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Never mix chlorine with alcohol.

Originally posted by MacBandit
When are you not at work?

:p
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-MacBandit

Yknow, that's a really good point.

Answer: When I'm sleeping.

But this project is an extreme example. Beleive me, I don't want to work 20 hours a day forever especially if I can only bill 8 a day.
 
LOL. Reminds me of the good ol' days back in high school when my chemistry teacher did the dry ice and water in a bottle demo and had the bottle explode in his hands. The explosion sounded like a gunshot and the principal ran into the field we were in to see what was happening.
As for our teacher, the shockwave from the explosion went through his hand and ruptured blood vessels on the other side but it was healed within a couple of weeks. His ears were ringing for the rest of the day :D.

Believe it or not, even 3rd year biochemistry students do stupid stuff like this. Just last week, one of my friends got a bottle of potassium (about 200g), got really drunk and emptied the bottle into the snow. The K+ reacted immediately with the water in the snow, heating up and exploding in his face. A small chunk hit him right between the eyes and made a nice, red burn mark that I'm still laughing at him for :).
 
Never mix heroin with speed. Never mix pain killers with hard spirits. Dumb heh.

Try to avoid mixing Mac's and windoze into same network. Always headache for me.
 
Originally posted by topicolo
Believe it or not, even 3rd year biochemistry students do stupid stuff like this. Just last week, one of my friends got a bottle of potassium (about 200g), got really drunk and emptied the bottle into the snow. The K+ reacted immediately with the water in the snow, heating up and exploding in his face. A small chunk hit him right between the eyes and made a nice, red burn mark that I'm still laughing at him for :).
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That's what the MIT guys used!
 
Re: Students at MIT

Flaming Frathouse Cocktail

2003 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance

http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma...wo_mit_students_experiment_goes_up_in_flames/

HONORABLE MENTION (Creative Writing)

Boston police responded to a fire report at the Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity house on Commonwealth Avenue Saturday night, and discovered that sometimes alcohol is a factor in injuries in more ways than one...

Two MIT students who had obviously consumed their own fair share decided to test the chemical properties of another kind of alcohol.

With one of their frat-mates looking on, they filled an empty tin can with rubbing alcohol, and proceeded to ignite said solution. They sat and watched the container, mesmerized by the flickering blue flames. Yet, in spite of their being intelligent enough to be students at MIT, they were so enraptured with watching their experiement that they forgot the facts that any first-year science student (or anyone with a little common sense) should know:

- Alcohol fires are extremely hot - Tin is an excellent conductor of heat - Alcohol vapour is an extremely explosive substance

It was only a matter of time before the temperature of the entire can exceeded 82.4 degrees celsius (the boiling point of rubbing alcohol) and the inevitable explosion ensued.

Jesse Lacika, 21, of Boston and Jose Soitren, 18, of Cambridge were listed in good and fair condition respectively at Massachusetts General Hospital the following day, having suffered several first-and second-degree burns to their legs, arms, and chests.

This will hopefully be taken into consideration by MIT before they decide whether or not to allow this braintrust to actually use their science skills in a real-world job.

Submitted on 12/15/2003

Submitted by: Glenn Anderson
Reference: Boston.com - Dec. 15,2003
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lol. just goes to show ya, no matter how damn smarter than everybody else you are, alcohol is the great equalizer.

"ahhh alcohol, the cause and solution to all of life's problems" --Homer Simpson
 
Glad I toke notice of the boys in that little movie...

it convinced me of thinking twice before doing it...

well...
thinking twice worked, blew it all up without a single scratch:

the trick??/
put the bottle down on a stable surface,
first put the chlorine in
put the alcohol in
close the bottle (carefull!!!)
next take a distance
than poke the bottle with a long stick or something
if the bottle falls...
BOOM

take some notice:
DO NOT USE a glass bottle...
the pieces will penetrate allmost everything

DO NOT fuse to much fluid

be sure you want to do it
it is at your one risk
don't held me responsible

THINK BEFORE ACT

be carefull and have fun...

I had a hell of a explosion,
did fill up the bottle half... :p
not a good idea I must say
 
revenuee said:
If i remember my chemistry right ... sodium would start flaming, and calcium would start fizz. -- if that helps you remember :)
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If I remember my chemistry right the sodium would cause the Hydrogen to seperate from the water and the exothermic reaction would ignite the hydrogen.

I have made a couple of dry ice & water bombs.
I usually take chunk about 2 cubic inches and put it inside a .5 L water bottle with warm water. They chuck it out on my porch. It makes a very loud and deep explosion. One time when I made one I used a dry ice dust and shook up the bottle. Before I threw it outside, it exploded in my hand while I was in my kitchen.(knocked my on my back and left a ringing in my ears for about 1/2 hours.)
:) Good Times
 
Sun Baked said:
Yes, that does look as dangerous as handing a lighter to a redneck at the local bean-n-beer festival.
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:p :p :p :p :p

ha! im gonna be laughing at that all day!

nice though. blow stuff up is smart. especially WHEN YOU'RE HOLDING IT!! ;)
 
weird that this thread got resurrected .... :confused:

so why didn't you video tape your attempt at the bottle bomb Dragonfly?

D
 
being a swimmer, i thought this was about getting drunk and going swimming... :D
 
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