Great to see another video :ø) From what I have gathered CZcams doesn't push shorts onto the Notifications bell, I never get any - but I see them on the main page/creators videos under their profile. Please don't do them, just do regular videos - please 🙂
I'm taking a lot of inspiration from your rocket motor videos for some home chemistry right now. You have a great channel and it's always great to see a new video from you.
Hey, I am a high school chemistry teacher. My students and I are some of your biggest fans . We have Elemental Maker Fridays and today we stumbled upon a video with your actual face in it and we were shook. Keep up the good work. We were worried about you when you went MIA while doing construction on your home. Looking forward to your next video :)
I recall that the formula for common match heads had both elemental sulfur and potassium chlorate. I remember getting one to detonate after a few good whacks with a hammer and anvil, but that was a long time ago so I don't trust my memory anymore. A related dangerous mix was chlorates with ammonium salts, where even dilute solutions with ammonium and chlorate salts were said to be capable of spontaneously detonating. Risky to test, but might make a cool video.
You can make 'crackling thunderballs' by coating pebbles in a slurry of thoroughly mixed potassium chlorate, sulphur with dextrin as binder to increase adherence to the pebble and minimise cracking and flaking of the dried coating. 'Paint' the pebble in the moist slurry to leave a thin coating. Allow to dry. Now the 'thunderball' is ready: throw it against a hard surface. BANG! The same 'thunderball' can be thrown multiple times before the percussive chlorate-sulpur-dextrin coating becomes entirely consumed.
I plan on doing a video on Odysee of those! Used to make them all the time as a kid until one time I was a bit too ambitious and did a big pebble with a THICK coating (and added some aluminum powder). Man I couldn't hear for a solid full day.
@@ElementalMaker odysee? Did you ever make it? I’d love to see what the hell you guys are talking about😂especially since I just got some red p so I could prolly make my own version
Shocking stuff! You need to produce the video on a phone in portrait format so it looks good on a phone like a Tik Toc video, and in 60 seconds or less.
Cesium chlorate would be a bit harder to synthesize. That said, with the abundance of lithium batteries, lithium chlorate would likely be doable…would need to figure out if the reaction is at least equivalent to KClO3+S.
Cesium chlorate would be less energetic (per unit weight) since it's already ionized. Cesium metal is more reactive than potassium, but once its in salt form it makes no difference. Also cesium is fairly expensive, on par with silver, so it'd be a waste of money.
It was actually used in primer formulations for many years before less corrosive primer compositions were found. I'm sure some ph stabilizers were added likely along with some aluminum powder and maybe charcoal for added heat to better ignite the main powder charge.
I liked the video and subscribed please keep up the experiments I'm about to start attempting my making my own potassium perchlorate from bleach and salt substitute and combining it many things like charcoal and sulfur amongst other things I can't say here lol jk but all in the name of science and the experiments we conduct to generate data
Chlorate is definitely not friendly with sulfur but makes really nice bright stars I have a very vibrant like neon purple I can only achieve with Chlorate. This is a great video showing pyro builders the risks of intimately mixed Chlorate and sulfur. Do you still build btw?
I haven't made shells in probably a decade, it's really a shame but I don't have the land to safely send up shells. Shoot me an email, as we might be pretty close by ElementCollector1001@gmail.com
The combustion products are corrosive. It's the same stuff that was used in old Russian primers from what I hear. It's just an eyeball mix here, I'm sure a stoichiometric mixture would be better.
This is basically what the soviets used in old corrosive primers. The probably added ground glass to increase friction sensitivity, and a ph stabilizer would be beneficial since sulfur can go acidic over time which would cause it to spontaneously ignite. You may want to look into prime-all, it's pretty much the same stuff here commercially available and probably safer
My man one more question if you don’t mind I bought black powder from a gunshot but it seems to be very granulated can I run that through the ball mill and make it finer
I have never done so myself, so take this with a hint of legally Im not suggesting shit, but I think that would work. Honestly though it's so much cheaper to just buy the raw ingredients for black powder to make it yourself. If you already have a ball mill, definitely go the diy route
@@zachbelot2078 it's , the project Gutenberg eBook of practical mechanics for boys by J.S. Zerbe , chapter 15 page 160 . Hope this helps. Why it's for boys I don't know because the whole book has so much interesting information.
