Why and how do Jellyfish sting?

20/05/2021 38 min Episodio 96
Why and how do Jellyfish sting?

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What's the chemistry of a jellyfish sting? Why do they feel so different from other stings? And what can we even do when we get stung? And what about the popular urine theory, does that help anything? Let's find out!
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References from this episode

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20305955/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/whats-behind-that-jellyfish-sting-2844876/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bies.95017041
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3640396/
https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/reactions/videos/2017/should-you-pee-on-a-jellyfish-sting.html
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.jproteome.0c00277
https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/presspacs/2020/acs-presspac-june-10-2020/what-makes-a-giant-jellyfishs-sting-deadly.html

 
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