Thermite vs Ice | MythBusters | Season 6 Episode 23 | Full Episode

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    Jamie and Adam test whether Thermite ignited on top of ice will cause an explosion while the team figure out if a car stereo at full blast can cause a rifle to misfire
    Using science as a tool, Hollywood special effects experts attempt to debunk rumours, urban legends and popular myths that have captivated the minds of many individuals.
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  • @NorwayT
    @NorwayT 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

    15:37 - Based on what I learnt in Physics and Chemistry in University, I have 3 Hypothesis for what happens with Thermite and Water Ice. 1) Like Jamie said, at 4,000°C, a lot of the water in the ice will decompose into Hydrogen and Oxygen, and because of the enormous heat present will recombine.
    2) Water Ice contains a lot of trapped air bubbles. With the radiative heat from Thermite shining so much infrared radiation through the relatively clear ice, all these millions of tiny air pockets turn into superheated gas in an instant, with explosive result.
    3) At 4,000°C the Water in Water Ice sublimates instantly, that is it turns from the State of being a Solid, skips the State of being Liquid, but jumps straight into becoming a Gas, a superheated, Dry Steam.
    I believe that all these three hypothesis of mine are present concomitantly, and each one of them yields an explosive result on it's own. When they said what they were going to do, I knew the result would be explosive.
    And let's not forget, that with 1), 2) AND 3) happening at the same time, for a split second, the Thermite will be spread into an AIR-FUEL MIXTURE! Air-Fuel Bombs are some of the most powerful bombs on the planet. However, this Air-Fuel is probably secondary to the first three reactions.
    Great MythBusters Episode!!! 👍

    • @nelsondawson9706
      @nelsondawson9706 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I agree with the third theory how ice is turning into steam instantly and causing the explosion

    • @fanman420
      @fanman420 วันที่ผ่านมา

      you are wrong it is a coulombic explosion

  • @bopeep8205
    @bopeep8205 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +22

    "Adam's anatomically accurate avian appendage"
    🤣🤣🤣

  • @Hammermongo
    @Hammermongo 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    the thermite rain at the end was top notch

    • @Empty12345
      @Empty12345 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Imagine being under that. I wonder what it did to those cars. 👀

  • @Kevin72836
    @Kevin72836 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +166

    R.I.P. Grant Imahara

    • @feelincrispy7053
      @feelincrispy7053 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I still can't believe he is gone. I expect movie or music stars to go early but never did i think grant. So sad

    • @TheZacDJ
      @TheZacDJ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Well said @Kevin72836 and @feelincrispy7053 - - and let's not forget the equally tragic loss of Jesse Combes.
      Grant was an amazingly natural 'science communicator', both he and Jesse brought so much to Mythbusters in their own unique way.
      Such a terrible, immensely sad loss. And one really feels for their families.
      With the whole team it felt as though they were all as invested in the experiments as the viewers were, as though they were all as passionate about the show, and as interested in the outcomes as we were - and I don't think you can fake that enthusiasm just for the camera.
      Furthermore, the interaction between the teams, during and between builds, and experiments etc, was all the more entertaining because it wasn't scripted, there was genuine laughter.
      Rest now Grant and Jesse: you are so sorely missed, you will not be forgotten. And thank you both for your dedication, skill and enthusiasm. Along with the entire Mythbusters team you made Science accessible and S.T.E.A.M. cool.
      Thank you all.
      Zac Daunt-Jones.

    • @tubesecurity
      @tubesecurity 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I didn't know till now.

    • @ematise
      @ematise หลายเดือนก่อน

    • @C.Fecteau-AU-MJ13
      @C.Fecteau-AU-MJ13 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Killed by Sterling Archer's third biggest fear... It can happen to anyone, anywhere, at any time. That's what makes it so terrifying 😳

  • @trevorlayton9425
    @trevorlayton9425 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    If you had a vehicle model with a floor that moves more than most, it could potentially act as a resonating plate to shake the sks. There are also aftermarket seats that im sure a few gansters have in their cars and some aftermarket seats resonate more than others.

  • @beanss1016
    @beanss1016 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    41:32 the sound of the ice breaking in amazing

  • @swedichboy1000
    @swedichboy1000 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    I suppose its just the ice turning into super heated steam that creates that reaction.

