Thermite

[asshatnowhere159]

GLaDOS was a video science instructor back in the day?

[superbungabunga]

unique way to caste iron

[zack0318]

twin towers beware

[TRG177]

I made some at home and burnt a thermite penis into my driveway. Probably a terrible idea, but it was hilarious at the time.

[thebestofall007]

napalm weapon?

[9911MU51C]

@thebestofall007 no, napalm is just gasoline with some thickners, thermite is like a powder and burns a lot hotter than napalm

[avengeRJM]

if this is by nuclearrabbit from &totse, it's a small internets..  :)

[mynameismatt2010]

@gettheredone 3 grams aluminium to 8 grams rust is the general rule but it's supposed to be 2.7 grams aluminum to 8.0 grams rust for the best result and hottest reaction.

[IIGiH]

i did this kind of experiment once, but i used magnesium strip as fuse surrounded by a bit of zinc powder around the mg strip, then lit it up.

i often used pots above a water basin so i have so many broken pots. i even tried to use al cans, reduced to nothing!

[nuclearrabbit]

@gettheredone You're close. Sugar and KClO3 is an incendiary. It generates a great amount of heat, enough so to thermally decompose Fe2O3 and allow the Aluminium to continue the reaction. Sulfuric acid ignites the sugar mixture by way of converting the chlorate to Chloric acid, which is nasty stuff that will happily oxidize anything organic it comes by.

[crafter2u]

whats the mix iron oxcide to aluminum

[Fourteen88SoCal]

quick...someone pick it up!!

[flmustang913]

That Dude had to have burnt his hand at least a little bit!

[BankaiIchigo12345]

Why does that work? Does sulfuric acid reacting with the stuff in their actually generate as much heat as a propane torch or burning magnesium? I hear you need that much heat to light it off.

[BankaiIchigo12345]

What kind of liquid did he drop in to light the thermite?

[lynel1985]

@BankaiIchigo12345 sulphuric acid

[sardanaphalus]

Narrated by Jane Fonda?

[01Bellend]

Can you smoke that shit r what

[mephiles720]

@01Bellend You can try, if you wish to have no face left.

[SpartanM621]

@01Bellend

Yes, please do, It'd be nice to have less of you around here.

[LVKcrew]

This stuff ladies and gentlemen, was responsible for the collapse of the twin towers.

[mcfatass301]

herp derp thermite for fun

[IrregularToaster]

A shower of white Spocks.

[joemama114]

WTF is the CRUCIBLE made of? Why is body armor not created of the same material? Is it very heavy?

[Abent5866]

@joemama114 most likely a ceramic, and heat resistance does not equal combat protection ;p

[joemama114]

@Abent5866 Aw I was afraid of that. I thought because it holds up well to heat it'd be very dense and shatter/bullet resistant too but after any single thought yes it does make sense it's not very helpful, other than to catch some molten Iron which is still very cool, or hot... what ever.

[Abent5866]

@joemama114 you actually aren't that far off, while basic chemistry crucible ceramics make for poor body armor, there are some examples of ceramic plating in modern day combat armor. It provides an impact resistant hard surface to be combined with some form of soft cushioning material for a backing. makes for a very light composite armor

[xThelastmanstandinx]

this is a dumb question but i really wanna know... does it only leave the iron pellets because they put that potassium chloride and sugar on top? Or does it leave iron pellets by just burning thermite period?

[dendog21]

@xThelastmanstandinx the pellets are left because of the iron oxide in the thermite. the intense heat produced melts the tiny iron particles causing them to pool together at the bottom of the crucible. the potassium chloride and sugar is the igniter as it takes a great amount of heat to ignite thermite. you can also use magnesium strips. The acid that is dropped in starts the reaction in the potassium chloride and sugar causing them to catch fire which in turn ignites the thermite

[mastermusicianxv]

that is a simple formula holy nut hugging tights batman !!! i can make it at home

[Agentoxedo07]

Holy-Terrorist:>*=* The ceramic is good for not destroy himself the metal in fusion for making stuff!

[quangluu96]

im often mistake of termites ^^ lol

[DarkSeraph351]

It's an extremely exothermic aluminum oxidation reaction. All that was left was the iron.

[warspitejr]

PENIS!

