Carbon Foam: an incredible material made from everyday items.

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    Science! Experiments! Chemistry! Hack! Superlatives! Hyperbole!
    This is an experiment* to see if I could pyrolyse mundane materials into super heat resistant, lightweight and insulating carbon foam.
    Short answer: YES. Long answer: YES. Original Idea from this article:
    phys.org/news/2016-07-multi-us...
    Long term projects here: / ave
    * experiment in the youtube sense of the word; meaning demonstration.
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  • @KrazeeCain
    @KrazeeCain Před 8 lety +1195

    You know you've fucked up breakfast when you've accidentally made a refractory tile.

    • @SteinErikDahle
      @SteinErikDahle Před 8 lety +5

      Haha, good one! 😁😁😁

    • @ProbeGT2
      @ProbeGT2 Před 8 lety +1

      lol!

    • @willemkossen
      @willemkossen Před 8 lety +2

      +

    • @sc0tte1-416
      @sc0tte1-416 Před 8 lety +55

      Haha, "sorry babe I've accidently made re-entry tiles for the ISS crew out of our breakfast..."

    • @HotForgeChaos
      @HotForgeChaos Před 8 lety +9

      This is about the level of my cooking skill right there

  • @stinkymcissueno
    @stinkymcissueno Před 8 lety +532

    My grandma would have made me scrape the carbon off and eat it anyways.

    • @iamchillydogg
      @iamchillydogg Před 8 lety +2

      That's impossible since it's all carbon.😜

    • @iamchillydogg
      @iamchillydogg Před 8 lety

      That's impossible since it's all carbon.😜

    • @86753091974
      @86753091974 Před 8 lety +46

      +iamchillydogg you don't know his grandma

    • @BoffinGrusky
      @BoffinGrusky Před 8 lety +14

      +stinkymcissueno Strange, my Moma used to make me do that. Son??!!! Is that you??!!

    • @stinkymcissueno
      @stinkymcissueno Před 8 lety +9

      Judging by your beard no, if I try to grow one my face looks more like AvE's knuckle hair shots.

  • @em21701
    @em21701 Před 8 lety +224

    Cobble together some aluminum bits, cover it in wonder bread and toss in an arduino and you got yourself a space shuttle.

    • @SteinErikDahle
      @SteinErikDahle Před 8 lety +11

      I'd watch the video!

    • @February54
      @February54 Před 8 lety +4

      Makes you think why US government spent 200 billion on Space Shuttle program. Wonder Bread and Arduino doesn't cost that much!

    • @Yisushibistro
      @Yisushibistro Před 8 lety +7

      Nah, the Arduino has too much computing power for a shuttle. Got to think of something else.

    • @CelticBananas
      @CelticBananas Před 8 lety +2

      +Alex McDonald raspberry pi

    • @mikettt3
      @mikettt3 Před 8 lety +3

      +Alex McDonald 1990s wrist watch calculator thingamado

  • @shannonlove4328
    @shannonlove4328 Před 8 lety +53

    The Soviets experimented with and might have IIRC deployed a re-entry shield made of carbonized peanut shell husk. Any form of structured carbon like that will have extraordinary thermal properties.
    What you've got there is actually "activated" charcoal, one attribute of which is a massive surface area per volume when you measure all the bubbles inside. That's why it's so good at filtering, a cubic centimeter of the stuff has an effective surface area of dozens and even hundreds of meters.
    Both the high electrical resistance and heat resistance come from the fractal/recursive structure in which big bubbles are made of walls of smaller bubbles, which are made of even smaller bubbles all the way down to the nanoscale.
    For electricity, this means a vast number of paths with the same resistance. The current cannot find a single shortest path and therefore even though pure carbon is a good conductor, in this form the conductivity produces a tangle of current paths.
    Heat faces a similar challenge. The increased vibrations of direct thermal energy have move through all the bubble/cell walls which a 1) thin and not very conductive and 2) are made of bubbles themselves even thinner and less conductive. The bubbles are filled with an inert gas CO2 in the simple case but the small bubble size prevents effective convection. Radiant heat across the bubbles is blocked by absorption of the black material and the very smallest bubbles can be considerably small than the wavelength if infrared, producing a quantum effect in which photons of those wavelengths have trouble hopping the bubble.
    The deal breaker with this material is its lack of structural strength. Just won't take shocks or impacts.

    • @Fleurlean4
      @Fleurlean4 Před 4 lety +7

      Shannon Love that’s an awesome overview of its properties, thanks for sharing.

    • @ravener96
      @ravener96 Před 3 lety +3

      Sorry its not activated. Activated charcoal has bubbles and faults on a molecular level. This is just charcoal

    • @adolfilyichmarx9589
      @adolfilyichmarx9589 Před 2 lety +3

      @@ravener96 its academically known as "activated carbon foam". The carbon atoms in the bread have already been rearranged in a way that can burn since being flour, thats the whole point of baking it. Then, through pyrolysis it activates and forms a structure that can no longer burn, like the process of activating charcoal. So really, although not "activated charcoal," the regular bread is moreso the "charcoal" in this situation rather than the heat ablative tile.

    • @danielheckel2755
      @danielheckel2755 Před měsícem

      What about sound insulation properties?

  • @lampman1337
    @lampman1337 Před 8 lety +415

    In this episode AvE burns his toast. And then he burns it some more.

