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The Dangers of Magnesium (Mad Physics)

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Here you can see how a small spark causes a big fire in our magnesium experiment. Don't try this at home! www.madphysics.com

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  • "don't try this at home, Try it at a friends house"

  • In school lab I was having some fun with magnesium and then I droped pure magenisum powder 20 cm over bunse burner... my righ sleeve got burned, I lost all hair on lower parts of my hand and got burned. So the lesson of this is: Never ever under any cirmumstance drop pure magnesium powder over bunsen burner!!!

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  • screw that, i wanna use magnesium in an experiment

  • The MythBusters guys set off 1000 pounds of thermite to try to burn a car in half. To see how that turned out, see my video:

    Incendiary Experiments

  • That's why we should use uranium.It's much safer

  • @DrModd

    Hehe.

    I once held a magnesium strip (With thoose twerzer things, of course) (About as long as my wrist to me middle finger (7 - 10 cm)) to a bunsen burner burning blue. Oh man, it lit up like the fourth of july. Except i didnt get burned much...

  • Mercedes used it to mKe their seats lol

  • was at a salvage yard-had an old magnesium engine block, we broke off a piece, and hit it with an acetelene torch, and dropped it in a radiator valve. probably the coolest thing a VW and a volvo could ever do.

  • @darkstripeCAT13 And you're. asshole :P

  • @DrModd there is one circumstance:

    you're emo

  • @nerdlydood

    a big hot hole... WAIT WHY ISNT IT WET?

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