I worked with a similar reaction during my Ph.D. work and I'm glad to see such a reaction featured here! This type of reaction is called a hypergolic volumetric explosion. Damp ammonium perchlorate with lithium powder or sodium borohydride with >70% H2O2 will do the same thing! Stay safe with these!
Like the old KCl03 solution/red P4, yes.....(some friends and I were mixing those underwater and accidentally crushed some chlorate crystals against the phosphorus - it actually ignited underwater! Not a happy moment. Fortunately no injuries.) There's a class of high energy materials called Sprengel (or binary) explosives that utilize this effect. Kinepack is an example that's used commercially by geologists, miners, etc.
Wow interesting, do you have any estimation of the reaction velocity? I'm so curious how it compares to other explosives like tannerite, tnt, c4. It's hard to judge for me since you very seldom sees videos blowing those explosives out in this small quantities. And what about compared to the that reaction you worked with during your Ph.D?
You call it a “hypergolic volumetric explosion”, where I’m from we have a similar description for this reaction. We call it cool as shit, or the how much can I set off before the authorities come knocking reaction ?
Wow! Impressive damage inflicted on that metal bowl. So interesting too is the delayed reaction. Did you have any idea just how energetic this reaction would be before you tried it? That delay probably saved your fingers.
Terrific! Thank you for sharing! Could you imagine the damage a defence/offence projectile with those chems inside, separated by a membrane until impact?
You can make awesome flash powders with amorphous elemental boron too, but yes, very costly ones! I was given a few hundred grams years ago and substituted it for aluminum in the usual flash powder mix - high energy stuff.
6:30 not only does ChemicalForce have unlimited amounts of all stuff imaginable regardless of the cost, he is also testing his newest invention: imortal flies.
Two things I would love to see with this reaction.... 1) Collab with slow mo guys. 2) the reaction on different thicknesses/types of metal. Copper, steel, etc.
These questions is from watching the first video with boranes, Were you expecting a detonation or were you chocked and unprepared, and what happened to your hearing? That must have been deafening? Was it you in the foreground that jumped when it exploded or something falling because of the powerful chockwave? It would be very interesting if this experiment could be done with a phantom or chronos typ camera so that we could calculate the reaction velocity. This looks like it could well be in the neighborhood of some high explosives especially since it looked like you were only using perhaps 500mg. Do you think the exothermic reaction before the explosive reaction gets hot enough that it would aid the ability to punch a hole through the metal so much that it makes the force less impressive, or is it just a few hundred degrees and probably would have punched a hole no matter if it was heated up or not? Thank you for great videos! What an amazing reaction!@@ChemicalForce
That is 100% a supersonic detonation. I wonder if the reaction produces some kind of super sensitive explosive that builds up until it spontaneously detonates.
It might just be a deflagration that turns into a detonation, like what happens when a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen is ignited. Then again, depending on what intermediate reaction products are formed, the distinction might not be all that clear-cut. . . .
@@VeilofStars-yp3eyPretty much all primary explosives also have this behaviour, though. It’s called the deflagration to detonation transition (DDT, not that other DDT heh) time. Most useful primaries will have this in the low milliseconds, some are incredibly low however, like microseconds; IIRC lead azide is a example of one like this
I think I know what Explosions And Fire's next video is going to be about 😃😅 This is SERIOUSLY impressive and cool, so energetic! I'm really curious about the volume of gas generation. Isn't Decoborane really expensive?
A buddy of mine used to use decaborane reactions to launch potatoes out of tubes. He worked for a sketchy chem lab that produced it for cancer treatments and stole a snapple bottle full of it. Ironically died of cancer last year. He was an awesome dude.
I feel like, as the Chemical Force reaction, you should do a further deep dive explaining the chemistry behind why this is such an impressive explosive combination. I definitely agree this was pretty spectacular!
JDClark noted in the part of 'Ignition!" dedicated to boranes: * Dick Holzmann was at ARPA at the time, and it is due to him that all this chemistry is available, and not buried forever in the files of the contractors and the services. He had all the information collected, heckled Ronald Hughes, Ivan Smith, and Ed Lawless of Midwest Research Institute into putting it together in one volume, and finally edited "Production of the Boranes and Related Research", which was published by Academic Press in 1967.
That is truly terrifying. I'll say one thing... I did not respect nitric acid enough in grad school, and it nearly killed me. The two experiments here that really show the power of this reaction are the metal tin and the block of wood. Such a small mass of UNCONTAINED material creating enough force to shred that metal and force a huge wood slab down hard enough to crack your table? Damn.
I love that you've discovered something pretty cool. I also love that you call it Chemical Force! You're a pretty cool guy, Felicks! Really awesome! 😊 P.S. You are so sweet to spend a good amount of money on a video to entertain us!
That was awesome. That is one heck of an explosion and must be releasing a lot of energy. Our boy Tom at Explosions and Fire mentioned that an explosive does well putting holes in pieces of thin aluminium. That stuff you mixed put a massive hole in a steel dish!
I believe Tom's "crude estimate of detonation velocity" was to observe the size of the holes in the backside of the can left by the shattered frontside. Smaller holes = higher fragmentation and therefor higher detonation velocity Stacking a 2 steel bowls like an orb with a sleet plate between them might accomplish a similar demonstration of detonation velocity while keeping the all-steel-kitchenware theme
I believe that boranes were generally phased out for most industrial and commercial use because they are expensive and are horrible for the environment.
That is very unlikely because the need to handle pure HNO3 is already enough to make it unsuitable for any commercial or general military use. Good stuff must be completely sealed and stable for decades until you either heat it up or hit it really hard. Mixing stuff up manually inevitably creates mess and unreliability. Mixing dangerous and corrosive stuff creates dangerous and corrosive mess and causes accidents. Noone wants that.
@@_thisnameistakenYup, and there is a recent push for non toxic primaries (in particular to phase out use of lead azide) so this is very much the wrong direction lol Putting aside it’s impracticality for use haha. That said it would be very interesting and possibly also useful theoretically to know the mechanism for how it works, in case it may be useful for something else!
Yup that would definitely set off almost any HE to be sure. A small spoonful of it did damage worse than a number 8 blasting cap. Also the Vdet was extremely high for it to shatter a steel bowl like that. At 50 bucks a gram though it would be really spendy compared to a typical cap.😂
That is exactly what I thought. I bet there is sodium decaborane nitrate or something like that forming and having a runaway reaction leading to detonation.
@@michaelmichalski4588 generally when I work with volitile compounds I don't hold them in my palm, I use a 4 ft. chicken stick, the stick is sacrificial, I don't want to be known as "3 finger joe"
I have to say this is my favourite video u have ever made!!! I love EMs and Decaborane mixes are extreamly powerful HEs. The higer the Nitrogen content the more powerful it is. Sadly most mixes are very sensitive or even self-detonate like this one u showed. A very promising mix is the mixture of NH4N3O4(Ammoniumdinitramid) and Decaborane it is insanly powerful probably the best EM I have ever tested. If u want u can test it its a primary with Vod of prob 8-10km/s.
I was about to comment: If you don't do a watermelon, then the spirit of Gallagher (RIP 🍉🔨) will come back and haunt you. So glad that you did not disappoint!! Amazing video, as always. This is top-tier TH-cam chemistry content. Please keep them coming!
Just discovered your channel. Fun stuff & great presentation. Will be watching more. You seriously should consider doing a collaboration with the Slo-mo guys. They'd be able to slow these reactions down to millionths of a second so you could see more detail.
Chimpanzees share 98.8% of our DNA... Can you imagine going to the zoo & seeing a chimpanzee explain this to a group of other chimps? Every single day that I wake up, I see all the infrastructure & technology. Commerce, communication & chemistry....all built by sophisticated (maybe schizophrenic?) chimpanzees. And I live every day in awe of what we have accomplished - and what we take for granted.
please be careful with this man, I'm seeing widely varying times between mixture and detonation, it appears that when the db is in a column, like in the baseball, it detonates much faster. also, i would be very interested to see the reaction mixing with something that has been nitrated or is otherwise in solid/powder form, but still highly acidic, as opposed to the liquid acid.
