Filling A Hydrogen Balloon Using "The Works" (hydrogen bong)

[backyardsounds]

why didn't you just go to the hardware store and buy some muriatic acid? It's pretty cheap, and a lot cheaper than bathroom cleaner.

[pstonge1984]

I liked it when you squeezed the balloon penis <3

[pstonge1984]

I liked it when you squeezed the balloon penis <3

[pstonge1984]

Ha looks like a penis cock buttplug

[97221135]

Hey !!! I Buy A Hydrochloric , I Mix It With Aluminum foil . and it does create a gas , but why Does It Not Floating ??

[97221135]

hey robbace , Does Hydrochloric Acid Mix With tin foil , does it react and create hydrogen Gas ? I Orderd A Hydrochloric Acid On Ebay.com.sg . Please Tell me Does It Create Hydrogen Gas When I mix It With Tin Foil . Please Do Reply Me ASAP . Many Thanks

[AllAroundBang]

wait, so the hydrogen chloride mixed with aluminum will produce hydrochloric acid, at which point the acid will dissolve in the water leaving pure hydrogen?

[Cliffbombz]

thumbs up for "fuckin A"

haha cracked me up.

[blackjack9165]

Hydro chloric acid

[97221135]

Hey Robace . Do You Know Any Cleaner That Contain Hydrogen Chloride . I Am In Singapore . Do You Know Any Of Thoes Cleaner Sold In Singapore ??

[hippydude89]

What no explosion!?!

[TheCottonTop]

I bet this guy pokes alot of smot!

[TheCottonTop]

Fuck an A! LOL I like this cat.

[LRchron422]

looks like a makeshift meth lab....

[antiswattt2]

its not an acid, but a base (= its the opposite q:

hydrogen chloride.. im not sure it is.. :/ i think its either sodium or potassium hydroxide

DO add oxygen (; exploding it is the fun part q:

aw no dude you threw it away D: you should have lighted it

chlorine gas? s: wasnt this hydrogen?

[Ma77hew]

i tried doing this with concentrated HCL in a plastic water bottle with the balloon on top, and it cause wayyy too much heat and melted the bottle, thanks to this video that gave me this idea of connecting a water filter to capture excess and hot gaseous HCL that was ending up in the balloon, making it sink in the air.

[milroxsox]

the ballon looks like a cock at first. ha!

[robbace]

"I can't stop drawing dicks!" -SuperBad

[StevoElsupremo]

while this does make lots of hydrogen Ill stick to electrolysis as its much safer lol

[dtechdude]

It cannot be filled with chlorine gas. This is because in acids, as with all acids, they produce ions of hydrogen(H+), so with The Works, which is 20% hydrochloric acid, the hydrogen breaks off from the chlorine and the chlorine combines with the aluminum. Besides, chlorine is green, and the fog in the bottle is white/gray, which is hydrogen under pressure

[Agentoxedo07]

holy-terrorist:> *_* ?

[cacouratos]

wat is produced when the aluminium foil has reacted with the sodium hydroxide (works cleaner)? would it be aluminium oxide or wat help me out?

[robbace]

I dirty nasty mess is left over :) I use to know... I think the answer is in the comments some where, or on Wikipedia.

[boneleg]

If you use sodium hydroxide you get hydrogen and sodium aluminate.

NaOH + Al + H20 --> H2 + NaAlO2

With hydrochloric acid you get hydrogen and aluminum chloride.

2 Al + 6 HCl --> 2 AlCl3 + 3 H2

[DylanAndersen]

so what could u use those 2 different products for just curious

[Ma77hew]

The Works is HCL, not sodium hydroxide, so with HCL Aluminum chloride is produced, if it was Sodium hydroxide, it would be sodium aluminate (Na2Al2O4) produced along with hydrogen gas

[alabaska182]

awesome!! thank you for the video. i used drano instead of the works but its all the same :D i did a crapper set up because i did not want to buy tubing and pvc but it works! 5star

[robbace]

Thanks. You make a video of it?

[alabaska182]

No sorry no video haha, the only video I have is testing my new rocket candy :D

[97221135]

@alabaska182 Is That A Toilet Bowl Cleaner ?

