0:04

What if kittens beat the clock each

0:06

beat? And what

0:09

if unicorns were real?

0:13

What if you could fly or

0:15

travel back in time? We welcome

0:17

you to What If World What

0:20

if world? This

0:26

is What If World

0:55

to help teach chemistry to kids. We've

0:57

also attached a free PDF in the

0:59

show notes so you can

1:01

download a periodic table that has

1:03

extra information about common ionic charges

1:06

that might help you during

1:08

this mission. We'll be answering

1:10

your What If questions next week

1:12

and now it's time to revisit

1:14

our detective friends, Poppy and Ray.

1:25

File 3, The Case

1:27

of the Pillaging Pirates. Chapter

1:29

6, Time

1:31

Readers. Written by Colleen

1:34

Kelly, PhD. Adapted and

1:36

produced by Eric O'Keefe. That

1:40

last one was close. Thank you

1:42

for rescuing the mechanical model of

1:45

the atom by figuring out the

1:47

number of protons, neutrons, and electrons

1:49

in an atom. You were able to open

1:51

the safe and grab the model. Basically

1:54

you saved the world. Again. But

1:57

the sleuthing scientist's work is

1:59

never done. This time you'll

2:01

be heading to the Caribbean in the

2:03

year 1707. You

2:06

will face the Dread Pirate

2:08

Clive and his nettlesome

2:10

sidekick Nat. They have captured

2:13

Lady Zenon, Princess of Inertia,

2:15

and are demanding a ransom of

2:17

one million electrons for

2:19

her sixth release. You'll

2:22

have to learn about ions and

2:24

ionic compounds to save the day.

2:26

Don't worry, you'll have Sir Carbon

2:28

night at the square table to

2:30

help you. So pack your bags,

2:33

bring your brains, and grab

2:35

that periodic table for your

2:37

next adventure in the MC

2:39

Detective Agency. Poppy

2:43

and Ray, your favorite green

2:45

teen detectives, were back home,

2:47

enjoying some leisure time. Ray

2:50

without back, working on his pirate

2:52

ship while Poppy was in the kitchen,

2:54

making cookies with Granny Eve. I

2:57

think this cookie dough needs

2:59

one one-thousandth of a mole,

3:02

I mean a pinch of sodium chloride,

3:04

said Granny Eve, examining their

3:07

bowl of cookie dough. Sodium

3:10

chloride? asked Poppy. Granny

3:12

Eve often slipped into science talk

3:15

when she was very focused on a task.

3:17

Oh dear yes, that's what

3:20

we used to call salt in the olden days.

3:23

Just a mole, a pinch, will

3:26

do. As Poppy reached for

3:28

the salt, her brother Ray burst into

3:31

the house. Pirate cap, a

3:33

skew, a stricken look on his face.

3:35

Don't do it Poppy, I heard Granny Eve

3:38

telling you to put moles in our cookies.

3:40

I may not know much, but I know

3:42

eating moles is wrong. Calm

3:44

down Ray, she just meant a pinch.

3:47

Why would you want a pinch of mole? They're

3:49

so cute. Granny Eve, still

3:52

staring at the cookies, seemed to

3:54

remember something. Poppy, did you add

3:56

the sodium bicarbonate? Bicarb- what? Sounds

3:58

like a joke. like robot stuff.

4:01

We need that so the cookies will

4:03

rise. Rise up to take over the

4:05

world with their bicarbonic might. I

4:08

don't think so, Granny Eve. No,

4:10

no, I meant baking soda. Already

4:12

done, Grans. Let's get these cookies

4:14

on the sheet and into the

4:16

oven. I'll help. Offered Ray.

4:19

No way, said Poppy.

4:21

You ate half the cookie dough last

4:23

time and got sick. And I do

4:25

it again. In fact, I already am.

4:28

Stop it, Ray. Granny Eve, make

4:30

him stop. But Granny Eve

4:32

had heard a familiar buzz from

4:34

the old timey radio she kept

4:36

in the living room. She smiled

4:38

at her grandchildren and took a look

4:40

out the window. Oh, dear. It

4:42

looks like we're having a spring rain. Can

4:45

you two please run out and take the

4:48

laundry down from the clothesline? I'm on it,

4:50

said Ray, sprinting outside. Poppy

4:52

followed close behind. Oh, at

4:54

least wash your hands first, Ray. Oh,

4:56

how are you two minutes older than

4:58

me? Five minutes older. And

5:01

I'm taller, too. Granny

5:04

Eve closed the door behind Poppy

5:06

and Ray before sneaking over to

5:08

the radio. The coast is clear,

5:10

MC. What's going on?

