Testing Different Potassium Nitrate and Sugar Mixtures
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Testing Different Potassium Nitrate and Sugar Mixtures - Zábava
Use powdered sugar.
Oh yeah!
Use ground up regular sugar. Powdered sugar often has some corn starch mixed with it.
@@cocospops9351 I used powdered sugar with corn starch and works really good.
@@sabik6979 yup it works alright
@@corrick4339 Correct
Apart from the need to finely powder and mix both compounds before lighting, Kev has an irate partner because there’s nothing to cook the chicken in, but also the nicest smelling workshop that would give the Wonka factory a run for its money
Even when lit the various mixes he missed the ideal mix ratio of KNO3 65% and Sugar 35 %.
How he decided that 50/50 was the most energetic is beyond me. That looked like a normal flame. You want to hear the oxygen sizzle as it's being formed. A sound of a whoosh. Making an extra large candy motor is simple and cheap. But the mega size motors like L can really take off and produce a lot of thrust.
The ratio you said above works well for model rocket engines along with some pretty kick ass fountains if you add some aluminum or other alkali earth metal salts. Strontium and barium make some pretty cool colors.
@@Sam-ik6uj how much strontium and barium?
Very interesting.
It's good for making firecrackers, right?
@@TheRojo387 of course, it's a fuel mixed with an oxidizer
Melt them together at a 60/40 (potassium nitrate/sugar)ratio then put into a toilet paper roll container for a superb homemade smoke stick. Happy forth!
Gamma Relay fourth*
And the whole thing goes boom cuz you put 40/60 instead
@The More You Know hmm, not sure I can answer that one, especially in the current "climate".
Light a small firecracker in your open palm and you get surface burns, close your fist around one and you lose your hand.
I hope you can extrapolate the point 😉
It is also good rocket fuel
What a wonderful test, just what i was looking for, you saved me a lot of time. Great vid. Cheers
Hmm 3 years ago I wonder what your using that mixture for today hmm not making slugs I hope
I make my saltpetre and sugar into a powder in a small coffee grinder. (Separately) I mix 50/50 and add 91 percent rubbing alcohol to make a wet mix. I fill a tube for a rocket motor and let the mix dry out with some heat. When the mix has hardened drill a small hole through the hardened mixture and make a nozzle. I use a washer that has a hole in it and secure it with steel epoxy mix. (JB Weld) If you make a small amount put it on a spoon to test. My mix is rather explosive.
Imagine putting rust powder in your 50/50 mix
Confectionery sugar is better than granulated! I figured the 50/50 mix on my own when I was a kid (10 yrs old) and made cardboard rockets of it.... . I gave captured grasshoppers rides into space.
Busy kid was I! In time, I thought I could improve the formulation by adding other flammable 'stuff'. So, I added sulfur, which helped. Noticing that the sugar burned to a sort of charcoal, I substituted charcoal for the sugar, which was okay, too! Years later, in high school chemistry class, I learned about balancing chemical equations and discovered that I had invented gunpowder on my own, which I shot in a simple & small brass muzzle-loading cannon that I made in machine shop class. Not a surprise, then, that I my first major career move was entering the Armed Forces.
You still got all your fingers and toes?
@@antonycasanova4067 Haa...! ;) YES! and eyes, too, with a lot of luck. My eyebrows long ago grew back.
LOL
I'm assuming that you grew up in the 80's. I remember those days. Now days, if a kid did that he would be court ordered into therapy and he and his parents would be branded as antisocial. I miss the freedom that we had back then.
@@antiqueantique7786 Even better, I grew up in the 50s & 60s. All I had to do was go to the drug store pharmacy, purchase a gallon of dry potassium nitrate, another gallon of dry sulphur, and confectionary sugar from the grocery. Eventually, I substituted charcoal for sugar. That was much better. And I was a good normal American boy! ;)
I've seen people adding sulfur and aluminium into the mix and it was much longer and gave of lots of smoke and smell. Good for moles
adding sulfur makes it one step closer to gunpowder Lmao
Yeah smell sulfer and get lung cancer
@@nathanholyland9493 True
Apparently it wasn't good for my moles, they'll never let me hear the last of it!
This is a really well made video. You deserve more subscribers!
BrainDoesStuff not really.he didn’t mix them well,didn’t grind the powders till they are fine,and didn’t seal the containers so the nitrate got muist
Simply outstanding!👍👍👍
Thank you for the hard work you did of your video. Will be a hit in Texas.
Of course the 50/50 mix burns faster when you use the blowtorch instead of the regular lighter.
The KNO3 is heavier than sugar per volume. I have been using 1 scoop prilled KNO3 and 1 scoop granulated sugar in a coffee blender to make a hot burning powder.
Put potassium nitrite, and mixed with 6O%, sugar and put into a rolled up piece of foolscape paper, and wrap the paper cylinder in red electric tape. You can also do this with 2O% sugar for an intense and safe (can hold in your hand for a moment road flare. PS: don't try this at home. Sometimes the mixture can explode.
Ahh so make sure you do it a hospital rather than at home for when it does explode while you are holding it in your hand...
"Can hold in your hand for a moment road flare"... Followed with "can sometimes explode"... LOL....
@@edwardortman2593 - I have actually made and held these Home-Made road flares. If properly mixed it is quite safe.
This works like gunpowder. You need a source of oxygen, the oxidizing agent and fuel source. Sugar. Since sugar has some oxygen in it’s chemical structure, you can use more sugar than you would use charcoal for gun powder.
8:18 “potatsitsum”
Well heard Michel :)
Yea michel
I got remaining kno3 from gunpowder project and want to make with them another explosives thank you for showing me the best ratio
3:55 no much fun for that one : you made me laugh a lot!
Rocket candy
Very nice experiment. thank you
Your mixing an oxidizer (potassium nitrate) with the fuel (sugar). The nitrate stores oxygen to burn the sugar.
Would adding some Hydrogen Peroxide to this mixture make it burn more volatile? It's also an oxidizer, very strong one. But it does break down into water so that might make it fail.
I've done the 65:35 ratio and it works fairly well, im guessing from watching this that a 55:45 or somewhere in between 60% and 55% for potassium, let me know if that works for you! (I just had the cops at my place a while ago so I cant experiment on my own anymore.. D: f*** California lol)
Matt Miller Why you have cops?
@@osamabinladen824 cuz neighbors are programmed brainwashed libs
I’m from San Francisco California and the cops don’t care here unless ur not doing it a safe place where it doesn’t interfere with other people which u should always. And always say it’s just fireworks I found, don’t say ur trying anything
This video got me to subscribe. 👍
1966 I was 8yrs old mixing 50/50 for smoke bombs, before the interweb too!
Massive White Smoke!
Is 50/50 the optimum mix? I mean, as propellant, what is the most effective one?
@@osamabinladen824 Hello dear subscriber to my channel! No 50/50 is not the optimum. The optimal mix of these two components would be around 65% KNO3 and 35% sugar. It would work better than shown in this video if the components were dissolved in distilled water and the water then evaporated off at the lowest possible temperature, at around 100 degrees Celsius. You shouldn't exceed 120 degrees Celsius as the KNO3 can deteriorate. But sorbitol may be a better fuel than sugar because you don't need water to mix the ingredients together homogeneously. I am writing this because remaining water can negatively affect the burning reaction and sorbitol has a melting point of around 100 degrees Celsius. The ideal ratio of KNO3 and sorbitol is the same as stated for sugar. First melt the sorbitol at the temperature mentioned and then stir in the KNO3 evenly.
Disclaimer: I decline any responsibility.
its because oxidiser + fuel that is the the reaction to make it cooler add some iron filings and copper powder
i have the same scales, to zero them you dont have to turn them of and on again, you just press the power button briefly and it wlll zero them.
That's what the "tare" button is for.
