1. Originally posted by Mr_TrekHydrogen gas bombs are cooler


    I can teach you how to build one (in a smaller scale of course). Not suitable for indoors though.
  2. Originally posted by LikeASong[..]

    I can teach you how to build one (in a smaller scale of course). Not suitable for indoors though.


    Fill a balloon with hydrogen gas, ignite it.

    I wonder if I have any broken pingpong balls around.
  3. How did you prepare stearin/aceton?
  4. Originally posted by Mr_TrekHow did you prepare stearin/aceton?


    I didn't prepare it. We have plenty of these at uni (in fact, this photo is from my university):

  5. Did you just pour aceton on the candle right before?
  6. Nope. I just soaked the polyestyrene with acetone and then ignited the sticky mixture.
  7. Ok. That's what i asked to know. Thanks.

    Chemistry is a lot of fun. Just like physics.
  8. Chemistry is the coolest of all the science It owes all to Physics though


    I just realized that I have to try to ignite a pingpong ball covered with acetone-soaked polystyrene hahahaha
  9. lol There's a pyromaniac inside everyone.
  10. Inside? I'd doubt that

    Nah, just kidding. I don't burn things just for the sake of it: I only burn things which might be useful or interesting to know from a purely chemical point of view.


    Regarging your supposed "hydrogen bomb", I have two negative points for you:
    a) hydrogen gas isn't precisely easy to get.
    b) that way is dirty and very little elegant.

    I have the solution for both
  11. Put a grape in the microwave, always a crowd pleaser.
  12. Originally posted by iTimPut a grape in the microwave, always a crowd pleaser.


    Legendary