This is not meant to start a gun control debate, but I find it very sad that you need a "firearms license" in the UK to demonstrate an experiment such as this, which has a great deal of educational value, in a university setting especially. Nevertheless, I greatly enjoy the periodic videos.
That guy has a "license to handle firearms" and yet he loads the cap on the musket with the hammer at full cock, rather than half cock, and then he lets the hammer rest on the loaded percussion cap, rather than keeping it at half cock (a musket's version of a safety) while loading and until ready to shoot? Not very safe practice if you ask any one of many gun owners in the USA who don't need a gov't issued "license" to handle a firearm properly.
Wow...well we're pretty similar in terms of where we were born and raised. That's kinda cool. I guess you prefer it over there, and I prefer it over here! That doesn't bother me. Peace, and enjoy your second amendment rights. :)
@GIDAN2987 And it is not what it is not. There are Countries which are eqaully free, if not more so, whicht limitations to Gun-Ownership. And Countries where there is no Gun Control and no Freedom at all. There simply is no correlation between Gunlaws and How Free People are. neither positive nor negative.
@Serostern The Compound for Percussion Caps was Fulminate of Mercury. Which has an explosion velocity of 4300 m/s . The Detonation-Velocities of solid explosives range from 4000 to 10000 m/s. So Fulminate of Mercury DOES indeed detonate.
@GIDAN2987 Americans can't believe that British people need a license to own a gun; British people can't believe how ridiculously low the speed limits are in America and that you can't get drunk 'till you're 21. An 18 year-old marine whose government will send him to die in a foreign land but won't let him drink a legal beer doesn't know what freedom really is ;)
@Surtak haha so true in my bachelor we where doing some mundane experiment with silver nitrate and some bright spark reacted it with oxalic acid took out a fume hood, was quite funny never seen a lecturer so scared in my life.
@Surtak ahhh chemistry is a wonderful thing i have been manufacturing my own sodium nitrate and mixing it with sugar to make smoke bombs.... i could make Trinitrotoluene but under irish law its illegal so smoke bombs are the safe option.
I have made Trinitrotoluene. Only 1 g of it, but still. Also made blasting powder. Same as blackpowder, but you use sodiumnitrate instead of potassiumnitrate.
Sooner or later society will probably feel the need to license even the simplest forms of chemistry even if its mixing cool aid, Allot of chemicals are highly restricted anyways so why couldn't all chemicals be highly restricted?
Imaging a future where chemicals would be so highly restricted that they would only be available in ready made forms like food. I'm sure they can come up with plenty of reasons why sugar is dangerous in its purist form to combat terrorism and drugs.
Thats cool, I haven't ever seen anything done like that before. I think I'm gonna try this next time I head out to the range for shooting. Hey maybe I'll be more accurate and actually be able to kill something on my next muzzleloader hunt lol
Also some safety should be adopted, when you cock the hammer back and two clicks occur, you have disabled the safety and just a little bit of force could send that hammer own on the nipple which could cause an accidental firing. Another thing was when he put the hammer back down on the nipple potential danger there too.
First off with each piece of plywood alternating with hallow pieces, it gives a sense that the wax is stronger than it is, wood is stronger at greater thicknesses and weaker at smaller thicknesses. An example would be trying to punch a 200 page book, you couldn't do it. But if each paper had a space in between each side, your fist would go right through. So basically its been made too look better than it is, but still pretty cool.
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can you please tell Jim to take care firing that big musket around that placle dude. its ok by me but the police may not be as kind as me. realy he sould know at his age. please set an example. take care dude try blanks. if you need any more adivse please contact me dude
I gotta say I'm impressed with the skill of the old man Jim there, I don't what age he is but he is certainly doing good, that bust the myth that chemists die early due to exposures to dangerous compounds that regular people wouldn't have much contact with.
What is it with all the yanks on here harping on about gun law and liberty?
How the hell do guns protect your freedom? If your US government (with its endless plethora of subversive policing organisations) wanted to remove you all from your homes right now, it would do it. Your good ol' Betty 12-gauge isn't going to stop that.
I've been to the US several times and wasn't impressed. Its the mecca of fake materialist society.
You go on about how great your country is yet your suicide rate is higher than ours.
Citizens in the UK tend to spend less time involved in trying to big up their country over the internet and argue against others, and more time actually being fit and healthy and enjoying life.
Usually I just glaze over these generic comments by dumb paranoid Americans on youtube against Britain, but this time seeing them on a damn Periodic Videos clip, I felt like giving you some food for thought.
@kydoes Why do you hate fat people? That seems rather arbitrary and discriminatory. Do you approve of racism or other idiotic forms of arbitrary hate?
