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PRESENTS.............
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This article deals with instructions on how to do some interesting
experiments withcommon household chemicals. Some may or may not work
depending on the concentration of certain chemicals in different areas
and brands. I would suggest that the person doing these experiments hve
some knowledge of chemistry, especially for the more dangerous
experiments.
I am not responsible for any injury or damage caused by people using
this information. It is provided for use by people knowledgable in
chemistry who are interested in such experiments and an safely handle
such experiments.
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I. A list of household chemicals and their composition
Vinegar: 3-5% acetic acid
Baking soda: sodium bicarbonate
Drain cleaners: sodium hydroxide
Sani-ush: 75% sodium bisulfate
Ammonia water: ammonium hydroxide
Citrus fruit: citric acid
Table salt: sodium chloride
Sugar: sucrose
Milk of Magnesia- magnesium hydroxide
Tincture of iodine- 47%alcohol, 4% iodine
Rubbing alcohol- 70 or 99% (depends on brand) isopropyl alcohol (DO
NOT DRINK!)
etc...
EXP #1: Ye old fizz experiment
Mix vinegar with baking soda. It produces sodium acetate and carbonic
acid. Carbonic acid quickly decomposes into crbon dioxide and water,
resulting in the "fizz".
This simple reaction can be contained in a small bottle or something,
and when enough pressure builds up it will break open. I sincerely
doubt that it will blow "all four walls off the house" as some loser
wrote in his Safhouse article. The same basic thing can be done with
dry ice & water, baking powder & water, citric acid & baking soda, and
many other combinations.
EXP #2: A fruity battery
If you're evr in need of a little power, get your hands on these:
a citrus fruit (lemon, orange, etc)
a small zinc strip
a small copper strip
Just stick the zinc strip in one end of a lemon and a copper strip in
the other. You now have a 1.5 volt battery! Just attach thwires to the
copper & zinc strips...
EXP #3: Generating chlorine gas
This is slightly more dangerous than the other two experiments, so you
should know what you're doing befove you try this...
Ever wonder why ammonia bottles aays say 'DO NOT mix with chlorine
bleach', and visa-versa? That's because if you mix ammonia water with
Ajax or something like it, it will give off chlorine gas. To capture
it, get a large bottle and put Ajax in the bottom. Then pour some ammoa
down into the bottle. Since the chlorine is heavier than air, it will
stay down in there unless you use large amounts of either Ajax or
ammonia (DON'T!). For something fun to do with chlorine stay tuned....
EXP #4: Chlorine + turpentine
Take a small cloth or rag and soak it in turpentine. Quickly drop it
into the bottle of chlorine. It should give off a lot of black smoke
and probably start burning...
EXP #5: Generating hydrogen gas
To generate hydrogen, all you need is an acid and a metal that will
react with that acid. Try vinegar (acetic acid) with zinc, aluminum,
magnesium, etc. You can collect hydrogen in something if you note that
it is lighter than air.... Light a small amount and it burns with a
small *pop.
Another way of creating hydrogen is by the electrolysis of water. This
involves seperating water (H2O) into hydrogen and oxygen by an electric
current. To do this, you need a 6-12 volt battery, two test tubes, a
large bowl, two carbon electodes (take them out of an unworking 6-12
volt battery), and table salt. Dissolve the salt in a large bowl full
of water. Submerge the two test tubes in the water and put the
electrodes inside them, with the mouth of the tube aiming down. Connec
the battery to some wire going down to the electrodes. This will work
for a while, but chlorine will be generated along with the oxygen which
will undoubtedly corrode your copper wires leadino to the carbon
electrodes... (the table salt is broken up into chlorine andodium ions,
the chlorine comes off as a gas with oxygen while sodium reacts with the
water to form sodium hydroxide....). Therefore, if you can get your
hands on some sulfuric acid, use it instead. It will not affect the
reaction other than makg the water conduct electricity.
EXP #6: Hyrdogen + chlorine
Take the test tube of hydrogen and cover the mouth with your thumb.
Keep it inverted, and bring it near the bottle of chlorine (not one that
has reacted with turpentine). Say "goodbye test tube", androp it into
the bottle. The hydrogen and chlorine should react and possibly explode
(depending on purity and amount of each gas). An interesting thing
about this is they will not react if it is dark and no heat or other
energy is around. When light is turned on, enough energy is present to
cause them to react...
EXP #7: Preparation of oxygen
Get some hydrogen peroxide (from a drug store) and manganese dioxide
(from a battery- it's a black powder). Mix the two in a bottle, and
they give offoxygen. If the bottle is stoppered, pressure will build up
and shoot it off. Try lighting a wood splint and sticking it (when only
glowing) into the bottle. The oxygen will make it burst into flame.
Experiment with it.The oxygen will allow things to burn better...
EXP #8: Alcohol
Buy some rubbing alcohol in a drug store. Usually this is either 70%
ov 99% alcohol and burns just great. You can soak a towel in water and
then in acohol, light the towel, nd when it finishes burning the
alcohol, the flame should go out and leave the towel unharmed. Nice for
"party tricks", etc.
EXP #9: Iodine?
Tincture of iodine contains mainly alcohol and a little iodine. To
seperate them, put the tincture of iodine in a metallid to a bottle and
heat it over a candle. Have a stand holding another metal lid directly
over the tincture (about 4-6 inches above it) with ice on top of it.
The alcohol should evaporate, and the iodine should sublime, but should
reform iodine crystals on the cold metallid directly above. If this
works (I haven't tried), you can use the iodine along with household
ammonia to form Nitrogen Triiodide (discussed in article #1).
EXP #10: Grain-elevator exploson!
Want to try your own 'grain-elevator explosion'? Get a candle and
some flour... Light the candle and put some flour in your hand. Try
various ways of getting the flour to leave your hand and become dust
right over the candle flame. The enormous surface area alows all the
tiny dust particles to burn, which they do at about the same time,
combining to form a fireball effect. In grain elevators, much the same
thing happens. If you can get your hands on some lycopodium powder, do.
This will work much beter, creating huge fireballs that are unexpected.
That's enough for now..HAVE FUN!(but don`t blow the fucki`n house up!)
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