Note that there is some air in the tube with the copper turnings. The oxygen in this air will also react with the hot copper, causing a small error in the final volume recorded. It is also important to let the apparatus cool down at the end of the experiment, otherwise the final reading will be too high.
1 âTodayâ show hosts Tamron Hall, Billy Bush and Al Roker learned to fear the Reaper. 2  Paquiâs Carolina Reaper tortilla is the world's hottest chip. 3  Brave souls taking the Paqui one chip challenge â eating the world's hottest tortilla chip and recording the experience. (Paqui) Paquiâs tortilla chips are sold at Whole Foods, Stop & Shop and various organic markets.
Partly due to manâs competitive spirit, the title of the worldâs hottest chile pepper was stolen again in February 2011 by the Naga Viper pepper and then again in March to the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T. The âButch Tâ measures a whopping 1,463,700 Scoville heat units. Now that's HOT!!@!%! February 2012 update: believe it or not the world's hottest pepper has changed again and it is nearly 1/3 hotter than the Butch T. The Trinidad Moruga Scorpion has a scoville rating of 2,000,000 making it the new winner!