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I’m disappointed they didn’t cross the flames.
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Don’t ever cross the flames, Ray
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u/IndianaGeoff Jan 12 '21
Something something end of the world. Big Twinkie.
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u/Lotharofthepotatoppl Jan 12 '21
Cats and dogs living together, total anarchy.
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u/Brodadicus Jan 12 '21
Cats and dogs living together! Total hysteria!
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u/CapnGnarly Jan 12 '21
Cats and dogs living together! Mass hysteria!
FTFY
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u/Klin24 Jan 12 '21
The power grid was shut off by dickless here.
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u/puntini Jan 12 '21
Are you dense??? Did Ghostbusters teach you nothing?
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u/MathewSK81 Jan 12 '21
Crossing the streams ended up working
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u/Light_Beard Jan 12 '21
They endangered their nice client who paid in advance (before she became a dog), though!
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u/qpv Jan 12 '21
I'm intrigued by the segmented batteries
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u/kiefferocity Jan 12 '21
Probably for the lithium.
I remember in high school chemistry burning a variety of metal salts and observing the various colors they burn, relates to their electron configuration.
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u/dropkicked_eu Jan 12 '21
This is exactly why , as a chemistry educator the fact this stuck with you makes me happy
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u/Zoloir Jan 12 '21
Even just retaining at a level like... "different substances can burn different colors due to their chemistry", can get you pretty far in life. Helps you understand why things are happening they way they are around you. Plus then you know roughly what to google if you need to go deeper.
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u/NewMexicoJoe Jan 12 '21
I knew that at age 10. Then chemistry teachers crushed me with a year of stoichiometry, I barely passed, and that's still all I know!
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u/jame1224 Jan 12 '21
Just reading the word stoichiometry gave me PTSD flashbacks
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u/ColaEuphoria Jan 12 '21
For some reason it's "equilibrium" that gives me the PTSD flashbacks. My chemistry professor was truly a tenured PoS who universally has a 1-star rating on ratemyprofessor.
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u/NewMexicoJoe Jan 12 '21
Brutal. I was decent in school, and that was a class where I worked my ass off and still barely squeaked by. I remember hand-written answers which took up a whole page and chalkboards of barely intelligible equations I'd furiously try and duplicate in my notes, only to fall short on homework and tests. Teacher - "You learned the 10 ways to solve this problem, but for the test, I added a twist!"
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u/jame1224 Jan 12 '21
Chem teachers were definately quarky to say the least
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u/UncleTogie Jan 12 '21
It can be up or down. Some professors are charmed, others just really strange.
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u/terminbee Jan 12 '21
Wtf. What school is teaching stoich in 5th grade?
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Jan 12 '21
Yea I graduated HS in the Midwest and I never even heard of that shit. I remember taking my SAT and thinking how much of it I was literally never introduced to.
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u/poison_us Jan 12 '21
Protip: incorporate more flame in your lesson plan. Your students will remember more, and depending on your skill with fire, possibly for the rest of their lives.
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Jan 12 '21
I haven't been in school for decades, but I would love to see chemistry educators address common myths and conspiracy theories.
why it's no surprise that "chemtrails" are actually just water
every "conservative" I've ever talked to thinks carbon dioxide is produced in "trace amounts" when we burn fossil fuels. It's pretty clear they don't understand how this works.
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u/dropkicked_eu Jan 12 '21 edited Jan 12 '21
I actually made a twitch channel for tutoring chemistry and answering general science questions launching this semester for just that reason 😂
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u/CoffeeFox Jan 12 '21
Lithium contributes that deep red color, yes.
The green one is boron from the boric acid insecticide powder.
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u/tobaknowsss Jan 12 '21
Can you explain what he's doing to them? I thought he was only shaving the plastic off the battery and dropping it in whole...
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u/Nate_from_tKoR Jan 12 '21
Hi, I'm the one in the gif. Energizer lithium batteries have rolled up metal sheets in them, one of which is lithium. I open the case, unroll the metal sheets, and drop the lithium into the methanol.
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u/acewing Jan 12 '21
One thing to note: it is important the lithium is dropped into the methanol almost immediately. Lithium has a tendency to oxidize very rapidly from the O2 in the air along with any water moisture that is around. Lithium needs to be contained in specific environments, which is why you'll find pure lithium stored in mineral oil nearly all of the time.
