Ok so the frame rate issue is a render error, sorry about that. Was hoping i'd be able to fix it today, but you can't do anything to help that out on a Uploaded youtube video, and I don't want to take it down and re-upload. Here's a smooth, normal version of the video you can watch, if the issue is too annoying for you! ua-cam.com/video/hY4vWD0cYlg/v-deo.html
@Marc Jackson that's nothing we poked japan with the biggest sticks we had in the bag until they fought back , why does shit like that happen? because America is gullible and the satanic banker cabal loves war that's why that happens . and real information runs at a premium and it cost blood as a rule because death cult satanist are running shit. like the wizard from Oz. not bull shit facts. so your point is? blood is their wage because of their belief in a boogie man that grants them what ever they want. that runs all the way back to predated written history. you gonna solve the problem all by your self ? i've been at people for the cause most of my adult life, let "me" inform you. i've had very little effect, and now that censorship has been normalized here in the states good luck with that, who the fuck you think is running youtube now? everybody and i mean everybody with a public face has a handler behind the scenes. and the powers that be are not interested in the truth unless it serves them. but you can be sure they will put their cant on it. fine tuning the lean.
Nicholas Brown rubies are just aluminum oxide. Aluminum oxide is made all the time in thermite reactions, but it will never produce large crystals that would be worth anything. Sorry, no quick ruby making machine here
I did that once with standard thermite, blew the top off sending half the un burnt fuel in the air, then blew out the bottom which was used, never did find the top, moral of the story, don't use sugar chlorate as an ignition source in an unreinforced container
One brazilian channel tried the tiktok's matches in a bottle reaction. It went very very wrong, the bottle chain reacted way faster than it should and blew glass shards over the whole crew. They got fine after healthcare, but that was some heavy handled experiment, terrible way to end a year that was
Yeah, I just wanted to bitch about it... Maybe your camera was skipping frames because of the heat? I know some do, but I haven't seen it happen for quite some time (unless you count people trying to shoot videos with their phones...)
@@mortlet5180 I'm pretty sure 40C is actually outside the operating range of most consumer electronics, and it was out in the sun, filming thermite. Kind of a worst-case scenario.
@@Teth47 I don't think that camera was the issue though... I don't know what he uses to film when just walking around and pointing at things, but that is the one which I think made his editing software decide on a 'lowest common denominator' framerate. As an electrical engineer myself, you might hear people say "nah, 40C is fine as the electronic chips are specc'd to operate up to 85C". While this is technically partially true (most consumer devices will use chips with the 'standard' max temp of 85C), the absolute maximum ratings in a datasheet is for the die itself (the physical piece of silicon inside its package) and at 0 power dissipation (most devices are derated to 0W dissipation at their max temp. Derating often begins at 25C already, where their maximum power dissipation is specc'd.). So you're going to start thermal throttling a lot sooner, because at 40C you've already lost 40C-20C/(85C-25C) = 1/3 of the thermal headroom you had at 'room temperature'.
I love the hierarchy of flammables that you have to use: a flint (or an electric spark) to light a lighter to light a sparkler to light magnesium to light the thermite.
For better yield you might use clay flower pots with holes in the bottom, covered with aluminium foil and fitting clay lids to set the reaction of in, and some other ceramic to catch the products. That's how my chemistry teacher made a really solid iron nugget once.
With the vanadium being fairly dense you could perhaps smash all the glass/ceramic/slag up fine and then pan it... you might get any aluminium bits to go out with the other waste
In case you didn't know, they put some kind of weird polish on aluminum foil in the US, you have to burn it off to form the oxide and then convert it back in a kiln
I shredded my grinders blades once when I was trying to grind up some electronic scrap I had burned down. I noticed something was wrong when nothing was moving anymore and then I noticed the blades were completely gone. Was crazy.
My mom used to make porcelain dolls, making her own molds of plaster, off a master, and then pouring "slip" into the mold, letting it set for a bit, ten fifteen minutes or so, then pouring the slip back in the bottle, letting the mold cure overnight, leaving a doll head, or body, whatever, about 2-3 mm thick hollow part, that would get fired to green, then finished, painted what ever, and hard fired. You could do the same with a bottle, say, as the master, and do the thermite in a ceramic cast mold of it, as was used for thermite in welding rail, and steam boat cranks, on side-wheelers, a century ago. I expect that would contain the blast and allow a good coalescing. I really like thermite, it's so useful.
