@HAIL FLOCH " Hydroxide would quickly react with the iron in the blood and cause iron hydroxide to precipitate, which is much safer than a strong base such as sodium hydroxide" Depending upon where the round impacted, there could be a precipitate of this substance. Most likely the two alkali metals would do the following... 1. React with water to form NaOH or KOH. 2. The hydroxides would react to form saponified fats, which would come from cell membranes. This would cause erosion of tissue, with tough to heal wounds. If enough Potassium were injected, then the person would die. Potassium is used for lethal injection.
bullshit, fbi stats shows that a round should have at least 12 inches of ballistic gel penetration to hit vital organs. The bullet wont necessarily hit directly, it might hit an arm, or bone, a shallow penetrator like that would fail often, the wound would be ugly, but that means nothing.
The liquid alloy bullets could be fairly effective against very soft targets but for better penetration it might be worth leaving some lead in them before adding the NaK.
Lightweight and high velocity they have less inertia that a heavier bullet in the water and therefore transfer all of their energy into the water faster. Would be interesting to see a longer NaK bullet comparable in weight to the normal lead bullet
Energy=mass x velocity. Lead density 11.29g/cc Sodium 0.971g/cc Potassium 0.862 g/cc The copper jacket is a fixed weight. Changing to sodium and potassium very significantly reduces mass of the bullet, yielding less penetration into the water mass. FWIW, a true liquid such as mercury will negatively impact the bullet’s accuracy. Very interesting stuff, really appreciated it!
At first I was like "Liquid Metal Bullets" - Fuck yes, Demo Ranch uploaded! Then, I saw Slow-Motion, so I thought "Fuck yeah, the Slow-Mo Guys" Then I realized it was the backyardscientist, so I said "Fuck yeah" another time. Great video!
Hey brother, I would absolutely love to work with you on future firearms related projects. I have access to all kinds of crazy guns and ammo as well as testing materials like Ballistic Gel and I'm a total nerd for this kind of stuff. I will come to you or whatever needs to happen to work with your schedule.
@@aSpyIntheHaus Yea" figured that. I grew up prospecting. Mercury wss always avalable. Just wait till you see the devistation of what a shotgun slug with just a pinhead drop of mercory does? My dad made me shoot the nabors dog after it killed some chickens. They told us it was OK. But nothing was alright with me doing it when i was only 12 years old. And realy screewed myself up by using a mercury loaded 12 ga shell. Even if the intent of not seeing it suffer was acomplished. There was not much left of it. And it was a full grown lab. Its entire body imploded. And then it rolled back on itsself.
Years ago in the 1970's I loaded mercury into the end of the hollow point Supervel bullet in a 380 ACP and I worked pretty well. The bullet expanded in wet telephone books but I didn't find the Mercury.
The lead soaked up the mercury, learned that years ago when a friend put some in a Benjamin.22cal pellet and left it for a couple of days, the pellet was like a piece of ice, real slippery.
I'll guess that the advantage of increased destructive power would be offset by less consistent trajectory and more complicated storage issues. Trying to shoot in the rain may cause reaction in the air, and even tiny water droplets suspended in air may show a bullet trail back to the shooter. Also, a soldier would never want his ammo to get wet, with the risk that bullets on his vest might produce an exothermal reaction that might be enough to ignite the underlying powder. The bullets would need to be coated with a barrier to moisture and abrasion, increasing cost. I'd be interested in a comparison to depleted uranium....
+spelunkerd also if a soldier 'bit the bullet' while having his leg amputated with a saw , without anesthesia , on the battle field , then the bullet might explode in the damn soldiers mouth
I thought of this in high school! An entire line of alkali metal bullets- even cesium. A cesium bullet would be tough to engineer, but extremely effective.
You would be correct in your assumption. Hollow points are Horrible when it comes to penetration however they shine against soft targets being as they dump all of their energy on impact
Hollow Points lack Penetration Depth, and that's not a BAD THING. Their application is for when there's a thing you don't want to kill standing behind a thing you DO want to kill. So, a hostage situation, or another scenario where there's tons of civilians in the area. Or if someone broke into your grandmother's house and they're in front of the memorablia cabinet.
Popular UA-cam science channels around the world: "Let's make a zany slingshot or something this time" Popular UA-cam science channels America: "Let's see if we can make deadlier bullets and then shoot them out of our guns"
I asked Tafledermaus to try this 6 months ago, but he told me bullets like this are banned in his state because of a fire hazard. I want to send him some copper jackets though, he could probably fill them with some crazy stuff!
