Homemade rocket fuel--too successful!

[MrkBO8]

ha ha - Do you know how to pick a good chemist? He/she is the one with two eyes and ten fingers

[adindrecaj]

So many smart people >.> i wish i had science smarts xD

[mrn123able]

wath mades violet its potassio the rest i dont know it

[syndetic]

Holy exothermic reactions, Batman.  Interesting how some compounds and elements react with each other so violently. It's definitely got the C-O-N-S thing going on there (thanks, Doc) with the last 2 ingredients. I wonder how much the potassium chlorate added.

[DXD181]

zinc sulfur and water

[zillionz]

Glad you rethought? You're dead lucky you rethought... it would have blasted the skin off your face instantly and melted those polypropylene safety glasses onto your eyeballs... nice reaction though.

[greatkeyboardwarrior]

and where do i get this bong and beep and beerr

[50asian50white]

I call that a success.

[mindofganza]

My guess, potassium chloride, water, sulfuric.

[pyrokid27015]

thumbs up if he looks like adam baldwin!

[ExpertOfSound]

IT WORKED!

[DGenerationX256]

i wana make an rpg wit this

[TheTinxE]

I want to know what boing and bing were? I want to make a homemade rocket. :[

[alexhydea]

i want some!!!!!!!!!!

[Buggygovroom]

Home Depot does not sell boooiiing, beep, nor concentrated booo.

[smokescreenninjato]

@Buggygovroom actualy it does sell conc. sulfuric and walmart sells icing sugar

[WeaponSamurai]

I did that same thing with gunpowder, we did it in a small room, we were meant to run out but my friend shut the door on me. All he heard was WOOOOOSH POP and me scream fuck.

[gorgonzolastan]

I am voting dislike because of the boom and the bink and the boo. Why the devil would you make a video like this and censor the chemical names?

[THERICHYGREEN]

personally i like to use potassium nitrate and maple syrup...but you know to own man his own

[akbdani]

szerintem kálium és valami sav esetleg valami erös oxidáloszer

[AHGlasher]

And what did we learn today, class? 8c)

[TheBerkeleyGang]

Keep up the good work! My HS Chemistry teacher taught the entire class from the point of view of a pyrotechnician. It really kept the interest level up, and his classes were consistently higher in test scores than other Chem teachers. I served as his teaching aid my senior year, and led to a summer job as a chemist at a vegetable oil refinery - where no pyrotechnics were ever performed. :-)

[JPHOT100]

wow



[lovegunz1]

sodium chlorate, sugar,sulfuric acid

[NickyBotz54]

can also use zinc, soidum chloride and ammonium nitrate?

[348frank348]

if u woulda stayed there this video wouldnt ve been alowed in utube

[cornercat]

cool glasses.

[illumined1]

what are you a teacher of? honestly, is it that hard to determine the yield? is it that hard to wear half-decent safety equipment? be careful with this it might draw unwanted attention to you for being a dumbass if your job depends on THIS. wow. i really hope it was a fluke, otherwise, thumbs down for bad science.

[2Lazy2ThinkOfSomthin]

Potassium chlorate and common sugar (sucrose). And not cartloads with anything- especially not sulfuric acid, the H2SO4 reacts with the KClO3 to form chloric acid that oxidizes the sucrose and initiates combustion with the KClO3.

[joeu5431]

well.....if i put this in my car.....i wonder how fast i could go without diing...

[DJRoach520]

say small batch 50g KNO3/ sugar 25g... that's what ive been using for my current rocket tests before i move to something more potentially menacing

[BrainDamageEclips]

LOL Nice!!

[xbombastikx]

holy shit



[MrWolsdorfer]

what the hell?

[Nani101]

That was... beautiful :D

[dodoslovensko]

badabim badabumm

[khowells09]

I used Grow More Stump Remover mixed in with Jello and sugar using Flash (morning glory) powder, and a fuse to ignite it. try it sometime. its awesome. ( make sure to use a long fuse.

