What makes your channel so great is the random experiments you guys do. Also you always have a plan b and you keep trying until something works. It makes much more satisfying content that way.
A close look at the slow speed of the second experement reveals the following sequence. A small quantity of salt enters the bottle causing a small explosion forcing coke out the top. This runs into salt in funnel causing a larger explosion that crushes the top of the bottle. Thus the idea of extending the funnel into the middle of the bottle (with one change) will probable generate spectacular results. The one change is to cover the end of the tube (plastic wrap or thin tape) so that it does not fill with coke. With this change, I second the person who proposed the idea.
Thunderfoot has a couple of videos on this, or rather alkali metals with water. It's the same principle it is a coulombic explosion not a chemical reaction
Michael Steeves the forward momentum from pouring it maybe? Just a guess. Or if your talking about the bottle the shape of the bottle would direct the explosion down if it detonates in the neck of the bottle
Even after the initial explosion ruptured the bottle, there must have been enough left-over pressure/momentum to force some of the Coca-Cola up into the funnel, where it would have hit the heavy "cap" of still-molten salt and burst downwards (as Cyanide Cloud described). Almost like forming a shaped charge out of a _liquid._ Crazy.
YOU GUYS SHOULD, leave the bottle of coke sealed, lay it on it's side and somehow pour the molten salt on the side of the bottle facing up and let the salt burn through the bottle to see if it will melt thru the bottle
If you ever redo this reaction somehow, simply cutting the top of the coke bottle off (may an inch down from the top) would give you a larger hole with which to work. I doubt the larger hole will change what the outcome would be as the molten salt is so much hotter than the Coke. Great randomness though! Side note: dude you are such the typical guy. Anni was right about the anticlimactic reaction the first time but I think that bothered you enough to push forward and try it again. Thanks Anni for making this a better video than it would have been!
Molten salt vs. glycerol? Expensive and you wouldn't want to stand close, you would need an automatic salt delivery system. Without water in it: flash point 160-176°C, boiling point 290°C. Perhaps cheaper and easier with sunflower oil.
I am genuinely surprised nobody has designed a ship-based weapon that uses the energy from a nuclear reactor to melt sea-salt and spray it at the enemy.
Anything that are water based will create a Steam Explosin CK out you books on 'Thermo Dynamics". Kinda like you don't throw water on a burning oils. ='s misted oil. RUN!
Add a tube from the funnel to the bottom of the bottle, cover the end of the tube with thin tape so that the coke doesn't fill the tube. This way the salt will reach the bottom of the coke! (This tube-based approach would be interesting, not just with coke but with the lake)
I was thinking the same thing. Maybe try this with the rocket engine they used ( I think ) pepperoni as fuel. Fill it with molten salt and then pump in a liquid to see the thrust amount
Of course it isn't banned if gun powder and firework manufacturing is allowed. It will just require some kind of pyrotechnic license or something to use.
*@Beyond the press* Build a catapult with a metal arm that can fit inside the foundry, place it on your bridge at the lake, load in salt & heat it to red hot, then fire the catapult out over the lake :D (use a remote firing mechanism on the catapult and stand way back in case something goes wrong.)
How about trying this again but with more of a depth-charge approach? You can use a funnel, but instead of it ending at the opening of the bottle, you have a hose or pipe of somekind that goes down into the middle of the bottle, so when the salt hits the coke/water/whatever liquid you choose to use, it is in the middle of the container instead of the top of it.
That's really great idea :D I will try gasoline quite soon. It's now good time of the year to do this kind of stuff since anything won't get on fire since everything is covered with snow
Great video. One thing i would suggest is to pour off some of the coke to allow more head space in the 2L bottle. This will allow more sodium to have dropped down into the reaction chamber when the first bit reacts with the coke. As such the initial reaction and splash should cause a larger secondary reaction. Keep up the good work! Also reversing the mixture so you are pouring a stream of water into a broad bottomed container (more surface area means more reaction potential) filled with molten salt also would be interesting although potentially hazardous.