4:21 as an avid gun collector I'm fairly well versed on firearm safety and what is considered ok to do and you somehow managed to do every taboo thing with a firearm in one video
+Souk Khanhsila actually, blood pools in the lowest available part of the body after you die. you can't kill a zombie with leg shots(unless you're making leg shots with a grenade launcher). you may be able to shoot far enough into the head to get a shot at the brain stem, but looking at the high speed footage, your accuracy would be off since the mass of the bullets is so much lower than what the gun is designed to fire. also think that since the bullet is less dense, it might not even make it through the skull. you'd also have to consider how reactive these materials are to water. the first time you get a surprise rainstorm, fall in water or drop your gun in a puddle, your gun will get wet, your bullets will react and next thing you know, you're cleaning all of that shit out of your gun (if it hasn't blown bits off your hand). these elements also react to water vapor in the air(at a much slower and violent rate). now your bullets are not only inaccurate, and light... now they don't have the explosive *BOOM* that you made them for. speaking of making these bullets, it's hard to find these materials just lying around, which means that you'd have to have a stockpile of pure sodium and potassium on hand, with an airtight containment system, when the zombie apocalypse happens. in the end, you're going to run out of materials, and by this point, you've learned to shoot these bullets to their maximum efficiency, and now you have to relearn how to use regular bullets depending on how long you've survived to this point. you'd also have to have a furnace that can melt lead, sodium and potassium without burning the less dense elements. you'd need to be able to set this up and tear it down QUICKLY. you can't just leave this burning unattended if you have to stop zombies from eating you because you're going to end up burning your campsite down. do you know how long it takes to heat up a homemade furnace? a long ass fucking time is how long. you can't use commercial furnaces because where are you going to get one unless you already have one, and what are you going to do when it breaks? you can't just order one online or go the the store for it anymore. finally, out of the 5 bullets he loaded, one didn't even leave the chamber because it was too light. if you try to use a gun like this in a zombie apocalypse it won't work and you'd die when faced with your first group of zombies bigger than 5 individuals. in the end, these bullets are hard to make, inaccurate, hard to maintain, can't be used to permanently down a zombie, are unreliable and are just as dangerous to you as your enemies(if not more dangerous).
+spartan1010101 While you aren't technically wrong here spartan, Lead does give the bullet mass and weight factors into knockdown.... The issue here is that these bullets are made of alkaline metals. When they touch water they react violently and explode. Note: we are made of a lot of water. What he NEEDS to do is shoot and animal carcass with it and see what that does as it will represent the damage and penetration you get out of these rounds. Would it penetrate deeper then explode instead of reacting to the water instantly? Key thing is though... its going to explode at some point
+entritur Surely if soft metal bullets were viable then the military would have started using them by now, I mean its not like the world as a whole spends 1.5 trillion on the armed forces... Wait no we do. Although it might be an interesting experiment to do. I reckon it might not even explode at all because, although we're made from water, that water is stored up behind membranes and is not pure water, there will be other stuff floating around so that may interfere with the chemical reaction of Alkali metal (X) + H20 = H2 + XOH to produce a negative delta H.
@@FuZe. Wow, complaining about a random reply under a comment under 10 likes about a joke that as you said, has been done a thousand times over. Original, thoughtful, and totally tasteful.
Greater amounts of penetration leaves room for more internal damage. A standard bullet has potential to shatter bones and leave incredibly gnarly wounds, especially if an exit wound is achieved. Hollow points are specifically designed not to over-penetrate, but will cause greater damage to muscle because the full brunt of the force behind the bullet is being absorbed by the body. With the sodium and potassium rounds, you've essentially created something that is going to cause a great amount of surface damage with the capacity to send further metal fragmentation deeper into the body. The resulting wound most definitely be much grizzlier than that of a standard bullet and may even be comparable to an exit wound. I would like to see these fired at something like to pig carcass to see for sure how effective they would be against flesh, however, I did notice that the alloy bullets are much less stable during flight, something that is likely a result of how haphazardly constructed they were. With proper and more precise manufacturing, this could no doubt be mitigated, but given the lack of penetration power that they display and the growing amount of readily available body armor seen on the modern battlefield, I'd say they have little to no practical application.
@@Jermain-cz4bh One would be a complete fool to rely on something that penetrates 2" for home defense. In a defensive weapon, one of the most important aspects is consistency. These rounds are nothing but entertaining. If you want to stop a big heavy bad thing, you must break bone, rupture major vessels, or destroy large nerves. This would make a terrible surface wound and leave the scent of BURNT BAD GUY. No thanks. If an explosion after 2" was a great idea, Federal would be manufacturing something that did this.
@@NotElmerKeith1 I disagree on this one. If a substance that results in a burning reaction can be inserted even one inch into a target the pain from the inside will likely stop anyone in their tracks no matter the impact point.
@@es330td Yep...that's why the FBI and every police agency in the country uses them....wait, they use 9mm Speer Gold Dot 124 rain JHP ammo. Of course they would be effective a lot of time. A baseball bat is also. You want to be effective as frequently as possible in bad situations. So having something with an unknown failure rate is silly. How often does it not explode? How often does it not even get through heavy clothing? How often does the mixture behave unpredictably? How accurate is this ammunition. What happens when you shoot it through a hot barrel? I could ask 20 more unanswerable questions but you get my drift. In a handgun, that is horribly underpowered anyway, you need some expansion and absolute penetration. FBI standard says ~12-18" (or so) ----this round will not do that.
I don’t think the other metals would be more effective. The lead kept the bullet moving forward as the hollow point opened up, which is desirable from defensive ammo. The other projectiles only propelled a few inches in water. That can be a real problem expanding the hollow point. Maybe it’s because the other metals are too soft and leaf is just right. Very interesting results. Cool video!
A quick reloading tip for you, the lighter the projectile/bullet, the more powder is needed to push it. In this one it looks like you started off with at least a 200gr hollow point and reloaded the same amount of powder (?) back into it but now weighing in at 5gr (?). No where near enough juice. I would love to see what happens with these on a flesh target where the metals can react with blood.
Secundus not from very far away. Use just a little in the tip of a hollow point and seal with poly urethane. It will not explode but it will burn making it harder for the wound to heal. It is best to weigh the bullets before and after and attempt to keep the weight of the bullet even and equal throughout the process. Also don't use these on people, they are illegal and you will go to jail , even if you are in the right in the situation.
