Lighting a charcoal grill with liquid oxygen

[snerl69]

how cold does the oxygen needs to be to get it liquid

[filmorependrgn]

@snerl69 at atmospheric pressure, about -362F, -219C, or 54K depending on which way you like temperature measured. In other words... very very cold.

[snerl69]

@filmorependrgn thanks :)

[TheScientist0000000]

So is the charcoal ready or not...

[gunnz021]

awesome

[MrCcbcc]

Hamburgers any one?

[Don0chi0cho]

wtf are they clapping at?

[DeathDude72]

And this, chillun, is where volcanoes come from ...

[cimplexsounds]

This is the newest form of recycling old unwanted metal! LOL

[Cryptocracyz101]

talk about overkill..

[rbmaserang]

Hog master is talking out of his ass. gasoline is a hydrocarbon, not a carbohydrate. and his choice of words indicate a minimal understanding of exothermic reactions. sounds like an idiot to me.

[geeupson]

@rbmaserang I agree with you, carbohydrates aren't used as fuel due to C=O bonds being present already meaning that they cannot be oxidised in combustion resulting in a loss of efficiency where two C-H bonds could of been broken. Biodiesel is known to contain C=O bonds hence its inefciency compared to diesel/ petrol produced from crude oil.

[hogmaster13]

@rbmaserang I did make a mistake in saying carbohydrate instead of hydrocarbon, but I'm curious about where else you find such error that warrants the title "idiot". I'm no psychologist, but I suspect you are woefully insecure and you're using youtube comments as an outlet for your otherwise impotent rage stemming from an utter lack of control over certain aspects of your own life. Or, you just like over reacting.

[ratbertovich]

@hogmaster13 I guess with this setup you could actually burn anything as fuel. I wonder what the fire department had to say about all this.

[lljkSadi]

Christ thats dangerous/dumb

[amazing763]

@lljkSadi No, no, it's not dangerous or dumb. It's chemical engineering. Dangerous would be if there weren't any fire extinguishers handy. Hmmm. I didn't see any. And dumb would be if he didn't use a ten-foot pole and was thus contending for a Darwin instead of an IgNobel.

This is the kind of thing I used to do. Fortunately for the world, I thought I was really, really good at chemistry, and didn't bother studying it very hard. Wound up majoring in other stuff instead.

[graffin00000]

I wonder if George payed the park for the grill he ruined. Used to work with this guy. He is one of the most unique individuals I have ever met....to say the least.

[Shaddow1966]

@graffin00000 they didn't have to pay for the vaporized grill, because it was a cheapo Weber the students bought elsewhere and brought to the site. And yes I mean vaporized. The fire was hot enough that the little weber was gone reduced to nothing but ash

[WonkaVator72]

This is the first video I ever saw on the internet back in the late 90s.

[kindofmagicmike]

"WOOHOO-FIRE"

[kooxoh]

that shits a volcano LOL

[clamcrabber]

dickheads,

[fredfar12]

poor grill

[DragonFyre400]

Rednecks and their chemicals *Smile*

Ah, inbreeding...

[DsyMkn]

loving the fact its a WOODEN post they use to tip the bucket with (':

[bladedspokes]

Wow, talk about a darwin award waiting to happen. Way to go handle dangerous materials and perform a dangerous experiment without any protective equipment at all.

[gwadd85]

dude he's lighting a grill u pussy, and he knows what he's doing.

[mattferg84]

YES! go Purdue engineering

[howardshonda]

dump ass

[leslihilton]

if the object is to cook, try my way it's quicker than liquid oxygen, less hazardous and you can cook with your charcoal in 60 seconds!

[XTaintedOneX]

GIIIIITTTT ERRRRR DONEEEE

[Amishman35]

Soak the briquettes in liquid oxygen until complete saturation, place an M-1000 firecracker on top (unlit), take an Albion Viking Sword and start the fire by bending the sword 180 degrees so that it snaps like a bomb going off which causes the shard of blade to scrape the pavement which sets off the charcoal briquettes and the firecracker. Throw an overcharged lithium polymer battery on top for more fun.

[medicaldud]

After ya do that, make sure you back awahy, and QUICK, cause it could get bad REQLLY QUICKLY.

It will get BAD, but it may take up to one second, or a half of a second, and don't forget to throw a few car batteries on top.

Of corse, that's gonna decrease the time things get bad from ahalf of a second to the minute the first car battery hits the grill. So, you may not have time to jerk away.

[Stranger1818]

lol in the end it's just a pile of ash

[doceigen]

Yum yum... toasty enough to fry some astronauts!

[chochunkit]

he could get himself barbecued.

[Maiman123]

nice video! xD v

[foolio550]

Fucking badass man

[GeneralKenobiSIYE]

And that is why Liquid Oxygen is used as jet fuel.

[elmiraviking]

Liquid oxygen is used as rocket fuel, not jet fuel, Einstein.

