I recall as a kid making fly killers with this - mixing it with a bit of sugar, and spreading it on a little square piece of paper. When it dried, a fly attracted to the sugar would blow himself up. Much more entertaining than flyswatters.

@isabellebenavides854

3 жыл бұрын

I'm gonna try this

@jane7381

3 жыл бұрын

So evil

@aksiiska9470

3 жыл бұрын

usually flies are caught with glue. who wants to be a suspect

@MadScientist267

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@kirkjohnson6638

Жыл бұрын

I love this idea. I'm going to have to try it.

The slow motion is really good at telling how bad we are at reacting to explosions.

@elephystry

6 жыл бұрын

TJ Suydam Thanks, Obama!

@WanderingDad

6 жыл бұрын

Evolution never had much chance to select for proper explosion reflex. You need survivors for that.

@needlesinmyeyes7272

4 жыл бұрын

@@elephystry 😁

@acrow5

3 жыл бұрын

It looked like he tried to dab when it went off.

@seanbreheny9777

2 жыл бұрын

@@WanderingDad You'd need much faster nerve conduction for that. Even in our fastest nerve cells, signals only travel at about 100 meters per second and for a response to sound, the signal has to get from the brain to the muscles of your hips at least, so we're talking about an absolute best response time of something like 10 milliseconds, which is far too slow to deal with an explosion.

The anarchist's cookbook says: _The reason for its popularity may be the ready availability of the ingredients, but it is so sensitive to friction that _*_a fly landing on it, has been known to detonate it._*_ The recipe has only been included as a warning and as a curiosity. _*_It should not be used_*_._

@pinkmagicali

3 жыл бұрын

I always wanted to read that book for curiosities sake but was always afraid to search it and end up on a government watch list. LOL.

@aethelwolfe3539

3 жыл бұрын

Most of the stuff in the book doesn’t really work because the authors never bothered to test the stuff.

@MadScientist267

2 жыл бұрын

There's also an entire thing about "bananadine"... Read the writeup first, then Google it 🤣

Safety glasses underneath a safety visor. He's taking no chances.

@scottmantooth8785

3 жыл бұрын

*would you?*

@aethelwolfe3539

3 жыл бұрын

I would wear a composite ceramic and Kevlar plate too,

prettiest explosion ever... what a lovely purple!

My chemistry teacher in the late 60s used to spread this (in tiny amounts) on the floor of the chemistry lab and let it dry for when the cleaners came in. Inspired by this, a friend who in later life was an industrial chemist put a tiny amount under his doormat for when I arrived. Unfortunately, his ancient dog went in first and had a heart attack and died when it went off. It isn't actually pure NI3 he's made, but NI3.NH3. Still works the same, though.

@PaulMontgomery1492

8 жыл бұрын

+King Curry I opted to be my high schools chemistry teachers assistant for two years instead of study hall. Back then we had a wonderfully well stocked lab. We used to try out all kinds of bangs. The NI3 he mixed in the video wasn't fully dry and only partially went off. I used to make batches and put little dots on blotter paper around in the window sills to kill flies with. During class one or two would explode leaving little fly parts and scaring the students. Mixing red phosphorus with potassium chlorate wetted with acetone and letting that dry worked much better for putting small blobs on the floor. We did that too on the stairs before a class change and laughed when kids would set them off. You would loose your job and go to jail now days. Sad.

@imapopo2924

5 жыл бұрын

A science teacher that retired at the end of my sophmore year used to mix up a batch of something similar (never found out exact compound as I was never able to.see it myself) and spread it in very small.amounts across the hallway where all of the science classes were. It apparently turned the entire hallway into a very noisy minefield that took.about two months to finally detonate all of it. My AP chemistry teacher and I were going to try to do.it again during my senior year, but we unfortunately never had the opportunity to. I really wanted to see that, too...

@joenodden

5 жыл бұрын

Well that got depressing very quick.

@MadScientist267

2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha I was just gonna say... Old lab gag 🤣

One of my minor claims to fame as a schoolboy was putting a small portion of this while still liquid under the tip of a billiard cue, where it screws into the cue. The night before a pool tournament.

