Super-Material Starlite Crucible Vs. Thermite 

Wait, What happens when you mix Thermite with Ice/Water?

Thanks again for a great shoutout! I'm quite surprised the weight of the molten steel didn't stop the carbon foam from properly forming. Impressive test, and surprising result even to me.

Starlite Crucible sounds like the name of a death metal band 😂

You know this is probably the first time I’ve seen thermite actually being stopped

I think my favorite part about these videos are how good of a relationship they have. They seem so happy

"Yeah, this doesn't do shit. I'll test with snow" XD

To credit NightHawkInLight for the recipe, I think we should call this NightLite.

Mmmm... thermite on toast, breakfast of champions

Prebaking the starlite in low heat oven with premixed baking soda in the glue could make it transparent. I was able to get some semi transparent goo by accident.

A piece of wood with the same thickness of the tests you did would be interesting as a comparison.

Get a loaf of bread and burn it into carbon foam first, then try it with the thermite.

I love that you don't fuck around and just get right to the experiment. Love your channel!

Great video, thanks for all the experiments you 2 do. Very informative and educational 😎

I’m so glad Night’s video blew up and inspired all these youtubers to make Starlite. Well done to all of you! 👏🏻

“Holy shit! It actually works!” By far the best commentary yet. No question- Lauri and Anni are awesome! I really enjoy how the results of The experiments you guys perform are just as curious to you as well as us👍

You guys are amazing your content is always on point, fun, instructive and scientific. You are the RU-vid I have always wished for

This is great! I enjoyed the nighthawk video about starlight as well and it's fun to see others testing the idea as well. Thanks for uploading!

Thank you for an impressive demonstration!

You guys just seem like really good genuine people! Your channel is growing!! Stay humble ! Congrats on your current/future success

Snow = Finnish Thermal Camera xD

What we learn from this video: If you build a spacecraft, don't use bread or papercups to construct a heatshield.

I had the same results , thanks for posting ,your editing is better than any attempt I could do

I'm so impressed the starlight held up! Awesome video!

Holy shiet - I was not expecting that to work. That is amazing.

I’ve waited all week for this video! Yes!

I'm very impressed Lauri/Annie,I thought for sure the thermite would have burned completely through,I was even more impressed when you touched the container bare handed without any issues with it at all.

that seems to work a lot better than the usual flower pot method, which tends to crack. That's impressive

GREAT video guys! VERY interesting!

To improve effectiveness of Starlite, try adding sodium silicate to make silica char instead of regular char. Result will be stiffer foam.

Really impressed with the RU-vid Starlite equivalent. Nice video, guys.

When i first heared about starlite, i hoped someone would make a video like this GREAT!!! :)

Put the starlight in the press! - I also wonder if you can make the starlight more dense by compressing it while it dries.

The potential for this is so huge, and the best thing is that anyone can make it.

NightHawkInLight really opened a new world with his personal starlight mix

So a substance that, when lit, can go straight through a car engine block - can be stopped basically by cornflour?

Holy shit, I didn't expect it to hold up so well! The Starlite was like "thermite? Whatever, I don't give a shit"

That was an awful lot of thermite vs. the starlite. Pretty awesome

Thank you for this ALOT!💪💓🎩

the charcoaled starlite looks just like the perfect finnish sausage.

You are doing good videos and again it made my day thank you

Very impressive, and also that the Starlite vessel maintained some flexibility even after the experiment as you cut through it.

Thank you. This answers one of the questions I posted to NightHawkInLight. I approximate that 1 centimeter of Starlite can withstand 2500 degrees (Celsius) for about a minute before failure. I considered the startlite failed because the bottom registered 200 degrees at the end of the minute which means it is not a heat insulator anymore. Impressive none the less.

Top job you guys! Thank you.

Pretty amazing! I didn't think it would survive.

You guys rock!

Awesome, thanks for answering my question.

Thanks for another cool video

Great Part 2 video guys!

That was amazing!

That was impressive!

Lauri and Anni accidentally created ablative shielding for the Finnish Space Program. "Spaceship Management by Perkele" is now assigned to HPC/BTP.

That's actually incredible

Simply amazing!

That new material is amazing

woahhhhh that performs better than I could've hoped.

Very good starlite material.

Thanks for the great video.

Great work!

Thats amazing!

