Why does Cody have so many problems with RU-vid. He is only showing science experiments in a fun and interesting way. The world would be better off with more people interested in science like him, thinking outside the box. Keep it up Cody!!
I like that he still does videos on what he wants. But I feel like he could use some more disclaimers. Like right at the start Do not try this at home. Or like.. This is a visually impressive reaction but can not be used to make bombs. Something at the start to protect himself more from youtube's over reactions. So that if a video gets hit as inappropriate and he gets someone to watch it to overturn it he has something in his favor right away.
Jared Springer - the problem isn’t with Cody and RU-vid. Cody is far smarter then me! And he explains and shows how science works for the rest of us. If you take what you learned from Cody and used it to kill/bomb people, certain legal parties would hold RU-vid responsible. Hence why they have to pre-screen all their videos. And why Cody has issues with their algorithm ( I could go on, but I’m not going to )
So so wrong. 1. Look up safe harbor provisions. 2. RU-vid does NOT pre screen every video. 3. Some hits are algorithmic, but I would bet many mare are an asshole with the report button. Especially since many were up for months/years before being flagged.
The people running RU-vid right now are part of a leftist cult that don't believe in personal responsibility. So to them, this kind of information is dangerous - they also hate all the gun channels.
Jared Springer - Hey, does your theory apply to making speed, say? The author of MiHKAL and PiHKAL was a friend of mine. DEA was all over him - just pure abusive government. Brought to you by Mr. Clinton by the way. Left/right had nothing to do with it. Look Sasha up. Amazing man.
Every time Cody uses the little blowtorch to ignite his oxy torch it reminds me of Hank Hill using a small can of wd-40 to loosen the lid of a bigger can of wd-40
a classic but made me think and I can't recall if they ever had metal caps. Like there's a piece of a memory of wd40 cans that came with a lid made from something and a design that could get stuck in a way wd40 itself would help with but it feels fabricated.
"approximately 2 square nano light seconds of foil, it has a mass of about 5×10²⁴ AMU" this man avoids both metric AND imperial. He uses his own system.
I love the metric system because you can measure absolutely everything from 7 physical constants: 1. The speed of light in a vacuum 2. The hyperfine transition frequency of a caesium-133 atom 3. Planck's constant 4. The Boltzmann constant 5. The electrical charge of a proton 6. Avogadro's number 7. The luminous efficiency of a 555 nm monochromatic light source In other words we can contact aliens and tell them how many of each base unit corresponds to a physical constant they can measure experimentally, and they will be able to understand our measurements naturally. Everything else follows from the 7 constants. A second is 9192631770 times the hyperfine transition frequency of caesium. A metre is 1/299792458 of the distance travelled by light in a second. A kilogram is some number times the Planck constant times one second divided by a meter squared. A newton is the force required to accelerate a kilogram at 1 m/s² (this is true even on planets with different gravity). A joule is the energy required to push something with a force of 1 newton for 1 metre. A watt is the power required to expand one joule of energy per second. And so on.
@@marc-andreservant201 Avogadro's number is hardly a physical constant. It's based on the gram and the carbon-12 atom. While the concept of the mole is probably universal, Avogadro's number is arbitrary
@@Pseud0nymTXT My gut feeling is that the people who make thermite bombs and the people who understand how to make thermite bombs are two different groups. 'the understanders hand the instructions on what to do to the builders, and stand a looooong way back. Also, while it worked, it didn't work well. "there was supposed to be an earth shattering kaa-boom!" but there wasn't. a nano light second is 0.982 feet. In nano light seconds the ideal figure for a woman 3,2,3, which is what you'd call a prime figure.
LHCreeper no I’m pretty sure it’s for the people who bug him over wether he uses meters or inches or whatever. Telling them they don’t know shit and should get off his ass.
Interesting. I used to handle thermite when I was in Vietnam. We worked in the world of encryption, and the large encryption devices we used would, on occasion stop working. Well when that happened, the rules required one operator (at that time it was me) and an NCO with a crypto clearance (as well as Secret clearance) to accompany the device to the repair center, where we would hand it off and receive a special receipt that allowed us to return to our unit without the device. On one such trip, the reason for the rules became apparent when some damn VC or NVA made a lucky shot and hit the engine of our Huey Helicopter. The pilot was a good one, he auto-rotated us down into the dense jungle, finding a sort of clearing large enough for us to sort of land, but it was a rough one. We made out OK, the pilot broke his ankle copilot broke his wrist, and SSG Tiny and myself unloaded our cargo and took it what we figured was a safe distance from the downed chopper. Tiny attached the thermite grenade to the top of the unit, as required by the SOI, then pulled the pin and we began to back off. Well the damn grenade fell on it's side just as it began to burn, Tiny ran forward and righted it, burning the hell out of his right hand! So there were 3 purple hearts issued, Tiny received a bronze star, I got an Army Commendation Medal for what, I haven't got a clue. In fact nobody even told me they had put me in for one, about three months after I returned to the States, I received this package that I had to sign for, and in it was an Arcom with a nice paper to hang on the wall saying it was awarded for meritorious service in a combat zone on the date of the crash. I was plum pleased not to get a purple heart since I was not injured. I never heard from Tiny again as when we were picked up about an hour later, he was evacuated to a hospital at Da Nang, as were the pilot and co-pilot.
