I hope to eventually make a video on alternative thermites like copper, chromium, manganese, silicon etc. but it might take some months to acquire all the chemicals. Don't worry i have other videos planned in the meantime. On a different note: Good luck and good year to all of you younger individuals who are starting school, college or university around this time. I wish you all the best.
hey nurdrage love the videos i hope to become someone like you. my idol is you because you inspire me to do what i love science keep up the good work man :)
I don't know how I've not found your channel before. You've most certainly earned another sub for looking at the science aspect and not the usual "hur hur hur FIRE" that we see with most Thermite videos.
When you mix fuel, metal oxide, and metal powder in just the right way, it burns at 2000°c, hot enough to cut through nearly any barrier known to man. Throw some C4 into the mix....and you've got one hell of a combination. Where da C4 at tho
@@alavista4218 dont know when the last time you used C4 but modern mdi does not use electric plastic caps. Heat and pressure will set off C4(in combination). You can set it on fire, but I wouldn't take the chance of stomping on it while it is lit.
This is an excellent example of why I love NurdRage. I've seen thermite reactions many times. On youtube, science education videos, in person... but none have mentioned the boiling point of the fuel metal and why aluminum is better than alternatives like magnesium.
@crossnine My truck had a problem with the front brake controller, that Ford refused to fix. There was a recall on the truck for the exact issue, but only for the Eco boost models. it essentially would force the passenger side caliper to lock long after you released the brakes, and cause the cylinder to deform from heat.
Hey man, I'm really impressed with the total lack of dead audio time during your video. You constantly provided us with facts and anecdotes during the video, while we were watching five clips that were very similar. Nice work!
I don't understad why this channel has so few subscribers! it is freaking awesome and he gives you the whole explanation behind the reactions and processes
Awesome! I made thermite a while ago from rust flakes I collected from a steel bridge and filings from aluminum soda cans. I ground each of those in a stone mortar and pestle.
Our science teacher did thermite with us once at school and we got an almost perfect ball of iron, that was pretty cool :D I think we used the most pure (last in your video) iron oxide.
Rage....yet another amazing video! Love the way you have a wide spectrum of samples that are considered to be similar/same thing yet yield drastically visible different outcomes. Love the passion! Keep up the great work! (Although it took me about an hour to explain to my 3rd grader when he asked why did you use 2 pots for only one sample and not the others if they all melted through the bottom....I'm telling you, kids now days have "logic" coming out their pores! .....kind of wish we all did lol!! Or hadn't used it up so young ;-). Lol!!)
this video made me think of 9/11... the impact from the aluminum frame plane crashing into steel beams which have a thin layer of oxidization, then ignited by the fuel explosion could cause a thermite reaction
+piehamcake1 No, it would not. Only superficially, producing sparks just like a rusty iron covered with aluminium foil being struck with another piece of rusty iron. The whole thermite idea is so utterly stupid, just like "truthers".
I've set off a few batches of thermite a few years back. What I found to be the best was the particle size and a larger quantity. Also a full conversion from hydroxides to oxides is needed. It looks like your homemade oxides are still mostly hydroxides due to the brown colouring. I used to make mine via the electrolytic method and then roast the hydroxide in our fire place in a pet food can till it formed the red colour of the pottery grade. Then crush to a nice fine powder. I also found that doing the reaction in a bucket of dry sand would save money on cracking flower pots. The Silicon thermite stinks as the Aluminium Sulfide reacts with the humidity in the air to form Hydrogen Sulfide. Stunk my back yard out for a week. Oh, and I never got the Potassium Permanganate and glycerin method to light.
When you mix fuel, metal oxide, and metal powder in just the right way, it burns at 2000 degrees C hot even enough to cut through any barrier known to man. Throw some C4 into the mix.....and you have one hell of a combination!
Potassium Permanganate + Glycerol definitely works. It's does take about 20 seconds for the reaction to get hot enough to ignite the thermite. It definitely works and has never failed us.