I did the same thing in high school but sprinkled it in the halls at lunch. The fire department was called and the school evacuated and I got called to the office and was threatened to be expelled. The vice principal though it was funny and said it was what the school needed to get some school spirit going.

@damreeds2360

2 ай бұрын

Me when I lie

High quality sound High quality music High quality subjects i love it :)

Even more exciting is to use a 405nm "UV" laser (which can be seen as visible blue) to set it off as the photon energy is sufficiently high to star the reaction. A red laser won't do it as the photon energy is too low.

When I was 14 years old, we used this as a propellant. Tricky to do, but a very powerful and brisant explosive, but we got it to work. It’s about 3x more powerful than gunpowder, but about 0.2 times as powerful as RDX. Bearing in mind, I was only a school kid at the time, but we think our calculations were about right., so please don’t criticise my maths - I was only 14!

very nice demo, thanks!

This was fun to watch.

WIll a more concentrated ammonia create a stronger detonation?..or will its be of the same strength as using regular conc. store bought ammonia?

Does the reaction happen in a closed or open system

How much of nitrogene triiodine was used in this reaction?

also a way of storing cold neutrons readily available as it phase state changes?

We made this in high school and painted it on door knobs. One drawback.....it's shelf life of only a few days in the mother liquid before it self detonates.

That's probably the prettiest explosion I've ever seen.

10/10 cool looking fireworks!

this'd be a very useful liquid to carry around and lay in lines around places as traps. Maybe there could be some chemical way to create a quicker drying solution so you could throw sealed containers of the stuff and they'd act as non igniting explosives.

What is the bacvround song in the video? Its sooo calming.

Why can't all explosions be that cute? Also, pink/purple fire would be awesome :o

I ordered iodine crystals this morning, and I already have a big bottle of ammonia 😁 I can't wait! I feel ten years old again 😋

Is this compound used anywhere?

Very nice

That you made so much makes me think you've never done it before..

very good

I'm up. Travis stopped by

Very pretty.

Wow that's a huge yield. 😳

I'm 59 and I still play with it.

@scottmantooth8785

3 жыл бұрын

*everyone needs a hobby*

What are the chemicals? For educational purposes of course I wouldn’t want to mix them on accident

what does the force change the makes in explode?, pressure, i guess, but that makes chemical changes happen? idk

@bestimmusmucho

7 жыл бұрын

NI3 as a molecule has a lot of steric strain meaning that the N-I bond is very weak with a low decomposition energy barrier (also due to the crystal structure of NI3.NH3). Also the N-I bond is very polar due to N being a lot more electronegative than I (this makes the bond even weaker and more reactive). The decomposition of NI3 --> N2 + I2 is accompanied by a huge increase in entropy due to the high stability of the reaction products (N2 and I2). This drives the reaction forward. Also the reaction is highly exothermic due to the bond energies of the products relative to the reactants. This means that when a small force is applied, the energy that is in turn supplied (use work done formula) is enough to overcome the decomposition barrier and start the reaction. The reaction is strongly driven the large increase in entropy. The reaction happens very fast and is very exothermic meaning a lot of energy is released. Then BOOM, you have your explosion :D

At least it would disinfect your wounds after you touched it.

@jamesfredrick612

Жыл бұрын

*blows hand up* it's okay, at least it won't get infected. 😂

That purple smoke plume at the thumbnail looks like Great Britain!

Just be careful not to breath in any of the purple fumes. Iodine sublimates, that is it goes from solid to gas and back to solid without a liquid phase. Breathe it in and you'll have solid iodine in your lungs. Probably not a good idea.

I made this in chemistry class a long time ago (along with other things) it’s very messy

Cool!

Explosions and gunshots: Heard it? Means youre alive

I wonder how much of a "chunk" of the substance before it would go off under its own weight?

@MadScientist267

2 жыл бұрын

Not much lol

OMG I think this was in a Nancy Drew book when I was a kid. They never said what it was but I did always wonder. Wow this is not what I pictured.

What do they do with the iodine cloud?

@57thorns

4 жыл бұрын

Vent it out most likely. Gas reclamation is hard.

in high school I made some nitrogen triodide and spread the crystals in front of the grinders in the electric shop. When they dried and anyone approached the grinders it sounded like electricity and the teacher shut the electricity off. He knew who was responsible because I couldn't stop laughing. I was sent to the office

Wah.. Dangerous.. But it's beautiful !!