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Anyone government for that matter. If the US government wanted you or your possessions they 'can' take it right there and then, same with any other government. So much for laws & regulations... lol.
i guess. but when i went to see a volley today it was pretty loud from where i was stood (a couple of meters away) and my ears were ringing for quite a while
@TheMaxelll I'm normally the one firing them, the only ones that have any effect on my ears nowadays are the German hunting rifle and the 6 pounder cannon.
Though that could just be me going deaf rather than the muskets being quiet, but hey.
@TheMaxelll I'd say flintlocks were about the same, the German Jaeger rifle we have is only so loud because the owner rams the wadding down so it gives a nice 'crack' if it actually decides to fire.
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The way he describes the pseudo-solidity of wax reminds me of corn starch. When it's being formed in your hand it has some solid properties, but when you stop forming it it becomes runny and liquid.
Yes they are easy to find, but not easy to buy. You have to transfer ownership from one license to another, and sign both. This means that when the police inspect your property (they have to), and inspect your shotgun license, they will see that you have sold a weapon, and who to. If they can't find that person on the register, or if you simply don't keep a record they will insist on seeing the gun, upon which point you'll probably spend some time at Her Majesty's Pleasure.
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interesting.......ive got a lot of experience of firearms, black powder in particular............never seen this done with a musket but have seen it done with a 12 bore smokeless......cartridge opened up, shot removed and a full candle put in its place.....and thro an exterior door too
btw...nice to see Nottingham Uni on the map.....my home town! :):)
Jim, I Love Gunpowder and any experiment using this lovely mixture, your first appearence on (PTV) periodic table of vidios is so explosive that our explosive community will appoint you as their Prime Minister, for this purpose my vote will go in your favour. The chemistry bihind this experiment is very very interesting as i love explosive chemistry only for peaceful purposes not for killing people. sorry if i seem to be a fool or something but this is the most liked vidio by PTV.
I noticed there were pieces of wood in between the sections where there was a large hole, which allowed space, and in physics allowing that wax bullet to pass through much easier. I'd like to see it done through a solid piece of wood.
A slight departure from "periodicity" but most welcome - and surprising! From my school days I recall remarks regarding straws being able to pierce doors at over 200mph. Maybe it's true then...
Also I reckon this is a good use of YouTube, to have a skilled demonstrator perform on video an intriguing - even quirky - experiment that would surely be too dangerous (and probably illegal) for Joe Public or even many educational facilities to carry out.
I would like to see if a non-newtonian fluid could be used. It would have to be contained maybe in a baggie or some sort of sabot so it wouldn't spread as it was decelerating in-between the gun and the target. Coming out of the gun it would act like a solid and upon impact it would act as a solid. Afterward it would return to a liquid.
Mate, people in the UK don't want to legalise guns because chavy kid can EASILY steal the gun from their parents, go into school and show off how "gangsta" they are.
I mean people die from things like playing real life halo "accidently" in America..
@kmohammad2 Guns are legal in Australia, we don't go about showing how "gangsta" our guns are at school, children as young as 12 and in some states 11 can shoot handguns up to .38 caliber. If you have proper storage requirements the chav won't be able to get the firearm. BTW it is relatively easy to buy a handgun on the black market, especially in the UK.
It doesn't particularly bother me - if it makes it less likely for the kind of people I wouldn't feel safe around to get a hold of a gun, then good. In fact, if we really want to get into things, people shouldn't have firearms at all, apart from places for shooting targets for recreational or educational purposes.
Encroachment my ass, the majority of people in the UK don't want people to be able to legally have guns, check out the number of firearm crimes in america vs them here for your anwser as to why.
Thanks to my friend google, by american statistics, I came across this little wonder.
"A gun in the home is 4 times more likely to be involved in an unintentional shooting, 7 times more likely to be used to commit a criminal assault or homicide, and 11 times more likely to be used to attempt or commit suicide than to be used in self-defense. "
VS a knife in the kitchen is several times more likely to be, you know, used for cooking...
Link, if you are going to try to use logic, then be logical. 22 out of 23 gun owners do not commit crimes. I would guess it is less than one out of a thousand, but that is just a guess.
If the tool is misused on a regular basis and does more harm than good, then it gets banned. For exampl we don't ban knives because they have an everyday practical use, we use them for cutting food to carving wood. Guns used to be a part of the life of normal people, mainly those to got food from hunting, but because there are cheaper and safer ways of getting food the practical usage of a gun as gone away and getting a gun is subsequently harder.
Boxant: Since you mentioned cars. We have these things called "driving licenses", which is a license given to people who have proven they know use a car of a certain type which allows them to drive cars on public roads. We also have registration for cars, meaning if you own a car you must report that ownership to the proper authorities. Why shouldn't we apply the same restrictive regulation on guns that we do for cars?
And don't forget. Cars, and vehicles in general, generate an immense benefit to society, in the form of transportation for people and goods, providing work and row materials to the places where they're needed.
