1. Ammonium dichromate looks pretty cool when you burn it:
2. Aluminum meets bromine:
3. Caesium and fluorine are a reactive combo:
4. Water and liquid nitrogen make pretty good cover for escape:
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5. Take one part hydrogen peroxide, one part potassium iodide, and a little soap, and you've got yourself a tiny mushroom cloud:
6. (You can also do it in a jack-o-lantern:)
7. Make sure to avoid using gallium spoons in hot water:
8. If you ever mix cesium and water, make sure to take a step back first:
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9. Glycine-nitrate reaction with precursors of barium nitrate, zirconyl nitrate and yttrium nitrate to form BaZr0.8Y0.2O3 (whatever that means):
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10. Strontium, sulfur, And heat make for an unexpected light show:
11. Diethylzinc has a pesky habit of spontaneously combusting on contact with air:
12. Strong cup of coffee? Nope, just sulphuric acid causing explosive polymerization of p nitro aniline:
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13. Gasoline + Fire = Awesome:
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14. If you ever need some improvised rocket fuel, just drop a catalyst into some potassium chlorate and sugar:
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15. Sodium Polyacrylate aka Instant Snow:
16. Lithium and fire get along pretty nicely:
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17. The reason you should avoid getting and snake venom in your blood:
18. Copper and nitric acid:
19. Gallium melts aluminum, which is pretty cool:
20. Nitrous Oxide and Carbon Disulfide (aka The Barking Dog Experiment):
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21. Ever wonder what happens when you drop a gummi bear into potassium chlorate? This:
22. Calcium gluconate and a little open flame:
23. Nitrogen triiodide is touchy enough to be detonated by a feather:
24. Here's what happens to Coke cans in hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide:
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25. This one's pretty simple. Just some alcohol in a glass carboy:
Not technically chemical reactions, but these are pretty cool too:
26. This is what happens when you heat up a CD and blow on it in cold weather:
27. Laminar flow is a pretty neat party trick:
