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 »
The Oversonic robot looks really cool for manufacturing, and I’m curious to see what it looks like when it’s actually working on the production line. It seems like a pretty advanced robot, and I think it would be interesting to watch how it handles different tasks alongside people.
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What makes this water need cleaning in the first place?
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Crazy how much chemicals and materials we consume everyday
How much bad stuff is in a gallon of tap water
Water is cool
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The tap water has been something I’ve been worried about for a while, so I’m glad y’all talked about it! 😀
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The tap water has been something I’ve been worried about for a while, so I’m glad y’all talked about it! 😀
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my family has been using a water filter for the tap for years, after some local water contamination
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Cool water experiment.
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Wow that’s really cool! Nice to learn about it!
How did you see the powder if a Xray is for seeing through things?
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Very interesting. It’s crazy what we end up drinking without even knowing!
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I liked this live lesson it had a lot of cool information
Distillation is so cool!
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Would the acellus courses look as good as they do if they were recorded on a high quality phone? Also I really liked the talk on reverse osmosis!
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Great live this time
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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.
Water is important.
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It is amazing! Thank you Dr. Billings!
When is the aviation course going to come out and how much money is it for the “VANTA” machine?
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There was so much more stuff in hard water then I thought!
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My question is; Which purification process is better long term? What would be the cost differences.
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What would happen if you were to drink water with not very good purification? But it would still be purified, just, not very good quality.
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I don’t think we give water the credit it deserves .
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labetory experiments are cool
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Love this! Water is so important
that’s really cool
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WHAT ARE GOOD CHEMICALS TO USE FOR OSMOSIS?
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How much water volume would you lose from boiling it if
any?
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Oooh Osmosis that is so interesting
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the gold key reminds me of a USB, I do wonder how it works though
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Can all your house water go through reverse osmosis?
Fun lesson. Almost finished with school thanks to Acellus!
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Sorry, I’m late. So excited to watch tonight!
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so that’s tap water
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I never really thought of how much stuff is in sink water (Hardwater). I thought it was a couple peices of dirt and other gunk that gets caught in pipes. It is intresting to know that sink water contains salt and some small contents of calcium, but I do have a question. How much of those minerals is in Hardwater most of the time?
Great question Auriel! Water quality can depend on your area: it’s normally recommended to save tap water for washing hands and dishes. We’re super blessed in today’s world to have access to clean drinking water!!
Amazing live
Does the water from Kroger have all that?
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The water testing is interesting, we have an osmosis system.
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How can water filters help with growing health issues?
Can homes distill all the water?
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can the xray device find living bacteria and viruses?
Great video! Thank you!
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Whats the weight limit that the robot can carry?
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Hello from Texas, realistically how unhealthy is unpurified tap water really?
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Did you know that I have used the 360° camera here at I.S.A. (Internation School of Aruba). When I tried it. it was amazing.
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How dangerous are X-rays
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The tap water experiment was very interesting!
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i drink tap water and this is very interesting and nasty at the same time.
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The tap water experiment is very interesting, I would love to check ours
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We have a reverse osmosis faucet. Kinda sad we have to use it though.. what are we gonna do?
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Acellus is getting me right along to finishing up school 🙂
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good video
really fun lesson today !
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Hey there Mr. Billings I enjoyed the livestream
How much water volume would you lose from boiling it if any?
Wait, all of that is in normal tap water!?
LOve this
The distillation process for steam appears similar to boiler process I have read about before. Is there a difference?
so interesting I cant wait for the next video!
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