Can a Magnesium fire be put out?
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Ive always been curious to what happens if you light one of these whole blocks of magnesium on fire. I remember spending hours in boyscouts trying to shave off as much as I could! - บันเทิง
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I'm a retired firefighter and it was always a surprise when we would come up to a vehicle fire and start spraying it just to have a massive amount of sparks spray everywhere. Allot of bumpers on older cars were made of magnesium.
Ya ever wonder how many times the fire department was called on this guy?
TheBackyardMattressSalesman
Cameron Hendry ikr
Cameron Hendry lol XD
lmao
Cameron Hendry loool xD
But will magnesium Melt an iron??
Forget sunglasses, if you want to stare at magnesium fires use a welding helmet.
Maybe even laser goggles tbh
I don't have a problem because I wear glasses and I stare at bright lights and stuff so it don't bother me
@@matthewsprague1384 wtf? Regular glasses don't protect your eyes, your "I wear glasses" is completely meaningless.
@@luongmaihunggia I don't need anything but my glasses because I have desensitized myself from bright lights
@@matthewsprague1384 what does "desensitize" mean?
Lord have mercy on his lawn.
@@ArfyWarf Not to mention, there are more than a few burn marks on it
Yeah
I'd like to see how flammable the mattress is.
Hey, Good to see you here!
TAOFLEDERMAUS p
Hahaha, I was thinking the same even before reading the comments... well, why not put a huge block of magnesium on the Casper mattress, light it on fire, spray some water on it, and release the Casper "ghost" (the plume of stream). he-he
Ask Jake Paul
CyanideSun94 I see what you did there
As an arsonist, these magnesium bars are a must have
oh no
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R/holup
Putting fire into the burning pan moment
Dry ice: I can put out any fire
Magnesium: hold my beer
well, ice do make magnesium hotter
Ice, yea it does
@CLORO 3rd hold my ford
Green fire from nerdy movies: hold my vodka
Ashton Lovell Actually, magnesium also reacts with nitrogen
why the hell is a car part made of a highly flammable metal?
nhojemon "Ford"
nhojemon Vw made their engine blocks out of it. The engine of my racing dirt bike a yz450 is made of it. F1 engines were and the rims still are. It's a fantastic material and extremely light and strong given its low weight. It just can catch on fire and not be put out. Which is an issue but sometimes the benefits of having it in the vehicle out weigh the potential security risks. It's usually now days only used in high performance applications although there are some exceptions. The liquid you handle daily and carry around the fumes that come off of that liquid are much more dangerous than anything else put in your car I can assure you.
And next to the engine
Can you af*Ford* if it was built otherwise?
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Im not sorry
Better question, Why The Hell Do They Make Magnesium Barbeques!? Lol
So.. this is kind of embarrassing, but I deleted my website on accident last week. I lost ALL the submissions :( go ahead and send them back in if you can!
RIP that moth @ 4:23
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TheBackyardScientist hey
TheBackyardScientist lol
TheBackyardScientist what if you try a fire extinguisher or liquid nitrogen
TheBackyardScientist lol tru
Aubai Mohammed fire extinguisher is also CO2
As a volunteer firefighter in my town, i know the actual stuff to use for magnesium/combustible metal fires. If u had a situation like this such as a car fire, you would use a class D fire extinguisher. This extinguisher classifies for burning combustible metals, whatever you do, dont use water haha!
Copious amounts of water is just fine, you'll get a cool fireworks show but as long as your wearing full PPE it won't hurt you.
UltimateDestructors we were on a structure fire once and there was a tractor with a magnesium block inside. There were 4 departments there and absolutely no one with a class D extinguisher... needless to say, all of the departments there bought class d extinguishers after that...
UltimateDestructors shouldn't he be wearing some kind of respiratory protection and not to mention aluminized protective gear ( or at least arc flash protective gear)? Thanks for saying the class "D" extinguisher bit- I was afraid I would have to say it ( always wanted to be a firefighter, but my knowledge has deteriorated some)
Look for "F-500 Encapsulator Agent - Hazard Control Technologies". It can put out class D fires in a safe manner.