Standing indoors with the red hot starlite ccrucible right next to the big open bucket of thermite... I admire your courage, Lauri! :)

Amazing stuff.

My first thought when you were putting the thermite into the starlight crucible was "holy shit that's a lot of thermite there's no way it can survive". Boy was I wrong. This stuff is amazing! And to my knowledge, nobody on RU-vid besides you guys have pitted it against thermite yet. Great content!

Starlite's composition is a closely guarded secret, but it is said to contain a variety of organic polymers and co-polymers with both organic and inorganic additives, including borates and small quantities of ceramics and other special barrier ingredients - up to 21 in all. Perhaps uniquely for a material claimed to be thermal and blast-proof, it is claimed to be not entirely inorganic but up to 90 percent organic.[7] Nicola McDermott, Ward's youngest daughter, stated that Starlite is 'natural' and edible, and that it has been fed to dogs and horses without ill effects.[8] In 2018, RU-vidr NightHawkinLight demonstrated how to produce a material with characteristics very similar to Starlite by mixing corn starch, baking soda and PVA glue, and mentioned that flour and other types of glue could be used as alternative ingredients.[9]

Amazing stuff!!!!!

Love this channel

Pretty amazing to see anything stand up to thermite, even if only barely.

amazing material! could change the world!

I love the way he says starlight

this is like a science lesson

Love your crazy videos. And most of all your accent, I would love to visit your country one day.

Nighthawkinlight is great channel!

I like that you gave credit to the channel, Night Hawk, that this originated from. I tried the 9 parts Corn Starch to 1 Baking Soda, but in one batch I added some laundry additive "Borax." I also used condensed milk instead of White Glue and it seemed more durable.

"Holy shit that's bright!" Lol, good stuff, thanks for the vid!

Congratulations on Finland winning the World Junior Championship in hockey!!

You can also now use this as a funnel for other videos

that was great 😊

Awesome!

Great job guys I thought it would go through I was wrong.

I sell most of these ingredients in work... I think I'm going to have to try it!

Your RU-vid channels are soo rad 😎

You make good videos with no bullshit

The starlight seems to be a better insulator than the crucible, but the crucible (I could be wrong) appears to be more resiliant, like it does break up with the heat. So what if you had a lamination if crucible material as the first barrier and then starlight material as the second. Would it compare to the tiles on the space shuttle?

Is it stronger than the material used to insulate the wall of a tiny foundry like you used to heat "red hot steel" ? The comparaison of both against thermite would be interesting as hell !

Holy sheet it worked! Lmao Great vid surprising results.

Lmfao, at 8:32 Lauri is holding a nearly red-hot chunk of recently molten steel next to an open bucket full of thermite 🤣

Yup. Gotta line my forge with this stuff!

Pretty interesting... Who would have thought.

Congrats on the World Junior Hockey gold medal!

Yeeess. Been waiting for this!

So Finish Space Programm is coming

Didn’t expect that outcome.

It seems very strong, I wonder what it would be like using wood pulp, or if you added fibreglass to the mixture.

If you had the outside of the graphite crucible coated with starlite, do you think it would stay cool enough to pick up with your bare hands with the molten metal inside?

So how did you deal with the snow dump truck? It was obviously very dangerous and could attack at any moment.

Such a simple basic formula for starlite; corn flour, baking soda and glue. The original stuff was painted onto an egg with a brush so the binding agent must have been something other than glue or maybe there was an additional ingredient to make it easier to apply. It's really interesting stuff to play with!

I have pretty good idea. Put one of anni paintings in Back ground for decoration. Love this channel

Marttiini knives are the best. We love them here in the US also. Prrrrrretttty goooood.

crush the starlite to see it's new properties and then try this and other experiments again. Also try multi layering starlite and other thinks then crush it... look forward to this upcoming awesome video

It's pretty amazing really. Think of the heat a crucible in a foundry loses thanks to thermal conductivity. Apart from the obvious uses for this stuff, as an insulator in a crucible, it would make foundries much more efficient.

I watched the original Starlite documentary back in the 80s and the guy would never sell the recipe. This is the first time I've seen an attempt to make it again. This could have saved lives for the passed 30 years! If it was only corn starch, baking soda and glue, how the hell is it not in every home as an insulator? I'm really happy I found your channel. Have you tried coating an egg and blasting it with a flame to show that it is still raw inside? The documentary had a laser that burned itself out trying to make startlite even a little bit hot.