Underwater Fireworks: Sparklers

[PinkOld]

I dare you to drop that into a beaker full of gasoline.

[ExtremeCrackhead]

tried

[ExtremeCrackhead]

would youe mind telling us the ingredient

[spookyman123]

That's some high quality H2O!

[MindGem2010]

coooolll !!! im going tu tr it

[ToweringPillarOfCats]

Ok, i'll try it at a friends house!

[clockwork624]

sparklers burn underwater because they are magnezium how ever u sell it.. my dad wont even weld on that shit!

[NEOCUBEST]

! DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME! .... thanks for the instructions i'm trying it

[IsaacCurien]

Well, I know it's not for home but... I just had too, people were bugging me so I made their cups explode!

[jimmyvbs]

how many u put?

[dafranx]

LOL, this is awesome. I love those kind of sparklers! They burn underwater.

[RamboLambo670]

So if you want to extinguish a sparkler...DONT PUT IT IN A BUCKET OF WATER...put it in a gallon of gasoline :)

[smileswalker21]

to be honest your wrong, it not just the oxidizers really, the reason these sparklers burn under water is because sparklers burn at over 3000 degrees Fahrenheit and so its too hot for it to be burned out so it just burns the water around it. Thats why it burns under water. Trust me, my chemistry teacher did it in class and told us how it works

[bbsonjohn]

It probalby didn't melt the cylinder. It just cracked it due to the rapid heating

[ironXnub]

hmmmmm im bored i happen to have a glass cylinder and a few sparklers on my desk what will i do?

[tman1151]

2nd try sounded like a turnd or a wet fart o.O

[Jesses001]

Be aware that tieing to many of them together and lighting them will cause them to explode rather then burn. They have some very intersting properties that can come in very handy if you understand the chemistry.

[roborovskihamsters]

In soviet russia, sparkler: oh what the hell no one cares anymore XD

[deilax]

I will never touch a sparkler ever again.

[ZenoxDemin]

Epic science is EPIC

[str8tkillas]

iron oxide? aka rust

[Tr3buchetK1ng]

Drink later?

[ktj9139]

It broke the glass on the 4th part.

[WHOOOFTHEHOO]

EPIC..the DEFINITION of EPIC

[patrick44333]

1:28 Fail

[tj1997zero]

yea but the tube aint too bad cuz sparkes are about 3000 degrees F

[lichking0008]

criminal!!!!that tube maybe had kids and now they are half orphans!!!!!

[ohmahgawdfilms]

FIRE! hehehhehehehheh

[pker799]

omg.. it breaks the test tube

[chooeytt88]

there is a way to make an actual fire work that stays in the water and u dont need to ad anything to the water at all

[adriiPortillo]

thats a crappy measuring tube you have ther if it couldnt withstand the heat from the sparkler

[humptybon]

@adriiPortillo

i dont think measuring tubes are meant for heat like that

[EvaUpfold]

@adriiPortillo Yeah, measuring cylinders aren't meant to be used to contain a strong exothermic reaction, they are used for measuring : P

[betterthanallofu]

that is exiting, and why not try this at home? it dosent look dangerous -.-

[jumpingjellyguy]

1: 13 or 1:13 NEVER!

[XxocarabxX]

Daddy must be very happy when his lighter is dead. :)

[metalhoodmetalhood]

haha I WILL try it at home xD

[TAKHAR5000]

sooo gnna try tht

[kksider2]

Here's another way to make boiling water...

[BananaCat101]

OMG WATER ON FIRE!!

[silverchill1]

@BananaCat101 fire in water.....

[r00n3sc4p3]

you can do this at home -.- just dont touch the glass because it will burn

[kksider2]

Did you see all that water spurt everywhere?!

[RetardPwnage]

Is oxidization more violent when placed under water? Is water some how a catalyst for the reaction? The sparklers really seemed to explode when placed in water.

[DrPhalaris]

cool. i'm thinking of becoming a chemist,

any good college recomendations?

[pyromodder]

They must be making these out of ferrotitanium or another alloy. In many countries it is the law that a sparkler must go out if put underwater.

[BryanBeatsYouAll]

bottle rockets make the coolest sounds in a lake!

[dragonridley]

I though they could burn underwater because they have magnesium which can use water and CO2 as oxidizers.

[elliotmotoX]

magnesium can't burn underwater by itself

[dragonridley]

Once ignited, I'm pretty sure it can. Water can even make a magnesium fire burn hotter and brighter.

[elliotmotoX]

it doesn't matter how hot and bright it burns, it doesn't have access to any oxygen and saying it can use water and CO2 as oxidisers is stupid as. That would mean anything can burn with water and if you used a CO2 fire extinguisher it would light it up even more.

[dragonridley]

Magnesium can burn in a atmosphere of CO2, and even at room temperature will react with water (though slowly). Normal fire extinguishers can't put out burning magnesium: you need a class D fire extinguisher, which is specifically meant for metal fires.

[elliotmotoX]

I am guessing it uses Magnesium Oxide as a high temperature oxidizer, somewhat similar to Iron Oxide and Aluminum?

[dragonridley]

Yeah something like that. It slightly different with water though: the reaction is more like that of lithium and water.

[elliotmotoX]

Wait no, if it made Magnesium Oxide it would turn to Magnesium Hydroxide which is not an oxidiser. Until I see magnesium burning under water I don't believe it.

[dragonridley]

Actually the water would react with the elemental magnesium to produce magnesium hydroxide, so the water would be oxidizer. As to seeing it burning underwater, there's video of it on Youtube. Other video shows that spraying water on burning magnesium causes it to flare up, as the hydrogen from the reaction ignites

[dragonridley]

Magnesium burns in According to the following equation: 2Mg + CO2 ==> 2MgO + C

[BobbyJEL101]

or there was too much pressure trying to come out...

[Draxis32]

Fuck!

It melted the plactic tube.

[ThirstForScience]

It is even worse since that is a GLASS cylinder! That means that the heat was probably around 1500 Degrees Celsius (2700 F)!

[omar92bins]

@ThirstForScience it didnt melt, the glass broke, the glass beakers didn't break because they can handle moderate amounts of heat without cracking or breaking, but measuring cylinders weren't built to handle that kind of sudden heat change