Like great Meta-dealer Poet Essesi Pinkman Once said, "Yes, science!" Creator Vince Gilligan AMC "Breaking Bad" followed the high school chemistry teacher's spiral Walter White (Brian Cranston) after he was diagnosed He was gone, after there was no one who was gone, so one would imagine that the chemistry in the series had to Be something healthy.

While most of the audience will have a general scientific knowledge of Walt's cooking partner and his former student, the aforementioned Mr. Pinkman (Aaron Paul), has enough people there looking at a real scientific background that Giligan and Co. He had to find the right balance between science keeping and make fun television. We know they did a great job to entertain us, creating a whole Extended Universe "Breaking Bad" With "El Camino" and "Better Call Saul", but what about science?

The "Breaking Bad" team consulted with councilors such as Dr. Donna Nelson, a professor of chemistry at the University of Oklahoma, to try and keep the play at least rooted in reality. This means that while some things are exaggerated because of the drama, the concepts of chemistry are at least usually sound. Experts ranging from government officials to mythical myths are measured by the accuracy of some of the greatest science -based moments in "Breaking Bad", so let's look at what to say.

Initially, Walt learns how to make a basic target of Home chef EssesWhich funny would add chili powder as part of his special recipe, but they soon moved to a larger and more complex scale. Like lower -scale target manufacturers in real life, they used pseudoephedrine (the main ingredient in cold drugs as a colleding) as the basis for their MET, but when they increased, they needed a way to do because pseudoephedrine was very regulated. They decided to use methylamine and went to steal the chemical in a pretty fun heist, rolling the barrels as soon as possible.

Scientists were arguing over the internet whether Walt would steal the substance or made it himself, with the general consensus that it was stealing it for much better television. Similarly, the blue color had nothing to do with purity, and Dr -Nelson revealed that it was a purely fictional invention of Illiligan made to set aside Walt.

However, there is one thing that has become entirely accurate, and this is when Walt uses a chemical reaction to burn through a metal lock so they can break through and steal methylamine. In the article about BBCChemist and physicist Dr -Athonatan Hare explained:

"Walt describes the process they use - the termite reaction - on Esses. Here you mix metal oxide (eg iron oxide) with reactive metal powder (such as aluminum) and produces iron metal and aluminum oxide. The reaction temperature is extremely high and It can be used to weld the train paths together or really burn a lock. "

Unfortunately, there is another great "Breaking Bad Bad" with acid that is much less scientifically accurate, and that is The attempt of Esses to melt the carcass in the tub in season 1.

Very early in Esses and Walt Long and winding road To become a drug with drugs, they need to have a body and Esses tries to do so by melting the body in the bathtub using hydrofluoric acid. He ignores Walt's request to get a plastic basket made of acid -resistant material and instead melts not only the hull, but the bathtub and the floor beneath it. In specially "Breaking Bad Bad" episode of "Mythbusters" With Illilligan and a half as guest stars, Mythbusters tested the scene with a bathtub using several different bathtubs, and even stepped to much more powerful acid, but in the end, the bathtub and the floor always remained intact. (The same could not be said about the parts of the pigs used as a substitute for the human corpse of the show, which similarly turned into a disgusting black egg.)

Hydrofloic acid can eat through glass (and it includes fiberglass, which tested mythical caste and acid ate), but bathtubs are never made of Just Glass glass, so the show seems to get this half right. Hydrofloic acid will eat through meat and bone and turn it into pudding with death, but probably won't eat over a bathtub or floor. According to Hare, the acid chemistry makes it great in eating through certain compounds, not others, which means it is the chemistry of acid, not its "strength" that makes it so useful.

Watching Walt going from a mostly mild teacher of chemistry to stone-cold meta-master is pretty wild, with a few great moments suggesting that he has finally "broken badly" to use Essie's terminology. One of those early is when he uses the fulminated Mercury as a bomb, throwing a small piece of it on the floor when she met with rival drug distributor Tuko Salamanka (Raymond Cruz) and blew her office. Everyone survives, but the new baptized "Heisenberg" (Walt's drug name) has shown its abilities.

Dr -Hare said that while Mercury Fulinate is very unstable and the high school chemistry teacher can produce the size of the crystals that Walt has will be too unstable to walk around with so accident. He also noted that Walt's thrown crystal shock would burn other crystals, which would lead to an explosion that would probably be fatal. The Mythbusters team set the test scene and revealed that it would last five times the amount of Walt's thrown crystal to swell the office windows, and all inside would be injured at least.

"Mythbusters Runior" would later deal with a magnet -caper of the season 5 Just to discover that it is also something for science fiction, not a fact, but scientific accuracy is not everything When it comes to fun, after all. "Breaking Bad" may have hit science a little on behalf of attractive television, but she ended up One of the best shows of all timeAnd it must be worth something.