    • @BlackWolf42-
      @BlackWolf42- Před 8 lety +24

      No burning of any toast was done except when it was burning by itself before he broke out the FLIR. He pyrolized it. Burn=O2 used, Pyrolize=No O2 used.

    • @TheMarioFiles
      @TheMarioFiles Před 8 lety +5

      +E2qNX8btraQ3zRD6J7fc *WHOOOOOSH*

    • @cjhification
      @cjhification Před 8 lety +3

      +E2qNX8btraQ3zRD6J7fc top marks

    • @cjhification
      @cjhification Před 8 lety +6

      it's how lots of organic household waste is treated if biodigestion is not available as the gasses released by piorolisers waste treatment are then used to power the pioroliser to gain more gas and thus generates power with the extra gas produced, you then just replace the organic waste when its run and the ash is used for various purposes. Great stuff.

    • @joshm444
      @joshm444 Před 7 lety +1

      reminds me of hydrothermal carbonization but less dangerous

  • @BoffinGrusky
    @BoffinGrusky Před 8 lety +398

    If I glue this stuff onto my 67 Dodge, will I be able to re-enter Earth's atmosphere without burning-up?

    • @derkeksinator17
      @derkeksinator17 Před 8 lety +25

      what about getting it out of the atmosphere in the first place?

    • @imdrunken
      @imdrunken Před 8 lety +98

      +Der Keksinator he's clearly past that planning stage. ..I say let's hear him out haha

    • @Beany2007FTW
      @Beany2007FTW Před 8 lety +33

      That's what the 440 and the four on the floor are for. Just add a big ramp.

    • @Freedomquest08
      @Freedomquest08 Před 8 lety +58

      Are you sure it's a Dodge, not a Plymouth Satellite?

    • @azyfloof
      @azyfloof Před 8 lety +5

      I would watch _that_ video

  • @funshootin1
    @funshootin1 Před 8 lety +70

    boom! you made original carbon- carbon .. I was lucky enough to get to talk in depth with a customer of 91 yrs old who worked on the original spy satellites , specifically on the reentry vehicles that dropped the film canister from orbit to be caught mid air via parachute to plane with a hook meetings before the rv hits the Pacific. .he worked for the contractor up through the keyhole series into the hexagons.. he had on his desk a big round 1 inch thick circle slab bout 6 inches in diameter, of this odd phenolic clear brown tan reddish material with what looked like flat fabric squares sunk in epoxy ... Essentially that's what it was, they would cut 1 inch squares of cotton fabric like as if you cut up a white tshirt into perfect square pieces, took a handful and soaked in epoxy resin of some kind or phenolic resin and then let it cure under tremendous pressure into this plastic molded shape of resin impregnated cotton squares , they would then bake and burn off that resin leaving behind what they named carbon carbon which is the forerunner to heat abatement tiles like on the space shuttle or at least that's how he described the process in layman's terms to me. hell of a interesting engineer this guy, it was a pleasure to pick his brain, they went onto

  • @Rickmakes
    @Rickmakes Před 8 lety +119

    Nothing a little butter won't fix

  • @PracticalEngineeringChannel
    @PracticalEngineeringChannel Před 8 lety +313

    This is awesome.

    • @BH-rh2bh
      @BH-rh2bh Před 8 lety +11

      fancy seeing you around here

    • @jttv2000
      @jttv2000 Před 8 lety +1

      hi

    • @mikestoneadfjgs
      @mikestoneadfjgs Před 8 lety +15

      I reckon you could do some practical engineering with this info.

    • @aidenokrent
      @aidenokrent Před 8 lety

      I love your videos Practical Engineering! Why don't you do a video on Medieval Weapons and which was most effective in what situation?

    • @MrEazyE357
      @MrEazyE357 Před 6 lety

      Practical Engineering What's up Grady? You're the man!

  • @TheArcticWonder
    @TheArcticWonder Před 3 lety +15

    It deeply disturbs me that AvE knows all this technical information about so many different things, but also knows what felching is. He truly is a complex man.

  • @chbrules
    @chbrules Před 8 lety +147

    NASA has contracted AvE to R&D more affordable heat tiles for their spacecraft. We're all doomed

    • @nocarebear8301
      @nocarebear8301 Před 8 lety +20

      Wonder bread sales just spiked. Guess who's the biggest shareholder? Time to pinch a loaf.

    • @micnor14
      @micnor14 Před 8 lety +2

      It's cool he said we can have the leftovers.

    • @staglomagnifico5711
      @staglomagnifico5711 Před 8 lety +34

      The next generation of space shuttles will smell delicious when entering atmosphere.

    • @nocarebear8301
      @nocarebear8301 Před 8 lety +13

      +Staglo Magnifico lmao! Just sprinkle a little cinnamon and sugar on it.

    • @rugrat99992003
      @rugrat99992003 Před 3 lety

      @@micnor14 & ceccecc5

  • @jamesb1221222
    @jamesb1221222 Před 7 lety +82

    Carbonize a whole loaf, hollow out the center and make a furnace with it. See if it can handle melting of various metals

    • @carolynmmitchell2240
      @carolynmmitchell2240 Před 6 lety +7

      jamesb1221222 or you could just take an old electric over and then fill it with home made bread mix and then close it up and seal it up tight except for one vent/purge hole.. then turn it on cleaning mode, which uses the broil and bottom coil and is really hot.