5:12

It's that evil,

5:15

gaseous, chlorine Clive.

5:17

Oh, no. What's he up

5:19

to now? Clive and his

5:22

sidekick, Salty Nat, are stealing

5:24

electrons. That greedy Clive.

5:26

If only he learned to grab

5:28

just one electron. Three, but

5:31

he's demanding one million electrons.

5:33

And he's holding ladies in

5:35

on the captive until he

5:37

gets them, said MC's voice

5:39

from the radio. But

5:42

she's the princess of inertia.

5:44

She couldn't give up her

5:46

electrons even if she wanted to.

5:48

That's why he's searching for pirate

5:50

treasure, a chest full of gold

5:53

and silver. Shh. Ray

5:55

has a keen ear for pirate talk.

5:57

You must tell Poppy and Ray. Then

6:00

Rey, to get to the Caribbean

6:02

in 1707 and

6:04

find someone to help them

6:06

learn about ions and ionic

6:08

compounds. You mean a

6:11

friendly pirate? Did

6:13

someone whisper pirate? Said Rey.

6:16

See I told you MC. Me? You're

6:18

the ones laughing about the pirate. Children,

6:20

you're back just in time

6:23

for your next mission. Oh

6:26

good. As we mess

6:28

up the last mission, these sheets are

6:30

super muddy. Because you dropped them Rey.

6:32

I thought I heard pirate talk. Never

6:34

you mind. It's nothing a

6:37

little sodium hydrochlorite won't fix. Sodium

6:40

hydrochlorite? Oh, bleach. I meant

6:42

bleach. There

6:44

I go, naming ionic compounds

6:46

again. Bionic what? Oh, this

6:49

is definitely a robot mission

6:51

Poppy. Wow Rey, you're asking

6:53

about the mission rather than the

6:55

cookies? Ding. Cookies!

7:00

Shouted Rey, dashing into the kitchen.

7:02

Ah, ah, oh, they're so hot.

7:04

Must be all that evil sodium

7:07

bicarbonate. Nah, they just need

7:09

a minute to cool Rey. Then

7:11

you can take them with you on your

7:13

mission. Where are we going? When

7:16

are we going? Will we need the periodic

7:18

table of elements? A treasure map. Oh

7:21

yes indeed. We'll be headed to the

7:23

Caribbean Islands in the year 1707. You

7:27

don't mean... Pirate times?

7:30

Yes, I'm afraid the

7:33

Captain Chlorine Clive is- A

7:35

pirate? Told you it was a

7:37

pirate mission. What are we waiting for? Let's

7:39

go get to the ship. This can't

7:41

be happening. Rey ran out

7:43

of the house again, making some

7:46

last minute adjustments to his so-called

7:48

ship. Granny Eve called after him,

7:50

packing the cookies in a big

7:52

wooden lunch pail as she hurried

7:54

Poppy out the door. Chlorine Clive

7:56

wants to steal one million

7:59

electric- and he's

8:01

holding a lady xenon captive. France, how

8:03

are we supposed to stop a pirate

8:06

captain and save a princess? With

8:08

our treasure map! Periodic table. And

8:10

our pirate ship! Taxi cab wh-

8:13

wait. Poppy looked up

8:15

to see Rey strapping his

8:17

surfboard atop their time-traveling taxi

8:20

turned pirate ship. I

8:22

give you the Time Raider! Heh.

8:26

Do the voice I taught you,

8:28

Taxi. Five bucks! Grumbled the taxi

8:30

or Time Raider. Rey wisely forked

8:32

over the cash. Ayyyy,

8:35

matey! The

8:37

lower half of their time-traveling taxi

8:39

was surrounded by wood, which

8:42

came to a point in front,

8:44

like the bow of a ship.

