I found some toxic old insecticides
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Published 2022-12-28
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All Comments (21)
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I love how flies immediately landed on the DDT bottle.
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The fun part is storing a bunch of different open containers in the same box so their vapors can comingle and make exciting new compounds.
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The best part is that every time he pulls a new bottle out, it feels like watching a very confused wine connoisseur. "ah, yes, Carbaryl 2017. a personal favourite"
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My mom told a story of a guy in her hometown that worked on a orchard for decades, and he would get deathly sick when he tried to exercise to lose weight. The doctors figured out there was so much pesticide absorbed into his body fat that it would start to poison him when his liver tried to metabolize the fat.
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Tom has a unique skill of acquiring old outlawed illegal chemicals from the past. With the amount he talks about the 60s I’m convinced he has a Time Machine
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This brings back the old conundrum "does expired poison get more or less toxic?"
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Fun Fact: In the show King of the Hill, Dale Gribble states he uses "A mixture of Malathion and Lindane" for pest extermination.
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The most humorous thing about this episode is that he's telling how damn deadly these things are and how brutally it could mess you up..... Flys just landing on these containers like "whatcha got there bud?!" "This smells familiar!"
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If you want to more easily remember what DDT's full name is, just use this handy limerick: A mosquito was heard to complain: "A chemist has poisoned my brain!" The cause of his sorrow was para-dichloro- diphenyltrichloroethane
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Gotta love Tom talking about these compounds like a sommelier at a fine dining restaurant "This fine example of a DDT '64 brings a lovely toxicity to the table, it really opens up the myxomatosis on the palate. It pairs wonderfully with the roast rabbit and greens"
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I'd love to see you do a video about banned paint pigments. Us old folks still remember lead paint (red, brown, ochre, black, white, purple, etc) dioxin purple. Cadmium red, orange, yellow. Chrome green and yellow. Cobalt blue. Antimony black, Vermillion red (Cinnabar). Kings Yellow (arsenic sulfide) The list goes on and on. The MOST exciting thing I ever found in a dead man's basement was a wooden crate of dynamite. Badly deteriorated and shiny wet with ng that had leached out through the wrapping!
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When my dad moved into our old house, he found two 25 pound bags of DDT based pesticide powder. He called the EPA to ask what to do and they didn't believe we had it
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A literal container of DDT being labeled as "garden dust" is insane lmao
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If you’re planning to take the stuff to poison control it might make an interesting video if they’d be willing to show the process of how they store/dispose of the material.
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Fun Fact: Malathion is not just still used on crops, but also people! It's one of the two neurotoxic insecticides used in modern treatment of head lice (at least, it is in Aus). In case you're interested, the other one is Pyrethrin.
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As soon as I saw him pull out something he felt the need to add additional containment to I knew it was some real bad stuff.
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Send them to ThatChemist for a taste tier list.
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"Flies are gonna fucking die later." I love it when you speak Australian.
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Human: Here I have all kinds of banned insecticides. Insects: Interesting, let us look.
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DDT weakened the eggs of certain species of birds in the United States such as the Bald eagle. The shell would crack just from the parents trying to keep the nest warm. When DDT was outlawed, the American Bald eagles population bounced back and was able to be removed from the endangered species list which is quite remarkable.
