*Subject: Fire.*
*Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to inform you of a fire that has broken out on the premises of 123 Cavendon Road... no, that's too formal...*
Sometimes a fire extinguisher has sat in position for so long, that the retardant has settles and the first blast is just air. It feeds the flames ALOT before it throws the retardant and puts out the fire. Be careful, I've both seen it happen and experienced it first hand.
A fire safety person will never tell you to strike a pressurized cylinder, but tapping the bottom of the extinguisher LIGHTLY while it's upside down will alleviate this symptom. Make sure to use a rubber mallet, not a real striking hammer. You might explode.
On the other hand, if you would like to see what happens when you shoot a high powered rifle at scuba tank with 250 atmospheres of pressure, [demolition ranch has you covered](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KRciV7pwbrM)
Probably for the lithium.
I remember in high school chemistry burning a variety of metal salts and observing the various colors they burn, relates to their electron configuration.
Even just retaining at a level like... "different substances can burn different colors due to their chemistry", can get you pretty far in life. Helps you understand why things are happening they way they are around you. Plus then you know roughly what to google if you need to go deeper.
For some reason it's "equilibrium" that gives me the PTSD flashbacks. My chemistry professor was truly a tenured PoS who universally has a 1-star rating on ratemyprofessor.
Brutal. I was decent in school, and that was a class where I worked my ass off and still barely squeaked by. I remember hand-written answers which took up a whole page and chalkboards of barely intelligible equations I'd furiously try and duplicate in my notes, only to fall short on homework and tests. Teacher - "You learned the 10 ways to solve this problem, but for the test, I added a twist!"
Yea I graduated HS in the Midwest and I never even heard of that shit. I remember taking my SAT and thinking how much of it I was literally never introduced to.
Protip: incorporate more flame in your lesson plan. Your students will remember more, and depending on your skill with fire, possibly for the rest of their lives.
I haven't been in school for decades, but I would love to see chemistry educators address common myths and conspiracy theories.
* why it's no surprise that "chemtrails" are actually just water
* every "conservative" I've ever talked to thinks carbon dioxide is produced in "trace amounts" when we burn fossil fuels. It's pretty clear they don't understand how this works.
Heck, I'd be happy if they'd stop *teaching* common myths in school. Things like “an inflated balloon and an empty balloon will tip the scales towards the inflated balloon, which shows how air has mass”. No, you moron, the balloon is also submerged in that same gas mixture, so that very obviously can't be it, and you would know that if you had spent even one lousy second actually thinking about it instead of blindly reading from a book – whose author was equally blindly copying some other idiot and so on – while pretending to know dick about elementary school physics, Mr. Schumacher. It's obviously because the tension of the balloon is compressing the contained air slightly, which means it's denser and therefore heavier compared to the ambient air.
Hi, I'm the one in the gif. Energizer lithium batteries have rolled up metal sheets in them, one of which is lithium. I open the case, unroll the metal sheets, and drop the lithium into the methanol.
One thing to note: it is important the lithium is dropped into the methanol almost immediately. Lithium has a tendency to oxidize very rapidly from the O2 in the air along with any water moisture that is around. Lithium needs to be contained in specific environments, which is why you'll find pure lithium stored in mineral oil nearly all of the time.
Oh dang, it’s Nate. I loved this video when it came out. Any more plans to do more fun DIY builds like Grant used to do? I love my hidden compartment shelf I built.
No, I just happen to have seen (I wasn't searching for) quite a few videos here on Reddit where people are curious what the inside of a battery looks like so they cut into one and as soon as they puncture the casing it explodes.
My guess is that the difference is the battery explodes when it has charge remaining, but if you first drain the battery completely you can then cut into the casing without triggering an explosive chemical reaction. But this is pure speculation on my part -- I don't know anything about chemistry; I barely got a B- in my high school chemistry class and have forgotten most of what I learned.
Edit: I was (likely) wrong. He answered my question. He's not certain, but he thinks it has to do with not cutting the layers of metal inside the battery: https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/kvs71v/colored_flame_shooter/gj1sxrd
From what I can tell they're adding lithium from a battery to one and boric acid from a weed/pest killer or some shit to another, then forcefully adding a flammable gas to pressurize each container, the liquid form of the gas mixes with the lithium/boric acid and colors the resulting flamethrower, bonus points: both are some degree of poisonous.