    • @carolynmmitchell2240
      @carolynmmitchell2240 Před 6 lety +4

      jamesb1221222 then you knock out a center hole and you electric over is now a furnace

    • @bigmessytoo
      @bigmessytoo Před 4 lety +4

      He has that video

  • @rrni2343
    @rrni2343 Před 8 lety +598

    I was going to post a chemistry joke here but the best ones argon.

    • @806luck003
      @806luck003 Před 8 lety +9

      Ahhahahahahaa!!!!!

    • @iamkarma4819
      @iamkarma4819 Před 8 lety +10

      +Clorox Bleach Quickly let me drink you before more jokes come.

    • @krisztianszirtes5414
      @krisztianszirtes5414 Před 8 lety +11

      NaH, please post. Bad ones are OK as well

    • @sc0tte1-416
      @sc0tte1-416 Před 8 lety +6

      Drinking bleach seems like it would be the worst way to turn yourself off, but hey, not everyone passed science class.

    • @arnaudmenard5114
      @arnaudmenard5114 Před 8 lety +11

      +Krisztián Szirtes well be careful what you wish for... I have a MIGHTY bad one!
      I don't like Pb and J for lunch, it's to heavy! ;D

  • @carolinabeacher1558
    @carolinabeacher1558 Před 7 lety +69

    i think your carbon is toast.

  • @extreamemineing
    @extreamemineing Před 8 lety +146

    i dont think argon is a common household item

    • @Lazarus7000
      @Lazarus7000 Před 8 lety +49

      On the one hand, TIG is fancy space man welding, with the wee bitty wand and radioactive thoriated tungsten nib. On the other hand, it's the pretty pretty princess of the welding processes; "Oh, the metal, she is dirty! I will not work!" "Oh, the grains of the nib are not all lined up, the electricity shall come out all funny!"

    • @Crzyman23
      @Crzyman23 Před 8 lety +2

      +AvE Got my tee shart today.Mhmmm beaver.

    • @Crzyman23
      @Crzyman23 Před 8 lety +2

      Indeed. All shall behold the glory of the tree carcass king, The Trusty Beaver!...now I'm upset I didn't get the other shart.

    • @xandercesari9773
      @xandercesari9773 Před 8 lety +1

      I only have a MIG but in my defense I'm renting!

    • @nickrider815
      @nickrider815 Před 8 lety +2

      You don't have to use argon gas, you could vacuum it, add co2, helium etc... Plus most people with a garage do have argon in their tool kit so it's more common than you think these days...

  • @175griffin
    @175griffin Před 8 lety +6

    I thought he meant "staple" literally. Laughed my ass off when I realized it was toast

  • @JuliansRandomProject
    @JuliansRandomProject Před 8 lety +55

    Beer is a great time keeping mechanism!

    • @SteveFrenchWoodNStuff
      @SteveFrenchWoodNStuff Před 8 lety

      I was about to comment on the same thing.

    • @chemicaljuice3078
      @chemicaljuice3078 Před 8 lety +3

      A toast to beer!

    • @s7eve1980
      @s7eve1980 Před 7 lety +7

      Beer is actually the universal unit. You can measure time, volume, mass, monetary value, caloric intake, mental status and drunkness in beers

    • @SteveFrenchWoodNStuff
      @SteveFrenchWoodNStuff Před 7 lety +4

      Stephan Fabry - and beauty.

  • @Thelawncarenut
    @Thelawncarenut Před 8 lety +11

    That ending got to me, right in the feels.

  • @Niarbeht
    @Niarbeht Před 8 lety +15

    *goes to channel*
    Ohhhh, what did the madman do this time?
    Ah. He's overdone his toast, I see.

  • @billville111
    @billville111 Před 8 lety +7

    ". . . it's been a good three fourths of a beer now. . . ". lol

  • @mightyfinejonboy
    @mightyfinejonboy Před 8 lety +29

    Give it a scrape over the sink, it's still good.

  • @express375
    @express375 Před 8 lety +9

    They use 'charcoal' blocks in the jewellery trade for soldering/melting pads. They deteriorate,and you usually keep them going for years,by wrapping wire around them to hold them together. You could make a new one every few weeks with this idea :) Ahh I left the comment before i got to the end!! Its ok if your using someone elses time and gas.

  • @roadkillscjim
    @roadkillscjim Před 8 lety +15

    Looks like what's left over my wife tries to cook anything...

  • @gi70st
    @gi70st Před 8 lety +5

    What you did with the toast is the same chemical process for making char-cloth. I just recently did that by throwing some pieces of 100%cotton in an altioids tin and throwing it in the fire. You might get away with just heating the toast in a tin for a while without the argon or any complicated setup. Cool video! Interesting that the same process that makes highly combustible material can also make flame-resistant material.

  • @SoftBreadSoftware
    @SoftBreadSoftware Před 8 lety +56

    6600c... 11,000+ F. So I could make a forge with... Bread

  • @niveusmaxum2535
    @niveusmaxum2535 Před 8 lety +10

    I was going to make a joke about how it looked like burnt bread... well shit.

  • @CEHepp
    @CEHepp Před 8 lety +1

    Of all my subscriptions, after reading the news article last week about this stuff, I figured nurdrage or sixty symbols would have been doing it first. Thankfully you took the initiative to get it done before those channels and have made a video that I won't be using to put me to sleep, unlike the other channels. Seriously, they're like ambien without the driving a car while asleep part.

  • @jason-ge5nr
    @jason-ge5nr Před 8 lety +58

    You actually get more done than some university chem labs

    • @markfergerson2145
      @markfergerson2145 Před 4 lety +9

      He doesn't have to put up with the insurance and safety fuckery they have to.

