we're going to see what happens if we use extreme cold,

and a low pressure environment to suck all of the moisture

out of some Orbeez.

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Guys, we have some Orbeez left over,

and not just this little bag of Orbeez,

but not too long ago,

we made our Diamond play button sculpture

by pouring molten aluminum

that used to be our Diamond play button into Orbeez,

and we still have most of those Orbeez.

We have tens of thousands of Orbeez,

I think here.

And while a few of them

are burned from being in contact with our molten aluminum,

for the most part, they're still intact.

They're still Orbeez,

and we wanted to see what happens

if you freeze dry an orbee.

As we've explained in a couple of other videos,

a freeze dryer works by lowering the temperature,

and freezing whatever is in the machine,

and then it pulls a vacuum,

and then it warms up a little bit.

And as it warms up,

all of that frozen liquid in there,

it gets turned into a vapor.

It sublimates like dry ice turning into a vapor,

but we're doing it with water.

It does that at low temperatures,

and very low pressures,

and so it just sort of sucks all the water out of something

without it ever getting wet.

So we've got a lot of Orbeez,

like we have so many Orbeez,

and we want to see what happens if we take all of the moisture

out of an Orbeez.

Just the entire orbular of Orbeez.

Yes.

Yes.

A few of the big ones didn't really survive.

It's like a big piece of Jell-O.

But we're still going to try and throw those in there too,

just see what happens.

We're going to throw them in here.

We're going to add some cameras, some lights,

and we're going to see what happens to Orbeez

as you suck all the moisture out of them.

My hope is that they actually freeze together

during the freezing process,

and then maybe break apart afterwards,

but I really want like a block of freeze-dried orbeez.

So we've got a tray, we've got some containers.

I think we can fill these containers with Orbeez,

and then, we can also just fill the tray

around the container with even more Orbeez.

Let's fill things up.

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So again, we had a few of these

that like got a little bit melted,

and you can kind of see the residue of a plastic bucket.

When we poured molten aluminum into a bucket of Orbeez,

we lost some of it to the the plastic,

and so we,

I'm going to try and filter these out,

just because I don't know what that's going to do,

and I want this to just be pure Orbeez.

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A ridiculous amount of Orbeez.

Let's add more.

Yeah.

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That's a lot of Orbeez.

That's a lot of Orbeez, and two GoPros.

Saying the name of our cameras actually turn them off.

They have voice activation features, which is useful

until you forget, and you say the name,

and they both turn off on you.

So the cameras,

the name of which we will not say,

are in the freeze dryer.

Here we go.

Alright, so that's the nine hours,

and while that's going, make some more?

Yeah, why not?

We're about to ruin some.

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More?

Better to have too many than too few.

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Our orbeez are finished.

The freeze dryer has completed its cycle.

It took a long time.

We let this thing run for about two days,

which is longer than a lot of things need.

But Orbeez have a lot of water in them.

It's cool watching the time lapse of these,

just growing as well.

And Callie found a special one.

Okay guys, for some reason,

we had a bunch of Orbeez that were Prince Rupert's drop shape,

but I, somebody may have accidentally broken this one?

So really just a tadpole shape,

but it's pretty cool.

Sometimes, they just grow tails.

I wonder if it's more likely when you make larger batch,

not necessarily because there's more,

but growing with this many together.

We probably got like 10,000 in this jar, and so,

three out of ten thousand.

Let's open up our freeze dryer, and see what we've got.

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Okay, that's awesome.

Those change.

I have a plate of Fruity Pebbles now.

It's just like styrofoam.

Yeah, it sounds like little styrofoam pebbles.

Okay, this is cool.

This is one of the larger ones.

The color has like seeped to certain parts,

but the rest of it is just almost like clear foam.

Some parts of them.

The water did not fully get vacuumed out,

because somebody may have put a lot of Orbeez in there.

Yeah.

We definitely got most of it out,

but it looks like where it was thicker blobs together.

All right.