Guns ITOH, provide very little gain to societies in very special situations (hunting, defense, war), and they don't work to deter any government possessing modern warfare equipment.
It's about the negative side effects of zero regulation. THere are always going to be two kinds of gun owners, people who own a gun and use it responsibly and people who own a gun and don't use it responsibly, the latter being a minority of gun owners. The problem is that minority of people cause to much problem in society, just like drunk or reckless drivers does, that we simply cannot have zero regulation.
. . . and the list could go on and on but space is limited . . .
The list above is an example of populations that were disarmed or mostly disarmed. Governments do not commit genocide against their own populations that are armed because it would be suicidal to that government.
I think you made my point for me didn't you? The black population was not allowed to arm themselves. How well did they fare?
War is not the same as genocide. Genocide may be committed during war or may be committed and called war. However, genocide is extremely difficult to commit on a large scale against an armed population.
There are no certainties in life. There are only odds of survival. I would rather die crossing the road than be shot blind folded or on my knees
@LinkStrikesBack Which is why you have mandatory gun safety courses in other countries that are allowed to have firearms like in Australia. Why do you immediately go to the extreme and use America as an example, where there is no emphasis on gun safety? There are many countries in Europe that allow people to own firearms and even carry them.
Why do I use america as an example? Because its the most well known example of why people shouldn't be allowed to have guns. Yes, I know , blahblahblah guns don't kill people, people kill people, but they make it much easier and serve almost no other purpose
you confuse 'liberty' with what americans refer to as 'liberty' and the rest of the world scratches their head wondering why we must listen to hypocrites
The State inherently limits the freedoms of people. The goal of a people is to push for the maximization of freedoms and the limitations of State control.
The US State has plenty of issues, many lost liberties. However, we have many people fighting to reverse this.
It saddens me to see other peoples so oblivious to the yoke that is around their neck. Content in their slavery.
This is not meant to start a gun control debate, but I find it very sad that you need a "firearms license" in the UK to demonstrate an experiment such as this, which has a great deal of educational value, in a university setting especially. Nevertheless, I greatly enjoy the periodic videos.
jhensjh 3 weeks ago
@jhensjh: a chemistry professor probably has no problems getting a gun license. After all, chemists are MUCH more lethal when unarmed! ;)
MRMonger 2 weeks ago
That guy has a "license to handle firearms" and yet he loads the cap on the musket with the hammer at full cock, rather than half cock, and then he lets the hammer rest on the loaded percussion cap, rather than keeping it at half cock (a musket's version of a safety) while loading and until ready to shoot? Not very safe practice if you ask any one of many gun owners in the USA who don't need a gov't issued "license" to handle a firearm properly.
hermanalleman 4 months ago
In Amharic (Ethiopian national language) this gun is called 'komeh tebekegn' (meaning wait right) there because it takes such a long time to reload
NathnaelShenkute 5 months ago
I thought it would be a demonstration, because there was no control.
danx033 5 months ago
the guy in the white looks like Mr. Bean
kkjrss 6 months ago
Wow...well we're pretty similar in terms of where we were born and raised. That's kinda cool. I guess you prefer it over there, and I prefer it over here! That doesn't bother me. Peace, and enjoy your second amendment rights. :)
cuntylishus 7 months ago
@GIDAN2987 And it is not what it is not. There are Countries which are eqaully free, if not more so, whicht limitations to Gun-Ownership. And Countries where there is no Gun Control and no Freedom at all. There simply is no correlation between Gunlaws and How Free People are. neither positive nor negative.
LutzDerLurch 7 months ago
@GIDAN2987 I beg to differ. it is not.
LutzDerLurch 7 months ago
@GIDAN2987 freedom and the right to have a gun are not the same damn thing.
LutzDerLurch 7 months ago
It feels weird to a degree, to fire a Weapon inside a lecture hall.
LutzDerLurch 7 months ago
@GIDAN2987 If I wasn't half-American with plenty family in the United States, I'd agree with you. I've seen both sides of the coin. Have you?
cuntylishus 7 months ago
"In the cap there is a small ammount of detonating compound"
NO!
IT IS NOT, I REPEAT, NOT, Detonation. Simply deflagaration.
Damn, you are supposed to be a SCIENTIST....
Serostern 7 months ago
@Serostern he is speaking about the cap, not the Barrel.
LutzDerLurch 7 months ago
@LutzDerLurch Still not detonation.
Serostern 7 months ago
@Serostern The Compound for Percussion Caps was Fulminate of Mercury. Which has an explosion velocity of 4300 m/s . The Detonation-Velocities of solid explosives range from 4000 to 10000 m/s. So Fulminate of Mercury DOES indeed detonate.