8:46

Underneath the taxi ship, four rubber

8:49

wheels stuck out from the hull,

8:51

making it the first ever surfer-built

8:53

time-traveling amphibious vehicle! I'd like

8:55

to see Edison invent this! Wow,

8:58

this is a big step up from

9:00

inventing surf-loops! Well, the concept is

9:02

basically the same. That cannot

9:05

be true. Very good

9:07

children now board the Time

9:09

Raider and learn all that

9:11

you can about ions and

9:13

ionic compounds. Iona who?

9:16

Ions! They're like atoms that have

9:18

gained or lost electrons. And how

9:20

can we tell if an atom

9:23

has gained or lost one? Your

9:25

periodic table will help. Metals

9:27

will lose electrons, and non-metals

9:30

will gain electrons. Then

9:32

all non-metals are electron-thieving

9:35

pirates! Perhaps not? A

9:37

non-metal can find balance with the

9:40

right metal, forming an

9:42

ionic compound. Oh,

9:44

like bleach! Are salt and baking

9:46

soda ionic compounds too? Why, yes,

9:49

in fact— Ayyyy, let's get

9:51

this ahoy on the chips already! We

9:53

gotta work on your pirate lingo, Time

9:55

Raider. And the kids hustled into

9:57

the impatient Taxi/pirate chips.

10:00

Why? Are we always in a rush when we own

10:02

a time? Machine I get that question

10:04

a lot from you and I could

10:06

easily explain it in the time. It's

10:09

taken me to say this sentence. Is

10:12

as long as I'm not

10:14

interrupting time travel. Oh are

10:16

ruger love that ago and

10:18

the taxis you took off

10:20

with Poppy and Rain on

10:22

a voyage through time. granny

10:24

Eve watch them fade away

10:26

blowing a dandelion toward her

10:28

grandchildren as he made a

10:30

quiet with bonne. Chance Mess

10:32

on Fum. Moments.

10:35

Later and over three hundred years in

10:38

the past, Ray was standing on top

10:40

of their ship, a telescope in hand

10:42

hey Bobby to that still count as

10:45

taxi surfing if you're bored, strapped to

10:47

a time traveling yellow cab converted into

10:49

disarray, What do you see? A band

10:52

called Poppy resting comfortably and the ships

10:54

cabin or backseat. Oh I

10:56

think I see Chlorine lives pirate ship.

10:58

It's definitely three hundred years ago. How

11:00

can you tell? While the sea gulls

11:03

look really young, you. Like Node

11:05

Clive, you're sure it's his ship

11:07

black. Sails Big See Little

11:09

L painted on M C

11:12

L the atomic symbol for

11:14

chlorine. All what a cute

11:16

little minus sign painted just to the.

11:18

Top right of the symbol

11:20

C L Minus Oh. It's

11:23

a negatively charged ion and wants

11:25

to steal an electron. So

11:28

Pirate A sees begin of what's

11:30

I read lingo for Abandon Ship

11:32

All I think it's just a

11:35

abandon ship. Why? On no reason

11:37

a widget sink in a little

11:39

years and indeed water was slowly

11:42

leaking in from where the rubber

11:44

wield met. The wooden planks of

11:46

the ship. Ah, come on or

11:48

use duct tape on every Gallup.

11:51

Maybe a taxi wasn't the best starting

11:53

point for our pirate ship. Time Reader:

11:55

can you steer us toward that island?

11:57

Said least the name Sticking anything for

11:59

them. The Queen our first,

12:01

my invention breaks and Poppy gets

12:03

a pool pirate name before me

12:06

to this day get any worse.

12:10

The time reader reached the shore of

12:12

a nearby island with a jolt. Selling

12:14

Raise. Lying face first into the

12:16

sands. Saw. I

12:20

set myself up that at. Home

12:23

Raise This. Mittens already gone

12:25

sideways find Now we've usually met

12:27

a famous scientist who tells us

12:29

exactly what we need to do.

12:31

And who feeds us said way on

12:33

strapping his surfboard from the top of

12:36

the taxi? How. Can you think of Santa

12:38

thing at a time like this? These ancient

12:40

ways are going off. Only the people

12:42

have gone on and how was the

12:44

are said to have served in this

12:46

century? A. Sign: Just watch out

12:48

for pirates. And just like

12:50

that, my days getting better. Re

12:52

grabbed a cookie you from his

12:54

wouldn't lunch pail treasure chest and

12:57

headed toward the wonder. Meanwhile.

