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@ExplosionsAndFire10 ай бұрын
"Evidence for Large Planetary Climate Altering Thermonuclear Explosions on Mars in the Past" - Read the full paper here if you uhhh really want to I guess: www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=125770
@gristCollector
10 ай бұрын
oh god it's a real article on a real journal
@Lazerspike
10 ай бұрын
I love you for bringing this up also funny how mars was known as the planet of war by ancient peoples, there's also some similar funny stuff with the van allen radiation belt if you look hard enough.
@douglasboyle6544
10 ай бұрын
Yes, yes I want to.
@1967sluggy
10 ай бұрын
After looking it up, apparently this guy has been on this stuff for close to a decade? Just randomly coming out with papers yelling that Martians had nukes. Fascinating.
@josephd.5524
10 ай бұрын
Some 500 million years ago, it says. That's, uh, about the time complex life set up shop here and went on to lose its mind. We really aren't likely to find any kind of artefacts from that far back either. Now that's a fun mystery.
@canadian_grim_reaper10 ай бұрын
Thank you for exposing the illegal nuclear weapon testing being conducted by Martians. Can't believe no one is talking about this Very Pressing Issue
@ExplosionsAndFire
10 ай бұрын
I agree, it is certainly One of the Issues
@shrimpnoodles9590
10 ай бұрын
Its truly terrible. Transplanetary nuclear arms race.
@peepopalaber
10 ай бұрын
@@shrimpnoodles9590 *transplanetary
@virutech32
10 ай бұрын
@@peepopalaber*interplanetary
@trollmcclure1884
10 ай бұрын
it was the best part.
@NileRed10 ай бұрын
This was amazing
@agaphmouesu
10 ай бұрын
Indeed
@Thefrontdoorscientist
10 ай бұрын
@@agaphmouesuI agree
@Icetastesgood
10 ай бұрын
so do I
@mastershooter64
10 ай бұрын
Now you have to burn tungsten to one up him
@Metal_Master_YT
10 ай бұрын
He probably could melt the tungsten in an argon atmosphere and if his flame was slightly reducing.
@user-yx2nr7eq7z10 ай бұрын
As a tradesman, thank you for acknowledging that it takes skill. That's all I wanted in life
@PhoenicopterusR
10 ай бұрын
Honestly, you'd have to hope the trades are full of skilled people considering what the industry as a whole encompasses. I'm sure as hell not trusting Jimmy from down the road just because he picked up a tool and said he could do it.
@evilotis01
10 ай бұрын
it absolutely does. i'm a writer, but i've spent years doing labouring etc as a second job when writing wasn't paying the bills, and the first thing you learn is that literally everything is harder than it looks. i love watching people w decades of experience lay bricks, plaster walls, etc-there's really something about seeing skill put to good use
@cobra6481
10 ай бұрын
As an industrial mechanic, I wholeheartedly agree. The amount of skill an apprentice has over the lay person makes a massive difference in quality.
@DrCranberry
9 ай бұрын
As a tradesman I kinda cringed at him using a lighter instead of a striker. For those who don't know, doing this risks the gasoline in the lighter reaching ignition temp and exploding it in your hand...
@PhoenicopterusR
9 ай бұрын
@@DrCranberry it isn't explosions and fire for nothing
@bobbutson10 ай бұрын
I absolutely love that this is a grudge-based video. Tom couldn't let titanium get off so easily.
@partlycloudy7707
10 ай бұрын
Grudge based chemistry is very on Brand for Tom.
@Nick-rs5if
9 ай бұрын
Let's be honest though. Is there any more satisfying means of achieving fire than by igniting titanium out of spite? 😂
@Razza225010 ай бұрын
Thankyou for perfectly capturing the deranged state of recycling in Australia and the slowburning rage it fuels inside us all
@-bail-
10 ай бұрын
Unfortunately similar recycling shams exist in MOST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
@TerraCAD
10 ай бұрын
Yeah it's very similar here in Germany and it's so freaking annoying
@purplecat4977
10 ай бұрын
It's the same in the US, although people don't like to talk about it. There are a lot of incentives all around for everyone to go around pretending that plastic can be recycled. Less guilt, less pressure on manufacturers to use less plastic, etc.
@shawno8253
10 ай бұрын
The issue with plastic recycling is that only certain types of plastic can actually be recycled.
@tsawy6
10 ай бұрын
@@shawno8253 that's one of many issues with it. The big one for Australia is that our recyclables are very poorly sorted, making extracting value from them almost impossible.
@Samonie6710 ай бұрын
im so excited by tom finally succeeding in something metal work shops put thousands of dollars into not happening
@deathlife2414
10 ай бұрын
Tom is a genius.
@DaftFader
10 ай бұрын
You're not talking about recycling right? >.
@deathlife2414
10 ай бұрын
@@DaftFader prime
@onebladeprop10 ай бұрын
I have been working as a machinist cutting Ti for a long time now. In 25 years I have witnessed two titanium fires and in both cases it was the chips(shavings) that caught fire. It is incredibly hard to extinguish, but as you've discovered equally hard to get started. I have seen many occasions where bars were glowing from friction but have never seen a solid piece burn.
@arnaudmenard5114
9 ай бұрын
alec steele even forged some of the stuff in the past, it only made a powdery sort of dross, but otherwise, uneventfull stuff while in bulk
@osirine2924
7 ай бұрын
Working on Ti Aerospace parts rn, I've only seen Ti dust catch fire on a fan in the polish area.
@cykkm
6 ай бұрын
@@osirine2924Try a regular old school medium file, not too rough, not too fine. You'll get the filings going in 30 seconds. When you least expect it, of course. They left pits on my steel bench in these 2-3 seconds they were burning. Just commented on it: kzread.info/dash/bejne/paFtpKiLgJyZj84.html&lc=UgwK3fgXa9bqysRdhpN4AaABAg Ti fine dust may not only catch fire, it may explode in higher concentration. Go to the polishing area as never as you only can, if they don't service the filters properly!
@jeremyrixon15010 ай бұрын
Dear KZread Algorithm, This is the content I'm looking for. More of this. Tom teaching us about chemistry while slowly losing his mind. And rants about the state of recycling. And explosions and fire - don't forget about those. Sincerely, Jezza.
@snafu556310 ай бұрын
A wise man once told me "the atmosphere is nature's bin"
@gfhrtshergheghegewgewgew1730
10 ай бұрын
that same man also huffs chlorine gas while trying to make s4n4 out of shitty jam jars with plastic tubes, so
@andreasthiemke9520
10 ай бұрын
@@gfhrtshergheghegewgewgew1730 truly on of the wisest people on earth
@bensmith4563
10 ай бұрын
@gfhrtshergheghegewgewgew1730 now that sounds like high quality entertainment
@SirFranex
10 ай бұрын
no, it was "just his bin"
@Mindawga10 ай бұрын
The martians not recycling spent nuclear weapons is trully one of the issues of all time.
@SaltyAsTheSea
10 ай бұрын
@@IvanNedostalha nice 😂
@UJustGotGamed
10 ай бұрын
@@IvanNedostal did you comment this to divert your attention from the irrationality of your mother's love? (jk)
@Zaezar
10 ай бұрын
The Martians government sending spent nuclear warheads to the other side of Mars to be burned was a great shock to their culture when discovered.
@Mindawga
10 ай бұрын
@@UJustGotGamed He wanted to mooch off some free internet points. (jk)
@gtfkt
10 ай бұрын
What do you mean "the martians" ... right around the time they blew themselves into oblivion, life on earth pretty much boomed all of a sudden. We are the martians.
@GeraldTheChampionOfEarth6 ай бұрын
The “Martian nuclear explosions” papers are truly a real life cognitohazard.
@Harvester_OS10 ай бұрын
This episode gives off big manifesto vibes and I'm here for it.
@thethoughtemporium10 ай бұрын
This was unhinged even for you, and I loved it!! Also that paper is fuckin wild. And ya recyling is totally a scam. Thing is, the burning it isn't the problem. That's actually a great way to get rid of it. The trouble is you need dedicated filtered incinerators, and to recapture the energy from the burning to use for power generation. And ideally, pump all the co2 that comes off it into algae farms or massive hydroponic installations. Then it's at least carbon neutral and we can keep using plastic. If all we used oil for was plastic, we'd basically never run out. But even if we just burnt it in a nice incinerator, if that was our only co2 output, there's enough algae/plants on earth to easily deal with that at the level of plastic that's used in the world.
@jackiesth
10 ай бұрын
Can you genetically engineer a martian and then blow it up with a nuke in your next video?
@markiangooley
10 ай бұрын
A lot of Europe’s waste plastic goes to Sweden to get incinerated in fairly sophisticated incinerators.
@jonathanseagraves8140
10 ай бұрын
While you are still fucking around with genetic engineering, I want no "responsibility" talk out of you.
@adrianpip2000
10 ай бұрын
Some countries actually manage to recycle quite a large percentage of their waste, though. Still not perfect, obviously, but pretty good
@jackroutledge352
10 ай бұрын
Landfill would still be better though. No toxins entering the atmosphere, all the co2 is captured.
@nalgene24710 ай бұрын
I like how you really wanted to talk about nukes on Mars and the plastic recycling shenanigans so you made a video about burning titanium.
@SaltyAsTheSea
10 ай бұрын
I'd love if he just kept talking about random shit like this but all the while he's attempting to burn or blow something up 😂
@YounesLayachi
10 ай бұрын
"shenanigans" is giving it too much credits. It's a scam, plastic recycling basically doesn't exist
@Dankleberrrrg
10 ай бұрын
And he released the original burning titanium video to set the stage for this to not look like that
@Toleich
10 ай бұрын
*failing to burn Titanium
@nalgene247
10 ай бұрын
@@YounesLayachi fair enough
@brycejensen520110 ай бұрын
The third knob on the cutting torch, above the lever you're manipulating, is used to supply oxygen slowly. The lever is meant to use excess oxygen to blow the liquid metal out of the cut. Your flame could be more stoichiometric, which is I think hotter.