  • @DJ_Dett
    @DJ_Dett Před 8 lety +12

    Air is honestly one of the best insulators, and that hunka-chunka wonder charcoal will certainly hold plenty of it!
    One interesting thing about carbon is that it's actually a conductor. Not much, but it will conduct. When using carbon fiber materials in aircraft parts, you have to make sure you have grounding straps bonded to the carbon fiber layers to ground out any currents and act as a sacrificial anode. Otherwise, it'll turn your aluminum parts into chowder!

    • @samsonian
      @samsonian Před 6 lety +3

      Yes and no. Charcoal isn't a great conductor but graphite is pretty decent and graphene is nearly a superconductor! Also, nanotubes are ok conductors and depending on how you grow/build graphene/graphite carbon structures on a nano-level you can go from insulator to almost-superconductor but you can also engineer it to be a semiconductor like silicon! Carbon in its many forms is really wonderful stuff!

    • @whatshappenedhere1784
      @whatshappenedhere1784 Před 5 lety

      So you can get an electrolytic reaction with carbon fiber?

    • @rwood1995
      @rwood1995 Před 7 měsíci

      I always get confused because lack of air is the very best insulator. Ask my Yetti cup or deep space. Almost as if we need a different word for electric vs thermal to avoid confusion??

  • @billbaggins
    @billbaggins Před 8 lety +21

    Hmm maybe I could use this as lining when i rebuild my shop after the fire

    • @SteinErikDahle
      @SteinErikDahle Před 8 lety +3

      Don't forget to report back when you've found out! 🤔

    • @billbaggins
      @billbaggins Před 8 lety +9

      all depends on wether i can do it with a pair of pliers and a burnt hammer

    • @LiberalsGettheBulletToo
      @LiberalsGettheBulletToo Před 3 lety

      You obviously adhere them with peanut butter.

  • @Nastyman9
    @Nastyman9 Před 8 lety

    I like the new format with the music. Keep up the good work!!

  • @Legend286UK
    @Legend286UK Před 8 lety

    Love the editing style at the beginning... :D Also, really cool way to make cheap fireproofing for small scale experiments :)

  • @sno_crash
    @sno_crash Před 8 lety +97

    Anyone thinking of trying this - make sure you leave a small vent in the "Carbinator" - Or you'll have a bomb.

    • @theterribleanimator1793
      @theterribleanimator1793 Před 5 lety +3

      @@Turbo44mag but the metal casing that holds the bread is not, and if the volatiles cant vent, it will blow up in flames.
      Fucktard.

    • @deanwhite6741
      @deanwhite6741 Před 5 lety +5

      Oh, also, not all welds are created equally. If the welds do not penetrate deep enough, you will create a Wonderbead cannon at best.

    • @johnbasiglone1219
      @johnbasiglone1219 Před 5 lety

      @@theterribleanimator1793 what did pungent say, his comment was deleted.

    • @theterribleanimator1793
      @theterribleanimator1793 Před 5 lety +9

      @@johnbasiglone1219 some garbage about having to close the entire metal box and not let it vent, and then calling the original comentator a fucktard.
      Just some incompetent guy on the comments, usual stuff.

  • @darknightx33x81
    @darknightx33x81 Před 8 lety +32

    that is interesting seeing how you basically made a charcoal oven.

    • @andresnrivero
      @andresnrivero Před 8 lety +5

      Everyone is like 10 chapters ahead of you, keep up.

    • @darknightx33x81
      @darknightx33x81 Před 8 lety +2

      please tell me which chapters i missed then

    • @jeaddy10
      @jeaddy10 Před 8 lety +6

      +Darknightx33x 1 thru 10 obviously.

    • @darknightx33x81
      @darknightx33x81 Před 8 lety +1

      really? i read one thru nine

    • @jeaddy10
      @jeaddy10 Před 8 lety

      Dang one more to go bud, lol

  • @a64738
    @a64738 Před 8 lety +2

    This reminds me when I did buy a cheep one time barbecue grill with Charcoal briquettes that seemed to be made of tiles meant for the space shuttle heat-shield... The grill would not light even with a propane torch and only result was that the briquettes would glow red hot as long as you put the torch to it. Take away the flame and immediate they would cool down and the briquettes seemed to be totally unharmed.

    • @Auriam
      @Auriam Před rokem

      Did you not use any lighter fluid?

  • @Les__Mack
    @Les__Mack Před 8 lety

    Thanks AvE for another great video!

  • @dakiloth
    @dakiloth Před 8 lety +50

    urm. what's with the audio

    • @TomStorey96
      @TomStorey96 Před 8 lety +25

      It sounds like the video is about 10 years old or something. Definitely not up to the usual fidelity we are used to. :)

    • @dakiloth
      @dakiloth Před 8 lety +9

      Quiet voice compared to the "music"

    • @TomStorey96
      @TomStorey96 Před 8 lety +30

      I like my "focus you fuck"'s loud and clear.

    • @elmfuzzy1
      @elmfuzzy1 Před 8 lety +1

      Sound quality is a good bit lower than normal.

    • @FictualKyle
      @FictualKyle Před 8 lety +1

      +AvE fucking nerd

  • @wreck_ignition7847
    @wreck_ignition7847 Před 8 lety +17

    +AvE You have to be an engineer. Who else would have repurposed porosity as a venting system?