[GeneralKenobiSIYE]

Eat me.

[elmiraviking]

Wow. I'm in awe of your blistering comeback. I mean I don't know what to say.

Moron.

[hogmaster13]

Oxygen is not fuel at all. Oxygen reacts with the fuel as part of the combustion process. Combustion is a redox reaction which means that there is a change in oxidation state of the reactants. The fuel is often some carbohydrate like gasoline or in the case of some rockets (and hopefully someday cars), Hydrogen. In a combustion reaction such as this one, the carbon gets oxidized while the oxygen molecules are reduced. The end products include Carbon dioxide and water.

[elmiraviking]

You're correct, of course. I just checked my comment, and I meant to say that LOX is an oxidizer.

[4Dmetricology]

hey dick fuck. Oxygen is the fuel, as the electronegativity is what drives the reaction. Notice how pure oxygen is dangerous but pasta isn't? I am sick of stupid people; they never know they are stupid.

[hogmaster13]

Wow...

Fuel:

combustible matter used to maintain fire, as coal, wood, oil, or gas, in order to create heat or power.

Combustion:

rapid oxidation accompanied by heat and, usually, light.

The oxygen in this reaction is being reduced, NOT oxidized. Hence by definition, it is not the fuel. I would wager though, that you are doing nothing more than trying to pick a fight about something you appear not to know much about. You may want to seek counseling.

[PacoBell]

Wow, you so 0wn3d 4Dmetricology. Props on getting your science right.

[elmiraviking]

Exactly. You must be sick of looking in the mirror.

[ther0flcopter]

dude oxygen is not a fuel

[redkiller5]

but if it touches wood it explodes, depending upon the pressure

[crimsonscarlett]

no it doesn't you fucking moron

[DjPyro2010]

@hogmaster13

You are correct, but since oxygen is not a fuel, does that mean it's not flammable?

[hogmaster13]

@DjPyro2010 Be careful how things are stated. Oxygen is not the fuel in this case specifically. It could, under different conditions, be a fuel. Also, if we want to know if things are flammable we should first define what flame is. Flame is usually considered the hot glowing region at or nearby a combustion reaction. The light comes from 2 primary sources, black body radiation from soot, and ionized particles (plasma). Under the right conditions, just about anything can be flammable.

[Bernler75]

lol, you're nuts:D Nice vid:D

[leslihilton]

hey guys, check out my video above, it's much safer and only takes 60 seconds!!

[randomdice1]

What grill? XD

[MrUnidyne]

The mad genius with the liquid oxygen is George H. Goble, Senior Systems Engineer at Purdue University. He's the inventor of the R-12 drop-in refrigeration substitutes R-406a & GHG-X4.

[robertchutney]

Is that the American way,how to "protect" environment?

[FMZContralto]

are you kidding me? Get over yourself.

[Paxmax]

What? charcoal and pure oxygen? it burns really clean no dangerous emission there!!

Lighterfluid and charcoal + air? *chough* that's some pollution right there!

[dogponya]

nice

[Syntheticon]

Sweet-it even melted the grill. Completely unneccesary but awesome!

[BAZOOKA30215]

can you say over kill?

[electronixtar]

液氧？？？？

[filmorependrgn]

是

[electronixtar]

中国人？

[powerium]

what an idiot

[bonscott55]

exactly

[xhbkxDXxhhhx]

omg its a waste... whoopty doooo if u use propain its still a wast would u rather have him sit there witha match hoping it lites....

[elmiraviking]

Why don't you get out of your mom's basement and learn to spell ?.

[stegre]

Waste of resources. Why?

[frukt524]

Because it's cool. Reason enough for me. And I don't think wasting oxygen is such a big deal.

[manfuckthisshit]

It's not the oxygen it's the resources used to condense the oxygen. Liquid oxygen isn't something you can find or make just anywhere

[willowhawk]

Are you guys listening to yourselves? Anyone with money can do what they want with it. Its not like oxygen production comes to a halt just because this guy didnt take off 10 liters to go have fun with. The resources are still being spent regardless of minor fluctuations in the demand/usage of it.

[BCromantic]

Sir, you are very wrong. If you have a large manafold system for oxy cutting (you would find one in most weld/ fabrication shops)

All you need to do is to have an insulated container and open the valve and fill it quickly and use it before it returns to a gas.

Obviously they have the equipment and trust me I know what liquid O2 can do and that is an oxygen fire.

[paleolithicera]

You watched a video of it, which means it was used for educational purposes.

[dezman2003]

you using your computer is a waste of resources, why do you do it?

[JonesyJackson]

To quote the man who designed the "experiment,"

"Just something neat to do. It started with hair driers and vacuum cleaners (in blow), progressed to propane, acetylene torches, flight oxygen (gas), [that took 30 sec to light], and finally LOX for a 3 sec (or maybe even 2) ignition."