Videos of several chemistry experiments

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These videos are for educational, scientific and peaceful purposes only.

I do not endorse making any bombs or explosive devices as there is already too much war and violence against people in the world.

Such experiments should be performed with care and necessary safety measures, such as a fire extinguisher, face shield and gloves. They can only be done outdoors or in a well ventilated fume hood. Any inconvenience (e.g. stench, noise or heavy smoke) to others, such as neighbors or pets should be avoided.

This channel lists my videos of experiments with chemistry, isolating attempts of alkali metals, fireworks, arc melting, extreme heat, metal melting and mad science.

I still have a Youtube channel 'mermaidkiller' but I removed all videos from the last few years because of the somewhat weird terms and conditions of Google / Youtube. These videos are all available below.
There are a few nice Youtube chemistry channels who inspired me like The King Of Random (Grant Thompson).

Unfortunately, King of Random deceased on 29 July 2019 at the age of 38 in a paragliding accident leaving behind Queen of Random (wife) and four sons.

Other chemists are Cody's lab from Utah, the Backyard Scientist in Florida and NileRed. There is also a nice channel Periodic Table of Videos featuring professor Martyn Poliakoff of Nottingham Univerity and the nice characters Neil, Brady et al of his team performing the experiments.
There is also a nice channel RODALCO2007 whom I actually visited in February 2017 on location, which is more for electricity and high vooltage experiments, blowing up washing machines, TV's, capacitors and batteries which is actually an Electronics Destruction and Torture Lab.

For filming the experiments I use the already dated Canon Powershot S100 until March 2018, which deceased and I replaced by a Canon Powershot G7XMkII . And sometimes I use a Canon EOS 6 DSLR with 70-300L telephoto zoom lens, and a GoPro Hero 5 camera for 240fps slow motion viewing and ultra wide angle viewing. The Canon 6D also allows 60fps at 720p which can be slowed down to 10fps. The advantage is the much larger sensor, resulting in low noise. Unfortunately I don't have real high speed cameras like BackyardScientist does. Movie editing us usually done with iMovie on macOS which is a simple but effective package for this purpose.

• Al-boiling-20210801

  Uploaded: 3 years ago - Duration: 1:54

• coppermelt-20210627

  Uploaded: 3 years ago - Duration: 3:15

• Iron cast 20210529

  Uploaded: 3 years ago - Duration: 6:49

• Whitsunday iron cast 20210523

  Uploaded: 3 years ago - Duration: 2:03

• New Kanthal furnace 2020 2 Testing and running

  Uploaded: 3 years ago - Duration: 6:00

• New Kanthal furnace 2020 1 construction

  Uploaded: 3 years ago - Duration: 7:42

• Propane burner test 20201006

  Uploaded: 4 years ago - Duration: 5:24

• Synthetic ruby first attempt 20200919

  Uploaded: 4 years ago - Duration: 1:49

• Casting copper birds - 20200909

  Uploaded: 4 years ago - Duration: 4:21

• KCl + Li metal distillation potassium metal 20200701

  Uploaded: 4 years ago - Duration: 4:27

  My first isolation of potassium metal using Lithium and KCl whci react at 750°C and the K metal distills off and condenses under mineral oil in beads.
• Iron cast 20200626

  Uploaded: 4 years ago - Duration: 6:30

  Casting of two bird figures, I used four risers, they all filled.
• Manganese thermite 20200326

  Uploaded: 4 years ago - Duration: 1:54

• Brass eighteen cast 20200128

  Uploaded: 4 years ago - Duration: 5:29

• Cast iron test 20191225

  Uploaded: 4 years ago - Duration: 4:30

• Stainless steel EAF melt 20191116

  Uploaded: 4 years ago - Duration: 6:01

• Burner with natural draft NOT WORKING

  Uploaded: 5 years ago - Duration: 3:29

• KOH + Magnesium attempt

  Uploaded: 5 years ago - Duration: 1:49

  Attempt to distill potassium metal from a retort containing KOH and Magnesium turnings
• TUNGSTEN wire molten under Argon 20190814

  Uploaded: 5 years ago - Duration: 4:33

  Tungsten wire heated by electric current under air and Argom, in the latter case it melts.
• Fireworks-30x-slower

