Explain to me scientifically why the warheads extreme sour candy can burn a hole into your tongue or blister it by using their scientific name and everything so it says scientific as possible. Also explain how roller ball candies can make the ball detach scientifically also I'm just wondering
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Chip DarnellA viewer on bbn. live wants the full science on why Warheads extreme sour candy can blister your tongue, and why a roller ball candy lets the ball pop out.
Kenji MoonfieldThe sour coating is mostly malic acid, chemical name hydroxybutanedioic acid, plus citric acid.
Kenji MoonfieldHold enough of it on your tongue and it irritates the thin top layer of tissue.
Chip DarnellSo it's a free tongue peel. That's a spa treatment for a quarter.
Kenji MoonfieldIt's a mild chemical burn. Add the sugar crystals scraping while you suck on five of them, and you get sore spots.
Kenji MoonfieldIt heals in a few days, but it is not a hole.
Chip DarnellThen why does everybody do six at once?
Kenji MoonfieldBecause a face melting on camera gets watched to the end. Nobody finishes a video of a guy enjoying candy normally.
Chip DarnellOkay, and the roller ball?
Kenji MoonfieldIt's a plastic ball snapped into a socket and held by a tight fit.
Kenji MoonfieldLicking softens the candy, the socket rim wears or stretches, and one hard roll pops it right out.
Chip DarnellSo for my whole childhood I wasn't eating candy, I was licking a marble loose.
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