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Electrical Experiment 3 - Wire Wool vs 9v + Fluff

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Uploaded by on Jan 31, 2007

This is what happens when you create a short circuit between the terminals of a 9v battery using wire wool. The wire wool creates electrical arcs, add some fluff from the tumble dryer and voila! Fire!!

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  • nice. i tryed that but the steel wool just doesnt want to get going, does it have to be certain steel wool?

  • Is the battery flat? Don't know about the wool, i assumed it was all the same.

  • If i do this with a 12 volt alarm battery, Will I blow My Head Off?

  • no, well......not your head anyway, hehe.

  • Another trick is if you go camping take some wire wool and when you want to make a nice camp fire you can..and it don't matter if the wire wool gets wet just shake off the water and away you go.But don't forget the 9 volt battery though....

  • yep, excellent way to start a fire in the rain, so long as you can find dry wood, lol

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  • cool. Tip: dub some music over your breathing next time

  • I did the same thing by accident in high school electronics class about 10 years ago when I threw what I thought was a dead 9V battery into a bin of steel wool (which I thought was just a normal bin). Suffice to say the class loved the resulting fire but the teacher did not.

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  • @mattcadders I've had the same problem, but I've had success in the past. The stuff that burns seems to have a blue tint.

  • @XTIRP8 the thinner the better and when it starts to burn blow really hard on it then put something like a tissue or something flammable

  • @166FELIX991

    Felix, HALTS MAUL!!!!

  • immer diese schleich werbung xD

  • @the06bug I got told off for it but I think they believed me that it was an accident.

  • @astrant82 Did you get in trouble at all? I hope for their sake they believed it was an accident (sounds like an accident to me)

  • i found out this experiment the hard way and my dads tool shed lost its life fxxxing thing was a wast of space anyway and my summer house is there now mha ha ha haaaaa jaffa cakes

  • it is maby suppose to feel, "live"! :-)

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