Exploding Balloons - Propane Sli-Mad Sci

Demonstration Material is Dangerously-Stupid, do not try this yourself.
Balloons full of propane igniting at 300 frames per second! W00t!

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"Sugar Plum Dark Mix" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com - used with permission)

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[Maleblade]

Do you think you could use an Areogel matrix filled with hydrogen

and see what happens.

I an curious.

[TaoOfPooh26]

@Maleblade If I have the ability someday to make an aerogel block for that purpose, I'll let you know.

[applesweeter]

How do you have the spark to ignite the balloon? By a broken or by a high-voltage discharge.

[TaoOfPooh26]

@applesweeter By a HV discharge. 15000 v 60 ma. To ensure it not only breaks the baloon, but thoroughly ignites the gas.

[gregsmetalworks]

How many houses have you burned down?

[TaoOfPooh26]

None. Sorry to disappoint, eh?

I've actually been doing stuff like this for over 20 years.  No injuries and no loss of personal property during that time.

[mr420ishigh]

Bill bill bill bill bill!!!!

[thewii552]

why have there been no new vids on the subject like was said?

[sykon5]

what?? did you do somthing like this inside your garage!!??

[Raxilla]

Any comparisons to Adam Savage yet?

[Raxilla]

Cool. So are you going to be doing everything the traditional disclaimer tells you not to try at home?

As for the video. An observation I was able to ascertain was that the explosion was slightly different than I had anticipated it to be. It seems the gas dropped just a bit before it was ignited by the spark. I figured the gas would have risen instead.

[TheRealVerbz]

:o)

[arloj]

"A splodey face is a sad face". Awesome.

[H33LYcRaZeD]

You're freakin' awesome

[BAZHE]

love it

[Desitara1]

My god u might have burnt a lota of houses while u experiment ... lol