Energetic Polymers and PVN - Explosions&Fire

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  • čas přidán 15. 06. 2024
  • In this video we ask why energetic compounds aren't often polymers, and also almonds. We also make some polyvinyl nitrate and compare it to 'the chad of the energetics world'.
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    A few new faces in the list and that's always real heartwarming to see!
    Ok so what are descriptions good for? That's right, bonus content. Because if you made it this far, you deserve to be rewarded. And by rewarded I mean... disappointed.
    This bonus content will help to answer what I perceive as the most important questions you will have after watching this video.
    Q) How long did you stare in regret at the experiment you ruined?
    A) A while. • staring in regret at t...
    Q) Hey, so you poured some potassium chlorate into a cardboard tube, some of it ignited but the rest of it did not.
    A) That's actually more of a comment, but yes, I did blowtorch the ever-living h*ck out of that tube until the chlorate took off, because of s*fety • torching a cardboard t...
    Q) How much of your free time on a weekend did you spend blow torching an almond that you could have just ate?
    A) The perfect amount. • me watching an almond ...
    I actually bought that bag of almonds specifically to film that shot without any justification and they were more expensive than any of the reagents in this video. They are delicious but they goddamn keep getting stuck in my braces and my only revenge is with a blowtorch (like any rational man).
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Komentáře • 828

  • @rockybond42
    @rockybond42 Před 4 lety +2350

    this channel combines the two loves of my life: shitposting and chemistry

  • @mattsonn
    @mattsonn Před 4 lety +1863

    You’re definitely a chaotic neutral Nile red

  • @Lemon9234
    @Lemon9234 Před 4 lety +730

    “Cellulose doesn’t just grow on trees, trees grow on cellulose”
    Brilliant

    • @heavystalin2419
      @heavystalin2419 Před rokem +4

      If a tree grows on another tree, however...

    • @dsdy1205
      @dsdy1205 Před rokem +10

      @@heavystalin2419 that's grafting

    • @AgentTasmania
      @AgentTasmania Před 6 měsíci +1

      And lignin, that's important

  • @koekie7003
    @koekie7003 Před 4 lety +1262

    you chould rename your channel to exponential gas expansion&warmth for monetisation

    • @godfreypoon5148
      @godfreypoon5148 Před 4 lety +87

      nitrogen molestation means nope for monetisation

    • @thecityshanker8913
      @thecityshanker8913 Před 4 lety +7

      Koekie C0nTr0L it wouldn’t matter he swears too much for CZcams to consider it

    • @jerrypie2792
      @jerrypie2792 Před 4 lety +9

      Exponential gas expansion and warmth sounds like a thread you would find on /d/

    • @yannyy5216
      @yannyy5216 Před 3 lety +1

      @@jerrypie2792 Late to the party but here's your (you), you deserve this.

    • @d3vitron779
      @d3vitron779 Před 3 lety

      @@yannyy5216 sage

  • @tvela595
    @tvela595 Před 4 lety +561

    Disclaimer: dont actually throw the sulfuric acid out the window

    • @victorselve8349
      @victorselve8349 Před 4 lety +27

      Through it in you lab partners face since it had no business being under the fume anyway.

    • @rubywest5166
      @rubywest5166 Před rokem +10

      Depends who’s outside at the time

    • @FleshWizard69420
      @FleshWizard69420 Před rokem +12

      What if I want to permanently mow my lawn?

    • @vincedibona4687
      @vincedibona4687 Před měsícem +1

      Throw it in the ocean. Nature’s bin!

  • @chemistryscuriosities
    @chemistryscuriosities Před 5 lety +372

    Glad to see you getting back into the energetic side of chemistry again.

    • @ExplosionsAndFire
      @ExplosionsAndFire  Před 5 lety +127

      I never leave energetics! They're too good. It just takes me forever to make a clip about them

    • @nehorlavazapalka
      @nehorlavazapalka Před 5 lety +8

      make HMX or some other high perf explosive like TKX-50 or TENGU, none of these require extreme procedures

    • @blockstacker5614
      @blockstacker5614 Před 4 lety +9

      @@ExplosionsAndFire ive read that it is possible to dissolve nitrocellulose in nitroglycerin for even more kaboom

    • @vilheimtheunsinkable9646
      @vilheimtheunsinkable9646 Před 3 lety +6

      @@blockstacker5614 Well that doesn't sound irresponsible at all.

