Experimenting with Liquid Metal!!! 

Someone get this man a record deal!

Demolition Ranch continues his quest to lay down the most confusing layer of sediment for future archeologists

The gallium has to stay liquid to infuse into the aluminum, so you have to keep both warm for ideal results. It can get so weak you can crush it with your hands.

That pocket knife scraping on metal is still giving me chills 5 minutes later

Caught some major "Old Demoranch" vibes from this vid. No screaming, no gagging, no plugs, no excess. Really loved it

Does anyone else think that when he feels the video is gonna flop and decides to just have fun, are the best videos?! Great job Matt!

I can make you one out of solid sterling silver. I have melting equipment

I love the GoPro shot sound effects. Gives the clip character and detail

I always watched your videos at lunch in HS with my friend Victor who passed recently, far too young. The lead block one was one of his favorites along with the Glock in the microwave. Watching your videos always makes me think of the fun I used to have with Vic and how happy your videos always made him. He wished to see all of your guns in one video, when that one came out I was sad he never got to see it. I collect a few of his favorite guns today in his honor. Thought about him today and a remake of his favorite video came out, thought it deserved a comment

Matts impression in his pool is golden

When I first saw the island boy original I lost all of my brain cells except one. I'm proud to say that today Matt has cured me with his own rendition. That's right, I now have all two of my brain cells back. Thanks Matt.

It's amazing how after all these years of doing this you still put out awesome videos and funny intros. I hope that whenever this comes to an end that you get into the film industry and start making movies or something because you can really put on a show for the camera.

I like Matt, he always puts so much effort into his intros!

I refuse to believe I’ve been watching demolition ranch for over 5 1/2 years.. time flies

I still want to see someone that has never watched Matt before watching all of his intros with no other context.

Matt shot the block of aluminum 5 years ago?!?! Man I'm gonna watch this dude forever, it's already been like 6 years or so. Still the best channel on this site.

Based on my gallium experiments, and seeing how brittle the aluminum becomes, I was very surprised that the block didn't shatter when it was hit. Always entertaining!

Matt "This is a block of Aluminum that I shot 5 1/2 years ago" Me: I remember that damn I've been watching you for 5 1/2 years!... Congrats DemoRanch you've had my attention and kept me satisfied for half a decade 😆

I vote for a repeat in the spring when the ambient temp gets high enough to keep the gallium liquid for the reaction to continue.

I’ve watched this at least 8 time now and it still makes me laugh 😂 Your intros are my favorite out of anyone on RU-vids

at first I didn't notice that in the intro he's hair is 50 cal bullets ahhahahahha

"all you need is 85°F (29°C), it will start melting in your hands" Matt: boiling water, blowtorch, the unmatched power of the sun

Been watching for a long time and this really felt like an old school episode of demolition ranch.

I can't believe its was 5 1/2 years ago when I started watching your show, seeing that big block of aluminum Literally was one of your first videos!

Mat. Your intros are getting out of hand. I love it

I watched this with headphones. When you first scraped that block with your knife I almost puked 🤢 worst nails on a chalkboard feeling in years. Thanks. But as always I love the video!!

Had that block been at 95º it would have been considerably more damaged, over half of the gallium froze before attacking the aluminum crystal lattice.

Love that 4th wall break. Honestly the best moment in all of the channels history right there 🤣

Hey Matt, if you ever do this again try cleaning the surface of the aluminum with muriatic acid after taking a sanding wheel to it, the acid will eat any leftover oxides on the surface of the metal to speed up the process of gallium penetration.

This was different than most your vids. I loved the science behind it. Idk how you could but more vids like this would be pretty dope

One of the issues with this is you needed to keep it above 80f while you let the GA sit on the Aluminum.

Best rendition of island boi I've heard yet!!

I’ve watched this channel for years, including the original aluminum block video, and this is probably the most fascinating video I’ve seen so far. Very cool

Aluminum oxide is the coating that occurs as aluminum reacts with the air. That's why you have to scruff up the surface. You should have kept the gallium heated in the liquid state to have it work better. Once it cools it loses a lot of its ability to affect the aluminum.