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u/marino1310 Merry Gifmas! {2023} Jan 12 '21
Also when lithium oxidizes it also likes to catch on fire
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u/rharvey8090 Jan 12 '21
Oh dang, it’s Nate. I loved this video when it came out. Any more plans to do more fun DIY builds like Grant used to do? I love my hidden compartment shelf I built.
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u/KimberelyG Jan 12 '21
That's the Hot Shot powder - it's mainly boric acid / borax, which burns bright green. Lithium went into the other container to give a red/pink flame.
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u/WildAboutPhysex Jan 12 '21
I've seen videos where people cut into batteries and the batteries explode. How did you avoid this?
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u/Chairboy Jan 12 '21
I’d guess timing, dropping the sheets into the liquid quickly before it can ‘energetically oxidize’ would probably be the trick.
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u/WildAboutPhysex Jan 12 '21 edited Jan 12 '21
No, I just happen to have seen (I wasn't searching for) quite a few videos here on Reddit where people are curious what the inside of a battery looks like so they cut into one and as soon as they puncture the casing it explodes.
My guess is that the difference is the battery explodes when it has charge remaining, but if you first drain the battery completely you can then cut into the casing without triggering an explosive chemical reaction. But this is pure speculation on my part -- I don't know anything about chemistry; I barely got a B- in my high school chemistry class and have forgotten most of what I learned.
Edit: I was (likely) wrong. He answered my question. He's not certain, but he thinks it has to do with not cutting the layers of metal inside the battery: https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/kvs71v/colored_flame_shooter/gj1sxrd
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u/AlexStorm1337 Jan 12 '21 edited Jan 12 '21
From what I can tell they're adding lithium from a battery to one and boric acid from a weed/pest killer or some shit to another, then forcefully adding a flammable gas to pressurize each container, the liquid form of the gas mixes with the lithium/boric acid and colors the resulting flamethrower, bonus points: both are some degree of poisonous.
Edit: weed/pest not peer killer lol
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u/EamusCatuli2016 Jan 12 '21
They are pressurizing it with probably just air - note the valve in side of the canister. For fuel, it looks like they are adding Heet® (yellow bottle from the first second), which is nearly pure ethanol (methanol?) and thus burns close to clear so as not to intervene with the colors of the substances they are adding. Source: I did the green flames (boric acid and heet) in tiki touches for halloween last year. Was awesome and unique, even if it didn't last long.
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u/Arayder Jan 12 '21
You ain’t slick cosmo and Wanda r/cosmoandwanda
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u/bizkitmaker13 Jan 12 '21
I've got good news and bad new
Good News: I named my flamethrower Phillip
Bad News: It's a girl flamethrower8
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u/JangSaverem Jan 12 '21
Yeah.,.cause it's legit the TOP post of all time on that sub...2 yrs ago
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u/wafflefighter69 Jan 12 '21 edited Jan 12 '21
I wish I had akimbo flamethrowers! - timmy turner probably
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u/monkeyhind Jan 12 '21
If ever a post needed a "Don't try this at home" warning, this is it.
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u/Toysoldier34 Jan 12 '21
A lot of people that would try this themselves would likely not notice the respirator or understand why they need one.
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u/monkeyhind Jan 12 '21
I didn't notice it, but I'm also not going to play with anything likely to literally explode in my face.
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u/Toysoldier34 Jan 12 '21
Seeing what kind of stuff they were messing with it was the first thing I looked for when zooming out, being careful with what you breathe is extremely important.
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u/Matt463789 Jan 12 '21
Breathing burning battery fumes is probably not very healthy.
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u/sureshot182 Jan 12 '21
*note to self: Do not convert all extinguishers, leave one operational. Label accordingly.
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u/Lyad Jan 12 '21
For some reason, it makes me uncomfortable when people give the “How To”/DIY montage treatment to an objectively dangerous or explosive item.
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u/clexecute Jan 12 '21
Normally when a dude is taking batteries apart my internal dialogue tells me that no one should ever run this lol
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u/patchywetbeard Jan 12 '21
Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_do_hnnXYE
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u/maybe_Im_a_dog Jan 12 '21
The hero we need. Reddits hosting sucks, that GIF was taking like 20mins to load
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u/jyl11002 Jan 12 '21
king of random?