@@hevado01possibly, and i'm only familiar with basic explosives/nitration like ETN, etc. to my eyes, it seems like the DB is being nitrated, but also heated to it's boiling point by the nitration causing it to detonate. ETN i know will detonate at boiling point. (NEVER melt that with a torch, always with a hot plate at controlled temp) if burning fibers in the ball are adding additional heat causing boiling faster, that may very well be the case. but i think having the DB in a column will also increase the speed at which it reaches boiling temp.
Some of these chemical reactions remind me of the "T" and "C" Stoff the German used in WW2 to power their Messerschmitt ME163 rocket fighter. th-cam.com/video/mgXfYXPS1xk/w-d-xo.html
I think the decaborane is acting like a "crown ether", but where the four hydrogens that are bonded to 2 different boron atoms are "chelating" nitric acid molecules. This would be "stable" at low temperatures, but since the chelation reaction is exothermic, eventually the decaborane-nitrate decomposes rapidly. Definitely test this at lower temperatures, or with active cooling, and vary the stoiciometry to see if it's a 1:1 nitrate:decaborane ratio.
Smallest container I found was $488 online and probably have to have an account with the Chem company and credentials and mission statement and government approval sign off and higher shipping rate and a parlor trick or two.
It's probably a runaway nitration of the cage shaped borane molecule. The more nitrates you put on a ring (or in this case cage), the easier it is to add another nitrate. It's probably exothermic and the hotter it gets, the faster the reaction goes as well. But at room temperature with no nitrate group s it goes slowly. But it runs away and after a few seconds of exponential growth it just goes off the rails. But that's just an offhanded guess
Me: I am going to make an anti tank cannon with this. Me when i see the price of decaborane: Welp, guess its back to the boring old hydrogen peroxide and bleach
Not saying you're not the first person to document this, but I would be a bit surprised if the rocket chemists who worked with boranes and nitric acid in the 50s didn't see this at least once.
Imagine bullets with these two inside contained in vials that get shattered on impact and pnve the bullet is lodged inside they burst like that. I mean just imagine the target gets shot once snd gets exploded from within 😂
Try to crack a padlock with this reaction. Needless to say, very carefully. Or a deadbolt. (After reading the halo books I remember them talking about how some spartans could make a very quiet shaped charge to get into a room).
I worked with a similar reaction during my Ph.D. work and I'm glad to see such a reaction featured here! This type of reaction is called a hypergolic volumetric explosion. Damp ammonium perchlorate with lithium powder or sodium borohydride with >70% H2O2 will do the same thing! Stay safe with these!
Like the old KCl03 solution/red P4, yes.....(some friends and I were mixing those underwater and accidentally crushed some chlorate crystals against the phosphorus - it actually ignited underwater! Not a happy moment. Fortunately no injuries.)
There's a class of high energy materials called Sprengel (or binary) explosives that utilize this effect. Kinepack is an example that's used commercially by geologists, miners, etc.
Same mechanism with the borohydride and RFNA I reckon.
Wow interesting, do you have any estimation of the reaction velocity? I'm so curious how it compares to other explosives like tannerite, tnt, c4. It's hard to judge for me since you very seldom sees videos blowing those explosives out in this small quantities. And what about compared to the that reaction you worked with during your Ph.D?
I have a question, I can't stop eating scented candles.
You call it a “hypergolic volumetric explosion”, where I’m from we have a similar description for this reaction. We call it cool as shit, or the how much can I set off before the authorities come knocking reaction ?
That was probably the coolest Reaction chemistry Reaction Video i have seen in 2 years. Thank you for having always well made content
Psychologist: that's just your illusion, exploding peach does not exist
That fly: you have not experienced that...
Wow! Impressive damage inflicted on that metal bowl. So interesting too is the delayed reaction. Did you have any idea just how energetic this reaction would be before you tried it? That delay probably saved your fingers.
You’re supposed to scream “It’s watermelon time!”
Terrific!
Thank you for sharing!
Could you imagine the damage a defence/offence projectile with those chems inside, separated by a membrane until impact?
That was my first thought , this brings the concept of grenades to a whole new level ....
This would probably make a pretty efficient stump remover.
The fly in peach part : 😎
You can never have too many ways to blow stuff up.
You know that fly crapped itself
We need a collab with slowmoguys for this one
6:28 the fly was probably freaking out
Nice of the reaction to wait for you to get away
I feel like this could be harnessed as a shape charge. Although it would be way more expensive than conventional shape charges.