    • @blockstacker5614
      @blockstacker5614 Před 3 lety +4

      Well it is supposedly harder to set off than pure nitroglycerin im pretty sure

  • @pyrothefirst
    @pyrothefirst Před 3 lety +73

    as a fireworks manufacturer, i really enjoy your shows :) if you ever want to make things go bang, im fully licensed in victoria :)

  • @edassrd4961
    @edassrd4961 Před 4 lety +313

    *spills a bit of vodka and lights it up on fire as a 10 years old child*
    *I also dabled in chemistry*

    • @sorbazorb5g692
      @sorbazorb5g692 Před 4 lety +7

      Edas Sereda true fucking Slav

    • @MmeHyraelle
      @MmeHyraelle Před 4 lety +5

      I burnt myself burning the vapors in a 94% ethanol bottle. Makes a small blue jet. And it burns through the epiderm so it does not show but your nerves are telling you NO.

    • @gremlin23_youtube
      @gremlin23_youtube Před 4 lety

      @@MmeHyraelle did that

    • @edassrd4961
      @edassrd4961 Před 4 lety +3

      @@MmeHyraelle no one said to stick your arm in, stupid.

  • @mortlet5180
    @mortlet5180 Před 5 lety +994

    Actually, that perfectly sums up this video: NUT-NUT-NUT-NUT-NUT-NUT-NUT-NUT-NUT-NUT!
    Seriously, you managed to be informative and professional, whilst still being incredibly entertaining and keeping your unique style. Great Job!
    I was also very glad to see that I'm not the only human on Earth to have such bad luck in the lab. (This sounds really mean but I honestly don't mean it to be!)
    Sometimes it really does feel like I am simply unworthy to be in the lab at all, because the chem-gods keep punishing me in the most impossibly sadistic ways...

    • @ExplosionsAndFire
      @ExplosionsAndFire  Před 5 lety +183

      chemistry is a cruel mistress. Sometimes all your efforts just go unrewarded, its not a reflection on you, its just how science be like that

    • @mortlet5180
      @mortlet5180 Před 5 lety +34

      @@ExplosionsAndFire; Oh no I didn't mean anything remotely as noble as that.
      I meant stuff like chucking things and having them bounce into your flasks. Worse still, I was also *THAT GUY* in uni; while trying to work up a reaction late one night when I was still an undergrad, I even did the unthinkable (yes I am ashamed to admit it); I left the stopcock open when I went to add my gravitationally chromatographed concentrate back into the sep-funnel...
      Still, thank you for your kind words of encouragement!
      I have always been more at home with the theoretical side of things, although I absolutely love practically doing the reactions myself (go figure!).
      Personally, the ultimate reward for me comes from finally isolating a weighable amount of pure crystals from an initially intractable brown mass.

    • @thehatedones5153
      @thehatedones5153 Před 4 lety +15

      [nut]-[nut]-[nut]-[nut]

    • @MrGoatflakes
      @MrGoatflakes Před 4 lety +7

      @@ExplosionsAndFire they think it don't be like that, but it do... Black Science Man (2012)

    • @ExplosionsAndFire
      @ExplosionsAndFire  Před 4 lety +35

      @@MrGoatflakes noodlegrass tycoon

  • @saltycadet5904
    @saltycadet5904 Před 3 lety +30

    I love working with red fuming nitric acid at work, the ominous red cloud just adds flair to any reaction I run

  • @Rhodanide
    @Rhodanide Před 5 lety +319

    >joke about impregnation
    >De-money-tized

    • @elephystry
      @elephystry Před 5 lety +11

      So as you can see, the carbon powder has been impre- *cough cough* uh imbued with palladium metal.

  • @giansieger8687
    @giansieger8687 Před rokem +8

    7:30 that was uncalled for💀

  • @corrupteddata8087
    @corrupteddata8087 Před 4 lety +43

    I love how funny you are well still being really professional and educational! This is what more kids need to watch to be interested in chemistry ! School just chokes a textbook down your throat. Keep up the good work man

  • @thomasafrica9724
    @thomasafrica9724 Před 3 lety +8

    2:40 "a little more hesitantly we shall push forward" lmao

  • @MrFunguspower
    @MrFunguspower Před 4 lety +38

    -[NUT]-[NUT]-[NUT]-[NUT]-[NUT] makes me laugh every GODDAMN TIME wtf is wrong with me?! I am an adult ffs.