Great video. These bullets would not perform well inside of a humam target due to their lack of penetration. We have tested several types of ammunition that transfer energy early in their targets (see our G2 rip series). Although they look impressive they do not penetrate far enough to reach vital organs.
It would definitely react with blood. But flesh is a different issue. If the flesh is in decomp it would maybe react but not as much as it would with hydrated flesh. Besides, these bullets would not ever be able to be considered for PD because, above and beyond reasonable defense is illegal in all 50 states.
@@chrisnorris3641 But you wouldn't really have to be concerned about that as much as the HUGE GAPING CRATER in your abdomen. I mean, how is it going to contaminate your blood if your heart stops pumping due to some react ion s that took 1/30,000th of a second to turn from the size of a pencil eraser to a basketball....unless you get shot in the leg. In that case, good luck...
but of course thats assuming the target isnt wearing armor cause as he shows in a later test these things have zero penetration due to being very lightweight. maybe if you used depleted uranium instead of the lead. lol. but that jas its own set of problems I'm sure. but sounds like a great ammunition in a sci fi/fantasy setting
Since liquids resist compression, perhaps filling the hollow point cavity with liquid metal might cause more dramatic expansion of the copper clad lead bullet. The larger the expansion, the greater the cavitation and more dramatic the effect on the water. Just a thought.
Frederick Forsyth wrote a book published in 1967 called THE DAY OF THE JACKAL. In it, the assassin attempts to murder French President Charles de Gaulle with a .22 long rifle hollowpoint bullet into which a tiny drop of Hg has been inserted and soldered over. He uses a bolt action rifle. Of course, the hero saves the day, and le Grande Charle lucks out, but the assassin tests his weapon on a melon, and it expoldes. That could be a fun experiment for you. Liked. Subscribed. 😁
I'd be curious about the ballistic coefficient of the bullets you made, so far as I've seen I'd still pick lead. Definitely cool to see though man, keep it up!!
+Dren Dolničar thats in most places. america is probably one of the only first world countries that allows people to combine ammonium nitrate and black gun powder oxidizer together to create tannerite concussive explosive powder for recreational shooting use. or buy certain stuff that governments would deem dangerous.
+R Packard the yare hollow jackets. they are designed to not fully penetrate. they are purely designed to do as much flesh damage as possible. it is ridiculous that such a type of bullet is even legal.
+zool201975 I am fully aware of what a hollow point is and what it does. it is intended to still penetrate further than it does in the video. the metals used in this video render the bullets less effective.
R Packard with these highly reactive metals you did something worse then just a normal hollow point. they will not explode this violently either because it will be harder for the metals to bond with the water molecules present, this is because most of the water molecules are already bonded. that means less energy. but still it will continue till al the metal is turned into an oxide and while it does so it will be very exothermic. weapons of this type are banned by the Geneva convention for not just any reason. it can be even worse then phosphorous. it will cook you
You're really making me wonder how much you actually know about firearms and combat. Have you ever actually used a firearm? Received any kind of training?
Imagine being shot and looking down and suddenly poisonous smoke starts erupting from the wound. Lord almighty.
@HAIL FLOCH explosive then
@HAIL FLOCH and NaOH
@HAIL FLOCH I can't imagine it would be good to have that gad in the blood stream though. that's one nasty bullet
@HAIL FLOCH " Hydroxide would quickly react with the iron in the blood and cause iron hydroxide to precipitate, which is much safer than a strong base such as sodium hydroxide"
Depending upon where the round impacted, there could be a precipitate of this substance.
Most likely the two alkali metals would do the following...
1. React with water to form NaOH or KOH.
2. The hydroxides would react to form saponified fats, which would come from cell membranes. This would cause erosion of tissue, with tough to heal wounds.
If enough Potassium were injected, then the person would die. Potassium is used for lethal injection.
I can confidently say you've made anti-personnel rounds. Not really effective against any armour, but way more damage if it hits flesh.
Exploding blood. Nasty
Couldn't it also burn the person, and because of that cauterize the wound and make it not bleed? Sorta like taking a bullet out with a hot knife.
@@federicogonzalez8033 so incendiary anti personnel
@@federicogonzalez8033 the potassium nitrate would poison you so not much hope there.
bullshit, fbi stats shows that a round should have at least 12 inches of ballistic gel penetration to hit vital organs. The bullet wont necessarily hit directly, it might hit an arm, or bone, a shallow penetrator like that would fail often, the wound would be ugly, but that means nothing.
Redo the experiment but use ballistic gel. That should give you a better idea of how they would perform.
Yes!!!
+Andrew McIver but water is known for its amazing water stopping abilities and thus would affect results
+Matthew Sexton fill it with animal blood to see how it would react more accurately
Should try some meat... lamb, pig, whatever...
It's one thing to shoot watermelons and tanks, but that might be pricy considering it would effectively be destroyed each time
Would be very interesting to see the results of firing into ballistic jelly or a pig carcass
JFK....this is what they used
Pretty cool huh?! What else should I try to fit in these hollow bullets?
Oblek stuff. Idk if that's how you spell it
+TheBackyardScientist mercury.
Mercury!
lithium
you could try hydrogen that would be ccool
Good that you survived that dangerous propane tank. It could attack at any moment!
+Hydraulic Press Channel Too bad you weren't there, you could've helped deal with it!
Best videos on yt
Woo HPC + TBS! XD
They responded!
Yay hydraulic press channel.