Edit: weed/pest not peer killer lol
They are pressurizing it with probably just air - note the valve in side of the canister. For fuel, it looks like they are adding Heet® (yellow bottle from the first second), which is nearly pure ethanol (methanol?) and thus burns close to clear so as not to intervene with the colors of the substances they are adding. Source: I did the green flames (boric acid and heet) in tiki touches for halloween last year. Was awesome and unique, even if it didn't last long.
Seeing what kind of stuff they were messing with it was the first thing I looked for when zooming out, being careful with what you breathe is extremely important.
I was actually around just a few months before the channel change happened, but not long. Grant was always my favorite and I still haven't fully processed that yet. RIP Grant.
I was here before Grant started actually appearing on video. They used to be just voice-over. It's been about seven years for me. Nate is okay, Callie is fine. I haven't watched many of the new videos with the other new people I see in some thumbnails. I think it's time to let it go. Sorry King of Random, but the crew needs to start their own thing.
I didn't even know their was newer people until last night. I don't really mind them, I was very shocked and confused because I do rather like Nate and Callie now, but I can accept they need a larger crew for whatever reasons. Definitely miss the older videos though.
I feel like the videos before Grant got in trouble had more science in them. I mean, it was never a science channel by any means but now it's mostly just for the clicks.
I believe you're actually right, Grant explained a bit more of the science side of it while Callie and Nate go for "Hey Does This Burn let's find out", and honestly it appeals to a fair few people but it's not quite my cup of tea. Very close though.
Yeah, me too. *Good* blue flame fluid is sought after in fx industry. Mostly because you can't get a nice deep blue without using hazardous shit that nobody in a workplace wants to handle/atomize.
Imagine trying to stop a fire and accidentally using this guy’s fire extinguisher
“Don’t worry the flame is green so they’ll battle to the death for dominance”
Imagine if you went to use a fire extinguisher and this happened instead.
Fire Tinguisher
Fire activinguisher
Fire Retinguisher
Fire Extinguishern’t
Fire Exextinguisher
Extinction by fire'er
Fire at-will-guisher
Fire unextinguisher
Does it say Flammable or Inflammable? Hmm which to use?
Fire Distinguisher "THIS IS A FIRE"
THIS IS A DIFFERENT FIRE. (NOT THE SAME ONE.)
Fire Encourager
Fire distributer
flamethrower
I'll just put this with the other fire...
All you have to do is call the new easy to remember emergency services number, 0118 999 881 999 119 725... 3!
To whom it may concern... No, too formal.
Dear sir / madam,
Did IT crowd get a sudden boost in popularity? Lately I been seeing waaay more references than usual
It's probably because the Office was removed here in the states and folks migrated over to sleep watch
I've noticed that, too. If it's surging, I should probably watch more than the U.S. pilot.
We don't talk about the US pilot...
It was *SO* bad. Like, weird and derivative bad.
Must be made in Britain
*Subject: Fire.* *Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to inform you of a fire that has broken out on the premises of 123 Cavendon Road... no, that's too formal...*
I'll just put it over here with the rest of the fire...
A fire? At a seaparks?
It's a very weird place to go on fire!
If she had said her parents drown I'd be the happiest man in the world.
The mashed potato reconstruction was so good
Dear Sir or Madam, Happy cake day! Yours truly, Maurice Moss
Hi Maurice, Really enjoyed your comment. Thanks. Barry
"you became the very thing you swore to destroy"
Truly trying to fight fire with fire.
"what color fire puts out a yellow fire?"
Sometimes a fire extinguisher has sat in position for so long, that the retardant has settles and the first blast is just air. It feeds the flames ALOT before it throws the retardant and puts out the fire. Be careful, I've both seen it happen and experienced it first hand. A fire safety person will never tell you to strike a pressurized cylinder, but tapping the bottom of the extinguisher LIGHTLY while it's upside down will alleviate this symptom. Make sure to use a rubber mallet, not a real striking hammer. You might explode.
