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