Gummis. The Gummis were screaming.

Chemistry is awesome.

Of course, when this experiment is done, you can no longer investigate Gummi anatomy. Such sacrifices are sometimes necessary.

And before I let you go…

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[Note added later: apparently, according to a few commenters below, the acid I describe is only needed if you don't heat the perchlorate; they do in fact use a flame in the video. Still, who can resist a bit of chemistry?]

I think the video leaves out an important part: you need a bit of sulfuric acid to make this work. Adding the acid to potassium chlorate yields chloric acid and potassium sulfate:

Sugar reacts, um, strongly to the chloric acid:

You can see the water coming out of the test tube in the form of steam — the reaction is highly exothermic — and the purple flame is from potassium being heated. At the same time, a second reaction occurs, breaking up some of the sugar molecules into carbon and water. When the flames and sturm and drang are all done, what’s left is a black residue: carbon, the burnt remains of the tasty, tasty Gummi bear.

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