Your channel is so good, I never really took to chemistry at school I found it quite boring. Your mastery of this science really inspires me to put some effort into learning more about it, thank you for that. I wonder if a little carbon was added to the thermite could you produce steel? If this is a viable method of producing steel maybe you could hook up with one of the guys who do black smithing and produce different grades of steel that could be forged into a blade or a sword. I know the back yard scientist did a pour of thermite into a mold but that's not the same as forging dissimilar mixtures of steel. If it's possible please do it; this would be so cool. Can you point me in the right direction to learn about chemistry from the ground up, I really want to understand what is going on in these experiments and not just copy them. I don't even have the vocabulary understanding of chemistry so I need to go back to the very start with it. Thank you
Hi NurdRage, I have a question for you. I live reasonably close to a Magnesite (MgO) quarry. There is a lot of the ore scattered throughout the soil of the mountain the cave is on, and I could easily get a few hundred grams just by looking around. Is there any way to reduce the MgO to elemental magnesium with easily obtained chemicals? I've always wanted to try and get a metal from the raw ore, but I don't live near enough to any copper or iron mines. Thanks!
Thermite also works with larger aluminium particles and burns less violent. And the addition of some calcium fluoride does also help the molten iron drops to coalesce.
7:51 Rocket candy is actually Potassium Nitrate + Sugar and I've seen videos with iron oxide added. It is heated until it melts and then while hot it is formed to fit the rocket propellant chamber. I have actually been wanting to know if it is possible to do the same with chlorate but I've not seen anyone do it. All RCandy videos are Potassium Nitrate and sugar.
For a better thermite get Blue pyro aluminum. Also, you don't have to use the sparks with magnesium wire. Im using normal fuse and i just sprinkle the top of the thermite with powder magnesium or black gunpowder. Works like a charm!
Years ago I used some commercial thermite products used for insitu welding of earthing grid cable and stakes, these used a small aluminium disc for the delay to drop the molten metal, if I had to guess I’d say it was maybe 1.2 or 1.5mm aluminium
I have a 350g nugget, actually several - if you compress your mix slightly, the heat spreads more evenly - when I had a work-shop - I would take the slag and press it into a fine powder than use it the line the bottom of my casting pot - I found all my nuggets to be totally encased in al203 slag and the resulting mass of Fe to have a chrome mirrored surface - I like your test rig - I do similar - have dug holes in the ground or put into a metal compost bin also - peace out👌👍
Superb real world chemistry in action with proper detective work analysis and full of details. Would like a transcript as some rapid accented heavy pronunciation around 4 to 5 min in was unclear at very interesting comments.
+Illya Benkard If not, you will be after reading this comment, Using a few hundred abandoned trashed, or new smoke detectors, you can actually gather enough radioactive material to make a small nuclear device of some sort.
couldn't quite make out what was said regarding ignition using, what I am sure is, magnesium ribbon. an alternative that worked for me was placing a few match heads on the thermite and igniting those to initiate combustion of the thermite. the benefit is that matches are readily available where magnesium ribbon might be tricky to source.
Rocket candy is a solid solution of potassium nitrate and sugar. Chlorate would be too unstable and it's relatively difficult to obtain, compared to the nitrate. It would also probably be less predictable and wild, thus making the rockets more dangerous.
I've seen elsewhere that for pyrotechnics people said to use German Blackhead, or sometimes called German Black Aluminum powder. What is the specs on your Aluminum?
They said this because their Aluminium would've been extremely fine, charcoal is added to ultra fine aluminium to stop it from oxidising. Indian Blackhead is around 4000-5000 mesh, mine is 5000 mesh or 3-5 microns. It is very reactive and extremely powerful. Most pyrotechnitions will use this mainly for flash powders as it is far to fine and valuable to be using on pointless thermite or thermate reactions.
Potassium Permanganate and glycerine (or car break fluid) works fantastic, but its temperature sensitive. The ambient temp really effects the reaction time. On a hot summer day it only gives you a few seconds to get away and in the middle of winter it may not ignite at all.
+Slurpon Muhdick Nice if you can get Potassium Permanganate (where I live it would likely invite the cops to visit) So i think i will stick to the sparklers and some magnesium shavings
Landogarner83 You can buy it at swimming pool stores by the kilo for cheap for disinfecting hot tub pump systems and in pet shops (in smaller amounts) for doing the same thing. Its a lot like iodine in the way it kills germs AND stains skin. www.cleanwaterstore.com/chemical-potassium-permanganate.html#item=C7000050&tab=tab1
black iron oxide works too, but you need to make it stechiometricaly accurate , but is quite more energetic (Fe3O4) i tried a mix of sulphur, aluminum powder ans potassium nitrate to ignite, KMnO4+ glycerin is kind of like tossing a coin
When you mix fuel, metal oxide, and, metal powder in just the right way it burns at 2000 degrees Celsius hot enough to cut through nearly any barrier know to man. Throw some C4 into the mix and you've got one hell of a combination.
