What Household Item Would Be Best As A Rocket Fuel?

In this video, I answer the question: What household item would be best as a rocket fuel?
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Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by John D. Clark (Book)
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[@tevelisao_br]

HAHAHAHA ethanol can be found on every single gas station in brazil.

[@henriconfucius5559]

90 to 95% ethanol hahahaha

[@gabrielsireliangusteinhast9059]

Toilette paper you battery mongule

[@gregorywardlow3612]

It might be worth mentioning the 'Bloodhound' super car uses hydrogen peroxide as an oxidizer in a hybrid motor configuration. A high performance v8 engine drives a pump to inject the H2O2 across a catalyst bed and into the combustion chamber.

[@Ironmike2233]

Potassium nitrate = saltpeter
If yo ass have any chicken coop sands or an indoor sand for fire places then you just gotta take it and put the dirt in a pot or anything with a strainer in the bottom then you pour water on top of it then let it take it's time you will see under the strainer where you have a cup or plate to gather all the pouring water a color looks little bit yellowish then you take that water and you boil it on a stove till the water vaporizes then you are left with a mud like substance that my dear boy is saltpeter AKA beloved potassium nitrate so you go take that and go crazy with it another easier way if you can get your hands on ammonium nitrate and hydrogen peroxide mix those too together and you have a lovely potassium nitrate . If it helps finger this comment up

[@lukaskettner3597]

You can also make sodium chlorate from cooking salt with electrolysis, or potasium chlorate from potassium chloride (a salt alternative)

[@jonpedrera3530]

NaClO3/4? It can get produced by using electrolysis on a mixture of table salt and water. It’s a very good oxydixer.

[@gooberclese]

True but you need a something like a platinum covered titanium electrode. Maby you have one just laying arround but for most hobbyists that is a very expensive part to procure. Unless you dont mind graphite or steele electrodes adding impurities to your rocket grain. I think most would care as this IS rocket science!

[@jonpedrera3530]

@@gooberclese Yeah, but you can find a platinized titanium electrode by 15$, that's the same price as a kilo of KClO3, and with the electrodes you can make all the oxydicer that you can need. But yes, buying KClO3 can be more easy to finally obtain (also, its more difficult to buy it on other places that are not the US, so...), (idk, my best friend likes rockets and ingeniering, i like chemistry and I help him)

[@joshuabarosin779]

doesn't that make chlorine

[@samancor3271]

the only trouble with that is the chlorine will react with carbon to make carbon tetra-chloride there fore wasting chlorine and leading to higher concentrations of sodium hydroxide in the final process. Please somebody if I'm out to lunch on this correct me.

[@chemistryofquestionablequa6252]

​@@jonpedrera3530 chlorate rockets have a nasty tendency to detonate. Sodium perchlorate is really hygtoscopic, best to use ammonium perchlorate.

[@Technicallyaddicted]

You can buy 40% hydrogen peroxide as “hair color developer” and if you know someone with a beautician license you can get 50% at any sally beauty supply. I’ve been using it for a process called “retrobrite” to make old electronics look new again. The funny part of this is that the other half of the equation is ethanol that I buy from any alcohol store as “ever clear” I even joked with the cashier that I wasn’t going to drink it, but use it as rocket fuel. He jokingly said “don’t burn down your house”. I never got the liquid mixture just right(I’m thinking it needs to be pressurized in conjunction with force fed into the aerosolized plate(if you know you know) but even so, the ratios can be vastly different and still produce thrust. I got the fire department called on me because my neighbors thought I built a bomb. Fire department loved it and gave me props for having fire safety at the ready. I’m literally a rocket scientist. Do I have accreditation? No, have I built a liquid propellant rocket? Yes!(I abandoned it because I can’t afford to get metal parts 3D printed). Anyone can do this provided you’re over 21 and have $400. Do with this information what you will, be safe, and don’t hurt yourself or anyone else! Cheers!

[@bdbd618]

Love it this video is very well done

[@TheExplosiveGuy]

Well, if by household you mean stuff in my house, my best bet would be on ammonium perchlorate, Hydroxyl-Terminated PolyButadiene resin, MDI Isocyanate, Isodecyl Pelargonate, Catocene, and 6 micron aluminum powder. Of course I build rockets as a hobby so my idea of household chemicals may differ from others lol.

[@chemistryofquestionablequa6252]

I mean, you can have all those delivered by Amazon in the US. I'd call those household items.

[@bigjay875]

I'll help ya out bud, I'm a new sub. Good start but I would recommend you take this idea to it's full conclusion and move up to using the local hardware store and see what kind of games you can get up to. Good luck and I love the history angle

[@g-only1]

Thank you!!!