UltimateDestructors just use liquid nitrogen
Thought it said can magnesium put out a fire, and immediately thought, oh this should be good
same
Same
Sights gonna get worse tonight
lol
Me too lol
Sand will extinguish Magnesium fires! I learned this while in the Coast Guard. We had to attend fire fighting school from the U.S. Navy at their Fire fighting center on Treasure Island! As you could see, the spalling of the Magnesium by the CO2 made for a more volatile fire! Magnesium produces its own ignition by mixing with the Oxygen in the air, and is quite a nasty burning substance! Sand melts and like Molten Lava, covers the Magnesium and blocks the oxygen from the metal's combustion!
digiphot2 does this work with a lithium polymer battery fire as it self oxidizes
Late to the video... But it won't. Same thing with CO2, but the bond between Silicon and oxygen is weaker than that of carbon and oxygen. The book Uncle Tungsten has some description about that.
You need a comma before like molten lava
digiphot2 Sand Sand Sand. Yes, that will put out a magnesium fire. And I keep a bucket of sand near my plane and in my garage. It also puts out all kind of fire. When I was in basic training, we had to keep a bucket of sand. Yes Sand.
Ps: I had the Fire Department inspect my hangar, and asked Why the Sand? She did not know! She is the Fire Department.
It does not, as seen here:
th-cam.com/video/J60J-g4ifXg/w-d-xo.html
That moth's name was Icarus
lmfao
Except that this time he flew too low
Man not (too) hot 🤣
RIP __________ the moth
greek reference?
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PK NEIN the powerhouse is the mitochondria of the cell
Was studying but now I learned everything I need to know from this comment
PK NEIN Has DarkkMane become a Meme?
Tri Nguyen same
PK NEIN I just realized that I've never used the word "powerhouse" other than to describe mitochondria
At 2:00 I thought he just randomly started dissecting a car in a parking lot.
Nice pfp uwu
That would be metal
3:57 the moment you realize you forgot to take the food out of the oven
The moth committing suicide at the end hahahahahahahha
@4:23
draconical77 MOTH "I can't help it, it's so pretty...."
I love how you can hear the little "tss" when it dies
Banzai
draconical77 I wish I was that moth
How to be an arsonist, a guide by the Backyard Scientist.
“Shockingly fair price”
*Is $1100 on amazon*
Mr InvadeYourComments I can get a decent mattress for
@@yorick22 you've clearly never bought a decent mattress. You cant get one for that cheap. If you think you can, you're ignorant of what a good mattress is.
@@jknight9613 I'm laying on an extremely nice mattress that was around $400 and it's been the most comfortable thing I've ever laid on for the 10+ years I've had it. No signs of any damage or wear.
It's funny cause people spend so much money on mattresses. Honestly. I sleep on a $400.00 mattress and I sleep fine.
I have a 3000$ mattress. It's worth spending on.
Did he open the dry ice with the blowtorch...?
At 1:05
VibeReviews yes yes he did
savage!
VibeReviews propane torch
Yah
Well yeah, who doesn't?
try hitting the magnesium with the 1000 degree knife rocket sled
yeah what he said
yeah, what they said that they said that they said!
That's one way to make a incendiary bomb
World War 4
Very cool. Great job.
RetroWeld yee
Yeah.
3:15 the poor cats
LightStrike Gaming that was just plain mean
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3:40 look at the cat on the left
I agree.
Based on my own experience, I can pretty much guarantee they tried to get the cats off of the bed at least four times before going "okay, fine, we'll do it the hard way."
"You can't put out a magnesium fire with water"
(Puts out the fire with water)
Me: Wut is life????
I noticed that too.
It had burned out by that time. The fire is VERY high temperature and using water is very dangerous. If you need to put out a metal fire, sand is your best option as it smothers the fire.
I bet you can't read these comments... ahh you just did... lol
@Charlie K Like throwing it in a lake or ocean, I wondered about that too.
@@billbrox8666 ever think that the magnesium might steal oxygen from the water and cause the hydrogen to explode? that is what it does. and 2000 degree burning metal flung through the air with an explosion does not sound fun.
how do you get away with this without the fire department showing up every video? xD
He informs them ahead of time
Dusk Shλde lol you don't need to inform the fire dept to burn a couple pounds of magnesium! I doubt that anyone is concerned about a bit of smoke.
