10 MOST Expensive Liquids on Earth 2020

 

  welcome to our Channel and today we'll  be taking a look at the 10 most  expensive liquids in the world stay  until the end to find out which one is  the most surprising and expensive liquid  ever also don't forget to subscribe to  our Channel and turn on notifications  for more great content like today  without further adieu let's begin our  countdown 10th place human blood  you might be surprised to find out that  the 10th place of our list is occupied  by none other than human blood I mean  human blood can be found in many places  on our planet considering the high  amount of living human beings there are  human blood has a cost of around $1,500  per gallon  though the real reason why it fetches  such a ludicrous price is due to how  tedious it is to process the blood for  donations and have it primed and ready  to be used in fact red blood cells the  component most in demand can be sold for  as much as 75 dollars per unit less than  it costs to produce because there's a  glut of it on the market it's the  gallons that are so expensive as you  might have guessed human blood is used  for transfusions carry oxygen and add  platelets for blood clotting to patients  with low levels of them most human blood  is used to treat medical conditions such  as anemia cancer and blood disorders on  top of that human blood can become  scarce after discarding as if it remains  unused for 42 days it must be thrown  away despite this there are still many  other expensive liquids than this one  ready to find out which ones they are  ninth place gamma hydroxybutyrate acid  gamma hydroxybutyrate also known as GHB  for short comes in at an estimated price  of $2,500 per gallon on top of being  extremely hard to pronounce this liquid  is used to treat depression insomnia and  narcolepsy and is also used as an  anesthetic it's also used illegally as  an intoxicant as an athletic performance  enhancer as a date-rape drug and as a  recreational drug GHB can cause many  serious side effects including headaches  hallucinations dizziness confusion  nausea vomiting drowsiness agitation  diarrhea sexual arousal numbing of legs  vision problems tightness of chest  mental changes combativeness and many  other nasty things  the reason why it's so rare is because  it can only be found in human central  nervous system even more rare than the  blood itself eighth-place black printer  ink anyone who owns an office or home  printer must know how expensive black  printer cartridges are no matter how  much your printer costs buying ink will  always cost more in the long term and  printer manufacturers can charge upward  of twenty seven hundred dollars per  gallon of ink in fact that's their  business model inkjet printers are often  very cheap that's because they're sold  at cost or even at a loss the  manufacturer either makes no profit from  the printer itself or loses money the  manufacturer will make most of its money  from the printer cartridge issue by  later even if the company does make a  little bit of money from each printer  sold it's often a much larger profit  margin on ink rather than selling you a  printer that may be rather expensive  they want to sell you a cheap printer  and make money on an ongoing basis by  providing expensive printer ink they  will also go out of their way to make it  too difficult for you to use non branded  ink cartridges building microchips into  their official ones to be read by the  official printers seventh place mercury  that strange looking liquid you find in  thermometers is called mercury the only  metal that can also be found naturally  in liquid form and remains liquid at  room temperature a gallon of mercury  could cost thirty four hundred dollars  and is known to be extremely toxic  mercury can conduct electricity and in  its vapor form it can be used in street  lighting and fluorescent bulbs today  mercury is used for the manufacture of  industrial chemicals and for electrical  and electronic applications sixth place  insulin yet another very much needed and  still ludicrously expensive liquid is  insulin insulin is a hormone  naturally produced by a healthy pancreas  and it fetches such a high price because  of how expensive it is to produce in its  bio synthetic form with prices reaching  around nine thousand four hundred  dollars per gallon according to the  Journal of American Medical Association  insulin prices tripled between 2002 and  2013 and seemed to be steadily on the  rise it's safe to call what's happening  an insulin crisis so why isn't the FDA  intervening the FDA can't do anything  around price so the FDA can't say you  have to charge a $150 for this and you  can't do anything different that's just  not how it works in the u.s. insulin is  expensive because it can be there's no  limit to how high the price can rise a  more affordable way to produce insulin  is reportedly in development introducing  the human gene into plants and then  produce it themselves  insulin is