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Explosive Photochemistry: Ozone, Chlorine, Acetylene and UV-light!

ChemicalForce - 2022-02-19

🎬 In this video I will show you a few very cool reactions with acetylene, liquid chlorine and ozone. 
💥🔥There will be photochemical reactions, liquid gases, fire and explosions, and you’ll see them all in slow-mo⏳. Just the way you like it :D
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0:00 Intro
0:22 Solid acetylene and Potassium permanganate solution C2H2 + KMnO4
0:53 Photochemical reaction with bleach and calcium carbide 💥⏳
2:43 Photochemical Reaction of Hydrogen and Chlorine H2+Cl2 💥⏳
4:19 Solid acetylene and Chlorine vapors C2H2 + Cl2 🔥⏳
5:26 Solid acetylene and Liquid Chlorine 💥⏳
6:31 Combustion of acetylene in liquid oxygen 🔥
6:50 Explosion of acetylene in liquid oxygen 💥⏳
7:21 Combustion of phenylacetylene in liquid oxygen C6H5CH + O2 🔥🔥⏳
8:28 Liquid ozonated oxygen and solid acetylene C2H2 + O2/O3 🔥
9:40 Explosion upon contact of Ozone and Acetylene 💥⏳
10:35 Unstable ozone explodes in a Petri dish 💥⏳
12:57 Photochemical explosion of ozone/chlorine/acetylene mixture 💥⏳
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J H - 2022-02-19

Getting such content for free feels immoral - I just signed up on your Patreon :-D

BackYard Science 2000 - 2022-02-19

Nice!

ChemicalForce - 2022-02-19

I think this comment is worth being pinned 😂

empmachine - 2022-02-19

@ChemicalForce I already had you in my patreon list, so this got you a raise! Absolutely love your work, thanks a bunch!

J H - 2022-02-19

@ChemicalForce Hahaha, I can't remember the last time I had a pinned comment. Thanks! Keep up the awesome work man. Love your channel

rn - 2022-02-19

Stop mixing the chemicals, they obviously don't want to be mixed.

Ralph Liebhauser - 2022-02-19

Thank you Felix for the really great pictures. It doesn't get any better than that. This is art, not just chemistry.

Prapan The Bachelorette - 2022-05-27

Exactly

The Hyperscientist - 2022-02-19

Amazing chemistry videos as always Feliks 👏

P.S. Did anyone else see Tom's cameo at 0:08?

Caoimhe Baldwin - 2022-03-12

Absolutely did lol. Just came from his pyrophoric gases vid to this as my first vid on the channel

LabCoatz - 2022-02-19

That fireball looks like CGI...which makes knowing it was real even cooler! Keep it up man!

TheOpticalFreak - 2022-02-25

That's a weird compliment! 😝

Fixated-hermit - 2022-03-01

Because of the sooty flame of acetylene it makes it look like CGI even though it’s real

Sans. - 2022-04-26

Cuz it is. He sponsored by THE government. The governmetn of earth

Trust be bro


Just kidding

Jaime Mierow - 2022-05-22

cgi is based on real life fyi

Luke - 2022-02-19

This channel is so good it's only a matter of time before he gets millions of viewers. It's hands down the best chemistry channel on YouTube in my opinion. I've seen reagents and reactions that I'll never ever see anywhere else but here. Thanks again, absolutely beautiful work!! This is huge cock chemistry unlike the whippy chemistry we see on other channels!

Hasan - 2022-02-19

It's actually a shame that he doesn't do any synthesis using these awesome chemicals i get these reactions are cool but synthesis is in my opinion more important

Luke - 2022-02-19

@Hasan this is spectator chemistry, pretty colors and explosions. I'm sure he's talented enough to synthesize it's just not as pretty and harder for the average viewer to chew. I think what he's doing is incredible and needs no alteration. He's provided equations for byproducts in these reactions. He leaves enough for us geeks to cling on to and enough for the average everyday chemist to get super excited about. No synthesis needed in my opinion that's what college is for.

Hasan - 2022-02-19

@Luke i agree too it's these reactions which are interesting i just meant he could open another channel or something I guess using these awesome chemicals to do some synthesis chemistry

Luke - 2022-02-19

@Hasan that's a great idea!!!

ChemicalForce - 2022-02-19

Some synthesis will be in the video about Cl2O6 😏

Syntactyx - 2022-02-19

I've been watching Felix's channel grow but honestly I'm pissed the Youtube algorithm hasn't taken him to the top. Felix is the most underrated, under-appreciated KING of chemical cinematography. He deserves millions of subs. To Patreon I go!