  Uploaded: 5 years ago - Duration: 5:44

  A fireworks bloom lasting 8 seconds filmed with a Canon G7Xii and slowed down and filmed with a Sony RX100M6 in 960fps HFR.
• Paint can furnace test 20190527

  Uploaded: 5 years ago - Duration: 3:39

  Test of a 10l paint can furnace lined with Kaowool only intended for cast iron. It reached over 1500°C.
• KNO3+Mg slow motion 20190526

  Uploaded: 5 years ago - Duration: 2:51

  32x slow motion of a flash powder (KNO3 + magnesium powder) reaction with Sony RX100M6 960 fps.
• Failed 3rd attempt brass cast 20190331

  Uploaded: 5 years ago - Duration: 5:07

  Three times attempting to make a brass casting of two bowls, but in all cases the casting did not complete. I am wondering why the metal does not fill the entire mold.
• Arc Melting steel in DIY crucible

  Uploaded: 5 years ago - Duration: 2:20

• Another Stainless steel casting Christmas 20181225

  Uploaded: 5 years ago - Duration: 2:56

  Another stainless steel casting made of the same small 'Christ on the Cross' casting. But I had to melt it two times, because at the first pour the crucible fell out of the handle, spilling the liquid steel. But after the second melt it made a successful casting.
• Stainless steel melt and pour 20181223

  Uploaded: 5 years ago - Duration: 2:43

  Stainless steel molten by electric arc from a DC welder in a graphite crucible as anode,holding a carbon rod in it as cathode. During the pouring I attached a GoPro Hero 7 to the handlebar with the crucible.
• EAF test CaC2 20181124

  Uploaded: 5 years ago - Duration: 3:32

  Mixing charcoal with CaO powder and heating it in an electric arc to over >2200°C in which carbide is formed. The resulting calcium carbide CaC₂ is thrown into water and releases Acetylene C₂C₂
• KClO3 electrolysis 20181013

  Uploaded: 6 years ago - Duration: 5:16

  Making Potassium Chlorate by electrolyzing Diet Salt (67% KCl) using an MMO anode Here a video I took in Oct 2018 with a timelapse of the filtering of the solution.
• Thermite vs Water 20180930

  Uploaded: 6 years ago - Duration: 7:36

  Thermite reaction above a jar filled with water, resulting dripping the liquid iron into the water. However, the heat breaks the glass and the jar is emptied soon. No explosion took place.
• King of Random solar scorcher 20180826

  Uploaded: 6 years ago - Duration: 6:05

  This solar scorcher is made from a Fresnel lens of 30x40cm in a frame work and inspired by King of Random's Mini solar scorcher. I put a few samples of substances in the focal point of the fresnel lens and checked out what happened to them.
• Pour copper in water 20180821

  Uploaded: 6 years ago - Duration: 5:59

  This experiment is inspired by Tito4re's copper melting experiments one in which he pours copper into water. I did this as well, pouring the 1100 C hot liquid copper into water this and filmed it with three cameras, the Canon Powershot G7Xii, Canon EOS 6 with the 24-105L lens and an immersed GoPro Hero 5 and slow motions are shown at the end.
• Kaowool test 1250 C

  Uploaded: 6 years ago - Duration: 0:53

• Flash powder 20180714

  Uploaded: 6 years ago - Duration: 1:27

• Successful second fire

  Uploaded: 6 years ago - Duration: 3:50

• Barrelfurnace-build

  Uploaded: 6 years ago - Duration: 4:22

• Thermate with Lithium CR2032 battery

  Uploaded: 6 years ago - Duration: 2:23

  Adding KNO3 + sulfur to the thermite intensifies the temperature and I added a used CR2032 pill battery to it which exploded (lightly).
• Boiling water at 5ºC

  Uploaded: 6 years ago - Duration: 1:49

• Lithium battery vs Thermite 20180409

  Uploaded: 6 years ago - Duration: 7:47

  A 'Goop!' Lithium battery for Canon Powershot which was bulged and therefore unsuitable I incinerated using thermite. After the thermite reaction, the battery vented flammable gases.
• CaSO4+Al (+flash powder)