I bought a rock tumbler for aluminum powder and use it as a ball mill. I wish I could buy it, but I'm Canadian, so no dice. The fun part is when you open it and if it's ground for too long it all oxidizes at once, causing it to melt, then burst into flame (which only happened once).
Would nighthawkinlight's starlight recipe work to resist the thermite reaction, contain the slag and be very cheap. You could also mold the starlight to whatever shape you wanted
if you used a borosilicate boiling tube at like 3/4 the heat you could get it with a blow torch , almost glowing , then dump everything in ,i think that would conatin it better , and would avoid thermal shock if you time it right
Can't agree more on that , especially usefull if you trying to break something that is shatters as a glass when you don't want a lot of tiny sharp pieces laying all around.
Use a small and thick terracotta pot with a lid (secured down), and small vents to release pressure but big enough to release most of the sparks. I think you might get better chunks. Also using more of your mixture would probably create a better thermal mass to provide more time for the metal to flow together. Or look into metal casting containment and preform your reaction in an inverted cone shape mold. Just a theory, I'm not an expert, just going off some of the other work I've seen done and their results. Good luck.
We got explosions and fire! This is why we come here! I liked the analysis and hypothesizing as to how to slow the reaction. I have tried to do the same for manganese because it reaches and exceeds the Mn boiling point in a Mn thermite reaction.
You probably already know, but vanadium is named for Vanadis, the Norse goddess of beauty, on account of the wide range of lovely colours that vanadium compounds have.
Should have preheated the bottle with a torch before igniting that, might not have broken. Vanadium is awesome, and I had no idea you can make thermite from vanadium pentoxide, I used to have a couple ounces of it, wish I had known before I got rid of it. Great video as always. I have a few clusters of dendritic vanadium crystals for my element collection, they are beautiful stuff.
Tiny flower pot or tea cup instead of bottle for containment? Ceramics are much more temp shock resistant than glass, especially if dried before use, so that no moisture is trapped in it, that becomes steam and cracks it from the inside.
I have no idea how I ended up on your channel, and I have no chemistry background (been a solid 8 years since grade 12 chemistry), but I enjoy the shit out of your vids, my dude. Keep blowing shit up and I'll keep watching.
Use a crucabl with a long steal pipe for a smoke stack. The pipe should fit just in side the mouth of the crucabl, you want everything to coalesce at the bottom and not on the rim of the crucabl. The pipe should be at least 1 to 1.5 meters long, no shorter then 1 meter. Place a coffee filter on top of the thermite and place 10 cm of loose sand on top of the filter. The filter stops the sand and thermite from mixing until the last possible moment, use a blowtorch on the side of the crucabl to ignite the thermite. I don't know if it would stuff up the reaction but I would use a shit ton of borax for flux.
2:56 Ahh the smell of burning motor brushes being eaten through at lightning pace mixing with the bitter sweet smell of powdered aluminium as it also settles out of your bloodstream in to your brain 😌 takes me back to my own misguided thermite cooking 🍳 And I went Blender Coffee grinder Mortar and pestle (gives great texture for mill) Ball mill (mixed stainless ball size)
Instead of a glass bottle, use a well-dried and fired clay pot with a hole at the bottom. Wrap it in addition with a fiberglass mat. this is how the railroad tracks are welded. Greetings from Poland
I've got a couple of pounds of Vanadium pentoxide on hand. It's an ingredient in a universal hot prime for Pyrotechnic stars, along with some Aluminum powder, Potassium perchlorate, Potassium nitrate, diatomaceous earth, wood flour, red gum, guar gum and gum arabic. A decomposition catalyst for the perchlorate plus undergoes a thermitic reaction with the Auminum. Good stuff, works better than Iron oxides.
I don't think that's gonna be a good idea, as the uranium would then ignite from the temperature, and that smoke is both highly radioactive, and massively toxic.