Whoa what happen
It is very similar to nytro glycerine in energy released per gram
Peach, understand. I'm gonna love you till the very end!
oh, that was the end, hmm...
Few drops of IPA to 10mils of nitric acid also very unstable.
glass?
A gram of decaborane is like what, $50? That's one hell of an expensive explosive!
Yes, it turned out to be a very expensive video; I hope TH-cam doesn’t ban it. 😬
@@ChemicalForce please generate a VIMEO or similar backup for spicy vids
@@PixelatedPuzzlementswhat the fuck
@@Tapajoss ?
You can make awesome flash powders with amorphous elemental boron too, but yes, very costly ones! I was given a few hundred grams years ago and substituted it for aluminum in the usual flash powder mix - high energy stuff.
6:30 not only does ChemicalForce have unlimited amounts of all stuff imaginable regardless of the cost, he is also testing his newest invention: imortal flies.
thats impresive, the water in the peach would serve to direct the shockwave up onto the fly but it still seemed untouched
@@WeebRemover4500 Flies are stronger than you think
Pretty sure that fly was dead and just moving past by inertia.
@@RCAvhstape sadly this cannot be the canon of the lore in this instance, as wings don't continue flapping by inertia alone. :(
Flies take some time before realizing they are dead 😂
Two things I would love to see with this reaction.... 1) Collab with slow mo guys. 2) the reaction on different thicknesses/types of metal. Copper, steel, etc.
Collab with explosions&fire
He had slow motion in this video. The explosion is too quick even for a 250,000 fps camera
I'd like Slow mo guys to film a fly getting shot out of the air with a powerful explosion, zoom in on it and everything. It's probably hard tho
I only regret that I can only like this comment once.
@@The.Drunk-Koala They (and others) can film detonating cord going off at >6 km/s, they will have no big problem with this.
It's awesome seeing that metal bowl shatter, rather than just deform and rip. Really cool reaction!
Quick question. How is your comment 14 hours old and this vid has only been uploaded for an hour?
@@poppedweasel Welcome to my Patreon 😎
@@poppedweasel The video came out a bit earlier on Patreon. I'm a member over there so I saw it before it was generally available on TH-cam.
These questions is from watching the first video with boranes, Were you expecting a detonation or were you chocked and unprepared, and what happened to your hearing? That must have been deafening? Was it you in the foreground that jumped when it exploded or something falling because of the powerful chockwave? It would be very interesting if this experiment could be done with a phantom or chronos typ camera so that we could calculate the reaction velocity. This looks like it could well be in the neighborhood of some high explosives especially since it looked like you were only using perhaps 500mg. Do you think the exothermic reaction before the explosive reaction gets hot enough that it would aid the ability to punch a hole through the metal so much that it makes the force less impressive, or is it just a few hundred degrees and probably would have punched a hole no matter if it was heated up or not? Thank you for great videos! What an amazing reaction!@@ChemicalForce
Perhaps soon. @@ChemicalForce
That is 100% a supersonic detonation. I wonder if the reaction produces some kind of super sensitive explosive that builds up until it spontaneously detonates.
Yea, probably highly nitrated decaboranes. Gonna check this….
That's the definition of a detonation. The shockwave propagates at supersonic speed. Otherwise it would be an explosion or deflagration.
It might just be a deflagration that turns into a detonation, like what happens when a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen is ignited. Then again, depending on what intermediate reaction products are formed, the distinction might not be all that clear-cut. . . .
@@VeilofStars-yp3eyPretty much all primary explosives also have this behaviour, though. It’s called the deflagration to detonation transition (DDT, not that other DDT heh) time. Most useful primaries will have this in the low milliseconds, some are incredibly low however, like microseconds; IIRC lead azide is a example of one like this
It's a hypergolic reaction.
Luckiest fly in the world going over the peach. 😋🤓
That fly reminds me of that one airplane leaving a warzone meme
I think I know what Explosions And Fire's next video is going to be about 😃😅
This is SERIOUSLY impressive and cool, so energetic!
I'm really curious about the volume of gas generation.
Isn't Decoborane really expensive?