  Uploaded: 6 years ago - Duration: 0:53

  Again CaSO₄ + Al powder, but 2g of flash powder wrapped in toilet paper under it in the tube.
• CaSO4 + Aluminum in Vacuum 20180327

  Uploaded: 6 years ago - Duration: 3:27

  I mixed some CaSO₄ (burnt dead and crushed plasterboard) with Al powder in a 136:72 ratio and I ignited it electrically with an iron wire. First in open air and then in vacuum. It reacted vigorously without sound.
  After the reaction the pressure within the 1 liter jar surged to from almost zero to 0.3 bar (02:04 in video) and when I let air into the jar (02:27, slow motion at 03:06) a small dull explosion occurred with some light.
• KClO3 + sugar in vacuum 20180323

  Uploaded: 6 years ago - Duration: 4:28

  Here I ignited potassium chlorate with sugar in an evacuated glass jar. It is an idea of Cody's Lab which he did with black powder. It did react, but slower than in open air.
• KClO3 + filters

  Uploaded: 6 years ago - Duration: 0:46

• Paraffin wax with KClO3

  Uploaded: 6 years ago - Duration: 2:39

  Lousy reaction of Paraffin (candle wax) with potassium chlorate. The molten wax is not hot enough to activate the oxidizing of the KClO₃.
• Halogen burns out in Argon atmosphere

  Uploaded: 6 years ago - Duration: 4:08

  This is a test whether a halogen automobile headlamp bulb with its envelope cut off keeps burning under an open argon atmosphere.
• Copper Cast 20180110

  Uploaded: 6 years ago - Duration: 4:02

  Casting small copper objects in a larger mold
• Steel melt test in ceramic crucible

  Uploaded: 6 years ago - Duration: 2:59

  DC Arc welder 140 amps melting steel in a 'Hessian' crucible, to test whether it takes less carbon than from a graphite crucible
• Christmas Copper Cast 20171225

  Uploaded: 6 years ago - Duration: 4:40

  Casting two copper brooches, melting 300g of copper in a natural gas refractoryless kaowool lines furnace
• brass-pour

  Uploaded: 6 years ago - Duration: 0:52

• HNO3 distillation 20171202

  Uploaded: 6 years ago - Duration: 6:24

  Another time to distill fuming nitric acid from concentrated H₂SO₄ (drain cleaner) and KNO₃. Now I have used active cooling of the distiller.
• Steel pouring

  Uploaded: 6 years ago - Duration: 1:18

  Pouring Steel after arc melting it when GoPro is mounted on the crucible tongs.
• Casting Stainless Steel Grade 420 20171126

  Uploaded: 6 years ago - Duration: 7:20

  Another arc melting session, now with alloying stainless steel grade 420 (15% chrome) and making a casting (55 grams)
• Melting Steel with DC welder - 20171125

  Uploaded: 6 years ago - Duration: 6:13

  Arc melting steel in a graphite crucible
• Two 600W high pressure lamps 20171112

  Uploaded: 6 years ago - Duration: 5:30

• Making CaC2 using an EAF 20171111

  Uploaded: 6 years ago - Duration: 7:28

  Calcium Carbide making with electric arc in a crucible and good result of CaC₂ as a reaction with water releases lots of C₂H₂ gas.
• Arc melting making CaC2 carbide 20171105

  Uploaded: 6 years ago - Duration: 6:43

  A retry with a new arc furnace which ran smoothly and really generated some CaC₂ after heating charcoal with CaO.
• KNO3 + Magnesium 20171104

  Uploaded: 6 years ago - Duration: 2:18

  Reaction trial of Potassium Nitrate with magnesium powder in a confined space, such as wrapped in loo paper.
• Two Thermites - 20171025

  Uploaded: 7 years ago - Duration: 5:48

  An idea from Backyard Scientist who tried Fe₂O₃ (red) iron oxide and Fe₃O₄ (black) iron oxide. The black one is really faster.
• HNO3 from drain cleaner and KNO3

  Uploaded: 7 years ago - Duration: 5:09

  Impure concentrated sulfuric acid reacts with KNO₃ and the fuming nitric acid is distilled.
• Manganese Thermite 20171015

