Yes we did have some tiny spheres but It didnt melt in the sense of the term melting . The brick now that melts . maybe some silicon melted out of the matrix but i cant say we melted it . If somebody called me up an said " hey ill give you $10,000 if you can build me an hho torch to melt silicon carbide" . Id have to say " DAMMIT ... I coulda just made 10 grand if only hho melted silicon carbide " . If i was from china and sold him this torch telling him YES IT MELTS CARBIDE . Id likely get sued LOL ... Not disagreeing with you its just so close its a no for me . So maybe we hit 5000 F but not likely
@@NOBOX7 Agreed, and what a future we live in when we can be having this conversation! This gets out there, but with the correct insulation and isolation from atmospheric pressure it could probably achieve "melting", with the evidence being the spheres, it seems like it would need additional ideas before it - but I'd want to see more than 10k before jumping into material development like that. What would anyone even want a HellTorch for I wonder, Silicon carbide does not melt but begins to sublimate near 2,700 °C like graphite, having an appreciable vapor pressure near that temp. Spheres.
@@NOBOX7 what are the electrode plates made of? I think you're getting some contamination in your gasses if the flame is orange. It might be from the plates getting corroded. Sometimes even commercial hydrogen can have metal contaminants from being stored in steel containers that causes it to burn with a red orange flame. Calcium in the water could be another culprit. It should be blue if it's pure.
@@prophetrob Stainless steel . Yes i agree contaimination is the reason 99% of hydrogne flames burn orange Indeed calcium could do it but regardless of what its from a simple web search shows what color hydrogen burns in 99 percent of cases . We seen propane burn blue as the sky with a white hot combustion chambers in the last video so the contamination theory seems to not tell the hole story cus it cant be mistaken for another gas , the orange is a dead give away for people who are doers and not just readers . I have made this gas burn blue and i do have videos of it but that's with a very small flame . The tip of the torch is pure copper . It could be mercaptan but this would also effect the propane flame but it doesn't. Hydrogen burns orange 99% of the time . unless in broad daylight . This torch uses propane gas modification so it could have some mercaptan contamination . I dont dispute the contamination theory as i mention it in early work but only hydrogen has the orange problem not propane and being a burner guy ive seen some flames in my day . I can pic a hydrogen flame out of a candy line up ... Also when the velocity of this gas reaches a certain point , it entrains air into the flame diluting the ratio of oxygen , this is 80% of the reason for the orange flame . According to scientist , not an opinion ... Yes calcium can produce orange color but distilled water has very little of that to offer . Most of it precipitates onto the anode if it is present . Bottom line regardless of the sources no other gas experiences this orange shift . So if the spectrum is invisible it lends itself to colors from contamination not viewable from other flames proving its hydrogen . This gas burns blue if you add just a touch of propane . Propane Burns blue Waste motor oil burns yellow waste veggie oil burns blue Diesel burns blue wood burns yellow NG burns blue Hydrogen Burns Orange 99% of the time No other flame burns orange to violet red like h2
I'd call that melting, the little thermal sweat spheres. Thank you for doing this though, great ideas, seriously cool to see you play with this.
Yes we did have some tiny spheres but It didnt melt in the sense of the term melting . The brick now that melts . maybe some silicon melted out of the matrix but i cant say we melted it . If somebody called me up an said " hey ill give you $10,000 if you can build me an hho torch to melt silicon carbide" .
Id have to say " DAMMIT ... I coulda just made 10 grand if only hho melted silicon carbide " . If i was from china and sold him this torch telling him YES IT MELTS CARBIDE . Id likely get sued LOL ... Not disagreeing with you its just so close its a no for me . So maybe we hit 5000 F but not likely
@@NOBOX7 Agreed, and what a future we live in when we can be having this conversation! This gets out there, but with the correct insulation and isolation from atmospheric pressure it could probably achieve "melting", with the evidence being the spheres, it seems like it would need additional ideas before it - but I'd want to see more than 10k before jumping into material development like that. What would anyone even want a HellTorch for I wonder, Silicon carbide does not melt but begins to sublimate near 2,700 °C like graphite, having an appreciable vapor pressure near that temp. Spheres.
@@NOBOX7 Its called precipitation. Either the silicon, carbon, or some other ingredient precipitated out of the alloy.
Please demonstrate welding with it if it can be done
Very impressive!
Awesome
Whats the electrolyte you use in your HHO system?
Potassium hydroxide
@@NOBOX7 what are the electrode plates made of?
I think you're getting some contamination in your gasses if the flame is orange. It might be from the plates getting corroded. Sometimes even commercial hydrogen can have metal contaminants from being stored in steel containers that causes it to burn with a red orange flame. Calcium in the water could be another culprit. It should be blue if it's pure.
@@prophetrob Stainless steel . Yes i agree contaimination is the reason 99% of hydrogne flames burn orange Indeed calcium could do it but regardless of what its from a simple web search shows what color hydrogen burns in 99 percent of cases . We seen propane burn blue as the sky with a white hot combustion chambers in the last video so the contamination theory seems to not tell the hole story cus it cant be mistaken for another gas , the orange is a dead give away for people who are doers and not just readers . I have made this gas burn blue and i do have videos of it but that's with a very small flame . The tip of the torch is pure copper . It could be mercaptan but this would also effect the propane flame but it doesn't. Hydrogen burns orange 99% of the time . unless in broad daylight . This torch uses propane gas modification so it could have some mercaptan contamination . I dont dispute the contamination theory as i mention it in early work but only hydrogen has the orange problem not propane and being a burner guy ive seen some flames in my day . I can pic a hydrogen flame out of a candy line up ... Also when the velocity of this gas reaches a certain point , it entrains air into the flame diluting the ratio of oxygen , this is 80% of the reason for the orange flame . According to scientist , not an opinion ... Yes calcium can produce orange color but distilled water has very little of that to offer . Most of it precipitates onto the anode if it is present . Bottom line regardless of the sources no other gas experiences this orange shift . So if the spectrum is invisible it lends itself to colors from contamination not viewable from other flames proving its hydrogen . This gas burns blue if you add just a touch of propane .
Propane Burns blue
Waste motor oil burns yellow
waste veggie oil burns blue
Diesel burns blue
wood burns yellow
NG burns blue
Hydrogen Burns Orange 99% of the time
No other flame burns orange to violet red like h2
Yeah, that's why I don't much care for HHO.
LOL it was way creepier in person, that explosion sounded like a submarine imploding