Well, personally if I was walking down a street and saw huge amounts of smoke in someones backyard, i'd at least check up see if everythings alright.
trust me, my neighbors see smoke and think "oh thank god its not a loud video where something is blowing up"
the fire department was happy with their mattress
Might be the worst ad placement I've ever seen.
Ryan Hicks what ad
Completely agree, had nothing to do with neither channel nor video
I assume the mattress tangent
ya
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we had little strips of this in my science class and gave it to my friend and told him to light it. He panicked when it caught alight cause of the light produced but it was funny to see him try to put it out my blowing it out, making it hotter and brighter :)
clam down, satan
@@cruzalexander9381 lol
2:57
Me: wow that looks like a nebula!
TBS: It looks like a nebula!
Me: lol we were thinking the same thing
That you even wrote a comment about it is stage 3 of wowness
I find this offensive.
yea they are burning u, and a moth committed suicide because of u
Magnesium Yeah Thebackyardscientiscientist check your carbon- based privilege
You special snowflake!
Magnesium
Don't Take Offense Your on Fire
No Really Your on 🔥
Magnesium you hot tho
I don't understand why people are giving him a hard time for sponsoring Casper. The money he makes from these videos and his partnership with Casper ensures that he can continue to make videos at the rate he does and goes toward equipment to make the videos the best quality possible! Also it's not like he's sponsoring a product he doesn't like. Keep up the great work man, love your videos!
Very interesting. Keep up the videos you have awoken my inner child sience need. Good work. Explain how a sabot works.
"Don't use water to put out a magnesium fire."
*Preceeds to use water to put out a magnesium fire.*
He's the Backyard Boi though.
Yeah but it didn’t happen instantly like a normal fire though. By the time he got it out it had no more fuel left to burn.
That's like pouring liquid oxygen on burning coals until they go out, and then claiming that liquid oxygen can put out fires.
try setting the pool on fire again but with the magnesium fire. how cool will that be right.
agree
That's how you literally burn down a city block.
Yeah your probably roght
timothy bunker 😭😭😂 the internet teaches you a million ways to die and this is one of them
cool idea but it wouldnt work. Water will still all the energy from magnesium putting it out
Will it burn under water?
Ya
If you have enough of it. I tried about 1-2 pounds but nothing interesting happened at all, i left it out of the video.
Burn? No. More like EXPLODE.
The rate of burning in water is between dozens and hundreds of times as rapid as in air.
=(((
The cats' reactions to the mattress were excellent!
I was looking at my butane torch and my magnesium fire starter, wondering what would happen... Pretty glad I watched this first.
3:52 he is on her "backyard"
haha
RobloxApocLife you're a pervert hahaha lol
RobloxApocLife I
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The comment section is a dark and scary place °Д°
Kisa Saki why is he a pervert she was on her back
I like your cats
His dog is better.
They like that box
You're the most creative scientist youtuber ever, love your videos keep it up
Great presentations!
Fire starter in the front end of a vehicle ....
So that explains why my F 150 did a self meltdown when I totalled it
use liquid nitrogen to put out a magnesium fire
I thought so too, no Oxygen to steal.
Or cover it with a lot of sand.
justin13043 and the magnesium steals the oxygen from the silicon dioxide in the sand
Guang Yang i have seen sand put out a pretty big magnesium fire.
That would work I guess because there's no oxygen!
you are crazy
crazy amazing that is
you videos are the coolest videos of science i have ever watched :)
Fantastic video mate, both are dry ice and the water on the magnesium would’ve looked awesome in slow motion at night time.
I'm really confused...I thought that you'd be trying multiple ways to put it out (liquid nitrogen, CO2, sand, etc.)? Was it just too expensive an experiment or just not that interesting after you'd tried the water?
Great video as usual man! :D
On board an air craft carrier the never tried to put out an aircraft, which contains a lot of My. In stead the plane is just shoved over the side. You could watch the plane to continue to burn as is burned hot enough to oxidize the water as it sank. You remind me of what I use to do in junior high.. You I did stuff like this.
