This recipe is found in the most recent edition of the Japanese Pharmacopoeia, published in 2021. It's found in older editions as well. Why it exists, I have no idea.

“I can feel it on my teeth” is always the sign of good lemomade.

It's nice seeing styropyro doing the "try no to get demonetized" challenge

Isn’t this the guy that talked about how as a 13 year old, he was prohibited from buying airsoft bbs but was totally fine to buy HCl?

My dentist wanted to know where my tooth enamel had gone. After making sure I wasn't a fan of binging and purging or other medical problems, I remembered my Summer of Lemon. My grandfather's lemon tree was crazy productive that year and for reasons I don't remember, I started eating them like apples as illustrated by Sir Styro of Pyro in the video. I quickly learned to like the overwhelming acidity and scent and ate several that way every day for a couple of weeks until I started noticing my teeth had become painfully sensitive. Later I even remember a section of enamel peeled off one of my front teeth. It looked sort of like a translucent very thin layer of onion, with glass-like stiffness. It is embarrassing to admit, but I think that I thought perhaps molting was a normal stage of development for my new adult teeth that no one had bothered to tell me about. Anyway, please use lemons responsibly and in moderation.

"It feels more acidic than sour" man has the Lead Stomach perk from Fallout.

Decades ago, I tasted a wide variety of appropriately dilute acids, including hydrochloric, nitric, sulfuric, phosphoric, and a bunch of organic fruit acids. The fruit acids were all good, but HCL was by far the worst of the bunch, taste-wise.

Hey Styro, long time fan, keep up the amazing content. The Japanese Pharmacopoeia is a beast of a document, but it actually does have a definition for Dilute Hydrochloric Acid. On pg 300 of the JPXVIII: Hydrochloric acid, dilute - Dilute 23.6mL of hydrochloric acid with water to make 100 mL (10%). The JP calls for 37% HCl to be dilute 23.6 to 100 then take that and dilute 5 to 1000. This leaves you with a final concentration of about 0.044% HCl in the 'lemonade'. Running your numbers of 0.82mL of 37% HCl diluted to 1,000mL yields a final concentration of 0.030%. This means the actual recipe calls for the 'lemonade' to contain ~150% of the HCl compared to your drink!

Just speaking from my experience with the Pharmacopoeia Europea. The dilute HCl might be defined in the reagents part. Its very common to do it this way because there are many instances that it is used and it would be a huge overlap if every monography would include how to make the reagents

Looks great, going to tell all my younger relatives to make this instead of the boring powder stuff for their lemonade stand. Very educational

"when life gives you hydrochloric acid, you make lemonade." Would have been an awesome senior quote

Food scientist here, it probably doesn't taste as acidic even though the pH is the same because pH isn't necessarily what makes things "taste" sour. Titratable acidity is really what affects the flavor and sourness of a food and is what food analysts look at. HCl fully dissociates so you need less of it to reach a specific pH compared to citric acid, which means citric acid should have a higher titratable acidity and thus taste more sour and affect flavor more. Kind of counterintuitive but the stronger acid will taste less sour at the same pH.

The most outrageous part of this video was eating the lemon rind.

Guy in japan was really craving for some lemonade, but didn't have any lemons. Lucky for him, he had the next best thing to substitute it with. "Good ol Hydrochloric Acid gotta somewhere in the back" Is this guy's thought process

I have never, in my whole time on this planet, seen someone eat a lemon like an apple. Thanks man

I've diluted down nitric and sulfuric acids too, to taste them. HCl is by far the least gross one, merely tasting sour. Sulfuric acid has a stinking mud sludge aftertaste and Nitric tastes like licking the bottom of a car

The most important part of any lemonade I drink is the acidic feeling

Wow, I've been wondering what the best way to prepare my hydrochloric acid into a delicious beverage is!

They define "Dilute Hydrochloric Acid" right before that recipe. "Dilute Hydrochloric Acid contains not less than 9.5 w/vz and not more than 10.5 w/vz of hydrogen chloride (HCl: 36.46)." Yours is actually way more dilute than theirs. You needed 1.35-ish ml per liter of water for the recipe.

nile red: it's bad to teste things made in a lab styropyro: proceds to dring hidrocloric acid

HE JUST ATE THE LEMON PEEL WTF

So we aren't gonna talk about how this man just bit through the lemon skin?

