The first episode of Kevin Delaney’s TV show Street Science, which debuted on the Science Channel on Jan. 11, starts off in a salon, where he’s getting his wavy brown mane tamed.
Delaney asks the stylist: “Want to see something fun with hydrogen peroxide?” His experiment involves dumping 70 liters of hydrogen peroxide into a car, adding 4½ gallons of dish soap, then pouring in a bucket of potassium iodide to act as a catalyst. A crazy foam geyser shoots up out of the sunroof, and the salon employees shriek.
This is the point of the program. Delaney, who works at Arkansas’s Museum of Discovery, visits different everyday spots to set up chemical reactions designed to wow.