Powerful boomer energy comment He grabbed a thermite granade? He fucking deserved that medal that was beyond the call of duty poor fingers must have turned into burnt sausages.
I did something similar back in high school chem lab. We used aluminum shavings from metal shop and a blue iron oxide powder from the grounds keeper's bench where they sharpened the lawnmower blades. We put the mixure in an aluminum soda can and ignited it with a propane torch. WORKED GREAT!
I used to be a brakeman on the CSX RR and not sure if what you saw is what actually was happening. If you notice, most railroads no longer have the 'clickity-clack' on their main lines. This is due to the installation of what's called "ribbon rail". It comes in 1/4 mile lengths and instead of using the conventional rail splices, nuts & bolts to connect this rail to another piece of existing rail, they now weld the two pieces together. However, they also do not use the conventional technique of 'stick' welding. They place a mold around the rail, pour thermite into the mold then light it and walk away. This melts the rail, fusing it together with a very strong weld. They let it cool, remove the mold, then grind any rough spots or slag. Once completed on this section of rail, you will notice that when a train rolls over it, no 'clickety-clack'. I no longer work for the RR, but I will tell you that I missed the clickety-clack... had a kind of hypnotic effect on me. Probably not very safe for the public. But the ribbon rail lulls you to sleep.
Awesome, Cody. I made thermite as a kid and getting powdered aluminum was the absolute worst. We'd get aluminum anything and just grind it down for hours... Amazing you got it to work with foil.
The iron you get out may also be very hard and brittle due to low grain size in the crystal structure. This happens when a metal is cooled very quickly (quenched as a blacksmith would say). If it had cooled slowly, you may have had a less brittle product as it would give the material more time to grow larger crystal grains (a process called annealing iirc). Of course, gas and other impurities also are causing some brittleness as impurities "stunt" crystal growth (see cast iron). Great video though. Love these experiments.
That's pretty cool and very creative - nicely done!! Here's another thermite-type of reaction to consider: powdered aluminum + powdered magnesium + powdered dry ice. Although these are combustible, they are also detonatable. I've patented the detonation process because when you detonate dry ice (frozen CO2) with metallic reducing agents that become oxides, some of the liberated carbon emerges from the detonation as very small diamond dust, which is a premium abrasive product used in manufacturing. In the case of using both aluminum and magnesium together in dry ice, the resulting oxide is Spinel, or MgAl2O4.
@@gfygber9639 ...Mg is a better choice thermodynamically, but not kinetically... I see what you're saying but I don't catch your meaning about kinetics.
I thought about using Heinlein's Åseconds for my project SoundDial reporting engine, but light-seconds are probably a better choice if I'm going to go through all that hassle.
It's hysterical to me that, rather than learn how to say "aluminum," the man covered up the A so that the packaging conforms to his speech pattern instead. LEGEND
@@dsigea Firstly, do you mean Al Yuminium? Secondly, this dude just doesn't pronounce the A. He knows he's wrong and he changes reality to conform to him and I love that.
it’s funny how Alec Steele can make knives all day long and post videos about it, and not get any strikes. But so help me if Cody does one experiment with something or if ZNA Productions does one video over making a knife, it’s an instant strike. Explain that to me
Daniel Byal "making weponds for the purpose of violence" Are you alleging that ZNA builds his _weapons_ with the intention to use them for violence, and not for artistic purposes?
To put this little experiment in context, one only has to go back to June 6, 1944 where at Normandy France, specifically the Omaha Beach geographic sector, three separate 4-man teams were charged to disable four German 88 artillery pieces that protected the invasion area from the allies. Only one of the teams found their way to the artillery site where they killed gunners manning machine gun emplacements and placed thermite grenades inside the breaches of each artillery piece. There was no explosion, simply the welding and pitting of the breaches which rendered the units unusable.
