Funny story: I watched Nile Blue’s supercritical video and want to see what would happen if you heat silica gel beads and then I remembered that carsandwater makes RHNB videos and I came to see if there is any video involving silica gel beads. And I am surprised that carsandwater just uploaded this video yesterday! What a coincidence!
I surely hope you have some safety mask for breathing when you do these melted plastic/silica gel stuff. We don't want anything happening to you over some YT videos.
Something interesting but would create a lot of smoke is mixing potassium nitrate and sugar on the stove untill its a peanut butter consistency, about 60/40 potassium to sugar ratio. Then let it harden, when you light it it creates thick smoke
animalmother556x45 tbh I always just read silica and assumed just silicone. I’ve worked with different kinds before and they all melt at a certain point. Had no idea there was sand involved. They still just look like little rubber/plastic beads so my monkey brain wanted them to melt lol
@@gengar618 Nope: silicon, not silicone. Two very different substances. Silicone is polysiloxane, a much larger molecule. Silicon, or silicon-dioxide is common beach-sand. It'll melt, certainly, but, it melts at glass melting temperatures, so, like, near white-hot, not red-hot.
You should try to get your hands on bismuth crystals, depending on how hot the RHNB gets, it should easily melt the crystals, as bismuth metal melts down at 271.4°C (just using metric because its better than imperial) That would be a cool video, but if you do I suggest you buy some sort of shield in case the bismuth explodes, so you can get out unharmed. Wouldn't want such an awesome content creator getting hurt!
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