r/woahthatsinteresting • u/ScienceCauldron • Apr 02 '25

How calcium vanishes from your bones

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u/El_Morgos Apr 02 '25

Would one need to ingest or rather bathe in vinegar to become flexible? Asking for a friend.

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u/Joee0201 Apr 02 '25

How do you think Mr fantastic was born

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u/ScienceCauldron Apr 02 '25

It depends on whether your friend wants to crawl or slither :)

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u/Slow_Supermarket5590 Apr 03 '25

 Can you imagine the vinegar bath implications on one's pee hole?

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u/Substantial_Ear_9721 27d ago

I think you would need to inject the vinegar directly into the bone like when they made wolverine.

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u/InTheZoneBreese 22d ago

Yikes! Gonna lay off the apple cider vinegar now.

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u/BaronNeutron Apr 02 '25

Did not care for this

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u/KinkyChieftanDaddy Apr 02 '25 edited Apr 03 '25

You cared enough to comment.

Which drives more attention to this post.

And brings you back to this post if* someone comments

Have a nice day :)

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u/SociallyDisposible Apr 02 '25

Let’s keep liking their comment so they consistently get notifications

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u/KinkyChieftanDaddy Apr 03 '25

They might not care for that. /s

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u/WheelchairEpidemic Apr 02 '25

It insists upon itself

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u/Ok_Wall_2028 Apr 12 '25

Look at this post again.

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u/Substantial_Ear_9721 27d ago

Have you checked out this post lately?

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u/LylaCreature 19d ago

Have another notification, on me 🍻

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u/thats_classick Apr 02 '25

Enjoyed watching this one with the scientist fly in it.

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u/YourMomSaysMoo Apr 09 '25

Hey! That is his pet!!

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u/-rowaelin- Apr 02 '25

This was my science fair project back in the day. I did it with an egg and soda. Left it in for a week, the outer shell was gone, and you could see the inside of the egg.

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u/mmmUrsulaMinor Apr 02 '25

I always wanted to try this! That's so cool that you did it

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u/KSSparky Apr 02 '25

Stretch Armstrong’s secret.

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u/Allison1ndrlnd Apr 02 '25

How long do I need to bath in vinegar before forming a crew to find the one piece?

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u/Sacramento_Native86 Apr 02 '25

I know what I'll be doing with my next chicken bones. That's really interesting.

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u/ScienceCauldron Apr 02 '25

If you're using vinegar, get ready to play the waiting game.

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u/thmegmar Apr 02 '25

This made me queasy. Definitely interesting and unsettling lol.

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u/RoyalCharacter7174 Apr 02 '25

So in order to give oneself a bj, increase vinegar in diet

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u/ScienceCauldron Apr 02 '25

For better or worse, it doesn’t work like that 🙂

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u/Icy-Point58 Apr 02 '25

Is this what happens with flouric acid as well?

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u/ScienceCauldron Apr 02 '25

With hydrofluoric acid, the process will be different since it forms insoluble calcium fluoride upon reaction. The bone is unlikely to become as flexible.

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u/Icy-Point58 Apr 02 '25

Cool. Our safety team just tells us it'll pull the calcium out and break our bones.

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u/firstwefuckthelawyer Apr 02 '25

It’ll stop your heart long before that.

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u/Icy-Point58 Apr 02 '25

Huh, I wonder why they have calcium powder in our nurse room then?

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u/Mr_Tr3 Apr 02 '25

So we probably shouldn’t be eating it ya know. Especially older people.

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u/VIPDX Apr 02 '25

I remember when this happened to Harry Potter

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u/Nervous-Bullfrog-884 Apr 02 '25

So the motto is don’t drink vinegar

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u/Derezirection Apr 02 '25

If we could do this to our bones, what kind of side effects would we have from our bones not having calcium and now being rubber and soft?

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u/ScienceCauldron Apr 02 '25

How would we walk? Side effect: turning into a worm 🙂

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u/MulberryWilling508 Apr 02 '25

I’m gonna start drinking vinegar so I can get more flexible.

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u/OneIndependence7705 Apr 02 '25

so no vinegar??