I'm wondering if the aluminum block should've been kept over 85° seeing that the gallium goes solid under 85° in order for the gallium to do it's thing

Спасибо за отличный эксперимент

Matt, make a gallium slug and see if it hits harder than a lead one! Seems super easy since you can just dump it in at like 90 degrees and have it cool down naturally

I feel he's going more and more insane in the intro every video

Science and weapons ... I love where the channel is headed ❤

The oxide layer returns immediately after you stop removing it. In order to do this correctly you have to apply the gallium then take the screwdriver through the gallium and score the aluminum under the gallium in order to prevent the oxide layer from returning.

Always love it when the .338 makes an appearance!

This video reconfirmed the thought I've had for a few years now. Matt REALLY needs to do a collab of some kind with Destin from Smarter Everyday

I remember this!!! Has it really been that long ago? Longtime, life long fan!!!

If you try it again, I suggest scraping through the gallium when it's on, as the oxide layer that forms to protect the aluminum is made just by exposure to air. Scraping beneath will guarantee at least some lines are exposed.

There's no way that video was 5 ½ years ago. No way. I remember watching it. Can't be that long, can it?

Matt doesn’t like guns and Mere knows everything!!🤭 my life was a lie!!😵

Matt being a scientist... There should be more videos like this Its kinda interesting! Love the work

"And Mer knows everything" omg I laughed so hard to that! Classic Matt

The production value of the intros increases exponentially every time there’s a new one. It’s really quite amazing. Also btw that .50 BMG APIT round striking the block at 0.25x playback speed is fucking awesome.

5 seconds in and liked the video already, never cried watching a YT video before but I cried of laughter instantly! Props my guy

amazing use of the angle grinder guard with the cup brush wheel

Lmao even Matt getting in on the Island Boy trend, still a better job than the original. 🤷🏼

Well "brittle" would imply it is harder. Which explains the resistance to lower caliber rounds. The trick with brittle is you have hardness as cost of flexibility. That means you made it harder, but once ypu pass that threshold and actually damage it, it is gonna shatter vs flex.

Intro already got me cracking up😂

Hey Matt, You need to keep the galuim in Liquid form after mixing it with the Aluminium.

Fun video! However, as a lot of people have already commented upon, the gallium needs to stay in liquid form in order to permeate through the aluminum's crystal lattice. Once you poured it into the hole in the cold aluminum, it froze up the gallium. It would be interesting if you tried putting a heating element under the aluminum block to keep it warm enough to keep the gallium in liquid form. The shooting results afterwards would have been much more dynamic!

Knew it was coming.

Best interpretation of that song Matt. I feel that in my heart.

This is the best start to one of these video so far

I've been watching this man for years and years and he almost never misses. On the skits that is. Hilarious. His wife is lucky too. Not attracted to men but he's funny, handsome, talented, smart because he's a veterinarian, pretty good marksman, good father and the list goes on. The kind of guy anyone would want to be friends with. It's no wonder his channel has grown to be so successful.

When metals are brittle, they also tend to be harder. It would be harder to damage them, but they would usually fail catastrophically when they do fail. That's why you have to heat and cool knives in certain ways. You have to heat them up to really high temperatures and cool them quickly to make them hard enough to hold an edge, then have to heat them to relatively low temperatures and cool them slowly to make them flexible enough that they don't just snap in half.

Matt, as a "Scientist"™, you should know that bad data is as important as good data when doing the "Science"™! Never censor your results when it's not the ones you wanted/expected!

I love your video intros more than anyone else's. And you seem like a really fun guy to hang around no doubt

It's hard to believe I have been watching this show for over 5 years but I guess time does fly bye faster with age. Enjoyed the show and the destruction of the aluminum block using science. Matt keep em coming..

The protective layer takes a fraction of a second to remake itself so youre supposed to scratch the aluminium when theres already gallium on it so the aluminium doesnt get in contact with air

the way Mat treats his knives hurts my soul in a way I cannot explain.

That layer you spoke of is aluminum dioxide, which reforms very rapidly(within 10 minutes). This is why it's considered a "self healing metal". Little known fact: the aluminum oxide layer is roughly 3 times the melting temperature of the aluminum itself. This is why cleaning off the oxidation prior to welding aluminum is so important. If you don't clean off the oxidized layer, once you weld through that layer and get to the aluminum, the aluminum will just melt all the way through and make a giant hole. Aluminum melts at roughly 2.5 x lower heat than steel, get the oxidized layer on top of aluminum melts at roughly the same point. Right around 3,200° for the oxidized layer, and right around 1200 degrees for the aluminum itself. I only learn this because I had to pass an aluminum welding test. It was difficult to say the least.

