What is Sarin Gas?
Hank discusses the chemistry of sarin, the nerve agent that killed more than 1400 people in a chemical weapons attack in Syria. Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things...
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Chemistry can be pretty great it can also be really, really terrible. I believe that science is like a hammer, it can be used to build or to destroy. I hate that it is sometimes used to destroy, but humanity is a difficult force to control. Today on SciShow news we discuss Sarin gas, the nerve angent that was used in the recent attacks in Syria. [opening music] Okay, so we tend to think of our muscles as being actively 'on' and inactively 'off' but in fact both the 'on' and 'off' stages require an active step. When you tell your muscles to flex, Acetylcholine, a neural transmitter, floods around your muscle cells telling them to contract. When your brain tells the muscles to stop contracting, the acetylcholine has to be removed...
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Chemistry can be pretty great it can also be really, really terrible. I believe that science is like a hammer, it can be used to build or to destroy. I hate that it is sometimes used to destroy, but humanity is a difficult force to control. Today on SciShow news we discuss Sarin gas, the nerve angent that was used in the recent attacks in Syria. [opening music] Okay, so we tend to think of our muscles as being actively 'on' and inactively 'off' but in fact both the 'on' and 'off' stages require an active step. When you tell your muscles to flex, Acetylcholine, a neural transmitter, floods around your muscle cells telling them to contract. When your brain tells the muscles to stop contracting, the acetylcholine has to be removed...