    • @Samonie67
      @Samonie67 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      i think it's more likely that the molten aluminium in the thermite is reacting with the water/superheated steam creating a bunch of hydrogen

    • @corvettekro818
      @corvettekro818 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Exactly...... the thermite instantly flash boils the ice into superheated steam gasses that expands explosively...

    • @Yourmomma568
      @Yourmomma568 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If simple rapid gas expansion was to blame, then presumably it would be even more explosive with dy ice, which takes much less energy to go from solid to gas... But it doesn't. People always forget that aluminum is explosive, and it explodes with just plain water as well. It has nothing to do with rapidly expanding water vapor. The science is not well understood. Only in the last 5 years was the first paper published that explained the detonation of alkali metals with water. You could hypothesize that it's the same type of reaction. Aluminum, when molten, forces it's oxide layer to the surface. Thermite can get hot enough to decompose this oxide layer completely. Pure aluminum (no oxide) and water react like this, Al2+3H2O->Al2O3+3H2. This reaction occurs very rapidly, with the same E∆/t as dynamite. Just google the aftermath of aluminum foundry explosions. It's like the MOAB going off. Why people have a hard time replicating it with molten aluminum and water is because they typically pour the aluminum from a crucible into water. They are very lucky. Aluminum will very quickly develop an oxide layer as it is pouring, which limits the reaction severely. If you poured water into a large crucible, there's a good chance it will go boom. Probably with enough force to kill you and shater your neighbor's windows. Why thermite works eith ice but not water, is because thermite burns hot enough to decompose the oxide layer, but usually not while subjected to evaporative cooling. Of course, water dumped on thermite can cause some small partial explosions, and will shower sparks everywhere, but with ice, the water, and exposed thermite can come in contact without causing rapid cooling of the thermite, and lacks the plastic deformation characteristics that inhibit deformation of the oxide scale. Tldr, aluminum is explosive and reacts with water. The fact that it only works with ice is just a coincidence of physics.

    • @janiexoxo
      @janiexoxo หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Is that similar to why water makes grease explode? I read about someone who would toss ice cubes into a restaurant deep fryer and it got out of hand.

    • @nighthunter3039
      @nighthunter3039 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      ​@@janiexoxo yes

  • @suicidalbanananana
    @suicidalbanananana 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    Thanks for continuing to upload these!
    My uneducated best guess about "thermite + ice = explosion" thing is that a portion of the water ends up skipping the liquid state?
    1) We start with ice with thermite on top, unlit
    2) As we light it, thermite melts a portion of the ice (top layer) to water
    3) Water (that's quickly becoming steam) and burning thermite mixture gushes over the sides & encapsulates the ice
    4) Ice melts from all but 1 side now, all that water again quickly turning to steam, increasing pressure as heat is still increasing
    5) We reach a breaking point where theres is a core of ice inside a hot & pressurized capsule of steam and thermite
    6) Physics.exe goes "hmm this aint right" and and the ice *_instantly_* goes to steam, roughly 1600x the size
    7) Profit

    • @MartoLun
      @MartoLun 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      My initial guess is that the high amount of energy splits water into oxigen and hidrogen gas, which is very explosive. That's the same reason why sodium and other alkaline metals explode in water. Edit: Ok and now I kept watching and Jaimie said the same thing lol

    • @suicidalbanananana
      @suicidalbanananana 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@MartoLun Hehe, still a good idea as well, even if others had it too ^^

    • @madamutharika7635
      @madamutharika7635 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Violent sublimation, definitely!

    • @deutscher1a
      @deutscher1a 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@MartoLun i dont think so
      all the hydrogen would need to form instantly, and even in chem labs we use the "knallgasprobe"(explosive gas check) where we create hydrogen to check for several diff molecules
      this thermite explosion rather looked like a slag explosion
      its when a company pours their still hot slag on wet ground
      the temps for the splitting of water molecules isnt reached(slag max temp is 1400°C - usually they cool for a day before throwing it on the ground)
      but the water gets evaporated fast enough to cause an explosion
      you can look up vids of that and check the similarities^^

    • @Sareth94
      @Sareth94 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@suicidalbanananana it's probably a good bit of both, but there *is* a reason why other metal fires aren't extinguished with with water, but with special foam. Hydrogen explosions' no joke

  • @user-mo4mu9eb8s
    @user-mo4mu9eb8s หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Ironically enough, i used to work somewhere with an absolute moron of a HSE rep (safety guy). He just so happened to be a gun enthusiast who was missing a portion of one finger from mishandling a revolver.