My prediction: A little bit of salt will hit the cola, and the rest will be blown out the top by the resulting steam... That, or maybe the funnel and bottle neck will melt so fast, that everything goes way different than expected... EDIT: Guess I was right. Though it's more a mentos-cola effect than steam.
I think you would have had more consistent results if you used the same premium brand salt as last time. I don't trust Meira when it comes to exploding molten salt.
What? A salt is a salt. It's pure NaCl, with a trace amount of iodine if it's kitchen salt. What has any kind of brand to do with it, except for having a fancy name and charging stupid people extra for the name? It behaves exactly the same under the same conditions.
Well, I don't know... Check their video "Molten Copper, Aluminium and Salt Vs. Frozen Lake". Lauri said himself that he used this very expensive brand called Pirkka and now he didn't. I'm sure Pirkka is better than Meira. I always use Pirkka when I'm exploding salt.
Molten salt is Sodium (Natrium), and is very reactive with water. It became a coulomb explosion. See "Why Sodium explodes.. a new explanation" by ThunderF00t for the an explanation or read the paper _Coulomb explosion during the early stages of the reaction of alkali metals with water_ by Philip E. Mason et. al. published in _Nature Chemistry_ 2015.
Molten salt vs molten iron/lead/copper/aluminium? I think molten salt and lead would do something anyway, not sure if health and safety should get involved...
I have been thinking the same thing. At least the wikipedia says that the salt boils at 1450 C so I think it stays together since otherwise it wouldn't boil but break down. Other thing that I have been thinking about is the water vapor from propane flame. Is that affecting some how on salt? Nevertheless is probably good idea not to breath the smoke coming out from the thing :D
Google says: Sodium chloride melts at 801°C and boils to a vapour at 1413°C. It decomposes to sodium and chlorine gas eventually, but I couldn't find a temperature.
The reason for the quite powerfull explosions is that the molten salt when it hits the water decomposes in it's elementary substances, being chloride gas and sodium. The sodium reacts with the water forming sodium hydroxide and hydrogen gas. That hydrogen gas reacts violently with the chloride gas forming hydrochloric acid, some will react with ambient oxygen in the air, those reactions are explosive. The hydrogen that reacts with oxygen forms water, the hydrochloric acid formed reacts with the sodium hydroxide, and guess what the resultant substances are...sodium chloride (salt) and water.
One of the problems with getting the salt into the Coca-Cola, is that the CO2 escapes the liquid when you pour it into another container. I was thinking you could get around this by carefully cutting open the top of the bottle to expand the opening. This would allow you to pour far more stuff into it at one time. Additionally, it would probably be advantageous to rig some kind of mount for the crucible and the target container, such that both can be in perfect focus and won't move around as much when things are poured.
What this guy should do was filling an entire fish tank with fresh cola and put very hot salt there! The explosion should make chain reaction in tank! Like there: .ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PDRWQUUUCF0.html or of chicken...a glass of cola...
So cool. Have you ever tried Diesel Fuel and a Sandwich bag full of Comet I herd it will Explode. but never seen any one do it. Like an oil pan full of diesel and place the bag of comet in the center and when the diesel fuel eats thew the bag it go's Boom
I have some small metal funnels, but they are quite old, I don't think anyone makes them anymore on an industrial scale. Wouldn't be too hard to make some though, just solder or weld some sheet metal cones. Might make a good behind the scenes sort of video.
How about a pipe of some sort so you could get the salt to the bottom of the coca cola bottle? You could use a plastic pipe that melts when the salt comes in it, I think it would make a bigger explosion than just salt touching the surface of the coca cola.
Hey, you aren't going to get your 40 cents when you bring that bottle back! I see, also, it's a size we don't have in North America- 1.5 liters. Ours are 2.0. Coca-Cola has been measured on the metric system in the USA since the 1980s.
Some formidable explosions will you get if you take a pressure cooker and line the inside with water hose filled with water and pour in the salt or put the 20kg clump in there and feed it with water. Annis first taste of salt?