Well, as you roundabout mention, your stomach already contains hydrochloric acid, and strong enough to dissolve metals as well! When you puke, your teeth get coated with much stronger Hcl then you are drinking, so it's not as big a deal as it sounds. If you could get it past your teeth and any mucous membranes and direct to your stomach, you could probably drink a much stronger solution of hydrochloric acid without problems.

"Don't try this at home or you'll probably die" then proceeded to do exactly the same thing. So he is either a zombie at this point or a superman. Anyway, to be fair human gastric acid contains HCl though.

Now I know why they call you a mad scientist

You are a strange young man:) I love it!

Truly the lemonade for the simple man. Water, sugar, hydrochloric acid.

i don't think i'll ever recover from the pain i felt when he bit into the lemon, disregarding both the slices and the peel

This dude is like the Anakin Skywalker of chemistry.

I've always wondered what hydrochloric acid would taste like after getting a nose full of fumes during my undergrad. Glad to know it's inferior, enamel melting lemonade. Also if you've had Coca-Cola you've had phosphoric acid. Soda is more corrosive than people believe.

Awesome to have you back posting vids again. Thank you.

Thank you for another incredibly interesting video :) you really answer questions I think if but can’t find much about online!

im in love with this man

Hey, you probably won't see this, but I've been a fan of the channel for a while! You and NileRed convinced me to take Chem classes when I joined Uni, and it feels awesome being able to actually follow along with things better now that I understand at least some of it (I only took Gen Chem 1 & 2 and start Org next semester, wish me luck lol)

Awesome video, glad you're uploading constantly G💜✨

Welcome back brother it's good to see more videos from you no matter what they are

Working on some right now for the cookout this weekend, wish me luck!

Its good to know this man is still alive 👍

This is simply amazing. What a show of time! Loving this series.

“When life gives you lemons, throw them and make lemonade from hydrochloric acid.”

Back in the day -- when chemistry sets were still pretty cool -- I used to get HCl and other neat stuff (carbon tet was awesome for use in a killing jar!) at the corner drugstore. I asked the pharmacist what it was used for pharmaceutically. He said some people's stomachs don't secrete enough stomach acid to properly digest food and they have to drink HCl - with a straw to avoid tooth damage - as a remedy. This could explain its inclusion in the pharmacopeia.

Fun fact, the Romans used to drink dilute acid as well. It's called posca and it was made by diluting vinegar. While it was usually a drink for legionnaires and the lower classes at some point people started adding spices to it and drinking it as a medicine.

It's objectively hilarious that after all the years of your videos, I saw corn syrup and gasped. Hope you're having a great day styro.

Been searching for one of your videos for weeks. Can u tell me examples if any, of the specific damage in Maui that points to a laser weapon. And any other info u can share with me. Thanks! Julie

His poker face with eating weird shit is absolutely god tier

This sounds delicious, ima go try some. 😋

"I can feel it on my teeth " sounds like RIP to teeth enamel 😂

I'm impressed by your dedication

When life gives you hydrochloric acid...

ah the infamous recipe, a funny one but certainly interesting

"And as it turns out, it is better at dissolving metals than most things I consume." I'm sorry... *most?*

thank you for posting!

finally, a clear tutorial on how to become british

This dude is the total package 📦 ❤

More content and longer videos please I’ll watch every single one already watch all your older videos lol

>radio silence for weeks >video of 3 mins >drinking acid >refuses to elaborate and drink most the mix >radio silence for weeks >shows with another insane and deranged experiment >repeat

You know what they say, “When life gives you lemons, you make hydrochloric acid lemonade!”

I wonder what other acids can you make lemonade with like this. Perhaps a series on this subject? For some reason some nice nitric acid lemonade does not sound that bad right now.

Looking good 💪🏻

I fking love this dude

Finally I have something to do with the extra hydrochloric acid I have lying around

"Turns out, it is better at dissolving metals than most things I consume" - excuse me, *most*?😮

... Good to know you are alive... Don't die bro 🗿.. Keep making crazy videos !

I'm so glad you're back.

before i continue watching the video, right at the start you pose a question that says "on first glance, it does seem pretty insane, but....so it must be safe right?" well, the first thing that comes to mind is that our own stomach acids are mostly made of dilute hydrochloric acid, so right off the bat it would seem pretty safe. yea.

OOOH In Jr High I did drink hydrochloric acid, mixed with sodium hydroxide to balance it, so it was just really warm salt water. The teacher showed us hydrochloric acid melting stuff, then mixed it with the other stuff to make it neutral, tested using litmus strips, and then he asked "Who wants to drink it?" and I was the only one who responded, within a second. That was a fun teacher. He showed me the true power of the sun and then made it again indoors with magnesium XD

Hydrochloric Acid was my savior once when i entered my new job. The old locker i got for my stuff was covered for years with stickers of soccer players and other non sense.. I scrachted off the most of it but there was so many glue residues i could not get rid of. Even with aceton and alcohol for some reason... Found a bottle of 33% hydrochloric acid in the companys repair shop. Used an old rag and moisted it with (i did not even bother with gloves) And Man, imagine fighting for an hour with sticky slimy residues several years old. And then removing all of it in a single stroke with the rag. Amazing! I cleaned the rest fast because my hand started to tingle a bit. Went to the bathroom and washed my hands.. No Problemo, no burns no nothing. Skin is quite resistant to hydrochloric acid. One thing i noticed in the days afterwards was that my locker was moist from the outside.. I learned that the Acid attracts water.. but after a couple of days wiping it with paper towels all was fine. 👍

Love these crazy recipies!

I'm pretty new to the channel and seen a few of his really cool videos. In each one I watch I wonder "where does he get the money to buy these things?" 😅

"I can feel it on my teeth" Said every tweeker everywhere. I joke as I take another big drink of my favourite brand cola.

When life gives you hydrochloric acid, make lemonade out of it.

Phosphorus is in diet .it's strong acid .It is used in muscle in conduction I think .atp adenosine triphosphate but phosphate and phosphorus is different but maybe body can reduce it

You genuinely made the Wednesday lemonade from The Addams Family, you even had the jar of acid fuming. Now, onto the important part. Can you make it again, but in old fashioned black lace decorated dress and pigtails?

My only problem with this is the lemon bite with no wincing

You made this entire video just so you could say that sentence at the end, amazing

Love ur vids bro❤️

thats actually really cool, its bit scary to think you can feel it on your teeth lmao.

this man is my HS science teachers worst nightmare.

This felt super casual :p I like it

I could swear I've seen a recipe like this in an old edition of Henley's processes. I haven't been able to find it but it seems so familiar.

I’m scared that there’s just gonna be a giant hole in his stomach. Yes I know the hydrochloric acid has a lower pH then stomach acid. Stop coming for me.

1:07 Classic mistake when you just assume that humans eat lemons like that. Even though people eat other fruits like apples with the skin, citrus fruits like lemons and oranges have very bitter skins (bitterness is ok sometimes but lemons and oranges are too bitter). It's always a safe bet to first google "how a real human eats a lemon" before putting it on video. Still a great vid though!

I'm subscribed to this channel and been thinking about this wide eyed guy who is always excited about the stuff he presents. And have now seen a video in five months.

I'm 10 seconds in and have just seen the recipe. I have no need to watch the rest of the video and I am going to start setting up a hydrochloric acid lemonade stand at the local Park. Thanks dude!

It's been 11 months, hope this didn't kill him

Hope u get ur diamond play button soon man keep it up

now you should go in the opposite direction and concentrate lemon juice enough that it becomes dangerously caustic

Once again QUALITY CONTENT

That probably needs a dash of food-grade limonene for flavor

Thoughts on doing an Acid‐ade Taste Test a la Explosions&Fire's taste test of various salts?

He sounds like he's melting from the inside out but he's in denial and its getting increasingly harder and harder

If I recall, normal sodas like coke, pepsi and all the others use phosphoric acid. Just measure the pH of those and make your own soda with the same pH. The twist is, use anything other than phosphoric acid. You could go with sulfuric acid (I hope you like the taste of sulfate) or nitric acid. Oh, how about low molecular weight organic acids like oxalic acid, oleic acid, formic acid and all the others. There are so many to choose from.

More videos bro please love your content

Probably made for the treatment of people with hypochlorhydria, who basically have reduced levels of HCl in their stomach. In the cases where the cause is just plainly the inability to make enough acid, HCl supplements can be recommended, such as this “lemonade.” The person drinking it indeed is recommended to use a straw to avoid damage to the teeth.

I can just hear the "presenting to the emergency room" line over and over while watching this

Haha you have a good sense of humor with your vids

Styro's dentist: "So you've been staying away from sodas right?"

I feel like he only mad this video to put the last line in. Masterpiece.

Mmmmm another styro video

This is the content i love