Listing off the ingredients for something that could be in the anarchists cook book "and this can also be used for pottery use" not insulting, I thats great 😂
I am curious of adding some carbon to the thermite mixture. Fe+C makes an euthetic of lower melting point and could possibly make the melt more fluid. This is something interesting to try.
Do you think refractory bricks like you can buy from a hardware store would withstand the heat any better? I also wonder if adding sand to the mix would help separate the slag and the iron.
I wonder if the flower pot would have broken if it was pre-heated to drive off the absorbed water. I think the pots broke because the water flashed into steam.
cool...the only problem is that you treated the laboratory grade with different controls so it's hard to know if it would have behaved the same if you did it the same way as the others
+NurdRage Ive known that titanium thermite has been possible for along time but (from a popular mechanics magazine article a long time ago lol ) but i dont know the specific chemistry and there dosnt seem to be alot of information of it. i think it has to be made with nano iron thermite mixed with titanium oxides, and which TiO would be best arent there a bunch of them
@NurdRage How can one capture as much of the heat released as possible and either: release it back slowly into the environment, or thermoelectric considerations. Or is there a more efficient / cost effective method to produce a lot of heat to store and trickle out over time? Thank you.
I know this is an old video but would it be possible to substitute the iron oxide powder for cast iron powder? I tried it but I couldn't ignite the mixture
if you mix metal okide and metal powder in just the right way it will burn at 1000 degrees Celsius throw a little c4 in the mix and you got yourself one hell of a combination
Fantastic, great work. The pyramids have more secrets to give up. I believe that the outer casing stones were repairs that king Senfru carried out, if true, this points to the pyramid being extremely old. From the building method, it looks like it was built by the same master builders of the great pyramids of Giza. Why so much red? Looks like Iron oxide? (Rust) Thermite?
Not sure if anyone knows, but I've been wondering if there would be any practicality in retrieving the iron oxide formed from the use of single use hand warmers. I read in my chemistry textbook that some work on an exothermic iron to iron oxide reaction that uses salt as a catalyst. Would it be possible to cut open the hand warmer and use this?
Could a 8:3 ratio yield more molten iron than 3:1 ratio or would the amount of iron oxide overwhelm the amount of metallic fuel leaving residual iron oxide on the side? I want a very liquidy yield for welding two bars of steel. What would you recommend?
I have super fine aluminum powder and very pure silicon dioxide can I do termite only by these chemicals or must add somethink else sorry for my grammar :D
hi there, i just wanted to ask if during the chemical reaction between the iron oxyde and aluminum there could be the production of dangerous gasses, i know that of course if you inhale for a long time the gasses producted you'll feel sick, but i'm talking about little portion of gasses inhaled
i love your videos and am trying thermite myself. i am having a problem with getting the magnesium to light it, so i wanted to know what the sparklers are called and where i would get them. thank you.
I hope to eventually make a video on alternative thermites like copper, chromium, manganese, silicon etc. but it might take some months to acquire all the chemicals. Don't worry i have other videos planned in the meantime.
On a different note: Good luck and good year to all of you younger individuals who are starting school, college or university around this time. I wish you all the best.
+NurdRage Good video and thanks, just starting college next week :3 will definitely be doing chemistry GCSE
Under 301 club nice vid love them first time being this early
hey nurdrage love the videos i hope to become someone like you. my idol is you because you inspire me to do what i love science keep up the good work man :)
+NurdRage When are you going to create the channel NurdRage Talks?
+ rurd rage cool video
Instruction Clear. Made thermite. Thank you.
+Clear Instructions Instructions not clear enough, Made thermite and ended up with 1000 flower pots...
+Sindri “Grandy The Great” Karl I wonder if a flower pot have anything to say to this.
+Clear Instructions Instructions unclear. Dick on fire in rusty flower pot.
+Clear Instructions I see what you did there. Nice channel though:)
+Sean P Instructions unclear. Made thermite... and still not on fire... and not in a rusty flower pot...
I don't know how I've not found your channel before. You've most certainly earned another sub for looking at the science aspect and not the usual "hur hur hur FIRE" that we see with most Thermite videos.
