Well the aluminium will melt at about 630°C the Gallium will still be a liquid and is about twice as dense as the aluminium so It'll sink to the bottom of the crucible. You could then pour off most of the alumiunium I guess. The remaining gallium/aluminium alloy could be seperated by adding water - aluminium will oxidise and the alloy will liquify as the gallium percentage rises. A few more steps will get you purer alloy but you're going to need some more advanced methods to get it back to semiconductor purity. As for the alumina (aluminium oxide), you can electrolyse it to get the Aluminium back if you like.
Yes, that is exactly what happened because aluminium oxidizes pretty fast. A bit oh Hydrochloric acid or scraping on the surface below the gallium would have solved that.
NileRed has a good video covering this. You can get some good reactions simply by scratching the aluminum after the gallium is placed on top of it. A good scraping of the surface will do more good than drilling into it, more exposed surface area for the two to interact.
You are overheating your aluminum so much! Proper pouring temperature shouldn't even glow red. When you heat the aluminum up that high it is molten for much longer and dissolves a lot more hydrogen from the air. This all comes out as it solidifies and causes bad porosity in the metal
**^^^THIS guy gets it! I had to scroll down a long way to find a comment about the ability of Gallium/aluminum alloys to generate hydrogen and oxygen from liquid water. This point touches on another "issue" he had early on in the video when initially trying to get the gallium to "sink in".** Aluminum INSTANTLY develops a protective oxide layer that prevents further oxidation, AND protects the aluminum from the gallium. As soon as you slotted it with that rotary milling tool, it was automatically re-developing its oxide layer. So, you must pour the gallium into the slot, and then push a scraper or screwdriver through the liquid gallium puddle, and scrape the aluminum underneath, in order to remove the thin, new oxide layer, which would've allowed the gallium to "seep in". Once the gallium alloys with the aluminum, it prevents the aluminum from developing its protective oxide layer, which is why GaAl alloys will easily react with water, to produce hydrogen. The aluminum will disintegrate at that point, but since gallium doesn't react with water, it'll still be there at the bottom of the water container.
"I hear that the best thing to get rid of Aluminum is to feed it to Gallium. You got to starve the Gallium for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up Aluminum ingot will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta file the top of the ingot, and make a dent in it for the sake of the Galliums' consumption. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through the slurry, now do you? Gallium goes through Aluminum like butter. You need at least 600 grams Gallium to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps Gallium in a lab. They go through ingots that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a quarter of a pound Gallium can consume through many pounds of aluminum every minute. Hence the expression, 'as greedy as Gallium'.
@@rileyfenley522 theres plenty time for raw aluminium to generate an oxidised film layer, put it on, take a nail and scratch it through the liquid gallium. Once it has a clear route, it's done.
@@rileyfenley522 im not sure you understood me, it takes mere seconds for bare aluminium to oxidise a protective layer, what i mean to say is: By using the liquid gallium as an airtight cover for the aluminium, the metal can be scored through the already placed gallium. This shifts aside any oxidised layer and the gallium can contact the raw aluminium. It should then absorb it through the channel of scratches, not unlike a sponge, but slower. The process shouldn't take more than a few hours, also the amount of gallium required for the structural disintegration was way off, its less than 1/50 Ga/Al
aluminum oxide was your problem, groove, pour the gallium , then scratch the whole groove to get rid of the oxide layer.. just drilling only exposed a small amount to the gallium, but it did the job
I don’t know if it has been said yet but the reason it didn’t work in the beginning is that gallium doesn’t like to go through the oxidization that forms on the outside of aluminum
The reason it wasn’t working at first is that aluminum makes a coating of aluminum oxide when exposed to air. Gallium doesn’t react with aluminum oxide. All you needed to do was use a nail or screwdriver to scratch the surface of the aluminum under the gallium to kickstart the reaction.
oh yeah, he might have had a mix of Aluminum Oxid eand Hydroxide since he quenched the ingot. However... he DID use a milling machine to create the groove he poured into so that "should" have removed the oxide layer.