The liquid alloy bullets could be fairly effective against very soft targets but for better penetration it might be worth leaving some lead in them before adding the NaK.
Nice to see you here Rogue-9
What you watch him?
i thought about that but it may be unreliable or cause problems with bullet stabilization
Lightweight and high velocity they have less inertia that a heavier bullet in the water and therefore transfer all of their energy into the water faster. Would be interesting to see a longer NaK bullet comparable in weight to the normal lead bullet
@@SR-wz2iv that would be very interesting. But I don’t know how the would do that, 50 bmg round in a 50 Beowulf case maybe... if that doesn’t explode.
Energy=mass x velocity.
Lead density 11.29g/cc
Sodium 0.971g/cc
Potassium 0.862 g/cc
The copper jacket is a fixed weight. Changing to sodium and potassium very significantly reduces mass of the bullet, yielding less penetration into the water mass.
FWIW, a true liquid such as mercury will negatively impact the bullet’s accuracy.
Very interesting stuff, really appreciated it!
Then next time he should try Rubidium or Cesium bullets.
Much higher density, atomic weight and reactivity than Potassium.
@@MichaelClark-uw7ex they're also VERY expensive and difficult to source and toxic to work with
@@s13iLLuminati Cody has a video how to extract and distill pure Cesium.
At first I was like "Liquid Metal Bullets" - Fuck yes, Demo Ranch uploaded!
Then, I saw Slow-Motion, so I thought "Fuck yeah, the Slow-Mo Guys"
Then I realized it was the backyardscientist, so I said "Fuck yeah" another time. Great video!
same
The Backyard Slow Mo Guys Hydraulic Press
Daniel Tabudlong Slow Backyard Hydraulic Ranch
marc246152 True...
TAOFLEDERMAUS anyone?
kids in Africa could've drank that sodium
lol
+Ricardo Serrano mmmh delicious
Starving African Children React to Sodium Water [GONE SEXUAL]
+Ricardo Serrano or floroantomonic
duck you
'It didn't even make it 6 inches in'
story of my life
R.I.P
+BlockAps LMFAO
W 😂😂
+BlockAps lol
+BlockAps made my day
"it didn't even make it 6 inches in"
Same
💀
@@blueamongusvids stop
@@hhhhhhhhhhhhhnhhhhhhh 💀
@@chemreal find the spiders first
"NaK rounds" sounds like a really cool ammunition type.
6:23 omg the hydraulic press reference xxDDD
+YourNightmar3 huh? sounded like FPS russia to me, he's the one always shooting exploding propane tanks and stuff
***** No go watch a hydraulic press video. Its the same accent and he always does bonus scenes at the end of the video
+Cooking With Cows..no way, that is definitely a hydraulic press reference. fps never had "extra content"
+Cooking With Cows He always says that sentence though + accent
+YourNightmar3 velcum to da Hoodrolic press channel
Hey brother, I would absolutely love to work with you on future firearms related projects. I have access to all kinds of crazy guns and ammo as well as testing materials like Ballistic Gel and I'm a total nerd for this kind of stuff. I will come to you or whatever needs to happen to work with your schedule.
that would be amazing first subscriber right here
Sick how your famous rn
Ha! In your dreams
Did anything ever come from this?
i think we should see how the potassium rounds react with blood as i'm guessing they would leave a larger entry wound when compared to the exit wound
If the 4.1 on the scale is in grams means your bullet is 61.5 grains
'it didn't even make it 6 inches in'
hehe
Dea Piggy wow that was bigger than I thought ;) 6:49
Michael Scardino hahahahah what the heck
THATS WHAT SHE SAID
“I’m soaking”
"my fishtank is falling apart"
That Hydraulicpresschannel reference at the end :DDD
+Elimo ags 1m pls
+Elimo
He forgot the _"it can attack at any moment"_ part, lol
lol I got here from that video
I thought it was a FPS Russia reference.
“I hope this doesn’t destroy the fish tank” *ITS A BULLET!!!*
Do you know how water works? Water is like crashing a car into a wall makes bullets stop fast af
@@Flarexxxx do you know how bullets work it has to go through the plastic to even touch the water
@@cjim3902 i made a smartass comment before watching the video....10 months ago
@@nervousnorvus1944 it sort of will...
@@nervousnorvus1944 But he was right, they didn't have the bullet going through the tank...
"It didn't even make it 6 inches in"
Story of my life...
"That's what she said" :) :) I hear ya matey
@@aSpyIntheHaus You stole my reply.
@@Chuxgold I think we were all thinking it mate :) :)
@@aSpyIntheHaus Yea" figured that. I grew up prospecting. Mercury wss always avalable. Just wait till you see the devistation of what a shotgun slug with just a pinhead drop of mercory does? My dad made me shoot the nabors dog after it killed some chickens. They told us it was OK. But nothing was alright with me doing it when i was only 12 years old. And realy screewed myself up by using a mercury loaded 12 ga shell. Even if the intent of not seeing it suffer was acomplished. There was not much left of it. And it was a full grown lab. Its entire body imploded. And then it rolled back on itsself.
@@Chuxgold dang, yeah I don't envy you there.
No one's gonna mention the Hydraulic Press Channel reference at the end? ... :/
When was it?
no
LOL I loved it
Sounds more like russian english, not finnish english =)
Should I make a sodium joke? Na...
savage
+Kaito Shion Do you know the formula for Sodium Hypobromite?.. NaBrO
savage
+Evilnicko srsly?
