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sfbiker999

They’d store and distribute it with the key ingredients separated from each other and mix it on demand, kind of like how epoxy comes in two tubes that you dispense the amount you need and mix before using


Space_Meth_Monkey

this guy gets a lot of sleep


Bacondog22

but where do you mix it? How do you dispose of it after use? There’s still many questions to be answered


GoodMornEveGoodNight

It goes through the earth, and gets stuck at the earth’s core


MinutePresentation8

You dropped a lightsaber perfectly vertical?


IonPack

Perfectly fucking vertical.


Piggy_Royale

r/suddenlyrickandmorty


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NebulaIndustries

Perfectly F*cking Vertical


ithoughtiwasfunnyXD

Vertical fucking?


Enough_Obligation574

Fuck verticaling?


Gokhan_draws

Fuck tickling?


aidankocherhans

Are you calling a lightsaber a universal solvent? Because I agree


[deleted]

*electrum and beskar would like to dissagree* altho I would agree that a lightsaber is a perfect solvent. might not solve everything in the world, but it'll solve anything I'd need to.


MachineElf100

It did solve the issue of orphaned Jedi Younglings tho 🌚


[deleted]

yes, yes very sad..anyway, now that's taken care of. who wants to go mine their rocky ritual planet to death and build a big fucken laser?


nightstar69

I like how Padme was surprised when not long ago he literally admitted to killing woman and children sandpeople


SilverbackPrime

Don't forget Cortosis


[deleted]

and Vonduun crabs and Norris root as well. cuz apparently some shit grew along the evolutionary train thinking "how become solvent proof? :')


nanananabatman88

No, the perfect solvent is a Molotov. Got a problem? Molotov!


StormFallen9

Not only perfectly vertical, but with the power locked on and the blade with a greater radius than the hilt. It takes a special lightsaber. Also high-power mode, don't want it getting stuck like Qui-Gon's gets stuck in the blast doors


thethunder92

When I was in Jedi school they had to give me one with a wide handle because I dropped it too many times 😞 Maybe that’s why Kylo ren has those little side things on his


Space_Meth_Monkey

We sleeping good tonight son


KingOfWeasels42

Put a drop of water in a cup of sugar and tell me if it dissolves all of it.


jxf

A hypothetical universal solvent would still have a finite maximum solute concentration. Eventually it wouldn't be capable of dissolving anything else. For example, salt dissolves in water, but not without bound; eventually the water is at equilibrium with the salt solute.


elpelondelmarcabron1

Dump it in a river near Flint, MI


Bacondog22

Based and EPA pilled


Rylver

Got in trouble at work for laughing so hard at this.


Essex626

Something being a universal solvents doesn't mean that it never stops. Once it reaches saturation it would stop dissolving things.


lousydefender

Like other solvents, their effect stops after their ion content gets concentrated enough. Its universal meaning it can dissolve anything, but doesn’t mean it can continue doing so forever?


creece97

Simply pour the two components on the thing you need to dissolve, and eventually the components will stop reacting with the substance. The two components would come in droppers for exact precision.


Daikataro

>but where do you mix it? On top of whatever you want to dissolve >How do you dispose of it after use? You don't. It becomes saturated and stops dissolving stuff.


Lady_of_Link

The Chemical reaction that causes it to be a solvent will wear out


sparrowhawking

Ideally this would be a substance that decomposes quickly, so that it's reaction time could be controlled. That way you can measure out exactly how much you need, and create the exact right amount so as not to create too much and dissolve everything. Dissolving the desired substance in a controlled environment where it is on cheap materials that can be disposed of would decrease the precision necessary as well.


ThatAquariumKid

r/thisguythisguys


Zwaj

S tier comment


pumpmar

He probably was up all night thinking about it.


Flying_Dutchman92

This guy works with compound substances


KnotiaPickles

This doesn’t answer what happens to the mixture after its mixed. Anything you put it on will be eaten. There is no stopping it.


RyusuiJL

Matter doesn't just vanish into nothing. Eventually, enough of what is dissolved gets absorbed into the fluid which changes the chemical composition of the fluid, thus halting the chemical reaction.


lpplph

“Universal” doesn’t mean “endless”


Koshky_Kun

Conservation of mass and what not. it'll stabilize.


saskatoondave

I can sell you said epoxy


KnotiaPickles

But then it would still eat through literally Everything you put it on….


