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i dont think that i will loose my hand doing this, im not using that much of the stuff, also, should i turn the cup up right, or leave it face down?

 

there will be hydrogen and oxygen, and i dont want it to escape, do i assume that its best just to leave it down, so none of the hydrogen can escape.

 

is this safe indoors?

i would have thought so with smallish quantities.

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well before you light it it`s perfectly safe, so put it in a safe place 1`stly and move slowly as you don`t air turbulance to dilute your mix.

then either get a long stick with a lit match atatched to it and use that, or get someone stupid to light it for for you :)

 

I`m joking with the last part :)

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hmm, this is getting harder, i will have to put it on the concrete or something, coz the table might melt [plastic] or my wooden one might get really burnt or something [thats a proper wooden one, not an experimental one!] then i'll have to make some kinda tripod stand [i dont have a tripod] so i'll just make one outta, hmmm, something! any ideas what to make a tripod out of? then i just get a stick and light it.

 

or get someone stupid to light it for for you :)
i'll just go and get my brother.
I`m joking with the last part :)
what was that? i missed that part...

 

that bit was actually quite funny!! ROFLOL so they say! :D

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no no no, the wooden table`s just fine :)

 

the reaction is that fast there`s no time to burn the table, the cup will split and maybe melt a little in a few places, but not enough to make a fire on your table, trust me on that one, you`re more likely to make a burn mark with the match on the stick when you drop it after the bang during your involuntary poo session :)

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no YT, i was referring to 5614 with the hydrogen trick...my professor doing it in class was enough for me to say, hell no.

the WD-40 trick is good man, and unless your an idiot, you hold the can on a slightly upright position. so that the flame doesnt reach the can. and even if i coated the can with starting fluid, it would not touch the flame, as it stays a good 4 inches from the can at all times. hot air rises, and so do flames, dont want to get burned? stay below the flames...

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ok, so lets see here....burning a gas, which expands to fill its container, whatever that is, extremely flamable, completely consumed in a firery blaze in under a second....or, a controlled flame thrower using mildly flamable oil and pressurized gas. its a tough one, but considering i can't control the expansion of a gas, i'll stick to point and spray.

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I once decided to electrolyze some water, and I caught the hydrogen and oxygen in a sandwich baggie. I wasn't expecting much, so I lit it in my basement. BOOM! Really loud, more than I expected. Encouraged by this, I decided to do it again, but with a gallon baggie and do it outside. Sounded like a shotgun going off. Ah, chemistry is fun.

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Yeah. When you have the proper stoichiometic ratio of reactants, as you would get when you electrolyze the eventual product, the reaction proceeds at an incredible rate and with a loud result. What's even more frightening is if you have some platinum wire and put that at the end of a long stick, then put that platinum wire inside the hydrogen/oxygen mixture. It will immediately go BOOM as the platinum catalyzes the reaction.

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