Home chemistry, where we try and investigate the cutting edge of modern explosives science, talk about some of the classics of the energetics field and just generally shitpost.
Explosions&Fire(1) ran from 2011-2017, with over 90 videos on various chemistry and energetics, before we got 3 community guideline strikes in 2 hours, for putting children in danger (ourselves from 2011) and spam (seriously).
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There's also a rad discord for this channel now! The biggest** (unverified) chemistry discord, it's a great community!! discord.gg/VR6Fz9g
Extractions&Ire is the 'second channel' of this me, Tom. Hello. You can subscribe there for more detailed synths of things that wont necessarily blow up at the end of it!
Hi, nice video, I like the crazy entertaining style. Now for more practical methods of concentration - you mentioned that distillation is too dangerous. For our chemiluminescence experiments, I need 70-80% H2O2 to be diluted with tBuOH, I need about a litre or so. I thought about a simpler method - going back to first principles: You mentioned that H2O2 has a lower vapour pressure than H2O, but vacuum distillation is very dangerous, especially in glass apparatus. How about taking a plastic HDPE bottle, placing 35% H2O2 inside, warm it to 35 °C on a water bath and simply bubble air (several cubic meteres over the span of 10 hours) through it through HDPE or PTFE tubing? The air would have to be clean, as not to carry over any dirt causing decomposition. The air stripping could effectively replace the distillation and still achieve the same effect. What do you think? Simple acquarium air pump of 450 l/h could imho do the job.
Perhaps the carbonate breaks down to produce carbon dioxide to quench the sulfur so itbdoes not react with the oxygen in the air and instead react with the nitrate
All the welders cringing the whole time 😮 lol love your videos! But if you want to learn to use a torch RU-vid can be a great place. Its kinda where you live after all
I think the rocket fuel equivalent of adding hydrogen trioxide to peroxide is like when they added liquid ozone to their liquid oxygen in order to increase density and efficiency of the oxidiser. Problem was just: It ate away the tanks due to the Mono oxygen given off from the ozone, and it also had a tendency to explode on its own. Triple oxygen is just not something you want to mess with in any shape or form.
I'm gonna present my unga bunga theory why it explodes whith absolutely no basis and not built on anything but alchemy thinking: So the stuff burns quite well even when cooled down, so could it just be that around 320 degrees is the ignition tempereature, and it just combusts extra rapidly when hot enough.
Your paper is honestly pretty normal till we get to the conclusion and everything after. Calling all modern science a sham is a pretty bold move when we've all seen your % yields. I loved it.
H. Peroxide is great because it releases atomic oxygen, a single unbound oxygen, rather than molecular oxygen (O2). Same way free nitrogen is crazy reactive where N2 is nearly inert.
That explosive comp is used in modern fireworks called dragons eggs. The most common one is in green plastic balls that explode like 100 little firecrackers almost all at once.
Wait, you use the word "flecks" to refer to spots? That sounds like a German improvising because he doesn't know the English word. It's "Flecken" in German.
hey man, love the videos! was just thinking it might be cool if you did a video on greek fire? i remember reading a while back that some scientists were able to finally recreate it, and i think it might be cool to explore. keep doin what youre doin!