[alabaska182]

@97221135 Drano, correct. That is a cleaner for most sinks and plugged piping. You can buy Drano almost anywhere. The only thing different is I added water, tin foil then drano to complete the chemical reaction.

[Schenkelmeyer]

Neat and nice setup. I assume that the tinfoil is aluminum and not tin, and that the liquid is hydrocloric acid. Couldn't obesrve any visible traces of clorine, however. That would have filled the reactor with yellow fumes. Neither does the reaction between hydrocloric acid and aluminum liberate any clorine. Just hydrogen and aluminium cloride salt. The gas generation went away at a spanking pace! Nice clip!

[aidan2829]

wow great vid im gunna have to try it soon

[vinee94yo]

You say don`t this Then why the heck are you doing this.

And i don`t want because I`am a professional.

[robbace]

Lame.

[Kaboom147]

Damn thats sick

[robbace]

thanks...its just something to do on a lazy sunday.

[Ravenpulse]

oh he tells you not to do this, then he tell you how to do it

[robbace]

LOL it's cool to state the obvious.

[vinee94yo]

Alright

[DerricksProductions]

Looks like a meth lab in there....

[appppppppple]

basically you need 26 grams of aluminum foil for 5 L of "the works". This should maximize the amount of hydrogen for the amount of materials used. As long as the aluminum foil is 100% aluminum and "the works" is .2 molar. You won't have a perfect reaction so don't expext 24 grams of hydrogen!

[robbace]

Wow cool thanks man. I never took Chemistry, I just like to throw a bunch of chemicals in a bucket (and some times lite them) and see what happens. Thanks for the info.

[appppppppple]

yo man, if you want to maximize the chemical reaction so you get the most hydrogen gas for material, you have to eliminate the limiting reactants by balancing out the mole to mole ratio. Find out the percent aluminum the foil is and just do conversions from there. Since you already know that "the works" is .2 molar. Just do Al+HCL->ALCL3+H2. All you have to do is balance the moles.

[bighitter79]

he has a meyth lab i bet

[skatefrench]

You can also buy Muriatic acid at most hardware stores, which is a much higher % hydrochloric acid, so less impurities. I like the water filter, it is brilliant. We did this but i think acid kept bubbling up into the balloon and popping them in our faces= not fun.

[robbace]

Thanks for the comment. Hope you havn't burned your eyes out yet. But if you have I hear beer helps fix it.

[Ma77hew]

yeah i bought the concentrated HCL, but you should dilute it to 3 molar to prevent the acid from bubbling back up, or you could slow the reaction rate down by placing the reaction vessel in cool water.

[Kaboom147]

lol i love the part when the balloon goes up it gets a stiffy LOl

[myvinsen]

great video. Thanks

[ramondj88]

how do you get the acid

[robbace]

It's generic toilet bowl cleaner from a dollar store. It's called "The Works" and the key ingredient in Hydrogen Chloride.

[daokine]

lol very cool

[ace1119]

How did you make the hydrogen bong? I'm trying to do this and I want the balloon float.

[emoscreamokid6]

i did this and it burnt my hand and my carpet.

i was ggrounded for ever and i had to buy a new carpet this shit sucked

[robbace]

yeah...this stuff is better to do out side...under adult supervision if under 18. But I did it here so you don't have to. ;)

[awizardalso]

A step better than a balloon full of hydrogen is a garbage bag full of hydrogen. The next step better would be to tie an M-80 with a short cigarette fuse to it with a long string.

[robbace]

agreed. Also a couple Liters of Oxygen.

[robbace]

Awsome. I have heard a bit of a Chlorine bomb but that was years ago, I'll look it up again. Thanks for sharing your knowlege here. I really dig it.

[robbace]

Awesome! Whats the best way to go about getting Chlorine gas without calling the swimming pool guy over?

[maatija]

it's easier to ger hydrochloric acid and then add few christals of KMno4

[robbace]

Great Info!  Thanks for sharing! U have a video showing how to do it?

[Zodiac828]

By hydrogen chloride, do you mean HCl? As in Hydrochloric Acid?

[robbace]

"The Works" is 20% Hydrogen Chloride (according to the label). Wikipedia has some good info on Hydrochloric acid, and Hydrogen Chloride. "Hydrochloric acid is the aqueous solution of hydrogen chloride gas" <---from wikipedia. I never took chemistry so if you have any other info or good links please share. Thanks for the comment.

