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Can a wax candle blast through a barn door? Yes, when it's fired from a musket! More cool chemistry videos at http://www.periodicvideos.com/

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  • i wonder what other students were thinking when they heard the bang.....ITS A TRAP!!!

  • @LilReaper1010: Our text books can't repel musket fire of that magnitude...

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  • @jhensjh: a chemistry professor probably has no problems getting a gun license. After all, chemists are MUCH more lethal when unarmed! ;)

  • This is not meant to start a gun control debate, but I find it very sad that you need a "firearms license" in the UK to demonstrate an experiment such as this, which has a great deal of educational value, in a university setting especially. Nevertheless, I greatly enjoy the periodic videos.

  • @kydoes Why do you hate fat people? That seems rather arbitrary and discriminatory. Do you approve of racism or other idiotic forms of arbitrary hate?

  • @JusticeYoutubization I hate fat people and I'm American. It's just that the worst of us end up representing everyone.

  • That guy has a "license to handle firearms" and yet he loads the cap on the musket with the hammer at full cock, rather than half cock, and then he lets the hammer rest on the loaded percussion cap, rather than keeping it at half cock (a musket's version of a safety) while loading and until ready to shoot? Not very safe practice if you ask any one of many gun owners in the USA who don't need a gov't issued "license" to handle a firearm properly.

  • In Amharic (Ethiopian national language) this gun is called 'komeh tebekegn' (meaning wait right) there because it takes such a long time to reload

  • I thought it would be a demonstration, because there was no control.

  • @LilReaper1010

    xO

    You have no idea just how funny your sentence CAN be ahahaha xD

    ~Jkun~

  • the guy in the white looks like Mr. Bean

  • Wow...well we're pretty similar in terms of where we were born and raised. That's kinda cool. I guess you prefer it over there, and I prefer it over here! That doesn't bother me. Peace, and enjoy your second amendment rights. :)

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