@xxxxxC4xxxxx
9 ай бұрын
It also comes out of a different hole. I don’t think he is using any O in the primary flame. But hey, it worked.
@GregBadabinski
9 ай бұрын
The lever is to make the flame super oxidizing, so it burns the metal out. Doesn't just blow it out, the oxygen is to make it spicy. You're correct though, a neutral flame would be hotter. A cutting torch is the wrong type to use for this imo. A welding torch with the right sized rosebud tip (can't be too big or it'll drain the acetylene bottle too fast) would be perfect for his purposes.
@mbburry4759
4 ай бұрын
@@xxxxxC4xxxxxit comes out of the same hole in the nozel... unless you're talking about seperate holes and valves in the actual torch body. But there's only on firey business hole
@matthewbeasley7765
Ай бұрын
I'm watching months later. It looks like he's only getting oxygen out the center hole and the knob on the cutting torch is closed. He was getting a high temperature but it is far from a cutting torch's potential.
@matthewbeasley7765
Ай бұрын
@@mbburry4759 With a cutting torch, there are periphery holes that are ejecting stochiometric oxyacetylene. Then the center jet is for high pressure oxygen only.
@ericscherer746810 ай бұрын
His videos accurately reflect what is going on in my head as someone with untreated ADHD, and I’m here for it lol
@DDDarray
8 ай бұрын
the sleep disorder gets diagnosed too late
@ToTheGAMES
5 ай бұрын
@@DDDarray sleep? i hardly knew her
@Pyron420
5 ай бұрын
I'm an american autist with an ADHD gf, I can't sleep or keep either of us on track but the martian-Australian nuclear recycling scandal makes me feel understood
@ludvig3242
5 ай бұрын
People always talk about ADHD this way. I have ADHD and I've never really related to this kind of thing or the "thoughts constantly rushing in your head". My ADHD is demonstrated by the fact that I'm extremely apathetic to things that I don't really enjoy doing, and anything that doesn't give short-term dopamine is incredibly tough to get the motivation to do. Impulse control is also a huge defiency.
@dsdy1205
2 ай бұрын
@@ludvig3242 that's because you've sustained so much shame / pressure from outside sources that you've punched through to the other side - burnout.
@jimpollard939210 ай бұрын
"..who's launching these nukes? ...there's nobody on Mars..." Well, not anymore.
@marcogenovesi8570
10 ай бұрын
the nuke fairy of course. It's the bigger sister of the tooth fairy
@johnpublic6582
10 ай бұрын
@@marcogenovesi8570 The nuke fairy leaves a shroud of cobalt thorium G around your planet for 93 years after taking the nuke from under your pillow.
@YounesLayachi
10 ай бұрын
1945 people were like "who's launching these nukes ? There are no nuke launchers in japan"
@YO-BIZZY
22 күн бұрын
@@YounesLayachi more like public before 1945: whats a nuke? everyone nowadays: NUKE NUKE NUKE NUKE
@CrittingOut10 ай бұрын
7:23 "People weren't really caring how much plastic they were buying" and that was the whole goal of recycling, to get consumers to stop caring.
@alexpotts6520
10 ай бұрын
This is unduly cynical. Of course when you solve a problem people stop caring about it, which is why people these days don't care about acid rain or smallpox or Y2K. To the extent that environmental action only takes place as a response to political or economic pressures, then that's the system working as intended. That's the *only* way anything ever happens in liberal democracies. (Of course, in this specific case, the government hadn't solved the problem at all, but for me the lesson to take away from this is "governments should not lie to their people, and regulatory structures should be put in place to increase their accountability"; not "recycling is bad".)
@CrittingOut
10 ай бұрын
@@alexpotts6520 recycling isn't bad but it was also made popular to hand wave all the negatives of using plastic for literally everything
@chris.pbacon2068
10 ай бұрын
@@alexpotts6520 evidently they didnt sole it, that wasnt goal. the goal was to get people to think that recycling worked so that consumers wouldnt care about the effects of their palstic use on the enviroment.
@CCNorse
10 ай бұрын
@@alexpotts6520 Recycling is fine, but it's only real for metal and glass and specific grades of paper. Giving the rubbish company all your plastic garbage in a special container is just obfuscation of the environmental cost of plastic packaging, which is important because plastic packaging is cheaper than metal, glass, etc. Certain plastic goods which are made of largish chunks of pure-ish feedstocks with minimal additives can be recycled, but that is a reasonably rare class of plastic packaging compared to what mostly fills our bins. An argument can be made that lightweight plastic packaging is better for the environment than recyclable tins and jars because of the reduced transport energy costs or reduced manufacture energy costs compared to legacy materials, but that is a prioritization of CO2 emissions controls over the idea of not turning the earth into a garbage dump, and also pretends that we can't do better when it comes to electricity generation for industrial use and transportation energy efficiency, reducing the moral imperative to progress in that regard.
@joshuaboniface
10 ай бұрын
It's because Recycling has become treated as the only "R". Everyone forgets about the first two: Reduce and Reuse. But those two hurt profits, so...
@CavemanZerron10 ай бұрын
As a welder, I can tell you that the flame on that torch was so cold, so very cold
@fss1704
9 ай бұрын
Some damn high voltage has no temperature limit, should have tried that.
@CavemanZerron
9 ай бұрын
@fss1704 probably harder to get ahold of for him
@fss1704
9 ай бұрын
@@CavemanZerron Nope, a simple microwave oven transformer from the junkyard should do the trick, as a physicist he should have at least 3 already.
@crazy4chickens
9 ай бұрын
I believe what he was talking about is the fact that his oxygen to fuel mix was off not enough oxygen to balance out the amount of acetylene
@CavemanZerron
9 ай бұрын
@@crazy4chickens correct
@Peterscraps10 ай бұрын
1:25 I find it fucking halarious that he cited the sources to this tangent.
@Peterscraps
10 ай бұрын
4:15 I find it disturbing he slipped in this one
@Garjahn10 ай бұрын
Well clearly you just need a stronger oxidizer. Maybe try layering thin sheets of magnesium and titanium into a cake of bad ideas, see what happens.
@joshmyer9
10 ай бұрын
Ah, yes, the delicate metal pastry, millefiamma.
@richardunruh4035
10 ай бұрын
I suggest Chlorine Trifluoride. Go big or go home. ;) 🌩+🔥+ 🍄 (why isn't there a mushroom cloud emoji!)
@Nathanielbaz
10 ай бұрын
maybe if he used an oxidising flame type instead of carburising lmfao
@kti5682
10 ай бұрын
I see a layered design, how did Russians call this, sloika?
@ataphelicopter5734
10 ай бұрын
Best fun is had by powdering your metal and mixing with the oxidiser ;)
@Schmootle10 ай бұрын
"A lot of scientists arent very good with practical skills or like trade skills, and thats because doing a trade, unlike science, is actually difficult and requires some level of skill." - As a scientist, can confirm. We spend weeks planning an experiment, buy $1M equipment, have 12 meetings explaining what we are trying to do, then perform the experiment and it fails. Then we write a report of why it failed, spend more money, and if we are lucky it eventually works after a few months. Then we spend the next few months writing about the result, failing to replicate it, calling the vendor to repair the $1M machine we broke, and thats the quarter, done. Meanwhile I text my plumber at 6am and he's job done by 10.
@texasslingleadsomtingwong8751
10 ай бұрын
As a master plumber who absolutely is in love with the sciences , you warmed my heart tremendously. My all time favorite conversation have been with mechanical engineers , physicist, chemist , and biologists. Not so much with civil engineers. They don't count. I'm kidding , just poking fun at those poor folks . They are always shunned in scientific circles. 😂
@marcogenovesi8570
10 ай бұрын
@@texasslingleadsomtingwong8751 Civil engineers are basically the "nerds" of the engineering community, similar to neckbeards and IT people. Nobody knows why they exist until something goes wrong and then everyone is angry at them because they didn't prevent it
@thor1829
10 ай бұрын
@@texasslingleadsomtingwong8751 Can confirm that Civ Eng. are shunned, here in the Netherlands, Civil Engineers are jokingly called 'bicycle repairmen' :P
@herrbrahms
10 ай бұрын
This shit is why room temperature superconductors are still science fiction. (science fraud?)
@SocialDownclimber
10 ай бұрын
A plumber recently connected my cold tap to the hot water and my hot tap to the cold water. I'm not exactly impressed with their intelligence either.
@Orillion12345610 ай бұрын
I like the part where he says "it's staying-on-topic-time" and then he stayed on topic all over the place.
@jogandsp10 ай бұрын
8:15 I love the slow descent into madness
@johndeaux881510 ай бұрын
"Titanium is a flammable metal." I think I now understand Tom's true intentions with his chemistry endeavours, to prove that anything is flammable, with enough gumption and stick-to-it-iveness.
@AlexHegedus-pb1iv
10 ай бұрын
why can't he just really go for it, Fluorine chemistry
@matthewmac5787
10 ай бұрын
@@AlexHegedus-pb1iv Fluorine is yellow and thus evil that should not be touched
@trollmcclure1884
10 ай бұрын
@@AlexHegedus-pb1iv no, no, brick of lard sealed in a tank of liquid oxygen
@alexrogers777
10 ай бұрын
Proving that everything can be flammable kinda really is his thing. New video idea: making flame retardants flammable
@ChronicSkooma
10 ай бұрын
He never lost the plot, its just thick as titanium.
@ElementalMaker10 ай бұрын
I would like to thank Tom's reitnas for their sacrifice to make this extraordinary video. Now to journey down the Mars nuclear weapons rabbit hole...
@tristenturner83210 ай бұрын
I think if you spent more time tuning in the air fuel ratio you could have maybe gotten the tungsten to melt. the flame should get hot enough when its burned at the right air/fuel ratio. also, holding the lever dumps a bunch of excess oxygen down the center port of the torch and is making your flame colder than it has to be.
