Crushed By Hydraulic Press

2016-12-17

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Did I Just Make Apple Juice With A Hydraulic Press?

2016-12-11

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Crushing Cryogenic Frozen Honey With Hydraulic Press!

2016-12-01

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Superglued Legos Crushed By A Hydraulic Press

2016-11-27

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Pykrete Made From Toilet Paper Crushed By Hydraulic Press

2016-11-19

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Peanuts Turned To Peanut Butter By Hydraulic Press

2016-11-13

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Water Turned To Wine With Hydraulic Press

2016-10-19

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Magnets And Ferrofluid Crushed By Hydraulic Press

2016-09-28

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Giant Gummy Bear Crushed By Hydraulic Press Turns Into Glue!

2016-09-27

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55 Gallon Steel Drum Implodes

2016-09-25

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Slinky Crushed By Hydraulic Press

2016-08-31

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Hydraulic Press Crushes Pasta-It's A Pasta Press!

2016-08-23

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Batteries Crushed By Hydraulic Press

2016-08-21

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Thick Book Crushed By Hydraulic Press

2016-08-01

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Baseball Crushed By Hydraulic Press! See What's Inside a Baseball!

2016-07-29

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Deodorant Crushed By Hydraulic Press

2016-07-15

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Football Crushed by Hydraulic Press| Exploding Balls!

2016-07-10

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Burning Candle Crushed By Hydraulic Press| Satisfying Results

2016-07-09

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Fireworks Crushed by Hydraulic Press|Explosion In The Press|4th of July Special

2016-07-04

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Wet Frozen Sponge vs. Dry Sponge|Crushing Foams in Hydraulic Press

2016-07-02

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Whipped Cream Crushed by Hydraulic Press| Whipped Cream Explosion!

2016-07-01

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Bread Loaf Crushed by Hydraulic Press | How To Make Bread Thinner Than Paper

2016-06-30

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Large Ice block vs Hydraulic Press| Crushed Ice Hydraulic Press Style!

2016-06-29

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Cheese Block Crushed By Hydraulic Press| Extruded Tillamook Cheese!

2016-06-28

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Toilet Paper Turned Back to Solid Wood by Hydraulic Press

2016-06-27

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Flesh-Eating Potassium Lye Dissolves Chicken Flesh And Turns To Soap! |Hydraulic Press Action Extra|

2016-06-25

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Duct Tape Challenge| Hydraulic Press Crush...or is it Duck Tape?

2016-06-21

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Blendtec Will it Blend? Blends Sunglasses then Crushed by Hydraulic Press

2016-06-16

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Giant Jawbreaker Crushed by Hydraulic Press| Candy Crush, See What's Inside!

2016-06-12

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iphone Lifeproof Case Crushed by Hydraulic Press

2016-06-10

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Coins Crushed by Hydraulic Press| Coin Explosion

2016-06-06

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Folding Aluminum Foil with Hydraulic Press (32,768 Layers)

2016-06-01

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Neodymium Magnet Vs. Hydraulic Press with Ferrofluid!

2016-05-29

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DRY ICE vs Hydraulic Press | EXPLOSIVE Results from Dry Ice Under Pressure-Wait till the end

2016-05-24

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Wooden 2X4s crushed to SPLINTERS by HYDRAULIC PRESS--BONUS coin INSERTED into wood!

2016-05-23

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Hydraulic Press | SMASHED OOZING Chicken Soup is Good for the Soul! Also, EXPLODING SODA

2016-05-21

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Hydraulic Press| Marbles literally EXPLODE like a bullet!

2016-05-17

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Crushing Streaming camera with Hydraulic Press!

2016-05-16

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Hydraulic Press| SHOT GLASS Explodes! A GOLF BALL, and even a CLAY PENGUIN smashed!

2016-05-15

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Bouncing Ball Crushed By Hydraulic Press!

2016-05-14

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Digital Camera Crushed By Hydraulic Press

2016-05-13

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Hydraulic Press| Golf Ball Explodes!

2016-05-12

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