Water Cooler Bottle Methanol Fireball (Mad Physics)

A five gallon fireball in a water cooler drum. Read more at madphysics.com

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Science & Technology

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• Fireball
• explosion
• water
• cooler
• flame
• fire
• pyromaniac
• pyro
• mad
• physics
• science
• chemistry
• mathanol
• burn

[BallinMafia]

so... who farted in the bottle??

[Darkscholar21]

80 people try to use this as a jet pack and died.

[zunk2150]

And the only thing the uploader posted was "read more" Not what concentration of methanol or the possible dangers. Ok, it was a little bit pretty, but potentially dangerous.

[johngettler]

I think this kid got burned in a middle school science class watching this experiment:

minnesota.cbslocal.com/2011/12­/01/3-students-burned-at-maple­-grove-junior-high-school/

[PyR0Star]

@UseAbuseReuse farts? i wonder what the gennus book or world records is for people simultaniuos combustion by lighting thier farts on fire. Now there's one for the books!

[UseAbuseReuse]

Light 10 of them at once, lol.

[jmniskanen]

@AttentionAllHaters

You just won the internets.

[AttentionAllHaters]

@jmniskanen

I honestly don't know why we're discussing this. Clearly, nobody was hurt, so there isn't even a reason for it. In other news, OMFG, BOTTLE OF FIRE XD

[jmniskanen]

@AttentionAllHaters

Well, proper safety gear is always necessary to ensure none is hurt :p and at least here we are taught at school to handle dangerous substances with certain caution so I guess they "should" know what they are doing.

[AttentionAllHaters]

@jmniskanen

You're right, but accidents do happen. Say he trips and the methanol goes into a friend's eyes, or some other crazy, unlikely catastrophe. You make a good point, but it's just generally safer to not use toxic substances.

[jmniskanen]

@AttentionAllHaters

I assume they didn't drink it. As methanol burns, it forms carbon dioxide and water, so nothing dangerous here really.