We used to do the magnesium + dry ice experiment at the science centre where I worked. We used to make it more exciting by adding various chemicals to the magnesium to change the colour of the flame, like strontium, sodium or copper sulfate. That'd make a good video.
I like how genuinely he likes everything he does. Like it is so common to see him pog at things he does like 4:27
I am super ignorant on this one, so someone please enlighten me: why on earth would you make car parts out of a flammable and difficult to extinguish material?
weight, reusability and/or strength. many metals are flammable, they just have different ignition points. When it comes to magnesium in particular it's fairly common, 100% reusable and incredibly strong for its weight. So using it to make alloys is a relatively cheap, sustainable and effective way of making strong, light weight components.
30% lighter than aluminum, and just as strong.
but the real question is why do our cars still carry around 20 gallons of exploding liquid dinosaurs? we should be using 200 pounds of flammable batteries by now!
You make a valid point.
+TheBackyardScientist, 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
I love the smell of exploding dinosaurs in the morning.
Because it's Ford. They're not the brightest engineers.
I have that exact fire starter that you used in the intro and I did the exact same thing you did
These videos are so entertaining
Titanium reacts bad with water to, I have been on 10 car fires since I became a firefighter. The sparks burn through our gear. Magnesium is awesome
Awesome video, if you had a bonfire of magnesium, you would not need lights for your party:)
Creating Creations yeah, but you WOULD need sunblock!
does it put out heat like a camp fire or just a bright light ?
OverUnity7734, yes it puts out more heat than a camp fire
And soon after everyone's retinas would be fried and everyone would be blind
Back around 1984 to 1986 time frame I saw a a full semi tanker filled with powdered magnesium catch fire in Pennsylvania. It was about a mile outside of town. All the street lights in town that had light sensors turned off.
This guy is simply awesome.
What does your landscaper do when he sees what you do to your yard?
Who says he has a landscaper?
People who want to employ Mexicans?
Not everyone has a landscaper. Most people are capable of doing there own yard work.
Very nice video. I guess nitrogen will work well to put out the megnesium fire, since it doesn't contain oxygen.
Or does nitrogen react with the magnesium too?
Oh, I already found the answer on the internet: Nope, won't help, it reacts too, it will result in magnesium nitride (Mg3N2). 🙁😎
Nitrogen is already in the atmosphere and take up to like 70% of the atmosphere and the atmosphere n is everywhere even around the magnesium fire, and the nitrogen isn't putting out the fire at all.
lmao i love how the part where the insect gets in his way is the most replayed part
I like how the cats helped with the mattress
I was at school and we were using magnesium and bunsen burner and we burnt the table and blew up a glass plate
PepeTheFrog haha we lit a whole can of magnesium powder on fire 😂 the flame was over 1m. This was really legendary, the flame looked awesome. It was a wonder that our teacher managed to stop the fire, without sand (which we got after this incident 😂)
I mean I don't mind paid promotion when they are ontopic but this one really has nothing to do with what this video was about or what your channel is about! Sad.
Vanduzel wouldn't you like to get paid doing what you love?
He gets paid for TH-cam, yes.
Don't really think he would love to be a mattress salesman though...
If you want to see a good paid promotion that's fully on topic and just really well done, go have a look at the Hydraulic Press Channels "Crushing Adamantium with Hydraulic Press".
Unfortunately most companies aren't interested in advertising on TH-cam. Nobody is interested in lending me giant rust removing lasers, high-voltage transformers, or even just general supplies like aluminum to melt, or foundry materials. These type of companies don't market to individuals because there is no consumer end market. I had no luck getting anybody to lend me thousands of dollars worth of capacitors, so I need to buy them myself.
If you enjoy the channel and its content, don't complain in the manner it's provided. I don't care what company is sponsoring it, as long as he's able to keep doing this.