2:23 Cody makes an appearance?

It actually has a melting point, the mlt point is so close to the boiling point that it looks like its sublimating

do they use this chemical on those small pebbles you can throw down and they make bang?

@HTIDCam

9 жыл бұрын

urmo345 no thats silver fulminate and sand. this stuff is so volatile that it would be impossible to transport safely, let alone give to a child to play with

@EOD_90

8 жыл бұрын

The chemical for the TNT popits is silver azide. Similar to the sodium azide Or potassium azide in air bags.

Ahh beautiful, I love iodine

I wonder -- my being a know-nothing in Chemistry, -- how would fulminate of mercury compare -- and would it react to compression or concussion similarly? I don't know. I want to learn!

@davidcrawford9407

7 жыл бұрын

I am fairly certain mercury fulminate is less likely to explode at the slightest touch but I do believe whacking it with a stick might set it off.

@Bartimayus

7 жыл бұрын

Google is your friend. They did this on mythbusters. www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/breaking-bad-special-mercury-fulminate/

@deep6483

Жыл бұрын

I've been told it's almost as bad

Better than just yelling "SMOKE BOMB!" and running away.

This is nitrogen triiodide?

It is reported that alpha radiation can trigger the explosion. Are you able to try it?

It's really beautiful; but then, isn't everything?

ich habe mal in einem Labor "NaN3" gelesen, das schein auch instabil zu sein

cool music :D

No fume hood? No respirators? And an audience. Recipe for some irradiated eyes right there my guy

@larryscott3982

2 жыл бұрын

Crew, students. Lots in explosions in university chem labs.

is this the same as TI3

@emilcarr7190

8 жыл бұрын

No, I believe it is NI3

Just imagine if one day they find a way to make it stable to move and transport. Such a small amount can make such a fierce detonation but imagine storing it in large amounts, maybe a tonne. That would be DEVESTATING.

@chopinbloc

9 жыл бұрын

Nunov Yurbiznez Or composition B, Semtex, C4, TNT, ANFO, etc.

@kevinpham8693

8 жыл бұрын

the paste solution in a pressurized container?

Is this the same formula known as "Peter Logan's Exploding Paste"?

@sideshowkazstuff3867

5 жыл бұрын

ChrisK42 I think it is I remember little pink puffs of smoke.

Now we know whats exploding in farcry 4.

Put that into a bismuth shell like a paintball and voila! Ninja Smoke Pellet!

0:42 a real page turner.

That go off in your pocket (or even before you get it anywhere near a paintball in the first place)

I resisted the temptation.

Has the stuff ever been transported or every time its used its made on the spot

@natecaraway2000

10 жыл бұрын

True going over a small bump on a road or some turbulance on a plane will create a massive purple cloud

@brandontw01

10 жыл бұрын

Nate Caraway You can get it wet.

@natecaraway2000

10 жыл бұрын

The force of the water hitting it would probably set it off

@brandontw01

10 жыл бұрын

...Maybe... :P

@gordonlawrence3537

9 жыл бұрын

It makes nitroglycerine look stable and benign so nope you cant transport it. I wouldnt reccomend juggling with nitro either. Unless of course you do it close to a nastly little tit of a dictator in which case certain western governments might supply you some.

Indeed

also I thought the I vapor is toxic

@emilcarr7190

8 жыл бұрын

It is

@letsboom1415

7 жыл бұрын

Emil Carr a little bit

@v2talk

6 жыл бұрын

any substance can be toxic depends on dosage which can vary

I made some of this stuff in class and my professor was like "i don't think it worked...oh well" in the middle of our reading time-BAMBNANGABMNG

Holy shit, my vid looks like an ant's fart compared to this. I wouldn't dare to do this in that amount. Awesome!

Nitrogen triiodide?

I leant this in my chemistry class many years ago. Got suspended for putting it in the teachers staff room on the kettle, taps, tables and chairs. They could not take a fucking joke.