  • @johnsutcliffe3965
    @johnsutcliffe3965 Před 4 lety

    I just want to say thank you and AWESOME! I really enjoy the videos and knowledge you share with the lot of us. Also, I enjoy learning new things and was wondering if you had a list of good technical books?

  • @krisztianszirtes5414
    @krisztianszirtes5414 Před 8 lety

    My grandmother told me that when she was a kid, her mother used spoiled plum jam mixed with sand to insulate the walls of the fireplace they used for heating. They left it to dry out and it made the same foamy graphite layer.

  • @azyfloof
    @azyfloof Před 8 lety +27

    I was looking at that carbon foam, thinking "I've _seen_ this shape before?"
    After you said "I'm gonna tell you what this is" I said out loud "Oh my god... Is it toast?!"
    Then you said "White wonder bread!" And I just burst out laughing!
    Fantastic stuff :D Bet that smells amazing, too! :P

    • @duaneantor9157
      @duaneantor9157 Před 5 lety +2

      Two pieces can be bonded together with cheese for extra insulating protection.

    • @vincedibona4687
      @vincedibona4687 Před 5 lety

      Haywood Banks would be proud.

  • @rocketodude
    @rocketodude Před 8 lety +14

    Will this work without argon? I know charcol ovens dont need it but is this somehow different

    • @themomaw
      @themomaw Před 8 lety +1

      From my experiences making charcoal, my recommendation if you're going to try this without the inert gas in the oven is to pay very VERY careful attention as you're cooking. As soon as you see the yellow flame on the vent hole gutters out, *plug the vent hole* and remove from heat to let your oven cool off. I don't think the results will be as nice as Ave's because of the stray oxygen, but it should approximatelyish work.

    • @TheIlook1
      @TheIlook1 Před 8 lety +6

      Wrapping it in multiple layers of heavy duty aluminum foil (to block the oxygen) and putting it in a fire should work. That is how I make char cloth.

    • @rssjramon
      @rssjramon Před 8 lety

      +AvE doesn't the bread have to burn in the absence of oxygen? The other way I've heard of making this is to burn bread in a vacuum. I'm not one to disagree with the mighty AvE but I doubt it will work without some inert gas to displace the oxygen.

    • @Jcsthird
      @Jcsthird Před 8 lety +7

      You still need an inert gas that will displace the oxygen. 100% nitrogen should work. If you hit the auto ignition temp of the bread with oxygen in the chamber, all you're going to end up with is ash.

    • @retakrew
      @retakrew Před 8 lety +4

      it is more reliable under an argon atmosphere. if you don't want to use argon, you need a container that pretty much has exactly the bread measurements, so no air is trapped with the bread. with argon you can use every closable steel container you have.

  • @JackpineGandy
    @JackpineGandy Před 7 lety +1

    I love it! It is Mr. Wizard (old TV show) for beer drinkers! Keep it coming!

  • @pmgodfrey
    @pmgodfrey Před 8 lety +2

    Excellent! Now I just need a few hundred loaves to line my attic with!
    Hey, send me some of that new Budweiser Prohibition Brew that's only available in Canada. :)

  • @taylor5263
    @taylor5263 Před 8 lety +13

    so i could in theory use this to line my foundry or would it not last long enough? i feel as though this probably is already a commercial product or maybe it has a synthetic counterpart does anyone know?

    • @Sirko857
      @Sirko857 Před 8 lety +4

      Yeah it would work if you plan to build an electric foundry filled with an inert gas but it guess it would just combust like ordinary coal otherwise.

    • @tjeulink
      @tjeulink Před 8 lety

      +Sirko why would it combust (i have not enough chemistry knoweledge to underwtwnd this)

    • @Sirko857
      @Sirko857 Před 8 lety +8

      Because the carbon would react with the oxygen present in the air: for a combustion you need a fuel, an oxydant and a certain level of energy. In this case, the activation energy is provided by whatever source of heat you choose and once it's reached, the oxygen bonds with the carbon to form carbon monoxyde / dioxyde (depending on the oxygen availlability), water and heat. So if you plan to make a coal furnace you will probably use a blower to increase the oxygen availlability in the fire to reach higher temperatures but that means you burn your coal faster too. This faster combustion concerns also the _AvE's refractory bread©_ so it would sublimate pretty quickly. This is also the reason why a graphite crucible can't withstand as many pours in a coal furnace than in an electric one. Tell me if there's something you don't understand because english isn't my mother tong

    • @tjeulink
      @tjeulink Před 8 lety +1

      Sirko no i completely understand now, thanks for explaining. english isnt my native language either haha

    • @bigpapi3636
      @bigpapi3636 Před 8 lety +5

      If there's oxygen present the "carbon toast" will oxidize rapidly (burn) above 600C just like charcoal.

  • @djdood
    @djdood Před 8 lety +3

    Quote of the day: "It's been a good 3/4 of a beer now..."

  • @NicholasAarons
    @NicholasAarons Před 7 lety

    Amazing ViJho. Keep up the great work. Nick.

  • @howtodefi4636
    @howtodefi4636 Před 5 lety +1

    Have you tested the durability of it? I’d be interested to know how is holds up to stress and impact

  • @Frank-cj4td
    @Frank-cj4td Před 7 lety +5

    How brittle is the foam?

    • @gkanvik1
      @gkanvik1 Před 5 lety

      Ask brittle as a burnt piece of toast

  • @Makebuildmodify
    @Makebuildmodify Před 8 lety +3

    Great video. But I'm dubious about the sublimation. I thought phase transition in that direction was an endothermic reaction and in the clip here it is most definitely an exothermic reaction......or maybe it was a trick....is possible that you added alcohol to the toast for that shot?