    • @joj.
      @joj. Před 4 lety +3

      Poly(NUT)

  • @RhodianColossus
    @RhodianColossus Před 4 lety +19

    "it's much easier to just nitrate a tree" im dead

  • @-The-fire-guy
    @-The-fire-guy Před 4 lety +9

    3:00 that stirrer is having the time of its life!

  • @TheGayestPersononYouTube
    @TheGayestPersononYouTube Před 5 lety +202

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    • @explosivefreak666
      @explosivefreak666 Před 5 lety +22

      The Gayest Person on CZcams : And YOU mate... WHEN, are you going to resume the thermite experiments.? I fuckin' LOVED what you did.! :) Come on, let's start it allready... Pretty please..

    • @ExplosionsAndFire
      @ExplosionsAndFire  Před 5 lety +53

      no pressure but GIVE US THE DAMN THERMIGHTES

    • @TheGayestPersononYouTube
      @TheGayestPersononYouTube Před 5 lety +10

      No pressure! No pressure or anything
      Thanks though :)

    • @ExplosionsAndFire
      @ExplosionsAndFire  Před 5 lety +29

      i want a video on my desk by 5pm tonight you fuck

    • @TheGayestPersononYouTube
      @TheGayestPersononYouTube Před 5 lety +10

      Explosions&Fire2 I’m on it. If you don’t get a notification it’s because I was kidnapped and not because I have nothing to show

  • @rydplrs71
    @rydplrs71 Před 4 lety +15

    I am so glad I was skeptical of the claim nitric acid would catch nitrile gloves on fire. SOP was latex under nitrile for small scale stuff that didn’t require full acid gloves. We had full strength hcl, nitric, hf, sulfuric and acetic on the acid side. Dozens more bases.

  • @felixrieser598
    @felixrieser598 Před 4 lety +10

    You actually deserve much more attention, people like you are currently rare on this platform

  • @mireille.bouquet
    @mireille.bouquet Před 5 lety +35

    Besides the awesome chemistry, you are a really entertaining person. Keep it up!

  • @Andrew-my1cp
    @Andrew-my1cp Před 4 lety +13

    Interestingly enough nitroglycerine and ethylene glycol dinitrate can both be used as plasticizers. They work really well for PETN and ETN. They are far from perfect and I imagine they add to the sensitivity but they are an energetic plasticizer/binder.

  • @saurabhsuman8079
    @saurabhsuman8079 Před 3 lety +34

    If anybody is wondering what he flashed by the end of the video while regretting why the f did he he tossed the playdough into the beaker(accidentally), let me explain.
    Remember the ferrate stream on his 2nd channel, making a purple iron 4 solution all throughout the night when you should be fckng asleep, the play dough messed that up by reducing it. And trust me he is as disappointed as we are.
    Fck that dough.

    • @cleveruserid
      @cleveruserid Před 3 lety

      Thank you so much you absolute legend

    • @SegwayBossk
      @SegwayBossk Před 3 lety

      You left out the last bit about subscriptions for Pewds

    • @word6344
      @word6344 Před 2 lety +2

      Playdough comes in *yellow* jars. It's yellow chem by proxy!

    • @cmoore8658
      @cmoore8658 Před 2 lety

      @@word6344 a *SIN*

  • @BillM1960
    @BillM1960 Před 4 lety +15

    I just found you. You are a freaking hoot man and I love this as both a chemist an chemical engineer. I love the humor but thrown in with some real science and mischief.

  • @inserttext2412
    @inserttext2412 Před rokem +8

    Just a heads up for anyone else interested in this synthesis a lot of papers say if you are going the sulphuric acid route to dissolve the pla into the sulfuric acid and then slowly add the acid to the nitric acid

  • @BigBrownMemes
    @BigBrownMemes Před 4 lety +5

    I found this channel by mistake, watched a couple of videos and you have definitely won me over dude. I had to subscribe. I love your style of high quality chemistry shitposting.

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    @timfitzgerald8283 Před 2 lety +4

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  • @highlands
    @highlands Před 4 lety +3

    I don't know why this was recommended to me, beyond early 90's action movies I don't really have much of any interest in explosives or fire but I keep coming back because I think you're funny and down to Earth.
    Keep it up, really enjoyable.

  • @loneonuers
    @loneonuers Před 5 lety +50

    Rip ferrate

    • @mortlet5180
      @mortlet5180 Před 5 lety +6

      To be fair though, ferrate looks at Oxygen and sees a good enough reducing agent to excuse itself from this existance!

