Best compound is a mixture of fine powder, potassium perchlorate 70 percent and 30 percent German aluminum. Then put a certain amount in a hard cardboard cylinder. Hot glue it lite it and run. Especially if it's in a tube longer than 1 inch. Boom. White lightening!
Try making mercury fulminate. Very toxic, must wear breathing mask. Nitric acid and mercury. Very large mixing glass bowl with long tall neck. Pour in half cup or cup of acid. Very slowly add mercury. Will start reaction immediately and can over climb up neck and over flow. Add mercury with glass dropper one drop and wait for reaction to stop before adding more. 65 percent nitric acid 35 percent mercury, must be correct for great synthetic mercury fulminate. Once all done wait for glass container with completed mixture to completely cool. Use Pyrex glass. Then slowly pour out into coffee filter, let dry and carefully scrape off filter. Put into small cardboard tube, add fuse and run. Pretty loud. Enjoy
Actually i dont agree on this anymore, I can make the sickest and most freightening sounding and feel of pressure salutes whit a barium nitrate and dark german aluminium 2 micron And it is especially getting freightening and violent if you play around whit difference in particle size of them both
One of my comp mix's is this: KNO3/MG/S @ 50/50 +1 . I usually purchase industrial grade KNO3. I recrystallize for the best purity. I store in crystal form and ball mill only what I intend to use in a comp. Try to keep the moisture down. Next, Magnesium, as fine as you can possibly get/buy. The ball mill it further. I try to get it to 3-5 micron. Sulfur, again, ball mill the heck out of it. Many ppl say that making flash powder using KNO3 is weak. And "YES" in comparison to other oxidizers (KClO3, KCIO4, KMnO4, K2S2O8, NA2S2O8) it is. However, It is one of the safer methods of making flash powder. Remember, the higher you go up on the oxygen molecule the more reactive(sensitive) the comp becomes. Most ppl stay with a tried and true (safe) method of using KCIO3, or KCIO4 in there flash powder. Making exotic flash powder is cool, but can also be very dangerous. Flash powder isn't bias about who, or what it destroys in deflagration. BEING SAFE IS BETTER THAN BEING DEAD!✌💖
Hey, trying to make some cool things here. You think titanium powder is brighter or better in any way to magnesium? What's the brightest metal when burning?
KClO3 compounds even with 50-60% oxy-to-fuel ratio are HE, they are sensitive and detonate with supersonic speeds quite easy. Same about AmN-based and some other mixes. Its better/safer to use KNO3 or KClO4 for this purposes.
Try 2 parts strontium nitrate and 1 part magnesium. The extra oxidizer really increases explosive power and also enhances color. Make sure chemicals are extra fine before mixing
I gotta tell you. I haven’t seen others granulate the BP multiple times. I had a batch of BP that was horrible. I truly thought about tossing it. I’m so glad I didn’t. I’ve granulated it twice and about to do a third time. Wow! What a difference, especially after the second granulation. Thanks for the great advice.
It's fun doing this stuff & experimenting with chemistry if you know the basics. Have you tried making golden powder ? It's relatively non toxic compared to any other formulas & has more energy than black powder. The ingredients in weight are 24 grams Potassium Nitrate, 16 grams Ascorbic Acid (vitamin C) & 50ml water to the boil. Then wait & stir gradually until it becomes a slurry & thickens up, take off the heat to cool it down & use it wet or dry. The energy this produces is astonishing for the two simple ingredients used, the residue is water soluble & it's safer than any other composition.
(ratio:7/3=sharp bang poweful)(ratio:6/3/1=quit low pitch in bigger salutes)(ratio:6/3/.5=sharp standard report formula)(ratio:62/23/7=low pitch if use in bigger salute)(ratio:50/25/25=very deep low pitch explosion listed as bomb like pitch)(ratio:5/3/2=very deep same as 50/25/25 its mostly used in cherry bombs)(1/2 airspace=powerful pitch+)(1/3 airspace= poweful pitch-)(1/3.5 airspace=loud pop with very deep pitch-)
At 1:08 you say that this mixture has no oxidizing agent, but generates enough heat to burn in a non-oxy environment. That is chemically impossible, as all chemical decomposition requires oxygen from somewhere. Just saying.
Zn combines with Sulphur to Zincsulphide (ZnS) which is an exothermic reaction. The Zinc is oxydized by the Sulphur, Zinc becomes Zn2+ -ions and S is reduced and becomes S2 - Ions. There is not always the presence of Oxygene (or an oxygene-carrier substance) necessary to promote an oxydation.
The original post says in a NON-oxy environment. If you did this in a vacuum or an inert gas environment, nothing can be oxidized if the constituent chemicals contain none.