hehe, Many years ago, I had some of both, and a friend asked me to make something that goes bang, I mixed a little powder for him, and gave him a hammer, and told him to smack it on the sidewalk, kaboom, the rebound made the hammer bounce up and tap him in the forehead, or ears rang pretty good. Gonna show that to my kids, still have some. Thanks for reminder.
i really dont know why the likes of Cody's lab, Nurd Rage and yourself @ElementalMaker, dont just upload vids to a website, or file sharing site like mediafire and link to the download if worried of contraveneing YT overly sensitive policies. Provide the link and hash for the file and bingo. we're all happy. :)
@@ElementalMaker Thanks :) and respect to you sir :) I look forward to those. remember to link tho. many dont get notification from odysee unless they are sat on it!
ChatGPT told me this mixture was a low explosive, and would burn when hit with a hammer. I explained what happened when hit with a hammer. Suddenly it knew all about high explosives and supersonic shockwaves created by Potasium Chlorate... I think it's coded to "play dum" with various forms of questions.
Worse, ammonium salts, metal powders and aluminium are all on the list of substances incompatible with chlorates and perchlorates along with sulphur, it would be a bad idea to combine the ability for a mixture to detonate with the ability to create a nasty metal-oxidiser fire that is liable to produce lots of incandescent incendiary particles, is likely reactive with water and difficult to fight otherwise. Having burning metal-oxidiser particles scattered all over the place by a small piece of mixture detonating is not a potential situation you want in your life
Very close to it! Cap guns used Armstrongs mix, which is chlorate and red phosphorus, it's more sensitive than chlorate/sulfur, but quite similar in their overall function
I should slip into an alias, but thanks for this, and here's why. I ordered some perchlorate from a reputable vendor for most benign experiments, but in came unlabled. So is it perchorate, or chlorate. which they also sell? I don't want my ass blown off for some mis-shipping. So this test should help me out. Phosphorus is now federally illegal now, but I recall my dad's best friend missing part of his hand from a teenage experiment with red phosphorus and potassium chlorate.
A safer method I would recommend is by dissolving some in water, and adding some hydrochloric acid (sold as muratic acid at hardware stores, buy the real one, not the safe version). If it's chlorate, it will produce chlorine dioxide, if it's perchlorate it won't react. Do this outside and do not breathe any of the gasses, both chlorine dioxide and the hcl fumes are very nasty
@@ElementalMaker lol, that's what I'm saying. Matches aka chlorate and sulfur. Love your work man! You and I have literally been going down the same CZcams rabbit hole of ideas. Wish I had the balls to record and post.
@@ElementalMaker Congrats, but I meant the content type not lack of uploads. Last time you wouldn't even pronounce "permanganate" and then there's this video 😋
Bugger, so you're making vertitard videos too. All these vertitard videos have forced me to clean up my subscriptions.. NileRed killed his channel, all he does is old vertitards now.
Kclo3 and red p is most certainly more friction sensitive from what I've read. I've never personally made Armstrongs mixture, scares the hell out of me. Why would you want it even more sensitive?
@@ElementalMaker I have bought some to make my own strike-anywhere matches en masse. Fortunately or unfortunately, 150 grams of red p is about 145 grams more than I’ll ever need in my entire life. So I’m experimenting with different mixtures on the heads of matches of Armstrongs mix - around 5-10mg at a time and it works like a charm. Please do share you and the other guys “crackling thunderball” idea, that sounds neat. Even better, you should brainstorm something you think would be cool to do with it! I’ll check it out, or just share the idea thanks!
Well I don't think the whole "short" video thing worked like I was trying to do, but enjoy anyways!
Shorts are vile anyway. The user interface is crap. Just make a brief ordinary video, like you did here.
I think it is required to be in 9:16 ratio to be rendered as a short
It's a toss up with 1:1 ratio. Anything taller seems to work
Great to see another video :ø)
From what I have gathered CZcams doesn't push shorts onto the Notifications bell, I never get any - but I see them on the main page/creators videos under their profile. Please don't do them, just do regular videos - please 🙂
Still very interesting
Today I learned to stop carrying my potassium chlorate, sulfur and hammers in the same pocket.
Have missed your videos man! Always good content. Take care.
I'm taking a lot of inspiration from your rocket motor videos for some home chemistry right now. You have a great channel and it's always great to see a new video from you.
