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- Опубліковано 17 лис 2009
- Can a wax candle blast through a barn door? Yes, when it's fired from a musket!
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Neil doesn't need a license for a firearm. The firearm needs a license for Neil.
Neil doesn't need firearms. He can turn a car battery into a plasma rifle while performing cold fusion with his other hand.
In the US, the ATF doesn't even recognize a muzzleloader as a firearm.
Chuck Norris sits awake in bed praying to god that Neil never gets a license for a firearm.
I remember attending an explosives lecture as a child at the Salisbury Playhouse, must have been the late 1970s. There it was demonstrated as firing a tallow candle from a musket through a sheet of plywood and breaking a brick. That always stuck in my memory. I wonder who presented that lecture. Also demonstrated were nitrogen tri-iodide, and even nitrogen tri-chloride which was spectacular. I guess you couldn't put on such a lecture to school children these days.
The way he describes the pseudo-solidity of wax reminds me of corn starch. When it's being formed in your hand it has some solid properties, but when you stop forming it it becomes runny and liquid.
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So strange to me that he needs a license for that musket, when my 14 year old cousin uses his pop's musket all the time.
Not BAD, necessarily. Just strange.
I gotta say I'm impressed with the skill of the old man Jim there, I don't what age he is but he is certainly doing good, that bust the myth that chemists die early due to exposures to dangerous compounds that regular people wouldn't have much contact with.
Now that was fun!!
Great job guys.
This video proves that Nottingham does not care about hearing, LOL
I can only imagine how loud that is indoors.
Love these videos, hello from Canada.
Very nice demonstration gentlemen!
Cheers from the U.S.
Jman
Wow what an inspiration this guy must have been to his students. Great vids
Great video!
I would like to see if a non-newtonian fluid could be used. It would have to be contained maybe in a baggie or some sort of sabot so it wouldn't spread as it was decelerating in-between the gun and the target. Coming out of the gun it would act like a solid and upon impact it would act as a solid. Afterward it would return to a liquid.
Is this the first video in HD ?! SWEET
Good on the eye pro, but how about some ear pro?
I think Neil should have a episode of his own! I really want to see what he would do.
That gun is awesome.
I love it. lol at him putting more and more gunpowder in the gun.
@TheMaxelll I'd say flintlocks were about the same, the German Jaeger rifle we have is only so loud because the owner rams the wadding down so it gives a nice 'crack' if it actually decides to fire.
Well done !
I've never seen people so vigorously fight to deny themselves liberty!
great shot
@Serostern The Compound for Percussion Caps was Fulminate of Mercury. Which has an explosion velocity of 4300 m/s . The Detonation-Velocities of solid explosives range from 4000 to 10000 m/s. So Fulminate of Mercury DOES indeed detonate.
@TheMaxelll
Re-enactors do it regularly. It's generally not as loud as modern day firearms since the black powder doesn't explode, but just burns rather fast.
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Thank you! Anything to improve the Boom!
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Very nice.
@Serostern he is speaking about the cap, not the Barrel.
are matchlocks and flintlocks louder than the percussion lock in this video then? (i forgot to mention thats what i saw)
@TheMaxelll I'm normally the one firing them, the only ones that have any effect on my ears nowadays are the German hunting rifle and the 6 pounder cannon.
Though that could just be me going deaf rather than the muskets being quiet, but hey.
Yes they are easy to find, but not easy to buy. You have to transfer ownership from one license to another, and sign both. This means that when the police inspect your property (they have to), and inspect your shotgun license, they will see that you have sold a weapon, and who to. If they can't find that person on the register, or if you simply don't keep a record they will insist on seeing the gun, upon which point you'll probably spend some time at Her Majesty's Pleasure.
@carlsontechnology
Not quite, corn starch solution has some very unique properties that means it is a non-Newtonian fluid.
A slightly different process is going on here, as the wax has such velocity that both candle and wood disintegrate on contact.
However the momentum of the wax holds it together just long enough as it passes through the layers.
That just goes to show the power of propellants. I know some folks here in the states use wax (or hot glue) to fire their guns in their garages at targets. Because the wax itself lacks the weight needed to go through anything like brick. I wouldn't do it, per se (unless I had an AWESOME house with a built in rifle range :D).
That scientists hair do looks fantastic.
@Noxid666
I have made Trinitrotoluene. Only 1 g of it, but still. Also made blasting powder. Same as blackpowder, but you use sodiumnitrate instead of potassiumnitrate.
i am planning on studying at nottingham for my first year as a study abroad program :)
I'd be curious to see the results using only solid pieces of plywood. With the hole pieces in between each sheet the projectile is piercing the thin sheets individually, not all that impressive.
That is the sort of experiment that gets kids interested in chemistry! :-)
Police don't even carry firearms in the UK, so considering it's within a school, and not the US, it's possible that he would. It might be a license for demonstrations within the school, or it might be for the firearm at all. They're not exactly stupid, so why else would they possibly say that?
And don't forget. Cars, and vehicles in general, generate an immense benefit to society, in the form of transportation for people and goods, providing work and row materials to the places where they're needed.
Guns ITOH, provide very little gain to societies in very special situations (hunting, defense, war), and they don't work to deter any government possessing modern warfare equipment.
muskets are even more louder than more modern firearms. I was amazed when I heard it on reconstruction of Battle of Slavkov.
Didn't they do something like this on Mythbusters ?
Nice vid.
Excellent. Muskets are cool. :3
nice shot.
YAY HD finally
Thanks to my friend google, by american statistics, I came across this little wonder.