  • @terawattyear
    @terawattyear Před 5 lety +18

    At 7:27 we have a Chem-Player ant. Took me 5 minutes to get to read what you had at 9:34. Pewdepie indeed! I came to watch you. Good amusing vid. Thanks for that!

    • @ExplosionsAndFire
      @ExplosionsAndFire  Před 5 lety +4

      Glad you enjoyed it!
      Also yes, it is an ant so this video counts as a Chemplayer collab

    • @andyhug90
      @andyhug90 Před 4 lety

      its easier on 0,25 speed -.- .... bad luck mate... :^)

    • @brainplay8060
      @brainplay8060 Před 4 lety

      I still can't get it to stop on the right tile. What does it say?

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    @devinmoodley4061 Před 2 lety

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  • @bhuffmansr
    @bhuffmansr Před 5 lety +1

    Always an excellent time. Thank You!

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    @mcmoose64 Před 4 lety +1

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  • @beakytzw
    @beakytzw Před 4 lety

    I am soo glad I had you on my YT recommended list, I love comedy when high, but comedy and explosions whilst high, feckin I love you.

  • @bruni5289
    @bruni5289 Před 4 lety +40

    OI mate you got a loiscence for that!?

  • @amarissimus29
    @amarissimus29 Před 3 lety +1

    I'm going to use this video in my upcoming lecture on the importance of pop filters. Thank you!

  • @alllove1754
    @alllove1754 Před 9 měsíci +1

    I can definitely see the difference you have come from when I first found your channel when I was looking for how to make dichromates from stainless steel, which you had done. I subbed back then, think it was 2017, but your video was a bit older. Your education has skyrocketed since then. I do apologize about recommending cubane, only because it seems HARD AF. I merely figured if anyone could do it it was you, nurdrage or nilered. Keep shining, doc.

  • @gordonlawrence1448
    @gordonlawrence1448 Před 4 lety +1

    This is definitely my fave chem channel.

  • @jameslacoste603
    @jameslacoste603 Před 4 lety +2

    this is actually making me become interested in science.. I found this so much better than boring biology

  • @HomemadeChemistry
    @HomemadeChemistry Před 5 lety +5

    I once kicked a ball lying on the floor of my "lab" out of anger about an unsuccessful reaction. Guess how this turned out...
    Great video and lots of fun as always!

    • @elephystry
      @elephystry Před 5 lety +2

      How did it turn out?

    • @HomemadeChemistry
      @HomemadeChemistry Před 5 lety +5

      @@elephystry Lots of broken glassware and rivers of CuSO4 flowing over my bench mixed with a little bit of FeCl3. And a even more angry me!

  • @alystair
    @alystair Před 3 lety +8

    I wonder what the properties of an explosive aerogel could be, given that nitrocellulose burns faster because it's 'fluffy'.

  • @JacobBe5
    @JacobBe5 Před 4 lety

    You had me at 0:45. Nice technique. Subscribed for life.

  • @PfunkNH
    @PfunkNH Před 4 lety +6

    You are amazing man. Please tell me you back up all of your videos. They are going to go away at some point...
    10/10 informative, fun, & thought provoking... You could actually go places with this "Personality"

    • @DrakkarCalethiel
      @DrakkarCalethiel Před 4 lety +2

      PfunkNH I download every single video, don't want to loose loads of great information again. F youtube for closing Ex&F... glad that he uploaded some old footage.

    • @abd6051
      @abd6051 Před 4 lety

      Why is personality in “quotations”

    • @PfunkNH
      @PfunkNH Před 4 lety

      @@abd6051 why are Abd in "youtube?"

  • @htomerif
    @htomerif Před 4 lety +6

    You really do need that glass transition and pretty low viscosity to go through a 3d printer nozzle.
    Just imagine a world where you have 90 percent copper filament (which exists) and an explosive filament and a multi-extruder printer.

    • @handlesarecringe957
      @handlesarecringe957 Před 2 lety

      That just sounds like detcord with extra steps

    • @htomerif
      @htomerif Před 2 lety +1

      @@handlesarecringe957 wow, it took me a long time to even figure out what the hell I was talking about in this comment. Shaped charges.