You really *nailed* the concept here! 😆
The first tests of anything should always be an anvil....😎👍
I don’t usually watch Shorts, but yours, I’ll make an exception!
Pretty damn cool.. 👍😎👍
Welcome back good sir
Just a kid at heart ❤️ thanks for the video
Hey, I am a high school chemistry teacher. My students and I are some of your biggest fans . We have Elemental Maker Fridays and today we stumbled upon a video with your actual face in it and we were shook. Keep up the good work. We were worried about you when you went MIA while doing construction on your home. Looking forward to your next video :)
Now that is too cool! I'm glad you guys enjoy the videos! Lmao at the face reveal
I recall that the formula for common match heads had both elemental sulfur and potassium chlorate. I remember getting one to detonate after a few good whacks with a hammer and anvil, but that was a long time ago so I don't trust my memory anymore. A related dangerous mix was chlorates with ammonium salts, where even dilute solutions with ammonium and chlorate salts were said to be capable of spontaneously detonating. Risky to test, but might make a cool video.
We've missed you buddy
You can make 'crackling thunderballs' by coating pebbles in a slurry of thoroughly mixed potassium chlorate, sulphur with dextrin as binder to increase adherence to the pebble and minimise cracking and flaking of the dried coating. 'Paint' the pebble in the moist slurry to leave a thin coating. Allow to dry. Now the 'thunderball' is ready: throw it against a hard surface. BANG! The same 'thunderball' can be thrown multiple times before the percussive chlorate-sulpur-dextrin coating becomes entirely consumed.
I plan on doing a video on Odysee of those! Used to make them all the time as a kid until one time I was a bit too ambitious and did a big pebble with a THICK coating (and added some aluminum powder). Man I couldn't hear for a solid full day.
@@ElementalMaker odysee? Did you ever make it? I’d love to see what the hell you guys are talking about😂especially since I just got some red p so I could prolly make my own version
My ears are ringing just watching this.
Looks fun
Shocking stuff! You need to produce the video on a phone in portrait format so it looks good on a phone like a Tik Toc video, and in 60 seconds or less.
Yeah I was told a 1:1 video format works for shorts too, but I guess I was misinformed.
@@ElementalMaker I hadn't heard that, the other thing I did was put #shorts in the subject line.
Love your comments too fucking funny man
I wonder how well Cesium Chlorate would work? I may have to try that. Thanks for the inspiration! You should try it too.
Cesium chlorate would be a bit harder to synthesize. That said, with the abundance of lithium batteries, lithium chlorate would likely be doable…would need to figure out if the reaction is at least equivalent to KClO3+S.
Cesium chlorate would be less energetic (per unit weight) since it's already ionized. Cesium metal is more reactive than potassium, but once its in salt form it makes no difference. Also cesium is fairly expensive, on par with silver, so it'd be a waste of money.
Damn, you still living 😍😋🙏
"Impact sensitivity test" sounds a lot more official than "hitting chemicals with a hammer" 😂
So true but you got to tell the girls something that doesn't sound like goofing off now don't we?
During my teens, I used this mixture in air gun targets, a bit like those in the US use tannerite.
reminds me of the "exploding hammer festival"
There's a good reason for that...chlorate/sulfur is what they use to make the boom in the festival.
My favorite chemical is Potasium Perchlorate (KClO4). Rockts away!
@@tafdiz As a carbon lifeform, O2, H2, C...
can i make primer out of this stuff
Scale that up a hundred times and you got yourself a Mexican tradition🤣
Is it explosive? What if its used with a large amount, will it explode?
Lol! We used to take those old fold-over cover paper matches and hit them with a hammer, man they were loud!
can you tell me the quantities, please
Are there any formulations in which this combination is used or is it too dangerous for any use
It was actually used in primer formulations for many years before less corrosive primer compositions were found. I'm sure some ph stabilizers were added likely along with some aluminum powder and maybe charcoal for added heat to better ignite the main powder charge.
Well at least we get a 18 second video, hope to see you back with some longer videos soon brother.
Yep longer video in the works!