Yellow chem bad, so not going to be his favorite
Another comment said that a gram of decaborane is like $50, so yes, quite expensive!
Might be a bit out of toms price range lmao. ChemicalForce seems to have infinite money
just give E&F 5 years and some teeth whitening agents, he'll get there eventually
The explosive expansion is in the order of high velocity explosives, its extremely energetic
I used decaborane a lot for my degree thesis. If only I had known it could be this much fun!
Then you wouldn't have much left for your thesis 😅
The burnning decaborane with LOX has got to be the single most beautiful chemistry camera shot I've ever seen!
A buddy of mine used to use decaborane reactions to launch potatoes out of tubes. He worked for a sketchy chem lab that produced it for cancer treatments and stole a snapple bottle full of it. Ironically died of cancer last year. He was an awesome dude.
I feel like, as the Chemical Force reaction, you should do a further deep dive explaining the chemistry behind why this is such an impressive explosive combination. I definitely agree this was pretty spectacular!
JDClark noted in the part of 'Ignition!" dedicated to boranes:
* Dick Holzmann was at ARPA at the time, and it is due to him that all this chemistry
is available, and not buried forever in the files of the contractors and the services. He
had all the information collected, heckled Ronald Hughes, Ivan Smith, and Ed Lawless
of Midwest Research Institute into putting it together in one volume, and finally edited
"Production of the Boranes and Related Research", which was published by Academic Press in 1967.
That is truly terrifying. I'll say one thing... I did not respect nitric acid enough in grad school, and it nearly killed me. The two experiments here that really show the power of this reaction are the metal tin and the block of wood. Such a small mass of UNCONTAINED material creating enough force to shred that metal and force a huge wood slab down hard enough to crack your table? Damn.
Not packing. Makes me wonder what the velocity is.
I love that you've discovered something pretty cool. I also love that you call it Chemical Force! You're a pretty cool guy, Felicks! Really awesome! 😊
P.S. You are so sweet to spend a good amount of money on a video to entertain us!
While many people come to TH-cam to make money I come to spend it 😂
That was awesome. That is one heck of an explosion and must be releasing a lot of energy. Our boy Tom at Explosions and Fire mentioned that an explosive does well putting holes in pieces of thin aluminium. That stuff you mixed put a massive hole in a steel dish!
I believe Tom's "crude estimate of detonation velocity" was to observe the size of the holes in the backside of the can left by the shattered frontside. Smaller holes = higher fragmentation and therefor higher detonation velocity
Stacking a 2 steel bowls like an orb with a sleet plate between them might accomplish a similar demonstration of detonation velocity while keeping the all-steel-kitchenware theme
@nathanieljames7462 Ah, the good old “can test.” I hope Tom makes a video on this particular reaction!
Tom is also using wayyyy less explosives in testing than the reagents used here.
Looks like it could be a chemical initiator for other explosives like TNT. I wonder if this has been tried yet.
I believe that boranes were generally phased out for most industrial and commercial use because they are expensive and are horrible for the environment.
That is very unlikely because the need to handle pure HNO3 is already enough to make it unsuitable for any commercial or general military use. Good stuff must be completely sealed and stable for decades until you either heat it up or hit it really hard. Mixing stuff up manually inevitably creates mess and unreliability. Mixing dangerous and corrosive stuff creates dangerous and corrosive mess and causes accidents. Noone wants that.
@@_thisnameistakenYup, and there is a recent push for non toxic primaries (in particular to phase out use of lead azide) so this is very much the wrong direction lol
Putting aside it’s impracticality for use haha. That said it would be very interesting and possibly also useful theoretically to know the mechanism for how it works, in case it may be useful for something else!
Yup that would definitely set off almost any HE to be sure. A small spoonful of it did damage worse than a number 8 blasting cap. Also the Vdet was extremely high for it to shatter a steel bowl like that. At 50 bucks a gram though it would be really spendy compared to a typical cap.😂
It looks strong enough to rip atoms apart should it be concentrated.
Wow, after you blew the Watermelon up, you could see its soul on its way to Heaven.
This reaction should be done in low temps, I think activation heat is required so cooling the compound might stabilize it
That is exactly what I thought.
