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  • im 13 can i try it

  • Why is this age restricted?

  • @Blashyrkh22 Unknown. In the past, YT won't give reasons except "people flagged it." Why specifically?

    Or more to the point: 1. why are they blocking kids from science demonstration videos, and 2. What should I change in the video in order to not have it age restricted? (Youtube specifically stated that microwave demos were OK.)

  • > Why is this age restricted?

    @Blashyrkh22 Unknown. It's been up for four years, and suddenly something changed.

    Back in 2010, staff specificially said that they considered Microwave Oven Demos as a separate issue on Youtube, and decided to allow them on the site. Perhaps the reviewer doesn't know this. Or perhaps the policy changed.

  • press 7 for beech

  • Great now do that with beer in it

  • haha FAT TIRE BEER>> FROM MY HOMETOWN IN FORT COLLINS COLORADO, GOOD CHOICE

  • Is it possible to create a maser from the magnetron? Could you weaponise a Microwave oven?

  • @bastian74 magnetrons are already coherent! But usually "maser" refers to wavelengths more than 20x shorter than the 2GHz oven magnetrons. You'd have to build a tube that's 20x smaller than the ones used in ovens.

    To form a beam at 2GHz, you'd need a plastic lens or a dish antenna well over a meter in diameter. But if you had a KW output at 1cm instead of 20cm wavelength, then your parabolic dish can also be 20x smaller.

  • Dude; when checking something for hot use the back of your finger/hand. That way if U blister it, it doesn't get in the way of work Is that a garage sale or thrift store microwave? That thing is nasty inside, or U bother cleaning out the remains of past experiments.

  • @5lkk

    Nah, you don't burn yourself unless you touch the white-hot melted part. (I picked up that wineglass just fine.) The beer bottle had a tiny bit of liquid which heated the glass to perhaps ~70C. No gloves needed, no blisters, just slightly too hot to comfortably lift. Similar to touching hot pizza crust to see if it's cool enough to pick up.

  • EEE!!!! I LOVE PLASSSMA!!!! THX FOR EVERYTHING!!!! EEEEE MY FIRST TIME TO HEAR PLASMA SOUNDS!!!! eeeee

  • When he said drain the beer bottle you guys know he drank that!

  • @AmbidextrousGamer Well yes. There's no need is wasting beer is there?

  • @5lkk Drunk science!!!!!

  • So this is what red necks do for fun.

  • lol you tried to touch it when it 1st came out ! lol

  • please start the video with a clear safety instruction.

    i missed those experiements on school

  • I can see how well your previous experiments went lol.

  • 2:36 bug zapper

  • I might have a solution to your problem... Did you happen to drink the beer before doing this experiment?

  • Does it only work with beer bottles???

  • i wish you would make more viedos :(

  • how would one refine this technique as a replacement for having to drill glass to make a hole?

  • Gunna make a bong?

  • @DaveWreckingCrew

    haha ;)

  • I think he drank to many beers himself

  • why was this flagged?

  • wouldnt plasma melt the microwave?

  • Ahh Plasma, Plasma outbreak!

  • the way I think makes it seem quite obvious. Im glad you explained why you did this experiment. I would just think that heating up the glass in an area causes the atoms to vibrate at a very high frequency. microwaves speed up the vibrations of particles, the lower the vibration rate the slower it speeds them up. If you set the vibration rate to extremely high and then introduce microwaves, it obviously will cause the already high freq. vibs to go even higher thus the energy to melt (sryranoospc)

  • @darksinthe nope, molten glass is a known conductor. That's how the big glass manufacturers keep it hot (by passing high amperes through the melt.) We're doing the same here, since the microwaves are creating a large electric current in the melted glass.

    But glass at room temp is a good insulator. We can nuke our food inside of glass cookware, and the microwaves go right through.

    This experiment doesn't work with silica, which remains insulating when melted

  • @wbeaty Learn something new every day :D thanks for the info :)

  • fat tire? so im guessing you live in or around Colorado?

  • what was that zapping noise inside the microwave?

  • @Tvmonster666 Plasma being released

  • LOL@ "OH, TOO HOT TO TOUCH"

  • Please, tell me he drank that!!!

  • Hi wbeaty,

    Cool video, however now I am wondering if a standard cavity magnetron from a microwave, installed into a shielded crucible, could be used to safely melt larger quantities of glass with a more efficient power consumption than a standard coil heating element used in most modern glass crucibles? I assume that an outside heat source would be needed to start the initial thermal runaway reaction. But would maintaining the heat cause any breakdowns from such a long period of operation?

  • @jordanclymer I think a magnetron isn't very efficient. Much of the heat would end up with the heatsink fins and blower. Better might be electric current heating by conductive contact. But you'd need expensive platinum electrodes or similar, otherwise the melt gets contaminated from dissolving metal.