I liked the video and subscribed please keep up the experiments I'm about to start attempting my making my own potassium perchlorate from bleach and salt substitute and combining it many things like charcoal and sulfur amongst other things I can't say here lol jk but all in the name of science and the experiments we conduct to generate data
Chlorate is definitely not friendly with sulfur but makes really nice bright stars I have a very vibrant like neon purple I can only achieve with Chlorate. This is a great video showing pyro builders the risks of intimately mixed Chlorate and sulfur. Do you still build btw?
I haven't made shells in probably a decade, it's really a shame but I don't have the land to safely send up shells. Shoot me an email, as we might be pretty close by ElementCollector1001@gmail.com
I would have liked to know the mixture percentage. Is it considered corrosive?
The combustion products are corrosive. It's the same stuff that was used in old Russian primers from what I hear. It's just an eyeball mix here, I'm sure a stoichiometric mixture would be better.
@@ElementalMaker I was about to inquire about whether this could be used as a primer. TY!
@@zinckensteel That is where I was going with this.
@@ElementalMaker 50/50?
Do you think this would make a good mix for primers I load my own ammo and the primers are not cheap ? great video man
This is basically what the soviets used in old corrosive primers. The probably added ground glass to increase friction sensitivity, and a ph stabilizer would be beneficial since sulfur can go acidic over time which would cause it to spontaneously ignite. You may want to look into prime-all, it's pretty much the same stuff here commercially available and probably safer
@@ElementalMaker
as example, is Ammonia considered Ph stabiliser ?
@@ElementalMaker I think prime all uses antimony trisulfide.
My man one more question if you don’t mind I bought black powder from a gunshot but it seems to be very granulated can I run that through the ball mill and make it finer
I have never done so myself, so take this with a hint of legally Im not suggesting shit, but I think that would work. Honestly though it's so much cheaper to just buy the raw ingredients for black powder to make it yourself. If you already have a ball mill, definitely go the diy route
Thanks a lot for the advice will do
There is a good recipe for this type of mixture in the gothenburg e manual , which is a mix of p, chlorate , lamp black and sulfur.
What page if you don’t mind me asking?
@@zachbelot2078 I will look it up and let you know
@@zachbelot2078 it's , the project Gutenberg eBook of practical mechanics for boys by J.S. Zerbe , chapter 15 page 160 . Hope this helps. Why it's for boys I don't know because the whole book has so much interesting information.
Is that what primers are made of?
Not modern primers, but old school WWII Era corrosive primers are typically a mix of chlorate, sulfur, and other additives I'm sure.
hehe, Many years ago, I had some of both, and a friend asked me to make something that goes bang, I mixed a little powder for him, and gave him a hammer, and told him to smack it on the sidewalk, kaboom, the rebound made the hammer bounce up and tap him in the forehead, or ears rang pretty good. Gonna show that to my kids, still have some. Thanks for reminder.
How about the recipe. Measurements?? Thx
Did they not teach you stoichiometry in chemistry class? KClO3 + S --> KCl + SO2
Balance the equation to figure out the ratios.
i really dont know why the likes of Cody's lab, Nurd Rage and yourself @ElementalMaker, dont just upload vids to a website, or file sharing site like mediafire and link to the download if worried of contraveneing YT overly sensitive policies. Provide the link and hash for the file and bingo. we're all happy. :)
I'll upload a more detailed video on Odysee
@@ElementalMaker Thanks :) and respect to you sir :) I look forward to those. remember to link tho. many dont get notification from odysee unless they are sat on it!
Any powdered sugar in this mix? Thx please more videos. Love learning this chemistry.
Nope just chlorate and sulfur in this one. Very dangerous mixture
What percentage just 50/50
ChatGPT told me this mixture was a low explosive, and would burn when hit with a hammer. I explained what happened when hit with a hammer. Suddenly it knew all about high explosives and supersonic shockwaves created by Potasium Chlorate... I think it's coded to "play dum" with various forms of questions.
Very interesting! I was wondering how much chatgpt world disclose about this kind of stuff.
so if that was mixed in with ammonium nitrate and aluminum powder then shoot it would it be better or worse?
