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...I meant that you could electrically ignite the blasting cap, which would then explode the HE.

I'm not sure if this should go to the electronics, but since this involves chemicals I think chemistry is a good place for this. Recently, I've been wondering about electric ignition (especially high explosives are something you don't want to light with a match). The only useful electric ignition what I can think of is nickel-chrome wire (its resistance grows as current increases so it burns). I don't think it's used too often and that some compounds can be ignited quite easily with only 1,5V. Sadly, I can't think of any. Suggestions?

http://www.btinternet.com/~chemistry.diagrams/electrolysis-of-brine.htm That's what you get.

*Sigh* Freewebs requires a week before you can upload over 750kb. Try http://www.geocities.com/nabomato/kclo3succrose.AVI (if there happens to be bandwidth left)

"its 100% efficient, kind. both come together and boom no more atoms, just energy" Yep, annihilation happens, indeed. If I'm correct, all that energy is in photon form. "they are design a space probe that uses it using a magnetic trap to contain this anti matter as it has a great weight to power ration" Well it's about time. Indeed, it has an excellent weight to power ratio. If you would have a kilogram of... well, anything, and you could convert it to pure energy, you could drive a car for about 100 000 years with that energy. The anti-matter <-> matter reaction is one thing where you definately need the famous E=mc².

I made it an .avi. I successfully viewed it with DivX player and winamp (Quicktime had some problems, but I have a pretty old version). Now the only problem is that I can't figure out a place where to upload it since geocities free pages' bandwidth is so minimal. Edit: http://www.geocities.com/nabomato/chloratesucrose.jpg <- before and http://www.geocities.com/nabomato/burned.jpg <- after.

It sure does produce hydrogen fast (not sure though what else it produces). It's also great fun to put some Al-foil and drain cleaner in a plastic bottle. Seal the bottle, put a lit candle/torch near it and take cover. A nice fireball should follow. (If there's an experiment that has injured more pre-teens/teenagers than this, I'm not sure if I want to hear about it :< )

Isolate potassium chlorate/perchlorate from match heads and burn it with some sucrose (it's a lot of fun, check the instructions at the chemistry forum). I did it today and damn was it cool. And with those strong magnets of yours you can do lots of fun stuff! http://www.scitoys.com/scitoys/scitoys/magnets/pyrolytic_graphite.html ; magnet experiments (suspending magnet in mid-air, rail gun, etc.).

Heh, I bleached my fingers/hands too a bit when we had some H2O2 in chemistry. I would have bleached my hair too but sadly, I'm a natural blonde. That peroxymonosulfuric acid sounds great, maybe that's a good choice for my pine table problem.

Yeah, it did have a purple color (and sorry for saying melt, of course I meant oxidized: otherwise adding sugar would have no use at all. And some of the sugar actually did melt, because I had spilled some near the actual chlorate/sugar mix). I actually got it on video with my digital camera. When I have time I try to convert it to a small and easily viewable form and upload it somewhere. Really nice flames, with just a little KClO3/O4 and succrose. Edit: It also burned quite easily through aluminum foil that was folded over thrice or something.

"they are the fastest "things" that exist" What about the tachyon (or other faster-than-light) theories? Even though, photons are the fastest things proved to exist.

Hmmh, I tried burning some a few minutes ago (without sucrose). It flamed up and burned pretty fast, and crackled a bit, not too pure I guess, but pretty good results when you consider that I didn't crush the match heads and had heavily dyed matches. Edit: Ok, put like 1g of it and 1g basic sugar I found in the kitchen (pure succrose?). Burned like crazy! Lots of smoke and somewhat coloured flames. And it burned a lot longer than without the sugar. Also, it smelled like pancakes or something because of the sugar melting. I recommend this experiment for every young/starting chemist, it's a lot of fun.

Heh, there's too much dye to tell if it's really white. I think I'm going to burn some of it today and see what happens.

Hmm? Should I remove the white powder before boiling it further if it's just sulfur and potassium chlorate/perchlorate forms later?

I know how the electrons are arranged but I never understood the "1ps2ps" things. An answer to Ice's question would help me out too.

Well, in normal conditions melting a diamond isn't possible (it seems I forgot to mention that). You will need a lot of pressure and a low oxygen presence so that it doesn't catch fire.

By the way (oh God, I got to stop btw: ing), if you would melt a diamond and then let it harden, how much weaker the crystal structure would be compared to the strongness before melting? Or would it change at all?

Yeah well, I think there wasn't a problem with the chlorate; the glass just couldn't handle the temperature. But now I have attempted it once again (this time with a kettle with some water in it and a glass jar in the water); I have a green (match dye) water solution with some small white crystals floating around and I'm going to try and purify it more tomorrow. Any way of proving it's potassium chlorate, such as a special flame characteristic when ignited?

"After I graduate I’m going on a uranium prospecting trip in New Mexico." *Sigh* If there's something I like more than explosives or acids, it's radioactive elements. Sadly, the uranium is mostly all over Finland, and in very few concentrations; no prospecting trips for me. (Unless I happen to visit USA someday) By the way, anyone happen to know where I could get beryllium-uranium allanite, or "muromontite"? I think it's the only natural mineral where plutonium is existant. I think there was a mine in Sweden that had plenty of it... Too bad it closed after WW2 or something.

Hmm... What other effects increase the hydrogen bomb's power than the fusion of tritium and deuterium? Since I get something like 300 gigajoules (71 tonnes of TNT) for the fusion of 1g deuterium and 1g tritium. Or then I have just miscalculated this.

8 picograms?? Wow, I have once again overestimated the size of an atom. I always tend to do that. Well in that case, it's no wonder that 20 megaton (or more) fusion bombs have been made.

Yeah I don't think that Glider is right either (though I'm not sure). Isn't the melting point of diamonds near 4500 degrees Celsius?

"i see the world in atoms and molecules :)" Don't we all? I just wondered about the chemical composition of marshamallows one day, and always when I see a rock lying about I wonder how much uranium is in there (sadly, Finland's base rock has LOTS of uranium. We're exposed to much more radon than you guys :< ).

Naturally. It's just that when you don't have laboratory grade glass, things tend to go... well, wrong.

Wow, that's some sugar rocket. And when you have finished the experiment, you can eat the caramelized sugar! Mmm... Sulfurey.