Cleaning the Blue Water
In this episode of Science Live, Dr. Roger Billings explores laboratory science with a distillation experiment that purifies dirty water into crystal-clear pure water right before your eyes. Dr. Billings then uses an X-ray analyzer to reveal the minerals and salts hidden in ordinary tap water.
The episode also takes viewers behind the scenes at Acellus Studios, showcasing the Hollywood-grade equipment used to create cinematic Acellus courses — including professional Blackmagic cameras, advanced lighting and color grading with DaVinci Resolve, green screen technology, gimbal rigs, and a 360° camera for smooth on-location filming.
About DrB
Dr. Roger Billings is a visionary innovator whose work has touched the lives of millions of students and transformed the landscape of education. Widely known as “DrB” to the countless kids who benefit from his groundbreaking Acellus learning system, Dr. Billings has dedicated his life to advancing education through technology.
As part of DrB’s lifelong commitment to supporting education, Science LIVE was launched as a way to “give back” by mentoring students in conjunction with the Roger Billings Scholarship Program.
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About the Roger Billings Scholarship Program »
It’s cool to see all of these demonstrations at the tech conference!
R51 is soo funny
Hello from Texas! It is so cool to see that you guys are responding to people! I was wandering what time Science Live gose live Texas time? Thank you! 🙂
This science live was very helpful !
So cool. I wish I could have been there, but I’m not on the table drive. I’m too young
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Hi from TN.
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That’s cool I always thought it was a drone but those cameras are cool how they make it look like a miniature planet
Fun live.
Hi from oregon
i love the robot from ltaly it looks cool
I liked watching Dr. Roger showing how condensation works with the blue food coloring being separated from the clear water
Cool video,
Hi I’m from Kentucky
Hello from the West Coast!!
I’m glad there is nothing i wouldn’t want drink in my tap water
Hello everyone! Good episodes as always. R51 was hilarious once again, bringing me up! I’m glad they talked about water. That’s important! I liked that Dr. John was at Acellus World with the robot that was with him. I wish I was there to meet him face-to-face!
this episode was awesome!
Thanks for the science live Dr. B!
this episode was fire!!!
Hi from Arkansas
How long will it take to clean the Blue Water?
What a great episode
The tap water has been something ,Fun watching r51 join the live
Seeing how the courses are made and what different cameras are for was really cool and interesting (:
If water is considered technically purified but still retains trace levels of impurities, at what point do those remaining contaminants become a concern for human health?”
Howdy from Texas! So glad that Science Live is going on through Summer this year!
That experiment was cool to create clean water with dirty water. (:
I really like the gold keys, they were really cool. Why did R-51 pour a drink into a cup and then the cup exploded?
Science live is the best part of the week! R-51 is so funny
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Best video yet, Love Alyssa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cool Beanz
I don’t drink tap water, seeing what was in it makes me glad I don’t .
It’s always so cool to see the behind the scenes! I can’t believe that is what is in tap water.
hi from cali
This was a really interesting episode!
This was interesting
Thx for this lesson 🙂 but plz keep r 51 out of the lab cuz he could get into trouble
This was a very interesting episode!
I love it
I Think that R51 is so funny.
i wonder if there would be more 3D printing classes
Hello from New Jersey, can’t wait for another episode! Very interesting experiment!
This is amazing
Hello from Cali!
really good video
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I learned so much today!
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This science live was one of the best ones so far!
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Hope everyone has had a good week so far.
the method to cut glass is so interesting
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Was cool to watch!
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I can’t wait for another science live!
Hi this is a good video.
Great episode guys!
Hi from South Africa, this was really nice and interesting thanks for this week’s lesson!
a big hi from NC
Great video! I learned a lot from it.
i love this video
Hi from West Virginia
The government really uses Gold Key?
Hello from mass!!
I love this one so much
Cool!
That was cool how those chemicals reaction happened.
Yay! Student spotlight is back!
Thx for the live
That is so cool. I wonder if I should start drinking cleaner water.
