Krakatoa Tubes - Periodic Table of Videos
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Uploaded by periodicvideos on May 12, 2011
Exploding Krakatoa tubes are a miniature version of just one theory of what caused Krakatoa's demise.
Krakatoa (or Krakatau) was a volcanic island which famously blew apart in August 1883.
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@DMGDx the narrow shot is filmed at 1200fps
It was a very fast explosion!
9 months ago 67
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@theslowmoguys Please try to flim it
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"Do not attempt this yourself"
No problem, I asked my little brother to hold the tube at arms length over our blow torch. He can be so helpful sometimes !
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Take your headphones off !!!!!!!!!!!!
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Single natural event changed sunsets for years but if you leave light on for no reason you're killing us all! :P
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you know i had learn this in core music class. This was supposedly dealing with the science of sound
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@periodicvideos yea I realized that almost immediately (because I have a similar camera) that is insane that even then the explosion was shorter then 1 frame (1/1200 of a second)!
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hotter than red hot? Damn
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these scientists are obsolete
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I was nearly blinded in a manner similar to this. On 2/19/09 I was about 13. I was cooking, when a small tobasco bottle filled partly with baking soda rolled in to the burner. It heated and started to crack, I heard something so I went to look at it, as soon as I looked at, it exploded in to many shards, a few went in to my face, and one went in to my eye. I had to be rushed to the ER. they were barely able to save the eye. My eye sight in my left eye is now permanently damaged .
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@MrGuitarZeppelin I can finally touch my toes!
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Blimey, I think even our cameras would struggle with that!
theslowmoguys 9 months ago 44
@theslowmoguys well you're welcome to try... we have a few things waiting for you!
periodicvideos 9 months ago 25
I love the content of these videos but I frequently hear the word experiment used incorrectly. These activities are demonstrations, not experiments.
EA78751 9 months ago
@EA78751 we're demonstrating something that was once an experiment (there must have been a first person who said "I wonder what happens if I heat the sealed tube)
At what point does an experiment stop being an experiment and become a demonstration?
Careful how you answer... it might make you sound a bit snobbish about science! :)
I think it's an experiment with a little "e" - we're still doing something to see what happens and recording the results?
periodicvideos 9 months ago 15
This comment has received too many negative votes show
@periodicvideos I think most folks would agree that there is nothing experimental about repeating a procedure just to observe its known results. No one calls it an experiment to put water in the freezer just to make ice cubes. I think we are in danger of misleading students into thinking that any 'science-y' activity can be properly labeled an experiment. I dont want to sound pompous and over-educated but I wanted to make this point. Looking forward to more videos :-)
EA78751 9 months ago
@EA78751 well you do sound SLIGHTLY pompous... a lot of people have never seen Krakatoa Tubes so for them the results are far from known.... Just like for a young child putting water in the freezer would be new and experimental...
You don't sound over-educated (is there such a thing?)... maybe just pedantic and with a very "traditional" view of what constitutes an experiment!
You write polite and well-constructed comments though - so that's refreshing! :)
periodicvideos 9 months ago 14