He sounds kinda like Professor Snape

@sinisternightcore3489

9 жыл бұрын

pi=3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211 * pi

relevant.. oddly

pi 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128481117450284102701938521105559644622948954930381964428810975665933446128475648233786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273724587006606315588174881520920962829254091715364367892590360011330530548820466521384146951941511609433057270365759591953092186117381932611793105118548074462379962749567351885752724891227938183011949129833673362440656643086021394946395224737190702179860943702770539217176293176752384674818467669405132000568127145263560827785771342757789609173637178721468440901224953430146549585371050792279689258923542019956112129021960864034418159813629774771309960518707211349999998372978049951059731732816096318595024459455346908302642522308253344685035261931188171010003137838752886587533208381420617177669147303598253490428755468731159562863882353787593751957781857780532171226806613001927876611195909216420198938095257201065485863278865936153381827968230301952035301852968995773622599413891249721775283479131515574857242454150695950829533116861727855889075098381754637464939319255060400927701671139009848824012858361603563707660104710181942955596198946767837449448255379774726847104047534646208046684259069491293313677028989152104752162056966024058038150193511253382430035587640247496473263914199272604269922796782354781636009341721641219924586315030286182974555706749838505494588586926995690927210797509302955321165344987202755960236480665499119881834797753566369807426542527862551818417574672890977772793800081647060016145249192173217214772350141441973568548161361157352552133475741849468438523323907394143334547762416862518983569485562099219222184272550254256887671790494601653466804988627232791786085784383827967976681454100953883786360950680064225125205117392984896084128488626945604241965285022210661186306744278622039194945047123713786960956364371917287467764657573962413890865832645995813390478027590099465764078951269468398352595709825822620522489407726719478268482601476990902640136394437455305068203496252451749399651431429809190659250937221696461515709858387410597885959772975498930161753928468138268683868942774155991855925245953959431049972524680845987273644695848653836736222626099124608051243884390451244136549762780797715691435997700129616089441694868555848406353422072225828488648158456028506016842739452267467678895252138522549954666727823986456596116354886230577456498035593634568174324112515076069479451096596094025228879710893145669136867228748940560101503308617928680920874760917824938589009714909675985261365549781893129784821682998948722658804857564014270477555132379641451523746234364542858444795265867821051141354735739523113427166102135969536231442952484937187110145765403590279934403742007310578539062198387447808478489683321445713868751943506430218453191048481005370614680674919278191197939952061419663428754440643745123718192179998391015919561814675142691239748940907186494231961567945208095146550225231603881930142093762137855956638937787083039069792077346722182562599661501421503068038447734549202605414665925201497442850732518666002132434088190710486331734649651453905796268561005508106658796998163574736384052571459102897064140110971206280439039759515677157700420337869936007230558763176359421873125147120532928191826186125867321579198414848829164470609575270695722091756711672291098169091528017350671274858322287183520935396572512108357915136988209144421006751033467110314126711136990865851639831501970165151168517143765761835155650884909989859982387345528331635507647918535893226185489632132933089857064204675259070915481416549859461637180270981994309924488957571282890592323326097299712084433573265489382391193259746366730583604142813883032038249037589852437441702913276561809377344403070746921120191302033038019762110110044929321516084244485963766983895228684783123552658213144957685726243344189303968642624341077322697802807318915441101044682325271620105265227211166039666557309254711055785376346682065310989652691862056476931257058635662018558100729360659876486117910453348850346113657686753249441668039626579787718556084552965412665408530614344431858676975145661406800700237877659134401712749470420562230538994561314071127000407854733269939081454664645880797270826683063432858785698305235808933065757406795457163775254202114955761581400250126228594130216471550979259230990796547376125517656751357517829666454779174501129961489030463994713296210734043751895735961458901938971311179042978285647503203198691514028708085990480109412147221317947647772622414254854540332157185306142288137585043063321751829798662237172159160771669254748738986654949450114654062843366393790039769265672146385306736096571209180763832716641627488880078692560290228472104031721186082041900042296617119637792133757511495950156604963186294726547364252308177036751590673502350728354056704038674351362222477158915049530984448933309634087807693259939780541934144737744184263129860809988868741326047 Copy And Paste Boi!

@scottmantooth8785

3 жыл бұрын

*that's easy for you to say*

And i thought TATP was sensitive...

we used to inject it into keyholes.