Reminds me of The Geek Group getting hundreds of capacitors from Cornel Doubliar. (idk spelling)
+TheBackyardScientist: in the fire service where I volunteer we have special fire extinguisher designated for metals fires in some fire trucks (in addition to normal dust extinguishers we carry on all fire trucks), it has a yellow paint scheme, to differ from the normal (gas, foam dust) painted red. If I'm not mistaken, they have special dust in them made specially to extinguish some metals fires.
Lol I just loved it how you pushed the cats off the bed
not really a fitting placement :/
I do feel like, if you're gonna put an ad in the middle of your video, it should at least somewhat relate to the content of the video.
Julius Dödeldorsch ad what ad
true, it looks like the matress just paid the most
What if you inflate the mattress in a room which has a door too small to get the mattress back out of?
what would happen you trow one of those burning blocks in the pool
I'''ll make hydrogen, the flammable gas that make sodium explode, but it never reaches the flame point,so it never explodes or burns, but it will if you lit it.
This channel is the only reason I like science
I was playing lifeline: half way to infinty and this helped me alot
i love this channel, but this episode was a bit unscientific.
1. I pay for youtube red so I don't have to watch ads, so I guess this is a loop hole where advertisers can get noticed by people who don't watch ads. defeats the purpose of paying youtube. it's not just your channel that's doing this, I've noticed an upward trend on a lot of other people's channels/videos aswell.
2. going back to the unscientific part, the question of can a magnesium fire be put out is still left unanswered. I find it convenient there was a moth in the video because that how this video is portrayed, it was flashy and attractive, but there was no take away from it.
you're a smart person, and in many other videos you would explain the science behind what you're doing, what's going on etc. where was this? why did the magnesium erupt when you added water? did the water flash steam on impact with magnesium then split into hydrogen and oxygen and combust? was there a change in molecular structure creating a bond with magnesium and oxygen? did the water expand on impact with the magnesium causing the magnesium to separate while still super heated?
you tried carbon dioxide and water..what about pouring a bucket of sand, dirt on to it to smother it?
would dumping the burning magnesium into a bucket water work, since the spray did not?
so what will put out magnesium that is on fire?
DimensionLordWiggles As you can see at 3:01, yes you can put out magnesium fire, with water.
Shillier and the 10 seconds before that he explains that it isn't the best idea because of the sparks and smoke. when he sprays the water on the burning magnesium all he is doing is increasing rate in which the magnesium is burning. he didn't put it it out with water, he burned the material away.
DimensionLordWiggles He put it out, starved it of oxygen. He said himself in another comment that you can use water.
Shillier if he said that then he's wrong because adding water to magnesium fire fuses the magnesium to the oxygen in H20 and creates magnesium oxide and leaves hydrogen gas to fuel more of the fire. he may have "starved it from oxygen", but he didn't starve it of hydrogen. in the video he kept spraying the magnesium until it burned out completely. what should be left, which he kind of touched on in the carbon dioxide part, was that the left over material after he got done spraying it with water was magnesium oxide.. 2 MgO. or inert magnesium rust.
DimensionLordWiggles I'm pretty sure you're are the 100% incorrect.
We burned magnesium in like week 2 of my first year of chemistry ever
At work we had a bucket of this extremely fine powdered material that you would use to put out magnesium fires. I'm not sure what it was made of, maybe some sort of powdered ceramic.
When I was like six I remember going to Pismo and while camping a big group of people had lit a VW engine block on fire and it was so bright. At least that's what they said it was.
i bet the truck he pulled the magnesium off burns real good
For I second I thought you went up to a random person’s car and started stealing their car parts.
BBBBBIIIII
The optics assembly of most old DLP digital projectors is cast out of magnesium alloy (probably Mg-Al or Mg-Si). As an alloy it's brittle and slightly harder to ignite than pure Mg, but I thought I should mention this since it probably isn't common knowledge. The exact amount varies from one make and model to another, but it's at least 3 of those fire starting blocks worth.
According to a buddy of mine who's in the navy, magnesium fires are the kind you just toss overboard and hope the ocean takes care of it. So you're an absolute madman.