+Peter Racette Why thank you! :)
To be fair, one of the best things about science and engineering is the ability to make things at which you could go "our our our FIRE" lol
When you mix fuel, metal oxide, and metal powder in just the right way, it burns at 2000°c, hot enough to cut through nearly any barrier known to man. Throw some C4 into the mix....and you've got one hell of a combination.
Where da C4 at tho
Where da EMP grenades though?
Time to make a new door...
C4 will do nothing as only explodes via electrical charge. You can literally light it on fire and it won't explode
@Billy But Whole XD
@@alavista4218 dont know when the last time you used C4 but modern mdi does not use electric plastic caps. Heat and pressure will set off C4(in combination). You can set it on fire, but I wouldn't take the chance of stomping on it while it is lit.
This is an excellent example of why I love NurdRage.
I've seen thermite reactions many times. On youtube, science education videos, in person... but none have mentioned the boiling point of the fuel metal and why aluminum is better than alternatives like magnesium.
how to get iron oxide 1.buy a chevy 2.live in new england
Ill stick with keeping the rotors i have to replace every 17k miles on my F150.
@crossnine My truck had a problem with the front brake controller, that Ford refused to fix. There was a recall on the truck for the exact issue, but only for the Eco boost models. it essentially would force the passenger side caliper to lock long after you released the brakes, and cause the cylinder to deform from heat.
Lol, more like buy a toyota...
Bitch come to West Virginia in the usa
lol i enjoyed this comment
Hey man, I'm really impressed with the total lack of dead audio time during your video. You constantly provided us with facts and anecdotes during the video, while we were watching five clips that were very similar. Nice work!
I don't understad why this channel has so few subscribers! it is freaking awesome and he gives you the whole explanation behind the reactions and processes
Awesome! I made thermite a while ago from rust flakes I collected from a steel bridge and filings from aluminum soda cans. I ground each of those in a stone mortar and pestle.
1:54 Evil scientist detected
Our science teacher did thermite with us once at school and we got an almost perfect ball of iron, that was pretty cool :D I think we used the most pure (last in your video) iron oxide.
Rage....yet another amazing video! Love the way you have a wide spectrum of samples that are considered to be similar/same thing yet yield drastically visible different outcomes. Love the passion! Keep up the great work!
(Although it took me about an hour to explain to my 3rd grader when he asked why did you use 2 pots for only one sample and not the others if they all melted through the bottom....I'm telling you, kids now days have "logic" coming out their pores! .....kind of wish we all did lol!! Or hadn't used it up so young ;-). Lol!!)
Love the new intro NurdRage! :D
brb, melting steel beams.
Jet fuel can't melt steel beams
Proven using _SCIENCE!_
+Univeяsal Pяoductions™ I know, that's why I'm using thermite.
+Univeяsal Pяoductions™ it can bend it though.
this video made me think of 9/11... the impact from the aluminum frame plane crashing into steel beams which have a thin layer of oxidization, then ignited by the fuel explosion could cause a thermite reaction
+piehamcake1 No, it would not. Only superficially, producing sparks just like a rusty iron covered with aluminium foil being struck with another piece of rusty iron.
The whole thermite idea is so utterly stupid, just like "truthers".
I've set off a few batches of thermite a few years back. What I found to be the best was the particle size and a larger quantity. Also a full conversion from hydroxides to oxides is needed. It looks like your homemade oxides are still mostly hydroxides due to the brown colouring. I used to make mine via the electrolytic method and then roast the hydroxide in our fire place in a pet food can till it formed the red colour of the pottery grade. Then crush to a nice fine powder. I also found that doing the reaction in a bucket of dry sand would save money on cracking flower pots. The Silicon thermite stinks as the Aluminium Sulfide reacts with the humidity in the air to form Hydrogen Sulfide. Stunk my back yard out for a week. Oh, and I never got the Potassium Permanganate and glycerin method to light.
Highly sophisticated thermite testing rig...awesomeness
😜😎
Hay, it works...
When you mix fuel, metal oxide, and metal powder in just the right way, it burns at 2000 degrees C hot even enough to cut through any barrier known to man. Throw some C4 into the mix.....and you have one hell of a combination!