    • @lazygenie5616
      @lazygenie5616 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I mean that’s like saying a machinist who lost a finger is a moron….. accidents do happen

  • @darrinrebagliati5365
    @darrinrebagliati5365 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

    I think the SKS myth needed music to be a true test. But I also think it may have been a poorly treated rifle in a pile of rifles left loaded with safeties off. Pile shifts and some other item, maybe a bolt or a sight, glanced off of a trigger n set off 1 rifle. Which set off another and so on. Perfect weapons and engineered sounds are no match for gangster stupidity.

    • @Cheynanigans__
      @Cheynanigans__ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      The rifles could've also been stored vertically, fallen from vibrations and fired.

    • @redshirt49
      @redshirt49 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      If, as the myth says, the rifles were in the back of a car, then it is far more likely a bump in the road is what set them off. The music was likely incidental. SKS rifles, especially poorly maintained ones are known for this after all.

    • @smuglord5057
      @smuglord5057 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Cheynanigans__ Thats what I figured, kinda hoped they would see if dropping or slamming the butt of the rifle into the ground would set it off. I figured that might just be a massive safety hazard, hence why it might have been ignored.

    • @mattray9359
      @mattray9359 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      My thoughts are the same music would be far better that sound wave forms!!!

    • @CZProtton
      @CZProtton วันที่ผ่านมา

      Well, we know an SKS can missfire if you hit a bump or things like that. But the myth was about sound firing the gun, not about a bump. I am sure you can bump an SKS in such a bad way that it will fire.

  • @notnull5878
    @notnull5878 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Honestly setting off thermite with a matchbook is wild to me. Usually magnesium strips are used, just because the ignition temperature of thermite is actually quite high

    • @FilmsAustin
      @FilmsAustin หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's what I thought? I wonder matches they use.

    • @jarmo_kiiski
      @jarmo_kiiski หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think their thermite has such a small particle size that a match is enough to light it.

    • @Eckendenker
      @Eckendenker 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@FilmsAustin Just regular ones. I used to work in a quality control lab for aluminium powder for autoclaved aerated concrete. One of the tests was igniting a small cup of the powder with a match and timing the reaction. It's really not hard. It's quite similar to iron wool. Finer particles, larger surface.

  • @fuzzyprosl
    @fuzzyprosl 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Ice crackles when you put it in water, so it doesn’t surprise me that it explodes when exposed to thermite.

    • @PotentialLegend
      @PotentialLegend 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Yeah I'm pretty sure it's caused by the cold air trapped in the ice suddenly rapidly expanding due to it turning into steam so quickly, the fast rapid expansion is probably what triggers the boom but I'm no expert.

    • @atlasfeynman1039
      @atlasfeynman1039 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@PotentialLegend It's already expanded though, since water expands when it freezes (as anyone who has left a beer in the freezer knows), so unless it's air bubbles or something?

    • @justsomecommentchannel8602
      @justsomecommentchannel8602 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@atlasfeynman1039yes that's what he said

    • @atlasfeynman1039
      @atlasfeynman1039 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@justsomecommentchannel8602 I was thinking of ice being the expanded form of water, not gas, so to go from ice to gas expanded my mind.

    • @justsomecommentchannel8602
      @justsomecommentchannel8602 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@atlasfeynman1039 steam is way more expanded than ice though

  • @adammullarkey4996
    @adammullarkey4996 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    10:20 You know a car is big when even the Americans are joking about it.

  • @offb1
    @offb1 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I mean if vibration that small causes the fire, jeeps traveling on gravel would look like fireworks

  • @Iaintwoke
    @Iaintwoke หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Jamies explanation with the thermite makes sense when a thermal lance hits water that explodes too.

  • @kentr2424
    @kentr2424 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    By far my favourite TV show of all time!!!

  • @markjohnson7887
    @markjohnson7887 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I have said this before. This is no different than ice violently cracking in your glass of water. Only different here is that the temps are more drastic, so it's a more energetic reaction.