[Agentoxedo07]

@warspitejr Holy-Terrorist:>*_* Laule xD

[s10on31s]

thank you for the chemical formula

[blindga]

Red=Hot

[Pashazgv]

it became red hot? like the chilli peppers?

[denelson83]

Nice way to de-rust iron.

[HerrCaZini]

where does the al2o3 go to? is it mixed into the iron ball?

[SnowDemonAkuma]

@HerrCaZini It evaporates. Thermite is seriously hot enough to boil aluminium.

[tjinga2u1]

intresting the aluminum just burns whiel it makes the iron oxided into iron ore and actualy from what i can see thats preety good quality and no that cant be aluminum because you stuck it to the magnet xD hmm maby a little coal added will make steel =D

[PaulJahueProductions]

I'LL GIVE YOU A SHOWER OF WHITE SPARKS IN YOUR MOUTH

[c0ll3gehum0r]

i made a knife with this :|

[paintpunk4ever]

his hand totally got destroyed hahahaha

[SPUNKKK]

Where did the sugar go?

[TheSirMagus]

@SPUNKKK They made cookies.

[petercriss45]

well, when you do it in a crucible it isn't as exciting cuz it doesn't go through anything.

[LabRat6619]

Science is brilliant!!

[runepro999]

AL QAIDA!! terriosts bombs!!! aahhh!!!!

[flamedrag18]

so is the iron produced pure?

[timonix2]

@flamedrag18 it's really pure if you don't count all the aluminum oxide that's left. the oxygen leaves the iron and goes to the aluminum so the iron itself is really pure if you clean the rest of it away

[QQBistro]

how much is needed to melt through most metals?

[flamedrag18]

you get a lot more out of thermite if you enclose it to a certain spot then quantity, use a clay pot with a small hole in the bottom to channel the molten iron onto a small spot on the targeted metal, I'd say a small planting pot full could easily burn into or through a car engine block for an example, through the hood like a katana through butter(felt like being funny)

[kissmewhereyoucan76]

The guy who added the sulfur acid had warm hands for the rest of the day

[Izol0]

Yeah, if he kept his hand there any longer and that could have turned out bad.

[job1181]

Damn I never thought about setting off thermite like this, I've always used a Mg ribbion. Thanks for posting the video.

[Merlin5x5]

What Truthers need to admit, is that secret US Ninjas, pushing thousands of pallets with 10 to 100 tons of super duper thermite, violates the Conservation of Stupidity law, an important concept in internet physics. Luckily, they create more stupidity, every day.

[Ogaitnas900]

That drop thing is gone

[iiyama988]

How could they make one of my favorite chemical reactions and make it boring. Show thermite melting metal, silly chemistry program makers

[NicenEasyuk]

And if you think the u.s couldn't demolish the wtc in the hour window that they had, you're and idiot.

[Jman999000]

omg i can freaking do this at home if i wanted to, all of these powdered chemicals can be made at home or bought at home depot

[rcbizzle90]

dumbass not wearing gloves, damn near burned his hand off

[lk0056]

@rcbizzle90 should done that......

[nickrohn93]

@rcbizzle90 I didn't realise gloves had such a high melting point....

[bbsonjohn]

@rcbizzle90 he has a fist of iron

[1garymichael]

thermite is hot

[woolfinator]

Wellt it is proven now than Thermite was used on 9/11

I would not have believed it untill i saw it. Look for 'blueprint for truth' at videogoogle.

Thats just sick.

[roboawsome]

your a moron for believing that

[woolfinator]

Well - I would have nothing against your opinion if you had seen Blueprint for truth... But I guess you haven't and so just keep on crying...

[the14thanarchist]

Blueprint for Truth are a bunch of conspiricy nuts. Of course there was melted steel at ground zero, that's a product of the extreme fires and the intense friction of the collapse. But just because it was melted is no evidense of thermite. If you want a documentary to tell you the truth, watch the NOVA special "Why the Towers Fell" and that will show you all you need to know.

[NicenEasyuk]

How do you know that thermite wasn't used on purpose for the greater good? It doesn't take a genius to realise. hmmm! Giant building with a plane in it... it's going to fall down, possibly... Sideways? Taking out lots of other buildings at the same time. Lets not scare the public! Lets demolish it before it's a bigger danger than it already is. N the reason they havn't admitted it, is because they don't want to admit they lied. Anything is possible my friend.