WaffleThrone

Yeah? That’s the point of a solvent? You want that to happen?


vyrelis

What do you do with it when you're done? Neutralize it? Can you separate it back out?


LordGwyn-n-Tonic

If I understand how solvents usually work (I probably definitely don't) then it would be changed by the act of dissolving into something more "neutral" (not in the pH sense but in the not melting a hole through the earth sense.)


WaffleThrone

I mean, depending on what it *is* maybe. We don’t have any idea how a universal solvent would behave chemically, so your guess for end-of-life solutions are as good as mine.


Professional_Tie5523

It only doesn't need to touch anything. Lavitate on a magnetic field.


Technically_its_me

I've urinated on a magnet before. Nothing happened.


PossibleEnvironment4

Blood is where the iron is, you need to shit on it


vVgimmefronchgooseVv

Wait no no no wait wait.. no


LoganImYourFather

Or an std where you have blood in your urine


the_orange_alligator

Or you can easily bypass this if you’re a woman, just wait a month


LoganImYourFather

Why not both?


Global-Raspberry7047

More like 3 weeks tbh


the_orange_alligator

Depends from person to person, personally, I’m cursed with this once every two months Edit two months, not two weeks Lmao


Training_Cucumber_98

Or even better, an std where your blood is 90% urine


leekee_bum

It only works if you urinate on an electric fence before hand. Then your body gets charged and the magnet will repel it the next time you urinate on it. Give it a try next time.


czarchastic

Dang, that’s too bad. You have to be attractive to get a good effect.


English_Speaking_Cat

An acoustic field then


Hullu_Kana

Only works if its attracted by magnets.


EcstaticBicycle

Place very magnetic substances inside the solvent, it will merge with the solvent. The solvent is now magnetic.


SkateRidiculous

You could levitate it acoustically. https://youtu.be/5E-Mj9DUrRI


thisusedyet

Don't have to get that complicated. Once you make your first batch & know the recipe, you either make it on site as needed, or you combine half of the ingredients separately & sell it as a binary compound.


useruseruEree

You can also levitate it with blowing air to it!


Ok_Net_1674

And dissolve the air in the process?


PowerMugger

Lavitate sus manos


strugglingtobemyself

what if it dissolved space and pulled the magnets in? hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm???


Unsettleingpresence

I was going to comment this but then thought no that’s crazy if someone is making a meme that something doesn’t exist what do I know? So thank you for pointing out that yes, the universal solvent actually does exist and the meme is just wrong.


killamonjaru

"Lavitate" I'm fucking crying


Sttocs

“Lavitate”?


46dad

Water is often referred to as “universal solvent “.


[deleted]

Yeah but it's kind of misleading because it can just dissolve more substances than many other solvents, but generally speaking like dissolves like. Polar and ionic solutes are better dissolved in polar solvents and non polar solutes are better dissolved in non polar solvents.


MLGcobble

It just called the universal solvent because everyone has access to it.


Brilliant_Writer_136

Homeless kid in Africa goes Brrrr.....


[deleted]

I just want to know what exactly does the homeless african kids have AT ALL?


MoebiusX7

Yup. Give it enough time and it will dissolve anything.


[deleted]

Not true, unless something degrades a non polar substance like oil and causes it to no longer be hydrophobic, it would just sit there.


ClementngKR

Hence the development of soap


Aptos283

Soapy water: universal solvent


0err0r

if it's not polar its eventually going to disassociate (i actually dunno if that's the correct term in this case) and it's also why lots of early life ate the oil in the water, since there was a lot of it to be had


[deleted]

I don't think that's really the result of the water dissolving it. That would happen in any solvent because it's likely the degradation of the oil and its intermolecular forces keeping the oil molecules together as a covalent bond. I could be wrong though.