As said earlier here, oxidization is not about oxygen. Oxygen just happens to be the most common, its about the charge states of the ions(zink atoms lost electrons to sulphur atoms and therefore gained positive charge).
Putting sulphur in flash mixes is generally a bad idea. It sensitizes chlorates and perchlorates and they can spontaneously explode. Same with permanganates. In fact, anything that produces an unstable chemical in the presence of sulphuric acid
Putting sulfur with perchlorates is fine. If you really think a mix is going to spontaneously explode, even a chlorate mix with sulfur, you have a lot more research to do. In the presence of moisture there is a minuscule chance sulfuric acid could form with dirty sulfur, but with deacidification rubber makers sulphur it doesn't happen. People have been putting sulfur with chlorate for hundreds of years, for everything from fireworks to primers, and when done correctly oh, there are very few issues. I suggest you do some of your own hands on research rather than regurgitating some of the nonsense you hear because it's foolish and it doesn't help anyone at all. It's painfully obvious that you do not have experience with these chems and you're just looking to berate somebody online. not cool, and very misleading to young scientist and amateurs alike👈👎
You can easily make KClO3 from common house-hold items. Plenty of instructions are available on youtube. Once you have your KClO3, you can also make KClO4 relatively easily.It is very doable to make these at the comfort of your own home.
Thats what I was going to do but how would I add sulfer into this equation? Do I mix it in like the potassium perchlorate and aluminum or at the end? How many parts sulfer would I use for this new reaction if we are going off of your 70/30
Where do you get your chemicals? Looking for magnesium powder and potassium perchlorate? I've got Potassium Nitrate from AusChems. I've got Magnalium on order? Thats magnesium but mixed with Tin and Nickle. Is that the stuff you have? I know you can get Mg from firestarters but I lack the effort and would rather buy 500g.
He used a potassium nitrate and aluminum based mixture, which both of can be bought on amazon for fairly reasonable prices. However, the nitrate can often be substituted with stump remover from your local hardware store, however, be sure to check the MSDS sheet, in order to assure purity. Magnesium, i have not personally bought, but if you have a laythe, you can buy blocks and machine it down, or i suspect it could also be bought on amazon. Now, once you start to play with perchlorate, i would highly advise against it, as you very quickly slip from very rapid and hot burning, to complete detonation.
toothpick993 Oh, I'm sorry for confusion, the KMnO4 looked quite coarse. But another thing about KMnO4/Mg/S FP is that you could have been used less sulfur, it should be faster.
It mean that if your total composition is considered 5 parts 2 parts is of the 1st chemical and 3 parts is of the 2nd one. In terms of grams it means 2 grs of the 1st and 3 grams of the 2nd making a gotal of 5 grams flash powder.
Wolfog It would be by weight. But there are better and safer recipes than these. And do plenty of research before playing with flash. You need to be very careful.
brings back memories as a child playing with all of these chemicals and what a STUPID DUMB-ASS I was for doing so.. How I walked away alive is a joke But thanks for sharing
rslichtis@@bigbluebuttonman1137 For more than half century I've been making & using KClO3, Al & Sb2S3 flash and have never, in those 5 decades, experienced any problem relating to spontaneous combustion/ignition; with a thorough understanding of of these reagents, they can be combined and remain stable for many years.
Hi, I need to replicate / fake a 19th century photography powder flash for a theatrical purpose. What I need is to obtain a totally safe instant effect of white flash and smoke. My question is if that Zinc and Sulphur mix can it be instantly ignited with a lighter ?
Sights, if it's any help, I have used equal weight of Mg/KNO3 on am dram stage. But better to ignite electrically so you can get exact timing. It's more difficult using a lighter and, anyway, you don't want fingers near the flash, which burns at over 2000 deg C. I wired a small car battery to a thin fuse wire in contact with the powder. Throw the switch and the fuse blows and sets off the powder. It worked perfectly. But make sure you don't confine the powder or you will get a bang. You really only want a poof. The old timers (I am one myself but not 18th century!) spread the flash on a metal tray, either flat or with a trough. Trough is better as it can give a wide light source so softer shadows. There are other possibilities and I could tell you more if you are interested. Where are you and can you get chemicals easily? You'll probably only need small quantities. Hope that helps.
Incidentally, you DON'T want very fine chemicals for photographic flash. You want a relatively slow, bright burn. I would use something like 200 mesh Mg.
Thank you for your quick answer, I am trying to build a tray replica using aluminium tin, and a barbeque piezo electric lighter as a handle for flaming the powder. The goal is to get as close as the19th century genuine flame and smoke effect... really hope I will. I would go with electrical battery but there;s no room to hide it inside a handle. Thanks a lot !