Evilnicko 10/10
Nice nod to the Hydraulic Press Channel there at 6:23. :)
+Scotty HPC would be proud
Years ago in the 1970's I loaded mercury into the end of the hollow point Supervel bullet in a 380 ACP and I worked pretty well.
The bullet expanded in wet telephone books but I didn't find the Mercury.
The lead soaked up the mercury, learned that years ago when a friend put some in a Benjamin.22cal pellet and left it for a couple of days, the pellet was like a piece of ice, real slippery.
You should try dripping blood on some sodium or potassium to see if it would react as vigorously like water.
Well blood is largely composed of water so...
@@annabellethepitty but still its cool
You should try it on ballistics gel
Is it human blood or animal blood
probably wouldnt, sure, there is water, but only 45% or so, maybe even less.
I'll guess that the advantage of increased destructive power would be offset by less consistent trajectory and more complicated storage issues. Trying to shoot in the rain may cause reaction in the air, and even tiny water droplets suspended in air may show a bullet trail back to the shooter. Also, a soldier would never want his ammo to get wet, with the risk that bullets on his vest might produce an exothermal reaction that might be enough to ignite the underlying powder. The bullets would need to be coated with a barrier to moisture and abrasion, increasing cost. I'd be interested in a comparison to depleted uranium....
+spelunkerd also if a soldier 'bit the bullet' while having his leg amputated with a saw , without anesthesia , on the battle field , then the bullet might explode in the damn soldiers mouth
Nah they already make ballistic tipped hollow points with a plastic cover over the top.
While watching this , I prayed for the camera...
I thought of this in high school! An entire line of alkali metal bullets- even cesium. A cesium bullet would be tough to engineer, but extremely effective.
You have a fish tank, filled it with water, made it out of wood and hoped that the pressure of a bullet wont destroy it? I am disapointed...
same
Just Stfu
Agar.io Bitch Make me...
what do you make your fish tanks out of, metal and plexi glass?
+Justin Gilbeau For bullet experiments, yes, this ain't a party popper you see...
I wanna make a joke about sodium, but na
+Officer Badass10 He just did
+Fynn Kowalczyk you mean Na
+Fynn Kowalczyk this comment lowered my iq
You didn't capitalize it!!!!
K
It seems you beat me to this. Dang school taking up all my time! haha good work!
Fancy seeing you here Cody
+Cody'sLab You should still do it, would be nice to see how those metals react in more dense material
+Cody'sLab Aww oh no :O But thanks, Id still like to see your take on it though!
Cody I am à sub love the mining
Skool?
"Hey guys were making liquid bullets"
FBI:We will watch your career with great interest
I was gonna joke about sodium but Na.
+Buck Mill nice joke BrO
Thats funny, Fr fr
F U
+Irascible14 This joke is sodium funny
Tantan tantan L
you closed your eyes before it fired! (on the first clip of you firing before the tests)
So thats why I keep missing!
+TheBackyardScientist Good video as always :)
+dregerclock Inb4 Magazines
+articpinwheels ??
+dregerclock It's called magazines, not clips.
"I want to weigh them out so they are all consistent"
One was 3.9g and the other 4g lolz
+Santi Lando close enough!
+TheBackyardScientist I know was just messing around lol.
Also using a rather inaccurate $20 scale most of us just use for selling bags of herb, not 'precise' experimentation.
close enough, now your just nitpicking!
:P
Love how he laid the pistol in the flowing water coming from the tank. @2:03 lolol
Lol! It’s like a $457 tough as nails RIA 1911
@@samuelyoung4646 It's also made of steel. Would you like me to dump a bucket of water in your toolbox?
3:00 Careful, you said, "reaction" there, don't want to get sued now.
Julian-Alfred-Pankratz viscount-de-Lettenhove y would he get sued
MrSavageeg fine Bros tried to copy right the word react like they made it
YOUNG SPLICER boi the Fine Bros shouldn’t just call a word their own if they never made it.
Liquid bullets... Omolon weapons anyone?
Destiny? Like the Jung Jury
+NSS JUMPSHOT XD
lol
lol
Haha. Nice.
I loved that flaming bullet at the end hahaha. Better than a tracer round.
You know something is going to be cool when someone from florida says that they have to change the state because that is illegal to do there
For today's extra content Ve got very dangerous propane can. VE MUST DEAL VITH IT xD
Nice reference to HPC
+Nobo Nobo (Nobo) I though the same!!! AHAHHAHAHA
I that too xD
I'd love to see this done with ballistic gel.
Alkali metals only react like that with water so it wouldn't be as impressive/fun to watch! :(
Fill it with chicken noodle soup,and shoot it into a cracker.. somebody get this guy laid.....
What where you melting the potassium in? ( the liquid I mean )
That is mineral oil
oil
the liquid is mineral oil it stops it from reacting
Microwav
water
the "extra content" with you reverse finnglish accent would make Lauri laugh.
it was parody of the Hydraulic Press Channel
I once liquefied sodium in water and drank it. Let's just say.. it was so dium delicious
+Kaldon Gaming LOL
+Kaldon Gaming Hahahaha same
+Kaldon Gaming so much wrong there...
you would get very injuredbecause it would make sodium hydroxide and that burns skin
***** yeah i know...but that was a stretch of stupidity for a very bad pun
Ha love the reference to hydraulic press Chanel
I feel like these would be completely ineffective against any sort of body armor but do potentially more damage to bare skin.