  • @ZoonCrypticon
    @ZoonCrypticon หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    They should have tested the thermite on dry ice blocks. Would be interesting to see it explode as well and the CO2 perhaps suffocating the flames in the centre immediately.

    • @mattpiilo
      @mattpiilo หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      yes i think they should have tested it with water as well

    • @SirInse
      @SirInse หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It would not suffocate the thermite since it is an exothermic reduction-oxidizing reaction. Meaning that oxygen does not come from the surrounding air but from the oxidizer in the mixture. Such reactions can't be extinguished by normal means like water or suffocation

  • @haydendegrow945
    @haydendegrow945 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    You know, I keep seeing a Tide commercial that features Kari & Tori and the Mythbusters logo... Every time I see that commercial, I wonder if the show will be revived with those two... 🤔

    • @darrinrebagliati5365
      @darrinrebagliati5365 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Check out the White Rabbit Project.

    • @suicidalbanananana
      @suicidalbanananana 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They did 2 revives and both failed
      - First one was like half a year after the original show stopped, some sort of "hunt for the new Mythbusters" that featured a bunch of youtubers competing to become the new Mythbusters (check out "safety third" podcast about it featuring a few of them, apparently that was all kinds of weird & rigged)
      - Second one was fairly recent, some kind of "mythbusters for kids" with Adam Savage & Tory Belleci
      Neither of these were really aired internationally, only a few countries got to see them, but it's probably for the best as both honestly did the original a disservice, you're not missing out if you haven't seen these.
      There was also some show from Kari & Tory (i wanna say for 'Spike' channel?) that had a similar vibe but didn't have any official relation to Mythbusters & only lasted like 2 episodes, its possible they got shut down by Discovery.
      The fact that they've sold the rights now (this channel actually owns Mythbusters) means there probably won't be a third attempt.

    • @gskyflakes
      @gskyflakes 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      white rabbit already failed. don't get your hopes up

    • @LucasCarter2
      @LucasCarter2 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If they couldn’t get it back with white rabbit they’re not going to stand a chance now that Grant is gone as well as Adam and Jamie not coming back

    • @haydendegrow945
      @haydendegrow945 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@LucasCarter2 hey, I can dream, can't I? 🙃

  • @pepe6666
    @pepe6666 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    the car sound gun one could still work. they need to play impulses & bangs, not frequency sweeps.

  • @anonymousguy9745
    @anonymousguy9745 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    It still gets me that Frank is questioning everything after that thermite explosion 😂

  • @FelipeZabala
    @FelipeZabala หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    A song of ice and fire.

  • @rogerlundstrom6926
    @rogerlundstrom6926 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    I think they may be looking for more complicated explanations than needed. Water turning in to steam expands to around one thousand times it's volume; So IF the thermite actually burns hot enough to not just melt but even turn it in to steam fast enough, it will be an explosion.. (or proper terminology would probably rather be "uncontrolled decompression") inside of the ice and the ice will itself around the the extreme pressure.. (Like blowing a fire-cracker in your hand.. Even a small one can ruin your hand IF you clench it around the cracker, but if it lays flat yon your open palm you may not even really get a scorch).

    • @MrKrawby
      @MrKrawby 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      another similar situation is why you shouldn't throw water at an oil fire in your kitchen.
      water vaporizes and splashes the oil around, which catches fire more easily, leading to a nice fireball

    • @stasi0238
      @stasi0238 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      But in that case it would work much better with water that ice, which is not the case.

    • @rogerlundstrom6926
      @rogerlundstrom6926 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@stasi0238 .. Not sure what you mean; The problem with trying to get water to "explode" by heating it is that.. WHEN it turns hot enough to turn to steam it DOES turn to steam and.. leaves.. AND water turning in to steam takes a lot of energy, which is why pouring water on fire is such a good way to put out fires, it cools down the fire.. But water CAN "explode". You heard of boilers exploding?.. What you need to do is to keep the water around for long enough time so it gets to build up pressure, so instea of just fractions of a gram turning in to steam a LOT of it turns in to steam at the same time.. That is where the ice would come in; It becomes the solid encasement that keeps the water in place so enough of it will decompress at the same time.
      It's like a fire-cracker. A small fire-cracker in the palm of your hand won't even burn you.. but close your hand and you will lose your fingers. It's about whether the expanding matter has some place to go or if it has to "force" it's way.