@@sights2397 Yes, I should have referred to the 19th century not the 18th - flash powder was in use from the late 19th. I actually still have a tin of Johnsons photographic FP No1, bought in the 60's. But I digress... It doesn't have to be a car battery. I didn't have time to experiment, nor the need to minimise as we just needed a small explosion on stage and the device (in a metal bucket) was hidden. You'll need a reliable decent spark. But as the business end of the lighter will have to be right in the flash powder it will almost certainly be damaged by the intense heat and not work again. That has happened when I have used a (long necked) barbecue lighter to set off flash. Even though it was the flame that ignited the powder, the flash was intense enough to ruin the end of the lighter. You don't want it to work OK at rehearsals but then not on the night! You might like to experiment with some very fine wire and small batteries that could be concealed in the handle, as in a torch. As long as there's enough power to get the wire to glow bright, if not actually blow, it will ignite the flash and the wire is easily replaced. In my case of course the wire burnt out immediately and probably added to the noise. I used a single strand from ordinary household lighting flex. I would guess you can find even finer wire in headphone leads or some such, that wouldn't need much power to make it blow. Good luck. I'd be interested to hear how you get on.
@@oldgeorge1939 Yeah, that's my concern too. It is a long necked lighter with a wind resistant flame nozzle, but the aim here for that flash has to be repetitive, I mean like 3-4 flashes in 15 minutes or so.. I'm thinking to use some other powder, to avoid intense heat., toxic fumes etc. I absolutely agree about the battery part but the trouble is that we need that flash device asap, and I have a lot of many other things to set in. Btw, I would love to see a pic of that antique Johnsons tin :)
How long can you safely store flash powder...? Week? Month? After all, if I want to make a stash of fireworks, I want to know the timetable for making them before I blow em up.
I have alot ov separate ingredients, i mix and shoot, if i have a mix i never got to shoot and don't know whens the next time ima need it, I rather flush it down the toilet. Its not worth it. "Be smart don't ne a retart" -Slim Shady
If your total flash is 5 grams then the answer is yes. Here 2 parts, 3 parts, means 2 grams and 3 grams. Remember since the units aren't fixed, he uses parts instead. So by 'parts' he could mean grams, kilograms, tons, etc. & thus it is depending on the total amount which you are making.
Try a tetraamine copper nitrate, S, Al, KNO3 flash powder i forget the ratios bit it can be found on science madness. I know it is shock insensitive but it has to be milled to work well
TACN is useless in this combination because the deflagration energy is fairly low. And the rest of the mixture is not strong enough to detonate TACN. So, no, don't waste your TACN on this.
@@emmepombar3328 i actually attempted it and it worked. It turned out to be a crappy flash powder but it did actually work. I think i needed moke KNO3 but it did infact work.
@@emmepombar3328 so you are right in a way. Its not worth using because of the strength and there are much better options. Like TeACP mixtures or other complexes.
rocky rock he should. This man is doing very dangerous stuff and showing it to others! Did you see the first flash powder? Sulfur makes all flash powder VERY unstable and permagnate flash is already incredibly stupid to begin with!
Anthony Caminiti that’s a big fucking NO NO! Stay away from KmN04 at all costs! It’s not more powerful of louder. There much SAFER and more powerful compositions out there
LOL your not making flash in the 1st2 mixes your making thermite and by the way nothing burns with out oxygen. All of the mixes you made contain it own oxygen.
Do you know what potassium permangenate is? Is has O4 in the end, that means it has oxygen, just like KNO3. And where do you get the idea thermite from? Thermite is a metal rust mixed with a metal powder. Example, Fe2O3, iron oxide (aka. standard rust) and aluminiums powder.
Actually, things CAN burn without oxygen. Lithium, for example, can burn in pure nitrogen, because the nitrogen is taking lithium’s electrons. This is basic chemistry. Another example would be the Zinc and sulfur flash powder shown in this video, where the sulfur oxidized the zinc. The thing is, the exchanging of electrons, or oxidation, is just that: the exchanging of electrons! Therefore, oxygen isn’t necessary for oxidation. This is all basic high school level chemistry! What do you mean “the 1st2 are thermite reactions”? Potassium permanganate is NOT a metallic oxide, but rather, an example of an oxidizing agent. For a thermite reaction to occur, the metallic oxide’s base metal (the metal that the oxygen is bound to) MUST be less reactive than the metal that will be taking the oxygen atom(s) from the oxide. If the oxide is MORE reactive than the metal being oxidized, then the reaction simply will not work! As I previously stated, KMnO4 is just a potassium with the anion MnO4, and potassium is more reactive than both magnesium and aluminum. Therefore, it is literally IMPOSSIBLE for that to have a thermite reaction. Again as I previously stated, this is high school level knowledge! I hope now you understand a bit more about chemistry: have a nice day!
