Breaking Bad Alternate Ending

**Mott the Hoople** · 11-19-2013, 04:00 PM

This is hillareous. It ties in BB with Malcolm in the Middle. LOL

Yes. Grind...I'm sure you saw this a year ago.

**/MSG/** · 11-19-2013, 04:57 PM

Tom, how did you manage to guess Motts password?

**USFREEDOM911** · 11-19-2013, 05:04 PM

Originally Posted by FNX-45 Tactical

Tom, how did you manage to guess Motts password?

Easy
It's ThreeDee

**cancel2 2022** · 11-20-2013, 01:45 PM

I am still on series 1, the mercury fulminate business perturbed me as it is a greyish white powder, not crystalline and a bag that big would have killed them all just by being passed around. Also breaking in to get hold of methylamine was stupid as it can be made easily enough with ammonium chloride and formaldehyde to yield methylamine hydrochloride. Sorry can't help noticing these things, it is the only use I put my chemistry degree to these days.

**BRUTALITOPS** · 11-20-2013, 01:47 PM

Originally Posted by Aoxomoxoa

I am still on series 1, the mercury fulminate business perturbed me as it is a greyish white powder, not crystalline and a bag that big would have killed them all just by being passed around. Also breaking in to get hold of methylamine was stupid as it can be made easily enough with ammonium chloride and formaldehyde to yield methylamine hydrochloride. Sorry can't help noticing these things, it is the only use I put my chemistry degree to these days.

p.s. breaking bad gets better every season. I think season 1 is kinda lackluster. season 2 is good but not mind blowing, and then from there on it's smooth sailing.

**cancel2 2022** · 11-20-2013, 01:51 PM

Originally Posted by Grind

p.s. breaking bad gets better every season. I think season 1 is kinda lackluster. season 2 is good but not mind blowing, and then from there on it's smooth sailing.

Yes I think it is great but some of the chemistry in it is bloody annoying, to me anyway.

**Mott the Hoople** · 11-20-2013, 03:25 PM

Originally Posted by Aoxomoxoa

I am still on series 1, the mercury fulminate business perturbed me as it is a greyish white powder, not crystalline and a bag that big would have killed them all just by being passed around. Also breaking in to get hold of methylamine was stupid as it can be made easily enough with ammonium chloride and formaldehyde to yield methylamine hydrochloride. Sorry can't help noticing these things, it is the only use I put my chemistry degree to these days.

LOL I did that too while I was watching the show. Notice how all the containers of chemicals have fake IMDG/DOT labels of the wrong colors for hazard classes?

They explain that in some of the interviews with Vince Gilligan the producer. They didn't want to be so accurate that someone could actually make Meth from watching the show. Another thing I noticed is that Walt and Jessie would have been killed early on in the real world for the way they mishandled hydrofluoric acid.

BTW...Walt didn't say it was mercury fulminate. He said it was "fulminated mercury with a little tweak of chemistry". I made the same observation you did. I knew that mercury fulminate is a unstable grey powder and not large monoclinic crystals and that they all would have been dead when they goons started manhandling him in the elevator had it been the real thing.

I wonder what other roles the guy who played Tuco has done. He sure played the psychol drug dealer to the hilt. It was a brilliant peformance.

The scene where he snorts the meth off the Bowie knife, looks convincingly like a gooned out crazy fuck and starts saying "TIGHT! Tight, tight, YEAH! Oh, blue, yellow, pink. Whatever, man. Just keep bringing me that." That was awesome. I was like "Whoa shit. Walt and Jessie don't have a clue what they're messing with!" LOL

**Mott the Hoople** · 11-20-2013, 03:41 PM

Originally Posted by Aoxomoxoa

I am still on series 1, the mercury fulminate business perturbed me as it is a greyish white powder, not crystalline and a bag that big would have killed them all just by being passed around. Also breaking in to get hold of methylamine was stupid as it can be made easily enough with ammonium chloride and formaldehyde to yield methylamine hydrochloride. Sorry can't help noticing these things, it is the only use I put my chemistry degree to these days.

They probably didn't want to make that information common knowledge Tom.

**Mott the Hoople** · 11-20-2013, 03:54 PM

Anyways I thought the whole idea of Breaking Bad being the prequal to Malcolm In The Middle was funny.

**cancel2 2022** · 11-20-2013, 04:23 PM

Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople

They probably didn't want to make that information common knowledge Tom.

When they stopped using pseudo ephedrine reduction and switched to reductive amination, they would have also had to deal with the problem that it produces a racemic mixture of d- and l-methamphetamine, in other words equal amounts of the left and right-handed enantiomers of the chiral molecule. I haven't seen any mention of fractional crystallisation thus far so maybe they don't bother to separate the optical isomers which means that it is only half as pure as the original meth produced by Walt.

**BRUTALITOPS** · 11-20-2013, 04:55 PM

Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople

I wonder what other roles the guy who played Tuco has done. He sure played the psychol drug dealer to the hilt. It was a brilliant peformance.

he's a gangbanger in training day. basically the same type of character.

**BRUTALITOPS** · 11-20-2013, 04:55 PM

Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople

BTW...Walt didn't say it was mercury fulminate. He said it was "fulminated mercury with a little tweak of chemistry". I made the same observation you did. I knew that mercury fulminate is a unstable grey powder and not large monoclinic crystals and that they all would have been dead when they goons started manhandling him in the elevator had it been the real thing.

actually i thought there was a crystalized form to? I think I heard something about that O_o

**BRUTALITOPS** · 11-20-2013, 04:57 PM

what chemistry nerds think about with breaking bad is probably how computer nerds react to scenes like this:

and this:

**Mott the Hoople** · 11-20-2013, 07:47 PM

Originally Posted by Aoxomoxoa

When they stopped using pseudo ephedrine reduction and switched to reductive amination, they would have also had to deal with the problem that it produces a racemic mixture of d- and l-methamphetamine, in other words equal amounts of the left and right-handed enantiomers of the chiral molecule. I haven't seen any mention of fractional crystallisation thus far so maybe they don't bother to separate the optical isomers which means that it is only half as pure as the original meth produced by Walt.

Keep watching. He brings it up. It's in the episode called "Box Cutter".

**Mott the Hoople** · 11-20-2013, 07:50 PM

Originally Posted by Grind

actually i thought there was a crystalized form to? I think I heard something about that O_o

the grey powder we're talking about is the crystalline version of fulminated mercury. It's just the crystals are very small and granular, the don't grow into long plate like crystals like Walt had.