    • @stasi0238
      @stasi0238 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@rogerlundstrom6926 I'm not stupid lol. I'm talking about experiment in question. Thermite on ice violently explodes, but thermite that goes into water doesn't. If you are talking that pressure builds up in ice better than in water, remember that thermite is the source of heat so the nearest ice particles to thermite are turning to steam then further water and further lays ice, so there is no way to pressurize the steam. My opinion is that either aluminium or iron in the reaction is hot enough that it reacts with water as in X(metal) + H2O = oxide/hydroxide + H2. We can see this reaction working at room temperature with sodium or potassium and we can see similar explosion. The question about water not working makes sense then because hot metal can't react well with water since it creates a steam barrier better itself and liquid metal, and it makes sense that ice can't move like the water to allow liquid metal not to touch it.

    • @rogerlundstrom6926
      @rogerlundstrom6926 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@stasi0238 .. So.. it's Interesting that you START by claiming to not be stupid. and then follow up by proving you didn't get my point at all. but.. I'll TRY to rephrase my statement again... Just to say; I have NEITHER done experiments, NOR done the maths to "know" whether this is true, I am ONLY relying on occhams razor: IF you already can explain things with what you already know, then stop trying to look for strange other explanations.
      So. .The thing is.. Water expands when it turns in to steam..thousand-fold.. this decompressin is EXTREME and creates a LOT of power.
      BUT... If you (f.ex.) boil water.. then.. it doesn't explode.. the REASON it doesn't explode is because one single water-molecule turning in to steam.. means.. it turns in to steam and DOES require a bit more space.. However, that ONE molecule has expanded a LOT! but it CAN traverse and expand, and so on.. QUITE a bit.. BUT.. it's expansion ALSO will cool down all the water that surrounds it.. at the time it is endothermic.. it sucks out the energy of the water around it so that water is COOLED.. (as I mentioned about why water IS the way to fight fires).. It SUCKS energy.. it COOLS it's surrounding.
      But more importantly: WHEN talking about a pot boiling.. the actual.. water that turn into gaseous form.. it.. will create bubbles in the pot.. and.. rise.. and.. cool down everything else.. and.. then.. float to the top.. and.. just go out.. it may have expanded a LOT but it is just a FRACTION of the actual amount of water in the pot.. and.. it cools down the water.. this is why a boiling pot IS 100 degrees centigrade and will never never ever PASS it.. you need to put it in a closed system for you to be able to heat water BEYOND 100 degrees centigrade.. if the water that passes this temperature is able to leave then.. it will leave.. and not affect the actual full system too much.... beyond actually COOLING the water.
      HOWEVER.. It's a matter of "speed".. and.. Even IF ice could melt.. it's about the speed of light.. Energy traversing can't go faster than the speed of light.. .so if you FLASH!!! heat ice to the point BEYOND melting.. then.. that part of the equation means it takes 1000 times more space than it used to take.. BUT if the actual "Ice" keeps it in.. then.. INSTEAD of water reaching the actual boiling temperature CAN'T easily disperse and just.. go into the atmosphere. then.. the pressure will build.
      the consequence of pressure building IS.. an uncontrolled decompression.. (Which is VERY similar to an.. Explosion.. MOST people wouldn't know the difference in the first place).. .. So.. SERIOUSLY.. IF you have an ice-block, and water SUDDENLY turns in to steam in the middle of all that ice.. it WILL create an explosion like event. .but.. if it instead was happening in the mid of WATER then it.. would just turn in to it's gaseous form and be FREE to escape the medium within which it was "trapped".*
      and I am not even trying to say that "I am right".. I am JUST saying that the most OBVIOUS solution to this conundrum doesn't even seem to be what people are pondering at all. they are IGNORING the thing that is in clear sight and trying to invent new solutions.. So.. I may ABSOLUTELY be wrong.. I don't question that.. I only say that.. you CAN solve this without resorting to zebras.. and.. you should look for ways to check whether the things that we ALREADY know of (such as exploding boilers) ISN'T the reason... before trying to claim it is "unknown" behaviour.

  • @zebraforceone
    @zebraforceone 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It's so hot that the test plates blemish and bubble. That's mental.