Abe Coulter yes that is ONE flash powder, but there are many more! Flash powder is just a oxidizer and a metallic fuel that burns fast. I see what you are thinking though!
No offense but you might want to improve you subtitles, because there have been a lot of mis-spelled words. Just thought that would help! I otherwise like the videos, good job!
toothpick993, NICE VIDEO , BUT MY POWDER IS TEN TIMES MORE POWERFUL. YOUR'S ( IN FIRECRACKER FORM ) MIGHT BE ABLE TOO DENT A BEER CAN, BUT MINE WOULD DISINTEGRATE IT
Best compound is a mixture of fine powder, potassium perchlorate 70 percent and 30 percent German aluminum. Then put a certain amount in a hard cardboard cylinder. Hot glue it lite it and run. Especially if it's in a tube longer than 1 inch. Boom. White lightening!
True
Will regular alumínium powder works ?
As long as it's powered aluminum
Try making mercury fulminate. Very toxic, must wear breathing mask. Nitric acid and mercury. Very large mixing glass bowl with long tall neck. Pour in half cup or cup of acid. Very slowly add mercury. Will start reaction immediately and can over climb up neck and over flow. Add mercury with glass dropper one drop and wait for reaction to stop before adding more. 65 percent nitric acid 35 percent mercury, must be correct for great synthetic mercury fulminate. Once all done wait for glass container with completed mixture to completely cool. Use Pyrex glass. Then slowly pour out into coffee filter, let dry and carefully scrape off filter. Put into small cardboard tube, add fuse and run. Pretty loud. Enjoy
Actually i dont agree on this anymore,
I can make the sickest and most freightening sounding and feel of pressure salutes whit a barium nitrate and dark german aluminium 2 micron
And it is especially getting freightening and violent if you play around whit difference in particle size of them both
One of my comp mix's is this: KNO3/MG/S @ 50/50 +1 . I usually purchase industrial grade KNO3. I recrystallize for the best purity. I store in crystal form and ball mill only what I intend to use in a comp. Try to keep the moisture down. Next, Magnesium, as fine as you can possibly get/buy. The ball mill it further. I try to get it to 3-5 micron. Sulfur, again, ball mill the heck out of it.
Many ppl say that making flash powder using KNO3 is weak. And "YES" in comparison to other oxidizers (KClO3, KCIO4, KMnO4, K2S2O8, NA2S2O8) it is. However, It is one of the safer methods of making flash powder. Remember, the higher you go up on the oxygen molecule the more reactive(sensitive) the comp becomes. Most ppl stay with a tried and true (safe) method of using KCIO3, or KCIO4 in there flash powder. Making exotic flash powder is cool, but can also be very dangerous. Flash powder isn't bias about who, or what it destroys in deflagration. BEING SAFE IS BETTER THAN BEING DEAD!✌💖
I tried that 50 50 +1 with Indian blackhead & it works fine. I processed 2Kgs of it.
Well I don't think using KClO3 in your flash powder is very safe.
hi...can you help me make a flash powder in a simple way.what chem. needed to make it.
Weird exception to that rule is that chlorate is more reactive and less stable than perchlorate.
Hey, trying to make some cool things here. You think titanium powder is brighter or better in any way to magnesium? What's the brightest metal when burning?
your aluminum is too coarse when i made flash powder with fine kmno4 and 600 mesh dark pyro aluminum and sulphur it had a very fast burn rate
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@@catherineharris4746 if you reply like that please give an explanation
Read @ :41
I know it's late but if someone saw this
DO NOT MAKE THIS FLASH POWDER
@@simplepyro7897 why?
KClO3 compounds even with 50-60% oxy-to-fuel ratio are HE, they are sensitive and detonate with supersonic speeds quite easy. Same about AmN-based and some other mixes. Its better/safer to use KNO3 or KClO4 for this purposes.
Nah, KClO3 does not detonate with any fuel. KClO3 just is not used widely anymore because of its incompatibilities with sulfur compounds.
Try 2 parts strontium nitrate and 1 part magnesium. The extra oxidizer really increases explosive power and also enhances color. Make sure chemicals are extra fine before mixing
hey can you explain in percentage please
@@jealousygaming3640 66% strontium nitrate 33% magnesium
What is the best flash powder for loud reports in fireworks
I gotta tell you. I haven’t seen others granulate the BP multiple times. I had a batch of BP that was horrible. I truly thought about tossing it. I’m so glad I didn’t. I’ve granulated it twice and about to do a third time. Wow! What a difference, especially after the second granulation. Thanks for the great advice.