[woolfinator]

..man i had to wipe tears from my eyes. This is the most hillarious excuse i've ever heared. For a greater good - this means the thermite was planted in the wtc from the beginning to blow it just in case? Sounds clear and save to me.. A plane or fire never caused/causes a building to collapse after over 2 days of burning and the wtc was especially designed to resist such an impact - so why were they so afraid and blew it for a greater good? Look at over 5000 dead American soldiers and you know

[NicenEasyuk]

No you plonker! I wasn't deadly serious either, i was just stating anything is possible. I was saying, terrorists crashed a plane into a building, so the elite decided the safest way to defuse the situation was to do a controlled demolition. It's clear it was demolished, but how do u know it wasn't to save half of new york. It would have been dominoes had they not demolished it. One skyscraper into another. Are you thick?

[woolfinator]

The Question is: How could they have planted such enormous amounts of Thermite after the impact in such short time (Impact-Collapse: ~1:40h)? The whole building had to be prepared in order to make such an implosion possible. No this was planned and done months before - and not just for the case if. I still count on the american humanity to put fires out in order to save 2500 people rather than believing in saving 2500 by blowing the other 2500 lives into dust. This wasn't a temporary decision.

[NicenEasyuk]

I know for a fact, if the wtc fell sideways, over 5000 people would have died. The u.s would have looked even more stupid and a major chunk of new york would be ruined.

[woolfinator]

Well I like the way you care about all people in general (and that is not meant sarcastic). It has to be said that not only the US fights down there. As the UK, Germany and others have also lost soldiers in support of the American troops - and if one would consinder, that about one million people lost their lives as a consequence of this war - the cause seems odd.

[gosciu555]

haha, okay buddy that would be nice if it was true but there is no "al qaida" in afghanistan, only warlords and the interest of other countries.

[NicenEasyuk]

So how come every briefing before operations includes the words "al qaida" referring to the enemy. Wether they refer to them selves as that or not is irrelevant, that's our name for them. It makes killing them alot easier, if everyone called them 'the farmers'... Well, you know where I'm going with this.

[puppystomper324]

ur fucking stupid we call them al qaida

[gosciu555]

yeah well I can call you "al qaida" that doesn't make you al qaida does it smartass?

[puppystomper324]

that dosent make sense if u call me al qaida then i wouldnt be al qaida how was that supposed to offend me

[Gapa544]

xD....Żal

[gosciu555]

jaki zal to ty gadasz?

[foad1337]

and u base that on?

[BigBananaMan]

Been to earth lately?

[CrimzonReaper08]

Wrong, love. It -WAS- supposed to be, but it failed because the WTC was built for a massive ball, weakening it's structural integrity.

[ePiDeMiCSiLeNcE]

Black iron oxide can be obtained by burning steel wool i do suppose. but then you can crush it with a ball mill. the finer the powder, the easier it willl be to ignite it.

[ePiDeMiCSiLeNcE]

Did you know you can also do this with black iron powder/ blue iron powder (Fe2 O4) instead of red iron powder (rust)

[nirvanafan833]

yeah using Fe3O4 makes a lot more energy

[elliotmotocross]

Fe3O4 you mean

[antiswattt]

i was like BURN RANDOM DUDE!! BUURN when we startet the thermite :D haha

[Spytyc]

I like it!!!!

[starshock01]

add potassium nitrate to that crucible :D

[angryuspiratus]

his hand was a little close for comfort then, health and safety anyone?

[FerrilEwok]

lol im currently collecting enough iron oxide to make a small sized batch of thermite but i need a relyable way to detonate it.. would placing it on or over burning napalm start the reaction? or do i require the mageseum ribon for a definate..

[nulladiessine]

man check for the Glycerol oxidation by permanganat potassium it can start the reaction .Happy time be aware

[FerrilEwok]

saddly the aluminum powder i recieved from my "friend" wasnt aluminum powder, it was crushed up sparkelers and it failed horribly, im gonna kill him XD

[LETYRONE]

iron oxide thermite wont detonate.

[TheUnforgivn17]

lol we can see here at the bottom white hot iron. Last time i watched this vid it looks red not white hot

[Xxero0]

that would be an awesome flashlight.

[gnamp]

a magnet picks it up? it MUST be iron...