  • I like videos that begin with the phrase "First, we need a microwave oven, a beer bottle, and a blowtorch..."

  • i love your experiments,do you know of a way of concentratin six manetrons trou a metal pipe or manets etc,to make a sinle beam.sorry my keybord dont do der 7 and 8 letter of der alpabet.lol im not mad i will et it sorted soon

  • Fat Tire FTW

  • wow you could make glass bongs out of like this!!!!!!!!!!

  • Fat tire. Good taste in beer, good taste in science. You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.

  • Ohhh plasma! Plasma outbreak!

  • How do you accidentally microwave something for 10 hours?

  • @hk86 lmfao.

  • @hk86 more like 99:99 when you tried to punch in 9:99

  • looks like that microwave has seen its share of explosions.

  • Epic plasma outbreak!

  • Dangerous, yet unique and creative way to make a bong out of a beer bottle, no?

  • 3 comments, 1: clean ur microwave, Lol, 2: Awesome vid. 3. Show us the lava one.

  • how hot is plasma ?

  • You are really unique and full of ideas. I love your videos by now.

  • It sucks the jpizzle1122 show is to much better than this

  • blow out your eys

  • i love the splatter marks in the oven... it's an experienced oven huh?

  • @wildwasser ...  more like a seasoned tropper...

  • take some marvels but them in a metal class or something that doesnt melt u will have lava and u can make cool thing

  • Poor swiss thing

  • this is how u make a steam roller outta a beer bottle

  • precisely my idea

  • Fat tire. good stuff.

  • dont drink more dude

  • Lol, Brrp, brrap, brrp, brrap xD

  • simply wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­ow

  • Liquid Hot MAGMA!

  • You know there is things called gloves so you won't burn your hands! :P

  • you know theres a thing called poor conductors and glass is a horrible conductor and doesnt transfer energy or heat for shit.

  • @snowboarder641 Does when it's liquid...

  • @arien617 no its not, glass is still a poor conductor when it is liquid, ive done glass work before, i know what im talking about, glass when liquid will cool faster than lets say copper when it is liquid which is a great conductor. Regaurdless of initial temps or the rate of change. Glass is and always will be a poor conductor of heat and energy, in solid and liquid form.

    Do an experiment go order a 3mm rod of glass, heat the rod at the tip and tell me how close u can hold it. <2in. i bet

  • @snowboarder641 Thermal conductivity is not electrical conductivity. Glass is an ionic conductor, and it's conductivity is proportional to ion mobility, that's why it becomes insulating when solid. Try this: wind two leads of a power cord around a glass rod, and plug in the cord. Support both ends of the rod. Heat the glass between the wires to red, and the rod will glow yellow, then white, then melt in half. Youve just made a lightbulb using glass instead of a tungsten filament.

  • @wbeaty

    OMG, wbeaty just owned snowboarder641 on electrical conductivity.

  • @Apathetik666 or tongs

  • y was this flagged ??? ty for the info.

  • > y was this flagged

    Because it looks dangerous?

  • @wbeaty yeah, good job for doing that. Kids who don't know anything may attempt this experiment...

  • @777Vassilev777 p.s. found your video on wikipedia lol

  • Now that's some higienic microwave

  • why was this flagged?

  • OMG PLASMA :O!!!!!!

  • OMG MAGMA

  • are u sure?

  • Hilarious and Seriously Informative; Thanks for the information.

  • The worst part of this movie is the inside of that microwave.

  • Is this Jory's inspiration?

  • @flatblackstrat no, this was made a while before the show was popular. and it isnt a microwave show, its just regular science

  • can you run the microwave with the oven door open lol that would be interesting

  • haha 'too hot to touch'

    noshitsherlock

  • Why can I pick up the wine glass at 3:40? Since insulators aren't heated by microwaves, why should we expect the beer bottle to be hot?

    And no, it actually wasn't too hot to touch. But it was definitely too hot to grab and lift bare-handed.

  • very cool, thanks for explaining how it works.

  • oh, oh, plama. plasma is outbrake

  • That's not dangerous. THIS is dangerous:

    danyk666 and his microwave oven

    youtubecom/watch?v=s7Re0njZ4mY

  • LOL,It's probably the impurities in the glass that would catalyze a reaction once it is heated..

    All consumer glass is not fully pure. Only fiber optic quality glass is pure from impurities.

  • > not fully pure

    All glass does this, but you're on the right track.

    Quartz (silica) lacks dissolved ions, so it probably silica won't do this. But quartz is not glass. To create glass, we add impurities to quartz, as in Borosilicate Pyrex, soda glass, etc.

  • Hahaha thats soo cool

  • awesome experiment but question whats the noise im hearing in 2:36

  • Fire is becoming Plasma, this is making this noise...

  • > noise im hearing

    plasma loudspeaker. Google it. The DC power supply has a large 120Hz AC wave.