12:59

Poppy unfold her periodic table.

13:02

If you have one handy you can take it

13:04

out to, but it's okay to just sit back

13:06

and listen. Austro isn't a

13:08

poppy you looked up from

13:10

her periodic. Table to see a

13:12

silver gray crab scuttling toward. Her.

13:15

It ward and adorable little. Vest

13:17

and had to brown braids of

13:19

hair sticking out from a pirate

13:21

beanie atop it's head. Right talking

13:24

crabs as you were Famous scientist

13:26

by chance. I'm. Afraid not. Mandarins

13:28

k short for potassium have

13:31

made makes sense if you

13:33

know your Arabic o k.

13:35

C Don't know any Arabic or even

13:37

any Ionic Seven I'm gonna miss this

13:39

mission of. Their. Then served

13:41

at Problems and Evil Pirates

13:44

wrapped as on the sidelines

13:46

Chlorine Clive that very same

13:48

called that's Worth Less because

13:51

we only had one extra

13:53

electron. Puppy. Peaked at her

13:55

periodic table, trying to make sense

13:58

of the strange creature, k. potassium

14:01

one extra electron oh

14:04

you must be a metal in group

14:06

one grands told us that metals can

14:08

lose electrons and I guess group

14:10

one metals can lose one electron

14:13

well yeah we're alkali crabs if

14:15

the metal in our shell touches

14:17

water we go up in flames

14:20

that's why my family fled deeper

14:22

into the island but I hurt

14:24

my leg and had to stay

14:27

behind I'm going to help you

14:29

K I bet you have five

14:31

other siblings because there are six

14:33

metals in group one on the

14:35

periodic table yep except we

14:38

don't need to look for salty net

14:40

captain Clive kept him on his pirate

14:42

ship I just don't know why a

14:45

wet and salty ray ran back

14:47

onshore strapping his surfboard back on

14:49

top of the time raider in

14:52

a hurry we've got company oh

14:55

wow I've always wanted to say that is

14:57

it pirate company Ray none

14:59

other I was surf spying with

15:01

my telescope a new sport I'm

15:03

working on when a huge

15:06

wave lifted me up and I

15:08

spied a treasure chest in the

15:10

middle of the island that must be

15:12

the treasure Clive is after yeah all

15:14

that brings us to the company part his

15:16

ships closing in on us as we speak

15:19

so let's take this lunch crab and

15:21

skedaddle I'm not your lunch

15:23

said Kay this is Kay

15:25

short for potassium oh

15:28

okay we're going to help them find

15:30

their family so they're in my

15:32

treasure chest lunch pail because they

15:34

can't get wet I'll explain while we

15:36

run Ray okay yes I meant

15:39

let's go that's what I'm saying okay

15:42

oh Ray oh and Poppy

15:45

Ray and Kay exited pursued

15:47

by pirates and our

15:50

next chapter we'll meet chlorine

15:52

Clive and the elemental crew of

15:55

the Grand Anion as we learn

15:57

more about ions and

15:59

ionic combs compounds. This

16:02

concludes the MC Detective Agency

16:04

File 3, The

16:06

Case of the Pillaging Pirates. Chapter

16:09

6 Time

16:11

Readers Dr. Colleen Kelly

16:13

has created this Chemistry Comic Book

16:16

Series to help elementary school students

16:18

master concepts often taught at the

16:20

college level. These comic

16:23

books are presented by Kids' Chemical

16:25

Solutions and can be

16:27

found at kidschemicalsolutions.com. Oh,

16:35

you probably know that I love pirates and

16:37

we're gonna meet a lot of them next

16:39

time. Oh, Colleen is

16:42

also making on YouTube videos under

16:44

the name Chemistry Colleen. I'll throw

16:46

that link in the show notes

16:48

too. I'd like to thank Karen

16:50

O'Keefe, my co-creator, Dr. Colleen Kelly

16:52

of Kids' Chemical Solutions, my producer,

16:55

Miss Lynn, and all you curious

16:57

chemists at home. Will

16:59

we meet again?