Extractions and Ire: [Breaks out a hunk of fluorite] Every Astronomer watching: NOOOO. Don’t destroy that in a fire!!! Melt it and forge pretty lensesssssss.
Pro tip after you finish grinding your aluminum foil that your weed came in empty it and stick the weed in and you can grind up your weed to make the thermite reaction so much more exciting Added bonus the reaction will take ages if you smoke the weed before setting it up
If you do this again, it might be worth: 1) Using more heat-resistant glass (as Nile Red did in his latest video) and 2) Pre-heating the glass somewhat, to avoid thermal shock breaking it. An interesting video would be making VOCl3 from your residual V2O5.
Ever considered making Raney nickel through a thermite reaction? Apparently it is possible and iirc it is mentioned in one of the early Raney patents but no details are given. I reckon you need a NiO/Al mixture and add more Al so the resulting product will be close to a @ NiAl alloy.
Why the glass bottle though? Wouldn't a can work? At least it wont shatter. Maybe a firebrick with a well carved into it to hold in the mix? With another one on top with a hole all the way through it to act as sides of the container.
The clear bit of "fluorite" you used may have been another mineral. Fluorite is relatively soft with a Moh's hardness of exactly 4 (Wonder why!). Additionally fluorite exhibits perfect octahedral cleavage. The stuff you were breaking up seemed quite hard and didn't exhibit the expected cleavage.
Tom, I know in this case you're after a coarse grind, but if you do want to powderise your solids, remember that old YT channel, Will it Blend? I don't think it's active any more, but it's still around. I have seen one of those things get a red-hot nickel ball in it, and the nickel came out of it WAY worse. Blender wasn't damaged at all! Since a blender has twice the blades of a coffee grinder, plus they're razor sharp and nigh-indestructible, I figure it'd do a better job.
You need a good granite pestle that you’re not afraid to break.... also when you sealed the top of the bottle is how you create a boom boom... so leave the top open, the glass will last longer, also try quartz glass
What if you rolled it up into a foil ball with a wick, and then packed it into a ball of clay/earth, and then buried it in a shallow hole with a little ventilation. Or poked a hole on the ground and shoved the foil into it? I imagine you would contain any spatter and could just rinse it all out of a single shovel full of dirt through a wire screen.
3:16 i used my coffee grinder to grind up aluminium and went for some pretty long runs. Like minutes at a time. Eventually it just stopped and wouldn't rotate the blade at all. But 20 mins later it started working just fine. So if yours is anything like mine then it'll cut the power if it starts to run to hot, and you may not have to worry about burning out your motor by running it too long.
@@GLITCH_-.- Understood. You said that thermal fuses cost money, does that mean that once the thermal fuse goes, it needs to be replaced? The one I got (linked below) was pretty cheap as well. When I was grinding aluminium foil to powder, I ran it for a good couple minutes, then bursts for like 30 to 45 seconds, then it stopped and wouldn't turn back on. I was like "Fuck! Well, that's the end of this thing", but then just out of curiosity I tried it again when it cooled down like 45 minutes later and it worked perfectly fine! Still works like a charm! So mine must have something akin to a thermal fuse, but it doesn't need to be replaced, just cooled down. Here's the grinder I use: amzn.com/B07HQHHMYJ
However, for the purposes I use the coffee grinder for, I think I instead should have invested in a rock tumbler and some steel ball bearings. Those seem to powder up the aluminium in a very fine powder (and yes, I know freshly ground aluminium powder is pyrophoric as the oxide forms, safety first).
Nice to see the V2O5 put to good use. The Gayest Person on UA-cam has some nice thermite videos including obtaining a large nugget of vanadium. He shows flux calculations too. Looking forward to VCl3. I am totally with you on the chlorine chemistry. (And I am the person who has been watching the "isolating vanadium" video. Sorry for spoiling the stats.)
flower pots? I mean glass just isn't gong to survive a 1000c degree temp change over 1 second. some form of ceramic is (or maybe a graphite crucible) bound to suffer that kind of temp change better than glass states.
I keep watching you pick larger pieces put of a powder... why not use a flour sive to separate workable pieces from powder and ash. Shake the sive over a paper and you can collect the powders..... just a thought..
