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!   / acsreactions  
Twitter!   / acsreactions  
Instagram!   / acsreactions  


You might also like:

The Chemistry of Love
   • The Chemistry of Love  

Can You Cryogenically Freeze Your Body and Come Back to Life?
   • Can You Cryogenically Freeze Your Bod...  

The Chemistry of Hollywood Fake Blood
   • The Chemistry of Hollywood Fake Blood  

Nerding out on Star Wars Science
   • Nerding out on Star Wars Science  

The Case Against Santa Wearing a Flame Retardant Suit
   • Is Santa's Flame Resistant Suit Killi...  

Is Superhero Strength Real?
   • Is Superhero Strength Real?  



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
   • Behind the Scenes of Who framed Roger...  

Vitamin deficiencies
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

NIH vitamin A fact sheet
https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Vit...

Friction and other aspects of the surface behavior of woven fabrics
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Ig Nobel for banana slipping
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Frictional coefficient under banana skin
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/...

The half-life of facts
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo...

The popeye spinach legend was fake
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Iron in spinach
https://www.compoundchem.com/2018/07/...

Was the “decimal point error” real?
https://www5.in.tum.de/~huckle/Sutton...

USFDA Iron
https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html...

How the spinach, Popeye and iron decimal point error myth was finally bust
http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/30230...

NIH tox net terpentine: https://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/si...

Benzene
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/comp...

Acetone
https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/mo...

Monkeys, Myths and Molecules
https://books.google.com/books?id=pEc...

Cel Vinyls: Materials and Methods
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6...

Mental Floss on Who Framed Roger Rabbit
http://mentalfloss.com/article/62910/...

Who Framed Roger Rabbit Film Review
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/...

Ecdysteroids as non-conventional anabolic agent: performance enhancement by ecdysterone supplementation in humans
https://link.springer.com/article/10....


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