Elias Experiments - 2020-10-24
In this Video I show 10 experiments with calcium hypochlorite pool chlorine, that you should never try. Calcium hypochlorite is an extremly powerful oxidiser and can therefore cause a lot of trouble as you can see in the video.
I'll make sure not to accidentally mix an unknown correct ratio of powdered sugar to my pool shock. What a life saver!
Glad I was able to help :P
Did you know the proper air/fuel ratio for an old Chevrolet car was 14.7 to one.
bro I thought you were about to catch that building on fire! lol
Don't worry I have quite a lot of practice, when it comes to playing with fire XD
That was awesome
Thank you for the kind feedback! :D
6:15 in- Uh-oh, uh-oh, UH-OH!!
Epic....
Well that is what happens, when you do things you are not supposed to. :D
The sunflower oil was interesting. Does it have to be sunflower or or will other plant oils also work. I wouldn’t keep any of that stuff stored but that looked like the safer one to mess with.
I burned the top of my left hand with some melting plastic that dropped onto it when I was a kid. Ever since then I’ve been a scarecrow (afraid of fire). The pain was intense.
I really don't think the type of oils matters and you can probably even do this with mineral oil. But I haven't tried it and you never no with such things. All other plant oils will most likely work I would guess. Yeah molted plastic is really no joke.
At 5:47 you dropped it on making nitrogen trichloride that's something I REALLY want to see being made from calcium hypochlorite could you please do one on that it'd be a first on YouTube but love the length and breath of the experiments you've pulled off there so valiantly first time ever on the YouTube
Thank you for the feedback. That is certainly something I would also like to do in the future. I just need to figure out how to do it safely first and then how to show it on youtube without getting the video deleted. So don't expect a video on that soon, but I still have many other original things planned until then and I am sure they will be just as great. ;-)
Wow this is so cool!
Thank you!
I wonder if it would be possible to make a functioning rocket motor with calcium hypochlorite and cornstarch. It sounds very interesting!
Could certainly be possible, but it would also be pretty unsafe. I would much rather use potassium chlorate as an oxidiser.
@Elias Experiments Well, better to find out (safely and with the proper precautions, of course) before anyone else does it unsafely.
I mean you can, but the starch calcium hypochlorite mixture was one of the worst burning mixtures I showed in this video, so I doubt it will be very useful for a rocket.
Is it just me, or do the voice & accent strongly evoke the spirit of Inspector Jacques Clouseau -- LOL
I have no idea lol
Damn if you ever get stuck in the wilderness, 2nd option is far more than enough to make a good fire going.
If you have enough calcium hypochlorite :D
Is it possible to put Calcium hyporchlorite into gelatin capsules? Why is because my thinking is this will give you a delayed fuse basically? Make it a bit easier to handle too? Also a recommendation know those granny grabber sticks that would be so much safer so you could go bigger 😉. Awesome wee channel love it
Well you can put calcium hypochlorite into gelatin capsules. But I don't understand, how this could give you a delayed fuse. I mean I already have a delayed fuse without the gelatin capsule. The granny grabbe sticks are indeed a funny idea! Thank you for the feedback!
10:45 is it gunshots no it’s just Elias filming a video love it!
Haha. :D
What is the ratio of sugar and the calcium hypochlorite ?
Simple stochiometric mixture. Relatively easy to calculate.
@Elias Experiments oh ok thanks for replying 🙂
@@EliasExperimentsdoes pool chlorine reacts with powder icing sugar?
in my experience chlorine produce alot of irritating fume, I bet your house would smell like pool filtering room, lol
Yes those experiments were quite unpleasant. :D But the smell was gone quite quickly after I was done. Chlorine is not all that stable in nature.
I wonder what happens if you mix it with powdered charcoal.
I tried that, but nothing seemed to be happening. I couldn't get any reaction to occur.
You need heat it up
@Elias Experiments Just give it a bit of heat.
@Alex A. Davronov If I remember correctly I blasted it with a blowtorch and still nothing happened.
@Elias Experiments Really? Have you had any precipitate? I read that it react with carbon to produce CaCO3 (ca carbonate) giving off chlorine gas and oxygen.
I wonder how many pool owners have a garage that contains a bucket of calcium hypochlorite under a shelf that contains an unsealed bottle of brake fluid?
Lol interesting question. I am quite sure that has caused issues in the past. XD
More than you'd think. I work in the pool industry. When just starting out, I worked on the retail side - dealing with homeowners/people who maintain their own pools. I'd hear about incidents every once and awhile. First rule of chemical storage is that solids ALWAYS go above the liquids
Where can I buy calcium hypochlorite? Hardware stores or any supermarket?
I don't know where you live, but ordering online is always a good option! :D
I discovered that even normal tcca reacts with sugar and the fumes are super corrosive.
Wow that's interesting. Thank you for sharing that!
Can I make flashpowder with it?
Well maybe, but I guess that would be incredibly dangerous.
@Elias Experiments i won't use magnesium as a fuel then I'll stick to aluminium
@Elias Experiments really does seem like a powerful oxidiser
I don't think using aluminium is safe either, if it is finely powdered. However you can try without too much danger in small amounts. (100 mg or less)
@Elias Experiments alr m8 thanks! 👍
Is calcium hypochlorite flammable?