Nina Jefferson - 2022-02-25

No he doesn't!!
He's only a boy
playing with fire
foo*!!

Lasha Martashvili - 2022-02-19

This is the most photocatalytic, most videoexplosive, most dramatic and most appocalyptic video of yours! Cinematography is simply excellent! Phenylacetyene combustion at 7:35 and blue oxygen droplets at 9:08 as well as sooth formation are rendered with accuracy unachieveable to holywood masters!

Nina Jefferson - 2022-02-25

No he doesn't!!
He's only a boy
playing with fire
foo*!!

Joshua Hymel - 2022-02-19

Your production value in terms of filming is phenomenal. Keep up the good work dude.

Sebastian D - 2022-02-19

The footage, the sound, the choice of reactions, the comments,... - everything is great!

Anther Richeen - 2022-02-20

I work with UV light in a lab for my day job. Amazing to see it used in this way! Thank you for all you do :)

Sean - 2022-02-19

You should have 100x more subscribers with such awesome content. Each video is better than the last

Thy Labs - 2022-02-19

Another masterpiece! Thanks for sharing

Kalimata101 - 2022-02-23

It is my sincerest hope Sir that you are an educator of children in some capacity, other than YouTube I mean.

You do not create explosions, you create volatile oxidizing artwork.

By the Gods man, that was beautiful to watch.

You have taken your skills in a rare direction, and shown us exactly why Art belongs in STEM.

Many will get into chemistry because the way chemistry works is cool, atoms forming molecules and trading electrons and all the science of it.

You’ve just shown the artists that there is aesthetic beauty in chemistry beyond the purely practical.

I have never seen explosions like yours, they were just as beautiful to me as the Mona Lisa is.

Plus, you do yellow chemistry, and sorry Tom, but yellow chemistry makes some
awesome explosions and fire ;).

Thank you.

rocker 0057 - 2022-03-03

Man you never cease to amaze me. The shear beauty of those slo mo reactions should win an award

Heisenberg Stay outta my territory - 2022-02-19

You my friend is amplifying my love for chemistry!!!


Awsome vid! Never stop making these!

zac - 2022-02-19

Hi there, I absolutely love your videos! You do such cool reactions in a way that easy for anyone to understand and appreciate. I was wondering, what did you use to make your intro sequence?

ChemicalForce - 2022-02-21

Hey! Nothing unusual. Just burning titanium powder on a ceramic tile that suddenly cracked 🙄

aSoggyCrouton - 2022-03-04

Excellent production quality as usual! The music seemed to be even more epic and professionally choregraphed. Every time you impress me you come back with something even better. Well done sir

Matt D - 2022-02-24

One of your best ever videos. Congratulations! I particularly loved the unstable ozone detonations, really surprised how much force they produced. Seems like they have quite an appreciable detonation velocity!

ChemicalForce - 2022-02-25

Glad you enjoyed it! 😊

Guineh's Lab - 2022-02-19

This is why I love your content. You do some extremely unique things on your channel. You’re the reason I know what liquid ozone looks like. Keep up the excellent and uncommon chemistry.

Also— it seems like it’s a characteristic of acetylene to generate the black, stringy smoke. Why is that?

The Hyperscientist - 2022-02-22

It's because of the incredibly high percentage of carbon in acetylene. So when it burns, a lot of carbon particles are produced, which condenses into the black strings you see

Nina Jefferson - 2022-02-25

It's poison!!
It's all poison!!
He's only a boy
playing with fire
foo*!!

Guineh's Lab - 2022-02-25

@The Hyperscientist thanks for the explanation! That was kind of what I thought, but wondered if there was something else going on due to the triple carbon-carbon bonds.

Berukade Hikari - 2022-03-01

yeah it is carbon from the incomplete combustion

arty179 - 2022-02-23

Outstanding work! These reactions are stunningly beautiful. The camera work is top notch too.

P. B. - 2022-02-21

Amazing reactions! Great music! Very well done! Thank you Felix! Hope your channel will have millions of subscribers 😃

Mad Scientific - 2022-02-19

Never fail to give the goodies man... You do some of the most beautiful experiments...

And with the music, acetylene gives the whole thing a Harry Potter feel 🤣

Very nice. Keep em coming.

Демид Вадимович Жаренов - 2022-02-23

what a masterpiece! God bless you man for what you are doing! More reactions with magnesium pls

Chemistry of Questionable Quality - 2022-02-19

You can't see this ANYWHERE else, and it's GORGEOUS!