  • @TheWolvesCurse
    @TheWolvesCurse 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    my guess for the thermite explosion is the sudden thermal expansion of the water causing the explosion.
    the same thing would've happened at a vastly larger scale, if the 3 technicians wouldn't have crawled in the lower levels of the Chornobyll powerplant, to open the valves of the feedwater tanks, to drain them. if the molten core at it's peak temperatures would've reached those tanks holding several ten thousands of liters of water, the sudden thermal expansion would've cause an explosion of a several kiloton TNT equivalent, and spread radioactive material much further than it already has been spread by the first explosion.
    to prevent the molten core from burning further down through soil into ground water, some coal miners have dug under the plant to install a heat exchanger.
    the temps of the molten core are somewhat comparable to thermite, it just burns longer and more steadily.

  • @tubesecurity
    @tubesecurity 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    42:59 why does it send "flaming" ice raining down?? Amazing.

  • @madmartigan4141
    @madmartigan4141 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The ice flashing into steam is what causes the explosion, would be my opinion. Just like the water heater exploding.

  • @punitpatel179
    @punitpatel179 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    gunshot myth needed one more experiment. they should have put the gun pointing down resting on a metal surface. which would have made the gun to bounce and come back. now, by the time the gun is back to the surface, firing pin would be at the highest point i.e, there would be the most amount of gap between the trigger and the bullet. Now, if the next bounce is at just the right time and hard enough, the firing pin would be almost stationary and the gun would bounce with enough speed into the firing pin to set the bullet off.

  • @Bazuzeus
    @Bazuzeus 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The lourd music could have made the gun fall, and I've seen guns unload when dropped

  • @scratastic1
    @scratastic1 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Funny how I always thought this was a legitimate science show when I was younger, and now seeing it again grown wiser noticing how much more show than actual science it is. Since when are bird bones as dense as human bones? And I'm sure they knew in advance that turning ice into steam instantly causes an explosion without having to test it as a myth haha
    But still a good way to get kids interested in science though.

  • @Vollification
    @Vollification 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    22:35 American car, no hardbass music (just BZZZZZZZZZ), no vodka. Yu didn't do it right

  • @Wanton110
    @Wanton110 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What is the SKS shook off the seat and the thud of it hitting the floor set it off.. and it's told as the sound system setting it off.. OR it could have been a really worn pin that moved more than usual

  • @jeandremeyer5994
    @jeandremeyer5994 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "Show of hands" got me. I could not stop laughing.

  • @mrdr9534
    @mrdr9534 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    many different theories regarding the "exploding thermite", I personally would attribute it to "liquid Iron" running down into a ""puddle"" (enclosed volume) of water... Any one familiar with casting metals knows what that can do...

  • @Yvolve
    @Yvolve 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    The most likely way for the SKS myth to be true is if the guns were sitting against the cone of the speaker. A big bass note will jolt the entire gun with enough force for the pin to set off the primer. It would be like dropping the gun. Subwoofers are often in the trunk and large, illegal rifles are also often kept in the trunk and out of sight. Gangsters probably don't have cases that secure the gun, but have them just laying there.
    The issue with the SKS myth as tested s that a firing pin that large isn't going to vibrate with enough force, if at all. You need intermittent heavy bass notes, which shake the entire rifle once. Inertia is probably the culprit if the myth is real. The gun moves from the vibration, the firing pin is floating and isn't moving with the gun. As soon as the pin hits the end stop, it gets shot in that direction, hitting the primer, firing the gun

    • @Cheynanigans__
      @Cheynanigans__ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I was thinking the rifles could've also been stored vertically, fallen from vibrations and fired. Far more likely with music than pure tones, it was an odd choice not to use music.

    • @Yvolve
      @Yvolve หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@Cheynanigans__ Tones can easily be controlled, so they chose that.
      Given the design issue with the bolt, the rifle needs to be moved forwards and backwards really quickly and violently. Falling over wouldn't really do that.

  • @gustavfn1
    @gustavfn1 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    R.I.P. Grant.

  • @DeCode343
    @DeCode343 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    When chicken fingers gets a new meaning 😂

  • @bird_man_birdman
    @bird_man_birdman 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    42:16 covered in thermite and sets off a fuse

  • @Molikai
    @Molikai 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I feel obliged to note you can cook with sound.

  • @Kaiasky
    @Kaiasky 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Interesting that they go to lengths to avoid saying the name of the revolver there. What's up with that? Usually they weren't shy about saying the name of a gun.

