Thermite Demonstration

Aluminum powder and iron (III) oxide are combined in just the right stoichiometric proportion. The reaction, which has a large activation energy, is triggered using potassium permanganate reacting with glycerine.

[StoneInMySandal]

If I had a teacher as great as you are I’d have already taken over the world.

[PlushiiePanda]

Excited you have a YouTube as well! Loving the videos

[romulusnr]

My school never owned a fume hood, much less a double windowed one. And my school wasn't even a public school, it charged tuition. Go figure.

[LunarOutlawsGarage]

If you have access to a large area like a football field you should really do the Aluminum oxide, copper oxide, and magnesium thermite. It is truly a sight to see. Be safe active it from a far and be safe 👍👍 side note I enjoy your TikTok channel and now I am subscribed here. Remember everything is for science as long as your record the results 😉😂👍

[rickwilliams]

This is what Breaking Bad would have been like in Canada. Him doing crazy ass experiments with the kids. Just no meth.

[flemdogscience]

Do you think you could make your glowing iron product more cup shaped? If you could I’d be curious if dropping water in it we could still see the leidenfrost effect occur or if this is too hot. The water might hang out on the hot surface a bit longer than we’d initially anticipate, but it might be too hot and just vaporize the water like you’d expect. Anyway, rad demo!

[Nalyanya]

I've used a thermite reaction to crack (actually melt) a safe

[NiiKEMAN]

Time to collect a bunch of etch a sketches and give them to Walt and Jessie lol

[jingerbee]

I was like, wow it is on fire.Then, sparks came, and I was like, 🤯😳😳😳😳🤯🤯🤯🤯😳😳😳

[pronexus_rigel]

How my classmates react is this happened:

[scottwilliams]

But what about seeing inside the Egg?!?

[tay-lore]

Ahhh I thought the interesting thing was going to be emissivity at that high of a temperature

[jaysplitsontiktok]

When I saw the sparkles came this with me 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮🤩🤩🤩😖😖😖😖

[vikramjitsingh]

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