Sand you mad bastard,you need to bury the primary container in sand so it doesn't go everywhere when it breaks! Perhaps just make a sodium silicate&sand crucible? Porous enough to get rid of the gasses but strong enough to contain the splatter?
Make/get the cheapest ball mill you can get and grind up aluminium foil with that (useful for fine blending as well). Just make sure you it doesn't run it closed for days or the aluminium powder will auto ignite on contact with air
Make a dry ice basin. It's thermal conductivity is insanely low, also the extreme cold will hold all of your reaction separate from other surfaces and won't weld to anything. Can't remember the effect name... When water hovers on a very hot plate...
Ok so the frame rate issue is a render error, sorry about that. Was hoping i'd be able to fix it today, but you can't do anything to help that out on a Uploaded youtube video, and I don't want to take it down and re-upload. Here's a smooth, normal version of the video you can watch, if the issue is too annoying for you! ua-cam.com/video/hY4vWD0cYlg/v-deo.html
Extractions&Ire I SAID “Talk to the hand” 😁
@Marc Jackson that's nothing we poked japan with the biggest sticks we had in the bag until they fought back , why does shit like that happen? because America is gullible and the satanic banker cabal loves war that's why that happens . and real information runs at a premium and it cost blood as a rule because death cult satanist are running shit. like the wizard from Oz. not bull shit facts. so your point is? blood is their wage because of their belief in a boogie man that grants them what ever they want. that runs all the way back to predated written history. you gonna solve the problem all by your self ? i've been at people for the cause most of my adult life, let "me" inform you. i've had very little effect, and now that censorship has been normalized here in the states good luck with that, who the fuck you think is running youtube now? everybody and i mean everybody with a public face has a handler behind the scenes. and the powers that be are not interested in the truth unless it serves them. but you can be sure they will put their cant on it. fine tuning the lean.
cool reaction bubby, i'm surprised how quickly the glass broke very little delay.
Nicholas Brown rubies are just aluminum oxide. Aluminum oxide is made all the time in thermite reactions, but it will never produce large crystals that would be worth anything. Sorry, no quick ruby making machine here
Vu
"Our reaction container is going to be this glass bottle here"
Mate you are making a glass hand grenade
I did that once with standard thermite, blew the top off sending half the un burnt fuel in the air, then blew out the bottom which was used, never did find the top, moral of the story, don't use sugar chlorate as an ignition source in an unreinforced container
How about filling that pot with sand, and partially cover the glass bottle?
@Dr. M. H. One, two, five
One brazilian channel tried the tiktok's matches in a bottle reaction.
It went very very wrong, the bottle chain reacted way faster than it should and blew glass shards over the whole crew.
They got fine after healthcare, but that was some heavy handled experiment, terrible way to end a year that was
I would recommend for any thermite reactions to use terra cotta pottery containers. They can withstand thousands of degrees and are pretty cheap.
That’s what my chem teacher used, it worked pretty well
LOL, I just made a suggestion to the same, then read this. Absolutely agree. 👍
@@shotintel or mabe a crucible
Yeah the glass was a bad decision. Even metal would have been better.
Was gonna say the same thing
0:36 - "Isolating cat shit from cat litter"
true chemistry right 'ere mate
What's with the frame rate here?
Is bullying yourself from a different channel considered harassment or self-harm?
Yeah, I just wanted to bitch about it...
Maybe your camera was skipping frames because of the heat?
I know some do, but I haven't seen it happen for quite some time (unless you count people trying to shoot videos with their phones...)
right? what a fuckin idiot
@@mortlet5180 I'm pretty sure 40C is actually outside the operating range of most consumer electronics, and it was out in the sun, filming thermite. Kind of a worst-case scenario.
@@Teth47 I don't think that camera was the issue though... I don't know what he uses to film when just walking around and pointing at things, but that is the one which I think made his editing software decide on a 'lowest common denominator' framerate.
As an electrical engineer myself, you might hear people say "nah, 40C is fine as the electronic chips are specc'd to operate up to 85C". While this is technically partially true (most consumer devices will use chips with the 'standard' max temp of 85C), the absolute maximum ratings in a datasheet is for the die itself (the physical piece of silicon inside its package) and at 0 power dissipation (most devices are derated to 0W dissipation at their max temp. Derating often begins at 25C already, where their maximum power dissipation is specc'd.).