  Uploaded: 7 years ago - Duration: 5:46

• KClO3 sulfuric acid paper 20171014

  Uploaded: 7 years ago - Duration: 1:47

  A repeat of an experiment 10 years ago which is very vigorous, should only be repeated in small quantities (< 1 gram), because the unstable HClO₃ and ClO₂ will be formed.
• Failed Phosphorus making attempt 20171008

  Uploaded: 7 years ago - Duration: 2:45

• Natural Gas small furnace test

  Uploaded: 7 years ago - Duration: 2:17

• CaSO4 + Al powder - 20170816

  Uploaded: 7 years ago - Duration: 4:07

• CaSO4 + Al or Mg powder - 20170812

  Uploaded: 7 years ago - Duration: 4:25

• Water on burning Magnesium

  Uploaded: 7 years ago - Duration: 2:37

• Battery and DC welder

  Uploaded: 7 years ago - Duration: 3:58

• Pouring copper over zinc

  Uploaded: 7 years ago - Duration: 4:16

• CaSO4 + Al powder 20170708

  Uploaded: 7 years ago - Duration: 3:48

• Thermite reaction on three substances-20170702

  Uploaded: 7 years ago - Duration: 8:33

• Refractoryless paint can furnace

  Uploaded: 7 years ago - Duration: 6:18

• Thermite over Light bulb

  Uploaded: 7 years ago - Duration: 4:34

• CaSO4 + Al

  Uploaded: 7 years ago - Duration: 1:06

• Flash-powder-KClO3-Al

  Uploaded: 7 years ago - Duration: 2:25

• Copper pour 2017-04-30

  Uploaded: 7 years ago - Duration: 7:39

• Molten copper is not red hot

  Uploaded: 7 years ago - Duration: 2:02

• Brass melting 20170422

  Uploaded: 7 years ago - Duration: 2:44

• Underwater electric arcs

  Uploaded: 7 years ago - Duration: 2:21

• Thermite reaction 120 grams

  Uploaded: 7 years ago - Duration: 2:43

• High voltage arcs at RODALCO2007's lab

  Uploaded: 7 years ago - Duration: 4:17

• KClO3 making 2017-01-29

  Uploaded: 7 years ago - Duration: 5:59

• KClO3 burning + slow motion

  Uploaded: 7 years ago - Duration: 3:02

• Making Potassium Chlorate KClO3 20170121

  Uploaded: 7 years ago - Duration: 11:31

• Red fireworks + slow motion

  Uploaded: 7 years ago - Duration: 3:03

• Iron Cast 20161203

  Uploaded: 7 years ago - Duration: 4:29

• Copper melt 2016-11-27

  Uploaded: 7 years ago - Duration: 2:59

• Copper melting + timelapse 2016-11-17

  Uploaded: 7 years ago - Duration: 3:46

• CaC2 making 20161109

  Uploaded: 7 years ago - Duration: 9:29

• Boiling copper + slow motion 20161106

  Uploaded: 7 years ago - Duration: 4:16

• Copper melt + slow motion

  Uploaded: 7 years ago - Duration: 2:32

• Copper melt and pour 20161102

  Uploaded: 7 years ago - Duration: 6:26

• Copper melting in a Kanthal furnace

  Uploaded: 8 years ago - Duration: 8:31

• CaSO4 + Aluminum in slow

  Uploaded: 8 years ago - Duration: 2:45

• CaSO4 + Aluminum powder

  Uploaded: 8 years ago - Duration: 2:57

• Boiling Zinc 20160913

  Uploaded: 8 years ago - Duration: 2:45

• Magnesium burning in water

  Uploaded: 8 years ago - Duration: 2:00

• Plaster + Al powder and Zinc

  Uploaded: 8 years ago - Duration: 3:45

• Plaster + Al powder and Al lathings

  Uploaded: 8 years ago - Duration: 2:46

• Iron cast 20160814

  Uploaded: 8 years ago - Duration: 4:11

• Copper Thermite CuO + Al 20160702

  Uploaded: 8 years ago - Duration: 3:54