All Love - 2022-03-05

I love your channel. You continue to show reactions that are entertaining and educational and things ive not even thought i would see or even think to see. This was fun.

Heisenberg Stay outta my territory - 2022-02-19

Chemforce : Works with world's most dangerous hypergolic mixtures!

Other Chemists : This is fine!

ughmas - 2022-02-20

This is the most fascinating slo-mo footage I've ever seen, keep up the amazing work!

Unmannedair - 2022-02-23

I love your inclusion of liquid ozone in your demonstration. Makes me wonder if liquid ozone could be substituted for hypergolics in rocket ignition systems.

Mark Eckelkamp - 2022-02-22

I wish I did more in chemistry. I absolutely enjoy this. Thanks

TheRealBanana - 2022-02-19

Amazingly beautiful as usual, your camera skills really set you apart from all the other chemistry channels.

Michael Seitz - 2022-02-19

Beautiful reactions and slow-mos, as always 😊

Ian Tinley - 2022-02-19

One of the best videos you've done! Awesome work

Zac Plunkett - 2022-02-23

The glass raining down in slow motion was an amazing shot xD great content as per usual xD

An Anthropomorphic Talking Gourd - 2022-07-05

Those explosions from the ozonated oxygen look incredibly energetic. I mean I guess I shouldn't be too surprised, but I didn't expect it to be a high explosive.

aSinisterKiid - 2022-02-27

1:51 WOOoooaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh. That was incredibly beautiful footage. Smoke and fire are some of the most uniquely beautiful things to see in slow motion. Ethereal and formless yet magnificent in their motion and aesthetics. Well done with your slow motion work growth over the past year or so. You have really gone to a whole new level with footage that simply does not exist anywhere except right here. Thank you for your efforts to share this with us.

Ian Davies - 2023-02-02

That was wonderful thank you. Your low temperature reactions were particularly fascinating, oxygen and acetylene at such low temperature but so energetic.

Dave Ferreira - 2023-04-19

Dude! This is by far your best work yet (that I've seen). The slow motion combustions, the music -- amazing! By the way, does the power of the UV trigger light matter? Or just the wavelength? (What is the ideal wavelength to trigger these photochemical reactions?) Thank you, my friend!

GDMdesign - 2022-04-05

I am enjoying you work - keep it up. Stay safe. You have saved us many hours and some much $ not having to do these experiments myself... Even the slow~mo and lovely colours.

sharpfang - 2022-02-22

Thank you! You've solved a problem that has been nagging me for years now. As a kid, I read a story, in which the protagonist was suspended under a balloon, and there was a flask attached to the balloon, containing a vial of nitroglycerine and a mixture of - I remembered vividly, two fairly common gases. The explosion would destroy the balloon at a high altitude over the sea, at dawn, as sun rays hit the vial, killing the protagonist (who, through cunning and luck avoided the grizzly fate). And for the life of me I couldn't remember what these gases were. Acetylene and chlorine were the sun-triggered detonator.

adam sienkiewicz - 2022-02-19

This slow mo of flames and fire is astonishing! Thank you very much for the video!

Punisher - 2022-02-20

These have got to be some of the most spectacular reactions I've seen until now!

Grzegorz Widziszowski - 2022-02-19

You’ve shot some stunning footage of chem reactions before, but this one just another league. Blows (sic!) my mind.

Jeff Dornbusch - 2022-04-27

You did a beautiful job. Chemical art at it's finest ....amazing!

Nigel Depledge - 2023-04-15

Whoa!

Amazing footage of some very interesting reactions.

I'm almost tempted to see if I can Google reaction mechanisms just to get a better idea of the behaviour of those sp1-hybridised carbon atoms.

Nothing\ - 2022-03-02

Wow the acetylene just looks amazing in slow-mo with all of the soot. I love how there's so much carbon, it just forms into solid tendrils instead of a fine sooty powder like you usually get with sooty flames.

Ratzfourtyfour - 2022-02-19

I can't imagine the amount of skills and planning it takes to make it look like that.

Mad Matt Digs - 2022-02-19

This is cool. I’ve never seen anything quite like this.

Mad Scientist - 2022-02-20

Wow. This has to be one of your most impressive demonstrations. 👍

texasslinglead somtingwong - 2022-02-20

Outstanding cinematography being dedicated to chemical reactions . Would not be surprised to see educators using your videos to ... well ... educate in a new incredible way .

TheArchimede100 - 2022-02-20

As a chemist i can say that this video is a Masterpiece!