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Hi from Wisconsin.
nice live bro
Loved acellus world so much!!!
Hi from SoCal!
we all love science
Can’t wait for the live
I enjoyed this Science Live!
the tap water has been somthing i’ve been worried about for a while, im glad yall talked about it this live!!
Cool Ep. watching from GA. I learned a lot and and I thought it was cool learning about the process of water cleaning.
Heck ya I love Science Live!!!
Another great lesson.
As someone who uses Davinci Resolve for personal projects, it would be really cool if you guys made a film/editing course. You could talk about popular editing tricks, the history of editing and pracitcal effects mixed with VFX, color grading and its emotional value/impact, its such an interesting topic. Please talk more about it if you can’t make it a class.
It is crazy what we drink without even knowing. Thank you for another amazing Science live!
Hi from Kansas!
Sometimes tap water just tastes off, sometimes even a little airy.
Hey from Texas love watching these videos.
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i love science so much
This was a great watch! I loved it
Hello from Florida!! Love the science live show!
Hello from Illinois.
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cleaning water is crazy.
Hi from Virginia 😀
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I enjoyed this science live.
R-51 is so naughty:)
Hello from NY, this was another great episode!
I love R51, he’s so funny!
I really loved seeing the water experiment!
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Hello nice live!
This is amazing!
This video was really interesting and really cool. I learned a lot.
This was a really nice science life all the thing questionable and really interesting
The film quality videos are really enjoyable to watch; thank you for raising the bar!
I liked leaning about chemicals and how they work, especially the explosion at the end.
hello from SC
This was a great live!
Acellus has changed our lives for the good for sure! Me and my siblings are all in sports and Acellus gives us the flexibility to learn and also work on sports. It is awesome to hear other peoples testimonies,
I think he licked it to get rid of debris when he broke it cause if enough particles are still in the scratch mark he made the glass might still break.
Hi from Tx!! Distillation is cool, I’ve always wondered how it worked on a more complex level, cool live!
that’s cool
Hello from Louisiana
i drink tap water all the time. Good thing you guys talked about it. i didnt know if it was a big issue or not
Watching from Virginia!
The distilled water and tap water experiment was interesting!!!
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Hi from Manhattan Montana!! Love watching science lives so much. I always laugh so hard when R51 comes on. The water experiment was cool.
I love Rodgers billing
i loved this weeks science live.
Ive learned so much from science live.
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hi from MW
this is awesome loved everything learned so much the robots were so cool
Acellus School is AWESOME!!! I even met a friend in our co-op that does Acellus too! It was so cool!
Hi from Tennessee! I am so glad they talked about the tap water thing, now i know what’s in there.
Loved this live.
Hi from Nicaragua!
Just gotta say I already was kinda interested in glass blowing but now I’m in love with it! also R 51, why? just….why?
I love it
Thank for science live.
I thought the X-ray was so cool!
I always enjoy the lives
this was a really great video
Blue water was a very good subject
Great video this week!
Very good science live! Excited for next one.
Hi from Alabama
Man, I watch these when I’m bored and have no more work, and boy, they DON’T let down!
So coool!
Hi from NC
Always so interesting
Blue water was a really good subgect
Fun Fact: Squid Blood is Blue, this is because they have copper in their bloodstream, which oxidizes compared to us having only iron.
its really fun watching the episodes! Keep up all the hard work!
Just watched cleaning the blue water. I found this video very interesting. I would like to know if we do decide to work on some of our classes during summer break is it required to watch the videos to get scholarship credit?
hi really helped from new york
Great live!
Hello from Texas, I love watching Science Live!
Man today was a good video!
I learned so much!
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water in America needs to be better.
We learn so much from Science Live!
Hi from texas
Will there ever reach a point in time where ALL water on Earth is perfectly clean?
I now how they do R 51 but i’m not going to tell how so other people don’t know.
Cleaning our polluted waters and reusing the things that pollute the it.