Super Glue + Cotton Wool = Spontaneous Combustion!

[zhmapper]

Dang, that's like $20 in superglue.

[tronclay]

you should place a warning on this video, getting the cotton fibers and superglue on your fingers at the same time will cause an instant chemical burn that will not only burn through layers of skin but will STICK there and continue to burn and eventually it will tear off along with a big piece of your thumb

[AndroidDevil]

@tronclay (face palm) It won't react too much so it won't happen, unless you lost one of your senses that you couldn't feel the burning.

[tronclay]

@AndroidDevil Obviously you arent speaking from experience, I am. The only reason i found the video is from searching to see if anyone else burned themselves like i did. The second the fibers mix with glue and touch your skin it adheres and starts to burn. Ill post a video response of the dime sized hole in my thumb that goes down to the meat if i get a chance

[REDluckyMAN]

MrMayaFx@ I don't think so

[MrMayaFx]

my fingers has Super Glue in it now

will my fingers get burn :(

[watertownfddotcom]

Yeah what cara said lol

[siciliancara]

That's not spontaneous combustion. The glue is a monomer as it cures the monomers combine to make a polymer in an exothermic. meaning it releases energy. the sugar in cotton is a polysaccharide of glucose a very flammable sugar. Glucose contains both alcohol and oxygen.

[metelmasters]

the super glue is flamibale

[akaCATTYminx]

one time u used crazy glue on pipe cleaners and it started to sizzle and was very hot, i was young and had no idea that i was conducting a possible fire 0.o :D

[KajKaka1]

Now I knew why my foot started to get a burning felling because I acedently droped a litle of superglue on my sock :p

[caltgr49]

its an exothermic reaction. (which means the reaction causes heat) it heats up to the point where the cotton ignites

[copmandog]

I'm going to do this at school!

My teacher smokes do when she goes out to smoke imma put the ball thinngy on her desk and see what happens

[AndroidDevil]

@copmandog Make sure to use lots of superglue and pure cotton wool. LOL!

[rugto]

Nice triggering device for briefcase atomics..

[chike36]

yeah i didnt know he did this...so i had gotten a office chair from work and just need to be glued back up to look decent...but yeah it cuaght fire...but i put it out

[MusicIsLife321xD]

How did i gett here from lil wayne?

[misspatches2012]

did you know that the fumes from heated super glue is commonly used in forensics to get finger prints off of surfaces that can't be dusted easily w/o running the risk of ruining the actual print.

[AndroidDevil]

@misspatches2012 Yeah, I have a video almost ready about that, its about how to get fingerprints off objects with superglue.

[3space]

@misspatches2012 Yes, many of us watch CSI Miami! :)

[misspatches2012]

@3space and some of take courses that give us first hand knowledge working w/ different forensic SOP's and protocols.

[kornconner]

chemica reaction 

[Baldurthegood]

i just used super glue to fix a rip in my shoe and it started smoking! The shoe is made of hemp but I imagine a similar reaction is taking place. Could my foot erupt in flames while I'm walking down the street? or am I safe after a certain point?

[AndroidDevil]

@Baldurthegood LOL, It will only react at the moment you use the glue and it won't burn after its dried so don't worry.

Thanks for watching.

[GerbilEssences]

I had no idea it actually worked, thanks for the real demonstration! :)

[Fraxxxi]

cyanoacrylate is made up of monomers, which, when the glue cures, link up to become polymers.

In cotton wool, which is made of cellulose, a polymer of sugar molecules, there are lots and lots of hydroxy (-OH or alcohol groups), which can start the reaction in the same way as water does, only because there are lots of them, they can start many more reactions at once.

since the reaction is exothermic, the cotton therefore gets hot, heat means faster reactions and it just escalates from there.

[madjimms]

@Fraxxxi Does that mean applying super glue to sugar or ethanol would result in anything?

[LemonZeppelin]

Cool. All the other videos on YouTube featuring super-glue (aka Cyanoacrylate) and cotton don't show proper combustion like this. I guess you're right and you need a lot of super-glue. Nice upload.