LutzDerLurch 7 months ago
@GIDAN2987 Americans can't believe that British people need a license to own a gun; British people can't believe how ridiculously low the speed limits are in America and that you can't get drunk 'till you're 21. An 18 year-old marine whose government will send him to die in a foreign land but won't let him drink a legal beer doesn't know what freedom really is ;)
cuntylishus 7 months ago
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drainocleanser 7 months ago
It will fire through a barn door? Or a couple of pieces of balsa wood?
Whutface 9 months ago
@Whutface
Use a larger piece of candle if you can, but yes it will.
Surtak 9 months ago
He did the lecture over a hundred times in a year? He kept using more and more blackpowder?
Yep, sounds like a chemist alright! XD
I couldn't think of anyone in my bachelor that wouldn't do the same!
Surtak 9 months ago
@Surtak haha so true in my bachelor we where doing some mundane experiment with silver nitrate and some bright spark reacted it with oxalic acid took out a fume hood, was quite funny never seen a lecturer so scared in my life.
Noxid666 9 months ago
@Noxid666
We just mamde actual (corned!) gunpowder :P
Ahhh, I love the smell of 2 K2CO3 + 3 K2SO4 + 6 CO2 + 5 N2 in the morning :) (not including byproducts)
Surtak 9 months ago
@Surtak ahhh chemistry is a wonderful thing i have been manufacturing my own sodium nitrate and mixing it with sugar to make smoke bombs.... i could make Trinitrotoluene but under irish law its illegal so smoke bombs are the safe option.
Noxid666 9 months ago
@Noxid666
I have made Trinitrotoluene. Only 1 g of it, but still. Also made blasting powder. Same as blackpowder, but you use sodiumnitrate instead of potassiumnitrate.
Surtak 9 months ago
@GIDAN2987 Yeah, it's called a gun lisence. I'm fairly sure you need one in most parts of the world.
DANIELISOCKS 10 months ago
"doesn't have a license to handle firearms" It's so odd to think about needing a license instead of it being a right.
viper100200 10 months ago
@viper100200
Sooner or later society will probably feel the need to license even the simplest forms of chemistry even if its mixing cool aid, Allot of chemicals are highly restricted anyways so why couldn't all chemicals be highly restricted?
Imaging a future where chemicals would be so highly restricted that they would only be available in ready made forms like food. I'm sure they can come up with plenty of reasons why sugar is dangerous in its purist form to combat terrorism and drugs.
drainocleanser 7 months ago
Sounds like wax behaves like a Newtonian fluid then.
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trishdonya 1 year ago
Im American, so I have guns, thank you very much
progunist 1 year ago
I wish my teacher would fire muskets in the classroom.
rifal004 1 year ago
Doesn't a firearm license cost about £25?
I imagine that that musket doesn't costs a pittance. Ah the rock and roll life of a chemist!
This is a great video as most of them are.
I'm concerned about the lack of PPE - where's the ear protection? This could cause global worming and nano-terminology!
UncleKennybobs 1 year ago
once-great Britain, I weep for you.
Scientist needs a license to handle a muzzle-loading, flintlock weapon?
God help you...
DD
dedicateddad 1 year ago
i want that periodic table tie!!
Cickarn 1 year ago
Very nice demonstration gentlemen!
Cheers from the U.S.
Jman
Kabul81 1 year ago
Thats cool, I haven't ever seen anything done like that before. I think I'm gonna try this next time I head out to the range for shooting. Hey maybe I'll be more accurate and actually be able to kill something on my next muzzleloader hunt lol
swedishgorilla1 1 year ago
Also some safety should be adopted, when you cock the hammer back and two clicks occur, you have disabled the safety and just a little bit of force could send that hammer own on the nipple which could cause an accidental firing. Another thing was when he put the hammer back down on the nipple potential danger there too.
laharal90 1 year ago
@laharal90 u realy know how to suck the fun out of everything dont you
TheArmo1 1 year ago
@TheArmo1 yah just keeping it real, don't even remember writing those lul must have been drunk
laharal90 1 year ago
First off with each piece of plywood alternating with hallow pieces, it gives a sense that the wax is stronger than it is, wood is stronger at greater thicknesses and weaker at smaller thicknesses. An example would be trying to punch a 200 page book, you couldn't do it. But if each paper had a space in between each side, your fist would go right through. So basically its been made too look better than it is, but still pretty cool.
laharal90 1 year ago
@laharal90
If there was a space between each of the 200 sides, my fist wouldn't go through them all because my arm is not long enough.
MrStrangeHumor 1 year ago
ah ah ah be carefull just put the percussion on if the hammer is on halfcock D=
Orkunis 1 year ago
lol subliminal messages
Computer screen at 0:32 "Great Chemistry"
XD
ThatKidKnows 1 year ago
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can you please tell Jim to take care firing that big musket around that placle dude. its ok by me but the police may not be as kind as me. realy he sould know at his age. please set an example. take care dude try blanks. if you need any more adivse please contact me dude
F1L5 2 years ago
BLOODY RIGHT!