So you're going to start thermal throttling a lot sooner, because at 40C you've already lost 40C-20C/(85C-25C) = 1/3 of the thermal headroom you had at 'room temperature'.
Sounds like a good reaction to do on a day with a total fire ban :)
There's months of total fireban, I gotta live my life some days!
"It's not yellow, it's orange"
"It's not pink, it's light-ish red!"
-Donut
piranha031091 that’s an old reference, but a good one
Your pfp has a fuckin yellow flower. Traitors will be shot in the back
Goddamnit Marie, they're minerals!
it's subtle, but nevertheless great :)
I hate that I know exactly what this quote is from... ._.
"They're minerals"
Breaking bad vibes
1080p 13 frames per second. I like this new format.
I love the hierarchy of flammables that you have to use: a flint (or an electric spark) to light a lighter to light a sparkler to light magnesium to light the thermite.
I like the 20 frames per second
Cinematic
For better yield you might use clay flower pots with holes in the bottom, covered with aluminium foil and fitting clay lids to set the reaction of in, and some other ceramic to catch the products. That's how my chemistry teacher made a really solid iron nugget once.
With the vanadium being fairly dense you could perhaps smash all the glass/ceramic/slag up fine and then pan it... you might get any aluminium bits to go out with the other waste
In case you didn't know, they put some kind of weird polish on aluminum foil in the US, you have to burn it off to form the oxide and then convert it back in a kiln
The rockhound in me flinched watching you take a hammer to that beautiful chunk of flourite... The pyro in me reached for the popcorn.
I shredded my grinders blades once when I was trying to grind up some electronic scrap I had burned down. I noticed something was wrong when nothing was moving anymore and then I noticed the blades were completely gone. Was crazy.
Thermite video on my birthday? You're officially my favorite Aussie!
Happy Birthday!!
dammn finally caught tom's video on time this time
Aussie Chemist
Seriously! This caught me off guard
@@kriegguardsman9117 no kidding
Only because you up real late instead of sleeping
no sleep until 2020 lads
"sorry if i look sweaty" bro australia is on fire right now. being sweaty is nothing
3:59 u be hank from breaking bad
@@bobbish1618 chears mate
My mom used to make porcelain dolls, making her own molds of plaster, off a master, and then pouring "slip" into the mold, letting it set for a bit, ten fifteen minutes or so, then pouring the slip back in the bottle, letting the mold cure overnight, leaving a doll head, or body, whatever, about 2-3 mm thick hollow part, that would get fired to green, then finished, painted what ever, and hard fired. You could do the same with a bottle, say, as the master, and do the thermite in a ceramic cast mold of it, as was used for thermite in welding rail, and steam boat cranks, on side-wheelers, a century ago. I expect that would contain the blast and allow a good coalescing. I really like thermite, it's so useful.
I bought a rock tumbler for aluminum powder and use it as a ball mill. I wish I could buy it, but I'm Canadian, so no dice. The fun part is when you open it and if it's ground for too long it all oxidizes at once, causing it to melt, then burst into flame (which only happened once).
Would nighthawkinlight's starlight recipe work to resist the thermite reaction, contain the slag and be very cheap. You could also mold the starlight to whatever shape you wanted
Your videos always make my day. Thank you
if you used a borosilicate boiling tube at like 3/4 the heat you could get it with a blow torch , almost glowing , then dump everything in ,i think that would conatin it better , and would avoid thermal shock if you time it right
Just have to say I love the music you use on these videos. Very Aphex Twin/Autechre
Yeah I've noticed the same thing... very late 90s IDM/techno
Skam / Rephlex
some of it is Aphex I know for sure.
You can wrap minerals in a cloth before hitting them with a hammer, it makes it easier imo
Can't agree more on that , especially usefull if you trying to break something that is shatters as a glass when you don't want a lot of tiny sharp pieces laying all around.
Use a small and thick terracotta pot with a lid (secured down), and small vents to release pressure but big enough to release most of the sparks. I think you might get better chunks. Also using more of your mixture would probably create a better thermal mass to provide more time for the metal to flow together.
