Ive seen this quite a few times...and each time its just as AWESOME!!!!!!! I loved seeing it at school last year and melthing w/e we wanted with it! Its safe for work too (the video[8D]) . Enjoy!

http://www.guzer.com/videos/thermite_car.php

why watch a video when you can do? thermite is simple and you can get the stuff to make it off ebay

oh yeah?

^ Uh Oh! haha

ORIGINAL: gliff159

why watch a video when you can do? thermite is simple and you can get the stuff to make it off ebay


sooo...where do you park?

thats freakin sweet, i always thought thermiteand its destructive powerswas a myth

*ROFL* I just couldn't stop smiling the whole time I watched that..... Thermite, white phosphorus and Magnesium are the three things I never want to even attempt to put out....

so how do youmake thermite?!!!!
looks like fun!!!

I probably shouldn't post this but it's easy enough to find that there's nothing secret about it.... it's iron oxide(rust) and aluminum, ignited with a hot "flame", sparklers, road flares etc. If you mess with it please don't try to spray it with water the water drops below the surface for a fraction of a fraction of a second then vaporizes into steam and expands forcing the thermite to blow molten burning crap all over the place....

http://how2dostuff.blogspot.com/2006/01/how-to-make-thermite.html

Hey i'm not crazy. Mabye a little pyro but not crazy. Good of you to point out about the water. It's alsoprobably a good idea to do like in the video and use a wide open space to play around with it.

Awesome!

wow, sign me up for that.

nice....

I did this experiment in high school after nagging the chemistry teacher for years. Once we were on the topic of exothermic reactions, well... the rest is history. We used a chemical reaction as the catalyst to start the thermite, and used a ceramic bowl in a large bucket of sand to contain it. Needless to say, the bowl easily cracked into pieces and a large column of glass formed in the bucket of sand as the thermite melted relentlessly into the sand.

Good fun, not recommended to do on a large scale - they reaction tends to burn very hot by nature and spews chunks out in all directions.

AWESOME!!!!!!!!

ORIGINAL: jhowkins

I did this experiment in high school after nagging the chemistry teacher for years. Once we were on the topic of exothermic reactions, well... the rest is history. We used a chemical reaction as the catalyst to start the thermite, and used a ceramic bowl in a large bucket of sand to contain it. Needless to say, the bowl easily cracked into pieces and a large column of glass formed in the bucket of sand as the thermite melted relentlessly into the sand.

Good fun, not recommended to do on a large scale - they reaction tends to burn very hot by nature and spews chunks out in all directions.



Yeah, we did this to last year. We had it in a ceramic potting pot and started it with magnesium. It went right through the pot and into the pot with water in it, forming red hot iron among it spweing everywhere else. AWESOME!!!! is right!

FYI: I fixed my tag.

Was just looking back at old posts and wondered if anyone else had any experience with thermite other than myself....

go to wally world, find the cheapest, biggest etch-a-sketch there, and buy a couple of em. Crack em open, the powder inside is powdered aluminum. Theres one ingredient. As far as rust goes, well who doesnt know how to get a nail rusty. file the rust, or grind it, and mix the two together. light it with a sparker in a flowerpot, and put the flowerpot on something that it can burn through, a few feet in the air. keep rocks AWAY FROM THE THERMITE. NEVER PUT ROCKS BENEATH OR AROUND IT. they can heat up and explode like hand grenades. Never use anything that can start on fire, like wood. if you MUST, dig a small hole in the earth, clear away any grass, leaves, etc and light it there. thermite does NOT need oxygen to combust. in other words, fire extinguishers, water, and anything you would normally use to put out a fire will do nothing, and most likely make it worse. Esp water, like 00 said^. (well it does need oxygen, but the iron oxide supplies the oxy to the al) Assume that once its started, your putting it out till its done burning.
with that said, have some fun!

yeah i had thermite at my school too and i almost got arrested for taking some and lighting stuff on fire. lucky no cops can find me because i am the shadow

hahah.. the shadow...

yeah we used to make this stuff at home in highschool and melt all kinds of crap....

this one kid said he used it on a payphone to steal all the quarters.. but i kinda doubt it. seems like you could ruin the quarters too.

LOL no way he used it on a payphone it definitely would burn right through them! LOL If anyone has ever played Oblivion for xbox360 then Shadow Hide You!