Fire from Water??

Making fire from a beaker of water!

How do I do it? Chemistry of course! This is the classic Bleach + HCl + Calcium Carbide Trick.

10-4-09: I've actually gotten a decent amount of questions about how this works, so I'll do my best to explain it. I first added some Hydrochloric Acid to a container of sodium hypochlorite solution (bleach) to create chlorine gas. I then added Calcium Carbide, which reacts with the water in the solution to produce acetylene gas. The acetylene reacts with the chlorine gas and causes the acetylene to ignite.

See my other videos to see lasers that burn things!

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Science & Technology

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[j822bosh]

Finally, someone with the "stones" to try a carbide experiment aside from just adding it to water. Everybody wants to be on youtube but nobody wants to be original(rolleyes)

[how2ninja4dummies]

Chlorine gas?

Don't breathe it... lol.

Cool vid!

[zombiepancakes21]

@lilzee96 no -.-

[lilzee96]

potassium -.-

[sparky1570784]

i remember doing this in science class

[TheSpecialToolboxKid]

Soooo........

If I don't have my matches - I just whip out my Bleach + Hydrochloric Acid + Calcium Carbide?

Huh..?

[KamiDOTexe]

But will it blend?

[jadoneugene]

no offense or anything, and that's pretty cool, but it's been done before.

[jadoneugene]

Congradulations! You just found out what a chemical fire is.

[csTerminator2]

its just a chlorine gas and sodium! they reacts and make heat fire

[xauru]

WOOT

[mustang1na]

nice