If you’d love to see a foam geyser shoot through a sunroof, watch ‘Street Science’

KEVIN Delaney has a remarkable head of hair. So it’s fitting that the first episode of his TV show “Street Science” - which has just debuted on the Science Channel - starts off in a salon, where he’s getting his wavy brown mane tamed.

The banter with his stylist gets weird quickly as the two discuss whether hair grows after you die. They agree that’s just a myth. And then Delaney has a proposition for her: “Want to see something fun with hydrogen peroxide?”

Spoiler alert! It’s an experiment that involves dumping 70 litres of hydrogen peroxide into a car, adding 4 1/2 gallons of dish soap, then pouring in a bucket of potassium iodide to act as a catalyst. The result? A crazy foam geyser that shoots up out of the sunroof, and a bunch of shrieking salon employees. Essentially, this is the point of the programme. Delaney - who works at Arkansas’s Museum of Discovery and has a regular gig explaining science to Jimmy Fallon on “The Tonight Show” - visits different everyday spots to set up chemical reactions designed to wow. His similarly bushy sidekick is a “slow-mo expert,” who positions tons of cameras so viewers can marvel at the experiments from every conceivable angle.

The next stop on the episode is a candy shop, where Delaney mixes sugar with sulphuric acid to make a treat you would absolutely not want to eat. (It kind of turns into a stinky black snake.) Finally, it’s onto a brewery to discover the power of pressure. He puts tabletennis balls and liquid nitrogen into a bunch of trash cans, and soon lots of things are bouncing.

Expect plenty of safety goggles, thumping music and the chance to learn something.