[Zodiac828]

Yeah, I made that comment and then promptly looked it up on wikipedia. At first I thought a higher concentration of HCl might aid the reaction process, but this solution is already 20%, and industrial usually runs about 34%. I'm going to build one of your assemblies and run the reaction, but instead of 100% hydrogen, 50% hydrogen / 50% propane. Should yield pretty fun results.

I'll post up a video when I have one.

[robbace]

Cool! Good luck. It'll be neat to see that mixture. Also for a good time try pumping in some oxygen too (accelerates combustion!) If you have any questions hit me up.

[fangus503]

Holy shit that's freakin' awesome!

[robbace]

thanks!

[Paddymcwhoop]

cool!

[ognimod22]

u dont even need the water filter it works lol get it i kno lame joke but still i ve done it before

[robbace]

HAHAHAHAHA...Nice. During the chemical reaction the hydrogen chloride breaks down to chlorine gas and hydrogen. Chloride gas is very heavy, and water soluble while the hydrogen with just bubble to the balloon. While it will float with out the water filter, it floats MUCH better with it. Toward the end of the video did you notice how fast it took off. There wasn't really any wind and the fucker just bolted! If I'm wrong PLEASE share!

[hotfiya321]

Ding Ding Ding your right any ways pleas emake a viedo showing the steps and how 2 make that "hydrogen bong

[robbace]

yeah i've been meaning to. Thanks for the response.

[ognimod22]

well yea it works better if u use the filter u just dont NEED it

its really cool if u make a worx bomb in a 2 liter bottle but dont put enough for it to explode and then tose it into a fire

it go boom^^ yay

[robbace]

I'll try that this summer. Thanks :)

[Kaboom147]

Yea i put a napalm charge on mine so when it got big i just lit the fuse and BOOM lol

[robbace]

Napalm is fun :)If you make it with the "Earth friendly " Packing peanuts instead of styrofoam it gets SOOO much bigger when you try to put it out with water.

[Kaboom147]

Wait what it gets bigger with water?

[robbace]

Yeah. Years back (like 12-14 years ago) we made some. We tried to put it out so we tossed it in a creek. When we did that WOOOSH...Big fire Ball floating down the creek. It eventually burned it's self out.

[Kaboom147]

Wow that sounds fun =P

[hotfiya321]

woh cool how'd u make tht

[krazysurfer4]

how did the pressure not leak out were you cut a whole in the side of the 2nd bottle

[robbace]

hot glue :) But for something better a rubber gromet would work best.

[fuzzysoldier]

you can use iron nails and hydrochloric acid to do the same but more violently

[plainb321]

heh dog

[hatesquests]

there it goes..............

FUCKING A

[robbace]

indeed....it was a proud moment.

[humantestdummy]

very cool, nice job

[elie5252]

you guys do kno that if that touches any flame or heat source, it will explode

[robbace]

yup. Why else would I be doing this?

[elie5252]

lol

[johnnecron]

ifs are for lovers and chldren.

[rovrrs]

"huh dog" were you stoned when you made this? If so, nice job.

[robbace]

haha...no not stoned. Drunk....yes.

[squirrelgecko]

you should really post a video on how to build this

[robbace]

Yeah. I've been kicking it around. I probaly will. Thanks for the recommendation.

[squirrelgecko]

you should attach a fuse to a couple of them and let them go...weeeeeeeeeeeee......FOOOM­!

[robbace]

I was going to record that, but I wanted to leave that to you guys to do...The balloons "popping" on video don't really do it justice. *Although yesterday I made a balloon and "exposed" it to a Flaming spray of WD-40. Very cool. I might record that again in the future.

[ddoggw]

What kind of water filter is used. what kind of container is that? where did it come from?

[ddoggw]

I've done a million of these but can't get the balloon to float, that's why I'm asking...Thanks man!

[robbace]

If you have any more question I didn't hit on in the email write me back. Thanks.

[k1ngh4rry]

maybe u didnt fill it enough? or u got some of the liquid inside the balloon?