I bet there is sodium decaborane nitrate or something like that forming and having a runaway reaction leading to detonation.
Stabilizing it could be even more dangerous. There are things where a tablespoon of it will take your hand off.
@@michaelmichalski4588 generally when I work with volitile compounds I don't hold them in my palm, I use a 4 ft. chicken stick, the stick is sacrificial, I don't want to be known as "3 finger joe"
Hey, wait a minute, this is chemistry that Germany had in 1940..
I wanna see what happens if you scale it up by like 10. But that would be very expensive.
6:07 is a recreation of what would happen if I put this mixture up my… well… you know
1:08 - All I can think of is that bit from Dexter's Lab: "MY HAIR IS ON FIRE! MY HAIR IS ON FIRE! MY HAIR IS ON FIRE!"
dude, that was Michael Jackson I thought! lol haha
How powerful an explosion would it be if we sprinkled a barrel full of it from a plane onto the surface and watered it?
I have to say this is my favourite video u have ever made!!! I love EMs and Decaborane mixes are extreamly powerful HEs. The higer the Nitrogen content the more powerful it is. Sadly most mixes are very sensitive or even self-detonate like this one u showed. A very promising mix is the mixture of NH4N3O4(Ammoniumdinitramid) and Decaborane it is insanly powerful probably the best EM I have ever tested. If u want u can test it its a primary with Vod of prob 8-10km/s.
No the mini nuclear bomb is the best.
That would be a detonation velocity exceeding even azidotetrazoles. I am… skeptical
@@mduckernz It is better than Tetrazoles.
Hey man. You have discord? Always like to talk about excotic EMs
What is the sensitivity like compared to SADS?
5:50 I found your secret. If you look very very closely, you can see a little kaboom.
Well I Bet That Smells Nice🤣- 1:15
You need to collaborate with SloMo Guys for this reaction
Never make a chemistry teacher angry...or else you will drive a car and the next second the car will become a unicorn...
What is the name of the materials?
My day wasn't going very well, until I hopped on TH-cam and saw this. Thanks for brightening my day.
I hope you are doing better now
6:25 my ass the next morning after taco bell.
I liked this video before even watching it completely. I then liked my own comment.
I was about to comment: If you don't do a watermelon, then the spirit of Gallagher (RIP 🍉🔨) will come back and haunt you. So glad that you did not disappoint!!
Amazing video, as always. This is top-tier TH-cam chemistry content. Please keep them coming!
I learned from action movies, you must put on sunglasses, then turn your back on explosions.
1:26 i can smell this video,,, barf
Now just a build a glow stick from hell. Crack an ampule of nitric acid in a plastic tube filled with decaborane and get wayback lol
Never in my life I ever saw clear fuming nitric acid
Could you perhaps isolate the compound responsible by keeping it really cold?
What flew through the air from the bottom left part of the screen at 7:24????
3:45 very high distractive power indeed
2:32 OMG that's the infamous prawn flamethrower from the movie District 9 🤯
Good luck buying any decaborane after this makes rounds...
Just discovered your channel. Fun stuff & great presentation. Will be watching more. You seriously should consider doing a collaboration with the Slo-mo guys. They'd be able to slow these reactions down to millionths of a second so you could see more detail.
You've missed a lot over all these years! 😀
0:40 Fuming nitric acid is pretty destructive on its own anyway. To say its really nasty would be an understatement.
At 8:16 there happened a clear and serious case of melon cruelty.
Chimpanzees share 98.8% of our DNA...
Can you imagine going to the zoo & seeing a chimpanzee explain this to a group of other chimps?
Every single day that I wake up, I see all the infrastructure & technology. Commerce, communication & chemistry....all built by sophisticated (maybe schizophrenic?) chimpanzees. And I live every day in awe of what we have accomplished - and what we take for granted.
please be careful with this man, I'm seeing widely varying times between mixture and detonation, it appears that when the db is in a column, like in the baseball, it detonates much faster. also, i would be very interested to see the reaction mixing with something that has been nitrated or is otherwise in solid/powder form, but still highly acidic, as opposed to the liquid acid.