  • @mariuszlukasik4587
    @mariuszlukasik4587 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Full episode in good quality...is it christmas ? ;)

  • @johnxina2140
    @johnxina2140 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    12:30 that's the biggest frown ive ever seen on a man

  • @hammy2.039
    @hammy2.039 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    16:00 bookmark

  • @Ahmetnet19
    @Ahmetnet19 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I think thermite and ice made pressure cooker effect; hot thermite dripped inside and vaporized the ice and water vapor stuck in ice then couldn't stand to pressure and went boom😊

  • @d50556
    @d50556 หลายเดือนก่อน

    many weapons are springless. an a R1 5 style r ifle is another example.
    without enough momentum the fire pin can't deflagrate the primer.
    shall be no deflagration unless the sks am-mo uses some bad pistol primer, or the vibration has more energy than a hammer hiting the primer

  • @andrewcao6111
    @andrewcao6111 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    R.i.p grant I’mahara

  • @insider9796
    @insider9796 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I think the guns in the myth fired due to tipping over then the music itself.

  • @yeheyz
    @yeheyz 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I miss you Grant.

  • @mv6041
    @mv6041 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If driving around through bumps and stuff does not trigger the gun, why should frequencies be able to do so?

  • @danielhagen3739
    @danielhagen3739 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Its too bad they were using pristine guns, although understandable for safety reasons, but I've held guns that went off from the slightest movement just because the trigger mechanisms were so worn out they'd go off from simply tilting the gun downwards, and a good enough subwoofer with the right song and no safety would definitely set them off

  • @shizzleshizzle8580
    @shizzleshizzle8580 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Rest in peace Grant ❤

  • @PostTraumaticChessDisorder
    @PostTraumaticChessDisorder 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Perhaps the rapidly expanding water creates room in the thermite storage, providing more room for oxygen and thus more combustion, creating even more room, and so on and so on. In mere milliseconds that is. Kind of the same idea when you have a flame in a hot pan with oil or fat, trying to extinguish it with water is a bad plan for similar reasons.
    The decomposion theory is dismissed. Water never decomposes through heat (at least not in earthly conditions), but rather through electrical current

  • @mrawood1
    @mrawood1 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ah, good ol' Frank (aka Tackleberry) is back

  • @OnyxMoneyDrops
    @OnyxMoneyDrops หลายเดือนก่อน

    5:05 this ended up becoming the peephole at M5

  • @darrinrebagliati5365
    @darrinrebagliati5365 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Would like to see the thermite on a big lake!

  • @dawidgro
    @dawidgro 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    They didn't use Russian hard bass and they failed experiment. No one use 'scientific tone mix', but thing called music...

  • @vhwft
    @vhwft 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Probably melts in and creates a pipe bomb of sorts.

  • @marcusjosefsson4998
    @marcusjosefsson4998 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Is that revolver a .454 Casull?

    • @kentr2424
      @kentr2424 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Either that or a Smith & Wesson .500..

  • @DIREWOLFx75
    @DIREWOLFx75 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The reason why you never ever try to extinguish fire with hot water... Or in other words, if there's a fire in your cooking pot or pan, do NOT put water on it.
    The water can vaporise instantly and generates a steam/fire explosion.
    "it's a mystery"
    REALLY? The heat causes the ice to become steam, the steam spreads the thermite out causing it to burn faster, as it's basically becoming a dust explosion, which accelerates the heat production even more rapidly and making a massive feedback loop.
    Essentially, you're making a STEAM explosion combined with turning burning thermite into a dust explosion.
    It's POSSIBLE there's also some level of turning part of the steam into oxygen and hydrogen, adding to the explosion, but that's unlikely to be a majority component of the effect.
    "dodgy rifles"
    That's like calling the M-16 dodgy.

  • @3Gfotos
    @3Gfotos หลายเดือนก่อน

    Could I have the car?

  • @sparrowflyaway
    @sparrowflyaway 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I always thought the Thermite vs Ice was a meeting of equal and opposite forces. The thermite can't melt the ice fast enough, and the ice can't extinguish the thermite. Something in that equation has to give, and so eventually the whole thing goes boom. I'm certainly no expert, but that's my guess.