    • @carsonrush3352
      @carsonrush3352 Před 3 lety +1

      I think the charcoal he made is burning away into a gas.

    • @tardonator
      @tardonator Před 3 lety +2

      Carbon does sublimate in atmospheric pressure at 4000k or so, no liquid phase, so AVE is correct. It will also burn in an oxidative environment before that, however.

  • @miskatonic763
    @miskatonic763 Před 8 lety +1

    "It's been a good three quarters of a beer,, now", Love your scale of time.

  • @KesselRunLX
    @KesselRunLX Před 8 lety

    Another wonderful lesson from the University of AvE!

  • @jaysbob
    @jaysbob Před 8 lety +28

    Hows it taste?

    • @wyvern4588
      @wyvern4588 Před 8 lety +13

      I've actually made this 13 years ago, it tastes like cigarette ash and permanent marker.
      I was a dumb and bored 13 year old.

    • @piast99
      @piast99 Před 8 lety +2

      How do you know how the cigarette ash tastes like?

    • @TheLaXandro
      @TheLaXandro Před 8 lety +10

      I made a horrible mistake of trying to drink out of a soda can that was apparently spent and used as an ashtray already once.

    • @P14zm4
      @P14zm4 Před 8 lety +4

      Just give it a scrape and lots o butter it will be fine :-p

    • @wyvern4588
      @wyvern4588 Před 8 lety +2

      piast99
      I was a dumb 6 year old and put a cigarette butt in my mouth backwards to look "cool"
      I also occasionally smoke pipes and cigars, accidental ash in the mouth happens.

  • @radomane
    @radomane Před 8 lety +16

    I'm really not feeling the music, follow the KISS principle

    • @gregorka9
      @gregorka9 Před 8 lety +4

      I second that, great vid as usual, don't need the music

    • @Scanlaid
      @Scanlaid Před 8 lety +4

      It's sounding a little... buzzfeedish here. He is trying with it though, which I have to commend. I like that he's considering the video making process. But I enjoyed his videos because they felt simply "just in the shop". The last video music was like... experimental electronic music it seemed. This one is the stuff you'd hear on a table place setting DIY video or some shit.
      I do like the thought behind it, and I welcome him to gussy up his videography skills (a la Clickspring), but yeah he needs better music. Probably can't find good Creative Commons fair use stuff. I wonder if there's some Red Green show type sounding things that would be good in the background lightly.
      His simple videos are great, hilarious, and informative. They're perfectly fine kept simple, I like that. I think his end goal is the most watchable video. Not necessarily cutesy everyone accessible, just most engaging. The music helps tie together some of the cuts. He definitely needs to get a little fancy with the edits, the volume needs adjusting, playing one song the whole time can be boring, but its a learning process and striking that balance that takes work. Sound editing is pretty tricky to find that exact mix for the right feel of the video

    • @jaykoerner
      @jaykoerner Před 8 lety

      it's better then the elevator music a couple vids back I'll take what I can get as long as it is tolerable

    • @chbrules
      @chbrules Před 8 lety

      I liked the music

  • @AstAMoore
    @AstAMoore Před 8 lety

    This video about this amazing material was amazingly amazing. I’m amazed beyond amazed.

  • @drakinkoren
    @drakinkoren Před 8 lety

    I accidently did this with about 60 french sticks when I was a baker. Forgot them in the ovens at night when they turn off on auto, disabling any timers and alarms you had set to remind you you put something in there, and the morning shift started putting in loaves after the ovens had been back on and heating up for 3 or 4 hours at full heat (220'C i think).
    One unhappy boss, and a really detailed set of matching carbonized french sticks for the discerning collector... :)

  • @DigBipper188
    @DigBipper188 Před 7 lety +2

    Odd how I could smell burning bread throughout this video... oh wait... I was making toast... that explains it!

  • @dave1135
    @dave1135 Před 8 lety +22

    could have saved NASA a fortune using this in place of their super expensive, super fragile heat tileh

    • @micnor14
      @micnor14 Před 8 lety +5

      Methinks at the cost of 1 Canadian peso per-loaf, they would just replace them every time.

    • @siblinganon66
      @siblinganon66 Před 8 lety +4

      that is until you actually think about it and try to iron out all the problems...
      it's warped and if that happened due to the process you need to find a way to make it without warping the tiles and to get them in the desired shape and in the correct measurements. trying to control precisely how much something like this shrinks is at best a nightmare. same goes for the ceramics btw.
      secondly how would you fixate these on the hull? you can't simply nail them on because the nail would melt, gluing on would work if you can protect the glue from the heat that will inch inwards along the borders of the plates.
      thirdly the question is how brittle are these things? you need some resistance to physical impact too in a spaceship.
      finally you need to figure in weight and volume, both important again.
      so yes, you perhaps could make a heat shield for a spaceship out of toast but once you fixed all the problems, found the solution I kinda doubt it will be that much cheaper.

    • @FSXgta
      @FSXgta Před 7 lety +2

      I think nasa's stuff is better

    • @artandmusic4516
      @artandmusic4516 Před 6 lety

      FSXgta just another brand name
      Use a pencil

    • @gkanvik1
      @gkanvik1 Před 5 lety +2

      They are relatively fragile unfortunately! If only they were made of a stronger material, like a piece of burnt toast.