When flash powder explodes, does it make a louder or less sound than peroxide explosives?
It's fun doing this stuff & experimenting with chemistry if you know the basics. Have you tried making golden powder ? It's relatively non toxic compared to any other formulas & has more energy than black powder. The ingredients in weight are 24 grams Potassium Nitrate, 16 grams Ascorbic Acid (vitamin C) & 50ml water to the boil. Then wait & stir gradually until it becomes a slurry & thickens up, take off the heat to cool it down & use it wet or dry. The energy this produces is astonishing for the two simple ingredients used, the residue is water soluble & it's safer than any other composition.
(ratio:7/3=sharp bang poweful)(ratio:6/3/1=quit low pitch in bigger salutes)(ratio:6/3/.5=sharp standard report formula)(ratio:62/23/7=low pitch if use in bigger salute)(ratio:50/25/25=very deep low pitch explosion listed as bomb like pitch)(ratio:5/3/2=very deep same as 50/25/25 its mostly used in cherry bombs)(1/2 airspace=powerful pitch+)(1/3 airspace= poweful pitch-)(1/3.5 airspace=loud pop with very deep pitch-)
is this for all the types
Nice info
what ratios are these for? dm on ig @hk_pyro
Where did you get the chemical bottles from
At 1:08 you say that this mixture has no oxidizing agent, but generates enough heat to burn in a non-oxy environment. That is chemically impossible, as all chemical decomposition requires oxygen from somewhere. Just saying.
I have seen all kins of idiots say the same thing. lol He should go check out my channel.
Zn combines with Sulphur to Zincsulphide (ZnS) which is an exothermic reaction.
The Zinc is oxydized by the Sulphur, Zinc becomes Zn2+ -ions and S is reduced and becomes S2 - Ions. There is not always the presence of Oxygene (or an oxygene-carrier substance) necessary to promote an oxydation.
The original post says in a NON-oxy environment. If you did this in a vacuum or an inert gas environment, nothing can be oxidized if the constituent chemicals contain none.
magnesium burns rapidly in its powder form because magnesius is really reactive to heat
As said earlier here, oxidization is not about oxygen. Oxygen just happens to be the most common, its about the charge states of the ions(zink atoms lost electrons to sulphur atoms and therefore gained positive charge).
Putting sulphur in flash mixes is generally a bad idea. It sensitizes chlorates and perchlorates and they can spontaneously explode. Same with permanganates. In fact, anything that produces an unstable chemical in the presence of sulphuric acid
Putting sulfur with perchlorates is fine. If you really think a mix is going to spontaneously explode, even a chlorate mix with sulfur, you have a lot more research to do. In the presence of moisture there is a minuscule chance sulfuric acid could form with dirty sulfur, but with deacidification rubber makers sulphur it doesn't happen. People have been putting sulfur with chlorate for hundreds of years, for everything from fireworks to primers, and when done correctly oh, there are very few issues. I suggest you do some of your own hands on research rather than regurgitating some of the nonsense you hear because it's foolish and it doesn't help anyone at all. It's painfully obvious that you do not have experience with these chems and you're just looking to berate somebody online. not cool, and very misleading to young scientist and amateurs alike👈👎
@@huhdidwhat Thank You for setting "DirK" straight on the use of Sulfur with oxidizers 👈👍
There is an oxidizer in the Zinc-Sulfur flash powder. It's the sulfur, many people don't know sulfur can be an oxidizer.
I've always liked Potassium perchlorate 70% and aluminium powder 30% myself.
You can easily make KClO3 from common house-hold items. Plenty of instructions are available on youtube. Once you have your KClO3, you can also make KClO4 relatively easily.It is very doable to make these at the comfort of your own home.
Thats what I was going to do but how would I add sulfer into this equation? Do I mix it in like the potassium perchlorate and aluminum or at the end? How many parts sulfer would I use for this new reaction if we are going off of your 70/30
how do you get the potassium without a license
Back in the 1960s we used to use zinc and sulfur for model rocket propellant.
Where do you get your chemicals? Looking for magnesium powder and potassium perchlorate? I've got Potassium Nitrate from AusChems. I've got Magnalium on order? Thats magnesium but mixed with Tin and Nickle. Is that the stuff you have? I know you can get Mg from firestarters but I lack the effort and would rather buy 500g.
He used a potassium nitrate and aluminum based mixture, which both of can be bought on amazon for fairly reasonable prices. However, the nitrate can often be substituted with stump remover from your local hardware store, however, be sure to check the MSDS sheet, in order to assure purity. Magnesium, i have not personally bought, but if you have a laythe, you can buy blocks and machine it down, or i suspect it could also be bought on amazon. Now, once you start to play with perchlorate, i would highly advise against it, as you very quickly slip from very rapid and hot burning, to complete detonation.