"A gun in the home is 4 times more likely to be involved in an unintentional shooting, 7 times more likely to be used to commit a criminal assault or homicide, and 11 times more likely to be used to attempt or commit suicide than to be used in self-defense. "
VS a knife in the kitchen is several times more likely to be, you know, used for cooking...
He collects them from around the world!
Rather that a wax bullet it seems BD Shaw prefered .303 ball Mk.7 ammo (The MK 7 was developed when the British were prohibited from using their famous Dum Dum ammunition. The Mk7 is longditudinally unstable and will topple on contact.)
It would be nice to see a video documenting the life of B.D Shaw. He seemed like an interesting man.
@kmohammad2 Guns are legal in Australia, we don't go about showing how "gangsta" our guns are at school, children as young as 12 and in some states 11 can shoot handguns up to .38 caliber. If you have proper storage requirements the chav won't be able to get the firearm. BTW it is relatively easy to buy a handgun on the black market, especially in the UK.
jesus christ, no one's commenting about the video. very cool martyn, i've always wanted to fire a musket.
It's not exactly a drive-by...but have you seen "Lock, Stock and two smoking Barrels"? ;-)
'Green Chemistry !!!'
nice screensaver
@Surtak haha so true in my bachelor we where doing some mundane experiment with silver nitrate and some bright spark reacted it with oxalic acid took out a fume hood, was quite funny never seen a lecturer so scared in my life.
i guess. but when i went to see a volley today it was pretty loud from where i was stood (a couple of meters away) and my ears were ringing for quite a while
He did the lecture over a hundred times in a year? He kept using more and more blackpowder?
Yep, sounds like a chemist alright! XD
I couldn't think of anyone in my bachelor that wouldn't do the same!
@Surtak ahhh chemistry is a wonderful thing i have been manufacturing my own sodium nitrate and mixing it with sugar to make smoke bombs.... i could make Trinitrotoluene but under irish law its illegal so smoke bombs are the safe option.
well could you give me the names of them?=) I really love cameras and video editing, I would really like to know!thanks!
actually in england you almost need a license to look at a gun let alone handle one
Japan has some of the tightest gun laws in the world. In 2008 they only had 11 gun related homicides. They are also an extremely polite society. Guns dont kill people. People kill people but gun make it a hell of a lot easier.
well if you put gaps between each piece of plywood its much easier for the wax to penetrate so it doesn't prove it'd go through a door. Still cool though.
6:28 photo of a champion!
Wow that's LOUD.
BANG!
Cool video. But what's with all the plastic bottles at the back of the Professor's room?
More like the firearm doesn't have a licence for Neil.
WOW...
Neil: The Chuck Norris of Science.
lol they should do that in a separate vid...lol i can see it now "local college professor tests wax bullet on new textbook" haha MAKE IT SO UA-cam!!
HAHA Yeah that's insane. I've been pretty close to one and I have to say it was LOUD.
Sweet, I think its time I changed from Waikato uni to Nottingham uni!
@Whutface
Use a larger piece of candle if you can, but yes it will.
It will fire through a barn door? Or a couple of pieces of balsa wood?
They did the straw thing on mythbusters, check it out...
that's not actually what that means. The meaning of the suffix -ate is dependent on the molecule you're discussing, and how many oxygen atoms it can possibly accommodate. there's hypo-, -ite, -ate, and per-, all of which indicate more or less oxygen atoms, but not a specific number like 3. e.g. SO4 is sulfate ion, SO3 is sulfite, persulfates are have more oxygens than sulfates, hyposulfites have fewer oxygens than sulfites. It's a little confusing and not systematic so it's kind of bad naming.
Niel doesn't need a fire arm to put a candle through a barndoor
Neil doesn't need a licence, any inspector would be stared down by him leaving them quivering in their boots.
This is why I want to be a scientist!
He was actually making a joke: one of those 'Chuck Norris' jokes (e.g. You don't find Chuck Norris, Chuck Norris find you).
He's the Stig of Science.
@Noxid666
We just mamde actual (corned!) gunpowder :P
Ahhh, I love the smell of 2 K2CO3 + 3 K2SO4 + 6 CO2 + 5 N2 in the morning :) (not including byproducts)
I made a grammar mistake I believe....
what camera is that?
@GIDAN2987 Yeah, it's called a gun lisence. I'm fairly sure you need one in most parts of the world.
One hardcore technician
lol his hair
"We care what you said, it's so relevant!"
said noone ever.
It doesn't particularly bother me - if it makes it less likely for the kind of people I wouldn't feel safe around to get a hold of a gun, then good. In fact, if we really want to get into things, people shouldn't have firearms at all, apart from places for shooting targets for recreational or educational purposes.
I love you. :D
I'm going to need a better barn door.
@jhensjh: a chemistry professor probably has no problems getting a gun license. After all, chemists are MUCH more lethal when unarmed! ;)
A license to Skill ! Thats Great ! ThX ! ROFL !
Its almost like there's more of a connection between wax and lead because of the softness. Why did we bother going to lead?
*Busted* hah Well... I think I do have them all on my favorites! I'll subscribe then :P
He makes them.
It's a percussion musket.
Niel doesn't need a licence for a firearm
Great video, and the american gun arguments on this page are quite amusing.
As a brit i feel safer about protecting my home from burglars after hearing the empowering instructional message of this video.
@GIDAN2987 freedom and the right to have a gun are not the same damn thing.
as he got older he had more and more powder in his barrel??
Usually, unfortunately, it usually goes in the other direction....ahem.