Reaction of Magnesium with Carbon Dioxide

[SFXray]

Very interesting! I'm studying chemistry by myself and these kinds of videos help me a lot! Thanks xD

[jadipoo7754]

Ikr

[kush997]

carbon dioxide does not put out a magnesium fire......interesting shit

[NaztyChicken]

Is it me or did someone whisper DAMN 0:09

[DaTalantedKiD]

dam,y put the white thing on top of it

[tracemaster100]

the color that stuff burns is my most favorite color.

[thatgirlbryony]

Anyone else think the narrator sounds scarily like GLaDOS??

[ciaoiosonoio]

Niiicee!

[officialspaceefrain]

one simple comment and everyone goes bezzerK lol... My point was this experiments... is useless.. jiji

[gabe0083]

bill nye would probably say

ITS SCIENCE!

[twilightknight123]

Separate carbon dioxide from the air and turn it to dry ice... Burn magnesium with it to produce magnesium oxide and carbon.... Bury the carbon and separate magnesium and oxygen... Repeat the process with separated and recycled magnesium.

[dogracha93]

@twilightknight123

the energy used for that process would be immense. You would have to use some type of power source to extract the carbon from the air, separate the magnesium oxide, and bury the carbon.

[jeff77789]

oh great. so water and carbon dioxide can't put out magnesium fires =0

[HolyTerrorist0]

Holy-Terrorist:>*=* woow, that awesome cool!!!!!!

what haved magnesium(Mg) and sulfur dioxide(SO2) make the sulfur(S) and magnesium oxide(MgO)?

i speaking french and little english

[porcofederal]

@HolyTerrorist0 PROBABLY you get 3Mg + 1SO2 => 2MgO + 1MgS. as magnesium reacts normally with elemental sulphur

[destroyed14MCfly]

put a 1 ton chunk into dry ice ^.^

that is like chukc norris lights a candle

cool video

[coreykinard]

Spirit Bomb

[guyboy625]

@officialspaceefrain Without people doing chemical shit, you wouldn't have a computer. Maybe that would be for the better.

[twilightknight123]

@officialspaceefrain You could hypothetically use this reaction to solve global warming...

[Vain11dan]

@officialspaceefrain almost everything you use in your house is a product of people 'wasting' their lives with chemical shit. the paint on your walls, the metals in your computer, lol if you'd like to go back to a time where you gotta grow your crops without fertilizer, soil testing equipment, live in a house that has no electricity, painted walls, glass, most types of modern metals have fun. Otherwise Shut the fuck up and show some respect to those who've made our lives easy.

[TheFucktardTV]

@officialspaceefrain fuck you

[knallcop1]

woow wtf, nice

[rishibalasaria]

cool vid, really impressive

the equation is

Mg+CO2= MgO + C + heat(triangle)

right

[Faqural831]

he forgot the 4th step..........place burning dry ice blocks into swimming pool and run like hell

[thechloroformer]

dry ice i presume



[ladyhinata17]

boring as fuck but still pretty cool

[ladyhinata17]

boring as fuck but still cool

[TheMasterRCH]

lmao awesome!

[kirbyfan95]

"continues to glow" is a bit of an understatement.

[DrMarkForeman]

good experiment

[deathandria]

Hey! I never learned this in physics! @_@ epic

[dunn0r]

@deathandria that would be because it's chemistry....

[roblocksrocks]

go 2 mindpaint's channel he said on his show mr g show that he will send off rockets with powdered magnesium which when light will burn aprox. 3 times brighter than the sun ooh pretty light

[Thymonico]

Wheee!

I want to have magnesium! How can I make some? (buying is for cheaters) :)

[deathnoteviewer]

You could propably extract magnesium from certain compounds through electrolysis.

Your best bet would propably be buying some Magnesium from a store. :)

[Thymonico]

That's for cheaters! xD

I might steal some though... Hmm... :P

[DigitalDailyStore]

@Thymonico can't make it fool

[DesertedBaby]

make? you'd need highly unstable radioactive elements to "make"

you can distill it from magnesium compounds through redox reactions however you might want to learn a bit of high school chemistry to do this

just type up purification of copper by electrolysis if you want to know more or even redox reactions

[superyck]

@Thymonico

electrolysis of molten ore containing magnesium (if you can do it in home)=)

[AHW214]

2Mg + CO2 = 2MgO + C

[tarkuk]

Mg + CO2 ----> awesome

[douro20]

What do you use? Halon?

[xasthurhead]

Burning magnesium is so fun lol. It is so bright when met with a blowtorch

[gamotonfasismo]

will this work gas co2???

[dudejohnny]

Learn grade 1 grammar before jumping into grade 9-10 science.

[gamotonfasismo]

stupid asshole i am from greece.i learned english by myself. learn greek and then come back. idiot.

[MaximusLimus]

Where did you get the magnesium?

[hinatandnaruto]

is magnesium an oxididizer???

[z3r01245]

Yep

[dragonridley]

No, the CO2 acts as an oxidizer.

[Pimpmastahanhduece]

no, the oxidizer is the chemical that supplies the oxygen. when magnesium burns its hot enough to break chemical bonds because magnesium wants oxygen much more than carbon does.

[blaaskaak666]

Magnesium is a reductor. It reduces the CO2 to C and O2, because it wants to form magnesium oxide.

[th1nkman]

Do you think this could be used to synthesize CO2 out of the atmosphere??? If the CO2 was gathered using some kind of thermal vacuum or filter, then it could be processed and removed from the atmosphere...I'm sure someone has already considered this tho :/

[oomblikkies]

Good comment , but in reality the proposed process it is too expensive because pure magnesium is expensive.