My reaction to this videk was OMg
Hahaha xD
Keystone Science oh wow keystone science, love your channel.
brende the dev haha thanks! I love your pun :D
videk? (i am not trying to be mean btw)
MgO
Mg2+ O2-
Ney guys, its always good to be wearing the proper protective gear when fighting lsrger sized fires, structure fires, etc. and its all about techniques when extinguishing a fore. If you were to have a bedroom on fire, u could use a fire water extinguisher thats pure water, and if you preserve water and use good technique, itll get the job done. Of course if the fire is taking up the whole room, your not going tovwant to risk it with just a water can. Go to your local town department and see if u can join! Its a great time, and u learn lots anc lots of helpful tips thatll be able to help others if they have questions, hopefully this helped!
UltimateDestructors Neeeeyyy
What are you even talking about?
MPA in the little rectangle on the radiator bolster part is Meridian Magnesium Products if America. I've worked there for over a decade now.
the first time i messed with magnesium was when a friend that
worked as a aerospace machinist brought home some scrap magnesium
shavings from a lathe .
we filled a big coffee can with them ; started it with a torch and poured in some water
it made a spark fountain about 10 ft high
So they make cars with flammable metal. Can’t put it out with water. That’s cool.
well, not the entire car... And it's used for weight reduction mostly.
4:22 Moth into flame
You should try playing with the 'flints' that come with it. I'm sure there's something cool that you can do with an iron-cerium alloy.
In the navy we will literally throw burning metal overboard 😂 that how hard it is to put out 😂
Drop burning magnesium in to a fishtank?
miccke13 in his pool
I had a ford explorer that burned down, when the magnesium burned it made quite the show... it was pretty cool all things considered
This was so cool
sick vid man as usual keep em cominps plz reply
Oliver Kirk hoi i replied ha
Oliver Kirk hi i just sucked milk into my nose
StampyDaSpy nice
haha are u like 5 you play minecraft and your called stampy
Oliver Kirk stfu
try to take out an oil fire with just water
note: you'll need a lot of water XD
Kawaii Eevee Im sure it would be a success if he used enough water. I just want to see what would happen if you'd throw an oceans worth of water on an oil fire, like literally drown it
Since oil floats on water, all the water you throw on it will just sink down, and the burning oil will always stay burning on top of the water. So no amount of water will work.
no it will work (see mythbusters episode) you simply need so much water that the heat is stripped from the oil and the fire snuffed out before it has time to float to the surface of the water. And yes that is a LOT of water for a given amount of oil.
In my cub scouts troop, they never told us to cut the magnesium off. So we stood there for hours trying to start a fire. The leaders got tired and just lit the wood.
Should've gotten an old Volkswagen Beetle bumper. Those things are made entirely out of magnesium (I think). One of my old teachers would tell stories about how he would burn magnesium bumpers at the beach back in the day, and he said it would make the night bright as day. He also said it burned so hot that it made the sand look like glass afterwards. Anyways, great video as always
what is this kipkay?
Kevin can you make elephant toothpaste out of hydrogen proxied,dish soup, and
And catalist
such cute kitties i love them
you can also find magnesium in old lawn boy mower decks. i picked up a few today for free, about to have some fun
Though what about liquid nitrogen? And please don't inhale the cloud of particulate smoke, I am pretty sure I read that is super bad for you in significantly quantities and we need you alive and healthy.
Skoon, Thatraccoonskunkguy it isn't heavier than air though but argon might work
Its magnesium oxide. Not particularly toxic on its own, but yes, any type or particulates in the lungs is a bad idea!
Oh yeah, I read it will burn nitrogen also! Thats super interesting, Ill try that and post if it works.
TheBackyardScientist try a noble gas?
yeah he should try argon it's a welding shield heavier than air and quite easy to get
you should try with liquid nitrogen
I would suggest eye protection /before/ lighting off the block -- you know, to keep randomly flying sparks off your corneas, and such. Also, HUGE amount of UV is put out by burning magnesium; I would have had eye protection /and/ dark glasses on, from the onset.
3:52 the backdoor scientist😂
so, who is the genius who decided to put magnesium in cars?
Blu ford
Not even... I think it was the BRILLIANT folks at Mercedes-Benz did... Look up Le Mans Disaster... A nasty crash and magnesium fire that killed 84.