[ChemManTCAP]

Ah Yes potassium Chlorate and sugar plus sulfuric acid as a catalyst. Pretty fun when you don't put it in a glass bottle!

[wonderingmind42]

@ChemManTCAP Oh, come one...Even better in the glass bottle! I still crack up every single time I see that last piece of glass pop off, like an afterthought!

[MrChiltan]

@wonderingmind42 what have you usd in the prep of this fel?

[TheMilehigh15]

@wonderingmind42 it's come on not come one dumb ass

[pro100dim]

@ChemManTCAP

это скорее всего NH4NO3 + Zn

[jamesscott86]

What is the correct ration of booing and bing to be mixed?

[rasurec]

From one science teacher to another- I love the nervous/relieved science teacher laugh at the end. :)

[Gregorybot]

pure anus exstract burns slow and is very strong it works best with cat liter and other mixtures

[ednuttah]

If I guessed correctly would you inform me I was right anyway? I think I know them.

[Raafi1234]

silly rabbit. tricks are for kids...

[gorgonzolastan]

what's the point of the video with the ingredients bleeped out?

[babajan97]

looks like you could've burned ur hand if u didn't have gloves at 0:18

[ducttaperulestheworl]

isn't sodium burn yellow?

[HakimRepTheLay]

you should do this again but put it in a mettle cup and strap it on a G.I. Joe

[nicksynnz]

How does hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide sound. Great hypergolic reaction.

[kobasica]

why would you use glass? thats the most stupid thing ive ever seen

[TokenTombstone]

I'm going to sit in front of mine, what at wuss! I should have it uploaded soon.

[ferguspork]

That is why they don't let you have access to the fun stuff until at least second year or your next trip to the grocery store. It never hurts to try demos with the word rocket in the title in Pyrex beakers or better yet a tin can. : )

[adriiPortillo]

this one is easy: potassium chlorate, sugar, and the drops where of concentrated sulfuric mixture.

[urpwnned]

love the sounds that blur out the chemicals

[vanhalenrocksssss]

potassium chlorate and sulfur, concentrated sulfuric acid

[zapo147]

@vanhalenrocksssss Ah, that sounds right, especially because of the rigor I think it may have been sulfur.

[jouri7373]

fuel kclo3/sugar?

ignition glycerin?

[EAsY504Yo]

MINI-FIRECRACKERS !!!BEAST. JK. BUT IT DOZE LOOK LIK THAT

EXTRA: Try writing 07734 on a calcalater hold it upside down,and ee what it says!! P.S. You cant touch your elbow wth your tounge

[AlexsDamnFilms]

@EAsY504Yo Win.

[tubeyou9878]

why did you decide to moce at the last minute? 

[hiohokaybye]

"Trust me, I'm a Physics Teacher"

[dumbzebra]

So that´s what scientist do all day and why we should go to university...interesting.

[Mardec87]

Why didn't you use a fuse...

This was chlorate/fuel mix and H2SO4 I think.. Stick with KNO3 if you don't know what you are doing.

And an explosive mix in a glass container? That is just plain retarded!

[EclipseFreak]

hehehe, thats a nice one.

[Barnekkid]

Wow, that was great! Was that perchlorate/sugar with H2SO4 catalyst?

[galiant609]

you put too much boing

needs more bing

oooo is just right

[apodo7]

maybe a bit heavy on the boing

[Bozeman42]

Could be. Can't really reduce the amount of woooooOOOOOOOOH.

[CarbonTuon]

Bravo!

[corncornrocks]

you need to add more BIIING the OOOOOOOO

[2EZEE]

few hundred more kilos of it and we will see you in orbit!! LOL

[fufuberry23]

wow that was crazy

[krankenshaft]

You broke your jar.

[sniped101]

man.. so whats the point of watching this when he doesn't tell us how to make it...

