January 3, 2022

SPOILER: Spider-man's bad science

Update: Original video disappeared. I replaced it as of 1/9/22...and again 1/16/22.

Today's video - assuming it's still on YouTube when you get around to seeing this post - has a significant spoiler for Spider-Man: No Way Home, so I'm going to put the full post and video after the jump.

Ok, so...

In Spider-Man: No Way Home, the three modern, live action, film iterations of Peter Parker/Spider-Man (no Nicholas Hammond, sadly) are in a science lab together. I don't remember where the lab is - maybe at Tom Holland's science magnet high school - but at about 0:55 in the above clip Tobey McGuire (I think) grabs two bottles off of the shelf: toluene and methanol, optima. Both are in bottles clearly marked with the Fisher Scientific labels.

So, toluene and methanol (I can't figure out what optima means, but all Google searches send me back to Fisher, so it must be something about their methanol - the specific impurities, maybe?) are highly flammable. On a scale of zero to three, both are listed as being a three for flammability.

So Tobey then squirts a clear chemical - assumedly one of those because it's the very next cut that shows the test tube - into a test tube above a burner.

HIGHLY FLAMMABLE

Like 'blow up the chem lab' flammable...

Like 'burn the Indy driver' flammable...

Like 'don't use it in a high school chem lab at all' flammable...

Smh...smdh...

C'mon, Petey, you should know better.

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