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Making fire (youtube collaborative video)
Just a few historical tidbits on the catalytic lighter.

"Dobereiner was so taken by these experim ...
13-2-2011 at 10:20
by: Morgan
Making fire (youtube collaborative video)
It's funny to think during the early 1800's in Döbereiner's time, a platinum catalyst hydrogen fuel ...
13-2-2011 at 09:07
by: Morgan
Making fire (youtube collaborative video)
I have one of those hand warmers that use platinized fiber of some sort, either an asbestos or some ...
12-2-2011 at 19:16
by: Morgan
The short questions thread (3)
One time I heated a small pile of ammonium nitrate, potassium dichromate and either aluminum or magn ...
11-2-2011 at 22:20
by: Morgan
Making fire (youtube collaborative video)
Does anyone have any experience with platinum wire and hydrogen and oxygen? I was wondering since pl ...
11-2-2011 at 13:27
by: Morgan
Making fire (youtube collaborative video)
While this demo is just water making static electricity, I wonder if you could use/substitute methan ...
11-2-2011 at 13:03
by: Morgan
Making fire (youtube collaborative video)
Sort of an historical note on platinum.

Platinum Sponge
"Another form of metallic platinum in a
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9-2-2011 at 09:43
by: Morgan
Making fire (youtube collaborative video)
This wiki was entertaining. Still there is that mysterious thing about it losing its catalytic prope ...
9-2-2011 at 08:38
by: Morgan
Making fire (youtube collaborative video)
This is one of the better demonstrations of the platinum catalytic reaction. If you had some sponge/ ...
8-2-2011 at 19:37
by: Morgan
Making fire (youtube collaborative video)
I wanted to mention that was an interesting article posted by The WiZard is in. I wonder who they go ...
8-2-2011 at 12:51
by: Morgan
Making fire (youtube collaborative video)
The way the lighters work is by having a high surface area platinum sponge which heats up on being e ...
8-2-2011 at 11:42
by: Morgan
Making fire (youtube collaborative video)
On youtube they have a platinum wire preheated and put into an erlynmeyer flask with methanol and it ...
8-2-2011 at 09:16
by: Morgan
Making fire (youtube collaborative video)
[rquote=200542&tid=15370&author=Morgan]This is pretty left field but I wonder if a bombardie ...
7-2-2011 at 07:43
by: Morgan
Making fire (youtube collaborative video)
I once made a large amount of yellow oxalate powder and heated some in a test tube, sealing it with ...
5-2-2011 at 19:47
by: Morgan
Making fire (youtube collaborative video)
I remember reading some first accounts to carry hydrogen and chlorine flasks under black cloth outdo ...
5-2-2011 at 17:38
by: Morgan
Making fire (youtube collaborative video)
A few weeks ago I bought a cheap but large 18 inch stainless steel salad bowl for an experiment and ...
5-2-2011 at 14:36
by: Morgan
Making fire (youtube collaborative video)
I'm sure powdered zinc and ammonium nitrate seem boring, but if you intimately grind a healthy amoun ...
4-2-2011 at 18:44
by: Morgan
Making fire (youtube collaborative video)
I recall eye-droppering some turpentine in chlorine gas.
4-2-2011 at 07:41
by: Morgan
Making fire (youtube collaborative video)
I remember reading a very thick Hazardous Materials handbook at my university and they even had one ...
3-2-2011 at 20:01
by: Morgan
Making fire (youtube collaborative video)
This would be an interesting way to start a fire, if you could set it up easily enough.
http://glt ...
3-2-2011 at 05:56
by: Morgan
Making fire (youtube collaborative video)
This is pretty left field but I wonder if a bombardier beetle could ignite a small vessel with CS2 v ...
3-2-2011 at 05:40
by: Morgan
Making fire (youtube collaborative video)
Platinum sponge with fine platinum wire will stairstep into fire with methanol or hydrogen. Also pla ...
2-2-2011 at 11:57
by: Morgan
Thixotropic effect
Regardless of what category you want to put a solid that liquifies when shocked, I was hoping someon ...
29-12-2010 at 13:12
by: Morgan
Thixotropic effect
Thanks TheOrbit,
The second read was good but I am looking for the formula for this particular effe ...
28-12-2010 at 22:09
by: Morgan
Thixotropic effect
Long ago I saw a science film about thixotropic substances. The demonstration was that of a black ro ...
28-12-2010 at 20:49
by: Morgan

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