Only if mixed with a reducing agent, like I showed in the video. On it's own it is only an oxidiser.
@Elias Experiments oh ok thanks for the info, so kind of you, good work keep it up. You have the talent!
Thanks!
Why or how does calcium hyprochlorite solid change to sodium hypochlorite by addeding water? Calcium is a salt, yet what makes it lose its "calcium" and become sodium? I hope the question makes sense, and I understand its very basic, but ....
Calcium doesn't change into sodium. For that you would need a particle accelerator and that would be incredibly dangerous. How do you come to that conclusion?
Could you comment the ratios you used in each experiment
Well youtube will probably ban me if I do that, but it is pretty easy to calculate.
There's lots of info online bro..do a lil research my guy..
What happens when you mix calcium and sodium hypochlorite together?
I guess you mean calcium hypchlorite, because you can only have sodium hypochlorite in dilute aqeuous solutions asfaik. It would probably burn quite violently. Great suggestion!
@Elias Experiments yes that what meant, just wanted to reduce in writing. It’s a common issue with new pool cleaners and new water distribution operators not trained properly.
Haha well yes this is a really dangerous chemical.
Ok... Now i have to buy 5kg of calcium hypochlorite...
Please be very careful. :D It is quite nasty and I suffered a fair bit while doing all the experiments..
@Elias Experiments well, in past I've destroyed so much T-shirts with sulfuric acid (when you finish reactions and everything seems fine, but at the evening you have tens of holes in your shirt with freaking lab coat fine 😑) that there is no more pain than this. But obviously safety is number two, first is FUN (jk at start with chemistry when dealing with sodium hydroxide gloves, googles, respirator, and coat, so I still have some of this safety features in my mind, but I'm sure, that this stuff is very, very nasty with many possibilities of unintetional self-ignition).
Wow I spend 5 minutes writing this. Have a good day!
There are many things I learned doing these experiments that I would do differently in the future if I ever did that again.
For example that Caclium Hypochlorite causes strong allergical reactions in powdered form, so you need to really worry about the dust being created.
Also just beeing outside is not enough to avoid getting poisened by toxic fumes. You need to be in a wide open area and it has to be quite windy.
So just if you decide to do this, that you don't have to suffer as much. :D
@Elias Experiments fume hood is just well. I thought about fume hood for like 6 months, and doing it took me 2 days ☺️. Most of this time was thinking about fan, that was very hard, by I found it on my local "Amazon-like" portal for 70$, and laminated wood 3x2m was 40$, rest was 10$ and I really hope that every chemist on this planet has fume hood!
Yeah that is actually very helpful.
Sadly I don't have the space right now, but one day I certainly will!
The arson and pyromaniac might love this stuff😬
Lol, yes. :D
Calcium Hypochlorite or Cal-Hypo is an OXIDIZER and will automatically ignite anything flammable that it comes into contact with, Or If anything flammable is burning, it will support the flame.
Well not anything, but it can be pretty bad. :D
I bet the reaction time is effected by the ambient temperature.
The time until the reaction starts certainly. Once it started I don't think it makes a noticable difference.
I did want more info on nitrogen trichloride :(
Well it is very dangerous and you really should not mess with it. The YT channel explosions&fire did a video on it, if you want to see more. I can't promise that I will dare to make a video about it.
@Elias Experiments i've already seen the vid from @explosion&fires but he doesnt give enough info on the hypochlorites.He uses a different kind of "pool chlorine" that i cannot get in canada.. so yeah if you can either find some info or make a vid it would be very useful
Nevermind i went to the pool store and picked up some TCCA...as the ammonia source i used a solution of ammonium nitrate in h20...everything is all good..i made some ncl3 whitout dying
Glad to hear that! Great job!
Another thing you shouldn't mix with pool shock... Naphtha...
Well yeah that is probably very similar to sunflower oil :D
Nooooo Naphtha is lighter fluid...
Well then it might not react at all, because the low boiling point cools the reaction too much.
this is a how to clean concrete 😂
Well I guess that's one possible application. XD
Don't mix it with anti freeze...
That depends on the anti freeze I guess. XD
@Elias Experiments Brake Fluid is polyethylene glycol, antifreeze is ethylene glycol, structurally Brake fluid is more stable...
Antifreeze can also be ethanol, which is not nearly as reactive towards Ca(OCl)2 at least in my experiments. But yeah still really interesting info! I guess ethylene glycol would react similar to glycerol.
Pyromaniac !
You are absolutely right!
When fucking with flames wear 100% cotton clothes.
Unless you like having plastic melt into your skin.
okay
poo chlorine
What? :D
@lablulz2483 - 2020-10-24
well....... in DBT they always told us that thinking in terms of Should and Shouldn't is unproductive, and likely to create unrealistic expectations ;) The liquification/delay/ignition reactions were cool, reminded me of zinc & ammonium nitrate
@EliasExperiments - 2020-10-25
Thank you! :D
Do you think I need DBT or what? lol
@lablulz2483 - 2020-10-25
@Elias Experiments only if you feel irrationally bad about all the things you Shouldn't have done with hypochlorite....
@EliasExperiments - 2020-10-26
Okay I guess I am good then. :D