@fss1704
9 ай бұрын
Nah, should have used a microwave oven transformer, high voltage has no real temperature limit.
@josephhalbohn810010 ай бұрын
I use an OA torch like several times a week if not daily, everyone sucks at it the first time they pick it up. I’m just impressed you even got it burning somewhat correctly tbh.
@kenneth_romero10 ай бұрын
my monthly dose of australian schizo content. keep up the great work
@mihael64
10 ай бұрын
yearly*
@YounesLayachi
10 ай бұрын
@@mihael64 *regularly
@ironnam810710 ай бұрын
That poor torch. If only there was a website that had videos that could teach you how to use one
@peterolsen9131
10 ай бұрын
or if tom would watch a video on how to change the o-ring in the top of the first he tried! lol!
@qwopiretyu
10 ай бұрын
Dang it do be like that
@sativaburns6705
10 ай бұрын
Meh
@johnpublic6582
10 ай бұрын
It's more fun to mis-use the torch head valves and blow up the hoses and regulators. I mean, it's in the channel name...
@Walking_Death
10 ай бұрын
Flashback's a bitch... REAL explosion and fire
@merlinminy68719 ай бұрын
I love this kind of video. I love you for making it look like you're still shooting a barely edited oneshot in a shitshed with a shitcam and plastic spoons as labware all the while casting some really concerning and interesting infos like it's a joke and uploading moneyshots in 4k of slowmo of vaporizing titanium. This channel is so incredible, imma be sad when cubane is over, I was here. I hope you'll continue with the series in between self standing episodes.
@SomeMorganSomewhere10 ай бұрын
Yeah, that dumpsite is something SPECTACULAR (and not just the Acetylene bottles...)... horrifying but also spectacular.
@TMaxElectronics10 ай бұрын
Nonono the plastic isn't just being burned, the energy within is being thermally recycled :D
@ExplosionsAndFire
10 ай бұрын
Carbon craves the atmosphere. Who are we to condemn it to eternity trapped in a polymer??
@kuro4841
10 ай бұрын
@@ExplosionsAndFire And as thanks they make us all feel warmer inside (and outside)!
@ryanregan5079
10 ай бұрын
@@ExplosionsAndFire One of the greatest truths ever told.
@ElxCriiO
10 ай бұрын
It might be viable to burn the plástic, get energy, capture the carbón, make carbón fiber/graphite materials, profit
@qwopiretyu
10 ай бұрын
@@ElxCriiO remove viable and profit from that equation and sure. Cleaning the planet isn't going to make anyone any money. It's a debt our grandparents took out that we have to pay.
@phimuskapsi10 ай бұрын
Fun story about titanium melting: My dad worked for Kodak back in the 90's and one of the plants had a bad fire. He was there to help where he could and he came home with a chunk of titanium about an inch square with bubble cavities in it. It weighed a lot for what it was, apparently it had been a sheet of thin titanium that melted and then *boiled*. Still has it somewhere.
@Ryan-lc4bl
10 ай бұрын
Actually, titanium is quite light/low density compared to many metals (4.5g/cm³), so maybe it was just your impression.... But nonetheless still cool story !
@phimuskapsi
10 ай бұрын
@@Ryan-lc4bl yes I realize that, did you miss the part where it was an entire sheet of titanium melted into a one inch square? I guarantee you, it weighed more than you think it would when you hold it.
@Ryan-lc4bl
10 ай бұрын
@@phimuskapsi If it was a solid one square inch block, it doesn't matter how big of a sheet it was made from, it doesn't get more "compacted" than if It was just casted in a mold, the density doesn't change...
@Ryan-lc4bl
10 ай бұрын
It was probably bigger than a square inch..... 1 inch³ = 16.4cm³ Titanium density : 4.5g/cm³ × 16.4cm³ = 73.7g, or a little over two ounces... not that much weight. If there were air bubbles inside this "blob", the density might be even lower, so it might have felt lighter than if was solid all throughout .....
@phimuskapsi
10 ай бұрын
2oz is a LOT of weight for something that small.
@benjaminhanke7910 ай бұрын
I love how this channel went from explaining explosives to raging randomness. ❤
@americangamer163210 ай бұрын
This has to be one of my favorite videos from you for a while, from the unhinged rants, to actual commentary on the state of recycling. Chefs kiss
@notmyname32710 ай бұрын
This is one of the greatest videos you've made. Nukes on Mars and recycling conspiracies is exactly the kind of content I subscribed for
@sammygeez.
10 ай бұрын
If only the recycling stories were conspiracies, governments are just lazy and too cheap to recycle and it's the same almost everywhere.
@Xe4ro10 ай бұрын
Man this has turned from just Explosions & Fire into a Comedic Meme Madness Masterclass art project. I love it.
@tylerb6981
10 ай бұрын
Turned? I don't think this channel has ever NOT been a Meme Channel with Chemistry sprinkled in. That's why we love it.
@Xe4ro
10 ай бұрын
@@tylerb6981 True. It’s getting better and better. :)
@owenbilling661210 ай бұрын
I cannot put into words how much I love your videos, amazing chemistry, relatable tirades, always worth any wait.
@Alexander_Sannikov10 ай бұрын
love your vaguely chemistry related rants, Tom. I also love to see the continuation of your saga towards the synthesis of a certain hexahedral molecule.
@xXMACEMANXx10 ай бұрын
That paper about the thermonuclear explosions on mars you referenced at the beginning of the video was very fascinating. Also existentially terrifying at the implications
@crazy4chickens
9 ай бұрын
My theory is that earth is the second planet humans have inhabited. We had to leave our home planet because we torched it. Our ancestors traveled to earth colonized it made fairly great strides and then faced cataclysm after cataclysm and we've lost the ancient knowledge of our origins which were supposed to be cautionary tales of developing technology for the wrong reasons because if we torch this planet we're gonna have a bad time
@rwall514
9 ай бұрын
It's amazing seeing a scientist go off the deep end in real time, isn't it? Like, he started with a natural nuclear reactor (Similar to the ones at Oklo on Earth) blowing up on Mars, and then he slowly morphed into this 'Aliens are REAL and coming for us' stuff.
@connorwillmore352710 ай бұрын
I love the editing, you're absolutely hilarious man. I was busting a gut a lot this video, fantastic stuff.
@brandonowings426810 ай бұрын
This is some top tier content. Please never change. This whole video was amazing
@marcogenovesi857010 ай бұрын
2:39 "Doing a trade, unlike science, is actually difficult and requires some level of skill" --Explosion&Fire 2023
@neffk10 ай бұрын
The eye protection for oxy is usually shade #3. For welding temperatures, you want shade #8.
@hascrack3783
10 ай бұрын
Typically for oxy acetylene schadenfreude 3 is for brazing and shade 5 is for cutting (burning). I have 2 pairs of shade glasses, and 3 is light enough to use as regular sun glasses. For welding (mig), it's usually shade 8-14.
@tylerb6981
10 ай бұрын
Fantastic autocomplete "typo" haha. Also, I have no idea how what you said was different from OP :P
@hascrack3783
10 ай бұрын
@@tylerb6981 shade 5 is what is best for oxy acetylene cutting. An important thing to keep in mind is the whole point of using different shade levels is to use the protection that is sufficient without making things so dark that you can't see what you are doing.
@Brent-jj6qi
10 ай бұрын
@@hascrack3783wait so with even the super bright welding techniques can you actually see what you’re doing? I just assumed that at some point it’s just about eye protection, because if you block all that light enough to be eye safe then it’s gonna be hard to see anything else
@noodlelynoodle.
10 ай бұрын
@@Brent-jj6qi I'm not sure how it is for welding but for glasswork where you can't see what you're doing cause of how bright yellow the flame gets once the glass is introduced cause of the sodium in it there are glasses that specifically block out that spectrum of light and you can see through the fire to what you're actually working on when to someone watching it's all hidden by bright yellow flame
@vivalapita848410 ай бұрын
8:27 growing into that mood over a few decades.....::pats you:: I know how you feel. Right there with ya. (your shit is hilarious! please keep creating you bring me and my family joy)
@youtube.commentator10 ай бұрын
5:46 lmao I love this channel, thank you for continuing to upload
@papasauce23410 ай бұрын
you need much more oxygen in that torch flame judging by the color
@mikemitchell9157
10 ай бұрын
Yeah thats a straight acetalyn flame
@comradesoupbeans4437
10 ай бұрын
Yeah, he seemed to be balancing it to an almost normal level _with the lever held down_ , which means that he's super far under iirc, since that's for blasting out material with an oxygen rich flame (at least from what I remember when I learned how to cut steel in highscool)
@papasauce234
10 ай бұрын
@@comradesoupbeans4437 you can do that and still get a very good flame, he just doesn't know what he's doing, the way to tweak it is you get the blue flame and have bright cones, then turn it down a tiny bit if needed, then you tweak the oxygen with the trigger pulled and you end up with a flame that's hot enough to preheat and cut metal and the oxygen is enough to blast out the metal and superheat metal that is harder to cut
@papasauce234
10 ай бұрын
he never even got it to having a blue flame or any cone/cones which is the issue
@comradesoupbeans4437
10 ай бұрын
@@papasauce234 yeah, it's been a hot minute since i learned all that and didn't put it into words very well (also assumed not seeing cones might have just been the camera washing out for some of it where the flame was closer to decent)
@Muffin_Masher10 ай бұрын
The gas axe is a scary yet fun tool. If you haven't already mastered it, light it, then turn the gas up until you have a nice "feathering" flame with very little to no smoke, THEN turn the oxygen on and adjust until it almost goes BANG! :P the flame shouldn't be yellow/orange, unless that is just how it looks on camera, it should be blue and white when correctly adjusted. VERY effective, the hardest part is not putting holes in or setting fire to anything accidentally... basically perfect for this channel
@MadScientist267
10 ай бұрын
Amateur. Get a hot standby flame, "tap it out" on your shoe, fill a styro cup with the now free flowing gas mix, restrike the torch and "brush" the cup. *THAT'S* worth posting a comment about.
