Robin Hood Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 We had some fund for Halloween by unleashing three chemists to destroy pumpkins in three different ways... In the name of education of course! The three methods were smashing (with liquid nitrogen), burning with alcoholic gel and setting off a kilogram of thermite!! Video is at Any other suggested methods? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iNow Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 Super cool stuff here: http://blog.sciencegeekgirl.com/2009/10/27/science-activities-for-halloween/ h/t Swansont Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermanntrude Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 robin hood... which one are you? are you in the vids? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Hood Posted November 6, 2009 Author Share Posted November 6, 2009 robin hood... which one are you? are you in the vids? I make the films and website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermanntrude Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 i'm a big fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Hood Posted November 6, 2009 Author Share Posted November 6, 2009 i'm a big fan. Thank you and thanks for watching... The reason we keep going and enjoy it so much is because people keep watching them! We always love reading the comments on YouTube... well, most of them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermanntrude Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 I too have a very small youtube channel. If you're remotely interested, check it out. http://www.youtube.com/hermanntrude Any suggestions will probably be cheerfully ignored in the full knowledge that I can't be bothered to change anything :0) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngryTurtle Posted November 7, 2009 Share Posted November 7, 2009 I would give it to thermite but that will lay the hurtin on anything, so i'm going to go with the nice crisp shatter of the frozen pumpkin. Fire color loses, nothing cataclysmic happened to mr. pumpkin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermanntrude Posted November 7, 2009 Share Posted November 7, 2009 thermite was definitely the way to go. It nicely made thoughts of firework night and halloween mix together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abchirk Posted November 7, 2009 Share Posted November 7, 2009 hi cool video, what was the last thing. Al + FeO? I just understood something with very hot iron... Or could someone clarify this for me, the reaction and it's reactants? thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermanntrude Posted November 8, 2009 Share Posted November 8, 2009 hi cool video, what was the last thing.Al + FeO? I just understood something with very hot iron... Or could someone clarify this for me, the reaction and it's reactants? thx google "thermite" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abchirk Posted November 8, 2009 Share Posted November 8, 2009 google "thermite" interesting, thank you. I saw it in the first post too now, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caleb Posted November 8, 2009 Share Posted November 8, 2009 hi cool video, what was the last thing.Al + FeO? I just understood something with very hot iron... Or could someone clarify this for me, the reaction and it's reactants? thx That was thermite, the equation for it is Fe2O3 (s) + 2 Al (s) = Al2O3 (s) + 2 Fe (s) It is a very hot and dangerous experiment, it gets hot enough to melt the iron it produces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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