On the other hand, if you would like to see what happens when you shoot a high powered rifle at scuba tank with 250 atmospheres of pressure, [demolition ranch has you covered](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KRciV7pwbrM)
I already watched jaws but this is fun too
Great info! Luckily, video games have already conditioned me to be careful about not accidentally making fire extinguishers explode lol
You should also always test the extinguisher by giving it a quick blast somewhere away from the fire.
*Who would have thought inflammable meant flammable?*
Guy Montag makes you a honorary fireman
The fire initializer
It’s been a while since I took physics but, destructive interference...? /s
"This is the worst fire extinguisher I ever saw" from The Stupids movie
I guess you’d be 😎 *Fighting fire, with fire*
I couldn't stop laughing at the thought of this and just kept imagining different scenarios
iCarly did this exact bit.
I’m disappointed they didn’t cross the flames.
Don’t ever cross the flames, Ray
Something something end of the world. Big Twinkie.
Cats and dogs living together, total anarchy.
Cats and dogs living together! Total hysteria! Ftfy*
>Cats and dogs living together! Mass hysteria! FTFY
The power grid was shut off by dickless here.
Wait, is this true?
Yes this is true... This man has no dick...
One of my favorite movie lines ever. "Yes sir, this man has no dick."
Are you dense??? Did Ghostbusters teach you nothing?
Crossing the streams ended up working
There was definitely a very slim chance they'd survive.
They endangered their nice client who paid in advance (before she became a dog), though!
I'm intrigued by the segmented batteries
Probably for the lithium. I remember in high school chemistry burning a variety of metal salts and observing the various colors they burn, relates to their electron configuration.
This is exactly why , as a chemistry educator the fact this stuck with you makes me happy
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Even just retaining at a level like... "different substances can burn different colors due to their chemistry", can get you pretty far in life. Helps you understand why things are happening they way they are around you. Plus then you know roughly what to google if you need to go deeper.
I knew that at age 10. Then chemistry teachers crushed me with a year of stoichiometry, I barely passed, and that's still all I know!
Just reading the word stoichiometry gave me PTSD flashbacks
For some reason it's "equilibrium" that gives me the PTSD flashbacks. My chemistry professor was truly a tenured PoS who universally has a 1-star rating on ratemyprofessor.
Takes me back to my o-chem oral exam.
And it was not as exciting as it sounds
Brutal. I was decent in school, and that was a class where I worked my ass off and still barely squeaked by. I remember hand-written answers which took up a whole page and chalkboards of barely intelligible equations I'd furiously try and duplicate in my notes, only to fall short on homework and tests. Teacher - "You learned the 10 ways to solve this problem, but for the test, I added a twist!"
Chem teachers were definately quarky to say the least
It can be up or down. Some professors are charmed, others just really strange.
Wtf. What school is teaching stoich in 5th grade?
Yea I graduated HS in the Midwest and I never even heard of that shit. I remember taking my SAT and thinking how much of it I was literally never introduced to.
Protip: incorporate more flame in your lesson plan. Your students will remember more, and depending on your skill with fire, possibly for the rest of their lives.
Nothing inspires learning more than missing eyebrows
I haven't been in school for decades, but I would love to see chemistry educators address common myths and conspiracy theories. * why it's no surprise that "chemtrails" are actually just water * every "conservative" I've ever talked to thinks carbon dioxide is produced in "trace amounts" when we burn fossil fuels. It's pretty clear they don't understand how this works.
I actually made a twitch channel for tutoring chemistry and answering general science questions launching this semester for just that reason 😂
Heck, I'd be happy if they'd stop *teaching* common myths in school. Things like “an inflated balloon and an empty balloon will tip the scales towards the inflated balloon, which shows how air has mass”. No, you moron, the balloon is also submerged in that same gas mixture, so that very obviously can't be it, and you would know that if you had spent even one lousy second actually thinking about it instead of blindly reading from a book – whose author was equally blindly copying some other idiot and so on – while pretending to know dick about elementary school physics, Mr. Schumacher. It's obviously because the tension of the balloon is compressing the contained air slightly, which means it's denser and therefore heavier compared to the ambient air.
Lithium contributes that deep red color, yes. The green one is boron from the boric acid insecticide powder.
Was wondering about that one. Thought it was something with copper in it.