[putangina101010]

idiot

[bkearney004]

So we don't ready storie in the paper of morons blowing their faces off.

[sniped101]

@bkearney004 give people the option to do what they want to do.

Its just like telling a guy he can fly and showing a person thats flying but you don't tell the person how to fly.

[theendofit]

you used a clip of this in your

Patching Holes #3: The Manpollo Project (With Explosions) video

[jakaddams]

please check out my vids! i'll love you for ever!

[1apu0]

dont mix booing and beep with a drop of booo!

[IiILightRIiI]

rofl

[abomb757]

@1apu0 thankks for telling me i was just about too :)

[henley34]

Let me get this strait, you want to teach people how to make a fuel, that is so explosive it can evaporate half of Rosy O' Donald in like a millisecond?

[galiant609]

Haha! I love the tshirt

[ChangeWasALie]

ammonium perchlorate (oxidizer, 69.6% by weight), aluminum (fuel, 16%), iron oxide (catalyst, 0.4%)

[gullette777]

DON'T DO THAT!!!!!!!.... you're going to cause global warming...

[myrdale]

He definately says "nitrate" at the end of one of his boings or ooos.

It is either potassium nitrate and sugar, or it would be more interesting if it was ammonium nitrate and something else.

Potassium nitrate just doesnt react this explosively, so i really dont know.

[Snowflake70]

Read Saluter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut as soon as you can. It tells of the trafalmadorians who destroyed the universe doing such experiments.

[Treknologist]

What was oxidized here?

[RyuDarragh]

If you knew, you'd know not to mess with it. Sources now must report purchases to Homeland Security.

[mooseythejuiceman]

The bleeps were the funniest thing I heard all day! Thanks for the laugh..

[Redshift21]

To much boing, not enough bing but you were ok with the OOOOO

[Lordgeek4]

WITCHCRAFT!!!, or is it Chemistry.... hmmmmmm.

[bamboo4tameshigiri]

Let me guess. Chlorate, sucrose and sulfuric acid?

[LadyKibethNehema]

I'm in technical ceramics when we mix chemicals our goal is to keep the Boing, eeee, and ooooo, from exploding... especially considering our goal is to see what it looks like after it comes out of a 2000 + degree F oven

[Tgclove]

hmm, mixing ligquid hydrogen whit liquid oxygen?

[MrBizak]

Are you truing to tell us that you burned stuff in a glass container that is not graded for this kind of thing and that is why students in the front row now have glass shards in their faces? =)

[wonderingmind42]

Yeah, good catch. The glass was indeed not tempered, but there were no students in the room (see the updated video description). This was my afternoon to try demos I'd read about, but never gotten around to because of the time and hassle involved in arranging an acceptable level of safety.

[kriptonis]

ROTFLOL :D

[travestyalpha]

Beautiful. I've gotta get me some of that Boing , eeeee, ooooo, next time I do a lab presentation. Nah, I just do physics, missed out on the chem.

[TaiTheFox]

Science!

[quixgofar]

KEWL!!!

[WeskJago]

inspired to look it up. thanks for bleeping :P

[NoConzept]

K, Rb or Cs with H2O?

[zapo147]

@NoConzept Looks like potassium nitrate or mayybe chlorate mixed with some reducing agent, could just be sugar, catalyzed by a drop of sulfuric acid of course!

[spazfox]

A little bit of blur, mixed with a little bit of mosaic, and catalyzed with a drop of censor bar.

[whteveridk]

Potassium, Sugar, concentrated HCL

[whteveridk]

KnightBiologist was close, i think. I also think it's Sugar and a Potassium compound(chlorate, perchlorate, or maybe nitrate), but the third thing is concentrated acid. By the speed with which he said it I would guess HCL(because sulfuric acid takes longer to say), but otherwise it would probably be sulfuric acid.

[whteveridk]

BTW I'm not a student of this teacher, just happened to see this video and thought it was funny.

