White Phosphorus, Chemiluminescence and Pyrophoricity

Two of my last small blobs were spent on making this video.
So there you have it. A closeup of one of the scariest substances out there.

It fumes, it glows, it burst into flames, though the glow can't be appreciated in this video, so here's a more natural looking photo:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/endimion17/6055914862/in/photostream
(it's not phosphorescence, it's chemiluminescence)

I've put another version at Wikipedia. Now there's finally a hi-res photo of WP glowing on the Web.

I won't say how I've made it. It is way too dangerous, and lots of stupid kids could get hurt. I don't want that, and I'm furious when I see dumb kids doing careless shit. You can actually DIE if you mess with this. Head of a needle can kill you, and if it doesn't kill you, it wrecks your liver and bones.

I'm actually very afraid of WP. It's pretty, but the strained atoms in its P4 molecules just want to get hold of anything out there, and they do it very well.
It's best if it's kept as an element sample in a small vial of water.

Video contains 3 scenes: fuming and glowing, spontaneous combustion and reaction with chlorine.

At first it was disabled, because someone clearly thinks it's not cool to use a remix for the soundtrack of this educational video.
Now there's a scary soundtrack from one old movie which is very... ontopic. The movie is "The Young Poisoner's Handbook" (performer unknown, it's not even listed in the soundtrack list), and the music is called "March from 'Funeral Music for Queen Mary'", written by famous composer Henry Purcell. The same music was used in the intro of Clockwork Orange, only on an analogue synthesizer (composer Wendy Carlos).

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• white
• phosphorus
• chemiluminescence
• pyrophoricity
• glow
• chemistry
• fosfor
• kemija

[giselahg2002]

Merda ideo

[giselahg2002]

Merda

[yellowmetalcyborg]

Alchemists used to think this was the philosopher's stone. Oh how wrong they were :)

[megamarko94]

where can i download the song?