6166789 2 years ago
I gotta say I'm impressed with the skill of the old man Jim there, I don't what age he is but he is certainly doing good, that bust the myth that chemists die early due to exposures to dangerous compounds that regular people wouldn't have much contact with.
Draxis32 2 years ago 8
i wonder what other students were thinking when they heard the bang.....ITS A TRAP!!!
LilReaper1010 2 years ago 21
@LilReaper1010: Our text books can't repel musket fire of that magnitude...
periodicvideos 2 years ago 55
lol they should do that in a separate vid...lol i can see it now "local college professor tests wax bullet on new textbook" haha MAKE IT SO YOUTUBE!!
LilReaper1010 2 years ago
@periodicvideos Only less poweful explosives right? :D
mecemical 1 year ago
@periodicvideos I believe you just won the internet.
basherofnoggins 1 year ago
@LilReaper1010
xO
You have no idea just how funny your sentence CAN be ahahaha xD
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Jkun 5 months ago
Cool video. But what's with all the plastic bottles at the back of the Professor's room?
TheBenEEeee 2 years ago 2
He collects them from around the world!
trfccurt07 2 years ago 2
Wow what an inspiration this guy must have been to his students. Great vids
doomeddom 2 years ago
What is it with all the yanks on here harping on about gun law and liberty?
How the hell do guns protect your freedom? If your US government (with its endless plethora of subversive policing organisations) wanted to remove you all from your homes right now, it would do it. Your good ol' Betty 12-gauge isn't going to stop that.
I've been to the US several times and wasn't impressed. Its the mecca of fake materialist society.
JusticeYoutubization 2 years ago 3
You go on about how great your country is yet your suicide rate is higher than ours.
Citizens in the UK tend to spend less time involved in trying to big up their country over the internet and argue against others, and more time actually being fit and healthy and enjoying life.
Usually I just glaze over these generic comments by dumb paranoid Americans on youtube against Britain, but this time seeing them on a damn Periodic Videos clip, I felt like giving you some food for thought.
JusticeYoutubization 2 years ago 25
100% agreed. Fuck Americans and America.
TheArmo1 1 year ago
@TheArmo1 Fuck you.
TheFirearmEnthusiast 1 year ago
@JusticeYoutubization It's funny because you're exactly the opposite of what you're saying you do.
AreThereNoMoreNames 1 year ago
@JusticeYoutubization I hate fat people and I'm American. It's just that the worst of us end up representing everyone.
kydoes 4 months ago
@kydoes Why do you hate fat people? That seems rather arbitrary and discriminatory. Do you approve of racism or other idiotic forms of arbitrary hate?
KamekoBruns 1 month ago
@JusticeYoutubization ouch.....i agree with you, but ouch, i can't immigrate to england when you cut off my legs like that.
Mike28115 2 years ago
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Anyone government for that matter. If the US government wanted you or your possessions they 'can' take it right there and then, same with any other government. So much for laws & regulations... lol.
aopdjasldksa 2 years ago
Great video, and the american gun arguments on this page are quite amusing.
As a brit i feel safer about protecting my home from burglars after hearing the empowering instructional message of this video.
bastardtubeuser 2 years ago
Unbelievable stuff!! Who'd have thought a wax candle can go through solid wood!
250Trojan 2 years ago
firing a musket with no hearing protection??
TheMaxelll 2 years ago 2
@TheMaxelll
Re-enactors do it regularly. It's generally not as loud as modern day firearms since the black powder doesn't explode, but just burns rather fast.
SirDoober 2 years ago
i guess. but when i went to see a volley today it was pretty loud from where i was stood (a couple of meters away) and my ears were ringing for quite a while
TheMaxelll 2 years ago
@TheMaxelll I'm normally the one firing them, the only ones that have any effect on my ears nowadays are the German hunting rifle and the 6 pounder cannon.
Though that could just be me going deaf rather than the muskets being quiet, but hey.
SirDoober 2 years ago
are matchlocks and flintlocks louder than the percussion lock in this video then? (i forgot to mention thats what i saw)
TheMaxelll 2 years ago
@TheMaxelll I'd say flintlocks were about the same, the German Jaeger rifle we have is only so loud because the owner rams the wadding down so it gives a nice 'crack' if it actually decides to fire.
SirDoober 2 years ago
HAHA Yeah that's insane. I've been pretty close to one and I have to say it was LOUD.
CONNOR1225 2 years ago
lol his hair
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badcrooner 2 years ago
Yeah murder rate in englands got up, funny how its gone up since they started flooding our country with illegal immigrants
GuysSeriously 2 years ago
Uh oh, not..... "they"! How scary.
chulk607 2 years ago
The way he describes the pseudo-solidity of wax reminds me of corn starch. When it's being formed in your hand it has some solid properties, but when you stop forming it it becomes runny and liquid.