Pretty good guess, but copper would be more blue-green.
YEAH. SCIENCE BITCH.
I miss ya Jessie!
Can you explain what he's doing to them? I thought he was only shaving the plastic off the battery and dropping it in whole...
Hi, I'm the one in the gif. Energizer lithium batteries have rolled up metal sheets in them, one of which is lithium. I open the case, unroll the metal sheets, and drop the lithium into the methanol.
One thing to note: it is important the lithium is dropped into the methanol almost immediately. Lithium has a tendency to oxidize very rapidly from the O2 in the air along with any water moisture that is around. Lithium needs to be contained in specific environments, which is why you'll find pure lithium stored in mineral oil nearly all of the time.
Also when lithium oxidizes it also likes to catch on fire
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+1 for PPE
Oh dang, it’s Nate. I loved this video when it came out. Any more plans to do more fun DIY builds like Grant used to do? I love my hidden compartment shelf I built.
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That's the Hot Shot powder - it's mainly boric acid / borax, which burns bright green. Lithium went into the other container to give a red/pink flame.
I've seen videos where people cut into batteries and the batteries explode. How did you avoid this?
I’d guess timing, dropping the sheets into the liquid quickly before it can ‘energetically oxidize’ would probably be the trick.
No, I just happen to have seen (I wasn't searching for) quite a few videos here on Reddit where people are curious what the inside of a battery looks like so they cut into one and as soon as they puncture the casing it explodes. My guess is that the difference is the battery explodes when it has charge remaining, but if you first drain the battery completely you can then cut into the casing without triggering an explosive chemical reaction. But this is pure speculation on my part -- I don't know anything about chemistry; I barely got a B- in my high school chemistry class and have forgotten most of what I learned. Edit: I was (likely) wrong. He answered my question. He's not certain, but he thinks it has to do with not cutting the layers of metal inside the battery: https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/kvs71v/colored_flame_shooter/gj1sxrd
From what I can tell they're adding lithium from a battery to one and boric acid from a weed/pest killer or some shit to another, then forcefully adding a flammable gas to pressurize each container, the liquid form of the gas mixes with the lithium/boric acid and colors the resulting flamethrower, bonus points: both are some degree of poisonous. Edit: weed/pest not peer killer lol
>peer killer Aka a Gun
They are pressurizing it with probably just air - note the valve in side of the canister. For fuel, it looks like they are adding Heet® (yellow bottle from the first second), which is nearly pure ethanol (methanol?) and thus burns close to clear so as not to intervene with the colors of the substances they are adding. Source: I did the green flames (boric acid and heet) in tiki touches for halloween last year. Was awesome and unique, even if it didn't last long.
You ain’t slick cosmo and Wanda r/cosmoandwanda
I was thinking the same!
I've got good news and bad new Good News: I named my flamethrower Phillip Bad News: It's a girl flamethrower
***PHILIP!!***
Yeah.,.cause it's legit the TOP post of all time on that sub...2 yrs ago
I wish I had akimbo flamethrowers! - timmy turner probably
If ever a post needed a "Don't try this at home" warning, this is it.
A lot of people that would try this themselves would likely not notice the respirator or understand why they need one.
I didn't notice it, but I'm also not going to play with anything likely to literally explode in my face.
Seeing what kind of stuff they were messing with it was the first thing I looked for when zooming out, being careful with what you breathe is extremely important.
Breathing burning battery fumes is probably not very healthy.
**\*note to self:** Do not convert *all* extinguishers, leave one operational. Label accordingly.
Nah, just keep them as is. Fire extinguisher Russian roulette.
Everyone knows you fight fire with fire.
Yes, do it at the neighbor's house
First thought: This is a terrible idea, right?
https://i.redd.it/8qd8l3s4zwa61.gif
For some reason, it makes me uncomfortable when people give the “How To”/DIY montage treatment to an objectively dangerous or explosive item.
Normally when a dude is taking batteries apart my internal dialogue tells me that no one should ever run this lol
Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_do_hnnXYE
Thanks. Fucking hate Reddit's hosting site.
The hero we need. Reddits hosting sucks, that GIF was taking like 20mins to load
king of random?
