Bill Nye - Firepower

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Uploaded by on May 26, 2009

Apparently, nobody taught Bill not to play with matches. Or butane torches. Watch and learn, kids!

First aired March 23, 1991
Copyright King 5 - Almost Live!

[ GB does not encourage kids to play with matches. Unless they live in South King County. ]

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  • For anyone wondering, what he's mixing with the sugar is KNO3 - potassium nitrate, a.k.a. saltpeter. It is one of the core ingredients of old-fashioned gunpowder (the only known explosive before the discovery nitroglycerine), but by itself is not at all flammable - if hot enough, it can melt, but never burn. Had he shown it not burning before he mixed it with the sugar, it would have probably made a better demonstration, showing just how the KNO3 "unlocks" the chemical energy in the sugar.

  • "I've got a device here, to cause some more fire"

  • Bill Nye The Fire Guy

  • hipsters would dye for those red glasses

  • Science damn you

  • I need to do this for a project does anyone know where i can get all the materials needed and what does he burn sugar and what ?

  • You can actually sieve flour and then shoot it out of a cannon and past a flame and it will burn.

  • natural gasses, OF SCIENCE!

  • Ach!! the goggles, they do nothing!!

  • Its basically a potato gun but still awesome. Great vid!

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