@@andyl5645 the power button IS the tare button in those scales
Amazing and very helpful video, its helped me in my rocket school project, Greetings from Algeria
me too it helped me( , from Algeria,) in my physique project
Patasium nitrate produces oxygen when it burns. Fire not only needs oxygen to burn it also increases the heat causing it to burn faster
Wow. Very cool. 👌
I'm going to try 50/50 mix with powdered sugar packing that in to numerous holes in a large Walnut stump soaking it in kerosene and then lighting it after about a week
saltpetre is a spice. you can find it at almost every grocery store. Santa Maria has it
The sugar is the fuel in the potassium nitrate is the oxidizer. 60/40 ratio seems to be the best for Rockets. You get much better results if you powder the potassium nitrate any small blender like a Magic Bullet blender and use powdered sugar instead of the normal granular. Even better results is when you melt them together in a cooking pan over a non flame heat Source like a hot plate, when the mixture cools it is one big rock solid chunk. The best results is when you take the melted solid chunk and then pulverize it into a powder!
Can u smelt it will it still work good... IM A BEGINNER :D
Sir If you put aluminum powder in potassium and sugar mix, will the fire turn white???
You need to make your ingredients into a fine powder.... this will help them compound easier. Second, to make these and effective smoke mixture you add the powder to melted paraffin wax.
Or, an even better method to get it to burn super hot and produce a lot of smoke is 40% sugar and 60% potassium nitrate and cook them together in a frying pan until the sugar carmelizes, you then should pour it into some sort of container such as a toilet paper roll with tin foil on the bottom. Then you wait till it hardens in the fridge for a bit till it hardens from which you can light it off and kabam super smoke bomb/extremes heat
Mr.Techaky Thanks for the idea.
@@ClayishWall I've tried this. My mixture hardens like a rock but when I light it nothing happens AT ALL. can you help
@@mrshowtime7465 imma be completely real with u, I don’t even remember making this comment, but I got my source from somewhere online so the best advice I can give ya is just to look it up somewhere, sorry
@@ClayishWall lmao 3 years ago
what can we make more further with this for the explosion?
One drop of water in the mix makes a difference. You're basically combining an oxidizer and a fuel. A drop of water will pre-combine the ingredients and make burn more efficient. The saltpeter, harmless by itself- albeit corrosive- will do the same thing to wood or anything else (like paper, saw dust) that burns on its own. This is similar to how trinitrotoluene :TNT is made, ANFO too. Be careful storing the mixed fuel/oxidizer combo... it can become unstable and ignite / explode in the right conditions... Remember Nitroglycerin? Mean stuff... Put some (of your 50/50 + a few drops of H2O) in a coke can on the hood of an enemy's car... WooHoo!
A drop of water added for better mixing and end up burning better when it drys or ignite when water is present?
@@mckarthy5771 when it drys im pretty sure
use icing sugar and water when mixing then dry for better results
_you're mixing an oxidizer with fuel then completing the fire triangle with ignition. If you want a better effect mix your compounds in a coffee grinder or pestle and mortar or you can heat them up in a container to product a peanut butter looking material which you could make into interesting shapes before setting them alight_
Which salt do you order?
what is the different saltpeter from kno3 with the No3-N + K20?
That poor pot! 😆 🤣 😂 😹
Good for a volcano eruption project!!
Much better than sugar and bicarbonate of soda but with a less cool end result
Use confectioners sugar, and stump remover it burns rapidly. That's how I make mine.
Good experiments
Because mixing certain chemicals together can change the properties completely, and basically everything is a chemical or have properties of chemicals/chemical
5:10 "Ow"
Thanks for that
What about substituting molasses for powdered sugar?
If you try to set fire to the oxidizer, not much will happen. Thanks for that info.
Put 65% know and 35% sugar
I recognised your voice straight away. What the chances. 😂
Nice work
Potassium nitrate called (kalmi shora)
Usally there would be a binder to hold the compound together. But this is alot better, less work. Also i tried mixtures with some Aluminium powder or Magnesium powder, Iron(III) oxid also works to increase burnrate.
Officer Patty just heat the mixture slowly over a hotplate stirring connstantly until it turns dark brown.and pour the molten material into a suitable container.