So the stuff on the tray, that we got really dry.

The stuff in the bowls...

Oh, interesting.

It's still-- that's like a--

Well, it's cold, but it's not frozen.

And the big piles of it got very well insulated,

so you can definitely see that there's a difference.

All of this stuff that's on the tray,

this was an orbee,

and now, it's just this little plastic thing,

and I can just smoosh it into dust.

Orbeez dust.

So fluffy and light.

The new kind of Orbeez art.

Just look at this one.

So a lot of these, the colors like seeping out,

but that was perfectly Cobalt.

That's cool.

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Okay, new plan.

Hmm.

Huh?

No.

I'ts pretty solid.

Did anything break off of that?

Pieces fell off.

I don't think like broke that all though.

Here you go.

You try.

Pickle jar worth of solid block of ice.

You weakened that.

I smacked it against the counter.

That's ice, right in the middle.

That's just solid ice.

>> But the outside is crunchy. >> But like squished together Orbeez ice,

and like, I think ice is actually filled in all

of the gaps between where the Orbeez were.

It's gelatin ice.

Well, we've also got a jar of warm water here.

So this is pretty nice and warm,

and warm water usually activates Orbeez faster.

So I want to see what happens

if we start putting these dehydrated bits

into the water.

So let's start with--

This is one still mostly frozen,

but not completely freeze dried orbee.

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Wow.

That was only a couple of minutes.

[inaudible] gelatinous.

I don't think it's all the way through.

No, but it's--

It's still almost an orbee now.

The interesting thing is is

how many air bubbles are in it now?

It's about the size

of a normal orbee, even if it is a little misshapen though,

but it's just chock-full of air bubbles.

There's some more like that one.

I think we should put in one of these whole chunks.

I want this one.

It's just a cool shape.

Goodbye friend.

I mean, it's probably gonna float.

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Pieces are just falling off of it.

But the color is not really staying anymore.

That's the biggest piece we got.

Yes, that was one

of the larger pieces of a larger orbee,

about size of golf ball.

Now it's foam.

Let's see what that does.

I don't think this is going to hold together.

So I'm just gonna control it.

Yep, and now it's...

Huh, interesting.

It's back to Orbeez texture.

But now, it's just like a gelatinous--

It's like if you took a normal orbee and crushed it up.

Yeah, pretty much.

Let's do a comparison even.

Pretty similar.

Yours is more crushed up, but--

But the texture is very very similar.

So that's a regular orbee,

this was a freeze dried and reconstituted orbee.

How does our brick doing?

Oh, gross.

But that underneath is cool.

Yeah, all the thawed portions just scrape right off,

and leave the frozen parts together.

Someone should make popsicles that look like that.

Oh my gosh.

Shut up and take my money.

Shut Up And Take My Money.

So these are ones that have dried out completely,

and I'm going to throw those into some warm water.

See what happens to you.

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Are they dissolving?

Some of them had so little cohesion.

Yeah, there's little, little bits floating down

to the bottom.

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As the really open ones absorb water,

you can see how they're sort of turning into orbee shape.

But because there are missing so much material,

they kind of shredded as they freeze dried,

that we're now getting like these frozen--

Instead of a sphere,

it's just like a tissue-y substance.

All righrt, this is basically just like pre-shredded.

It's hardly holding itself together at all.

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This is awesome.

This was a solid chunk earlier.

I was like squishing and flattening out pieces.

And now you can see

that some of them have actually started to like bubble up,

and go back to their normal shape,

but stayed in a popsicle form.

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Kinda have an interesting texture.

With normal Orbeez,

like you can feel the individual shape of each marble.

But because of the way these have broken up,

it's just more of like a slop.

But there's one other thing I want to try is the Orbeez

now appear to all be full of bubbles,

and most of the time,

if you throw Orbeez into a vacuum chamber,

they don't really do anything.

I've tried it, nothing happens.

But because these are now full of bubbles,

I want to try it with them.

So I'm just going to pour off the extra water,