Or look into metal casting containment and preform your reaction in an inverted cone shape mold.
Just a theory, I'm not an expert, just going off some of the other work I've seen done and their results.
Good luck.
using that glass bottle as a thermite reaction vessel is the equivalent of using organolithium reagents in open air - destined to fail
IJWTS the hatred for yellow chemistry is what keeps me coming back to this channel.
New Years eve is close time to build those firecrackers :D
yes please lol i would love to see that
Lol not like Australia needs any more fire
@@bangbangliu2146 Come visit Germany, we got beer and Schnitzels :D
What is this, 2 uploads in the same week?
Two uploads, half the framerate!
@@thomasrush2095
That equals 1 upload, right?
We got explosions and fire! This is why we come here! I liked the analysis and hypothesizing as to how to slow the reaction. I have tried to do the same for manganese because it reaches and exceeds the Mn boiling point in a Mn thermite reaction.
5:25 "If I really wanted to do proper science..." I love it!
I’m really curious why you decided to make your aluminum particles bigger to slow down the reaction instead of using a flux like fluorspar or borax?
You probably already know, but vanadium is named for Vanadis, the Norse goddess of beauty, on account of the wide range of lovely colours that vanadium compounds have.
You should make some crucible steel with vanadium - it can forms some very interesting carbide structures depending on concentration.
Should have preheated the bottle with a torch before igniting that, might not have broken. Vanadium is awesome, and I had no idea you can make thermite from vanadium pentoxide, I used to have a couple ounces of it, wish I had known before I got rid of it. Great video as always. I have a few clusters of dendritic vanadium crystals for my element collection, they are beautiful stuff.
Sounds like he's saying the fluorite will be a "hate sink" that will absorb all the hate released by the reaction.
As he’s pouring an EXPLOSIVE into a glass bottle: “We’ll give it a shot, why not?”
Tiny flower pot or tea cup instead of bottle for containment?
Ceramics are much more temp shock resistant than glass, especially if dried before use, so that no moisture is trapped in it, that becomes steam and cracks it from the inside.
I have no idea how I ended up on your channel, and I have no chemistry background (been a solid 8 years since grade 12 chemistry), but I enjoy the shit out of your vids, my dude. Keep blowing shit up and I'll keep watching.
That Fluorite felt more like quartz when you were trying to break it lmao, goddamn that was a tough piece
Watching you hammer the fluorite made me sad, do chemists not know the joy and wonder of the bench vise?
He used the test tube clamp as a bench vise.... That really hurt to watch.
Use a crucabl with a long steal pipe for a smoke stack. The pipe should fit just in side the mouth of the crucabl, you want everything to coalesce at the bottom and not on the rim of the crucabl. The pipe should be at least 1 to 1.5 meters long, no shorter then 1 meter. Place a coffee filter on top of the thermite and place 10 cm of loose sand on top of the filter. The filter stops the sand and thermite from mixing until the last possible moment, use a blowtorch on the side of the crucabl to ignite the thermite. I don't know if it would stuff up the reaction but I would use a shit ton of borax for flux.
2:56
Ahh the smell of burning motor brushes being eaten through at lightning pace mixing with the bitter sweet smell of powdered aluminium as it also settles out of your bloodstream in to your brain 😌 takes me back to my own misguided thermite cooking 🍳
And I went
Blender
Coffee grinder
Mortar and pestle (gives great texture for mill)
Ball mill (mixed stainless ball size)
Instead of a glass bottle, use a well-dried and fired clay pot with a hole at the bottom. Wrap it in addition with a fiberglass mat. this is how the railroad tracks are welded. Greetings from Poland
I've got a couple of pounds of Vanadium pentoxide on hand.
It's an ingredient in a universal hot prime for Pyrotechnic stars, along with some Aluminum powder, Potassium perchlorate, Potassium nitrate, diatomaceous earth, wood flour, red gum, guar gum and gum arabic.
A decomposition catalyst for the perchlorate plus undergoes a thermitic reaction with the Auminum. Good stuff, works better than Iron oxides.
Is it possible to do a reaction of Uranyl Nitrate and Magnesium in a way that does not contaminate your entire garden with depleted uranium dust?