You would be correct in your assumption. Hollow points are Horrible when it comes to penetration however they shine against soft targets being as they dump all of their energy on impact
Hollow Points lack Penetration Depth, and that's not a BAD THING.
Their application is for when there's a thing you don't want to kill standing behind a thing you DO want to kill.
So, a hostage situation, or another scenario where there's tons of civilians in the area.
Or if someone broke into your grandmother's house and they're in front of the memorablia cabinet.
Popular UA-cam science channels around the world: "Let's make a zany slingshot or something this time"
Popular UA-cam science channels America: "Let's see if we can make deadlier bullets and then shoot them out of our guns"
Back before UA-cam went completely off the rails with it's treatment of popular gun channels...
USA USA USA USA
So dium inspiring! Nice experiment my friend. But where is Taofledermaus?
I asked Tafledermaus to try this 6 months ago, but he told me bullets like this are banned in his state because of a fire hazard. I want to send him some copper jackets though, he could probably fill them with some crazy stuff!
+TheBackyardScientist It so weird watching popular youtubers talking to each other
Rip
i see you like the Hydraulic Press Channel
came here to say this, "and for today's extra content" lmao
you have no idea how long it took me to get that accent, and its still horrible haha.
6:23
Hydraulic press channel reference...
+Derrick Barnes i thought i was alone xD
Vi must deal vid it!
4:21 as an avid gun collector I'm fairly well versed on firearm safety and what is considered ok to do and you somehow managed to do every taboo thing with a firearm in one video
What did you expect? This guy is a kick in the balls to safety and what is ok to do.
Like what? Swing a locked back gun across someone?
this guy is definitely ready for the zombie apocalypse.
Yup
+Souk Khanhsila and zna productions, with his cool diy weapons n shit
+Souk Khanhsila this guy would probably start the zombie apocalypse...
+Souk Khanhsila actually, blood pools in the lowest available part of the body after you die. you can't kill a zombie with leg shots(unless you're making leg shots with a grenade launcher). you may be able to shoot far enough into the head to get a shot at the brain stem, but looking at the high speed footage, your accuracy would be off since the mass of the bullets is so much lower than what the gun is designed to fire. also think that since the bullet is less dense, it might not even make it through the skull.
you'd also have to consider how reactive these materials are to water. the first time you get a surprise rainstorm, fall in water or drop your gun in a puddle, your gun will get wet, your bullets will react and next thing you know, you're cleaning all of that shit out of your gun (if it hasn't blown bits off your hand). these elements also react to water vapor in the air(at a much slower and violent rate). now your bullets are not only inaccurate, and light... now they don't have the explosive *BOOM* that you made them for.
speaking of making these bullets, it's hard to find these materials just lying around, which means that you'd have to have a stockpile of pure sodium and potassium on hand, with an airtight containment system, when the zombie apocalypse happens. in the end, you're going to run out of materials, and by this point, you've learned to shoot these bullets to their maximum efficiency, and now you have to relearn how to use regular bullets depending on how long you've survived to this point.
you'd also have to have a furnace that can melt lead, sodium and potassium without burning the less dense elements. you'd need to be able to set this up and tear it down QUICKLY. you can't just leave this burning unattended if you have to stop zombies from eating you because you're going to end up burning your campsite down. do you know how long it takes to heat up a homemade furnace? a long ass fucking time is how long. you can't use commercial furnaces because where are you going to get one unless you already have one, and what are you going to do when it breaks? you can't just order one online or go the the store for it anymore.
finally, out of the 5 bullets he loaded, one didn't even leave the chamber because it was too light. if you try to use a gun like this in a zombie apocalypse it won't work and you'd die when faced with your first group of zombies bigger than 5 individuals.
in the end, these bullets are hard to make, inaccurate, hard to maintain, can't be used to permanently down a zombie, are unreliable and are just as dangerous to you as your enemies(if not more dangerous).
Siberianhuskybud The Grey Wolf you missed the point.
"didn't even make it 6 inches in" that's what she said.
+TheCapri48 Gaming +1 for you
I was thinking the same thing haha
lead is more effective because it's got the density and mass to give it stopping power which the soft metal does not have.
Anal bleaching?
death mam what?
+death mam yes
+spartan1010101 While you aren't technically wrong here spartan, Lead does give the bullet mass and weight factors into knockdown.... The issue here is that these bullets are made of alkaline metals. When they touch water they react violently and explode. Note: we are made of a lot of water.
What he NEEDS to do is shoot and animal carcass with it and see what that does as it will represent the damage and penetration you get out of these rounds. Would it penetrate deeper then explode instead of reacting to the water instantly? Key thing is though... its going to explode at some point
+entritur Surely if soft metal bullets were viable then the military would have started using them by now, I mean its not like the world as a whole spends 1.5 trillion on the armed forces... Wait no we do.
Although it might be an interesting experiment to do. I reckon it might not even explode at all because, although we're made from water, that water is stored up behind membranes and is not pure water, there will be other stuff floating around so that may interfere with the chemical reaction of Alkali metal (X) + H20 = H2 + XOH to produce a negative delta H.
The LIQUID METAL is most regarding atmosphere and human health, no easy to use for enjoy only yourself.
Lol the hydraulic press channel reference
Did anyone else think he got shot in the intro?! Lol
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Right in the forearm.
+J.London yeah
You shot a 1911, that's my favorite. I actually just bought one not too long ago.
