How to Make an Alcohol Lamp

In this tutorial I am going to teach you how to make a simple lamp from household materials. This lamp is great for power outages and other stuff like camping.

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Howto & Style

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• kerosene
• lamp
• hacks
• chempediatv
• isopropyl

[dmoath]

Thanks! i'm replacing all the old candles in my house with a more ellaborated version of this concept.

[ChempediaTV]

sweet

[wysiwydg]

What are the chances that this might explode?

Here in our country we use the same equipment, kerosene and a nice piece of cloth. Oh and one thing, is this nature-friendly?

[ChempediaTV]

Next to nothing,the alcohol inside the jar cant catch on fire because there is not any or nearly any oxygen in the jar! Also yes this is very friendly to the environment because the simple alcohols do not have as much carbon in them as kersosene there for...........less pollution!

[TunedAmg]

nice video :)

i like all your hacks and tips and stuff. 5/5

[ChempediaTV]

Thank you!

[cdstrenn]

@1fatbastard no actually its not cause the jar isnt air tight but if u make it with a piece of cotton like i recomend it would but its also better to use indoors with cotton cause theres. no odor

[hoss353]

Folks, you can use just over the counter rubbing alcohol, don't have to be looking for any specific grade of alcohol. Made em myself when I was a kid and that's been over 40 years.

[saritajakhere]

So that is 99% Isopropyl alcohol? Where can I buy it from? Walgreens? Walmart?

[1fatbastard]

Don't drop it, or you will have a huge fire on your hands. This is like Molotov Cocktail(ish).

[emmettebrown]

can i use 70% alcohol? I can't find 99% on our store

[unko341]

I am doing this in project in science and It works. Tnx man!

[LiquidChem]

@wysiwydg whenever you BURN ANYTHING, it hurts nature.

[GARMIN2009]

the glass will broke from the heat ....be careful

[ferthur01]

@MichaelJavert if memory serves, it's the Windows Welcome Music, plays when you are doing the final stage of setup on a windows xp install. I believe the file is called title.wma.