Could the acid burning the fibres of the ball (large surface) cause the faster process
@@hevado01possibly, and i'm only familiar with basic explosives/nitration like ETN, etc. to my eyes, it seems like the DB is being nitrated, but also heated to it's boiling point by the nitration causing it to detonate. ETN i know will detonate at boiling point. (NEVER melt that with a torch, always with a hot plate at controlled temp) if burning fibers in the ball are adding additional heat causing boiling faster, that may very well be the case. but i think having the DB in a column will also increase the speed at which it reaches boiling temp.
That fly at 6:28 must have a huge heart attack. Incredible lucky to survive that 😂 🦟
Some of these chemical reactions remind me of the "T" and "C" Stoff the German used in WW2 to power their Messerschmitt ME163 rocket fighter.
th-cam.com/video/mgXfYXPS1xk/w-d-xo.html
Definitely one of the most powerful reactions I’ve ever seen
Is your dog getting a new bowl anytime soon ?
That is the only question that worries me watchings this video :)
Welp, glad I saw this video before it inevitably gets taken down. That's absurdly powerful.
I think the decaborane is acting like a "crown ether", but where the four hydrogens that are bonded to 2 different boron atoms are "chelating" nitric acid molecules. This would be "stable" at low temperatures, but since the chelation reaction is exothermic, eventually the decaborane-nitrate decomposes rapidly.
Definitely test this at lower temperatures, or with active cooling, and vary the stoiciometry to see if it's a 1:1 nitrate:decaborane ratio.
This is extremely energetic. Wow.
Makes me curious what decaboranes reaction with perchloric acid would look like
I challenge you to make benzene from acetone(hint: use aldol condensation
Smallest container I found was $488 online and probably have to have an account with the Chem company and credentials and mission statement and government approval sign off and higher shipping rate and a parlor trick or two.
It's probably a runaway nitration of the cage shaped borane molecule. The more nitrates you put on a ring (or in this case cage), the easier it is to add another nitrate. It's probably exothermic and the hotter it gets, the faster the reaction goes as well. But at room temperature with no nitrate group s it goes slowly. But it runs away and after a few seconds of exponential growth it just goes off the rails.
But that's just an offhanded guess
If someone can calculate the detonation velocity of these two chemicals blowing up, I would greatly appreciate it.
Me: I am going to make an anti tank cannon with this.
Me when i see the price of decaborane: Welp, guess its back to the boring old hydrogen peroxide and bleach
Not saying you're not the first person to document this, but I would be a bit surprised if the rocket chemists who worked with boranes and nitric acid in the 50s didn't see this at least once.
Many discoveries in science have been made more than once 😀
Thank you so much for the wonderful video@@ChemicalForce ! I really appreciate it
With that chemicals you could feed a millions of kids in Africa 🌍😢 I'm joking 😂
Imagine bullets with these two inside contained in vials that get shattered on impact and pnve the bullet is lodged inside they burst like that. I mean just imagine the target gets shot once snd gets exploded from within 😂
The card trick is merely sleight of hand. If you watch closely you can see him palm the card and then later slip it up his sleeve.
I get the feeling we're all on a watchlist all of a sudden 😅
6:12 Me a few hours after eating a kg of chili
The whole life flashed before the eyes of poor fly
NO CO_2 EMISSIONS! Ecological and world-saving.
Never mind the explosive force, the fly that was passing the peach must have shat itself!
0:24 This is how the channel got its name?
Imagine making gunpowder from this 😮😮
In some circles this might be known as Gallagher's Reaction.
Now try with peroxynitric acid or liquid ozone in nitric acid to see if we can get a bigger bang
It's not really fair to use nitric acid as it's the precursor to almost all explosives but I'll give it to you since it's technically not explosive
i like how everything gets destroyed
meanwhile the wood is completely fine
Can this reaction, on the head of a nail, drive it into the wood? Asking for a friend😂
What will happen to russian tank if you drop on top 2 bottles of this goo?
8:30 well thats one way to make seedless watermellon
The 5:00 clip makes me want to name it "The Chemical Karate Chop" ! Incredible work.
Try to crack a padlock with this reaction. Needless to say, very carefully. Or a deadbolt. (After reading the halo books I remember them talking about how some spartans could make a very quiet shaped charge to get into a room).
5:58 the thing I thought about when you did that scared me