The 27 Most Impressive Chemical Reactions
Listen, chemicals are super awesome, and super dangerous. Best to enjoy them from the protection of your computer screen.
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:
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:
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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