That would be a recipe for losing limbs! Chlorate/sulfur mixtures are far too sensitive to handle in any significant quantity
@@ElementalMaker I'm never be doing it was just wondering as that power acted like a binary and wondered if it would work! but obviously not lol 😆
Worse, ammonium salts, metal powders and aluminium are all on the list of substances incompatible with chlorates and perchlorates along with sulphur, it would be a bad idea to combine the ability for a mixture to detonate with the ability to create a nasty metal-oxidiser fire that is liable to produce lots of incandescent incendiary particles, is likely reactive with water and difficult to fight otherwise. Having burning metal-oxidiser particles scattered all over the place by a small piece of mixture detonating is not a potential situation you want in your life
Same chemicals used in the old toy cap guns? In much more serious quantities of course… used to love playing with the red paper version as a kid.
Very close to it! Cap guns used Armstrongs mix, which is chlorate and red phosphorus, it's more sensitive than chlorate/sulfur, but quite similar in their overall function
Full video making this?
😂
I'm gonna go out on a short limb here and say youtube would give me another strike unfortunately
@@ElementalMaker oh I get you. Ok
Is it a available on lbry or some similar location?
@@ElementalMaker I looked on Odssey but didn't see the how too... I would really love to see that.
@@sarchlalaith8836 I could definitely upload that to Odysee
I should slip into an alias, but thanks for this, and here's why. I ordered some perchlorate from a reputable vendor for most benign experiments, but in came unlabled. So is it perchorate, or chlorate. which they also sell? I don't want my ass blown off for some mis-shipping. So this test should help me out.
Phosphorus is now federally illegal now, but I recall my dad's best friend missing part of his hand from a teenage experiment with red phosphorus and potassium chlorate.
A safer method I would recommend is by dissolving some in water, and adding some hydrochloric acid (sold as muratic acid at hardware stores, buy the real one, not the safe version). If it's chlorate, it will produce chlorine dioxide, if it's perchlorate it won't react. Do this outside and do not breathe any of the gasses, both chlorine dioxide and the hcl fumes are very nasty
@@ElementalMaker Thanks, I'll do just that!
whats the ratio like?
This was just eyeballed. Somewhere around 70/30 I think is optimal if I recall
@@ElementalMakerah Thank you.
Try grinding it a little using a mortar and pestle. Wear ear defenders and goggles.
That would be a bad idea. Or good if you dont like your mortar/pestle/fingers!
@@ElementalMaker I saw another youtuber do that. czcams.com/video/DSJwtHRmfSQ/video.html
Almost ready to pack your own primers eh?
This is the stuff you wish you knew when you were younger, more devious and had less responsibility…..except, it’s fun anytime.
Is this what they use in Mexico for the exploding hammers celebrations? I'm betting it is.
Really good question! I'll have to research that and see if its the same stuff.
How's da smell?
If you think that was cool try Potassium Sulfurate and Glycerin. Use extreme caution!!!
Potassium sulfurate?
You mean matches
Huh? Both chemicals are used in matches, but no this was the pure compounds mixed, not matches.
@@ElementalMaker lol, that's what I'm saying. Matches aka chlorate and sulfur. Love your work man! You and I have literally been going down the same CZcams rabbit hole of ideas. Wish I had the balls to record and post.
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It's justo mix sulfur and potassium chlorate?
What happened? You've decided you don't like your yt channel anymore? 🤣🤣
Became a dad happened
@@ElementalMaker Congrats, but I meant the content type not lack of uploads. Last time you wouldn't even pronounce "permanganate" and then there's this video 😋
Bugger, so you're making vertitard videos too.
All these vertitard videos have forced me to clean up my subscriptions..
NileRed killed his channel, all he does is old vertitards now.
What In the hell is vertitard?
@@ElementalMaker lol... them vertical videos, for people with vertical eyes
And short attention spans
Do you believe kclo3/s is more sensitive the kclo3/red p? What would you think would be the way to maximize sensitivity kclo3/s/p?
Kclo3 and red p is most certainly more friction sensitive from what I've read. I've never personally made Armstrongs mixture, scares the hell out of me. Why would you want it even more sensitive?
@@ElementalMaker I have bought some to make my own strike-anywhere matches en masse. Fortunately or unfortunately, 150 grams of red p is about 145 grams more than I’ll ever need in my entire life. So I’m experimenting with different mixtures on the heads of matches of Armstrongs mix - around 5-10mg at a time and it works like a charm. Please do share you and the other guys “crackling thunderball” idea, that sounds neat. Even better, you should brainstorm something you think would be cool to do with it! I’ll check it out, or just share the idea thanks!
Ratio is?
Hammer festival in Mexico