Elias Experiments - 2023-04-30
In this video you can see what happens when liquid oxygen + phosphorus react. The experiments are done with two allotropes of phosphorus: White phosphorus and red phosphorus. This was done by trained chemists and if your goal is to stay alive, I would highly recommend to refrain from repeating anything you see in this video! Thy Labs Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv0Bj3DM-ioSaVjO22g2ARA Caesium vs liquid oxygen video: https://youtu.be/Dt-DzZzzTnU
Pleasure being there with you guys as always!
I recognised your white phosphorus
Likewise! Thank you so much for helping out with all this!
@@EliasExperiments your link in the description to Thy Labs channel is broken
Thank you for mentioning that, I fixed it!
@@EliasExperiments doing my part '_'7
Your neighbour: What the... Is Elias turning his backyard into a minefield!?
(Great vedio, hope there's more!)
Yes there will definetly be a lot more videos! Thanks a lot for watching!
That red phosphorus was so much more powerful I ever would’ve thought. I guess with oxygen it literally turns into a bomb. Well done guys good video!
Yes but that bomb is probably far to dangerous to use and I would highly recommend to refrain from attempting such thing lol. Thank you for the feedback! :-)
Thank you very much for these videos, Elias!
Thank you for watching!
I used white phosphor pellets as payload in firework rockets, worked like a charm!
Wow that sounds crazy!
just some young german dudes playing with boom sticks… i recon Staudinger would be damn proud
I actually did the origial staudinger experiment in my video "Hand vs Explosive Metal"
Quick question, where I did you get the Red phosphorus from?
I ordered it online ;-)
4:40 looks like a he grenade lol
Yeah that was crazy :D
Do you know if it was high or low explosive (subsonic or supersonic)?
No I have done no measurements and I don't even know how one figures that out :D
The red phosphorus and liquid oxygen might have detonated. It would be interesting to see if it would dent a witness plate.
What do you mean might? It did. I have no idea what you mean by witness plate.
@@EliasExperiments detonation is what high explosives do. not everything that makes a big bang detonates, for example flash powder doesn't. A witness plate is a metal plate that can be used to determine if something detonated. liquid oxygen can create a type of sprengel explosive with some materials, for example charcoal soaked with liquid oxygen. These can detonate. So I was wondering whether liquid oxygen plus red phosphorus had created one of these sprengel explosives .
Hm interesting, I always thought loud bang = detonation. Charcoal soaked with liquid oxygen was really lame when I tried it. But I guess that heavily depends on the external conditions. Thank you for explaining this to me!
@@EliasExperiments this wiki page gives some details. I think the type of charcoal matters - it needs to be absorbent. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyliquit
Thank you for that! Well but I am actually not too keen on creating loud bangs. I am a much bigger fan of pretty effects.
i wonder if you can recreate what happened with the cesium experiment by mixing liquid oxygen and oil together
Not without an ignition source. I have more experiments with liquid oxygen coming up, so stay tuned, if you want to see that!
yeah lemme have a small sip of liquid oxygen
That's the spirit!
I want to like this video, but it currently has 69 likes and I don't want to ruin it.
Thank you for taking appropriate safety precautions. That was really scary, and your safety is even more important than me getting to see such an amazing reaction :D
Thank you so much for the kind words! Well the 69 likes are ruined now anyway lol. But yes you are right safety is very imporant, if I want to continue doing stuff like that.
Fever dream of a title 💀
That's basically my whole life :D
Too much doesn't exist 😂😂 I love it
Haha good thing, everybody was fine at the end.
“ ten, nine, BOOM!!!!”
Haha, that's the spirit!
hmmm mixing a finely ground fuel with an extremely potent oxidiser, suprised the explosion wasn't bigger. deffinitly barely legal. cant wait for more high energy shenanigans.
Haha, the explosion is limited by the amount of material you use. There will be more crazy stuff coming up!
Reminds me of Armstrong mixture
Yeah it is certainly quite similar :D
What a Video woooooooo so Good I love it
Thank you!
almost 4,000 subscribers!!
I'll get there in a couple of days. :D
That had to be a better part of a 1/4 stick of dynamite! (I may have detonated a few flash powder equivalents 😉)
I am not so sure, it also depends on the size of the dynamite stick.
Just guys being dudes, what's better than that?
Haha I guess being yourself is always best. :D
What about magnesium or aluminum?
In upcoming videos.
damn you guys made a new binary explosive!
Haha I can hardly imagine that no one has tried this before.
@@EliasExperiments pls test this on a 2mm steel witness plate to see it's brisance
I am not too keen on repeating that honestly. Maybe but I am won't promise it.
@@EliasExperiments welp, since it detonated from a pyrotechnic initiator, id be scared af to even just pour LO onto red P
Well trust me I was scared af. And I am really not too eager to do it again.
I assume red p was more reactive due to liquid oxygen and convert into white p.
The phosphorous and oxygen reaction takes place at the surface of the phosphorous. A solid stick has a small surface area compared to a powder. It's the same reason why kindling is easier to burn than logs, and why grain bins sometimes explode.
In order to convert red P to white P you need to heat it. If you want to see how that is done, you can watch it on Thy Labs Channel.
Just try to use white phosphorus as fine powder….
If you provide me with a sample, I will do that ;-)
They basically made a nade in a plastic cup
Well kind of, but not nearly as dangerous.
This is the most German thing I've ever seen
Lol
do you know much about potassium persulfate
Well I have done a little bit with it, but I am certainly no expert on it.
@@EliasExperiments that was some bang by the way you know the one
6:34 or 6:35 you can hear shrapnel from the bucket. that couldve been really bad
Hm that is interesting
2 coments! :
🌟Deveriam ensinar isso nas escolas! Seria muito mais divertido aprender .. E teríamos mais gente querendo ser engenheiros e químicos.
🌟Em breve vcs estarão com 1 Nuke! Kk 😅
Eu definitivamente concordo plenamente!
Kein Wunder das Chemikalien so stark reguliert sind wenn man sieht was für einen gefährlichen Unsinn manche damit anstellen.
Naja definiere "Unsinn". Zudem ist Phosphor nicht reguliert, weil er so heftig reagieren kann, sondern weil man damit potentiell Drogen kochen kann, was ich persönlich für totalen Quatsch halte (Das Gesetz). Und Sauerstoff ist definitiv in keinster Weise reguliert. Soweit käme es noch.
Kaliumpermanganat habe ich schonmal 10 kg bestellt hat keinen interessiert. Zudem arbeite iich mit den Behörden bei uns zusammen und helfe denen bei der Bewerbung ihres MINT Zentrums, also würden die sich höchstens selbst ins Knie schießen, wenn sie mir die Polizei auf den Hals hetzen.
Napalm sticks to kids🎵🎶
Also to Lukas.
@kingcosworth2643 - 2023-10-07
You are absolutely correct in saying the camera cannot capture the true experience of an explosion. It just can't translate the sensation.
@EliasExperiments - 2023-10-08
Yep but that's true for most things with a camera :D