Everything is cooler with

[dennilfloss]

thermite!!

 

[Newbian]

Thermite is only good for melting down terminators.

 

[crab]

Is that thermite reaction irreversible?

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: crab
Is that thermite reaction irreversible?

It'll buff right out.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Can you actually legally buy this stuff? Looks like a lot of fun. That and ammonium nitrate. Lets blow something up!

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
Can you actually legally buy this stuff?

Just aluminium, iron oxide and some magnesium to light it

 

[WaTaGuMp]

I think the gas tank lost.

 

[Fenixgoon]

everything is cooler with.... solution?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Originally posted by: PlasmaBomb

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
Can you actually legally buy this stuff?

Just aluminium, iron oxide and some magnesium to light it

Yeah but magnesium might be hard to get, or is there actually places you can buy that?

Magnesium on it's own is pretty cool when you burn it.

 

[Rubycon]

Invalid comparison - of course the thermite will win. If they increase the amount of LN2 so its coolth equals or slightly exceeds the thermal output of the thermite reaction then quenching will occur. Problem is the cryostat would be the size of a large hot tub!

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel


Yeah but magnesium might be hard to get, or is there actually places you can buy that?

Magnesium on it's own is pretty cool when you burn it.

Have you ever seen the metal blocks with a flint bar in the side at camping stores? That magnesium.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: Rubycon
Invalid comparison - of course the thermite will win. If they increase the amount of LN2 so its coolth equals or slightly exceeds the thermal output of the thermite reaction then quenching will occur. Problem is the cryostat would be the size of a large hot tub!

yep, they need to take into account heat capacities and enthalpies of formation

oh rubycon... :heart:

 

[zinfamous]

So who else saw the related link titled "Teabag experiment" on the right, with ~1 million hits, and wonder how many of those hits were thinking it would be something else?

 

[destrekor]

everything is cooler with ICE, duh

 

[Paladin3]

Hot video, but it gave me a limp noodle. :shocked: I got distracted while watching it and forgot I had pasta cooking on the stove. :laugh:

 

[dennilfloss]

Originally posted by: Paladin3
Hot video, but it gave me a limp noodle. :shocked: I got distracted while watching it and forgot I had pasta cooking on the stove. :laugh:

I'm sorry this video is not featuring a pregnant Kari Byron for your noodle.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: destrekor
everything is cooler with ICE, duh

Brb, need some vanilla extract.

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: destrekor
everything is cooler with ICE, duh

Real ice tastes like salt.

 

[polarmystery]

Originally posted by: Rubycon
Invalid comparison - of course the thermite will win. If they increase the amount of LN2 so its coolth equals or slightly exceeds the thermal output of the thermite reaction then quenching will occur. Problem is the cryostat would be the size of a large hot tub!

Marry me!

 

[Andrew1990]

wow, after googling it, termite is very easy to make. Time to show them damn gofers a thing or two about ruining our apartment grass!

 

[npoe1]

Originally posted by: Andrew1990
wow, after googling it, termite is very easy to make. Time to show them damn gofers a thing or two about ruining our apartment grass!

I'm so sad of not having a nemesis like you

 

[Cabages]

Hammond!

 

[Born2bwire]

Originally posted by: crab
Is that thermite reaction irreversible?

Yeah...technically. All it is really doing is transfering the oxygen from the iron oxide to the aluminum making aluminum oxide. Aluminum oxide is how you commonly find aluminum in nature. It takes a large amount of energy (as you would expect given the amount released in the opposite process) to reduce the oxide. This is one of the reasons why recycling aluminum is very efficient since you do not have the energy costs of reducing.

As for reversing the effects of thermite... good luck with that.

 

[EGGO]

I love Braniac.

 

[crab]

Originally posted by: Born2bwire

Originally posted by: crab
Is that thermite reaction irreversible?

Yeah...technically. All it is really doing is transfering the oxygen from the iron oxide to the aluminum making aluminum oxide. Aluminum oxide is how you commonly find aluminum in nature. It takes a large amount of energy (as you would expect given the amount released in the opposite process) to reduce the oxide. This is one of the reasons why recycling aluminum is very efficient since you do not have the energy costs of reducing.

As for reversing the effects of thermite... good luck with that.

lol