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Breaking Bad: Thermite from a toy, is it possible?

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Published on Dec 30, 2015

so people intermittently ask me questions about science on TV shows. One in particular was the scene in Breaking Bad about if you can really make thermite from an etch-a-sketch (or a generic version of one). Honestly, this was in the maybe pile for me, because if indeed it was fine aluminium in the etch-a-sketch, then yeah, it would be relatively straightforwards to make thermite from it. It would also be possible to see if you could indeed melt through a lock with it.

So with that I ordered myself an etch-a-sketch...... and went experimenting :-)

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