[Krisspychiken]

its pure iron.. the bomb is actually made of rust and aluminium

[nerdinus]

YAY THERMITE

[FortaDemocrata]

can someone make a video how to make sodium metal?

[hoROBod]

lol i like your thinking

[Bellithe]

mix aluminum and sodium oxide XD

of course the sodium is in vapor form...

[nirvanafan833]

is it? try potassium oxide, peroxide, or superoxide then. if you can get them lol.

[Bellithe]

ouch much? lol

[somervillefire]

why stop there? keep going down the first group on the table of elements. make potassium, rubidium, cesium, francium. they are a shitload more reactive than sodium. sodium just has the best reputation for being super-reactive.

[Belmakar]

eroded steel beams?? you mean the ones clearly cut with a cutting torch?

steel loses strength almost exponentially when heated. Take a piece of steel and slowly heat it, just before it glows, and long before it melts, it is about as strong as a firm but very wet noodle.

and 'high quality steel' often has a LOWER fail temperature and a lower melting point then say.. low quality iron... carbon and other elements lower the melting point.

[somervillefire]

exactly. and the beams that look cut, were cut. it was the FDNY and ironworkers using oxy-acytlene torches for rescue and salvage jobs. all those photos people see were taken during the rescue process, while workers were cutting metal.

[madpaintbalerx]

Thermite is the perfect answer to annoying neighbors!

[forcedsignupFuckTube]

...this is pretty much what id expect... i mean, it still produces an insane amount of heat...

[xxseanyboyxx]

This looks like what could have eaten through the steel columns in both World Trade Centre buildings on 911. Something had to eath through them. Jet fuel alone is an impossibility.

[Vares65]

Nothing "ate" through them. The simply got too hot. When steel gets hot, it gets soft. It didn't need to be "eaten", it just got so hot it couldn't support the load anymore, and bent.

[stochastikos]

wow your ignorant. the guy in charge of the quality inspection of the steel ibeams used in the twin towers said it was completely impossible for the metal to react that way. he was shortly fired for coming out publicly and saying that. and of course the most damning evidence is that the 3rd trade building not even hit by an airplane collapsed perfectly as well due to some debris hitting it. the owner of the buildings made billions off of the insurance policies specifically covering terrorism.

[Vares65]

If he actually said "it's completely impossible for metal to react that way" (which I doubt) then they were right to fire him, as he was totally incompetent.

[xxseanyboyxx]

so why were there perfectly straight lines cut through the collumns? Didnt look like "bending" to me!

[spreadnthelight]

The FEMA report show pictures of "eroded steel beams" they looked like they were melted with a blow torch. Jet fuel did not do that.

[Vares65]

And you know that because??

[1337hax0rnat0r]

pictures... I beams in all the pictures are cut diagonaly at a 45 degree angle, at the base of the building. Jet fuel can somehow burn through the whole building and make a perfect cut like that?

[awol09]

i agree with vares65

are you a professional steel worker with experience in building demolition? and you are trusting FEMA????

it took FEMA like 3 days to get water to the superdome in new orleans!! now you want to take their opinion on something as complicated as this??

and where can i find this report from FEMA??

[1337hax0rnat0r]

jet fuel can't burn to the temperature that could melt a building with high quality steel

[Vares65]

It doesn't have to melt. As metal gets hot, it's tensile strength diminishes. In other words, it gets soft. Soft metal can't support as much weight. See where this is going?

[peterene]

heating steel is a big problem

[BismAllah99]

there was a building in span steel construction burned for 2 days the steel didn't waver or give way at all

[c0kement0s]

Nice

[DigiEvolve]

Very cool

[Periodicity]

its very intresting looking at the difference in enthalpies when using different oxides with different oxidation states.

For example, ΔH = for Iron(II) Oxide is -851.5 kJ/mol

Compared with Iron (III) Oxide at -3347.6 kJ/mol, much more energy is released per mole of substance.

It is so interesting how oxidation states affect the thermodynamic affinity differs from Fe(II) and Fe(III) from the oxophilitic Fe3+ cations.

[vmelkon]

My teacher did this and picked the iron with a magnet while it was glowing red.

[vare2]

That is quite awesome actually

[camharris133]

what site did you get this from?

[Periodicity]

Very well presented video