CHEMISTRY, YOU BLOW our minds. All GIFs via the wonderful chemicalreactiongifs on Reddit.
1. This GIF of what happens when you dab a 9V battery on a simple piece of steel wool
2. Or hold a fluorescent bulb close to a plasma globe
3. Putting Alka-Seltzer in water… in zero gravity
4. What happens to a pencil when you run electrical current through it
5. ‘Cutting’ a single water droplet… with a superhydrophobic knife on superhydrophobic surfaces
6. Putting an incredibly strong magnet up to an old-style TV screen
7. Hitting a carnation, frozen in liquid nitrogen, with a hammer
8. And finally, just lighting a match
All images via the incredible chemicalreactiongifs on Reddit