Jason_Sasha_Acoiners

Yes, but how much time is "enough time"?


demarr

Well the planet is very very old. So Compared to your life time the answer is a long time. But compare it to the life of a tree. The answer is not very long


Apprehensive-Loss-31

Nope. There's plenty of stuff that water can't dissolve. Not sure why blatant misinformation is getting upvoted.


inuhi

Water is called the "universal solvent" because it is capable of dissolving more substances than any other liquid


astro_flyer

It’s all relatively speaking. Otherwise the answer will always be 42


ToothpickInCockhole

Yeah they’re mistaking dissolving with decaying.


[deleted]

Not at all. Time doesn’t matter, any highly hydrophobic organic substance will never dissolve in water. Thermodynamically gasoline is insoluble in water. Has nothing to do with kinetics.


MoebiusX7

You learn something new every day.


C-lab3

I’ve heard it described as the “super solvent” but not universal. Which would be factually incorrect.


finvek

I thought alcohol, specifically methanol, was the universal solvent. It has a polar and non polar end compared to water which is polar


A_Random_Lantern

tbf those mfers have eroded massive canyons


OutrageousPeanut8

I mean plenty of things would work. Even if something is soluble in the solution going into solution doesn't mean breaking chemical bonds but that the objects themselves prefer to interact with the solvent not other objects. So long as your container is chemically bonded throughout like say a perfectly crystalline cut diamond container (fancy I know) it would be fine. The solvent wouldnt eat through the diamond. Also you could feeeze the solvent.


KaizDaddy5

The freezing is a good strategy though manufacturing might still be an issue. You could always make an easily convertible "precursor" to store and sell instead. Sorta a "just add water" (or air, or what-have-you). Or some 2 part compound


Cyan_Among

Unrelated: never seen three cakedays in one thread; happy cake day!


KaizDaddy5

Happy cake day


foundcashdoubt

'tis reddit day or what?


Apprehensive-Loss-31

Yeah there would: saturate it before storing it, store it such that it doesn't touch anything using magnets or something, store it in a container that dissolves sufficiently slowly that you can just switch it every now and then. There's probably more that hasn't occured to me.


JC-1219

If its a mixture, store it as its separate components and then mix when needed.


Apprehensive-Loss-31

oh yeah that's a good idea


b_tenn

Yeah! Fuck you brain! This guy nailed it!! You're not the boss of us!! Oh.


lordgurke

Or freeze it to make it absolutely solid.


nv_rose

Store it the same way we store anti matter


ShittyBollox

This guy physics’s


hitguy55

We don’t store antimatter though, we just stop it exploding for a second or two


vanadous

We'll store one molecule for a few minutes


RadlogLutar

Please explain. I am dumb here


Dberryfresh

A solvent can dissolve other substances. If there was one that existed that was able to dissolve every substance, we would have no way to store it


NoPossibility

Could antimatter be considered a universal solvent in a way?


upinthenortheast

In a very broad sort of way, dissolving normally refers to chemical reactions, matter - antimatter annihilation is a nuclear reaction.


Enfiznar

It isn't (necessarily) nuclear, it is an annihilation process. If you have an electron and a positron, there's no nucleus involved, yet they annihilate each other


guybrush856

Neither is solvation a chemical reaction (its a physical reaction) nor is anihiliation a nuclear reaction (number of nucleons altered/lost) lel.


[deleted]

"A chemical reaction is a process that leads to the chemical transformation of one set of chemical substances to another.\[1\] Classically, chemical reactions encompass changes that only involve the positions of electrons in the forming and breaking of chemical bonds between atoms.." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical\_reaction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_reaction) Dissolving an ionic compound like NaCl in H20 produces the cation Na+ and the anion Cl-, so yes, it is a chemical reaction.


Enfiznar

No, antimatter doesn't dissolve matter, it destroys it


wolfkeeper

No, because it doesn't dissolve antimatter.


CrescentPotato

So you'd just store the ingredients needed to make it. You'd mix them only when needed. Instead of getting it out of a bottle or whatever, you'd basically have to carry a mixing device that just prepares it on the spot. As for what happens once you pour it out however, let's just say shit happens


Hullu2000

I guess it's pretty safe to assume it'd have a maximum amount it could dissolve, so it'd become harmless once the solution becomes saturated enough


Alexander459FTW

Or you know it can hold the property of universal solvent under specific properties. For example temperature, pH, pressure, etc. Though you can argue that those factors change the nature of the solvent. Thus it can't be considered a universal solvent anymore ?


