@@JudgeNicodemus I mean I know how to make a lot of things that would make some people mad. Though for legal reasons I’m not going to openly claim I know how to make them. 😂
When I took chemistry in college along with everything else it was a whirlwind of concepts etc. Years later I have reaped the rewards because I can understand so much more about the world I live in. Thank you Wendel Johnson you were an amazing teacher and my life is richer for it.
This is called thermite reaction. In this reaction, aluminium displaces iron to form aluminium oxide and iron. This is a highly exothermic reaction and the iron produced is in moltem form. This reaction is used to join railway tracks.
It's a basic intro to organic chemistry topic in college. It's a redox reaction or oxidation-reduction reaction, is a chemical reaction that involves the transfer of electrons between chemicals. This is basically thermite. But that's not the only way to do a redox reaction. You could probably find the ratios on a Wikipedia page on it. Although they will probably have you calculate mols for an exact reaction. 😂 For the electron exchange.
I was watching without audio and when I saw him add the silver colored powder I was thinking “Surely he can’t be making thermite right now!” and boy was I wrong
Ceramics can handle some insane shit. It's amazing how material can be so incredibly powerful in some aspects but any impact or tension demolishes them like they're nothing
@@itsgonnabeanaurfromme No, heat usually cuts through things, you need a feed of material in a molten state to actually weld the hot joint, unless you're spot welding through electrical current, not heat.
Wow. I did really poorly in chemistry in high school. But I don't think that would be the case if I had a teacher like you. You actually explain something and I understood it perfectly. Crazy
I didn't either so I wanted to look it up since his graphic was nice but didn't quite explain land the oxygen displacement explanation. Focused on the electron instead during the short
@@Caffeine_Addict_2020it doesn't just fall out because it's not needed, it's a chemical reaction turning iron oxide and aluminum into aluminum oxide and iron. 😂 "It doesn't need iron for the reaction so it just drops out"
This helped me to consider an implication for the magnetic piece of iron near the ethmoid bone in the human body, concerning biochemistry i guess; it'll be nice to have something to look forward to (checking my guess) as incentive to learn more about it. Thank you for sparking the thought.
@@samreddig8819 generally you would buy it in a powdered form for an experiment like this but technically speaking aluminum foil will work. For example Michael of vsauce took a rusty iron ball and one wrapped in aluminum foil and hit them together and a small pieces of molten iron flew off from the same reaction on a much smaller scale
Unless you desire the consequences of thermite. Which, I mean, doesn't everyone who makes thermite? 😅 wouldn't be much use if it didn't produce any consequences 😂
"When you mix Fuel, Metal Oxide and Metal powder in just the right way, it burns at 2000C. Enough to cut through any barrier known to man. Throw some C4 into the mix, and youve got one hell of a combination"
And interestingly enough, completely legal in war because... Deep breath... Of all the incendiaries used throughout history, it's probably the least inhumane. Yes, it burns deep and nasty, but any shrapnel left behind is nontoxic and easily detected, plus the wound channel is generally cauterized. That's pretty easy to treat and a damn lot less horrific than napalm or Willie Pete. (sarcasm) How far we've come as a species (/sarcasm) And once again, we highlight the absurdity of war. What we allow to keep the game as gruesome as possible, but just palatable enough for the 11pm news...
In order to not melt the rusty object completely, if the rust isn't very bad yet, you can just sand the item with foil for the same, but less violent effect
@yancgc5098 That's not How thermite works. I'm sorry to say as such, I know it sucks to be wrong on the internet. Thermite Uses the oxygen atoms from the oxidized metal Which in this case would be the rusted iron. It doesn't need the oxygen in the atmosphere
I see everyone in the comment section is talking about making thermite like selling weed ...I am clueless about this stuff lol but seems like something important to be knowledgeable about
"You might think that when something rusts, it's destroyed forever." OK, but using that rust to make thermite and then burning that thermite doesn't change the fact that the item that rusted is still destroyed.
Wow, you learned a new way to add. Heat to rest to make iron. We've been doing that for ever. Where do you think iron comes from? Naduels of clay and rust that we dig out of the Earth. Become iron when you put them into a couple and light it. You have literally reinvented the wheel. The place where we get our iron deposits used to be Ocean bottom the ocean was red because it was full of rust. The rust turned into nudges the nodules got buried. The land lifted we dug up the nodules and we made iron
A very wise decision to conduct that experiment in a properly functioning fume food with a protective sash to shield the person conducting the experiment. Fascinating chemistry video excellent quality very well done sir keep up the good work.