  • @Piocoto123
    @Piocoto123 Před rokem

    A classic Ex&F video.. lovin it

  • @Bobmaxsteve
    @Bobmaxsteve Před 4 lety

    Actually very happy I found this channel

  • @Arthropod108
    @Arthropod108 Před 4 lety +2

    Love these videos, deep fried chemistry and memes

  • @BxBxProductions
    @BxBxProductions Před 4 lety +42

    when NileRed and MaxMoeFoe have have a baby

  • @ClayFisher00
    @ClayFisher00 Před 4 lety

    I love your channel, you glorious bastard!

  • @GoatDust
    @GoatDust Před 4 lety +6

    Chad of the explosive polymers definitely makes sense.

  • @edvardstreijs9083
    @edvardstreijs9083 Před 5 lety

    Just love your videos

  • @cmsIGaufFahrgestellPanze-pq4gz

    i love how this dude just makes explosives in what looks like his shed

  • @tannermaple
    @tannermaple Před 3 lety

    I have zero drive to do any of this or become part of any field where any of the knowledge would be useful yet I have binged almost all of ur vids

  • @Michalosnup
    @Michalosnup Před rokem

    That grinder is so fresh compared to older videos

  • @AussieChemist
    @AussieChemist Před 5 lety +51

    turned off Pornhub 2 seconds after seeing this notification popping up , buttttt.... still no fricking explosions😂😂😂

    • @ExplosionsAndFire
      @ExplosionsAndFire  Před 5 lety +23

      at least there was some fire this time! i'll work on the explosions, make your journey off of Pornhub more worthwhile

    • @mortlet5180
      @mortlet5180 Před 5 lety +4

      Speak for yourself.
      I nutted pretty forcefully from this, more than forcefully enough to be classified as an explosion methinks! XD

    • @diegotxeedertxeberriagarai2459
      @diegotxeedertxeberriagarai2459 Před 5 lety +2

      you will re-shoot your mercury fulminate video. Your procedure was very well explained

    • @diegotxeedertxeberriagarai2459
      @diegotxeedertxeberriagarai2459 Před 5 lety

      i am from nation vasca

    • @AussieChemist
      @AussieChemist Před 5 lety

      was it me you talking about or Tdep? God people need to more specific nowadays.

  • @hvfd5956
    @hvfd5956 Před 3 lety

    You haven't lived until you have been chased by a tank car (as I was as a late teenager volunteer fire fighter) of 3 beta-2 alpha vinyl butyl acetate... Flash point -38 degrees F, shipped as a gas compressed into liquid. Goes BOOM ( insert quote from the Fifth Element here) if it escapes or if fire/heat impinges on the vapor space at the top of the tank. Known to BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) and the blast wave can wipe out most everything for about 1/2 mile around. So impressive, a chemical company Union Carbide made a safety film on it after a car of it blew up in a rail yard in Houston.

  • @danielchandler15
    @danielchandler15 Před 2 lety

    Never PewDiePie!! You're stuck with me. Keep up the good work Man!!

  • @grendelum
    @grendelum Před 4 lety +1

    I used to make several gallon batches of PVA solution for an after school science enrichment program... it was such a pita as the second the PVA hits the hot water it clumps just like it did for you. An immersion blender and time was t’only way to make the stuff, mixed with a Borax solution you got Alien style slime.

  • @calyodelphi124
    @calyodelphi124 Před 4 lety

    This is only the second video of yours I've watched and I FUCKING LOVE YOUR CHANNEL ALREADY. XD

  • @208414
    @208414 Před 3 lety

    This guy is super funny. Subbed.

  • @connor1186
    @connor1186 Před 4 lety

    Thanks for the 1 frame explanation.

  • @Ash-gq7ni
    @Ash-gq7ni Před 4 lety

    I feel like I’m gonna be put on some list for watching this.

  • @SpencerSlaughter426
    @SpencerSlaughter426 Před rokem +1

    Red Fuming Nitric Acid is sciencey and cool and all but I find that referring to RFNA as Really Fuckin Nitric Acid is much more pog.

  • @teuth
    @teuth Před 4 lety +6

    this video was recommended to me under 'recipes' nice going youtube 👍

  • @Slartybartpharst
    @Slartybartpharst Před 4 lety

    This is far and away the most educational shitpost I've ever seen. Keep up the good work.

  • @timyates807
    @timyates807 Před 4 lety

    Awsome bud ! Thanks

  • @tommylawton521
    @tommylawton521 Před 4 lety +1

    I do admire your efforts thought we are similar ages I’m really interested in things like this but never actually did the studies ect

  • @LRTOTAL
    @LRTOTAL Před 4 lety +2

    8:32 Loved the WordArt xD

  • @microTrash28
    @microTrash28 Před 10 měsíci +2

    My hungry ass could NOT be an explosive polymer chemist.