@@marhawkman303 no, the oxide formation on aluminum is near instantaneous upon contact with air. That’s why you scratch it off under the gallium layer, to prevent oxide formation.
you should weigh the gallium before you apply it to the aluminum and then re-weigh what you can collect after it all seeps out of the aluminum to see how much stays in the ingot.
Could you put these degraded aluminium into water? I'm interested how much galium has ben still trapped at this aluminium bar, and how much of galium can be recycled :)
it's now an ally. the reason the bar split is because the alloy changed the crystalline structure of the metal... in one specific area, not the whole bar.
Damn mate I had no idea that could happen🤯🤯🤯 very interesting👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻😁😁. I remember the first time I saw that huge ingot mold you used over a year ago I loved it then and I love it now😍
Fun fact: this is the reason there is an absolute rule of no galium on airplanes. They are made of a large amount of aluminum and this could clearly do tons of damage.
When aluminum is exposed to air it forms a layer of oxidation that protects it from the gallium. Taking something as simple as a car key and scrapping off the surface just before you pour on the gallium works like a charm.
sitting on top didn't work because the aluminum had a protective aluminum oxide layer. drilling the holes which then had gallium go directly in to the material without the presence of oxygen allowed it to penetrate due to the lack of that protective oxide layer
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The Galium didn’t eat away the Aluminum, it actually infiltrated the Aluminum and broke the metallic bonds in the metal therefore making it very brittle. You should try hitting the ingot with a hammer, it should shatter quite easily.
If you re-melt the ingot it'll be fine once again. Gallium lubricates the aluminum crystal boundaries, but if you melt the result, the gallium mixes randomly and forms a "solid solution" with the aluminum, similar to how adding a small amount of tin to copper makes it stronger but less malleable. And from the looks, only a tiny bit of the gallium is actually still in the aluminum. (One way to get insight, you can google image search for: aluminum gallium phase diagram, and look at the aluminum-rich side, and you'll see up to about a 5% molar ratio it remains in the FCC A1 form, or you can try it yourself like I did!)
Man I feel you could've went into more depth about what happened! I have a little bit of knowledge when it comes to Gallium and the chemistry of it, but not a whole lot! I was hoping to learn something new and I'm sure most would feel the same, especially someone who hasn't really heard of Gallium!?! Its actually a pretty cool experiment, but like I said you should've given some more explanation if not let the Gallium sit even longer. After a couple more days the chances are the Gallium would've fully penetrated the Aluminum and you would've had this almost crumbling block of the combination!
"I'm going to pull it apart....okay guys, I'll take my hands and pull it apart now. I'm going to pull it apart....there's gallium on the table....Im going to pull the ingot apart with my hands now...." Dude...we're not blind. Just pull it apart! Lol 😜
Haha! He's pulling! He's pulling it! He's pulling it apart! He's pulling it apart with! He's pulling it apart with his! He's pulling it apart with his hands!!! He wants us to believe him so badly!!
💡You dude!💡Why don't you try to make a working xbox/console controller out of metal or even the console case itself????? You could just cast the plastic casing in metal and try to install the internals and buttons afterwards??? That would be super cool!!! Love your channel btw! Please consider to give this a thumbs up. 👍😉
I saw this video first when looking for gallium videos not knowing what gallium did, but when the other video said gallium was corrosive to aluminum I was like OhhHHhh and clicked back onto this video
If you mix gallium and aluminum until they are homogenous, then you can convert the aluminum to hydrogen gas by soaking it in water. The gallium will be left behind and can be re-used.
Try this: Gallium vs. video camera. How long will the camera record, until the aluminum casing (housing) gets eaten away? The circuits would get fried too.
i wonder what will happen if you smelted this aluminum gallum ingot. since the boiling temperature of gallium is way lower than aluminum will it just separate them and turn this ingot back to a strong normal aluminum
Put it in water so we can see the reaction. Which would be violent due to the gallium allowing the aluminum to be permanently exposed to water. And water sets exposed aluminum on fire.
I think what actually happened, was liquid gallium entered the drilled hole, it got cold enough out there that it solidified and it broke the ingot, like ice bursting a soda can in the freezer. Reactive destruction doesn’t look anything like that.
well, it DID make a few large inclusions, so the Gallium did react... also.. the Gallium was still liquid when he broke the bar, so I think it was kept in an environment warm enough to stay liquid.