Its incredible to me, as a science guy, to witness solids touching causing chemical reactions without a middleman liquid/gas. I know it works in theory, but never seen it actually happen.
@@DrakeOola is the torch melting the magnesium and then that heat transfer going to the iron/rust? I'd imagine reactive solids could sublimate or ionize other solids. iirc ionizing trades are what occurs with plutonium and tungsten
Fun Fact: In World War Two, the Germans had an artillery piece (it's the biggest in the world) called the Gustav Gun, and it weighed a thousand tons. And the Gustav was capable of firing a seven-ton shell and hitting a target, accurately, twenty-three miles away. I mean, you could drop bombs on it every day for a month without ever disabling it. But, drop a commando, one man with just a bag of this, and he could melt right through four inches of solid steel and destroy that gun forever.
you can return iron oxide into iron in quite a few ways. but whatever iron object you had is gone. the oxidation of iron comes with an extreme increase in volume. so even if you undo the reaction you are left with a piece of iron that is at best heavily deformed and at worst completely destroyed. there are a great number of iron oxides (and hydroxides) however. and while red rust tends to continuously eat away at objects some other corrosion products can actually passivate the surface and protect it from further corrosion. Black magnetite and brown hematite specifically. Which kind of corrosion you get depends heavily on temperature, moisture, the surface structure of your object and the presence of salts and other chemicals. marine environments tend to favor the yellow and orange rust, while dry environments favor red, brown and black corrosion products.
Hey Phil, I got one I would like to see you test. It would be a hydrogen reaction instead, using the magnesium strip perhaps to provide the energy? Or something more suitable. The idea is to strip the oxygen atoms off the iron oxide using the hydrogen to make water; albeit perhaps needing some filtration. I figure if a person can find a way to do that, we could recycle waste iron and steel with sources of hydrogen to both create heat for boilers running turbines for power; and create a filterable water source. Once filtered, it can run that water back into the system for producing power; or be bottled for consumption (if safe). Sources of hydrogen could be varied, obviously some are cleaner sources than others. Ideally the cleanest source is used, but for the purposes of getting the idea off the ground, even the dirtier might be used.
The mixture is Thurmite. They use this to fuse railroad tracks together. I've also heard of some destructive pranksters filling large flower pots with it and burn it on the hood of someone's car. The hole in the pot will funnel the molten metal down onto the engine block. Burn enough and it will melt a hole through the engine block. Never do this to someone else's car as that is illegal.
When you mix fuel, metal oxide and metal powder in just the right way it burns at 2000 degrees Celsius, hot enough to cut through nearly any barrier known to man, throw some C4 intonthe mix... and you've got one hell of a combination
Iron ore is basically rust. So you smelt it into iron ingots. Cool video but the stated premise was at least to me far fetched (thinking rusted metal lost) and this is not how you would go about recovering rusted iron into usable ingots, to my knowledge. Now, where in Iceland can i get magnesium strips...
I just learned of removing iron from well water in poor areas and thought about using the iron rust in the water to make new iron. I knew it could be done but wasn’t sure what the process was Now I find this video Very interesting
So powdered aluminum metal, mixed with powered steel rust, and add in a stripe of flammable magnesium pure metal, means an insane reaction.... sounds super easy to recreate! Wonder what would happen if someone did like a pound of each with a remote? Silly Billy!
Two things; it looks like you're suggesting I shouldn't build my bridges out of steel wool and if so point taken, second, I used to use "Naval Jelly" to restore rusted tools and automobile frames without all the sparks and flames, but the jelly was a very caustic substance and it would occasionally steam while deoxidizing metal.
And a commando with a pack of this stuff could REALLY do a number on a German railway gun... Because those things were precision engineered and dumping thermite down the barrel will both warp the metal slightly and instantly weld a new blob of iron in a place where there REALLY shouldn't be a big blob of iron, that's why this stuff is great at ruining things, but not so great at melting through armored plate. It is really just an "instant molten iron" recipe.
I actually learned in a chemistry class that rusting is a reversible reaction. So while I technically knew enough heat and oxygen could do it, I have never actually seen it
Long back my chemistry professor said about the alumino thermit process making thermite. Later one day on a railway track, I saw this process for welding rails together.
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Guy made thermite like we wouldn't notice
Yeah because this is the 1800s and this is some big secret huh
At this point I'm surprised when people tell me they *don't* know how to make thermite.
