Hydrogen Bombs: An instructional YTMND
Created on: September 22nd, 2006
for the love of f*cking christ, DO NOT use table salt, it liberates
CHLORINE GAS which will kill you dead.
Video from the YTMND can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htr4cZIiOWs
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I dont know, im assuming if O2 is produced, it goes into the balloon with the hydrogen, and thus makes the reaction more explosive than it would be with just straight hydrogen. I havent actually sat down and figured out EXACTLY whats going in that bottle yet because all my chem 12 knowledge dissappeared the day after my provincial exam...
pretty cool. -1 for music though, its annoying. whats the point of the baking soda? i guess it's to increase conductivity? tap water is probably quite conductive by itself so if that is the case the baking soda is extraneous; you could probably also just use regular table salt which would be more conductive (you could use smaller amounts) and probably more readily available. if that's not what the baking soda is for then i'd love to know what its purpose is. good job
OK, tap water DOES conduct electricity, but it doesnt do so very well. It only conducts electricity because of the small amounts of minerals that are dissolved in it. Distilled water, DOES NOT conduct electricity. What causes the water to be conductive, are the ions that are formed when ionic compounds are dissolved in it (in this case Na+ and HCO3-) The positive ions flow towards the cathode, and the negative ions flow towards the anode.
JBobek: Distilled water is water that has been evaporated, and then collected by condensation, and therefore it has no impurities dissolved in it (such as calcium and other things that get dissolved in common tap water) Deionized water, is produced by ion exchange, where the impure ions dissolved in the water are removed by passing it through an insoluble solid or gel which exchanges the ions from the solution to the exchanger. The result is the same thing, pure water with no impurities dissolved in it
i wouldnt suggest filling up the balloon ALL THE WAY unless you have a long long stick to set it off with, it gets pretty f*cking loud when they are that big. I would also suggest you wear a welding glove or something like that when you set them off if you are making bigger ones. You might also want to put on some ear protection and goggles if you are standing really close to them
Hypothetically, wouldn't it be perfectly safe to use table salt for chlorine production if you stopped the current well before you took off the balloon? Chlorine is heavier than air, so you'd have a ballon full of the gas and a bottle full of it. Disposing of the bottle could be problematic, but if proper precautions are taken (oxygen tanks), I don't see why this couldn't be used to gas the local prarie dogs.
I love how so many of you hippies compare a mini hindenburg to terrorism. The worst that will come of this will maybe be a trip to the ER fast-track because some jackass shocked themselves or swallowed a baloon before putting it on the bottle. This was an amusing YtMND compared to all the Brian Peppers bullsh*t most of you love. 5 Tubes for you.
Hmm, combine your candle experiment with this! Get the bottle and fill it with a little bit of water, enough so that it makes a supersaturated solution of HC03. Then, melt candle wax into the bottle, mixing thoroughly. Then close off the bottle, plug in the power and wait a while. The electricity should form a good amount of oxygen, and the resistance should melt the wax and ignite the hydrogen. The heat from the hydrogen should vaporize the wax, and with the extra oxygen, the parrafin will be able to fully combust. Modify these instructions a bit, and you should essentially have a high explosive. W00T.
"this is the perfect site to show how many retards are on YTMND. anyone that
took 10th grade chemistry knows how to do this... failed" Highschool chemistry classes usually use lithium in water to produce the hydrogen gas, or just use it straight from a bottle. This really illustrates the imporatance of using DC current versus AC current.
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