It is a very interesting interaction no doubt. The holes are completely unnecessary, the same result will happen by simply leaving a dime sized drop of Gallium on top of the ingot for 48hrs.
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4:08 gallium goes on aluminum
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Thx
honestly tho why do channels do this "oh you wanted to see title name? too bad you see that after hours of lecture."
Thank you
Try and mix Gallium and Aluminum together when in liquefied form then pour in the Ingot to hard.. lets see those results
I think that wouldn't mix
You would probably have to mix alot but it would get harder to mix also the gallium would not set for ages
@@legit_jebus8607 i think would boil off because of the molten aluminum
I could but it might not be hot enough
@@yes____ The melting point of aluminum is not even close to the boiling point of gallium
What hapen if you melt again that aluminium??
yaa that what I thought too
Ah lol I asked the same w/o coment diving
I am also curious about this, I hope he does it
An alloy
Well the aluminium will melt at about 630°C the Gallium will still be a liquid and is about twice as dense as the aluminium so It'll sink to the bottom of the crucible. You could then pour off most of the alumiunium I guess.
The remaining gallium/aluminium alloy could be seperated by adding water - aluminium will oxidise and the alloy will liquify as the gallium percentage rises. A few more steps will get you purer alloy but you're going to need some more advanced methods to get it back to semiconductor purity. As for the alumina (aluminium oxide), you can electrolyse it to get the Aluminium back if you like.
It’s probable the freshly poured aluminium oxydized, and created a protective layer
Making it difficult for the gallium to interact with the ingot.
True story
Yes, that is exactly what happened because aluminium oxidizes pretty fast. A bit oh Hydrochloric acid or scraping on the surface below the gallium would have solved that.
Oxidized not oxydized
NileRed has a good video covering this. You can get some good reactions simply by scratching the aluminum after the gallium is placed on top of it. A good scraping of the surface will do more good than drilling into it, more exposed surface area for the two to interact.
aluminum oxidizes so you'll have to scratch that away first, that's why it only worked when you drilled. The other indent was left out for too long.
Can you do more casting with sand videos? They are so satisfying!
I do really miss the pounding sounds AF
You are overheating your aluminum so much! Proper pouring temperature shouldn't even glow red. When you heat the aluminum up that high it is molten for much longer and dissolves a lot more hydrogen from the air. This all comes out as it solidifies and causes bad porosity in the metal
His goal was for the gallium to get into the aluminum and eat away at it. I'm pretty sure he did that on purpose.
But where the H2 come from? The air has only very trace amount of it.
@@tmfan3888 Moisture
@@tmfan3888 the hydrogen comes from contact with moisture in the air.
If you think he got it wrong. Post a video doing it yourself.
“this wasn’t something i expected” you knew fully well thats what would happen if you mixed gallium and aluminium lol
Ikr
he was expecting an even better reaction i think
I feel like you're wasting a ton of gas starting the fire before the crucible is in there. There's no need to preheat the furnace.
I like how you showed the aluminum ingots melting over time
What happens If u pour gallium into molten aluminium?
Now what happens if you melt it back down?
I would like to you melt that thing,and see what happends or can you cast something with it.
PS: you do amazing work you are amazing
You could've put it in water so aluminum reacts creating hydrogen gas and aluminum hydroxide, leaving the gallium intact.
**^^^THIS guy gets it! I had to scroll down a long way to find a comment about the ability of Gallium/aluminum alloys to generate hydrogen and oxygen from liquid water. This point touches on another "issue" he had early on in the video when initially trying to get the gallium to "sink in".**
Aluminum INSTANTLY develops a protective oxide layer that prevents further oxidation, AND protects the aluminum from the gallium. As soon as you slotted it with that rotary milling tool, it was automatically re-developing its oxide layer. So, you must pour the gallium into the slot, and then push a scraper or screwdriver through the liquid gallium puddle, and scrape the aluminum underneath, in order to remove the thin, new oxide layer, which would've allowed the gallium to "seep in".