@@JudgeNicodemus I mean I know how to make a lot of things that would make some people mad. Though for legal reasons I’m not going to openly claim I know how to make them. 😂
@@JudgeNicodemusyeah lol, as soon as I heard aluminum metal, I just immediately thought “oh, it’s Thermite!”
@@TemptationsEndbananas are great, aren’t they? 😉
Sheriff: “what the hell are you doing here, son?”
Me: “adding electrons back to the iron, Sir”
Just casually saving this thermite recipe video...
😂😂nah forreal
You can't remember rust and aluminum?
@@Texan_BoyKisserliterally it doesn't even have the ratios
@@JesusChrist42000its a 1:3ratio batween Aluminium and rust
Dude most iron ores are literally iron oxide which is just rust
remember: LEO says GER
Loss of Electrons is Oxidation, Gaining of Electrons is Reduction
OIL and RIG
@@Hyuga_Natsu00 my professor taught me LEO says GER but i guess that works too
Gold experience requiem
@@muzukashiinamae*il vento d'oro starts*
Good thing the first part isn't "Nitrogen Inert Gas".
Rock no rust. Rock strong. Rock win every time.
Not this time.
@@SolomonDragon Elaborate coward.
@Nick__Gurr_ That show has been off the air for over ten years, so it’s nice to see it still referenced.
@@paulkerrigan985710.. years.. no no it can't be
Rock go bye bye in water. Water stronger. Water make house!!!
When I took chemistry in college along with everything else it was a whirlwind of concepts etc. Years later I have reaped the rewards because I can understand so much more about the world I live in. Thank you Wendel Johnson you were an amazing teacher and my life is richer for it.
Why don't you write him a letter? You already wrote down the content and it's not very likely that he will read this TH-cam comment.
@@saschamayer4050 Wendle passed away 10 years ago.
@@randmayfield5695
Oh, sorry to hear that. Sounds like he was an awesome guy.
This is called thermite reaction. In this reaction, aluminium displaces iron to form aluminium oxide and iron. This is a highly exothermic reaction and the iron produced is in moltem form. This reaction is used to join railway tracks.
Yeah, that's just what I was thinking: "You know, this could come in handy if ever I find myself needing to join some railroad tracks. . ."
@@That70sChannel yeah for railway tracks that's exactly what I was thinking to ...
How many railway tracks were in the towers 1 and 2?
Thank you! This was informative
@@plat6164 Actually it is in my school textbook 😅
I like how you didn't tell us what this particular mixture is called and what it's used for lol
Nor what ratio to use
It's a basic intro to organic chemistry topic in college. It's a redox reaction or oxidation-reduction reaction, is a chemical reaction that involves the transfer of electrons between chemicals.
This is basically thermite. But that's not the only way to do a redox reaction. You could probably find the ratios on a Wikipedia page on it. Although they will probably have you calculate mols for an exact reaction. 😂 For the electron exchange.
Police "why did you burn down the bridge"
"I was removing the rust"
Yeah, this doesn't seem practical LOL
@@llbailey9946 "you could have used the fibre laser in your van but nooo YOU JUST HAD TO SLATHER THERMITE PASTE ALL OVER THE BRIDGE DIDN'T YOU?!"
@@engineer84-w8x Worked for Tower 7.
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At least they got rid of the rust.. in the ocean..
Thermite be playing the 20th Century Fox song
I was watching without audio and when I saw him add the silver colored powder I was thinking “Surely he can’t be making thermite right now!” and boy was I wrong
Oh boy! Thermite!
boy o boy. boy you're boyin around like there! come here, boy
Watching shorts muted is some next level doomscrolling
He even have is old boys an easy way to get iron oxide, as well. Handy dandy boys
@@nbvehbectw5640I lol'd. Thanks for that. 😂
I love simple, useful chemistry recipes.
What are you planning to do?
@@Chris_winthers - File for potential future reference.
Genuinely impressed once again by ceramics. That is some SERIOUS heat shock, yet the flowerpot stood up pretty darn well!
obviously, what if my orchid decides to spontaneously heat up to a thousand degrees
I mean, we’ve used ceramic for millennia for reasons after all
Yeah you would almost made a bbq out of a flowerpot, call it kamado and sell it for a thousand dollar........
Oh someone already does that :(
@@nescionetizen295sounds like a hack fraud
Ceramics can handle some insane shit. It's amazing how material can be so incredibly powerful in some aspects but any impact or tension demolishes them like they're nothing
i heard the words "rust" and then "aluminum" and then finally realized "oh yeah thermite!"