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carlsontechnology 2 years ago 2
@carlsontechnology
Not quite, corn starch solution has some very unique properties that means it is a non-Newtonian fluid.
A slightly different process is going on here, as the wax has such velocity that both candle and wood disintegrate on contact.
However the momentum of the wax holds it together just long enough as it passes through the layers.
Treblaine 2 years ago
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AllyKaht 2 years ago
percussion pistols & percussion caps are easy to find at military fairs..this is probably why i keep hearing criminals are using them.
oneu778 2 years ago
Yes they are easy to find, but not easy to buy. You have to transfer ownership from one license to another, and sign both. This means that when the police inspect your property (they have to), and inspect your shotgun license, they will see that you have sold a weapon, and who to. If they can't find that person on the register, or if you simply don't keep a record they will insist on seeing the gun, upon which point you'll probably spend some time at Her Majesty's Pleasure.
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mj030278 2 years ago
Very interesting, amusing video. To quote my son, "Very Mythbusters."
pepsibookcat 2 years ago
'Green Chemistry !!!'
nice screensaver
wheetcracker 2 years ago
what's up with that book on the back? xD
dmsanct 2 years ago
Finland has 2/100k, US has 6/100k and UK has 2/100k intentional homicides. Finland has 32/100 guns, US has 90/100 guns and UK has 6/100 guns.
nawitus 2 years ago
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ywrtywto09 2 years ago
interesting.......ive got a lot of experience of firearms, black powder in particular............never seen this done with a musket but have seen it done with a 12 bore smokeless......cartridge opened up, shot removed and a full candle put in its place.....and thro an exterior door too
btw...nice to see Nottingham Uni on the map.....my home town! :):)
beowulf04844 2 years ago
lol the guy's hair looks like I nuke went off on it lol
magnum70383 2 years ago 3
Long ago my cousins and I tried mixing KNO3, sulfur, and charcoal to make fireworks but the stuff just fizzled.
What on Earth have all these arguments about crime got to do with this video???? Usanians are so wierd!
xlrv1 2 years ago
Mmm, where the hell did the piece of candle go??
cuda2266 2 years ago
Very nice. I'm watching an excellent video of B D Shaw lecture on explosives. Its very interesting. Google it.
AlmightScoop 2 years ago
What a good shot...
chickenhousechecker 2 years ago
Jim, I Love Gunpowder and any experiment using this lovely mixture, your first appearence on (PTV) periodic table of vidios is so explosive that our explosive community will appoint you as their Prime Minister, for this purpose my vote will go in your favour. The chemistry bihind this experiment is very very interesting as i love explosive chemistry only for peaceful purposes not for killing people. sorry if i seem to be a fool or something but this is the most liked vidio by PTV.
viscofuse 2 years ago
great shot
100flyingfish 2 years ago
This video proves that Nottingham does not care about hearing, LOL
I can only imagine how loud that is indoors.
tybo09 2 years ago
Now that was fun!!
Great job guys.
buzzausa 2 years ago
Great stuff
risbolla 2 years ago
Didn't they do something like this on Mythbusters ?
Nice vid.
DailyGrower 2 years ago
cuz its not a myth anymore
DogFu 2 years ago
One hardcore technician
bbsonjohn 2 years ago 3
Love it,thanks brady
gonegonego 2 years ago
YAY HD finally
09876124 2 years ago
@09876124 Pumpkins was in HD too!
periodicvideos 2 years ago
Oh.... never realised...
09876124 2 years ago
hrmf.... some ply sheets where hollow in the center... maybe the holes will be finer that way.
Paxmax 2 years ago
not a gun free zone?
lvecsey 2 years ago
nice shot.
reinux 2 years ago 2
haha, i love how you have the gunpowder on a sheet of filter paper, such a chemistry way of doing things
BlueXephos 2 years ago 4
Excellent video!
iDeist 2 years ago
Is this the first video in HD ?! SWEET
NAMLegolas 2 years ago
@NAMLegolas No, pumpkins was in HD too!
periodicvideos 2 years ago
I love you. :D
NAMLegolas 2 years ago
@NAMLegolas: If you really loved me you'd be subscribed to all my channels! :)
periodicvideos 2 years ago
*Busted* hah Well... I think I do have them all on my favorites! I'll subscribe then :P
NAMLegolas 2 years ago
Awesome!
AronAgmar 2 years ago
Sweet, I think its time I changed from Waikato uni to Nottingham uni!
DrAllan1 2 years ago
@DrAllan1 Good luck, the requirements are steep.
Desmaad 2 years ago
I think its time u realized that it doesnt matter wut uni u go to...they all suck
bmed19 2 years ago
Would cheese work to lol?
Travisdjtg 2 years ago
Great aim!!!
farhmoha 2 years ago
That gun is awesome.