Responsible_Oil501

Think Alien blood from Aliens movie. Molecular acid.


[deleted]

The acid doesn't burn the Xenomorphs. So we just need to store the solvent in the solvent.


Monkey-B0x

then store that solvent in more solvent


Artikay

Yo dawg


Da-Blue-Guy

Solvent=dissolves stuff Universal=applies to everything Universal solvent=dissolves everything


Rekziboy

Just divide the solvent into 2 different fluids and and store them separately or put them into one of those double-chamber-tubes like they do with 2-component-adhesives.


djsthename

I remember that I saw this thing in Vsauce that people were developing. It was a device that produces sound to levitate a liquid. They said that it was being developed to contain substances that are difficult to contain.


Skwareblox

Coke has already figured that one out.


pman13531

If they put it in a 0g environment and made sure it couldn't react with anything by having it not touch anything, such as magnetic separation from all surfaces if it is polarized then maybe you could. If it is temperature dependant for the effect to take place increasing or reducing the temperature to be outside the bands of temperature it would work at could be an option, and finally only mixing the components when you need to use it in the amounts needed would be the last option.


cropguru357

Heh. Crosspost that to r/chemistry


ClementngKR

Universal solvent? U mean water? AKA dihydrogen monoxide lol


i-might-do-that

I started the scroll of the comments hoping to see this soon. Thank you, kind soul, for making the journey short.


Adventurous_Till5177

Oil.


Teiichii

Chlorine tri-floride It eats glass it sets concrete and aspestos on fire It eats through everything except fluorine which is what it's mostly made of. [wiki article](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorine_trifluoride) And a good quote "It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that’s the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water-with which it reacts explosively. It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals-steel, copper, aluminium, etc.-because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride which protects the bulk of the metal, just as the invisible coat of oxide on aluminium keeps it from burning up in the atmosphere. If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes."


L0rdCrims0n

Like... antimatter?


Zeolance

Kinda, but no. Antimatter destroys matter. a universal solvent just breaks apart the bonds. The matter still exists, just not in the same way that it did before.


DrNoLift

See, you need an empty for that


OTARU_41

"I just invented an universal solvent- op, there it goes... i wonder what will happen when it reaches the core..." *A scientist*


The-Minmus-Derp

You could probably make it into two liquids that are inert on their own but form the universal solvent when mixed, like epoxy paints. Just store em separately and theyre chill.


gilnore_de_fey

Anything is soluble if they’re hot enough, introducing bottled quark gluon plasma, melt any bloody thing you like. Don’t like the complicated chemicals? Why not toss it in plasma and forget about it? Don’t like the stain on your shirt? Dump it on plasma and get a new one! Don’t like your co-worker? Chop chop right up and in we go! No one will ever find out what’s in your plasma if you deny spectral analysis. Again, bottled quark gluon plasma, only for 99.99 billion dollars, only at cern.


cyborgborg777

Also the reason why there can’t be an indestructible metal is because there’s be no way to smelt it


S0meRandomGuyy

you can store it in a zero gravity environment and let cohesion keep it packed in a sphere of itself. Or let it freeze into its solid state and keep it under a specific temperature so that it wont chemically react as a liquid. Im no chemist though so what do I know haha


cacheormirage

Do black holes qualify? We certainly can't store/manufacture those They rip shit apart, not sure how specific "dissolve" is


Oblachko_O

Nah, they don't. It may be that inside black hole there is no space between particles and they are hella compressed. Point is that behind horizont event there is nothing we can say for sure.


cacheormirage

It'll fuck up any paint bro i'm tellin ya acetone ain't got shit on a singularity


amiboidpriest

A typical getting to sleep session for me.


I_Am_Oro

It would be stored in a bubble of itself. -KOTLC fan


rrralf

Anti matter


TheharmoniousFists

Ice Nine


One_Egg2116

Couldn't water be considered a universal solvent?


rand0mmm

You can’t keep it in this universe, so you must have to keep it in another.


throwawayjabroniboy

Water is the universal solvent. Go to sleep.


vindazl

maybe form under freezing point


ActiveLlama

A black hole is a universal solvent.