And thats why thermite welding is a thing, that iron gets used
Yup. They use this on train tracks all the time
The more you know, I always thought it was just for the heat
Isn't it also used for underwater welding?
Oh heat can be used to weld things?!?! You don't sayyyyy
@@itsgonnabeanaurfromme No, heat usually cuts through things, you need a feed of material in a molten state to actually weld the hot joint, unless you're spot welding through electrical current, not heat.
Wow. I did really poorly in chemistry in high school. But I don't think that would be the case if I had a teacher like you. You actually explain something and I understood it perfectly. Crazy
The second you said "turn rust back to iron" I thought "ah nice, thermite video".
That didn't even occur to me until he mentioned aluminum.
Why didn’t I have a chemistry teacher like you when I saw in school?! I would’ve actually paid attention!! 😩
I had no idea thermite burned into just iron
I didn't either so I wanted to look it up since his graphic was nice but didn't quite explain land the oxygen displacement explanation. Focused on the electron instead during the short
@@justin.c.tayloroxygen from iron rust connects to the pure aluminium causing pure iron and aluminium oxide result
Yeah it’s how train tracks are welded together. They use thermite in a mold around where the track pieces join and light that sucker on fire.
@@justin.c.taylorthermites just rust and aluminum, apparently it doesn't need the iron for the reaction so it just falls out
@@Caffeine_Addict_2020it doesn't just fall out because it's not needed, it's a chemical reaction turning iron oxide and aluminum into aluminum oxide and iron. 😂 "It doesn't need iron for the reaction so it just drops out"
I was today years old when I learned rust can be un-rusted.
I enjoy your non-clickbait content, markedly better than a lot of the chem shorts that are bait for other videos
This helped me to consider an implication for the magnetic piece of iron near the ethmoid bone in the human body, concerning biochemistry i guess; it'll be nice to have something to look forward to (checking my guess) as incentive to learn more about it. Thank you for sparking the thought.
As soon as you said aluminum we knew.
TBH it took me 'til the magnesium. I didn't make the connection until then and the whole pattern just clicked.
@@AnomalousVixel that little "aha" moment when you figure it out before they explain it is great isn't it?
My question is where does the aluminum come from? Like the iron is obviously steel wool.
@@samreddig8819 generally you would buy it in a powdered form for an experiment like this but technically speaking aluminum foil will work. For example Michael of vsauce took a rusty iron ball and one wrapped in aluminum foil and hit them together and a small pieces of molten iron flew off from the same reaction on a much smaller scale
Best thing is, both metals are very abundant and iron can be acquired through other if rather inefficient means than by mining. Very good.
You can try this at home, but thermite be some undesirable consequences
*desirable
Coward.
Unless you desire the consequences of thermite. Which, I mean, doesn't everyone who makes thermite? 😅 wouldn't be much use if it didn't produce any consequences 😂
@@StigOfTheJunkCant tell if you are being serious or not, like you didnt just read the greatest pun on this comment section
Lmao. Thermite be indeed
@@synaesthesia888 Can you explain the pun please? English is not my first language
Glad the internet noticed the thermite too
Instructions unclear, set my car on fire.
Did you stop the rust?
Is your car black or rust free?
😂
"When you mix Fuel, Metal Oxide and Metal powder in just the right way, it burns at 2000C. Enough to cut through any barrier known to man. Throw some C4 into the mix, and youve got one hell of a combination"
And interestingly enough, completely legal in war because... Deep breath...
Of all the incendiaries used throughout history, it's probably the least inhumane. Yes, it burns deep and nasty, but any shrapnel left behind is nontoxic and easily detected, plus the wound channel is generally cauterized. That's pretty easy to treat and a damn lot less horrific than napalm or Willie Pete. (sarcasm) How far we've come as a species (/sarcasm)
And once again, we highlight the absurdity of war. What we allow to keep the game as gruesome as possible, but just palatable enough for the 11pm news...
Great idea!! I’m gonna do this to my car to get rid of the rust!
I think turning a rusty car to molten metal is still considered destroyed forever...
In order to not melt the rusty object completely, if the rust isn't very bad yet, you can just sand the item with foil for the same, but less violent effect
"At first, it didnt seem much was happening, but..."
is dis NileRed reference
He I was waiting to see you turn rust back into steel wool.
You have to feed it to sheep first.