I love it. lol at him putting more and more gunpowder in the gun.
GuppyPal 2 years ago 2
I noticed there were pieces of wood in between the sections where there was a large hole, which allowed space, and in physics allowing that wax bullet to pass through much easier. I'd like to see it done through a solid piece of wood.
K5HLR212 2 years ago
um shouldn't this have been done outside?
Nick28th 2 years ago
Its almost like there's more of a connection between wax and lead because of the softness. Why did we bother going to lead?
Ericspasstime 2 years ago
Cool demo.
shaurz 2 years ago
I've seen a similar demonstration using an Arquebus; firing a candle through a block of wood I mean.
Kargoneth 2 years ago
If I recall correctly (which isn't saying much)... it was on an episode of MythBusters...
Kargoneth 2 years ago
as he got older he had more and more powder in his barrel??
Usually, unfortunately, it usually goes in the other direction....ahem.
GetMeThere1 2 years ago
Great video. I have to admit I find it kind of funny you guys need a license to use a gun over there.
guitardbucket 2 years ago
Love these videos, hello from Canada.
ssnp 2 years ago
Excellent. Muskets are cool. :3
JonatanGronoset 2 years ago
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SocialDeviant77 2 years ago
A slight departure from "periodicity" but most welcome - and surprising! From my school days I recall remarks regarding straws being able to pierce doors at over 200mph. Maybe it's true then...
Also I reckon this is a good use of YouTube, to have a skilled demonstrator perform on video an intriguing - even quirky - experiment that would surely be too dangerous (and probably illegal) for Joe Public or even many educational facilities to carry out.
dajwilkinson 2 years ago 2
They did the straw thing on mythbusters, check it out...
xxmoney91xx 2 years ago
How Amuzing
mecrazy5 2 years ago
Well done !
mrblisterfist 2 years ago
I can't believe he was shooting that thing indoors!
taofledermaus 2 years ago
Great video!
I would like to see if a non-newtonian fluid could be used. It would have to be contained maybe in a baggie or some sort of sabot so it wouldn't spread as it was decelerating in-between the gun and the target. Coming out of the gun it would act like a solid and upon impact it would act as a solid. Afterward it would return to a liquid.
AlphaMark3 2 years ago
jesus christ, no one's commenting about the video. very cool martyn, i've always wanted to fire a musket.
guitar23man23 2 years ago 4
i am planning on studying at nottingham for my first year as a study abroad program :)
iseesquares 2 years ago
He has a pretty good aim.
And it seems so dangerous to fire that gun, kind of scary.
FaintSnow 2 years ago
Gives a whole new meaning to having a BA in chemistry
Mattsashl09 2 years ago
i like chocolate milk
Slyyffer 2 years ago
Who knew this would ignite a mass recitation of NRA/republican talking points? Actually nevermind it was totally predictable.
myrmecophilous 2 years ago
green chemistry eh?
Raykak 2 years ago
Mate, people in the UK don't want to legalise guns because chavy kid can EASILY steal the gun from their parents, go into school and show off how "gangsta" they are.
I mean people die from things like playing real life halo "accidently" in America..
kmohammad2 2 years ago 2
And how many of those kids can pick up a knife?
Apparently a lot.
Raykak 2 years ago
@kmohammad2 Guns are legal in Australia, we don't go about showing how "gangsta" our guns are at school, children as young as 12 and in some states 11 can shoot handguns up to .38 caliber. If you have proper storage requirements the chav won't be able to get the firearm. BTW it is relatively easy to buy a handgun on the black market, especially in the UK.
TheFirearmEnthusiast 1 year ago
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Great video, very interesting! :)
However, the "license to handle a firearms" is unfortunate. Hopefully our UK friends will reverse this encroachment on their liberty.
boxant 2 years ago
It doesn't particularly bother me - if it makes it less likely for the kind of people I wouldn't feel safe around to get a hold of a gun, then good. In fact, if we really want to get into things, people shouldn't have firearms at all, apart from places for shooting targets for recreational or educational purposes.
ScotsmanRS 2 years ago 2
Encroachment my ass, the majority of people in the UK don't want people to be able to legally have guns, check out the number of firearm crimes in america vs them here for your anwser as to why.
LinkStrikesBack 2 years ago 3
I've never seen people so vigorously fight to deny themselves liberty!
boxant 2 years ago
Yup, having the right to shoot each other is liberty yYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAWW
LinkStrikesBack 2 years ago 4
Yes, because owning a firearm equates to murder.
Yikes...
boxant 2 years ago
Thanks to my friend google, by american statistics, I came across this little wonder.
"A gun in the home is 4 times more likely to be involved in an unintentional shooting, 7 times more likely to be used to commit a criminal assault or homicide, and 11 times more likely to be used to attempt or commit suicide than to be used in self-defense. "
VS a knife in the kitchen is several times more likely to be, you know, used for cooking...