  • LMAO

    pink microwave

  • great stuff!

  • hrm .. that is one nasty ass microwave :P he needs a wife.

  • Take the nozzle off of the torch,take the microwave outside out of harms way of anyone,stand behind a cement or brick barricade, and put the torch cylinder, a mini household/car fire extinguisher, and an airhorn.

  • 2:54 DUH ITS HOT you just blasted it with a torch AND microwaved it! hahaha, i would have done the same thing XD

  • > ITS HOT

    Nah, glass is an insulator, and it barely absorbs RF. You can melt one end while the other stays ice cold, see wineglass at 3:40

    Usually I can freak people out and pick up the beer bottle.  But this time I nuked it for too many minutes while waiting for more plasma eruptions.

  • Oh really? cool! :) PLasma in the micro is fun, like cutting a grape to its skin and watching it act like a Jacob's Ladder :) OH the chipbag, classic microwave experiment. Thats still really cool to melt the bottle!

  • notice how he says 'drain the beer bottle first' then it has a break in the video...i bet you he drank it. now wonder why he's doing this demo XD im just kidding, this is still really cool!

  • lol when he closed the microwave after he torched it did anyone see a slight image of the bottle in blueish white?

  • Nice this was a very good video. 6 out of 5. if it was possible..

  • i would not recommend anyone trying this. you are screwing around with the annealing of the bottle. and when you do this the bottle may only break, but it will more than likely explode violently. and if it does and your face is anywhere near it and you dont at least have a pair of safety glasses on,guess what. can anyone say permanent blindness. believe me when i tell you this. i know i work with unannealed bottles every day when i am checking the bottles i make for defects.

  • > likely explode

    Nope. Try it. A bottle with a huge freaking hole in it is not "a bottle," and the distorted glass is so stressed that it almost always shatters. If it doesn't, poke it with a screwdriver first.

  • i wasnt talking about after the bottle has a hole in it. i was referring to pre heating the bottle with the torch. and as far as the bottle exploding, it is more of a quick pop, but will send shards out when it does. not trying to ruffle your feathers there buddy

  • > pre heating

    Oh, I thought you meant the non-annealed shapes. Definitely hazardous during preheating. It helps to have some lampwork experience. I find that broad sections of thin beer bottles are somewhat forgiving, but haven't tried thicker glass. I've always been paranoid, and torched a wide area for a long time before daring to make that small hotspot. Assume that glass will fly, so do it with goggles, w/bottle deep inside the oven, with observers far back until the door is closed.

  • basically i was just agreeing with you on the fact that it is kinda dangerous to do, and if you do WEAR SAFETY GLASSES FOLKS. if i hadnt had my safety glasses on at work i would probably be blind by now, but i do have to get pretty close to the bottles when i am inspecting them. very cool video by the way. i had no idea that u could do that .

  • Yay. Boingboing-ed!

  • Might this be incentive for some new videos? ;)

    *nudge*, *prod*

  • To see the possibilities, google keywrd: amasci videos list

  • Holy cow, AWESOME OVERLOAD! Can't wait heh

  • usless information

  • Thats mental, isnt there a highly toxic gas produced as a side effect of plasma?

  • > toxic gas

    plasma is exactly the same as an electric spark.

    Microwave plasma is tiny and brief when compared to what large Tesla Coils can do. Sparks in air produce ozone and nitrogen oxides. If you operate a very large Tesla Coil in a small garage, you can get headaches from breathing the gases for too long.

  • Create the 4th state of matter... IN YOUR KITCHEN!

  • before he explained how he stated this

    i was going to say he did it when he was drunk

  • > when he was drunk

    To get drunk, you have to melt more than one beer bottle in the microwave.

  • Is that how you discovered you could do this? =P You are completely, completely nuts, and as a consequence of that, an absolute legend.

  • Ah okay, just got to the bit where you said how you found this out. =P

  • WOW

  • the glas got hot enough at one spot so that the molecules in that spot increased their frequency, to a frequency were it got amplified by the microwaves. The frequency of the microwaves and the frequency of the glass got tuned together. Lovley!

  • > frequency of the glass

    Nope. Also it's a totaly myth that microwave ovens are tuned to water's frequency. They are actually tuned about 10x lower. Liquid water resonance is up around 20GHz-50GHz dependant on temperature. Microwave ovens are 2.5GHz, and some are even 900MHz.

  • Open and Drain??!!?!? Buddy, open and DRINK!

  • People can make out physics to be as geeky as they like, but when you get right down to it we really just love to blow stuff up. :P

  • You can tell a lot of unwise experiments have taken place in that microwave :D

  • why?

  • Why not?

  • how to make a bong

  • you got that right

  • 5 stars for fat tire!!! woot!

  • did beer bottle died?

  • Sir you are unequivocally insane.