I don't think that's gonna be a good idea, as the uranium would then ignite from the temperature, and that smoke is both highly radioactive, and massively toxic.
Extractions and Ire: [Breaks out a hunk of fluorite]
Every Astronomer watching: NOOOO. Don’t destroy that in a fire!!! Melt it and forge pretty lensesssssss.
That nervous laughter before you light it
Ever thought of using ceramic flower pots for termite reactions?
"hopefully the glass contains, at least, the fireball..."
@7.29 into the video I'm gonna guess "uhuh, yeah, right... That'll happen!"
Ya, thin wall glass.... Well at least it didn't get out of the pot.
2019 was a much better year than I thought at the time.
Why would you do this in a glass bottle????
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Pro tip after you finish grinding your aluminum foil that your weed came in empty it and stick the weed in and you can grind up your weed to make the thermite reaction so much more exciting
Added bonus the reaction will take ages if you smoke the weed before setting it up
Yes I prefer to getting my aluminum without sticking my finger near a blade 1 of death whilst plqugged in!😆
I think they cant turn on when the lid isnt closed.
It’s like a really good stop motion
If you do this again, it might be worth: 1) Using more heat-resistant glass (as Nile Red did in his latest video) and 2) Pre-heating the glass somewhat, to avoid thermal shock breaking it.
An interesting video would be making VOCl3 from your residual V2O5.
Huh, turns out a glass bottle isn't the best container for a thermite reaction... who would have guessed?
that was cool man...nice explosion!! totally worth the risk :)
Watched an entire 4 minute ad so hopefully you can get a little bit of ad rev from it. Keep it up man, love your vids.
Ever considered making Raney nickel through a thermite reaction? Apparently it is possible and iirc it is mentioned in one of the early Raney patents but no details are given. I reckon you need a NiO/Al mixture and add more Al so the resulting product will be close to a @ NiAl alloy.
7:40 what's about the pull out reference on the board
time to show this video some love!
9:45 "Hm?" followed by a classic E&I lol moment :D
Why the glass bottle though? Wouldn't a can work? At least it wont shatter. Maybe a firebrick with a well carved into it to hold in the mix? With another one on top with a hole all the way through it to act as sides of the container.
A firebrick with a hole craved in sounds the best!
The clear bit of "fluorite" you used may have been another mineral. Fluorite is relatively soft with a Moh's hardness of exactly 4 (Wonder why!). Additionally fluorite exhibits perfect octahedral cleavage. The stuff you were breaking up seemed quite hard and didn't exhibit the expected cleavage.
Tom, I know in this case you're after a coarse grind, but if you do want to powderise your solids, remember that old YT channel, Will it Blend? I don't think it's active any more, but it's still around. I have seen one of those things get a red-hot nickel ball in it, and the nickel came out of it WAY worse. Blender wasn't damaged at all! Since a blender has twice the blades of a coffee grinder, plus they're razor sharp and nigh-indestructible, I figure it'd do a better job.
1:30 how did you say aluminum is pronounced?
Theres no I in alumnum
Would there be any efficacy to seating the reagent mixture in a silica(te) "nest"? basically a pail full of sand with a core of thermite?
10:23 modified amen break?
You need a good granite pestle that you’re not afraid to break.... also when you sealed the top of the bottle is how you create a boom boom... so leave the top open, the glass will last longer, also try quartz glass
I do have one actually! It's just still covered in antimony metal from the last time I used it..
You technical languages is superb. "Triangular bit" - you sir remind me of myself :D
Real technical, thank you
What if you rolled it up into a foil ball with a wick, and then packed it into a ball of clay/earth, and then buried it in a shallow hole with a little ventilation. Or poked a hole on the ground and shoved the foil into it? I imagine you would contain any spatter and could just rinse it all out of a single shovel full of dirt through a wire screen.
3:16 i used my coffee grinder to grind up aluminium and went for some pretty long runs. Like minutes at a time. Eventually it just stopped and wouldn't rotate the blade at all. But 20 mins later it started working just fine.
So if yours is anything like mine then it'll cut the power if it starts to run to hot, and you may not have to worry about burning out your motor by running it too long.
