Fun with Chemistry

Fun times in my lab aide class, dealing with dangerous chemicals. Here's all clips clumped into one, set to Here it Goes Again by OK Go.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• chemical
• explosion
• explosive
• NI3
• fire
• roman
• candle
• acid
• dangerous
• chemistry

[Mattersmatter]

what are the chemicals for the first reaction, it seems like it would make grate rocket fuel

[GreatestLegend]

We actually just grinded potassium chlorate and sugar with one another, and then added drops of sulfuric acid to set it off. I still think it's pretty crazy that only those three can create fire like that.

[MrBigMOproduction]

@DOOOMFANG onyournees

[Alvz0r]

I farted.

[DOOOMFANG]

please teach me chemistry i really would like to know more about it.

[szymonbartus]

Very nice nitrogen triiodide explosion! I tried myself to detonate two paper sheets, one under another and it was good. You made this with four samples of NI3! I love the color of iodine stains. I have mostly detonate samples which were drying all night and the explosions had brown stains. You have to did this after short time.

[Mattersmatter]

yeah, well chemistry is awesome. Haha, yeah that is actually a fairly efficient rocket fuel (it's used by amatures and in some small military applications like hellfire missiles as a component fuel). Next you guys should work on making super symmetrical monomethyl hydrazine and use nitrogen tetroxide as an oxidizer to produce an awesome hypergolic thruster! I don't think this has ever been attempted by a chemistry lab before either!