I love how you used .45 to make the bullets.
i see you’re getting ready for school, that’s awesome, but this is summer and unfortunately you’ll have to wait
@@nizartabbai1292 o.o
@@nizartabbai1292 Wow, a school tragedy joke, original, funny, and totally tasteful 😐
@@FuZe. tasteful?
@@FuZe. Wow, complaining about a random reply under a comment under 10 likes about a joke that as you said, has been done a thousand times over.
Original, thoughtful, and totally tasteful.
To answer your question, no. Physics works. Mass matters.
But this was still extremely entertaining, thanks!
Did the fact he spelt the atomic symbol for lead PB instead of Pb bother anyone?
+Owl _ mE
Meeee
+Owl _ Yep*sigh*
+Owl _ It bothered me
Think you mean Boron Phosphide
Greater amounts of penetration leaves room for more internal damage. A standard bullet has potential to shatter bones and leave incredibly gnarly wounds, especially if an exit wound is achieved. Hollow points are specifically designed not to over-penetrate, but will cause greater damage to muscle because the full brunt of the force behind the bullet is being absorbed by the body. With the sodium and potassium rounds, you've essentially created something that is going to cause a great amount of surface damage with the capacity to send further metal fragmentation deeper into the body. The resulting wound most definitely be much grizzlier than that of a standard bullet and may even be comparable to an exit wound. I would like to see these fired at something like to pig carcass to see for sure how effective they would be against flesh, however, I did notice that the alloy bullets are much less stable during flight, something that is likely a result of how haphazardly constructed they were. With proper and more precise manufacturing, this could no doubt be mitigated, but given the lack of penetration power that they display and the growing amount of readily available body armor seen on the modern battlefield, I'd say they have little to no practical application.
they could be practical for home defense
Pig hunting bullets
@@Jermain-cz4bh One would be a complete fool to rely on something that penetrates 2" for home defense. In a defensive weapon, one of the most important aspects is consistency. These rounds are nothing but entertaining. If you want to stop a big heavy bad thing, you must break bone, rupture major vessels, or destroy large nerves. This would make a terrible surface wound and leave the scent of BURNT BAD GUY. No thanks. If an explosion after 2" was a great idea, Federal would be manufacturing something that did this.
@@NotElmerKeith1 I disagree on this one. If a substance that results in a burning reaction can be inserted even one inch into a target the pain from the inside will likely stop anyone in their tracks no matter the impact point.
@@es330td Yep...that's why the FBI and every police agency in the country uses them....wait, they use 9mm Speer Gold Dot 124 rain JHP ammo. Of course they would be effective a lot of time. A baseball bat is also. You want to be effective as frequently as possible in bad situations. So having something with an unknown failure rate is silly. How often does it not explode? How often does it not even get through heavy clothing? How often does the mixture behave unpredictably? How accurate is this ammunition. What happens when you shoot it through a hot barrel? I could ask 20 more unanswerable questions but you get my drift. In a handgun, that is horribly underpowered anyway, you need some expansion and absolute penetration. FBI standard says ~12-18" (or so) ----this round will not do that.
Imitating the hydrolic press chanel at the end 😂
We need an official Paul Harrell meat target setup for a followup video. That could be an interesting collaboration.
They would first have to do a video where Paul teaches this guy basic firearm safety.
3:10 "Oh yeah! Oh fuck... Oh god... Oh shit!"
I don’t think the other metals would be more effective. The lead kept the bullet moving forward as the hollow point opened up, which is desirable from defensive ammo. The other projectiles only propelled a few inches in water. That can be a real problem expanding the hollow point. Maybe it’s because the other metals are too soft and leaf is just right.
Very interesting results. Cool video!
Penetration doesn't matter if you shoot their arm and their lungs fly out of their mouthm
*Shoots fish tank*
*Glass breaks*
Back yard scientist: I don’t know why this happened
4:44
A quick reloading tip for you, the lighter the projectile/bullet, the more powder is needed to push it. In this one it looks like you started off with at least a 200gr hollow point and reloaded the same amount of powder (?) back into it but now weighing in at 5gr (?). No where near enough juice. I would love to see what happens with these on a flesh target where the metals can react with blood.
What he said : "Holy *bleep bleep bleep*!
What I thought he said : "Holy frik frack snack!
Your Body has a Lot of Water, this would be effective
So basically I can put sodium or potassium in my guns to make my enemies explode?
Secundus not from very far away. Use just a little in the tip of a hollow point and seal with poly urethane. It will not explode but it will burn making it harder for the wound to heal. It is best to weigh the bullets before and after and attempt to keep the weight of the bullet even and equal throughout the process. Also don't use these on people, they are illegal and you will go to jail , even if you are in the right in the situation.
Long story short, don’t break into the backyard scientists house
It would hurt a LOT. Not even because it's a 1911.
Great video. These bullets would not perform well inside of a humam target due to their lack of penetration.
We have tested several types of ammunition that transfer energy early in their targets (see our G2 rip series). Although they look impressive they do not penetrate far enough to reach vital organs.
2:00 Holy BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP. Backyard Scientist and Swear words. Havnt Heard that before
+John Nightmares I auctualy only swore once, the rest of the beeps were exaggeration.
Exaggeration... As if Liquid Bullets Weren't Exaggeration Enough.
+TheBackyardScientist twice I believe "holy f**king sh*t"
Those metals react to water. Do they react explosively in flesh...recommend butchered beef, not human...lol
It would definitely react with blood. But flesh is a different issue. If the flesh is in decomp it would maybe react but not as much as it would with hydrated flesh. Besides, these bullets would not ever be able to be considered for PD because, above and beyond reasonable defense is illegal in all 50 states.
the human body is mostly water so ya assuming you're not wearing armor, this bullet would do serious damage
not to mention the potassium in your blood stream would kill you as it would be poisonous.