I lost it when I saw this, at first I thought it might be a brand name over in the states, then I heard him repeatedly mispronounce it multiple times and lost it (I won't mention aluminium vs aluminum because I don't want to trigger a world war)
I think it's called irony, not something that all cultures get. Apparently, he does and you don't! (What he is saying is he doesn't know the thickness and he doesn't really care, either!)
A light second is 299,792,458 meters. One nano light second is approximately 0.0003 meters. He's off by a factor of about a thousand. One amu is approximately 1.66e-27 kg. 5e24 amu is 8.3e-3kg or 8.3 grams. The sheet's around a meter long a half meter wide and 0.000016 meters thick. The density of aluminium is about 2.7 g/cm3. That's about 22 grams. He's off by the density of aluminum. It looks like the numbers are real and my math or his math was a bit off. Probably wasn't putting too much thought into it because it was just to sound cool.
When I was around 10, I had a friend who's father worked on the Steel Works. They use Thermite to light the blast furnaces and his dad had nicked a load. We in turn nicked a bunch from his garage and had tremendous fun all summer, melting holes in thick iron drain covers etc. I remember the Iron Oxide and Aluminum powder were pre measured in polythene packets and was the finest oxide and metal powder I've encountered to date. Also came with fuse strips of pure magnesium and wet and windy matches to start the reaction. We just used a clipper lighter...of course 😂
Cody, great demo, especially how to blend the iron oxide and aluminum. Now if you want to compare against industry standard thermite devices, go to an industrial electric supply house. Get a CadWeld kit, this is used to fuse two high voltage/high amperage conductors together. Creating a join that will support the load. It is filled with powered aluminum and iron oxides in a single use casting mold with guides for the conductors and and ignitor. You clamp it over the conductors, secure the fit, ignite it. The casing remains in place and when it is cool, it is ready for a load test.
Actually Cadweld (r) uses copper oxide and aluminum; the finished weld is somewhere between copper and aluminum bronze. Better conductivity and will not corrode. Probably has some other alloying elements to get it to bond to steel which is a main use of the process (attaching ground cables to building frames, for example). The same basic REDOX reaction as the iron based thermite.
ALchannel uhh I'm pretty sure a ball mill would do a pretty good job of grinding up foil. You're possibly thinking of the bigger crusher thing Cody has to turn larger pieces of ore into chunks small enough for the ball mill
Chris Keuken you think so? In my opinion, aluminum is pretty soft metal and ball-crushing process wouldn't work well with it; i mean, ball mill basically crushes things by constantly dropping metal balls on them, you think aluminum could be broke apart like that? Also just noticed, *metal* balls, and balls don't crush themselves, right?
William Asston corp. Omg I have to do the same thing! My big torch has a broken starter lol. Except I use one of those comically large lighters to light it.
Sometimes I watch Cody do his thing before I sleep. I find it interesting and informative, and something about dudes voice is very calming so I usually can fall asleep. I have trouble sleeping lol. But hey it's a compliment man I love your channel!
Philip Polkovnikov: Never tried igniting thermite with them, but the white hot flame should be enough to initiate... Dust, yes. Or make your own, aluminium etc.... google is your friend, with iron filings....
Cody, a long time ago you helped your parents do some kitchen upgrading and there was a charred mark up the wall near the stove. I venture to say you probably had an active part in that but we never heard the story behind it. Someday, please share it. You would have been an interesting kid to raise. Hope at least one of yours is a 'chip off the ol' block'. Very interesting video, as usual. Thanks
Richard Robertson Id bet it was from the map gas torch from soldering pipe in the kitchen. Char marks after renovating are almost always from the plumber. They start a lot of fires too.
Gotta love the cool science as it teaches. Back when I was a kid we did some of our own "experiments" with things that would make RU-vid lay a giant ugly green egg. Not to mention the authorities. We were guided by my friend's father, an aeronautical engineer, who happened to like things that oxidize VERY quickly, usually with generous A/V effects. His goal was to teach us safe & fun science. We may have scared off the neighbor's dog a few times, may have once lost a small projectile into the unknown, but we always were safety oriented, went to get the dog, visit the neighbor with apologies & cookies. I also got to make my own plasma. (Don't ask.) It taught me a lot about chemistry, safety, physics, and allowed me to do better in school science through the experience. It provided me the tools to prevent some other people from attempting very stupid things. In high school I was able to prevent an even bigger disaster during an accidental building fire, by taking charge and guiding people in what to do. (and what NOT to do) No one was hurt and that was my goal.
For a quick ignition, use double-base smokeless propellant, added to one end of the foil, AFTER the drying and folding. It will ignite QUICKLY, so use a long stick match.