[loloioi]

LOL! nice. :D what chemical makes a white light......

[KnightBiologist]

Can't be Francium, there's only about 20 to 30g of that on earth's entire surface.

I'd venture "Boing" is potassium chlorate, "Beeee" is sugar, and "booo", um water? to get it going...

Do I win a prize?

[brace110]

This would be Francium and water?

[duhitsjuliet]

yay chemistry!

[dalejr88]

That just might work...

[DXR13KE]

BOING, BEEEEEEEE and a drop of concentrated BOOO...

Now i can make my own rocket....

[NwZ2]

ROFL Greg; you gotta be more careful ya know. :P

[curiositygun93]

i want that shirt so badly

[CommentorX]

Lesson learned: Never mix boiiiing with piiiing and a drop of ooooooo.

First amendment? What first amendment?

[TheEPICtrainrider]

EPIC WIN.

[village1diot]

holy shit! that acted like my ex-mother-in-law when I told her I wasn't christian.

[bozzozzmatez]

I would give this 6 stars if I could. I <3 *boom*

[MrViNBerg]

nooo, it is censored! damn you

[bobpeters61]

@MrViNBerg

Of course it's censored. There are laws against posting explosives-making instructions on the internet.

[MrViNBerg]

i know ^^

[MrViNBerg]

@thelleht lold

[bobpeters61]

Where were the science teachers like you when I was in school?

[deelean]

H2O2 ?

[Leavon]

Okay, where do Hmmm, Poinnng and Pinggg fit on the table of elements?

[lycansre]

cool if you hold the fuel upside down it might fly :P

[ThaTyger]

Hmm "poing" and "ping" = lot's of fire :p

[BigSwede7403]

This goes to show, you might take the kid out of the chem classroom, but you can´t take the kid out of a chem teacher. :D

[phlexonance]

"too successful" haha, that's a positive way to look at it ^^

[beachcomber2008]

Less boring than usual. This demo will probably help to create 10K scientists over the next decade. Look after yourself... :)

[rantanen1]

@thelleht

there is nothing more awesome in the world than a full sized rocket launching into the outer space and being powered by coke and mentos.

[project25012]

fthorium and water?:P

[project25012]

fthorium?

[ryanlaing]

but can it play crysis

[michalchik]

Why on earth would you ignite rocket fuel in a glass jar? Chemistry is not a science to do in a sitting position. I know from experience.

I think i know the chems, but i will be vague so the little kids won't know. (they are not easily available anyway). The salt of a halogen oxide combined with a carbohydrate, catalyzed with a strongly dehydrating acid possibly plus a transition metal oxide.

[mongo5888]

I SO want to know what's in that! LOL! Great video!

[NotMLG]

sulfur? uhhh gunpowder?

[BellaOfBacardi]

Comment at the end of the vid 0:35 was a genuine LOL moment,

Thanks for uploading this vid! ;o)

[saken]

Hahaha. Wow.

[hiphopsocnroc]

I don't like guessing! Please tell us the ingredients...:)

[d3adp001]

now that was cool. Nice purple color, but seriously IN GLASS? You know better than to have a highly exothermic reaction in such a brittle temp sensetive material? If not now you do.

Great work teach, keep em jumping

[HashyBee]

You say your students.....You use Youtube vids at school? Man why didn't I have you as a science teacher! :) Not because you use YT so much as you do shit like that. Coolest thing I ever saw was flaming potassium. Pretty dull by comparison I'd say. As for guessing the chems, I can't. Chemistry is not my thing. I have some friends that could thought I bet!

Still they're much better at Organic extractions from cacti than stuff like this ;)

[watermelonpizza]

WOW!!! I want one!

[waketherabble]

Um. Fantastic.

[ptrix]

f**king awesome, but would have been MUCH better if you had worn that pointy hat from your other video.

You know the one :)

[braddudeguy]

Awesome!!