This thermal fuse does cost money though, and his grinder is pretty cheap.
@@GLITCH_-.- Understood. You said that thermal fuses cost money, does that mean that once the thermal fuse goes, it needs to be replaced?
The one I got (linked below) was pretty cheap as well. When I was grinding aluminium foil to powder, I ran it for a good couple minutes, then bursts for like 30 to 45 seconds, then it stopped and wouldn't turn back on. I was like "Fuck! Well, that's the end of this thing", but then just out of curiosity I tried it again when it cooled down like 45 minutes later and it worked perfectly fine! Still works like a charm! So mine must have something akin to a thermal fuse, but it doesn't need to be replaced, just cooled down.
Here's the grinder I use: amzn.com/B07HQHHMYJ
However, for the purposes I use the coffee grinder for, I think I instead should have invested in a rock tumbler and some steel ball bearings. Those seem to powder up the aluminium in a very fine powder (and yes, I know freshly ground aluminium powder is pyrophoric as the oxide forms, safety first).
Always love your content bro, it’s me Velzee from SM and Discord. We should catch up soon!
Glass bottle full of thermite? SIGN ME UP
Damn, you poor bastard. The heats been nuts!
A box of fireplace bricks might help contain this stuff better, high heat tolerance, less likely to shatter, and relatively inexpensive
here we are enjoying the little things.
like watching a sweaty australian make a joke about wildfires while making ghetto chemistry.
if you had a bench vice you could just throw it into that and let the jaws crush it. just have to be aware of the rock fragments.
Nice to see the V2O5 put to good use.
The Gayest Person on UA-cam has some nice thermite videos including obtaining a large nugget of vanadium. He shows flux calculations too.
Looking forward to VCl3. I am totally with you on the chlorine chemistry.
(And I am the person who has been watching the "isolating vanadium" video. Sorry for spoiling the stats.)
By gayest person do you mean James Charles? I didn't think he'd ever be that kind of person
something about a good ol’ mate saying “nugget” just sends me…
I’m here watching a thermite video, drinking a Jack and Coke, trying to forget about organic chemistry
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Using glass as a container is a bad idea because before the mix fully ignites the glass shatters sending the fuel everywhere
The glass bottle was a bad idea. The shock of it's shattering scattered your reaction mixture. I would suggest more flux and better confinement.
next time you do this cast the bottom of the glass bottle in plaster so when the glass breaks the metal still stays concentrated
What's up with the weird fps? It looks kind of low...
Is it? Oopz
Edit: throughout the whole video.
Does it look off to you? What were your export settings?
@@ExtractionsAndIre I hate to be the one to bring it up, I just wanted to make sure my phone wasn't shitting the bed haha
The whole video??
@@Rhodanide yeah it does seem to be the whole video??? Why did this happen???
flower pots? I mean glass just isn't gong to survive a 1000c degree temp change over 1 second.
some form of ceramic is (or maybe a graphite crucible) bound to suffer that kind of temp change better than glass states.
I keep watching you pick larger pieces put of a powder... why not use a flour sive to separate workable pieces from powder and ash. Shake the sive over a paper and you can collect the powders..... just a thought..
Sand you mad bastard,you need to bury the primary container in sand so it doesn't go everywhere when it breaks! Perhaps just make a sodium silicate&sand crucible? Porous enough to get rid of the gasses but strong enough to contain the splatter?
Make/get the cheapest ball mill you can get and grind up aluminium foil with that (useful for fine blending as well). Just make sure you it doesn't run it closed for days or the aluminium powder will auto ignite on contact with air
I really should get a ball mill, it would be useful for a lot of things I think
Extractions&Ire I am literally using a kids marble smoothing machine, I just added bearings and that’s it and it was about 20$ in a toy shop
Where the heck did you get a kaiser Permanente rx bottle is there a kaiser in Australia does anyone know?
Graphite crucible can be had from ebay for like $20 aussie dollarydoos.
10:00 not entirely sure what you expected
Make a dry ice basin. It's thermal conductivity is insanely low, also the extreme cold will hold all of your reaction separate from other surfaces and won't weld to anything. Can't remember the effect name... When water hovers on a very hot plate...
Jak Lidenfrost effect