How does one acquire or make CCCC though? Costco doesn't have it
Potassium Permanganate + Glycerol definitely works. It's does take about 20 seconds for the reaction to get hot enough to ignite the thermite. It definitely works and has never failed us.
Your channel is so good, I never really took to chemistry at school I found it quite boring. Your mastery of this science really inspires me to put some effort into learning more about it, thank you for that.
I wonder if a little carbon was added to the thermite could you produce steel? If this is a viable method of producing steel maybe you could hook up with one of the guys who do black smithing and produce different grades of steel that could be forged into a blade or a sword. I know the back yard scientist did a pour of thermite into a mold but that's not the same as forging dissimilar mixtures of steel. If it's possible please do it; this would be so cool. Can you point me in the right direction to learn about chemistry from the ground up, I really want to understand what is going on in these experiments and not just copy them. I don't even have the vocabulary understanding of chemistry so I need to go back to the very start with it. Thank you
Hi NurdRage, I have a question for you.
I live reasonably close to a Magnesite (MgO) quarry.
There is a lot of the ore scattered throughout the soil of the mountain the cave is on, and I could easily get a few hundred grams just by looking around.
Is there any way to reduce the MgO to elemental magnesium with easily obtained chemicals?
I've always wanted to try and get a metal from the raw ore, but I don't live near enough to any copper or iron mines.
Thanks!
Thermite also works with larger aluminium particles and burns less violent. And the addition of some calcium fluoride does also help the molten iron drops to coalesce.
REMEMBER WHEN WALTHER WHITE MADE THERMITE? NOW HE'S GONNA TEACH US.
7:51 Rocket candy is actually Potassium Nitrate + Sugar and I've seen videos with iron oxide added. It is heated until it melts and then while hot it is formed to fit the rocket propellant chamber. I have actually been wanting to know if it is possible to do the same with chlorate but I've not seen anyone do it. All RCandy videos are Potassium Nitrate and sugar.
no not every video is KCl works and is in several videos on yt as well
@@spraynprey1044 Do you have a title of a video (Do not link because YT is allergic to it). I would really love to see an example of KCLO3 + Sugar
For a better thermite get Blue pyro aluminum. Also, you don't have to use the sparks with magnesium wire. Im using normal fuse and i just sprinkle the top of the thermite with powder magnesium or black gunpowder. Works like a charm!
Thermite is one of the most simplistic yet useful reactions that everyday people can conduct if need be.
8:19 your mutant fly igor is back :P
That's what I call "smokin' pot".
+Hunter Wulf I think Hickok calls it Pot smoking
+iunpk3di Yes he does. In this case it's pot smoking nurd style. :)
Beat me to the Hickok comment
Years ago I used some commercial thermite products used for insitu welding of earthing grid cable and stakes, these used a small aluminium disc for the delay to drop the molten metal, if I had to guess I’d say it was maybe 1.2 or 1.5mm aluminium
7:48 Rocket candy is sugar and potassium nitrate, not potassium chloride.
Aeroscience ...or sugar and potassium _chlorate_
somebody needs to make an offline database of videos like this, in the style of the global seed vault, in case of apocalypse
Better print out all of youtube
I have a 350g nugget, actually several - if you compress your mix slightly, the heat spreads more evenly - when I had a work-shop - I would take the slag and press it into a fine powder than use it the line the bottom of my casting pot - I found all my nuggets to be totally encased in al203 slag and the resulting mass of Fe to have a chrome mirrored surface - I like your test rig - I do similar - have dug holes in the ground or put into a metal compost bin also - peace out👌👍
Great vids. Really makes me miss chem class
Permanganate and glycerine works well.
Sugar can be substituted, but requires friction to activate.
i find that sprinkling copper thermite on top makes it easier to light seeing as the copper thermite itself is pretty easy to ignite
Superb real world chemistry in action with proper detective work analysis and full of details. Would like a transcript as some rapid accented heavy pronunciation around 4 to 5 min in was unclear at very interesting comments.
Am I now in a FBI watchlist?
+Illya Benkard If not, you will be after reading this comment,
Using a few hundred abandoned trashed, or new smoke detectors, you can actually gather enough radioactive material to make a small nuclear device of some sort.
+darkwarrior Thanks for this information! :D
+darkwarrior Thanks for that! :)
+darkwarrior Psst, you're giving them new ideas.