employed by your body to use  sugar from carbohydrates in the food  that you eat for energy or to store  glucose for future use insulin helps  keep your blood sugar level from getting  too high so what do you think of these  extremely expensive liquids so far are  you surprised  let us know in the comments fittingly  coming in in fifth place we have the  Chanel number five one of the most  famous perfumes in the world all other  liquids on this list have been chemical  compounds or needed to treat medical  conditions this one's a bit sillier yet  still more expensive the lifespan once  you open it is about two to three years  but here's the thing even Chanel admits  this this is not really for using this  is a showpiece this is a $4,200 thing to  put on your mantle or on your dresser or  wherever you want to put it that says  I've got a lot of Chanel I've got a lot  of Chanel now a lot of people might want  that because there's so much history  attached is granted a lot of famous  faces Marilyn Monroe Brad Pitt now even  be very silent and brooding spokesperson  for channel number five the Chanel  number five was first produced in 1922  through the collaboration of chemist  Ernest bow and Coco Chanel Coco Chanel  selected vial number five of the samples  that BOE presented her with due to her  fondness for the number five Coco  decided to balance musk and jasmine  usually worn by ladies of the night with  the smell of freshness coming from the  aldehydes Chanel number five includes 80  ingredients resulting in their perfume  formula not possible to decipher apart  from jasmine and musk some of the other  notes include yang Yang vetiver  my rose and essence of narrowly orange  blossom tonka bean and sandalwood today  Provence is the only region where my  rose and Jasmine used for the making of  the perfume are grown bottles of Chanel  number 5 can cost around $26,000 per  gallon  who would have thought that a mere  perfume would have set  a complex backstory and manufacturing  process fourth-place horseshoe crab  blood the blood of the horseshoe crab is  one of the most expensive blood types on  earth horseshoe crab blood is blue in  color and has a unique response to  bacterial toxins reaching prices of  sixty thousand dollars per gallon the  reason why it's so expensive is because  of its unique properties horseshoe crab  blood is exquisite of ly sensitive to  toxins from bacteria it's used to test  for contamination during the manufacture  of anything that might go inside the  human body  the pharmaceutical biomedical industry  uses a test that's made from the blood  of overshoe crab to determine whether  there's any kind of bacteria that would  cause an infection fever and causes to  die  anything that's injected into our system  anything that comes in contact with our  blood that includes even the needle the  saline solution spinal fluids like  epidurals anything that comes in contact  with those systems every shot every IV  drip and every implanted medical device  now that we've arrived at the top three  get ready to find out which one is the  most expensive liquid known by mankind  stay until the end and learn all about  it  third place placer Jake acid  diethylamide known more commonly as LSD  one of the most famous hallucinogenic  drugs on earth lysergic acid dimethyl  ide is made from the crystalline  compound lysergic acid which has been  prepared from natural forgot alkaloids  for general information one gallon of  LSD which can cost around 123 thousand  dollars is enough to provide  hallucinogens for around 50,000 people  second place  king cobra venom the king cobra is the  most poisonous snake in the world which  also makes it extremely dangerous that's  why its venom is so expensive and  desired it's really hard to get in large  quantities by your own the king cobras  venom contains a protein known as Ohana  which is used today in the form of a  painkiller 20 times more powerful than  morphine studies of cobra venom have  yielded pain relievers such as night  locsin used for severe arthritis pain  the king cobra produces enough  neurotoxin to kill an elephant with a  single bite  however even this is nothing when  compared to the first place on our list  first place scorpion venom coming in in  the first place of our list with an  extremely expensive price of 39 million  dollars per gallon  we have scorpion venom scorpions like  the king cobra used their venom for self  defense and against prey they wish to  kill but only around 25 species of  scorpion have lethal venom there's a  protein found in scorpion venom that can  be used to treat pain in humans who  suffer from multiple sclerosis  inflammatory bowel disease and  rheumatoid arthritis and since scorpions  are so hard to find and extract their  venom from this liquid earns its massive  price so what do you think of these  extremely expensive liquids in the world  were you shocked to find out how much  they can cost you let us 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