  • @rastajeff9625
    @rastajeff9625 Před 5 lety

    Missed you mate!

  • @4Jamo
    @4Jamo Před 5 lety

    These videos are great

  • @GC-rf2st
    @GC-rf2st Před 4 lety +1

    Nobel used to do his experiments in a boat in the middle of a lake...just in case! It also made clearing up easier, it’s only a question of time before you go boom! Very informative until that time though

  • @nathenperri2826
    @nathenperri2826 Před 4 lety

    You are great man!

  • @allenschmitz9644
    @allenschmitz9644 Před 3 lety

    Love to see his Kombucha recipe...that gits you 'bombed'.

  • @Fede_uyz
    @Fede_uyz Před 4 lety +3

    2:00
    Thats what she said.... when talking about grinding PBA

  • @stuartlebeau1846
    @stuartlebeau1846 Před 4 lety

    Nice to see Mr Turing get some credit..!!

  • @touchm3
    @touchm3 Před 4 lety

    Where has the youtube algorithm taken me! I feel like i would be put on some list in my country for watching this.

  • @AndrewSteffenHB
    @AndrewSteffenHB Před 4 lety

    Best Channel Ever

  • @robmorgan1214
    @robmorgan1214 Před 4 lety +1

    If we can figure that out the opportunity for 3d printable solid rocket boosters would be incredible! With the right design geometry/thermal management and scaffolding something like that could decrease the cost of a space launch to raw materials + what ammounts to injection molding 2.0! Thats awesome!

  • @philouzlouis2042
    @philouzlouis2042 Před rokem +1

    Hi as usual interesting and entertaining video; stil I have to add my 50 cents and energetic chemical expertise...
    I had to bring some light and truth onto your video that seems to disqualify polymer or arge for their ban...
    From what I was able to understand and gather from infos about high energetic materials:
    First about molecular weights:
    MW M1 < MW Mx < MW pM
    A) If you go from monomer (M1) to multimer (Mx) and finally to polymers (pM) you usually end up with the following sequence of density d(M1) < d(Mx) < d(pM); this comes from my observations out of detonic parameters from hunderds of explosives (at this time after more than 30 years of study I couldn't find one single example that goes against my theory and conclusions).
    Most of the time density increase (contraction due to Vanderwaals forces increase, ionic bonds multiplication, electronegative bon attraction (H bonds, etc.)) can be quite impressive.
    Into your specific case compare detonic paramerters of PVN, VN (or equivalently ethyl nitrate) and 1,3-butane diol dinitrate you will be convinced (I did this kind of studies on many families of compounds; actually everytime I was able to do so).
    You of course know that density is one of the heavier influencer into detonic parameters; it plays a role onto VOD (velocity of detonation). Increasing the number of monomers increases the molecular Vanderwaals forces, thus the compactness.
    Into this field you of course know that PVN, just like nitrocellulose of high NO3% (or semtex, or cyclonite plastic) may burn (maybe deflagrate) but that is another story if you put an actuator / detonator into play instead of self-confinement from flame propagation and own weight.
    B) If you consider impact sensitivity (IS), you will notice that IS goes up while the molecular mass increases (thus the polymeric weight)... this means that the compounds become less sensitive with polymerisation versus monomer.
    Increasing the molecular lenght increases the (thermal/impact) energy due to inherent dissipations modes.
    IS (M1) < IS (Mx) < IS (pM)
    Using a polymer will thus be way safer than using monomers.
    Again it will usually simply burn, but it may detonate at a much higher velocity rate if in contact with a detonator.
    PHZ
    (PHILOU Zrealone from the Science Madness forum and from newsgroups (Alt.Engr. Explosive, Pyrotechnics, Rec. Sci. Chemistry,...)

    • @philouzlouis2042
      @philouzlouis2042 Před rokem +1

      Usually the density also increases because there is also often phase change that occurs "naturally" due to polymerisation...
      So a volatile liquid (or a gas) may turn into a liquid, then a wax and finally into a denser solid (not always cristalline but often with cristalline domains; they can be changed with thermal plateaus - or with help of polymerisation catalyst see atactic - syndiotactic and isotactic to get an idea of the influence on polymer parameters)
      PHZ

  • @deezyjay4582
    @deezyjay4582 Před 4 lety

    I fuckn luv this guy true blue if only chemistry ddnt take so long to post luv yor work bloke

  • @ludwigludwig3515
    @ludwigludwig3515 Před 4 lety

    Very interesting chemistry. Thank you. Probably some people not understand all. People.

