Could The Dip Really Kill a Toon? and Other Cartoon Chem (ft. SpongeBob, Popeye, & more)

Are bananas actually that slippery? Could spinach give you superhuman strength? And what the heck is Toon Acid? This week, watch some cartoons alongside our writer and host, Sam Jones, and learn whether their chemistry checks out. Subscribe! http://bit.ly/ACSReactions Facebook! http://facebook.com/ACSReactions Twitter! http://twitter.com/ACSReactions Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/acsreactions/ You might also like: The Chemistry of Love https://youtu.be/bp7Ydv5wAPk Can You Cryogenically Freeze Your Body and Come Back to Life? https://youtu.be/Wk2NxBYCe6s The Chemistry of Hollywood Fake Blood https://youtu.be/8OC5rji1stI Nerding out on Star Wars Science https://youtu.be/3c8HrdyXEKk The Case Against Santa Wearing a Flame Retardant Suit https://youtu.be/D7qk_1BdUOw Is Superhero Strength Real? https://youtu.be/V6JlG0PGWEc Credits: Producer: Andrew Sobey Writer: Samantha Jones, Ph.D. Scientific Consultants: Joe Schwarcz, Ph.D. Michael Swain, Ph.D., Leila Duman, Ph.D. Brianne Raccor, Ph.D. Executive Producer: George Zaidan Executive Producer: Hilary Hudson Music: Steven B. Shapiro—Clown Town Sources: Who Framed Roger Rabbit behind the scenes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60hCE3ld9yA Vitamin deficiencies https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6775441/ NIH vitamin A fact sheet https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminA-Consumer/ Friction and other aspects of the surface behavior of woven fabrics https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9781845695149500132 Ig Nobel for banana slipping https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405451816300253?via%3Dihub#bib5 Frictional coefficient under banana skin https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/trol/7/3/7_147/_article The half-life of facts https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/309825/the-half-life-of-facts-by-samuel-arbesman/9781591846512/ The popeye spinach legend was fake https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1507475/pdf/bmjcred00690-0047.pdf Iron in spinach https://www.compoundchem.com/2018/07/17/spinach/ Was the “decimal point error” real? https://www5.in.tum.de/~huckle/Sutton_Spinach_Iron_and_Popeye_March_2010.pdf USFDA Iron https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/168462/nutrients How the spinach, Popeye and iron decimal point error myth was finally bust http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/30230/1/7987_Sutton.pdf NIH tox net terpentine: https://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/search/a?dbs+hsdb:@term+@DOCNO+204 Benzene https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Benzene Acetone https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/molecule-of-the-week/archive/a/acetone.html Monkeys, Myths and Molecules https://books.google.com/books?id=pEclBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT207&lpg=PT207&dq=popeye+ever+mentioned+iron&source=bl&ots=rEcBrOIrWm&sig=ACfU3U1dTIWMAYW9x_g28DezTZRBxjVunA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiuwpqu5ZHlAhXCxlkKHXh6Dbo4ChDoATADegQICRAB#v=onepage&q=popeye%20ever%20mentioned%20iron&f=false Cel Vinyls: Materials and Methods https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6677644 Mental Floss on Who Framed Roger Rabbit http://mentalfloss.com/article/62910/15-things-you-might-not-know-about-who-framed-roger-rabbit Who Framed Roger Rabbit Film Review https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/016059761003400107 Ecdysteroids as non-conventional anabolic agent: performance enhancement by ecdysterone supplementation in humans https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00204-019-02490-x Ever wonder why dogs sniff each others' butts? Or how Adderall works? Or whether it's OK to pee in the pool? We've got you covered: Reactions a web series about the chemistry that surrounds you every day. Produced by the American Chemical Society. Join the American Chemical Society! http://bit.ly/Join_acsmembership