LinkStrikesBack 2 years ago 4
How often is the gun used for hunting, or recreational shooting?
Because a tool can be misused, do you ban the tool?
boxant 2 years ago
yep - don't let people who are likely to misuse it have it.
pikmindoctor 2 years ago
If 22 out of every 23 users were going to try and kill someone with a kitchen knife, then yes.
Yes you do.
LinkStrikesBack 2 years ago
Link, if you are going to try to use logic, then be logical. 22 out of 23 gun owners do not commit crimes. I would guess it is less than one out of a thousand, but that is just a guess.
doverlin 2 years ago
If the tool is misused on a regular basis and does more harm than good, then it gets banned. For exampl we don't ban knives because they have an everyday practical use, we use them for cutting food to carving wood. Guns used to be a part of the life of normal people, mainly those to got food from hunting, but because there are cheaper and safer ways of getting food the practical usage of a gun as gone away and getting a gun is subsequently harder.
Slug99 2 years ago 2
So because an extremely small % of people misuse a tool, the tool should be banned for everyone?
Drunk drivers kill people, should we ban cars?
I hear knife crime in the UK is getting bad, despite the ban on a 3"+ blades (and any locking knife).
Cities in the US that have legalized CCW have had drops in crime rates, and cities that have stricter gun laws had increased crime rates.
boxant 2 years ago
Boxant: Since you mentioned cars. We have these things called "driving licenses", which is a license given to people who have proven they know use a car of a certain type which allows them to drive cars on public roads. We also have registration for cars, meaning if you own a car you must report that ownership to the proper authorities. Why shouldn't we apply the same restrictive regulation on guns that we do for cars?
Slug99 2 years ago 2
And don't forget. Cars, and vehicles in general, generate an immense benefit to society, in the form of transportation for people and goods, providing work and row materials to the places where they're needed.
Guns ITOH, provide very little gain to societies in very special situations (hunting, defense, war), and they don't work to deter any government possessing modern warfare equipment.
cthulhex 2 years ago 2
Why should we have to tell the government everything we own?
Honestly, it's none of their business.
tybo09 2 years ago
It's about the negative side effects of zero regulation. THere are always going to be two kinds of gun owners, people who own a gun and use it responsibly and people who own a gun and don't use it responsibly, the latter being a minority of gun owners. The problem is that minority of people cause to much problem in society, just like drunk or reckless drivers does, that we simply cannot have zero regulation.
Slug99 2 years ago
Cambodia, Russia, China, Armenians, Tasmanian Aborigines, Assyrian Genocide, Greek genocide, Serbs, Jews, Romanis, Equatorial Guinea, Burundi genocide, East Timor, Darfur, Ethiopia, Iraqi Kurds . . .
. . . and the list could go on and on but space is limited . . .
The list above is an example of populations that were disarmed or mostly disarmed. Governments do not commit genocide against their own populations that are armed because it would be suicidal to that government.
doverlin 2 years ago
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Yeah, and commiting mass murder against your own people is such a smart move for a government.
America isn't free from it either, don't bother trying to pretend it hasn't happened there, civil war anyone?
LinkStrikesBack 2 years ago
@ LinkStrikesBack,
I think you made my point for me didn't you? The black population was not allowed to arm themselves. How well did they fare?
War is not the same as genocide. Genocide may be committed during war or may be committed and called war. However, genocide is extremely difficult to commit on a large scale against an armed population.
There are no certainties in life. There are only odds of survival. I would rather die crossing the road than be shot blind folded or on my knees
doverlin 2 years ago
@LinkStrikesBack Which is why you have mandatory gun safety courses in other countries that are allowed to have firearms like in Australia. Why do you immediately go to the extreme and use America as an example, where there is no emphasis on gun safety? There are many countries in Europe that allow people to own firearms and even carry them.
TheFirearmEnthusiast 1 year ago
@TheFirearmEnthusiast
Why do I use america as an example? Because its the most well known example of why people shouldn't be allowed to have guns. Yes, I know , blahblahblah guns don't kill people, people kill people, but they make it much easier and serve almost no other purpose
LinkStrikesBack 1 year ago
you confuse 'liberty' with what americans refer to as 'liberty' and the rest of the world scratches their head wondering why we must listen to hypocrites
Myself0101 2 years ago
The State inherently limits the freedoms of people. The goal of a people is to push for the maximization of freedoms and the limitations of State control.
The US State has plenty of issues, many lost liberties. However, we have many people fighting to reverse this.
It saddens me to see other peoples so oblivious to the yoke that is around their neck. Content in their slavery.
boxant 2 years ago
Cool story bro. Talk about the video next time.
IAmRodyle 2 years ago
What the hell is a US State? United States State? Shut up.
InsideLosAngeles 2 years ago