SchoolFreeware Science Video 14 - Can A Hair Dryer Melt Metal?

Here is the explanation of what is happening. The hair dryer is an ordinary unmodified hair dryer ( 1875 watts). It can be bought at any department store. The metal is gallium. Gallium is an element. It can be bought for as little as 50 cents a gram. Gallium has a melting point of about 85.6 degrees Fahrenheit. ( 29.8 Celsius ). The hot air coming from the dryer is more than necessary to melt the Gallium. Once the melted gallium cools, it turnes back into a solid.

[LincolnWiseDidMyMom]

Its gallium. It can melt in your hand. It has a similar melting point as chocolate

[fuckedgamez]

Gallium could even melt slowly in your hands, who ever says this is fake needs to go and learn some chemistry.

[Sailorjerry]

So this stuff could basically melt just by holding it in your hand?

[MRspinningFACE]

Gallium melts at 29.7 degrees Celsius so a hair dryer has no problem melting it.

[bradyinskeep]

I want to make links sword and sheild for arcadicon when it comes around

[fijibad]

Apparently a hair dryer can melt metal but not this guys fingers:)

[NEPCHUNE]

SO if you ate it, it will melt and come out of you when you go take a piss?

[fairsnaillz-]

If it could actually melt metal then how the hell is my moms hair not on fire

[FearlessSurvivor]

This would be a valid expiriment except that type of metal can melt in the heat if your own palms.

[fuzzypugproductions]

It's the stuff you fuse wires with using a sauder gun

[bradyinskeep]

Is this a very solid or hard metal? I wanna make something that cant be bent or broken esily

[Quentyn]

Is this metal poisonous, is it safe for demonstrations like this one?

[blandrubies]

You can melt this by holding it in your hand... You don't even need a hair drier

[brandonduttenhoffer]

That was probably a metal with a low specific heat

[coolvidios]

Its not mercury, its gallium metal, or a soft, extremely low temperature solder.

[chaelysullivan]

If it could burn metal then why wouldnt it have burnt his finger

[khankhann]

what other metals can a hair dryer melt ? n that was cool

[MelanieUz]

Why aren't the METAL tweezers melting?

[michaelnevarez]

That looks like that metal that melts from your body heat thats why u arnt holding it

[gemomoify]

How come the plastic didn't melt shouldn't the plastic melt