[Pimpmastahanhduece]

probably not, you need to completely isolate the co2 from oxygen or the reaction would be terribly innefficient. if we capture co2 as pure and in large quantities, why waste the money pressurizing it into a liquid then freezing it. they try to capture co2 from buildings that produce alot and pump it underground.

[303patrick]

If you completly isolate oxygen from CO2 you get C.

[Pimpmastahanhduece]

yes i know, its called a single replacement reaction.

[superyck]

@th1nkman

It is way too expensive to use pure metal to do so,,just guessing, unless you can find a cheaper method to extract metal

[1Benzy]

O_O Thats awesome!!!!! :D

[ZomgAnime00]

Ty uploader now ill try

[Fabiana288]

"Damn" 0:09

[Saromi7]

i love science

[MrMariofan7]

@Saromi7

me too

[Saromi7]

@MrMariofan7

hehe :D

[DuchesneLover]

Science is fun!

[doug123yt]

One of the best I've seen! We (my kids and I) did something similar, please enjoy our new video: "Magnesium burning in dry ice (high quality)". Comments, ratings welcome!

[chriss258]

lol at the tiny "duh" sound at 0:10

[Kylork]

That was the torch igniting.

[brilliance201]

prima gemacht

[niamyhill]

very very helpful ! thanks x

[libtechsk8er]

I did this a few years ago, and I figured out a way to separate the elemental Carbon from the magnesium oxide that you get from the reaction: Pour it in hydrochloric acid (muriatic acid) and let it sit for a few days so the MgO will dissolve completely. Then pour it through a paper filter, (such as a coffee filter) and you are left with relatively pure, elemental carbon that you can add to your element collection. :)

[its329571]

interresting to see the carbon

[wow1022]

molecule after reaction?

[paronfisk]

MgO + C

[oomblikkies]

2Mg + CO2 -> 2MgO + C

[Pimpmastahanhduece]

wow finally a way to get pure Carbon with no impurities.

[paronfisk]

I will think of this the next time my magnesium house catches on fire...

[Trinitrotoluene101]

rofl.

[ansonthepyromaniac]

fucker

[Libertarianist]

Yes, I would imagine magnesium to redox with carbon dioxide.

[2706588]

sweet!

[Ulti13]

what can u use to extinguish magnesium

[bassbone1785]

sand, dirt, something that is solid and can smother the fire

[flyingfish555]

While you are correct...I thought I would point out that under the right circumstances even SiO2 can be stripped of its oxygen by magnesium. There was a guy who was injured when his ball mill blew while milling magnesium. The source of oxygen was supposedly the Cab-O-Sil (flour-consistancy silicon dioxide) he was using as a dispersant while milling the Mg.

[Marcus4president]

or dry chemical

[arande3]

Use a block of solid oxygen instead lol :P

[RegalisLocustii]

Oxygen doesn't sublime like carbon dioxide, so it forms a powder instead of a block.

[arande3]

Ooh I didn't know that! Thanks man

[metallicaruels31]

powder can be pressed in to a block idiot

[RegalisLocustii]

You could, but it would be rather difficult due to the fact solid oxygen is nearly as low as absolute zero. If you tried to compress the powder it would either freeze your equipment or the oxygen would turn back into a liquid. BTW never call me an idiot again.

[metallicaruels31]

the metal that is used can be cold and who said that it was mechanical it can be hydrolic press and BTW ur not my mom and ill call u wat ever i want you retarded idiot

[RegalisLocustii]

The problem with your answer once more is that hyrodaulics use liquids and would probably freeze. I also believe you meant Pneumatics. I have arguments like this with a guy I know in school, it's fun, I always win.

[metallicaruels31]

hey retard if you no amything about hydrolics then you should know that hydrolic fluid dosnt freeze

[RegalisLocustii]

It doesn't freeze, that made me laugh. Fool, everything freezes at some temperature. And, going from the fact hydraulic fluid is a liquid at room temperature, it has a significantly lower freezing point than oxygen. You should go learn the basics of physics it'll help you in life.

[metallicaruels31]

hydrolic fluid is a very low freezing liquid and freezes at a colder temp than oxygen end of story

[RegalisLocustii]

Oxygen = -218 degrees celsius.

Hydraulic Fluid = lowest -150 degrees celsius.

Just face that you lose and I win. As you said, end of.

[metallicaruels31]

fuck you dude im only 14

[ZomgLolPants]

That was awesome, DO IT AGAIN!

[metallicaruels31]

just watch it again

[JLsays6]

fag got done

[eltotoX]

Hahahah "ur not my mom".

[piroflash93]

rofl I just read that whole argument You pwnd him

[RegalisLocustii]

It was such a fun arguement, he lost on every point. :P Even when he said he was only 14, because I was 13 at the time LMAO. Morons, eh? XD

[JimIgnatowski]

OK then, my question would be: what to use on a larger magnesium fire, should you put on some dark sunglasses and just run?

[solgatekeeper]

I burned magnesium strips in chem class and it was maybe almost kinda like looking into the sun. Looking at magnesium burn in dry ice would probably be MUCH brighter in real life than in a vid.

[uzamaki654]

i did that in school too. ur right...it would be much more brighter! i burnt me eyes out i think!

[Pa1ntballGuitarist]

holy crap that looked cool

[blackseraphmike]

it burns so hot that it can rip oxygen right off of carbon dioxide. burning magnesium can rip oxygen off of water, also, which is why you sometimes see people using flares underwater.

[deidarax13x]

dam thats awesome

[SeikoPsycho]

the dude looked so scared trying to put that block of dry ice over the magnesium!

[UltimatrixmaN]

That's freakin' neato.

Now I have to search for the Bill Nye the Science Guy theme.

[ArogiHo]

Omg that dude!

[Koolaidman125]

rofl xD