Nicholas Harding add tin foil
In Europe it's best to order at laborladen.de
Since when did Magnalium become a mix of nickel and tin? Irs an alloy made of aluminium and magnesium. Just saying.
Is the Zn/S and KNO3/S/Al as friction sensitive as the others? What would be the safest comp?
Potassium permanganate is an oxidizer!!!!!!!!
Is there another magnesium composition you can use, ie. permanganate, citrate, stearate, etc., if reg mag is hard to find?
The first sight I don't want to use it I just want to learn about it
You must try milling the chemicals to much finer powders, so you will get much faster flash powders
Eimantas Andrikis I cant get a ball mill so I only use what I can get
toothpick993 I understand, but you can definely make much finer KMnO4 with mortar and pestle or you can even use a hammer to grind it.
toothpick993 Oh, I'm sorry for confusion, the KMnO4 looked quite coarse. But another thing about KMnO4/Mg/S FP is that you could have been used less sulfur, it should be faster.
It's not fast. It's just more sensitive
No KClO4 and dark alum ? Why would you show all the unstable types and not the safest? Its also the easiest to make.
How many barley corns in a part?
First mixture you say different quantities to what is written on screen, which is correct?
Nope listen properly
@@jgilly3362 He says "one part of sulfur" and the caption says "two parts sulfur." Maybe YOU should listen properly.
@@foxkit69 yea I was confused on this as well
I think Mg/KClO4 is best type of flash for more noise
What means three parts to two parts etc how that translates to grams
It mean that if your total composition is considered 5 parts 2 parts is of the 1st chemical and 3 parts is of the 2nd one. In terms of grams it means 2 grs of the 1st and 3 grams of the 2nd making a gotal of 5 grams flash powder.
Where you get your magnesium??
Pleas HELP,
Is this parts going to be done by waight or by size? (By kilograms or by m^3)?
*Sory for eanglish ;)
Wolfog It would be by weight. But there are better and safer recipes than these. And do plenty of research before playing with flash. You need to be very careful.
where did you buy those materials
Is this measured by weight?
When it says "Parts" , is this by weight or by volume?
same question here yet no answers
If the aluminum is fine enough it burns better than magnesium.
brings back memories as a child playing with all of these chemicals and what a STUPID DUMB-ASS I was for doing so.. How I walked away alive is a joke But thanks for sharing
Nicely edited. Thanks!
Can the flash in firecrackers if stored properly spontaneously ignite over time?
Yeah. I’m curious about that too...
rslichtis@@bigbluebuttonman1137
For more than half century I've been making & using KClO3, Al & Sb2S3 flash and have never, in those 5 decades, experienced any problem relating to spontaneous combustion/ignition; with a thorough understanding of of these reagents, they can be combined and remain stable for many years.
@@robertlichtenberger206 Also, a small addition of boric acid ~1% might be a good idea.
Now i can replace my cap gun with this! Much louder, and brighter!
Hi, I need to replicate / fake a 19th century photography powder flash for a theatrical purpose. What I need is to obtain a totally safe instant effect of white flash and smoke. My question is if that Zinc and Sulphur mix can it be instantly ignited with a lighter ?
Sights, if it's any help, I have used equal weight of Mg/KNO3 on am dram stage. But better to ignite electrically so you can get exact timing. It's more difficult using a lighter and, anyway, you don't want fingers near the flash, which burns at over 2000 deg C. I wired a small car battery to a thin fuse wire in contact with the powder. Throw the switch and the fuse blows and sets off the powder. It worked perfectly. But make sure you don't confine the powder or you will get a bang. You really only want a poof. The old timers (I am one myself but not 18th century!) spread the flash on a metal tray, either flat or with a trough. Trough is better as it can give a wide light source so softer shadows. There are other possibilities and I could tell you more if you are interested. Where are you and can you get chemicals easily? You'll probably only need small quantities. Hope that helps.
Incidentally, you DON'T want very fine chemicals for photographic flash. You want a relatively slow, bright burn. I would use something like 200 mesh Mg.
Thank you for your quick answer, I am trying to build a tray replica using aluminium tin, and a barbeque piezo electric lighter as a handle for flaming the powder. The goal is to get as close as the19th century genuine flame and smoke effect... really hope I will. I would go with electrical battery but there;s no room to hide it inside a handle. Thanks a lot !