I can't explain why but that rusted wool was so satisfying to see crumble
Showing this to the fam
It's just thermite Welp, too late for me to warn you
The moment you mentioned aluminum I realized what you where making lol
You should do this in an inert Gas atmosphere like argon or nitrogen. In order to prevent the iron that is formed from immediately oxidizing again.
But that would prevent the burning reaction that makes the iron red hot here
@yancgc5098 That's not How thermite works. I'm sorry to say as such, I know it sucks to be wrong on the internet. Thermite Uses the oxygen atoms from the oxidized metal Which in this case would be the rusted iron. It doesn't need the oxygen in the atmosphere
@@autodidacticartisan Ah cool, didn’t know it worked like that. Thanks for the info
This actually crossed my mind not long ago, great video
I love thermite reactions
The most interesting part is, that, the thermite reaction produces the purest iron.
I saw iron oxide and an aluminium compound and thought to myself, wait, isn't that how ypu make thermite?
I see everyone in the comment section is talking about making thermite like selling weed ...I am clueless about this stuff lol but seems like something important to be knowledgeable about
"You might think that when something rusts, it's destroyed forever." OK, but using that rust to make thermite and then burning that thermite doesn't change the fact that the item that rusted is still destroyed.
Wow, you learned a new way to add. Heat to rest to make iron. We've been doing that for ever. Where do you think iron comes from? Naduels of clay and rust that we dig out of the Earth. Become iron when you put them into a couple and light it. You have literally reinvented the wheel.
The place where we get our iron deposits used to be Ocean bottom the ocean was red because it was full of rust. The rust turned into nudges the nodules got buried. The land lifted we dug up the nodules and we made iron
bro was like 'frozen water is ice, and we can never get the water back... so let me explode this ice to get some water...'
A very wise decision to conduct that experiment in a properly functioning fume food with a protective sash to shield the person conducting the experiment. Fascinating chemistry video excellent quality very well done sir keep up the good work.
You didn't turn it back to steel wool so the item was destroyed. I don't think anyone thinks the iron atoms were destroyed.
I had never thought of this thermite reaction like undoing rust, that's so cool
bro casually making thermite like it’s nothing
I always have problems getting enough rust for my thermite, thanks for the steel wool tip!
You made thermite lol
This guy as a blacksmith would be unstoppable
doc i didnt even knew this was possible, amazing !
Its incredible to me, as a science guy, to witness solids touching causing chemical reactions without a middleman liquid/gas. I know it works in theory, but never seen it actually happen.
It's not solid, you have to melt it into a liquid before it starts reacting which is why its so hard to ignite...
@@DrakeOola is the torch melting the magnesium and then that heat transfer going to the iron/rust? I'd imagine reactive solids could sublimate or ionize other solids. iirc ionizing trades are what occurs with plutonium and tungsten
Fun Fact: In World War Two, the Germans had an artillery piece (it's the biggest in the world) called the Gustav Gun, and it weighed a thousand tons. And the Gustav was capable of firing a seven-ton shell and hitting a target, accurately, twenty-three miles away. I mean, you could drop bombs on it every day for a month without ever disabling it. But, drop a commando, one man with just a bag of this, and he could melt right through four inches of solid steel and destroy that gun forever.
you can return iron oxide into iron in quite a few ways.
but whatever iron object you had is gone. the oxidation of iron comes with an extreme increase in volume. so even if you undo the reaction you are left with a piece of iron that is at best heavily deformed and at worst completely destroyed.
there are a great number of iron oxides (and hydroxides) however. and while red rust tends to continuously eat away at objects some other corrosion products can actually passivate the surface and protect it from further corrosion. Black magnetite and brown hematite specifically.
Which kind of corrosion you get depends heavily on temperature, moisture, the surface structure of your object and the presence of salts and other chemicals.
marine environments tend to favor the yellow and orange rust, while dry environments favor red, brown and black corrosion products.
This is called Aluminothermy btw, also called thermite reaction.
The moment I saw a light color powder go into the iron oxide, I knew instantly.
Hey Phil, I got one I would like to see you test. It would be a hydrogen reaction instead, using the magnesium strip perhaps to provide the energy? Or something more suitable. The idea is to strip the oxygen atoms off the iron oxide using the hydrogen to make water; albeit perhaps needing some filtration.
I figure if a person can find a way to do that, we could recycle waste iron and steel with sources of hydrogen to both create heat for boilers running turbines for power; and create a filterable water source. Once filtered, it can run that water back into the system for producing power; or be bottled for consumption (if safe).