I love how Matt pretends that Science is a mysterious concept to him despite having practiced Veterinary Medicine, which requires a doctoral degree. 😄

This channel is so informative, before this video I didn’t even know it could be 67 degrees in Texas

I have watched this intro more times than I've watched ANY video on RU-vid...it's just too damn accurate and funny.

That film that forms on aluminum in the first few minutes after you've cleaned it, is called corrosion. And it's not visible to the naked eye but it makes the top layer of the aluminum require about 3,000° to get through it which is why you can't weld aluminum without prepping it by getting that layer out of the way.

That intro was pure gold

As a chemical engineering student and gun enthusiast, this video gets two thumbs up! 👍👍

When you can handle a 500 Magnum but can't handle a wire brush 🤣🤣 Fuckin love this guy!

This is by far my favorite one because I’m a science nerd ! Wow.

I died a little inside when you scraped the metal with the knife

I believe that if you did this experiment when the ambient outside temp was above the melting point of the Gallium, thus allowing the Gallium to be in an active state, that the results of the bullets hitting the block would have had a much different and satisfying result on the block.

16:30 matt: I am looking for drama here. Kentucky: oh , no. You don’t want that.

Aluminum is a bit softer. Which is why it didn't shatter before but instead dented or drilled into. When things become brittle they usually are also harder. That may be why it's not doing as much on the smaller calibers but the larger ones are actually chipping and cracking it.

That intro pretty much sums up how most of the world feels about those dudes... PRICELESS COMEDY. Love you man. Hope you and your family live a long and happy life. Cheers.

The fact that I remember the first episode you made five years ago makes me feel really old and makes me happy I love you matt

The gallium reaction would have probably done a lot more if you would have stored the block in a warm place ( over 85DegF ). Pretty sure that the gallium needs to be liquid to work to full potential

first time Ive seen matt do a current meme, good job old man

Question of the day, has Matt cleaned those guns since the last aluminium block video? Lol

Love the reference to some materials Engineering! “Through all the microstructure of the aluminum “ excellent demonstration

A “nails on a chalkboard” warning would have been great at 7:05. 🤣

Listening to that introduction I’m thinking that your editing software is on the fritz…. But the gallium on the Aluminium block? Genius! And kind of sciencyific as well! Though for the gallium to have the maximum effect you needed to have the entire aluminium block at or above 85F degrees for the entire week before shooting it. Once it cooled and hardened the interaction ceased and simple oxidation prohibited prolonged exposure and effect. This accounts for the ‘concrete’ appearance. That is the final state of interaction before the gallium solidified and quit interacting.

Love the video! One *hopefully* constructive criticism is that lately the camera is not directed at a wide shot of the target when Matt shoots. Personally I really enjoy seeing the target hit from a distance then seeing the replays close up. Keep up the good work!

Maybe it’d be a nice idea to start marking the hits on things you shoot so that if you’re gonna do it again, you don’t need to try to remember, or if you plan to keep it at the bunker, people would see which Bullet made each hole. Intros just keep getting better and better too lol

The aluminum video you made 5 almost 6 years now was my favorite one and i rewatched it like 5 times because I loved it so much now there is a 2nd episode 🥹

Matt we already know Mere knows everything, lol!

the whole beginning just has an early morning vibe. Like I just know in my heart it was filmed at like 3 AM.

10:20 Yo I think this is one of the few channels where the shallow depth of field doesn't always work out, I like being able to see the impact more clearly in this angle 😁 Edit: 16:36 And this, it's nicer to have you _and_ the target in the same shot like in your older videos..

This would have been a great video to colab with backyard scientist 🥼

Mere knew everything!?! The plot twist!

Love this guys content

Best intro ever! Just in a pool with 50 BMG bullets taped to your head and rambling! Love it!

Demolita is strong 💪🏽 showing love from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❤️

Matt's been watching his buddy BackyardScientist again. Y'all should hang out again, it's been a minute.

I'm a really really really really really big fan of him and you to Kentucky ballistics