@@sights2397 Yes, I should have referred to the 19th century not the 18th - flash powder was in use from the late 19th. I actually still have a tin of Johnsons photographic FP No1, bought in the 60's. But I digress... It doesn't have to be a car battery. I didn't have time to experiment, nor the need to minimise as we just needed a small explosion on stage and the device (in a metal bucket) was hidden. You'll need a reliable decent spark. But as the business end of the lighter will have to be right in the flash powder it will almost certainly be damaged by the intense heat and not work again. That has happened when I have used a (long necked) barbecue lighter to set off flash. Even though it was the flame that ignited the powder, the flash was intense enough to ruin the end of the lighter. You don't want it to work OK at rehearsals but then not on the night! You might like to experiment with some very fine wire and small batteries that could be concealed in the handle, as in a torch. As long as there's enough power to get the wire to glow bright, if not actually blow, it will ignite the flash and the wire is easily replaced. In my case of course the wire burnt out immediately and probably added to the noise. I used a single strand from ordinary household lighting flex. I would guess you can find even finer wire in headphone leads or some such, that wouldn't need much power to make it blow. Good luck. I'd be interested to hear how you get on.
@@oldgeorge1939 Yeah, that's my concern too. It is a long necked lighter with a wind resistant flame nozzle, but the aim here for that flash has to be repetitive, I mean like 3-4 flashes in 15 minutes or so.. I'm thinking to use some other powder, to avoid intense heat., toxic fumes etc. I absolutely agree about the battery part but the trouble is that we need that flash device asap, and I have a lot of many other things to set in. Btw, I would love to see a pic of that antique Johnsons tin :)
How long can you safely store flash powder...?
Week? Month? After all, if I want to make a stash of fireworks, I want to know the timetable for making them before I blow em up.
Your best safest bet is to make it on the spot. You should NEVER stash flash powder.
Blow it up right after you make it, at most that day, if not u can save it fire a lifetime...if you build a bunker to keep it in
I have alot ov separate ingredients, i mix and shoot, if i have a mix i never got to shoot and don't know whens the next time ima need it, I rather flush it down the toilet. Its not worth it. "Be smart don't ne a retart"
-Slim Shady
No KCL04? most stable powder and is dumb violent.
That was awesome thank you
Is kmno4 flash with al and s safe to make
Hay man what high power of powder plz tell
igniting in aluminum foil effects its color chemistry
A surprising mixture is calcium sulfate and magnesium.
Na2S2O8+Mg 50:50 is brutal!
Where is mg/s 50/50
Who can tell me which one is the best
Aluminum powder and potassium perchlorate
And witch one of these burn the fastest
You asked which flash powder mix burns the fastest?
Looks like Strontium Nitrate and Magnesium powder, mixed 1 to 1 wins as the fastest burn time.
Ammonium perchlorate and magnesium is a faster flash powder
@@willyam9735 Also by far the strongest because it literally explodes while being uncontained!!!!
Where do you even get these from?
shuto Yang there is a lot of chemicals you can get from ebay and stuf but if you want titanium flash powder(be safe)from salutes
The NaCl is very Good in burn rate but i cant get it to explode:/
kmno3 and AL powder only. no sulfur needed
disagree
Can u send ebay link for magnesium powder because i cant find it
laborladen.de
That is if you live in Europe
@Tait horovitz do u live in canada?
@Tait horovitz you tryna share the info
@Tait horovitz BECAUSE I CANT GET THE CHEMCALS
@Tait horovitz I want to get eh chemicals so I can do this
Parts ? I don't understand ....
Which one is the best powder plz tell
Taking the same grain size, it's (Per)Chlorate+Aluminium/Magnesium. Best trade off between safety and power.
Excellent friend!! Well done!!
Which is the best mixture for contact explosive
armstrongs mixture
Theres no need for sulfur, just kmno4+mg in 50/50 ratio. Once again wear dark glasses if you dont want flash burnt.😢
My KNO 3 AL powder burns the same
O.o even with a hammer,insane how easy can light up
Hi bro, do you know how to make the powder that is usually used in visco vuse wicks? State the ingredients and dosage
Im from Indonesia
the common mixtures are not shock sensitive
where do you get your sulfur from
Forget the sulfur in flash
Nice tutorial
Where do you even get this stuff? lol
Well he Was A Ge Gentleman
Parts by volume or weight?
weight
@@rickjwilliams thank you
@@rickjwilliams weight as in grams right. so 3 parts of sulfur means 3 grams of sulfur?
If your total flash is 5 grams then the answer is yes. Here 2 parts, 3 parts, means 2 grams and 3 grams. Remember since the units aren't fixed, he uses parts instead. So by 'parts' he could mean grams, kilograms, tons, etc. & thus it is depending on the total amount which you are making.