@YounesLayachi
10 ай бұрын
Wouldn't the extra oxygen in the flame cause unwanted oxidation ?
@MadScientist267
10 ай бұрын
@@YounesLayachi The extra oxygen accelerates the combustion of the acetylene. The result is a hotter flame. When it is cutting metal and the "turbo" valve is open, the extra oxygen largely goes to oxidizing the molten metal in the flame, yes. This is useful because it creates even more local heat, helping the melt for making the cut. If that's not what you're referring to I don't know.
@YounesLayachi
10 ай бұрын
@@MadScientist267 I'm talking about oxygen leftover after the combustion of the acetylene
@MadScientist267
10 ай бұрын
@@YounesLayachi Ok yeah any that is leftover either leaves the flame unused, or goes toward oxidizing whatever the work is, yes.
@RCReilly10 ай бұрын
I like how quickly this went from let’s burn some titanium to let’s burn down the government.
@ramblinghorse10 ай бұрын
As others have said, injecting the oxygen without holding the trigger would have many benefits. The main one being mentioned is the higher heat. I think that the most beneficial aspect of dialing in the oxygen mix with the valve is that without the violence of the oxygen stream molten titanium would most likely stay on the plate. This would give a better chance for critical mass to be achieved if indeed it can.
@no1noone34
8 ай бұрын
This is correct
@mountieseh10 ай бұрын
This episode was particularly unhinged and I'm here for it. Edit: I also found it a good mix of entertaining and informative. It's clear you're pissed at how badly recycling is "being done", so well done using your videos to spread awareness. I'm in New Zealand and had no idea about this REDcycle scandal until now, and I've long thought we're in the same situation where our "recycling" involves shipping it overseas and pretending we don't really know what's happening to it.
@JesusRaves10 ай бұрын
I haven't laughed this hard in weeks. Mate your tangent about recycling was top notch XD
@ericmueller850510 ай бұрын
Absolutely unhinged, one of the most enjoyable videos I've watched in a while.
@3089io10 ай бұрын
Your videos have been so inspiring to me in so many ways. Thank you.
@ExplosionsAndFire
10 ай бұрын
oh yo thank you! i did not know you could do this.......... but anyway i'm glad you like the videos, I hope to make many more of them in the future!!
@3089io
10 ай бұрын
@@ExplosionsAndFire I didn't either! I just hit the "thanks" button and it made a comment with it I guess. Lol. Yeah! I want to know more about your phd and the laser stuff, but maybe you don't want to cross the streams here to youtube or a wider audience would find it boring. Anyway, keep all yer digits and eyeballs! Cheers!
@valritz148910 ай бұрын
One of the most aggravating videos of all time was the one by I think Wendover that explained that plastic recycling is pretty much a myth in every single country, and companies that purport to recycle consumer plastics really just shipped them to first China, then Malaysia when China didn't want them anymore.
@YounesLayachi
10 ай бұрын
Climate Town did an excellent video on this topic
@reginaldcampos5762
10 ай бұрын
Yeah, and also cardboard food boxes cant be recycled because grease and oil makes it impossible. This is why countries dont recycle. It is a logistical problem. The only things worth recycling is glass and metals.
@jamesmnguyen
10 ай бұрын
@@reginaldcampos5762 If nothing changes, I'm fine with going back to glass bottles and metal cans for everything.
@reginaldcampos5762
10 ай бұрын
@@jamesmnguyen agreed, although aluminum (excuse my American english) cans have plastic inside to prevent the food from rusting it. There's practical applications for plastic, but we overuse it
@jamesmnguyen
10 ай бұрын
@@reginaldcampos5762 I'm fairly sure it's to prevent the metal from getting into the drink instead, but the same effect either way.
@laurenmp748610 ай бұрын
I clicked wanting to watch titanium burn, now I've got a physics paper to find and read.
@rikaboberts10 ай бұрын
Fantastic rant, your best work yet.
@mattiasfagerlund10 ай бұрын
Once you've got the titanium melting, turn of the gas and just keep the oxy running. That's an oxidizer too and it felt quite left out. In fact, that's actually how acetylene gas cutting torches work. Once the cutting starts, the oxygen alone is enough to sustain the cutting. Will it work for titanium though? Only you can show us!
@ragingwillie48310 ай бұрын
i am trying to wrap my mind around how you dont have more subscribers, definitely deserve many, many more. I, for one, am greatful for your channels existence, and appreciate you sharing your slightly twisted thought processes with all of us demented internet junkies. THANK YOU!
@ucomp110 ай бұрын
Reading through this mars nuclear explosion paper is wild. A lot of this goes over my head since I'm studying paleontology and not, well, this. But It's a very interesting paper, especially with the implication that these detonations were above mars surface. Might have to bring this paper up with some of my professors when I return to uni in a few days.
@Daughter0fTh3King
10 ай бұрын
Keep us updated!!
@JaenEngineering10 ай бұрын
I am absolutely shocked that they don't just refill the acetylene bottles like they do here in the UK. You can literally order it online, and when they drop off your full bottle they'll take the empty one away, refill it and so the cycle goes.
@762x54rr
10 ай бұрын
they do refill them however when they no longer pass inspection to refill they are having issues disposing of them
@MoraFermi
10 ай бұрын
These bottles have a lifespan. They can rust, they can crack, they can have the thread stripped out... There are plenty of reasons one might not be usable anymore.
@trollmcclure1884
10 ай бұрын
it's schizophrenia. Some countries are alcoholics, hoarding stuff etc
@marcogenovesi8570
10 ай бұрын
@@trollmcclure1884 and some countries are australia so it's all the above
@laserdollars2018
10 ай бұрын
It ain't empty unless there's a hole in it
@viggojira10 ай бұрын
I really enjoyed the previous metal fires episode and I’m very happy to see a sequel to it
@xerrofoot10 ай бұрын
@5:00 Oooh, pretty fireworks. Hell, titanium is probably an ingredient in all those NYE fireworks you see in major cities.
@tomektomek983610 ай бұрын
that SAAB 900 at 4:24 😍😍
@SkelaKing10 ай бұрын
Im sure thousands of people have commented this already but its worth trying to learn more about that oxy torch and getting a better neutral flame. based on the videos it looks pretty carburizing
@LoneHawk10 ай бұрын
You know it’s gonna be a good weekend when there’s a new explosions and fire video
@iansragingbileduct9 ай бұрын
The recurring nukes on mars joke + the recycling rant really puts this over the top 100/10
@justinbanks238010 ай бұрын
5:05 Tom discovers one of the ways modern fireworks create white spark effects 😆
@friedchickenUSA10 ай бұрын
yes!! there are both explosions AND fire mentioned in this video. and theyre all from tangents you went on. great job -liz
@nedshead590610 ай бұрын
Hey mate, good to see you're still making content, if I'm ever back over your way we'll have a beer, work and life got busy and I haven't done chem or been on SM for years!
@ExplosionsAndFire
10 ай бұрын
Hope you’re doing well mate!! The KNO3 that appears again in this video might be familiar to you… it is still helping me make videos after many years haha
@ExplosionsAndFire
10 ай бұрын
I remember you made a sort of arc furnace years ago. I still think about doing that occasionally
@nedshead5906
10 ай бұрын
@@ExplosionsAndFire Yeah it was great for high temp reactions like making calcium carbide, and turning rusted wheel nuts to liquid lol
@Add_Infinitum10 ай бұрын
I think this might be one of your funniest videos up there with fulminating metals
@theTaterSalad10 ай бұрын
This is the most entertaining video yet, keep up the great work!
@AlWaYsFrOmThEbAy10 ай бұрын
I've been saying that for a long time , it's good to hear you confirm what the voices in my head have been telling me
@diabmourani960110 ай бұрын
Looking at the flame colour at 4:40 you are using quite a bit if acetylene you end up adding carbon to the metal try to add more oxygen
@stephen329310 ай бұрын
Best science video I've seen in a while. Definitely earned a sub!
@penteractgaming10 ай бұрын
Ah Titanium. So satisfying to work with. My uncle was a machinist that worked with it and the alloy that he used was surprisingly easy to machine but was a fire hazard if the tool cutting surface wasnt kept cool. The bulk metal is very difficult to set on fire but high surface area to volume chunks of it like powder or chips can.
@belacickekl757910 ай бұрын
Funnily enough, I was just visiting Australia from the US, and was somewhat surprised by their more limited recycling options than what I expected
@KidneyFailureGaming10 ай бұрын
God I love the smell of burning titanium in the morning....
@breakinglegsandbreakinghea316710 ай бұрын
This is the kind of nervous breakdown content i subscribed for
@grakalockheart298010 ай бұрын
I'm always excited when you set things I consider not flammable, on fire.
@strategicbacon734910 ай бұрын
You managed to light titanium on fire, and the Australian government lit their plastics on fire. Win-Win for everyone except the environment. Awesome video as always
@emmp8396
10 ай бұрын
As said in his carbon tet video "The atmosphere is nature's bin."
@gtfkt
10 ай бұрын
The environment always wins, because time is an illusion.
@bigjay87510 ай бұрын
Excellent Tom, its good to see you taking on new skills 😊
@bigjay875
10 ай бұрын
Your technique could stand to improve a bit it makes a bit of difference to get things out of control but keep it up your getting there👍
@pezboy71510 ай бұрын
Ex&F: 6:26 Also Ex&F: “The atmosphere is not nature’s bin…. It’s just MY bin.”
@crondog10 ай бұрын
I work at a recycled paper mill and always tell people to stop putting plastic in the recycling because it's just going to end up getting thrown out by us instead.
@shafron110 ай бұрын
Nothing like another Explosions and Fire vid to start the weekend.