    • @KokosNaSnehu2
      @KokosNaSnehu2 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So it exploded because "something had to give"? What an explanation my man. It´s a steam explosion.

  • @johnmcmanus6719
    @johnmcmanus6719 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    You played everything but music 😔

  • @xeno5720
    @xeno5720 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Chicken hands are very disturbing.

  • @ilikeoranges3869
    @ilikeoranges3869 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Rip grant

  • @Juice-lc7cr
    @Juice-lc7cr 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Sks myth need thumps in the sound rap music gun shots hardbass action in music not hertz increase how do you expect gun to be shot purely from poor vibration. Need full bass vibration 0% bass --> 100% bass. Not slow increase

  • @hakonsoreide
    @hakonsoreide 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Terrible methodology in the subwoofer gun myth. It's all about sympathetic resonance, which for a car, and a firing pin, would be from the beat of the music, not from the frequency of pure sound or the sound pressure levels in themselves. 🤷‍♂

    • @LollipopUnicorny
      @LollipopUnicorny 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It wouldn't fire anyway

    • @hakonsoreide
      @hakonsoreide 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@LollipopUnicorny Probably not, but we'll never know since it wasn't properly tested.

    • @wendella.4074
      @wendella.4074 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@hakonsoreide Ok, go for it. Test it yourself and video doc it. Prove your words

    • @hakonsoreide
      @hakonsoreide 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Are you implying you think the methodology used in the episode was the correct one?

    • @hakonsoreide
      @hakonsoreide 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@wendella.4074 I think you may have misread my comment. I'm not saying it can be done. I'm saying the methodology isn't a sound one. Very different things. The principle behind the correct methodology has already been demonstrated in the Earhquake Machine episode, so in addition to using common sense and logic, there is nothing left to prove. It seems they couldn't remember what was learnt two seasons earlier when looking at this myth.
      If I used a different methodology and the result was the same, that would be completely pointless since it would neither prove nor disprove the original myth. principle

  • @mattpiilo
    @mattpiilo หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    i noticed with all lot of your tests , you don't seem to follow the same environment as the myth, you didn't include a bass drum thump that takes advantage of the peak power of a sub woofer. Peak power is much higher than rms power and the thump of a bass drum moves a lot of air. the repetitive nature of music is not in your test .
    in my opinion , you proved nothing

  • @jeschinstad
    @jeschinstad 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think what happens is leidenfrost + thermolysis; the thermite burns so hot that the ice turns into steam, insulating it from the ice while the burning thermite covers it from the top. The steam can then be heated up to the 3000c/5400f that is required to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. HHO burns extremely hot, so now you're adding even more extreme heat that can't escape, creating more HHO, which creates more HHO. This is a runaway reaction, also known as an explosion. It would've been interesting if they could've tried this the other way, putting the ice on top of the thermite.

  • @TommyPrins
    @TommyPrins 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    those 3 guys....wenn test a hard bass?put them upright barrow up!...they miss the obvious alot...use an older weapon,not a brandnew one...yeeez,science isnt that hard....

  • @maasicas
    @maasicas 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Almost everything they showed and did on regular TV back then...is now banned and forbidden on YT. Cant even say " explosion" . GG

  • @rozza2012
    @rozza2012 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Pro Myth Buster's Tip: Don't attempt to myth bust the *FEMA Appendix C Jonathan Barnett Ronald R. Biederman R. D. Sisson, Jr. C Limited Metallurgical Examination*
    study that analyzed a high temperature corrosive molten eutectic of iron, carbon & most curiously sulfur that liquified I-beams of World Trade Center buildings on 9/11.

  • @jamesf931
    @jamesf931 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Gobsmacked…this is the first time I’ve heard an American use and pronounce the word correctly. Usually they say godsmacked.

  • @DerAuslander-li7nl
    @DerAuslander-li7nl หลายเดือนก่อน

    Damaging an amazing car and treat it like shit just doesn't seem right,
    also loosing hundreds of likes cause of that doesn't make sense

  • @kevingoodhope7768
    @kevingoodhope7768 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Should be wearing an attached jacket with shooting random things

  • @jespernielsen9320
    @jespernielsen9320 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Its basic logic 😂 Hot on cold means wuuuuchhh 😂

  • @kevingoodhope7768
    @kevingoodhope7768 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Atf,thankyou auto correct