I tried doing that, however i get alot of air bubles and i had my rockets explode due to that reason: (
Officer Patty you could tey using a metalic container. L
Then you can continue to heat the container until the air bubbles bubble out. Or you can place the rocket engine into a vaccuum chamber whille its still hor and vaccuum out the bubbles.
Vaccuum chamber can be created with a glass jelly jar, and an old refrigerator compressor for cheap.
@@HDRNX Dude.... or you can just pour the mixture into a cardboard tube and put a large wooden dowel in it. Damn, must you make things so overly complicated. -_-
@@mr.techaky7655 yes but some of us enjoy overengineering.
I used Xtra wax and melted wax and did 60 40 mix , added mix to melted wax , from stick candles. after mixing good I I let cool then I broke it up to powder and added another 60 40 powder and sugar and a spoon full of sulfur and mixed well again and ended up with wax and sugar and potassium nitrate powder .. then put on a tin lid and put fuse in and lit.. great gopher smoke.. stick candles break and crumble up with the mix into a powder .. try that some time and see how much better it will be for smoke
HAHA HE THINK We'RE NOT GONNA TRY IT
0:19 Yeah...that´s what i`m talking about!!!
I wish I had a look at this when I was a 14 year old boy. But I think I got it right back then as well. I love the smell. Why didn't you mention the smell?
Me tooo
I got it right back in the early 70's too :) Made pipe bombs detonated under a concrete slab in the garden, those were the days :)
Which produced more smoke??
When you mix an oxidizer like KNO3 with a fuel like Sugars you get deflagration.
Wat it deflgration meaning?
how big of a sugar rocket engine do I make to send 200lbs 1 mile in the atmosphere? Can you show me where I can read up on this fun stuff?
Michael Cote Make it as big as you can, the worst that could happen is that you blow up the sun ;)
First step is to calculate in metrics
You'll need to amke a good nozzle as well for that ssize and height. Not just about the fuel.
So you want to send your fat ass wife into orbit as well I see?
People like you ruin it for everyone else.
Didnt expect Dandelion to be this sciency.
What would give more delta V in a model rocket, is the question
making it as light and streamline as posible is the easyest way to get delta V
Need to put over low heat so sugar melts and they make a goo
For a beginner just use aluminum foil rolled into balls in a coke bottle and toilet cleaner then seal it and run or if you want a really big explosion (not recommended) and can be illegal depending on where you live use ammonium nitrate from fertilizers with fuel oil or aluminum powder or many other substances and it's more powerful then TNT think about the explosion in Beirut it was from ammonium nitrate from fertilizers. Or Gunpowder it's made from charcoal, potassium nitrate (saltpeter) that you can by in any supermarket it's used to preserve foods & sulfur that you can buy in any supermarket it's used for plants
Why have you not added sulfur which would improve your burn rate
THE POWER OF SUGAR!!!
0:09 Since when they write : Saltpetre in english when it's Saltpeter!
They kind of write it half french/english (Fr = Salpêtre).
GradeAUnderA is that you? What region or area in the UK is your accent from?
You need to mix the chemical properly my friend
You need a better scale
Can you please try KNO3 (Potassium nitrate) @ 45% and C12H22o11 (sugar) @ 55% please and use fine sugar.
If with charcoal what happen reaction with this combination?
Not much. Charcoal is another source for combustible fuel but it has much less energy than sugar.
The key to getting a faster burn would be to powder the sugar and then use a much more serious energy input. Like maybe an electrical discharge from a welding stick
Try 35% Sugar and 65% Pot N, makes a good white powder, at least equivalent to black powder, for fuses try 24% Sugar and 36% Pot N, nice medium burn fuse
thanks for fuse info. but whats the other 40%?
It's Okay, try some charcoal with it and one time just NP, Thanks!
Good show
You can heat potassium nitrate and powdered sugar until it is putty or like mud. And then make rocket
Some stump removers are 100 percent potassium nitrite
crispy sugar tasty on on chocolate mouse..
the best mix at least for me its 60% potassium nitrate and 40% sugar...