@Lux15810 ай бұрын
You know it is good when the torch burns on the wrong end :D
@texasslingleadsomtingwong8751
10 ай бұрын
😂
@SkylarKelly10 ай бұрын
I am highly regarded when it comes to chemistry but have loved your videos for years… this one is a stand out. 🎉
@johnmorrell318710 ай бұрын
I've never been so happy to see a video in my feed
@Amateur.Chemistry10 ай бұрын
I am now sure that Tom is going to start his own recycling plant soon, I just wonder how he will call it
@gwamhurt
10 ай бұрын
At Tom's Recycling we don't just burn your recycled plastics for no reason. We burn it FOR SCIENCE.
@ulrichs.3228
10 ай бұрын
Ex-Plastic and Tire?
@jessec467710 ай бұрын
I think you stayed on track damn near 20% of that video! Good job, buddy!
@robynxuxux623210 ай бұрын
I'd buy the "I am having fun" still frame as an art piece.
@calex00710 ай бұрын
Legitimately hilarious yet informative video
@Sebastian-hv7jz10 ай бұрын
Most hilarious episode yet. This is a fantastic comedy channel for chemists 👍
@maxattacks2510 ай бұрын
This really encapsulates modern life perfectly. You’re going about your day, maybe even having a good time, and then you learn. You just learn of all the fucked up things that governments/corporations are doing to our planet, maybe you get mad at it, and then just keep going on with your day. It seems like the solution to all of these problems is to either completely reinvent our modern way of life or for our life to not exist at all. But hey at least I can have pizza tonight 😝
@Xari.0410 ай бұрын
Holy crap this was unhinged even for a main channel video lmao, great video as always Tom
@kgpp22939 ай бұрын
Those tagents absolutely made my morning start off to a good day bud gave me some topics to rabbit hole myself into cheers 😂😂😂😂
@usedlamp110 ай бұрын
I’d love a slow mo guys collab
@ExplosionsAndFire
10 ай бұрын
They should lend me some cameras. I’m sane and can be trusted with hundreds of thousands of dollars of equipment
@mprojekt72
10 ай бұрын
@@ExplosionsAndFire You write that, yet "nukes on Mars."
@Kumquat_Lord10 ай бұрын
Watching Tom turn on the high-pressure oxygen flow BEFORE he heats the metal up sufficiently causes me pain...
Пікірлер: 2 200
"Evidence for Large Planetary Climate Altering Thermonuclear Explosions on Mars in the Past" - Read the full paper here if you uhhh really want to I guess: www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=125770
@gristCollector
10 ай бұрын
oh god it's a real article on a real journal
@Lazerspike
10 ай бұрын
I love you for bringing this up also funny how mars was known as the planet of war by ancient peoples, there's also some similar funny stuff with the van allen radiation belt if you look hard enough.
@douglasboyle6544
10 ай бұрын
Yes, yes I want to.
@1967sluggy
10 ай бұрын
After looking it up, apparently this guy has been on this stuff for close to a decade? Just randomly coming out with papers yelling that Martians had nukes. Fascinating.
@josephd.5524
10 ай бұрын
Some 500 million years ago, it says. That's, uh, about the time complex life set up shop here and went on to lose its mind. We really aren't likely to find any kind of artefacts from that far back either. Now that's a fun mystery.
Thank you for exposing the illegal nuclear weapon testing being conducted by Martians. Can't believe no one is talking about this Very Pressing Issue
@ExplosionsAndFire
10 ай бұрын
I agree, it is certainly One of the Issues
@shrimpnoodles9590
10 ай бұрын
Its truly terrible. Transplanetary nuclear arms race.
@peepopalaber
10 ай бұрын
@@shrimpnoodles9590 *transplanetary
@virutech32
10 ай бұрын
@@peepopalaber*interplanetary
@trollmcclure1884
10 ай бұрын
it was the best part.
This was amazing
@agaphmouesu
10 ай бұрын
Indeed
@Thefrontdoorscientist
10 ай бұрын
@@agaphmouesuI agree
@Icetastesgood
10 ай бұрын
so do I
@mastershooter64
10 ай бұрын
Now you have to burn tungsten to one up him
@Metal_Master_YT
10 ай бұрын
He probably could melt the tungsten in an argon atmosphere and if his flame was slightly reducing.
As a tradesman, thank you for acknowledging that it takes skill. That's all I wanted in life
@PhoenicopterusR
10 ай бұрын
Honestly, you'd have to hope the trades are full of skilled people considering what the industry as a whole encompasses. I'm sure as hell not trusting Jimmy from down the road just because he picked up a tool and said he could do it.
@evilotis01
10 ай бұрын
it absolutely does. i'm a writer, but i've spent years doing labouring etc as a second job when writing wasn't paying the bills, and the first thing you learn is that literally everything is harder than it looks. i love watching people w decades of experience lay bricks, plaster walls, etc-there's really something about seeing skill put to good use
@cobra6481
10 ай бұрын
As an industrial mechanic, I wholeheartedly agree. The amount of skill an apprentice has over the lay person makes a massive difference in quality.
@DrCranberry
9 ай бұрын
As a tradesman I kinda cringed at him using a lighter instead of a striker. For those who don't know, doing this risks the gasoline in the lighter reaching ignition temp and exploding it in your hand...
@PhoenicopterusR
9 ай бұрын
@@DrCranberry it isn't explosions and fire for nothing
I absolutely love that this is a grudge-based video. Tom couldn't let titanium get off so easily.
@partlycloudy7707
10 ай бұрын
Grudge based chemistry is very on Brand for Tom.
@Nick-rs5if
9 ай бұрын
Let's be honest though. Is there any more satisfying means of achieving fire than by igniting titanium out of spite? 😂
Thankyou for perfectly capturing the deranged state of recycling in Australia and the slowburning rage it fuels inside us all
@-bail-
10 ай бұрын
Unfortunately similar recycling shams exist in MOST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
@TerraCAD
10 ай бұрын
Yeah it's very similar here in Germany and it's so freaking annoying
@purplecat4977
10 ай бұрын
It's the same in the US, although people don't like to talk about it. There are a lot of incentives all around for everyone to go around pretending that plastic can be recycled. Less guilt, less pressure on manufacturers to use less plastic, etc.
@shawno8253
10 ай бұрын
The issue with plastic recycling is that only certain types of plastic can actually be recycled.
@tsawy6
10 ай бұрын
@@shawno8253 that's one of many issues with it. The big one for Australia is that our recyclables are very poorly sorted, making extracting value from them almost impossible.
im so excited by tom finally succeeding in something metal work shops put thousands of dollars into not happening
@deathlife2414
10 ай бұрын
Tom is a genius.
@DaftFader
10 ай бұрын
You're not talking about recycling right? >.
@deathlife2414
10 ай бұрын
@@DaftFader prime
I have been working as a machinist cutting Ti for a long time now. In 25 years I have witnessed two titanium fires and in both cases it was the chips(shavings) that caught fire. It is incredibly hard to extinguish, but as you've discovered equally hard to get started. I have seen many occasions where bars were glowing from friction but have never seen a solid piece burn.
@arnaudmenard5114
9 ай бұрын
alec steele even forged some of the stuff in the past, it only made a powdery sort of dross, but otherwise, uneventfull stuff while in bulk
@osirine2924
7 ай бұрын
Working on Ti Aerospace parts rn, I've only seen Ti dust catch fire on a fan in the polish area.
@cykkm
6 ай бұрын
@@osirine2924Try a regular old school medium file, not too rough, not too fine. You'll get the filings going in 30 seconds. When you least expect it, of course. They left pits on my steel bench in these 2-3 seconds they were burning. Just commented on it: kzread.info/dash/bejne/paFtpKiLgJyZj84.html&lc=UgwK3fgXa9bqysRdhpN4AaABAg Ti fine dust may not only catch fire, it may explode in higher concentration. Go to the polishing area as never as you only can, if they don't service the filters properly!
Dear KZread Algorithm, This is the content I'm looking for. More of this. Tom teaching us about chemistry while slowly losing his mind. And rants about the state of recycling. And explosions and fire - don't forget about those. Sincerely, Jezza.
A wise man once told me "the atmosphere is nature's bin"
@gfhrtshergheghegewgewgew1730
10 ай бұрын
that same man also huffs chlorine gas while trying to make s4n4 out of shitty jam jars with plastic tubes, so
@andreasthiemke9520
10 ай бұрын
@@gfhrtshergheghegewgewgew1730 truly on of the wisest people on earth
@bensmith4563
10 ай бұрын
@gfhrtshergheghegewgewgew1730 now that sounds like high quality entertainment
@SirFranex
10 ай бұрын
no, it was "just his bin"
The martians not recycling spent nuclear weapons is trully one of the issues of all time.
@SaltyAsTheSea
10 ай бұрын
@@IvanNedostalha nice 😂
@UJustGotGamed
10 ай бұрын
@@IvanNedostal did you comment this to divert your attention from the irrationality of your mother's love? (jk)
@Zaezar
10 ай бұрын
The Martians government sending spent nuclear warheads to the other side of Mars to be burned was a great shock to their culture when discovered.
@Mindawga
10 ай бұрын
@@UJustGotGamed He wanted to mooch off some free internet points. (jk)
@gtfkt
10 ай бұрын
What do you mean "the martians" ... right around the time they blew themselves into oblivion, life on earth pretty much boomed all of a sudden. We are the martians.
The “Martian nuclear explosions” papers are truly a real life cognitohazard.
This episode gives off big manifesto vibes and I'm here for it.
This was unhinged even for you, and I loved it!! Also that paper is fuckin wild. And ya recyling is totally a scam. Thing is, the burning it isn't the problem. That's actually a great way to get rid of it. The trouble is you need dedicated filtered incinerators, and to recapture the energy from the burning to use for power generation. And ideally, pump all the co2 that comes off it into algae farms or massive hydroponic installations. Then it's at least carbon neutral and we can keep using plastic. If all we used oil for was plastic, we'd basically never run out. But even if we just burnt it in a nice incinerator, if that was our only co2 output, there's enough algae/plants on earth to easily deal with that at the level of plastic that's used in the world.
@jackiesth
10 ай бұрын
Can you genetically engineer a martian and then blow it up with a nuke in your next video?
