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.