It's stump remover and can be bought at most hardware stores.
Yeah but some countries remove this kind of product to public selling.
Since stupid terrorists (collegial students too) did bombs or smokebombs.
Yeah, some are lower lifeform and still doing silly weapons...
With new reglementation in Canada we can have the stump remover but
we have to show a passport or driving license + health card + proof of
residence + what the use of the product. A little more and they would ask
for the color of our underwear... It's more easy to go at Walmart and get
instant cold pack (ammonium nitrate) with Windsor salt-free potassium chloride.
At least, they don't ask you anything.
@@heritagekebek9979 Nice
It would have been nice to get the temperatures of them. However, if you want more "bang" for your buck,I would go with 40pn + 60s or possibly 45pn + 55s. It gives off more gas which fills a closed container faster and well we know what happens when you get too much pressure in a closed container...pop goes the weasel. Yet heat doesn't create the same effect.
This can be a bomb!
its a pipe bomb without the pipe lol
What ratio is best for sugar rockets? What about smoke bombs?
The optimal ratio is about 65%KNO3 to 35% sugar.
Disclaimer: I decline any liability!
the right ratio is 65% kno3 (potassium nitrate) and 35% sugar
powdered sugar with granulated sugar = better smoke ? baking soda ?
The scale cannot wobble when pressing the zero button -- must an absolutely solid surface
Remeber this from my youth.. but we did 2 kg or more of sugar with all the saltpeter we could nick for "free" :)
I'm not sure buddy but i used to chuck handfuls of sugar into our open fire when i was a kid and that used to really go up in flames, maybe the other ingredient gives off oxygen under heat? 👍
The potassium nitrate provides oxygen for the sugar to burn. ive made rockets with it which was pretty cool
Pain in the RC What happened when you did that is that the sugar grains would be alone in midair, meaning it had all the air it wanted. Look up waxfire, pretty much the same thing
Hi the best burning 2:1 works better and cleaner burn
Potassium Nitrate is KNO3... Potassium= "K"
Kalium in german you donkey
Sam Myers
Not German but most other languages
It’s chemist Kev
Very useful
That's why I'm Lookin bro! Be ready, you know!
Make a combination of al2so3 plus kno3
PN = confusing for ppl XD Potassium is K and Nitrate is NO3. Its not Phosphorus and nitrogen right? ;) Still well done, liked.
Potassium Nitrate ;) cheers
Yeah that made me cringe so hard
I also thinked about it im this bad in english or what? Extra:in Hungary we say it like káliumnitrát
Nitrate is not NO3 though
@@sigmamale4147 Nitrate is "NO3-" and refers to the salts (MINO3) and esters (R-O-NO2) of the nitric acid "HNO3".🤓
That's pretty cool either way you look at it. When I saw it I immediately wondered how hot it burned. And whether or not it could be used as a substitute for thermite. Some testing of trying to weld rebar together would be kind of cool.
About 300F at top
Nothing compared to thermite. Thermite will burn through a engine block in 5 min
@@Cereal_Killer007you would have to have like a 5-gallon bucket of thermite to go through an engine block.
@@timh.2137 I saw a video of a guy who went about half way through with a half gallon so I would assume 2 gallons would do it easy
I know you conducted this experiment, but did you not take note of the reaction times of each mix?
The 50/50 mix took (a rough estimate) approximately 12 seconds to fully burn. The 40% KN02 took about 6 seconds.
Its been 5 years, maybe take another look
KNO3 is an oxidizer. And suger, which is an alcohol, is the fuel. Meaning, in the reaction the oxidizer provides oxygen for the fuel to burn.
sugar and sugar alcohol are different things though
Dave T I’m pretty sure you flunked chemistry class
If you put them in a rocket, you exclude the oxygen from the air, so there you might need more potassium nitrate.
Probably 33/67 or just do 40/60
65/35
How would the 50 / 50 mix work for rocket motors ?
60:40 is better cause it burns longer means longer flight time
@@creepyendy 65/35
So what’s the fastest