When I worked in the foundry I had to cut through a very large piece of gray iron which needed to be moved. It was about 2 feet thick. By using a half inch black pipe with magnesium rod in it and a oxygen hose to the other end, lighting it with a torch would cut through the gray iron like butter.
Also, in oz, we simplify it the other way. Its just Al. Al rod, chunk o al, alfoil. If we wanna be extra polite, its Ally. An ally boat, ally sheet. All those extra vowels. Pfft. Al-umonium works.
Back in the days when electric streetcars were new, the standard practice for making a continuous conductive contact between sections of rail was to make a sand cone at the rail joint, fill it with thermite mix, and ignite the mix, thus allowing the iron to form a weld connection for the rails. The molten iron was contained within the height of the rail sections by clay dams on either side to save on materials and finish filing.
"in order to have a succesfull re..lationship, the two materials must be in intimate contact, if they are not touching eachother, if they are not in close contact they will not react."
i want to see a video of thermite made from the black sands collected while gold panning. For some reason, i feel like the magnetite would make a good reaction. I've never tried it, but i feel like you might be the man to give it a shot!
BenjamimaPancake at first I thought he was just speaking gibberish but then I realized... Hey wait a minute... A lightsecond is a measurement of length!
Thank you Cody for being as accurate as you possibly can. It makes watching much more enjoyable knowing that the person doing this stuff is knowledgable
Cody , These are valuable skills to have especially now 2020 when the world is crumbling . We may be heading back to the home made version of everything .
"aluminium foil thermite" will probably get your video demonetized, but if you rename it "how to cook a marshmallow using aluminium foil and rust powder" you might get around that problem ;)
They are igniters made for the purpose, but look very similar to sparklers. Shorter and thicker, and I think the coating may be slightly different, but very similar. I think a large conventional sparkler would probably do it. In small scale lab demonstrations of the process a piece of magnesium ribbon is normally used. I have also seen welders ignite the mixture with the pre-heating torch.
easy thermite blend 101. 1: grab road flare. 2: walk to nearest helicopter with magnesium transmission. 3: chuck the lit road flare inside the casing, and watch the bonfire.
2² nano-lightseconds...oh Cody with your units. Who needs centimeters when you can measure length based on the speed of light. I always loved this kind of content. Your more current videos are great too! It's a pleasant change, but still fire!
I got a crazy idea. I am not sure what temparature is reguired to ignite thermite but i think that it is more than 700 c (aluminium melts at 660 c) so could you mix molten aluminium with iron oxide and make solid thermite (sorry for my bad english)
ROFFLESTOMP important thing is surface area contacting each other do if aluminium is melt to powdered ironoxide surface area is better than powder mixture
onni tunturi... Yea, I thought that was a benefit of the melt idea. I have no Idea what the flash point of the amalgamate would be, but I like the concept.
The silly part about all this is that aluminum foil can be powdered easily in a ball mill (which Cody has). TrollFaceTheMan YT channel did this a few times in his PCRT series of videos (Potassium Chlorate Reaction Tests).
I discovered thermite will using a fire extinguisher as a crucible and trying to forge aluminum needless to say it was pretty interesting and I got to rebuild my Forge because of it
I eliminated a household in Jakarta of those large Indonesian termites with a heavy solution of laundry detergent, and water. The wood soaks up the detergent, and it suffocates the termites because they use their mandibles to eat through the soap.
RU-vid genius right here. Thermite takes very large amounts of heat to light it takes more heat than a propane torch can produce so I dont thing your oven will light it
I used to make this as a kid, didn't use foil though. We found a big aluminium ingot in a trash can, the size of a typical "gold bar". So we would scavenge rust off stuff and shave off aluminum from the ingot, then when we had chemistry class and were using magnesium ribbon as a fuse (very common) we'd save some to light the thermite we made. Luckily we never did anything bad with it, had dreams of put some on the hood of a scrap car and seeing if it'd melt through the engine block but that never happened.
I was thinking the covering of A is both because he's showing a branded product, and combined with the crazy units he used, an effort to mask the recipe from children. Hah, You can't ever stop a comment war!
I bet he wasn't masking it from children, but instead from YT censors. It might qualify as instructions on how to make a weapon, which YT banned. This is my guess based on "luminum" and the way he described what thermite is, without naming the metals.
Well he mentioned iron and "luminum" so it doesn't take a genius to figure that out. I thought he was poking fun at his own pronunciation of the metal by covering the 'A'.
We had an experiment in my high school chemistry class and had materials necessary to make a small amount of thermite, I was a well liked and quiet student so my teacher almost never checked on me unless I asked for help. When she came over to see why I had two projects going she very calmly evacuated the lab. Sad I didn’t get to use it