[@yappingtonFTW]

What about nitrous oxide? Just decompose it from ammonium nitrate which is also a fertilizer iirc

[@spaceage01]

35% Hydrogen Peroxide is highly reactive and I have had reactions that were delayed before rapidly becoming violent. Most hydrogen peroxide reactions generate extreme amounts of heat probably because oxygen is an accelerant. Oxyclean can be used to make high concentrations of hydrogen peroxide but beware its potential for reactivity makes it among the most dangerous household chemicals

[@yasarali45]

Hi..i looking for cheapest methane production method..like solid tablet fuel... sodium acetate and sodium hydroxide flake..can it make solid fuel tablets..?????

[@zachfernandez1257]

PTFE (black sprinkler line) and nitrous oxide, makes e rather stout burn and can be used in conjunction with a sugar rocket fuel as a primary stage. It needs to be contained within a cylinder and you might switch to porcelain clay for the nozzle.

[@plederfagella9774]

Jus mix the stump remover with drain cleaner and you have nitric oxide a liquid fuel not to mention if you can get drinking alcohol theres everclear...

[@POLmusic173]

what about N20 or table salt as oxidizers?

[@NC-bs6yi]

Youre a great reader and actor

[@gooberclese]

And silicone caulk makes a pretty good "solid fuel base" that is easy to pour and mold. I have often wanted to try a mixture of potassium nitrate and lard as a possible fuel but just never tried it. I wish someone would.

[@spcookymoose5696]

Might try that

[@shere_kan8329]

I'll try it today, get back to me if I forget to give news

[@shere_kan8329]

I made a bunch of samples, with different ratios. I'll be away for a few days and I'll try it out later this month

[@shere_kan8329]

Well...the silicone I used might be at fault but none of the samples worked

[@Ajokeiguess]

@@shere_kan8329 did you use a torch? That might help.

[@itsjustme4026]

I'm subbed bruh 👍

[@itsjustme4026]

Lucky me! I came back again 11 months later

[@chaseonthecase9191]

Me as a 15 year old putting gasoline in a homemade Lego rocket and watching my Lego space shuttle burn while the fire spreads to the gas tank I left right next to it.

[@AlexandruBuja-lb9ud]

"It's illegal"
Bro I live in a field by a lake, a lot of trees, I am currenrtly making a sugar rocket and soon I will launch it towards the city

[@owqxe]

What about sodium chlorate? It is more better then potassium nitrate or potassium chlorate

[@Hnkka]

ive made sodium chrolate at home, with powdered sugar it burned pretty nice in my opinion

[@Masto_420]

But if i boil the wather away in the hidrogen perokside and use it ?

[@billybot3000]

It doesn't really work that way. Boiling the h2o2 solution causes the peroxide to decompose into water and oxygen, so it isn't effective.

[@thegoodlife2937]

So if you boil hydrogen peroxide you can boil the water out concentrating the household solution?

[@billybot3000]

You can't actually distill hydrogen peroxide that much for some reason. Here is a chemistry video that explains it a lot better than I could (Its long though): th-cam.com/video/LhEYaovWxl4/w-d-xo.html

[@spaceage01]

Hydrogen peroxide has to be compressed or else it releases an oxygen molecule becoming water. That’s why it weakens after you open the container

[@btrocketry3736]

What about Vaseline?

[@MANTUEFLIE2]

FBI trap type video

[@cle0000]

Potassium nitrate is illegal in my country

[@qu1nn_inem750]

Use stomp removal

[@qu1nn_inem750]

Same thing

[@cle0000]

@@qu1nn_inem750 illegal too

[@cle0000]

@@qu1nn_inem750 i searched for it everywhere, but its illegal

[@eh6971]

Make it yourself.

[@pixelduck2476]

cant find stump remover/KNO3 in finland ANYWHERE bruh!

[@eh6971]

It's also used als a fertiliser and also in the food industry. Maybe look in that direction. You can also make it yourself with nitric acid and ammonia.

[@malwareee33]

Some aquarium stores sell it as fertilizer for fish tanks

[@anthonyrichard7319]

what you need is the ash from wood the white stuff....pure pot ash potassium nitrate ,salt petre

[@marcus_azecodm760]

​@@anthonyrichard7319thats potassium carbonate not nitrate

[@jankauza8694]

Try salt water graphite electrolysis

[@gerakore8948]

my guess. hydrogen peroxide

[@samancor3271]

Laws are just mild suggestions

[@TheExplosiveGuy]

My thoughts exactly! Vague suggestions might I add!😂

[@thecelt4807]

fk mans laws

[@naveenkumarlankalapalli2821]

#India

[@FlyoutAerospace]

I will make a real engine

[@fccbilla6764]

#india

[@oakleyfisher5024]

Get to the point faster and I’ll subscribe.