That was a tremendous let down Dom Try solid potassium permanganate and add a little hydrogen peroxide, now that is serious fun, I discovered that one when I was 11 years old my dad was a chemist and used to bring things home, that's how I got the ingredients. My chemistry teacher, who was very very smart, had no idea that they would react, looked at me very strangely when I told him about it, but apparently it was a known reaction that had been used in WW2 torpedoes. I have a lot of history of blowing things up I'm afraid. As a child (teenager) I blew out my neighbours windows as well as having shrapnel pass between me and my friend who was standing next to me (shrapnel holes in our kitchen window), bloody lucky to be alive to be honest! The desire to experiment led to me making my own photographic developer chemicals from scratch and I gradually moved away from the explosives, but my god blowing things up was fun Hope GCHQ don't take this one the wrong way , I am talking about things I did as a little boy, not as an adult, is that ok our dear and wonderful overlords?
OSS........... As a kid, I didn't need to mix bits and bobs to make things go bang........... I grew up where "Operation Shingle" took place in WW II, in Nettuno to be precise.......
Dom, you bar steward.. I watched that video at 3am without realising how loud my speakers had been set at....
Our chemistry teacher once put some Sodium into water. I got splashed on the cheek from the resulting reaction. Not a pleasant experience! Lithium is similar to Sodium in its reactivity and one reason why some freight companies will not transport lithium batteries.
JohnAsh: Don't give oss any ideas please! oss: If you want to experiment with a volcano please use Arthurs Seat in Auld Reekie
Yes indeed it is some 400 to 600 degrees C, just a few metres beneath the surface in the Lanzarote locality. Great for cooking sausages and bacon on though.
The world record of 2,685 simultaneous geysers of mentoes and coke was set in Manila in October 2010...
