The yellow glow from sodium ions as electricity passes through a pickle, same kinda yellow that tells us that some stars are made of sodium
(Fun doing a quick little demo for my Univ social media folks. Only remembered to pull my phone out just before I stopped)
#KitchenChemistry #ScienceOutreach
Ok so to coincide with the #Picklesburgh festival here in #Pittsburgh this weekend the university social media people put this *shocking* clip out on Instagram reels.
Great editing job on this unplanned (besides "can you do something related to pickles") unscripted few moments with a few items I grabbed from home. (Besides the variac)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9n4d3suf5C/?igsh=ZDN4bXFtc2l5anNr
@SRDas wait….so, stars are made of pickles??
@FlockOfCats and the moon is made of cheese, it's a regular picnic up in space
:)
@SRDas so what I want to know is which came first: knowledge of the association of sodium with yellow, or someone thinking "I'm gonna hook some electrodes up to a pickle and see what happens"
@eugeneparnell electrodes in pickles are relatively new. People, scientists have been looking at stars and light for a long long time.
Melville 1750s
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_spectroscopy
@SRDas mmmm, salty stars.
@Meat_Bucket 
If there's enough calcium they'll be crunchy too!
@SRDas next you’re gonna tell me there are glutamic acids, and that Frito Lay will stake a claim.
@Meat_Bucket this is the dark side of the milky way