• Melting brass in stainless steel dipper

  Uploaded: 8 years ago - Duration: 4:15

• Requiem-for-a-CFL-PAR38-2016-01-30

  Uploaded: 8 years ago - Duration: 6:13

• Aluminum + Silica Sand 2015-12-25

  Uploaded: 8 years ago - Duration: 2:32

• Ferrosilicon-2015-12-06

  Uploaded: 8 years ago - Duration: 6:20

• Iron cast 2015-12-03

  Uploaded: 8 years ago - Duration: 3:01

• Boiling Aluminum 2015-11-21

  Uploaded: 8 years ago - Duration: 3:27

• Boiling Aluminum 2015-11-20

  Uploaded: 8 years ago - Duration: 2:55

• RHNB in water 2015-11-19

  Uploaded: 8 years ago - Duration: 1:48

• Copper cast test 2015-11-17

  Uploaded: 8 years ago - Duration: 4:46

• Iron cast 2015-11-08

  Uploaded: 8 years ago - Duration: 4:14

• Copper pour in water 2015-11-04

  Uploaded: 8 years ago - Duration: 1:42

• CaC2 making 2015-11-01

  Uploaded: 8 years ago - Duration: 4:54

• CaC2 making 2015-10-31

  Uploaded: 9 years ago - Duration: 3:54

• CFL with Thermite 20151027

  Uploaded: 9 years ago - Duration: 4:05

• Boiling Aluminum 2015-10-22

  Uploaded: 9 years ago - Duration: 2:59

• CFL with Thermite 20151020

  Uploaded: 9 years ago - Duration: 3:07

• Al powder-KOH+Mg

  Uploaded: 9 years ago - Duration: 1:53

• CaSO4 + Al 2015-09-22

  Uploaded: 9 years ago - Duration: 0:48

• Na2CO3 + carbon test

  Uploaded: 9 years ago - Duration: 3:22

• Gallium-melt-20150704

  Uploaded: 9 years ago - Duration: 0:35

• Thermite on CFL floodlamp 2015-06-21

  Uploaded: 9 years ago - Duration: 3:23

• thermite-20150601

  Uploaded: 9 years ago - Duration: 1:14

• CaCl2-electrolysis

  Uploaded: 9 years ago - Duration: 1:11

• Microwaving light bulbs and Al turnings

  Uploaded: 9 years ago - Duration: 7:14

• Lamp Startup Test

  Uploaded: 9 years ago - Duration: 11:47

• Iron cast 2015-01-11

  Uploaded: 9 years ago - Duration: 6:41

• Iron cast 2015-01-07

  Uploaded: 9 years ago - Duration: 6:23

• Natural gas furnace 1500 C 2014-12-26

  Uploaded: 9 years ago - Duration: 3:13

• Iron-cast-2014-12-02

  Uploaded: 9 years ago - Duration: 6:34

• Iron-casting-2014-11-23

  Uploaded: 9 years ago - Duration: 3:58

• Iron-Cast-2014-11-08

  Uploaded: 9 years ago - Duration: 15:10

• Lighting roaring furnace

  Uploaded: 9 years ago - Duration: 3:40

• Roaring furnace trial 2014-10-26

  Uploaded: 10 years ago - Duration: 3:57

• Copper pour 2014-10-21

  Uploaded: 10 years ago - Duration: 1:37

• Furnace-repair-2014-10-18

  Uploaded: 10 years ago - Duration: 3:35

• EAF Steel melting 2014-10-14

  Uploaded: 10 years ago - Duration: 1:38

• Boron making 2014-09-28

  Uploaded: 10 years ago - Duration: 5:46

• NaOH + Mg 2014-09-21

  Uploaded: 10 years ago - Duration: 2:48

• KOH-Mg

  Uploaded: 10 years ago - Duration: 0:39

• CaSO4-Al-confined

  Uploaded: 10 years ago - Duration: 0:22

• CaO-Mg-2014-09-10

  Uploaded: 10 years ago - Duration: 4:05

• Copper melting test 2014-09-09

  Uploaded: 10 years ago - Duration: 3:54

• 1500 degrees furnace-2014-09-07

  Uploaded: 10 years ago - Duration: 3:42

• CaSO4 + Al 2014-09-03

  Uploaded: 10 years ago - Duration: 1:10

• Thermite-20140811

  Uploaded: 10 years ago - Duration: 2:10

• Thermite-20140810