  • @silentscribes
    @silentscribes Před 8 lety

    hey ave what would you recommend using to read really high temps, like a pyrometer? is there anything you would recommend.

  • @crazygn0me67
    @crazygn0me67 Před 8 lety

    maybe at some point i missed it, but what is the musical music that you use for your music montages? It has a good beat. eh.

  • @o0killenjoke0o
    @o0killenjoke0o Před 7 lety +4

    and that, is why it's called wonder bread.

  • @FLOABName
    @FLOABName Před 8 lety +3

    AvE, I think you over toasted your toast

  • @MechTechMax
    @MechTechMax Před 8 lety

    That's so cool. I think I'm going to try to use this idea for insulating my aluminum foundry.

  • @NickMoore
    @NickMoore Před 8 lety

    Awesome! How much tar did you get off the toast in the pyrolysis cell?

  • @balisticsquirel
    @balisticsquirel Před 8 lety +3

    I'm gonna go cook me up a replacement for my tig finger.

  • @gregadams558
    @gregadams558 Před 8 lety +16

    A piece of toast?

  • @BenRichardson
    @BenRichardson Před 6 lety +1

    I greatly enjoy your reviews and tool teardowns. I recently acquired a DeWalt DCB1800B and have attached 4 of the DCB606 batterias. Please consider performing an analysis and offering a skookum quotient or other opinion for this charger/inverter. Mine will crank a table saw or a heavy duty chop saw with metal cutoff blade with ease.

  • @HampusGilljam
    @HampusGilljam Před 7 lety +1

    Woah! I've been looking at ways to build a forge at home, finding that a decent refraction material is the trickiest part (for some reason, firebricks are hard to get a hold of where I live). Lining a forge with toast would just be so, so awesome.. You guys think the carbon foam de AvE extraordinaire could handle 1200-1400 C?

  • @carolynmmitchell2240
    @carolynmmitchell2240 Před 6 lety +6

    replace 80% of the water in bread mix with sodium silicate.. The CO2 from the yeast will pre harden it and then the heating later will make it into a stronger matrix then just carbon

    • @mihaiilie8808
      @mihaiilie8808 Před 4 lety

      It wont work because the water glass is verry alkaline and it will kill the yeast before geting it to form CO2 .

  • @nickrider815
    @nickrider815 Před 8 lety +5

    Sweet a viable use for my wife's toast!

  • @milskymoo265
    @milskymoo265 Před 8 lety

    When you put butter on carbon foam, do you spread it from the outside in, or the inside out?
    (P.S. Kanuckistan beaver shirt arrived in the UK today - it's a beaut. Cheers, AvE!)

  • @wileycayote23
    @wileycayote23 Před 8 lety

    Congratulations on your mention on the website Sploid!

  • @ASilentS
    @ASilentS Před 8 lety +4

    felching tube? LOL

  • @AcornFox
    @AcornFox Před 8 lety +6

    the drink is called chicha. made from chewed corn.

    • @5roundsrapid263
      @5roundsrapid263 Před 8 lety

      I guess they don't have any grain high in amylase. Scotch, bourbon and beer usually use barley malt for amylase.

    • @MisterTalkingMachine
      @MisterTalkingMachine Před 8 lety

      Interesting, in my country, what we know as chicha is made from fruits, be it apples, grapes or else.

    • @Vein1986
      @Vein1986 Před 8 lety

      In Mongolia, there is Kumys, made from horse milk. It has 1-3 percent of alcohol.

  • @MrEazyE357
    @MrEazyE357 Před 6 lety

    What a coincidence... The last vijayo of yours i watched I left a comment bitching about the music. Then I watch this one and I love your music choice. Keep doing you buddy!

  • @maxk4324
    @maxk4324 Před 5 lety

    3:52 If you have already pyrolyzed it, how does it have any material left that can still pyrolize/sublimate to carry away the heat (which is how it works if I'm not mistaken)?

  • @ryanbarbolt3691
    @ryanbarbolt3691 Před 8 lety +3

    I've seen the same phenomenon when overheating certain nylons, just hot enough and they turn to goop, too hot and they get hard.

  • @CumminsDslPwr
    @CumminsDslPwr Před 8 lety +35

    If ya wanted to know how to carburize any form of food substance, all you had to do was ask and I would have given you the exes phone #. The carbon tiles actually looked more appetizing than some of the crap she fed me. Mmmm Mmmm Good !

    • @Justplanecrazy25
      @Justplanecrazy25 Před 8 lety +4

      +WO With the sound of how she did things I'm more thinking along the lines of Indian rug burn...

    • @BenjaminGoose
      @BenjaminGoose Před 5 lety

      ie. She dumped you.

  • @kevinliang9502
    @kevinliang9502 Před 8 lety +1

    Can you do a breakdown of your old Milwaukee drill? I wanna see why that's so good compared to the new ones.

  • @SDCustoms
    @SDCustoms Před 8 lety +2

    There's a fine line between genius and madness... can't tell which this is. (I love it!!) Keep my slice in the slot? I believe yours has gone out of the slot long a go and it in the table! LOL

  • @paulhicks9399
    @paulhicks9399 Před 8 lety +3

    Good video part from the stupid music playing in the background lol

    • @C-beezy
      @C-beezy Před 3 lety

      I came here specifically to ask what music it was because I loved it so much

  • @applepoop10
    @applepoop10 Před 8 lety +11

    Crush the carbon and make diamonds.

