Aluminium Foil and copper

[TurboLoveTrain]

And now you all have lung cancer.



[aSnakeWithGunz]

@TurboLoveTrain My penis is mutated.

[GingleGangle1]

Hydrogen?? I thought it was HCl.

[Frresh123]

@GingleGangle1: the Hydrogen is liberated from the reaction of hcl and al.

[genji223]

cool flame

[antiswattt2]

ive been thinking of this... a friend of mine told me that if i put aluminium foil in a can and heat ALOT with just a small hole for air, the al foil will lose its layer.. but if.. i take hcl or lye on al foil, it destroys this layer.. so before it eats all the pure aluminium.. cant i just add water to make it stop eating the aluminium and then powder to get some aluminium powder? (:

[adriiPortillo]

even alluminium powder haves an oxide layer.

[kdm98]

This would produce a controlled amount of Hydrogen gas because some of the Hydrogen will react with the copper in solution. I assume this is the reason for putting the copper in. You would have difficulty making the glass shatter because you getting a slow generation of the gas. Hydrogen is very light and escapes any open container very rapidly. I've made hydrogen candles from Zn/HCl mixtures and they'll burn for a long time.

[marmaladekamikaze]

IT is probably similar to the Sodium hydroxide(lye) and Alu foil demonstration that produces hydrogen.

[endimion17]

I don't think this is hydrogen exiting. It is absolutely forbidden to ignite it in this matter. It has to be tested for detonation. If the hydrogen was exiting the vessel and you would ignite it few seconds after it began liberating, detonation of hydrogen-air mixture would occur, and the vessel would shatter. Something is weird here.

[PETN]

Equations are rather complex. I think that it was hydrogen with water vapour in it that contained copper ions, which gave the green-blue colour, the reaction was very intense becouse of high concentration of copper chloride.

[panzuman]

@PETN exactly correct

[Charlie4778]

Can you please write the chemical equation for that reaction? im interested to see what gas was put off {are you sure it wasn't aluminium and hydrochloric acid with copper sulfate as a catalist?}