@markiangooley
10 ай бұрын
A lot of Europe’s waste plastic goes to Sweden to get incinerated in fairly sophisticated incinerators.
@jonathanseagraves8140
10 ай бұрын
While you are still fucking around with genetic engineering, I want no "responsibility" talk out of you.
@adrianpip2000
10 ай бұрын
Some countries actually manage to recycle quite a large percentage of their waste, though. Still not perfect, obviously, but pretty good
@jackroutledge352
10 ай бұрын
Landfill would still be better though. No toxins entering the atmosphere, all the co2 is captured.
I like how you really wanted to talk about nukes on Mars and the plastic recycling shenanigans so you made a video about burning titanium.
@SaltyAsTheSea
10 ай бұрын
I'd love if he just kept talking about random shit like this but all the while he's attempting to burn or blow something up 😂
@YounesLayachi
10 ай бұрын
"shenanigans" is giving it too much credits. It's a scam, plastic recycling basically doesn't exist
@Dankleberrrrg
10 ай бұрын
And he released the original burning titanium video to set the stage for this to not look like that
@Toleich
10 ай бұрын
*failing to burn Titanium
@nalgene247
10 ай бұрын
@@YounesLayachi fair enough
The third knob on the cutting torch, above the lever you're manipulating, is used to supply oxygen slowly. The lever is meant to use excess oxygen to blow the liquid metal out of the cut. Your flame could be more stoichiometric, which is I think hotter.
@xxxxxC4xxxxx
9 ай бұрын
It also comes out of a different hole. I don’t think he is using any O in the primary flame. But hey, it worked.
@GregBadabinski
9 ай бұрын
The lever is to make the flame super oxidizing, so it burns the metal out. Doesn't just blow it out, the oxygen is to make it spicy. You're correct though, a neutral flame would be hotter. A cutting torch is the wrong type to use for this imo. A welding torch with the right sized rosebud tip (can't be too big or it'll drain the acetylene bottle too fast) would be perfect for his purposes.
@mbburry4759
4 ай бұрын
@@xxxxxC4xxxxxit comes out of the same hole in the nozel... unless you're talking about seperate holes and valves in the actual torch body. But there's only on firey business hole
@matthewbeasley7765
Ай бұрын
I'm watching months later. It looks like he's only getting oxygen out the center hole and the knob on the cutting torch is closed. He was getting a high temperature but it is far from a cutting torch's potential.
@matthewbeasley7765
Ай бұрын
@@mbburry4759 With a cutting torch, there are periphery holes that are ejecting stochiometric oxyacetylene. Then the center jet is for high pressure oxygen only.
His videos accurately reflect what is going on in my head as someone with untreated ADHD, and I’m here for it lol
@DDDarray
8 ай бұрын
the sleep disorder gets diagnosed too late
@ToTheGAMES
5 ай бұрын
@@DDDarray sleep? i hardly knew her
@Pyron420
5 ай бұрын
I'm an american autist with an ADHD gf, I can't sleep or keep either of us on track but the martian-Australian nuclear recycling scandal makes me feel understood
@ludvig3242
5 ай бұрын
People always talk about ADHD this way. I have ADHD and I've never really related to this kind of thing or the "thoughts constantly rushing in your head". My ADHD is demonstrated by the fact that I'm extremely apathetic to things that I don't really enjoy doing, and anything that doesn't give short-term dopamine is incredibly tough to get the motivation to do. Impulse control is also a huge defiency.
@dsdy1205
2 ай бұрын
@@ludvig3242 that's because you've sustained so much shame / pressure from outside sources that you've punched through to the other side - burnout.
"..who's launching these nukes? ...there's nobody on Mars..." Well, not anymore.
@marcogenovesi8570
10 ай бұрын
the nuke fairy of course. It's the bigger sister of the tooth fairy
@johnpublic6582
10 ай бұрын
@@marcogenovesi8570 The nuke fairy leaves a shroud of cobalt thorium G around your planet for 93 years after taking the nuke from under your pillow.
@YounesLayachi
10 ай бұрын
1945 people were like "who's launching these nukes ? There are no nuke launchers in japan"
@YO-BIZZY
22 күн бұрын
@@YounesLayachi more like public before 1945: whats a nuke? everyone nowadays: NUKE NUKE NUKE NUKE
7:23 "People weren't really caring how much plastic they were buying" and that was the whole goal of recycling, to get consumers to stop caring.
@alexpotts6520
10 ай бұрын
This is unduly cynical. Of course when you solve a problem people stop caring about it, which is why people these days don't care about acid rain or smallpox or Y2K. To the extent that environmental action only takes place as a response to political or economic pressures, then that's the system working as intended. That's the *only* way anything ever happens in liberal democracies. (Of course, in this specific case, the government hadn't solved the problem at all, but for me the lesson to take away from this is "governments should not lie to their people, and regulatory structures should be put in place to increase their accountability"; not "recycling is bad".)
@CrittingOut
10 ай бұрын
@@alexpotts6520 recycling isn't bad but it was also made popular to hand wave all the negatives of using plastic for literally everything
@chris.pbacon2068
10 ай бұрын
@@alexpotts6520 evidently they didnt sole it, that wasnt goal. the goal was to get people to think that recycling worked so that consumers wouldnt care about the effects of their palstic use on the enviroment.
@CCNorse
10 ай бұрын
@@alexpotts6520 Recycling is fine, but it's only real for metal and glass and specific grades of paper. Giving the rubbish company all your plastic garbage in a special container is just obfuscation of the environmental cost of plastic packaging, which is important because plastic packaging is cheaper than metal, glass, etc. Certain plastic goods which are made of largish chunks of pure-ish feedstocks with minimal additives can be recycled, but that is a reasonably rare class of plastic packaging compared to what mostly fills our bins. An argument can be made that lightweight plastic packaging is better for the environment than recyclable tins and jars because of the reduced transport energy costs or reduced manufacture energy costs compared to legacy materials, but that is a prioritization of CO2 emissions controls over the idea of not turning the earth into a garbage dump, and also pretends that we can't do better when it comes to electricity generation for industrial use and transportation energy efficiency, reducing the moral imperative to progress in that regard.
@joshuaboniface
10 ай бұрын
It's because Recycling has become treated as the only "R". Everyone forgets about the first two: Reduce and Reuse. But those two hurt profits, so...
As a welder, I can tell you that the flame on that torch was so cold, so very cold
@fss1704
9 ай бұрын
Some damn high voltage has no temperature limit, should have tried that.
@CavemanZerron
9 ай бұрын
@fss1704 probably harder to get ahold of for him
@fss1704
9 ай бұрын
@@CavemanZerron Nope, a simple microwave oven transformer from the junkyard should do the trick, as a physicist he should have at least 3 already.
@crazy4chickens
9 ай бұрын
I believe what he was talking about is the fact that his oxygen to fuel mix was off not enough oxygen to balance out the amount of acetylene
@CavemanZerron
9 ай бұрын
@@crazy4chickens correct
1:25 I find it fucking halarious that he cited the sources to this tangent.
@Peterscraps
10 ай бұрын
4:15 I find it disturbing he slipped in this one
Well clearly you just need a stronger oxidizer. Maybe try layering thin sheets of magnesium and titanium into a cake of bad ideas, see what happens.
@joshmyer9
10 ай бұрын
Ah, yes, the delicate metal pastry, millefiamma.
@richardunruh4035
10 ай бұрын
I suggest Chlorine Trifluoride. Go big or go home. ;) 🌩+🔥+ 🍄 (why isn't there a mushroom cloud emoji!)
@Nathanielbaz
10 ай бұрын
maybe if he used an oxidising flame type instead of carburising lmfao
@kti5682
10 ай бұрын
I see a layered design, how did Russians call this, sloika?
@ataphelicopter5734
10 ай бұрын
Best fun is had by powdering your metal and mixing with the oxidiser ;)
"A lot of scientists arent very good with practical skills or like trade skills, and thats because doing a trade, unlike science, is actually difficult and requires some level of skill." - As a scientist, can confirm. We spend weeks planning an experiment, buy $1M equipment, have 12 meetings explaining what we are trying to do, then perform the experiment and it fails. Then we write a report of why it failed, spend more money, and if we are lucky it eventually works after a few months. Then we spend the next few months writing about the result, failing to replicate it, calling the vendor to repair the $1M machine we broke, and thats the quarter, done. Meanwhile I text my plumber at 6am and he's job done by 10.
@texasslingleadsomtingwong8751
10 ай бұрын
As a master plumber who absolutely is in love with the sciences , you warmed my heart tremendously. My all time favorite conversation have been with mechanical engineers , physicist, chemist , and biologists. Not so much with civil engineers. They don't count. I'm kidding , just poking fun at those poor folks . They are always shunned in scientific circles. 😂
@marcogenovesi8570
10 ай бұрын
@@texasslingleadsomtingwong8751 Civil engineers are basically the "nerds" of the engineering community, similar to neckbeards and IT people. Nobody knows why they exist until something goes wrong and then everyone is angry at them because they didn't prevent it
@thor1829
10 ай бұрын
@@texasslingleadsomtingwong8751 Can confirm that Civ Eng. are shunned, here in the Netherlands, Civil Engineers are jokingly called 'bicycle repairmen' :P
@herrbrahms
10 ай бұрын
This shit is why room temperature superconductors are still science fiction. (science fraud?)
@SocialDownclimber
10 ай бұрын
A plumber recently connected my cold tap to the hot water and my hot tap to the cold water. I'm not exactly impressed with their intelligence either.
I like the part where he says "it's staying-on-topic-time" and then he stayed on topic all over the place.
8:15 I love the slow descent into madness
"Titanium is a flammable metal." I think I now understand Tom's true intentions with his chemistry endeavours, to prove that anything is flammable, with enough gumption and stick-to-it-iveness.