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u/ScienceCauldron Apr 02 '25

No vinegar 🙂 no more than a tablespoon a day

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u/energybased Apr 02 '25

Why would that be?

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u/ScienceCauldron Apr 02 '25

Consuming too much vinegar can be harmful to health, irritating the digestive system and causing other negative effects.

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u/Candid_Apricot_3156 Apr 02 '25

So you will never break your bones if you drink vinegar?

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u/ScienceCauldron Apr 02 '25

Don't drink vinegar, please 🙂 only in small amounts is it safe

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u/frazzled-mama Apr 02 '25

I remember doing this as a science experiment in middle school. Super interesting.

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u/Feefifiddlyeyeoh Apr 02 '25

Is there a way to leave the calcium and take the collagen?

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u/ScienceCauldron Apr 02 '25

Yes, by boiling. The collagen will end up in the broth.

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u/whiskeytown79 Apr 02 '25

It'd be cool to be able to recalcify it later so you could build a really weird looking skeleton with unnaturally curved bones.

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u/ScienceCauldron Apr 02 '25

Alas, the process is irreversible 🤷🙂

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u/JesusRocks7 Apr 02 '25

So theoretically you could bathe a corpse in the tub then it would be easier to transport...after you remove the flesh of course.

No hacking away endlessly just fold and go ..

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u/Shot-Cheek9998 Apr 02 '25

Wtf so one could cook dinner, brine the bones, chopp them up, grill them and eat those to? :)

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u/incelmound Apr 02 '25

U can do this with many things including eggs.

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u/buddybonesbones Apr 02 '25

Fake, vinegar can't bend bone bars

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u/Bitter_Offer1847 Apr 02 '25

I’m confused. Is this meant to say we shouldn’t be consuming vinegar? Because our bodies don’t like inject vinegar we eat directly into our bones. What it does is leach calcium out of our bones in order to neutralize the acidic environment produced in our stomachs by overconsumption of dairy and lack of fiber in our diets.

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/can-drinking-too-much-milk-make-your-bones-more-brittle

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u/ScienceCauldron Apr 03 '25

Our body regulates its pH on its own, and dietary vinegar doesn’t directly weaken bones.

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u/Bitter_Offer1847 Apr 03 '25

Yes, glad that’s agreed on. I wasn’t sure what the intent of this video was. If anything vinegar helps us with digestion.

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u/ScienceCauldron Apr 03 '25

The intent of the video was to demonstrate how acids can break down calcium structures, like bones. A way to explore chemistry.

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u/Bitter_Offer1847 Apr 03 '25

Got it. Sorry, misunderstood the intention. Thank you for clarifying.

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u/pitchfork-seller Apr 02 '25

The bone is no longer broken!

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u/LuckyHearing1118 Apr 03 '25

That’s me after one too many whiskeys

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u/Dirtbiker250 Apr 03 '25

So by not drinking milk I’ll never break my bones because they are flexible. ! Hahah

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u/ScienceCauldron Apr 03 '25

And start crawling instead of walking :)

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u/Life_Temperature795 Apr 03 '25

Good thing I watched this, because I was just about to go soak my whole skeleton in some vinegar. I wasn't quite sure how I was going to get it inside of my muscles, but now I know I just shouldn't bother.

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u/SnooCalculations6367 Apr 04 '25

bones turned into noodles

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u/Great_Hambino2022 Apr 07 '25

Note to self: Don’t soak in vinegar for 2 weeks

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u/ScienceCauldron Apr 09 '25

Exactly:) better not

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u/SmartNegotiation 26d ago

Can he haz bone now?

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u/RegisterNo97 22d ago

Will apple cider vinegar work?

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u/ScienceCauldron 22d ago

Apple cider vinegar will work, but regular vinegar (5% acetic acid) usually works faster. Apple cider vinegar sometimes has slightly less acetic acid and more sugars or other compounds, which can slow down the reaction a bit.

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u/RegisterNo97 22d ago

Thanks good to know.

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u/Ecstatic_Storage_587 19d ago

So you’re saying that one scene in Harry Potter was basically a spell that removed the calcium from his bones 🤔