    Make more videos.

  • a lot more =)

  • Cool stuff" but ur microwave is dirty

  • > microwave is dirty

    So is my drillpress. You wouldn't want to eat off it.

    Don't you have a "garage microwave" for home experimentation? Filled with charred paint and splintered glass? (Buy one for $5 at neighborhood garage sales.)

  • Why

  • Because.

  • That's sweet.

  • you totally drank that beer lol

  • holy shit you're smart.

  • wow unsafe experiments your specialty? plasma fumes are hazardous...and yes the bottle will crack if not explode

  • Micro doesnt work with heat. They work with friction. It just depends, if a material is liquid and its molecular strukture is "movable". Then the microwave moves the molecules around causing friction which adds up the the energy you've added with the burner. Glass is soft. Even if it appears to be hard, it always "flows". Thats why old church windows are thicker on the bottom than on the top.

  • heat=friction, doesn't it???

  • heat=a difference in temperature where the "hot" object has a higher temperature than what you're comparing it to.

    friction=resistance to movement, like when you rub your hands together, its just a change of how the energy involved plays out, friction could make electricity(carpet static), heat and sound(squeeling tires), light and heat(matches), and so on.

  • no. heat is the transfer of energy from one object to another through thermal contact. also it is known as the amount of thermal energy within a system. thermal energy is a function of temperature and mass (for example, a warm bath has more thermal energy than a lit match, even though the match is hotter.)

  • Glass in old windows is thicker at the bottom because of the way it is made, not because it is liquid. It is not liquid. The thicker glass is placed at the bottom for strength.

  • Actually, glass is a super cool liquid, and the thicker glass at the bottom of an old window is due to that fact. I saw it on a documentary about how glass is made. So find evidence before claiming something.

  • i agree with you. my chem professor has told me multiple times that glass is in fact a liquid.

  • > thicker glass at the bottom of an old window

    Glass doesn't flow like that, that's an urban legend, well hashed out in physics newsgroups. Go look at Snopes. Glass is not a liquid, it's a "glass," it's a solid without microscopic crystalline order. It doesn't flow significantly in less than many millions of years. Windowpane makers had to orient all the facets the same way, otherwise the prism effect would chop up the view.

  • Glass is not a liquid, it's an amorphous solids (basically a solid where the molecules can slide along eachother to a degree, somewhat similar to a liquid, but definately not a liquid as it holds more properties in common with a true solid)

  • He's right. Gravity does have an effect on windows over time and the glass will 'sag' down. Just very very slowly.

  • > gravity does have an effect on windows.

    Not honest

    The legend about flowing glass was thoroughly debunked. At room temperature the effect on windows takes hundreds of thousands of years to become slightly perceptible. Glass is not a liquid, it's a "glass." Search keywords on "glass transition," and the physics definition of the glass state as opposed to the liquid state.

    Glaziers put all the windowpanes facing the same. That keeps the prism effect from chopping up the outdoor scene.

  • The microwaves have the same frequency as the rotational frequency of water, which will cause the water molecules to spin faster, which show's more energy resulting in greater heat. Any molecule that has a near rotational frequency will also be caused to heat up.

  • Actually that's a widespread myth. Water absorption peak is around 30GHz.. 900MHz microwave ovens boil water just fine, as do 2.5GHz units. The spectrum for water vapor is very different than for liquid, the liquid lacks the sharp resonance and has only very broad humps. If ovens were tuned to the water, so that water was an extreme absorber at the operating frequency, then only the surface of meat would be heated, similar to non-microwave ovens.

    See tinyurl yzyoehd

  • I have always wondered if that phenomena could be used to make a microwave that browned things

  • first i thought it was waste of beer but then....

  • then there is no fucking beer in it...

  • yeah! hehhehe

  • He said to drain it at the beginning.

  • technically it becomes a covalent compound that is electrolytic...since SiO2 (silicon DIoxide or Glass) is a covalent compound.

  • lolwut

  • Haha...the main component in Glass is silicon dioxide. it's a covalent compound rather than Ionic...meaning it;s a compound of non metals.SOmoen below stated that it's ionic. It doesnt become Ionic, but it does conduct electricity like one when it's a liquid.

  • > covalent compound

    That would be molten quartz. Glass melts at far lower temperature because it's full of soda or borax. The mobile sodium ions make it conduct. Pure silica isn't used for bottles because it doesn't soften until its heated brilliant white hot like a light bulb filament.

  • I liked the explanation accompanying the destruction at the end.

    I didn't have very high expectations as I started watching, but this is a great channel.

  • Very cool. Now let's check out your other unwise experiments.

  • it might look dumb and unsafe but it's actually pretty cool if u go do it.

  • is it possible to absorb the energy from plasma

  • that has to be 1 of the dumbest and unsafe things i have ever seen anybody do!