@AlexHegedus-pb1iv
10 ай бұрын
why can't he just really go for it, Fluorine chemistry
@matthewmac5787
10 ай бұрын
@@AlexHegedus-pb1iv Fluorine is yellow and thus evil that should not be touched
@trollmcclure1884
10 ай бұрын
@@AlexHegedus-pb1iv no, no, brick of lard sealed in a tank of liquid oxygen
@alexrogers777
10 ай бұрын
Proving that everything can be flammable kinda really is his thing. New video idea: making flame retardants flammable
@ChronicSkooma
10 ай бұрын
He never lost the plot, its just thick as titanium.
I would like to thank Tom's reitnas for their sacrifice to make this extraordinary video. Now to journey down the Mars nuclear weapons rabbit hole...
I think if you spent more time tuning in the air fuel ratio you could have maybe gotten the tungsten to melt. the flame should get hot enough when its burned at the right air/fuel ratio. also, holding the lever dumps a bunch of excess oxygen down the center port of the torch and is making your flame colder than it has to be.
@fss1704
9 ай бұрын
Nah, should have used a microwave oven transformer, high voltage has no real temperature limit.
I use an OA torch like several times a week if not daily, everyone sucks at it the first time they pick it up. I’m just impressed you even got it burning somewhat correctly tbh.
my monthly dose of australian schizo content. keep up the great work
@mihael64
10 ай бұрын
yearly*
@YounesLayachi
10 ай бұрын
@@mihael64 *regularly
That poor torch. If only there was a website that had videos that could teach you how to use one
@peterolsen9131
10 ай бұрын
or if tom would watch a video on how to change the o-ring in the top of the first he tried! lol!
@qwopiretyu
10 ай бұрын
Dang it do be like that
@sativaburns6705
10 ай бұрын
Meh
@johnpublic6582
10 ай бұрын
It's more fun to mis-use the torch head valves and blow up the hoses and regulators. I mean, it's in the channel name...
@Walking_Death
10 ай бұрын
Flashback's a bitch... REAL explosion and fire
I love this kind of video. I love you for making it look like you're still shooting a barely edited oneshot in a shitshed with a shitcam and plastic spoons as labware all the while casting some really concerning and interesting infos like it's a joke and uploading moneyshots in 4k of slowmo of vaporizing titanium. This channel is so incredible, imma be sad when cubane is over, I was here. I hope you'll continue with the series in between self standing episodes.
Yeah, that dumpsite is something SPECTACULAR (and not just the Acetylene bottles...)... horrifying but also spectacular.
Nonono the plastic isn't just being burned, the energy within is being thermally recycled :D
@ExplosionsAndFire
10 ай бұрын
Carbon craves the atmosphere. Who are we to condemn it to eternity trapped in a polymer??
@kuro4841
10 ай бұрын
@@ExplosionsAndFire And as thanks they make us all feel warmer inside (and outside)!
@ryanregan5079
10 ай бұрын
@@ExplosionsAndFire One of the greatest truths ever told.
@ElxCriiO
10 ай бұрын
It might be viable to burn the plástic, get energy, capture the carbón, make carbón fiber/graphite materials, profit
@qwopiretyu
10 ай бұрын
@@ElxCriiO remove viable and profit from that equation and sure. Cleaning the planet isn't going to make anyone any money. It's a debt our grandparents took out that we have to pay.
Fun story about titanium melting: My dad worked for Kodak back in the 90's and one of the plants had a bad fire. He was there to help where he could and he came home with a chunk of titanium about an inch square with bubble cavities in it. It weighed a lot for what it was, apparently it had been a sheet of thin titanium that melted and then *boiled*. Still has it somewhere.
@Ryan-lc4bl
10 ай бұрын
Actually, titanium is quite light/low density compared to many metals (4.5g/cm³), so maybe it was just your impression.... But nonetheless still cool story !
@phimuskapsi
10 ай бұрын
@@Ryan-lc4bl yes I realize that, did you miss the part where it was an entire sheet of titanium melted into a one inch square? I guarantee you, it weighed more than you think it would when you hold it.
@Ryan-lc4bl
10 ай бұрын
@@phimuskapsi If it was a solid one square inch block, it doesn't matter how big of a sheet it was made from, it doesn't get more "compacted" than if It was just casted in a mold, the density doesn't change...
@Ryan-lc4bl
10 ай бұрын
It was probably bigger than a square inch..... 1 inch³ = 16.4cm³ Titanium density : 4.5g/cm³ × 16.4cm³ = 73.7g, or a little over two ounces... not that much weight. If there were air bubbles inside this "blob", the density might be even lower, so it might have felt lighter than if was solid all throughout .....
@phimuskapsi
10 ай бұрын
2oz is a LOT of weight for something that small.
I love how this channel went from explaining explosives to raging randomness. ❤
This has to be one of my favorite videos from you for a while, from the unhinged rants, to actual commentary on the state of recycling. Chefs kiss
This is one of the greatest videos you've made. Nukes on Mars and recycling conspiracies is exactly the kind of content I subscribed for
@sammygeez.
10 ай бұрын
If only the recycling stories were conspiracies, governments are just lazy and too cheap to recycle and it's the same almost everywhere.
Man this has turned from just Explosions & Fire into a Comedic Meme Madness Masterclass art project. I love it.
@tylerb6981
10 ай бұрын
Turned? I don't think this channel has ever NOT been a Meme Channel with Chemistry sprinkled in. That's why we love it.
@Xe4ro
10 ай бұрын
@@tylerb6981 True. It’s getting better and better. :)
I cannot put into words how much I love your videos, amazing chemistry, relatable tirades, always worth any wait.
love your vaguely chemistry related rants, Tom. I also love to see the continuation of your saga towards the synthesis of a certain hexahedral molecule.
That paper about the thermonuclear explosions on mars you referenced at the beginning of the video was very fascinating. Also existentially terrifying at the implications
@crazy4chickens
9 ай бұрын
My theory is that earth is the second planet humans have inhabited. We had to leave our home planet because we torched it. Our ancestors traveled to earth colonized it made fairly great strides and then faced cataclysm after cataclysm and we've lost the ancient knowledge of our origins which were supposed to be cautionary tales of developing technology for the wrong reasons because if we torch this planet we're gonna have a bad time
@rwall514
9 ай бұрын
It's amazing seeing a scientist go off the deep end in real time, isn't it? Like, he started with a natural nuclear reactor (Similar to the ones at Oklo on Earth) blowing up on Mars, and then he slowly morphed into this 'Aliens are REAL and coming for us' stuff.
I love the editing, you're absolutely hilarious man. I was busting a gut a lot this video, fantastic stuff.
This is some top tier content. Please never change. This whole video was amazing
2:39 "Doing a trade, unlike science, is actually difficult and requires some level of skill" --Explosion&Fire 2023
The eye protection for oxy is usually shade #3. For welding temperatures, you want shade #8.
@hascrack3783
10 ай бұрын
Typically for oxy acetylene schadenfreude 3 is for brazing and shade 5 is for cutting (burning). I have 2 pairs of shade glasses, and 3 is light enough to use as regular sun glasses. For welding (mig), it's usually shade 8-14.
@tylerb6981
10 ай бұрын
Fantastic autocomplete "typo" haha. Also, I have no idea how what you said was different from OP :P
@hascrack3783
10 ай бұрын
@@tylerb6981 shade 5 is what is best for oxy acetylene cutting. An important thing to keep in mind is the whole point of using different shade levels is to use the protection that is sufficient without making things so dark that you can't see what you are doing.
@Brent-jj6qi
10 ай бұрын
@@hascrack3783wait so with even the super bright welding techniques can you actually see what you’re doing? I just assumed that at some point it’s just about eye protection, because if you block all that light enough to be eye safe then it’s gonna be hard to see anything else
@noodlelynoodle.
10 ай бұрын
@@Brent-jj6qi I'm not sure how it is for welding but for glasswork where you can't see what you're doing cause of how bright yellow the flame gets once the glass is introduced cause of the sodium in it there are glasses that specifically block out that spectrum of light and you can see through the fire to what you're actually working on when to someone watching it's all hidden by bright yellow flame
8:27 growing into that mood over a few decades.....::pats you:: I know how you feel. Right there with ya. (your shit is hilarious! please keep creating you bring me and my family joy)
5:46 lmao I love this channel, thank you for continuing to upload
you need much more oxygen in that torch flame judging by the color
@mikemitchell9157
10 ай бұрын
Yeah thats a straight acetalyn flame
@comradesoupbeans4437
10 ай бұрын
Yeah, he seemed to be balancing it to an almost normal level _with the lever held down_ , which means that he's super far under iirc, since that's for blasting out material with an oxygen rich flame (at least from what I remember when I learned how to cut steel in highscool)
@papasauce234
10 ай бұрын
@@comradesoupbeans4437 you can do that and still get a very good flame, he just doesn't know what he's doing, the way to tweak it is you get the blue flame and have bright cones, then turn it down a tiny bit if needed, then you tweak the oxygen with the trigger pulled and you end up with a flame that's hot enough to preheat and cut metal and the oxygen is enough to blast out the metal and superheat metal that is harder to cut
@papasauce234
10 ай бұрын
he never even got it to having a blue flame or any cone/cones which is the issue
@comradesoupbeans4437
10 ай бұрын
@@papasauce234 yeah, it's been a hot minute since i learned all that and didn't put it into words very well (also assumed not seeing cones might have just been the camera washing out for some of it where the flame was closer to decent)
The gas axe is a scary yet fun tool. If you haven't already mastered it, light it, then turn the gas up until you have a nice "feathering" flame with very little to no smoke, THEN turn the oxygen on and adjust until it almost goes BANG! :P the flame shouldn't be yellow/orange, unless that is just how it looks on camera, it should be blue and white when correctly adjusted. VERY effective, the hardest part is not putting holes in or setting fire to anything accidentally... basically perfect for this channel
@MadScientist267
10 ай бұрын
Amateur. Get a hot standby flame, "tap it out" on your shoe, fill a styro cup with the now free flowing gas mix, restrike the torch and "brush" the cup. *THAT'S* worth posting a comment about.