@@MT-in3tp ohhh thanks
What's the safest compound for a novice, but "I'm not a computer, an a "Real Human Being" !!?? Thanks 👍
Dude science rocks
Blue colour
Try 10:4:1 KMnO4/Mg(40µm)/S, very violent and bright reaction.
Bác nên chơi al+mg+kcl
@@HaiNguyen-ds1ph Are you sure? If it does anything it will just burn. Maybe you mean KClO3 or KClO4 instead of kcl, that would be pretty strong.
Wow very usefull video I thought the only way was potassium perchlorate and aluminum
Make an firecracker
Try a tetraamine copper nitrate, S, Al, KNO3 flash powder i forget the ratios bit it can be found on science madness. I know it is shock insensitive but it has to be milled to work well
TACN is useless in this combination because the deflagration energy is fairly low. And the rest of the mixture is not strong enough to detonate TACN. So, no, don't waste your TACN on this.
@@emmepombar3328 i actually attempted it and it worked. It turned out to be a crappy flash powder but it did actually work. I think i needed moke KNO3 but it did infact work.
@@emmepombar3328 it is also not supposed to detonate. It deflagrates unless heavily confined.
@@emmepombar3328 so you are right in a way. Its not worth using because of the strength and there are much better options. Like TeACP mixtures or other complexes.
Good video. Thank you
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How yo gat black aluminium
grind your aluminium foil in a grinder u get what is called "dark aluminium powder"
6 parts zinc and 2 parts sulfer.... so 3 to 1? Lol why double it.
Mike T bc that's how it works
What can you use flash powder for ? Other than firecrackers 🤣
Blowing up tree stumps
1:35 Your potassium nitrate was not *boneless*
Cool
Awesome
Don't worry about that haters
rocky rock he should. This man is doing very dangerous stuff and showing it to others! Did you see the first flash powder? Sulfur makes all flash powder VERY unstable and permagnate flash is already incredibly stupid to begin with!
Anthony Caminiti that’s a big fucking NO NO! Stay away from KmN04 at all costs! It’s not more powerful of louder. There much SAFER and more powerful compositions out there
Your AL is not fine enough
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LOL your not making flash in the 1st2 mixes your making thermite and by the way nothing burns with out oxygen. All of the mixes you made contain it own oxygen.
Do you know what potassium permangenate is? Is has O4 in the end, that means it has oxygen, just like KNO3.
And where do you get the idea thermite from? Thermite is a metal rust mixed with a metal powder. Example, Fe2O3, iron oxide (aka. standard rust) and aluminiums powder.
Actually, things CAN burn without oxygen. Lithium, for example, can burn in pure nitrogen, because the nitrogen is taking lithium’s electrons. This is basic chemistry. Another example would be the
Zinc and sulfur flash powder shown in this video, where the sulfur oxidized the zinc. The thing is, the exchanging of electrons, or oxidation, is just that: the exchanging of electrons! Therefore, oxygen isn’t necessary for oxidation. This is all basic high school level chemistry!
What do you mean “the 1st2 are thermite reactions”? Potassium permanganate is NOT a metallic oxide, but rather, an example of an oxidizing agent. For a thermite reaction to occur, the metallic oxide’s base metal (the metal that the oxygen is bound to) MUST be less reactive than the metal that will be taking the oxygen atom(s) from the oxide. If the oxide is MORE reactive than the metal being oxidized, then the reaction simply will not work! As I previously stated, KMnO4 is just a potassium with the anion MnO4, and potassium is more reactive than both magnesium and aluminum. Therefore, it is literally IMPOSSIBLE for that to have a thermite reaction. Again as I previously stated, this is high school level knowledge!
I hope now you understand a bit more about chemistry: have a nice day!
They are not flash powders.
Abe Coulter why not?
Flash powder is potassium perchlorate and aluminium powder
Abe Coulter yes that is ONE flash powder, but there are many more! Flash powder is just a oxidizer and a metallic fuel that burns fast. I see what you are thinking though!
Flashpowder burns rapidly with a bang
Abe Coulter not always! Just has the burn fast, not with a bang
try add ureaUreaUrea
No offense but you might want to improve you subtitles, because there have been a lot of mis-spelled words. Just thought that would help! I otherwise like the videos, good job!
Yo shi aint fine enough. 5ųm atleast
Wtf is with ur nitrates
+milyan360 What do you mean?
they look like big clumps of wet nitrate crystals
Your flash was bad. You can do much better bady) But in general: well done)
Ama any merely work for the church
toothpick993, NICE VIDEO , BUT MY POWDER IS TEN TIMES MORE POWERFUL. YOUR'S ( IN FIRECRACKER FORM ) MIGHT BE ABLE TOO DENT A BEER CAN, BUT MINE WOULD DISINTEGRATE IT