  Uploaded: 10 years ago - Duration: 0:46

• Thermite-20140723

  Uploaded: 10 years ago - Duration: 0:51

• brassmelt 2014-06-22

  Uploaded: 10 years ago - Duration: 0:59

• iron casting 2nd attempt

  Uploaded: 10 years ago - Duration: 8:28

• Thermites

  Uploaded: 10 years ago - Duration: 1:35

• Microwaving aluminum turnings

  Uploaded: 10 years ago - Duration: 1:43

• Burning and melting galvanized steel wire

  Uploaded: 10 years ago - Duration: 1:17

• HNO3 distillation 2

  Uploaded: 10 years ago - Duration: 3:12

• Lithium from Energizer

  Uploaded: 10 years ago - Duration: 4:37

• Calcium Carbide

  Uploaded: 10 years ago - Duration: 3:46

• arcmelt-CaC2

  Uploaded: 10 years ago - Duration: 0:20

• Electric Arc making CaC2

  Uploaded: 10 years ago - Duration: 3:25

• Acetylene flame from Carbide

  Uploaded: 10 years ago - Duration: 2:22

• Electric arc colors

  Uploaded: 10 years ago - Duration: 2:45

• CaC2 making 2

  Uploaded: 10 years ago - Duration: 2:29

• Calcium Carbide CaC2

  Uploaded: 10 years ago - Duration: 5:48

• Chlorate-in-woodstove

  Uploaded: 10 years ago - Duration: 0:44

• CaSO4+SiO2+Mg

  Uploaded: 11 years ago - Duration: 3:22

• SiO2 + Mg

  Uploaded: 11 years ago - Duration: 4:30

• Silicon Thermite 2

  Uploaded: 11 years ago - Duration: 3:10

• Charcoal+Oxidizers

  Uploaded: 11 years ago - Duration: 1:49

• Boiling cold water

  Uploaded: 11 years ago - Duration: 3:22

• Benzene from PET and NaOH

  Uploaded: 11 years ago - Duration: 3:27

• CFL in Microwave 2

  Uploaded: 11 years ago - Duration: 3:53

• CS2-1

  Uploaded: 11 years ago - Duration: 4:29

• K2CO3 C

  Uploaded: 11 years ago - Duration: 1:54

• Na2CO3 C

  Uploaded: 11 years ago - Duration: 1:43

• Bromine making 2

  Uploaded: 11 years ago - Duration: 4:18

• Burner test

  Uploaded: 12 years ago - Duration: 4:12

• CFL in Microwave

  Uploaded: 12 years ago - Duration: 1:25

• Arc melt spectra

  Uploaded: 12 years ago - Duration: 2:00

• MgO melting

  Uploaded: 12 years ago - Duration: 2:26

• Fumigating Vila Shanti

  Uploaded: 12 years ago - Duration: 2:37

• collecting Na

  Uploaded: 12 years ago - Duration: 1:42

• KNO3+charcoal

  Uploaded: 12 years ago - Duration: 1:37

• Candies+KNO3

  Uploaded: 12 years ago - Duration: 5:09

• Boiling Al Cu

  Uploaded: 12 years ago - Duration: 4:46

• kanthal

  Uploaded: 12 years ago - Duration: 3:38

• match

  Uploaded: 12 years ago - Duration: 1:37

• KNO3+Al salts

  Uploaded: 12 years ago - Duration: 3:12

• Li2CO3+Mg-1

  Uploaded: 12 years ago - Duration: 3:09

• Another try of iron casting

  Uploaded: 13 years ago - Duration: 4:08

• 600W metal halide lamp

  Uploaded: 13 years ago - Duration: 1:54

  Venture 600W metal halide lamp startup
• Heating aluminum and copper to boiling(360p H.264-AAC)

  Uploaded: 13 years ago - Duration: 3:17

• Arc melting of steel

  Uploaded: 13 years ago - Duration: 4:54

• roaringfurnace

  Uploaded: 14 years ago - Duration: 2:33

• CaCl2 electrolysis medium

  Uploaded: 15 years ago - Duration: 6:12

• KClO3 sulfuric acid paper 20070118

  Uploaded: 17 years ago - Duration: 0:58

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