Once the gallium alloys with the aluminum, it prevents the aluminum from developing its protective oxide layer, which is why GaAl alloys will easily react with water, to produce hydrogen. The aluminum will disintegrate at that point, but since gallium doesn't react with water, it'll still be there at the bottom of the water container.
"I hear that the best thing to get rid of Aluminum is to feed it to Gallium. You got to starve the Gallium for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up Aluminum ingot will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta file the top of the ingot, and make a dent in it for the sake of the Galliums' consumption. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through the slurry, now do you? Gallium goes through Aluminum like butter. You need at least 600 grams Gallium to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps Gallium in a lab. They go through ingots that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a quarter of a pound Gallium can consume through many pounds of aluminum every minute. Hence the expression, 'as greedy as Gallium'.
😂😂😂 Snatch 😂😂😂
Put the gallium in a clear container and put a brick of aluminum vertically on top of it let's see how long it would dissolve it completely
You should have scratched the surface of the aluminium while it was in contact with gallium
Jak exactly! Thats why the drilling worked.
@@rileyfenley522 theres plenty time for raw aluminium to generate an oxidised film layer, put it on, take a nail and scratch it through the liquid gallium. Once it has a clear route, it's done.
Jak I 100% agree, I don’t think I have seen a video where if its not done that way where it works.
@@rileyfenley522 im not sure you understood me, it takes mere seconds for bare aluminium to oxidise a protective layer, what i mean to say is:
By using the liquid gallium as an airtight cover for the aluminium, the metal can be scored through the already placed gallium. This shifts aside any oxidised layer and the gallium can contact the raw aluminium. It should then absorb it through the channel of scratches, not unlike a sponge, but slower. The process shouldn't take more than a few hours, also the amount of gallium required for the structural disintegration was way off, its less than 1/50 Ga/Al
Luckily you don't need to put gallium in the burner because it melts in your hand!
Could you try remelting the ruined aluminum block to see if it's possible to salvage the aluminum? I would love to see if that's possible.
he'd have to do some sort of distillation to separate the Gallium from the Aluminum. But.. what WOULD it be like if he just/.. melted it?
I have a feeling the melting furnace is kind of hot, do I have the right feeling? 🤔🤔
aluminum oxide was your problem, groove, pour the gallium , then scratch the whole groove to get rid of the oxide layer.. just drilling only exposed a small amount to the gallium, but it did the job
I knew you were a Belgian instantly when you said "I'm gonna do it in this groeve" 😂 anyways nice video man 💪🏽
I got it when; i'm ben
I don’t know if it has been said yet but the reason it didn’t work in the beginning is that gallium doesn’t like to go through the oxidization that forms on the outside of aluminum
Can you remelt it and put the other half in the shredder
its aluminum, not some soft material
@@worldmapping4895 gallium makes aluminium soft, idiot
The reason it wasn’t working at first is that aluminum makes a coating of aluminum oxide when exposed to air. Gallium doesn’t react with aluminum oxide. All you needed to do was use a nail or screwdriver to scratch the surface of the aluminum under the gallium to kickstart the reaction.
oh yeah, he might have had a mix of Aluminum Oxid eand Hydroxide since he quenched the ingot. However... he DID use a milling machine to create the groove he poured into so that "should" have removed the oxide layer.
@@marhawkman303 no, the oxide formation on aluminum is near instantaneous upon contact with air. That’s why you scratch it off under the gallium layer, to prevent oxide formation.
Can you restore the aluminium back to original state if you melt it down after it has been affected by gallium? Love your videos dude
This question needs an answer!
Would have been interesting to see what would happen if you remelt it after if it would regain its strength
When he put the fire it sounded like a jp trex roaring
you should weigh the gallium before you apply it to the aluminum and then re-weigh what you can collect after it all seeps out of the aluminum to see how much stays in the ingot.
You should place one of them half’s in water
Question: What do you do with the aluminum once it is "infected" with the Gallium?
They are still researching that. Apparently the galium is recoverable and the aliminium can be used as a fuel source
yeah, the gallium and aluminum alloy will react with the water to form aluminum hydroxide, Hydrogen, and gallium metal
What happens if you stuck that aluminum+gallium ingot back in the forge?
