in today’s video we are taking a pile of
Himalayan salt lamps and putting them
through some stress tests to see just
guys ironically enough just a few hours
ago today veritasium released a video
that debunked whether or not Himalayan
salt crystal lamps were actually good
for you and released enough negative
ions into the atmosphere to actually
boost your mood however we still have a
bunch of salt lamps so we are gonna be
putting these through a few tests to see
just what they can and cannot survive
here’s the basic idea we have three salt
lamps and we are going to see just what
sort of stress test they can handle this
is going to involve water heat and maybe
a few other things so as far as these
lamps are concerned it has been debunked
that they can’t really release that many
negative ions to make a positive impact
on moods or anything like that however
there are types of crystals that have
been proven to basically boost your mood
because of the way they release negative
ions one of those is tourmaline now that
is much more expensive than Himalayan
salt which is probably one of the
reasons why these are much more
commercially available that said we just
want to want to put them to the test and
see what else they can do alright so for
our first test well we wanted to throw
one in the Forge but it’s really really
hard outside right now so we’re gonna go
ahead and stick with the indoor
experiments today and then move forward
from there so first off while I have
heard that these lamps can absorb
moisture from the atmosphere I want to
find out whether or not they can melt
some people say they can’t some people
say they can let’s put it to the test
so for these videos we don’t need the
base we’re just kind of taking them
apart and I am very disappointed because
a lot easier and I wanted it to be but
it’s good for our purposes
perfect it’s a very large chunk of salt
so for one of our first dress tests here
I have heard it said that you cannot
melt or dissolve one of these lamps I
don’t know if that’s true and I want to
find out so the first thing that we’re
gonna do is run one of these under some
water on a time-lapse see what happens
we’re also going to pull on any pot of
boiling water on the stove see if it
dissolves alright so we’ve got
everything set up for our time-lapse
sorry about the dirty dishes but we want
to see just how long it takes to erode
[Music]
stress test number one can you erode a
Himalayan salt lamp with water yes so we
were playing with glass on the table
earlier so I’m hoping this is just saw–
yeah okay
all right stress test number two so we
have seen that you can erode away one of
these salt lamps with just using tap
water so we’ve actually got a little
setup here on the stove so this is going
to be slightly submerged in boiling
water and while I do believe that’s just
going to dissolve it I’m curious to see
what the steam will do I want to see if
that’s actually going to help erode and
we’ve definitely made a mess so the salt
itself seems like it’s mostly been fine
from the steam like I was expecting it
to get that same glassy outside that we
were getting on the one that had the
water running over it and rolling it
away instead what we’ve gotten is the
water itself has turned almost opaque
and it splattered salt everywhere like
the pot is just coated in a powdery salt
and I’m very curious I do think it’s
lost some of its its volume here so I’m
gonna try and pick it up I want to know
just how much of it sunk through the
grading that’s kind of hot to the touch
not too it’s not too bad but alright
time lapse is definitely going to show
that better because we lost about half
of its volume there I was not expecting
that but it is not nearly as smooth as
it was when we eroded it the other one
away this is so very very rough coarse
almost almost the same as it is on the
other side not nearly as effective as I
thought it was gonna be especially
compared to the eroding can you dissolve
a salt lamp using steam yes but it would
probably take a very long time so
comparatively running it under water
versus simply allowing the steam to do
the work for you this one’s gonna
survive that one not so much
alright so we’ve tried roading one of
our salt lamps we’ve tried dissolving
one and now we want to try melting one
but to do that we’re gonna need a lot
more heat alright guys so we’ve made it
up to the dome we’ve already eroded one
salt lamp we’ve tried to dissolve
another so for our final one we’re gonna
melt it so got this thing this is an
extra large crucible that just so
happens to hold our salt way up
perfectly so let’s drop it in see what
all right so it’s been about 10 minutes
and we’ve actually had this on
time-lapse but I’m not sure if we’re
actually gonna get the ambiance in our
Forge to be warm enough to actually melt
the the salt so what we’re going to do
is put the lid on now hopefully leave it
for a little while and when we come back
[Music]
alright so I just checked on this and I
think we actually managed to do this
guy’s it’s been about an hour and a half
which is not as long as we were
we have successfully melted an entire
Himalayan salt lamp oh wow so I was not
expecting it to have that much of volume
left over well yep Anna’s on fire I lit
a stick on fire with a molten salt
that’s just cool it’s actually leaking
out over the side there is so much more
to that line how there was well I was
gonna try and take it out and pour it
into something but with how much there
is here and with the size of that
crucible it’s not really gonna be safe
for me to try and lift that up and
transport it so we’re going to let it
sit there and cool down see what it
looks like once it’s actually solidified
again we can actually get our tongs
around it safely transport it in dump it
out that’s really cool like I know I
don’t want to touch that but I actually
really want to touch that
so we left this about 30 minutes to try
and let it harden it hasn’t really
cooled that much it’s still radiating a
ton of heat and I’m not sure if it’s
solid yet so the surface is no longer
molten now I don’t trust that to be the
case all the way through it but we’re
that is a giant crucible just full and
the surface isn’t pink anymore we’re
definitely gonna have to reheat this
crucible to get the salt out of the
later date but it’s gonna stay like that
for now so can you erode a salt lamp
away with water yes you can
can you dissolve it not as well but you
can still do that – can you melt it
absolutely and that was actually a lot
faster than we were expecting it to be
that’s pretty cool well I am kind of sad
that veritasium proved that you can’t
actually get negative ions from heating
up a salt lamp because I think I win the
award for most heated up salt lamp ever
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Himalayan salt lamps and putting them
through some stress tests to see just
guys ironically enough just a few hours
ago today veritasium released a video