~[Ματ2468χκ] Psssst, thats kinda the idea, dont tell them i told you, but better them than i.
couldn't quite make out what was said regarding ignition using, what I am sure is, magnesium ribbon. an alternative that worked for me was placing a few match heads on the thermite and igniting those to initiate combustion of the thermite. the benefit is that matches are readily available where magnesium ribbon might be tricky to source.
Thermite is also used to weld railroad rails w/o electricity.
Add in a rock tumbler with brass rod cuttings, and mill it for a couple days and see what happens!
2:13 Right ear confirmed!
Rocket candy is a solid solution of potassium nitrate and sugar. Chlorate would be too unstable and it's relatively difficult to obtain, compared to the nitrate. It would also probably be less predictable and wild, thus making the rockets more dangerous.
hahahaa, highly sophisticated thermite testing rig. Love it
I've seen elsewhere that for pyrotechnics people said to use German Blackhead, or sometimes called German Black Aluminum powder.
What is the specs on your Aluminum?
They said this because their Aluminium would've been extremely fine, charcoal is added to ultra fine aluminium to stop it from oxidising. Indian Blackhead is around 4000-5000 mesh, mine is 5000 mesh or 3-5 microns. It is very reactive and extremely powerful. Most pyrotechnitions will use this mainly for flash powders as it is far to fine and valuable to be using on pointless thermite or thermate reactions.
Potassium Permanganate and glycerine (or car break fluid) works fantastic, but its temperature sensitive. The ambient temp really effects the reaction time. On a hot summer day it only gives you a few seconds to get away and in the middle of winter it may not ignite at all.
+Slurpon Muhdick Chill it in a fridge and trigger it with a drop of sulfuric acid.
+Slurpon Muhdick Chill it in a fridge and trigger it with a drop of sulfuric acid.
Gareth Dean
You are confusing this for potassium chlorate.
+Slurpon Muhdick
Nice if you can get Potassium Permanganate (where I live it would likely invite the cops to visit)
So i think i will stick to the sparklers and some magnesium shavings
Landogarner83
You can buy it at swimming pool stores by the kilo for cheap for disinfecting hot tub pump systems and in pet shops (in smaller amounts) for doing the same thing. Its a lot like iodine in the way it kills germs AND stains skin.
www.cleanwaterstore.com/chemical-potassium-permanganate.html#item=C7000050&tab=tab1
black iron oxide works too, but you need to make it stechiometricaly accurate , but is quite more energetic (Fe3O4)
i tried a mix of sulphur, aluminum powder ans potassium nitrate to ignite, KMnO4+ glycerin is kind of like tossing a coin
soo iron oxide and alluminium ?
When you mix fuel, metal oxide, and, metal powder in just the right way it burns at 2000 degrees Celsius hot enough to cut through nearly any barrier know to man. Throw some C4 into the mix and you've got one hell of a combination.
Listing off the ingredients for something that could be in the anarchists cook book "and this can also be used for pottery use" not insulting, I thats great 😂
Is there a testing based on various aluminum powder sources video?
Wish I'd of used sparklers with the magnesium now, thermite can be a bitch to light.
Perhaps a bonus test with "mill scale?"
great vid - love the "rig"
the government will be watching flower pot sales closely now
Government doesn't regulate thermite.
I am curious of adding some carbon to the thermite mixture. Fe+C makes an euthetic of lower melting point and could possibly make the melt more fluid. This is something interesting to try.
Do you think refractory bricks like you can buy from a hardware store would withstand the heat any better?
I also wonder if adding sand to the mix would help separate the slag and the iron.
+Justin Hall yes they should as the refractory brick is made to melt iron and other metals in.
I wonder if the flower pot would have broken if it was pre-heated to drive off the absorbed water. I think the pots broke because the water flashed into steam.
That laugh at 1:57...
cool...the only problem is that you treated the laboratory grade with different controls so it's hard to know if it would have behaved the same if you did it the same way as the others
"it produces no gasses" sees giant smoke cloud
+Anton Helsgaun smoke is not a gas, it's just a ton of small particles suspended in the air.
had no idea it was that simple. I want to learn more chemistry but I don't know where to start.
how do I make aluminum power? Can Magnesium power be used?
How about magnetite + depleted uranium? Exothermic reaction?
