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[Argembarger]

Can anyone explain this reaction to me?

Step 1: Make a circular shell or bowl out of anything. Anything at all.
Step 2: fill it around halfway with nitro liquid.
Step 3: Pour some liquid rubidium on top of that.
Step 4: Pour some thermite on top of that.

Step 5: It explodes.
Step 6: It leaves behind broken metal (if you use an indestructable shell) as a precipitant of the reaction.

What happened? Something about the combination of nitro, liquid rubidium and thermite causes it to explode, but ONLY if you mix them in that particular order. I can't get them to explode in any other order. And what's up with the broken metal?

[Draco18s]

By "liquid nitro" do you mean "nitroglycerin" or "liquid nitrogen"?

Because in either case I cannot reproduce your results.

The broken metal might come from the thermite (it does have an iron-oxide base).

Edit:
Ah ha, I figured it out.  Liquid rubidium needs to be a certain tempurature to remain a liquid, that tempurature (about 67 C) combined with the pressure from the two liquids (the rubidium and the thermite) falling on it caused the nitro to explode.

[Argembarger]

Awesome. Science!

[ToonyMan]

I did what Argem said.  I have a bunch of lava at the bottom of it now.

[smjjames]

Speaking of wierd reactions, Liquid Oxygen always ignites diesel, even though liquid oxygen is supercold.

Liquid oxygen also needs an ice form IMO......

[Akura]

Speaking of wierd reactions, Liquid Oxygen always ignites diesel, even though liquid oxygen is supercold.

Doesn't happen for me. Maybe it was pressure? Also, Oxygen is flammable(in reality, it's needed for combustion), so if the Diesel was already on fire, the oxygen gets ignited(or vice versa).

[Demki]

Speaking of wierd reactions, Liquid Oxygen always ignites diesel, even though liquid oxygen is supercold.

Doesn't happen for me. Maybe it was pressure? Also, Oxygen is flammable(in reality, it's needed for combustion), so if the Diesel was already on fire, the oxygen gets ignited(or vice versa).

It only happened to me between a considerable amount of oxygen and diesel.

[Akura]

Which would be pressure ignition.

[smjjames]

I'm fine with oxygen igniting diesel, I mean its expected, I just wasn't sure whether it was suppoused to do that with diesel element. Maybe it was pressure ignition that I was seeing.

And yes I know Liquid Oxygen is used as rocket fuel.....

[breadbocks]

Oxygen is flammable(in reality, it's needed for combustion)

In reality, it is ALSO quite flammable. If you were to switch the ratio of N and O in Earth's atmosphere, you'd blow up the planet if you wanted to light a match.

[Draco18s]

Oxygen is flammable(in reality, it's needed for combustion)

In reality, it is ALSO quite flammable. If you were to switch the ratio of N and O in Earth's atmosphere, you'd blow up the planet if you wanted to light a match.

Oxygen itself is not flammable.

I've done this (more specifically the science teacher did, but I could reproduce it if I had the tools)

1) Perform hydrolysis.  Split water into Hydrogen molecules and oxygen molecules.
2) Fill a test tube with one (say Hydrogen).  Light a match, blow it out.  Stick it in.
3) *POP* goes the test tube with a flash of flame, as the hydrogen burns and rapidly exits the test tube.
4) Repeat with Oxygen.  Light a match, blow it out, stick it in the test tube full of oxygen.
5) Observe as the match merely re-lights itself.

Is oxygen flammable?
will oxygen burn by itself without a fuel source?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker
The answer is resoundingly NO. Oxygen is NOT a fuel. Flames, fire and all related chemical reactions are a result of a FUEL being OXIDIZED, or being combined with oxygen. The application of oxygen to a burning fuel will cause the fire to burn much more vigorously, as well as hotter.

[Akura]

I remember doing an experiment like that in elementary school, only with a lit match, and we also did it with carbon dioxide(the match went out). Science is awesome.

[Demki]

I remember doing an experiment like that in elementary school, only with a lit match, and we also did it with carbon dioxide(the match went out). Science is awesome.

And ‼science‼ is even better.

‼Science‼=science on fire

[Astral]

So how does one go about obtaining stable absolute zero Deut? I've been letting my little coolant box/container go at it for a little while and when I shut off the clone it keeps getting reduced to one pixel.

Edit: Nevermind, after running it for about ten minutes I had a sizable amount for a stamp. Managed to copy and past that into a eleven pixel radius bomb (with two outer layers of insulation)

[ductape]

what does it do? can i see?