Thermite melting a copper tube

[GreenShirtYellowPant]

chuck norris doesnt need thermite to burn a copper tube

[gregod10]

guys isnt thermite just sparkeler stuff?

[steveoo5]

yup, 9/11

[steveoo5]

yup, 9-11

[legomaniac150]

Thermite in small quantitys is really good for picking locks :)

[MrShammalamma]

I did this sort of thing, but I used Magnesium instead of thermite.

[nykytne13]

9/11.

[IMAWESOMEANDUNOIT]

@cokanostrasmoka i bet you get the same response every time too. "did it hurt?" and you probably give the same response every time. maybe with sarcasm. am i right?

[TheLightningStalker]

More like 6000ºF

[guesskoenig]

Wow, you are epic fails at life. Both thermite and the magnesium ribbon required to ignite burn bright enough to cause permanent blindness, seeing as how you know, it's for WELDING.

Down syndrome.

[mike4ty4]

Why do you assume medical causes for not knowing, and furthermore how do you know what he did/didn't wear over his eyes when you can't see them in the video?

[guesskoenig]

For the same reason that I know you are an adhd ridden cockboy, seeing as how I said nothing about what he was wearing over his eyes.

[mike4ty4]

You were saying he was an "epic fail at life" and shortly afterward that it "burned bright enough to cause permanent blindness", seeming to imply to me that you were thinking he was ruining his eyes doing the experiment, and of course, not using the right eye protection.

[Masalmeh321]

Did you make this thermite or buy it? And if you did then how did you make the

Fe2O3 and Al powder?

[ugotknockedthefugout]

damn how hot does that get?

[weeruz]

good mixture can get up to 6000 degrees celcius I've heard

[DjHeavy93]

you should of put your hand in it!!!1

[WhereIsYourGod]

why?

[DjHeavy93]

would of been funny as fuck watching you burn :P nothing personell just thought it would amuse me

[analyzingfunny]

@WhereIsYourGod Hmm, that looks *just* like the spark coming out of The World Trade Center......no wait...911 has PROVEN that all we need is a little bit of kerosene to bring a building down to its footprint, and crumble it to dust. Ahhh. I just love science. Hey lets all get rich and follow that advice. Thanks to 911 we can start a demolition company with only jet fuel!!! Yay I'm rich!

[Geniuskid222]

No the best thermite is Fe2O3 (iron oxide) and aluminium metal powder.

[codydean10]

@Geniuskid222  sorry what i said was completely wrong

[IMAWESOMEANDUNOIT]

@Geniuskid222 i thought that was the only thermite? its the only kind ive ever seen/heard of.

[Ceaillinden]

You're dumb.

[codydean10]

sorry that formula is for exploding targets and its alluminum powder

[Gordonisafreeman]

@codydean10 You know you're an idiot right?

[flashbeat]

cool, that would totally suck to get on your hands lol

[bladezgame]

touch it and see if its warm. lol

[reiuss23]

I would've sold the copper tube o_O

[dragonhead01]

well done with the saftey bricks

[dragonhead01]

burn baby burn

[zuzerey]

thats sweet. some of that molten metal at the end is pure iron as well as the copper. thermite reactions produce iron

[pbian989]

just use a blow torch.

[daewooparts]

copper is expensive to waste ,sell it & use the money for more thermite !

[54spiritedwill54]

hmm, nice you CAN light it with a lighter

[aarrcchhoonntt]

No, you can't. That's a strip of magnesium. Idiot.

[danbison]

wow... hostility!

[Ipwn3dI0]

can you light it with a sparkerler?

[skyseeker901]

yes, but it's much more dangerous than magnesium, because even one spark hitting the thermite will set it off. (sparklers are very hot!)

[Peter7Paul]

Sparklers are horrible to use for fuses. A stray spark can easily set off you payload pre-maturely.

[Ipwn3dI0]

they can? well thats me not using them again.. lol

[o0Dreamlike0o]

A spark from a sparkler will never light thermite..

[bananinhao]

he was lighten up the magnesiun strip not the thermite

[o0Dreamlike0o]

It was a reply to someone saying sparks from sparklers were dangerous.

[Dmajorproductions]

they hurt like hell if thats what you mean

[Pobert12321]

if its a magnesium sparkler then yes it will

[biggreenblob]

yes, that is a common method to start thermite reactions, since sparklers use magnesium, which is what is usually used to light it.

[blazing1hound]

oops srry it just looked at the biggining of the vid that u wer doing it inside lol srry

[blazing1hound]

yeh lol im probly gonna be a blacksmith lol.. and yo kid did u do this inside? well watch out.. cuz real thermite can melt threw alot of stuff

[gevar234]

I use manganese dioxide(IV) I get from betteries

[UberCookieMonster]

no, thermite is powdered aluminum mixed with iron oxide (rust) i believe it is 2 parts of iron oside for every part of aluminum powder, it is very cheap (hardware store) and you can light it with magnesium (strip form)

[ElchinMendes]

wahahaha put ur finger there ^^

[squeakylevi]

where do you get iron oxide??!?!?!?!?!