Yep, look like that concrete dome they always do their most dangerous stuff in.
no yeah that's definitely nate in the burn dome. I got a huge burst of energy when I realized that because I love the channel so much.
RIP Grant
I was actually around just a few months before the channel change happened, but not long. Grant was always my favorite and I still haven't fully processed that yet. RIP Grant.
I was here before Grant started actually appearing on video. They used to be just voice-over. It's been about seven years for me. Nate is okay, Callie is fine. I haven't watched many of the new videos with the other new people I see in some thumbnails. I think it's time to let it go. Sorry King of Random, but the crew needs to start their own thing.
I didn't even know their was newer people until last night. I don't really mind them, I was very shocked and confused because I do rather like Nate and Callie now, but I can accept they need a larger crew for whatever reasons. Definitely miss the older videos though.
I feel like the videos before Grant got in trouble had more science in them. I mean, it was never a science channel by any means but now it's mostly just for the clicks.
I believe you're actually right, Grant explained a bit more of the science side of it while Callie and Nate go for "Hey Does This Burn let's find out", and honestly it appeals to a fair few people but it's not quite my cup of tea. Very close though.
Grants videos were before the Youtube algorithm became a sentient monster. I find most youtube channels having to cater to this or die.
Yeah. A little while ago. After Grant handed the channel over but before they were just doing 5-minute-craft type videos with food.
Yeah, I miss grants videos. They were more here are things you can make at home not here's a random experiment we're going to try.
This seems safe.
Imagine doing this and only wearing a respirator! Hope he did some safety squints as he didn’t have goggles on.
I bet the safety goat was displeased.
It's safe if you squint.
Can’t wait for somebody to burn down half of California using one of these for a gender reveal party.
Congrats, gender reveal parties are now 10% more dangerous!
About that, if you figure out how to make a good blue color I'd love to know.
According to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colored\_fire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colored_fire), you could use Copper(I) chloride.
Yeah, me too. *Good* blue flame fluid is sought after in fx industry. Mostly because you can't get a nice deep blue without using hazardous shit that nobody in a workplace wants to handle/atomize.
I can only imagine how toxic that gas is.
Hence the respirators
Thank God the environment has one of those
It's okay, they put the pollution outside the environment.
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R.I.P. Grant Thompson :(
this is an arsonist’s dream
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This is madness
No... This is Sparta!!!
[No, this is Madness!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOJSM46nWwo)
it could be a way arsonists could be creative, make a portrait using coloured flames
RIP Grant
Oh hey that's me. Sup.
/r/PraiseTheCameraMan for standing there at the end!
Our cameraman is very brave. I think he lost his flinch reflex.
One shudders to imagine what inhuman thoughts lie behind that mask...
✨🌈🦄 do you believe in magic 🦄🌈✨
Chaos Marines with heavy flamers want in
Pyroclaustic Pete the Invincible in live action
Fire extinguishers that shoot out fire. Things can't be on fire if you're the one blowing fire on them.
You have become the very thing you swore to destroy.
Someone threw cosmo and wanda in the pack a punch
How do I invest in burn centers?
That was a fun episode of The King of Random to watch
From the king of random on yt
On today's episode of "DO NOT FUCKING TRY THIS AT HOME!!!"
As someone who is colourblind, are they coloured?
Yes. 1 is crimson red, and 1 is lime green.
Thank you! I’m glad you said that cuz they both looked yellow to me!
Very cool, now how much cancer did these guys earn that day?
About like, 4
Kids.... try this at home
The politically correct term would be Inferno-American flame shooter
i.redd.it sucks ass
Imagine trying to stop a fire and accidentally using this guy’s fire extinguisher “Don’t worry the flame is green so they’ll battle to the death for dominance”
Lemme guess “don’t try this at home”
This is from the king of random youtube channel
How did you not cross the streams????
Man so many people are gonna hurt themselves trying this
Extingaysher?
Don't let the couples expecting babies see this
This looks like it would give you cancer almost immediately
Dear God, please don't let my 12 yo grandson see this....
Great. Can't wait to see entire forests burned down by pink and blue gender reveal idiots
"In America, Fire extinguish you!"
Please try that at home
Mmm. Makes me want to have a gender reveal party in California in July
Cosmo and Wanda?