@@chrisnorris3641 But you wouldn't really have to be concerned about that as much as the HUGE GAPING CRATER in your abdomen. I mean, how is it going to contaminate your blood if your heart stops pumping due to some react ion s that took 1/30,000th of a second to turn from the size of a pencil eraser to a basketball....unless you get shot in the leg. In that case, good luck...
but of course thats assuming the target isnt wearing armor cause as he shows in a later test these things have zero penetration due to being very lightweight. maybe if you used depleted uranium instead of the lead. lol. but that jas its own set of problems I'm sure. but sounds like a great ammunition in a sci fi/fantasy setting
3:08 the instant change in mood 😂
So would this react to blood in the body?
kaboom
Yes, light metals usually have a very violent reaction to water.
3:37 Dat muzzle sweep tho
It's locked back . Take a chill pill.
These would actually benefit a T-1000 if they were shot by one.
How
@@almightysosa2736 Because T-1000s are made of liquid metal, and being shot by a liquid metal bullet would actually add to them instead of hurt them.
1:26 deep frying something that will go inside of a bullet and then a gun is the most American thing that I ever heard of
06:24 Ahh, a shout-out to the Hydraulic Press Channel :p
+Professor Yana's Forsaken Outpost Dat PrressTube Channel motar fooking accentt bets everr
Since liquids resist compression, perhaps filling the hollow point cavity with liquid metal might cause more dramatic expansion of the copper clad lead bullet. The larger the expansion, the greater the cavitation and more dramatic the effect on the water. Just a thought.
You should try it on a slab of meat
The lead bullet made a vortex ring!
I can now say
I've stared down the barrel of a gun
+ErMe Gerd lol
Can you upload more instead of 1 time every four weeks plz
sup FaZe fanboy
FaZe wannabe
The Krusty Crab wanna be
+King Duck III duck wannabe
Title: LIQUID METAL BULLETS in Slow Motion!
Video: shooting a fish tank with liquified metal
Frederick Forsyth wrote a book published in 1967 called THE DAY OF THE JACKAL. In it, the assassin attempts to murder French President Charles de Gaulle with a .22 long rifle hollowpoint bullet into which a tiny drop of Hg has been inserted and soldered over. He uses a bolt action rifle. Of course, the hero saves the day, and le Grande Charle lucks out, but the assassin tests his weapon on a melon, and it expoldes. That could be a fun experiment for you. Liked. Subscribed. 😁
Effectiveness really depends on what you're shooting at, and the flight characteristics of each type of round.
I'd be curious about the ballistic coefficient of the bullets you made, so far as I've seen I'd still pick lead. Definitely cool to see though man, keep it up!!
"It didn´t even make 6 inches in..."
LOL
+DriftGamingHD "That was bigger than I thought."
+XxninailsxX LOOIOOOOOOOOOOOL
Hire this guy as like an army architect or somthin
Next up:
Shooting a water gun at a sodium tank
WTF SINCE WHEN DID HE GET 1 MIL
Ikr
Nyeh heh heh!
Silly Exodus Machin4! You're not Papyrus!
NYEH
Where do you get all of this stuff (sodium, bullets...)
I got the sodium & potassium online from gallium source. I bought my pistol at a gun show, and my bullets at Walmart.
Thx, i asked because you cant get this stuff anywhere here in Slovenia.
+Dren Dolničar thats in most places.
america is probably one of the only first world countries that allows people to combine ammonium nitrate and black gun powder oxidizer together to create tannerite concussive explosive powder for recreational shooting use.
or buy certain stuff that governments would deem dangerous.
+mephistofie butterfly knives are illegal in some places here in America, too
+Dren Dolničar Brat kid gets everything on silver plate.
Humans are about 60% water...
*”Ferb, I know what we’re gonna do today”*
*sigh*
I love your videos, i promise, but don't pretend to be the hydraulic press channel. Ever.
+RedX1000 I thought it was mildly amusing, myself ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm just disappointed by the fact that he blurred out "dammit"
jj
disappointed? why
Hcaz niatrap no need to
FilliamPL no need not to
Hcaz niatrap sorry i didnt finish that - i meant to say "no need to beep out dammit"
it doesn't appear to have the penetrating ability that real bullets have, it expands way too fast.
+R Packard the yare hollow jackets. they are designed to not fully penetrate. they are purely designed to do as much flesh damage as possible. it is ridiculous that such a type of bullet is even legal.
+zool201975 I am fully aware of what a hollow point is and what it does. it is intended to still penetrate further than it does in the video. the metals used in this video render the bullets less effective.
R Packard with these highly reactive metals you did something worse then just a normal hollow point. they will not explode this violently either because it will be harder for the metals to bond with the water molecules present, this is because most of the water molecules are already bonded.
that means less energy. but still it will continue till al the metal is turned into an oxide and while it does so it will be very exothermic. weapons of this type are banned by the Geneva convention for not just any reason. it can be even worse then phosphorous. it will cook you
You're really making me wonder how much you actually know about firearms and combat. Have you ever actually used a firearm? Received any kind of training?
R Packard yes i have. when i was drafted i was in the bomb squad for one year. you learn things when doing that work.
Glad to see you aren't afraid of guns