TITANIUM !!!!
please talk about making titanium metal thru this process
+NurdRage
Ive known that titanium thermite has been possible for along time but (from a popular mechanics magazine article a long time ago lol ) but i dont know the specific chemistry and there dosnt seem to be alot of information of it.
i think it has to be made with nano iron thermite mixed with titanium oxides, and which TiO would be best arent there a bunch of them
Wow that rig is pretty high tech
Im going to use Handwarmers for my reaction! CAUSE SCIENCE!
Where could I buy the pottery iron? I've called every craft store around with no luck! :(
Hi what kind of electric power supply are you using and what could I use ??
Should turn that last piece of iron into a nice pendant.
491 likes and 0 dislikes. Best youtuber !
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946:2 now.
Another excellent video!
@NurdRage How can one capture as much of the heat released as possible and either: release it back slowly into the environment, or thermoelectric considerations. Or is there a more efficient / cost effective method to produce a lot of heat to store and trickle out over time? Thank you.
Thumbs up for the highly sofisticated room! :-D
I know this is an old video but would it be possible to substitute the iron oxide powder for cast iron powder?
I tried it but I couldn't ignite the mixture
would a map blowtorch be hot enough to kick off the reaction?
this is the voice you would hear in some kind of movie involving torture
I wonder if you mixed the aluminum in with the wet iron oxide before it was completely dry, and then dried it, if it would work better.
if you mix metal okide and metal powder in just the right way it will burn at 1000 degrees Celsius throw a little c4 in the mix and you got yourself one hell of a combination
Chemist Humor is so adorable.
I was trying to make thermite with a file, aluminum cans, rusty metal, and a blowtorch. It worked somewhat, but not a self sustaining reaction.
does anybody know what would be the smoke collected from a laser cutter cutting mild steel consist of, It collects as a super fine dark brown powder.
Does the aluminium need to be very pure? I was just wondering if you can just grind aluminium cans and such into a fine dust and use that.
Is it possible to use black iron found in sand with a magnet in a thermite reaction?
I read somewhere that there's a way to make titanium metal via a thermite reaction. Ia that something you might try in the future?
+John Weems It forms, but it's really, really impure and unless you do it in a sealed contain the newly created titanium burns, undoing all your work.
Great videos... Any reason why you used such a coarse AL to do this and which type of AL did you use? That will make a lot of difference as well.
Fantastic, great work. The pyramids have more secrets to give up. I believe that the outer casing stones were repairs that king Senfru carried out, if true, this points to the pyramid being extremely old. From the building method, it looks like it was built by the same master builders of the great pyramids of Giza. Why so much red? Looks like Iron oxide? (Rust) Thermite?
I used to worry if aluminum foil touched rusted kitchenware it would explode!
Is it possible to make corundum with this reaction?
Not sure if anyone knows, but I've been wondering if there would be any practicality in retrieving the iron oxide formed from the use of single use hand warmers. I read in my chemistry textbook that some work on an exothermic iron to iron oxide reaction that uses salt as a catalyst. Would it be possible to cut open the hand warmer and use this?
What about the other types of iron oxide I've yellow and black Iron oxide but I've not tried to react it.
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Could a 8:3 ratio yield more molten iron than 3:1 ratio or would the amount of iron oxide overwhelm the amount of metallic fuel leaving residual iron oxide on the side? I want a very liquidy yield for welding two bars of steel. What would you recommend?
Hi, nice video! I wanted to ask what is the mesh size of the aluminum?
this reminds me of first year chemistry ahh the good times
Potassium nitrate, not chloride at 7:49
Well you can use potassium chlorate, I think he messed up saying chloride instead of chlorate
how do you make the alluminium powder?
Could you use this process to make metallic titanium from titanium dioxide (a common white pigment)?
I have super fine aluminum powder and very pure silicon dioxide can I do termite only by these chemicals or must add somethink else
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hi there, i just wanted to ask if during the chemical reaction between the iron oxyde and aluminum there could be the production of dangerous gasses, i know that of course if you inhale for a long time the gasses producted you'll feel sick, but i'm talking about little portion of gasses inhaled
i love your videos and am trying thermite myself. i am having a problem with getting the magnesium to light it, so i wanted to know what the sparklers are called and where i would get them. thank you.
It looks like cheap sparklers that cost like 99 cents will do the trick
Can aluminum reduce other metals besides iron? Maybe you can use it to reduce slags from melting other metals especially tin and bismuth?