that debunked whether or not Himalayan
salt crystal lamps were actually good
for you and released enough negative
ions into the atmosphere to actually
boost your mood however we still have a
bunch of salt lamps so we are gonna be
putting these through a few tests to see
just what they can and cannot survive
here’s the basic idea we have three salt
lamps and we are going to see just what
sort of stress test they can handle this
is going to involve water heat and maybe
a few other things so as far as these
lamps are concerned it has been debunked
that they can’t really release that many
negative ions to make a positive impact
on moods or anything like that however
there are types of crystals that have
been proven to basically boost your mood
because of the way they release negative
ions one of those is tourmaline now that
is much more expensive than Himalayan
salt which is probably one of the
reasons why these are much more
commercially available that said we just
want to want to put them to the test and
see what else they can do alright so for
our first test well we wanted to throw
one in the Forge but it’s really really
hard outside right now so we’re gonna go
ahead and stick with the indoor
experiments today and then move forward
from there so first off while I have
heard that these lamps can absorb
moisture from the atmosphere I want to
find out whether or not they can melt
some people say they can’t some people
say they can let’s put it to the test
so for these videos we don’t need the
base we’re just kind of taking them
apart and I am very disappointed because
a lot easier and I wanted it to be but
it’s good for our purposes
perfect it’s a very large chunk of salt
so for one of our first dress tests here
I have heard it said that you cannot
melt or dissolve one of these lamps I
don’t know if that’s true and I want to
find out so the first thing that we’re
gonna do is run one of these under some
water on a time-lapse see what happens
we’re also going to pull on any pot of
boiling water on the stove see if it
dissolves alright so we’ve got
everything set up for our time-lapse
sorry about the dirty dishes but we want
to see just how long it takes to erode
[Music]
stress test number one can you erode a
Himalayan salt lamp with water yes so we
were playing with glass on the table
earlier so I’m hoping this is just saw–
yeah okay
all right stress test number two so we
have seen that you can erode away one of
these salt lamps with just using tap
water so we’ve actually got a little
setup here on the stove so this is going
to be slightly submerged in boiling
water and while I do believe that’s just
going to dissolve it I’m curious to see
what the steam will do I want to see if
that’s actually going to help erode and
we’ve definitely made a mess so the salt
itself seems like it’s mostly been fine
from the steam like I was expecting it
to get that same glassy outside that we
were getting on the one that had the
water running over it and rolling it
away instead what we’ve gotten is the
water itself has turned almost opaque
and it splattered salt everywhere like
the pot is just coated in a powdery salt
and I’m very curious I do think it’s
lost some of its its volume here so I’m
gonna try and pick it up I want to know
just how much of it sunk through the
grading that’s kind of hot to the touch
not too it’s not too bad but alright
time lapse is definitely going to show
that better because we lost about half
of its volume there I was not expecting
that but it is not nearly as smooth as
it was when we eroded it the other one
away this is so very very rough coarse
almost almost the same as it is on the
other side not nearly as effective as I
thought it was gonna be especially
compared to the eroding can you dissolve
a salt lamp using steam yes but it would
probably take a very long time so
comparatively running it under water
versus simply allowing the steam to do
the work for you this one’s gonna
survive that one not so much
alright so we’ve tried roading one of
our salt lamps we’ve tried dissolving
one and now we want to try melting one
but to do that we’re gonna need a lot
more heat alright guys so we’ve made it
up to the dome we’ve already eroded one
salt lamp we’ve tried to dissolve
another so for our final one we’re gonna
melt it so got this thing this is an
extra large crucible that just so
happens to hold our salt way up
perfectly so let’s drop it in see what
all right so it’s been about 10 minutes
and we’ve actually had this on
time-lapse but I’m not sure if we’re
actually gonna get the ambiance in our
Forge to be warm enough to actually melt
the the salt so what we’re going to do
is put the lid on now hopefully leave it
for a little while and when we come back
[Music]
alright so I just checked on this and I
think we actually managed to do this
guy’s it’s been about an hour and a half
which is not as long as we were
we have successfully melted an entire
Himalayan salt lamp oh wow so I was not
expecting it to have that much of volume
left over well yep Anna’s on fire I lit
a stick on fire with a molten salt
that’s just cool it’s actually leaking
out over the side there is so much more
to that line how there was well I was
gonna try and take it out and pour it
into something but with how much there
is here and with the size of that
crucible it’s not really gonna be safe
for me to try and lift that up and
transport it so we’re going to let it
sit there and cool down see what it
looks like once it’s actually solidified
again we can actually get our tongs
around it safely transport it in dump it
out that’s really cool like I know I
don’t want to touch that but I actually
really want to touch that
so we left this about 30 minutes to try
and let it harden it hasn’t really
cooled that much it’s still radiating a
ton of heat and I’m not sure if it’s
solid yet so the surface is no longer
molten now I don’t trust that to be the
case all the way through it but we’re
that is a giant crucible just full and
the surface isn’t pink anymore we’re
definitely gonna have to reheat this
crucible to get the salt out of the
later date but it’s gonna stay like that
for now so can you erode a salt lamp
away with water yes you can
can you dissolve it not as well but you
can still do that – can you melt it
absolutely and that was actually a lot
faster than we were expecting it to be
that’s pretty cool well I am kind of sad
that veritasium proved that you can’t
actually get negative ions from heating
up a salt lamp because I think I win the
award for most heated up salt lamp ever
guys that’s not all we’ve always got
more for you to see that box up at the
top will take you to our latest video
and that box at the bottom is what
YouTube thinks you should be watching
next don’t forget to hit this bond so
you subscribe to the club and never miss
out on the fun don’t forget to ring that
Bell and we’ll see in the next one talk to you then
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