I was thinking the same thing; or maybe you could try cleaning the gallium infiltrated aluminum somehow.
Could you put these degraded aluminium into water? I'm interested how much galium has ben still trapped at this aluminium bar, and how much of galium can be recycled :)
There we go, *completely annihilate the ingot!*
What a great UA-cam channel👍
Yes
Daniel Van Der Knaap yes
Correct!
What happen when you melt gallium with alloy
Love the videos where you speak and walk us through what you're doing.
What happens if you pour the gallium in molten aluminium?
The world will end
@@alivenizif lol confusion at maximum
@@summon1456 shh, no telling what
Hey Ben!! Try to do this.... Mix molten brass and galium and make an ingot out of it....
What would happen if you put Gallium in Molten aluminium?
Could we use gallium against the terminators?
Yes. Yes we can
NICE
What happens if you melt that aluminum down again? Will it regain its strength or is it permanently modified?
it's now an ally. the reason the bar split is because the alloy changed the crystalline structure of the metal... in one specific area, not the whole bar.
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Fun fact: this is the reason there is an absolute rule of no galium on airplanes. They are made of a large amount of aluminum and this could clearly do tons of damage.
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When aluminum is exposed to air it forms a layer of oxidation that protects it from the gallium. Taking something as simple as a car key and scrapping off the surface just before you pour on the gallium works like a charm.
What happens if you try and re melt aluminium that has as been affected by gallium
Gallium rod please
sitting on top didn't work because the aluminum had a protective aluminum oxide layer. drilling the holes which then had gallium go directly in to the material without the presence of oxygen allowed it to penetrate due to the lack of that protective oxide layer
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Try mercury or gallium on a car engine block (aluminum) to see what does the most damage for those of us that may actually do it.
Most people get behind big Aluminium, but it's always good to support local businesses.
The Galium didn’t eat away the Aluminum, it actually infiltrated the Aluminum and broke the metallic bonds in the metal therefore making it very brittle. You should try hitting the ingot with a hammer, it should shatter quite easily.
If you re-melt the ingot it'll be fine once again. Gallium lubricates the aluminum crystal boundaries, but if you melt the result, the gallium mixes randomly and forms a "solid solution" with the aluminum, similar to how adding a small amount of tin to copper makes it stronger but less malleable. And from the looks, only a tiny bit of the gallium is actually still in the aluminum. (One way to get insight, you can google image search for: aluminum gallium phase diagram, and look at the aluminum-rich side, and you'll see up to about a 5% molar ratio it remains in the FCC A1 form, or you can try it yourself like I did!)
Saw the word ingot
Now I wanna play Minecraft
can you put this ingot to water and enjoy
The compound produced by gallium and aluminium once compounded can react with water to produce hydrogen bubbles.
I like you and your videos verrrryy much
U r a very polite man !!
Cast a toy plane
Great channel and great man
Can you remelt the aluminum ingots back into pure aluminum or is the aluminum permanently compromised
hey prestube if ud put the ingot with galium in water it should react and desintegrate itself leafing the gallium behind
As a flatbed trucker driver, we have totally different ideas of "big" aluminum ingots, lmao.
Nice vid press tube
You should try a circular shaped foundry, saves you lots of fuel and energy.
Man I feel you could've went into more depth about what happened! I have a little bit of knowledge when it comes to Gallium and the chemistry of it, but not a whole lot! I was hoping to learn something new and I'm sure most would feel the same, especially someone who hasn't really heard of Gallium!?! Its actually a pretty cool experiment, but like I said you should've given some more explanation if not let the Gallium sit even longer. After a couple more days the chances are the Gallium would've fully penetrated the Aluminum and you would've had this almost crumbling block of the combination!
the scary thing is in just a few minutes the gallium can get absorbed into the aluminum and it becomes completely untraceable till the aluminum cracks
"I'm going to pull it apart....okay guys, I'll take my hands and pull it apart now. I'm going to pull it apart....there's gallium on the table....Im going to pull the ingot apart with my hands now...."