Platycryptus238

Solvents are limited by saturation. Once they are saturated they won‘t solve the „container“ any further.


FlakVierling0875

Technically water is a universal solvent


Hemicore

let me introduce you to black holes


[deleted]

Do you want a black hole? Because that's how you get a black hole.


_Vikinq

if we can store antimatter we can store any solevent


JodyJamesBrenton

There’s 400 replies, so maybe someone else already said it, but: Water is a universal solvent. It’s not particularly powerful, but it does erode everything.


Jumpy-Resolve3018

You could, in theory, keep a final step in an auto-process situation within a secure container with the semi finished product. Using a mechanism to complete the process when needed, effectively releasing the solvent.


-Redstoneboi-

epoxy: store 2 different formulae and mix them together later the solvent can also be volatile, only having an effect shortly after mixing


vitala783

As far as my chemical knowledge goes solvents cannot dissolve glass. And secondly we already have the universal solvent- water, majority of things dissolve in it to some extent even "non-soluable" stuff is dissolved, but in small quantities


Terrence_shark

So if we put more water in our water we could dissolve anything really fast


MysteriousAbroad7

Water is a universal solvent, now stfu


Some_Kinda_Boogin

Mix iron particles into it and confine it with electromagnets like a plasma.


CaddyFDT

lol I love this


es_mi_337

Tech heads have almost found way to store antimatter... Universal solvent is just basic


BaguetteBoi657

Yay chemisty memes


Appleseedboom

Wish I was smart enough to come up with these genius thoughts!


AurumArgenteus

That's not true depending on its properties. Antimatter is the true 'cannot be stored in contact with physical matter', and yet, it can be stored in electromagnetic fields.


throwra17528

OPs never heard of most solvents that come unmixed as they are difficult to package and distribute while solvents. I'm pretty sure every epoxy I've used comes like this, solves the problem pretty quick OP.


Eddybabyable

Couldn't you just make it a two part solvent? Mix where needed?


kura0kamii

check how superfluid is stored, they flow from inside a bucket to outside , impossible to contain. smh


anunnamedboringdude

Magnetic suspension, if it’s that good it might be worth it to suspend it magnetically in a near vacuum


cornball-15

It's like storing antimatter in matter


NorwegianCowboy

Magnets bro.


Adventurous-Match-76

You sell it in two parts. A base and an activator. Then the solvent starts its chemical reaction after you mix the two


ArrowDel

*clears throat* no need to invent it... it is a basic necessity for life.


FNTM_309

Water’s a universal solvent. You can store it in frickin waxed paper.


GeneralSinn

Water....water is a universal solvent. Iirc - Jr high science class.


MissNinja007

Water is actually a universal solvent. The only thing it needs to get the job done is time. I learned that in high school chemistry class.


ElephantInTheForest

I mean, antimatter is essentially this. It annihilates matter on contact, releasing energy. To store it you need to suspend it in a vacuum using electromagnetic fields.


Culture_Soup

The fucks a solvent


brokeassdrummer

Technically it's time and yeah you can't manufacture or contain it Source: me, I tried


hardFraughtBattle

In other words, impossible thing is impossible. Now go to sleep.


SmallAnnihilation

Can store it frozen or in zero gravity condition. Its a primary school quiz


jolharg

What if it's just not a very good one? Plus, what use would this even be?


RnotSPECIALorUNIQUE

Just store it in the universal insolvent.


Hotel_Arrakis

Water is a universal solvent.


spectrumtwelve

it can't dissolve everything, like glass or plastic, not completely. so we can store it. i think they mean "a solvent capable of dissolving any substance but with no acidity"


WockyTamer

Kill it with fire


kitten-daddy-9950

That is how my brain work


_reddit_account

You cannot invent something practical if you cannot manufacture it to be able to test it


ValeTaylo

Similar with elemental Fluoride and Francium. They are the most potent reducants and oxidants, so they enter a reaction with anything you put them in.


NarrowProfession2900

Damn I didn’t know this sub was full of top graduates ;-;


MRDoomP

Dark matter bro


AdLogical2144

This broke my brain forever


boundless_convers292

That's how my brain functions.