@YounesLayachi
10 ай бұрын
Wouldn't the extra oxygen in the flame cause unwanted oxidation ?
@MadScientist267
10 ай бұрын
@@YounesLayachi The extra oxygen accelerates the combustion of the acetylene. The result is a hotter flame. When it is cutting metal and the "turbo" valve is open, the extra oxygen largely goes to oxidizing the molten metal in the flame, yes. This is useful because it creates even more local heat, helping the melt for making the cut. If that's not what you're referring to I don't know.
@YounesLayachi
10 ай бұрын
@@MadScientist267 I'm talking about oxygen leftover after the combustion of the acetylene
@MadScientist267
10 ай бұрын
@@YounesLayachi Ok yeah any that is leftover either leaves the flame unused, or goes toward oxidizing whatever the work is, yes.
I like how quickly this went from let’s burn some titanium to let’s burn down the government.
As others have said, injecting the oxygen without holding the trigger would have many benefits. The main one being mentioned is the higher heat. I think that the most beneficial aspect of dialing in the oxygen mix with the valve is that without the violence of the oxygen stream molten titanium would most likely stay on the plate. This would give a better chance for critical mass to be achieved if indeed it can.
@no1noone34
8 ай бұрын
This is correct
This episode was particularly unhinged and I'm here for it. Edit: I also found it a good mix of entertaining and informative. It's clear you're pissed at how badly recycling is "being done", so well done using your videos to spread awareness. I'm in New Zealand and had no idea about this REDcycle scandal until now, and I've long thought we're in the same situation where our "recycling" involves shipping it overseas and pretending we don't really know what's happening to it.
I haven't laughed this hard in weeks. Mate your tangent about recycling was top notch XD
Absolutely unhinged, one of the most enjoyable videos I've watched in a while.
Your videos have been so inspiring to me in so many ways. Thank you.
@ExplosionsAndFire
10 ай бұрын
oh yo thank you! i did not know you could do this.......... but anyway i'm glad you like the videos, I hope to make many more of them in the future!!
@3089io
10 ай бұрын
@@ExplosionsAndFire I didn't either! I just hit the "thanks" button and it made a comment with it I guess. Lol. Yeah! I want to know more about your phd and the laser stuff, but maybe you don't want to cross the streams here to youtube or a wider audience would find it boring. Anyway, keep all yer digits and eyeballs! Cheers!
One of the most aggravating videos of all time was the one by I think Wendover that explained that plastic recycling is pretty much a myth in every single country, and companies that purport to recycle consumer plastics really just shipped them to first China, then Malaysia when China didn't want them anymore.
@YounesLayachi
10 ай бұрын
Climate Town did an excellent video on this topic
@reginaldcampos5762
10 ай бұрын
Yeah, and also cardboard food boxes cant be recycled because grease and oil makes it impossible. This is why countries dont recycle. It is a logistical problem. The only things worth recycling is glass and metals.
@jamesmnguyen
10 ай бұрын
@@reginaldcampos5762 If nothing changes, I'm fine with going back to glass bottles and metal cans for everything.
@reginaldcampos5762
10 ай бұрын
@@jamesmnguyen agreed, although aluminum (excuse my American english) cans have plastic inside to prevent the food from rusting it. There's practical applications for plastic, but we overuse it
@jamesmnguyen
10 ай бұрын
@@reginaldcampos5762 I'm fairly sure it's to prevent the metal from getting into the drink instead, but the same effect either way.
I clicked wanting to watch titanium burn, now I've got a physics paper to find and read.
Fantastic rant, your best work yet.
Once you've got the titanium melting, turn of the gas and just keep the oxy running. That's an oxidizer too and it felt quite left out. In fact, that's actually how acetylene gas cutting torches work. Once the cutting starts, the oxygen alone is enough to sustain the cutting. Will it work for titanium though? Only you can show us!
i am trying to wrap my mind around how you dont have more subscribers, definitely deserve many, many more. I, for one, am greatful for your channels existence, and appreciate you sharing your slightly twisted thought processes with all of us demented internet junkies. THANK YOU!
Reading through this mars nuclear explosion paper is wild. A lot of this goes over my head since I'm studying paleontology and not, well, this. But It's a very interesting paper, especially with the implication that these detonations were above mars surface. Might have to bring this paper up with some of my professors when I return to uni in a few days.
@Daughter0fTh3King
10 ай бұрын
Keep us updated!!
I am absolutely shocked that they don't just refill the acetylene bottles like they do here in the UK. You can literally order it online, and when they drop off your full bottle they'll take the empty one away, refill it and so the cycle goes.
@762x54rr
10 ай бұрын
they do refill them however when they no longer pass inspection to refill they are having issues disposing of them
@MoraFermi
10 ай бұрын
These bottles have a lifespan. They can rust, they can crack, they can have the thread stripped out... There are plenty of reasons one might not be usable anymore.
@trollmcclure1884
10 ай бұрын
it's schizophrenia. Some countries are alcoholics, hoarding stuff etc
@marcogenovesi8570
10 ай бұрын
@@trollmcclure1884 and some countries are australia so it's all the above
@laserdollars2018
10 ай бұрын
It ain't empty unless there's a hole in it
I really enjoyed the previous metal fires episode and I’m very happy to see a sequel to it
@5:00 Oooh, pretty fireworks. Hell, titanium is probably an ingredient in all those NYE fireworks you see in major cities.
that SAAB 900 at 4:24 😍😍
Im sure thousands of people have commented this already but its worth trying to learn more about that oxy torch and getting a better neutral flame. based on the videos it looks pretty carburizing
You know it’s gonna be a good weekend when there’s a new explosions and fire video
The recurring nukes on mars joke + the recycling rant really puts this over the top 100/10
5:05 Tom discovers one of the ways modern fireworks create white spark effects 😆
yes!! there are both explosions AND fire mentioned in this video. and theyre all from tangents you went on. great job -liz
Hey mate, good to see you're still making content, if I'm ever back over your way we'll have a beer, work and life got busy and I haven't done chem or been on SM for years!
@ExplosionsAndFire
10 ай бұрын
Hope you’re doing well mate!! The KNO3 that appears again in this video might be familiar to you… it is still helping me make videos after many years haha
@ExplosionsAndFire
10 ай бұрын
I remember you made a sort of arc furnace years ago. I still think about doing that occasionally
@nedshead5906
10 ай бұрын
@@ExplosionsAndFire Yeah it was great for high temp reactions like making calcium carbide, and turning rusted wheel nuts to liquid lol
I think this might be one of your funniest videos up there with fulminating metals
This is the most entertaining video yet, keep up the great work!
I've been saying that for a long time , it's good to hear you confirm what the voices in my head have been telling me
Looking at the flame colour at 4:40 you are using quite a bit if acetylene you end up adding carbon to the metal try to add more oxygen
Best science video I've seen in a while. Definitely earned a sub!
Ah Titanium. So satisfying to work with. My uncle was a machinist that worked with it and the alloy that he used was surprisingly easy to machine but was a fire hazard if the tool cutting surface wasnt kept cool. The bulk metal is very difficult to set on fire but high surface area to volume chunks of it like powder or chips can.
Funnily enough, I was just visiting Australia from the US, and was somewhat surprised by their more limited recycling options than what I expected
God I love the smell of burning titanium in the morning....
This is the kind of nervous breakdown content i subscribed for
I'm always excited when you set things I consider not flammable, on fire.
You managed to light titanium on fire, and the Australian government lit their plastics on fire. Win-Win for everyone except the environment. Awesome video as always
@emmp8396
10 ай бұрын
As said in his carbon tet video "The atmosphere is nature's bin."
@gtfkt
10 ай бұрын
The environment always wins, because time is an illusion.
Excellent Tom, its good to see you taking on new skills 😊
@bigjay875
10 ай бұрын
Your technique could stand to improve a bit it makes a bit of difference to get things out of control but keep it up your getting there👍
Ex&F: 6:26 Also Ex&F: “The atmosphere is not nature’s bin…. It’s just MY bin.”
I work at a recycled paper mill and always tell people to stop putting plastic in the recycling because it's just going to end up getting thrown out by us instead.
Nothing like another Explosions and Fire vid to start the weekend.
You know it is good when the torch burns on the wrong end :D
@texasslingleadsomtingwong8751
10 ай бұрын
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I am highly regarded when it comes to chemistry but have loved your videos for years… this one is a stand out. 🎉
I've never been so happy to see a video in my feed
I am now sure that Tom is going to start his own recycling plant soon, I just wonder how he will call it
@gwamhurt
10 ай бұрын
At Tom's Recycling we don't just burn your recycled plastics for no reason. We burn it FOR SCIENCE.
@ulrichs.3228
10 ай бұрын
Ex-Plastic and Tire?
I think you stayed on track damn near 20% of that video! Good job, buddy!
I'd buy the "I am having fun" still frame as an art piece.
Legitimately hilarious yet informative video
Most hilarious episode yet. This is a fantastic comedy channel for chemists 👍
This really encapsulates modern life perfectly. You’re going about your day, maybe even having a good time, and then you learn. You just learn of all the fucked up things that governments/corporations are doing to our planet, maybe you get mad at it, and then just keep going on with your day. It seems like the solution to all of these problems is to either completely reinvent our modern way of life or for our life to not exist at all. But hey at least I can have pizza tonight 😝
Holy crap this was unhinged even for a main channel video lmao, great video as always Tom
Those tagents absolutely made my morning start off to a good day bud gave me some topics to rabbit hole myself into cheers 😂😂😂😂
I’d love a slow mo guys collab
@ExplosionsAndFire
10 ай бұрын
They should lend me some cameras. I’m sane and can be trusted with hundreds of thousands of dollars of equipment
@mprojekt72
10 ай бұрын
@@ExplosionsAndFire You write that, yet "nukes on Mars."
Watching Tom turn on the high-pressure oxygen flow BEFORE he heats the metal up sufficiently causes me pain...