Fun with Thermite

[Freak_090]

The title just about says it all...

Fun with Thermite  

[OberFeldwebel]

Hmm...
Excellent.  

[war_junky 91]

I think i just found another thing for my AP Chem class to screw around doing lmao.  

[Maelthra Reloaded]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA  

[OberFeldwebel]

war_junky 91

I think i just found another thing for my AP Chem class to screw around doing lmao.

And they thought burning holes in the linoleum floors was cool.
Wait till you melt straight through a steel girder. Or right through the principal's engine.

One or two cans on top of the hood = two ton paper weight.  

[Fresnel]

OberFeldwebel

war_junky 91

I think i just found another thing for my AP Chem class to screw around doing lmao.

And they thought burning holes in the linoleum floors was cool.
Wait till you melt straight through a steel girder. Or right through the principal's engine.

One or two cans on top of the hood = two ton paper weight.

Actually, my Chem professor lit off a lump of thermite in class one day. She made sure to say "DO NOT LOOK DIRECTLY AT IT."

I did. Through my sunglasses. It was ******** awesome.  

[OberFeldwebel]

Fresnel

OberFeldwebel

war_junky 91

I think i just found another thing for my AP Chem class to screw around doing lmao.

And they thought burning holes in the linoleum floors was cool.
Wait till you melt straight through a steel girder. Or right through the principal's engine.

One or two cans on top of the hood = two ton paper weight.

Actually, my Chem professor lit off a lump of thermite in class one day. She made sure to say "DO NOT LOOK DIRECTLY AT IT."

I did. Through my sunglasses. It was ******** awesome.

Awesome.
What did the person do to not melt through the table?

Just a really small amount or what?  

[Fresnel]

OberFeldwebel

Fresnel

OberFeldwebel

war_junky 91

I think i just found another thing for my AP Chem class to screw around doing lmao.

And they thought burning holes in the linoleum floors was cool.
Wait till you melt straight through a steel girder. Or right through the principal's engine.

One or two cans on top of the hood = two ton paper weight.

Actually, my Chem professor lit off a lump of thermite in class one day. She made sure to say "DO NOT LOOK DIRECTLY AT IT."

I did. Through my sunglasses. It was ******** awesome.

Awesome.
What did the person do to not melt through the table?

Just a really small amount or what?

It was a small amount in a ceramic cup over a huge bowl of sand, and the whole thing was encased in a UV-blocking glass dome. I think there's different kinds of thermite, depending on what metal oxide you use, and she used a weak one. It was bright and hot, but not hot enough to burn ceramics.  

[OberFeldwebel]

Fresnel

OberFeldwebel

Fresnel

OberFeldwebel

war_junky 91

I think i just found another thing for my AP Chem class to screw around doing lmao.

And they thought burning holes in the linoleum floors was cool.
Wait till you melt straight through a steel girder. Or right through the principal's engine.

One or two cans on top of the hood = two ton paper weight.

Actually, my Chem professor lit off a lump of thermite in class one day. She made sure to say "DO NOT LOOK DIRECTLY AT IT."

I did. Through my sunglasses. It was ******** awesome.

Awesome.
What did the person do to not melt through the table?

Just a really small amount or what?

It was a small amount in a ceramic cup over a huge bowl of sand, and the whole thing was encased in a UV-blocking glass dome. I think there's different kinds of thermite, depending on what metal oxide you use, and she used a weak one. It was bright and hot, but not hot enough to burn ceramics.

Oh. Boo-urns.  

[Stoic Socialist]

Okay, so I talked about this with my friend, and we did the ratios and all that fun stuff...

He said that there are two kinds of Iron Oxides (rusts), so we did the ratios for each one.
I don't remember the exact numbers of each (he's the smarter one, so he did the math, so he has the paper...), but it averages to 1 gram of powdered aluminum to 2.7 grams of iron oxide.
Tomorrow he said he's going to get the formula to see if it really is 4,000 Fahrenheit.

But he confirmed that's how it's done, and he's going to do it in science later this year...  

[Fresnel]

Class D Fires are so freaking awesome. You ever see someone try to put out magnesium? Magnesium will pull the oxygen out of water (Mg + H20 -> MgO +H2), the oxygen out of Carbon Dioxide (2Mg+ C02 -> 2MgO + C), and the oxygen out of sand (2Mg + SiO2 -> Si + 2MgO). The only thing that will put it out is a vacuum. If you put dry ice on burning magnesium, it flares like no other. It will literally explode. You don't ******** with burning metal, you just let it burn.  

[Freak_090]

Fresnel

Class D Fires are so freaking awesome. You ever see someone try to put out magnesium? Magnesium will pull the oxygen out of water (Mg + H20 -> MgO +H2), the oxygen out of Carbon Dioxide (2Mg+ C02 -> 2MgO + C), and the oxygen out of sand (2Mg + SiO2 -> Si + 2MgO). The only thing that will put it out is a vacuum. If you put dry ice on burning magnesium, it flares like no other. It will literally explode. You don't ******** with burning metal, you just let it burn.

But can it pull the air out of Chuck Norris? wink  

[Fresnel]

Freak_090

Fresnel

Class D Fires are so freaking awesome. You ever see someone try to put out magnesium? Magnesium will pull the oxygen out of water (Mg + H20 -> MgO +H2), the oxygen out of Carbon Dioxide (2Mg+ C02 -> 2MgO + C), and the oxygen out of sand (2Mg + SiO2 -> Si + 2MgO). The only thing that will put it out is a vacuum. If you put dry ice on burning magnesium, it flares like no other. It will literally explode. You don't ******** with burning metal, you just let it burn.

But can it pull the air out of Chuck Norris? wink

Well, I've seen it pull oxygen out of skin before, but Chuck is no mere mortal...

I'd give even odds.  

[Requiem ex Inferni]

Freak_090

Fresnel

Class D Fires are so freaking awesome. You ever see someone try to put out magnesium? Magnesium will pull the oxygen out of water (Mg + H20 -> MgO +H2), the oxygen out of Carbon Dioxide (2Mg+ C02 -> 2MgO + C), and the oxygen out of sand (2Mg + SiO2 -> Si + 2MgO). The only thing that will put it out is a vacuum. If you put dry ice on burning magnesium, it flares like no other. It will literally explode. You don't ******** with burning metal, you just let it burn.

But can it pull the air out of Chuck Norris? wink

BLASPHEMY!!!! BURN HIM AT THE STAKE!!!

We'll use the thermite to do it.....  

[Stoic Socialist]

Stoic Socialist

Okay, so I talked about this with my friend, and we did the ratios and all that fun stuff...

He said that there are two kinds of Iron Oxides (rusts), so we did the ratios for each one.
I don't remember the exact numbers of each (he's the smarter one, so he did the math, so he has the paper...), but it averages to 1 gram of powdered aluminum to 2.7 grams of iron oxide.
Tomorrow he said he's going to get the formula to see if it really is 4,000 Fahrenheit.

But he confirmed that's how it's done, and he's going to do it in science later this year...

We had the original forms mixed up.
It should really be 2.9, but there's an extremely uncommon version of Iron Oxide, which as O, instead of the more common O3 (I believe that's what it was).