Dude...we're not blind. Just pull it apart! Lol 😜
Haha! He's pulling! He's pulling it! He's pulling it apart! He's pulling it apart with! He's pulling it apart with his! He's pulling it apart with his hands!!! He wants us to believe him so badly!!
@@pauluna2212 Hahaha 😂 Best reply ever. 👌
What would happen if you try to Remelt the aluminum ingot After the gallium damaged it
💡You dude!💡Why don't you try to make a working xbox/console controller out of metal or even the console case itself?????
You could just cast the plastic casing in metal and try to install the internals and buttons afterwards???
That would be super cool!!!
Love your channel btw!
Please consider to give this a thumbs up. 👍😉
Precision...
Not enough
@@charadremur333 I don't know. The external controller case isn't too complex is it? It's only moulded from plastic after all.
@@mikej557 i messed up, i thought he meant to make a brand new one processors with a cast, but it likely will work for the case.
I saw this video first when looking for gallium videos not knowing what gallium did, but when the other video said gallium was corrosive to aluminum I was like OhhHHhh and clicked back onto this video
Once the amalgam is created, can you get back to pure aluminium again?
That was cool. Plz do more experiments like this.
If you mix gallium and aluminum until they are homogenous, then you can convert the aluminum to hydrogen gas by soaking it in water. The gallium will be left behind and can be re-used.
Can you remelt an Ingot that has been damaged by gallium?
Probably. I think gallium and aluminum have different densities so when you remelt it the metals would separate.
I'm sure the gallium will vaporize if heated past its boiling point which is lower than the melting point of aluminum
Shade Bradford huh I didn’t even consider that. Though it’s not often one has to consider vaporizing metal. Unless you’re making mirrors that is.
@@nebularises2545 Wrong, the Boilingpoint of Gallium is 2400 °C..
Can you turn it back into aluminum and gallium somehow?
Why didn't galium solidify?
Does it make the aluminum change. if you melt it does it go back to a pure form or will it always be contaminated with gallium.
What happen if you put liquid gallium into molten aluminium and make ingot from this?
Iron in minecraft was so popular they turned into a real thing 😭😭😭
you mean aluminum? or am i missing the joke
Iron in real life was so popular they made it in minecraft
What iron are you refering to , this "joke" makes no sence and is completely out of context
Try this: Gallium vs. video camera. How long will the camera record, until the aluminum casing (housing) gets eaten away? The circuits would get fried too.
Can you do this with Mercury instead of gallium?
I was wondering if you mixed molten aluminum with molten galium
Try putting gallium in the furnace thing and see what it does
i wonder what will happen if you smelted this aluminum gallum ingot. since the boiling temperature of gallium is way lower than aluminum will it just separate them and turn this ingot back to a strong normal aluminum
What would happen if you add galium to molten aluminum then let it cool?
what would happen if you put the aluminum back in the furnace???
4:21 --
"A mimetic poly-alloy."
"What the hell does that mean?"
"Liquid metal."
5:06 you mean 54 hours
what if you pour the gallium into the aluminum while the aluminum is still molten
What happens if you melt that block back down?
Put it in water so we can see the reaction. Which would be violent due to the gallium allowing the aluminum to be permanently exposed to water. And water sets exposed aluminum on fire.
Nice. Ben keep making good stuff
is the aluminum ruined now? could it be remelted?
YOU COULD'VE USED THOSE INGOTS FOR IORN BOOTS
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I think what actually happened, was liquid gallium entered the drilled hole, it got cold enough out there that it solidified and it broke the ingot, like ice bursting a soda can in the freezer.
Reactive destruction doesn’t look anything like that.
well, it DID make a few large inclusions, so the Gallium did react... also.. the Gallium was still liquid when he broke the bar, so I think it was kept in an environment warm enough to stay liquid.
Can you still melt the aluminum ingot?
What happens if you try and re melt the ingot? Will the aluminum be good again?
It is a very interesting interaction no doubt. The holes are completely unnecessary, the same result will happen by simply leaving a dime sized drop of Gallium on top of the ingot for 48hrs.
Thank you for getting back to doing your intro!!! Your videos aren't the same without those!
What if you pulverize that block and try to make thermite out of it?