Sources of hydrogen could be varied, obviously some are cleaner sources than others. Ideally the cleanest source is used, but for the purposes of getting the idea off the ground, even the dirtier might be used.
Cool science demonstration!
Nothing is destroyed forever.
Something some people don't understand.
Rust isn't destroyed iron. It's just iron with oxygen bonded to it. 😂
Consciousness, when destroyed, is always forever.
Ugh, this reminds me when I worked at R and D, at a steel mill. We plunged FeO2 and Al03 into a live heat. It was definitely interesting.
Oh so that's why rust gets flakey and falls apart easily; it's losing electrons. The more you know.
What a useful use for flowerpots!
The second you squeezed that rusted steel wool my lungs actually spluttered for a moment and my body made an audible noise.
Congratulations! You've made thermite!
You don't know how much this helps me
Good science just makes my day even better then reading the Bible or praying.
The mixture is Thurmite. They use this to fuse railroad tracks together. I've also heard of some destructive pranksters filling large flower pots with it and burn it on the hood of someone's car. The hole in the pot will funnel the molten metal down onto the engine block. Burn enough and it will melt a hole through the engine block. Never do this to someone else's car as that is illegal.
When you mix fuel, metal oxide and metal powder in just the right way it burns at 2000 degrees Celsius, hot enough to cut through nearly any barrier known to man, throw some C4 intonthe mix... and you've got one hell of a combination
That's why thermite welding is used in some application like railway rails.
This is the most scientist looking person I have ever seen.
Instructions unclear, now I'm a wanted homless person
As soon as I heard he added aluminum I knew he was making thermite
God, please, don't let lung cancer touch this man.
I saw this on MacGyver back in the 90s
Iron ore is basically rust. So you smelt it into iron ingots. Cool video but the stated premise was at least to me far fetched (thinking rusted metal lost) and this is not how you would go about recovering rusted iron into usable ingots, to my knowledge. Now, where in Iceland can i get magnesium strips...
👍 Wonderful video art work. An excellent turning. We like it.
As soon as he mentioned using aluminum, I started to realize what was happening
I love that TH-cam has become a Wild West of laboratory scientists
As soon as I heard aluminum, I knew it was going to be thermite 😂
The moral: iron can be endlessly recycled as long as you have an endless supply of pots
"Did he just make thermite?"
*checks comments*
"I'm not crazy."
Gold is a store of value, cash is a representation.
Love it
It also works with coke, natural gas, and hydrogen as reactant. Most iron ore is chemically the same as rust.
BRO IS THAT MY BOY DR KLEINER???
I've seen this before. They tried this same process to repair the rust on the twin towers on 9/11
I just learned of removing iron from well water in poor areas and thought about using the iron rust in the water to make new iron. I knew it could be done but wasn’t sure what the process was
Now I find this video
Very interesting
also, iron oxide batteries use electricity to unrust iron as well.
As someone whos restored multiple classic cars ive never thought once something rusts its f*cked forever
Seems like a good way to warm up Mars
This is like something Harry Potter learns in his potion classes
So powdered aluminum metal, mixed with powered steel rust, and add in a stripe of flammable magnesium pure metal, means an insane reaction.... sounds super easy to recreate! Wonder what would happen if someone did like a pound of each with a remote? Silly Billy!
Two things; it looks like you're suggesting I shouldn't build my bridges out of steel wool and if so point taken, second, I used to use "Naval Jelly" to restore rusted tools and automobile frames without all the sparks and flames, but the jelly was a very caustic substance and it would occasionally steam while deoxidizing metal.
And a commando with a pack of this stuff could REALLY do a number on a German railway gun...
Because those things were precision engineered and dumping thermite down the barrel will both warp the metal slightly and instantly weld a new blob of iron in a place where there REALLY shouldn't be a big blob of iron, that's why this stuff is great at ruining things, but not so great at melting through armored plate. It is really just an "instant molten iron" recipe.
That's so frickin' cool!
Railroad workers used to weld tracks together with thermite.
I actually learned in a chemistry class that rusting is a reversible reaction. So while I technically knew enough heat and oxygen could do it, I have never actually seen it
Now I see you're turning back in the steel woll
Using processed metals to process metal, very productive.
Long back my chemistry professor said about the alumino thermit process making thermite. Later one day on a railway track, I saw this process for welding rails together.
No wonder people in the 1700s thought we were on the brink of discovering the philosopher's stone.