  • @dakotabobbitt6887
    @dakotabobbitt6887 Před 5 lety

    I'm hooked on AvE's videos damn it. This guy is fkn awesome. It's like Einstein, Tim the tool man Taylor, Adam Savage, and Canada had a baby lol

  • @TheDutchShepherd
    @TheDutchShepherd Před 8 lety

    Which flir do you have?
    bigclive will teach you how to upgrade it for free to the high end one ( it is only software )

  • @kylesenior
    @kylesenior Před 8 lety +15

    I'm at 0:53 and I'm going to guess a sponge

    • @kylesenior
      @kylesenior Před 8 lety +3

      Or bread. 1:00 looks like bread

    • @jbbauer0
      @jbbauer0 Před 8 lety +5

      I thought sponge at first too. Sure looks like one haha.

    • @Mostlyharmless1985
      @Mostlyharmless1985 Před 8 lety +1

      That does give me an idea though, A sea sponge might be able to carbonize in the same manner... animals are mostly carbon, right?

    • @GeoffonTour
      @GeoffonTour Před 8 lety +1

      Usually they are, although interestingly some sponges have an inorganic skeleton made of silica

    • @kylesenior
      @kylesenior Před 8 lety

      I was thinking more of a synthetic plastic sponge.

  • @Alex50cc
    @Alex50cc Před 7 lety +5

    is it bread?

  • @SouthpawPablo
    @SouthpawPablo Před rokem

    Really hoping this will work for making a smelter cant wait to see if I can actually try it out!

  • @mprobison
    @mprobison Před 8 lety

    Hey AvE, I've been know to smash bits of metal with angrier other bits of metal. Would you, in your experience, be likely to use this wonderment in a forge/smelter? Also, In the words of Mao ZeDong, how can we achieve better uniformity?

  • @hexadecimil
    @hexadecimil Před 8 lety +5

    woh woh wait just a darn minute there! that's NOT a thermo-couple. THAT my fine friend is a THERMISTOR, Mister. i may not no much but i ken tell the difference 'tween a thermocouple and a thermistor an that there's a thermistor. An a Bonjour mon ami! como ca va?

    • @hexadecimil
      @hexadecimil Před 8 lety +3

      call me an idiot, but a thermistor is really just a resistor used to read thermal energy or temp. a thermocouple is a bymeatal thingy-ma-bobber.

    • @Zmechanic
      @Zmechanic Před 8 lety +5

      It's a thermocouple. The weld on the end just looks a bit blobby, making it resemble a thermistor. It would not work properly at all if he had connected a thermistor up to a thermocouple conditioner.

    • @TMS5100
      @TMS5100 Před 8 lety +1

      look up TM-902C.
      thermistors don't go to 1300C, they rarely go above 300C before self destructing.

    • @hexadecimil
      @hexadecimil Před 8 lety +1

      +ms3bani I stand corrected. thank you. more research is needed on my part

    • @SafeAndEffectiveTheySaid
      @SafeAndEffectiveTheySaid Před 7 lety

      Not, it is not a thermistor, by definition a thermistor is an discrete device, so a meter would only read a opened or closed circuit.

  • @georgegavin5273
    @georgegavin5273 Před 7 lety

    You sir, are the best damn "sperimenter" I've ever seen. What a scientist!

  • @Dunwang
    @Dunwang Před 6 lety

    This really is cool. You should be a science teacher as this is the sort of thing that gets kids excited.

  • @WeTrudgeOn
    @WeTrudgeOn Před 8 lety

    I think the constant prattling on while the big burner is on even though we can't hear a word is hilarious.

  • @RaptorsAddict
    @RaptorsAddict Před 8 lety

    If you crushed it up into a powder would it lose all of these properties? Or could you take the powder, add some particulate-gluing schmoo, put it in a mold and so and so is your uncle, etc.?

  • @apyogapaartiban
    @apyogapaartiban Před 6 lety

    Hi,
    I tried it. But using LPG (cooking gas). As you said it doesn't transfer heat to the other side when flame applied on one side.
    But the problem is that it is very soft and brittle. Also some part of bread becomes ash.
    Please advise. Thank you.

  • @waywardspirit7898
    @waywardspirit7898 Před 4 lety

    Hmmmm, now i understand why "Carbon Foam AGM Batteries" are so good and last so long without damage when discharged below critical voltage levels. Thanx for posting. Amazing info. :)

  • @TGears314
    @TGears314 Před 8 lety

    OK I LOVE this idea. it's super cool! tell me though, do you know any of the material characteristics? maybe you could make a vidjeo describing whether it's brittle and crumbles when you squeeze it or not. or if it can withstand larger pieces of metal (more massive) without collapsing.

  • @lordbambithird8919
    @lordbambithird8919 Před 7 lety

    AVE WHAT IS THAT DELICIOUS BEAT AT THE START!Doc says "heat of the meat depicts the angle of the dangle."

  • @RobertSzasz
    @RobertSzasz Před 8 lety +1

    Makes me wonder if the foam made by adding sulfuric acid to sugar would work as well, or of remnants of acid and water would cause issues. Perhaps for electroplating or electrorefining it wouldn't matter?

  • @nox_chan
    @nox_chan Před 5 lety

    These initial videos were so pure and innocent, when did if all go horribly right?

  • @JDWatkins
    @JDWatkins Před 4 lety

    Question.
    Once we make this foam carbon. Can it be crushed then compacted to make fire bricks?
    Sorry if this is a dumb question.