  • @z-bubben8019
    @z-bubben8019 Před 3 lety

    This dude teaching us how to make plastic explosives

  • @geoffhoweth
    @geoffhoweth Před 4 lety +9

    Years ago I made TATP (couple grams) then added just enough acetone to dissolve it. Then I had the bright idea to put styrofoam till it would not dissolve. Then i let it room dry when the styrofoam turned into a hard plastic I touched it with a lit Punk and omg about blew my hand off. Don't Try Anywhere.

    • @diehard7502
      @diehard7502 Před 3 lety

      Nice
      Could you give an approximate ingredient list for others to try it out?(kinda actually wanna know)

    • @ARandomTroll
      @ARandomTroll Před 3 lety

      @@diehard7502 hi there ATF/CIA/alphabet soup glow-in-the-dark agency DON'T MAKE TATP. It is that one explosive that's so easy to make that everyone who should not be dealing with explosives can just cook up a too large batch (by that i mean a few gramms) and blow their hand off. It's also stupidly unsafe (sublimates and crystalizes in the threads of a container's lid) so that's at least a self correcting problem. DO NOT MAKE IT. If you can't make something better, you should just stay away from this part of chemistry entirely.

    • @geoffhoweth
      @geoffhoweth Před 3 lety

      @@ARandomTroll You are 100% right I have never made that stuff ever again. I will never give out how to make it are the amounts needed.

  • @viesturssilins858
    @viesturssilins858 Před 4 lety

    I was hiding behind cushions when I saw you using the 'packing screw'

  • @arson338
    @arson338 Před 3 lety

    I saw your channel name and was like these are my people

  • @TheBigDaveB1
    @TheBigDaveB1 Před 4 lety +2

    The syringed polymer was impressive from a practical point. not a chemist but i would try packing the powder down, like a black powder banger. Could the polymer powder work the same way? Stick it in a wee cardboard tube and find out! 👍👍
    Love the channel! Subscribed & liked

  • @jackavery4509
    @jackavery4509 Před rokem

    Your young hands are so subtle I barely noticed how supple they were!

  • @cceres
    @cceres Před rokem

    Three years later and we now have the ability to see how many people spent 10 minutes trying to catch a single frame of text

  • @psycronizer
    @psycronizer Před 2 lety

    I was waiting to see a whole lot of that syringe extruded polymer put into a metal tube to make a solid rocket, oh baby that would be fun to see !

  • @ThiagoSekine
    @ThiagoSekine Před 4 lety

    Very nice video, subbed to you and PewDiePie

  • @Grzyb032
    @Grzyb032 Před 2 lety

    "people don't usually do this, but before finding out why they don't, let's do it"

  • @dicedoomkid
    @dicedoomkid Před 3 lety

    Sure why not, I don’t mind another video that will get me on a watch list.

  • @thesunexpress
    @thesunexpress Před 3 lety

    @0:50 'emlting' this word is greater than me.

  • @toastytaco2499
    @toastytaco2499 Před rokem +1

    9:36 Genuine question, would it be possible to use the PVN as an energetic plasticizer? Or am I misunderstanding the premise?

  • @lHakariil
    @lHakariil Před 4 lety

    i came to watch some explosions and i actually learned someting

  • @grendelum
    @grendelum Před 4 lety +1

    I used to have to make large quantities of PVA solution for an after school science enrichment program... it is a *_massive_* pain to get into solution requiring far too much time in front of the hot plate with an electric mixer. Once I made it tho, add a Borax solution to make slime !!

  • @goryao
    @goryao Před 2 lety +1

    Depending on the grade of PVA, it should be water soluble to various %, but it takes a while and you have to heat the crap out of it (80*C). However, once you have it in solution, you can crash it out with alcohol, acetone, ethyl acetate or what not; this will make very fine powder ;)

  • @VertisSidus
    @VertisSidus Před 3 lety +1

    i think the real lesson to be learned here is to keep your open reaction vessels in the main shot so that when you accidentally do something horrible to them at least you'll get some Content out of it

  • @davidshelly9142
    @davidshelly9142 Před 4 lety +1

    This pleases the nut