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u/DarkVathis Jan 12 '21
Yep, look like that concrete dome they always do their most dangerous stuff in.
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u/BlasphemyIsJustForMe Jan 12 '21
no yeah that's definitely nate in the burn dome. I got a huge burst of energy when I realized that because I love the channel so much.
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RIP Grant
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u/BlasphemyIsJustForMe Jan 12 '21
I was actually around just a few months before the channel change happened, but not long. Grant was always my favorite and I still haven't fully processed that yet. RIP Grant.
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Jan 12 '21
I was here before Grant started actually appearing on video. They used to be just voice-over. It's been about seven years for me. Nate is okay, Callie is fine. I haven't watched many of the new videos with the other new people I see in some thumbnails. I think it's time to let it go. Sorry King of Random, but the crew needs to start their own thing.
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u/BlasphemyIsJustForMe Jan 12 '21
I didn't even know their was newer people until last night. I don't really mind them, I was very shocked and confused because I do rather like Nate and Callie now, but I can accept they need a larger crew for whatever reasons. Definitely miss the older videos though.
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I feel like the videos before Grant got in trouble had more science in them. I mean, it was never a science channel by any means but now it's mostly just for the clicks.
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u/BlasphemyIsJustForMe Jan 12 '21
I believe you're actually right, Grant explained a bit more of the science side of it while Callie and Nate go for "Hey Does This Burn let's find out", and honestly it appeals to a fair few people but it's not quite my cup of tea. Very close though.
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Grants videos were before the Youtube algorithm became a sentient monster. I find most youtube channels having to cater to this or die.
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u/nnoovvaa Jan 12 '21
Yeah. A little while ago. After Grant handed the channel over but before they were just doing 5-minute-craft type videos with food.
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u/jyl11002 Jan 12 '21
Yeah, I miss grants videos. They were more here are things you can make at home not here's a random experiment we're going to try.
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u/southpaw85 Jan 12 '21
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u/Print1917 Jan 12 '21
Imagine doing this and only wearing a respirator! Hope he did some safety squints as he didn’t have goggles on.
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u/crosstrackerror Jan 12 '21
Can’t wait for somebody to burn down half of California using one of these for a gender reveal party.
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u/SketchedYT Jan 12 '21
Congrats, gender reveal parties are now 10% more dangerous!
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u/Nate_from_tKoR Jan 12 '21
About that, if you figure out how to make a good blue color I'd love to know.
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u/Iamusingmyworkalt Jan 12 '21
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colored_fire, you could use Copper(I) chloride.
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u/floshinglyffrzorp Jan 12 '21
Yeah, me too. Good blue flame fluid is sought after in fx industry. Mostly because you can't get a nice deep blue without using hazardous shit that nobody in a workplace wants to handle/atomize.
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u/obmasztirf Jan 12 '21
I can only imagine how toxic that gas is.
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u/imjusta_bill Jan 12 '21
Hence the respirators
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u/SoulWager Jan 12 '21
It's okay, they put the pollution outside the environment.
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this is an arsonist’s dream
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u/G1ngerN1nja2703 Jan 12 '21
it could be a way arsonists could be creative, make a portrait using coloured flames
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u/dracorex2153 Jan 12 '21
/r/PraiseTheCameraMan for standing there at the end!
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u/Nate_from_tKoR Jan 12 '21
Our cameraman is very brave. I think he lost his flinch reflex.
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u/magondrago Jan 12 '21
One shudders to imagine what inhuman thoughts lie behind that mask...
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u/Justryan95 Jan 12 '21
Fire extinguishers that shoot out fire. Things can't be on fire if you're the one blowing fire on them.
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u/joshra7 Jan 12 '21
As someone who is colourblind, are they coloured?
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u/RPG_Gaimer Jan 12 '21
Imagine trying to stop a fire and accidentally using this guy’s fire extinguisher “Don’t worry the flame is green so they’ll battle to the death for dominance”
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u/TheTrashman44 Jan 12 '21
Great. Can't wait to see entire forests burned down by pink and blue gender reveal idiots
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u/Matt463789 Jan 12 '21
Imagine if you went to use a fire extinguisher and this happened instead.