Thermite With batteries

3 teaspoons of iron oxide with 1 of aluminium. To ignite pour glycerine/glycerol onto the top of a little mound of potassium permanganate with a small well in the middle. I used a little aluminium in with the potassium permanganate to get the reaction a bit hotter to more reliably ignite the thermite

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• thermite
• explode
• rust
• iron
• oxide
• potassium
• permanganate
• glycerol
• aluminium
• fire
• pop
• sparks
• bright

[boogieman626]

Wats in da bottle

[alandrumo]

Glycerine from Tesco. You will find it in the baking section.

[AgentToast2]

is it possible to light thermite with a sparkler?

[alandrumo]

I would have thought so but never tried.

[homemadexplosives101]

so where do the batteries come into all of this?...

[alandrumo]

They are in the thermite. Just felt like sticking them in there for the sake of it as I had them handy when weighing the ingredients.

If I remember right you can hear one pop when the thermite goes off.

[starshock01]

do i hear a goat? baaaahahaaa!!

[stupidgaga]

Not even close to actual thermite. Failure.

[flashman422]

so basically an awesome thermite bomb right?



[OfficeAddict94]

@AgentToast2 a sparkler is thermite

[jnite67]

FIRE! press 7.

[MarkLatimerRussell]

How did you?!

[JuryDutySummons]

@alandrumo I was able to get thermite to ignite with a california-safe sparkler . My thermite was home made all the way and was likely more difficult to start then thermite made from better milled and more pure materials.

[ilessthan3chemistry]

if you live in the uk and need glycerol, or even KMnO4 then boots sell them both, the chemists boots that is. marketed under the medicines isle

[DeViL12351]

how is this from batteries?

[thatboyben1]

@AgentToast2 yer i do it heaps