[thinkstrait]

u make it

[syco1100]

its called rust

[HaydarEngin]

damn man don't play with fire

[HaydarEngin]

damn man don't play with fire

[KholdAxe]

Holy Crap!!!

If u people like burning things, why dont u all make use of your firelighting skills and become blacksmiths? Then you can play with molten metal all day.

[wambs8]

I like to burn things tooo

[importantbybeingloud]

here's a tip-

when you light something with a lighter, the hottest point is the tip of the flame!!! c'mon if your lighting thermite, you should atleast know that!! lol

[armymanrulz]

touch it xD

[xX6jdub9XxaaaA]

haha i wouldve like poked the molten copper or something :D

[Gobobo24]

Twatting fook!

[250lespaul]

how did you get hold of the chemicles to make thermite lol

[AngryMojo]

Hardware store. Rust and aluminum powder.

[vilimaaman]

i bought iron oxide from a hardware store, used for colouring cement. whats aluminium powder used for?

[cuntwaffles]

If you want to get aluminum powder, crumble up a lot of aluminum foil and put it in a high powered blender.

[knsbeachy]

etch a sketch

[C20rules]

That's cool

[ZodiacKilah]

dude if u touch it ur finger will melt with the copper lol

[HARUTnumba1]

hes not lighting with a lighter. hes only lighting the magnesium with a lighter.

[LDJ96]

DAAAAMMMMMMMNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mrboxleytheonly]

hmm, nice you CAN light it with a lighter, I thought you needed a blow torch, hmm, not I have all my pieces for thermite!!.

[KFCisallisee]

I dare you to touch it.

[FiSHareFRiENDSnotFUD]

how do u get ur hands on this?

[N5BQH]

Probably unabomber style(grind a large quantity of aluminum with your favorite filing equipment. Hours of fun for the whole family(use respirator and ventilate well)). Iron(III)oxide is a popular pigment and you should be able to buy large quantities of that without trouble.

[17hmr243]

i found that if u scrunch aluminum foil up put it in 1/4 glass of water and use bar mixer u get nice fine granules pour in coffee filter wait to dry.

[Zaffren]

We used to get it from the band saw shavings where we cut circles out sheet metal. I'm sure you can get it from most machine shops or a ton of other places.

P.S. Please be careful, do your research, and stand far far away.

[12creations]

Hey, does anyone know why I can't find my own video when I search in youtube? it's called "2 lbs of thermite melting copper (green glow)" but when I search for it, I get nothing.

[funnybanana]

just look up Thermite green glow

[12creations]

Yeah, I just had to wait a couple of days. My bad. It's my first video that I have ever posted so I didn't know. But thanks.

[12creations]

Cool, I did the same thing but with copper bb's and it glows bright green! Looks like nuclear waste or something. Check it out on my page under the videos I have posted.

[vaultmantk]

thats freakin awesome! how u do that?

[slither888]

thermite + copper = potential vaporization of copper= potential explosion = bad idea

[WhereIsYourGod]

thanks I'll keep that in mind the next time i do it and it doesn't happen, because it never has

[gisbrei]

Yes that would indicate it never happens...clever guy.

When are we gonna see a vid where this shit burns right through someone's arm or leg?

[potentiallyunsafe]

put in some stronium (spelling?) for a nice red color.

[papafirst]

How about some nickels and a spout to collect the melted metal.

[chemetc]

Very nice, especially for the close up of the molten metal. There should be more stuff like this on YouTube, rather than the average "OMIGOD we made a bomb out of disassembled fireworks" videos made by 12-year-olds.

[Foxtrotx1]

12 year olds give amature chemists a bad name

[sandcrab132]

Not all molten copper. Al + Fe203 -> AlO3 + Fe

Or something like that (i dont feel like balancing it). Anyway the point is thats probably mostly molten iron.

[WhereIsYourGod]

your right but the thermite just melted the crap out of the copper, when it cooled you could defnitly see a lot of copper in it

[Foxtrotx1]

Thats actually Al2O3, but that is molten copper along with the iron. Some thermite mixtures use Cupric Oxide and aluminum producing copper and aluminum oxide.

[sandcrab132]

i see.

[DopeyBovineMan]

@sandcrab132

Al + Fe2O3 -> AlO3 + 2Fe

There we go, I balanced it for you. :)

[WhereIsYourGod]

in case you were wondering, the end of the tube is on fire becuz i plugged it up with a piece of wood