@AndrewMooreJ

Жыл бұрын

Can it go through a syringe? Just the light powder in the ammonia and then be in a keyhole? That works?

hey jack wanna play catch with this powdery pink ball i found? sure! Breaking news! a little boy's hand was blown off by a pink ball when it spontaneously exploded on contact!

@old-bitprogaming4857

7 жыл бұрын

Maxximus the slavaboo lol what a Chem noob

Causes small explosion with heavy duty front only facing mask on. Looks away.

Exactly 16,000 views

2:56

i know what my next project will be...

IS THIS PETER LOGAN'S EXPOLODING PASTE????

NI3-nitrogen triiodide

2:45 Looks like Britain

Made it in college. Only works with iodine crystals and ammonia solution. Harassed a roommate.

Nitrogen trioxide

Hmm, imagine smearing some on toilet seats for April Fools

@Yllivan100

7 жыл бұрын

that could kill someone

@waldomouserd2830

7 жыл бұрын

Natsu Moe it just a prank bro

@thecannibal3734

7 жыл бұрын

filling a chocolate with this is a much better idea xD

@mayaenglish5424

5 жыл бұрын

@@thecannibal3734 again, murder.

@kirkjohnson6638

Жыл бұрын

Just paint some on the rubber bumpers between the seat and the bowl.

This dude just blows up a bunch of iodine no mask

Aqui muestran la síntesis kzread.info/dron/-cZj9lcWcAOUW2mGXp13nA.html

While playing with NI3 while in high school, blew out the windows in my room just after I left. Dangerous. Don't mess with it.

"Ok, something doesn't make sense to me. If iodine spontaneously reacts with ammonia to become NI3, and NI3 spontaneously decomposes to nitrogen and iodine and releases energy - and I know that nitrogen and hydrogen release energy when they are combined to form ammonia, though they need a platinum catalyst, but this makes no thermodynamic sense, for them all to happen spontaneously and release energy. What's the deal here? What are the conditions under which ammonia and iodine form NI3?" The conditions are simple. Soak iodine crystals in an ammonia solution, and then evaporate the solution. There's your NI3. Not difficult.

@amosbackstrom5366

10 жыл бұрын

The energy is stored in the ammonia, The Haber process is highly endothermic, and thus absorbs energy, and it is all released when the N2 bond is made.

@FortisCaelis

9 жыл бұрын

Thermodynamically, production of NI3 is spontaneous because the electronegative iodine will shove the hydrogen off the nitrogen in ammonia to get to the electrons -- they first attack the unshared pair of electrons that the nitrogen is sporting. The explosive potential is in the N-I bond strain. It is a pyramidal structure with N on top and the 3 iodines forming the base. But the iodines have twice the atomic radius of the nitrogen -- they are crowded and try to spread up and out. But the unshared pair of electrons on the very top of the nitrogen is repulsing the iodines with their huge electron shells. When it is in solution, the dipole moments of the water molecules will dampen that electrical repulsion, but when it dries out and the water isn't there...

@v2talk

6 жыл бұрын

Ammonia needs energy to make, the reaction of nitrogen with hydrogen requires high pressure and temperature - google haber process

unicorn farts????????

Ny science teacher is doing this

If only Iodine and Ammonia weren't controlled substances... for science of course ;)

@Kirbyofdeath

8 жыл бұрын

+Isolatedlemon But... They aren't. Is this some joke I'm not getting?

@bestimmusmucho

7 жыл бұрын

lol

Chemist really need to get better detonators instead of just whacking things with hammers that go boom.

There may be no industrial use. But here is a civilian use. Paint back corner of car so when cop puts his hand there BOOM, no more ticket since no more hand to write it.

*breathe

Now do chlorine azide.

@wasmic5z

9 жыл бұрын

Are you crazy, or did you read the "things I won't work with" blog?

@PSIponies

9 жыл бұрын

wasmic5z It was partially a joke, partially that I love chemistry way too much, and partially that I like things that explode.

@wasmic5z

9 жыл бұрын

***** I feel the same way :p

@JerryGiesler09

9 жыл бұрын

I have a safer, but equally dangerous idea: Silver Acetylide or Silver Fulminate. ;)

this is what happens just after a fairy is born!