[robbace]

That happened in my other video. It had Chlorine Gas in it, and some of the liquid bubbled up in the balloon

[g36cbrian]

Yeah thanks for the tip, I made my own today outa a beer bottle, 2 liter soda bottle, and some hosing i found in my woods. Plus lots of ducttape. does the balloon get hot too or does the water cool the gas down? When I do mine, ill tie em down or tape a weight to them. If all goes well I'll have a vid up early next week.

[robbace]

GREAT MAN! I also found Hot glue works great! the balloon stays cool but the chemical reaction between the works and the aluminum foil gets the glass bottle real hot. When starting out use only a little bit of "Works" (incase you haven't seen my other video :) )

[Xaxton]

What kind of water filter do you need?

[robbace]

just run the gas through water. the water traps the chlorides (the "works" is hydrogen chloride, when introduced with aluminum it breaks it down to chlorides, and hydrogen) chlorides are very water soluble. And the hydrogen bubbles to the top.

[Xaxton]

Thanks.

[xXALTAIRXx]

dude, that was awesome *takes notes* but you do know you essentially made a bomb. lol

[robbace]

What??? A "Bomb"?!!! ;)

[xXALTAIRXx]

*think a mini hindenburg or whatever the fuck its called =O*

[echonmxco]

wtf you filled up just to let it go , you were suppoed to light on fire thats whats fun not doing all that work just so it can fly of to nowhere.

[robbace]

I didn't mean to. It was soo light it flew out of my hands. I've made others and they "POP" real nice.

[alexbaranyai]

excuse me but could anyone please please tell me an other type of chemical because i'm from canada and we sadly dont have "the works" i would very much appreciate it if somone would provide me with another chmical exact name and would it have the same power? please reply! help me?

[robbace]

Hydrochloric Acid and water makes Hydrogen Chloride. Look in wikipedia for more info. Also other toilet bowl cleaners have Hydrogen Chloride, Just look for the active ingredient. I think lysol makes a cleaner with it in it.

[g36cbrian]

Yeah I work at a grocery store and I'm pretty sure lysol has hydrogen chloride too.

Good job on this btw, I saw it done with no explanation, so I tried doing it. I didnt know you had to run the gas through water to part the hydrogen. duhh... thanks for the help =)

[robbace]

Thanks...hope it works out for you. I had to watch a lot of videos on the subject to come up with this contraption. I don't think I've said this yet... the glass bottle gets VERY hot so if you keep it in a bucket with water it helps keep it cooler allowing you to keep on using it for multiple Balloons.

[robbace]

Yeah the "Works" is hard to find. I found it at a Dollar tree for $1 a bottle. There are other brands out there that will works. The key ingredient is "HYDROGEN CHLORIDE".  Youll find it in toilet bowl cleaners. As far as the string thing I got some ideas... :)

[flagtube]

Cool. We don't have "The Works" here... maybe there is a equivalent?! -- Try to take a string bind it on the balloon and ignite the string and release it. It will then ignite the balloon in the "hight".

[eclipse0982]

I think by the time the hydrogen leaks through the rubber enough to start descending, it would be more than 1/2 flat anyways before it hit the ground and would then finish deflating on the ground unless it happened to land on my bonfire. hehe or land on someone's cigarette stickin out the car window driving down the highway. :D

[robbace]

Yeah I wasnt too worried about it. Although I'm glad it wasn't lit....It seemed like it floated over all of my neighbors homes first before it took off out of sight. Nothing says "Hi-d-ho Neighbor!" Like a flaming hydrogen balloon blowing up over your patio and raining down hot latex!

[Drpepper687]

1)I see you did that in your garage, secondly with the dog walking around almost knocking shit over lol.

and 2)You just let a balloon full of hydrogen float away like a terrorist bomb! WTF? lol. You should have tied it somewhere and blew it up. How do you do this whole hydrogen thing btw?

[robbace]

haha yeah my garage is full of "Fun" crap (an the dog is always getting into it). Right now I have a 6ft table loaded to the gills with fireworks ready to go.

I didn't mean to let the ballon go...I was so excited it worked as good as it did I let it slip out of my hands so I just went with it.

Umm the whole hydrogen thing...try looking up "hydrogen balloons" or "works bomb" here on youtube. someone else can proberly discribe it better.